Talk:mégafarad

RFV discussion: February–August 2016
, are you checking your creations for attestability? I don't see any uses on BGC. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 08:10, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I've found one citation for usage (and, of course, lots of mentions in other dictionaries etc). So I suppose it will get deleted. SemperBlotto (talk) 08:17, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
 * p.s. Is the English translation OK - it doesn't seem to have any citations. SemperBlotto (talk) 08:20, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
 * p.p.s. If this fails, should we also remove the interwiki link to the French Wiktionary so that people are not directed to spurious information? SemperBlotto (talk) 16:03, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
 * The "on a adopté mégafarad" citation is to me a clear mention, it means "one has adopted mégafarad" (i.e. the word mégafarad) which is a reference to the coinage of the word mégafarad to represent a million farads. Renard Migrant (talk) 16:45, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
 * No, it means they have adopted mégafarad as their base unit, rather than the farad.
 * There is some confusion here. There are two meanings to mégafarad; one is a valid construction in the SI system of units of a unit of capacitance.  While valid it is never used because it is larger than anything that would ever be encountered.  The two citations in the article (both form non-durably archived bulletin boards) seem to be joking references to this.  One is only in the signature of the contributor.  The other meaning is an old unit of quantity of electric charge.  The 1880 cite found by SemperBlotto seems to be this old meaning.  The English megafarad entry causes this confusion by conflating the two meanings.  I will fix this shortly, but the capacitance meaning has only one cite to a work of fiction, and has about as much connection to reality as photon torpedoes and flux capacitors. It is that entry that should be RFVed in my opinion. Spinning Spark  23:47, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
 * RFV failed. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 02:26, 28 August 2016 (UTC)