Talk:WiMAX MIMO

I believe MIMO WiMAX is a valid entry. What are Wikipedia rules for breaking up articles? The MIMO page brings various other entries together, therefore it can and should stand alone: WiMAX Forum, OFDMA, WiMAX RCT, RFIC, MIMO. This is not an article about OFDMA, WiMAX, or MIMO, or RFIC. It's about a specific variant of general technology in a huge market applied to a very specific type of use. If it were to be joined with any other entry, where would you join it?

• i. WiMAX? WiMAX is NOT about RFIC. Or MIMO. WiMAX is about OFDMA and the mobile handset market. WiMAX is not a technology, 802.16 is.
• ii. MIMO? MIMO in WiMAX has a special language and it's part of an emerging technology that brings OFDMA and MIMO together with RFIC. MIMO is much broader and it's market pervasiveness is thanks to the volumes in mobile handsets.
• iii. Mobile Handset? So then what mobile handset technology would you place it under, CDMA, TDMA, OFDMA?
• iv. IEEE 802.16d? IEEE 802.16e? IEEE 802.16m (new standard in development)? Clearly a base article entry that compares MIMO for WiMAX based on 16e / 16m and any future application is quite useful to a readership that is bound to be confused.

Wikipedia case history should provide some substance to this perspective. Here are some parallels:

• Where would you cover the PC, under "computers" or under "transistor" or under "windows"? None, it has earned it's own spot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer
• Then where would you put a specific type of PC, the Laptop? Under PC or MAC? Neither, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laptop
• Certainly powerful laptops like Apple's PowerBook generation are just a type laptop, right? No, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_replacement_computer
• And if Sony's laptop is a bit easier to carry around, is not just a small sized laptop? No, it's a whole different device: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraportable

Are these just technology fads that pressure how Wikipedia is structures? Try this one:

• Where would you put Beethoven, under "romantic era" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_music) , "Vienna" or under "18th century composers"? No, it's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beethoven
• What about Beethoven's 9th symphony? Surely that's "too specific"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_%28Beethoven%29