[RP TownTalk] Service Recommendations?

[Dwight Holmes]

i don't mind at all but i can say with confidence that wikis
appreciate traffic and most of all participation without regard to
race, creed, color, or city/town of residence. the more the merrier :)
any of us could do it. (you do need a free account with wetpaint.com
in order to join (and edit pages on) either the Hyattsville or the RP
Wiki.)

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Nancy Augustine <nya_md at verizon.net> wrote:
> My parents live in the "PEN" (Philadelphia-Eastern-??) neighborhood of Takoma Park, and they have a contractors' database that I have consulted frequently. There is a minimal website for the list, and the database itself (it's actually just a big table) is password-protected. It lists the contractors' contact info, date of service, type of service (plumbing, electrical, roofing, whatever) recommender, and individual comments. It's interesting to see the variation in experiences with a single contractor - I'm guessing that some of the workers are better at what they do than others.
>
> I agree that it's not helpful to divide by Hyattsville / Riverdale Park. Unless someone has already done so, I'm curious enough to contact Jim and ask him what would be involved in adding input from our subscribers to his list, ****with permission of the original writer, only.****
>
> Dwight, do you mind if I forward your message below to him, just because I'm lazy and don't feel like re-typing?
>
> ~Nancy
>
>
>
> On May 26, 2009, Dwight Holmes <dwightrholmes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Lissa,
> As far as I know this hasn't been done on this list. Anyone who is so
> inclined could start such a compilation, of course, and the RP
> Community Wiki (rpwiki.wetpaint.com) would be one place that the
> information could be stored for reference and relatively easy
> updating.
>
> I know quite a few subscribers to TownTalk are also on the
> Hyattsville HOPE list (yahoo group). For years, Jim Groves (the
> moderator) tried to get us to not just email about our experiences
> with contractors, but place them in the database online (in the
> HOPE/yahoo groups site). needless to say that didn't work very well.
> More recently, Jim has moved this database to the Hyattsville wiki
> (http://hyattsvillewiki.com), and you can find access to it on this
> page: http://www.hyattsvillewiki.com/page/Database+-+Where+to+find+what+you+are+looking+for!
>
> It seems terribly arbitrary to divide these databases across town
> lines in this case. Once upon a time there was serious talk of
> merging the two wikis, which is one reason why i've resisted any
> temptation i might have had to cull the towntalk archives and create a
> database of local contractor reviews. "After the merger..." i thought.
> I'm frankly not holding my breath for that merger to take place now.
> I would certainly applaud and support (and endeavor to follow up by
> utilizing it in the future) anyone who took the bull by the horns and
> created a Riverdale Park contractor review list or database. Hear
> hear!!
>
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