User talk:GearHeads

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Notability of Tooth surface[edit]

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Image source problem with Image:Face width.jpg[edit]

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Please slow down and follow Wikipedia's conventions[edit]

You wrote an article that begins with this:

Bottom land is the surface at the bottom of a tooth space adjoining the fillet.

A reader not familiar with mechanical engineering my think this is about dentistry or about real estate that is below sea level, and in some of your articles they might not know whether it's about politics or poetry or chemistry or theology. You can't assume the reader knows that gears are what you're writing about; you have to tell them. Michael Hardy 23:38, 7 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In another, you've got only this:

The circle which intersects the involute at the point where the pressure angle is equal to the profile angle of the basic rack.

That is not a complete sentence, and it does not set the title phrase in bold at its first appearance. Both are required by Wikipedia:Manual of Style. It also fails to tell the reader the context: that this is within the field of mechanical engineering or that it's about gears. I would not have known either of those, given only what you wrote above. Michael Hardy 23:41, 7 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Top land[edit]

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Top land, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. -- Mark Chovain 16:54, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If that article is not to be kept, possibly it should be merged with the other articles created by this user, who apparently hasn't been here since almost a year ago. So I've removed the deletion proposal from the article. Michael Hardy (talk) 17:30, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

File:Spur gear.JPG missing description details[edit]

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