Talk:Headless

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Shouldn't these three different meanings have individual subheadings?
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Kienle (talk • contribs) 12:29, 7 August 2005

Why is there a link to this disambiguation page from the article "head" which discusses the anatomical structure of the human head? Nothing here has to do with heads, except the little "see also" section. ONUnicorn 20:16, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe there should be an item in "head (disambiguation)" that matches the meaning in "headless". That is, in somewhat archaic computer speak, a "video head" refers to the hardware that is added to a basic computer to allow it to do video graphics, possibly including pointers like mice or light-pens. At one time computers did not have standard video capabilities, but video graphics devices could be added as "bolt-on goodies".--Albany45 18:23, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Because virtually all living organisms require their brain to carry out basic functions" is simply untrue. Most animals do, but animals make up a small percentage of "most living organisms." No plant, protist, fungus, or moneran has a brain to my knowledge. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.121.0.142 (talk) 03:16, 28 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• There are many animal species w/o heads; probably the few that are Chordates but not Vertebrates are considered to have brains, but if not, they have a simpler nervous system that does part of what your brain does w/o a full brain. As you all know, coral and Portuguese Man o' War are both animals, each headless. (Oh, wait, i know someone whose boat got wrecked on a coral head; maybe i', confused [wink].) There are also a lot of arthropods with heads (but i think always w/o brains -- perhaps always a distributed rather than centralized nervous system, consisting of ganglia).
  --Jerzy•t 04:44, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  

A question worth answering, which is why i asked it! WP:MoSDab says in part (emphasis added by Jerzy):

Some disambiguation pages with "(disambiguation)" in the title list only two meanings, one of them being the primary meaning. In such cases, the disambiguation page is not strictly necessary, but is harmless.

In this case, i consider it desirable bcz of the previous attempt for a Dab at Headless, which was neither in Dab format nor had valid links covering the senses of "headless" or "headlessness", but for the moment is the content of List of things described as headless. The effort at a Dab may not be wasted, so i recast each of the 5 supposed Dab entries into a Rdlk entry, grouped them, and left the result on the accompanying Dab page inside invisible comments. Perhaps the needed corresponding articles will be written, and their Dab entries can be moved outside the comments & thereby activated, with trivial effort.
--Jerzy•t 04:10, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is this a disambiguation page or not? It acts like one, but the different uses do not link to specific pages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.104.4.159 (talk) 18:31, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• There is such a thing as a "sub-page" (besides the sub pages related to undersea-warfare related articles [wink]), but they're mostly used for storing archives of talk pages and dedicating a page to one instance of a process -- e.g., one article's AfD discussion. And articles have never been sub-pages since about 2002. The articles liked by a Dab page aren't "sub-" anything; they are partners, equal in status with other articles in jointly constituting the substance of WP; their relationship to Dabs is that some of them (which in many a case does not have a suffix on its title) need the negligible assistance of one or more Dabs to do the (portion of the task relevant to them of) mapping of possible titles onto actual articles.
  The accompanying list page is not a Dab page, but it has prose content that was removed from a Dab page, bcz Dab pages don't have prose: instead they have entries, each w/ just enuf info abt 1 article page to let users who came looking for the Dab's title -- say "Head" -- find the page that really has the article on the "head" topic that they had in mind.
  WP works bcz editors work on what they're interested in; this tends to develop expertise in specific aspects of the project, and helps keep editors from getting fed up with a task and going away, instead of starting a different task. I tend to focus on disambiguation cleanup (and abysmal ignorance), which is why i removed the accompanying page's text off a Dab (and created the accompanying list pg in case it's useful prose) -- and contributed to the preceding "Brain crucial" section.
  In that spirit, i don't expect to be involved in the task of deciding whether the material i moved is of any use on the accompanying list page or elsewhere; i don't have a position on whether the list should be deleted and its contents perhaps discarded, but am only concerned by the fact that is not in a form usable in a Dab -- and that it still says something abysmally ignorant.
  --Jerzy•t 03:46, 13 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  

I've never heard of "headless software" referring to text-only-I/O or lack of GUI. The only time I've ever heard "headless" in reference to computing is in the second example: a server with no human I/O devices.

Does anybody have a citation to back this up? Lesmothian (talk) 17:56, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I vote we remove it. For the moment I'm moving it to the end, since the server only accessible by network is the most common usage. Flying Bishop (talk) 15:41, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]