Talk:International Organisation of Good Templars

To mark the article's rebirth I swept the talk page. Jobjörn 12:40, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

To do

 * History, agenda, just about everything. Jobjörn 12:40, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

not sure if this is the right place..

this quote "and also made no distinction by race." needs further evidence of truthfulness. It is stating that Freemasons made distinction by race, which is incorrect.

also many spelling errors... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.15.47.3 (talk) 15:11, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

National organisations
Are a) the list of every single country in the history section, b) the redlink farm of national bodies, necessary? Gordonofcartoon 20:21, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
 * There ought to be some mention of national bodies. Not sure all of them have to be listed, of course. Jobjörn (talk) 00:30, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

notability
fail to see how this lacks notability since the organization has spread all over the world Addicted2Sanity (talk) 18:05, 12 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I'll fix this article up some day. Definitely notable though. Jobjörn (talk) 00:30, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Naming
I believe the organisation has changed name to simply "IOGT International", i.e. that the letters IOGT don't mean anything--they're there for historical reasons only.

However, I'm not able to find a source that clearly states this. The closest I've come, is the IOGT International Constitution. 193.71.107.251 (talk) 09:53, 5 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Of course, IOGT does mean something, else its value to the organization is nil. If it is an acronym for "International Organization of Good Templars," then "IOGT International" is quite redundant: International Order of Good Templars International. If, however, it is actually an historical acronym for "Independent Order of Good Templars," then IOGT International would make more sense and would be grammatically correct (a bonus!). I suspect, based on my exploration of various Web sites and documents related to IOGT, that the organization itself is not completely certain how to translate (or interpret) the acronym, or perhaps is divided on the question. In any case, the historical name, "Good Templars," evidently is no longer favored as a brand. PlaysInPeoria (talk) 17:29, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

divisions
Id like to add that a branch was founded in Canada(new brunswick) after 1870. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.34.6.132 (talk) 00:34, 18 July 2009 (UTC)