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What is the significance of the statement "In Oman, there is a pop song based on missed calls." in relation to this topic? Micmac95 ( talk) 11:44, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
"A missed call is a telephone call that is deliberately terminated by the caller before being answered by its intended recipient, appearing as a 'missed call' on the receiver's cellphone."
Since when has this been the definition? In my experience a missed call is any phone call that is terminated without being answered by the callee, whether it was deliberate on anybody's part or not. OK, so to "give [someone] a missed call" is to make a call to someone and then hang up without them answering. But if the caller actually intended to speak to the callee but the callee wasn't there to answer the phone, that is more accurately a missed call. Of course, handsets have no way of knowing for certain whether
so they use the term "missed call" for all four scenarios.
On another note, I'm surprised to see no mention of what is probably the most common purpose of the first of these types in my experience: a way of giving somebody your number. Is this because the people who write these articles think this use case is common knowledge and so don't bother mentioning it? — Smjg ( talk) 16:18, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
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The practice is referred to as beeping in some part of Africa, flashing in Nigeria, and a miskol in the Philippines.- It should be "...some parts of Africa...". Incidentally, should there be a specific section or paragraph in the body referring to the different names for a missed call? In the section "Justification and impact", there is the text
Also in 2007, "miskol", a Tagalog loanword for "miss call", which seems related.
More later. epicgenius ( talk) 02:15, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
Justification and impact
In emerging markets, prepaid mobile phone services are popular due to their relatively lower cost in comparison to post-paid services; in India, at least 90% of all cellular phone users are on prepaid services.- This is a very long sentence. I think the semicolon should be changed to a period.
relatively lower cost- One of the first two words is redundant. It is either a lower cost or a relatively low cost.
in India, at least 90% of all cellular phone users are on prepaid services- Since this is an example, you should denote as such.
feature phones- Many people know this as a "dumb phone" but in the context of the article, it's unclear. Arguably, the image shows an example of a feature phone, but what sets this off from smartphones? Why is this important in the context of a missed call?
Missed calls also lack a language barrier- This is awkward, since calls in themselves don't have languages, they convey languages. How about "Missed calls also bypass language barriers"?
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode professor of marketing management Keyoor Purani- Is mentioning this person's name important? If not, we can just mention the professor's institute and specialty.
in countries where it is common- Grammatically, "it" may refer to cellular service or missed calls. You should clarify that this refers to missed calls.
In August 2005 [...] In 2006 [...] In 2007 [...]- There are three consecutive sentences like this, which makes it seem like you are just converting a bullet-point timeline in prose. This is just an observation, not an actual thing you need to change.
Also in 2007, "miskol", a Tagalog loanword for "miss call", was declared the "word of the year"- including "Also" makes it sound like this should be appended to the previous paragraph, which it should not. How about something like '"Miskol", a Tagalog loanword for "miss call", was declared the 2007 "word of the year"'.
Use cases
Social usage
there are established norms for how missed calls are used, such as indicating who should call back with a voice call- "Such as indicating" should be "such as for indicating" because it fits in the grammatical structure of "missed calls are used ... for indicating who should call back with a voice call".
Despite the lack of established culture for missed calls in the United States, smartphone apps such as the Israeli-American startup Yo—a mobile messaging app which is only capable of sending the word "Yo" to other contacts, have been compared to the concept of missed calls- I'm assuming "a mobile [...] other contacts" is a parenthetical phrase. But you have a dash at the beginning and a comma at the end. You need to change one of these so that the punctuation matches.
Marketing and services
known as missed call marketing (MCM). Missed call marketing- Spelling the whole phrase out at the end of the sentence (albeit with abbreviation), then immediately starting a new sentence with the exact phrase is pretty repetitive. However, the first sentence of the section's first paragraph is already a run-on sentence. This is because "known as missed call marketing (MCM)" doesn't directly relate to the rest of the sentence because it is placed after the parenthetical phrase "especially within India". It would be even better to have the first mention of missed call marketing be in the second sentence, like this:
Missed calls have also been adopted as a method of permission marketing communications, especially within India. This method, known as missed call marketing (MCM), takes advantage of how phone services may offer unlimited incoming calls and text messaging ...etc.
automatically configured to automatically hang up- This is definitely repetitive. Remove one "automatically".
such as information, advertising (such as product information, offers, and sponsored celebrity messages), or other pre-recorded messages- Too many "such as"es make it awkward. This is already a list and you're putting another list in the middle. How about replacing "advertising" with the list of specific types of advertising, or integrating it into the main list like this: "such as information, product offers, sponsored celebrity messages, or other pre-recorded messages".
A number of vendors have emerged with a specific focus on providing solutions for MCM, including Flashcall, VivaConnect (who exclusively partnered with Facebook to offer missed call advertising units on the social networking service), and Zipdial- This is an awkwardly worded sentence because of the presence of the VivaConnect parenthetical. Consider rewording, condensing, or splitting.
Zipdial first achieved prominence during the 2010 Indian Premier League and 2011 Cricket World Cup, when it offered a service that texted news updates from the events to callers and collected demographic information. During the Indian anti-corruption movement, a Zipdial number advertised for pledging support for Anna Hazare's campaign received 4.5 million calls—significantly outpacing the amount of Facebook likes and Twitter retweets that posts relating to the campaign received online. Zipdial served over 415 million calls in its first three years of operation, and was acquired by Twitter in 2015 for a value reported to be between US$20-40 million- So the rest of the paragraph goes on a tangent about one specific MCM vendor. The way this page reads, it starts to devolve into a discussion of Zipdial and the benefits, and thus, falls short of meeting GA criterion 3B. Either clarify that this is an example, or add more information about the other vendors to balance the paragraph out.
as of 2015, it had achieved 200 million impressions, and also expanded to allow advertising from third-party companies that do not compete in Unilever product segments, as well as interactive features- The second sentence of the fourth paragraph is a run-on sentence, despite the presence of a semicolon, particularly due to the number of intermediate punctuation in that sentence. The part after the semicolon should be a new sentence.
some Indian banks allow customers to conduct services such as checking balances or money transfers by placing missed calls to designated numbers- Although grammatically correct, this is really cumbersome to read. The first sentence of the fifth paragraph should probably be two sentences because of this.
While Flashcall initially focused on offering its services in Pakistan and the United States- You have another "While" toward the end of the sentence, which makes it grammatically awkward. How about replacing the first "While" with "Although"?
High-end brands have also been hesitant to engage in MCM, perceiving the practice as inappropriate- This is probably grammatically incorrect and definitely awkward. This should be "since they perceive the practice as inappropriate".
As activism
In January 2013, a protest was organized against high mobile internet data rates in Bangladesh, in which protestors simultaneously exchanged millions of missed calls, aiming to overload the cellular network- So what happened afterward? Was it successful?
More later. epicgenius ( talk) 15:22, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
I will get back to the references by Monday. epicgenius ( talk) 05:36, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
References Now to the references, and I do realize it's Tuesday.
The references seem to support the cited material, so I don't have a problem with that.
Article title
Putting on hold for 7 days. epicgenius ( talk) 21:52, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
On 31 January 2016, Mann Ki Baat—the monthly radio address by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi,has unbalanced punctuation. There is an emdash to open the parenthetical phrase, and then a comma to close it. Either make them both commas, or both emdashes. epicgenius ( talk) 22:14, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
@ ViperSnake151: OK. Here are the things I still think need to be fixed:
Prepaid mobile phones are popular in emerging markets due to their lower cost in comparison to post-paid contracts;- This sentence should not end with a semicolon.
Missed call services are especially prominent in India, where they appeal to the country's cultural and economic environment;- This sentence is too long for just a semicolon.
In comparison, smartphones and mobile broadband are widely-available in the United States, and missed calls are not an established social practice.- This would work best at the end of the paragraph, not between two paragraphs about India.
widely-availabledoes not need a hyphen.
epicgenius ( talk) 23:50, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
|access-date=
is fine, but from what I've seen, references usually show both the access-date and |date=
if a date is provided, and the access-date on its own would only be used if no date is provided. Just my observation, though.As to your question about automating the filling-in of the URLs,
Help:Citation tools has a list of tools where you can fill in the URL and it gives you a properly formatted citation. I personally like
Citer and the VisualEditor citation tool.
epicgenius (
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01:29, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
I am surprised this article has no illustration ... certainly there are plenty of screenshot possibilities, and indeed it may not even be necessary to make one, or even a free equivalent, since some of the most commonly used, like the iPhone version, have no copyrightable elements (well, maybe the phone icon, but that's de minimis here) and could thus be free images by themselves. Daniel Case ( talk) 16:49, 24 March 2018 (UTC)