Talk:White pages

message: seeing that this article is about white pages not telephone directory wouldnt it be more appropriat to only add countries' phone books that are white pages.
I hope that makes sence i couldnt think of another way of wording it
Cheers Beaver 23:29, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  countries with white pages 

message: The inclusion of WikiContent under the "See Also" heading seems kind of strange.  WikiContent.org currently has about 20 names in its database -- not really feasible for use as white pages.  Would anyone object to me removing it? 72.74.234.151 14:24, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiContent? 

message: An anon user / group of users has been consistently posting links under the USA section that are either: a) owned by one certain company, or b) contain premium pay search service provided by that same certain company.  The same user is also reverting undos of the links from the same company.  Based on the current set of links, here is the evidence:
Posted site link                                                                                                                                                	Nameserver                                            	Mailhost                                                  	Apparent site owner
http://www.addresses.com/                                                                                                                                       	NS1.INTELIUS.COM, NS2.INTELIUS.COM, NS3.INTELIUS.COM  	mail.intelius.com, mail2.intelius.com, mail3.intelius.com 	Intelius
http://www.iaf.net/                                                                                                                                             	NS1.INTELIUS.COM, NS2.INTELIUS.COM, NS3.INTELIUS.COM  	mail.intelius.com                                         	Intelius
http://www.infospace.com/                                                                                                                                       	NS1.INTELIUS.COM, NS2.INTELIUS.COM, NS3.INTELIUS.COM  	mail2.infospace.com, mail1.infospace.com                  	Intelius
http://www.switchboard.com/                                                                                                                                     	NS.INFOSPACE.COM, NS2.INFOSPACE.COM, NS3.INFOSPACE.COM	mail1.infospace.com                                       	Intelius
http://www.anywho.com/ (See "Advanced People Search" form in top banner, all points to Intelius.com)                                                            	NS1.INTELIUS.COM, NS2.INTELIUS.COM, NS3.INTELIUS.COM  	mail1.intelius.com, mail3.intelius.com, mail2.intelius.com	Intelius
http://people.yahoo.com/ (See search form labeled "Premium Search – includes unlisted & cell phone numbers" at bottom of page - all links point to Intelius.com)	NS1.INTELIUS.COM, NS2.INTELIUS.COM, NS3.INTELIUS.COM  	mail1.intelius.com, mail3.intelius.com, mail2.intelius.com	Intelius
http://www.msn.intelius.com/ Apparently this link is broken, but as you can see, it's a subdomain of Intellius.com.                                             	NS1.INTELIUS.COM, NS2.INTELIUS.COM, NS3.INTELIUS.COM  	mail1.intelius.com, mail3.intelius.com, mail2.intelius.com	Intelius
All of the sites share one set of nameservers and mailservers.  As far as I can tell, intelius.com is not an ISP, which rules out sheer coincidence that they all just happen to have the exact same hosting parameters.  According to their corporate website, Intelius is in the business of selling people white/yellow pages information online.
This is a conflict of interest, and it's also using Wikipedia as a linkfarm (as noted by editor User:Ronz.)  *Busted*.
To the folks who insist on using Wikipedia as a linkfarm, and in clear violation of WP:COI (and I'm sure some other policies): stop spamming.  --plausible_deniability UTC 06:25 08-Jan-02  —Preceding comment was added at 05:38, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I suggest stubbing article, and removing all the external links (including the single reference).  An inclusion criteria for this list needs to be decided upon, but first the edit-warring needs to be brought under control.  See WP:LIST for further discussion on lists and inclusion criteria.  The normal inclusion criteria is to only include list entries that have their own articles.  Because we don't have any such entries, I think stubbing is the only immediate solution. --Ronz (talk) 17:36, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Linkfarming on White_Pages 

message: By "stubbing" I mean to trim back an article to a WP:STUB, including adding Template:Stub.  Specifically, I'm suggesting that all the external links be removed, which would just leave the few sentences before the "By country section".  The categories and foreign language links should be kept also.
I'm going to wait another 24 hours or so to see if anyone responds. --Ronz (talk) 16:36, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. --Ronz (talk) 17:43, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Stub?

message: The page says "white pages" is ambiguous, but I don't believe it. I've never heard of it used for whois searches. This disambiguation page should be deleted. Unfree (talk) 17:43, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Nonsense!

message: I redirected this dab page to Telephone directory because this really seems to be the primary meaning. – sgeureka t•c 18:22, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Telephone directory]]