Talk:Civil defense siren

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This page is in need of cleanup. This article is overly wordy and repetitive.RSido 03:07, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

  • I initially reverted your edit because I thought it was simply a mass deletion. However I am re-doing the page and cutting out a bunch of crap, trying to make it all flow better. My apologies --Goldrushcavi 05:26, 8 December 2006 (UTC)


Boy, this article needs work. There's entirely too much information on here for an encyclopedia article. Test patterns for individual cities, the number of individual veins in the solenoids, detailed descriptions of siren models (especially when they have their own page), and a ridiculous number of redundancies are overloading this page with information. Please see Wikipedia:fancruft for detailed reasons NOT to include all this information. Save it for your fan sites. --Goldrushcavi 05:26, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spacing

There is some spacing in the article - leave it or else it looks stupid (in my opinion)

please leave

thanx

symode09 14:33, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

In some places this helped, but you didn't need to add one between every * single * sentence. --Goldrushcavi 23:32, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] To clean or not to clean... that is the question...

As a somewhat avid air raid/civil defense siren enthusiast, I have to say that this article is wordy, but CD sirens need more explanation than thought by many. Although many topics are repeated and wordy, is it necessary to remove almost all of the information? (I'll go through and see what I can do to cut down and make the article more efficient.) StonedChipmunk 00:26, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FS Thunderbolt being the "most common siren"?

"The Federal Signal Thunderbolt is the most common of all warning sirens."

Although a citation is needed, I've heard many people say otherwise. Federal Signal Thunderbolts were actually the worst-selling sirens when they were introduced, due to the many moving parts and the brittle design. Since "most common" is a bit vague and many people would think of it as being "most used", maybe it should be something like "most known". StonedChipmunk 00:36, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

I have added spacing between the differant subjects ie the differant typed of warnings.

symode09 04:43, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

--Jsncrso 16:30, 2 February 2007 (UTC) That is entirely untrue. While they were the most common in large systems years ago, they are not the most common warning sirens of today. Model 5 sirens easily outnumber T-bolts nowadays. I changed it to "The Federal Signal Thunderbolt is the most recognizable of all warning sirens due to its unique shape and design", which is technically an opinion, but more widely accepted than the former.

That is actually not an opinion. Do you visit AirRaidSirens.com's forum? Everyone there could instantly know a Tbolt, but you have to have a good bit of knowledge to distinguish a Model 2 from a Model 5, or a 2T22 from a 3T22. Plus, no other siren manufacturer made (or makes) sirens with this design. However, remember that the Thunderbolt was the worst-selling when initially introduced only. It gained a bunch of popularity in no time. --The preceding signed comment was added by StonedChipmunk and you can contact them here. 20:27, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

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