Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Non-communications signals

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. Keeping based on improvements made. Please discuss any redirects, mergers, or article improvement issues on the talk page of the article. Thanks everyone for participating and assuming good faith. Missvain (talk) 18:20, 3 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Article has been unsourced since Jan 2007. Notability of topic is in question. Coin945 (talk) 05:49, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Speedy keep, the nominator does not propose a valid WP:DEL-REASON. The nominator does not say which notability guideline this article fails to meet. SailingInABathTub (talk) 10:25, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete a very clear failure of our guideline against having dictionary definitions. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a dictionary. Articles need to cover concepts or ideas, not words.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:50, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment Verifiability means that all articles should be sourced. I reviewed this again, and I am still thinking that this is a dictionary definition, and belongs in Wikitionary, not in Wikipedia.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:43, 14 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect, to Signals intelligence#Electronic signals intelligence. The available sources only seem to discuss non-communications signals within the context of signals intelligence. SailingInABathTub (talk) 16:06, 14 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: five academic sources located and added with inline citations. These signals and their analysis seem to be a fairly crucial part of SIGINT, and it is quite easy to find this referenced in WP:RS. jp×g 20:32, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 08:24, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 08:24, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 08:24, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Signals intelligence (or merge to it). The content of this article appears (slightly more briefly) in its lead section. This content might be used to expand that slightly. The definition of SIGINT and ELINT might be used for Wikitionary entries, but I do not know as I do not work on that. Peterkingiron (talk) 20:47, 17 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep: per new sources added by JPxG. Chirota (talk) 17:51, 22 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.