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There are a ton and a half [1] of articles with the word interest in the name, but no good article on the generic concept. Interests and Interesting both redirect to "Attention", but that's not necessarily the best solution. Anyone got a better way to approach the problem?

Should Interest be overridden with a more generic Britannica-based [2] definition at the top of this page, and moved to Interest (financial)? MrZaiustalk 20:08, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 3 February 2021

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Not moved; no consensus. There are nearly 1,000 links to "interest" (which makes moving this a significant bit of work), and nobody has shown that mislinks intended for another topic are a problem. Certainly no consensus to move to a red link; if there is a need to disambiguate then Interest (finance), the title this was moved off as per unnecessary disambiguation in 2006, or Interest (economics), which is Britannica's "short description", are the obvious choices as finance and economics are major topic areas. – wbm1058 (talk) 21:31, 2 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]



– No clear primary topic, the emotion would probably be thought of as primary to most if anything, see also Commons:Commons:Categories for discussion/2020/12/Category:Interest where Interest (fee) or Interest (financial) have also been suggested by me. Interest (economics) is another option. Even if the emotion is less likely in an encyclopedia it still seems like it has enough long-term significance to displace the payment. By views the payment has 11,074 and the emotion has 1,533 but Sexual attraction has 33,781, Conflict of interest has 16,428, National interest has 4,694, Point of interest has 1,712 and Self-interest has 1,484. Although Google returns more results for the payment the 1st result is a dictionary infobox which gives the emotion first, Images only appears to return the payment but Books does appear to return the emotion as the 1st result even though the other results appear to be for the payment. Crouch, Swale (talk) 08:58, 3 February 2021 (UTC) Relisting. Vpab15 (talk) 22:24, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.