Talk:Toroidal solenoid

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Did you know... that the toroidal solenoid was the first fusion-power device to be patented?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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 Vaticidalprophet (talk) 00:46, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the toroidal solenoid was the first fusion power device to be patented? Source: handy & lawson
- ALT1: ... that the toroidal solenoid early fusion power device was classified in the aftermath of the Klaus Fuchs affair? Source: Clery
- ALT2: ... that George Paget Thomson redesigned his toroidal solenoid fusion power concept after Peter Thonemann explained his own improvements to Thomson without realizing who he was? Source: handy & lawson
- Reviewed:

Created by Maury Markowitz (talk). Self-nominated at 13:05, 30 June 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Toroidal solenoid; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

New enough, long enough, well sourced and without copyvio. The first hook is OK, the alts fall flat to me. @Maury Markowitz: QPQ not done. (I will also note that I would have taken "toroidal solenoid" as a generic term for any circular (i.e., toroidal) solenoid and not a particular historical fusion device.) Srnec (talk) 00:01, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

QPQ: Sofía Otero. I too consider this a rather generic term, but this was par for the course at the time - the other design at that point was known as "diffusion inhibitor"! Maury Markowitz (talk) 20:44, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Srnec: Sorry, forgot to ping. Maury Markowitz (talk) 00:29, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

ALT0 good to go. Srnec (talk) 01:14, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Similarity to Hellenicaworld article[edit]

Earwig's Copyvio Detector indicates a similarity to an article on Zeta (fusion reactor) in Hellenicaworld. Can we be certain that the Toroidal solenoid article predates the Hellenicaworld article? Nolabob (talk) 12:10, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I am the author of the ZETA article that the other web page is scraping from here on the Wiki. I can state with some authority that, no, I am not plagiarizing my own work. I think we need to fix Earwig so it considers articles XXX% identical to ones on the wiki as scraped and thus prevent false positives like this. Maury Markowitz (talk) 17:48, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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