Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trash traffic
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- 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. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:52, 11 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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After searching, I can't find the term "trash traffic" anywhere, and "garbage traffic" was used by only one site (and it was a commercial one at that). Prof. Squirrel (talk) 23:07, 1 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 20:51, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - This article is really about click fraud. Normally, a redirect would be in order, but I am unable to find any evidence that this term is even minimally used that would justify a redirect. -- Whpq (talk) 20:52, 3 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - per Whpq. The topic at hand is already covered at another article, and as stated by both he and the Nom, there are no references to this term being used in any widespread manner, making a redirect pointless. Rorshacma (talk) 18:45, 8 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - The topic of the above nominated trash traffic article is about online advertising traffic visitors and I did not find any reference that call people/bots incentivized to click "trash traffic" as claimed in the trash traffic article. Clicks and sales resulting from click through are different, so the article seems to have been written from the hip. Trash traffic generally means amount/flow of garbage trucks passing a home or amount of garbage dumped into a dump (trash traffic at the landfill of 788,000 tons a year).[1] Trash traffic (air traffic control) is a neologism that refers to "an ever-changing mix of general aviation, flight training, corporate, military, and regional air carriers" disliked by larger airports.[2] Trash traffic (website) occurs when an Internet user "keys in a non-existent Web address as a result of a typing error, bad guess or amateurish mistake."[1][2]
- Either someone can use these two references to rewrite the article from scratch as Trash traffic (website) or delete. Redirect to web traffic would be fine as well. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 15:33, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- ^ NickWingfield (September 5, 2003). "Internet Companies See Value In Misaddressed Web Traffic". Wall Street Journal. p. B1. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
{{cite news}}:|section=ignored (help) - ^ Andrea Caumont (January 31, 2005). "Broken Links Lined With Gold for Paxfire". Washington Post. p. E5. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
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