Talk:List of federal agencies in the United States

message: Does that belong on the list? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scarykitty (talk • contribs) 
:It's there now under "Government entities created by acts but are independent or other entities".  It seems to have somehow been spawned by the CIA, but the exact mechanism is unclear from the article In-Q-Tel. -- Beland (talk) 20:59, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  In-Q-Tel 

message: It seems an industrious(?) IP has been editing the page. I just reverted some crud (tagged as e-mail address) put here a few days ago. The edits have left the page a hopeless, if not informative, mess. I really don't know what's needed, and what's not. I don't even have anything to contribute to government articles. However, we need a Wiki-Broom in here STAT. 2J Bäkkvire Maestro what are you looking at? 21:15, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Concur. The article has been heavily vandalized.  There is a LOT of bizarre junk in here but I don't have the time to compare it against official agency org charts and clean it all up.  --Coolcaesar (talk) 07:33, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  House-cleaning necessary 

message: I have already removed a lot of vandalism and garbage from this article.  It is still in very bad shape and I am going to do some more work on it. Safiel (talk) 05:36, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major rewrite and cleanup 

message: Considering the number of inaccuracies on this page and the length of time it will take to get this article in order, I have put up the Disputed tag. At the very least, visitors to this page should be warned that there are problems here. Safiel (talk) 15:58, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disputed 

message: Not sure why the IP address is adding IG's to the article, but I am tagging it.  In addition to be totally irrelevant, it is non alphabetized and misspelled. Safiel (talk) 21:04, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  IG's 

message: I have been comparing each section to each departent's official website. I've cleaned up a lot of it so far. One question- should we remove the judicial branch, the White House, etc. This is supposed to be a list of gov AGENCIES, not all gov entities.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Diego cullen89 (talk • contribs) 01:37, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: A few months ago when I was still actively editing this list, I got a bit too aggressive in adding to this.  Looking at it now, it needs to be severely pruned. I will start to do so. Safiel (talk) 04:37, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  cleaned up  

message: YOU GUYS FORGOT TO PUT Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers IN THE LIST.  I ADDED INTO THE PROPER SECTION.  I KNOW ITS TIES TO THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE HAVE RECNETLY BEEN FURTHER LOOSENED, BUT THEY ARE ARE STILL SOMEWHAT CONNECTED, SO IT IS IMPORTANT FOR IT TO BE ON THIS LIST.  THANKS.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.44.225.48 (talk) 05:08, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  YOU GUYS FORGOT TO PUT Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers IN THE LIST. 

message: Over two years with a cleanup tag is long enough.
I've added easily consulted References and Notes sections (sfn, please - no need to clutter References when re-citing just a few authorities, by page number if needed). But the intro is OK for now and doesn't need an unspecified cleanup tag. I've removed it and added a specific list disputed tag just above the list itself, keeping the 2010 date of the original tag to reflect the disputes chronicled above. 
I've deleted a few obvious non-agencies (Congress Chartered nonprofit corporations, e.g. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, etc.) to a single See Also reference. We need much more of that pruning: (a) add See Also link to article on entire class of non-Federal agencies (not each specific entity, please), and (b) get rid of stuff covered by that See Also. Whole sections that are not federal agencies can go away. If you want to help right now, please fill in the See Also section with Wikilinks to articles on classes of non-agency entities.
But the whole willy-nilly free form link farm needs to go entire. It's embarrassing. And unmaintainable.
As documented in the intro now, there is no single official list available that doesn't differ from another official list. It is important to state that loud and clear in intro, as I have done.  That draws the line for those who would try to keep this list in perpetual dispute. It is equally important to state what particular list or rule-of-thumb we are using as our inclusion criteria.  That stated, and with strict adherence to no original research policy, future disputes will end quickly.
We need to adopt a sane working definition as our criteria for inclusion on Wikipedia's list. That's been done, and in machine readable form for ready transformation into table, copyright free by authority I recommend we follow. I'll put that definition in article when ready with list so you can compare. 
What this LIST really needs is a LIST format - sorry pretty Department pictures, no room in an accurate and informative Agency list for you. 
I'm working on a formatted, hyperlinked, sortable table of just US Federal Agencies, as referenced, with built-in Wikilinks to agency articles and statutory links. WP:NOR, just formatting best available US Govt. data. Paulscrawl (talk) 01:54, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed solutions for perpetually disputed List of U.S. Federal Agencies 

message: The Independent agencies and government-owned corporations section contains further subdivision into categories (Elections, Administrative agencies, Civil Service agencies...). Where is this subdivision coming from? To be honest I would like to have the data. Or is it original research? Thank you. Griii2 (talk) 12:45, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Independent agencies subdivision 

message: I am reviewing the White House budget https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Supplemental and the documents contain partial list of agencies unfortunately in a very confusing structure. Some of the agencies mentioned in the budget that are also mentioned in the Federal Register website but are not in this list are:
* https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/institute-of-american-indian-and-alaska-native-culture-and-arts-development
* https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/nuclear-waste-technical-review-board
* https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/navajo-and-hopi-indian-relocation-office
* https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/military-compensation-and-retirement-modernization-commission
Other agencies mentioned in the budget but not in the Federal Register website but are not in this list are:
* http://www.umwafunds.org/Pages/default.aspx
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Regional_Authority
Griii2 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 21:29, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other agencies not in the list 

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message: I know its probably a big project and if I knew what the lesser known agencies do I would help contribute.  But some agencies could use hyperlinks with their own pages or at least more of an explanation on this page.  Like I've never heard of an executive branch agency that is purely statistics.  So for example make a page for it.  Or do the following,
Statistics - this agency does this and that (or perhaps no longer exists)
And try to expand more on the agencies listed with no hyperlinks.  Ideally each would have its own page in its own right but just improving this article could be someone knowledgeable with an agency writing a sentence or two that gives a brief explanation of what goes on there.73.226.47.72 (talk) 22:58, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Agencies that need more explanation 

message: I'm tempted to give the armed forces their own section with how huge and layered the DOD section is becoming.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:346:580:AE:32B:4262:7C84:BB98 (talk) 13:36, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dept of Defense Section looks pretty bloated.