Talk:Reading Is Fundamental

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Updating the article with conflict of interest

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I attempted to write a draft with updated information for this page, but would like another editor to approve and edit the live page. Here is the draft: User:S201645723/sandbox/Reading Is Fundamental Draft S201645723 (talk) 13:29, 13 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'll have to decline this, for the following reason:

One reference is a non-searchable 200-page document without a given page number. It might say what it's cited for, but I'm not going to read half a book for verification, and we shouldn't ask our readers to do so.
Major parts of the rewritten text are still based on primary sources including RIF itself. That's not an improvement.
At least one secondary source was gotten rid of in favour of primary sources; that would make the article worse.
The content seems rather jumbled, without much structure. The "history" section in particlar is just a disconnected sequence of dates that are somehow connected to RIF, with the connection at times not even spelled out.

So in summary, I do not think replacing the current article by the draft would be an improvement. I will, however, make use of the lone new secondary source that the draft contains. Huon (talk) 22:08, 13 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Request edit

Part of an edit requested by an editor with a conflict of interest has been implemented.

This is request edit #2 after getting feedback from editors User:S201645723/sandbox/Reading Is Fundamental Draft.

Here are some changes that I made:

Added an info box with basic information about the organization, including tax ID #, CEO, and mission
Added the specific date of RIF's founding
Added key dates for the organization including the first major funding partnership and the start of federal funding
Updated RIF's current programs to include a newly developed program
Added relevant categories for the organization

I also added several secondary sources for all the information that was updated. Any help would be appreciated. S201645723 (talk) 15:49, 24 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Doing... Altamel (talk) 01:11, 16 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Altamel: In case you're done with the request, I'll mark this as partial. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 00:57, 1 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Explaining the cut

Whatever is done about the passage now quoted in ref 6, please do not leave the cut in federal grant without an explanation. Remember that readers outside the US have almost no idea of how the US political system works in detail! Macdonald-ross (talk) 17:12, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]