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Template:Alib The aim of WikiProject Animal rights is to educate readers and editors about the concept of animal rights, the animal liberation movement, and its main concerns. The word "educate" is vital. We aim to provide intelligent, nuanced, three-dimensional coverage of the topic, not propaganda or simplistic knee-jerk responses, whether for or against.

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 [1] Template:PDFlink and Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School. [2] 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 interesting time to be exploring the issue. It's an exciting period 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, we may be on the brink of an intellectual revolution in which the status of human beings as the only possessors of souls, or as sitting at the moral pinnacle of the natural world, faces 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.

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 project encompasses issues related to animal rights and the animal liberation movement. Specifically:

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

General strategy and discussion forums

Participants

Projects

Tasks

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Templates

This user participates in
WikiProject Animal rights.

To add the template above to your user page, write {{user wpar}}.
To add Template:Animal liberation to an article, write {{Alib}}, and it will produce the template you see at the top of this page.
Regarding the topics the template should include, these should ideally be the most pertinent and notable AR activists, topics, campaigns, and writers.

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.

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+The aim of '''WikiProject Animal rights''' is to educate readers and editors about the concept of [[animal rights]], the [[animal liberation movement]], and its main concerns. The word "educate" is vital. We aim to provide intelligent, nuanced, three-dimensional coverage of the topic, not propaganda or simplistic knee-jerk responses, whether for or against.
-Some [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|Wikipedian]]s have formed a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject|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 [[{{NAMESPACE}} talk:{{PAGENAME}}|talk page]].
+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]] [http://www.aldf.org/advocate/AnimalsAdvocatewinter02.pdf#search=%22%2Bdershowitz%20%2B%22animal%20rights%22%22] {{PDFlink}} and [[Laurence Tribe]] of [[Harvard Law School]]. [http://www.aamc.org/newsroom/reporter/oct03/animalrights.htm] 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 interesting time to be exploring the issue. It's an exciting period 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, we may be on the brink of an intellectual revolution in which the status of human beings as the only possessors of souls, or as sitting at the moral pinnacle of the natural world, faces 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, [[WP:NPOV|neutral]], and [[WP:V|reliable]] research.
+If you would like to help, please inquire on the [[{{NAMESPACE}} talk:{{PAGENAME}}|talk page]].
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 ==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:
+The project encompasses issues related to [[animal rights]] and the [[animal liberation movement]]. Specifically:
 #animal rights/animal liberation '''groups''' e.g. [[British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection]]
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 #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]] [http://www.aldf.org/advocate/AnimalsAdvocatewinter02.pdf#search=%22%2Bdershowitz%20%2B%22animal%20rights%22%22] {{PDFlink}} and [[Laurence Tribe]] of [[Harvard Law School]]. [http://www.aamc.org/newsroom/reporter/oct03/animalrights.htm] 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, [[WP:NPOV|neutral]], and [[WP:V|reliable]] research.
 ==General strategy and discussion forums==