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:this redirect is tricky to classify https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AApplications_of_graphics_processing_units# [[User:Lkcl|Lkcl]] ([[User talk:Lkcl|talk]]) 09:36, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

:oof. done with the exception of "Applications". on reflection this one *might* be straightforward as, well, what else would you use a GPU for?? running bananas? :) of course they run Applications :) [[User:Lkcl|Lkcl]] ([[User talk:Lkcl|talk]]) 11:34, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

:goodness me this is endless! :) another template found to use "GPGPU" ambiguously... https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Emerging_technologies&oldid=1305844924 [[User:Lkcl|Lkcl]] ([[User talk:Lkcl|talk]]) 11:54, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

::FINALLY! hooray. worked it out. look for "templates using page X" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere?target=General-purpose+computing+on+graphics+processing+units&namespace=10&hidetrans=1&hideredirs=1&limit=50 [[User:Lkcl|Lkcl]] ([[User talk:Lkcl|talk]]) 12:13, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

:::done both - that *should* be the lot. have to come back after template refresh on a *lot* of pages https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Nvidia&oldid=1305848203 [[User:Lkcl|Lkcl]] ([[User talk:Lkcl|talk]]) 12:23, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

:i needed a way to exclude transclusions: a quick hack on the whatlinkshere help page [[Help:What_links_here#Workaround_to_hide_transcluded_links]] says to use "insource" and guess what? a '''considerable portion''' of those refer to GPGPU as '''hardware'''. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=insource%3A%2F%5C%5B%5C%5BGeneral-purpose+computing+on+graphics+processing+units%5C%7C%2F&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1 [[User:Lkcl|Lkcl]] ([[User talk:Lkcl|talk]]) 12:50, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

::arrrgh one of these is the [[Nintendo_Switch]] which has used "GPGPU (hardware)" to refer to the '''internal''' hardware compute units (presumably the number of cores, or the number of specialised shader-units, or possibly even the number of [[SIMT]] Processing Elements (see [[Flynn's taxonomy|Array processor]]). bottom line the *entirety of wikipedia* is not just divided on this conflation, but there are '''page errors as well'''. this is simply too big a task for one person to fix. no idea how to go from here. [[User:Lkcl|Lkcl]] ([[User talk:Lkcl|talk]]) 13:02, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

== Requested move 14 August 2025 ==

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:''The following is a closed discussion of a [[Wikipedia:Requested moves|requested move]]. <span style="color: var(--color-error, red);">'''Please do not modify it.'''</span> Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a [[Wikipedia:move review|move review]] '''after''' discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.''

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The result of the move request was: unanimous consensus to '''move''' <small>([[Wikipedia:Requested moves/Closing instructions#Non-admin closure|non-admin closure]])</small> [[User:Ophyrius|'''Ophyrius''']] (<small style="display:inline-block;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom;line-height:0.9em;">he/him<br/>'''[[User talk:Ophyrius|T]] • [[Special:Contribs/Ophyrius|C]] • [[Special:CentralAuth/Ophyrius|G]]'''</small>) 09:15, 22 August 2025 (UTC)

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* [[:General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (software)]] → {{no redirect|General-purpose computing on graphics processing units}}

* [[:General-purpose computing on graphics processing units]] → {{no redirect|General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (disambiguation)}}

– Unnecessary disambiguation, hatnote can likely be added to link to the [[General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (hardware)|other article]] since this is a [[WP:ONEOTHER]] situation as this article was previously the primary topic. Previous [[WP:RMUM|RMUM]] move was reverted and the [[User talk:Tenshi_Hinanawi#c-Tiggerjay-20250814133900-Tenshi_Hinanawi-20250814101600|reverter agreed that it should not have been reverted]]. [[User: Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi!]] ([[User talk: Tenshi Hinanawi|Talk page]]) 17:59, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

* '''Support''' move of this page back to [[General-purpose computing on graphics processing units]]. That was an undiscussed move. I support merge too, and I think the disambiguation can be deleted. Even if there were two pages, which there shouldn't be, there would be no need for a disambiguation page. If the merge proceeds there will be nothing to disambiguate. [[User:Sirfurboy|Sirfurboy🏄]] ([[User talk:Sirfurboy|talk]]) 19:18, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

* '''Support''' per my comments on the [[Talk:General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (hardware)|other talk page]]. [[User:REAL_MOUSE_IRL|REAL_MOUSE_IRL]] [[User talk:REAL_MOUSE_IRL|<span style="background:#000;border-radius:50%50%0 0;padding:4px 1px;border:1px solid #888;color:#fff">talk</span>]] 10:00, 16 August 2025 (UTC)

*'''Support''' per multiple prior discussions in various venues as spurred on by the now INDEF user who requested this move in the first place. [[User:Tiggerjay|<span style='color:DarkOrange'>'''Tigger'''</span>'''Jay''']]&thinsp;[[User talk:Tiggerjay|<span style="font-size:85%;color:Purple">(talk)</span>]] 20:43, 16 August 2025 (UTC)

*'''Comment''' @[[User: Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi!]] -- might I suggest that this should simply be speedily closed and performed as procedural. Based on the factors surrounding this specific case, and the already clear support, I'm not sure there is anyone who would oppose this move. As the prior mover who performed this move per a now blocked user, this could ''almost'' be handed as a RMTR -> reverting undiscussed move. I think the mop work that needs to be done after the collateral damage of this blocked user doesn't need to wait the full 7 days. [[User:Tiggerjay|<span style='color:DarkOrange'>'''Tigger'''</span>'''Jay''']]&thinsp;[[User talk:Tiggerjay|<span style="font-size:85%;color:Purple">(talk)</span>]] 02:25, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

*'''Support''' merge. "General Purpose computing on GPUs" is a common phrase that is shortened to GPGPU (for example in Stallings, ''Computer organization and architecture'', 2016). It is not a type of hardware or a type of software, it is an activity in which humans use GPUs for something that they were not originally designed for. It is notable and should have a Wikipedia article, not just a disambiguation page. "GPGPU" is used by some people to mean "General Purpose GPU" (for example in Chien, ''Computer architecture for scientists'', 2022). If there is enough information about them (and I am not sure there is) it could be split out into a linked article of that name. [[User:JonH|JonH]] ([[User talk:JonH|talk]]) 13:39, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

*:{{Re|JonH}} Are you sure that you are at the right discussion? The merge discussion is [[Talk:General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (hardware)#Proposed merge of General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (software) with General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (hardware)|here]], this is a RM. [[User: Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi!]] ([[User talk: Tenshi Hinanawi|Talk page]]) 14:11, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

*::Honestly, these two discussions are about the same thing, just coming at it from different directions. Lkcl's rushed work here should be undone, is the point. Then, if there is merit to (and consensus for) what they were trying to do, it should be done ''properly'' by editors who will take the time to do it ''all'' properly. [[User:Ivanvector|Ivanvector]] (^{[[User talk:Ivanvector|Talk]]}/_{[[Special:Contributions/Ivanvector|Edits]]}) 11:44, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

*:::It's been over a week now. I have requested close. [[WP:RM]] does not seem to allow an involved editor to close a unanimous requested move, which seems a bit odd when this is just unanimous support to undo an undiscussed move. Any uninvolved editor can close this though. [[User:Sirfurboy|Sirfurboy🏄]] ([[User talk:Sirfurboy|talk]]) 07:55, 22 August 2025 (UTC)

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