Talk:Savart wheel

Video EL?

 * Video demonstration of a Savart wheel (from Taller de Fisica, L1; in Spanish)

I believe this is useful EL for the article, but apparently YouTube links are now discouraged. In this case I think it is a good one which provides an informative real-life demonstration of the mechanism in action. 86.173.146.3 (talk) 23:57, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Fwiw, I believe that this is actually by far the most editorially useful of the three current external links, given that this video contributes something to the page (pace so-called WP "standard practice") something to the page which the text references do not. 86.173.146.3 (talk) 09:11, 22 February 2014 (UTC)


 * There's certainly no blanket discouragement of YouTube links (the guideline is at External links for reference) and I agree that a video of the thing in action adds a lot to this article. Djr32 (talk) 22:10, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Captioning images
Across Wikipedia there is a bad habit among editors to caption any black and white illustration as a "sketch". Please think about the implications of the word "sketch" before using it. A sketch is, by definition "sketchy". No detailed, carefully done drawing is a sketch. If the picture has been published in an old encyclopedia or other publication (newspaper, magazine etc) then it cannot be a sketch because it has been processed for printing. Modern printing processes can reproduce sketches, but a drawing is only a sketch if it is sketchy. If the drawing is carefully done, then call it a "drawing". Nothing could be more simple.

What you are looking at here is a drawing made with great care and precision, that has then been engraved onto a steel plate (hours of work) for printing. Nothing about it makes it a sketch. It can be termed an "illustration" (since it was published as such) or an "engraving" (since that is how it was made).

Amandajm (talk) 01:53, 1 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Ouch! You are absolutely right. Thank you, 217.42.178.17 (talk) 08:23, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Savart wheels with different
video on U2B is no longer online

Thank You

Gianni

Italy — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.18.248.106 (talk) 09:07, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

kid on bicycle
sometime you see a kid on a bike with a piece off paper like a playingcard attached to a wheel. http://www.casaspider.com/live/2007/05/klapperende_kartonnetjes_tusse.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.149.83.125 (talk) 15:16, 6 March 2023 (UTC)