Talk:Community Of Interest

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[edit] Breadth of term

This term is much more broad than that identified here ("a means by which network assets and or network users are segregated by some technological means for some established purpose"). Can someone expand this to capture the broader range or perhaps create a disambiguation page? In my prifession, a COI is used to mean people with a similar professional interest (e.g. environmental communicators). Thanks, Hu Gadarn 04:39, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments. Actually the article describes "How" users are technically segeregated into logical groups. The segregation can happen along many different lines including putting users with similar professional interests into groupings; including what mentioned above. FrankWilliams 12:20, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please merge the two articles on Communities of interest

The two articles describe different definitions of the term 'Community of Interest': One describes the rather technichal term used in the field of Computer Security (capitalized: Community_Of_Interest), the other describes what is understood as a type of Virtual Community (only the first word is capitalized: Community_of_interest)

Why I do beleive that this should be one article instead of two (that would still need _way_ more clarification and cross-linking): Because the terms are so closely related! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.102.117.64 (talk) 18:01, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

• Do not merge — These are completely distinct meanings, one of which (this page) has a formal definition. If necessary for avoiding confusion, I might suggest renaming the articles. — Ryan McDaniel (talk) 19:36, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

• Do not merge — These two articles only share a common name. They have nothing to do with each other. This is so evident; I can't believe anyone would even suggest this. 206.125.176.3 (talk) 14:17, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

• Do not merge — You may want an disambiguation page, but don't merge the articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.170.188.43 (talk) 13:55, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

• Do not merge — There is already a disambiguation page for COI. I've deleted the proposal as this seems fairly unanimous. NathanielPoe (talk) 19:45, 12 May 2008 (UTC)