Talk:Crisis
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The "Information Security" section is nonsensical.
For example, the article states that "[i]n InfoSec Crisis is the present tense of a disaster."
I would take issue on several points. First, nouns do not have a present tense. Only verbs do. Second, the use of the abbreviation "InfoSec" seems out-of-place; I am not used to seeing fields of professional activity abbreviated this way in WikiPedia. Maybe I am misunderstanding the nature of this (very narrow) section of the article.
Finally, the InfoSec section seems very narrow to me, as if it is specific to a single certification or book. I think that allowing Information Security to become narrow and parochialized in this way is probably not a good thing. I don't think that the hackers and fraudsters of the world are sitting around thinking up official definitions for "crisis" and "disaster."
If there is a need to provide information related to this specific certification, book, or whatever, it should be done under a narrower heading, and the factual and formatting errors cleaned up.
In light of above comments, which are several weeks old and unaddressed, I am removing the "InfoSec" portion. 71.81.55.59 22:49, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Remove this entry
This page does not meet the standards of an encyclopedia entry. There is already a superb Wiktionary entry for Crisis.
In addition, Wikipedia has numerous pages refering to crises, including the Crisis disambig page. The disambig page accomplishes all that this page does and much more. This page should be deprecated and redirected to the Crisis (disambiguation) page.
--Woodlandpath 15:51, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
