Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Social hardware


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The result was   delete. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 00:36, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Social hardware

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With so much discussion of social software, it seems inevitable that the phrase "social hardware" would show up in a variety of contexts, and it does - a Google search shows 20,000 results. Still, there seems to be no standard meaning at all to this phrase - it seems to have been used at different times to refer to any communications device, like writing instruments, or to electronic systems like telephones and televisions, or to cellphones with social-networking features like Facebook apps, or even (according to the article) to currency like bills and coins. Other than one mention in what sounds like an obscure academic book, I see no evidence that this phrase has a defined meaning that has had notable usage. Yaron K. (talk) 03:34, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete "The term Social Hardware appears, perhaps for the first time, in a 1979 book by Johnston and Gummet" This looks very suspiciously like original research to me. I think this is a term for Wiktionary, not a Wikipedia article; compare Pig in a poke (a pseudorandomly selected phrase whose article should belong on Wikipedia). -- Carbon Rodney 06:57, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 13:49, 9 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete This seems to want to treat something like a church as if it were a Facebook app. This is WP:RECENTISM and is done better in articles such as Human ecology. Warden (talk) 14:28, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete "The term has entered popular use..." oh, no it hasn't. Notability not established. A lot of it reads like original research. Tigerboy1966 (talk) 17:28, 9 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete A Wiki-invention by and large. History2007 (talk) 15:19, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.