Talk:Variable and attribute (research)

Name
I am wondering if Variable and attribute (science) wouldn't be better. I opted for research, as we have articles on variable (mathematics) and attribute (computing), and mathematics and computing are parts of science - but the use of variable and attribute here is different than in those articles. At some point, when more content is added, a split may be useful as well. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 18:12, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Properties
Hi there, I've often wondered whether the term "Attributes" would not be an improvement over the term "Properties" as used by Microsoft? Which, in your opinion, would be the more accurate term in this instance? Semperlibre (talk) 08:08, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Attributes is more commonly used, AFAIK. I am not sure what context the term properties is used by Microsoft, although it is probably more of a common-language usage for the same idea... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 17:10, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Should this article be split into two, one for variables, one for attributes?
Generally we tend to split such concepts. Thoughts?