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My word, this is interesting. Any pictures or diagrams of the charts that could be included in the article, along with explanations? And what is the amplitude, wavelength and velocity of the rilib, kaelib, etc. typically? What effect do the islands have on these? Shinobu (talk) 23:59, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
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Should they be characterized as Polynesian broadly, or Marshall Islands specifically? I see them described in 1862, but there seems to be an implication they are in some way "ancient," implying development centuries or even millennia earlier. Is there any sourcing to help establish age? Thomas Craven (talk) 16:32, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
All sources for this article seem to agree on the term "refraction" for the effect of islands and shallow bathymetry on wave patterns. I don't believe that's correct usage. Refraction is the change in direction of a wave front as it passes through a 2D surface between two media of different refractive indices, such as with a lens or a water surface. Diffraction is the result of interference between a solid object and a wave in a fluid medium, such as the ring of sunlight seen around a coin blocking the Sun. Multiple objects such as two islands or the two slits in the double slit experiment create multiple wave patterns at angles to each other, which is what the stick charts appear to be depicting.
I'm not suggesting that Wikipedia change its terminology, only that the creators of the source material for this article, whoever they are, agree collectively to correct their terminology, without which we Wikipedia editors can do nothing. Vaughan Pratt (talk) 17:26, 7 February 2019 (UTC)