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::call it Walsh code or Walsh family. They note that the "Walsh family can be interpreted as a subcode of the first-order Reed-Muller code". If you study these references, you will see that the definitions match the "Hadamard code" or the "punctured Hadamard code". Sorry I don't have a better answer, but I do believe that there should only be a single article on this object. [[User:Ylloh|ylloh]] ([[User talk:Ylloh|talk]]) 20:20, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
:::So the short answer to the question is ''No''. In future please wait for a consensus of informed editors before following your own [[WP:OR|personal research]]. [[User:Deltahedron|Deltahedron]] ([[User talk:Deltahedron|talk]]) 22:40, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
::::This is not original research. I posted informed and relevant sources above and added them to the article itself. The routine change-of-notation that I used falls under [[Wikipedia:Scientific citation guidelines#Examples, derivations and restatements]] and is necessary to bring the material from different fields and different authors together. [[User:Ylloh|ylloh]] ([[User talk:Ylloh|talk]]) 04:31, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
:::The book
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:::::If a reliable source says that WH codes are obtained by rearranging H codes, then they are not obviously the same. We don't try to decide what reliable sources might have meant to say, we use what they do say. [[User:Deltahedron|Deltahedron]] ([[User talk:Deltahedron|talk]]) 07:38, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
::::::The reliable literature is inconsistent. On page 393, the book
::::::* {{citation
| title=Signaling in Telecommunication Networks
| volume=87
| series=Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing
| first1=John G.
| last1=van Bosse
| first2=Fabrizio U.
| last2=Devetak
| edition=2
| publisher=John Wiley & Sons
| year=2006
| isbn=9780470048139
}}
::::::says "CDMA systems use two types of codes: ''Walsh codes'' (also called ''Hadamard codes'') and ''pseudorandom noise'' (PN) ''codes''." The subsequent discussion states that the number of "codes" (that is, codewords) equals the length of the "codes". This differs from the definition of Hadamard code in the mathematics literature, where the number of codewords is twice the length (since complements of codewords are also codewords). This tells me two things: (1) there are differences of opinion about whether "Walsh code" and "Hadamard code" mean the same thing or something slightly different; (2) the term "Hadamard code" has multiple, closely related, usages. One cannot write a decent Wikipedia article on this subject unless one is aware of the differences in how terminology is used by different authors and different disciplines.
::::::I've been watching this page for a long time, and I just don't see that there is a large body of "informed editors" prepared to weigh in and resolve the discrepancies between different sources. I'm grateful that Ylloh has taken on the onerous task of describing the competing conventions and definitions that appear in the literature. I see no problem with the edits that have been made so far.[[User:Will Orrick|Will Orrick]] ([[User talk:Will Orrick|talk]]) 12:07, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
== "Punctured" Hadamard code ==
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