Talk:Smartphones and pedestrian safety

Mergers

Suggested merging with Mobile phone overuse seconded. Air ♠ Combat _What's^{up, dog?} 18:38, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

• Support Redirect and merge. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 03:52, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

• The merge template has been removed in favour of a discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Smartphone zombies. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:15, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

• The result of that discussion was to keep the topic. Andrew D. (talk) 10:19, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

• The page smombie has been merged into this one. Andrew D. (talk) 10:19, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Drivers arent in this scope ?

Citation from the text:

...is a pedestrian who walks slowly and without attention to their surroundings...

Where should we put drivers ? --PetarM (talk) 09:31, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

Prevalence

In 2014, China had over five hundred million smartphone users and more than half of them have a phone addiction.

This, particularly the "more than half of them have a phone addiction" part, doesn't seem to be mentioned in the two articles referenced further. Defanor (talk) 22:10, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

I've removed the statement as it was previously tagged as needing a citation, is dubious, and unsupported by the references following. Thanks for bringing it up, though in the future consider being bold. Opencooper (talk) 04:26, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Title

Now the deletion discussion has been closed, I suggest to recognise that this term is predominantly used in other languages than English, and that it is pejorative according to the writer of the book Netymology (who is currently cited in his BBC article) that we retitle the page.
Smartphones and pedestrians
Smartphones and traffic
Smartphone overuse and traffic
Overuse of smartphones by pedestrians
Any other suggestions welcome. This is not the zombie apocalypse. Sure it was word of the year in Germany. But they can have that on their language wikipedia. I do not think we need to have it here. E.3 (talk) 12:23, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Even if we were to follow German wikis lead and title it Smombie that would be more acceptable to me. But I think it should be one of the above. This is not an English neoglosm, and its continued use encyclopaedically is perjorative to many people, breaking the policies of WP:NOTCLICKBAIT on English Wikipedia. E.3 (talk) 12:29, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Just clicking on the news links shows us that 1. The use of "smartphone zombie" is decreasing. There have been no major edits to even the German page for a few years. Every time it is used in the news, it is for a country where the predominant language is not English. So I'll wait for comments for three days, but due to disinterest in this and related articles in the past, I'll change the title to overuse of smartphones by pedestrians and edit appropriately if no discussion. E.3 (talk) 12:49, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

• Oppose The term jaywalker is somewhat pejorative too but this is to be expected for a habit that is somewhat careless and dangerous. When I google "Smartphones and pedestrians", I get just 69 hits whereas "smartphone zombie" gives 29,300. We should stick with the more common name. Andrew D. (talk) 13:21, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

• Support a move to "Use of smartphones by pedestrians", "overuse" seems unnecessary when it only takes a moment for an otherwise conscientious phone user to trip over a curb. With its context about road accidents and street design technology, this article focus is broader than the somewhat dated pejorative. --Lord Belbury (talk) 11:47, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

Requested move 25 January 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved (non-admin closure) ❯❯❯ Raydann^(Talk) 14:03, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

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Smartphone zombie → Smartphones and pedestrian safety – Formal move discussion per the section above. The pejorative term "smartphone zombie" has declined in the past decade, and the article talks neutrally about street design. Similar articles are titled Mobile phones and driving safety and Texting while driving rather than using a slang term. Belbury (talk) 13:36, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

• Support absolutely. In ictu oculi (talk) 09:45, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.