Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mobile phone industry in the United States


 * 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 delete. Liz Read! Talk! 04:18, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Mobile phone industry in the United States

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The entire article could be deleted as the material in it is found elsewhere in other WP articles. This article consists mostly of grossly incomplete (and inaccurate) lists of US mobile phone companies and phone manufacturers. Those lists already exist much more complete and up-to-date in other articles. There is really no text to speak of, about the US cell phone industry, other than a single reference to the FCC. This article has been in need of expansion (and is so tagged) since 2010. I just tried editing it and expanding the lists, but it seems a redundant endeavor. Propose this article for deletion. 107.115.33.8 (talk) 20:38, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 02:13, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment Completing nomination on behalf of IP editor--above text is copypasted from the article talk page.  I haven't looked deep enough into this myself to offer up a !vote, but the reasoning seems sound. --Finngall talk  02:10, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep: although I agree the article is in poor shape and can be improved, the topic is certainly notable, meets the WP:GNG, and seems like a reasonable split from Mobile phone, along with similar articles on China, Japan, Russia, Pakistan, and others. Deletion is not cleanup. I can see tons of academic papers, books, and newspaper articles covering this topic from the 1980s to present. Not seeing a need for WP:TNT here. —Ganesha811 (talk) 19:15, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Technology and United States of America. — hueman1 ( talk  •  contributions ) 02:35, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Merge to Tele communications in the United States Andre🚐 03:09, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment Andre, that is a redirect page so it wouldn't be a good merge target page. Liz Read! Talk! 05:29, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Good point. Fixed. Andre🚐 05:30, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
 * While that article lacks references as well as adequate substance for such a far-reaching topic, it's funny that the sole section on "wireless" contains only a backlink to THIS article as the "main" article. Hardly "main". Seems to me the article you suggest could also be DELETED.


 * As a furtherance of this, why is that article called "Communications in the US" rather than "Telecommunications in the US"? Methinks there is another more extensive article that THAT article could be merged into.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 01:23, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Merge is probably the wrong need for BOTH articles, as I suspect that all the material in them is redundant. Low or no content, irrelevant, unreferenced, found elsewhere: these characteristics make any article a candidate for deletion, possibly speedy. 107.122.85.10 (talk) 18:29, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Relisting comment: Final relist. It's ironic that there is no consensus as the article is very brief and just has links to other articles. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 02:37, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. This could easily be a Speedy Deletion. The entirety of content consists of two somewhat irrelevant statements about the FCC and Qualcomm, identifying them and not saying anything of importance, an overly long paragraph on the British vs American terms mobile phone vs cell phone, which seems out of place here, and a couple links to other articles. There are no references/citations at all in the entire article. This appears less than a stub. It should have been speedy-deleted years ago. 107.122.85.10 (talk) 18:10, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Delete per WP:TNT. Possible speedy delete candidate per WP:A3. The article doesn't actually have any content on the "mobile phone industry in the United States". The only content in the article is about British versus American English which has really nothing to do with topic. Could there be an article at this page? Yes. But does the current article serve any useful purpose (such as navigation) or provide any meaningful content on the topic? No. We could have an article here, but not like this.4meter4 (talk) 15:03, 29 October 2022 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it.</b> 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.