Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Federal Standard 1037C clean up

Wikipedia:Federal Standard 1037C terms and its many many subpages are in dire need of attention. But what to do with them? Delete? Keep & clean up? Merge? Transwikify? ...?

These pages were created in early stages of Wikipedia. They are just copy-paste info, originally just dictionary definitions. Some have expanded as time has passed, and many have the potential to become good articles, or to be merged into new or existing articles. Others clearly can never be more than a dictionary definition, and should be deleted or moved to Wiktionary.

Opinions wanted!

List of articles involved (incomplete; found through "What links here" to the Federal Standard 1037C article):

  1. Access charge Redirected
  2. Access denial Redirected
  3. Access failure Redirected
  4. Access time Viable
  5. Adaptive predictive coding
  6. Adder-subtracter
  7. Addressability (proposed to be moved to Wiktionary)
  8. Address message (proposed to be moved to Wiktionary)
  9. Adjacent-channel interference
  10. Advanced Data Communication Control Procedures
  11. Aerial insert
  12. Aeronautical Emergency Communications System Plan
  13. Air-ground worldwide communications system
  14. Alarm sensor
  15. Alternate party
  16. Ambient noise level - merge to Noise level per suggestion on Talk:Ambient noise level?
  17. Analog decoding
  18. Angular misalignment loss
  19. Antenna blind cone
  20. Antenna height above average terrain
  21. Antenna noise temperature
  22. Aperture-to-medium coupling loss
  23. Area broadcast shift
  24. Arithmetic shift
  25. Artificial transmission line
  26. Asynchronous communications system
  27. Asynchronous operation (proposed to be moved to Wiktionary)
  28. Attack time
  29. Audible ringing tone
  30. Audit trail
  31. Automated information systems security
  32. Authenticator
  33. Automated information system
  34. Automated information systems security
  35. Automatic callback
  36. Automatic data processing
  37. Automatic data processing equipment
  38. Automatic message exchange
  39. Automatic redial
  40. Auxiliary power
  41. Available line (proposed to be moved to Wiktionary)
  1. Backscattering Redirected
  2. Back-to-back connection (proposed to be moved to Wiktionary)
  3. Backward channel
  4. Balanced line (2 paragraphs added during the years)
  5. Balance return loss
  6. Balancing network
  7. Bandwidth compression (proposed to be moved to Wiktionary)
  8. Barrage jamming
  9. Base communications (proposed to be moved to Wiktionary)
  10. Basic exchange telecommunications radio service
  11. Basic serving arrangement
  12. Beam steering
  13. Beamwidth
  14. Bilateral synchronization
  15. Billboard antenna
  16. Bit-count integrity (proposed to be moved to Wiktionary)
  17. Bit inversion
  18. Bit pairing
  19. Black facsimile transmission
  20. Black noise
  21. Black recording
  22. Bridge-to-bridge station
  23. Bridging loss
  24. Burst switching
  25. Burst transmission
  1. Cable television relay service station
  2. Call collision
  3. Call duration
  4. Call processing
  5. Call-second
  6. Call set-up time
  7. Call-sign allocation plan
  8. Call tracing
  9. Camp-on busy signal
  10. Capacitive coupling (one paragraph added during the years)
  11. Capture effect (one paragraph added during the years)
  12. Carrier shift
  13. Carrier system
  14. Carrier-to-receiver noise density
  15. Cassegrain antenna
  16. Cell relay
  17. Caesium standard Viable. Important device worthy of its own article.
  18. Chadless tape Redirected.
  19. Channel noise level
  20. Channel service unit
  21. Character-count integrity
  22. Circuit noise level
  23. Circuit reliability
  24. Circulator
  25. Closed-loop transfer function
  26. Coasting mode
  27. Coding (tagged as disamb page for some reason)
  28. Coherence time
  29. Collinear antenna array
  30. Command and control warfare (1 para added)
  31. Commonality
  32. Common battery
  33. Common control
  34. Common management information service
  35. Common-mode interference
  36. Communications blackout
  37. Communications center
  38. Communications deception
  39. Communications protection
  40. Communications security
  41. Communications subsystem
  42. Comparably efficient interconnection
  43. Complementary network service
  44. Composite cable
  45. Computer conferencing
  46. Concentrator
  47. Conducted interference
  48. Conductive coupling
  49. Conference operation
  50. Connections per circuit hour
  51. Connectivity exchange
  52. Control communications
  53. Controlled area
  54. Controlled security operation
  55. Control operation
  56. Convoy internal communications
  57. Cord circuit
  58. Cosmic noise
  59. Costas loop
  60. Critical angle (merged to total internal reflection)
  61. Cryptochannel
  62. Customer office terminal
  63. Customer premises equipment
  64. Customer service unit
  65. Custom local area signaling service
  1. Data bank
  2. Data element
  3. Data forwarder
  4. Data integrity
  5. Data link
  6. Data signaling rate
  7. Data transmission circuit
  8. Date-time group
  9. DBrn
  10. Data circuit-terminating equipment
  11. Decrypt
  12. Degradation - weird disamb page
  13. Degree of start-stop distortion
  14. Delay encoding
  15. Demand factor
  16. Demand load
  17. Desensitation
  18. Deterministic routing
  19. D4 framing standard
  20. Differential encoding
  21. Differential Manchester encoding
  22. Digital access and cross-connect system
  23. Digital milliwatt
  24. Digitizer
  25. Direct access
  26. Direct distance dialing
  27. Directive gain
  28. Dispersion-limited operation
  29. Distortion-limited operation
  30. Distributed-queue dual-bus
  31. Disturbance voltage
  32. Department of Defense master clock
  33. Double-ended synchronization - tagged for cleanup since August
  34. Double-sideband reduced carrier transmission
  35. Doubly clad fiber - a bit expanded.
  36. D region
  37. Dual access
  38. Duobinary signal
  39. Duplexer
  40. Duty cycle
  1. Earth terminal complex
  2. Effective data transfer rate
  3. Effective Earth radius
  4. Effective height
  5. Effective input noise temperature
  6. Effective mode volume
  7. Effective transmission rate
  8. Electrical length
  9. Electromagnetic environment
  10. Electromagnetic interference control
  11. Electromagnetic pulse
  12. Electronic switching system
  13. Electro-optic modulator - a bit expanded. Viable.
  14. Electro-optics. Viable.
  15. Emphasis (telecommunications) - a bit expanded
  16. End-of-transmission character
  17. Equilibrium length
  18. Equivalent noise resistance
  19. Equivalent pulse code modulation noise
  20. Escape character - a bit expanded
  21. Essential service
  22. Extended-definition television - tagged for verification
  23. Extended superframe
  24. Extinction ratio
  25. Eye pattern - 2 sentences added
  26. Telecommunications facility
  1. Facsimile converter
  2. Fade margin
  3. Fading distribution
  4. Fall time
  5. False clock
  6. Far-field diffraction pattern Merged into Fraunhofer diffraction.
  7. Fast packet switching
  8. Fault - weird disambig page
  9. Fault management
  10. FCC registration program
  11. Feed - weird disambig page
  12. Filtered symmetric differential phase-shift keying
  13. Fixed access
  14. Flag sequence
  15. Flat weighting
  16. Flood search routing
  17. Flywheel effect
  18. FM improvement factor
  19. FM improvement threshold
  20. Forward echo
  21. Forward scatter
  22. Frequency of optimum transmission
  23. Frame slip
  24. Frame synchronization
  25. Framing bit
  26. Free-space loss - one para with formula added
  27. Freeze frame television
  28. F region
  29. Frequency assignment
  30. Frequency assignment authority
  31. Frequency averaging
  32. Frequency-change signaling
  33. Frequency compatibility
  34. Frequency deviation
  35. Frequency frogging
  36. Frequency sharing
  37. Frequency shift
  38. Frequency-shift keying
  39. Frequency standard Viable.
  40. Front-to-back ratio
  41. FTS2000
  42. Full width at half maximum
  43. Functional profile
  1. Garble
  2. Gating
  3. Graded-index fiber - a bit expanded
  4. Grandfathered systems
  5. Ground constants
  6. Ground plane
  1. Hagelbarger code
  2. Halftone characteristic
  3. Handshaking
  4. Hard sectoring
  5. Heuristic routing
  6. Hierarchical routing
  7. High-performance equipment
  8. Hop count
  9. Hybrid balance
  10. Hybrid coil
  11. Hybrid routing
  1. Image antenna
  2. Image rejection ratio
  3. Improved-definition television
  4. Independent clocks
  5. Index-matching material
  6. Index of cooperation
  7. Information-bearer channel
  8. Information system - proposed merge with information systems
  9. Information-transfer transaction
  10. Insertion gain
  11. Insertion loss
  12. Inside plant
  13. Intercept
  14. Intercharacter interval
  15. Intermediate-field region
  16. Intermodulation distortion
  17. Interposition trunk
  18. Ionospheric reflection
  19. Isochronous
  20. Isochronous burst transmission
  21. Isochronous signal
  1. Jam signal
  2. Joint multichannel trunking and switching system
  3. Justify
  4. Key pulsing
  5. Knife-edge effect
  1. Landscape mode
  2. Launch numerical aperture
  3. Layered system
  4. Leaky mode
  5. Limiting
  6. Linear polarization
  7. Link level
  8. Link quality analysis
  9. Local battery
  10. Lockout (telecommunication)
  11. Long-haul communications
  12. Longitudinal voltage
  13. Long-term stability
  14. Loop-back
  15. Loop gain
  16. Low-performance equipment
  1. Machine-readable medium
  2. Magneto-ionic double refraction
  3. Magneto-optic effect - expanded, but taged for {{expert}}
  4. Main distribution frame
  5. Main lobe - tagged for clean up
  6. Main storage
  7. Maintainability
  8. Managed object
  9. Mandrel wrapping
  10. Maritime broadcast communications net
  11. Master station
  12. Material scattering
  13. Maximal-ratio combiner
  14. Maximum usable frequency
  15. Mean time between outages
  16. Mediation function
  17. Medium-power talker
  18. Message format
  19. Micro-mainframe link
  20. Minimum bend radius
  21. Mode field diameter
  22. Mode scrambler
  23. Modification of Final Judgment
  24. Modified AMI code
  25. Modulation factor
  26. Multilevel precedence and preemption
  27. Multiple access
  28. Multiple homing
  29. Multiplex baseband
  30. Multiport repeater
  1. Narrowband modem
  2. National Information Infrastructure - a para added
  3. Near-field diffraction pattern Merged into Fresnel diffraction.
  4. Negative-acknowledge character
  5. Neper Expanded. Viable.
  6. Net gain
  7. Net operation
  8. Network engineering
  9. Network interface
  10. Network interface device - expnaded, but listing here (maybe merge everything related to network?)
  11. Network management - a bit expanded
  12. Network operating system - expnaded, but listing here
  13. Network termination 1
  14. Neutral direct-current telegraph system
  15. Noise-equivalent power
  16. Noise figure
  17. Noise power
  18. Noisy black
  19. Noisy white
  20. Non-fixed access
  21. Nuclear hardness
  22. Nyquist interval Redirected to Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem.
  1. Off-axis optical system
  2. Off-hook
  3. Off-line merged to on-line and off-line
  4. Off-the-air
  5. One-way trunk
  6. On-hook
  7. On-premises wiring
  8. Open network architecture
  9. Optical attenuator
  10. Optical axis
  11. Optical path length - a bit expanded
  12. Optical power budget
  13. Optical power margin
  14. Optical switch
  15. Optical time domain reflectometer
  16. Out-of-band signaling
  17. Outside plant - tagged for {{context}}
  18. Ovality
  19. Overfill
  20. Overhead information
  21. Overshoot - weird disambig page
  1. Packet-switching node
  2. Parallel transmission
  3. Par meter
  4. Part 68 - wrong title in any case
  5. Patch bay - a bit expanded
  6. Path loss - a bit expanded
  7. Path profile
  8. Path quality analysis
  9. PBER
  10. PCS switching center
  11. Peak envelope power
  12. Periscope antenna
  13. Personal mobility
  14. Phantom circuit
  15. The first 500 links on "what links here" are done!


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