Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alarm indication signal

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 redirect‎ to Digital Signal 1#Alarms as a sensible ATD. Owen× ☎ 12:29, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Alarm indication signal

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The article has only one not-so-reliable source, with almost all statements being unsourced and a quick Google search didn't yield many results. It's unclear if the topic is notable, but this article has been here for ~20 years without much improvement. As it stands, the article is too technical for most readers to understand and may be better started over from scratch.

I had submitted to prod. It got one endorse, but then was declined by an IP address with the comment "known in the industry". 7804j (talk) 06:31, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Engineering-related deletion discussions. 7804j (talk) 06:31, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:NOTGUIDE. Highly technical with no suggestion, let alone sourcing, that it may be of general interest. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 11:04, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Digital Signal 1#Alarms as this is where the system originated. It has apparently been propagated to ATM and Ethernet, which would explain why we have a stand-alone article. But the success of this was limited and so there is not enough sourcing available to demonstrate notability for a stand-alone article. ~Kvng (talk) 13:10, 19 July 2025 (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.