Talk:Magnetosphere particle motion

Cleanup and merge?
This article has some good material, but the style of writing is very much like one of the more conversational physics textbooks, rather than an encyclopedia article. -dmmaus 01:24, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

I think the majority of the now Overview needs to be removed as it is just a restatement of magnetic fields. Nickstuckert 01:07, 28 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I removed a chunk of material that was just discussion general particle motion in magnetic fields. I think there's probably more background material that could be moved to more general articles, leaving behind a link, the "bottom line" of what happens, and how this fits into the context of the magnetosphere.  There will only be a small amount of material left here, so I think the goal should be to merge this article back into magnetosphere. -- Beland (talk) 03:18, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Scalar claim
I removed the claim:
 * In the atmosphere, where no electric currents circulate, the distribution in space of a single numerical quantity (a "scalar potential") suffices to define the magnetic field vector B.

Unless some weird sort of transform is employed, I'm not sure how this is possible. I've moved it here for now since it's unreferenced, unclear, and I'm not sure how it really fits in with the article. -- Beland (talk) 02:15, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Self-appointed authorities...
Who write ostensibly factual narrative here without references risk wholesale deletion after a reasonable period has passed. There have never been any references for any of the material here, despite the passage of many years; this implies "self appointed authorities" who feel immune to Wikipedia's policies in this regard, and also strongly implies copy-pasting/plagiarism of textbook material.

Please don't add supposedly factual material to this article without references. As we approach the three-year anniversary of the "unreferenced" tag here, this article is in peril of reduction to "stub" status, in order to protect Wikipedia from plagiarism exposure.Rep07 (talk) 19:13, 27 August 2015 (UTC)