Talk:List of Rescue 911 episodes

Listing the episodes

I am currently working on listing all the episodes of Rescue 911 on this page. This process may take me a while, as I am watching each one prior to listing it in order to verify that all the information is correct.

Anyone help anyone could provide me in completing this list would be appreciated.Sebwite (talk) 15:39, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

One suggestion, if I may...the page might be easier to read if each individual episode is numbered with the season followed by a two digit episode number (for instance, "Episode 501" for Season 5, Episode 1), kind of like what was done for the list of Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes. Looking through this page, a reader might get lost amongst all the Episode 1's and Episode 2's, etc., and not really know what season they're looking at.--Dynamite Eleven (talk) 05:31, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Segment Titles

One thing I am noticing is that people are providing incorrect segment titles, or making them up. Just to clarify, videos on YouTube are not necessarily listed under the official/correct title. Most segment titles were only listed when segments aired in syndication, and since some segments never aired in syndication, their titles were never listed; the title slot on this page should be left blank for those segments. For correct titles, users should refer to a site with archived TV listings, (e.g., Fancast). However, it should be noted that Discovery Health Channel altered the titles of syndicated episodes for their listings, so episodes titles are not accurate when air dates listed are between 2003-2005. Allgood2000 (talk) 23:13, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Syndicated Episode List

I added a section for the 300 syndicated episodes. For those not familiar, the syndicated episodes are 30-minute episodes containing two repeat segments taken from Seasons 1-6 of the original series. Even though these episodes contain no new material, I thought it would be helpful to include them since they are the only episodes that currently air on U.S. television (the original hour episodes have not aired in the U.S. since 1998). The syndicated version of the series consists of three 'seasons' of 100 episodes, which I referred to as "sets" in the article to avoid confusion with Seasons 1-3 of the original series.

I put the three sets into tables that are sortable by episode production number, original air date, and Justice Network air date. The episodes are listed in production order by default, since most networks show the episodes in that general order. The episodes did not originally air in production order, but readers have the option to sort the table by the original air date if they prefer to see the episodes listed that way. I included the Justice Network air dates because Justice has shown the most syndicated episodes (285 out of the 300) of any network since the show aired in first-run syndication, and the episodes were shown in production order. I collected the episode numbers from GetTV's Rescue 911 show page on a daily basis when the show aired on that network (GetTV has been the only network to display the episode numbers in their listings), but GetTV skipped some of the episodes, so the Justice air dates help to establish the episode numbers that were not confirmed in GetTV's listings.

I am not sure if the way I listed the sources for the syndicated episode list is proper, but it seemed less messy than having hundreds of in-text citations inside the episode tables. Rather than citing a different source for each individual episode, I provided references to general sources where the information can be found (e.g., Fancast's episode list for the titles, TV Guide's episode list for the Justice Network air dates). Since the original airdates were not available from any website, I did a one-week free trial of newspapers.com and compiled the original airdates from the TV listings sections in various newspapers. For these references, I just gave the name of the newspaper and where the TV listings are generally found, which should be enough for readers to find the info for specific episodes on their own if they wish to look it up. I have no plans to go through and cite the newspaper edition and page number for each episode, as that would be very time consuming, not to mention clutter up the page with a gazillion citations. But I do have that information and can add it if the air dates are questioned or challenged.

I also included an "Original Episodes" column, which refers to the two episodes from Seasons 1-6 that the segments were taken from. It would be nice to make the numbers in that column link back to the original episodes that they refer to, so that readers can quickly jump to the original episode without having to scroll through the page. Any help with that task would be appreciated.

Any questions, comments, ideas about the syndicated episode list? (Allgood2000 (talk) 01:20, 20 September 2020 (UTC))

Event Locations

My apologies for making so many edits to the "List of Rescue 911 episodes" page. I want people to know where these incidents are located on Google Street View, but I just don't understand what was inappropriate about my edits. Can you explain this matter and give me some helpful guidance on how I can appropriately identify locations of Rescue 911 incidents? For example, should I say "Location of incident" or "Location of person's house"? Thank you so much! GeorgePahno (talk) 20:32, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

I think it was more that it's not appropriate in general to post the locations of private homes on Wikipedia, regardless of how it is labelled. It's an invasion of privacy and could be seen as doxing. I personally don't see an issue with posting public landmarks (like Bridal Veil Falls or the Dames Point Bridge), but I would refrain from posting the locations of houses and apartments. Allgood2000 (talk) 00:24, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

As you suggested, I have removed the majority of the houses and apartments. I have identified and posted the locations of some places that I believe are appropriate. Those places include train tracks, hospitals, and schools. Are these places acceptable? Please let me know. Thanks! GeorgePahno (talk) 20:35, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

I would think those are fine. I went through and deleted the rest from residences (and a couple of accident locations that were in front of the participants' houses). -Allgood2000 (talk) 00:33, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

I apologize for the delayed response. I was struck by the combination of the issue Allgood2000 mentions and that this kind of individual research seems like a clear violation of the policy on original research. I appreciate your taking the effort to remove them after feedback. --JBL (talk) 23:28, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Some of the Google Street View locations I have posted are approximate, meaning they may not be exact--they may vary slightly in one direction or another from the exact location. If you think the approximate location is not even close to the exact spot, please feel free to make a correction to that location. I am trying to be as accurate as possible with pinpointing locations on Google Street View. GeorgePahno (talk) 11:45, 8 June 2021 (UTC)