Talk:In case of emergency

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Wikipedia Fraud The entity being advertised on this site as being legitimate and having been some sort of "leader" for the ICE effort since 2005 has been engaging in overtly misleading and fraudulent business practices by hijacking legitimate website hyperlinks (on Wikipedia which can't figure it out) and directing them to their own and also creating like-sounding website urls to steer business to themselves from legitimate sites while at the same time unabashedly claiming the hard earned successes of others as their own under the guise of some noble "effort" to promote ICE. In fact they are simply just conducting "business" underhandedly in an arena of good faith efforts to simply make a profit for themselves. People like this throughout history always rear their ugly heads and since they cannot compete legitimately because of their lack of scruples - and in this case, lack of any real practical experience they simply exist to relieve you of your hard earned money. BE SO ADVISED Duzzer (talk) 15:54, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Thought the cleanup tag was unnecessary, so got rid of it - and created this talk page! Petesmiles 01:15, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

I think it should be cleaned up, definitely. It is just one enormous slodge of information broken up into more than a dozen paragraphs. 63.100.44.98 19:12, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 icecontact.com 2 Broken Links 3 Source? 4 Useless 5 Article title change 6 1ICE or ICE1 7 Crazy terminology

[edit] icecontact.com

This appears to be linkspam. The site has no official backing that I can see and is a commercial enterprise charging for its services (contrast donor cards etc. which are free). - Just zis Guy, you know? 09:23, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Broken Links

The Vodafone ICE link is broken. I have been unable to find the page on their new site so perhaps someone with a Vodafone contract could help? J Darnley 17:59, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Source?

I don't think that this was "started" by someone in 2005. I got an email about this sometime during 2004. I think it should be removed unless someone can cite it.

[edit] Useless

Emergency personel such as paramedics or "first responders" would NEVER take the time on a scene to call an untrained person who's ONLY answers to our questions would be, "what happened?", "is s/he ok", "where is he". That is, if we could even get the person to identify which of the many people that might have you listed as an ICE contact we actually have on our gurney. This is an immensly stupid idea and not something that would be useful. It is MUCH more useful to carry personally identifying documents or if you MUST use your cell phone for this set the front screen to be "This phone belongs to:". It won't help paramedics but it MIGHT help Emergency Room personell. If you want to do something to help paramedics, wear soemthing with your name on it and/or medic alert jewlery... these are the ONLY things we will look for and/or use. This entry should be removed. It is advertising for a commercial enterprise that is a supremely misdirected and bad idea to begin with and the result of email spam. The ICE contact is NOT useful to paramedics and this is a great example of fear induced marketting.

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[edit] Article title change

I think the article title should be In Case of Emergency, because - I understand - that is the 'official' naming policy of the ICE creators. ThijsN 09:06, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 1ICE or ICE1

I've heard from french sources, to add contacts as "ICE1" "ICE2", and so on ; the deutsch article describe it this way. But not the others (or did i misunderstood?) , as they say 1ICE, 2ICE and so on.

Was this program explained diffently in different countries ? But it would be a bit surprising. Does anyone got the thing ?

pyl 15:55, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

i think the advantage to "1ICE" as opposed to "ICE1" is that entries starting with a numeral will be at the top of an alphabetized phone list making it the first visible contact. "ICE1" is only visible after scrolling to the "I" entries, something a paramedic might not do.

aaron 68.61.184.98 21:44, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Crazy terminology

Removed this:

The author removed it. Thank you for your diligence. Unfortunately the people who altered the factually written article after 18 months standing were those persons that were seeking financial gain for themselves and not interested in providing information about this topic. They also are engaging in cyber squatting - a highly unethical practice....but it takes all kinds doesn't it. Oh and you didn't sign your name but we captured your IP address. Thank You. Duzzer (talk) 01:40, 2 May 2008 (UTC)