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Trivial Pursuit

Trivial Pursuit, Genus Edition has a question that asks how long a moment is, and the answer it gives is "a minute and a half" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.213.196.96 (talk) 18:37, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Don't merge

This term is precious enough to expand to a long, long article. Just give it some time. With goodness in mind (talk) 09:13, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What?

It's interesting that there is an article for this, and that it matches other info I just googled. However, I think modern usage of "moment" can mean anything between something like 5 seconds to 5 minutes. It really seems to mean "I don't know how long this will take and I'll get back to you whenever." Autumn Wind (talk) 15:16, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move 28 March 2023

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: page moved to moment (unit). Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 02:02, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Moment (time) → Moment (medieval unit) – "Moment (time)" is ambiguous with instant. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 01:28, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support, as the understanding of a "moment" in time has changed since the medieval definition (which approximates to 90 seconds). "Instant" has really no descriptor in measuring time, it remains infinitely small as to time. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:42, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support good call WP:CRITERIA In ictu oculi (talk) 15:37, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Move to Moment (unit). Parenthetical disambiguators are only supposed to be as specific as necessary for disambiguation. Rreagan007 (talk) 19:14, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support move to Moment (unit). I agree that "medieval" doesn't seem to be necessary. Although many physical quantities share the name "moment", I haven't found any other units that share the name. In addition to the modern sense being ambiguous with instant, "moment" (as in "at the moment") is also ambiguous with present. – Scyrme (talk) 21:21, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
No objection to moment (unit) instead. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 00:33, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(medieval unit) seems more accurate as it set the definition of "moment" at about 90 seconds which, I don't know, is it still the standard? If the descriptor becomes (unit) then it seems to be presenting and choosing 90 seconds as the only base descriptor. Randy Kryn (talk) 03:14, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Move to Moment (unit) per Rreagan007. More concise, and there does not appear to be another specifically defined unit called a "moment". BD2412 T 13:48, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hello BD2412, Scyrme, and Rreagan007. This is a sticky wicket. Wikipedia probably shouldn't officially define 'Moment' as 90 seconds, which is what would be assumed by a simple (unit) designation and not referring to the page historically (medieval unit). A moment is not now defined as app. 90 seconds, and is more generally comparable to 'instant' and other lesser time periods. Adhering to brevity guidelines doesn't seem to be applicable in this case, as this is a historical and not a present-time definition. For much less confusion and accuracy of topic (medieval unit) as originally suggested by Pppery seems the best work-around. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:23, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Using "unit" as a disambiguator wouldn't mean that Wikipedia is defining it as 90 seconds. The purpose of a disambiguator isn't to define a topic, it's to distinguish it from other topics that share the same title (such as Moment (physics) and Moment (magazine)). There are no other articles for units of measurement that use this title, so "unit" is sufficient to distinguish the scope of this article from the scope of other articles. Adding "medieval" is more precise than is needed to achieve disambiguation. Instant is not a unit of measurement so there would be no confusion with the modern understanding. – Scyrme (talk) 15:22, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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