Talk:California Bureau of Investigation (fictional)

I have little knowledge of US law enforcement, but I find the current source kinda strange. To be honest: ossh.com?!? It's an open dir: http://ossh.com Call me paranoid, but somehow I don't think it's very reliable. Perhaps http://ag.ca.gov/cbi/index.php would be a better source? But like I said, I'm not that familiar with US law enforcement. Perhaps someone could look at this. Ger-Jan (talk) 21:44, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

CBI was the former name of the BII, changed right before The Mentalist debuted. This was changed again a few days ago to the new BI, I don't know why. Unfortunately, I don't have good online sources handy. I'll look for one. --Nike (talk) 20:25, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

The Wayback Machine shows the name CBI used until February 2009 http://web.archive.org/web/20090222000427/http://ag.ca.gov/cbi/ and BII starting March 2009 http://web.archive.org/web/20090321170239/http://www.ag.ca.gov/cbi/ This was actually after the show first aired. The fictional organization shared the same name as the official one. --Nike (talk) 20:49, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Name change
The real CBI no longer exists under that name. The link to ossh.com is not an official site, and contains a cached version of a site which no longer exists, as does the link at the Wayback Machine. Look at the copyright notice, it says 2001. Go to the home page of ossh.com. I see nowhere on the official BI site that it uses the CBI name, and you will also see that prior to February 17, 2012, the agency did not exist, so there is no continuity with the former CBI. The BI was formed from parts of different state agencies, including the BII, which itself was a merger between the old CBI and other agencies.

Since the real CBI no longer exists, that article should be deleted, and the fictional one should be restored.

Strangely, the talk page for California Bureau of Investigation redirects to California Bureau of Investigation (fictional), but the article for California Bureau of Investigation (fictional) is a redirect to California Bureau of Investigation. --Nike (talk) 06:46, 20 June 2012 (UTC)