Talk:Ultrawave

Needs references
This article really needs a citation or two. It seems pretty weak. --Mother Superior 01:22, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I'd say it needs to be merged with Ansible, and possibly given a better title; maybe "Superluminal communication in fiction", to match Superluminal communication, although personally I prefer to just say "faster-than-light". --DocumentN (talk) 07:00, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

I followed this link from the "ansible" page. I've never heard of "ultrawave". I don't think these should be combined, because ansible is a specific science fiction literature term, used especially in work by Ursula K. LeGuin. It's not just about the concept of FTL communication in general. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Emil Volcheck (talk • contribs) 00:43, 21 April 2008
 * Both Ansible and Ultrawave are currently written as articles about the general concept of FTL communication in fiction, as near as I can see; they're about the concept and not the individual words. --DocumentN (talk) 02:17, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

DocumentN, I disagree with what you said as it applies to the "Ansible" article. The first paragraph ("origin") describes the first use of "Ansible", the second ("Usage") states many authors who have used the specific name, and a few sentences of other (non-"ansible") uses, followed by discussion of two examples (LeGuin and Card). After that ("in reality") is a little non-specific discussion. However, the Ultrawave article, in itself, is pretty weak. I can see a couple of sentences from that being put into the Ansible article and the Ultrawave article deleted. Not so much a "merger" as an "acquisition." :D CatherS (talk) 04:31, 28 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I disagree with a merge as well. The two are not equivalent simply because they both involve FTL communication: "ultrawaves" use energy waves, ansibles do not. If someone wants to add a section to the superluminal communication article called "superluminal communication in fiction", I think that would be an excellent idea. That article could use with a bit more meat on its bones. You could link to ansible, ultrawave, and presumably other articles. Aren't there sci-fi series with FTL psychic communication? Even Star Wars had those holographic things, although I don't think they ever mentioned any details about them. Seems like plenty of information to add to superluminal communication. Indeterminate (talk) 04:54, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Notability?
I was going to AfD it now but https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ultrawave. Ping User:TompaDompa, User:Daranios. Rescuable or redirectable...? Merge to Ansible is an option (well, redirect and add something there, since no refs here mean nothing to actually merge...). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 03:33, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Considering both The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction (link) have Ansible as a "see also"/"compare" item, my suggestion would be to add a brief mention there as a related term and then redirect. I don't think there is enough material to warrant a separate article for this term. TompaDompa (talk) 03:40, 21 August 2022 (UTC)