Talk:Internet cafe
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[edit] POV statements
Moved POV statements to talk:
- Today they are just as likely to be hangouts for teenage boys, places for the homeless to send email, or old ladies to research their family history.
- Internet cafes will always exist, as they can provide community access with a broader range or more advanced technology than the average home user (faster internet connection, the latest machines, more advanced printers etc). While launderettes have largely disappeared, drycleaning facilities have not!
-Montréalais 02:31, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Proposed move
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the debate was no consensus, although I'd personally agree with the move. —Nightstallion (?) Seen this already? 20:01, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Article name
Should this article be moved to Internet café (with an accent above the "e")? That seems more correct to me. Coffee 01:25, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose move --Philip Baird Shearer 02:21, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
- Support. So far as I'm aware, there's a difference between "e" and "é", although I'm not sure about the
USU.S. Fortunately, redirection should take care of keyboard layout differences etc. David Kernow 08:08, 11 April 2006 (UTC) - Oppose move. Jonathunder 13:06, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
- Support Move there's a difference with the letters "e" and "é" The League of Crazy Men 16:07, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
- I know it's too late but I Support Move: café is the correct spelling in English. Otherwise a reader would pronounce the word "Kay-f" not "Kaf-ay". There is a tendency for some editors to despise anything foreign being in Wikipedia articles. But "é" does have a history of being used in the English language. Kyle sb 06:45, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Move the article describes a LAN gaming center much better than an internet cafe, and would be a better fit being merged with that article instead.Enigmar 00:57, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
- I know I am too late, but I support the move.Cameron Nedland 14:32, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] E-corner.
The caption in the picture of E-corner claims it as the first internet cafe. No date is given in the caption or the article proper, however. This is very confusing. Waverly Station has no mention of it in its history section either... -- Cimon Avaro; on a pogostick. 15:32, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] External Links
One of you recently said I cannot place my internet cafe as an external link. You are wrong; Wikipedia is about resources, just because I did not make the first internet cafe ever does not prohibit my right to make it accessible to the visitors in my locality.
Ragnarev 21:57, 7 January 2007 (UTC) Ragnarev
- You seem to be under a misapprehension. Wikipedia is about encyclopedic information, not resources.
- There is no right to use Wikipedia to let people know about your Internet cafe or any other business. Please see the following applicable policies and guidelines: Wikipedia is not a directory, Spam guideline, conflict of interest guideline, and the external links guideline. Which, among other things, in various ways say - we're not here to link to every instance of a subject in the outside world or on the Internet, and you should not add links to sites you are connected with directly to the article. -- Siobhan Hansa 03:00, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
- Editor Siobhan Hansa is exactly right. In fact, users can be, and often are, blocked from editing for continuing to add inappropriate external links. -- Satori Son 16:06, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
- Not only that, but persistent spammers get their sites globally blacklisted -- see the current list of proposed additions. Depending on which black hat rumor sites you read, some of the big search engines may or may not be using our blacklist as a human-vetted input in identifying spamdexing sites for their own blacklists. (Interesting rumor but I don't know if it's true.) --A. B. (talk) 05:04, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
- Editor Siobhan Hansa is exactly right. In fact, users can be, and often are, blocked from editing for continuing to add inappropriate external links. -- Satori Son 16:06, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
