Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hypernet (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete.  MBisanz  talk 00:18, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

Hypernet
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"Hypernet" is a highly-fashionable buzzword. A search finds numerous papers and books, and several companies called Hypernet Inc or variations. What there is not is any one agreed definition. The meaning proposed by this article is referenced only to a blog and a HuffPo article by one Roger McNamee, which it claims as "The first reference and use of the hypernet", but an article about another meaning was deleted at AfD in 2007, and searching shows all kinds of uses dating back at least to 1989.

The article says Blockstack is the "first implementation that provides DNS and Public key infrastructure for the hypernet", although the only reference in that article is a link back to this one, and I do not find the term "Hypernet" in any of the references to the Blockstack article. The article author declares on his user page that he is an employee of Blockstack Labs.

We should not have an article about a particular definition of the term until (a) it appears that that definition has achieved general acceptance, and (b) there is enough independent comment about it to satisfy WP:No original research, WP:Notability and WP:NEO. JohnCD (talk) 20:16, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. JohnCD (talk) 20:20, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete For the reasons above and put in much better terms than I could. -- HighKing ++ 12:53, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 00:02, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Google News and Books searches seem to show that "Hypernet" is a neologism that has not caught on. A few uses as in this article for "next generation Internet", also used as a brand name for a couple things, also used in a science fiction series. Only a handful of instances altogether. Borock (talk) 13:55, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:46, 10 August 2016 (UTC)


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