Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/BYOA (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete. Star Mississippi 14:12, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

BYOA

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There was a AfD discussion many years back but no apparent improvement to the page since then. There have been no refs on the page since 2007 and it is hard to find any mention of the title at all. More recently BYOA has been applied to a different (generally related) topic Bring your own application. At best the title needs clarifying, but I suspect term was never really widely used in a way that would be recognised by significant RS. JMWt (talk) 15:56, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Computing and Internet. JMWt (talk) 15:56, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Finding lots of mentions but feels like we might be in
WP:DICDEF land. ■ ∃ Madeline ⇔ ∃ Part of me ; 22:04, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply
]

~~Redirect to~~ ~~Bring your own device~~, which is much more broader, up to date and sensible about this topic (if a device needs a separate wireless access card these days it is an incredible outlier). Nate • (chatter) 23:37, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think that's an appropriate target. Per most of the sources I saw on this, BYOA means that the net connection is sold separate from the product accessed over the net. Many sources talked about AOL's change where you no longer needed an AOL internet connection to use the AOL web portal. So I don't think this has much to do with bring your own device. ■ ∃ Madeline ⇔ ∃ Part of me ; 00:00, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oh mannn, now I remember, that was a long time ago when BYOA was popular (when I first moved to a regular ISP but still kept my AOL hookup). I'm going to do more research and right now I'm neutral. Nate • (chatter) 00:03, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:05, 10 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Not soft eligible, some input would be nice
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Star Mississippi 01:55, 18 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Per
WP:NOTDIC. Additionally, a google search returned with mostly definitions. Furthermore, the article is unsourced. Lightoil (talk) 03:22, 18 March 2023 (UTC)[reply
]

Delete: It is looking like
talk) 02:15, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply
]

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