Talk:Ringtone/Archives/2016

Merge

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I think we should consolidate the articles ring tone, ring (telephone), and ringing signal. They all discuss the same thing: What happens when a telephone receives an incoming call. I don't see any benefit to keeping them separate. Comments? Objections? --DragonHawk 19:32, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

I believe ring tone should as a stay separate article. Due to internet music piracy, ring tones have become an important revenue to record companies, making them newsworthy and a part of popular culture. - GilliamJF 23:29, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree that the information is should stay, I'm just advocating merging the articles. They're all about the same thing, more or less. At most, there should be one article on how telephone equipment signals an incoming call, and one article on the specific subject of the customizable sounds available for some telephones. (I'm deliberately avoiding using existing article names, party to make my point, and party to avoid favoring any existing article.) --DragonHawk 19:14, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

I think that Polyphonic Ringtone also ought to be merged with this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.233.110.65 (talk • contribs)

Agreed. I just added/adjusted merge tags as appropriate. Does anyone have any additional comments? I'm especially interested in the topic of the customizable sounds available for some telephones being in a separate article vs just one article. Is there anything like a concensus here? --DragonHawk 04:16, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

• Merge - There's no reason for seperate types of ringtones to have their own articles. -- Cielomobile ^{talk / contribs} 16:40, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
• Merge all. No need for separate articles. Kafziel ^Talk 16:36, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
• Merge — no need for separate articles. --Charles Gaudette 22:05, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

• Keep but clarify  :

-Ring (telephone) - Cover the verb "to ring", Brief description, including fact that phones can use silent ring - eg vibrate or flash, plus links to the other two articles.

-Ring tone - Cover the actual sound made by phones that don't use a ring cadence

-Ringing signal - Cover the electric signal (for POTS) or digital protocol that causes a telephone to trigger a ring, and possibly diagrams of the electronic circuits that allow the signalling.

--Ozhiker 23:19, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Is there any particular reason we need to have separate pages for all of those? I generally find it is more useful to keep related information together in one article; it gives the reader better context. In particular, it sounds like your proposed Ring (telephone) article would be a dictdef. —DragonHawk (talk) 11:37, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

• Comment - I just added Mobile music to the discussion. There is an emerging ring tone art form that includes composing original ring tone material exclusively for cell phones. (see this article). You may wish to consider in your discussion whether mobile music as an art form deserves is a topic that deserves its own article or may be a subtopic in another article. -- Jreferee 19:23, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Ringtone maker also addresses the subject of ringtone composition. Perhaps it should be added to the discussion as well. Stebbins 03:18, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

It looks like merge is the way to go, here. I'm going to start working in that direction (don't have time to do it this morning, but maybe this weekend). My thanks to Spencerk for getting the ball rolling. —DragonHawk (talk) 11:31, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

• Definitely a separate article OK those who want to merge it - you try to find out any information about ringtones on the web - after sifting hundreds of dodgy looking sites hoping your virus protection is working, I finally gave up - and then next morning - as I was searching amr - I thought wonder if wikipedia will actually tell me what fileformats are supported by most phones. Now that I've found it I'll be damned if you then remove this article! 88.109.32.41 07:55, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
• Definately merge In the interest of simplicity and making things understandable Discgolfrules 23:15, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Merge - although Ringtone is the most commonly refered to name so please keep this 86.147.210.37 17:58, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

• DEFINITELY DON'T MERGE This is stupid. Each of these thing are completely different items. Mobile music shouldn't even be here cause it has nothing to do with Ringing. PERIOD!--Hornetman16 03:46, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

• Merge -- I agree that they are all slightly different things, but I think that ringing (telephony), ring (telephone), ringtone, ring tone, ringing signal, and ring cadence have enough in common that a single page about their commonalities and the distinctions between them will be better than independent pages for each one. (I agree with Hornetman that mobile music is different enough that it should stay a separate article). --DavidCary (talk) 18:25, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

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