Talk:International Food Policy Research Institute

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Review of Eowyns edits
The added material is very relevant to the issue, and its good to bring up since its not a topic many people would think of when regarding food research. The sources seem to be credible and nothing was plagiarized. There were a few grammar and spelling mistakes but it looks like those have been fixed now by another user. So far this is a good contribution. Crussoma (talk) 16:45, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Needs cleanup
Title was misspelled (but now moved) in spite of being correct in the text. I suspect a copyright violation (cut-and-paste is a blessing and a curse) but couldn't find the source. Looks notable enough, but needs to be expanded and wikified.Al 17:29, September 7, 2005 (UTC)

I work for the International Food Policy Research Institute and I am responsible for adding the information. The publication you are pointing to as the place were we have copy and pasted this article comes from a joint publication of us IFPRI and World Fish Center. Please indicate what is the problem. September 9, 2005

Aeverett, please lok at this soon as I am responsible to load information from the International Food Policy Research Institute. The description for IFPRi is our boilerpate and the place you are pointing as if we are infringing copyright is a joint publication between IFPRI and World Fish Center. This is the reason it has our same description. Luza

Acknowledgement
Sections of the article are taken from. -Splash talk 04:07, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Article is entirely POV/Copyvio
Um, this is a bit disturbing, but there is not one reference in this entire article that is not to the official website of the entity. Most (if not all) of the text is copied verbatim from those documents. By Wikipedia standards this is Verboten.

Please familiarize yourselves with Wikipedia's (sometimes arcane to outsiders) rules about sourcing and copyright, as well as proving notability independent of the organization in question. Sources should all be independent third party published material from recognized publications. Content can not be copied verbatim unless that material is is released under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 License / the GFDL / or is public domain. It certainly cannot consist entirely of text taken from the subject's website. How this has persisted since 2005 is beyond me.

Cause I'm cautious, I'm not going to do a complete tear down of this article, but other editors would in similar circumstances.

If I can find one independent published reference I'll add that, and comment out everything except the header. T L Miles (talk) 13:43, 7 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Alright, everyone quotes the IFPRI, but almost no one reports on their structure, workings, history. I can find (literally) 16000 newspaper and scholarly articles that say "according to the IFPRI", but a couple of dodgy sources that discuss it's history, structure, donors, and societal impact. So I'm convinced of WP:Notability, but I can't prove it with citations independent of the subject.


 * That said, this entire article is a copyvio from the IFPRI website. According to all their content is copyrighted, but can be used non-commercially without modification. So from being in the Wikipedia dump that is used by numerous business under a GPL license, we are violating this copyright. Ergo, it ALL has to go and be rewritten from scratch. Honestly, I'm not interested enough to do the research, so I'm going to rewrite the lead, mark it needing proper references, and delete the rest. Best of luck T L Miles (talk) 14:57, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Assessment requested at WikiProject_Law/Assessment
C-class is generous at this time, and need a lot of work to get to GA. The citations are all over the place, both in quality of sources as well as citation style or format. Bearian (talk) 21:45, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

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 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120609164127/http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/EPMR_FourthReport.pdf to http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/EPMR_FourthReport.pdf
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20100628005304/http://www.zcommunications.org/bill-gates-engineers-another-green-revolution-part-3-of-3-by-michael-barker to http://www.zcommunications.org/bill-gates-engineers-another-green-revolution-part-3-of-3-by-michael-barker
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 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20140514024942/http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/pubs/pubs/fpreview/pv09/pv09.pdf to http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/pubs/pubs/fpreview/pv09/pv09.pdf
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20100626075634/http://www.ifpri.org/book-36/ourwork/division/knowledge-capacity-and-innovation to http://www.ifpri.org/book-36/ourwork/division/knowledge-capacity-and-innovation
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20140216080825/http://www.ifpri.org/book-9464/ourwork/researcharea/global-food-policy-report to http://www.ifpri.org/book-9464/ourwork/researcharea/global-food-policy-report
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Whitewashing, altered neutrality
I notice a concerted effort by a newly created account (the name translates as "intern" in Portugese) that seems very promotional and removes all criticism. Ifnord (talk) 14:42, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

My colleague Erica Saito and I have been updating our institutional page (IFPRI) since the content was not updated for a longtime and also we have a new Director General. Hope this clarifies your concerns.
 * My concern was that you removed the section regarding criticism and that many of your edits appear promotional. I have returned the criticism section and urge you to read our conflict of interest guidelines. Ifnord (talk) 16:27, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for the valuable tips and for rolling back the section we deleted by mistake. I read the document you sent to us and now that the issue was clarified, I would like to know if we can remove the maintenance template. Thank you. Erica Saito We were waiting for a response before go ahead and make any changes, but since we didn't hear back yet and we are documenting all the steps we are doing here, I will go ahead and update or add any content I feel that must be improved with more detailed information. Please let me know if you have any questions. Erica Saito 19 June 2020

Review
PLEASE UPDATE THE CONTENT. THANK YOU! Update chairmain. Emorn Udomkesmalee was appointed as new chairperson in 2020. Source: https://www.ifpri.org/board-trustees According to the Annual Report 2019 the revenue is $140,082,000.00. Source: Page 6 https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293748 Add number of employees Source: https://www.ifpri.org/about Update the further reading adding the last annual reports (2019 and 2018) https://www.ifpri.org/publication/2019-annual-report https://www.ifpri.org/publication/2018-annual-report Remove “The newest of these initiatives is” before Compact 2025 because the initiative is no longer new Update Organizational structure to reflect the current structure. Source: https://www.ifpri.org/organizational-structure Mention that IFPRI created a page dedicated to Covid-19 and food related topics. Source https://www.ifpri.org/covid-19 Esaitocgiar (talk) 14:18, 31 July 2020 (EDT)
 * The sources all appear to be IFPRI's web site, known as a primary source, and are not considered reliable. You'll have better luck getting the information added if it's covered in independent third party sources. In the future, rather than asking at the help desk, you can put an edit request template on this page.  Please see WP:EDITREQUEST. 22:17, 5 August 2020 (UTC)TimTempleton (talk)  (cont)