Commons:Categories for discussion/2018/10/Category:Practical electronic circuits
The term "practical" is redundant. Essentially all electronic circuits are practical. Alan Liefting (talk) 04:40, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
Then I suggest something like en:Category:Electronics substrates instead. --Glenn (talk) 06:17, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
- Does that work for you, Alan Liefting ? - Themightyquill (talk) 09:59, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
stale discussion. @Alan Liefting, Themightyquill, and Glenn: unless we find an electronic expert, I would upmerge the nominated category into Category:Electronic circuits--Estopedist1 (talk) 16:55, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Estopedist1: this merge would be most undesirable. Right now, Category:Electronic circuits is dominated by concepts illustrated through circuit drawing - abstractions like category:Negative resistance and large chunks of theory like the Category:Resistor circuits. Circuit as a schema, a drawing, a network graph that follows an agreed convention. Not circuit as a tangible device. I'd prefer to keep it this way, and store things and technologies somewhere else. Retired electrician (talk) 15:39, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
- Electronics substrates sounds inappropriate, too. The word substrate has quite narrow practical usage in electronics - mostly, it is about the body, the base layer of a silicon die. Or the flat base of a hybrid IC, a microwave filter etc. But not the fiberboard of an ordinary PCB. On the other extreme, en:Point-to-point construction (part of en:Category:Electronics substrates) is actually about making things without substrate, sometimes literally "out of thin air". Retired electrician (talk) 15:53, 3 January 2022 (UTC)