Talk:Elastance/GA1

GA Review

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It's more than time someone reviewed this. Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 13:05, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Comments

There is little to criticise in this well-written and fully-cited article which is easily of GA quality. I have only a few very minor suggestions.

• I wonder if it's wise to use punctuation in equations? The two equations in Usage are followed by a comma and a period, respectively, using the typeface of the equations. It seems that equations are often left unpunctuated.

• This is the established convention, see MOS:MATH#PUNC. Expressions are punctuated as if they were part of the running text. It is not only the convention on Wikipedia, but it is followed by all mathematical works and textbooks. I tend to agree that it is unnecessary clutter that does not really add any clarity. But this article is not the place to fight off the rest of the world. In any case, there are certain editors here who dedicate their time to methodically adding punctuation to math expressions throughout the pedia, so it would get put back eventually anyhow. SpinningSpark 20:19, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

I'd almost be tempted to insert a smiley icon here.

• It might be helpful to give a date for Cauer's work in the text.

• Done. SpinningSpark 20:36, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

• In History, the list "such as impedance ... conductance and so on." would be better as "such as impedance ... and conductance."

*Done. SpinningSpark 20:51, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

• Some older editors might prefer "a result of Heaviside following" to be written "a result of Heaviside's following".

• Well I'm pretty old and I don't get the need for a possessive here. "Following" is the action of Heaviside, not the bunch of groupies who follow Heaviside. 20:51, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

• "Thus elastivity rather than elasticity." isn't a sentence. Perhaps begin "Thus he chose...".

• Done. SpinningSpark 20:51, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

• It might be helpful to wikilink the Energy domain terms (left-hand column) in the table in The Maxwellian analogy.

• There is a little overlinking used in a helpful way.

• There is no sign of plagiarism.

Summary

This is a fine and fascinating article on the history and substance of what would otherwise have seemed an obscure electrical engineering topic, and a worthy GA. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:43, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I was going to deal with your point about wikilinking the table today. I stopped yesterday after being horrified to find that electrical science is actually a redlink. I'll create a redirect, but how does that not have an article? SpinningSpark 13:33, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Oh good, and yes, it's very odd how some things slip through the net. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:51, 5 April 2017 (UTC)