Talk:World Future Council

Leading paragraph

The current introductory paragraph is copied verbatim from WFC page 1589 as it existed today, except for adding the (WFC) abbreviation. This made the article deserving of the Peacock and Cherrypicked tags added today. Samuel Erau (talk) 14:45, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

I think those are the wrong tags. Perhaps {{advert|section}} and {{copypaste}} (or perhaps {{copyvio}}). Still, some tags are needed. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 15:16, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Good. That's a better tag. Yet I really don't care about copyright issues, especially since WFC probably doesn't mind spamming that text. Samuel Erau (talk) 17:01, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

sources

I have restored some content and provided some pretty mediocre sources. The organization certainly hasn't made much of an impression on the world so far, but I think what is now in the article is reasonable. Feel free to keep trimming, however. (Or sourcing - good luck, however.) hgilbert (talk) 09:42, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Why was this Councillors list removed?

• Hafsat Abiola
• Ibrahim Abouleish
• Maude Barlow
• Rae Kwon Chung
• Tony Colman
• Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger
• Hans-Peter Dürr
• Nicholas Dunlop
• Jared Duval
• Prince El Hassan bin Talal
• Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher
• Riane Eisler
• Scilla Elworthy
• Fabio Feldman
• Tim Flannery
• Rafia Gubash
• Cyd Ho
• Wes Jackson
• Ashok Khosla
• C.S. Kiang
• Rolf Kreibich
• David Krieger
• Rama Mani
• Stephen A. Marglin
• Manfred Max-Neef
• Frances Moore Lappé
• Youssou N'Dour
• Katiana Orluc
• Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah
• Vithal Rajan
• Vandana Shiva
• Sulak Sivaraksa
• Count Hans von Sponeck
• Motoyuki Suzuki
• Christopher Weeramantry
• Pauline Tangiora
• Francisco Whitaker
• Anders Wijkman
• Olivier Giscard d'Estaing

99.181.133.11 (talk) 08:02, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Because you insist on delinking some of the names of people who don't have articles, and there is no real reason to list all the Councilors. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 17:08, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Why not link just the wp article Councillors and some of the ...

• Hafsat Abiola
• Ibrahim Abouleish
• Maude Barlow
• Tony Colman
• Hans-Peter Dürr
• Nicholas Dunlop
• Prince El Hassan bin Talal
• Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher
• Riane Eisler
• Scilla Elworthy
• Tim Flannery
• Cyd Ho
• Wes Jackson
• Stephen A. Marglin
• Manfred Max-Neef
• Frances Moore Lappé
• Youssou N'Dour
• Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah
• Vandana Shiva
• Sulak Sivaraksa
• Count Hans von Sponeck
• Christopher Weeramantry
• Anders Wijkman
• Olivier Giscard d'Estaing

97.87.29.188 (talk) 23:45, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

WP:NOT#DIRECTORY suggests that we shouldn't list even a moderate number; I think I would accept 4-6, although the question of why any list of "Councillors" is relevant is still open. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 00:07, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

It would be easier to read in column form. 97.87.29.188 (talk) 00:26, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

If you're going list a large number of councillors (and I still don't think it's a good idea), the proper way to list all of them in alphabetical order, and link all of them, whether or not there's a present Wikipedia article. Columns would be good, although I don't know why you have 1-of-4, 2-of-4, 3-of-4, but not 4-of-4. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 03:46, 16 November 2011 (UTC)