Talk:Trompo

Timpo (talk) 10:01, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Unique to Latin America?
This same game, using wooden tops identically to the one shown, was well known to my grandparents' generation in the United States, prior to WWII. I was taught it by both my grandfather and grandmother, who had played it as children, on opposite sides of Oklahoma. I think it is a very old tradition in the United States, and the tops are still sold at places that sell "old fashioned" toys. I think the article needs expanded, using more research. --Aaron Walden 13:45, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Needs more work
The Spanish article is nearer 'world view' - so I have tried to copy that. The physics in the Spanish article is also worth translating but perhaps not today as it is, well ... Merry Christmas to you all!(can you guess what I got from Santa?) Timpo (talk) 10:01, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Translation from Spanish article
I have begun translating some of the content from es:Trompo, the Spanish version of the article, to this article. I just posted the "Description of motion" section in the article; it is almost directly translated over from the Spanish article, but just in case, someone with more physics knowledge should double-check it. For now, I have excluded the "History" section of the Spanish article because it doesn't cite any sources. If I decide to translate it later on, I will post here. Mocl125 (talk) 23:25, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Update: I found a reliable (I think) source for the history section, so I started writing/translating it. I also found another source that contains much more information on the history of the top, but I am unsure as to whether it is reliable or not (it seems to be a page that sells trompos, and I didn't see any references on its "History" page). Mocl125 (talk) 00:01, 2 June 2020 (UTC)