Talk:Public interest

Revision
I have removed the tag calling for more citations (placed in 2009?)after making the following revisions to this article: I removed portions of the article that did not have citations. In the "public interest law" section I supply citations, add a bibliography, and expanded the section by discussing other countries. Rprecht (talk) 08:41, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Deletion
Somebody (anonymous) decided that they didn't like the article so they deleted it by removing all but two lines. I put it back. I guess they thought it wasn't in the Public interest!---LymanSchool 01:21, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Utilitarism
This page should be completed. It seems difficult to talk about public interest without mentionning Mills' notion of utilitarism 11:43, 30 April 2009 82.45.133.150 (talk) 10:44, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Changing the Lede section.
The entire lede is: "Public interest is "the welfare or well-being of the general public" and "appeal or relevance to the general populace: a news story of public interest".[1]"

That's the two part dictionary word definition, which the article rightfully does not cover (part 2). I will correct to: "Public interest is "the welfare or well-being of the general public".[1]" Obviously this still needs work.

What we are talking about is "the common interest," not "a common interest, nor common interests." I notice that "the common good," a near synonym is not mentioned. I wonder why? ("A common good" and "common goods" likewise have utterly different definitions.)

(I now put even my minor and obvious edits in Talk, since the Elitist Wiki Bully Club now blindly reverts all non-Club member changes without comment.) Cheers! --2602:306:CFCE:1EE0:46C:990E:60AA:8D90 (talk) 20:20, 10 May 2018 (UTC)Doug Bashford

Wikipedia Ambassador Program course assignment
This article is the subject of an educational assignment at Michigan State University supported by WikiProject United States Public Policy and the Wikipedia Ambassador Program&#32;during the 2011 Spring term. Further details are available on the course page.

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