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Suggestion to rename to "Precious metals" (plural form)

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In line with quite a number of other wikipedia articles (Refractory metals, Coinage metals, Heavy metals, Native metals), and since this page describe a group of several metals called "precious metals", it would make sense to rename this article into "Precious metals".

Same proposal for Noble metal.Ileresolu (talk) 08:40, 11 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This question came up in some others, where I find the singular more obvious. In chemistry, often enough one wants a generic halide for example, so not in the group sense. I note this one was also recently renamed. In any case, I am less sure it should be singular, than for some others. Some people can be very particular about which precious metal they want. (Such as: Archimedes#Archimedes'_principle.) Gah4 (talk) 22:54, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]