Talk:Chinese Staff and Workers' Association

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[edit] Numbers of members, relationship to Local 318

I realize it's important to get the facts right about CSWA. However, in both cases where you made edits, the published sources I have are much different than your edits. If there is a dispute about the number of membes CSWA has, I would suggest that a) a published source be cited, and b) both numbers listed with a mention in the text or in a footnote that there are disputes about how many members the organization has. Additionally, every history I have read about CSWA indicates that CSWA existed first, organized the restaurant workers (who then formed Local 318 with HERE), and then Local 318 broke off. Again, rather than just changing the direction of that relationship, it would be helpful to cite a published source and then point out (either in the text or in a footnote) that the history of the organization is unclear or in dispute.

I've no axe to grind here, I just want to adhere to Wikipedia's guidelines regarding citations. The changes you made are very important to the understanding of CSWA, so it is important that those Wiki guidelines be followed rather than just make fundamental changes without cites. I'm sure you have more access to CSWA history than I do, so I'm sure you could find some citations really easily. - Tim1965 17:05, 4 April 2007 (UTC)