Talk:Relay For Life

Funds
There is a problem in this section. According to their website, RFL use their funds, for:
 * Hope Lodges
 * Road to Recovery: Driving patients to hospital
 * Look Good…Feel Better: Makeup courses for women. Men get a "free brochure".
 * Reach to Recovery: Groups of talk but only for women and only for breast cancert.
 * College Scholarships.

Nowhere is writen they give fund research, prevention, detection, etc. on their website

May need to fix that or try to get more informations about it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.11.43.38 (talk) 12:27, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Newly Added Material
The Relay For Life page was recently updated on 00:22, 19 October 2009 (EST). Revisions were made to update current information regarding the Relay For Life event. Content was added to provide more information on highest-earning fundraising teams, to distinguish between community and college Relay events, to list the countries of international Relays, to add to the history of Relay, to elaborate on the features of Relay, and to discuss how people can join and donate to Relay For Life. Numbers regarding fundraising totals, countries taking part in Relay, and Relay participants and communities in the United States were also added to help the reader gain a better understanding of how large the Relay For Life event has become. References and external links were also added to provide readers with more information on Relay For Life.

Official name
While it may not be the most grammatical of names, the official name of the event and program is Relay For Life, not Relay for Life. It is trademarked that way for marketing purposes, the idea being that the capital f makes it stand out more. Is there a way to remove the redirect and send it back over there? Beginning 01:59, 30 April 2006 (UTC)


 * There should be a "move" tab at the top of the screen and an option that lets you overwrite redirects. I've done it for you now. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note? ) 20:39, 1 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Thank you! Sorry, but I use a TTS reader, so sometimes finding things like that is a bit difficult.  Thanks for being kind. Beginning 01:24, 2 May 2006 (UTC)


 * No problem. Flcelloguy (A note? ) 23:37, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

A list of Relays?
Should there be a list of different locations where relays take place?


 * Probably not; such a list would be quite long and almost infinite. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of knowledge, and for such a common and widespread event as this one, a list is not appropriate. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note? ) 23:43, 19 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree with Flcelloguy. There are simply far too many Relays to list, and the list itself changes constantly.  New Relays spring up, old ones move to new locations, and the like.  Even if Wikipedia were appropriate for this sort of thing, it would just be way too difficult.  However, if there's a site that lists all or most of them on one easy page (as opposed to the ZIP Code search database the ACS offers), that would be wonderful to link.  Beginning 01:45, 20 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I can offer one addition - You can find a list of event webpages at Relay For Life event webpages @ acsrelay.org organized by state and country (for outside the U.S.). I maintain this list on-line (it is NOT affiliated with the American Cancer Society).  And as mentioned before, you can go to American Cancer Society Relay For Life page and search for an event anywhere in the U.S. too.  rflvolunteer 01:45, 13 Nov 2006 (UTC)

Userbox
Hey all, you should add User:Write On 1983/Userboxes/User Relay For Life to your Userpage! --Write On 1983 00:46, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Not encyclopedic
Almost all the sources for this article are from the Relay for Life website. The article should not be a clone of information on Relay for Life, nor be promotional. I'm not saying there is a point of view problem, it just needs to be written in a more encyclopedic tone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.73.85.49 (talk) 16:48, 24 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Agreed, it is written as a promotion or seemingly by someone in the HR department, statements like "fight for a cure" are not academic but purely promotional. quickone 08:42, 20 April 2012


 * This article is only becoming more unencyclopedic, and more emotional and sentimental, more biased, and less informative as time goes on. It is a summarized mirror of the primary source's web site, violating the "not web hosting", "not promotional" and the "not an indiscriminate collection of information" principles of Wikipedia.  It *very* selectively violates or enforces WP:NPOV and WP:RS to eliminate all dissent or questions.  Those just happen to be the very questions raised of the subject's governing organization, by the sources that were removed.  It's unfortunate, because the organizers (especially the volunteers) behind the Relay For Life, are legitimately tasked with confronting ignorance and dissent about the subject of cancer in society.  So we don't want that survival-oriented defiance to become an instrument against an encyclopedia. In any case, the article is eroding in a way that is demonstrably defiant according to the revision history, in my not-so-humble opinion.  And it does so, to the point where it may need to be escalated to Wikipedia's arbitration group, which any article should avoid doing if at all possible. — Smuckola (Email) (Talk) 19:57, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
 * A minor miracle ([diff) has been worked by [[User_talk:HLWilliams821]]. I had given up on this article due to the deluge of emotional and promotional sentimentality.  I am a RFL volunteer, but we must be objective!  I did more copy editing, and cropped and relocated the photographs.  This has all caused me to reevalute all the  .  I invite anyone else to do likewise and discuss it here, and I'll look at it again someday. — Smuckola (Email) (Talk) 11:07, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Expansion
I would suggest the following objectives for expansion, pending the research of particularly highly reliable secondary sources:
 * reevaluate the stuff
 * the expansion beyond just a definition and description, and on into its actual impact upon wider society
 * replace more of the primary sources if relevant, because some are ok
 * proven analysis of the utilization of funds raised, as performed by objective third parties, maybe charity watchdogs. It *definitely* can't cite primary sources (the RFL and the ACS), and I'll note that there is some controversy about the legitimacy of their accounting and allocation.

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