Talk:Monobasic

What is this?

Is it supposed to be a disambiguation page? It isn't well-formatted and arguably can't be one since it lacks a clear list of alternative articles. Is it supposed to be an article? It appears to stumble over WP:DICTDEF, an article title being an adjective (in Wiktionary) is always a clue. The difficulty is the lack of an obvious noun that covers all types of monobasic compounds. I'm tempted to revert it, or since that would almost certainly be contested it would have to go to a fairly pointless AfD. Some discussion here could be a lot simpler. Dibasic and Tribasic also, obviously. Lithopsian (talk) 13:31, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

None of these are properly formatted disambiguation pages.PRehse (talk) 15:13, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

The original disambiguation idea was dibasic, which I then expanded to include monobasic and tribasic, because these terms can refer not only to the acid, but to the salts, where they are known as monobasic, dibasic, tribasic, etc. Linking to acid won't suffice to capture the second meaning, which I was curious to know since it appeared on Sigma-Aldrich chemical names. Could we have a section at Salt_(chemistry) and then link the (mono- di- tri-)basic salt articles there? Would that fix the alternative articles problem?--Officer781 (talk) 15:14, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

It would. We need one blue link per entry.PRehse (talk) 15:26, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Monobasic can also refer to a taxon which is monotypic, that is contains only one sub-taxon. I think there are subtleties about when the correct adjective is monobasic and when monotypic, but I can't find a definitive reference for that and in any case they are widely treated as synonyms. Lithopsian (talk) 15:42, 17 September 2018 (UTC)