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[edit] Co-operative Difference

Not really a Wiki thing, but anybody with an interest in co-operatives might want to take a look at this from Cooperatives Europe. JonStrines (talk) 15:41, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User Lists in two different places?

Why do you have both a Participant List and a Participants Category?--Doug.(talk • contribs) 04:34, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cooperative (Law) Article?

On the Task List Cooperative Corporations Law is listed. I've raised the issue on Cooperative and Project Law that maybe we should have such an article under the alternative title Cooperative (Law) to address Cooperatives from a legal perspective rather than trying to tell people how they are structured in Cooperative (which currently has numerous factual inaccuracies in that regard). Please see my comments on Cooperative and Project Law and leave comments here or there.

It would be helpful to know how we want to do this before I try to clean up the US legal info on Cooperative.

--Doug.(talk • contribs) 23:37, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi Doug: my recommendation is that you take it and run with it. Structural issues can be dealt with later. Good luck!Brett epic 05:23, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pauline Green

I've done a substantial reworking of this article, and I think I've put in everything I can find: I'd really appreciate a second pair of eyes going over it to check for errors, uncited statements and general compliance with wiki guidelines. I've also asked the biography people to take a look. Cheers Terrypin 10:30, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

Hi, me again. Can anyone help me understand why we have a Category:Co-operative Party politicians (UK) with Category:Labour Co-operative MPs (UK) as a subset? I thought all Co-operative Party politicians were under a joint Labour/Coop Party banner? Or is the difference that some are MPs, whilst other are polirticians? Cheers Terrypin 15:05, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Close. That is one difference. The other is that while many Labour politicians are card-carrying members of the Co-op Party, only a handful are officially endorsed. This is explained a little more at Labour Co-operative. For homework, figure out what category Gordon Brown should be in. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 22:24, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dividend

Until yesterday, Dividend relegated coops to a brief sentence near the end. Some parts of the movement give the dividend other names, such as patronage refund. I have endeavoured to make the coop divi more clear, with a few edits to emphasize that the original article was unconsciously written about the joint stock company. I assessed it as B Class for this project. The coop and mutual sections are still weak, so please pitch in. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 22:24, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Akhtar Hameed Khan for WP:FAC

The article has been put as Featured Article Candidate at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Akhtar Hameed Khan for opinions and comments. --IslesCapeTalk 19:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] John Lewis Partnership?

cross posted from Talk:British co-operative movement

I was surprised to see the John Lewis Partnership listed at British co-operative movement as a worker co-operative, though I knew it is owned by its employees. So I did some reading, then asked about it at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities#Why (and when) did Britain's John Lewis Partnership start calling itself a co-operative?. No responses yet, so if you have any suggestions, please post. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 12:51, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Faster, further !

I just thought that with the summer coming up people might want to consider speeding up and deepening the cooperative section of Wikipedia. There are currently 429 articles in WikiProject Cooperatives, of which 1 is a Featured Article, 2 are Good Articles, 19 are B articles, and the rest fall below B (start or stub). For comparisons sake, the WikiProject for Nova Scotia, one of Canada's smallest provinces, has 653 articles including 38 rated B and above. Wikiproject Taxation (there's an exciting one!) has 782 articles, of which 47 are rated B and above. (And why would people have collected 1,711 articles for WikiProject: Dead Malls? OK, enough comparisons...)

Anyway, in the past couple of months I've tagged quite a few articles to WikiProject Cooperatives, and there seems to be a lot of 'low-hanging fruit' out there. About 25 or so Canadian credit unions with entries (often already claimed by WikiProject: Business and Economics) weren't tagged here. And how about Verghese Kurien, the founder of AMUL, one of the largest and most successful cooperatives in the developing world? Or Luigi Luzzatti, a former Prime Minister of Italy and founder of the Italian credit union system? Or Leone Wollemborg, the founder of rural credit cooperatives in Italy? Or Ian MacPherson (historian) one of the most prolific of cooperative historians? None tagged to WikiProject Cooperatives when I stumbled across them. With a concerted effort, we could probably get up to 1,000 by the end of August. I suspect there are easily that many on Wikipedia; we'd just have to find them!

Then there's the matter of quality. How hard would it be to push the number of B class and higher articles from 22 to 50? I can't speak about how hard it is to get articles moved up from 'start' to 'B', though I think that's basically our own group assessment. In any case, if we reached a total count of 1,000, we would probably have 50 rated B or over without anything moving up a grade. And that would offer some great raw material to get more to Good Article and Featured Article level.

Any comments?Brett epic (talk) 18:32, 17 May 2008 (UTC)