Talk:Hardness

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[edit] Move materials science page back here

This disambiguation page doesn't seem useful - it has over a hundred links to it that are almost entirely referring to the materials science usage. Per WP:MOSDAB#Examples of individual entries that should not be created: "do not create entries merely because [hardness] is part of the name.... The above does not apply if the subject is commonly referred to simply by [hardness]". People searching for hard water or hard matter are unlikely to use "hardness" alone as a search term - neither of those are referred to simply by "hardness". The difficulty level is linked to at the hard disambiguation page - I believe a hatnote to hard would help anyone who came here looking for the difficulty level.

How do others feel about moving the materials science page back to the main article "hardness"? Lyrl^Talk _C 02:10, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Seems like a good idea. I would merge Hard matter and Hardness (materials science) and put the result at Hardness with a hatnote that points to a merger of the disambiguation pages currently at Hard and Hardness. -- Beland 15:54, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

I implemented these merges and moves. -- Beland 17:57, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Typo

The sentence "The hardest substance known today is aggregated diamond nanorods, with a hardness over 12 of and a stiffness 1.11 of diamond." is clearly malformed, but I have no background in the field, so I don't know how to correct it. PavelCurtis (talk) 18:18, 12 May 2008 (UTC)