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Thank you! I see you did some editing - I'll take a look at it later. Not sure what you saw as a COI issue here, but I don't see how I can contact you - you have no user page. I have a wiki mentor now, so I can ask him. Or maybe you'll watch this page? At any rate, thanks - and do reply if you see this, as I'm trying to learn. NextGen911 (talk) 00:23, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hello - The multiple links to "Next Generation 9-1-1.org" (a commercial site for products and services for NG9-1-1) are not appropriate for Wikipedia. Also, it could be inferred that you're directly connected to this enterprise, which would also be a COI. As described on the COI page, you're urged to: "...exercise great caution when: Editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with..."Jc3 (talk) 01:28, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, thanks for replying! No, I'm not connected to that website. I did see they had a products page, but didn't think that would be a problem, since the NENA site did too. I did like the diagram they had there (the DOT ones were too complicated for laymen), and the way they described things in layman's terms, but I think I can find other refs to replace those if that would be best. I want to do more work on this article, and you seem to know something about the subject - will you help further? I'd like to discuss one of your edits - see the new talk section below called "NENA and DOT contributions". And thanks again! NextGen911 (talk) 02:29, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for jumping to conclusions, the site just seemed odd to include (not highly ranked in searched, etc.) I look forward to helping improve the article. Jc3 (talk) 22:07, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Jc3: The NENA page referenced does state "NENA identified this need in 2000, published the Future Path Plan in 2001, and began development activities toward this end in 2003". But if you look at the Future Path Plan itself there is no reference to "Next Generation" at all, and many of the methods of reporting an emergency that were later identified in the DOT initiative weren't mentioned either. NENA participated in the DOT initiative. Looking at the documents, it appears that NENA merged its earlier FPP project into this initiative, and then started referring to it as "Next Generation 9-1-1". If that's true, then shouldn't we somehow reflect that sequence of events? (Interesting note: the FPP was on the very page you referenced when I looked this morning - now it's moved to http://www.nena.org/media/File/ESFutureDesign.pdf. And they have a whole new set of docs on that page now. Things are moving fast). NextGen911 (talk) 02:44, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Looks good overall. I'd suggest though that the first sentence's use of the word "nation's" should be changed to reflect what nation you're talking about. It's not until the last section of the intro that we're told that this is concerning the United States. 173.22.123.35 (talk) 05:54, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Will do, thanks. I'm also going to post a todo section here when I get a chance; there are several things that I think would help, including using a cite template for the refs. NextGen911 (talk) 18:08, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
DOT and NENA refs are necessary, as they define the initiative. However, these are "primary sources". Find additional independent sources about the initiative.
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