Talk:Midwest Book Review

Is Midwest Book Review A Non-Profit Organization?
One objective question is whether Midwest Book Review is a non-profit organization. If not, in what general category of organizations does it fall? How is it governed?

Tashiro (talk) 00:10, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Perhaps you could help in researching WP:RS sources for this desired info. -- Cirt (talk) 04:12, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

I didn't find them when I looked for names including "Review" on this website:http://www.irs.gov/charities/article/0,,id=96136,00.html  As the saying goes, "it's hard to prove a negative case". Tashiro (talk) 15:17, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
 * This from their website seems to indicate that they are:
 * The Midwest Book Review is an organization of volunteers committed to promoting literacy, library usage, and small press publishing. We accept no financial donations from authors or publishers in exchange for our services, in order to avoid any conflict of interest issues. All of our services and resources are provided free of charge to writers, publishers, and the general public. We do permit the donation of postage stamps to the Midwest Book Review, as a gesture of support and appreciation for what we seek to accomplish on behalf of the small press community. -Borock (talk) 22:37, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

I'll agree with "seems to indicate", but it is not a clear statement that they are. Tashiro (talk) 01:36, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

I searched again today and I don't find Midwest Book Reviews listed as a charity or non-profit by the IRS on http://www.irs.gov/app/pub-78/ so it's correct to say that they are not recognized as a non-profit by the IRS. Tashiro (talk) 02:32, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Neutrality of article is questionable
The first three citations refer to articles that are not actually linked, and based on their titles, not relevant to the page information. Many of the other citations are about the editor-in-chief of the book review site, but they are linked to his own articles about himself on his site, not to independent sources. druekberg (talk) 02:42, 23 June 2022 (UTC)Druekberg