Talk:Fuzz button

Should this article be proposed for deletion?
Personally, I would say so. As an electronic engineer, I can't make head-nor-tail of what it is talking about. Added to this, it has no references, and is an orphan article, and refers to it being the trademark of two companies that are not notable enough to have pages on Wikipedia.

My technical issues with it can be summarised as follows:
 * What is a high performance 'signal contact'?
 * Why would semiconductors use a test Jack (connector) for a sockets?
 * How can something in the shape of a button be of any possible use to a PCB transmission line?
 * Why would Jack connectors or IC sockets be used in satellite and space applications?

So, if someone decides to PROD this article, let me know, and I will support the proposal. TheAMmollusc (talk) 09:48, 25 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I've gone ahead, and started the PROD. The original creator appears to be unavailable, and in any case only created this one page. Also need to keep an eye on Fuzz Button which redirects here. TheAMmollusc (talk) 12:18, 28 February 2011 (UTC) and TheAMmollusc (talk) 08:05, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Requested move 22 April 2015

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: No consensus to move. After two listing periods. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 12:15, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

Fuzz button → Fuzz Button – This is the registered trademark of Custom Interconnects, per their website, so the name should be capitalized as a proper name. --Relisted. George Ho (talk) 17:31, 1 May 2015 (UTC) – Wbm1058 (talk) 01:17, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
 * This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:38, 22 April 2015 (UTC)


 * To what extent is this word now a tradename rather than a generic? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:38, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't know, but I think this should default to the trade name. The article creator used the Trade Name, and another editor moved it to the generic name without discussion. Obviously, this is a judgement call, but I think the burden of proof should be on those who want to move to the generic name to demonstrate that usage has been genericized. Wbm1058 (talk) 11:10, 22 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Oppose We don't default to official names, it's what appears in reliable sources regardless of intellectual property holder's desires (think of rollerblades vs inline skates). Either way, I am seeing a mixed used of lowercase and uppercase use of this term. Handbook of Industrial Diamonds and Diamond Films is lower-case, IC Component Sockets is uppercase but not based on trademark reasons, Multichip Module Technologies and Alternatives: The Basics is lowercase. Bebop to the Boolean Boogie: An Unconventional Guide to Electronics, Digital Systems Engineering by Dally & Poulton, Directions for the Next Generation of MMIC Devices and Systems and An Engineer's Guide to Automated Testing of High-Speed Interfacesand Soldering Processes and Equipment by Pecht are all examples of lowercase. Thus I see the desire to move to capitalization as questionable as I believe the name has become generic.--Labattblueboy (talk) 16:49, 22 April 2015 (UTC)


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Do not delete
Not sure the proper way to comment here, but I've been watching this article for a few years and I just saw this request for deletion.

I don't think it should be deleted as I first came across this on drawings at work many years ago. I found this article as I had no idea what it was. It helped me out and therefore I don't think it should be removed... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hyperduc (talk • contribs) 10:36, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Request for clarification - what does a Fuzz button DO?
It is now 2017.

I agree with the comment at the top of the page, from 2011. The article does not say what a Fuzz Button actually does. I am not an engineer and cannot help.

Quote in case comment is deleted: "As an electronic engineer, I can't make head-nor-tail of what it is talking about." TheAMmollusc (talk) 12:18, 28 February 2011 (UTC) TheAMmollusc (talk)

RedTomato (talk) 10:22, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

I had the same problem. Thus, after googling what this thing is, I tried to re-write parts of the description. It is now (hopefully) explaining more clearly what this thing looks like and what it does. Of course, a picture would be even better...--Grottenolm42 (talk) 06:22, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

=New Link to Main Site=
 * I stumbled upon this when looking into Pogo Pins
 * '''On the note of Deletion, this is a niche topic, but it has value, just needs work+more information
 * Anywho the Link Used in the External Links Section is dead, Here is the current one

Eric Lotze (talk) 23:36, 9 May 2023 (UTC)