Template:Did you know nominations/Paper car wheel
- 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 Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 00:10, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
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Paper car wheel
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Paper car wheels
- ... that paper wheels (pictured) provided a quiet and smooth ride in Pullman dining and sleeping cars? Source: Ken Cupery: "paper wheels were not immediately accepted, but eventually became standard equipment on Pullman cars ... to provide a quieter and smoother ride than conventional cast iron wheels."
- ALT1:... that the use of paper wheels (pictured) resulted in a quiet and smooth ride in Pullman dining and sleeping cars?
ALT2:... that paper car wheels brought quiet elegance to Pullman dining and sleeping cars?Source: John H. Lienhard: "Allen's paper wheel was just the thing to bring quiet elegance to Pullman's dining and sleeping cars."
Created by NearEMPTiness (talk). Self-nominated at 08:33, 12 July 2018 (UTC).
New enough (created by NearEMPTiness on 11 July 2018), long enough (3,310 characters "readable prose size"), fully referenced. Main hooks and ALT1 both fine, supported by online references. ALT2 stricken; although supported by the source, it does not appear in the article. QPQ done. Image on Commons with an appropriate licence. Good to go. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:23, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I came by to promote this, but there is close paraphrasing in one of the sources:- Source: Three disks were glued together with flour paste and the triple sheets were piled together into a stack three to four feet tall. These were compressed by a 650 ton hydraulic press and then dried. The process was repeated, this time gluing three sets of the three-layer sandwiches together.
- Article: three disks were glued together with flour paste and the triple sheets were piled together into a stack three to four feet tall. These were compressed by a 650-ton hydraulic press for 3 hours and then dried. The process was repeated, this time gluing three sets of the three-layer sandwiches together.
- Also, the article is an orphan. Please link it in another Wikipedia article to avoid an orphan tag. Yoninah (talk) 23:04, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
- @Yoninah: Thank you for your vigilance and motivation. I have copy edited the paragraph and added links into two other articles:
- Revised Article: Ordinary flour based glue was used to bond 200 circular paper sheets each into sandwiches. First of all, three disks were bonded to eachother with this glue. These were stacked to form an up to 4 feet tall pile. This was then pressed using a 650-ton hydraulic press for 3 hours and subsequently dried. The process was repeated by bonding three sets of the three-layer sandwiches to eachother and so on.
- @NearEMPTiness: thank you. I did even more copyediting to move away from the source. It is unclear to me what drying the "centers" means; perhaps in this and subsequent sentences, the word "centers" should be replaced with "circular stacks"? Since you only have one source for this, the process needs to be understood clearly in order to write about it. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 23:26, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
- @Yoninah: Thanks. I now changed it to: "The circular compound disks were dried ... ensuring the evaporation of all moisture ... the compound disks were turned."
Thank you. I copyedited the description some more, removing the close paraphrasing and adding the final details of how the hub and rim were made of metal. Since I worked on this a lot, I'll call for another reviewer to complete the review. I strongly suggest calling them "paper wheels" in the hook, and suggest using the image. Yoninah (talk) 22:08, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
- @Yoninah: Thank you for your vigilance and motivation. I have copy edited the paragraph and added links into two other articles:
