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{{ping|Trovatore}} In one way this remains akin to a disambiguation page: the authoritative sources for the information in it are in the pages to which it links. That is acceptable for disambiguation pages. A question is: For which sorts of pages is it acceptable, and why? [[User:Michael Hardy|Michael Hardy]] ([[User talk:Michael Hardy|talk]]) 02:48, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

:Came here after making the mistake myself. I made a mistake, since the term ''"cumulative distribution function''" is well-established. But I admit to a crime against convention, rather than against logic. After all, "distributed" can mean "spread out", and if something is "spread out" it has some kind of "density". So conceptualizations of ''accumulated density'' and ''accumulated distribution'' seem logically comparable, as {{ping|Trovatore}} has argued above. In explaining why ''"cumulative density function''" is self-contradictory, this essay presupposes that ''"cumulative''" [[Grammatical modifier|modifies]] ''"density function''", when a more sensible interpretation would be that ''"cumulative density''" modifies ''"function''".

:In any case, I [[Wikipedia:Verifiability challenges|challenge]] the claim that the phrase is "self-contradictory". This should be sourced, or removed. —[[User:St.nerol|St.Nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]], [[Special:Contributions/St.nerol|contribs]]) 15:16, 25 March 2025 (UTC)