Talk:List of anti-war organizations

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Contents 1 Scope 2 Removed pages 3 Anti "war" organisations 4 Inclusion/Notability

[edit] Scope

What is the intended scope of this list? Just present-day? Or historical as well? Just English-speaking world (everything here is). Or broader? -- Jmabel | Talk 07:52, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

The list was created by Schuminweb in orrder to srink the anti-war template (See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anti-war#List of anti-war organizations). I think that its scope should be to cover all specifically anti-war groups and groups that engage in a significant amount of specifically anti-war activity (to cover groups like CND which theoriticaly is focused on Neclear disarmament but actually resently has been active as an anti-war group). It should cover both current and historical groups and groups from all countires. At the moment it is heverly tipped towards current English/North American groups hopefully this will change. I have recently created an article on the South-African group Anti-War Coalition for example.--JK the unwise 08:15, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

I just took the list of anti-war organizations from the Wikiproject page and made a few modifications to make it an article, with the purpose being to make our template smaller. I didn't give it much thought beyond that functional purpose. SchuminWeb (Talk) 15:21, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Removed pages

I have removed International Campaign to Ban Landmines because it is not an anti-war group and Religious Society of Friends because anti-war activities are not a primary part of its activities. I left in Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee because I don't know much about them, they seem to be borderline.--JK the unwise 15:04, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Anti "war" organisations

I have removed Students for Sensible Drug Policy. I can see were the poster is going with the idea that this organisation is Anti the "'War' on Drugs" but for the sake of simplicity I think we should keep this page for groups that oppose millitary wars.--JK the unwise 10:19, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Inclusion/Notability

Should we pare this list down to only those organizations that are sufficiently notable to have Wikipedia articles? This would potentially (A) limit the scope of the article to prevent it from becoming overly long, and (B) possibly encourage the creation of articles about truly notable anti-war organizations, but had not yet gotten coverage on here. SchuminWeb (Talk) 03:47, 4 October 2007 (UTC)