Talk:Internet café

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Contents 1 POV statements 2 Proposed move 3 Article name 4 E-corner. 5 External Links 6 Notable internet cafes in the Philippines 7 Korea not included? 8 Pictures of more cafes 9 change to internet cafe with a ' 10 Japan not included 11 Original research

[edit] POV statements

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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

• 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)

I heard about some Cybercafé guide that list all GNU/Unix friendly places , do you know the url ? it will be good to mention ? --RzR 20:00, 10 August 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)

• Oppose Move because Internet Cafe is very generic & global name, there are so many names used by many countries and langguages that mean 'Internet Cafe' for instance in Indonesian langguage, we called 'Warnet' , in Latin America, it is called 'Cabin' , Korea 'PC Bang' etc. It is better to make a reference and cross reference between these many nickname or name that described by different countries and langguage to 'Internet Cafe', rather than to merge it here. By the way, In Indonesia, there are 13 different names that means 'warnet' or Internet Cafe --Rusdiah 01:29, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose Move As above - Internet cafe is already a generic name in itself. A cross reference would make more sense. --T3Smile

[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)

[edit] Notable internet cafes in the Philippines

There are quite a number of internet cafes in the Philippines. Among all those, the most notable ones are the chain shops of Netopia and Mail & More. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 61.9.126.41 (talk) 10:10, 8 April 2007 (UTC).AFASFASFASFAF

Thats cool, but I need something - an article in paper etc. to prove notability. refer to ^demon and the wikiwar that erupted when wales put up a popular food place in south africa and it got G4 deleted. Just need something to prove not only its existence, but its significance and popularity. thanks in advance to providing more info on it, will make the article look better. --T3Smile 15:33, 18 October 2007 (UTC) we all do something......................

[edit] Korea not included?

Why is South Korea not included in the country list? Ive been to both countries Japan, and Korea. It just so happens that Internet cafe's are VERY VERY popular in Korea, and not so popular in Japan. One example is that more than 230,000 koreans play starcraft in internet cafe's, not to mention 500,000 people go to internet cafe's in korea daily. For now, I am adding Korea to the countries.

It is in PC Bang. -- Ficell 11:19, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pictures of more cafes

Dear all, I'd like to see more pics of cafes, in particular the yahoo nominated ones if they still exist as per their media release. If you don't know how/where it can fit, drop it in this discussion page and leave me a msg in my talk page and I can do the cross referencing to comply. Looking forward to your input on this. T. --T3Smile 15:30, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

• Hi there T, I think most of those cafes mentioned in that Yahoo article have gone bust, or have very little presence on the internet anymore. Quite interesting really, the cafes with notoriety on the yahoo finalist list have - well, no real presence on the internet! The o3 cafe content is great, but it would be great if we could get more cafe pictures as you have mentioned. Hoping we can get more involvement with this from others. Cheers! --Rdpaperclip 07:15, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

• T3Smile (talk • contribs • logs) and Rdpaperclip (talk • contribs • logs) - Blocked as sockpuppets. See SSP Achidiac -- Jreferee t/c 15:51, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] change to internet cafe with a '

A fine wiki admin person moved internet cafe to internet café and redirected internet cafe to it. I think it is a great move, and thank Anthony for doing so. If anyone has a problem with it, please note your thoughts below, but I think its a good move for correctness. cheers! --Rdpaperclip 07:12, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

• • T3Smile (talk • contribs • logs) and ((User3|Rdpaperclip}} - Blocked as sockpuppets. See SSP Achidiac -- Jreferee t/c 15:52, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Japan not included

There is a unique situation in Japan where Internet Cafes double as extremely cheap hotels. Some people are living at Internet Cafes. It's an issue that has been recieving more and more attention in the newspaper. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 126.112.64.174 (talk) 08:44, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Original research

I added the original research template this page mainly because of the evolution section. While I believe that an evolution section would be beneficial; it is not in its current state. If sources could be provided it would be excellent. TonyBallioni 19:59, 1 December 2007 (UTC)