Talk:Free Congress Research and Education Foundation

I am not able to find any copyright violations. American Opportunity cannot censor a historic entry simply because the name was changed. Deleting the entire previous history of the organization is not a valid copyright name, even if the names "Free Congress Foundation" and "Free Congress Research and Education Foundation" are trademarked or copyrighted.] (talk) 22:13, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

I have plenty of citations, but will stop editing and await further information regarding the challenge to the page. (talk) 22:20, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Proposed merge with American Opportunity
No need to have two separate articles for what is essentially the same organization. &mdash; cnzx  00:04, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

The problem is that American Opportunity is essentially a new organization with a different agenda that took the old organization (the Free Congress Foundation), and took its assets, corporate filings, and tax status and then tried to hide its past. I think in fairness to both organization, defunct and ongoing, that the best result for an encyclopedia is to recognize this and set up a disambiguation page.Chip.berlet (talk) 17:47, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

I agree with Chip Berlet. The two organizations are related but not the same thing, and this should be documented. They are not one and the same. --Jobrot (talk)

OK, I plan to create a disambiguation page that points to the oldFree Congress Foundation page after noting that the new name for the continuation of FCF is American Opportunity Any objections? Chip.berlet (talk) 21:54, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Disagree; disambiguation pages are needed when the terms might be confused. To link two pages which a shared history it is simpler to just to use hatnotes to link the two articles, like template:about or template:see also at the top of each article. Klbrain (talk) 21:37, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
 * OK with me, but there was a lot of flak from the new owners of the name trying to hide their past.Chip.berlet (talk) 22:01, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I think that these are to distinct entities and theta there should be a disambiguation page. One group fell apart and the new group bought the name. Sounds like disambiguation to me. Chip.berlet (talk) 02:53, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
 * By policy, if there are only two topics to which a given title might refer, and one is the primary topic, then a disambiguation page is not needed—it is sufficient to use a hatnote on the primary topic article, pointing to the other article. So my view is that we don't need the two-element disambiguation page at Free Congress Foundation created by Chip.berlet in July 2018. I can see why you set it up at the time (my objection coming later). The pages are more than adequately linked in the first few sentences of the lede. Also, disambiguation pages are used for clarify difference between the same word with different meaning - so, between Mercury (element) and Mercury (planet), not between different organizations with the same history. Unless American Opportunity also use the term "Free Congress Foundation" (I can't see evidence of this). Klbrain (talk) 06:27, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I'll take the remaining merge template down because it seems that there is a consensus not to merge, and the discussion is more about the nature of redirects, hatnotes and DAB pages. Klbrain (talk) 06:31, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

Inline sources
Much of the text lacks inline citations so I tagged the article. Thanks, — Paleo Neonate  – 01:40, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

about the old website URL
Just a note that the old URL for this organization (now renamed) http://freecongress.org still functions (after some experimentation to figure out its exact form). Using an 'https' prefix fails on that, and that can cause substantial confusion as using it results in a hang waiting for a nonexistent web page to load. I added this above URL (http://freecongress.org) to the WikiData entry, but for safety (against a possible WikiData problem) I just used the new official website URL for American Opportunity. And YES, the old URL (when used precisely as above) does redirect to the official website for American Opportunity as one would hope it should, but again for safety it might be best to not specify the old URL (from either WikiData or otherwise) in case of either an error with its prefix or it just going away entirely. L.Smithfield (talk) 06:44, 27 April 2023 (UTC)