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I reverted recent edits to the lede. See the sections above, #unclear (transverse polarization) and #Introduction. Electromagnetic waves are not always transverse, and polarization is not a property only of transverse waves. The statement "Waves that oscillate only in a single plane are referred to as polarized, while ones that oscillate in multiple planes are said to be unpolarized." is badly wrong. Circularly polarized waves do not oscillate in a single plane, and they are not unpolarized. -- Srleffler ( talk) 02:55, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
parameter ... that specifies the geometrical orientation of the oscillationis not terribly informative; and polarization is hardly a "parameter" – I'd expect that you could assign a single numerical value to a parameter, but polarization is too complex for that. No such user ( talk) 08:15, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
What is the factor Q in this part of the article? 2A02:A463:2848:1:B877:7C1B:4DDD:B31C ( talk) 14:36, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
Usually, Wikipedia articles read like they are really an article but this article reads like it's a paper, with lots of uses of "we", like "as we have shown". Is it important, should this not be in this case "as shown above", etc.? Dan Dart ( talk) 16:32, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
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I reverted recent edits to the lede. See the sections above, #unclear (transverse polarization) and #Introduction. Electromagnetic waves are not always transverse, and polarization is not a property only of transverse waves. The statement "Waves that oscillate only in a single plane are referred to as polarized, while ones that oscillate in multiple planes are said to be unpolarized." is badly wrong. Circularly polarized waves do not oscillate in a single plane, and they are not unpolarized. -- Srleffler ( talk) 02:55, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
parameter ... that specifies the geometrical orientation of the oscillationis not terribly informative; and polarization is hardly a "parameter" – I'd expect that you could assign a single numerical value to a parameter, but polarization is too complex for that. No such user ( talk) 08:15, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
What is the factor Q in this part of the article? 2A02:A463:2848:1:B877:7C1B:4DDD:B31C ( talk) 14:36, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
Usually, Wikipedia articles read like they are really an article but this article reads like it's a paper, with lots of uses of "we", like "as we have shown". Is it important, should this not be in this case "as shown above", etc.? Dan Dart ( talk) 16:32, 27 September 2023 (UTC)