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needs description of the fictional 24 pressure chamber leading to an airlock. the chamber gradually increases pressure between 24 doors, each of which gradually increases pressure leading to a standard heavy duty airlock. Anyway, it needs to be in there.

Superlinka (talk) 01:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The photo could not be less illustrative! It shows absolutely nothing about the structure and function of an airlock. The astronauts could be in any room any where. Does someone have a picture, or (better) a diagram of an airlock? Could you post it? Nick Beeson (talk) 13:56, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

So I'm new to Wikipedia and could be wrong, but I'm not sure that this article as it stands now focuses on the right kind of airlock. I'm coming to this article from Spaceflight, and to me that means that this article should be about the system by which people and objects may be moved from the vacuum of space to the pressurized interior of the spacecraft, or the reverse. Some of this article, then, is actually beyond its scope, and could be cleaned by simply mentioning it in the See Also section, or else get rid of it entirely. I'm posting this here before I or anyone else takes any action because I don't know if my reasoning is sound in the context of Wikipedia.

The issue of finding citations becomes marginally easier if there aren't so many diverse types of airlocks to find references for. Still, this will be an issue, but one that may make more sense to tackle after the article recedes to within a more focused scope. What are the thoughts on this?

- Scrat9518 (talk) 17:29, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article is not specific to any application or type of airlock. It covers everything known as an airlock. Perhaps it would be useful separated into functional sections, so, for example, spaceflight could link directly to the specific section, perhaps named as airlock#space vehicles.

As far as adding citations goes, that shouldn't make any difference. Inline citations are the norm and are easily applied to particular sections, paragraphs, sentences, or even words. See WP:CITE for details. —EncMstr (talk) 17:51, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you now that the article should include all types and applications for things known as airlocks, and further that sections would be a good idea. In the spirit of that, then, would it be reasonable to suggest a merge of fermentation lock into this article? That device is already mentioned here, and its article is a stub. It may be, instead, that fermentation lock is better off merging with another article or being worked on by its respective projects, which appear to be Food and drink and Wine, and only mentioned here. Again, I have little experience with Wikipedia as it stands now, so I'm curious what you or anyone else might have to say.

- Scrat9518 (talk) 13:06, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I removed this section again. It does not seem relevant, and the examples given had either too much detail on the fiction or were only mentioned in passing. Documenting appearances in fiction doesn't seem in scope for normal technology. -- Professionalmartian (talk) 06:54, 7 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Professionalmartian I agree with this decision - see MOS:TRIVIA -- Doomhope (talk) 03:51, 16 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

User:Hike395, I see you removed the sister project links terminal and replaced it with a commons link. However, all of the links that were displayed there will bring up different results, so I'm not sure I understand the reasoning for removing the terminal.

If it's a visual formatting preference, I would like to restore the sister project links terminal, and we can add a parameter to align it to the left so that the external links section won't look awkward on desktop. Doomhope (talk) 17:15, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think you mean the sister project links box, generated by {{Sister project links}}? According to the manual of style:

Do not make a section whose sole content is box-type templates.

This includes the sister project links box, so I removed it. Shifting the box left or right doesn't make it obey the manual of style.

By default, the sister project links box links to all major sister wikiprojects, regardless of whether a corresponding article exists at the other wiki. For airlock, the only sister link that is active is on Commons. I think it makes sense only to provide a link if there is a target to the link, so I chose {{commons-inline}}. — hike395 (talk) 02:37, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]