Talk:Citizens Against Government Waste

message: Brought to this page as a result of a Google search related to Open Source software, I have no interest in taking a position for or against the content here (not now anyway), but I did notice a few mechanical problems that need fixing. Below I quote two paragraphs from the current text, with my personal comments added in square brackets:
Those opposed to the CAGW criticism ["position" or "argument" would be better], most already irked by CAGW's support of Microsoft, maintained that by not allowing the governor's "Freeware Initiative" to proceed it ["CAGW" or "the organization" would clarify the referent; my brain initially reached back only as far as the nearest singular noun, "initiative"] increased the [omit "the," which sounds non-native here] Microsoft's monopoly (which at that time was at a critical controversial stage) [one can only guess what is meant by this "stage" comment] with their operating system and products ["in operating systems and productivity software"].
Newsforge [link leads to a page with no information], an open-source journalism source, [some piece of text is obviously missing here; this is my original reason for deciding to contact you] and reported, "Despite conceding that every man, woman, child, and dog in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts would not actually be forced to use FOSS [why not spell out the acronym in brackets, which would be useful in Wikipedia but not necessary for readers of the original article] for their computing, CAGW stood by its contention that the Bay State's move could give businesses and citizens compatibility problems in exchanging documents with all of the [is "all of the" necessary? If not, use elipses?] state agencies."[8]
This is my first time to "talk back" to Wikipedia. I tried glancing through your advice sections, but don't have time now to do anything but leave this note. Maybe next time...
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I changed the heading to "Postions and Criticisms" rather than "Criticism/Accusations", this is just a list of views of the organization, albeit likely posted by someone who disagrees with them, page really needs to be cleaned up more, but I don't have time now66.72.215.225 14:29, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: non-partisan? you have to be kidding me 12.226.237.65 11:50, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: a few mechanical problems that need fixing

message: Did a cursory search on internal industry database...quite a few documents implying a relationship between the tobacco industry and CAGW, so added a bit of information. For anyone who wants to do a more in-depth search, I suggest you visit: http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.64.108.79 (talk) 15:24, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
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message: Why do you say CAGW is not a charity? User:Dlabtot  According to " Governing Nonprofit Organizations, Marion R. Fremont-Smith, Harvard University Press, 2004" as quoted in Charitable organization section 501 is the definition of a charity in US law.  It appears that in the USA the word charity is not used as widely as in some other countries.  If they are tax deductible under this section they are charities.Rathfelder (talk) 22:05, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: CAGW is a political advocacy group, not a charity according to the commonly accepted definition of the word.  https://www.google.com/?ion=1&espv=2#q=charity+definition Dlabtot (talk) 22:19, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

text: It appears to be a charity as defined in US law, according to the article you refer to. I don't think there is a common English language definition of the word. The definition depends on the law in force in the country concerned.  It's a legal status.  Rathfelder (talk) 22:20, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: And Wikipedia is an international English language encyclopaedia, using common English language definitions of words and terms, not an exclusively American encyclopaedia using definitions that are used only in US law, but not in common everyday English even there... Thomas.W  talk 22:27, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

text:  "I don't think there is a common English language definition of the word."  That is absolute nonsense - and you know it. 'Charity' is a simple, ordinary English word that has been used and understood for centuries. To pretend otherwise is ridiculous. Dlabtot (talk) 00:11, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

text:  Wikipedia operates by consensus, and there never will be a consensus that CAGW is a charity, since it clearly is an advocacy group and not a charity.  Suggested reading: WP:PACT Dlabtot (talk) 19:54, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
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