Talk:New South Wales Rural Fire Service

message: I noted in the history of this page that a number of individuals have attempted to add external links to individual brigade websites, and that other individuals have then come along and removed these links. I am creating a new page which lists all of the Brigades within the NSW Rural Fire Service, and I suggest that any external links to individual brigade websites are made on this new page, *not* here on the main NSW RFS page. Feel free to add comments below Jpmanalo 18:03, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links to individual Brigade Websites 

message: This article has entire sections which would be non-notable, and lists every type of qualification they issue and vehicle that they use, which IMHO is really not for a Wikipedia article. Also the formatting and grammar is rather inconsistent. I also think quoting whole slabs of the RFS Strategic Plan is unnecessary.
I'm going to tag this article for cleanup. ajdlinux 09:27, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Tagged, with quite a lot of stuff removed in the process. The massive quote from the strategic plan document could be a copyright violation, so removed, the lists are IMO unencyclopaedic, but I have not removed them yet, merely tagged them. ajdlinux 09:38, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

text: I object. Someone needs to say why NSW RFS qualifications are really useful to have in a Wikipedia article. --ajdlinux 06:25, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Do they give a deeper understanding of the subject matter *that anyone will actually read*? I for one don't care at all about the qualifications and vehicles etc., if I wanted to read about those *I would read it off the RFS site or something*. ajdlinux 10:35, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

text: I think some vehicle detail is necessary, every appliance and variants probably not. The same applies to qualifications in that its a voluntary organisation how/what are the skill requirements, again not every level but definately a general over view. This basic information needs to be there just to make the article comprehensive. Some areas may even warrant daughter articlesGnangarra 11:08, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK. I agree with you, we need an overview rather than a whole load of lists. Something that can inform but not overwhelm :) ajdlinux 09:08, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article cleanup or rewrite needed 

message: It is odd that this article as it stands makes no reference to the people that make up the organisation.  There is however considerable space devoted to the equipment for some reason.  Founding and recently departed Commissioner Phil Koperberg doesn't even get a mention.  I will be inserting that shortly.  What about a section outlining the rank structure and another on the role of volunteers and paid staff - I will get to these.Ajayvius 03:03, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  People 

message: Starting cleanup of article. --Mikecraig 05:05, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it's still needed! I removed a bit of (IMO) excessive detail. Start and finish dates of appointment as assistant commissioner down to the time of day are not encyclopedic. They only really matter if there was an incident going on at the time of the changeover (I haven't seen any indication there was).Garrie 04:58, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: i'm not up to speed on redirects and disambiguation, so somebody can hopefully take this up. There is also a "Rural Fire Service" - Queensland:
http://www.ruralfire.qld.gov.au/
Would somebody please start a stub & then fix the disambiguation/redirects from "Rural Fire Service" to the 2 bodies? The other Australian states have various names for metro & rural fire services. Some are listed at Australasian Fire Authorities Council. David Woodward (talk) 06:19, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: RFS Queensland

message: References 26 - 37 link directly to PDF downloads of the Service's Annual Reports that are 1.5MB in size. This seems like an extraordinarily time-consuming way to reference a single person's name, especially as after downloading it you have to then wade through it to find the reference. I'm going to remove these. --BrianFG (talk) 03:00, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: Wow. This section is really verbose. In fact it's a direct cut and paste from the pages it references, which is a whole bunch of legal waffling on. I'm going to whittle this down so it doesn't bore everyone. --BrianFG (talk) 03:16, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Rfs logo.jpg

message: The NSW Rural Fire Service, the world's largest fire service. Our 70,000 volunteer members provide emergency services to over 95 percent of NSW. http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/
FDIC - http://www.fdic.com/index.html recognises it as such.
RFSA also claims it largest in world http://www.rfsa.org.au/rfsa/index.php?D=1
Why is it stated as 'claims' with the title? 
I find no data to prove it isn't.
 User:Grelnar|Grelnar]] (talk) 13:33, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Claims' as worlds largest fire service 

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thread_title:  External links modified (February 2018) 

message: The photo that one user wants to use (:File:NSW Rural Fire Service, operated by Coulson Aviation, (VH-VJO) Cessna 560 Citation V at Wagga Wagga Airport.jpg) is while it was being used for VIP transport purposes, not the main function that it is used for (Line Scanning). :File:NSW Rural Fire Service, operated by Coulson Aviation, (VH-VJT) Cessna 560 Citation V at Wagga Wagga Airport.jpg, if the only freely licensed photo that has the pod fitted to it. The one with the pod fitted should be restored. Bidgee (talk) 10:23, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: This is common sense, but keeps revert without any sources, we can take this up at WP:RFPP - 112.198.194.16 (talk) 03:16, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  FireScan aircraft