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The result was redirect to micropayment. Mr.Z-man 03:36, 26 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Microtipping[edit]

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This is unreferenced and I cannot find sources sufficient to meet WP:GNG. Tchaliburton (talk) 06:58, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:30, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:30, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge and redirect to Digital currency. This seems to be a fairly popular phenomenon involving digital currency. While it is relatively new, which would make it harder to search engines to index, that doesn't mean it's not notable. According to this source one company reports that 10,000 transactions daily of this type, which are 1/6th of the total volume of transactions. Also, there doesn't seem to be a shortage of Google results (I see ~170K results for 'microtipping'). Granted most results are not WP:Reliable, there is plenty of precedent for ignoring that policy in the case of relatively new phenomenon. While perhaps not quite firm enough for it's own article yet, I think it's worth a redirect. —CodeHydro 15:32, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge per Codehydro. Another possible target is Micropayment, which is a much more commonly used word. Bearian (talk) 21:55, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Object Proposed Deletion Re. Codehydro and Bearian proposal to Merge and redirect to Digital currency or Micropayment. As pointed out Microtipping is a burgeoning phenomena. As such, I initially created the standalone article to provide microtippers the ability to factually define the act of "microtipping", going-forward. It was only flagged in the first place because I referenced two microtipping services; which was interpreted as G11. Unambiguous advertising or promotion. Perhaps a Digital currency redirect would suffice, however, in my personal belief, does this topic an injustice by belittling its importance on the internet. Micropayments differer from Microtipping by the nature of its senders' intention. The act of sending a micropayment involves its receiver providing goods and/or services in return for said payment. Microtipping is purely a gratuitious act, in which one expects nothing in return. One may argue that Microtipping is a form of Micropayments. Please feel free make edits as you see fit. Vwm3nelson (talk) 21:57, 11 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to micropayment. When the day occurs that even 0.1% of internet users have micro tipped, then we have a phenomenon worth its own independent entry. Until then, ballyhoo about this "burgeoning phenomena" sounds like typical Internet 3.0 marketspeak, when the phenomenon is an actual everyday common event, it will get its own entry.-Augustabreeze (talk) 12:57, 19 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to micropayment. According to this article in the Christian Science Monitor, it's apparently a real thing. However, this article in Fortune seems to indicate that there really isn't much difference. Maybe the intention is different, but I can't really seem to care. From my searches, it looks like the bitcoin community itself is the one pushing to distinguish the two terms. That's fine, but Wikipedia isn't the place to export this soapboxing. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 03:22, 20 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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