Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Organizations/Thematically ordered organizations

sandbox

I've setup a little sandbox for myself at Wikipedia:WikiProject Organizations/Categorization. That is the system I would like to implement.Oldsoul 18:07, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

NPOs & NGOs

I think non profit organizations and non governmental organizations should be merged. Scarykitty 08:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Completely agree. Also charities! --lquilter 18:45, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Categories revised

I added three categories (Aim, Focus and Impact and Legal status) following the categorization normally made in international legal mediation. I changed two categories (Foundations and societies) from organization types to legal status because those are defined by legal status and are not considered a type really. Thios done with utermost respect please feel free to contradict if reasonable, just trying to help from my background. By the way, great Project and much needed. Daoken 13:31, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

A few comments on the current proposal.

• "by relationship" and "by impact and focus" are vague
• "by aim" and "by politics" are redundant; and the items in "by relationship" look like they could go in either of these two categories
• "by legal status" and "by organization type" and "by impact and focus" i think could be largely grouped together

I'd like to propose slightly different take (will link elsewhere):

• organizations by geography
  • city
  • national
  • international —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lquilter (talk • contribs) 18:45, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
  • other geography categories that grow up
• organizations by membership (women, lgbt, etc.)
  • professional orgs
  • identity orgs (women, lgbt, minorities, etc.)
  • supraorgs (orgs with org memberships)
• organizations by subject
  • an ordinary subject hierarchy like we have in many other fields that could take advantage of the structural thinking already done for those other categories
• organizations by structure - legal status & structure are largely interdependent--lquilter 18:45, 1 November 2007 (UTC)