User talk:Beaker2

References in "QCM" article
Hi, assuming you are also the owner of the dormant User:Beaker.de account, you added a number of references to the Quartz crystal microbalance article in a major rewrite back in 2007. I recently tried to bring those references to "modern standards" by expanding abbreviations, names and other information. However, there are still many references with incomplete page information (where only the start page number is given, not the page span of the corresponding article) and three articles where either the title or issue is missing or the first names of the authors could not be expanded so far:


 * Ballato, Arthur; Lukaszek, Theodore J.; Eernisse, Errol P. (1979). IEEE Transactions on Sonics and Ultrasonics. 26: 163-?
 * Borovikov, V. V.; Dialnyan, R. A.; Shmyt’ko, I. M. (1987). Soviet Physics-Technical Physics. 32: 325-?
 * Borovikov, A. P. (January 1976). "Measurement of the viscosity of media by means of shear vibration of plane piezoresonators". Instruments and Experimental Techniques. 19 (1): 223–224

Regarding the first reference, in the 1979 26 issue, I can only find an article by Ballato online, but it has a different page number. The only article written by all three authors I can find online is in a 1978 25 volume, but also with different page numbers. Can you clarify this?

Do you happen to know the full names (or their Cyrillic equivalents) of the authors of the other two references?

Can you shed some light on this, please? Thanks.

--Matthiaspaul (talk) 05:30, 1 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi MatthiasPaul,
 * sorry, negative. I tried hard, when I wrote this. : Could not find more information and do not have more info in my records.
 * Best
 * Beaker2  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.174.150.23 (talk) 07:19, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick answer. However, this reads a bit as if you could not find the first reference yourself as well back then. But without the reference at hands, how could it be used by you to support a statement in the article? Or was your contribution back then based on someone else's prior work with the correspondng text excerpts and references already in there? No offense, I am just trying to make sense of it in order to decide if it makes sense to continue trying to track down this particular I reference (assuming some kind of typo or mixup in it which can be corrected with enough effort) or better remove and replace it by something else...
 * --Matthiaspaul (talk) 19:02, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

As you say: I copied this reference from another source without looking it up myself. A problem here: The IEEE transactions are not online. I would have to pay to get access. If you change text, you should make sure that somehow Eernisse is credited for the stress-compensated cut. That was quite an achievement. Looking again at the article, I believe that someone else (an expert on stress-compensated cuts) inserted text somewhere on the road. Probably, I did not write the paragraph starting with "Stress-compensated (SC) crystals are available..." that way myself. Best, beaker2