Talk:WIC program/Archive 1

Archive 1

This article needs rewriten

If I knew how to add a non PoV banner, I would. Most of this article reads like an opinion piece. A specific example is the last paragragh in the Food Package section. It is completly unsourced, and reads like a blog post. If I had the time, knowledge or writing skills to fix this article, I would, but I don't, so someone else needs to fix this article. It's almost an embarasment. 173.189.188.147 (talk) 03:35, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Last sentence

The last sentence is a subjective statement

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Complying with retail personnel may seem like a subjective statement, but unlike US state-administered food stamp programs, WIC's stipulations are not up for debate at all.

They are completely prescribed, totally defined, extensively reviewed by recipients with government officials well beforehand, and set in stone. Vordabois (talk) 06:58, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was moved. Seems reasonable that this is the primary meaning. Disambig hatnote should be added. -- Aervanath (talk) 21:19, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

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Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children → WIC — Google and other sources seem to indicate WIC primarily refers to this article (the United States food assistance program). Of the first ten results on Google for "WIC", 8 appear to be about this US program. At the very least, the title should be some from of "WIC (specifier)" where "specifier" is something we can agree upon below (assuming a move to WIC is rejected). —Locke Cole • t • c 09:50, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Survey

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• Support, in case it's not clear from my statement above. =) —Locke Cole • t • c 18:14, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Discussion

Any additional comments:

• Move to WIC (nutrition program)? The initials WIC have many meanings. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 11:14, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

• I'm willing to consider this, but not sure why we'd do this when the most common meaning for "WIC" is this article (the others are either defunct or far less likely to be the actual target being searched for (the next most likely being World in Conflict, a game). To put this in perspective, just about every major grocery store in the United States supports this program and refers to it by this shorter name, "WIC". States refer to it by this name as well, and I suspect just about everyone participating in the program calls it this. —Locke Cole • t • c 17:00, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.