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):

A

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)

B

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

C

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

D

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

E

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

F

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

G

1. Garble
2. Gating
3. Graded-index fiber - a bit expanded
4. Grandfathered systems
5. Ground constants
6. Ground plane

H

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

I

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

J-K

1. Jam signal
2. Joint multichannel trunking and switching system
3. Justify
4. Key pulsing
5. Knife-edge effect

L

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

M

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

N

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.

O

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

P

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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