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Welcome to a WikiProject with the aim to better organize information in articles related to telecommunications and communications system engineering, and to support collaborative work among Wikipedia authors with interest in this field. The project should cover the Wikipedia categories Communication engineering and Telecommunications with subcategories.

If you would like to help, this is how you can contribute:

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To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Telecommunications:

Add your name to the members list, and add the {{WikiProject:Tel}} template to your user page.
Add your suggestions to the list of articles needing attention, for a common group effort.
Inform the group at the project talk page about ongoing disputes and survey votes that are related to the group.
Contribute to the articles needing attention, for example by merging or extending stub articles and adding references
Move articles from categories that are too large.
Add the {{Tel Project|class=X}} template to the talk page of related articles, where X is an assessment on the Quality scale
Assess unassessed articles on the Quality scale
Clean-up the WikiProject Telecommunications page from article references that are older than 6 months.

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[edit] Article alerts

Proposed deletion

29 Jun 2009 – Illusion BBS (talk) has been deleted.

Articles for deletion

5 Jul 2009 – Sharp SH906i (talk) was kept; see discussion.
1 Jul 2009 – Toothing (talk) was kept; see discussion.
25 Jun 2009 – LYNX Photonic Networks (talk) nominated for deletion by Manning Bartlett; see discussion.

Good article nominations

27 Jun 2009 – IPhone (talk) is not promoted; see discussion.

Requested moves

18 Jun 2009 – Move requested from Digital subscriber line (talk) to Digital Subscriber Line by Quest for Truth; see discussion.

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[edit] Participants

If you would consider yourself a participant of this project, please sign at the members subpage. Don't forget to add the {{WikiProject:Tel}} template to your userpage.

[edit] Articles needing attention

Article references older than six months may be removed.

[edit] Articles of high importance

It is suggested that, for the moment, the project group should concentrate its effort on:

Mobile phone - Oct 2008. It has 8 unsourced statements and one broken link.
Suggestions are welcome - Date

[edit] New and rewritten pages to be reviewed

Most of these articles and sections are created, expanded or extensively revised by participants of this WikiProject:

Personal Numbering - January 2009 - see Talk:Personal Numbering
Service layer - January 19 2009 - see Talk:Service layer
Voice over Internet Protocol (IP telephony) - extensive review performed, see Talk:Voice_over_Internet_Protocol page for details
ATSC-M/H – Gueni (talk) 10:24, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Channel model – Mange01 (talk) 19:30, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
Traffic generation model – Mange01 (talk) 19:30, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
AVST - June 2009
Suggestions are welcome - Date

[edit] Articles needing expert attention, clean-up, references, etc

Participants of the WikiProject have inquired help on the following articles:

IEEE 802.11 and related articles. August 2008.
Telephone directory and Yellow Pages – January 2009
Research In Motion needs cleaning up, and is suggested to be merged with BlackBerry. See discussion --JoshK48 (talk) 09:00, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Unified Messaging, April 2009
Pioneer Telephone, June 2009
Pat Fleet, June 2009
Suggestions are welcome - Date

[edit] Stubs under construction

Participants of the WikiProject has inquired help on the following stubs:

Data over signalling - August 2008
Simultaneous voice and data - August 2008
Noise level - October 2008
Suggestions are welcome - date

[edit] Articles up for AfD deletion

Suggestions are welcome - Date

[edit] Previously proposed deletions

Beyond 3G (via WP:PROD on 13 April 2008) Deleted

Recreated 2008-04-19 and rediricted to 4G. See the What to do about the removed "Beyond 3G", "3.5G" and "5G" articles? discussion.

Sony Ericsson S500 at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sony Ericsson S500 (26 December 2007 – 10 January 2008) No concensus (default keep)
LG U8360 at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/LG U8360 (22 December 2007 – 29 December 2007) Redirect to LG Telecom
Error-correcting codes with feedback at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Error-correcting codes with feedback (28 November 2007 – 6 December 2007) Kept
Sony Ericsson J210 at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sony Ericsson J210 (20 December 2007 – 26 December 2007) Kept
Asymmetric binary system at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2007-12-16 (21 December 2007 – Error: invalid time) However, still many articles are linking to it. A copy of the article can be found at User_talk:Jarek_Duda. See also the discussion at [1].
Bill and keep at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bill and keep (23 November 2007 – 29 November 2007) Kept
Nokia 5510 at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nokia 5510 (20 October 2007 – 26 October 2007) Kept
Tovo - Unified Communications at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tovo - Unified Communications (18 October 2007 – 24 October 2007) Deleted
Sony Ericsson S500 (via WP:PROD on 25 December 2007) Kept
Eno River Media Production (via WP:PROD on 22 October 2007) Deleted
Sogetel (via WP:PROD on 14 October 2007) Kept
Nokia 5510 (via WP:PROD on 17 October 2007) Kept
Measurments and Controls India Ltd. (via WP:PROD on 12 October 2007) Kept
Connection slot (via WP:PROD on 30 September 2007) Deleted
TV Tower Henley on Thames (via WP:PROD on 30 September 2007) Deleted

[edit] Suggestions for new articles

persistent, persistence (telecommunications), non-persistent, p-persistent, 1-persistent multiple access
timeslot/slotted (referring to slotted Aloha, TDMA, MACAW, etc)
scheduling algorithms (communication) (Merge of several articles in Category:Scheduling algorithms)
Mobile phone location and tapping, see Talk:Telephone tapping#Merge (and split) suggestion for details. `'mikka 20:51, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
RG213 RG11 coax cable types - some other coaxes are in already eg RG59 GB
DAB-S (Digital Video Broadcasting - Satellite) Mange01 (talk) 07:45, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
DVB-MS (Digital Video Broadcasting - multipoint distribution) Mange01 (talk) 07:45, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Radio Link Control (RLC) sublayer Mange01 (talk) 13:45, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
AVST - unified messaging and communications provider [2] [3]
Suggestions are welcome - user and date

[edit] Categories

[edit] Category hierarchy

A list of the largest telecommunication related categories and sub-categories are presented here:

List of categories with Talk page

A suggestion for revised category structure can be found at User:Alinja/Comms, and is discussed at the WP:TEL talk page.

[edit] Category policies

The top category, Category:Communication should mainly deal with social science issues.

The Category:OSI protocols should be used as a map for categories to as large extent as possible.

The Category:Wireless is for anything pertaining to the use of radio waves in telecommunications, except broadcasting, which is covered in Category:Radio .

[edit] Suggestions for new and changed sub-categories

Example category: example was suggested by ~~~~.

[edit] New sub-categories

Telecommunication theory was created in August 2007. It may partly replace the old category Communication theory, which also includes social science issues.
Category:Applications of Telecommunication‎ was created in August 2007. (Partly overlapping with Category:Application layer protocols.)
Category:Redirects from telephone number was created in August 2007. This collects all country calling code redirects. Example redirect +54.
Example category: example was created (date).

[edit] Categories requiering diffusion and clean-up

There are too many articles in these categories; they need to be moved to subcategories where appropriate.

[edit] Guidelines for authoring articles

[edit] Example of articles with good structure

OFDM. Good article candidate.
Telecommunication. Listed as Good article.
Optical fibre. Was listed as Good article but has been removed.
History of the Internet. Was listed as Good article but has been removed.
AT&T. Was listed as Good article but has been removed.
Alexander Graham Bell. Was listed (or only nominated?) as Good article.
Nikola Tesla. Was listed as Good article but has been removed.
Data Encryption Standard. Listed as Featured article in August 2004.
Cryptography. Listed as Featured article.
Digital terrestrial television in Australia. Listed as Good article in August 2007.
Digital radio in the United Kingdom. Listed as Good article in July 2007.
300-page iPhone bill. Listed as Good article in October 2007.
Touchwave. Listed as Good article in January 2009.

[edit] Recommended article structure

Technical telecommunication articles should include the following:

Definition, scope, synonyms, autonym
Popular scientific introduction to the concept and its practical application for those unfamiliar with the subject matter
Historical background, including date of origin and originator if known
Key features, for example the advantages and disadvantages
Schematic description and principles of operation, perhaps with numerical examples and illustrations
Mathematical formulas and pseudo code are presented as late as possible
Technical details on special cases and instances of the concept, for example versions and implementations, perhaps presented in a comparison table
See also
References
External links

[edit] Recommended terminology

Eriterm - a five-language telecommunications glossary: English, Swedish, French, Spanish, German. Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden, 1992, 683 pages, ISBN 91-630-0494-1
Telecommunications: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms, United States Federal Standard 1037C
[books.google.com Textbooks at Google books]
[scholar.google.com Research articles at Google scholar]

[edit] Templates

[edit] This article is part of WikiProject Telecommunications

WikiProject Telecommunications

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[edit] Pages needing expert attention from Telecommunications experts

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[edit] Stubs

Template {{comm-stub}} with associated category Category:Communication stubs (Mainly social science aspects)
- Template {{Telecommunications-stub}} with associated category Category:Telecommunications stubs
  - Template {{telecom-company-stub}} with associated category Category:Telecommunications company stubs
  - Template {{Wireless-stub}} with associated category Category:Wireless stubs
  - Template {{areacode-stub}} with associated category Category:Area code stubs
- Template {{compu-network-stub}} with associated category Category:Computer network stubs

[edit] Wikipedia surveys

[edit] WikiProject Deletion sorting

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The Telecommunications-related articles at VFD are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Telecommunications.

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