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This page was proposed for deletion by Zxcvbnm (talk · contribs) on 4 May 2022 with the comment: Entire article seems like original research, no sources presented. It was contested by Kvng (talk · contribs) on 2022-05-06 with the comment: I've added a ref supporting the fact that there's a non-technical meaning. Article definitely needs improvement maybe even should be merged somewhere. Deletion is not the best way to address this. |
The White noise page is entirely technical. Merging the slang artical with it would be/look odd and effectively bury it in "white noise" so to speak. The only problem is the articals length but I can't think of anywhere appropriate to merge it. Wayne 15:47, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
This article should indeed be merged with the technical article. This is not really a different sense of the term; it is a metaphoric use of the technical term, understood as "random signal without meaning".
Metaphoric usage of a term normally does not get a separate article, only a brief note in the primary article. Thus one does not have a separate article for "whale used to refer to a fat person", "peanuts used to refer to unimportant things", etc..
A use is metaphorical when speaker and listener understand the metaphor because they know the original meaning. It becomes slang, jargon o rnew language only when its new meaning is no longer dependent on knowledge of the old one, and must be learned (or inferred from the context). This is clearly not the case here: watchers understood Shipman's comment because, and only because, they knew the technical/musical sense.
There is now a sentence in the head section of White noise that notes the metaphorical usage and says everything that this article says, including the references.
All the best, --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 05:24, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
The term is reminiscent of hype or more plainly, diversion. Still, in our media age, it seems like the perfect phrase to describe what we all experience. Barkmoss (talk) 22:14, 14 March 2008 (UTC)