Talk:Spring

formatting (2004)

Disambig pages should show the disambiguated links in the plain, not hidden. Also the city entry is capitalized so it does not go in the main list.Jorge Stolfi 00:26, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I was thinking about rewriting this page so it is more like the other disambig pages. Before I do (assuming no one else does first), I'm curious what exactly you mean. By "in the plain" do you mean that they should all be in a neat list or that their full titles should be shown. It would look better to me if this page had something like "Spring, a source of water in the ground" or something like that (I'm just doing a rough definition off the top of my head) with the parentheses hidden, but that makes me curious if there is a recommended policy on that. In the America disambig page, all the entries with parentheses have that part hidden, and that personally looks better to me than "Spring (water), a source of water in the ground." Also, what do you mean by your city entry comment? I see putting all the cities together at the bottom as a reminder that those articles also exist, but I don't understand why you would exclude something because it was capitalized. I just want to make sure I understand policies/recommendations regarding disambig pages before I start making major changes to this one and others. Thanks! -- Jrdioko 01:45, Apr 9, 2004 (UTC)

The full text of the link should be visible in order to simplify the task of replacing any links to this disambiguation page by direct links to the pages in question.

As for joining all entries in a single list, the city name is always used capitalized whereas the common word is not. So saying that "the word spring could mean... a city..." is not correct. Starting the article with "Spring can be..." fails to note the difference between "spring" and "Spring". (Unike the previous point, this may be more a matter of taste than of real convenince.)

The case of Springs is worse because it is plural as well as capitalized, so strictly speaking it is not a sense of "spring" -- rather it is only a courtesy to confused readers who may end up here when looking for it. Anyway the intro paragraph will not work if "Springs" is added to the list.

Jorge Stolfi 12:12, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Ok, that makes sense. Thanks for clearing that up. On the plural/singular and capitalization issues it would be easy enough to rewrite the page to make those agree. However, I am curious about the full text recommendation. Does this appear in one of the Wikipedia articles about disambiguation? For example, again using America Wikipedia article about this, I'm curious where it is so I can follow a standard when adjusting other disambig pages. Thanks again. -- Jrdioko 18:41, Apr 9, 2004 (UTC)

True or false??

True or false: this article belongs at Spring (disambiguation) and Spring (season) at Spring. 66.245.124.71 23:10, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Depends on whether the season is the most wanted definition... a developer could grep the logs and see which of the subpages is visited the most from here. We can also analyze the un-disambiguated links, and links in general. --Joy [shallot] 21:45, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I say false. Keep it how it is. HereToHelp 13:50, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

I agree with the OP. The most used link seems to be to Spring (season). Also, Fall, another commonly used word, links to Autumn, further supporting this case. --Yono 00:04, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

The problem is Spring (device). There is only one major use for Fall because the verb isn't a potential encyclopedia article. Spring (device) is a very important article (probably in the core). I don't think this disambiguation page can go anywhere but here. Dekimasu 21:07, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Not to mention water springs, which are also very important. It might be able to redirect to a better title, but it would still need disambiguation here. No one is going to find Spring (hydrosphere) directly. Dekimasu 21:11, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Missing engineering usage?

The spring is used in engineering and physics as a model of disparate processes. That is, the mathematical formalism is used for systems obeying F = -kx or P.E. = ½kx² (there are more precise tensorial and/or matrix equations). Since there is no article on this abstract usage, I am going to add a reference to the Wikipedia article on Hooke's Law in the "See also" section.71.31.148.44 (talk) 20:22, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

Do there exist some alternative terms or synonyms for disambiguation?

• Spring (season) = springtime
• Spring (device) = ?
• Spring (hydrology) = water spring
• Spring (mathematics) = ?
• Spring (political terminology) = revolutionary wave
• Springs (tide) = spring tide

--Yejianfei (talk) 01:17, 2 January 2021 (UTC)