Talk:Time banking

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A fact from Time banking appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 June 2008, and was viewed approximately 3,505 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Time Banking is an alternative economic system which uses units of time as currency?

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—Yamara ✉ 11:32, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

number in US[edit]

The article stated, "There are 93 Time Banks active in the U.K.[3] and 151 officially recognized Time Banks in the U.S.[4]" However, footnote 4 was actually just a placeholder. I found a national directory of time banks in the U.S., and it only lists 53 time banks. I've changed the figure to 53, and put in a footnote to that directory.--76.93.42.50 (talk) 02:49, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest[edit]

I just reverted a lengthy insertion by an editor who is the CEO of one of the projects described in the insertion and Chair of the other. I have warned him of his conflict of interest. Others with an interest in time banking may want to look into whether there is anything of value in the material he keeps trying to insert. --Orange Mike | Talk 16:42, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This article still reads quite spammy and WP:FRINGE. There's also large overlap with time-based currency. Tijfo098 (talk) 00:11, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not a monetary system[edit]

Arguably time banking is not a monetary system but an alternative to monetary systems. The fact that everyone's time is equal (whether a high court judge or an unemployed person) has led to the UK Revenue declaring that time banking transactions are outside the taxation system. Gandalf458 (talk) 09:14, 11 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with Time-based currency[edit]

Support - Strong overlap, would help to improve this article. Gizmoguy (talk) 17:37, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support - I’m down with that —Wiki Wikardo 04:39, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

SupportPanpog1 (talk) 21:39, 27 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Other noteworthy time banks[edit]

Several other noteworthy time bank systems are in service. These include hourworld.org and timebanks.org I suspect others exist. Is it wortwhile adding a section (or separate article) that lists time banks? --Lbeaumont (talk) 14:17, 20 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There are now (2012) probably 1000 timebanks in operation around the world. They spontaneously start and stop, because they are unsustainable. There are some associations of timebanks, but not all timebanks are associated. There are some graduate studies underway to try and profile timebanks. Almost all timebanks operate as some sort of 2-tiered business - the so-called pushers. Would be really interesting to identify the true grass-roots timebanks (1-tiered) where everyone involved exchange in time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.57.142.127 (talk) 05:07, 3 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Bad Link[edit]

Total newbie to editing wikipedia (my apologies). There's a bad link to:

^ "The Five Core Values".

Should be replaced with:

http://timebanks.org/about

where the 5 core values are found. No idea how to do this. Sorry!

Cola' (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:04, 3 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A coincidence[edit]

A couple of anonymous editors have been adding links to www.online-timebank.com. The IPs geolocate to the same city where the "CEO and founder" of Online Timebank lives, according to the stuff they've put online. What a coincidence! bobrayner (talk) 19:22, 6 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]