User:Bamblok/sandbox

SA #22:

Seeing as how I am going into computer science, I decided to go to the "Computing" type within "Technology". This provided a broad list of stubs. I then decided to choose a few articles whose topics I would likely understand, at least on a basic level. (No complicated computer rules or specialized infrastructures for me yet.) Hopefully this suffices.

"Abort (computing)"

This article contains three short paragraphs, one outlining the general idea of aborting a computer process, another describing the general meaning and applications behind the word "abort" as used in computing, and another that simply mentions the abort function in C. Both of these last two paragraphs strike me as odd to have included in with the first. The second paragraph likely could've been moved and expanded into a "History" section that chronicles the way the concept of "aborting" has developed into what it currently is. The third paragraph likely could've been made into an "Implementations" that describes, in more technical terms, how different computer systems abort. Aside from that, the article contains "See also" links to several other vaguely-related topics and merely two sources. The talk page is entirely empty, and the page had only received three small edits in 2021. It looks like this page could use some more attention.

"Access time"

This page describes the general idea involving the time required to access data-- in other words, latency. Unfortunately, this appears to be such a broad topic that attention has instead been driven to more specialized topics. (In fact, the "Disk access time" link at the top of the page leads to an article with extensive detailing on the subject of access time within hard disk drives.) The past writers of this article apparently never attempted to utilize it to encompass the many forms of "access time," so for now the article contains only a definition for the term. The page has some links to relevant topics and a single source that is never citated inline. The authors on the talk page had apparently been confused as to what to do with the article, seeing as there was a merge proposal from 2008 that discussed multiple articles related to the concept. A counterargument states that access time has a broader meaning beyond any of the individual topics that it encompasses. The proposal remains unresolved.

If I were in charge of these articles, I would likely allow the "access time" article to contain multiple links that redirect to specific applications of access time, possibly within other articles. Or, perhaps the opposite-- I could allow sections in those articles to link to this one. I don't know how exactly the process works, but I think the best solution would be something like that.

"Data compression symmetry"

Apparently, when data compression and decompression occurs at a similar rate, the data compression algorithm in question is considered "symmetrical." Well, I learned something new today.

This article simply requires more information. It touches upon the general meaning of symmetrical data compression and then asymmetrical data compression. Then, it contains a subsection containing merely two sentences that generally describe the advantages of symmetrical and asymmetrical data compression. The page contains no citations, but it does contain two "further reading" links to prove the topic is covered by other sources. The talk page is empty, and its edit history contains perhaps merely 15 or so non-bot edits. There is potential for larger sections regarding the conception, evolution, application of, and theory behind data compression symmetry.

3/23/22 in-class work:

This source likely isn't very usable for any of the articles I had planned on working on, but whatever. For now I need to get this done, and I'll worry about the specifics later.