Talk:Flik

Comments before first article merger with Flick (physics)
I can't tell offhand whether this is actually a commonly-used unit, just a neologism, or a hoax, but I cleaned it up just in case. I changed "steradians squared" to "steradians", assuming that this is for spectral radiance (radiance per unit wavelength). Ardric47 01:48, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

I found it in a text book I was reading. The unit is obsillete, but I'd thought I'd put it up here just in case anyone ever ran into it. I'll try to find the reference, but I remember copying the unit definition dirrectly from the page.--Rayc 01:09, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Good! That would also explain why I can't find any Google results. Ardric47 02:13, 8 April 2006 (UTC)


 * And, a mere 10 years later, I've added a reference to a book found on Googlebooks! Not sure if either of you are still around ... Pam  D  17:27, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm still around! I can't see what's on the page that you cited (which is okay), but I did find another article, Flick (physics), which probably needs to be merged into here. Back in the day (if not still), merging articles with similar amounts of content was complicated. And of course, a decision will have to be made about the preferred spelling. Ardric47 (talk) 19:34, 30 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks for that - well spotted! Looking around, although the Flik article is much longer-established, there seem to be more ghits for "microflick" than "microflik". Neither spelling is in the Oxford English Dictionary in the sense of a unit. The first of the 2 refs in Flick (physics) seems dead. I think we need to merge this older article into the newer one, as Flick/Microflick seems to be the commoner spelling - it's late now and I'm not feeling up to it but will have a go tomorrow or some time. Will need to tweak the hatnote about all the other Fliks too. All fascinating stuff - I can't even remember how I came to looking at Fliks in the first place. Pam  D  22:00, 30 July 2016 (UTC)