Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Foucault gyroscope


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The result was keep, withdrawn by nom. (non-admin closure) Kj cheetham (talk) 19:02, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

Foucault gyroscope

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 * Not notable.

The article has two secondary sources. The "Instruments of Science" source is an extremely brief mention. The Wiley source is a little more detailed, but I'm not seeing sufficient coverage for an whole article.

The article calls it a "Foucault gyroscope", and claims it is was a "prototype" of the "modern" gyroscope. This is false, it was simply a gyroscope, and the term "Foucault gyroscope" is Original Research. (The Wiley source uses the phrase "Foucault gyroscope", but if you read the source, this is not intended to imply it was A Thing.)

My proposal is deletion, and put a brief description of the experiment in the Léon Foucault article instead. cagliost (talk) 16:34, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Withdraw since secondary sources added. cagliost (talk) 18:04, 11 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Many more scholarly sources have been added since the unilateral moving of the article today. Not only do those sources disagree with the assertions above, so do the websites of the Science Museum, London and the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers. I understand you wish to change the name (which should be discussed at WP:RM) but this invention – like the Foucault pendulum before it – was in the words of Arthur Gordon Webster used for "celebrated experiments" and is highly notable in the history of physics. Onceinawhile (talk) 18:05, 11 March 2023 (UTC)


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