Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Teleconferencing in the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was merge to Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on science and technology#Telecommunications. Sandstein 11:50, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Teleconferencing in the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic

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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]

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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. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 00:54, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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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, Pharos added 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]
Merge and redirect to Impact_of_the_2019–20_coronavirus_pandemic_on_science_and_technology#Telecommunications. I think this could be expanded in that particular section of the article. Interstellarity (talk) 13:22, 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]
Move to Teleconferencing during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic then merge into a more relevant article.
Merge and redirect to Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on science and technology#Telecommunications per Interstellarity. This is a notable topic, but we can't have a separate article for every single aspect of the pandemic. The science and technology article is a good destination and needs expansion. Only if/when it's too big for there should it be split out. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 23:04, 3 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. Reywas92^Talk 08:36, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Concur with original proposer. None of the information is actually relevant or decently notable, and most of these sentences were already restated in Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on science and technology#Telecommunications which is where it was broken off of anyway. More relevant information can be replaced and added to the above mentioned section. —LopezJayLo98 (^{Contributions}) —Preceding undated comment added 18:19, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on science and technology#Telecommunications per above. Education-specific information (eg. colleges moving lectures to Zoom) could also be added to Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on education. ◢   Ganbaruby!   (Say hi!) 10:56, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and redirect to Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on science and technology#Telecommunications per reasons above. Movies Time (talk) 14:45, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.