Talk:Humane society/Archive 1

Request for an impartial editor to look into neutrality of an added phrase

I’d like to dispute the neutrality of one phrase in this article. In the interest of disclosure and avoiding a conflict of interest, I won't edit the page because I work for The Humane Society of the United States.

This is an article about various groups founded to address human or animal suffering. National animal protection organizations are mentioned briefly for clarity, but more details and varying opinions about these organizations are contained on their individual Wikipedia pages.

On March 14, 2009, it appears that an anonymous user (IP address 74.15.86.177) inserted the bold text into the following sentence under the section “United States:” “Many local humane societies were founded earlier, and are independent of these similarly named organizations, therefore, local humane groups called SPCA or Humane Society are not related to the national groups such as the Humane Society of the United States (primarily involved in political lobbying and writing legislation to restrict animal ownership) or the ASPCA.”

This added text is inconsistent with reliable sources and appears to be based on an individual’s opinion about The Humane Society of the United States. As noted on the Wikipedia page about the group, The HSUS is the world's largest animal advocacy organization [1] with campaigns addressing animal fighting, puppy mills, factory farming, the fur trade and abuse of wildlife. Our organization promotes adoption of pets from shelters, in addition to providing resources for pet owners [2].

On March 14, 2009, the same user (or another user at the same IP address) also added two links under “References” to websites operated by the Center for Consumer Freedom, which do not appear to meet Wikipedia’s guidelines for a reliable source.

Later that day, the user Richerman reverted to a prior version of the article to remove the anonymous edits. Another user, ESaunders, re-applied the same edits a few hours later. In April 2009, another user, GreenSquares, removed the two Center for Consumer Freedom links (calling them "spam") but left the language about HSUS in parentheses.

To sum up:

-The inserted text states opinion as fact, which appears to be a clear violation of Wikipedia’s neutral point of view policy.

-The references associated with the added text don't appear to meet Wikipedia's standards for reliable sources and were removed as spam by another user.

In the interest of improving Wikipedia’s neutrality and accuracy, I'm requesting an impartial editor to examine these concerns. Perhaps it would be appropriate to link the words “the Humane Society of the United States” and “ASPCA” to their respective Wikipedia pages, or to provide brief, unbiased descriptions of both group’s missions, as the article does for American Humane. Thank you.

I haven't posted on a neutrality issue before, so I apologize if posting in the Talk page is not the best first step. -- Liz Bergstrom (talk) 21:16, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Comment

What about the RSPCA?

What about it? It's there under United Kingdom. Richerman (talk) 21:02, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Renaming

Shouldn't this page be at "Humane society" (lowercase s)? It seems to be about the concept of humane societies, not any particular society in particular. --Elonka 11:55, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Adding a link

I work for the America's Most Wanted Safety Center, a new branch of America's Most Wanted getting away from the capturing of criminals, and branching out to all aspects of safety. I feel a link to our post about helping injured animals would be appropriate and mutually beneficial, particularly because our tips are directly from the humane society. The link is http://www.amw.com/safety/?p=52 please consider it. Jrosenfe 13:16, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Globalising the article

I have added a section on the UK and added external links for humane societies in other countries. There should really be a section for each country mentioned in the links but I don't have time to write them all at the moment. Richerman (talk) 01:37, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Merge/rename

Discussion of renaming or merging this article is requested at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 August 20#Category:Humane societies. jnestorius^(talk) 10:47, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

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