User talk:W Laurin Cavender WB4IVG

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Outside (outdoor) Distributed Antenna System oDas
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Your contributed article, Outside (outdoor) Distributed Antenna System oDas


Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Outside (outdoor) Distributed Antenna System oDas. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Distributed antenna system. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Distributed antenna system – you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

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We already have this information
Wikipedia already has an article on distributed antenna systems. There is no need to create multiple different articles about indoor versus outdoor. If there is any content that needs to be added to differentiate between these two deployment modes, it can be added to the existing article. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 23:11, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Before you end up being blocked for creating inappropriate pages, please stop and join the discussion here about why there should be separate pages on oDAS and iDAS (separate from the existing distributed antenna system page). You appear to be basing your new articles entirely on your own white paper rather than on any general published material.  (This would constitute original research, and is disallowed.)  WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 23:16, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

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Reverted changes at Distributed antenna system
I have reverted your changes to distributed antenna system. Your text was largely redundant with the existing text, except for the claim of creating a specific name (iDAS or oDAS) to differentiate between indoor and outdoor DAS. The system description you provided for both systems was identical, and the claim or originality of indoor vs outdoor systems appears to be attributed to a white paper you wrote for Westinghouse Power during your employment at Stone and Webster. Unless the white paper was published in a peer-reviewed journal, it is not a reliable source. Even if it were published, at best, we could use it to verify your coining of the terms iDAS and oDAS. The rest of the write-up you provided did not appreciably differentiate your design from the original design proposed by Saleh et al. that is described in the rest of the article. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 14:31, 7 March 2014 (UTC)