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I suspect this is a new username for an experienced Wikipedian, seeing as how all your contributions have been to Articles for deletion, but welcome nevertheless! howcheng  [ t &#149; c &#149; w &#149;  e  ] 22:04, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Massachusetts compromise
Thought you would like to know that the article has been rewritten based on a link provided by User:Billbrock. Please revisit the article and reconsider your vote. Thanks. howcheng  [ t &#149; c &#149; w &#149;  e  ] 22:05, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Television interference
I noticed that you placed an AFD tag on this article, but that sometime after you did it was reverted to a much earlier (and perhaps more complete) version and the afd tag was removed by another adminstrator. Can you take a look at the article as it stands now and see if you still want to run an AFD on it? Thanks! --Syrthiss 21:20, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi, I noted that you hold the view that the Television interference page should be removed becuase you consider it to be original research and a how to guide.


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I would say that it is clearly not original research, for instance see which has much of the technical content in common with my TVI pages. I suspect that it becuase myself and the author of the same page are likely to have passed the same exams to get a radio license.

I have also combined several sources and the oral tradition passed to me to create the page.

for instance, on paper.

The radio amateur's guide to EMC, Robin Page-Jones (G3JWI), RSGB, 1992.

Radiocommunication handbook, RSGB.

If you want you could check a ARRL book, I am sure that the methods and ideas there are the same.


 * How to guides

I am sure that Fallout shelter, Soldering, dog, Berlin Method, Self-Maintaining Home Aquarium and goldfish (Aquarium conditions) all contain infromation which makes them in part into a how to guide. While I think it is unlikely (for example) that a WP reader will want to repair using a soldering iron the air pump/water filter for a goldfish tank which is inside a home made fallout shelter, these pages which contain how to guide information are in my view valuable parts of the WP.

The pages have been rewritten to reduce the how to guide element from the TVI (radio transmitter) it is now more a review and discussion of how steps are taken to prevent or mitigate the television interference associated with a radio transmitter.

The how to guide is part of a larger set of articles which explain a series of ideas which otherwise a person might never consider. While UHF AM TV is on its way out in the UK (within a decade it is likely to be replaced by digital), I think that it makes a very good teaching example. For instance the idea that the braid of a down lead can act as an antenna is an idea which until I had read about TVI and EMC was something which I had never thought of.

I have noticed that the Electromagnetic compatibility section of WP is very weak, and I think that it would do it the world of good to have the detailed real life example of TVI and broadcast interferance added.

I would suggest that you should enlist the help of some radio operators and/or workers from the world of electronics before making a choice about what to do.Cadmium 08:54, 18 December 2005 (UTC)