Talk:Foreign Service Institute

message: The fsi-language-courses.net links appear to be down. The website seems to be alive, but not hosting anything right now, perhaps this is temporary?
SgnDave 20:56, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That does appear to be the case. Let's email the fsi-language-courses.net admins. -- Craigtalbert 23:19, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I restored the link. I couldn't find any example where State or Defense has asserted a copyright or other usage right over the material. The external site site is non-commercial and the material is related to this article. The material on the site is either original US works published by the State/Defense or by others that have explicitly allowed the use (at least non-commercially). If anyone at State or Defense has any knowledge of a problem, they should bring it up.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheExtraEditor (talk • contribs) 10:37, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

text: an anon 72.181.213.221 keeps deleting the link.  various editors, including me, have tried to put it back in per consensus here on the talk page.  Anon has not made any case why he is deleting the external link.  It is a link to public domain copy write free materials published by the Foreign Service Institute for language studies - a direct relationship to the article topic - the Foreign Service Institute.  It is analogous to a link to university course catalog on the page of a University, with the added benefit of public domain copy write free material. I believe that there is good reason to include the link, and want to put it back in.  I dont want to edit war with an anon, but they have not added to the discussion and seem to be a single purpose account.  The only logic I see in excluding it is that it puts a commercial site that sells the same copywrite free stuff in a competitive disadvantage, as this site is a free published resource.  If there is a different argument why it should be excluded, I am happy to reconsider my thinking.  I intend to add the link back in if there are no objections.  Bevinbell 08:25, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

text: Could be a foreignserviceinstitute.com sock puppet as you state.  I support the link staying in.  Mikebar (talk) 12:25, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I have restored the link. Linguistic Science (talk) 21:19, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: He edited it out again.  Not sure what is going on, but will put it back in since he has not engaged in any discussion here.  Also, apologies to Linguistic Science for not assuming good faith  Bevinbell 07:30, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Link to FSI publications

message: Adding the text  on your user page gives you the box
:Template:User FSI 
Mikebar (talk) 13:09, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: User Box

message: Just changed "Foreign Service Officer" to more closely track the official role of the institute as described on its website. "The Foreign Service Institute (FSI) is the Federal Government's primary training institution for officers and support personnel of the U.S. foreign affairs community". Maybe it should be further modified to include non diplomatic staff and other members of the foreign affairs community.  Dazibao (talk) 08:21, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: great point, I have updated to track with the language.  I think we should stick with official sources on their mission. Bevinbell 13:28, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories of diplomats