Talk:Flicker noise

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Are Cosmological Effects the Source of l/f Noise in Electron Devices?

This is just crackpottery, right? — Omegatron 00:12, 13 October 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Merge into Pink noise?

I wonder what people think about merging this article into the main pink noise article?

I would argue for this on two grounds. One is that this is a very short article and, since flicker noise is a special case of 1/f noise, it can easily be included in the more general article, gaining from the wider context provided. The second is that, conversely, flicker noise is of great historical importance to the general subject since it was the first observed (and one of the most widely studied) examples of 1/f noise.

Thoughts, anyone? —WebDrake 21:42, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Deary me, that'll teach me to post without checking all related talk pages. I hope I haven't offended those who bravely struck out to make this as a separate article only a short while ago. Nevertheless I feel that as things stand it might be good to bring the articles back together. If the flicker noise info grows we can expand it into a separate article again (with which I will gladly assist:-). As it is, I've added some important early references that are also included in the pink noise article. —WebDrake 22:40, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Think of it like an actual color. We have an article about the color pink, just like we have an article about the noise color pink. But things that happen to be pink, like flamingos, don't go in a subsection of the pink article. Likewise, noise processes that happen to be pink, like flicker noise, get their own distinct articles. — Omegatron 07:08, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

OK, accepted. Let's get back to the 1/f noise argument on Talk:Pink noise. —WebDrake 19:26, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose - this article was split from pink noise because it's just a type of noise that happens to be pink. — Omegatron 01:59, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose - following your argument, I'm with you on this one. The addition of the official merge suggestion was not my doing. —WebDrake 16:57, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose, per Omegatron's argument.--Srleffler 03:19, 13 January 2007 (UTC)