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The ipso facto standard for organizations is "organizations based in X". I'm of the mind that a better way to name them is using the adjective of the country or region to describe the field, kind or ideology of the organization.

i.e. Canadian organizations, Canadian organizations by field, Canadian health organizations, Canadian medical organizations, Albertan organizations, Albertan political organizations, Albertan political parties et. cetera.

It's either that or 'Political parties based in Alberta'.

I could go either way in fact. The last way is the presecedent that has been set, but given that there are virtually no articles yet at the lowest location levels, it wouldn't be that much work to switch it over.

make our case.Oldsoul 00:11, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

After doing some research on the existing schemes, I've decided that for starters, we should move towards the scheme employed by the framework for companies on wikipedia. That is, Organizations of (country), and Organizations of (Country) by (province/state/territory). The next level beneath that would be Organization based in (province/state/territory), and then Organizations based in (city).
This should save us lots of time and effort because a lot of those categories already exist. We may need to move some of them to orgnizations from organisations, and be systematic in updating the links for the sub-categories, but if we use an announcement and open tasks template for collaborating on one 'tree' at a time. We should be okay.Oldsoul 16:15, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]