Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/open tasks

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.

This open tasks list is intended to be a complement to the various Wikipedia features such as Cleanup, Requests for expansion, Pages needing attention and peer review, and you are encouraged to add articles from this list to those pages. Many articles on this page may also be good candidates for Collaboration of the week or the Article improvement drive. If you find a particularly good article in a CSB-related area, by all means nominate it as a Featured Article candidate.

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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Geography

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Most neglected countries

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Wikipedia has major holes in its geographic coverage primarily in Africa, but also Asia and South America.

Countries for improvement

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.

1. Benin (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Porto-Novo, Cotonou
2. Burkina Faso (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Ouagadougou
3. Burundi (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Bujumbura
4. Cameroon (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Yaoundé
5. Central African Republic (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Bangui
6. Chad (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), N'Djamena
7. Comoros (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Moroni, Comoros
8. Democratic Republic of the Congo (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Kinshasa
9. Republic of the Congo (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Brazzaville
10. Côte d'Ivoire (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Yamoussoukro
11. The Gambia (see Category BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Banjul
12. Georgia (see Category), Tbilisi
13. Guinea (see Category), Conakry
14. Guinea-Bissau (see Category), Bissau
15. Kyrgyzstan (see Category), Bishkek
16. Madagascar (see Category), Antananarivo
17. Malawi (see Category), Lilongwe, Blantyre, Malawi
18. Mali (see Category), Bamako
19. Mozambique (see Category), Maputo
20. Myanmar (see Category), Yangon
21. Niger (see Category); Niamey
22. Papua New Guinea (see Category), Port Moresby
23. Suriname (see Category), Paramaribo
24. Tajikistan (see Category), Dushanbe
25. Tanzania (see Category), Dar-es-Salaam
26. Togo (see Category), Lomé
27. Turkmenistan (see Category), Ashgabat
28. Western Sahara (see Category), Laayoune

• See also:Wikipedia:WikiProject Latin America countries

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.

1. Shuozhou (in China)
2. Zambezi Escarpment (in Zimbabwe)

Rename problems

There's yet another attempt to replace Java with a disambiguation page... See Talk:Java for the discussion - it's amazing how many people think a programming language can be even remotely comparable in notability to an island with a population of 120 million. -- Danny Yee 03:06, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Are you mad? So you say that programing languages are not important? Java CAN mean either the island, OR the coffee made there, OR the programming language, SO it should be a DISAMBIG page. --Rev

Lets put this in context, what would your reaction be if the main page for an an article entitled "Kentucky" was for the fried chicken, with the rifle and horse race coming in front of the State on a disambiguation page. The fact is the place came first and those other things were named for it. To give those subsequent topics equal billing, is to put the cart before the horse and to show a lack of perspective. The fact is the island and nation of Java existed first, without the island there would be no Java coffee, and with no Java coffee a group of software engineers would have had another favourite beverage to name their project.Koonan the almost civilised 00:58, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Colonialism

Maybe making a Wikiproject would be a good idea? Loads of work to do: Decolonization (only charts and lists, no text) Decolonization of Africa, Colonialism, New Imperialism (all the serie), Long Depression (connected to New Imperialism), etc. etc. Try to find a way to organize all the resources on colonialism so it is easy to acceed (some people couldn't find Scramble for Africa!), especially relating to the question of three main articles: colonialism, colonization and colony, which should at least be transformed into two main articles (one for European colonialism, 15th century onwards, and other for all types of colonization - Roman colonization, space colonization, etc.). This also goes, of course, for neocolonialism and postcolonialism and all developing countries' debt related issues and economical policies. Lapaz 14:06, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

I think you are totally correct. I don't think I'll have time to help you on this, at least not in the foreseeable future, but I think it would make a great WikiProject. - Jmabel | Talk 17:26, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Please also take a look at articles involving the annexation of Hawai'i, such as Liliʻuokalani, Blount Report, Morgan Report, and the so-called Republic of Hawaiʻi set up by wealthy white pro-annexation forces. There's been a single-handed attempt to fashion out of thin air validity in the last two articles, with references to sites set up by that same wikipedia contributor! Huangdi 10:52, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Mahalo, the references to the http://morganreport.org site are simply in the same spirit of the UH annexation documents, who were unable to finish digitizing the Morgan Report due to a major flood that interrupted their work (they provide a link to the http://morganreport.org site as well). The report is there in its entirety, with original scanned images available for verification that the digital text is accurate. The question as to what reports are valid or not may be disputed by pro-hawaiian sovereignty activists, but my work has been specifically to counter the systemic bias that had ignored important parts of the historical record. For example, Huangdi added a sentence, "The charge by Native Hawaiians that the overthrow was illegal persisted, covertly at first for years, but then openly during the so-called "Hawaiian Renaissance". With no citation whatsoever to the "covert" charge, this kind of baseless assertion has been frankly common in the pro-sovereignty articles here for quite some time. Of course, being "covert" means of course they wouldn't be able to find any citations (how could they, if everyone was keeping it secret?) - I suppose one could also add the sentence, "The acceptance of Native Hawaiians that the overthrow was not caused by the U.S., and that Statehood was desireable persisted, openly at first for years, but then only covertly since the so-called "Hawaiian Renaissance". I would love to have a third-party look at the articles, though, and help building up proper citations. If Huangdi would like to help systematically go through the articles in question with me, I'd be more than happy to address specific issues he may have. --JereKrischel 02:27, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Developing World

All aspects of the "developing world", primarily in Africa, but also Asia and South America.

Requested articles

See also: Wikipedia:List of missing Africa topics, Wikipedia:List of missing Middle Eastern topics, Wikipedia:List of missing Oceania topics, List of conflicts in Africa

Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Jean-Marie Koné, more... Assess : Unassessed Africa articles and Unknown-importance Africa articles Citing sources : Click language, Computers for African Schools, East African garments, Environmental issues in Africa, Nelson Mandela Institution, Portuguese Africans, Project Fame, Soumbala Cleanup : Africa articles needing attention, Cleanup listing Deletion sorting : WikiProject Deletion sorting/Africa Expand : Ghardaïa, Madiaba, Yacin Yabeh Galeb, Zomba Massif, Abu Bakr Atiku, Jean Serge Essous, Ali bin Bello I, Ras ben Sakka, Vicky Longomba, Issa Sesay, Ing-ombe Ilede, Bakoy River, Imperial British East Africa Company, Afro-Dutch, Coptic Evangelical Church, more... Geographical coordinates : Africa articles missing geocoordinate data Infobox : Africa articles without infoboxes Map : Kasikili, Libyan Desert, Vihiga District, Wassoulou Empire, more... Photo : Antsiranana Bay, Beitbridge, Helwan University, Hekro Towers, Nafta, Tunisia, more... Portal : Africa portal Stubs : Stub-Class Africa articles Translate : Articles needing translation from French Wikipedia Wikify : Africa Myeloma Foundation, Economic history of South Africa, Egyptian Revolutionary Command Council New Africa articles : List of new Africa articles...

• Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation - Algerian Charter supported at referendum, October 2005
• Wikipedia:List of missing Latin American topics, Wikipedia:List of missing South Asian topics, isn't it kind of ironic that these lists are missing? Judging by the Africa and Middle East one, I think it would be useful if someone could compile these.--Dmcdevit 04:34, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Sami Naïr es:Sami Naïr french-algerian scholar, known for his concept of codevelopment --Varano 22:00, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
• settler colonialism: the concept in general: there are at least two related meanings. In either case, it means that people from the colonizing country settle in large numbers in the land, instead of just trading, or operating plantations run by natives or slaves, or plundering militarily, or "adopting" a local governor and establishing a protectorate. Sometimes the term is restricted to settlers who have become, effectively colonizers in their own right instead of on behalf of a home country. In this last sense, it has been controversially applied to analogize Israel to South Africa. - Jmabel | Talk 06:16, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Current and recent events

• 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. Sfacets 02:30, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Events and people recently or currently in the news that may need updates

• Floribert Ndjabu, Nationalist and Integrationist Front's militia leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo, who was arrested for the killing of nine Bangladeshi UN peacekeepers. (Reuters AlertNet) (BBC)
• Gustavo Noboa- former Ecuadorian president recently arrested
• Nepal Civil War Not comprehensive at all, and it's only a timeline with absolutely no real description or analysis. Really needs historical context as, unless apparently Nepal was perfect until, and the conflict had no roots earlier than 1996!--Dmcdevit 18:58, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire Needs to be updated (it's a current event and even listed on the "Ongoing armed conflicts" section of Current Events). Definitely needs more info, has nearly zero historical background, and does not even explain the causes clearly.--Dmcdevit 18:58, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Etienne Nzabonimana, Samuel Ndashyikirwa- on trial for the Rwandan Genocide
• Amrit Bohara, a leader of Communist uprising in Nepal, recently released from house arrest
• Movement for Democratic Change Very small article on the Zimbabwean opposition to Mugabe

Requests for expansion

• Surveillance and Incarceration in the U.S., Russia, and China, stub
• Kintampo — archaeological site of major historical interest in Ghana. Ceramic Late Stone Age cultural complex dating around fourth millenium BP. Sometimes thought to be the first agriculturalist settlement in West Africa. Also known for its waterfalls. — mark ✎ 15:34, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• New Halfa — place 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.
• Yasuní National Park, in Ecuador. "Yasun 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. --Carwil 21:11, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
• Media in Africa
• Union of Forces for Change, opposition party in Togo
• Poverty reduction, stub
• Poverty in Africa
• Yellow Emperor Important chinese mythological charecter. It should be as long as the article on, say, Zeus
• 2000 Mozambique flood Very recent major 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.)
• African diaspora A big, big group of people with a small, small article
• African languages Currently no more than a listing of the four major African language families and some big languages; so much more could be said about language and linguistic issues in Africa, alphabetization, language politics in multilingual countries, the impact of West-European languages, and so on, and so on...
  • Mustafaa and I have been working on this article. It is expanded considerably already, especially the part on the language families, but it is still very drafty and the issues mentioned above are not yet covered. Please check if you can help out! See also its to do list. — mark ✎ 12:39, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• African National Congress Again a poor article for such a significant organisation
• African slave trade Doesn't even exist! (But Slave trade has some info already).
• African Union also a CotW
• AIDS in Africa Barely above a stub. Sacrilege really.
  • Improved, but it still needs a section on Women and HIV. Some data tables for each region sould be good too. TreveX 22:37, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• 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. --Dmcdevit 03:17, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Benjamin Mkapa Tanzanian president could do with more detail
• Commission for Africa - started by Tony Blair to provide new impetus for development. TreveX^talk 23:17, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
• Cuisine of Jamaica just a stub about a fairly well-known cuisine
• Culture of Afghanistan
• Culture of Iraq currently (26 Nov 2004) a pitiful stub
• Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) Nepalese government party
• Cultural appropriation needs expansion, broadening outside Western concerns
• Dependency theory Influential political theory within the developing world
• Ethiopian famine Major media event. One of the few events to actually catch Western attention, renamed 1984 - 1985 famine in Ethiopia
  • 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.) -- llywrch 00:18, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
• First Sudanese Civil War, article begun but few specifics
• Futa Toro, on the recent changes list, Senegalese tribal group
• Gacaca, or maybe 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)
  • Also, the inyangamugayo are the common citizens elected as judges. --Dmcdevit 02:57, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Guinea-Bissau Civil War
• 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
• International development Huge topic, very little on this in Wikipedia anywhere
• Ketuanan Melayu I'm sure there's a lot more to be said on this, but I don't know where to find it. If anyone could even just compile some reasonable sources, I'd be glad to do the rest of the work. Johnleemk | Talk 17:07, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
• List of countries where language is a political issue Not a single African country in this list. There should be at least ten and most probably many more.
• Maria Lionza should be a challenging topic to research, but is also a very interesting one.
• Neocolonialism At least until recent times the dominant ideology.
• Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika Redirects to National anthem of South Africa; inspiring anthem of the ANC deserves its own article explaining its origins, apartheid-era history, translations, etc., prior to its adoption as half of the anthem (all of which the Afrikaans portion of the anthem, Die Stem van Suid-Afrika, has!)
• Nollywood Nigerian Cinema, massively popular (particularly in Africa) but only a stub
• Pan African Parliament OK, it exists only since september 16th, but we should have an article on this...
• Parishes of Jamaica the 14 main regions of Jamaica have only a handful of stubs
• Politics of South Africa Poor article considering the ongoing difficulty of transition to stable, free and prosperous post apartheid state.
• Prime Minister of Uganda needs info on the role and also some of its other office holder. TreveX^talk 00:21, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
• Salif Keita One of the best known Mali musicians has a small article
• Sarcade The article is on an exotic little town in Somalia with 25,000 inhabitants. Would be a real challenge to expand it.
• Sétif massacre Created but could use expansion; a major incident of Algerian history.
• Tamasheq languages - languages of the Tuareg, stub
• Vietnamese television could really use some attention from someone who is familiar with the topic or who can read the VTV website and other information sources that are available only in Vietnamese. I have looked on the Vietnamese Wikipedia but couldn't find any articles that looked like they might provide useful info upon translation, so it looks like we are on our own. Article should probably also be moved to Television in Vietnam. - AdelaMae ^{(talk - contribs)} 21:20, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
• Budhia Singh - The "Forest Gump of India" has recently completed a 65Km run at the age of 4. He is a hero to many of the poorest people in India.
• Miguel Hidalgo - not sure if Mexico is in the "developing world", but this man is an absolute legend in Mexico, and his article is embarrassingly short. Batmanand | Talk 23:19, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Request for review/attention

• 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)
• Congo Civil War Previous collaboration. Split into First Congo War and Second Congo War. Work needed on intros for both and First in particular could use some expansion. BanyanTree 20:39, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Rwandan Genocide - The French version spans several articles.
  • 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)
  • PS: also Initial events of the Rwandan Genocide per CSBOT template --Dmcdevit 00:45, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Ogaden War - could do with some work putting it into the context of both History of Somalia and History of Ethiopia
• Politics of Uganda - a lot of copy/pasted stuff. Not very good. Tidied up but still needs some more depth, especially given recent developments re. political pluralism in Uganda. TreveX^talk 12:22, 3 May 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)
• Zimbabwe Republic Police, currently horribly pro-government POV. the wub "?/!" 10:04, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Seems to have been fixed adequately for a little while now. --Dpr 06:22, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

• Places in Afghanistan This article is HUGE! I put it up for deletion and no consencess has been reached so far making an automatic keep. Someone suggested that it be submitted to Systemic bias so it could be a kind of to do list. --Banana04131 19:47, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
• Alcoholism luckily only affects people in N. America. Rich Farmbrough 15:59 7 March 2006 (UTC).
• Korean war The editorial bias in this article needs be corrected. (Postdoc 04:48, 12 August 2007 (UTC)).
• 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)

Featured article candidates and peer review

• Yoweri Museveni is a featured article. - BanyanTree 17:10, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Great work! -- Jmabel | Talk 22:50, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Second Congo War has been up for peer review and failed a FAC nomination, somewhat narrowly. TreveX^talk 11:19, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
• Ketuanan Melayu is on FAC now. Johnleemk | Talk 12:48, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Art and Design

Requested articles

• Frida Baranek (1961- )
• Alice Beard
• Mirella Bentivoglio (1922- )
• Virginia Beresford
• Virginia Berresford (1902- )
• Nell Blaine (1922- )
• Karen T. Borchers (1957- )
• Wendola Boreel (1895-??)
• Louise Bourgeois (1911- )
• Dorothy Dehner (1901-1994)
• Marina Nuñez del Prado (1912- )
• Caroline Durieux (1896-1989)
• Mary Emily Eaton (1873-1961)
• Lydia Field Emmet (1866-1952)
• Jessie Benton Evans (1866-1954) her grandaughter Jessie Benton Evans, was also an artist
• Katherine Cameron (1874-1968)
• Louisa Chase (1951- )
• Irene Clark (1927-1984)
• Clyde Connell (1902-1998)
• Joan Danzinger (1934- )
• Dale de Armond (1914- )
• Anna Findlay (c.1903-??)
• Mary Beth Fogerty (1948- )

• Ursula Fookes (1906-1991)
• Patricia Tobacco Forrester (1940- )
• Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980)
• Ethel Gabain (1883-1950)
• Anna Gardell-Ericson (1853-1939)
• Ruth Gikow (1915-1982)
• Francoise Gilot (1921-)
• Judith Godwin (1930- )
• Natalya Sergeevna Goncharova (1881-1962)
• Enid Grierson (c.1906-??)
• Nancy Grossman (1940- )
• Elisabetta Gut (1934- )
• Lilian Wescott Hale (1881-1963)
• Beverly Hallam (1923- )
• Harmony Hammond (1934- )
• Gertrude Hermes (1901-1983)
• Myra K. Hughes (1884-1918)
• Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (1876-1973)
• Georgia Mills Jessup (1926- )
• Connie Imboden (1953- )
• Margaret Kemp-Welch (c.1880-1968)
• Marcia Gygli King (1931- )

• 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. Jkelly 07:43, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

• National Gallery of Thailand, Bangkok

Requests for expansion

See also: Category:Art stubs, Category:Artist stubs, Category:Art organization stubs, Pages needing attention/Culture and Arts

• Young-Ja Cho Created a brief stub on this sculptor - can't find anything else on the web with any substance though.
• Surojana Sethabutra contemporary Thai ceramicist
• 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 - contribs 15:18, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
• Eulabee Dix (1878-1961) - Can anyone add a picture to this article? I've created a stub so far - currently a work in progress but pics etc are beyond my expertise TicketMan - Talk - contribs 17:37, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Requests for review/attention

• 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)
• Chord (music) and Interval (music) have both been described as Eurocentric and are specifically biased towards European classical music. Hyacinth 19:53, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Physical attractiveness and Facial symmetry articles purport to be universal but appear to perpetuate Western aesthestic ideals of physical beauty.
• Red squirrel, at least a section on conservation is written from an almost entirely UK-centric point of view. --Eleassar my talk 10:03, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
• 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). Nannus 18:12, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Women's studies

Logo for Female-oriented section of Countering systemic bias

Female oriented subjects - Feminism, Women authors, professions with high proportion of women etc

Requested articles

• From List of feminists:
  • Heather Dean
  • Eugenie Potonie-Pierre
  • Anne Koedt (wrote The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm)
• Czech feminists Eliška Krásnohorská, Anna Bayerová, Alice Masaryková, Karolina Světlá
• History of women or Women's history or whatever, we don't seem to have one (though we do have History of women in the United States)
  • this seems like a massively over-broad topic. History of women in the United States seems like it could be split into two topics... history of feminism in the US and role/treatment of women in XXXX period in the US. In either case, at least there's a coherent "wrapper" around the topic... the geographical bound of the US. Because the treatment/rights/role/history of women moves at very different paces in different places, it seems to make a lot more sense to break the broad History of women into more manageable chunks. Feco 07:19, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• List of women poets, red links on that list

Requests for expansion

• Rachel Foster Avery, corresponding secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association
• Marie-Louise Berneri, anarchist writer and activist
• Brazilian Women's Articulation, NGO in Brazil
• Feminist history is correctly described on History as an ideological approach toward general history studies, yet this article doesn't really exist; it redirects to History of feminism, not the same thing at all - redirect has been removed and there is now a brief stub article, needs expansion by someone who knows the field --Bookgrrl 04:11, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
• Marilyn French, American author
• Adrienne Monnier major figure from the 1930s Paris scene
• Bertha von Suttner, Austrian pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, stub
• Helen Lynd, American sociologist
• Judy Chicago arguably the U.S.'s most famous specifically feminist artist, we have a tiny stub.
• Kang Youwei (1858-1927) and Liang Qichao (1873-1929), Chinese intellectuals their interest in gender equity is not discussed
• Kartini - Indonesian feminist and anti-colonialist. I've translated the Indonesian article, and I'd like to get this article to featured status in English.
• Katô Shidzue one of the first post-war feminists in Japan; now decently fleshed out, but still could use expansion JerryOrr 00:08, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
• Martha Griffiths, US politican, made sure women were included in the civil rights bill, stub
• Mary Butts - important modernist writer.
• Mary Daly major feminist thinker, we have little but a list of publications. Featured on todo list 20:02, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC).
• Min Jiayin - even though the article doesn't say explicitly that she's a feminist, she counts because her work is based on Riane Eisler's.
• Princess Marie of Edinburgh (a.k.a.Queen Marie of Romania): a rather important intellectual and political figure, gets short shrift.
• Rosalind Miles very important women's history author, wrote The Women's History of the World (also needed). --Dmcdevit 04:17, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Sisters in Islam, prominent Malaysian women's group
• The Revolution (newspaper) American feminist newpaper, stub
• Women's studies
• Yenlin Ku Taiwanese feminist, established the first women's studies program in Taiwan
• Yü Cheng-hsieh (1775-1804) and Li Ju-chen (1763-1830), historic Chinese feminists
• Yvonne Vera female author from Zimbabwe, saved from deletion, but it still could be expanded beyond a stub
• Yoshioka Yayoi (1871-1959) Japanese woman educator & physician - started it but it's not much more than a stub
• Maiden of Ludmir (1805-1888) "one of the few female rebbes in the history of the Hasidic movement." Currently a stub on death row.
• Rape culture - core theory in violence against women prevention movement, currently a stub and does not adequately explain how the culture in question functions. 16:24, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Requests for review/attention

• Systematic silencing of so called "problematic" points of view in articles on or in articles related to Women's studies, gender and other feminism-related articles. Prominent feminist whistleblowers, feminist dissidents, scientists and other non-feminist points of view are being censored when they oppose the 'gender' feminist "party line". Much pandering to politically correct but blatantly gynocentric propaganda points but rarely is balanced non-sexist research common in these articles. 128.111.95.245 02:49, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
• Oriana Fallaci prominent Italian journalist and author. Little though I like her remarks on contemporary Islam, she certainly deserves more of an article. We mostly have a bibliography, quotations, and links. -- Jmabel 22:59, Sep 23, 2004 (UTC)
• Category:Modernist women writers

Non-English language literature

Non-English language literature (particularly writers whose work is unavailable or not widely available in English). See also List of African writers.

Requested articles

These include all of the nonexistent links listed under "Literature by country or language"

• Sorbian literature (for inspiration, see de:Kategorie:Literatur (Sorbisch))
• Muhammad Awzal (ca. 1680-1749), the most important author of the Sous Berber (Tashelhiyt) literature tradition. Needs an article as badly as the literature section of the language article needs expansion.
• Hoda Barakat
• Latin American and Caribbean women writers - Marie Chauvet, Darline Dorce-Coupet, Carmen Lyra, Carmen Brannon, Daisy Cubías, Mirta Aguirre, Magali Alabau, Dora Alonso, Maria Alvarez Rios, Emilia Bernal, Teresa Bevin, Dulce Maria Borrero, Juana Borrero, Julieta Campos, Rafaela Chacon Nardi, Cristina Garcia, Fina Garcia Marruz, Chely Chima, Mercedes Matamoros y del Valle, Mirtha N. Quintanales, Eliana Rivero, Mireya Robles.
• Korean women writers - Hyung-Soon Cha, Han Kang, Hildi Kang, Hyun-Deok Foreman Kim, Myung Mi Kim, Ok-Kyo Kim, Yoko Kawashima Watkins, Mia Yun
• Indonesian women writers - Soewarsih Djojopoespito, Elisabeth Woensdregt, Mevrouw Kloppenburg-Versteegh, Nellie van Kol (alias Jacoba Maria Petronella Porreij), Mina Kruseman, Medy Loekito, Jeanne de Loos-Haaxman, Harryet Marsman, Louise de Neve, Cornélie Noordwal, Karin Ottenhoff, Mary Pos, Dé-Lilah aka Lucie van Renesse, Annie Romein-Verschoor, Lin Scholte, Ena Stok-van Es, C. Swaan-Koopman, Hélène Weski, Augusta de Wit, Marie C. van Zeggelen
• Red links on the Premio Nadal
• Red links in the Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz for women writers.
• Indian woman writers - created using Women Writing in India, edited by Susie Tharu and K. Lalita, many many redlinks

Requests for expansion

• Mahmud Shabestari Great Persian poet and Sufi Muslim. I couldn't find enough information about him in English.--Sa.vakilian(t-c) 10:56, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
• Yashar Kemal Major Turkish writer.
  • Memed, My Hawk and Ince 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.
• Arabic literature - a disgracefully short article on a huge topic. - Mustafaa 10:38, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• 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 1900's. His writings could go under Mustafaa's suggestion, as they were all written in Arabic. --Josiah 03:16, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Slovenian literature, would expand it myself but right now I am very busy. --Eleassar my talk 10:22, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
• Chinese literature is just a collection of lists- nary a sentence to be seen.
• Latin American literature - outside of the Boom, almost no content. zafiroblue05 | Talk 22:26, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
• Being and Nothingness - a major philosophical essay of the 20th century. The stub is not clear, with many missing parts.
• My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (novel) and Omenuko - one-sentence articles on Nigerian novels.
• Kiran Nagarkar - Indian author - he's the subject of an anthology, so surely more information is available from there if nowhere else.

• Pro se legal representation in the United States - The number of self-represented litigants in California in one year alone is greater than the population of Los Angeles. However almost all of the statistics have been deleted from the article. There are more statistics available from the U.S. government. There is interesting history related to the role of lawyers, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, state constitutions, etc. 95% or more of that has been deleted from the article. There are interesting recommendations for a combination of self-representation and lawyer assistance. Those studies have also been deleted from the article kay sieverding (talk) 02:44, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Satisfactory

• Oe Kenzaburo Now covers the basics.

Linguistics

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.
  • Now also includes a Native American language. Still needs work. Johnny Au (talk) 21:59, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

• Augmentative. Needs more work since there is only one heading, no English examples, and needs more examples from non-Indo-European languages. Currently a stub. Johnny Au 19:05, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

• 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)

• 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)
  • Added information about how continuous and progressive aspects are not the same in some languages, and gave Chinese as an example. —Umofomia 12:27, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

• Demonstrative. Another subsection of the article on English grammar has gotten its own article. Should be rewritten from scratch.

• Derivation (linguistics). Could use more international examples.

I think I will make some additions here, the Sanskrit tradition had a lot to say on this which remains germane today. mukerjee (talk) 07:22, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

• 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)
  • 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 Au 19:02, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

• 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)

See also its talk page. Additionally, cross-linguistic data collection and some brainstorming is going on at Grammatical tense/multilingual sources — mark ✎ 21:58, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• • Present tense, Future tense, Conditional tense and Past tense suffer from the same problem. They probably should be renamed to X tense (English).
    • Gerund apparently only exists in English.Macgreco 12:50, 31 January 2007 (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)

• Ideophone

I just made a start on this one - please review it and suggest improvements on its talk page! — mark ✎ 22:05, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

K–Z

• Language death

• Language revitalization Has many links to current developments; needs copyediting attention to remove ugly cleanup tags at the top! (A non-linguist who can summarize and add references could handle this.) Djembayz (talk) 01:14, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

• Language shift

• List of retronyms. Has many US only examples with some UK only examples. Other countries have their retronyms, especially non-English speaking countries. Johnny Au (talk) 19:05, 2 March 2008 (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.
  • Created Possession (linguistics) and moved the relevant stuff there. Possessive case still needs examples, relation to genitive case. --Pablo D. Flores 17:39, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Prefix. Indo-European perspective.

• Progressive tense. English-only. Don't know what to do with this one; maybe rename to Progressive tense (English), or maybe (considering its size) merge into English grammar.

• 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)

• Semantic change Do languages aside from English undergo this change? Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 15:43, 17 May 2011 (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)
  • Me again: Relative pronoun filled up, Relative clause cleaner (theory only), created English relative clauses for specific English usage. Some more theory, examples and illustrating trivia needed.

Requests for review/attention

Satisfactory

• 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)
    • Much improved thanks to Pablo & Ish. — mark ✎ 16:15, 25 February 2006 (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)
• Pronoun. English only.
  • Taken care of by adding links to non-English pronoun articles. Johnny Au (talk) 21:47, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Agriculture and horticultural studies

Agriculture etc

Agricultural and horticultural studies. Not typically a 'geek' concern, especially outside of botany as such.

Requested articles

• United Grain Growers - also a large historical presence in Alberta, Canada
• Saskatchewan Wheat Pool - see above re. Saskatchewan, Canada

Requests for expansion

• Alberta Wheat Pool - a large factor in the rural development of Alberta, Canada
• Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research and its research organizations
• Agricultural extension - the application of scientific research and new knowledge to agricultural practices through farmer education
• Grain elevator - limited history and development
• Farmer Suicides in India

Requests for review/attention

• Farmer - modern and Western (esp. US) bias, nothing on pre-modern farming, farming in the rest of the world
• Slaughterhouse -- Some debiasing is done. Global and historical persp. needed
• Food science
• Dairy science
• Meat science
• 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.
• 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

Under-represented ethnic minorities in the developed world etc. (and other related topics)

Requested articles

General

• Venda people
• 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 | Talk 20:56, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

American Indian biographies:

• Marigold Linton

African American biographies:

• Regina M. Anderson
• Byllye Avery
• Augusta Braxton Baker
• Houston A. Baker Jr.
• Janie Porter Barrett
• Charlotta Spears Bass
• Claude Brown
• Hallie Quinn Brown
• Sterling Brown
• Ed Bullins
• E. Simms Campbell
• Leroy Carr
• Vinnette Carroll
• Elizabeth Catlett
• Alice Childress
• Barbara Christian -stub created, definitely needs expansion Murderbike 09:07, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
• Septima Poinsette Clark

Basic version complete --Dpr 05:01, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Even featured on Did You Know (10 November 2005) --Dpr 05:43, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

• Johnnetta Cole
• Janet Collins
• Fanny Jackson Coppin, namesake of Coppin State University>
  • Created basic article, moving to requests for expansion -JerryOrr 00:27, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
• Alexander Crummell
• Sarah Ann Dickey - stub created; needs fleshing out -- LQ 04:40, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
• Owen Dodson
• Henry Dumas
• Lonne Elder III
• Myrlie Evers-Williams, wife of Medgar Evers

Requests for expansion

• This is the list of Afrocentric historians from Afrocentrism, all need to be created:
  • Cheikh Ante Diop
  • Runoko Rashidi
  • J.A. Rogers
  • Ivan van Sertima
  • Chancellor Williams
• African American literature is already a featured article, but in the last month, at Talk:African American literature there have been some great suggestions (from busy people) as to where the article might be improved. Does anyone want to follow this up? - Jmabel | Talk 16:08, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
• African Methodist Episcopal Church; not much more than a stub
• John Alcindor - black british doctor, president of African Progress Union [2]
• Ira Aldridge 19th century African American actor; just a stub.
• Romare Bearden Notable African-American artist, stub
• Sanjeev Bhaskar Fairly prolific English actor and television presenter who gets two sentences.
• Black History Month Featured on todo list 20:02, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC).
• Black Rock Coalition
• H. Rap Brown Civil rights and black power leader (later gone bad), little more than a stub
• Stokely Carmichael civil rights and black power leader, little more than a stub
• Eldridge Cleaver Black Panther, complicated, interesting life story that we only hint at.
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Afro-British composer: stub
• Central College Recent developments - keeps being deleted for being "irrelevant" - a quarter of the minority students at a college left out of fear of discrimination - more plan to leave at the end of this semester.
• Fanny Jackson Coppin, African-American educator and missionary, namesake of Coppin State University
• Jesse Ed Davis (1944-1988), probably the greatest Native American rock musician. Played with people like Jackson Browne, also with Native American poet/activist John Trudell.
• Martin Delany, leading 19th century black nationalist
• E. Franklin Frazier sociologist writing on race relation in the US in the 1930s and later
• Indian Shaker Church: notable religion among the natives of the Pacific Northwest. Started a stub. Unrelated to the more famous Shakers, certainly more numerous today, possibly more numerous than they ever were. -- Jmabel | Talk 19:47, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
• Robert Johnson Our article accurately describes him as "probably the most influential delta blues singer and guitarist in history" (and, I would add, a damned fine songwriter, based on what little he recorded of his own songs), but it doesn't go into much analysis of his lyrics or music - Jmabel 23:06, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)
• Cheb Khaled Well-known Algerian raï musician living in France, little more than a stub
• Jacob Lawrence Notable African-American artist, little more than a stub
• Leadbelly rivaled in his generation only by Woody Guthrie as a writer of folk songs and a conduit from folk culture into popular culture: little more than a stub
• 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.
• Harold Moody - leader of League of Coloured Peoples, UK black pressure group
  • I created an article on League of Coloured Peoples (which I am working on expanding further); when I am done with that, I intend to at least create a stub on Harold Moody --JerryOrr 01:21, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
• Morehouse School of Medicine historically black institution training health professionals
• Morris Brown College and Clark Atlanta University more historically Black colleges in Atlanta, Georgia, substub
• 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.
• Jill Nelson prominent contemporary African-American journalist and writer,
• Tyler Perry, African American playwright and actor.
• David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead [3]
• 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.
• Slavery reparations. This is currently a redirect to Slavery but the section on it is derisory and does not cover the topic in any detail. There is scope for a comprehensive article giving the arguments on both sides and history of the campaign.
• Samuel Ringgold Ward, abolitionist
• Charmaine White Face, notable Native American rights worker.
• Wolof, the largest ethnic group in Senegal, but has just a substub as article.

Requests for review/attention

• 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 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, Aramaeans, Assyrian, Chaldeans, Assyro-Chaldeans. These are quite a mess, as ethnic definitions are not very clear, and all of these labels have political connotations.
• Latitude -- dubious section on "Evolutionary explanations" futurebird 14:38, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
• Norouz and Kurdish celebration of Newroz. The old Zoroastrian new year, celebrated by Persians, Kurds and other groups in the region. One ethnic group, not surprising the by far largest, seems though to be very dominant in the coverage. Bertilvidet 13:33, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Labor issues

labor

labor

Labor related issues. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Organized Labour.

Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : 1926 Passaic textile strike - Needs a couple good action photos of strike violence but 1926 photos are probably not in the public domain... Expand : Permanent & Casual Wharf Labourers Union of Australia, Maharashtra General Kamgar Union, Force Ouvrière, Jerome Wurf, Samuel Gompers, Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (1968) Update : National Labor Relations Board Two board members, needs attention! Strike action (also fix formatting), NHL Players Association, Teamsters for a Democratic Union

Requested articles

• Oaxaca teachers dispute Currently a significant industrial conflict in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Currently partially addressed at Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca and 2006 Oaxaca protests. A massive expansion is needed in the page on their union (Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación), the subject of major internal contention.
• Job security, worker's sense of having continuity of employment resulting from the possession of special skill.
  • Overqualified effects Job Security,
• ICFTU African Regional Organisation Regional organisation of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. Nothing.
• ICFTU Asia and Pacific Regional Organisation Regional organisation of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. Nothing.
• ICFTU Inter American Regional Organisation of Workers Regional organisation of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. Nothing.
  • 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 ;-) -- AJR 20:05, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
• Union federation
  • Now redirected to National trade union center, which already existed and might be a better place for an article, since some national umbrella organizations call themselves confederations, e.g. the Swedish Trade Union Confederation. The article in question really needs improvement, though. / Alarm 22:09, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
• Trades council Nothing.
• 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.
• Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Moldova
• International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes - part of the World Bank
• Migrant farmworker / Migratory labor

Requests for expansion

• AFL-CIO America's largest federation of unions. An important contributor to the U.S. Democratic party. Stub.
• Congress of South African Trade Unions Played important political role as ally of the ANC. Short article.
• CGT the major French trade union has just a stub.
• European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) Similar to the ICFTU regional organisations. Very active in lobbying the EU. Nothing.
• Bill Haywood Important leader in the IWW in the early 20th century; this article could use some expansion, but it especially needs to be cleaned up and cited. --JerryOrr 22:23, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
  • moving to Requests for review/attention --JerryOrr 21:41, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
• International Labour Organization Very brief text on U.N. organization that has meant a lot for working conditions in developing countries.
• International labour standards Defined as the ILO "core conventions". We have nothing on this.
• Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions Potentially important labour organisation in Iraq. - now a stub.
• 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.
• Picketing Nothing.
• Strike action A reasonable article, but nowhere near as comprehensive as it could be.
• Ver.di With 2.6 million members, this German trade union is the largest independent trade union in the world. Stub now created, more needed.
• Worker safety and health The Wikipedia article only deals with U.S. legislation. A lot more could be done.
  • 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.)
• Asbestosis_-_Compensation_and_Liability_Disputes An attempt to do just that.
• 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! --JerryOrr 21:41, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Limited geographic scope

Limited geographic scope

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.

A-M

• Academic dishonesty All of the modern examples and studies are American. Johnny Au (talk) 22:21, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
• 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).

• Advertising regulation Has only US and European examples. Johnny Au (talk) 22:01, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
• Alcohol advertising Most examples are from the United States, Europe, or Australia. Johnny Au (talk) 23:10, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
• 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. --Eloil 22:40, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
• Bomb disposal This article is heavily anglo-centric. Other definitions of domain terminology (e.g. Explosive Ordnance Disposal) is also American. Drdan 18:06, 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)
• Breakfast Scant references to non-western practices. Much added on Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. Still lacking anything on Africa.
• Cannabis rescheduling is unashamedly about various bits of legislation in the USA, and has nothing to say on Cannabis legislation anywhere else. Gareth Hughes 18:21, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• CFL - This redirect page goes to Canadian Football League which is of interest to Canadians. The rest of the world is probably interested in CFL (disambiguation). CFL (disambiguation) should be moved to CFL. It has been discussed a few times at Talk:CFL (disambiguation)Alan Liefting 06:56, 16 July 2007 (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)
• Coeducation 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?
• 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.
• Crenellation 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.
• Cronyism - only gives examples from the Bush presidency, where politicians all round the world hire their mates for the best jobs.
• Cyber-bullying Seems as if that only occurs in the United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and Australia. Johnny Au 18:00, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
• Death Legal definition section should be expanded.
• Derivative work Originally US-only, but now contains Canadian law; other countries are definitely needed. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 03:04, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
• Dinner Focuses on North America and the U.K.
• Editorial cartoon Has 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.
• Famine Focuses mostly on the European experience, with fairly limited discussion of the modern phenomenon.
• Fictional crossover Many US examples, with some Canadian examples, and few British and Japanese examples. Johnny Au (talk) 02:28, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
• 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)
• Freedom of speech Developed World examples only. Short paragraphs on the situation in India, in Asia in general and in Africa. Much potential for expansion.
• Gang Deals almost exclusively with the U.S.
• Ghosting (identity theft) The characterization deals with the U.S. as if understood, the rest is not much better.
• Grade retention Most examples and statistics are from the United States, with a little from Canada, and much less for other countries
• Grazing rights - mostly U.S. and a little Brit. Needs expansion for the many other countries that have domesticated grazing animals
• Harp, Lyre, Flute, Drum and Musical Notation are all eurocentric. Nannus 18:18, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
• Height restriction laws Has only examples from US, Europe, and Bali.
• Homeschooling Much of the article deals with homeschooling in the United States, especially with the statistics.
• Homework History section only deals with the United States.
• Illegal immigrant 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.)
• Information and media literacy Are Canadians the only ones who are media literate? Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 01:17, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
• Category:Inventions The only inventions-by-nationality categories we have are for English-speaking nations: thus there's Category:Australian inventions but no Category:German inventions, even though we have a huge number of Category:German inventors each of whom presumably invented something notable. It's tempting to suppose that only nationalists tag articles with invention-by-nationality. —Blotwell 22:10, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
• Journalism scandals A long list of examples, all but one or two from the U.S.
• Labor law Limited to U.S. and U.K. mostly, misses the fact that there are international labor standards.
• Labor union/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).
• Landmine. 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.)
• Manga, specifically the International Influences section, which is mostly American with a bit of Europe. ColourBurst 04:47, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
• Market town You wouldn't know that trade existed outside of Europe.
• Marriage too much bias on s.s. 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?
• 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!

N-Z

• Naming rights All of the examples in this article are US only. Johnny Au (talk) 05:07, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
  • List of cultural entities with sole naming rights Most of the examples in this article are Canadian with some US examples. Johnny Au (talk) 05:11, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
• 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 1 sentence on indigenous cultures. Nothing from the rest of the world.
• One-way traffic Sounds as if one-way traffic is only used in Lima, Peru, New York City, and Europe.
• Parking lot Seems as if parking lot legislation only exists in the United Kingdom and the United States.
• Physician Generally lacking, as it currently deals mainly with training, but only covers the U.S., the UK and France.
• 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 one country (guess which one).
• 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.
• Royal Burial Ground focuses on a burial ground used by a royal family shared amongst the Commonwealth realms, yet focuses only on the United Kingdom.
• Rubbing alcohol Laws and uses are only mentioned in UK and US contexts Johnny Au 17:22, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
• Sandpit Mostly general, but lack details about its use in playgrounds outside North America; before my edit, it was US only. Johnny Au 03:09, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
• 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
• State of Emergency only deals with the U.S.A. Still deals mainly with the U.S., although info on other Western democracies have been added. Very little on ongoing SoEs in e.g. Egypt and Syria.
• Student activism and Youth activism Deals with the U.S. only. Nothing is said about the leading role students often take in protesting against oppressive societies, as in Czechoslovakia in 1968 (see Jan Palach), Myanmar (esp. 1988), China (Tiananmen Square protests of 1989), Iran (Iran student protests, July 1999), Serbia during Milosevic (see Otpor) and Indonesia (History of Indonesia). Also, the student protests of 1968 in places like Paris (May 1968) and Mexico City (Tlatelolco massacre) should also be mentioned.
  • 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 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)
• Traffic congestion This article mainly focuses on traffic in the United States. It contains only a small mention of traffic in the UK.
• 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. --Sepa 21:51, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
    • Actually, there is an article for Underemployment, albeit a poor-quality one. --JerryOrr 16:52, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
• Warship Virtually all information is about Europe.--Cúchullain ^t/c 20:39, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
• 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. Toiyabe 19:44, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
• Wedding. Western perspective, although some four sentences are included on non-Western traditions. Pretty comprehensive now 203.173.175.106 (talk) 10:05, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
• Ancestor worship focusses on Chinese and East Asian practices, with nothing on Africa or Amerindians (do they have ancestor worship?) --Taejo 09:39, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Expanded, but still nothing on Amerindians. Johnny Au (talk) 22:06, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Islam, Muslims, and the Muslim World

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Islam, Wikipedia:List of missing Middle Eastern topics

• 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. Dirinici 07:11, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
• Istihlal, or maybe Istihlaal, 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)
• Muslim 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.—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 20:36, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)
• Should we also have a Wikipedia:Islam and Muslim World-regional notice board? I would want to do that, but only if we can get people with more than one kind of POV involved.—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 20:36, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Islam#Theology-centrism?—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 22:41, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)

• I have put in a request for Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Muslim World at Wikipedia:Wikiportal—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 02:54, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)
• See Tripoli, I listed under Developing countries section. --Dmcdevit 04:36, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• The Islamism article ignores the concept of Deen (Arabic term) built into the religion. Raphael1 13:29, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
• Contrary to the anti-Semitism, racism, Xenophobia or Negrophobia articles the Islamophobia article contains a section called "Criticism of the concept". Raphael1 13:29, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Ayatollah Sayyid Hossein Kazemeini Boroujerdi [4] Iranian dissident shia leader. --Varano 11:32, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Requests for expansion

• Al-islam.org Apparently a large & popular website & 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. --Grace 07:28, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Requests for review

• Sunbul Effendi - 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.--AYArktos 22:09, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

• Baha'i 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. Dawud 10:44, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

• I've nominated this article for deletion Third_holiest_site_in_Islam, and would appreciate any comments on the matter.--Amerique 05:20, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Evangelical Protestantism

• 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 [5] 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 [6], 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 | Talk 19:24, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Non-neoclassical economics

Probably the worst example of overclaiming what the status quo of experts really says about things is in economics. Many articles use definitions straight from neoclassical economics with little challenge from other theories. Though there has been work on this, it never seems to end. The article capitalism is not bad at balancing major theories and what they have to say but less-argued articles tend to be far less balanced and not give all major economic theories enough space. Where possible the claims of the economists who invent terms and metrics should be used, not the claims of those who promote them as silver bullets. Since every political party has its own theory of economics, and promotes its own policies as if they were such silver bullets, the dominant theories in rich countries have far too much space - see also Developed World bias above

Requests for expansion

• Ecological economics - currently a stub
• Feminist economics
• Green tax shift
• Public bad
• Nuclear power phase-out

Requests for review

• Behavioral finance
• Commodity markets -- should mention UN proposals for new ways to use such to create fair trade.
• Dirty subsidy - important issue in green economics
• Energy economics
  • steady state economics - an economic theory by M. King Hubbert that bases "prices" in units of energy.
• Fair trade
• Financial capital
• Green economics
• Islamic economics
• Measuring well-being
• Moral purchasing
• Safe trade
• Uneconomic growth

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.

Requests for review

• Fractional-reserve banking
• Fiat currency
• Debt-based monetary system <--a POV fork of Fractional-reserve banking
• Criticisms of Socialism

And any articles involved Austrian and Marxist economics.

Nature (biology, chemistry, physics and related)

Requested articles

• gestation - This article is not an article, but a redirection to "mammalian pregnancy", whose title is disputed. There should be a separate article about gestation in general, that unlike pregnancy, discusses more about animal gestation. The word "gestation" itself is not well defined, because it is not explained which animals gestate, where the limit is between gestating and non-gestating animals, and the pragmatic, semantic and connotational difference between the words "gestation" and "preganancy".

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 seperation 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.
• mammalian pregnancy - The word "pregnancy" instead of "gestation" in the title of the article is dubious.
• copulation
• sexual intercourse
• sexual reproduction

Perspective biases

• Execution of Saddam Hussein -- Lack of sources other than main US 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. Sfacets 02:30, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
• 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. Orcar967 17:27, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
• paint -- only deals with the art aspect not the commercial painting aspect.
• mammalian pregnancy - 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.
• Wikimedia is written from an insider point of view, without mentioning criticism made by MediaWiki developer User:Tim Starling. My edit which added it was removed by a sysop who used his revert power. Wikinerd 03:31, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
  • 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)
• List of people who have said that they are gods - Western bias in addressing the concept of God and divinity. Article is currently protected due to ongoing disputes. Please come and help out at the talk page. --ZappaZ 17:01, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
  • There is no more Western bias. Johnny Au (talk) 21:23, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
• Robinson list -- mentions the US Do Not Call list, but then procedes to deal with only email spam and talk about Robinson lists as if they were only for spam.
• Mythology 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)
• The Democracy article needs attention to ensure that it does not suffer from a bias from the point of view perspective of Liberal Democracy. BruceHallman 19:16, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
• All articles related to the creation-evolution controversy, including Intelligent design, and Objections to evolution, among several others. Particularly strident defense of bias on talk pages. Gnixon 23:52, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
• 2003 invasion of Iraq media coverage - This article would benefit from a lot more information on how media outside of the U.S. and Britain covered the war. --Mackabean 22:29, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
• 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. --Mackabean 22:36, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
• Race and intelligence - It is currently heavily POV. I think this is because most of the editors with a certain view tend to have better access to computers and be very passionate about the subject. Those who might have the opposing view are probably not as passionate about the subject and/or do not have good access to means of being heard. Thus, I feel that the article suffers from a systematic bias. Brusegadi 07:25, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
• Alternative education - It is heavily POV in favour of this type of education, since most authors of the article are pro-alternative education. I believe that there should be a section about the criticisms regarding this written by those who support traditional education. Johnny Au 00:09, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
• 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 Au 00:16, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
  • It is no longer USA-centric. Johnny Au (talk) 21:19, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
• Joseph McCarthy - Several editors continue to alter any edits to their POV introduction, calling those who oppose Communism "extreme", and that is just the tip of the iceberg. Judgesurreal777 20:11, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Countering systemic bias open tasks

Soviet history

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 Paranoid 17:00, 17 July 2005 (UTC))

• Please review Axis powers of World War II where Soviet Union is shown as an ally of Nazi Germany, while Spain even not shown as a Nazi collaborator state.--Certh 09:43, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
  • 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... --JerryOrr 12:26, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

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 artilces 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.

I suggest taking a peek at the history of Ed Roberts. There's an Ed Roberts who maufactured the Altair 8800 and an Ed Roberts who was the first disability rights activist at a university, who basically started the movement from scratch. There was a long article about the computer-related Ed Roberts, and none about the activist, though what the activist did came first chronologically by a few years, and was also easy to look up.

When a user first introduced information about the activist Ed Roberts at the bottom of the existing Ed Roberts page, someone removed the content without explaining why. (I can't speculate as to the mindset of the person. Maybe he or she just didn't know it was common practice to have a few lines about a different guy with the same name on the same page, before creating a disambiguation page. Then again, I hope it wasn't an off-the-cuff judgment that the activist Ed Roberts wasn't important.) The person who added it back said something along the lines of, "If you Google 'Ed Roberts' the first three links are about my guy, not yours." I have since created a disambiguation page, and grew Ed Roberts (activist) from a stub. The latter was featured on Did You Know -- but might never had grown to fruition if the original response to the new content was the last, which it certainly might have been. --Jacquelyn Marie 12:46, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

(reads over) I didn't really give a concrete request, did I? I guess the most concrete one I could give would be a request to fill in redlinks on the list of disability rights activists page.

But what I'm really looking for are other people who are willing to make it a priority every time they are on Wikipedia to add a little content regarding people with disabilities. I'd make a WikiProject if I could find the support. --Jacquelyn Marie 12:53, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Underrepresented occupations

• Coal miner redirects Miner, which is a stub.
• Small engine repair - stub

*Pipefitter redirects to Plumber and pipefitting redirects to Plumbing - fixed but needs expansion --Bookgrrl 05:01, 9 December 2006 (UTC) *Steamfitter - no article - redirected to pipefitting since everything I found everywhere including the trades description lumped the two together --Bookgrrl 05:01, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

• Machinist - stub
• Boilermaker - stub
• Steelworker redirects to the United Steelworkers Union article.
• Ironworker is a stub about the machine, not the profession.
• Ironworkers is a stub about the trade.
• Steel fixer - stub
• Steel erector - stub
• Brakeman - stub
• Boatman - no article. There is a water boatman article which is about the insect, not the profession.
• Baggage handler - stub
• roughneck, driller (oil), motorman, etc. All oilpatch jobs are stubs.

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. -- llywrch 17:29, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree, are there any jobs that are FA status? Engineer, or Software writer maybe? Kevlar67 02:36, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Women and non-English-speaking Scientists

Numerous notable women and non-US/English scientists have no entries in Wikipedia. Ways to help include

• award-winning scientists - developing articles for women and non-US scientists on pages that list award winners. (See especially the List of prizes, medals, and awards for women in science and Category:Awards by country, although many scientific medals are not yet included in those categories
• List of members of the National Academy of Sciences is important
• Standardizing "family" information across male and female scientists; in many entries on male scientists, family is not mentioned or is mentioned only minimally; family information is sometimesm accorded more priority for women biographies. Preferred for any scientist is prioritizing scientific accomplishments in the body of the article, with a small paragraph at the end of the biography section for personal/family connections. There are lots of scientist couples, and this is a good way to work on those articles -- find a female scientist who is married to a male scientist, and make sure both have equivalent family information.
• Uncredited scientific achievements should be credited in the appropriate articles, with links to the scientists. This helps avoid erasure of women.
• 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. This helps avoid erasure of women.
• Too many embarrassing omissions to list them all, but Ruth Benerito ... Cynthia Kenyon ... Susan Solomon ... Jean Macnamara ... Elizabeth Neufeld ... Anne Anastasi ... Isabella L. Karle ... Marjorie Lee Browne (African-American mathematician; one of the first Af-Am female math phds in US)

• These scientists need to be fleshed out: Esther Lederberg
• Be sure to add them to the appropriate lists of scientists (and that's also a good way to find redlinked scientists who should be included)

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.

Subjects to watch for:

• Star Wars characters and locales
• Star Trek characters and locales
• J. R. R. Tolkien-related characters and locales
• any modern television show (one article per episode summary, per throwaway character) -- particularly American and Japanese cartoons
• Any serialized media: comic strips, comic books, serial stories, 10-part novels. In each case, figure out what the right chunk-size is for the text...
• slang or jargon (can be moved to Wiktionary, or combined into topical pages with the history of that jargon type, not one page per term)
• Rapid transit stations (should be combined into articles about individual rapid transit lines instead if the station is not notable)

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)

Not really sure what this has to do with countering systemic bias... --JerryOrr 11:30, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

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 tree 22:34, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

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).

The meta:List of articles every Wikipedia should have is about as Eurocentric and USA-centric as it could be. I just added a comment at meta:Talk:List of articles every Wikipedia should have#Euro-centric arguing that this is a serious problem. Perhaps attention from people in this project with more experience in these matters might help.

Joriki (talk) 22:14, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

pro se represented litigation

Needs statistics for:

self-representation in Jacksonian U.S.A.

North v South self-representation during time of slavery

recent trends self-representation federal court (2006 non prisoner civil plaintiffs = 10%)

pro se w jury trial

recent stats state court, family, civil,

bankruptcy

criminal defense

pro se procedures in federal appellate court.

reasons for self-representation kay sieverding (talk) 02:34, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Their equivalents in other countries as well Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 19:41, 14 October 2008 (UTC)