Talk:Telephone directory

message: Telephone directories have been with us for a long time.  What was their original purpose and has it changed overtime and has it been achieved?Charlee1 06:31, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: comment from 2007

message: The article used to have dozens of links to online telephone directories.  They were all recently deleted.  I agree with that, but the wholesale deletion took out one possibly useful link that was mixed in with them: the link to an image of the First Telephone Book.  It's against Wikipedia policy for me to reinstate that link, because it's on my own website.  If anyone else agrees that it's worth including, please do so. Gwil 22:59, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems someone has removed the external links again. I am going to the the ones we reached consensus on back again. Please do not revert again without consensus.--Canoe1967 (talk) 18:29, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: I seem to recall that the option of unlisting phone numbers was not available until the mid-1960s. In the show Mad Men, set in 1960, there's a discussion of the fee for an unlisted number. This seems to be an anachronism to me. NjtoTX 18:52, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unlisted Numbers, when was this first available? 

message: :Image:Phone book Poland.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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BetacommandBot (talk) 16:28, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Phone book Poland.jpg

message: Most (all I have found) on-line public phone directories seem to be migrating to paid services, or shills for personal information mining services. It might be nice to actually list (links to) any that actually do provide a 'free' service for the purpose of encouraging phone use.Wikidity (talk) 00:27, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: They were removed again. I am going to add them back as stated in ext. links section above.--Canoe1967 (talk) 18:32, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The relevant policies/guidelines are WP:SOAP, WP:NOTDIRECTORY and WP:EL. Wikipedia is not a directory, nor should the external links section be or include a directory of related businesses, free or not. --Ronz (talk) 19:16, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The article subject is Telephone directories. The external links are to online directories. Please make a proposal and seek consensus to avoid an edit war.--Canoe1967 (talk) 19:21, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Keep the links out per WP:SOAP, WP:NOTDIRECTORY and WP:EL. Was I unclear? --Ronz (talk) 19:35, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

text: You are very welcome, and sorry for being a dick. It's just that I had noticed that there were more people that wished some kind of linkage useful as opposed to none at all.--Canoe1967 (talk) 20:34, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Free on-line phone books? 

message: --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 11:16, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Verizon ending free phonebook distribution -- newspaper article for consideration -- 23 September 2010 

message: The photo caption in the History section says "The first telephone directory, printed in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, in November 1878" , and this date does indeed appear on the cover in the photo.
However, the text in the section states, "The first telephone directory, consisting of a single piece of cardboard, was issued on 21 February 1878; it listed 50 individuals, businesses, and other offices in New Haven, Connecticut that had telephones". 
Can this discrepancy be clarified? For example, was the 21 February edition handwritten rather than printed, say? JezGrove (talk) 13:28, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  First telephone directory - February or November 1878?