Talk:Crisis Text Line

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Edit Request 10-4-23
I work with Crisis Text Line and understand I'm not allowed to edit this article myself. I have several requests to make, primarily to update the information, restructure some content to make it more concise, tighten the phrasing, improve sourcing and more closely follow Wikipedia's manual of style, including standardizing the ref formatting. Thank you for your help.
 * 1) Please change the founders infobox field formatting to remove the "&" sign. The box template doesn't like the "=" sign, so I made it nowiki. ✅
 * 2) Please change the infobox key_people to be simply the CEO ✅
 * 3) Please change the infobox purpose to more accurately be ✅
 * 4) Please remove the board of directors from the infobox. It's too hard to keep up to date, and few articles seem to have this info. ✅
 * 5) Please revise and shorten the lead to bring it in line with most company articles ✅ Shorter is better and less promotional. STEM info  (talk) 00:16, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
 * 6) Please revise and shorten the second sentence of the history section to ✅ I think you meant the third sentence.  STEM info  (talk) 00:16, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
 * 7) Just below that, please edit the Glamour ref to remove the non-standard parameters group= and ref=2. This is the text that should be the third sentence. ✅
 * 8) Please remove the "In September 2015, Crisis Text Line" paragraph. It's sourced with a employee blog post, and isn't really necessary, since it's obvious that texting is better for deaf and hard of hearing people. ✅
 * 9) Please add this to 2017 history. The named ref is in the article as a New York Times piece.
 * 10) Please remove the final sentence of the 2018 history paragraph. The info is outdated and is poorly sourced anyway with a primary company source. ✅
 * 11) Please update the last sentence of the 2020 history section with this improved ref code for the CNN source, and add the announcement of the new CEO. ✅
 * 12) Please add this next item chronologically to the history section. At this point it should be the last item. It's in Spanish but I assume that's allowed. ✅ and added language = Spanish  STEM info  (talk) 00:16, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
 * 13) Please move the 2022 "data sharing controversy" content to the history section, per WP:UNDUE, and add "January" before 2022 to properly date the event. ✅ WP:UNDUE supports move. STEM info  (talk) 00:16, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
 * 14) Please add this followup to the event. ✅
 * 15) Please add this as the next updated history item ✅
 * 16) As the last history update, please add this ✅
 * 17) I'd like to remove or consolidate into a new "Operations" section a lot of the administration, crisis counselors, strategy, data collection, use of algorithms and crisis trends information, to eliminate trivial/non-essential info, and improve the sourcing of what's left. This is going to be the most time-consuming part to review.  I'll post the new operations section in its entirety. My suggestion to the reviewer would be to replace all the sections after the history section with this, and compare to see what I removed and what I kept. Once again, the box template doesn't like the == section code, so I put in nowiki tags at the beginning, and also had to put in artificial   tags for formatting purposes.  ❌ I have to review this in more detail. I had to restore a couple of refs, but they were primary sources linking to the organization's web site, so hopefully I can fix that as well.  STEM info  (talk) 00:16, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ I reviewed and agree that the new shorter version is better, and moire concise. I did have to remove some duplicate content that you accidentally added.  STEM info  (talk) 07:09, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Positivevibes2000 (talk) 23:25, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

Reply 4-OCT-2023

 * 1) Exact, verbatim descriptions of any text and references to be removed needs to be included with your request. Currently, only the proposed text and references to be added has been included with the request.
 * In the section of text below titled Sample edit request, the missing item from your request (#1) is shown along with the three other required elements (which you did provide):

 1. Please remove the third sentence from the second paragraph of the Sun section:
 * "The Sun's diameter is estimated to be approximately 25 miles in length."

2. Please add the following claim as the third sentence of the second paragraph of the Sun section:
 * "The Sun's diameter is estimated to be approximately 864,337 miles in length."

3. Using as the reference:

4. Reason for change being made:
 * "The previously given diameter was incorrect."


 * When all of the required elements are assembled, kindly open a new edit request below this reply post at your earliest convenience. Please note that prior text entered in the edit request proposal should not be retro-actively altered. Instead, a new reply post supplying all of the needed information should be posted below this review. A new  template should then be placed within your post. Thank you!

Regards, Spintendo  00:25, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Discussion notice
There is currently a discussion at Village pump (proposals) regarding the use of suicide crisis telephone numbers (which this article includes). The thread is Suicide hotlines. Thank you. TheSpacebook (talk) 01:51, 19 April 2024 (UTC)