Talk:Donations for victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

message: This page looks like a feeding trough for scam artists.  
I caution anyone who wishes to donate help for the victims.  Verify the integrity of any of the links found here; otherwise you may very well be contributing to the mob.  
:The Oxfam links in particular looked suspicious but I vetted each of them (as of an hour ago; someone may have changed them since then) by visiting the regional Oxfam site (oxfam.ca, oxfam.org.au, etc.) and clicking the donation links to verify the donation URL's.  I haven't vetted any others.  I put a warning in the Sri Lanka section, from Mary Ann Mohanraj's online journal about South Asian religious charities who may be funding violent activities.  Maybe that should be moved near the front of the page.  In fact there's enough listings now that it may be appropriate to protect the page at this point and start vetting the existing entries systematically.  If someone wants to add a new entry, they can put it on the talk page and a sysop can add it after others here have vetted it. Phr 10:12, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION

message: From what I can make out, not many of the other language Wikipedias have links for donations, so I've just propagated this message across the other articles' Talk pages.  
::The following text box, duly translated, might be appropriate for inclusion in this article:
For a partial list of worldwide charitable organisations accepting donations to assist the victims, see :en:Donations for victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.
Fingers crossed that I identified the various Talk pages correctly... And apologies in advance to any non-English editors who come here looking for the idiot who defaced their Wikipedia by putting a foreign-language text box in the wrong place. Sluj 21:32, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Donations

message: COMMENT: PLEASE MOVE THIS DISCUSSION TO Talk:QuakeAID.  THANK YOU.
:Discussion moved.  BanyanTree 23:59, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  QuakeAID 

message: This page has been mentioned in a Times of India article.  Thanks to all the people contributing to and maintaining it.  BanyanTree 23:54, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  in the news 

message: This was taken from the bottom of the article page.  BanyanTree 04:47, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  TRO moved from main page 

message: I would like to add information on easynews.com's gig donating program, but I don't want to be accused of spamming, so I'm running it by here first. Easynews is a usenet service provider which offers 20 gigabytes of traffic for $10.00. They have recently switched their billing system to allow "rollover gigs", where unused gigs are carried over to the next month. By doing so, many people who do not reach their limit have accumulated a large amount of gigs.
They are allowing members to exchange 1 gig for a $0.50 donation to the Red Cross . They are reputable and have a long history of philanthropy   most notably as a sourceforge mirror and offering credit for running a distributed computing client designed to evaluate potential cancer medications .
Any thoughts?
Darrien 14:08, 2005 Jan 4 (UTC)
Would have been a good idea, but from  
:Easynews users have donated 100000.54 gigs for a total of $50000.27 to be donated to the Red Cross.
:$50,000 of the total amount raised has been sent to the Red Cross International Response Fund as of Jan 3rd, 6:00pm PST.
:We have reached our goal of 100,000 donated gigs! No more donations will be accepted. However, you can still help with the relief efforts here.
-- AlexR 16:50, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Easynews.com 

message: Found this at the bottom of the page (Externals Links), perhaps that should be included in the list of charities. The following has been commented out in the meantime :
--*Click here to donate to Tsunami Relief Drive:<P>
The Franciscan Brothers orphanage in the Village of Kurukalmadam, Sri Lanka.<P>
The orphanage, run by the Franciscan Brothers, was not destroyed. Sixty-three orphans were saved and survived on the roof for 4 days with no provisions or water. The entire village was destroyed. The water has receded and left devastation. Three thousand refugees are living on the friary’s 10 acre compound. The refugees are orphaned children, the elderly, the sick, and pregnant women. Supplies are running out. There is a terrible fear of cholera from contaminated drinking water.<P> Click above to donate
- Mailer Diablo 19:20, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: External links

message: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Donations for victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake 07:49, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: vfd discussion