Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Electronics

Jack Wayman

Jack Wayman, who founded the first elecronics show and was responsible for the success of the VCR just died if anyone cares to create an article. See this New York Times article. Best.4meter4 (talk) 17:04, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Edit conflict on Wireless power

There is a disagreement on the Wireless power article about the section dealing with Nikola Tesla's contributions. Additional opinions would be appreciated. See Talk:Wireless power#Way too much Tesla. Thanks --Chetvorno^TALK 04:35, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Again, I'd like to ask for editors' opinions to resolve this conflict, only a few would be required to achieve consensus. Whichever side you come down on, I feel this is an important issue which involves the confrontation of science and pseudoscience. See Talk:Wireless power#Way too much Tesla and the sections following it. Thanks. --Chetvorno^TALK 16:54, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Boxcar Averagers

Hello electronics experts. Here's an old AfC submission that will soon be deleted as a stale draft. Is this a notable topic, and should the page be kept and improved? —Anne Delong (talk) 01:05, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

This has been accepted by Spinningspark. I have made some additional improvements. ~KvnG 15:46, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Great!—Anne Delong (talk) 18:38, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

A draft at AFC needs help.

Please take a look at Draft:Chirp spectrum and if it is a notable topic help the author get it into acceptable shape. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 18:25, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Made some basic improvements and accepted submission. Linked from Chirp. Integration could be improved. ~KvnG 14:45, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!

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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Pull-up resistor

The lede of pull-up resistor has seemingly intractable problems that might benefit from the attention of experienced editors. Please see this discussion for details. Thanks in advance, Lambtron (talk) 14:37, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

{{Electronics industry in the United States}}

template:Electronics industry in the United States has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.40.137 (talk) 11:51, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Pulsed field magnet

FYI, there is a notice at WT:PHYSICS about Draft:Pulsed field magnet -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 06:22, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

"Crosstalk"

The usage and primary topic of Crosstalk and cross-talk is under discussion, see talk:crosstalk (disambiguation) -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 04:20, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Gain listed at Requested moves

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Crocodile clip listed at Requested moves

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Misleading definition: reconvergent fan-out

The article on Reconvergent_fan-out has a highly misleading definition of the term ("Reconvergent fan-out is a technique to make VLSI logic simulation less pessimistic."). Reconvergent fan-out is a property of a circuit (or graph) - the fact that multiple paths exist from the output of a circuit element (or graph node) to another point in the circuit or graph. It is not an optimization technique as stated by the definition, although many optimization techniques exist that take advantage of reconvergent fan-out in the underlying circuit or graph. One or more of these may be colloquially referred to as "reconvergent fan-out" as a shorthand for "optimization for circuits containing reconvergent fan-out," or "technique for more accurate results on circuits containing reconvergent fan-out," which appears to be where the current definition comes from.

I'm a first-time editor here, so I'm not ready to just dive in and fix this yet, but would appreciate other suggestions for how to improve that page. This mis-definition of an important term in my field was so flagrant that I couldn't just pass it by. I don't have an official reference at hand to cite for the correct definition, but it should be obvious from context in most of the other references that come up with this as a search term. Dewtellit (talk) 22:00, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

@Dewtellit: There does not seem to be any shortage of book sources readable on Google books from which something can be written. I would not worry about being a first-time editor. That article is currently entirely unsourced, so anything you write from a source is bound to be an improvement. SpinningSpark 23:08, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

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Are crystal oscillators fixed-frequency oscillators?

There is a dispute going on at Talk:Electronic oscillator over whether crystal oscillators are used as fixed-frequency oscillators. Outside opinions are needed. Please drop by and express your opinion at Talk:Electronic oscillator#Request for Comment: Additional wording on crystal oscillators as fixed-frequency oscillators. Thanks. --Chetvorno^TALK 14:34, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Removal of digital signal article

A small number of editors are planning to remove (technically "merge") the digital signal article and replace it with a disambiguation page. The discussion is at Talk:digital signal.GliderMaven (talk) 14:52, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

There is now a Digital signal (disambiguation). I don't think there was ever a proposal to remove Digital signal. There were edits, reverts and at one point I advocated moving it to Digital signal (electronics). We need help improving Digital signal (signal processing). ~Kvng (talk) 19:49, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Seeking Help with Talk:Roku#RfC: Should the Feature comparison table be restored?

I am looking for help or advice from an experienced "techie" editor. I (among others) have been dabbling with small maintenance updates to the Roku streaming video player article during the last 4 years, so i care - but I am also inexperienced with wiki jargon, things like "consensus" and the procedures of RfC... i am just a simple country Wiki-chicken.

In mid-August a drive-by editor with no domain knowledge boldly "massacred" 80% of the article and while multiple editors tried to revert the change, he perseveres re-reverting to his version (initially 4 times in a day, more later). Now there is an RfC to restore the useful model comparison table, akin to IPad#Model comparison, Comparison of Google Nexus smartphones and Apple TV#Technical specifications. Said table was the most popular feature of the Roku article (try google search for link:/wikipedia.org/wiki/Roku#Feature_comparison to see) and while its usefulness seems obvious to me, i have hard time convincing some of the editors, one of which insists only prose should be used on Wikipedia, not tables.

So can i interest somebody in dropping by on our mess, to explain the value of tech.spec tables - or how to proceed further? EnTerr (talk) 08:14, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

That conversation didn't seem to be going anywhere. I have boldly created Comparison of Roku boxes. I think it works well as a stand-alone article. If someone takes offense and nominates it for deletion, perhaps we will have a more productive discussion at WP:AFD. ~Kvng (talk) 20:15, 29 September 2015 (UTC)