Talk:Friends of Coal

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 14 January 2019 and 2 May 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Juliebrooks1.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 21:53, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Notability claims
This article is based solely on the subject's web site and not on independent, reliable sources. The claims that this organisation has 50,000 members is not confirmed. Ecoleetage (talk) 18:57, 22 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I believe it is notable because they sponsor the Friends of Coal Bowl, a notable college sports event (this certainly gets the article off the CSD list). They are also active in politics and defense of the American coal industry.
 * My POV/COI disclaimer: I'm not a fan of coal, and I'm not involved in the coal industry or coal politics. I just find this group compelling, and thought it was weird that the FOC Bowl has an entry but there was no wiki entry for FOC itself.
 * I've given a few refs from news stories external to the FOC website. Tedder (talk) 19:35, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

News stories that need to be integrated
Two links I didn't integrate yet:   Tedder (talk) 19:37, 22 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I have expanded the article, properly identifying the organisation's parent company and its marekting and political activities. Ecoleetage (talk) 21:58, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

I have added some more information on the group. I did this as part of a college project. Some of the information I added may be controversial, but I wanted to try and add information about both views of Friends of Coal.Juliebrooks1 (talk) 19:22, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Is Article Written by Friends of Coal?
This article reads as if it were directly composed by the Friends of Coal organization. Stevenmitchell (talk) 07:38, 29 July 2022 (UTC)