Talk:Community development

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[edit] Community building and organizing

Merging Community building and Community organizing into this article makes sense to me. All three articles are stubs and need work. I'm proposing treating Community development with good academic sources equally from the institutional side (governments, universities etc.) and from the grassroots side. I've created Category:Community development and made it even with Category:Communities. It includes as subcategories Community building and Community organizing and others. See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Community#Categories for more information, but let us know here what you think. OK? CQ 15:23, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

An argument for merging community building could be made (although I am much more inclined to keep it as a separate article). However, community organizing ('co') is a very distinct thing from community development ('cd'). In cd, the goal is developing community. In co, the goal could be pretty much anything, but the tool is organizing communities. So, the cd article is about a goal and the co article is a bout a tool (or perhaps a methodology or practice). —GrantNeufeld 09:55, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

I concur on community organizing. The article has grown some since the above post and appears to attract attention from the grassrootsy side. Community building, the article is strangly mismatched with Category:Community building the category. I'm curious how that happened. I guess we'll give it all some time. CQ 06:58, 8 August 2006 (UTC)