Talk:Citizens for Global Solutions

message: A large amount of info was deleted from the article without comment. I am restoring that info. The organization should not seek to suppress the info about its history. Ratification 00:52, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletions

message: Salvaged from Student Federalists:
:The Student Federalists was one organization, specifically aimed at students and youth, that promoted U.S. support for federal world government in the 1940s and 1950s. It later merged with other organizations to form the United World Federalists at a 1947 conference in Asheville, North Carolina, becoming that organization's youth division.
24.54.208.177 02:42, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Student Federalists

message: I just had a glance over the article and website, it seems a lot of the article is just a direct c/p from their website. --RaiderAspect 10:37, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright? 

message: Mt. Vernon Declaration was nominated for AFD, but had no consensus to delete. As such, it would be by default kept, but as an editor, I decided to merge it with this article instead. Johnleemk | Talk 12:17, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Same with Pittsburgh Youth Statement - see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pittsburgh Youth Statement. Johnleemk | Talk 12:21, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Material merged from other articles 

message: The most important thing that should be on this page, as it is accessed from the page of either of its two previous organizations, is why the name change? The name is very different from either of the two organizations or any of their predecessors, and so drastic a name change would seem as though the organization had something to hide (I'm not saying that it does). Even on the page of the organization it doesn't say. --Sobolewski 04:31, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, there is on the organization's website an article documenting the name change that was published in The Chronicle of Philanthropy September 2, 2004. Here's the link: http://www.globalsolutions.org/press_room/news/news_chronofphil.html Tfleming 19:41, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing an Important Point 

message: :Image:Cunrlogo.GIF is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:51, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Cunrlogo.GIF

message: March 8, 2018, user Cgsstl.
I am a member of the St. Louis, Missouri, chapter of the Citizens for Global Solutions which is one of the modern incarnations of the World Federalist historical social movement to promote world peace through world government.  The national organization has several parts internally and several affiliations externally.  The national website is Globalsolutions.org.  The national has some limited paid administrative staff but an all-volunteer Board and Committees.  The national has a long and contentious history that left behind bad feelings among some of the historical participants.  I joined the national organization and the St. Louis chapter this year.  I volunteered to help the national reincarnate the WP article, Citizens for Global Solutions.  The people with the background and experience in this area are committed to the idea but elderly.  There is a danger that knowledge about this well-intentioned area of human endeavor may be lost.  I, myself, have no technical experience with WP and I will be relying on the current membership of the national to provide the content and references for the article.  I have read a lot of guidelines and warnings but I have not found the sort of step-by-step orientation to the actual behaviors that are required to revise an existing article.  I will try Chatting if I can find it.   
Our wiki entry for Citizens for Global Solutions was what I would characterize as vandalized by Giantsnowman on 15 October 2013.  By that time I think all of our paid staff had been let go and there was widespread bitterness among the various 'political factions' within the group who remained and those who departed.  So nobody took an interest in responding to the gutting of the article.  I feel that this wholesale deletion was wrong and I would like to undo it and enhance the article based on references and citations provided by the current membership. There have been some subsequent updates to the stub that was left.  Can someone help me restore what was lost and bring the article up to the WP standards?  I am willing to put in considerable effort but, for all my WP reading, I don't have a handle on where to begin.  Thanks.
Cgsstl (talk) 17:01, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The article was not vandalised by Giantsnowman, content was removed because it was promotional and poorly sourced. Your starting point should be to see if you can find reliable, independent, secondary sources about the organisation, and if so indicate those here. Please also read the note I have left on your talk page about editing with a conflict of interest. Thanks, Melcous (talk) 01:01, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Introduction of new user Cgsstl and appeal for help