Talk:Voluntary Service Overseas

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12/6: Amended VSO Canada home page to current URL

This page title needs to be modified. The proper descriptor is Voluntary Service overseas (i.e. lose the extra "s" in "Services"

Done. Rmhermen 20:12, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

Removed 3 items in "See Also" with no understandable connection to VSO other than a tenuous "volunteer sending" one ```` —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.191.21.142 (talk) 20:47, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

With regard to the last 2 edits:

• first, 80.229.80.76 added a link to his/her diary of their VSO placement, noting *I* think that VSO is explained better via the feedback of VSO volunteers (you may disagree)
• second, User:Nposs removed the link citing WP:COI and WP:EL

I feel the first user has a point in that first hand accounts from volunteers are surely a valuable "source" to anyone researching the subject, and surely one of the functions of an encyclopaedia is to serve as a starting point for enquiry on a subject, ie pointing people towards the best sources for further (primary) research is somsething we should encourage?

However I can also see that the precedent of "any link to any personal blog from a volunteer is ok" would not be appropriate, we could be overrun by hundreds, or have individual blogs added by their writers owing to some particular outside agenda.

To that end I thought I would point out the existence of the following site: http://www.vso-stories.net/ A 'semi-official' site which carries many blogs from volunteers recruited in VSO UK / VSO NL / VSO Bahaginan. You can, for example, search for blogs written by volunteers working in a specific area (eg. HIV & AIDS) or country. Might this be an acceptable compromise?

Since Nposs is keen on WP:COI I should note that I work for VSO (including some admin of vso-stories.net in fact); hence suggesting this on the talk page rather than just doing it.

Stevekeiretsu 20:22, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And while I'm here... Not sure why the last edit saw fit to replace all British spellings with American versions, given that the Manual of Style indicates it is fine to use either so long as it is consistent (which it was), and that it should reflect the country in question (VSO being founded in the UK and having no USA-based operations to this day).