Talk:non-governmental organization
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Rfv-sense: An organization that does not receive any money from government. Tagged but not listed. -- Liliana • 19:59, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
- Observation: these are referred to as NGOs and the word quango comes from it. Equinox ◑ 23:30, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
- delete sense, as receiving some support money from a government does not necessarily make an NGO a non-NGO. In fact, many NGO's do valuable work e.g. in charity while receiving considerable funding from governments. It's more important whether the government influences the policies and decision-making of the organization. At least this is what Wikipedia says. Keep the translations in trreq-table, as at least most of them are also applicable for the second definition. --Hekaheka 05:21, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
- Do some users consider "quango" to be not a hyponym of this term, but a coordinate? DCDuring TALK 12:20, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
- I agree that this is likely just a mistake. Mglovesfun (talk) 13:34, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
- Do some users consider "quango" to be not a hyponym of this term, but a coordinate? DCDuring TALK 12:20, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
- delete sense, as receiving some support money from a government does not necessarily make an NGO a non-NGO. In fact, many NGO's do valuable work e.g. in charity while receiving considerable funding from governments. It's more important whether the government influences the policies and decision-making of the organization. At least this is what Wikipedia says. Keep the translations in trreq-table, as at least most of them are also applicable for the second definition. --Hekaheka 05:21, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
- Resolved. - -sche (discuss) 07:08, 11 March 2012 (UTC)