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The result was delete. Spartaz ^Humbug! 15:40, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Billboarding[edit]

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Unsourced and largely unchanged since 2003 (!). I can't find any references that use this term, and only a few minor references to billboard sabotage in general [1] or Abbey's promotion of it. power~enwiki (π, ν) 21:31, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Advertising-related deletion discussions. samee converse 21:33, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Environment-related deletion discussions. samee converse 21:33, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Billboard hacking, which has a lot more sources and stronger examples than 'I remember in 1950 when this happened in ABQ'. Some merging of info (what little there is) can also be considered. Nate • (chatter) 22:30, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect in line with Nate. As well as there being almost nothing to this article it verges on the incomprehensible. It doesn't add anything new to billboard hacking with covers all mentioned areas, so quality-aside, there is no reason for a merge. Nosebagbear (talk) 11:01, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect It add little to the billboard hacking article. Tagged as unsourced since 2009! Edison (talk) 22:56, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete this completely unsourced article as per nom. DO NOT REDIRECT. A Proquest news archive search on this term turns up copious usage of the word "billboarding." It most commonly seems to mean promoting, as in: " As might be expected, public television is billboarding Milton Berle's appearance...". Search also produces this use "a specific newspaper report being sponsored by a self-interested advertiser might seem odd, but advertisers increasingly are sponsoring specific segments of local television news broadcasts in a practice known as 'billboarding.'" But no hits in the first several pages of the search on a usage resembling billboard hacking. Typical sentences found in that search :"Even through education, with adverts billboarding the tobacco industry's campaigning for its survival how can we manage to fight such an aggressive advertising campaign?;" "a current inventory of six balloons and five pilots... serving commercial accounts with promotional or billboarding flights."; "distilling and billboarding the city's essence as he saw it...": "loosely enough to allow extensive billboarding on most of the US' highways". A REDIRECT will MISDIRECT our users because although billboard hacking]] is a real thing. the world "billboarding" means many things (book searches also show use in computer programming) , this word is not in general use to mean "billboard hacking." E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:35, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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