The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
this nomination's talk page,
the article's talk page or
Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by
Cwmhiraeth (
talk) 06:11, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
... that the term elastance (the inverse of
capacitance) was coined by
Oliver Heaviside to promote an analogy of a
capacitor as a spring rather than a container of
charge? Source: Yavetz, pp.150–151, Howe, p.60
Comment: Would also have qualified for x5 expansion if nominated prior to the GA process
Improved to Good Article status by
Spinningspark (
talk). Self-nominated at 10:14, 9 April 2017 (UTC).
Made GA recently enough, new enough, long enough, article within policy - well sourced, no neutrality or copyvio issue detected. QPQ done. The hook is cited and mentioned in the article, however the use of parentheses in hook is frowned upon as per
WP:DYKSG#C9. Could you tweak the hook to not use parentheses?
HaEr48 (
talk) 06:26, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
That's easily fixed by using commas or dashes instead.
SpinningSpark 13:46, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
this nomination's talk page,
the article's talk page or
Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by
Cwmhiraeth (
talk) 06:11, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
... that the term elastance (the inverse of
capacitance) was coined by
Oliver Heaviside to promote an analogy of a
capacitor as a spring rather than a container of
charge? Source: Yavetz, pp.150–151, Howe, p.60
Comment: Would also have qualified for x5 expansion if nominated prior to the GA process
Improved to Good Article status by
Spinningspark (
talk). Self-nominated at 10:14, 9 April 2017 (UTC).
Made GA recently enough, new enough, long enough, article within policy - well sourced, no neutrality or copyvio issue detected. QPQ done. The hook is cited and mentioned in the article, however the use of parentheses in hook is frowned upon as per
WP:DYKSG#C9. Could you tweak the hook to not use parentheses?
HaEr48 (
talk) 06:26, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
That's easily fixed by using commas or dashes instead.
SpinningSpark 13:46, 14 April 2017 (UTC)