Talk:Network computing

Redirect or merge?
As discussed on Talk:Network computer I find this article problematical. The first citation is a dead link, and the second one never mentions the term. It fails to mention Network Computing Devices nor the publications named Network Computing nor the network computer (or perhaps thin client). I propose changing this into a redirect to distributed computing which describes the field and general technique, then add some body text mentioning all the related terms.

I found an archive of the first citation and it also does not mention "network computing", just cloud. So I will move that info there - it has been two years of complaint tags after all. W Nowicki (talk) 23:43, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Yet more: it seems the page started out with some content that seemed technically correct but unsourced in 2005. It was blanked as a copyright violation of http://www.network-computing.net/network-computing.htm which now seems a spam page! Archive.org shows that the network-computing.net page showed up in 2007, so I suspect it was a cut-n-paste of the wikipedia page, not the other way 'round. The cloud claim did not show up until March 2009. Needed to be sourced anyway. W Nowicki (talk) 23:57, 24 June 2011 (UTC)


 * gBooks finds over 25k published references for "Network computing", seems like a notable enough subject for a stand alone article. While the current reference are questionable as WP:RS there seems to be lots out there. Both of the links on the current version of the are live, to web pages. I removed the blog reference. JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 15:25, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Do not follow your reasoning. Just because two common words are found together often does not mean that combination of words is a topic notable enough for a stand-alone wikipedia article. For example, I found 32,700 hits of the term "award-wining author" on google books. That does not justify an article on that word combination. (Although interesting that a search on wikipedia for "award-winning author" gives 25,500 hits!) Many of those references to "network computing" I suspect really apply to the concept of distributed computing or computer networking as opposed to a different concept. Not sure which links you mean? The one I find in the article does not mention the term "network computing" at all - it is about "Cloud Computing". W Nowicki (talk) 20:35, 18 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I am not a subject matter expert, and a Redirect may be most appropriate. But as an example Chapter & of Fundamentals of computer organization and architecture, Volume 2 By Mostafa Abd-El-Barr, Hesham El-Rewini  is titled "Network computing" there is also the work beginning on page 759 of Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - IDEAL 2009: 10th International Conference, Bourgos, Spain, September 23-26, 2009, Proceedings By Emilio Corchado, Hujun Yin with work going back to at least 1991 as in Network World Feb 4, 1991 . JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 11:04, 19 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I would redirect the term to Computer network, job done. Or change it to a disambiguation page and have distributed computing, cloud computing and computer network as links as it could mean any of those things. Mattg82 (talk) 22:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)