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*To add [[Template:Animal liberation]] to an article, write <nowiki>{{Alib}}</nowiki>, and it will produce the template you see at the top of this page. |
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Revision as of 16:47, 19 August 2006
Template:Alib Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Animal rights. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.
Title
WikiProject on Animal rights
 | This user participates in WikiProject Animal rights. |
Scope
The aim of this project is to coordinate coverage of issues related to animal rights and the animal liberation movement. Specifically, the project will include:
- animal rights/animal liberation groups e.g. British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection
- animal rights campaigns e.g. SPEAK
- leaderless resistance movements e.g. Animal Liberation Front
- issues related to speciesism, philosophy of animal rights, ethical theories
- animals rights in law
- studies into animal intelligence that may have a bearing on arguments about animal rights
- areas of concern to the animal rights movement, such as factory farming and animal testing
- individual animal rights/animal liberation activists
- lawyers, writers, and academics who work on animal rights/animal liberation theory
Aims
The aim of the project is to educate readers and editors about the concept of animal rights, the movement, and its issues. The word "educate" is vital. We should seek to provide intelligent, nuanced, three-dimensional coverage of the topic, not propaganda or simplistic knee-jerk responses, whether pro or anti.
Animal rights is no longer an issue that's confined to the fringes. The idea of extending legal personhood to animals is supported by an increasing number of legal scholars, including Alan Dershowitz and Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School. [1] At the time of writing, 39 out of 180 United States law schools teach specialist animal rights courses. The Swiss and German constitutions have been changed to reflect the status of animals as beings in their own right, rather than property. There is increasing support among academics for the idea of awarding very basic rights to other members of the Great Ape family.
This is therefore an exciting and challenging time to be exploring the issue. It's exciting for supporters of the movement, because legal breakthroughs may be on the horizon. It's challenging for those who rely on the use of animals in research or in industry. Philosophically, it's a revolutionary period, in which the status of human beings as the only possessors of souls, or as sitting at the moral pinnacle of the natural world, may face serious challenge for the first time in recorded history.
For all these reasons, animal rights is an issue that provokes strong feelings. The aim of this project is to ensure that Wikipedia's coverage is not informed by those strong feelings, but by disinterested, intelligent, neutral, and reliable research.
General strategy and discussion forums
Category
The category contains articles about the movement (groups, campaigns, leaderless resistance), individual activists, writers, and issues of interest to them.
Participants
Projects
Tasks
Other subpages
Templates
| This user participates in WikiProject Animal rights. |
- To add Template:Animal liberation to an article, write {{Alib}}, and it will produce the template you see at the top of this page.
Stub templates
Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on proposing stub templates and categories. Do not simply create new stub templates, as they may be deleted.
Articles
Please feel free to list your new projectname-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.