Talk:Single-entry matrix

There has been no addition or discussion of this article since it was posted. I ran Web of Search using the key "Single entry matrix". I did not find a single reference to a paper to which the phrase used as the title of this article relates. The article has trivial content. There are two references to where the term is defined, but its discussion in both places dead ends quickly. Can an informed argument be provided that "single-entry matrix" could be a topic of study that would not be mentioned more usefully in the context in which it is used. Why is more advantageous as a separate article rather than a redirect to "Matrix (mathematics)? Michael P. Barnett (talk) 18:18, 30 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Google Scholar shows a number of entries: [1] — fnielsen (talk) 22:55, 19 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, neither sources define the term "single entry matrix". Both sources define the matrix J_nm, as a single entry matrix with a 1 at the position (n,m). Not only is this article trivial, it is also wrong.T R 12:15, 26 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

so fix it. I also think it is trivial, and I did my best to merge it, but there was too much opposition and not a single helpful edit, as one expects from WP:WPM. I'm not entering that jungle again. --Muhandes (talk) 18:16, 26 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In case anyone is interested in adding further results to the page, the book Some Eclectic Matrix Theory by Kenneth S. Miller contains four dense pages on such matrices (pp. 43-46). He calls them "elementary matrices" (of course this name clashes with modern convention). There are applications to partitioned matrices, Kronecker products, and matrix differential calculus. In fact, I suggest these matrices be called "standard basis" matrices -- everybody understands what this means -- and that this page be merged with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_basis, which in fact already defines them. 172.103.215.184 (talk) 19:46, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Seconded. Proposal to merge this into Matrix (mathematics) was not supported, but Standard basis is probably a better merge destination. Bbbbbbbbba (talk) 16:38, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]