Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Physics/Archive October 2016

Could someone verify this edit?

An IP made the following edit: [1]. I don't have time to review it at the moment, so if someone could, that would be nice. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:16, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Sounds very plausible, and at least the trivial algebra is correct now. Too bad that beyond the lead this article was written without much care for proper inline sourcing, so I left requests for sources. - DVdm (talk) 18:09, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Quantum entanglement

User:Kpvats repeatedly puts into the article "Quantum entanglement" such phrases as "Please let me know if it is ok to add this section" or "Please provide some reason/comments for removing". I try to convince him to use the talk page for this goal, but an edit-war may result, I'm afraid. Boris Tsirelson (talk) 21:11, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

It's not an edit war (or at least, you wouldn't have to worry about 3RR) if you're removing inappropriate material. I'd say you're in the clear, Boris, but I'll start keeping an eye on the page as well. Primefac (talk) 21:21, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

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Wireless power, Nikola Tesla's experiments, paragraph six, sentence one revision

There is a discussion about Nikola Tesla's wireless system for the transmission and reception of electrical energy at Talk:Wireless_power_transfer#Proposal_to_revise_paragraph_six_of_Tesla.27s_experiments that could benefit from more community input. The original sentence reads, "In the 110 years since Tesla's experiments, efforts using similar equipment have failed to achieve long distance power transmission, and the scientific consensus is his World Wireless system would not have worked." GLPeterson (talk) 22:52, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

RFCs on citations templates and the flagging free-to-read sources

See

• Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Access locks: Visual Design RFC
• Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Access Locks: Citation Template Behaviour RFC

Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:12, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

I'll mention in particular, that under debate is the option of having arxiv preprint automatically-linking the title of such articles when using {{cite arxiv}}. AKA instead of something like

• Beaudoin, N.; Landry, G.; Sandapen, R. (2013). "Generalized isospin, generalized mass groups, and generalized Gell-Mann–Okubo formalism". arXiv:1309.0517. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Unknown parameter |class= ignored (help)

we could have (with autolinking), something like

• Beaudoin, N.; Landry, G.; Sandapen, R. (2013). "Generalized isospin, generalized mass groups, and generalized Gell-Mann–Okubo formalism". arXiv:1309.0517. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Unknown parameter |class= ignored (help)

without having to manually set the url to be "https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.0517". This would not apply to {{cite journal}}, as arxiv preprints are not the authoritative version. But sources in {{cite journal}} could be autolinked if they had free dois however, as those would link to the authoritative version. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 10:52, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Infobox hydrogen at TFD again

{{Infobox hydrogen}} is up for deletion again. Please discuss at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2016 October 30#Template:Infobox hydrogen. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:59, 31 October 2016 (UTC)