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Have Space Suit Will Travel[edit]

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]

Picture?[edit]

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]

Citations and Article Scope[edit]

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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Airlocks in Fiction[edit]

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]