Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Physics/Archive November 2021
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Havana Syndrome
Havana syndrome makes numerous claims about the effects of microwaves on the human body. I have opened an RfC concerning the comments of a Professor of Radiology about the Frey effect. Talk:Havana syndrome/Archive 4#RfC: Is "Science Vs" a Reliable Source and does it support the addition of my proposed text?DolyaIskrina (talk) 05:33, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
Stree-optic coefficient redirects
I have created these eight pages, all redirects to Photoelasticity.
- Stress-optic coefficients
- Stress-optic coefficient
- Stress optic coefficients
- Stress optic coefficient
- Stress-Optic Coefficients
- Stress-Optic Coefficient
- Stress Optic Coefficients
- Stress Optic Coefficient
Michael Hardy (talk) 17:27, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
- Comment: With the way the WP search function works recently, it seems to be unnecessary to add variations of capitalization and punctuation. Creating only one of these would have resulted in any one being typed in still prompting with and redirecting to the closest spelling, suggesting that we should create only "correct" variants. This does not seem to be mentioned at WP:REDIR yet, though. 70.52.119.241 (talk) 13:38, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
- Does that affect wikilinks as well as search? If not, the variant redirects are still needed, so that a link to Stress optic coefficient won't turn up red if the only redirect is from Stress-optic coefficient.--Srleffler (talk) 17:26, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
- How many "wrong" ways of writing something do we want to encourage? If the official term is "stress-optic coefficient", then with/without the hyphen is acceptable, but every combination of caps isn't. Plurals should be nuked because [[stress-optic coefficient]]s works perfectly fine. This brings us down to stress-optic coefficient and stress optic coefficient as really the only two that are necessary.
- At the very least, though, I think the Optic redirects should go. Primefac (talk) 21:33, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
- "How many" is not the right question. Redirects are cheap. We should have however many make sense. An editor should be able to slap square brackets around any possible name for an article and get a blue link if a suitable article exists. We definitely need the links with and without hyphens, since not everyone knows how to hyphenate a phrase like that. Normally I would say we don't need the plural options since WP:NAME generally requires article titles to be singular, but groups of mathematical entities are a common exception, eg Einstein coefficients and Stokes parameters. I agree that we don't need the capitalized options. Wikipedia editors should know better than to put links in title case.--Srleffler (talk) 03:16, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
- Does that affect wikilinks as well as search? If not, the variant redirects are still needed, so that a link to Stress optic coefficient won't turn up red if the only redirect is from Stress-optic coefficient.--Srleffler (talk) 17:26, 7 November 2021 (UTC)