Talk:Potato cannon
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Suggested Change
[edit]This is a nice web page! One thing I would change though is that there is a link to an instructions website in the "Combustion" section. This I think should be moved I like to party
British spud guns
[edit]As a kid in the 80s, we used to have very simple spud guns that fired pieces of potato using the force of rubber bands or simple spring triggers. These don't seem to be covered in the article at all and are specifically ruled out by the definition given in the lead. --Dweller (talk) 14:56, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
- That's at Spud gun (toy) as per the link at the top of the page. Nick Cooper (talk) 15:18, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
Suggested rename to Potato cannon
[edit]The four references given at the top of this article all have titles referring to "Potato cannon", or "cannon". None of them refer to "spud gun". --Dweller (talk) 14:27, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
- No objection, so I'll rename. --Dweller (talk) 09:59, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
Double-check an edit?
[edit]Can someone with access to the cited source (Barker-Griffith, Ann E.; Streeten, Barbara W.; Abraham, Jerrold L.; Schaefer, Daniel P.; Norton, Sylvia W. (1 March 1998). "Potato gun ocular injury". Ophthalmology. 105 (3): 535–538. doi:10.1016/S0161-6420(98)93039-1. PMID 9499787. Retrieved 15 August 2011.) double-check whether this edit accurately represents it? --JBL (talk) 02:15, 15 November 2020 (UTC)