Talk:Battery

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Is the term battering ram derrived from the root word for all these bat words? --SuperDude 04:03, 5 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I think that Battery should have the content in Battery (electricity) with a link at the top of the article to this disambiguation page. It is by far the most common usage. Also, there needs to be a disambiguation page, but some of the terms listed don't need disambiguation from "battery". The Metallica song and the band don't have articles, and Battery Park and battery farming don't have the same name as "battery". The two slang entries aren't as unnecessary, but most common things have a slang meaning, so I wouldn't make a disambiguation for them alone unless they were separate articles. -- Kjkolb 08:50, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with all but the last sentence. even though most thisngs have a slang meaning we should still link to it. Ozone 00:12, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I utterly disagree with such a move - the meaning of battery as a crime and a tort of violence has long preceded the current meaning, and is the predominant meaning to a large portion of the population (ask any attorney or police office). bd2412 T 00:42, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Most people are not lawyers or policemen. The majority of times the word "battery" is said, it means "electrical storage cell". The meaning "group of artillery guns" probably came because those guns all together beat (French battre) whatever they are shooting at. Leave the plain word as the disambig page. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:47, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, there exists an american EBM band called 'battery' as well as the hardcore band.
vanbauseneick —Preceding comment was added at 10:21, 10 April 2008 (UTC) by User:Vanbauseneick[reply]

There is a Requested Move discussion taking place at Battery (electricity), which would involve moving that article to this title, and the disambiguation page to Battery (disambiguation). Propaniac (talk) 16:46, 27 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Battery (electricity) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 15:59, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]