Talk:Friendly society

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[edit] Discuss links here

Editors regularly clean out undiscussed links from this article. Please discuss here if you want a link not to be cleaned out regularly. (You can help!)--VS talk 04:36, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

VS talk has removed an external link to a website which I publish. I believe the link is relevant to this article. I acknowledge as an editor of this article, this is potentially a conflict of interest.

The link:

  • Craft, Trade or Mystery. CHAPTER 4 - When is a Friendly Society Not a Friendly Society? - Accessed April 30, 2005

is an original source used for the development of this article. I believe this link is still relevant to the article. Under Wikipedia:Conflict of interest guideline I should not add external links to articles I have published (even though they may be authoritative texts) except after raising them for discussion on the talk page. Please discuss and decide on the relevancy of the link. --Takver 16:24, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Start Class, Mid-Importance to Cooperatives

This article has some good details on friendly societies, especially about their origins and roots. Some matters that could really add to it include ..

  • How they link with the informal mutual insurance societies such as those still found all over the developing parts of Africa and Asia. Were they really an early example of microinsurance, as this article suggests?
  • More citations and internal links to related wiki articles,
  • A fuller description of the current scale of friendly societies (no. of members, geographic distribution).
  • More information on their role in a typical modern state with universal health care, or at least a highly developed system like that in the US.Brett epic (talk) 16:41, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Possible source of citations

There is a collection of essays entitled "The Voluntary City" that includes a couple on friendly societies. I recall that the author collected some detailed figures on membership and outlays, though I do not have a copy on me to add to the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.65.196.71 (talk) 23:02, 28 May 2008 (UTC)