User talk:JohnGHissong

Poiseuille
Thanks for your edit to the article Poiseuille. This article was created recently from a redirect to Jean_Léonard_Marie_Poiseuille (which is where it belongs), citing only the Cardarelli book. (The editor concerned shows no evidence of actually understanding any of this, merely copying this source.) I am writing a critique, here: User:Imaginatorium/Cardarelli, and am collecting specific errors in the book.

You corrected the symbol: can you provide a source for the "PI" version, and are you saying Cardarelli is simply wrong?

I think that "Poiseuille" should redirect to the man, and the description you have added could be moved to a section within his page, but currently his page has a tag saying "citation needed" for the fact that the "Poiseuille" unit was not adopted. (This is where some of the Wikirules begin to baffle me: how can you have a "source" for something not being used?)

Grateful for any suggestions. Imaginatorium (talk) 03:59, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Re: Poiseuille
I have no access to the Cardarelli book so I can't check the source.

The Poiseuille, like many scientific units, including the Newton and the Joule, was named for an individual human being. If all the references to Poiseuille linked to the biography of the scientist, it would sow confusion since the last name of the scientist is also a unit.

Many, many books give the appropriate abbreviation, "PI" not "Po", Wilson, Buffa and Lou, College Physics, among others.

Also, it's not exactly true that the unit was never officially adopted, it's more that it never became popular. Some groups found it simpler to stick with the Pascal•second instead of introducing an altogether new unit with a new abbreviation.

Finally, any survey of the literature will reveal that the poise is used far more often than the Poiseuille.

JohnGHissong (talk) 05:27, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

The Catholic Sun
Good question. Most likely this poem was thought by the editors of Belloc's Complete Verse to be so short that it is hardly a poem at all. I added it because I heard it from several different groups of Catholic friends; certainly not a firm attribution. It does seem to be on a list of quotes by Belloc on Goodreads.com, and on Wikiquote's page about Belloc, along with several poetry databases. Academic Challenger (talk) 18:29, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

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