Talk:Error

message: I've never edited the wikipedia before and so don't know the protocols ... so when in
doubt communicate (and be gentle with me if I have done wrong :-)  The prior discussion 
described the term "fault" to be a bug.  This is (a) wrong and (b) and ignores the 
critical distinction (widely recognized in availability engineering) between design 
elements that predispose a system to error (defects) and the conditions or events 
that exercise the defects (faults).  The distinction is important, not merely for precision 
of communication, but has very practical value in that some things (that are technically 
referred to as defects) are nearly impossible to eliminate, and it is more practical to 
deal with the risk of failure by preventing the faults (which while less robust can be 
equally effective).  For example, it is (in reliability parlance) a "defect" that human beings 
are so easily killed by bullets, so we attempt to reduce the likelihood of error (people
being damaged by bullets) and failure (death or disability) by reducing the likelihood of 
fault-events (regulating fire-arms and wearing body armor).
There is another discussion that I only started ... but chose not to take deeper
for fear of doing more harm than good.  In hierarchical systems, we often use the
term "error" to describe behavior that is entirely within specifications.  When
a degraded signal makes it impossible to recover data from a disk, the software
in the controller detects this failure (through error detecting data encoding) and 
includes, in the request completion information, a description of the data read error.  
The disk controller is functioning exactly as specified ... which means that this
does not (technically) qualify as an error.  I mentioned that in hierarchical systems
an error or failure at level N can turn into a fault at the next level up.  I did
not (for fear of muddying the waters) say that such faults are also usually referred
to as errors.
MarkKampe 17:50, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Software Engineering 

message: Don't all these headings violate this guideline?  Shouldn't we move the links into the sections? Spalding 03:28, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Headings should not be links 

message: I suggest merging gaffe into this article. --Dangherous 09:16, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[gaffe]] 

message: but the first impression when this article loads, with that picture of the train wreck at Montparnasse is priceless. —Dylan Lake (t·c·ε) 00:55, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Nothing quite says "Gosh, it appears we have an error here!" like that picture :) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 199.43.48.129 (talk) 02:51, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I hate to bring up things not related to improving articles... 

message: I just had to laugh when I saw that train picture at the top of the page! It was funny, and it also made me think of Uncyclopedia. Good job, whoever did that! (But in all seriousness, it clearly tells the reader what and error is.) - dogman15 01:57, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  That picture 

message: The pronunciation "'erə" was cited for the word. A pronunciation guide for such a basic word doesn't really need to be there at all, and it is only one of a couple of very common pronunciations of the word. The one given is also one pronunciation of "era" and is used by r-droppers.--Jeffro77 22:30, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: Error does not just derive from a gap between intended and actual consequence. (experimental error and gaffe didn't fit.) It can also be a gap between actual behavior and the norm or expectation for that behavior. Expectation needed for something like experimental error; norm needed for social gaffes. Also, I don't want to make this article into a discussion of moral error, but there was a problem IMHO because we had excluded a class of errors in human behavior. (Not just human, in principle: It could be any morally responsible entity, but I can't think of others outside of fiction.) Departures from socially given or religious norms are errors, too. I don't see how we can sensible have gaffes included and "moral" error excluded. I would want to continue the practice of referring to other articles for fuller explanations. I'm not sure that I would know how to get citations if parts of this article were challenged. Is this article even encyclopedic? DCDuring 18:10, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Other Senses of Error

message: not jet described ? --213.23.168.170 (talk) 12:55, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cardinal Error 

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thread_title: File:Calendar error.jpg Nominated for speedy Deletion

message: Anyone notice these two articles have the same image in the same place?--78.156.109.166 (talk) 20:11, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error & Failure Wikipedia articles 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Error (disambiguation) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 20:16, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion in progress 

message: It seems that nowhere in WP is sign-error.  Maybe it could be a section here, and not need a page of its own. I wanted to link to it, but there is nothing to link to! Gah4 (talk) 21:09, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  sign error 

message: Mau masuk aplikasi eror tidak bisa 112.215.171.48 (talk) 15:16, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eror  

message: 0k I'm a good 43.246.202.203 (talk) 18:35, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rajib