Hi Sheldon, All,
Regarding the issue of patents:
Sheldon Rampton sheldon@prwatch.org wrote:
There *would* be a problem, however, if Wikipedia were to treat every patent application filed and accepted at the U.S. Patent Office as sufficient documentation to warrant mention in Wikipedia. All kinds of crackpot scientific theories get patented. (They probably have a whole wing just for storing blueprints of perpetual motion machines.)
You have seen:
*[[Template:US patent]] *[[Template:US patent reference]] *[[Template:Cite patent]] (incomplete list)
And the inevitable *[[List of Tesla patents]]
Patents are used a lot as references in our dark corner where death rays, anti-gravity devices, free energy machines, and the like are nurtured by their fans.
Regards, Peter