Talk:Missing socks

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Did I improve this article enough? Cg097 (talk) 07:00, December 2, 2015 (UTC)

I would add that there is a greater problem. Why is it you can only lose one sock and rarely a pair? A bit like gloves actually! --RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 08:53, December 2, 2015 (UTC)

I don't remember what the last article was even like, but this one is good. Nice job. However, there is still the smaller dilemna of how a reader might find this article, as it is unlikely they'd search for it. You should put a link in the "See Also" part of socks if there isn't one already. ConCass2 (talk) 11:59, December 2, 2015 (UTC)

Nice tidy up, easily good enough for mainspace. You could rename it Missing socks, that might be more searchable? Agree the the one-sock issue ought to be discussed.  EStop ⚓ 13:15, December 2, 2015 (UTC)

Even more

This is an attractive page and easily good enough for mainspace. I agree with EStop's choice of page name, and that the one-sock problem is key; they simply don't go into the void in pairs. It would be much less annoying if they did.

The Intro stumbles badly. The only comedy concept I come away with is the comedy of writing with an excessively intellectual style (which is still bad writing). "human race since they realized"--If you are using American English, a race is singular, and in any case it doesn't realize anything. "prevent the temperature of said feet from lowering to dangerous temperatures in the presence of cold weather" seems to mean "get cold." The second sentence is your lead. "hypothetically" is a noise word that does nothing but break the illusion of reading an authoritative article. Druids and Interuniversal at this point seem random. Make your Intro do only two things: Convince me you are going to teach me something you are sure of that I didn't know, and that it will be fun!

Section 1: "Between the world we live in and the world we fear"--I wouldn't lead with that, but a concept is now emerging: the scary sock void is a universe like we glimpsed in Event Horizon.

Section 2: Yikes! "Another theory"! Do you realize that overnight Anons are now given the green light to add more Another Theories forever that you will have to clean up? Again striving to seem authoritative, pick one theory and tug it in all directions. You can say exactly what you are saying now in Section 2; just don't cast it as an alternative to what you said in Section 1.

Section 3: Please pick a better explanation for the lack of literature than nobody cares. Feet releasing energy and causing global warming? How about feet releasing odor and causing even more drastic global effects?! This section ends with technobabble and ridicule of the global-warming meme Al Gore--which, although I agree entirely, gives the reader nothing new.

Section 4: I don't like <Math> but you keep it to a minimum. Don't lead with "transdimensional." Wouldn't it keep a pair of socks together to simply not cut the plastic tie that Walmart shoots through them that lets them be sold as a pair? Surely there are no unintended consequences of that solution! Your deceptively simple final solution is an excellent end to the article. Spıke 🎙️14:30 2-Dec-15

That is good feedback. Cg097 (talk) 07:09, December 3, 2015 (UTC)

That's what I like about Unc. A discussion about the 'one sock problem'. Discuss (no checking iPad or Wikipedia). 2 hour exam. --RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 09:44, December 3, 2015 (UTC)