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I am considering software that installs a Virtual Adapter and, having no idea what such a thing was, came to Wiki. The articles I found here are this one and Vitual Interface Device. Neither were helpful as both immediately use jargon in their introductions (e.g "converts transmitted data from one presentation form to another"). Compare/contrast the introduction I found helpful on About.com on Adapters ("A network adapter interfaces a computer to a network. The term "adapter" was popularized originally by Ethernet add-in cards for PCs.") Could the relevant articles on wiki be joined-up and made more helpful in some way? LookingGlass (talk) 09:46, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
Should this article be merged with the broader article Adapter? It seems unnecessary to separate the topics.
Vedvod (talk) 03:22, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
By unnecessary, i meant that since this topic is just a branch of the other topic, it might be reasonable to either merge this one into the other one or to link from the other article to this one, especially since the section on the adapter article is a stub.
Vedvod (talk) 07:23, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
To clarify and ammend, in the past, the Adapter article was split into several articles, this being one of them. However, since the main Adapter article mentions computer adapters, but as a stub of a section on computer adapters, and containing differing content, not justifying a simple link from that article to this one without several changes to the content on that article, it is my belief that it would just work better to have one article talking about electronics and computing, especially also since electronics and computing are commonly grouped as a field of study/magicstuffs (I know they aren't, I took electronics in year 9/10). I think it would just make almost everyone's lives easier if this page merged into the other one. Not trying to be a "Carthago delenda est" person, sorry, but I do truly think it would be better to merge them.
Vedvod (talk) 07:33, 2 October 2020 (UTC)