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Does not meet WP:GNG and could easily be mentioned in a sentence as a collateral effect of COVID-19 in one of the numerous pages regarding the pandemic
PenulisHantu (
talk) 00:40, 1 April 2020 (UTC)reply
PenulisHantu, In which of the "numerous pages regarding the pandemic" could it be mentioned, while remaining within the scope of the specific article? · · ·
Peter Southwood(talk): 09:27, 2 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep - I usually lean more on
WP:DELAY than
WP:RAPID, and have !voted delete on a few of these coronavirus/culture intersection articles, but there are an awful lot of sources about the radical and urgent changes in education, many fields of employment, communication among friends/family, etc. that all revolves around teleconferencing. Some of that can be included in other articles, but I think this is a reasonable topic for a stand-alone page -- and potentially an article that others could merge to. — Rhododendritestalk \\ 00:54, 1 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete We have several separate kind of long articles regarding the impact of COVID-19 on different fields and this article has been written as a stub which is irrelevant. The effect on teleconferencing can be mentioned in sentences rather than creating a separate article on this issue.
Abishe (
talk) 12:36, 1 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Abishe, which articles are you referring to? One of them may be a good target for a merge. · · ·
Peter Southwood(talk): 09:22, 2 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete This isn't worthy of it's own article. There's no reason it can't just be mentioned in a general impact of Covid-19 article instead or something. It's to soon anyway. The craps effects just started. --
Adamant1 (
talk) 15:20, 1 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep if is expanded with sourced information which is too large to be in an existing article, Merge with an existing article otherwise. --
a3nm (
talk) 16:32, 1 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Move to draft space. On 17:28, 29 March 2020,
Pharosadded to
Zoom Video Communications#Use during the COVID-19 pandemic the helpful (?) link "{{main|Coronavirus impact on teleconferencing}}". At that time, this article we're discussing here
consisted of one, unsourced sentence. I find that edit by Pharos to
Zoom Video Communications incomprehensible. Even now, this article is feeble. But it might go somewhere. When its authors believe that the draft is better (for its subject area) than are articles that already exist, they can ask for a move to article space. --
Hoary (
talk) 06:34, 2 April 2020 (UTC)reply
@
Hoary: The reason I did this is precisely because much of the content in that section of
Zoom Video Communications is not actually specific to Zoom, but applies to the whole teleconferencing industry during this time. That page should only have Zoom-specific info, and currently it has generic content on the whole industry simply because it is the most commonly-known brand name.--
Pharos (
talk) 18:35, 5 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Merge and redirect. If the merged material grows to be appropriate for a full article, it can be split back out. Not sure where to merge it to though. If I think of a good target I will come back.
Keep if there is no suitable article to merge with. There is already a lot more teleconferencing happening to avoid travel and close proximity, Even Wikimedia projects are on this bandwagon, but it may not have been mentioned in RS yet. · · ·
Peter Southwood(talk): 09:13, 2 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Teleconference is a fairly obvious potential target for a merge and redirect, but there may be better. · · ·
Peter Southwood(talk): 09:27, 2 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Strangely, I find myself supporting Keep on this one. It's a stub at the moment, but this is unarguably a notable topic. Normally I'd support merging this material into a longer article, but I'm not sure we have a suitable article to merge it to. It's not really about science and technology, it's about the impact of the pandemic on people's lives and work. That's the missing article that needs to be written; until it is, this one should be kept.
Robofish (
talk) 22:31, 2 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Merge Too soon, stop making separate articles on every topic in the news right now. Does not warrant separate page at this point.
Reywas92Talk 08:36, 6 April 2020 (UTC)reply
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