Talk:informatic

The term is generic here. Other versions are comparative, such as bioinformatic, or geoinformatic, so the case is nominative.(Wikimedian 11:59, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

SemperBlotto, why did you delete the noun? It doesn't look obviously bogus to me. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:00, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

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informatic

"A device or system specifically designed for use in computation." Never heard of it. informatics is a discipline, not AFAIK the plural of a singular informatic. Equinox ◑ 12:14, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

google books:"an informatic" gets 406 hits, I haven't looked through all of them, but so far they're all adjectival citations ("an informatic system", for example). Mglovesfun (talk) 13:11, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

The electronic control systems originated by Harold S. Black at Bell Labs were introduced individually as "informatics" (as in the plural form of 'informatic'). This was in 1927.Wikimedian 15:16, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Hmm, but how do you know it was intended as a plural form? Can you find a text from that era referring to "an informatic"? Equinox ◑ 15:20, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

@Wikimedian we do require actual evidence as opposed to just discussion. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:27, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Gone through all 409 hits (three more than before) on Google Books, NO noun use, all adjectival, scannos for information, one which didn't make any sense to me and one not in English. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:50, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Deleted, then. Thanks for checking all the books, Mg. - -sche (discuss) 03:55, 1 March 2012 (UTC)