Talk:Constant-force spring

Possible plagiarism/copyright infringement on
The linked page includes an uncredited copy of this Wiki page, including the totally out-of-place text about constant-rate conical springs I just deleted (moving it to Spring (device)). The site blocks the Wayback Machine, so I can't see how far back their page goes. However, there are a few pieces of evidence suggesting that they copied us rather than vice versa:


 * They block the Wayback Machine.
 * Our page goes back to 2007. Few shitty websites have been online that long.
 * Their page seems to be a concatenation of copied-and-pasted text from different sites, because it repeats itself introducing the same concepts over and over again.
 * Our original version of the page misspelled "Hooke's Law" and "exerts". These misspellings are not found in our version, but are corrected in both our current version and their version.  Furthermore, at least the "Hooke's" misspelling was fixed by the original editor back in 2007.  It is unusual (though not unprecedented) for someone to insert misspellings in text they copied and pasted in order to defeat copy-and-paste detection, but it would defeat the purpose for the same person to then remove the misspellings.
 * The irrelevant text about constant-rate conical springs was not in the original 2007 version of the page, but was added in 2011, but it's on their site too. It would be very surprising for an editor to come back after four years to paste in more text from the site they originally copied and pasted from.

If the conical-spring nonsense disappears from their page too, we'll have an open-and-shut case!