Talk:Winch

Other winding parts than the spool?

When other wheels than the spool are pulling the rope, what are they called?

See http://flickr.com/photos/styrheim/207072869/ Abu ari 08:44, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't understand the question. Can you reword it, please? -Bernard S. Jansen 03:51, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Poor article

The article comes across as a advertising portal for a few North American retailers of Winch systems, and has almost no encyclopedic content at all. How do you put a warning flag up about it? 203.14.156.192 06:58, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

All the external links were spam and have been deleted. There is still a lot to do. The warning flag you mention is {{Cleanup-spam}}. --Old Moonraker 07:17, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Reply to above Just because the article is only about winches for sailboats, that does not make the information irrelevant. Just ad information about other types of winches, or about winches in general. If we look at free online information about sailboat winches, then you find the best information at the producers of winches. Harken.com has articles about winches, and an electronic (wiki style like) winch selection guide.

http://www.harken.com/winches/BrionToss_Winchpower.php and four other great articles. Wiki style like selection guide http://www.harkencompuspec.com/

The information here pertains to all winches, even if it is placed at Harken.com

I have placed links in this articles for Lewmar, Harken and Andersen Winches. I would welcome more links to producers of sail boat winches. Likewise I think it would be relevant with links to producers of winches for automobiles, etc.

Could we not agree that instead of just deleting what others but up, then you could try to put up something better. Then lets us start deleting things when the article is getting to long, or has too many links to external sites.

Also I find it would be good to divide the article in to maritime and other sorts of winches. Some of the things written in the article at this point clearly only pertains to maritime winches, and not to general purpose winches. So instead of being a good beginning to an article about maritime winches, it is just a mess. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Madsgormlarsen (talk • contribs) 16:54, 27 November 2007.

• Here's what I deleted:

Producers of winches for sailboats

Producer of stainless steal [SIC] winches, Andersen Winches.

Producer of winches, and a full range of other sailboat equipment Harken

Producer of winches, and a full range of other sailboat equipment Lewmar

WP:EL#Links normally to be avoided includes "Links to sites that primarily exist to sell products or services," which seems to apply here. The same section also forbids: "Any site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a Featured article", which is pretty much what User:Madsgormlarsen is saying above: any useful material should be incorporated into the article, with a reference if necessary. Certainly the external site mentioned contains useful material that could be incorporated, but it also is promoting a commercial manufacturer. However, now the poster has explained his/her position on the talk page, I will certainly consider carefully before starting any form of "spam purge" here.

Finally, with regard to the suggestion to incorporate yet more links to commercial sites (for marine hand winches or vehicle winches) I draw his/her attention to the policy on spamming: any proliferation of commercial sites would earn the poster an undesirable reputation as a spammer.

In a nutshell: rewrite the material into encyclopedic form and incorporate it.--Old Moonraker (talk) 18:18, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

I can see your point Moonraker, and thanks for answering. But I think you are to restrictive. The question should not be whether we follow some guidelines set up by WP, but why the rules where made in the first place. Instead we should look to reader benefits from the information or not. Harken has bought four great articles about maritime winches, and placed om there website to generate trafic. Now to "rework" that material into Wikipedia does not seam fair, it also seams unnecessary. You do not look up winches in Wikipedia to find a book about it, you look to get a explanation, and links to further explanation. Also some of the material found at the producers of winches, are just not aviable anywhere else. The wiki style guide that Harken has made, it a boat equipment selection guide, where you give information about your boat type, and Harken then stores the information. Witch means that people with the same type op boat, does not have to give 10-15 measurements of their boat. There will be differences in the size of winch recommended by different manufactures, but this has more to with the politics of the producers than difference's between the actual winches. Andersen and Lewmar also have selection guides, they are just not quite as advanced as the one from Harken. But they might be just as precise, and do to there simplicity they are more user friendly. So I will say once again, do not remove, unless you are prepare to replace material with something even better. As it is there is not a single link for persons wanting to know more about maritime winches. Who benefits from that - nobody. And who is hurt by that, people wanting to find information about winches. Would i make sense to make an article called "Maritime winches"? Because as a sailboat enthusiast, there is no relevant information, and it does not make sense to put it in a category of parts for sailboat.

Mads Larsen

now I know i mention Harken all the time, witch makes it seams as if I am a representative for them (witch I am not). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Madsgormlarsen (talk • contribs) 13:39, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

• A case for WP:IAR, perhaps, at least until someone writes a proper article here. On the other hand, the external links guidelines are pretty strictly adhered to, and enforced, by most editors. --Old Moonraker (talk) 14:36, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi again " As you point out yourself it says "Links to sites that primarily exist to sell products or services," should NORMALLY be avoided. I think it is clear why that is, and if I was linking to the a maritime webshop, I think it is pretty clear why this is of benefit to no one. I think the question here is why you refer to a WP rule, why don't you give your own argument why there should not be a link to for exampel harken.com. I think it makes perfect sense to make a link section called producers of maritme winches, and I as a person with a interest in matime winches would welcome such a list. The list could include winches no longer in production, and for those there could be made special articles about those. If I sound mad then I am sorry, I am not mad, I just think that "Open Directory Project" was destroyed by rigid rules, and taste judges. I would have felt more like writing on this article, if I felt it was allowed to be a work in progress.

needs more added

Winches aren't just used on ships/boats but also on automobiles and and in various industries. The page should also discuss the different kinds of winch mechanisms (hand, PTO, electric, hydraulic). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.230.130.33 (talk) 23:41, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes.

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I am doing some work with a company that produces large engineered winches for construction, mining, and conductor stringing uses, as well as workboat and offshore applications. I think this article misses a lot of the importance of winches outside of sailboats and the like. Is there something I can do to use my client's information to expand the article, without turning it into marketing piece? 74.14.67.56 (talk) 17:13, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

It would also be great to cover '4x4' winches, which was I was originally coming here looking to see. I was trying to explain that to 'lift something with an electric motor' requires a winch of one kind or another, and wanted to show a picture of the spool that these little 4x4 winches use. Jgwinner (talk) 17:14, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

wiktionary : wince wiktionary : winch wiktionary : wench

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Knol article on "Winch"

Re this edit: I had a look for policy on WP:ELNO and found that "[a]ny site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a Featured article" shouldn't be used. There's nothing there that couldn't be used here, and therefore the link isn't necessary, according to the policy. Does anybody know if there is a WP_wide policy on Knol? --Old Moonraker (talk) 08:53, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

BEWARE EMBEDDED ADVERTISEMENT  !

Advertisements for another website or -sites are embedded in the clickable navigation instructions (for instance, "HISTORY") in this article.

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