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perfect.
If you feel an article is neglected due to systemic bias, feel free to add it to an appropriate section or even to start a new section below. Sections describing perceived biases that do not include articles are placed at the bottom of the page. If no articles are placed within the section within a month, it will be assumed that the objection is not actionable and the section will be removed.
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Missing geography articles
The following articles are about important geographical regions in the non-English-speaking world.
Northeast Africa - The region encompasses
Egypt,
Sudan and
Horn of Africa and is missing completely from Wikipedia while other regions are available, suspecting racial bias as editors have been vandalizing sources referring to that region for fear of linking Egypt to Sub-Saharan African countries.
Developing World
As of May 2011
All aspects of the "
developing world", primarily in Africa, but also Asia and South America.
At the bottom of
this page is a template showing the African countries that have an article about women in that country. Many are red links as of May 2011
Kintampo — archaeological site of major historical interest in
Ghana. Ceramic Late Stone Age cultural complex dating around fourth millennium BP. Sometimes thought to be the first agriculturalist settlement in West Africa. Also known for its waterfalls.
New Halfa Scheme — scheme located in the
Kassala state of Sudan where housing and work was provided by the Sudanian government for
Nubians from the inundated areas around Wadi Halfa. The forced resettlement raised much controversy.
Yasuni National Park, in Ecuador. "Yasuní may well be the single most biodiverse forest on earth," state some of the world's leading biologists, including Jane Goodall, E.O. Wilson and Stuart Pimm, in a February 2005 letter to the president of Ecuador.
2000 Mozambique flood Humanitarian disaster with many online resources, but short page so far
Afghan parliamentary election, 2005 I expanded it from stub to what it is now in the past two days, but it still lacks any candidate information or political analysis (how much power will the parliament have? What is the expected political colour? How reliable will the results be? etc.)
Ali Hassan Mwinyi Former Tanzanian president but little analysis of his reign in power
Andean states A very neglected article for an entire important region of the world. --14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Benjamin Mkapa Tanzanian president could do with more detail
Converted
Ethiopian famine from redirect into article, providing a brief introduction & a list of famines since 1535. (Note: at the moment, I don't have access to information for the period 1801-1880.) --
llywrch00:18, 10 September 2005 (UTC) As of May 2011, this list is rated B Class (failed featured list nomination)reply
Futa Tooro, on the recent changes list, Senegalese tribal group
Gacaca courts are made up of the common people to prosecute the Rwandan genocide perpetrators. Witnesses, survivors, etc. participate. see
[1]. -- little stub created, help expand!--
Dmcdevit 05:07, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC) --As of May 2011 this is no longer a stub & is rated C Class.
Also, the
inyangamugayo are the common citizens elected as judges. --
Dmcdevit 02:57, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
History of Africa Article is very poor on African in the 20th Century, just an incomplete list of events. The article also needs to be reduced in size, and some child articles set up for the periods
History of North Africa extremely spotty coverage of some periods, 20th century section only talks about Suez canal
Request for review/attention of Developing World articles
HIV/AIDS in Africa As of May 2011 more citations are needed. Also I saw a mention in the AIDS Wikiproject that the article could use a discussion of AIDS's effects on women. Can anybody more familiar with the topic take a look and comment on what the article needs?
Cloveapple (
talk)
17:33, 17 May 2011 (UTC)reply
African slave trade, merged into "Slavery in Africa" article, a subtopic of the redirect's title, which may cover much more than just slavery in Africa
Yellow Emperor Important Chinese mythological character. It should be as long as the article on
Zeus for example
Poverty in Africa - This article needs to condsider the structural causes and external causes of poverty in Africa. The continent is not an island. This would includes multilateral agreements, neo-liberal policies, unfair trade agreements (it does an excellent job at covering internal causes, but it read very biased since that is all it does.
Execution of Saddam Hussein -- Lack of sources other than main US and UK news outlets such as CNN or BBC. US-sources dominate the article, and this reflects in the tone. Would need an array of both independent and international sources. A number of non-US non-UK sources have been added as of May 2011
Settler colonialism - completely missing references As of May 2011 it has some references and a bunch of unreferenced stuff got moved to the talk page. Still needs work. Some sections are just placeholders with no actual writing.
Cloveapple (
talk)
18:36, 17 May 2011 (UTC)reply
Tripoli hmm... apparently Tripoli is one of those ancient cities that used to exist but its history stopped after 1911. Oh yeah, and it doesn't have any geography, culture, politics/government, economy, demographics, recreation, transportation, all that good stuff. Quite depressing. --
Dmcdevit 18:58, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC) As of May 2011 some more recent stuff has been added but it's still C Class and needs work.
Páll has translated the French and created subpages and a navigation template, but the subpages could do with a copyedit, and content needs to be organized between the main and sub-pages. -
BanyanTree 21:33, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Thomas Sankara A major African leader for many African people.
Arsen Kotsoyev,
Ossetian writer and journalist, the article is a candidate for "Translation of the Week", but its English version needs to be reviewed by a native speaker of English. --
Slavik IVANOV 15:37, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Done (but leaving it open in case I missed something) --
Nimlot 20:58, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
Alcoholism luckily only affects people in N. America. Rich Farmbrough 15:59 7 March 2006 (UTC). I spoke to Rich Farmbrough and he said the bias was "mostly" edited away but that "It should still touch on the alcohol problems in post-communist Russia, and the treatment, self-help and diagnosis have a Western bent, but nothing like what it was 5 years ago."
Cloveapple (
talk)
06:59, 17 May 2011 (UTC)reply
Africa - there is an ongoing problem with an editor who wants to blank out all mention of the Ethiopian famine in 1984, in which almost a million Africans perished, for obviously political reasons because the facts are inconvenient and make Marxism–Leninism look bad. This cannot be tolerated and the continuous edit warring needs to stop.
Til Eulenspiegel (
talk) 12:46, 8 June 2008 (UTC) As of May 2011 the famine is mentioned.
Cloveapple (
talk)
16:40, 17 May 2011 (UTC)reply
Groupuscule's
userspace list of articles formerly citing Third World Traveler, now in need of attention
Donghak Peasant Revolution This article has been edited by a single South Korean user (myself), AWB, three non-AWB users, and bots since January 8 2013, with 267 of 290 edits being made by the single South Korean user. I would not have sent Jimbo something like
this if somebody else than me was editing it.
Cyber Anakin No problems in the present though concerns abound that perspective biases against non-Anglosphere and some sub-cultural perspectives (hacking) will be made serious if a re-write with trimming goes through. Refer to this
discussion. May apply to other
Anonymous and cybersecurity related articles.
92.118.112.116 (
talk)
21:03, 1 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Contents have since been restored and expanded as of mid-June 2024, but not before it became a wider incident with news coverages such as
this and
this. The page still need to be monitored in case of any further untoward incidents. Please refer to this
talk page discussion for further information.
38.99.82.242 (
talk)
09:52, 15 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Tàigǔ (a Chinese
drum and possible predecessor to
taiko)
The Beauty Myth, a review of Western ideals of corporeal beauty, how that contrasts with those of other cultures, and effects of acculturation. I moved the article that was there on the Naomi Wolf book to The Beauty Myth. Beauty myth now redirects there. The blue link here should not be taken to mean that someone has started an article on the concept apart from Wolf's book.
Jkelly07:43, 23 September 2005 (UTC)reply
Young-ja Cho (1951– ) Created a brief stub on this sculptor - can't find anything else on the web with any substance though. Still a stub in May 2011.
Surojana Sethabutra (1956– ) contemporary Thai ceramicist. This is a stub in May 2001.
Sybil Gibson (1908–1995) - created a page on this artist - I'll expand it when I have time, as there is plenty of info on the web. Could do with a picture of some description though if anyone with more technical know-how than myself can look at it.TicketMan -
Talk -
contribs15:18, 23 December 2007 (UTC) As of May 2011 it has a picture but needs some more citations.reply
The arts and
Art need a lot of whole lot of work. There are also several open questions about categorization - see their talk pages.
Clubmarx 17:48, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)
Red squirrel, at least a section on conservation is written from an almost entirely UK-centric point of view. --
Eleassarmy talk 10:03, 28 August 2005 (UTC) The article is on a UK species. As of May 2011 there's a redirect to the US species.
Cloveapple (
talk)
17:39, 19 May 2011 (UTC)reply
Harp,
Lyre,
Flute,
Drum and
Musical notation are all eurocentric and need to be split into a general part with a globalized view and special articles on special European forms of the topic. This is probably also true for other music-related articles (I am currently checking this).
Nannus18:12, 8 August 2006 (UTC)reply
Harp Looks like there's been an attempt to make it more global but sections on Africa, Asia, and Latin America need expansion and references.
Cloveapple (
talk)
05:30, 20 May 2011 (UTC)reply
Lyre has a "Lyres around the world" section that's only a list of links. (Looks like a useful list and could form the start of a separate list article but it doesn't balance the fully written text of other sections.)
Cloveapple (
talk)
05:30, 20 May 2011 (UTC)reply
Flute covers a number of regional variations now, with "western concert flutes" just one variation among many. Chinese and Japanese sections could use expansion and a picture.
Cloveapple (
talk)
05:42, 20 May 2011 (UTC)reply
Increasing number and quality of biographies of women, issues regarding women or under-covered topics of interest to women, as well as improving Wikilinks, categorization, etc. regarding women.
Sady Doyle, an American feminist journalist for
The Guardian and blogger for her Tiger Beatdown blog
Gisella Floreanini, alias Amelia Valli, communist, antifascist, minister in the
Republic of Ossola, first woman to be a minister in Italy, only member Republic of Ossola government to rejoin the guerrilla rather than flee to Switzerland after it fell to the Nazis, member of parliament after World War II.
it:Gisella Floreanini Braga, Antonella (2015). Gisella Floreanini. Unicopli.
ISBN8840018557..
Non-English language literature (particularly writers whose work is unavailable or not widely available in English). See also
List of African writers by country.
Requested articles
These include all of the nonexistent links listed under "Literature by country or language"
Mohammed Awzal (ca. 1680-1749), the most important author of the Sous Berber (
Tashelhiyt) literature tradition. Needs an article as badly as As of May 2011 has a short article.
the
literature section of the language article needs expansion.
Memed, My Hawk and
İnce Memed tetralogy, two articles on his novels, could also use some attention.
Antonio Machado One of the great poets of the 20th century gets barely more than a stub. As of May 2011, it's C Class.
Arabic literature - a disgracefully short article on a huge topic. -
Mustafaa 10:38, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC) B Class as of May 2011.
Yefet ben Ali A Karaite Sage of past whose commentaries were influential on Ibn Ezra and Kimchi, and was a subject of interest during the first half of the 1900s. His writings could go under Mustafaa's suggestion, as they were all written in Arabic. --
Josiah 03:16, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC) Has a neutrality tag as of May 2011.
Chinese literatureis just a collection of lists- nary a sentence to be seen. As of May 2011, there's a good deal of writing but also several clean up tags.
Being and Nothingness - a major philosophical essay of the 20th century. The stub is not clear, with many missing parts. As of May 2011 its grown well past a stub but has many many tags.
Omenuko - one-sentence stub on Nigerian novel (first novel in Igbo language)
Kiran Nagarkar - Indian author - he's the subject of an anthology, so surely more information is available from there if nowhere else. Up to Start Class as of May 2011.
Migrant literature - This is supposed to be about a category of world literature, but needs to be expanded with examples from other contexts. Also, it needs to be better sourced. Standard sources for Post-colonial literature and Exil literature would be good here, but migration is a broader topic than just its overlap with those two well-studied fields. --
Doric Loon (
talk)
09:43, 29 May 2011 (UTC)reply
This section needs to be updated. Please help update this section to reflect recent events or newly available information. Relevant discussion may be found on
the talk page.
Many linguistic articles are written exclusively or largely from an Indo-European point of view. In some cases this becomes apparent in the examples provided (
Onomatopoeia seems an irredeemable example), while others treat grammatical categories and linguistic terms as if they pertain to
English or other well-known
Indo-European languages only. This is something that needs to be remedied in an encyclopedia of international scope.
Requested articles
Requests for expansion
(The most common request is to correct a limited (usually Indo-European) point of view.)
A–J
Affix. Uses English examples only (!!?). Needs work.
Closed class. English-based. Cross-linguistically, there are interesting differences here. In many African languages for example, the class of
adjectives is a closed class. On a sidenote,
cognitive linguistic views of reasons for the distinction between closed and open classes (e.g. Talmy 2000:413, Langacker) are also worth mentioning.
This is very interesting. I would love to see some references of how adj's are in the closed class. While the open-closed distinction forms the basis for Talmy's model of form (grammatical) vs content, I am not sure where Langacker refers to this. Certainly it is not very prominent in his 1987/1991 texts.
mukerjee (
talk)
07:22, 18 November 2006 (UTC)reply
Continuous and progressive aspects. First a section on 'the English continuous', then a section treating some other languages, predominantly Indo-European. Issues like this can only be fixed by taking a broader approach to tense and aspect. Overlapping terms would be durative or continuative. —
mark✎16:24, 22 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Added information about how continuous and progressive aspects are not the same in some languages, and gave Chinese as an example. —
Umofomia12:27, 11 June 2006 (UTC)reply
Demonstrative. Another subsection of the article on
English grammar has gotten its own article. Should be rewritten from scratch.
Determiner (linguistics). Really should be renamed to 'Determiner (English)' or something like that. Interesting things could be said about determiners and definiteness cross-linguistically.
Reworded a bit, less LPOV, de-emphasized English. Desperately needs contrasting examples (please not plain ol' Western IE languages isomorphic with English). --
Pablo D. Flores 15:38, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Diminutive. Oh boy, look at the structure. First, English is treated, and then a few other languages (predominantly European) are lumped together under a heading "non-English languages". This needs quite some work. —
mark✎16:17, 22 April 2006 (UTC)reply
The headings are now appropriate, since there are headings based on language families and English is now grouped with other Germanic languages. However, non-Indo-European languages are grouped together.
Johnny Au19:02, 24 July 2007 (UTC)reply
Function word. English only. It should be noted that the term 'function word' is per definition largely restricted to isolating languages (and as such is inevitably LPOV, like many Indo-European-inspired linguistic terms).
Grammatical tense. Only about the English tense system, only English examples. Should be renamed
Grammatical tense (English) or something like that. There is also some overlap with
English grammar. Steverapaport fixed this, but it still needs non-English examples. The table of tenses and their uses is a bit unwieldy and hopelessly LPOV. Useful examples: periphrastic/idiomatic "tenses" in Eurolangs; lack of distinction in Chinese; aspect emphasized over tense ibidem. --
Pablo D. Flores 15:52, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Grammatical aspect. Although the term is based on the work of Indo-European grammarians, it has been used in linguistics worldwide. At present, the article contains mainly English examples and some Serbian ones. Nothing is said about application of the term in linguistics outside the Indo-European language family.
Grammatical particle. English-only. Contains a list of English parts of speech considered 'grammatical particles'. I gave it a start by toning down the misleadingly strict definition a bit, but it still needs lots of work.
—
mark✎ 23:35, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Metathesis (linguistics). Universal phenomenon. Mainly covers some English sound changes. Could use cross-linguistical examples.
Provided examples from
Navajo (Athabaskan) and
Saanich (Salishan). The Klallam example is not just phonological but grammatical (I dont explain the phono part since it would be complicated). —
ishwar(SPEAK) 03:36, 2005 Mar 28 (UTC)
Palatalization. Not bad, but could be more outspoken on occurences of palatalization troughout the world (Berber, Bantu, to name a few). Especially in Bantu, interesting morphophonological things happen involving (among other processes) palatalization.
Pleonasm. There was actually an edit warrior who wanted to remove the non-English examples from this article. Fortunately he is gone, but in the aftermath of the battle, this article is in pretty lousy shape, and still needs some non-Indo-European examples.
Possessive case. This is actually a fairly good article, even including non-Indo-European concepts like alienable/inalienable possession. The problem is its context and naming.
Case is defined as a feature of inflecting languages. Indeed, many languages do not express possession by inflecting the noun (like the case article would suggest). It would be better to merge much of the content of the
Possessive case article to something like
Possession (linguistics) and to reserve the
Possessive case article for languages that actually do show a possessive case. Additionally, all those articles could do with more cross-linguistic examples.
Reflexive pronoun. Mostly English, mentions three other Indo-European languages and one constructed language. Nothing on non-IE languages, no typological perspective (Schladt (1999)'s 'The typology and grammaticalization of reflexives' would be a good source).
Rhetoric. Nothing on rhetoric in (say) Sanksrit, or other Indian languages, or for that matter any non-European (e.g. Chinese) culture. The talk page
mentions this.
Root (linguistics). Corrected and added examples, though a few more would be nice. Someone with more than amateur knowledge of linguistics, please correct me. Added a hook to
word stem -- which BTW is not a synonym for root and needs a formal definition. --
Pablo D. Flores 15:17, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Tone (linguistics). Universal phenomenon. In desperate need of a good definition. Is too Mandarin/Chinese minded. Check the 'what links here' of that page and see why.
Improved it by adding a section on different notational systems. Still needs much work. —
mark✎ 16:07, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Question. The paragraph on grammar seems OK, albeit fairly short. However, the mentioning of just the Indo-European intonation pattern and the English-only examples narrow the scope.
Fleshed it up a bit, though examples are still welcome. --
Pablo D. Flores 15:17, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Relative pronoun could use some information on non-Germanic languages. The long English section is justified as these really are tricky in English, especially for foreign learners, but it's not meant to be an article just on English grammar. --
Doric Loon 18:16, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
It's severely skewed towards IE-style relativisation in general. I turned "Relative pronoun" into a stub, and kept the original
Relative clause that "Relative pronoun" redirected to, which however, and rather unfortunately, treats the whole subject mostly focusing on relative pronouns. I think the whole topic should be addressed abstractly, and English should be treated along with other languages, of which more variety should be present. Hebrew was already there, and I added Japanese (which is important as a contrast because the relative clause goes before the noun it modifies, without a relative pronoun, or conjunctions, or any marks of relativisation other than word order).
Chinese, I think, does the same, but it should be there too. --
Pablo D. Flores 15:58, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Inflection. Quote from the article: 'Various major languages, including English, German, Russian, Spanish, French, and Hindi - all Indo-European languages - are inflected to a greater or lesser extent. Other languages [sic!] use almost no inflection, Chinese and Vietnamese among them.' The definition used in the article is part of the problem. More historical background should be given and current, cross-linguistical use of the term should be covered. Fixed by
Steverapaport 15:39, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC), probably could be removed from this list. --
Pablo D. Flores 15:52, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Mama. Currently a dab, but surely we should have an article about the striking cross-linguistical similarities in the basic word for mother (cf. Jakobson 1962 etc.). It currently reads that 'mama' is a slang word for 'mother' - speaking about LPOV! See
Mama and papa --
Pablo D. Flores 14:21, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Papa. Currently a dab, but surely we should have an article about the striking cross-linguistical similarities in the basic word for father (cf. Jakobson 1962 etc.) See
Mama and papa.
Reduplication. Universal phenomenon. Needs a better definition, a more logical structure and more examples. Note the phrase 'most notably in Malayo-Polynesian' (other language-families or areas are not even mentioned).
Cleaned it up a little --
Pablo D. Flores 15:17, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Provided biblio. The linked OT papers have many examples from unrelated langs. —
ishwar(SPEAK) 03:39, 2005 Mar 28 (UTC)
exanded (with organization). kind of a redupl. typological survey. now includes langs from all continents (i.e. N. America, Central America, S. America, NE Africa, Siberia, E. Asia, SE Asia, Papua New Guinea, & Australia) & a few major lang families (i.e. Salishan, Siouan, Tibeto-Burman, Tupí, Pama-Nyungan, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Austro-Asiatic, Mayan, Cushitic, & Uto-Aztecan). is this enough? peace —
ishwar(SPEAK) 15:18, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)
Spatial tense. This article should be written from a
Lojban grammar perspective, and certainly should not start with the sentence: Spatial tenses are a category of tenses not found in English. See its
talk for an extensive discussion.
Done from a Lojban perspective, still needs natural language examples (if
Hopi does indeed have spatial tense). --
Pablo D. Flores 14:38, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
You've done great work. I don't think natural languages have it and I think I made a clear case on why not at its
talk page. I think this one can be moved to 'Satisfactory'. —
mark✎ 15:48, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Onomatopoeia. Universal phenomenon.Very stubby, needs cleanup. What is worse, at present it only includes English examples (mainly sounds of animals).
Not anymore, since it includes many non-English examples, as well as popular cultural references, which are mainly from Western and Japanese comic books, comic strips, animated television programs, and manga.
Johnny Au (
talk)
22:02, 27 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Agricultural extension - the application of scientific research and new knowledge to agricultural practices through farmer education. Was GA. As of May 2011 it's C Class.
Meat science was listed as needing attention but as of May 2011 it's a redirect to
Meat. (should it be a separate topic?)
Wool -- the current article is about sheep wool, rather than an overview, while limited information about alpaca wool is relegated to the
alpaca article, and other animals such as goats are merely mentioned as alternative sources. As of May 2011 it's still almost all sheep and Oceania.
Threshing board - great job recently done translating this from Spanish, but inevitably it show a Spanish/Iberian bias in terminology, coverage, selection of sources, etc. It's a featured article in Spanish, and it's easy to see why, but it will takes some work to get it there in English. - 19:06, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
Ethnic minorities or majorities
Under-represented ethnic minorities in the developed world etc. (and other related topics)
List is accurate as of 19 July 2009
Requested articles
The Long Road to Freedom: 5 CD compilation of "the heritage of enslaved Africans";
Harry Belafonte started this project in 1961, it was completed only in 2001. Our article on Belafonte mentions it only in passing; I also found a mention of it in Daniel Brown, "Songs of Slavery", Index on Censorship, Volume 36, Number 1, 2007, p. 138–140, but not enough to write from. If someone is familiar with this collection, we should certainly have an article. -
Jmabel |
Talk20:56, 4 June 2007 (UTC)reply
Central College was/keeps being deleted for being "irrelevant" - a quarter of the minority students at a college left out of fear of discrimination. This goes to a disambig; unsure which college it is referring to.
Tina Manning, Native American activist, wife of
John Trudell, died in a suspicious house fire in 1979. One of the more notable woman Native American activists of the 1970s. Wasn't even mentioned by name till recent addition to the John Trudell article. Stub as of July 09.
Pauli Murray, African and Native American lawyer, writer, and minister in the Episcopal church, civil rights activist
Muntaqim v. Coombe and
Hayden v. Pataki - disfranchisement cases;
Muntaqim v. Coombe filed 1994; disfranchisement of felons in NY State, being fought on a basis of racial discrimination. Latter stubby as of July 09.
Jill Nelson prominent contemporary African-American journalist and writer,
Prince Hall Freemasonry currently a short subsection of
Freemasonry. African-American Masonry has been and is important in the U.S., and
Prince Hall Lodges were sometimes organizing forces in the civil rights movement.
Lead Belly rivaled in his generation only by Woody Guthrie as a writer of folk songs and a conduit from folk culture into popular culture - needs refimproving.
Jacob Lawrence Notable African-American artist, needs inlining.
H. Rap Brown Civil rights and black power leader, weighed towards conviction
Sanjeev Bhaskar Fairly prolific English actor and television presenter who gets two sentences. As of May 2011 the article has multiple sections. Probably still room for more content but not a stub.
Young Lords New York area Puerto Rican semi-gang, semi-political-party circa 1970, moved at least for a while towards trying to become a Puerto Rican equivalent of the Black Panthers. I got this one started: there is a lot of online material & probably more elsewhere. Expect sources to somewhat contradict one another. This would be a great topic for a good researcher who understands how to cite sources, etc. -
Jmabel 23:19, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)
Zoroastrianism,
Zoroaster and related topics all suffer from serious neglect, bias and misinformation. Someone has even categorized "Zoroastrian gods" -- despite the fact that it is a
monotheistic religion -- including listing Ahriman/
Angra Mainyu in that category. This is equivalent to listing
Satan as a "Christian God"!
Zosodada 20:22, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Aramaic-speaking Christian groups:
Syriacs,
Arameans,
Assyrian,
Chaldeans and Assyro-Chaldeans. These are quite a mess, as ethnic definitions are not very clear, and all of these labels have political connotations.
This section needs to be updated. Please help update this section to reflect recent events or newly available information. Relevant discussion may be found on
the talk page.
I've made a start on the three ICFTU regional organisations, but all could use expansion. Most of the information I could find on the American organisation is in Spanish, so that one could use from anyone who can read Spanish (I can't.) The lists of affiliated national unions (I couldn't find an online source for a list for Africa) also provide a collection of red links for us to make blue ;-) --
AJR20:05, 29 July 2005 (UTC)reply
Trade unions in Burkina Faso. I know very few on this subject because they were in the uderground during the revolution, but they're widely considered as very powerful before and after.
Nigeria Labour Congress One of Africa's strongest trade union organisations, with a history of actively working for democracy in the country. Article now created, proofreading and expansion needed.
There's also
Occupational safety and health, which is more general, describing principles rather than specific national regulations (but is still a victim of systematic bias, it only specifically mentions US & EU practices.)
London dock strike, 1889 "...is widely regarded as a major milestone in the development of the trade union movement, marking..."
Requests for review/attention
Bill Haywood Important leader in the
IWW in the early 20th century. I've made a
to-do list; once these items are addressed, I plan on putting it in for peer review and eventually pursuing featured article status. I've pretty much been the sole contributor to this article for quite some time, so any help would be greatly appreciated! --
JerryOrr21:41, 31 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Limited geographic scope
This section needs to be updated. Please help update this section to reflect recent events or newly available information. Relevant discussion may be found on
the talk page.
Most of the articles listed on Open Tasks are neglected because of their subject matter. The articles below are internally biased. In other words, they currently deal only with matters in certain countries, and/or often have a U.S. or developed country perspective rather than a global one. Once they have been edited to remove the geographic bias, please place them in the Satisfactory section. The list is split up by groups of letters of the alphabet for ease of navigation and editing.
Adoption Lacks perspective of countries that are the sources of international adoption.
Interracial adoption is solely from a U.S. perspective, is from a white adoptive family perspective, and lacks information on international adoptions (which can in some cases also be considered interracial).
Battle axe Lacks examples from Sub-Saharan Africa, even given that the Kongo and the Zulus (Zulu battle axes are called "imbazo") were among the best known Sub-Saharan African peoples to use them for example. Johnny Au(
talk/
contributions)02:15, 16 July 2013 (UTC)reply
Battlement As if the concept is only relevant in medieval western European architecture. Lacks a global point of view, although it mentions the
Great Wall of China (at the very least, Islamic architecture should be added). See also its
talk.
Beekeeping Has been a subsistence method from time immemorial for some societies. Article makes it almost look like a Western hobbyist practice.
Bimetallism Deals almost exclusively with bimetallism in U.S. history; could use information on Islamic bimetallism and any other non-US historical/modern examples that may exist. Another editor removed {globalize/USA} tag when I added it to the article (twice) but raises no objection to having the tag on the talk page. --
Eloil22:40, 22 March 2007 (UTC)reply
Bomb disposal This article is heavily Anglo-centric. Other definitions of domain terminology is also American.
Drdan18:06, 9 April 2006 (UTC) - It was invented by the British, and refined to where it is today by the Americans. There hasn't been significant additions by other countries because most of the second and third world countries today send their Technicians to UK or US schools for training. It's not a topic many can speak about with authority. What about a topic that has systemic bias because it is monosystemic in nature?
Shawn 11:42 15 April 2006 (EDT)reply
BreakfastScant references to non-western practices. Much added on Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. Still lacking anything on Africa. 6 African examples as of May 2011
Cannabis rescheduling is unashamedly about various bits of legislation in the United States, and has nothing to say on Cannabis legislation anywhere else.
Gareth Hughes 18:21, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Civilian control of the military I'm in the process of expanding this article but will be the first one to admit that my examples and structure draws heavily on the American philosophy and practice (this could be my limited perspective showing, but I think the term is probably used most frequently in this context as it is). I've attempted to add some mentions of Maoist theories and the Soviet commissars, but would really appreciate any input from editors who can contribute more material on theories of civilian control in other countries. —
MC MasterChef:: Leave a tip —09:22, 1 November 2005 (UTC)reply
Columbus Day - suggests that Columbus Day has only ever been celebrated in the United States, and that opposition to the concept is limited to the United States - Now mentions similar holidays in several other countries, especially in
Latin America, but none in Canada, although very few people in the latter celebrates the holiday. Examples of opposition from US and US Virgin Islands only.
Contract Based almost exclusively on the law of common law nations, mostly the U.K. Even non-Anglophone common law countries like India are barely mentioned. The article also suffers from serious perspective bias in that it only treats the "legal" aspects of contract and ignores perspectives from other disciplines.
Elliotreed (
talk)
04:54, 30 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Editorial cartoonHas only examples from the United States and Canada from the past supporting the war effort. Should need current editorial cartoons from other countries regarding other issues.
Electrical conduit Cites frequent examples "in the US" and references to US law, and has some minor notes about the UK, but does not discuss anywhere else.
Freedman USA-centred. Roman and Greek societies had such a term, to mention a quick example. Article should be rewritten as to broaden the meaning and put USA particularities in relevance proportional to the... extent to which the word refers to USA-terms. Or something, better words lacking. --
portugal (
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09:29, 29 July 2008 (UTC)reply
Freedom of speechDeveloped World examples only. Short paragraphs on the situation in India, in Asia in general and in Africa. Much potential for expansion.
Illegal immigration Only U.S. references. (Although the French Wikipedia's Sans-papiers article does not seem to have that much to add, it might at least provide a starting point for a European perspective. However, this article needs much more than that.)
Labour law Limited to U.S. and U.K. mostly, misses the fact that there are international labor standards.
Trade union Some general history, but country-specific information for U.S., UK and Sweden only (excluding half a sentence mentioning China in the introduction).
Land mine. Almost entirely about the mines themselves and the countries that make and remove them. Countries plagued by mines are mentioned only in passing.
Lawyer/
Solicitor Lead has U.S. perspective, only deals with the U.S., UK and Poland.
Locomotive and the related
Electric locomotive and
Diesel locomotive. Articles need added material on European history and usage, without Euro-biased suppression of North American experience. (This problem affects almost every article about rail technology, though most commonly it's the North American side that's missing.)
Market town You wouldn't know that trade existed outside of Europe.
Marriage too much bias on same-sex marriage—western countries are minority against China, India, Japan and Third World/South America. Article "s.s. marriage already exists". People may consider it "annoying information", just looking for man/woman marriage information. Wikipedia is not a "political platform".
Media bias Mainly concerns itself with the U.S. liberal vs. conservative bias discussion.
Military cadence Do armed services outside the United States have these?
Mixed-sex education Brief discussion of history in U.S. only, and some lists. Needs internationalization in any case, and might the subject of women's education in Muslim and developing countries be appropriate here? As of May 2011 there's very brief sections for Hong Kong and France. The UK and China have 3-4 paragraphs.
Cloveapple (
talk)
18:56, 17 May 2011 (UTC)reply
Modesty - passes beyond systemic bias into outright chauvinism: modesty norms outside the industrialized Western world are only discussed (and then only briefly) in comparison and contrast to the average Western norm. Even that norm is generalized and ignores real variations between countries, regions, and ethnicities. Discussions of religious and cultural norms are no longer based on mere comparison to the average Western norm. However, still biased heavily in its general discussion of modesty toward generally accepted Western norms. Still needs work.
Music genre only US/West, doesn't even mention that there is music in Africa, or that people who are not Western have music at all. More discussion about "honky tonk" than about entire continents!
Nudity, especially
Various modern-era attitudes has only Western perspectives, plus a short sentence on Islam, and a bit on Japan, but nothing from Central/South America, Africa, or most of Asia.
Nursery rhyme solely deals with songs sung to children from a French and English perspective, and one sentence on indigenous cultures. Nothing from the rest of the world.
Parking lot Seems as if parking lot legislation only exists in
Sweden, the
United Kingdom, and the
United States, though there are examples of parking lots in Japan and Canada.
PC Engine This article, which is about a 16-bit videogame console by NEC, is almost exclusively American-centric. It presents the US model of this system (the TurboGrafx) as an international reference. As discussed in the Talk page of the article, evidence clearly proves that this NEC console was known and distributed in Europe under its original Japanese name, and the name "TurboGrafx" was largely ignored there. The article doesn't need a rewrite: it mostly needs to be split into two distinct items.
Kaminari (
talk)
20:14, 14 February 2010 (UTC)reply
Physician Generally lacking, as it currently deals mainly with training, but only covers the U.S., the UK and France.
Pizza delivery -- This article has become very American centric. It focuses entirely on pizza delivery in the United States. Some effort should be made to include pizza delivery in European and Asian countries as well. (
RaF (
talk)
16:23, 28 January 2010 (UTC))reply
Plastic surgery has a section on cosmetic surgery which deals entirely with regulatory issues in the US
Police Mostly U.S. and UK (for historic reasons) references. Nothing on the role of the police force in neither democratic nor oppressive developing countries.
Proof coinage Article reads like the world has only two countries (One is Bulgaria, guess which is the other).
Property law Article has almost exclusive focus on the common law tradition, with a few isolated references to other European legal systems (the civil law and Roman law). There's no discussion of non-European legal traditions and none of contemporary European-derived property law outside the Anglosphere.
Elliotreed (
talk)
15:17, 28 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Public relations Almost exclusively uses U.S. examples and figures.
Public transport, vitally important throughout the developing world but the details focus on the decision to implement mass transit in industrialized countries
Rape Western perspective. Discusses the legal definitions of the U.S. and the UK only. Apart from brief mentions of the social consequences of rape in "societies with strong sexual customs and taboos", and rape as a means of torturing detainees in some countries, the rest of the article deals with the U.S. situation. No mention of the practice of rape as a war crime.
Satire mainly focuses on those of the Western and Islamic traditions, with examples of Horatian and Juvenalian satire being primarily Western, with modern examples mainly from the Anglosphere. Johnny Au(
talk/
contributions)02:23, 14 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Secondary education The "in various countries" section almost entirely excludes Africa.
Social promotion Most examples and perspectives come from the United States with little from Canada and none elsewhere
Special needs consists of (a) American general view (b) American legal minutiae
Spontaneous order is nearly entirely about economists' views, there is short shrift given to political applications at the core of the spontaneous order concept, and even worse, little to no coverage given to the Chinese philosophers who birthed the concept of spontaneous order over two millennia ago. This is a serious problem of WP:Systemic_bias, and since Confucius and Confucianism played such a huge role in creating spontaneous order (arguably inventing the concept) failure to include this is especially problematic.
State of emergencyonly deals with the US.Still deals mainly with the U.S., although info on other Western democracies have been added. - 25 countries now.
I've reworked this page to give it a more international scope - US-specific stuff is in its own section now, and I've added a skeletal Indonesia section. More to do - the above is a great (inspiring!) list of places where student activists have (usually) made changes. -
Cdc 20:10, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I've added a small bit on France. The
May 1968 events in France page is extremely thorough, so all we need here is a brief overview to show the context of it in student activist history.
Leyanese 17:35, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Tort This article almost exclusively discusses the common law system of the Anglosphere, contains only brief mention of the civil law, and ignores other legal systems entirely.
Elliotreed (
talk)
20:00, 28 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Town drunk only has examples from the United States and the British Isles (with Shakespeare being the earliest listed example); there should be plenty of fictional alcoholics depicted in non-Anglophone media, but they aren't mentioned at all for some inexplicable reason. Johnny Au(
talk/
contributions)02:10, 2 July 2017 (UTC)reply
Traffic congestion This article mainly focuses on traffic in the United States. It contains only a small mention of traffic in the UK, Iran, China (including Hong Kong), Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and Venezuela, with images from Russia, India, Thailand, Taiwan, Germany, and Portugal.
Unemployment Focused on the U.S., with a lengthy discussion on the U.S. definition and little or no mention of unemployment in other parts of the world.
Underemployment, a much more widespread problem than unemployment in the developing world doesn't have an article at all, although it could be treated as part of the unemployment article if it was revised. --
Sepa21:51, 18 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Video game controversies It seems that much of the article focuses on the American perspective. All of the legal cases are in the United States. There is almost nothing about video game controversies outside of the United States (aside from a few publicized incidents). Johnny Au(
talk/
contributions)02:35, 1 July 2011 (UTC)reply
Water resources "The problem: Human populations in some areas (e.g. southern California, Israel, and Florida) are growing from 1 to 3% per year, while fresh water supplies are remaining constant or shrinking." Ever heard of a place called Africa? This article hasn't.
I've re-written and re-focused this article. As it stands, there are no explicit geographical references - don't know if that'll make you guys happy or sad. In the process of further refining this article, I expect specific geographical references will be worked back in or linked to.
Toiyabe19:44, 5 May 2005 (UTC)reply
Wordfilter is mainly about its uses in Anglophone online and video gaming media, especially in the implementation section, which mainly consists of video games from the United States (and to some extent, the United Kingdom). All of the examples in the article are applicable to English-language filters. There is completely nothing about wordfilters for other languages. Johnny Au(
talk/
contributions)02:32, 7 April 2012 (UTC)reply
Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy Who would have guessed Wikipedia might attract writers with a pro-free-speech POV? Editors of this article have slanted it heavily toward describing the controversy as between religious zealotry and the ideal of free speech, and have excluded content that explains the context of ethnic hate speech or current regional conflict.
Dirinici07:11, 22 February 2006 (UTC)reply
Istihlal is something like the crime of making up an Islamic law, recently in the news when a group of Spanish Muslims accused
Osama bin Laden of the crime. --
Dmcdevit 23:49, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
List of Islamic educational institutions: created this and would like people to add and expand it. There are almost no resources on the web--or anywhere that I can find, actually, on institutions like the Haqqania madarassa in northern Pakistan, where the
Taliban leadership was educated. Or the historical universities in the Muslim world--other than
Al-Azhar University.
—
iFaqeer(Talk to me!) 20:36, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)
Al-islam.org Apparently a large & popular website and forum (most popular, according to Yahoo) regarding Shia Islam, but the article is severely a stub.
Shalash al-Iraqi - I started this article after reading about him on an Iraqi's blog, and after doing some research I was unable to find any information on him that wasn't from other bloggers. I ended up using these as references anyway, I know that's not the ideal Wikipedia standard, but the blogs seem to suggest that he's very notable in Iraq. Is there anyone who has read a print article about him or can translate better web sources from Arabic, perhaps? Also, I'd appreciate a message on my talk page if this article is nominated for deletion. --
Grace07:28, 13 November 2006 (UTC)reply
Requests for review
Sünbül Efendi - this article has been posted to
VfD. I believe the topic is notable but there is an issue with transcription: apparently the correct spelling would be Sümbül Efendi (alternate Sünbül Efendi).
Google returns 179 results but most of them not in English. There are also alternate spellings like Sümbül Efendi, Sünbül Efendi, Şeyh Sümbül, Sümbül Sinan, Sünbül Sinan etc.--
AYArktos22:09, 9 May 2005 (UTC)reply
Baháʼí Faith--Currently the editing of this entry (and related entries) is dominated by Baha'is, who take the opportunity to downplay criticisms and in general slant their information in predictable directions. Please consider this a call for non-Baha'i editors to come have a look at the site, and help ensure balance. Thank you.
Dawud10:44, 3 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Carlton Pearson -
Tulsa, Oklahoma-based African American preacher and theologian, long a protegé of
Oral Roberts—also an advisor to Bush on faith-based initiatives, had a TV show, etc.,—whose theology began to change in the late 1990s, when he decided that there is no Hell (or, more precisely, turned around to a rather existentialist view of Hell being something we make on earth, but not part of the afterlife). This eventually evolved into the
Doctrine of Inclusion: that everyone is saved. As a result, his enormous
Higher Dimensions[4] megachurch slowly collapsed, though, with his new theology, he again has a congregation numbering at least into the hundreds. Fascinating figure. Recent hour-long radio story about him on
This American Life[5], but as of when I'm writing they haven't archived it to a permanent address. Founder of a Christian music festival that I believe is called
Azuza, as well. --
Jmabel |
Talk19:24, 17 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Giving undue weight to heterodox economics and pseudoeconomics
Since economics tend to be an issue mired in politics, pseudoeconomics are frequently invoked in political discourse and by many average people who discuss economic issues. On Wikipedia, the largest problem seems to be the promotiong of monetary crankery, by
New World Order conspiracy theorists and
Libertarian supporters of
Austrian economics. Several articles on monetary theory currently violate
WP:FRINGE. However, occasionally radical Marxists also abuse Wikipedia in the same way. Because the average person is not educated in economics, they may not be aware of the fringe-status of Austrian and Marxist arguments when they are presented, or that may not recognize a certain argument as "Marxist" or "Austrian" when it is presented. However, articles related to criticism of
John Maynard Keynes and
Keynesian economics could use expansion...
And any articles involved Austrian and Marxist economics.
Nature (biology, chemistry, physics and related)
Requested articles
Requests for expansion
mating - This article is a stub and should discuss more about animal mating, apart from copulation, like the behavior of animals that court or of social animals that nurture their offspring in pairs.
snail - This article is underdeveloped and doesn't discuss in more detail the different taxons of snails. Also, there may be some inaccuracies.
tool - The section regarding tool use in animals, while having numerous references, doesn't say much besides that monkeys & other primates, ravens, and sea otters have been observed using tools. Could be expanded.
Chinese astronomy - 3000 years of history and until recently was a single sentence. Above all, something should be added about astronomy in China today, to counter any perception that Chinese science is only about the past. Please help counter the bias against nonwestern science in this and other history of science articles.
Requests for review
Electrical engineering - This article is currently focusing on the North American meaning of the term. European and Global use seems to indictate the separation of the terms Electrical and Electronic into different fields.
sex - This article focuses too much on the human aspect of sex and does not discuss essential things about sex like genetics, biology, biological evolution and origin of sex, etc.
Pregnancy (mammals) - The word "pregnancy" instead of "gestation" in the title of the article is dubious.
I fail to see how this is written in a liberal view. It seems to be pretty matter-of-fact. If he advances a policy it is enough to say that he did so. It is a statement of fact not a statement of the benefits or detriments of the policy. As to current policy criticism, the place for that is on your favorite blog, not on Wikipedia. This is in line with the treatment of other US presidents. Look at
Herbert Hoover. He was extremely unpopular, but you still don't have a huge portion of the article dealing with detailed policy criticism, when he is arguably the most deserving of it. What criticisms there are can be made with 80 years of insight and is backed up with historians as sources, not political analysts.
Timothyjosephwood (
talk)
19:25, 3 April 2015 (UTC)reply
Execution of Saddam Hussein -- Lack of sources other than main US news outlets such as CNN or in the case of a British news outlet, the BBC. US-sources dominate the article, and this reflects in the tone. Would need an array of both independent and international sources.
Sfacets02:30, 2 January 2007 (UTC) As of May 2011 there are a number of non-US-non-British sources.reply
Covance -- Focuses on animal testing information with an animal rights slant. Does not provide sufficient, accurate information on other areas of business, which include FDA nutritional testing and antibody development.
Orcar96717:27, 22 October 2007 (UTC)reply
paint -- only deals with the art aspect not the commercial painting aspect.
Pregnancy (mammals) - focuses too much on humans by using the word "pregnancy" instead of "gestation". This article was initially split from the article about human
pregnancy. Also, doesn't define well which animals gestate and which not, and discounts gestation in other animals, if any.
FWIW, "his revert power" consists of skipping a click: it is exactly the same ability anyone else has to revert an edit, just slightly more efficient. --
Jmabel |
Talk 05:14, August 16, 2005 (UTC)
Robinson list -- mentions the US Do Not Call list, but then proceeds to deal with only email spam and talk about Robinson lists as if they were only for spam.
Myth and related articles -- some mythologies are treated differently from other mythologies. Problems with definition. Many editors have strong feelings about these articles. –
ishwar(speak)05:13, 6 July 2006 (UTC)reply
Guantanamo Bay detention camp - The global perspective section of this article could be lengthened considerably. I don't know a lot about this, but my sense is that Guantanamo has received considerable attention from U.S. allies and opponents around the world. --
Mackabean22:36, 6 June 2007 (UTC)reply
Traditional education - There should be more background information regarding this topic rather than being mainly a comparison of the two types of education. Additionally, the article seems as if it were written by those who support alternative education. The article is also USA-centric.
Johnny Au00:16, 26 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Many articles about the
Soviet Union rely on information from anti-Soviet sources. Both pro- and anti-Soviet sources can be greatly biased. Where possible, cite the sources used, and try to find balance.
GRuban 14:50, 1 March 2006 (UTC) (greatly condensing
Paranoid17:00, 17 July 2005 (UTC))reply
Um, did you read the article at all? It mentions that the Soviet Union was at one time an ally of Germany (which it was), but of course goes on to say how that changed after Operation Barabarosa. And there is a section discussion Spain's (and Portugal's) collaboration with Germany. I see no systemic bias in that article... --
JerryOrr12:26, 20 February 2007 (UTC)reply
People with disabilities; disability studies
I think most Wikipedians do not consider themselves people with disabilities. Therefore, things such as the sociology, history, psychology, language, etc. of disabilities do not get covered in too much detail. We do have a very nice, somewhat long
List of disability rights activists, but a lot of the articles are redlinks. Some of the articles that are not redlinks go to articles about people other than the ones mentioned on the page, and need to be disambiguated; a few other are pages of politicians, whose pages need to be checked for mention in their involvement for disability rights. Also, the vast majority of people on the list, if not all of them, are from the Western world.
ARC (formerly Association of Retarded Citizens) is tagged for reading like an advertisement. Needs better sources, most are the ARC itself.
Cloveapple (
talk)
06:29, 18 May 2011 (UTC)reply
Underrepresented occupations
Coal miner redirects
Miner, which is a stub. Now redirects to
mining, which is a decent article with info on the profession. Now redirects to
Coal mining
General comment: one reason many of these articles do not exist, or are still stubs is that potential contributors have no model for a successful article on a profession. If one of the more complete articles could be improved into a
featured article, this might help Wikipedians in filling these needs. --
llywrch17:29, 19 June 2006 (UTC)reply
Uncredited scientific achievements should be credited in the appropriate articles, with links to the scientists.
Scientific "pedigrees" that include notable students or advisors should be added where appropriate. Generally advisors listed near the top with graduate and postdoc work. Notable students may be mentioned in a single paragraph about the lab and/or influences of the scientist.
Merging overrepresented content
In addition to adding new content to underrepresented areas, we should also work on minimizing content in overrepresented ones. It is easy to generate a hundred 1k articles out of 3k of text, if you break it up poorly and repeat yourself for a long intro paragraph in each of a hundred stubs, rather than making a single, concise page including them all.
These are all topics that should be in Wikipedia; and none of the existing content needs to be removed; but repeated content, and generation of hundreds of stubs rather than one or two good articles, is bad for readers, for categorizers, for quality-editors, and for the 'random article' feature.—Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Sj (
talk •
contribs)
It is relevant to systemic bias - contributors' systemic bias leads to these short messy articles. It isn't really what this project focuses on, though, which is more to do with filling in neglected areas. See umpteen discussions about choosing a less misleading name if you're interested. --
Cherry blossom tree22:34, 8 May 2006 (UTC)reply
isn't this akin to granting equality to cripples by chopping everyone else's legs off? certain topics are under-represented, so let's lower the representation of others to match? why not leave the content alone, and add new content for the under-represented areas, even if they're just stubs (might entice new editors familiar in those topics)? --
Dak (
talk)
03:50, 13 January 2009 (UTC)reply
List of articles every Wikipedia should have
I'm not sure this belongs here, but it seems relevant to this WikiProject -- please feel free to move it to a more appropriate place (and drop me a note).
This page is currently inactive and is retained for
historical reference. Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. To revive discussion, seek broader input via a forum such as the
village pump.
These are the open tasks for the
Wikiproject Countering systemic bias. Articles are listed thematically, and then by the type of assistance requested. An article stub for a
feminist author would thus be found under the "Requests for expansion" section under Women's Studies.
Themes are divided into four stages: non-existent, stubby, identifiably flawed and satisfactory. "Requested articles" are pages that are entirely missing from Wikipedia. A little bit of research on the web is normally enough to write a
stub. Be sure to move the list entry to the relevant section once you are done. Articles that are stubby, or otherwise lacking in content, may be found under "Requests for expansion". If something in particular is missing, such as a university article with a long list of alumni but little historical background, be sure to say so when you enter it. "Requests for review" is for articles that are of decent length but need more attention. A need for a
copyedit or for a fact check by a knowledgeable reader are appropriate reasons to ask for review.
Once an article has passed through the various stages of this process it may be placed under the Satisfactory section. Satisfactory articles are well-rounded, long enough to cover the topic in reasonable detail, and lack any major flaws. They are not expected to be
perfect.
If you feel an article is neglected due to systemic bias, feel free to add it to an appropriate section or even to start a new section below. Sections describing perceived biases that do not include articles are placed at the bottom of the page. If no articles are placed within the section within a month, it will be assumed that the objection is not actionable and the section will be removed.
The countries below have been identified as those most in need of work. They are accompanied by some online resources that may be useful in contributing to the articles. If a user feels that a country article has progressed to the level where it may be replaced by another, please seek consensus on the
talk page.
Translations of any appropriate articles in the French or Portuguese Wikipedia can be requested on
Wikipedia:Translation into English - though some articles are actually shorter in the foreign language version. For materials not in Wikipedia, but available in electronic form, you could contact an appropriate individual at
Wikipedia:Translators available.
Missing geography articles
The following articles are about important geographical regions in the non-English-speaking world.
Northeast Africa - The region encompasses
Egypt,
Sudan and
Horn of Africa and is missing completely from Wikipedia while other regions are available, suspecting racial bias as editors have been vandalizing sources referring to that region for fear of linking Egypt to Sub-Saharan African countries.
Developing World
As of May 2011
All aspects of the "
developing world", primarily in Africa, but also Asia and South America.
At the bottom of
this page is a template showing the African countries that have an article about women in that country. Many are red links as of May 2011
Kintampo — archaeological site of major historical interest in
Ghana. Ceramic Late Stone Age cultural complex dating around fourth millennium BP. Sometimes thought to be the first agriculturalist settlement in West Africa. Also known for its waterfalls.
New Halfa Scheme — scheme located in the
Kassala state of Sudan where housing and work was provided by the Sudanian government for
Nubians from the inundated areas around Wadi Halfa. The forced resettlement raised much controversy.
Yasuni National Park, in Ecuador. "Yasuní may well be the single most biodiverse forest on earth," state some of the world's leading biologists, including Jane Goodall, E.O. Wilson and Stuart Pimm, in a February 2005 letter to the president of Ecuador.
2000 Mozambique flood Humanitarian disaster with many online resources, but short page so far
Afghan parliamentary election, 2005 I expanded it from stub to what it is now in the past two days, but it still lacks any candidate information or political analysis (how much power will the parliament have? What is the expected political colour? How reliable will the results be? etc.)
Ali Hassan Mwinyi Former Tanzanian president but little analysis of his reign in power
Andean states A very neglected article for an entire important region of the world. --14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Benjamin Mkapa Tanzanian president could do with more detail
Converted
Ethiopian famine from redirect into article, providing a brief introduction & a list of famines since 1535. (Note: at the moment, I don't have access to information for the period 1801-1880.) --
llywrch00:18, 10 September 2005 (UTC) As of May 2011, this list is rated B Class (failed featured list nomination)reply
Futa Tooro, on the recent changes list, Senegalese tribal group
Gacaca courts are made up of the common people to prosecute the Rwandan genocide perpetrators. Witnesses, survivors, etc. participate. see
[1]. -- little stub created, help expand!--
Dmcdevit 05:07, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC) --As of May 2011 this is no longer a stub & is rated C Class.
Also, the
inyangamugayo are the common citizens elected as judges. --
Dmcdevit 02:57, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
History of Africa Article is very poor on African in the 20th Century, just an incomplete list of events. The article also needs to be reduced in size, and some child articles set up for the periods
History of North Africa extremely spotty coverage of some periods, 20th century section only talks about Suez canal
Request for review/attention of Developing World articles
HIV/AIDS in Africa As of May 2011 more citations are needed. Also I saw a mention in the AIDS Wikiproject that the article could use a discussion of AIDS's effects on women. Can anybody more familiar with the topic take a look and comment on what the article needs?
Cloveapple (
talk)
17:33, 17 May 2011 (UTC)reply
African slave trade, merged into "Slavery in Africa" article, a subtopic of the redirect's title, which may cover much more than just slavery in Africa
Yellow Emperor Important Chinese mythological character. It should be as long as the article on
Zeus for example
Poverty in Africa - This article needs to condsider the structural causes and external causes of poverty in Africa. The continent is not an island. This would includes multilateral agreements, neo-liberal policies, unfair trade agreements (it does an excellent job at covering internal causes, but it read very biased since that is all it does.
Execution of Saddam Hussein -- Lack of sources other than main US and UK news outlets such as CNN or BBC. US-sources dominate the article, and this reflects in the tone. Would need an array of both independent and international sources. A number of non-US non-UK sources have been added as of May 2011
Settler colonialism - completely missing references As of May 2011 it has some references and a bunch of unreferenced stuff got moved to the talk page. Still needs work. Some sections are just placeholders with no actual writing.
Cloveapple (
talk)
18:36, 17 May 2011 (UTC)reply
Tripoli hmm... apparently Tripoli is one of those ancient cities that used to exist but its history stopped after 1911. Oh yeah, and it doesn't have any geography, culture, politics/government, economy, demographics, recreation, transportation, all that good stuff. Quite depressing. --
Dmcdevit 18:58, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC) As of May 2011 some more recent stuff has been added but it's still C Class and needs work.
Páll has translated the French and created subpages and a navigation template, but the subpages could do with a copyedit, and content needs to be organized between the main and sub-pages. -
BanyanTree 21:33, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Thomas Sankara A major African leader for many African people.
Arsen Kotsoyev,
Ossetian writer and journalist, the article is a candidate for "Translation of the Week", but its English version needs to be reviewed by a native speaker of English. --
Slavik IVANOV 15:37, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Done (but leaving it open in case I missed something) --
Nimlot 20:58, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
Alcoholism luckily only affects people in N. America. Rich Farmbrough 15:59 7 March 2006 (UTC). I spoke to Rich Farmbrough and he said the bias was "mostly" edited away but that "It should still touch on the alcohol problems in post-communist Russia, and the treatment, self-help and diagnosis have a Western bent, but nothing like what it was 5 years ago."
Cloveapple (
talk)
06:59, 17 May 2011 (UTC)reply
Africa - there is an ongoing problem with an editor who wants to blank out all mention of the Ethiopian famine in 1984, in which almost a million Africans perished, for obviously political reasons because the facts are inconvenient and make Marxism–Leninism look bad. This cannot be tolerated and the continuous edit warring needs to stop.
Til Eulenspiegel (
talk) 12:46, 8 June 2008 (UTC) As of May 2011 the famine is mentioned.
Cloveapple (
talk)
16:40, 17 May 2011 (UTC)reply
Groupuscule's
userspace list of articles formerly citing Third World Traveler, now in need of attention
Donghak Peasant Revolution This article has been edited by a single South Korean user (myself), AWB, three non-AWB users, and bots since January 8 2013, with 267 of 290 edits being made by the single South Korean user. I would not have sent Jimbo something like
this if somebody else than me was editing it.
Cyber Anakin No problems in the present though concerns abound that perspective biases against non-Anglosphere and some sub-cultural perspectives (hacking) will be made serious if a re-write with trimming goes through. Refer to this
discussion. May apply to other
Anonymous and cybersecurity related articles.
92.118.112.116 (
talk)
21:03, 1 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Contents have since been restored and expanded as of mid-June 2024, but not before it became a wider incident with news coverages such as
this and
this. The page still need to be monitored in case of any further untoward incidents. Please refer to this
talk page discussion for further information.
38.99.82.242 (
talk)
09:52, 15 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Tàigǔ (a Chinese
drum and possible predecessor to
taiko)
The Beauty Myth, a review of Western ideals of corporeal beauty, how that contrasts with those of other cultures, and effects of acculturation. I moved the article that was there on the Naomi Wolf book to The Beauty Myth. Beauty myth now redirects there. The blue link here should not be taken to mean that someone has started an article on the concept apart from Wolf's book.
Jkelly07:43, 23 September 2005 (UTC)reply
Young-ja Cho (1951– ) Created a brief stub on this sculptor - can't find anything else on the web with any substance though. Still a stub in May 2011.
Surojana Sethabutra (1956– ) contemporary Thai ceramicist. This is a stub in May 2001.
Sybil Gibson (1908–1995) - created a page on this artist - I'll expand it when I have time, as there is plenty of info on the web. Could do with a picture of some description though if anyone with more technical know-how than myself can look at it.TicketMan -
Talk -
contribs15:18, 23 December 2007 (UTC) As of May 2011 it has a picture but needs some more citations.reply
The arts and
Art need a lot of whole lot of work. There are also several open questions about categorization - see their talk pages.
Clubmarx 17:48, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)
Red squirrel, at least a section on conservation is written from an almost entirely UK-centric point of view. --
Eleassarmy talk 10:03, 28 August 2005 (UTC) The article is on a UK species. As of May 2011 there's a redirect to the US species.
Cloveapple (
talk)
17:39, 19 May 2011 (UTC)reply
Harp,
Lyre,
Flute,
Drum and
Musical notation are all eurocentric and need to be split into a general part with a globalized view and special articles on special European forms of the topic. This is probably also true for other music-related articles (I am currently checking this).
Nannus18:12, 8 August 2006 (UTC)reply
Harp Looks like there's been an attempt to make it more global but sections on Africa, Asia, and Latin America need expansion and references.
Cloveapple (
talk)
05:30, 20 May 2011 (UTC)reply
Lyre has a "Lyres around the world" section that's only a list of links. (Looks like a useful list and could form the start of a separate list article but it doesn't balance the fully written text of other sections.)
Cloveapple (
talk)
05:30, 20 May 2011 (UTC)reply
Flute covers a number of regional variations now, with "western concert flutes" just one variation among many. Chinese and Japanese sections could use expansion and a picture.
Cloveapple (
talk)
05:42, 20 May 2011 (UTC)reply
Increasing number and quality of biographies of women, issues regarding women or under-covered topics of interest to women, as well as improving Wikilinks, categorization, etc. regarding women.
Sady Doyle, an American feminist journalist for
The Guardian and blogger for her Tiger Beatdown blog
Gisella Floreanini, alias Amelia Valli, communist, antifascist, minister in the
Republic of Ossola, first woman to be a minister in Italy, only member Republic of Ossola government to rejoin the guerrilla rather than flee to Switzerland after it fell to the Nazis, member of parliament after World War II.
it:Gisella Floreanini Braga, Antonella (2015). Gisella Floreanini. Unicopli.
ISBN8840018557..
Non-English language literature (particularly writers whose work is unavailable or not widely available in English). See also
List of African writers by country.
Requested articles
These include all of the nonexistent links listed under "Literature by country or language"
Mohammed Awzal (ca. 1680-1749), the most important author of the Sous Berber (
Tashelhiyt) literature tradition. Needs an article as badly as As of May 2011 has a short article.
the
literature section of the language article needs expansion.
Memed, My Hawk and
İnce Memed tetralogy, two articles on his novels, could also use some attention.
Antonio Machado One of the great poets of the 20th century gets barely more than a stub. As of May 2011, it's C Class.
Arabic literature - a disgracefully short article on a huge topic. -
Mustafaa 10:38, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC) B Class as of May 2011.
Yefet ben Ali A Karaite Sage of past whose commentaries were influential on Ibn Ezra and Kimchi, and was a subject of interest during the first half of the 1900s. His writings could go under Mustafaa's suggestion, as they were all written in Arabic. --
Josiah 03:16, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC) Has a neutrality tag as of May 2011.
Chinese literatureis just a collection of lists- nary a sentence to be seen. As of May 2011, there's a good deal of writing but also several clean up tags.
Being and Nothingness - a major philosophical essay of the 20th century. The stub is not clear, with many missing parts. As of May 2011 its grown well past a stub but has many many tags.
Omenuko - one-sentence stub on Nigerian novel (first novel in Igbo language)
Kiran Nagarkar - Indian author - he's the subject of an anthology, so surely more information is available from there if nowhere else. Up to Start Class as of May 2011.
Migrant literature - This is supposed to be about a category of world literature, but needs to be expanded with examples from other contexts. Also, it needs to be better sourced. Standard sources for Post-colonial literature and Exil literature would be good here, but migration is a broader topic than just its overlap with those two well-studied fields. --
Doric Loon (
talk)
09:43, 29 May 2011 (UTC)reply
This section needs to be updated. Please help update this section to reflect recent events or newly available information. Relevant discussion may be found on
the talk page.
Many linguistic articles are written exclusively or largely from an Indo-European point of view. In some cases this becomes apparent in the examples provided (
Onomatopoeia seems an irredeemable example), while others treat grammatical categories and linguistic terms as if they pertain to
English or other well-known
Indo-European languages only. This is something that needs to be remedied in an encyclopedia of international scope.
Requested articles
Requests for expansion
(The most common request is to correct a limited (usually Indo-European) point of view.)
A–J
Affix. Uses English examples only (!!?). Needs work.
Closed class. English-based. Cross-linguistically, there are interesting differences here. In many African languages for example, the class of
adjectives is a closed class. On a sidenote,
cognitive linguistic views of reasons for the distinction between closed and open classes (e.g. Talmy 2000:413, Langacker) are also worth mentioning.
This is very interesting. I would love to see some references of how adj's are in the closed class. While the open-closed distinction forms the basis for Talmy's model of form (grammatical) vs content, I am not sure where Langacker refers to this. Certainly it is not very prominent in his 1987/1991 texts.
mukerjee (
talk)
07:22, 18 November 2006 (UTC)reply
Continuous and progressive aspects. First a section on 'the English continuous', then a section treating some other languages, predominantly Indo-European. Issues like this can only be fixed by taking a broader approach to tense and aspect. Overlapping terms would be durative or continuative. —
mark✎16:24, 22 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Added information about how continuous and progressive aspects are not the same in some languages, and gave Chinese as an example. —
Umofomia12:27, 11 June 2006 (UTC)reply
Demonstrative. Another subsection of the article on
English grammar has gotten its own article. Should be rewritten from scratch.
Determiner (linguistics). Really should be renamed to 'Determiner (English)' or something like that. Interesting things could be said about determiners and definiteness cross-linguistically.
Reworded a bit, less LPOV, de-emphasized English. Desperately needs contrasting examples (please not plain ol' Western IE languages isomorphic with English). --
Pablo D. Flores 15:38, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Diminutive. Oh boy, look at the structure. First, English is treated, and then a few other languages (predominantly European) are lumped together under a heading "non-English languages". This needs quite some work. —
mark✎16:17, 22 April 2006 (UTC)reply
The headings are now appropriate, since there are headings based on language families and English is now grouped with other Germanic languages. However, non-Indo-European languages are grouped together.
Johnny Au19:02, 24 July 2007 (UTC)reply
Function word. English only. It should be noted that the term 'function word' is per definition largely restricted to isolating languages (and as such is inevitably LPOV, like many Indo-European-inspired linguistic terms).
Grammatical tense. Only about the English tense system, only English examples. Should be renamed
Grammatical tense (English) or something like that. There is also some overlap with
English grammar. Steverapaport fixed this, but it still needs non-English examples. The table of tenses and their uses is a bit unwieldy and hopelessly LPOV. Useful examples: periphrastic/idiomatic "tenses" in Eurolangs; lack of distinction in Chinese; aspect emphasized over tense ibidem. --
Pablo D. Flores 15:52, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Grammatical aspect. Although the term is based on the work of Indo-European grammarians, it has been used in linguistics worldwide. At present, the article contains mainly English examples and some Serbian ones. Nothing is said about application of the term in linguistics outside the Indo-European language family.
Grammatical particle. English-only. Contains a list of English parts of speech considered 'grammatical particles'. I gave it a start by toning down the misleadingly strict definition a bit, but it still needs lots of work.
—
mark✎ 23:35, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Metathesis (linguistics). Universal phenomenon. Mainly covers some English sound changes. Could use cross-linguistical examples.
Provided examples from
Navajo (Athabaskan) and
Saanich (Salishan). The Klallam example is not just phonological but grammatical (I dont explain the phono part since it would be complicated). —
ishwar(SPEAK) 03:36, 2005 Mar 28 (UTC)
Palatalization. Not bad, but could be more outspoken on occurences of palatalization troughout the world (Berber, Bantu, to name a few). Especially in Bantu, interesting morphophonological things happen involving (among other processes) palatalization.
Pleonasm. There was actually an edit warrior who wanted to remove the non-English examples from this article. Fortunately he is gone, but in the aftermath of the battle, this article is in pretty lousy shape, and still needs some non-Indo-European examples.
Possessive case. This is actually a fairly good article, even including non-Indo-European concepts like alienable/inalienable possession. The problem is its context and naming.
Case is defined as a feature of inflecting languages. Indeed, many languages do not express possession by inflecting the noun (like the case article would suggest). It would be better to merge much of the content of the
Possessive case article to something like
Possession (linguistics) and to reserve the
Possessive case article for languages that actually do show a possessive case. Additionally, all those articles could do with more cross-linguistic examples.
Reflexive pronoun. Mostly English, mentions three other Indo-European languages and one constructed language. Nothing on non-IE languages, no typological perspective (Schladt (1999)'s 'The typology and grammaticalization of reflexives' would be a good source).
Rhetoric. Nothing on rhetoric in (say) Sanksrit, or other Indian languages, or for that matter any non-European (e.g. Chinese) culture. The talk page
mentions this.
Root (linguistics). Corrected and added examples, though a few more would be nice. Someone with more than amateur knowledge of linguistics, please correct me. Added a hook to
word stem -- which BTW is not a synonym for root and needs a formal definition. --
Pablo D. Flores 15:17, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Tone (linguistics). Universal phenomenon. In desperate need of a good definition. Is too Mandarin/Chinese minded. Check the 'what links here' of that page and see why.
Improved it by adding a section on different notational systems. Still needs much work. —
mark✎ 16:07, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Question. The paragraph on grammar seems OK, albeit fairly short. However, the mentioning of just the Indo-European intonation pattern and the English-only examples narrow the scope.
Fleshed it up a bit, though examples are still welcome. --
Pablo D. Flores 15:17, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Relative pronoun could use some information on non-Germanic languages. The long English section is justified as these really are tricky in English, especially for foreign learners, but it's not meant to be an article just on English grammar. --
Doric Loon 18:16, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
It's severely skewed towards IE-style relativisation in general. I turned "Relative pronoun" into a stub, and kept the original
Relative clause that "Relative pronoun" redirected to, which however, and rather unfortunately, treats the whole subject mostly focusing on relative pronouns. I think the whole topic should be addressed abstractly, and English should be treated along with other languages, of which more variety should be present. Hebrew was already there, and I added Japanese (which is important as a contrast because the relative clause goes before the noun it modifies, without a relative pronoun, or conjunctions, or any marks of relativisation other than word order).
Chinese, I think, does the same, but it should be there too. --
Pablo D. Flores 15:58, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Inflection. Quote from the article: 'Various major languages, including English, German, Russian, Spanish, French, and Hindi - all Indo-European languages - are inflected to a greater or lesser extent. Other languages [sic!] use almost no inflection, Chinese and Vietnamese among them.' The definition used in the article is part of the problem. More historical background should be given and current, cross-linguistical use of the term should be covered. Fixed by
Steverapaport 15:39, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC), probably could be removed from this list. --
Pablo D. Flores 15:52, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Mama. Currently a dab, but surely we should have an article about the striking cross-linguistical similarities in the basic word for mother (cf. Jakobson 1962 etc.). It currently reads that 'mama' is a slang word for 'mother' - speaking about LPOV! See
Mama and papa --
Pablo D. Flores 14:21, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Papa. Currently a dab, but surely we should have an article about the striking cross-linguistical similarities in the basic word for father (cf. Jakobson 1962 etc.) See
Mama and papa.
Reduplication. Universal phenomenon. Needs a better definition, a more logical structure and more examples. Note the phrase 'most notably in Malayo-Polynesian' (other language-families or areas are not even mentioned).
Cleaned it up a little --
Pablo D. Flores 15:17, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Provided biblio. The linked OT papers have many examples from unrelated langs. —
ishwar(SPEAK) 03:39, 2005 Mar 28 (UTC)
exanded (with organization). kind of a redupl. typological survey. now includes langs from all continents (i.e. N. America, Central America, S. America, NE Africa, Siberia, E. Asia, SE Asia, Papua New Guinea, & Australia) & a few major lang families (i.e. Salishan, Siouan, Tibeto-Burman, Tupí, Pama-Nyungan, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Austro-Asiatic, Mayan, Cushitic, & Uto-Aztecan). is this enough? peace —
ishwar(SPEAK) 15:18, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)
Spatial tense. This article should be written from a
Lojban grammar perspective, and certainly should not start with the sentence: Spatial tenses are a category of tenses not found in English. See its
talk for an extensive discussion.
Done from a Lojban perspective, still needs natural language examples (if
Hopi does indeed have spatial tense). --
Pablo D. Flores 14:38, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
You've done great work. I don't think natural languages have it and I think I made a clear case on why not at its
talk page. I think this one can be moved to 'Satisfactory'. —
mark✎ 15:48, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Onomatopoeia. Universal phenomenon.Very stubby, needs cleanup. What is worse, at present it only includes English examples (mainly sounds of animals).
Not anymore, since it includes many non-English examples, as well as popular cultural references, which are mainly from Western and Japanese comic books, comic strips, animated television programs, and manga.
Johnny Au (
talk)
22:02, 27 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Agricultural extension - the application of scientific research and new knowledge to agricultural practices through farmer education. Was GA. As of May 2011 it's C Class.
Meat science was listed as needing attention but as of May 2011 it's a redirect to
Meat. (should it be a separate topic?)
Wool -- the current article is about sheep wool, rather than an overview, while limited information about alpaca wool is relegated to the
alpaca article, and other animals such as goats are merely mentioned as alternative sources. As of May 2011 it's still almost all sheep and Oceania.
Threshing board - great job recently done translating this from Spanish, but inevitably it show a Spanish/Iberian bias in terminology, coverage, selection of sources, etc. It's a featured article in Spanish, and it's easy to see why, but it will takes some work to get it there in English. - 19:06, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
Ethnic minorities or majorities
Under-represented ethnic minorities in the developed world etc. (and other related topics)
List is accurate as of 19 July 2009
Requested articles
The Long Road to Freedom: 5 CD compilation of "the heritage of enslaved Africans";
Harry Belafonte started this project in 1961, it was completed only in 2001. Our article on Belafonte mentions it only in passing; I also found a mention of it in Daniel Brown, "Songs of Slavery", Index on Censorship, Volume 36, Number 1, 2007, p. 138–140, but not enough to write from. If someone is familiar with this collection, we should certainly have an article. -
Jmabel |
Talk20:56, 4 June 2007 (UTC)reply
Central College was/keeps being deleted for being "irrelevant" - a quarter of the minority students at a college left out of fear of discrimination. This goes to a disambig; unsure which college it is referring to.
Tina Manning, Native American activist, wife of
John Trudell, died in a suspicious house fire in 1979. One of the more notable woman Native American activists of the 1970s. Wasn't even mentioned by name till recent addition to the John Trudell article. Stub as of July 09.
Pauli Murray, African and Native American lawyer, writer, and minister in the Episcopal church, civil rights activist
Muntaqim v. Coombe and
Hayden v. Pataki - disfranchisement cases;
Muntaqim v. Coombe filed 1994; disfranchisement of felons in NY State, being fought on a basis of racial discrimination. Latter stubby as of July 09.
Jill Nelson prominent contemporary African-American journalist and writer,
Prince Hall Freemasonry currently a short subsection of
Freemasonry. African-American Masonry has been and is important in the U.S., and
Prince Hall Lodges were sometimes organizing forces in the civil rights movement.
Lead Belly rivaled in his generation only by Woody Guthrie as a writer of folk songs and a conduit from folk culture into popular culture - needs refimproving.
Jacob Lawrence Notable African-American artist, needs inlining.
H. Rap Brown Civil rights and black power leader, weighed towards conviction
Sanjeev Bhaskar Fairly prolific English actor and television presenter who gets two sentences. As of May 2011 the article has multiple sections. Probably still room for more content but not a stub.
Young Lords New York area Puerto Rican semi-gang, semi-political-party circa 1970, moved at least for a while towards trying to become a Puerto Rican equivalent of the Black Panthers. I got this one started: there is a lot of online material & probably more elsewhere. Expect sources to somewhat contradict one another. This would be a great topic for a good researcher who understands how to cite sources, etc. -
Jmabel 23:19, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)
Zoroastrianism,
Zoroaster and related topics all suffer from serious neglect, bias and misinformation. Someone has even categorized "Zoroastrian gods" -- despite the fact that it is a
monotheistic religion -- including listing Ahriman/
Angra Mainyu in that category. This is equivalent to listing
Satan as a "Christian God"!
Zosodada 20:22, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Aramaic-speaking Christian groups:
Syriacs,
Arameans,
Assyrian,
Chaldeans and Assyro-Chaldeans. These are quite a mess, as ethnic definitions are not very clear, and all of these labels have political connotations.
This section needs to be updated. Please help update this section to reflect recent events or newly available information. Relevant discussion may be found on
the talk page.
I've made a start on the three ICFTU regional organisations, but all could use expansion. Most of the information I could find on the American organisation is in Spanish, so that one could use from anyone who can read Spanish (I can't.) The lists of affiliated national unions (I couldn't find an online source for a list for Africa) also provide a collection of red links for us to make blue ;-) --
AJR20:05, 29 July 2005 (UTC)reply
Trade unions in Burkina Faso. I know very few on this subject because they were in the uderground during the revolution, but they're widely considered as very powerful before and after.
Nigeria Labour Congress One of Africa's strongest trade union organisations, with a history of actively working for democracy in the country. Article now created, proofreading and expansion needed.
There's also
Occupational safety and health, which is more general, describing principles rather than specific national regulations (but is still a victim of systematic bias, it only specifically mentions US & EU practices.)
London dock strike, 1889 "...is widely regarded as a major milestone in the development of the trade union movement, marking..."
Requests for review/attention
Bill Haywood Important leader in the
IWW in the early 20th century. I've made a
to-do list; once these items are addressed, I plan on putting it in for peer review and eventually pursuing featured article status. I've pretty much been the sole contributor to this article for quite some time, so any help would be greatly appreciated! --
JerryOrr21:41, 31 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Limited geographic scope
This section needs to be updated. Please help update this section to reflect recent events or newly available information. Relevant discussion may be found on
the talk page.
Most of the articles listed on Open Tasks are neglected because of their subject matter. The articles below are internally biased. In other words, they currently deal only with matters in certain countries, and/or often have a U.S. or developed country perspective rather than a global one. Once they have been edited to remove the geographic bias, please place them in the Satisfactory section. The list is split up by groups of letters of the alphabet for ease of navigation and editing.
Adoption Lacks perspective of countries that are the sources of international adoption.
Interracial adoption is solely from a U.S. perspective, is from a white adoptive family perspective, and lacks information on international adoptions (which can in some cases also be considered interracial).
Battle axe Lacks examples from Sub-Saharan Africa, even given that the Kongo and the Zulus (Zulu battle axes are called "imbazo") were among the best known Sub-Saharan African peoples to use them for example. Johnny Au(
talk/
contributions)02:15, 16 July 2013 (UTC)reply
Battlement As if the concept is only relevant in medieval western European architecture. Lacks a global point of view, although it mentions the
Great Wall of China (at the very least, Islamic architecture should be added). See also its
talk.
Beekeeping Has been a subsistence method from time immemorial for some societies. Article makes it almost look like a Western hobbyist practice.
Bimetallism Deals almost exclusively with bimetallism in U.S. history; could use information on Islamic bimetallism and any other non-US historical/modern examples that may exist. Another editor removed {globalize/USA} tag when I added it to the article (twice) but raises no objection to having the tag on the talk page. --
Eloil22:40, 22 March 2007 (UTC)reply
Bomb disposal This article is heavily Anglo-centric. Other definitions of domain terminology is also American.
Drdan18:06, 9 April 2006 (UTC) - It was invented by the British, and refined to where it is today by the Americans. There hasn't been significant additions by other countries because most of the second and third world countries today send their Technicians to UK or US schools for training. It's not a topic many can speak about with authority. What about a topic that has systemic bias because it is monosystemic in nature?
Shawn 11:42 15 April 2006 (EDT)reply
BreakfastScant references to non-western practices. Much added on Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. Still lacking anything on Africa. 6 African examples as of May 2011
Cannabis rescheduling is unashamedly about various bits of legislation in the United States, and has nothing to say on Cannabis legislation anywhere else.
Gareth Hughes 18:21, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Civilian control of the military I'm in the process of expanding this article but will be the first one to admit that my examples and structure draws heavily on the American philosophy and practice (this could be my limited perspective showing, but I think the term is probably used most frequently in this context as it is). I've attempted to add some mentions of Maoist theories and the Soviet commissars, but would really appreciate any input from editors who can contribute more material on theories of civilian control in other countries. —
MC MasterChef:: Leave a tip —09:22, 1 November 2005 (UTC)reply
Columbus Day - suggests that Columbus Day has only ever been celebrated in the United States, and that opposition to the concept is limited to the United States - Now mentions similar holidays in several other countries, especially in
Latin America, but none in Canada, although very few people in the latter celebrates the holiday. Examples of opposition from US and US Virgin Islands only.
Contract Based almost exclusively on the law of common law nations, mostly the U.K. Even non-Anglophone common law countries like India are barely mentioned. The article also suffers from serious perspective bias in that it only treats the "legal" aspects of contract and ignores perspectives from other disciplines.
Elliotreed (
talk)
04:54, 30 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Editorial cartoonHas only examples from the United States and Canada from the past supporting the war effort. Should need current editorial cartoons from other countries regarding other issues.
Electrical conduit Cites frequent examples "in the US" and references to US law, and has some minor notes about the UK, but does not discuss anywhere else.
Freedman USA-centred. Roman and Greek societies had such a term, to mention a quick example. Article should be rewritten as to broaden the meaning and put USA particularities in relevance proportional to the... extent to which the word refers to USA-terms. Or something, better words lacking. --
portugal (
talk)
09:29, 29 July 2008 (UTC)reply
Freedom of speechDeveloped World examples only. Short paragraphs on the situation in India, in Asia in general and in Africa. Much potential for expansion.
Illegal immigration Only U.S. references. (Although the French Wikipedia's Sans-papiers article does not seem to have that much to add, it might at least provide a starting point for a European perspective. However, this article needs much more than that.)
Labour law Limited to U.S. and U.K. mostly, misses the fact that there are international labor standards.
Trade union Some general history, but country-specific information for U.S., UK and Sweden only (excluding half a sentence mentioning China in the introduction).
Land mine. Almost entirely about the mines themselves and the countries that make and remove them. Countries plagued by mines are mentioned only in passing.
Lawyer/
Solicitor Lead has U.S. perspective, only deals with the U.S., UK and Poland.
Locomotive and the related
Electric locomotive and
Diesel locomotive. Articles need added material on European history and usage, without Euro-biased suppression of North American experience. (This problem affects almost every article about rail technology, though most commonly it's the North American side that's missing.)
Market town You wouldn't know that trade existed outside of Europe.
Marriage too much bias on same-sex marriage—western countries are minority against China, India, Japan and Third World/South America. Article "s.s. marriage already exists". People may consider it "annoying information", just looking for man/woman marriage information. Wikipedia is not a "political platform".
Media bias Mainly concerns itself with the U.S. liberal vs. conservative bias discussion.
Military cadence Do armed services outside the United States have these?
Mixed-sex education Brief discussion of history in U.S. only, and some lists. Needs internationalization in any case, and might the subject of women's education in Muslim and developing countries be appropriate here? As of May 2011 there's very brief sections for Hong Kong and France. The UK and China have 3-4 paragraphs.
Cloveapple (
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18:56, 17 May 2011 (UTC)reply
Modesty - passes beyond systemic bias into outright chauvinism: modesty norms outside the industrialized Western world are only discussed (and then only briefly) in comparison and contrast to the average Western norm. Even that norm is generalized and ignores real variations between countries, regions, and ethnicities. Discussions of religious and cultural norms are no longer based on mere comparison to the average Western norm. However, still biased heavily in its general discussion of modesty toward generally accepted Western norms. Still needs work.
Music genre only US/West, doesn't even mention that there is music in Africa, or that people who are not Western have music at all. More discussion about "honky tonk" than about entire continents!
Nudity, especially
Various modern-era attitudes has only Western perspectives, plus a short sentence on Islam, and a bit on Japan, but nothing from Central/South America, Africa, or most of Asia.
Nursery rhyme solely deals with songs sung to children from a French and English perspective, and one sentence on indigenous cultures. Nothing from the rest of the world.
Parking lot Seems as if parking lot legislation only exists in
Sweden, the
United Kingdom, and the
United States, though there are examples of parking lots in Japan and Canada.
PC Engine This article, which is about a 16-bit videogame console by NEC, is almost exclusively American-centric. It presents the US model of this system (the TurboGrafx) as an international reference. As discussed in the Talk page of the article, evidence clearly proves that this NEC console was known and distributed in Europe under its original Japanese name, and the name "TurboGrafx" was largely ignored there. The article doesn't need a rewrite: it mostly needs to be split into two distinct items.
Kaminari (
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20:14, 14 February 2010 (UTC)reply
Physician Generally lacking, as it currently deals mainly with training, but only covers the U.S., the UK and France.
Pizza delivery -- This article has become very American centric. It focuses entirely on pizza delivery in the United States. Some effort should be made to include pizza delivery in European and Asian countries as well. (
RaF (
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16:23, 28 January 2010 (UTC))reply
Plastic surgery has a section on cosmetic surgery which deals entirely with regulatory issues in the US
Police Mostly U.S. and UK (for historic reasons) references. Nothing on the role of the police force in neither democratic nor oppressive developing countries.
Proof coinage Article reads like the world has only two countries (One is Bulgaria, guess which is the other).
Property law Article has almost exclusive focus on the common law tradition, with a few isolated references to other European legal systems (the civil law and Roman law). There's no discussion of non-European legal traditions and none of contemporary European-derived property law outside the Anglosphere.
Elliotreed (
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15:17, 28 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Public relations Almost exclusively uses U.S. examples and figures.
Public transport, vitally important throughout the developing world but the details focus on the decision to implement mass transit in industrialized countries
Rape Western perspective. Discusses the legal definitions of the U.S. and the UK only. Apart from brief mentions of the social consequences of rape in "societies with strong sexual customs and taboos", and rape as a means of torturing detainees in some countries, the rest of the article deals with the U.S. situation. No mention of the practice of rape as a war crime.
Satire mainly focuses on those of the Western and Islamic traditions, with examples of Horatian and Juvenalian satire being primarily Western, with modern examples mainly from the Anglosphere. Johnny Au(
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contributions)02:23, 14 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Secondary education The "in various countries" section almost entirely excludes Africa.
Social promotion Most examples and perspectives come from the United States with little from Canada and none elsewhere
Special needs consists of (a) American general view (b) American legal minutiae
Spontaneous order is nearly entirely about economists' views, there is short shrift given to political applications at the core of the spontaneous order concept, and even worse, little to no coverage given to the Chinese philosophers who birthed the concept of spontaneous order over two millennia ago. This is a serious problem of WP:Systemic_bias, and since Confucius and Confucianism played such a huge role in creating spontaneous order (arguably inventing the concept) failure to include this is especially problematic.
State of emergencyonly deals with the US.Still deals mainly with the U.S., although info on other Western democracies have been added. - 25 countries now.
I've reworked this page to give it a more international scope - US-specific stuff is in its own section now, and I've added a skeletal Indonesia section. More to do - the above is a great (inspiring!) list of places where student activists have (usually) made changes. -
Cdc 20:10, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I've added a small bit on France. The
May 1968 events in France page is extremely thorough, so all we need here is a brief overview to show the context of it in student activist history.
Leyanese 17:35, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Tort This article almost exclusively discusses the common law system of the Anglosphere, contains only brief mention of the civil law, and ignores other legal systems entirely.
Elliotreed (
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20:00, 28 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Town drunk only has examples from the United States and the British Isles (with Shakespeare being the earliest listed example); there should be plenty of fictional alcoholics depicted in non-Anglophone media, but they aren't mentioned at all for some inexplicable reason. Johnny Au(
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contributions)02:10, 2 July 2017 (UTC)reply
Traffic congestion This article mainly focuses on traffic in the United States. It contains only a small mention of traffic in the UK, Iran, China (including Hong Kong), Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and Venezuela, with images from Russia, India, Thailand, Taiwan, Germany, and Portugal.
Unemployment Focused on the U.S., with a lengthy discussion on the U.S. definition and little or no mention of unemployment in other parts of the world.
Underemployment, a much more widespread problem than unemployment in the developing world doesn't have an article at all, although it could be treated as part of the unemployment article if it was revised. --
Sepa21:51, 18 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Video game controversies It seems that much of the article focuses on the American perspective. All of the legal cases are in the United States. There is almost nothing about video game controversies outside of the United States (aside from a few publicized incidents). Johnny Au(
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contributions)02:35, 1 July 2011 (UTC)reply
Water resources "The problem: Human populations in some areas (e.g. southern California, Israel, and Florida) are growing from 1 to 3% per year, while fresh water supplies are remaining constant or shrinking." Ever heard of a place called Africa? This article hasn't.
I've re-written and re-focused this article. As it stands, there are no explicit geographical references - don't know if that'll make you guys happy or sad. In the process of further refining this article, I expect specific geographical references will be worked back in or linked to.
Toiyabe19:44, 5 May 2005 (UTC)reply
Wordfilter is mainly about its uses in Anglophone online and video gaming media, especially in the implementation section, which mainly consists of video games from the United States (and to some extent, the United Kingdom). All of the examples in the article are applicable to English-language filters. There is completely nothing about wordfilters for other languages. Johnny Au(
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contributions)02:32, 7 April 2012 (UTC)reply
Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy Who would have guessed Wikipedia might attract writers with a pro-free-speech POV? Editors of this article have slanted it heavily toward describing the controversy as between religious zealotry and the ideal of free speech, and have excluded content that explains the context of ethnic hate speech or current regional conflict.
Dirinici07:11, 22 February 2006 (UTC)reply
Istihlal is something like the crime of making up an Islamic law, recently in the news when a group of Spanish Muslims accused
Osama bin Laden of the crime. --
Dmcdevit 23:49, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
List of Islamic educational institutions: created this and would like people to add and expand it. There are almost no resources on the web--or anywhere that I can find, actually, on institutions like the Haqqania madarassa in northern Pakistan, where the
Taliban leadership was educated. Or the historical universities in the Muslim world--other than
Al-Azhar University.
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iFaqeer(Talk to me!) 20:36, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)
Al-islam.org Apparently a large & popular website and forum (most popular, according to Yahoo) regarding Shia Islam, but the article is severely a stub.
Shalash al-Iraqi - I started this article after reading about him on an Iraqi's blog, and after doing some research I was unable to find any information on him that wasn't from other bloggers. I ended up using these as references anyway, I know that's not the ideal Wikipedia standard, but the blogs seem to suggest that he's very notable in Iraq. Is there anyone who has read a print article about him or can translate better web sources from Arabic, perhaps? Also, I'd appreciate a message on my talk page if this article is nominated for deletion. --
Grace07:28, 13 November 2006 (UTC)reply
Requests for review
Sünbül Efendi - this article has been posted to
VfD. I believe the topic is notable but there is an issue with transcription: apparently the correct spelling would be Sümbül Efendi (alternate Sünbül Efendi).
Google returns 179 results but most of them not in English. There are also alternate spellings like Sümbül Efendi, Sünbül Efendi, Şeyh Sümbül, Sümbül Sinan, Sünbül Sinan etc.--
AYArktos22:09, 9 May 2005 (UTC)reply
Baháʼí Faith--Currently the editing of this entry (and related entries) is dominated by Baha'is, who take the opportunity to downplay criticisms and in general slant their information in predictable directions. Please consider this a call for non-Baha'i editors to come have a look at the site, and help ensure balance. Thank you.
Dawud10:44, 3 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Carlton Pearson -
Tulsa, Oklahoma-based African American preacher and theologian, long a protegé of
Oral Roberts—also an advisor to Bush on faith-based initiatives, had a TV show, etc.,—whose theology began to change in the late 1990s, when he decided that there is no Hell (or, more precisely, turned around to a rather existentialist view of Hell being something we make on earth, but not part of the afterlife). This eventually evolved into the
Doctrine of Inclusion: that everyone is saved. As a result, his enormous
Higher Dimensions[4] megachurch slowly collapsed, though, with his new theology, he again has a congregation numbering at least into the hundreds. Fascinating figure. Recent hour-long radio story about him on
This American Life[5], but as of when I'm writing they haven't archived it to a permanent address. Founder of a Christian music festival that I believe is called
Azuza, as well. --
Jmabel |
Talk19:24, 17 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Giving undue weight to heterodox economics and pseudoeconomics
Since economics tend to be an issue mired in politics, pseudoeconomics are frequently invoked in political discourse and by many average people who discuss economic issues. On Wikipedia, the largest problem seems to be the promotiong of monetary crankery, by
New World Order conspiracy theorists and
Libertarian supporters of
Austrian economics. Several articles on monetary theory currently violate
WP:FRINGE. However, occasionally radical Marxists also abuse Wikipedia in the same way. Because the average person is not educated in economics, they may not be aware of the fringe-status of Austrian and Marxist arguments when they are presented, or that may not recognize a certain argument as "Marxist" or "Austrian" when it is presented. However, articles related to criticism of
John Maynard Keynes and
Keynesian economics could use expansion...
And any articles involved Austrian and Marxist economics.
Nature (biology, chemistry, physics and related)
Requested articles
Requests for expansion
mating - This article is a stub and should discuss more about animal mating, apart from copulation, like the behavior of animals that court or of social animals that nurture their offspring in pairs.
snail - This article is underdeveloped and doesn't discuss in more detail the different taxons of snails. Also, there may be some inaccuracies.
tool - The section regarding tool use in animals, while having numerous references, doesn't say much besides that monkeys & other primates, ravens, and sea otters have been observed using tools. Could be expanded.
Chinese astronomy - 3000 years of history and until recently was a single sentence. Above all, something should be added about astronomy in China today, to counter any perception that Chinese science is only about the past. Please help counter the bias against nonwestern science in this and other history of science articles.
Requests for review
Electrical engineering - This article is currently focusing on the North American meaning of the term. European and Global use seems to indictate the separation of the terms Electrical and Electronic into different fields.
sex - This article focuses too much on the human aspect of sex and does not discuss essential things about sex like genetics, biology, biological evolution and origin of sex, etc.
Pregnancy (mammals) - The word "pregnancy" instead of "gestation" in the title of the article is dubious.
I fail to see how this is written in a liberal view. It seems to be pretty matter-of-fact. If he advances a policy it is enough to say that he did so. It is a statement of fact not a statement of the benefits or detriments of the policy. As to current policy criticism, the place for that is on your favorite blog, not on Wikipedia. This is in line with the treatment of other US presidents. Look at
Herbert Hoover. He was extremely unpopular, but you still don't have a huge portion of the article dealing with detailed policy criticism, when he is arguably the most deserving of it. What criticisms there are can be made with 80 years of insight and is backed up with historians as sources, not political analysts.
Timothyjosephwood (
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19:25, 3 April 2015 (UTC)reply
Execution of Saddam Hussein -- Lack of sources other than main US news outlets such as CNN or in the case of a British news outlet, the BBC. US-sources dominate the article, and this reflects in the tone. Would need an array of both independent and international sources.
Sfacets02:30, 2 January 2007 (UTC) As of May 2011 there are a number of non-US-non-British sources.reply
Covance -- Focuses on animal testing information with an animal rights slant. Does not provide sufficient, accurate information on other areas of business, which include FDA nutritional testing and antibody development.
Orcar96717:27, 22 October 2007 (UTC)reply
paint -- only deals with the art aspect not the commercial painting aspect.
Pregnancy (mammals) - focuses too much on humans by using the word "pregnancy" instead of "gestation". This article was initially split from the article about human
pregnancy. Also, doesn't define well which animals gestate and which not, and discounts gestation in other animals, if any.
FWIW, "his revert power" consists of skipping a click: it is exactly the same ability anyone else has to revert an edit, just slightly more efficient. --
Jmabel |
Talk 05:14, August 16, 2005 (UTC)
Robinson list -- mentions the US Do Not Call list, but then proceeds to deal with only email spam and talk about Robinson lists as if they were only for spam.
Myth and related articles -- some mythologies are treated differently from other mythologies. Problems with definition. Many editors have strong feelings about these articles. –
ishwar(speak)05:13, 6 July 2006 (UTC)reply
Guantanamo Bay detention camp - The global perspective section of this article could be lengthened considerably. I don't know a lot about this, but my sense is that Guantanamo has received considerable attention from U.S. allies and opponents around the world. --
Mackabean22:36, 6 June 2007 (UTC)reply
Traditional education - There should be more background information regarding this topic rather than being mainly a comparison of the two types of education. Additionally, the article seems as if it were written by those who support alternative education. The article is also USA-centric.
Johnny Au00:16, 26 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Many articles about the
Soviet Union rely on information from anti-Soviet sources. Both pro- and anti-Soviet sources can be greatly biased. Where possible, cite the sources used, and try to find balance.
GRuban 14:50, 1 March 2006 (UTC) (greatly condensing
Paranoid17:00, 17 July 2005 (UTC))reply
Um, did you read the article at all? It mentions that the Soviet Union was at one time an ally of Germany (which it was), but of course goes on to say how that changed after Operation Barabarosa. And there is a section discussion Spain's (and Portugal's) collaboration with Germany. I see no systemic bias in that article... --
JerryOrr12:26, 20 February 2007 (UTC)reply
People with disabilities; disability studies
I think most Wikipedians do not consider themselves people with disabilities. Therefore, things such as the sociology, history, psychology, language, etc. of disabilities do not get covered in too much detail. We do have a very nice, somewhat long
List of disability rights activists, but a lot of the articles are redlinks. Some of the articles that are not redlinks go to articles about people other than the ones mentioned on the page, and need to be disambiguated; a few other are pages of politicians, whose pages need to be checked for mention in their involvement for disability rights. Also, the vast majority of people on the list, if not all of them, are from the Western world.
ARC (formerly Association of Retarded Citizens) is tagged for reading like an advertisement. Needs better sources, most are the ARC itself.
Cloveapple (
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06:29, 18 May 2011 (UTC)reply
Underrepresented occupations
Coal miner redirects
Miner, which is a stub. Now redirects to
mining, which is a decent article with info on the profession. Now redirects to
Coal mining
General comment: one reason many of these articles do not exist, or are still stubs is that potential contributors have no model for a successful article on a profession. If one of the more complete articles could be improved into a
featured article, this might help Wikipedians in filling these needs. --
llywrch17:29, 19 June 2006 (UTC)reply
Uncredited scientific achievements should be credited in the appropriate articles, with links to the scientists.
Scientific "pedigrees" that include notable students or advisors should be added where appropriate. Generally advisors listed near the top with graduate and postdoc work. Notable students may be mentioned in a single paragraph about the lab and/or influences of the scientist.
Merging overrepresented content
In addition to adding new content to underrepresented areas, we should also work on minimizing content in overrepresented ones. It is easy to generate a hundred 1k articles out of 3k of text, if you break it up poorly and repeat yourself for a long intro paragraph in each of a hundred stubs, rather than making a single, concise page including them all.
These are all topics that should be in Wikipedia; and none of the existing content needs to be removed; but repeated content, and generation of hundreds of stubs rather than one or two good articles, is bad for readers, for categorizers, for quality-editors, and for the 'random article' feature.—Preceding
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It is relevant to systemic bias - contributors' systemic bias leads to these short messy articles. It isn't really what this project focuses on, though, which is more to do with filling in neglected areas. See umpteen discussions about choosing a less misleading name if you're interested. --
Cherry blossom tree22:34, 8 May 2006 (UTC)reply
isn't this akin to granting equality to cripples by chopping everyone else's legs off? certain topics are under-represented, so let's lower the representation of others to match? why not leave the content alone, and add new content for the under-represented areas, even if they're just stubs (might entice new editors familiar in those topics)? --
Dak (
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03:50, 13 January 2009 (UTC)reply
List of articles every Wikipedia should have
I'm not sure this belongs here, but it seems relevant to this WikiProject -- please feel free to move it to a more appropriate place (and drop me a note).