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Yes it CAN be volunteering

Community service IS sometimes the same of volunteering. Some people do use the terms interchangeably. Whether I would or you would is irrelevant: people do it. When you see a description of a fraternal organization doing community service, what's meant is volunteering, not mandated service. For that matter, when you see a description of such an organization doing public service, it's meant as volunteering, rather than the strict definition that's on the Wikipedia page for public service. Look in news articles, articles about volunteering, discussion groups for managers of volunteers, etc. - you will often see people making the distinction between volunteering and community service, while you will see others equating the two.

-User:Jcravens42 (talk) 15:38, 10 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Adding additional information to 3 sections.

Hello Wikipedians,

My team and I will be working on expanding the "Personal benefits of serving" section, "Court ordered service" section, and the "Religious reasons for serving" section (for now). We're working on this article for an assignment, and I'd appreciate some feedback on our changes. We'll be adding more context or pieces of information that were missing. For example, the "Religious reasons for serving" doesn't really cover any other religion besides Christianity. That doesn't really offer a "worldwide" view when only one religion was covered.

Some information we'll be adding (not in-depth):

1). More context on how court-ordered community service looks 2). Religious reasons for completing community service 3). Other benefits or reasons for doing community service while remaining neutral.

The list will continue, but this is what we have so far. I'll be linking the changes to this comment once they're made. Soldswons (talk) 00:03, 4 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Community service hours

For the section about youth, because it adequately covers community service hours, I created a redirect to this page (community service hours) Per MOS:BOLD#OTHER, I believe this should be kept. Theadventurer64 (talk) 00:29, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's not clear to me that that's an appropriate redirect. The usage of the phrase probably varies geographically, but as someone based in the UK, when I Google 'community service hours', every single one of the first fifty hits I got is talking about community services in the sense of a penalty for criminal misconduct - there's nothing about graduating from school. I've got no objection to the section about education existing, but the redirect should most likely just point at this article generally, not at that specific section; I've gone ahead and change it. Girth Summit _(blether) 09:45, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]