Talk:Phone tree

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"phone tree" has at least one other common meaning, a tree of a group of people for notifying of/during emergencies where each person has a list of a few people they are supposed to call, and each of them has such a list as well, eventually covering the entire group so that anyone in the group can start a notification of an emergency, and everyone will be notified. A few citations from the first page of Google results for define phone tree:

• https://www.callmultiplier.com/glossary/phone-tree
• https://www.aauw.org/resource/how-to-build-a-phone-tree/
• https://searchdisasterrecovery.techtarget.com/definition/Call-tree
• https://www.boltinsurance.com/what-is-a-crisis-phone-tree-and-why-you-need-one/
• https://www.onecallnow.com/how-it-works/phone-calling-tree/

There are quantitatively and qualitatively similar enough results for both meanings of "phone tree" that the phone tree redirect should be changed to a disambiguation page instead, that links to the existing Automated attendant page as well as a new stub page for this additional common meaning, perhaps something like Phone tree (people). — Tantek (talk) 20:57, 2 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Existing Wikipedia pages for the people meaning of phone tree:

• German: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefonkette