Talk:Compassion International

message: I just finished doing a bit of an article refresh.  Nothing major.  Added a few new services that Compassion is providing overseas as well as some general cleanup. Rhodizzle (talk) 21:52, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Refresh

message: This article strikes me as being more of a free advertisement than an encyclopedia article. It also doesn't strike me as noteworthy in any sense. Perhaps a conensus should be held for deletion? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.33.132.19 (talk • contribs) 
: Compassion has been sitting on a back-burner in the theorhetical to-do list of my mind for quite some time; I'll look into tinkering with it this evening.  —  pd_THOR | =/\= | 12:01, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Have a look at Wikipedia:Verifiability.--Addhoc 21:38, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: --I'm not disputing the veracity of the article - I'm familiar with it. My concern is that is is just plain out of place. Do we just find any and all articles written about Compassion and post them as references to random parts of the page? Wouldn't the placement of the article fit in with the rewrite?Bgoodlin 21:20, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Bgoodlin If you're looking for suggestions, I think the article could do with loosing the whole section titled Compassion Foundational Beliefs and gaining a brief and factual history.  The word-for-word repetition of of the mission statement and goals etc. isn't really appropriate for an encyclopedia, and I suspect it's a big part of what made the original poster talk about it reading like and advertisement.  We should be writing about the organization in a more analytical way rather than simply repeating their own message.  I've already removed the external links directly to their advocacy and sposonor a child pages - which really are inappropriate.   Also, If you know the organization you may know where to find a little more about ways in which they are significant from an organizational perspective (follow the x methodology, or made front page news because of Y). It also really needs some independent, third party sources about the impact the org has had on the world.  I know this is difficult - our media and universities don't give the charitable/voluntary sector the same sort of coverage as they do business - but without independent verification most claims about impact don't stand up to our requirements for sources. -- SiobhanHansa 09:20, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Free advertising

message: I've removed all the advertising, and added some info and links. More info needs to be found (not just copied off the organizations website). CitiCat ♫ 20:45, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Page looks cleaner, that is for sure. However, why did you remove the partner counties from the list? Compassion International is the Umbrella organization that works with the USA, Australia, UK, Italy.... and each of those countries have their own presidents and what not. Wouldn't that have been 'encyclopedic' to list? That isn't advertising.... I so do not have an eye for this stuff, haha. I'm a finance guy - not an journalism/english guy. Bgoodlin 15:38, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That information certainly could be added back in, but the paragraph as it was written was unusable. I'd add it back in myself, but I'm not sure I understand it - "Today, Compassion helps the impoverished children through the caring support of strong partner networks with central offices in the following countries:". Does that mean the C.I. has offices in those countries, or that they "partner" with organizations that have offices in those countries? If anyone knows the answer to that please add it in. CitiCat ♫ 01:05, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Reset

message: Compassion Taiwan has nothing to do with Compassion International - it just so happens to share the same name.Bgoodlin (i forgot my password)65.112.244.2 15:45, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The article was merged some time back so I've reverted the redirect and added a disambiguation header here.  It's not a standard header, but i think it makes sense to list out the affiliates here since we probably ought to have redirects for them and it makes it clear that the other one isn't affiliated without making it sound like a bad thing.  It is long though, so if someone has another idea that would do the same without the length, that would be good.  -- SiobhanHansa 23:53, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Compassion Taiwan

message: The edit adding the line about the controversial ad campaign seems like an overstatement. I can't find any press anywhere online other than the blog post referenced mentioning Compassion's campaign as controversial. I personally feel like it is just Christian nit picking and irrelevant for Wiki purposes. Thoughts?
Aprila711 (talk) 00:17, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Controversial ad campaign

message: What is the value of preserving citation 13 when it does not link specifically to the Charity Watch information about Compassion? A person accessing citation 13 ultimately has to navigate beyond that page to find/confirm the information referenced and the final destination is citation 14. Thank you for helping me understand. 
To avoid a similar issue, citation 15 should be supported with an updated citation that links directly to the Compassion accreditation page at BBB. G9ine (talk) 16:35, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The value is that we don't simply report on current content. This is an encyclopedia and should address the subject over time. If there's a final destination, we should supply it. And again, the article should be globalized. Walter Görlitz (talk) 16:46, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you feel the update to citation 15 is valuable and correct to do? G9ine (talk) 17:46, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Ratings

message: Information to be added: List Bangladesh as a country of operation for Compassion. 
  
Explanation of issue: A January 2019 edit to the page says Compassion was kicked out of Bangladesh. That is not correct. Compassion still works in Bangladesh.
References supporting change: https://www.compassion.com/about/where/bangladesh.htm
G9ine (talk) 21:36, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Some proposed changes

message: # The current version of the article no longer carries the January 2019 edit stating that Compassion was "kicked out of Bangladesh".
# In verifying current Bangladesh activities, the provided website was difficult to navigate, with the links which purportedly were to provide further information on Compassion's work in the Santal and Garo communities of Bangladesh not working, or else redirecting back to the blog's main Bangladesh page. This page in turn states that it does not publish information on its Bangladesh activities "due to the sensitive nature of our work".
# Despite the lack of information on particular activities in Bangladesh, there is enough outlying information to indicate that some sort of operation may exist in Bangladesh, enough to post a one-word description of it in the article.  
Regards,  Spintendo  03:35, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Reply 24-APR-2019