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Shouldn't the 1922 reference to a turbocharger really be a supercharger?
Turbochargers use the exhaust gasses to drive a turbine, whereas superchargers are driven from the main shaft of the engine.
I thought turbos were post-war.
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The MOS says about "see also" that is is "A bulleted list, preferably alphabetized, of internal links (wikilinks) to related Wikipedia articles". We seem to have a disagreement about this as one editor seems to think that non-links are okay in the see also section. Since a reader can't "see also" something that doesn't exist (i.e. an unlinked non-article) I think these ought to be removed until the appropriate articles are created as per the MOS. - Ahunt ( talk) 13:13, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
The guideline is quite clear. The section should contain only links to related articles (no black text apart from notes explaining why something is linked if it not obvious), it also says that there should be no red links. A solution would be to simply nowiki the links and unlock them when the articles appear, this is assuming that these engines that we know nothing about are actually similar. I think it has been mentioned before on this page that disagreements with the guideline should be taken up at the relevant talk page, I have questioned guidelines, gone to the talk page and come away with a better appreciation of the reasoning behind them. It has taken years of MOS discussion and changes to get to the relatively stable position we currently enjoy.
The 'comparable aircraft' section has caused problems in the past (mainly edit wars) because it is open to editor judgement and original research, it's a wonder that we are still allowed to do it. If we make too much noise this section of Template:Aircontent will get chopped, I have no objection to these engines being linked and often do it myself, it's a clear disregard of the guideline to create redlinks in this section though. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 19:46, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
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Shouldn't the 1922 reference to a turbocharger really be a supercharger?
Turbochargers use the exhaust gasses to drive a turbine, whereas superchargers are driven from the main shaft of the engine.
I thought turbos were post-war.
This article has been revised as part of the large-scale clean-up project of a massive copyright infringement on Wikipedia. Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously.
For more information on this situation, which involved a single contributor liberally copying material from print and internet sources into several thousand articles, please see the two administrators' noticeboard discussions of the matter, here and here, as well as the the cleanup task force subpage. Thank you. -- Whpq ( talk) 17:44, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
The MOS says about "see also" that is is "A bulleted list, preferably alphabetized, of internal links (wikilinks) to related Wikipedia articles". We seem to have a disagreement about this as one editor seems to think that non-links are okay in the see also section. Since a reader can't "see also" something that doesn't exist (i.e. an unlinked non-article) I think these ought to be removed until the appropriate articles are created as per the MOS. - Ahunt ( talk) 13:13, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
The guideline is quite clear. The section should contain only links to related articles (no black text apart from notes explaining why something is linked if it not obvious), it also says that there should be no red links. A solution would be to simply nowiki the links and unlock them when the articles appear, this is assuming that these engines that we know nothing about are actually similar. I think it has been mentioned before on this page that disagreements with the guideline should be taken up at the relevant talk page, I have questioned guidelines, gone to the talk page and come away with a better appreciation of the reasoning behind them. It has taken years of MOS discussion and changes to get to the relatively stable position we currently enjoy.
The 'comparable aircraft' section has caused problems in the past (mainly edit wars) because it is open to editor judgement and original research, it's a wonder that we are still allowed to do it. If we make too much noise this section of Template:Aircontent will get chopped, I have no objection to these engines being linked and often do it myself, it's a clear disregard of the guideline to create redlinks in this section though. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 19:46, 29 July 2011 (UTC)