Wikipedia:WikiProject Anti-war

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WP:WPA

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Anti-war protesters fill London's streets on February 15th

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Anti-war movements and ideologies. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the tasks and projects bellow.

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Goals

We do not support, and actively condemn, the promotion of an anti-war POV (or any other POV) in Wikipedia articles. Instead, we seek to bring articles on the anti-war movement and anti-war ideas up to Featured Article standard. This project is for those interested in various anti-war movements (just as Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket is for those persons interested in cricket).

As noted in the anti-war article the term anti-war is not completely clear. For the sake of this project 'anti-war' will denote any movement or ideology that opposes war in general or opposes specific wars or opposes the involvement of its country/government in war in general or specific wars. This definition is purposefully wide so as to cover all the various moments that have labelled themselves or have been labelled as anti-war. It also aims to included movements that have been/are currently labled as 'Peace movements'.

The goals of this WikiProject are as follows:

1. To build as a community of contributors interested in documenting anti-war movements and ideas.
2. To identify areas which lack sufficient coverage.
3. To improve those articles which need help.
4. To provide guidelines for writing on anti-war articles and subjects on the 'pedia (with perhaps a view to providing guidelines to articles on Social movements in general).
5. To monitor pages prone to POV battles.

How you can help

WikiProject Anti-war open tasks This project creates and improves articles related to anti-war activism. Collaboration of the month: Protests against the 2003 Iraq war Articles requested: Fredsinitiativet, May 1970 Student Strike Articles to improve: Stubs: Anti-war book, Peace activist, War Resisters League, World citizen. . . more Poor quality: Draft dodger, Satyagraha, War profiteer, Peace Action. . . more Needs work: Iran, Not In Our Name, Conscientious objector, World peace. . . more Near-featured: Feb15 protest, Kent State shootings, Nonviolence. . . more Featured: (None yet) other tasks | edit

To build the community:

• Join this project by adding your name to the list below
• Add this page to your watchlist, and keep up with what needs doing.

To identify and improve anti-war pages:

• Locate pages that need attention, then add them to list below.
• Add the Tasks box to your User: or User_talk: page. (Add {{Anti-warTasks}} anywhere on the page. Or {{Anti-warTasksBox}} to get it in a box)
• Have a go at editing a page from the list below.

To provide guidelines for writing about anti-war topics

• Join in the discussion!

Thanks for helping out!

Participants

• JK the unwise<communicate>
• CQ <cq me>
• Jmabel | Talk: Not sure how active I'll be, but I'll try to be available and helpful
• SchuminWeb | Talk: Doing what I can...
• Thryduulf. Like Jmabel I'm not certain how active a participant I'll be, but I'll do my best.
• nirvana2013 15:39, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
• Uncle Ed: mostly concerned with clarity of scope and uprooting bias
• – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 03:38, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
• Fernando Rizo:I'm pretty busy already, but I'd like to help out.
• --Revolución (talk) 04:32, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
• Viajero | Talk 15:14, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
• Disillusioned kid 21:15, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Projects

Special events

Please note: the Militarisation of space is the current Wikipedia-wide Collaboration of the week. There are also several Article Improvement Drive candidiates that may be of interest, such as American Empire and Nuclear power phase-out. Go vote!

Collaboration of the month

Hopefully, each month the anti-war wiki-project will put particular focus on collaborating to improving an article in need of attention.

Currently: Global protests against invasion of Iraq

To do:

• Decide on whether 'non-global' demonstrations should be included
• Provide references for all the demonstrations
• Provide references for the slogans and a rational for their inclusion

See Talk:Global protests against invasion of Iraq/to do.

Counter the Anglo bias

Due to the demographic of its contributors the English language Wikipedia tends to have a systemic bias towards American and British topics. This project seeks to identify and fill the gaps in the documentation of anti-war projects that are not American or British.

To Do:

• Create articles on various non-English/non-American peace groups (e.g. Norwegian group: Fredsinitiativet [1])
• Find more information on demonstrations in these countries
• There should be a lot in the European anti-nuclear movement from the Cold War years.
• Clean up articles on Asian concepts for peace, such as Satyagraha and Ahimsa.

List of pages covered by the project

Article-Alert Status
stub	Please help turn this stub into a full article.
poor	This article is in poor condition, and could use a lot of help.
needs exp/org/NPOV	The article needs expansion, organization, and/or a neutral point of view.
good	The article is in good shape. With a little care, it could be a Featured Article candidate.
featured	This is a featured article! Congratulations!

Article Status A.N.S.W.E.R. needs exp, NPOV Ahimsa needs exp Anti-imperialism needs exp, org Anti-war needs exp Anti-war book stub Anti-war film stub Arms industry needs exp, org Cairo Anti-war Conference good Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament needs NPOV Cindy Sheehan needs org Civil disobedience good Code Pink stub Conscientious objector needs org Criticisms of the War on Terrorism needs org Daniel Berrigan good Daniel Ellsberg good DC Anti-War Network stub Draft dodger poor February 15th Protest (London) good Global protests against war on Iraq needs org Gnadenhütten massacre good Halloween 2002 protest needs exp Human shield action to Iraq good International Campaign to Ban Landmines needs exp International Fellowship of Reconciliation stub Katharine Gun needs exp Kent State shootings good Militarism needs exp Military-industrial complex needs exp National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam stub New York Draft Riots needs exp Nonviolence good Nonviolent resistance needs exp, org Not in Our Name needs org

Article Status Opposition to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War good Ottawa Treaty good Pacifism good Pacifist organisation stub Peace Action poor Peace activist stub Peace camp poor Peace churches needs exp Peace movement needs org Peace Pole good Peace through strength needs NPOV, exp Peace symbol needs exp Philip Berrigan needs exp Popular opposition to the 2003 Iraq War needs exp Post-September 11 anti-war movement needs org, NPOV Protest song stub Protests against the Vietnam War poor Religious Society of Friends good SANE poor Satyagraha poor Schenck v. United States needs exp Second Superpower needs org Smedley Butler needs org Stop the War Coalition good Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee needs org Turn the other cheek needs exp United for Peace and Justice good Veterans for Peace needs exp Vietnam Veterans Against the War needs NPOV War economy stub War profiteer poor War Resisters League stub Why War? stub World peace needs exp

Related topics

Iraq: U.S. plan to invade Iraq, American popular opinion of war on Iraq, Worldwide government positions on war on Iraq, The UN Security Council and the Iraq war, Predicted effects of invading Iraq, Actual effects of invading Iraq, Iraq disarmament crisis

Vietnam: Vietnam War

Afghanistan: U.S. invasion of Afghanistan; also, do we have an article on opposition in the Soviet Union to their war in Afghanistan?

Subpages

Reference material, a page for listing useful reference materials.

Related Wikiprojects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Wars