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Merge proposal

Copper indium gallium selenide and Copper indium gallium selenide solar cells cover the same basic ground. Copper indium gallium selenide solar cell is a better title than the WP:MOS-offending plural version. Joja lozzo 16:35, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yes. Merge them all. --Wtshymanski (talk)

I am not a domain expert. Copper indium gallium selenide solar cells appears to be the best developed of the three articles. I propose we do the merge in "Copper indium gallium selenide solar cells", rename it (would require deleting an existing page), and set up the redirects.

What material is in the other two that is missing from "Copper indium gallium selenide solar cells"?
My current preference is for the more general title (the name of the technology): "Copper indium gallium selenide". Joja lozzo 01:32, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Contra. The articles admittedly have heavy overlap, which is not a good thing. The topics should be properly separated rather than merged. A CIGS solar cell with its characteristics (subtypes, manufacturing, efficiencies, companies) is not the same as the CIGS material that has it's own characteristics (electron and hole mobilities, doping properties, supply etc). I see two alternatives:

Keep them as separate articles, but link them heavily so that future editors put the information in either one or the other.
Make a CIGS material article, with a sub-topic "CIGS solar cells". This may not do the solar cells justice (as they'll be a subchapter then, and will result in an article that is composed of mainly that subchapter.

Thoughts? Michi zh (talk) 12:37, 18 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Why redirect from selenium cell? Where do we describe the amorphous selenium cell from the 1960's?

It seems that there is no article on the amorphous selenium cell that was common in light meters in the 1960's (and maybe a little earlier). In the 1970's, most light meters used CdS cells, which are likely more reliable, but require an external power source, usually a battery. But they should be described somewhere! Gah4 (talk) 09:40, 2 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

More specifically, the cells mentioned in this patent:^[1] Gah4 (talk) 10:01, 2 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "Photoelectric measuring apparatus having a photocell on a permanent magnet". www.google.com. USPTO. Retrieved 2 April 2017.

2x Properties

The article currently has two "Properties" sections. I suppose that they should either be merged or renamed. --130.180.18.14 (talk) 11:45, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 11 August 2022

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: Moved to Copper indium gallium selenide solar cell, along with Tin-based perovskite solar cell and Polymer-fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cell mentioned by Extraordinary Writ. No such user (talk) 07:32, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Copper indium gallium selenide solar cells → Copper indium gallium selenide solar cell – use singular 2601:541:4580:8500:F174:6C:6B68:5B48 (talk) 14:49, 11 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support per WP:NCPLURAL and for consistency with most of the entries in Category:Solar cells. Tin-based perovskite solar cells and Polymer-fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells probably need to be moved as well. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 19:01, 18 August 2022 (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.

[US2465970-1] "Photoelectric measuring apparatus having a photocell on a permanent magnet". www.google.com. USPTO. Retrieved 2 April 2017.

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