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What is the criteria for being a founding member? The AHS was officially founded when the constitution was ratified at the EGM in November 2008. Are the attendees of that EGM not technically the founders? --User:Jenzo:Jenzo

Republic of Ireland

The article mentions Ireland, but doesn't seem to have references for Irish groups - on the face of it, this seems to be a UK-based organisation. Autarch (talk) 02:33, 13 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Wynne-Jones, Jonathan (Religious Affairs Correspondent) (200904-25), "Atheists target UK schools", Telegraph.co.uk, Education News, London: Telegraph Media Group, retrieved 2013-05-24 {{citation}}: |first= has generic name (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)
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Guest, Mathew; Sharma, Sonya; Aune, Kristin; Warner, Rob (2013). "Challenging 'belief' and the evangelical bias: Student christianity in english universities". Journal of Contemporary Religion. 28 (2). Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group: 207–223. doi:10.1080/13537903.2013.783326. Such assumptions underpin the language used by the National Federation of Atheist, Humanist and Secular Student Societies (AHS), the umbrella organisation for groups established along these lines across the UK higher education sector.
Weller, Paul; Hooley, Tristram; Moore, Nicki (2011-07). Religion and Belief in Higher Education: The Experiences of Staff and Students. London: Equity Challenge Unit. p. 45. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); External link in |publisher= (help)

MrBill3 (talk) 06:12, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good to me, so I've removed the {{notability}} tag. -- Trevj (talk) 09:58, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Date formatting for references

I have reverted the date format for references to YYYY-MM-DD. I feel this is appropriate per WP:CITEVAR. I also seek consensus that this format is appropriate for dates in the references in this article. I support the use of full text dmy dates in the text of the article. - - MrBill3 (talk) 15:28, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This Diff is the first use of dates in references, note the format for all dates in references is YYYY-MM-DD. In addition to WP:CITEVAR see MOS:DATEFORMAT and WP:STRONGNAT re appropriateness of YYYY-MM-DD format in reference lists including in articles with strong national ties. - - MrBill3 (talk) 22:06, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Renaming to 'Humanist Students'

I heard that the organisation has recently been going through changes to become a section of Humanists UK, with unified branding and structure.

https://ahsstudents.org.uk now redirects to https://humanism.org.uk/students/

The twitter account here https://twitter.com/ahsstudents?lang=en is now empty and points to a new twitter account here: https://twitter.com/HumanistStudent?lang=en

Would be worth reworking the article to reflect this.