Talk:Telecommunications relay service
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Why are the T, R, and S capitalized? Michael Hardy 01:11, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
A: User:Mark Rejhon Google says so. Every search result of "telecommunications relay service" comes as Telecommunications Relay Service in search results. Same reason we capitallize "Internet Service Provider" or "University of Waterloo" or "White House".
I removed the link regarding scamming. I'm a former Communications Assistant for one of the TRS providers. The fact that it is a scam, fits within the system of Relay. Relay Operators are supposed to be transparent, "human phone lines," Phone lines an take scams as well. This site was more a discussion about scamming than about the relay service. The scamming just happens to happen via the relay service. Cliffb 03:26, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I felt that fraud complaints generated a big enough controversy to bear note in the article. I revamped the "Usage" section to include this information, as well as links in "External Links," to relevant articles. I think it works well enough to add important information without going to hearsay (e.g., the "scamming" forum) but still may need some readability cleanup.
Since deaf people mainly rely on sign language and written words, they are also (just like us-hearing people) sensitive to words that are/may-be offensive to them. The words impaired and impairment is/maybe offensive to the deaf community (well, for that matter, those who can read english). The proper terms that should be used are "Speech-Disabled" and "Hard-of-Hearing". Please do not compromise the neutrality of the article for "technicalities" the words "speech-disabled" may have the same meaning and/or effect as "speech-impaired" but the latter one maybe/is offensive to the deaf/speech-disabled community. I should stress that "Offensive statements and words" (unless, of course, when used a reference to an opinion or is used here in talk page) are NOT NEUTRAL and therefore, violates the rules of this forum. Rebskii 19:24, 3 October 2006 (UTC)rebskii 10-03-2006[reply]
no offense... but if a person dies, you can say he/she passed away... but in reality that person is dead. If a person is deaf, you can say that she/she is "hard-of-hearing" but in reality that person is deaf. Deaf is a dictionary term that is not innately offensive, unless you, as an individual, take it that way.Wikipedia is a place for factual information not euphemisms. 98.193.121.227 (talk) 21:06, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I know the MOS style, but I think the TRS industry standard should override the Wikipedia Style Guide. Also taking a deeper look at it probably all of the dashes should come out as well. I'll revert the Capitalization change, as well as remove the dashes in a couple days if no one objects.
I also looked up some examples of the TRS industry lexicon. They're pretty consistent on capitalizing the service types. The Examples:Some Examples Relay South Dakota Relay Alaska Sprint VRS ATT Relay Hamilton Relay Verizon Relay (formerly MCI relay) Nordia Relay Sorenson Relay—Cliffb 07:47, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
....etc.? If I find incorrect capitals in things like those, it makes me think the other capitals were put there for the same reason, which conflicts with the style manual. Instead of a simple revert, could we have some discrimination between capitals-for-a-reason and capitals-because-they're-section headings/title phrases/just words/whatever? Michael Hardy 19:29, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I removed the word province as it is not in common usage to say Quebec provence as opposed to Quebec.Nealc9999 05:33, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I dispute the replaceability of Wow-sprintRelaySolutions.gif, Diagram tty.gif, VCODirect.JPG, Image:Diagram hco.gif, Diagram sts.gif, Illustration-telebraille.gif, CapTel how it works.jpg and CapTel_jk-usb.jpg. I have added a irreplaceable fair use rationale with a reason on the image description pages, as well as the image talk pages. In addition, although CapTel_jk-usb.jpg is not currently replaceable, I have added a request on Wikipedia:Requested pictures and discussed it in its talk page. Any attempts to replace the other fair use images or add any images to the article are also appreciated. Taric25 18:22, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm happy where I got this article to, and I'm deciding to leave it to develop without me watching it. So I'm going to take it off my watchlist. If you'd like my opinion on something about this article, please drop me a note on my talk page.. —Cliffb 05:30, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The article presently has no images. If you are a user of TRS or involved with TRS I invite you to consider taking a few pictures and donating them. The "Upload file" toolbox link contains links to pages with relevant instructions and policies. (SEWilco 03:54, 16 July 2007 (UTC))[reply]
There's a whole section on captioned phones that uses "Cap-Tel" and "CapTel" as a generic name for captioned phones, and "WebCapTel" as a generic name for a web captioning service. They're not: they are all trademarked products of one company.
Two changes need to be made (I'll make them when/if I have time):
-- Dan Griscom (talk) 12:15, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The following paragraph is entirely unsourced and reads like original research. Besides being poorly written and almost unintelligible in places, it's also decidedly unencyclopedic, even borderline facetious in tone. I suspect it may have been plagiarized from another source (http://www.scribd.com/doc/191140092/Early-Clues-LLC-Employee-Handbook-MASTER), but it's hard to tell which came first: the Wikipedia entry or this handbook. If anyone could clarify this issue, I think it would pave the way for an improvement of this section. I am moving the paragraph here for now. Frankly, I think the section reads better without the paragraph and nothing of real substance is lost. --Nonstopdrivel (talk) 03:37, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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I feel that the article on 7-1-1 should be merged into this article. There is considerable overlap between the two topics. I don't think 7-1-1 needs it's own article, but I do think the material could easily be added to this article.CircleGirl (talk) 17:52, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]