Talk:Verizon New England

message: All these telecom mergers and subsidiaries make it very confusing to know how to organize articles. If the name is now Verizon New England, etc., then I suppose the article name should no longer be New England Telephone - but changing it would lead to a ton of redirects. On the other hand, is Verizon New England etc. enough of a separate entity to be worthy of an article? No, I imagine. The article-worthy entity is the old, independent New England Telephone. In which case the Verizon name should be secondary, e.g.: 
:New England Telephone was a Bell Operating Company that served the majority of New England until it became part of Verizon following various mergers in the 1980s and 1990s. Officially New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. ...
Or something like that. Any thoughts? - DavidWBrooks 12:54, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Personally, I liked the articles without the infoboxes - I only added infoboxes to the Verizon operating company articles after someone else added infoboxes to other Verizon operating company articles. I'd say if there were no infobox, there would be no problem at all...the official corporate name could just be mentioned at the end of the article as it used to be. KansasCity 13:03, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds good to me. We could make this an article about the old company, mentioning its new name so folks can go to Verizon if they want to see the present. But then the question is when do we end this article? In 1984, in the divestiture? Or 1994, when it just became NYNEX and "new england telephone" ceased to exist as a separate name? - DavidWBrooks 13:34, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

text: OK, I've given it a shot. Maybe we should get rid of the post-1984 logos down below; they add to the confusion. - DavidWBrooks 14:49, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Name confusion

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Nynex logo.png

message: The company described in this article, New England Telephone & Telegraph Company, which is now legally named Verizon New England, Inc. should retain an infobox on its current status. Should we go to other articles about Bell Operating Companies that were renamed, such as all of the Verizon and AT&T operating companies as well as Qwest Corporation and strip them of their infoboxes simply because they are no longer named what they might have been years ago? Verizon New England is indeed an active Bell Operating Company in Verizon and some of its assets were sold, but that doesn't affect its incorporation status. The legality of the matter is that it still exists, and Wikipedia has always strived to be as factually correct as possible. To say that New England Telephone & Telegraph Company doesn't exist is factually incorrect because it indeed does, only under a different name. 24.94.181.18 (talk) 17:31, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Why this article should retain an infobox

message: Dear DavidWBrooks and anyone else maintaining this article,
Verizon New England (New England Telephone) has had a long history with labour unions. Should this be added into the article? What do you think?
Readnews1 (talk) 18:26, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure, as long as its referenced. Also, in the U.S. it's spelled "labor"!  - DavidWBrooks (talk) 20:28, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yeah i know I just fixed it sorry. I am american, NOT british,  by the way. Just messed up. Readnews1 (talk) 20:55, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Labor Union History 

message: Hello, As an employee of Verizon Communications, I am asking Wikipedia editors to consider fixing dead links on different Verizon-related Wikipedia articles. Because of my conflict of interest, I follow Wikipedia's best practices in requesting updates rather than editing directly. 
For this article, can editors replace the first "Website" link in the infobox with https://www.verizon.com/local/massachusetts/ ?
For this article, can editors also replace the second "Website" link in the infobox with https://www.verizon.com/local/providence-ri/	
Thank you. VZEric (talk) 23:10, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fixing broken links