Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Federal Standard 1037C clean up

Federal Standard 1037C terms and its many many subpages are in dire need of attention. But what to do with them? Delete? Keep & clean up? Merge? Transwikify? ...?

These pages were created in early stages of Wikipedia. They are just copy-paste info, originally just dictionary definitions. Some have expanded as time has passed, and many have the potential to become good articles, or to be merged into new or existing articles. Others clearly can never be more than a dictionary definition, and should be deleted or moved to Wiktionary.

Opinions wanted!

List of articles involved (incomplete; found through "What links here" to the Federal Standard 1037C article):

A

 * 1) Access charge Redirected
 * 2) Access denial Redirected
 * 3) Access failure Redirected
 * 4) Access time Viable
 * 5) Adaptive predictive coding
 * 6) Adder-subtracter
 * 7) Addressability (proposed to be moved to Wiktionary)
 * 8) Address message (proposed to be moved to Wiktionary)
 * 9) Adjacent-channel interference
 * 10) Advanced Data Communication Control Procedures
 * 11) Aerial insert
 * 12) Aeronautical Emergency Communications System Plan
 * 13) Air-ground worldwide communications system
 * 14) Alarm sensor
 * 15) Alternate party
 * 16) Ambient noise level - merge to Noise level per suggestion on Talk:Ambient noise level?
 * 17) Analog decoding
 * 18) Angular misalignment loss
 * 19) Antenna blind cone
 * 20) Antenna height above average terrain
 * 21) Antenna noise temperature
 * 22) Aperture-to-medium coupling loss
 * 23) Area broadcast shift
 * 24) Arithmetic shift
 * 25) Artificial transmission line
 * 26) Asynchronous communications system
 * 27) Asynchronous operation (proposed to be moved to Wiktionary)
 * 28) Attack time
 * 29) Audible ringing tone
 * 30) Audit trail
 * 31) Automated information systems security
 * 32) Authenticator
 * 33) Automated information system
 * 34) Automated information systems security
 * 35) Automatic callback
 * 36) Automatic data processing
 * 37) Automatic data processing equipment
 * 38) Automatic message exchange
 * 39) Automatic redial
 * 40) Auxiliary power
 * 41) Available line (proposed to be moved to Wiktionary)

B

 * 1) Backscattering Redirected
 * 2) Back-to-back connection (proposed to be moved to Wiktionary)
 * 3) Backward channel
 * 4) Balanced line (2 paragraphs added during the years)
 * 5) Balance return loss
 * 6) Balancing network
 * 7) Bandwidth compression (proposed to be moved to Wiktionary)
 * 8) Barrage jamming
 * 9) Base communications (proposed to be moved to Wiktionary)
 * 10) Basic exchange telecommunications radio service
 * 11) Basic serving arrangement
 * 12) Beam steering
 * 13) Beamwidth
 * 14) Bilateral synchronization
 * 15) Billboard antenna
 * 16) Bit-count integrity (proposed to be moved to Wiktionary)
 * 17) Bit inversion
 * 18) Bit pairing
 * 19) Black facsimile transmission
 * 20) Black noise
 * 21) Black recording
 * 22) Bridge-to-bridge station
 * 23) Bridging loss
 * 24) Burst switching
 * 25) Burst transmission

C

 * 1) Cable television relay service station
 * 2) Call collision
 * 3) Call duration
 * 4) Call processing
 * 5) Call-second
 * 6) Call set-up time
 * 7) Call-sign allocation plan
 * 8) Call tracing
 * 9) Camp-on busy signal
 * 10) Capacitive coupling (one paragraph added during the years)
 * 11) Capture effect (one paragraph added during the years)
 * 12) Carrier shift
 * 13) Carrier system
 * 14) Carrier-to-receiver noise density
 * 15) Cassegrain antenna
 * 16) Cell relay
 * 17) Caesium standard Viable. Important device worthy of its own article.
 * 18) Chadless tape Redirected.
 * 19) Channel noise level
 * 20) Channel service unit
 * 21) Character-count integrity
 * 22) Circuit noise level
 * 23) Circuit reliability
 * 24) Circulator
 * 25) Closed-loop transfer function
 * 26) Coasting mode
 * 27) Coding (tagged as disamb page for some reason)
 * 28) Coherence time
 * 29) Collinear antenna array
 * 30) Command and control warfare (1 para added)
 * 31) Commonality
 * 32) Common battery
 * 33) Common control
 * 34) Common management information service
 * 35) Common-mode interference
 * 36) Communications blackout
 * 37) Communications center
 * 38) Communications deception
 * 39) Communications protection
 * 40) Communications security
 * 41) Communications subsystem
 * 42) Comparably efficient interconnection
 * 43) Complementary network service
 * 44) Composite cable
 * 45) Computer conferencing
 * 46) Concentrator
 * 47) Conducted interference
 * 48) Conductive coupling
 * 49) Conference operation
 * 50) Connections per circuit hour
 * 51) Connectivity exchange
 * 52) Control communications
 * 53) Controlled area
 * 54) Controlled security operation
 * 55) Control operation
 * 56) Convoy internal communications
 * 57) Cord circuit
 * 58) Cosmic noise
 * 59) Costas loop
 * 60) Critical angle (merged to total internal reflection)
 * 61) Cryptochannel
 * 62) Customer office terminal
 * 63) Customer premises equipment
 * 64) Customer service unit
 * 65) Custom local area signaling service

D

 * 1) Data bank
 * 2) Data element
 * 3) Data forwarder
 * 4) Data integrity
 * 5) Data link
 * 6) Data signaling rate
 * 7) Data transmission circuit
 * 8) Date-time group
 * 9) DBrn
 * 10) Data circuit-terminating equipment
 * 11) Decrypt
 * 12) Degradation - weird disamb page
 * 13) Degree of start-stop distortion
 * 14) Delay encoding
 * 15) Demand factor
 * 16) Demand load
 * 17) Desensitation
 * 18) Deterministic routing
 * 19) D4 framing standard
 * 20) Differential encoding
 * 21) Differential Manchester encoding
 * 22) Digital access and cross-connect system
 * 23) Digital milliwatt
 * 24) Digitizer
 * 25) Direct access
 * 26) Direct distance dialing
 * 27) Directive gain
 * 28) Dispersion-limited operation
 * 29) Distortion-limited operation
 * 30) Distributed-queue dual-bus
 * 31) Disturbance voltage
 * 32) Department of Defense master clock
 * 33) Double-ended synchronization - tagged for cleanup since August
 * 34) Double-sideband reduced carrier transmission
 * 35) Doubly clad fiber - a bit expanded.
 * 36) D region
 * 37) Dual access
 * 38) Duobinary signal
 * 39) Duplexer
 * 40) Duty cycle

E

 * 1) Earth terminal complex
 * 2) Effective data transfer rate
 * 3) Effective Earth radius
 * 4) Effective height
 * 5) Effective input noise temperature
 * 6) Effective mode volume
 * 7) Effective transmission rate
 * 8) Electrical length
 * 9) Electromagnetic environment
 * 10) Electromagnetic interference control
 * 11) Electromagnetic pulse
 * 12) Electronic switching system
 * 13) Electro-optic modulator - a bit expanded. Viable.
 * 14) Electro-optics. Viable.
 * 15) Emphasis (telecommunications) - a bit expanded
 * 16) End-of-transmission character
 * 17) Equilibrium length
 * 18) Equivalent noise resistance
 * 19) Equivalent pulse code modulation noise
 * 20) Escape character - a bit expanded
 * 21) Essential service
 * 22) Extended-definition television - tagged for verification
 * 23) Extended superframe
 * 24) Extinction ratio
 * 25) Eye pattern - 2 sentences added
 * 26) Telecommunications facility

F

 * 1) Facsimile converter
 * 2) Fade margin
 * 3) Fading distribution
 * 4) Fall time
 * 5) False clock
 * 6) Far-field diffraction pattern Merged into Fraunhofer diffraction.
 * 7) Fast packet switching
 * 8) Fault - weird disambig page
 * 9) Fault management
 * 10) FCC registration program
 * 11) Feed - weird disambig page
 * 12) Filtered symmetric differential phase-shift keying
 * 13) Fixed access
 * 14) Flag sequence
 * 15) Flat weighting
 * 16) Flood search routing
 * 17) Flywheel effect
 * 18) FM improvement factor
 * 19) FM improvement threshold
 * 20) Forward echo
 * 21) Forward scatter
 * 22) Frequency of optimum transmission
 * 23) Frame slip
 * 24) Frame synchronization
 * 25) Framing bit
 * 26) Free-space loss - one para with formula added
 * 27) Freeze frame television
 * 28) F region
 * 29) Frequency assignment
 * 30) Frequency assignment authority
 * 31) Frequency averaging
 * 32) Frequency-change signaling
 * 33) Frequency compatibility
 * 34) Frequency deviation
 * 35) Frequency frogging
 * 36) Frequency sharing
 * 37) Frequency shift
 * 38) Frequency-shift keying
 * 39) Frequency standard Viable.
 * 40) Front-to-back ratio
 * 41) FTS2000
 * 42) Full width at half maximum
 * 43) Functional profile

G

 * 1) Garble
 * 2) Gating
 * 3) Graded-index fiber - a bit expanded
 * 4) Grandfathered systems
 * 5) Ground constants
 * 6) Ground plane

H

 * 1) Hagelbarger code
 * 2) Halftone characteristic
 * 3) Handshaking
 * 4) Hard sectoring
 * 5) Heuristic routing
 * 6) Hierarchical routing
 * 7) High-performance equipment
 * 8) Hop count
 * 9) Hybrid balance
 * 10) Hybrid coil
 * 11) Hybrid routing

I

 * 1) Image antenna
 * 2) Image rejection ratio
 * 3) Improved-definition television
 * 4) Independent clocks
 * 5) Index-matching material
 * 6) Index of cooperation
 * 7) Information-bearer channel
 * 8) Information system - proposed merge with information systems
 * 9) Information-transfer transaction
 * 10) Insertion gain
 * 11) Insertion loss
 * 12) Inside plant
 * 13) Intercept
 * 14) Intercharacter interval
 * 15) Intermediate-field region
 * 16) Intermodulation distortion
 * 17) Interposition trunk
 * 18) Ionospheric reflection
 * 19) Isochronous
 * 20) Isochronous burst transmission
 * 21) Isochronous signal

J-K

 * 1) Jam signal
 * 2) Joint multichannel trunking and switching system
 * 3) Justify
 * 4) Key pulsing
 * 5) Knife-edge effect

L

 * 1) Landscape mode
 * 2) Launch numerical aperture
 * 3) Layered system
 * 4) Leaky mode
 * 5) Limiting
 * 6) Linear polarization
 * 7) Link level
 * 8) Link quality analysis
 * 9) Local battery
 * 10) Lockout (telecommunication)
 * 11) Long-haul communications
 * 12) Longitudinal voltage
 * 13) Long-term stability
 * 14) Loop-back
 * 15) Loop gain
 * 16) Low-performance equipment

M

 * 1) Machine-readable medium
 * 2) Magneto-ionic double refraction
 * 3) Magneto-optic effect - expanded, but taged for
 * 4) Main distribution frame
 * 5) Main lobe - tagged for clean up
 * 6) Main storage
 * 7) Maintainability
 * 8) Managed object
 * 9) Mandrel wrapping
 * 10) Maritime broadcast communications net
 * 11) Master station
 * 12) Material scattering
 * 13) Maximal-ratio combiner
 * 14) Maximum usable frequency
 * 15) Mean time between outages
 * 16) Mediation function
 * 17) Medium-power talker
 * 18) Message format
 * 19) Micro-mainframe link
 * 20) Minimum bend radius
 * 21) Mode field diameter
 * 22) Mode scrambler
 * 23) Modification of Final Judgment
 * 24) Modified AMI code
 * 25) Modulation factor
 * 26) Multilevel precedence and preemption
 * 27) Multiple access
 * 28) Multiple homing
 * 29) Multiplex baseband
 * 30) Multiport repeater

N

 * 1) Narrowband modem
 * 2) National Information Infrastructure - a para added
 * 3) Near-field diffraction pattern Merged into Fresnel diffraction.
 * 4) Negative-acknowledge character
 * 5) Neper Expanded. Viable.
 * 6) Net gain
 * 7) Net operation
 * 8) Network engineering
 * 9) Network interface
 * 10) Network interface device - expnaded, but listing here (maybe merge everything related to network?)
 * 11) Network management - a bit expanded
 * 12) Network operating system - expnaded, but listing here
 * 13) Network termination 1
 * 14) Neutral direct-current telegraph system
 * 15) Noise-equivalent power
 * 16) Noise figure
 * 17) Noise power
 * 18) Noisy black
 * 19) Noisy white
 * 20) Non-fixed access
 * 21) Nuclear hardness
 * 22) Nyquist interval Redirected to Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem.

O

 * 1) Off-axis optical system
 * 2) Off-hook
 * 3) Off-line merged to on-line and off-line
 * 4) Off-the-air
 * 5) One-way trunk
 * 6) On-hook
 * 7) On-premises wiring
 * 8) Open network architecture
 * 9) Optical attenuator
 * 10) Optical axis
 * 11) Optical path length - a bit expanded
 * 12) Optical power budget
 * 13) Optical power margin
 * 14) Optical switch
 * 15) Optical time domain reflectometer
 * 16) Out-of-band signaling
 * 17) Outside plant - tagged for
 * 18) Ovality
 * 19) Overfill
 * 20) Overhead information
 * 21) Overshoot - weird disambig page

P

 * 1) Packet-switching node
 * 2) Parallel transmission
 * 3) Par meter
 * 4) Part 68 - wrong title in any case
 * 5) Patch bay - a bit expanded
 * 6) Path loss - a bit expanded
 * 7) Path profile
 * 8) Path quality analysis
 * 9) PBER
 * 10) PCS switching center
 * 11) Peak envelope power
 * 12) Periscope antenna
 * 13) Personal mobility
 * 14) Phantom circuit
 * 15) The first 500 links on "what links here" are done!


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