Talk:Universal

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There were two disambiguation pages for Universal. They have now been merged.

There are three very similar articles that can be confusing: Universal, Universality, and Universalism. The tasks below need to be done for this article:

• The articles listed in See also need to be checked to make sure that everything is linked to the correct article/disambig.

• Most of the articles that link here should go to a specific page rather than this one (the disambig page).

• Universal and Universal (disambiguation) should have their names swapped, so that Universal redirects to Universal (disambiguation) rather than the other way around.

• Double redirects exist and need to be fixed.

Twisted86 20:09, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Scratch one task off the list. Twisted86 04:39, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

I suggest we merge all 3 disambiguation into one. Meaning merge into Universal, usually it is better to use the noun of the word as disambiguation, however, since the noun hint too strong in relation astronomy and mathmatical constant, I propose we use the Universal page. --Ramu50 (talk) 02:31, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't see any need to merge disambigs. This disambig is for universal, the universality disambig is for universality, etc. Although we might merge minor variations in, we don't usually play linguist and disambig the roots or stems of the words: univers-.Dave (talk) 02:22, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

False modifiers

"As a modifer" means as an adjective. For the form, universal, there is no other possibility. Universally, the adverb, is a modifier also, but that isn't our form. Some of the instances given however ar not modifers, they are modified. That means, they are nouns. Since we are trying to be correct here I am creating a new category of "universal", as a noun.Dave (talk) 01:23, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

PS. I changed my mind. I'm going to eliminate the false "modifier" category and distribute the items to subject topics, because many of the latter are also modifiers and nouns. We can't do it both ways.Dave (talk) 01:37, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

False universal

• "The Universe, defined as the summation of all particles and energy that exist and the space-time in which all events occur"

Universal does not refer to the universe and never did. Moreover, universe is not universal.Dave (talk) 01:29, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Song

Does the Blur song cover the 1968 hit song of the Small Faces? Then the original should be taken, of course! - Yog-S —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.102.107.117 (talk) 02:39, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Cleanup and removed entries

I removed many entries that appeared to be partial title matches, per WP:D: topics that have "universal" in the titles but would not be referred to as just "universal." For example, Universal suffrage; "universal" is simply describing the type of suffrage, and would have no relation to the concept of suffrage except as part of the whole phrase. A user would not be likely to expect to find the article on universal suffrage located at the title Universal.

Here are the entries I removed for this reason:

• Universal pragmatics, a topic of philosophy
• Universal grammar, principles of grammar shared by all languages
• Universal algebra, a field of mathematics that studies the ideas common to all algebraic structures
• Universal property, a term used in various branches of mathematics
• Universal wavefunction, the wavefunction of the universe, used in quantum cosmology and decoherent interpretations of quantum mechanics
• Universal set, a term from set theory
• Universal quantification, a term from symbolic logic
• Universal Remote, a remote control
• Universal binary, a software product that works on both Intel and PowerPC processors on Apple Macintosh computers
• Universal Turing machine, a computational model
• Universal joint, a machine part consisting of a pair of hinges located close together, and oriented at 90° relative to each other
• Universal jurisdiction, a principle of international law
• Universal suffrage, the right to vote extended to all citizens
• Universal health care

Propaniac (talk) 19:21, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Social sciences

I don't understand how metaphysics falls under the category of social sciences. And linguistics probably does not as well. Someone more familiar with the field should recategorize them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yel D'ohan (talk • contribs) 12:28, 14 November 2010 (UTC)