Talk:RIT Ambulance

Request for Clean-Up
This article, in it's current state, reads little more than an advertisement. There's no references; or, rather, readers are redirected to the references and away from the article. It seems like someone on the Ambulance crew wrote the article (not that it's a bad thing) but did it from a POV, and not necessarily within the Manual of Style. There's alot of information here, but also alot missing. The history section is extremely short, there's no mention of notability in the article, and no third-party sources at all. This is little more than a lengthy start class article. I'll be adding banners to the top, and working on it as I have time. Fightin&#39; Phillie (talk) 13:04, 26 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I will be restructuring the article to be similar to that of the New York City Fire Department and Toronto EMS. NYCFD is one of the highest rated EMS type organizations in the EMS Task Force, as is TEMS, so I figure using a similar style would be appropriate. Fightin&#39; Phillie (talk) 13:42, 1 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm still having difficulty finding history about RITA. Help would be appreciated Fightin&#39; Phillie (talk) 18:12, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Notability and reliable sources
As WP:SOURCES states, "Articles should be based upon reliable, third-party published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy".

As of this writing, three of the cited sources are not secondary sources and the third is RIT-provided info in a database entry. From the looks of it, nobody independent of this ambulance corps has written anything about it--otherwise we'd have WP:Reliable sources with which to verify each major factual point of the article.

Finally, the article itself does not assert the notability of the subject. What is it that makes this particular ambulance corps notable? If this ambulance corps is notable, is every ambulance corps notable?

Until we can properly source the statements and clearly state why this medical service is notable (as established by one or more sources), the improvement tags should stay in place.
 * —129.21.177.112 (talk) 00:19, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Removed notability tag. Based on the large number of ambulance agencies with pages ( Category:Ambulance services ), there appears to be a consensus that ambulance corps are notable. Medic117 (talk) 19:10, 28 April 2009 (UTC)