Talk:Ultrawave

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This article really needs a citation or two. It seems pretty weak. --Mother Superior 01:22, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

I'd say it needs to be merged with Ansible, and possibly given a better title; maybe "Superluminal communication in fiction", to match Superluminal communication, although personally I prefer to just say "faster-than-light". --DocumentN (talk) 07:00, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

I followed this link from the "ansible" page. I've never heard of "ultrawave". I don't think these should be combined, because ansible is a specific science fiction literature term, used especially in work by Ursula K. LeGuin. It's not just about the concept of FTL communication in general.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Emil Volcheck (talk • contribs) 00:43, 21 April 2008

Both Ansible and Ultrawave are currently written as articles about the general concept of FTL communication in fiction, as near as I can see; they're about the concept and no the individual words. --DocumentN (talk) 02:17, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

DocumentN, I disagree with what you said as it applies to the "Ansible" article. The first paragraph ("origin") describes the first use of "Ansible", the second ("Usage") states many authors who have used the specific name, and a few sentences of other (non-"ansible") uses, followed by discussion of two examples (LeGuin and Card). After that ("in reality") is a little non-specific discussion. However, the Ultrawave article, in itself, is pretty weak. I can see a couple of sentences from that being put into the Ansible article and the Ultrawave article deleted. Not so much a "merger" as an "acquisition."  :D CatherS (talk) 04:31, 28 April 2008 (UTC)