Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Bell System

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I feel this Bell System "WikiProject" is a solution looking for a problem. X570 04:15, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes. These "Projects" have proliferated lately, to little visible benefit. They install "Templates" all over, each of which merely provides a neat click-list to the dozens of other articles in its embrace, for example from New York Telephone to Wisconsin Bell. Whatever for? And in this example, there are two template click-lists, one each installed for AT&T and one for Bell System. Neither is necessary; each article need merely have direct links to several actually relevant articles. As for coordinating activities, each article has a talk page. I recently used those talk pages in merging articles into Ground start and Loop start, and others. Do these Projects improve coordination?

On the other hand, if the Project leads someone to help correct and organize my historical articles on switching, including Panel switch, 1XB switch, 5XB switch, 1ESS switch, Crossbar switch and Reed relay, well then I can forgive some futility and clutter. Jim.henderson 21:31, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kill the cat

Is there a reason why Category:Bell System (Pre-1984) ought to exist? Practically all its articles are in also in the parent category, and just about any that aren't, should be. Jim.henderson 23:35, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Jesus Christ, this still exists? Yet a page on a pretty significant band gets killed because some admin never heard of it. Whoever created this "wikiproject" and the guy that deleted that said band article (of which i made no contribution, just the reasoning really irked me, especially I discovered it deleted while I was looking for information that once existed on that page, and why I, and alot of other people stopped bothering with this wikipedia anymore. x570 00:20, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Huh?

Bell System and pre-84 AT&T is one and the same. Why the distinction? "Bell System" today refers collectively to AT&T, Verizon, and Qwest.