Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spam Over Internet Telephony

Spam Over Internet Telephony was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE

Substub article describing a piece of idiolect jargon made up by a trade-rag gossip columnist and copied by a couple of others. This term is not in active use in the anti-spam or Internet telephony trades. The originating article admits that the term has no referent as yet (i.e. there is not, today, any spam over Internet telephony). Thus, this article describes nothing, and calls it by a made-up name. —FOo 20:03, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

• True that it describes nothing, and under a made-up name. This doesn't axe many thousands of articles about fictional material, though; and this SPIT seems likely to eventuate, sooner rather than later. The concern about whether it might is real and notable: Weak Keep. — Bill 22:43, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • I agree that telemarketing or other spammy behaviors can be perpetrated using VoIP systems. It is also true that murder can be perpetrated using a laser. But unless an article entitled Murder by laser has something particular to say about that sort of murder (as, say Newsgroup spam has to say about that kind of spam) then it is a rather odd sort of article. Moreso if no murder had ever been perpetrated by laser, but a company has just come out with a laser-proof vest and is using the term "Murder By Laser (MUBBLE)" in its press releases. —FOo 22:25, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• I'm neutral at the moment, as it could be kept if fleshed out more. If nothing happens to it soon, maybe. DELETE. it should be axed. If it was just this one nut with a book/product to hock. Does anyone know why it is SPIT and not SPOT or SPOIT.--ZayZayEM 03:30, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Because the guy who invented the term wanted to make up something that sounded icky? If I put an article on my blog tomorrow that suggests that "spam over VRML messaging" be called spvrm and pronounced "sperm", that doesn't merit a Wikipedia article either. Especially if I'm doing it to promote a product that I'm selling to combat this nonexistent spvrm. —FOo 14:45, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Delete: Not in use now, not real now, probably won't be called that when it does happen. Unsolicited faxes were called junk faxes, for junk mail. E-mail got called spam. No telling what junk calls will be called or how anyone will know that it was VOIP that made them possible. Geogre 05:18, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Agreed that the ultimate name for this could be anything, but the phenomenon already exists at least in nascent form. Large companies using VOIP technology distribute voice-mail "state of the company" messages to all employee phones simultaneously (my personal experience). There are anecdotal accounts of friends with VOIP receiving advertisement voicemail simultaneously (cannot cite a reference, sorry). But all that said, a deletion of the current negligible content will not be harmful when a new such article is created later by someone else. Nonuthin 02:47, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. Ambi 07:07, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Delete, and charge the inventor with attempted neologism. --Michael Snow 02:46, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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