Talk:Union Watersphere

A fact from Union Watersphere appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 February 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Union Watersphere in Union, New Jersey, was formerly the tallest sphere-topped water tower in the world?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/February. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Union Watersphere.

Wikipedia

New Jersey Low‑importance

	New Jersey portal This article is part of WikiProject New Jersey, an effort to create, expand, and improve New Jersey–related articles to Wikipedia feature-quality standard. Please join in the discussion.New JerseyWikipedia:WikiProject New JerseyTemplate:WikiProject New JerseyNew Jersey articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Architecture Low‑importance

	Architecture portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Architecture, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Architecture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ArchitectureWikipedia:WikiProject ArchitectureTemplate:WikiProject ArchitectureArchitecture articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Cool article[edit]

Good job developing this. If I get near it with my camera, I'll try to take another picture for you to consider.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 11:55, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

And, what's cooler still is that somebody thought to write an article about a watersphere -- I didn't know what a watersphere was, and it's cool that there is an article about it. Kudos to you!!!--Tomwsulcer (talk) 22:37, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Union Watersphere[edit]

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Union Watersphere's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "landmark":

From Water tower: Rose, Lisa (22 February 2012), "Despite challenge, Union Township water tower remains a Jersey landmark", The Star-Ledger, retrieved 2012-02-21
From Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum: Rose, Lisa (February 22, 2012), "Despite challenge, Union Township water tower remains a Jersey landmark", The Star-Ledger, retrieved 2012-02-21

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 00:23, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Why?[edit]

Okay, why is it the "World's Tallest Water Sphere"? The article doesn't say. What's the reason for the extraordinary height? Is it just about bragging rights, or is the higher water pressure needed for some reason? Also, how is it considered taller than the Kuwait Towers, which also use spheres? Praemonitus (talk) 19:05, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Earthoid paragraph[edit]

It says on the paragraph the Earthoid is "perfectly spherical", but in reality it's not, because we can't make anything perfectly spherical. Plus even the most spherical things ever made by man are atoms off round, not to mention everything we see is made up of molecules and atoms along with subatomic particles. A perfect sphere must be made up of 1 thing, and the only large perfect sphere to have is an imaginary sphere inscribed in the apparently round object. Either "nearly spherical" or "spherical" would be more accurate as that might or might not always account for perfection. Plus a pedestal and curvature between the top tank and pedestal take away the true roundness as well (as for all water spheres). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.58.216.93 (talk) 17:50, 1 September 2020 (UTC) As defined "a sphere is defined mathematically as the set of points that are all at the same distance r from a given point in a three-dimensional space". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.58.216.93 (talk) 17:47, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]