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CNET. Retrieved June 24, 2021. But at CNET's Talk page, Wikipedia editors have been presenting for and against arguments on whether the page should be titled "CNET," "Cnet" or "CNet" for years. For what it's worth, we like to capitalize it (except in our logo, it seems).
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CNET → CNet – Per
MOS:CAPS; the name is a shortening, rather than an initialism or acronym, of the former name. It is pronounced as "C-net" rather than "C-N-E-T".
IceWelder [
✉] 10:16, 10 September 2020 (UTC)reply
A majority of reliable sources use "CNET", not "CNet" (as does
https://www.cnet.com/about/). I also couldn't find any sources that the name is a shortening of Computer Network. --
Ahecht (
TALK PAGE) 13:34, 10 September 2020 (UTC)reply
Hm, odd. The name was introduced
here by @
WurmWoode more than a year ago and never contested. Maybe they could weigh in here? If the name is indeed incorrect, I will withdraw the request.
IceWelder [
✉] 14:04, 10 September 2020 (UTC)reply
I just added the missing cite— readily available to anyone who had cared to look up the history. WurmWoodeT 04:45, 13 September 2020 (UTC)reply
Neutral. Style or not, they co-opted the term, sort of?? Disambiguation?? What about the elephant in the room? Historically, CNET is the precedent standard abbreviation/shortening of Computer Network => Computer Net => C\NET => CNET, yes, fully capitalized. If anyone would care to Google any (now) ancient tech magazines and books, and even through to this day’s current college courses and media. WurmWoodeT 04:45, 13 September 2020 (UTC)reply
Oppose the site itself uses CNET
blindlynx (
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Forums closure should be mentioned
I've learned from miscellaneous sources backed up a little by self-checking that, starting back on 12/01/2020 and throughout early 2021, CNET closed down their public forums that had allowed miscellaneous topic discussions. Yet, apparently this article doesn't yet mention about it or at least does not contain the word 'forum' whatsoever. So, being that this information doesn't seem to be covered much by CNet itself, it would be BEST that it be included in here. I can't do it myself because I have no official connection to it and just happened to stumble upon this seemingly-correct information when trying to find an old forum post that I'd written there myself, which now no longer exists along with nothing in CNet's menus showing Discussion "Forum"/"Forums" any longer either.— Preceding
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It's not just the forums, all of the user accounts are nixed - there's the button on the
profiles page which does nothing. However, in signing in the Red Ventures
download.zendesk you get:
When you’re signed in, you can access these websites.
CNET, GameSpot, Chowhound, Download Developer, GiantBomb, Comic Vine, Metacritic, TV Guide ,Download, ZDNET
Make of that what you will.
Lmstearn (
talk) 03:30, 23 January 2023 (UTC)reply
CNET August 2023 delete articles
I did a bit of adjustment of the content related to CNET August 2023 deletion of articles. So far, it needs some improvement on grammar and flow, and also coverage of content from the event that may help shape overall perspectives of the topic.
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