Category talk:International organizations

message: This category contains a mixture of some very different entities:
# international organizations, in the legal sense of organization having international legal personality and having as its membership states and/or other organizations of the same nature
# international organizations, in the political sense of bodies having some internal organization, e.g. permanent staff, a secretariat, etc., established by groups of states, but which lack legal personality
# mere conglomerations, blocs, conferences  of states or treaties between them, without any permanent staff/institutions nor any legal personality (I would argue that these are not international organizations by any reasonable definition of the term -- they are not organizations at all.)
# NGOs, i.e. private organizations of an international nature (e.g. aid groups, political/human rights/labour/enivornmental lobbying groups, technical/professional groups, commerce/business groups, etc.)
I believe the categorisation should clearly distinguish all three, and especially (1)&(2)&(3) from (4). Not only are they very different things (unfortunately sometimes called by the same name), but many readers will be more interested in one than the other. (e.g. myself, I am primarily interested in (1)-(3), and am interested in distinguishing (1) from (2) from (3).) Other readers would be more interested in (4), and find (1)-(3) not interesting to them.
So, I propose to reorganize this category as follows:
* Anything under (3) shall be moved to another category (Blocs of states???)
* Anything under (4) shall be moved to an NGO/INGO category (???)
* For now, (1)&(2) shall be kept together. From the perspective of international law, they must be kept apart; whereas from the perspective of international politics, the difference often doesn't count. (1)&(2) alone shall live in this category.
If no one objects, I might put this into effect, if I can be bothered.... --SJK 08:06, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  IGOs v. NGOs 

message: This category is very messy, it seems.  Can we break this out into two or more subcategories for organizations which are transnational/treaty organizations (NATO, OAS, BIS, &c) and those that are just organizations with a large international presence (IEEE, ACM, &c)?  Anyone willing to fire the first shot on new category names? -James Howard (talk/web) 22:50, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Realignment 

message: I have began the above discussed restructure. As a start, I'm moving all the INGOs to :Category:International nongovernmental organizations --SJK 12:08, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restructure started 

message: What about Categories of Orgs by region and by type?
e.g.
Americas /
Europe /
Asia /
Oceana /
Africa
and type such as:
:Business and Economic -- Organisations
:Development -- Organisatons
:Diplomatic -- Organisations
:Financial -- Organisations
:Judicial -- Organisations
:Societal Cause -- Organisations
::Development -- Organisations
::Health -- Organisations
::Human Rights
::Poverty
:etc.
CaribDigita 22:14, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about Categories listing orgs based or headquartered by region and type?