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The result was delete. Article can be restored (just ask) and merged at editorial discretion. Regards, Arbitrarily0 (talk) 21:18, 17 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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More of a personal essay or a HOWTO guide. Sources do not use the term. W Nowicki (talk) 17:56, 20 August 2011 (UTC) I would add that a sentence or two in encyclopedic language and cited reliable sources might be appropriate for the main Internet access article, but not much can be merged. The New York Times article for example is from 2002, and really discusses mesh wireless networks of that time, not using the word "free". W Nowicki (talk) 18:04, 20 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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- It also seems the original editor removed the deletion notice from the article. (Since restored; thanks, I did not want to be accused of an edit war) W Nowicki (talk) 16:46, 21 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete or Merge into Internet.
I presume either will lead us to the same final result.Wireless community network shows more promise. Having a working Free Internet link might be a good SEO for WP :) --Kvng (talk) 02:11, 25 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect would be reasonable, perhaps. I would add other appropriate articles that could be beefed up: Piggybacking (Internet access), Municipal wireless network, and Wireless mesh network. In particular, the reliable sources cited include the NYT article which never uses "Free Internet" but is only about mesh, and source 4 never uses "Free Internet" either and is about wireless community nets. Wired nets could belong to, say, Ethernet in the first mile which has a bit about the FIberhood effort for example. Of course "free" is an odd term, since someone pays. There is also NetZero I suppose which tried to support internet access unpaid by acessors with advertising. That is what I thought this would refer to. W Nowicki (talk) 18:10, 25 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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