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Overview, History[edit]

The last 4 sentence of section #1 Overview appears to need editing. At the moment they are as follows:

Few companies who make many of the IMSCs in use in the GSM world are Miyowa, Followap and OZ. Other players include Acision, Colibria, Ericsson, Nokia, Comverse Technology, Now Wireless, Jinny Software, Miyowa, Feelingk and few others.

The term "Instant Messenger" is a service mark of Time Warner and may not be used in software not affiliated with AOL in the United States. For this reason, in April 2007, the instant messaging client formerly named Gaim (or gaim) announced that they would be renamed "Pidgin".

At a minimum the first should start "A few" and "few" deleted from the second but a more radical edit may be preferable.

Section # 2 History includes a chart "Release years of instant messengers" which lists 13 IMs but doesn't include some of the 50+ active IMs at https://allinone.im/messenger and https://www.lifewire.com/once-popular-old-instant-messaging-services-3486135 or all those mentioned in the article. Though section 8.3 has "Closed services and such with unclear activity" it would be useful to have a table including at least all IMs mentioned in the article with the years they were released, and closed where that's the case. Mcljlm (talk) 00:02, 24 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

RfC on 9to5Google as a source[edit]

There is an RfC at WP:RSN on reliability of 9to5Google as a source.[1] Only 3 opinions have been given in about 19 days. More would be appreciated. -- Yae4 (talk) 15:30, 27 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]