Talk:Chamber of commerce

Definition

Chambers of commerce are business and community associations, generally incorporated as a 501(c)(6) corporation. Chambers of commerce are not part of local, state, or federal government, though chambers do often partner with government to accomplish the chamber mission.

This which you mention is US-centric, isn't it? --Jerome Potts 20:33, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

OH NO!!!! that dreaded "US-centrism" rears its ugly head again!!!!!!!68.13.155.153 (talk) 09:22, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Chambers of commerce are funded by membership dues as well as non-dues items such as events, sponsorships, grants, contracts, and sales of various products and services. The vast majority of chamber membership rolls are small businesses - businesses with fewer than 20 employees, on average.

Today’s chamber of commerce, rather than being narrowly focused on one particular industry, issue, cause, or activity, focus on a range of activities and support for both businesses and the broader communities.

External Links

According to the article, there are 13,000 chambers of commerce. It clearly doesn't make sense to have a list of all of them in the article, and the ones linked to here seem to be chosen at random. Unless there's a consensus against doing so, I'm going to remove all of the links to individual chambers. Geoffrey Spear 15:32, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Support. I agree it's unnecessary. 63.80.112.17 17:40, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Looks like this has become a problem again. I deleted all links to individual chambers. I deleted the "Examples" as well, as there can be no reasonable criteria for including one chamber over another. Category:Chambers of commerce has plenty of examples if needed.
--JKeene 20:59, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Seems this issue was calm for a couple of years, now again two individual chambers appeared, US Chamber and China CCPIT. I will delete those now. If they (or others) appear again, this may become a case for stronger measures. Shenhemu (talk) 12:00, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Use of self-promotional sources

The two sources given for oldest/largest chambers are published by the organizations who are promoting themselves for the respective terms. For claims of this sort, a third-party source is preferred. Tedickey (talk) 09:18, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Oldest chamber of commerce?

Firs it says "The world's oldest English-speaking chamber of commerce is that of New York City,[6] which was established in 1768." Then it goes on to later say "he oldest known existing chamber in the English-speaking world with continuous records is the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce[8] which was founded in 1783." So if im judging oldest by year i'd say the one in New York is older so what is going on? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ChesterTheWorm (talk • contribs) 19:47, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

The New York chamber seems to have existed per sources. Perhaps the claims on the Scottish chambers are unfounded and should be deleted (I haven't seen anything in the websites of Glasgow's or Leed's chambers that would confirm what's in the article currently). Mosmirenjohesi (talk) 20:30, 8 February 2012 (UTC)