Talk:Toroidal solenoid

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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet (talk) 00:46, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

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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
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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.

• 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)

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)

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

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

Similarity to Hellenicaworld article

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)

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)