Talk:In Case of Emergency

Cleanup tag
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)

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)

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)

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.

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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 * i dont agree here, paramedics or first responders would not check for ID - that i agree on,
 * but say the person had passed away before the ambulance arrived or in hospital, how would they know who the person was?
 * Sghfdhdfghdfgfd (talk) 12:27, 26 February 2010 (UTC)


 * And most people have a PIN on their phone which would make this pretty useless...

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)

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)

Duzzer (talk) 14:41, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

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)

ICE initiative and commercial exploitation
It appears that there have been attempts to exploit the ICE initiative commercially, but it does seem to be a genuine scheme suggested by a member of the UK ambulance service after the July 7th bombings. I have been on a workplace first aid course today - delivered by St John Ambulance - and as part of the course I was advised about programming a few emergency contact numbers into my mobile phone using the ICE1, ICE2 etc naming system, along with advice that first aiders in particular WILL use the system when confronted with a casualty who may not be able to communicate, but who has ICE numbers in their phone. No mention of any commercial scheme; just advice about a couple of extra phone numbers. If it's being promoted nationally on courses like this, I would suggest it's not a candidate for speedy deletion provided the commercial spamlinks are kept off the page. For notability in reputable sources, see []. Ka renjc 23:10, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I have removed the speedy tag because I dispute the given deletion rationale for the page as it stands - it's not an advert for a company - and I believe notability has been asserted via the references. But spam to the various commercial bandwagon-jumpers should be kept out of the article.  Ka renjc 23:20, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

People are educating themselves across the world on using ICE. The information above was in relation to the sticker folks who appear in the main article when in fact they have nothing at all to do with introducing ICE but are merely a commercial entity that has been exposed for engaging in internet "cybersquatting" on sites dedicated to the advancement of free ICE access. Try www.iceforsafety.com and see what this means....honesty? Hardly. Their purpose - to make money - yet Wikipedia has failed to properly vett this entity time and again for what it is - a commercial site that sells stickers.

How instrumental that is to the cause is suspect. In this case their mention merely is a well crafted advertisement that Wikipedia has failed to detect and properly place.

The UN ITU Agency has wisely figured this out which is why they support the E.123 work found on the ICE4SAFETY website and is reflected in their news release of July 23, 2008. Duzzer (talk) 02:35, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Smartphone applications
I've removed the sentence that links to the two smartphone applications. Haven't looked into the other one, but the data in motionPHR is password protected. How is that going to help medical personnel identify a patient or collect medical data if the patient is unconscious?

Has anyone actually vetted any of the information we're putting out here, or is it just companies advertising their products? AlistairMcMillan (talk) 02:54, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

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My Hub phone is out of order as of today’ can not phone out or receive calls
In case of emergency what do I do??? 104.243.223.25 (talk) 20:34, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Removed link to “medicalid” Android app
Removed link to app, and sentence, because it isn’t relevant or constructive, and appears to simply be an advertisement for the app. Smurr7 (talk) 15:26, 25 February 2024 (UTC)