Talk:Fire alarm notification appliance
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[edit] "Common problems" section
Currently, the "Common problems" section reads like a technical manual, and is a big jump from the rest of the article. I don't know if it needs to be transwiki'd, rewritten, or just plain old tossed out. Thoughts? SchuminWeb (Talk) 11:33, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
I agree completely; the section is irrelevant to the rest of the article and is unecessary for the user needing basic information about the fire alarm. JosephSH 13:28, 21 March 2006
[edit] From a fire protection expert
I do not recommend deleting information because the layman who is "just looking" may not understand it. Believe me, nobody "just looks" at any fire protection items because nobody cares enough unless he or she has a real need. Then, suddenly, the seemingly irrelevant or perhaps disturbing items that may irk an administrator for basic editorial reasons, which are also relevant generically, can become very important indeed.--Achim 16:22, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
- I've been doing some thinking about the material in question, and I actually think that we need to do a considerable restructuring of the entire cluster of fire alarm articles, since right now, we have a not-so-well-defined article, and a few child articles. SchuminWeb (Talk) 00:02, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] N-alarm Fire
Someome please tell me if this is correct, if not please fix it:
The term N-alarm Fire (for example 2-alarm fire) refers to the number of vehicles dispatched to fight the fire.
Once correct, I want to add it to the article.71.199.123.24 21:37, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
It refers to the number of "agencies" (firehouses) responding. user:dss311
[edit] Fire Risk Student
If anyone comes to rewrite this article they should remember to include verbal fire alarms which are in increasing use. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.80.190.132 (talk • contribs) .
- Are you referring to voice evacuation systems, where, when a fire alarm is activated, instead of a horn, it's a voice saying, "A fire emergency has been reported in the building"? If so, that's not a bad idea, but as I've said before, fire alarm stuff on Wikipedia needs a MAJOR overhaul. SchuminWeb (Talk) 18:14, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Renamed
Since this article is mainly about fire alarm notification appliances (bells, horns, strobes, etc.), I renamed it as such, and turned the title fire alarm into a disambiguation page, since "fire alarm" is used to refer to any or all elements of the whole fire alarm system. Since people say, "I'm going to pull the fire alarm" referring to a manual pull station and "the fire alarm is going off" referring to a notification appliance, this makes the most sense.
Of course, now we need to clean this article up to make it more specifically notification, and either remove or find new homes for the other information. SchuminWeb (Talk) 05:21, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
- To note moves: The "devices" section has been moved to Fire alarm system, and the bit about false pulled alarms has been moved to manual pull station. Some general material was straight-up removed due to being too general for the article's new, more specific scope, and I don't know where this ought to go. I also removed some uncited material, which I believe may be inaccurate. SchuminWeb (Talk) 06:48, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
