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Tried to Correct citations.[edit]

I am new to editing on Wikipedia and added some new material with a referent citation, but the citation will not work since it seems to be controlled by the confined box on the righthand side of page. I deleted the cites that were in the box in an effort to make my citation work in the body of the text material. It still does not work. If someone can help me out that would be great! Otherwise, I will have to take time reading the help files to figure out what to do here. This is the way to learn. Thanks for your patience with me. EditWrite2 (talk) 21:12, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Added good material w/o cite[edit]

Per my previous request for help in correcting the reference citations as mentioned in bold red at bottom of page so that I could add a reference cite, the previous editor simply reverted back and did not answer my request for assistance. The material I added is cogent and current and I believe adds to the article without losing the NPOV of the article.

References now fixed.[edit]

I took the time to figure out and fix the reference problem as mentioned in the Bold Red verbage at the bottom. See comments above. Thanks for bearing with me.EditWrite2 (talk) 17:32, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi EditWrite2. I reverted your edits with the intention that you would figure out what the citation process is. You can learn all about references in Wikipedia at this article. Good luck. • Freechild'sup? 17:58, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Senior section is plagiarized[edit]

The Seniors section is taken verbatim from this source:

http://www.seniorcorps.gov/about/sc/index.asp —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.228.21.194 (talk) 22:54, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This section is taken from a US Government website, but all US Government websites are in the public domain, and no plagiarism is ever involved in copying federal government information. State and local government websites have different rules, and many are copyrighted explicitly or because they say nothing about the question. --DThomsen8 (talk) 15:03, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Officers and membership of the board of directors[edit]

From the official website, here is the information. This list should be wikified and added to the article, and perhaps there are people who are notable and should have articles, or already have articles and should have links. --DThomsen8 (talk) 15:07, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Corporation for National and Community Service Officers and Membership of the Board of Directors

• Alan D. Solomont, Chair Weston, MA Term: 11/19/2007 – 10/6/2009

• Stephen Goldsmith, Vice Chair Indianapolis, IN Term: 9/25/2006 - 10/6/2010

• Julie Fisher Cummings Detroit, MI Term: 11/19/2007 – 9/14/2011

• Mark D. Gearan Geneva, NY Term: 11/19/2007 – 12/1/2010

• Hyepin Im Los Angeles, CA Term: 10/7/2008 - 10/6/2013

• James Palmer Tustin, CA Term: 7/3/2007 - 10/6/2011

• Stan Soloway Washington, DC Term: 7/3/2007 - 10/6/2011

• Eric J. Tanenblatt Atlanta, GA--DThomsen8 (talk) 15:07, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Assessment[edit]

Assessed JonathanTheLibrarian (talk) 10:51, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Request to Update Page[edit]

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.

The CNCS page is currently outdated. For example, Learn and Serve America is listed as an active program of the agency. It no longer is. Can this please be replaced by Senior Corps? Accurate info is available on our website at www.nationalservice.gov. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.180.8.173 (talk) 19:47, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Reply 19-SEP-2018[edit]

Edit request implemented

Learn and Serve has been moved to the History section under Former programs.

Regards, spintendo 22:23, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Should this page be moved to AmeriCorps page given rebranding?[edit]

Given that CNCS is now doing business as AmeriCorps ([1]), can I get consensus that this page should be moved to the page currently called AmeriCorps? However, that means the current AmeriCorps page will be heavily impacted since the content currently at AmeriCorps will need to become a sub-page of that page, or else be given a new name to reflect the AmeriCorps youth programs to differentiate them from what is now being called AmeriCorps Seniors. Is anyone else interested in working on this overhaul with me, or at least weighing in on the appropriate course of action? When federal agencies change to a "doing business as" name, does their Wikipedia page generally get updated to the DBA? Grn1749 (talk) 14:48, 13 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Can I get on this program if I’m disabled[edit]

--72.189.9.45 (talk) 00:56, 25 August 2021 (UTC) Can I get on this program if I’m just say Walt[reply]

Requested move 14 September 2021[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: pages swapped. wbm1058 (talk) 22:50, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Corporation for National and Community Service → AmeriCorps – The federal agency formerly known as Corporation for National and Community Service one year ago rebranded itself as AmeriCorps, which was formerly the umbrella name for only three of its programs. I have relocated the bulk of the content from the page "AmeriCorps" to the page "Corporation for National and Community Service" (CNCS) and would like now to move the CNCS page to the AmeriCorps page, overwriting what remains of the AmeriCorps page. I considered renaming the old AmeriCorps page something like "AmeriCorps (programs)" and moving the CNCS page to something like "AmeriCorps (agency)", but this doesn't make sense because, to further complicate things, the agency has re-branded three of its other programs as "AmeriCorps" programs now, folding nearly everything they do under this "AmeriCorps" umbrella. I sought advice on the CNCS talk page about this one year ago and got no response, so I am making this proposal as someone knowledgeable about the agency after observing their branding for the past year. Grn1749 (talk) 15:39, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:26, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Grn1749: queried move request Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:27, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Corporation for National and Community Service and AmeriCorps are both articles, with WP:Parallel histories edit histories. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:32, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have already revised this page, moving content about the programs previously known as AmeriCorps (AmeriCorps VISTA, AmeriCorps State and National, and AmeriCorps NCCC) from the AmeriCorps page to this page, so that this page can be relocated to the AmeriCorps page (and overwrite it) without loss of content. The CNCS page would become a redirect leading to the AmeriCorps page. This would align Wikipedia with the way the term "AmeriCorps" is now being used as the overall agency name and as an umbrella term now encompassing the Senior programs formally known as Senior Corps, now known as AmeriCorps Seniors. I welcome other suggestions for how to bring these Wikipedia pages into alignment with CNCS/AmeriCorps' terminology, but this seems to me to be the clearest way to go. Grn1749 (talk) 16:31, 19 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Grn1749: Since content has been copied to here from AmeriCorps, that page history needs to be preserved per WP:Copying within Wikipedia. Could AmeriCorps move to AmeriCorps State and National? Without a requested target for AmeriCorps, this is an incomplete request if not a malformed request and should be closed as this is a de facto proposed merge. – wbm1058 (talk) 01:08, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Wbm1058:The policy to copying within Wikipedia is super helpful, thank you. Your proposal to create an AmeriCorps State and National page is unfortunately not a solution as the current AmeriCorps page actually includes three programs: AmeriCorps State & National, AmeriCorps VISTA, and AmeriCorps NCCC. If it's merely a question of preserving the page history, what if I transfer it to a page called something like "AmeriCorps (historical programs)"? If I do that, should I then revert the AmeriCorps page back to the earlier version that includes the content that I have since transferred over to the CNCS page, even though I believe that content also does belong on the CNCS page? This is confusing because if we were to create these pages today, there's no question that this should only be one single page called "AmeriCorps". It's only to preserve Wikipedia history that we're even talking about retaining multiple pages. So, what's more important: a nomenclature that's useful and logical in terms of reflecting the real world, or something that preserves Wikipedia's history? Grn1749 (talk) 19:01, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Grn1749: Since you've already cut-pasted in the counter-direction, we could just do a WP:SWAP. The current lead says:
AmeriCorps (officially the Corporation for National and Community Service or CNCS) is an independent agency of the United States government that engages more than five million Americans in service through [[AmeriCorps]], AmeriCorps Seniors, the Volunteer Generation Fund, and other national service initiatives.

I take it that there no longer is a "plain-vanilla" AmeriCorps program (if there ever was) and that all current programs are [[AmeriCorps 'something']]. And there were three 'somethings' in the "old" AmeriCorps – AmeriCorps Seniors, despite its name, was not an "old AmeriCorps" program. Can you update the lead to remove the circular link to [[AmeriCorps]] and list each of the current component programs separately since there is no longer a bucket into which a subgroup of programs can be bundled? wbm1058 (talk) 20:06, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Wbm1058: You're correct that there is no "plain vanilla" AmeriCorps program (and no, there never was). I've fixed the lead to remove the circular link as you suggested. What I think the end goal should be is to have the current contents of Corporation for National and Community Service be housed at AmeriCorps and this CNCS page needs to become a redirect to AmeriCorps. If WP:SWAP can accomplish that, great. Does that mean that after you do the swap, you'll erase the CNCS page and turn it into a redirect? Grn1749 (talk) 21:06, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. – wbm1058 (talk) 22:50, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

list for the program[edit]

I was told by a text from a friend that I was on aa list for cncs / agent Collins Williamson. I would like to know what it would be about? 71.235.235.236 (talk) 01:11, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]