Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Page hijacking


 * 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 Phishing. (non-admin closure) Kichu🐘 Need any help? 00:57, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Page hijacking

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This article basically describes Phishing, except with no sources. When I search for "Page hijacking" I get a bunch of blog-spam articles which in my opinion don't meet criteria for reliable sources. All of the uses of this term seem to refer to Phishing, which is a notable subject. Therefore I propose deletion of this page with and redirect to Phishing. See prior discussion above. Talk:Page_hijacking contains earlier proposal to merge Page hijacking into Phishing, but I don't see what can possibly be carried over during the merge. I propose creating a redirect to Phishing without any edits to Phishing article itself. Anton.bersh (talk) 09:43, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 11:44, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 11:44, 7 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete or merge to Phishing. I've heard page hijacking exists, but it seems to be a type of phishing, and there's clearly not enough information on it for its own article. AdoTang (talk) 14:37, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep There are a variety of techniques including Pharming and Domain hijacking. What the page in question is currently talking about is hacking a website to add some malware or misinformation to it so that visitors are exposed or misled.  This is a real and significant threat.  It would be quite ironic if we were to overwrite this page with a link to another, less relevant page. Andrew🐉(talk) 10:29, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Both Page hijacking and Pharming look like marketing neologisms. Both articles have very few low-quality sources (multiple cited sources are outright dead, I'll try to rescue them). Please note the section Pharming. Anton.bersh (talk) 11:15, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete: per nom, this is a phishing technique, already covered at Phishing. No idea why this has been de-proded. CommanderWaterford (talk) 10:18, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Merge to Phishing: Per AdoTang. It's best to discuss it in the target article. ASTIG😎  (ICE T • ICE CUBE) 16:00, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   08:11, 15 April 2021 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  MBisanz  talk 17:14, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Merge Seems to be a particular type of phishing. Reywas92Talk 18:34, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Merge or Redirect to Phishing. CanadianOtaku  Talk Page 06:09, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Merge or Redirect to Phishing, per nom. JackFromWisconsin (talk &#124; contribs) 14:29, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment - Just a comment for now to say that it's not a type of phishing. Phishing is a common goal of using this technique. This has also been done to redirect legitimate traffic to ad-stuffed garbage pages or affiliate links or otherwise serving a monetary purpose other than phishing. Other times it could be to troll or manipulate a website or its users. To be clear, a merge/redirect may make sense here. Phishing has hcertainly become a common reason for this, and one which receives a lot of coverage. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 23:01, 28 April 2021 (UTC)


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