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Ways to improve Developable roller

Hello, Thinkingarena,

Thank you for creating Developable roller.

I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

First of all, I'd say that this is a really interesting article. However, what I'm not seeing amongst the sources is a discussion of Developable rollers as a group - each of the families seem to receive individual coverage, but I'm not seeing where they are discussed together like this. Is there a more wide-ranging source that could be used to support the content discussing them in general? (I also note that the entire 'construction' and 'rolling motion' sections are unsourced.)

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GirthSummit _(blether) 11:49, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Girth Summit:

Glad you found the article interesting and thanks for your comments. First of all, I would like to point out that my experience in Wikipedia editing is not extensive and it may be the source of the problems you have pointed out. Here is my response to your comments:

1. Chapters 1 and 4.1 of Reference 5 contain a general analysis of most types of developable rollers (there is no reference to Platonicons because the paper about them was published later).

2. All the claims mentioned in the article can be found in the seven sources I cited. Should I reiterate the same sources after each claim? I would appreciate your guidance on this matter. Thinkingarena (talk) 20:16, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thinkingarena, hi - thanks for responding. I'll take another look tomorrow, but briefly - yes please! In an ideal world, each assertion of fact would be referenced directly - even if that makes the referencing quite repetitive. There's no need to fill out the templates again and again, you can give it a template name and then just call it up each time you want to use it. If you aren't sure what I'm talking about, let me know and I'll explain more fully. GirthSummit _(blether) 20:28, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Girth Summit:. Thank you for your reply and for offering help. Following your comments I read the article again and came to the conclusion that, in principle, you could add a source to almost any sentence in it. I suppose that this is, of course, not the intention. So I need to decide, to how many claims to add a source, and to how many not to. As someone who is not very experienced in Wikipedia editing, I have a question that may sound silly, but I would still like to ask it. Is there an informal norm regarding the number (minimum or average) of claims (more or less) you are expected to source, in an article similar to this one? ___ have you had a chance to read chapter 4.1 of reference 5? Thinkingarena (talk) 18:28, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thinkingarena, so, there isn't a maximum number of sources. If an editor wants to get an article through the featured article review process, they had better start by making sure that every single assertion of fact is referenced to a source. That's not to say that every individual clause of every sentence needs an individual citation though - if you get all of the information that's contained within one sentence, or even a couple of sentences, from a single source, you could put that at the end of those sentences and get away with it. A bare minimum would be one citation per paragraph though - less than that and people are likely to come along and start adding tags to it. I haven't had chance to look into it further yet I'm afraid, yesterday got busy but I'll try to take a look this afternoon. GirthSummit _(blether) 07:26, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Girth Summit:.Thanks a lot. This is very clear. I've started implementing. Thinkingarena (talk) 13:19, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thinkingarena, that's looking much better thank you - I've removed the tag and marked the page as reviewed. You might want to think about adding some more relevant categories - you'd be better placed than I am to do that, one way to start might be to look at articles about related subjects and see what categories they belong to. Cheers! GirthSummit _(blether) 13:29, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Girth Summit: Thanks for everything. Thinkingarena (talk) 14:09, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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September 2020

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion, as you did at Polycon. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose.

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