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::* New hook proposed, keeping with the idea of the first but with a more common meaning of sprung. [[User:Mackensen|Mackensen]] [[User_talk:Mackensen|(talk)]] 12:40, 30 March 2017 (UTC) | ::* New hook proposed, keeping with the idea of the first but with a more common meaning of sprung. [[User:Mackensen|Mackensen]] [[User_talk:Mackensen|(talk)]] 12:40, 30 March 2017 (UTC) | ||
*[[File:Symbol redirect vote 4.svg|16px]] New reviewer needed to check ALT1 hook; the original hook has been struck. [[User:BlueMoonset|BlueMoonset]] ([[User talk:BlueMoonset|talk]]) 17:30, 20 April 2017 (UTC) | *[[File:Symbol redirect vote 4.svg|16px]] New reviewer needed to check ALT1 hook; the original hook has been struck. [[User:BlueMoonset|BlueMoonset]] ([[User talk:BlueMoonset|talk]]) 17:30, 20 April 2017 (UTC) | ||
| − | + | :* I'm not sure about this. Is it meant to be a pun on a [[spring pendulum]]? I've read the article but I still don't understand the hook, I'm afraid. A more straightforward/less punny hook might work better. How about something like the following? [[User:Prioryman|Prioryman]] ([[User talk:Prioryman|talk]]) 12:44, 4 May 2017 (UTC) | |
| + | ::* ... that the '''[[pendulum car]]''' was an experimental forerunner of the '''[[tilting train]]''', but was not widely adopted on American railroads? | ||
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Pendulum car
... that the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway sprung for a pendulum in 1937?Source: "New Type Rail Coach Tested". Los Angeles Times. December 23, 1937. p. A3
- Reviewed: The Little Red Chairs
Created by Mackensen (talk). Self-nominated at 18:07, 18 March 2017 (UTC).
This article is new enough and long enough. The article is neutral and Earwig detected no problems. I find the hook quite incomprehensible - is this an American versus British English problem, I wonder? Let's ask Template:Ping what he thinks of it. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:30, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
- I definitely do not understand it. The Rambling Man (talk) 05:40, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
- It's a play on a "pendulum spring." Informally, "to spring" can mean "to pay for; treat someone to." Mackensen (talk) 12:00, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
- OK, that's an explanation, but I think the meaning is too obscure and that we need a different hook. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:32, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
- ALT1: ...that in 1937 several aeronautical engineers sprung a pendulum on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway? Source: "New Type Rail Coach Tested". Los Angeles Times. December 23, 1937. p. A3; "It's New 'Floating' Coach". San Bernardino County Sun. December 7, 1941. p. 7
New reviewer needed to check ALT1 hook; the original hook has been struck. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:30, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
- I'm not sure about this. Is it meant to be a pun on a spring pendulum? I've read the article but I still don't understand the hook, I'm afraid. A more straightforward/less punny hook might work better. How about something like the following? Prioryman (talk) 12:44, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
- ... that the pendulum car was an experimental forerunner of the tilting train, but was not widely adopted on American railroads?