Talk:TD-2

A fact from TD-2 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 September 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Bell Labs' TD-2 microwave-relay system (tower pictured) was used to carry television signals and telephone calls across North America?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/TD2.

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 06:12, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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TD2 tower in the Mojave National Preserve, California

... that Bell Labs TD-2 microwave relay system (tower pictured) was used to carry television and telephone calls across North America? Source: Dickieson
- ALT1:~~... that AT&T's TD-2 microwave relay system (tower pictured) was abandoned in the 1990s but has found a second life for high-frequency trading?~~ Source: Anthony

Reviewed: Albert helmet

Created by Maury Markowitz (talk). Self-nominated at 15:59, 12 July 2021 (UTC).[reply]

@Maury Markowitz: This is an enjoyable read, new enough and long enough. Image is appropriately licensed. Citation needed to end the sentence ending in Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway. ALT0 is good with [1] as the better link than Dickinson, but I don't see a mention of TD2 in the Ars Technica source (though I'm sure it's a near-identical revival the way it is described). Any potential remediation of these? Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 17:10, 27 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Sammi Brie: The Ars article contains an image of the Long Lines article. This dates to 1949, before the name TD2 was widely used. It's the same set of towers. CP mention removed. Maury Markowitz (talk) 20:36, 27 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Maury Markowitz: OK, that makes sense. I still see the CP section; the part that would need to be cited is the only major national-scale dedicated TH installation was in Canada, a joint effort by the Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway.. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 21:04, 27 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Maury Markowitz: I see you're working on Trans Canada Microwave. Is Aspden 1964 from that article appropriate to fill the gap? I can't access its full text, but I bet it would mention TH. Otherwise this can be excised. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 22:52, 27 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Maury Markowitz:! It's been a month since you replied to this nomination, are you still working on it? If you're too busy to finish it right now, that's OK. I'll remove the uncited line so the review can continue. BuySomeApples (talk) 06:09, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@BuySomeApples and Sammi Brie: Given that the nominator has been AWOL for a month, I'll adopt this nomination. I couldn't find a source, so I removed the line. As for ALT2, I can't find a source that directly mentions TD-2 in its re-emergence either, so could we just go ahead with ALT0? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 07:23, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

it would seem i'm not adopting this nomination as much as i am jettisoning the parts that aren't making it—i am an adopter the way a horse doctor is a vet theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 07:25, 27 August 2021 (UTC) [reply]

@Theleekycauldron: great! I've struck ALT1, @Sammi Brie: what do you think of ALT0 now that the uncited sentence in the article's been removed? BuySomeApples (talk) 07:31, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Theleekycauldron: