Talk:Foy–Breguet telegraph

Foy–Breguet telegraph instrument with one needle
In Figure 3 of Louis Breguet et ses appareils télégraphiques, there is a Foy–Breguet telegraph instrument with one needle. --Bonita Juarez (talk) 21:33, 8 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Great job finding that and the other source you put in the article. Shaffner also describes the one-needle system for circumstances where only one line is available.  It uses the same alphabet as the two-needle instrument except that the two positions of each character are sent sequentially instead of in parallel. SpinningSpark 23:24, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks. You are the one who is doing a great job with this article. I discovered that other types of telegraph exist. I learnt something yesterday. :-) --Bonita Juarez (talk) 04:42, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Overlinking
Bonita Juarez, you might want to take a look at WP:OVERLINK. The guideline discourages a lot of the links that you have added. SpinningSpark 23:26, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the advice. Well, History is not my cup of tea, I am not familiar with Napoleon and I hope I have the good French revolution. About geography, I would say try to ask an average american in the streets. In my opinion, the OVERLINK study is biaised because statistics are done on wikipedia usual users who have a certain culture and not new people who never used wikipedia and access the culture for their first time. Futhermore, is it taken into account that some articles are barely read so their links to other articles will be barely barely used? ;-) --Bonita Juarez (talk) 04:42, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, the bottom line is that those are the guidelines and we should stick to them unless there are exceptional circumstances. The point is, not what readers know, but what they are likely to want to know based on their interest in this article.  A reader who is interested in telegraphs is unlikely to be interested in a general article on France.  Nor are they likely to not know what it is, even Americans. SpinningSpark 14:28, 9 March 2020 (UTC)