Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Fire Protection

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This article is part of WikiProject Fire Protection, an attempt to better organize and unify articles relating to fire protection equipment. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.

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Contents 1 Dry riser article 2 Master plan? 3 Fire Protection 4 Project directory 5 Fire Service 6 Expanded Topic List 7 Wikipedia Day Awards 8 Title page 9 Fire sprinkler system

[edit] Dry riser article

The dry riser article should be merged with the Fire Sprinker System. In the US, the terms standpipe and riser are exclusive. A standpipe supplies water to a hose system, whereas a riser supplies water to a sprinkler system. This should be resolved with the existing Dry systems section at the Fire sprinkler page. Fireproeng 15:08, 10 March 2007 (UTC) (Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dry_riser")

[edit] Master plan?

I think in order to fix up some of these articles, we need to come up with a master plan. Right now, we have some articles that could be merged, and some that need to be repositioned. For one thing, fire alarm needs some work, as it most specifically discusses notification appliances and thus should be positioned as such and reworked for that.

Thoughts? SchuminWeb (Talk) 06:22, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fire Protection

This section appears to be made up entirely of UK and AUS contributions. Furthermore, the photo of a heat detector appears to be a burglar alarm component. WTF?

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 22:08, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fire Service

Is there any interest in expanding this Project to include more of the fire service. There are many articles which could fall under a Fire Service WikiProject. Any interest? Let me know!--Daysleeper47 21:19, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

List them in here. I'd love to see it. SchuminWeb (Talk) 04:10, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

What I had in mind includes but is not limited to:

Famous Fires - includes both wildfires and structures

Cocoanut Grove fire

The Station nightclub fire

Cedar Fire

Fire Departments

Arlington County Fire Department

New York City Fire Department

Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service

Fire apparatus and related

Fireboat

Seagrave Fire Apparatus

Turntable ladder

Fire Service tools and terms

Backdraft

Hook ladder

K-tool

Some of these are already tagged as belonging to WikiProject Diaster Management, but that is clearly not entirely appropriate. This project could easily act as a cousin project (I am a member of that Project). Some things like the stub template already exist. Thoughts? --Daysleeper47 05:01, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Expanded Topic List

Hi. I just came across this project for the first time. I am currently a Fire Protection Engineering student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. This semester, in our Building Firesafety class, each student (33 in all) was assigned a topic related to the course subject. The assignment was to write a paper on the assigned topic and to post it as a wiki to a program called SourceForge. Throughout the semester, each student was required to read each wiki and to contribute in some way. We are now in our final week of class and each student is expected to clean up their wiki for a final grade by Sunday, Dec 10. This means that there will be (theoretically) 33 wikis that could be incorporated into Wikipedia and that fit perfectly into this project.

Some of the wikis were written by foreign students for whom English is a second language; some were not completely exhaustive of the given subject; and some are duplicates of topics that already exist in Wikipedia (and may have used Wikipedia as a resource). Therefore, there is probably a good deal of clean-up that would be required before they could be incorporated. Of course, if this is what you enjoy doing...

In any case, our professor, Dr. Jonathan Barnett, did mention early in the semester that he was considering contributing the best wiki(s) to Wikipedia. You might want to contact him about that. His email address is jbarnett@wpi.edu.

FYI, here is the topic list:

1. Aspirating Smoke Detectors
2. Atria Egress Issues
3. Atria Smoke Control
4. Basic Automatic Sprinklers
5. Basic Computer Modeling for Building Firesafety Design
6. Basic Egress Systems
7. Basic Gaseous Suppression Systems
8. Basic Heat Detection
9. Basics of Explosion Protection
10. Basic Smoke Detection
11. Basic Structural Fire Protection
12. Building Exit Stairways
13. Designing Against Terrorism Caused Fires
14. Designing Buildings for the Fire Service
15. Detecting Fires in Large Spaces
16. Designing for Arson Caused Fires
17. Dry Pipe Automatic Sprinkler Systems
18. Fire Alarm Audibility
19. Fire Department Fatalities Throughout the World
20. Fire Department Suppression
21. Fire Resistance of Concrete
22. Fire Resistance of Steel
23. Fire Resistance of Timber
24. Full Scale Smoke Testing
25. Historic Overview of Conflagrations
26. History of Fire Fighting Appliances
27. History of Fires in Assembly Occupancies
28. History of Fires in Tall Buildings
29. Horizontal Exits, Dead Ends and Common Path of Travel
30. Pre-Action Sprinkler Systems
31. Portable Fire Extinguishers
32. Residential Fire Problems
33. Use of Elevators in Building Egress During Fires

--bc2586 17:52 EST, 6 December 2006

*drools* I love the idea! That would be a GREAT addition, as long as it's well-cited. SchuminWeb (Talk) 02:01, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

• I agree. Great idea. Anything to help WikiProject Fire Protection! --Daysleeper47 03:09, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 23:19, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Title page

The first sentance of the Project Page refers to the scope being fire alarms. This isn't correct, is it? Shouldn't this be fire protection? Fireproeng 10:12, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

I changed the wording to read fire protection systems --Daysleeper47 23:30, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

The project was originally called "WikiProject Fire Alarms", and later expanded its scope, with the related name change. It seems we missed something when we changed the name. Thanks for noticing. SchuminWeb (Talk) 04:08, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fire sprinkler system

In order to eliminate confusion between the "Fire Sprinkler" and "Sprinkler Head" articles, and to align the definitions of both articles with modern terminology (e.g., NFPA), the title of the "Sprinkler Head" article should be changed to "Fire Sprinkler", and the title of the "Fire Sprinkler" article should be changed to "Fire Sprinkler System". But as I am new, I don't know how to get this accomplished.Fireproeng 22:34, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

I moved Fire sprinkler to Fire sprinkler system to conform with the NFPA standard. Before the second move (Sprinker head to Fire sprinkler) can occur, any link which currently points to Fire sprinkler need to be changed to Fire sprinkler system. I will perform as many of those as I can on Monday and once complete, make the second move. --Daysleeper47 23:28, 25 February 2007 (UTC)