Talk:Sink (computing)

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via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_and_sourcing: "In a more general sense in science and technology, sinking and sourcing are used to describe processes which absorb (sink) or generate (source) something. For example, a heat sink takes up heat from electronic components that generate heat, heat sources." -- this article is specifically about "Event Sinking", but instead implies that this is the only sinking someone interested in computing should care about, which is a ridiculous assumption.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_and_sourcing
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_sources_and_sinks
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_network
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_sink
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_sink

To reiterate, this article is redundant ("Sink (computing)" is a redundant topic to the "Sinking and Sourcing" article), the subject does not match the title (Article is about "Sinks" in the context of computing, but only covers "Event Sinks"), and wrongfully assumptive in that it assumes "sinks" always refer to "event sinks" in the context of computing.

BrainSlugs83 (talk) 19:07, 25 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the "Sinking and sourcing" article is no more. It has fallen victim to speedy deletion due to simply being a copy-pasted dictionary definition. -andy 77.7.3.211 (talk) 21:24, 27 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]