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Pendulum car

Created by Mackensen (talk). Self-nominated at 18:07, 18 March 2017 (UTC).

  • Symbol question.svg 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)
  • 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 hook proposed, keeping with the idea of the first but with a more common meaning of sprung. Mackensen (talk) 12:40, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
  • Symbol redirect vote 4.svg 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)
  • ALT2: ... that the pendulum car was an experimental forerunner of the tilting train, but was not widely adopted on American railroads?
  • I've no objection to a more mundane hook. Tilting train shouldn't be bolded. Mackensen (talk) 12:51, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
  • My bad, I've unbolded that. I'll leave the hook for someone else to review. Prioryman (talk) 16:29, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Template:Outdent Symbol confirmed.svg Everything looks good now (fancy seeing you here, Mackensen!) The article itself is good - I agree with Cwmhiraeth there - and the ALT2 hook is easy to understand. Ready to go. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 18:02, 7 May 2017 (UTC)