Talk:Dispersive prism

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Merge[edit]

should be merged with Prism (optics) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.192.21.113 (talk) 03:25, 3 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I also advocate a merge. The two articles are widely redundant. The best would probably be to merge this article into prism (optics). --Hans Dunkelberg (talk) 10:46, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Not all prisms are dispersive. Many kinds of prisms are used for reflection, image manipulation, beam stearing or polarisation of light. There is no much redundancy with regard to prism (optics) either. This article just meintions the existance of dispersive prisms and refers the reader here. Dispersive prism is a well known optics term. There is no benefit in a merge.-----<(kaimartin)>--- (talk) 03:51, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merged. There was substantial redundancy. It's a subsection of the prism article, so there is no implication that all prisms are dispersive. All dispersive prisms are prisms. In 3 years, this article never really grew longer than 2 paragraphs so it seems ideal for a subsection. During the merge, I dropped the paragraph about the pink floyd cover since it was both original research and tangential to this article (perhaps it should be in the album's article) and was original research 69.127.235.74 (talk) 00:28, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I am reverting you. The discussion above is two years old, and did not produce a consensus to merge. See also Wikipedia:Summary style. This article spins off the details, allowing the main prism article to provide shorter summaries of each type of prism.--Srleffler (talk) 05:51, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thin non-dispersive triangular prisms[edit]

Triangular prism (optics) redirects to this article. However, I'm not so sure whether that is appropriate due to the existence of thin triangular prisms used primarily to produce an angular deviation, the mathematics of which are described at Prism (optics)#Deviation angle and dispersion. Any suggestions on what should be done with the redirect? Do we need to add a hatnote to this article? --SoledadKabocha (talk) 18:47, 30 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Done. The relevant article is Wedge prism.--Srleffler (talk) 05:44, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

...which wasn't listed on the Wedge disambiguation page, which is why I had a little trouble finding it. Yeah, I should probably have tried a little harder to fix the real problem (done here) --SoledadKabocha (talk) 07:21, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]