Talk:California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

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[edit] Huge removal

I've removed the entire unwikified articel as it was taken verbatim from the offical site (Clearly marked "© State of California, 2006) and also contained very unencyclopedic wordings. 68.39.174.238 06:53, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

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It does say it is copyrighted but only for statistics. All other information of the site is considered PUBLIC DOMAIN.

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Can you please re-enter everything you removed?

--Lfreeman08 01:15, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article move

Last year the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officially changed their name to Cal Fire. I believe the article should be moved to the current title. Any one objecting? —Christopher Mann McKay^talk 03:58, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

• Disagree - Looking over the CA state info, they are still officially California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, while CALFIRE is more of a "branding" that they're trying. The intro to their website reads "The men and women of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE)....", indicating that the full name is still the official one. The mailing address is still the full name. This press release indicates that the department still carries the full name, but the term CAL FIRE is being adopted as an "indicator". Note that the press release doesn't say that the full name is being official changed. I find plenty of places that still refer to it as the full name or as the abbreviation "CDF". Since CALFIRE already redirects here, I would prefer to see it stay as the official name. AKRadecki^Speaketh 05:11, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out. No move necessary then. —Christopher Mann McKay^talk 11:16, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

I agree with not changing. since it is like CALTRANS, leave it alone. When the state gets around to officially referring to it as CALFIRE, and mailing address as noted, leave it as it is.DavidPickett (talk) 20:47, 22 April 2008 (UTC)