Talk:World ORT

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• I thought it should be quite important to add World ORT to the Wikipedia due to is important role in world education. It is one of the biggest education centre out there. Gadster 05:18, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

• I added a brief history of ORT to the page as well as a few additional categories. It's been a significant presence on the educational scene and in jewish communities since 1880 so it seemed appropriate to flesh this entry out a bit to reflect the group's longevity. Sometime later this week, I intened to go through and fix some of the related links. In addtion, there are have been some structural changes to the national organinzations here in North America and the page was updated to reflect that. dmnyc 18:03, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

• I added information on the current and ongoing programs being worked on by World ORT and changed the external linking for the Israel section since the majority of those schools are now being overseen only by ORT Israel and not World ORT. If there isn't an ORT Israel page, possibly one should be created and those schools listed there. dmnyc 21:55, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright violation?

The "History of ORT" added by User:Dmnyc seems to be closely based on ORT America's "History of ORT" page here, "Copyright © 2007 ORT America, Inc." Do we have any right to copy this? Rwendland 22:05, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

• well, it would be closely based on it since that's where I got the information. I did ask them about using it (I spoke to the communications director as well as the national president) and they said to go ahead. Is there something else I should do to document that? Or should I rewrite it further? I am happy to do either one.dmnyc 14:13, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
  • after thinking it over, I have decided to re-edit the piece. The ORT America piece is certainly correct as far as it goes and is a good starting point but there are places where it needs fleshing out and more detail in any case. dmnyc 14:38, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm quite happy with that. Just wondered what was going on. I notice in the history the whole article was moved around 22 May 2007 "create temp non-copyvio version". But the article now seems quite similar to what I remember from before then. Was there a real copyvio problem earlier? Rwendland 20:20, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Don't know what was going on May 22 -- I didn't even know the page existed until later on. It was really quite short when I originally saw it - had only a brief summary, no history and a LOT of external links. And whoever had created it back in 2005 hadn't done anything to it in ages and ages. I can't imagine it would have had any copyvio issues. There really wasn't much to it and it didn't sound like any of the ORT's pieces I'd ever read. Still, I did notice, at that time, some outdated links and thought it was a shame the page was so sketchy so I decided to adopt the page, so to speak. I added some category links, shuffled the external links around the reflect the current structure of the organization (previous version seems to have been based on some outdated information. Then I added the history - which I took in great part from the Ort America site. Your note today gave me some motivation to actually start re-working it. So I should thank you. It needed doing. dmnyc 22:02, 25 July 2007 (UTC)