Talk:Voluntary Service Overseas
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12/6: Amended VSO Canada home page to current URL
This page title needs to be modified. The proper descriptor is Voluntary Service overseas (i.e. lose the extra "s" in "Services"
- Done. Rmhermen 20:12, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] VSO volunteer blogs
With regard to the last 2 edits:
- first, 80.229.80.76 added a link to his/her diary of their VSO placement, noting *I* think that VSO is explained better via the feedback of VSO volunteers (you may disagree)
- second, User:Nposs removed the link citing WP:COI and WP:EL
I feel the first user has a point in that first hand accounts from volunteers are surely a valuable "source" to anyone researching the subject, and surely one of the functions of an encyclopaedia is to serve as a starting point for enquiry on a subject, ie pointing people towards the best sources for further (primary) research is somsething we should encourage?
However I can also see that the precedent of "any link to any personal blog from a volunteer is ok" would not be appropriate, we could be overrun by hundreds, or have individual blogs added by their writers owing to some particular outside agenda.
To that end I thought I would point out the existence of the following site: http://www.vso-stories.net/ A 'semi-official' site which carries many blogs from volunteers recruited in VSO UK / VSO NL / VSO Bahaginan. You can, for example, search for blogs written by volunteers working in a specific area (eg. HIV & AIDS) or country. Might this be an acceptable compromise?
Since Nposs is keen on WP:COI I should note that I work for VSO (including some admin of vso-stories.net in fact); hence suggesting this on the talk page rather than just doing it.
Stevekeiretsu 20:22, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
