Talk:Analogue filter

message: Moved from Analog to Analogue (as in analogous filter) - Rehnn83 19th June 06
:I don't think the adjective "analogous" has been used in an engineering context. 84.227.254.143 (talk) 12:22, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Renamed to analogue 

message: Is there anyone besides User:Spinningspark who condemns the use of citation templates in this article? --bender235 (talk) 12:25, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Those templates aren't just there for bots, but also for human readers, who sure find it helpful to have a consistent citation style within Wikipedia. Also, I don't see how it "scares" new editors, since no one demands them to add citations only with those templates. That can be done later by other Wikipedia users. --bender235 (talk) 22:42, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't get me wrong, I myself use templates everywhere, but please understand the others' arguments: (i) consistent formatting has little to do with templates; (ii) novice editors often do not understand how to input templates and mistype their fields, messing the citations, whereas they are fine without templates; (iii) mixing up templates and no-templates does result in inconsistent formatting. Nothing is clear-cut here, off course you can emulate any template by text. Materialscientist (talk) 22:48, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: But emulating a citation template by text destroys the whole idea of having flexible references that can be modified in style in the future (if necessary). Also, those citation templates will implement a citation microformat once it is available, which enables bots and search engines to index those references much easier (just like the hCard microformat we implemented to all those biography infoboxes a while ago). --bender235 (talk) 07:21, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Those are benefits of templates, and they are true, but there are drawbacks as well (just to add one, a typo is usually invisible in templates, but is clear in no-template formats). The point is "current policies" do not require use of templates. If you glance here you might realize how unshaped are the citation standards yet. Materialscientist (talk) 07:56, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: No citation templates in this article?

message: i think when people say 'analog filter' now they very likely mean an active one with lots of op-amps and thrifty on the 'passive' parts (capacitors and inductors)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.193.24.148 (talk) 00:52, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  don't say passive 

message: This article is a cut above the usual Wikipedia article. It concentrates on historical development, 
which distinguishes it from most of the electrical engineering articles. The writing is well-paced, erudite. 84.227.254.143 (talk) 12:22, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article is excellent 

message: This article and Analogue electronics is pretty much the only place it's spelled this way. Even within the article, the infobox, the books/articles in the references and bibliography and the category box spells it "analog". Are there actually electronics books/publications which spell it this way or is this a case of pushing a british variant in a context where it doesn't belong (ie, "computer programme")? 30103db (talk) 19:21, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Such a foolish comment could only be made by soneone who has not done a search of the literature beforehand. SpinningSpark 14:00, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: So snarky... Searching through IEEE publications, JSTOR, arXiv, google scholar, google ngram, or even simply looking at the number of google search results shows not only that "analog" is clearly the preferred spelling (even within the sources on this article), but that sources which do spell it "analogue" tend to be older (over 30 years ago) and predominantly british. I'm not going to bother changing anything since this appears to be a charged topic, but if this really is a case of WP:ENGVAR, the MOS:COMMONALITY and MOS:ARTCON (ie, the title of the infobox at the top of the page is currently "Linear analog electronic filters") guidelines should apply. 30103db (talk) 14:29, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Analogue" in the context of electronics