Talk:Rotary International/Archive 4

Rotary International or Rotary - which is the page about?
The recent removal of the geographic coordinates or RI "An organization does not have a location as such" and the subsequent undo have prompted me to bring up a thought I've been mulling over....

The page is titled 'Rotary International' but it is really about the Rotary clubs and their organization, history, etc. Rotary International is the headquarters organization which has offices in several countries (7 I think) with it HQ in Evanston, Illinois, USA.

Should this be made clear in the article? or maybe have separate pages? or a name change to 'Rotary'?. Ariconte (talk) 05:18, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Membership Demographics
From the article:

Its membership tends towards the middle-aged and wealthy. This is often because people who join Rotary do so for life and become wealthy and middle-aged through time and with the help of the inter-personal skills developed as a Rotarian. The clubs have some exclusivist membership criteria: reputation and business or professional leadership is a specific evaluation criterion for issuing invitations to join, and they limit representation from a specific profession or business to a percentage of a specific club's membership. One can contact a Rotary club to enquire about membership but can join a rotary club only if invited; there is no provision to join without an invitation as each prospective Rotarian requires a sponsor who is an existing Rotarian.

This block says the membership tends to be this way based on networking done as a Rotarian, but then continues to say that membership is restricted. I would suspect membership tends to be middle-aged and rich (and possibly male WASP) because that would be the demographics invited to join more often than not. This section needs more research or needs to drop the line, "This is often because people who join Rotary do so for life and become wealthy and middle-aged through time and with the help of the inter-personal skills developed as a Rotarian."

It may be the goal of the Rotary Club to offer networking and a way for personal advancement, but without some neutral polling, I don't think it is fair to say this is a reality. Travis Garris (talk) 19:37, 6 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Please correct / improve the article. Citing a reference would be good.  Thanks for contributing! Ariconte (talk) 20:41, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Copyright
I have just deleted a large chunk because I think it was coppied mostly verbatim from the Rotary International Mamual of Procedure (see http://www.webcitation.org/5Ynq4BtW3).

I think other sections of the article may have same problem. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_violations for guidance.

Ariconte (talk) 21:06, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Categories
For some reason there has been an edit war over the categories for this article. Note that this subject is also a category category: Rotary International. Right now, that category is a subcategory of category:Fraternal and service organizations and category:poliomyelitis. Rather than removing the service org category from that Rotary category, perhaps it would make more sense to move the categories on this article to the Rotary category. Any objections? ·:· Will Beback ·:· 05:08, 21 November 2008 (UTC)


 * No objection here.Ariconte (talk) 06:23, 21 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Sounds reasonable to me. The edit war has involved a long-time problem editor with a POV issue, for the record, which is why I semiprotected for a week. Tony Fox (arf!) 04:48, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Roman Catholic ban
The article should perhaps discuss the ban that was given by the Holy See against Catholics joining Rotary. The ban dates from the 1950s, and I don't think it has been in force since Vatican II, but it's interesting to note the historical motives for the interdict. ADM (talk) 05:59, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Reference to Hunter S. Thompson
It is unclear to me why a a reference to Rotary International on The Office is culturally significant, but one regarding Fear and Loathing is trivia.Yosh76063 (talk) 06:48, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Category:Rotarians
Can anyone please create a Category:Rotarians? We have one for fellows of the foundation and for leaders, but not for members at large. Many politicians and businesspeople are members, so this could be useful. I don't know how to create one.Zigzig20s (talk) 20:17, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Nazi Germany Focus
The history during wartime seems to be a diatribe focusing only on Nazi Germany and its treatment of Rotary clubs. I feel this should be a separate article because it diverts from the focus on Rotary International and instead obsesses about how the Nazis dealt with Rotary. A separate article could carry this forward but here it detracts.

Similarly there could be discussion about how the Japanese dealt with Rotarians, established or comandeered clubs in Mukden, dealt with Rotarians in occcupied Shanghai etc --but this does not help give any background on the history of Rotary International - which is the purpose of this article.

Rotary is made up of clubs and clubs of members.

Moreover "War Time" is really dealing with the Second World War - and only here from a European point of view.

Frankly I think this is offensive to the international nature and spirit of Rotary. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Primorye (talk • contribs) 14:35, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

I agree
The section seems irrelevant considering how benign the content is and irrelevant it is to the international and current context of the club. It's not the the club was a secret Nazi organization. Think it was probably crafted by someone with a tinfoil hat.

ATHOL EVANS NURSING HOME ZIMBABWE
Hello there, could any kind person supply me with the E mail address to the Athol Evans nursing home in Zimbabwe. My E Mail is hdawson@uwclub.net. All the best Hugh — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.103.62.29 (talk) 16:14, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Unclear statement
quote:"In Germany, no club had been formed before 1927, because of "opposition from the continental clubs".[12]" - I don't really get what "opposition from the continental clubs" means - may s.o. clarify ?18:38, 11 October 2012 (UTC)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.195.69.112 (talk)

relationship with masonery
There are claims that rotary is in fact part of or run by the masonery, still there is no mention of this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.100.203.163 (talk) 16:19, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * We need a Reliable sources. I have seen that in what I might call fringe documents like the Hamas Charter, but no one offering any evidence.--Bellerophon5685 (talk) 03:25, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Minority membership
How can the Chinese, Japanese, Indians, et al., be 'minorities' in their own countries, since this is what this section talks about? If it is instead talking about global non-white membership (the implication being that whites constitute the largest global contingent of Rotarians, racially), then why use the term 'minority', which is ambiguous in this case?

Oecology (talk) 03:06, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Agreed with above - this section is absurd! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.208.156.248 (talk) 08:56, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Established in 1905
It was established in 1905. Really..? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merovingian_dynasty#mediaviewer/File:Cover_of_Merovingian_sarcophagus_Musee_de_Saint_Germain_en_Laye.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.249.160.102 (talk) 21:34, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

I don't know... maybe it was established in 1905 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IX_monogram

What do you think..?

Bad Sources
Most of these "sources" are links from a Rotary website of some sort, and many of them are dead.162.206.141.210 (talk) 14:46, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

External links modified
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Please get someone at Rotary Int'l headquarters to add a section explaining the ten or more types of Rotary entities. Wiki only explains levels (District/Zone) and one type of Rotary club
Please get someone at Rotary Int'l headquarters to add a section explaining the ten or more types of Rotary entities. Wiki now only explains levels (District/Zone) and one type of Rotary club (the old f2f clubs).

There are at least these several types of Rotary entities:

Traditional face-to-face (f2f) Rotary clubs (....the only type Wiki explains), eClubs, NRG clubs, Rotaractors, Interactors, Rotary Community Corps, university-based Rotary Peace/Conflict-resolution Postgraduate Research Centers, Rotarian Vocational/Leisure Networks (e.g., Rotarian Physicians, Rotarian Golfers, Rotarian Antique Car Collectors, etc.), Rotarian Action Groups, etc.

Atkinss (talk) 02:03, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

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Citations Need in The first years of the Rotary Club
This doesn't sound encyclopedic. And usually it is the sentences with the citation needed tag. Why don't we just remove all of these until we get sources for them? --Zaurus (talk) 16:42, 27 June 2018 (UTC) What belongs to the targets of Rotary, there are similarities to the Free masons. Can they unite ? (Dok21fie (talk) 07:09, 15 March 2019 (UTC))

Copyright problem removed
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Request for semi-protection due to repeated promotion vandalism
In the history of the main article page, both and  have been engaged in reverting blatantly promotional edits by users coming in from IP addresses. Can we please get this page semi-protected to prevent this ongoing vandalism? Thank you. - Dyork (talk) 15:36, 14 May 2020 (UTC)


 * In researching more on how to request this protection, I have now submitted a request at Requests_for_page_protection - Dyork (talk) 15:42, 14 May 2020 (UTC)


 * ✅ - the page has now been set to be semi-protected by (thank you!). I will note that the page has only been semi-protected until June 14, 2020, and it seems that someone has been trying to inject the same promotional text via an IP address since back in January 2020. If that inappropriate editing continues after June 14, we may need to request a longer duration for semi-protection. - Dyork (talk) 21:16, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi and Thanks for protecting the page. As a Rotaract member in Brazil, the insistence of the editions for the self-promotion of member Jean dos Santos Silva caused me indignation. We also had problems with the Portuguese version of this page, in which he also reinserted content in which he promoted himself. So I sought out the authority responsible for ensuring the public image of Rotary in the region (called District 4760) of which the insistent editor is a part. They already assured me that they were going to talk to him about it. That way we will continue to watch for future changes to see if it will repeat the behavior.

And sorry for the bad use of the tools to ask the protection. I was really unaware of the discussion tools and requests for page protection.

Viniciusrfi (talk) 05:44, 17 May 2020 (UTC)


 * No need to apologize! Some of these processes are not very clear for people trying to find them. Thank you for your work on this page! - Dyork (talk) 00:55, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

NOTE - As noted above, the semi-protected status was only granted until June 14, 2020. That status has now been removed, and so it is again possible for edits to be made from IP addresses. - Dyork (talk) 01:36, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

dispute claim of women's organizations pre-dating men's organizations
The states:
 * Clubs such as Rotary were predated by women's service organisations, which started in the United States as early as 1790.

(The previous revision describes these as "women's voluntary organizations" instead.)

The cited source (freely downloadable with email confirmation) states:
 * The exclusion of women from the labor movement in the early part of the century led to American-style service clubs beginning as male-only organizations. It should be noted that women’s volunteer associations appeared in eastern U.S. cities as early as 1790,  long before similar men’s organizations.

It's unclear just what point the cited source is making, given that it first states that such organizations ("service clubs") were initially "male-only", but then indicates that "women's volunteer associations" appeared in the U.S. before "similar men's organizations" did.

The WP article seems to extrapolate from this "pre-dating" claim that it applies worldwide.

An additional problem is that there is no clear classification of different types of organizations. Historically, there have been numerous women's charitable organizations, which are certainly service organizations, and there have been various men's fraternal organizations, which may not have started as service organizations but may have had certain "service" activities, which may have become a greater focus of the organization over time.

Suggestions? Fabrickator (talk) 21:11, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

rant against destructive editing practices
This is a pattern that seems to happen on WP from time to time:
 * 1) a claim is made, with a link to a valid supporting citation
 * 2) the link is observed to be broken, the citation is removed and "citation needed" is added
 * 3) the problem doesn't get fixed
 * 4) content is removed due to failure to rescue the (now missing) link

There are certainly variations on this, but the particularly egregious step here is the removal of the broken link without (evidently) having made exhaustive efforts to find a suitable replacement (such as an archive copy.

The case in point is, the majority done by a single editor.

So this is a work iem, to restore the original citations, and ultimately replace the original citations with suitable archive copies, assuming they're available. Fabrickator (talk) 07:02, 26 June 2020 (UTC)