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On 21 March 2025, it was proposed that this article be moved from Time machine (device) to Time machine. The result of the discussion was moved.

Time Travel redirect? 2600:1009:B052:80D5:6038:376A:C17C:6CED (talk) 19:10, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Removed physics content

@TompaDompa Why did you remove the physics content? Per WP:intro the intro should be a summary, egro the content sourced physics content should be in the body. It's not repeated, it is in the proper place. There is nothing work with historic primary sources when accompanied by secondary sources as I added. The secondary source which you also deleted. Johnjbarton (talk) 19:20, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

An article on the concept of time machines should be based on sources on the concept of time machines, not sources on closed timelike curves. This is both to ensure that we don't end up unintentionally engaging in WP:Improper editorial synthesis and to abide by WP:PROPORTION, which says that articles should treat each aspect with a weight proportional to its treatment in the body of reliable, published material on the subject—"on the subject" is key here. I do agree that we should have physics content, just not quite like that. I'm currently working on the article, so I should be able to show what I mean in relatively short order. TompaDompa (talk) 19:28, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The content you put back was similar: deleting my content was obnoxious. Johnjbarton (talk) 22:03, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There are some broad similarities, sure, but the two versions (before, after) are distinctly different both in terms of content and—equally importantly—sourcing. TompaDompa (talk) 22:28, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 21 March 2025

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Bobby Cohn (talk) 18:58, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Time machine (device) → Time machine – Time machine currently redirects to time travel. This made some kind of sense before there existed an article on the fictional/theoretical concept of the time machine, but now this article exists. The disambiguation page is at Time Machine, and all the other entries use a capital "M" (and "T", for that matter). This article is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for the time machine title without any capital letters. Pinging participants at the just-closed Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 March 13#Time machine: @Johnjbarton, Bkonrad, Jlwoodwa, Piotrus, Steel1943, and Shhhnotsoloud: TompaDompa (talk) 18:21, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support. This is not contentious: the current arrangement is unnecessary disambiguation. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 18:26, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support. No objection to a hatnote linking to Time Machine and time travel. 162 etc. (talk) 20:05, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support, obvious fix. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:43, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:43, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Johnjbarton (talk) 21:23, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.