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Former good article nominee911 (emergency telephone number) was a good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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Egypt also uses 911

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I live in Egypt, and calling 911 would do the emergency call as well as 112 Soviera0 (talk) 12:55, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Is this on a mobile phone? GSM and successor (UMTS, LTE, etc.) mobile networks are set up to accept 112 or 911 anywhere in the world. See section 7.1 of ITU recommendation E.161.1. Justinbb (talk) 17:38, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

911

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This is not a close run thing. The use of 911 is so prominent that we really should just move the page to 911, WP:NATURALDAB be damned because this is not at all the WP:COMMON WP:ENGLISH name and we're giving it WP:UNDUE importance pretending it is. Similarly, it is by far the most common meaning of "911" among most native English speakers and most Wikipedians. The disambig page shouldn't be parked at the main real estate.

If we keep it here at 9-1-1 only for the natural dab, we should make that clear within the article and still use 911 consistently in the running text outside of the intro sentence and Name section. — LlywelynII 20:28, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Others have repeatedly made the same point in the archives above, apparently. — LlywelynII 22:01, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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UK emergency number

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In the UK the emergency number map is 999, not 112. The map needs to be corrected. 163.120.111.178 (talk) 22:38, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

112 works quite well in the UK. — kashmīrī TALK 12:09, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It might work, but it's not the number that is popularly used. That has been 999 since 1937, and the fact that 112 has be added "on top" doesn't change that. Nick Cooper (talk) 21:10, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 21 January 2024

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. By numbers this is 5-3 4-4 in support of the move. Most opposers cite WP:NATURAL; however, I note that NATURAL says Using an alternative name that the subject is also commonly called in English reliable sources, albeit not as commonly as the preferred-but-ambiguous title, is sometimes preferred. (emphasis mine) Why exactly natural disambiguation should be preferred for this article is not discussed, which weakens the "oppose" opinions. (closed by non-admin page mover) feminist🇭🇰🇺🇦 (talk) 15:05, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edit: Awesome Aasim should be "oppose" regarding the proposed new title, so numerically this should be 4-4. However, the difference in the strength of arguments still stands; the "oppose" arguments are generally weaker than the "support" arguments. I therefore still find consensus to move based on reasons based in policy, sources, and common sense. feminist🇭🇰🇺🇦 (talk) 02:54, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]



9-1-1911 (emergency telephone number) – The current spelling "9-1-1" is hardly ever used[1] and is therefore a suboptimal search term / page title for Wikipedia. I'm proposing to rename the article to 911 (emergency telephone number) that would also bring about consistency with nearly all other articles about emergency numbers:

kashmīrī TALK 12:19, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

162 etc., I didn't see your reply. On looking, I think that N11 codes are less important than Emergency telephone numbers. By a long way. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 10:35, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Besides, all the other articles on N11 codes use a hyphenated spelling that's not attested by nearly any source listed there. That spelling seems like a poor attempt to disambiguate, in violation e.g. of COMMONNAME. In my view, they should all be moved to "XXX (telephone number)". — kashmīrī TALK 15:48, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am sick

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Need a ambulance 2601:249:1100:BE9:B09E:DD1E:AA31:76CB (talk) 23:40, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is not the place to call an ambulance. This is the Wikipedia page for the 911 emergency number. If you wish to call 911, please do that and not add an extra section to this talk page. 86.13.247.51 (talk) 14:04, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]