User talk:GearHeads

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Please slow down and follow Wikipedia's conventions
You wrote an article that begins with this:


 * Bottom land is the surface at the bottom of a tooth space adjoining the fillet.

A reader not familiar with mechanical engineering my think this is about dentistry or about real estate that is below sea level, and in some of your articles they might not know whether it's about politics or poetry or chemistry or theology. You can't assume the reader knows that gears are what you're writing about; you have to tell them. Michael Hardy 23:38, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

In another, you've got only this:


 * The circle which intersects the involute at the point where the pressure angle is equal to the profile angle of the basic rack.

That is not a complete sentence, and it does not set the title phrase in bold at its first appearance. Both are required by Manual of Style. It also fails to tell the reader the context: that this is within the field of mechanical engineering or that it's about gears. I would not have known either of those, given only what you wrote above. Michael Hardy 23:41, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

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 * If that article is not to be kept, possibly it should be merged with the other articles created by this user, who apparently hasn't been here since almost a year ago. So I've removed the deletion proposal from the article. Michael Hardy (talk) 17:30, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

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Backlash.svg
Is not "backlash" an angular measurement? in the svg what is labled "Backlash, (transverse operation)" is a linear distance and it seems to me to be "Play" (which does translate into potential backlash and "dead motion" and could also be an angular measurement).

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