Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of Australia/Archive 1

Archive 1

Proposed collaboration/sub-project

I note this 'project' is tagged as being under construction.

I'm not sure how Riana (talk) (who appears to have initiated this project) wishes others to contribute .. but I do wish to draw attention to discussion here recommending a project exactly like this!!

You'll see from the discussion that I have volunteered to start working on Aboriginal deities/ancestral beings/or mythical characters starting from North Queensland! You may also note that I have started upgrading the Australian Aboriginal mythology article, and have been very slowly working through North-East Queensland's geological and other topographical features documenting their original names and place within local indigenous cultural landscapes. I guess you can include me, and I'd like to sign up as a contributor to this proposed project?!

I'll watch!! Bruceanthro (talk) 14:16, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi Bruce, please feel free to contribute in any way you feel is fit. I haven't started mapping out exactly how to cover topics but I should have a plan by the middle of this week :) Thanks very much for your interest and keep watching ;) ~ Riana ⁂ 14:30, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

University Student

Hi everyone, I am a student currently enrolled in a subject which requires the improvement of a stub article. I am writing on 'Caroline Archer', an Aboriginal Australian activist. I would really appreciate if someone could provide advice and feedback over the coming weeks as our edits and contributions will make up our final grades for the subject. Thank you so much! Shay0608 (talk) 11:37, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

Deities, gods, goddesses or not

There is plenty to think about at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 January 8#Category:Aboriginal goddesses. If some of the discussion there is correct, we should perhaps rename List of Australian Aboriginal deities. Do Aboriginal people have a concept of deities? --Bduke (talk) 22:53, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

:To tackle the question first: 'Do Aboriginal people have deities?':

i. A very quick search of Wikipedia for Australian Aboriginal religion reveals there is no such article (to date), and the closest are the references within Indigenous Australians and Indigenous Australian culture to Australian Aboriginal belief systems.

ii. Australian Aboriginal deities (or Gods + Goddesses for that matter] without Australian Aboriginal religion or religious beliefs .. simply can not exist in life, and, arguably, can not properly exist as deities (or Gods + Goddesses) on Wikipedia

iii. perhaps this Wikiproject could start working up the necessary articles on Australain Aboriginal religion and/or Australian Aboriginal belief systems .. and, in doing so, we might all see whether any verificable deities [plus Gods & Goddesses] are so 'revealed' (or reveal themselves!!)

iv. a search of the Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia shows NO ENTRIES for either the word Deity, or the words God/Goddess .. and the word religion takes the reader to an article which states, amongst other things:

"At a time when anthropology preferred to categorise belief systems, Aboriginal religion was assigned to a category designated as 'totemism' ... Aborigial totemism .. has a truly religious aspect, linking the physical world and its inhabitants with a transcendental dimension of reality ..

..The totemic ancestors, as conceived by Aboriginal people, are beings of great power who once travelled over the earth performing wonderful deeds of creation, and who now lie quiescent in focal points of the landscape ... Totemic ancestors are often referred to in Aboriginal English as Dreamings .."

:To next tackle the suggestion List of Australian Aboriginal deities be renamed:

v. The List of Australian Aboriginal deities is a useful list of articles for this project to work through (even if poorly named), and the brief descriptions are useful (even if currently inappropriate) .. but, yes, it's present name badly misrepresents Australian Aboriginal peoples and Australian Aboriginal beliefs .. so it SHOULD be renamed!

vi. Perhaps we could initially rename and transform the current List of Australian Aboriginal deities into a kind of Wikiproject Indigenous Australian's assessment/work list, entitled something like "Australian Aboriginal mythological beings - unauthenticated articles without context" ... then seeing this Wikiproject have as one of it's goals "creating, expanding, authenticating, and contextualising articles identifying Australian Aboriginal mythological beings" (using Wikipedia verification principles, supported by a template infobox?).

vii. Once a preagreed 'threshold' level of coverage adequately identifying and describing some of the most notable mythological beings from a sampling (representative)across the Australian continent (>400 Aboriginal groups) is reached .. (eg, very crudely, say threshold sampling aminimum of 2 groups for each for east, north-east, north, north-west, west, south-west, south, south-east, and centre - totalling 18 groups) .. THEN we might start new category entitled something like Australian Aboriginal mythological beings (or better namee/s?), with either locations, key geographical features, or source language/s as sub-categories?!!

Hope this is thoughtful and useful?! Bruceanthro (talk) 16:37, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. Yes, Indigenous Australians definitely do not have the concept of a deity. In fact they would find it offensive. And non-European academics would find it intellectually offensive. The Dreaming treats of ancestral spirits, many of which might be honoured; others not. The spiritualities of the Indigenous nations are quite unlike any other religions. They require serious treatment, in their own context, as does any other article.--Gazzster (talk) 08:28, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

We have the same problem with "gods/goddesses" and "deities" titles in North America; use of these terms is ORIGINALRESEARCH in the extreme; I've fielded comments about e.g. Category:Kwakwaka'wakw gods but nobody seems willing to respond; spirit-beings is the best term I can think of for some of the items in that category and others like it, or "supernatural beings" maybe.Skookum1 (talk) 06:42, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

New article for peer review

Hi, i have created a new article for the First Nations Workers Alliance. I just though this project base might be interested in the article. Any suggestions on improving the page are more than welcome. Thank you, --Artsandsocialwork (talk) 04:04, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Using Human Relations Area Files coding to structure this project?

I guess this is for Riana (talk) and any one else who may be thinking of participating in this project!!

Should this project aim for as comprehensive, complete coverage of the subject, for the indigenous peoples of Australia as a whole, and/or for each of the indigenous Australian groups across Australia as possible..

....then perhaps the dimensions for comparison and contrast of different cultures around the world .. with which Murdock's Ethnographic Atlas (1967) plus his Atlas of World Cultures (1981) illustrate; upon which the Human Relations Area Files and the Standard cross-cultural sample are founded .. may provide a useful, previously trialled, currently used 'schema' for this project to arrange it's activities?

Articles, tasks, requests and categories could, for instance (starting to work systematically through the code), aim to prioritise and cover a selection (ultimately all) of the following, for the whole of Australia, and each Australain Aborignal group (just to name a few:

• Human Biology
• Behaviour and Personality
• Demography
• History and Culture Change
• Culture
• Language
• Communication
• Records
• Food Quest
• Animal Husbandry
• Agriculture
• Food Processing
• Food Consumption
• Drink, Drugs
• Leather, Textiles, and Fabrics
• Clothing
• Adornment
• Exploitative Activities
• Structures
• Settlements
• Energy and Power
• Tools
• Property
• Exchange
• Marketing
• Finance
• Labor
• Travel and Transporation
• Fine Arts
• Recreation
• Entertainment
• Individuation and Mobility
• Social Stratification
• Interpersonal Relations
• Marriage
• Kinship
• Kin Groups
• Community
• Territorial Organization
• Politics
• Law
• Offenses and Sanctions
• War
• Social Problems
• etc etc etc

Articles and categorisations expanding and elaborating the above will be comprehensive, complete, systematic .. and useful for doing comparisons with all those groups, peoples and cultures documented over many decades on Human Relations Area Files and the Standard cross-cultural sample..

What do you think .. way too ambitious and way of beam?!! Bruceanthro (talk) 15:47, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

one for GA

While reviewing the Aust B class articles 2004 Palm Island death in custody looks almost ready to go to GA, basically needs a copy edit and refs/el made consistent. Gnangarra 12:46, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi all, it would be fantastic if this project could put a little work into this article to bring it up to GA!!! I suggest discussion as to how to do so continue at Talk:2004 Palm Island death in custody#B class review. Cheers, WikiTownsvillian 13:04, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Some category difficulties

Keeping Category:Indigenous Australians for individuals works well, but there are a number of things that don't readily fit anywhere. the various massacres fit in Category:History of Indigenous Australians, some such as Northern Territory National Emergency Response, Aborigines in White Australia, Little Children are Sacred, Media portrayals of Indigenous Australians & Stolen generations maybe belong in different categories, ideas? Paul foord (talk) 12:55, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Not sure if you're thinking/looking for a catch all category for all of the above?! If so, for all indigneous Australian issues that apply across the whole of Australia, perhaps we could have Category:Pan-Australian Indigenous Issues, distinguishing these larger, across Australia issues from individuals, and/or more locally specific &/or otherwise locatable articles?! Bruceanthro (talk) 16:49, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Such a Pan-australian indigenous issues category, could, of course have:

• state based subcategories .. such as Northern Territory indigenous issues (for Northern Territitory intervention), Queensland indigenous issues etc .., plus

• theme based subcategories covering issues such as 'media issues' (for articles on the way media covers Aboriginal peoples), 'fidicuiary issues' (for articles about Stolen generations, and Stolen wages etc) 'heritage issues' (for articles about protection/destruction of indigenous Australian heritage etc).

I think I'd find such an 'issues' scheme useful .. what do you think?! Bruceanthro (talk) 00:36, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Consistent nomenclature for articles on Indig. peoples?

Having just looked at Category:Indigenous peoples of Australia again ... I note:

1. sometimes groups of Indigneous peoples are named without the term "people" (eg Wangan, Airiman, & Irukandji);
2. sometimes they are named with the term "people" (eg Wangal people, Arrernte people, Kurrama people) and
3. other times a range of other terms are used including, for example, Martu (Indigenous Australian) & Jukun people (Australia), & Beeliar (tribe)

Might I suggest this Indigneous peoples of Australia project aim for, encourage and promote a single, consistent nomenclature?! Perhaps all Indigenous peoples of Australia could, as far as practicable, be labelled "people", identifying them as 'peoples'?!! Bruceanthro (talk) 17:37, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Consistency sounds like a worthwhile objective. FWIW, this list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_indigenous_peoples has links* to an occasional group of Indigenous people worldwide who have the "people" tags, eg Somali people or Surma people but it appears this is to differentiate them from other uses of those words- Somali and Surma both being disambiguation pages. Not sure if we'll have the same issues here but, if so, at least renaming "(tribe)" etc with "people" sounds logical.

*(The list itself has only the group name, but the links include the "people" bit) WotherspoonSmith (talk) 18:26, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Yep!! Just now looked at List of Indigenous Australian group names, and my very first sample from that list ie Guugu Yimithirr .. takes me/us to a disambiguation page for Guugu Yimithirr people and Guugu Yimithirr language.

It would seem that a 'people' nomenclature that favours identifying named indigenous Australian groups of people as 'people' - not only lets the reader know, immediately, that each such article is about a people .. it also disambiguates!!

I'm not sure if we could/should put together and send a single large list of indigenous Australia group names currently unidentified as 'peoples' to WP:RM .. then make the move/s renaming as 'people/s'?! Bruceanthro (talk) 00:18, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

My preference would be to keep it simple - I expect most searchers would be looking for an article on the "nn people", so leave off "people" unless required for disambiguation, add language to the language article (linked from the group article). One nn search gets to the people article and one click from there the language article and if they want to get to the language directly then nn language. Is there a people info box? There is one for languages that I have seen. The Guugu Yimithirr disambiguation is a case of a good idea misapplied.

May have already been discussed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethnic groups & Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages Paul foord (talk) 00:57, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't think the people should take precedence over the language. In some cases the language is more famous than its speakers are. Dyirbal for example currently redirects to Dyirbal language; we don't even have an article on the people.

The infobox for peoples is Template:Infobox Ethnic group. --Ptcamn (talk) 04:50, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Paul foord appears to give good advice suggesting we favour the simplest nomenclature that also best matches users' likely search habits/terms.

Unlike Paul however, I do not think the use of a single, or pair of Aboriginal words on their own, without a descriptor, is necessarily simple.

I'll use a familiar example to illustrate my point: if we wished to create, write and edit an article on Australian people, the simplest ('recommended?') title for the article would be Australian .. however, dropping the descriptor "people" actually causes the title to loose it's sense.. we find ourselves asking "Australian .. what?", and who would search for an article on Australian people by typing in the word Australian.

It is not simpler, in fact, to use the word "Australian" and drop the descriptor 'people' .. For those familiar with the term 'Australian' .. such a naming practice does not make things easier or simpler .. but, rather, makes things more ambigious!!

Just so with the Aboriginal/indigenous words used to label groups of indigneous Australian people .. Dropping the descriptor "people" does not make things easier or simpler ..it's just more ambigious!

I trialled with the Aboriginal word Arrente. I pressed "go" and discovered the creators of this article did, in fact, find the word/term ambigious .. as it can refer to a people, a langauge and/or an area!! I pressed "search" .. and, yes, now all the Arrente articles are displayed in front of me, listing Arrernte language, Arrernte people, Arrernte (area), &, in addition Arrernte Council. The most ambigious, least useful title in the search list was Arrente - which only leads to a disambiguation page anyway!

In absence of some clear and precise understanding and knowledge of the meaning/s and sense of the Aboriginal words often used to label Aboriginal groups .. it may in fact be the use of descriptors like "people", "langauge", "area", "community" etc others make things simpler and easier for users/searchers?!! It is on these grounds that I'd continue to recommend renaming articles that have indigenous Australian titles, and are in fact about indigenous Australian groups -- attaching the descriptor "people" to those titles?!! Bruceanthro (talk) 14:35, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

However 3 pages for each people and their language needs to be avoided. (BTW the Arrernte series of articles are not in good shape with a number of micro-stubs, with a mix of ppl & lang foci - the language and the main Arrernte Council articles are the best). Paul foord (talk) 08:47, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Re Arrernte, I just expanded it to illustrate my point only to have someone revert it as unsourced (along with deleting parts of other articles on my watchlist). Someone else has tagged it to merge to Arrernte people. :-) Paul foord (talk) 10:43, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

The smart way to do it would have been to have Arrernte people moved to Arrernte and then expand that. --Ptcamn (talk) 10:52, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I was in a hurray. Probably time for a break. Paul foord (talk) 11:29, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

OK ...I see the value of keeping single Aboriginal words (such as Arrernte) .. in the form of a expanded disambiguation article giving a general narrative and pics etc guiding users/readers through all the related uses/dimensions of the word Arrernte!!

As an aside, I note it is just as well (for our nomenclature purposes) that people working on the Arrernte language/s decided to change the spelling from Aranda .. as the currently proposed 'simple' nomenclature could have collapsed under the weight of that disambiguation page!.

Seeing the value of a disambiguation article .. I decided to run a commensurability test, checking to see if disparate "Arrernte" articles do smoothly, neatly and consistently merge into a single article!

Unfortunately, on closer inspection the current sample Arrernte page (still under construction) collapses on the complex amiguity of the word Arrernte!

Re: people and language - the Arrente people (ie people who identify as, and are socially recognised as Arrente) ARE NOT the same as the group of people who may speak Arrente language (ie a French linguist who speaks Arrernte - a Arrernte speaker - is NOT Arrernte; also an Arrernte person who does not speak Arrente (language).. is still Arrente (people))

Re: people and area - the Arrente people ARE NOT the same group of people as those who live or lived in the Central Australian area around Alice springs .. (ie a possible majority of people now living in the area are not Arrente people; also a possible majority of Arrente people do not live in the area, but are still Arrente)

I briefly tried using the term 'ancestors' to mediate ie I tried brief rewrite amending intro to say Arrente people are those people whose 'ancestors' lived in the Central Australia area and spoke Arrente langauges ... but it is still a bit clumsy and comes unstuck, loosing it's sense a little.

In conclusion .. perhaps each Aboriginal word/label for an Aboriginal group should NOT be moved or merged into an same named article with 'people' as a descriptor (eg Arrente people) .. but instead kept as an overview, disambiguation article ... linking to seperate articles that do use descriptors such as people', 'language', 'area' etc ... such that we the exisitng Arrernte people & Arrernte language would be retained (and upgraded)?!! Bruceanthro (talk) 17:11, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Don't be deceived by those articles that are "FOO people". Of the three I've looked at so far they were all moved by Kwamikagami, the author of a passage in WP:NCL that he added to justify such unnecessary disambiguation (even though this is an ethnic group article he still uses that as a justification); there are currently a host of RMs trying to revert back to the "FOO" form which he is fighting tooth and nail to resist. Y'all should have a look around and count 'em all up; in North America it was hundreds of articles he did this to, without discussion......and most of them are redirects back to the original title only, underscoring how needless such moves are; if any of you are admins that would save a lot of hassle if you just go and revert them, because he objects to one-by-one RMs as being "disruptive" even though he moved them all without any discussion at all. I was gonna look around here and other continents to see where else he's put his one-man-agenda forward, but have been preoccupied with those RMs all day. One thing I note in looking at indigenous articles on other-language Wikipedias is they don't play name-games anywhere near as much, and as a result actually work on the articles instead of fly-by-night renamings without even adjusting the ledes to conform to the new title as required by MOS; he says "nobody" does that.....Skookum1 (talk) 12:10, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Article ratings

I have done a quick first run for the Project and generally trust my judgment, I just had a glance at the bot reports, and there are some over-under ratings for both class & importance, not a lot though IMO. Where there is substantial disagreement on a rerating then some discussion may be needed. Feel free to adjust. Still more to do! Paul foord (talk) 01:48, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Templates moved to tab

The template links may need to be updated, but there are enough templates to justify the move. Sorry about the colour changes Paul foord (talk) 08:29, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Australian Place

Is there anything particular that would enhance Template:Infobox Australian Place for use in this Project? We would need to discuss with that project. Paul foord (talk) 12:40, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

All this work happening around this project is great Paul! Perhaps, if we are to use Template:Infobox Australian Place .. perhaps it might be possible (?) to see new fields included .. ones such as Site: (Yes/No); Indigenous name (for places); Tindale Name or AIATSIS names: (for regions)??

Bruceanthro (talk) 17:46, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Indigenous peoples of mainland Australia

An old discussion, but ... There has been an substantial earlier discussion about having an 'Aboriginal Australians' article to stand alongside Torres Strait Islanders and Tasmanian Aborigines, under the Indigenous Australians article. Strong arguments were made against an 'Aboriginal Australians' article. Some general article on the 'Indigenous peoples of mainland Australia' (or some such title) would be useful. Paul foord (talk) 11:54, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Having not been party to the earlier discussion .. I must say that it does appear most odd, and it is most idiosyncratic, that a clearly identifiable class of Australian people:

1. identified within the Australian constitution as Aborigines
2. counted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics within the Australian census as Aborigines
3. identified and defined within Australian court law, (including the High Court of Australia) as Aborigines
4. identified and defined within numerous statutes and regulations as Aborigines

.. are not able (can not find support?) for a Wikipedia article specifically about them identifying them as a legally defined class of people that in fact exist as Australian Aborigines within Australian law?

Perhaps I/we can start up an article on Australian Aborigines that distinguishes itself from the more general Indigenous Australians article .. by instead focusing on the the origins, changing nature of laws over a century, defining (and creating?) Australian Aboriginal people as a definite, existing class of people ?!! Bruceanthro (talk) 13:06, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Just what the abosolute living F****? Why do you cite four times the use of one term, from authoritative sources, then suggest (and inflict on us) adoption of a different, improper term? Are you all taking the piss? Please someone attend. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.200.7.183 (talk) 05:45, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Djabugay people

Still in the process of expanding this article .. but noted the currently recommended ethnic people's template did not seem well suited to the purpose .. so have adjusted the generic infobox to create a potentially more suritable/useful Indigenous Australian people's infobox?!!

Please feel welcome to test run this infobox on other xxxx Aboriginal peoples articles .. then, perhaps, someone out there might be able to advise/ assist make something like this an Indigenous Australian people infobox to be used/recommended for all such articles?? Bruceanthro (talk) 05:17, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Indigenous Wikipedia

I'm about to launch a project that will see Australian school students populating Wikipedia with information about indigenous people from their area in Australia. This will result in a comprehensive resource that details the incredible diversity of Australia's indigenous peoples and their nations.

One obstacle we may face is that Australian indigenous culture is predominantly oral with history, stories and culture handed down between generations in families. It is likely that reporting of this oral culture could be construed as original research and be subject to Wikipedia's NOR restrictions. Could I ask Wikipedia editors to take the above into consideration if there is a complaint under the NOR provisions.

The project's goals is to document, in a single accessible location, the diversity of indigenous Australians' culture and history. Australians are generally poorly educated about their indigenous history and culture and this has led to over 200 years of prejudice and discrimination. This has led to many indigenous Australians living in abject poverty with life expectancies well below that of the Australian average. A single authoritative source like Wikipedia will allow a comprehensive approach to educating all Australians about their indigenous heritage and help lead to true reconciliation. The trigger for this project will be a WebQuest currently being developed by Scot Aldred from CQ University and WebQuest Direct.

Your support in this endeavour will be greatly appreciated.Aldredpbl (talk) 21:16, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

WP Australia template

It would be useful if the {{WP Australia}} template had the ability to identify articles relevant to this WikiProject. I understand we would need to request this at Template talk:WP Australia. Probably easiest to use "Indigenous=yes". Comments? Paul foord (talk) 13:49, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm glad someone is having a look at this .. and yes please Paul foord (talk)request the "Indigenous=yes" option on Template talk:WP Australia .. unless anyone has any objection/better idea!? Bruceanthro (talk) 16:16, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Done at Template_talk:WP_Australia#Request_for_.27Indigenous.3Dyes.27_to_be_added_to_template Paul foord (talk) 14:54, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Completed, thank you User:Longhair Paul foord (talk) 14:37, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

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Australian referendum, 1967 (Aboriginals)

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Two new articles

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Dreamings in the article Prayer

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I will post a reply at Version 0.8. Others feel free to check out what i put there. hamiltonstone (talk) 01:10, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

For completeness, here are my proposed additions (no proposed deletions):

• Neville Bonner (had not been tagged by the project - this now fixed) - first Indigenous elected parliamentarian, member of Constitutional Convention, Order of Australia recipient etc etc. Quality of content looks OK, refs not so good.
• Albert Namatjira (had not been tagged by the project - this now fixed) - along with Bonner, probably the only Indigenous Australians to be household names prior to the 1980s. Quality of content looks OK, refs not so good.
• If the welter of citation tags could be addressed, would suggest Cathy Freeman (had not been tagged by the project - this now fixed).
• Contemporary Indigenous Australian art - I have a bit of a COI as this article's creator and main editor, but this art is widely quoted as "the last great art movement of the 20th century" and is of great cultural importance to Australia generally, not to mention to Indigenous Australians. hamiltonstone (talk) 02:07, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Billibellary

is an article I am currently translating into German. What is "ilbi-jerri"? Thanks schomynv 03:23, 12 March 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Schomynv (talk • contribs)

Request for comment on article naming conventions for peoples, ethnicities and tribes

There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (people)#Articles on peoples (ethnicities and tribes) on how ethnicity articles should be named. Specifically, whether the article on the Foo people should be at "Foo", or at "Foo people" with "Foo" as a disambiguation page distinguishing the Foo people and the Foo language (and any other uses). The current convention is to disambiguate, but this is based largely on discussions at WP:NCLANG and I have suggested that a wider consensus including people interested in ethnicity and indigenous peoples as well as languages would be desirable. joe•roe^t•c 21:27, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Aboriginal Medical Service

The article Aboriginal Medical Service refers specifically to the Redfern organisation. Given it is linked on Template:Indigenous Australians I wanted to get opinions on whether this article should be specifically about the Redfern AMS or whether it should be either an article on the AMS concept or a disambiguation page for various medical services that use this name.The Hack 12:17, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

For Anyone Interested

Hey guys, if any of you are interested I recently created the article Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars. It isn't currently listed as an article within Wikiprojects Indigenous peoples of Australia, so if you would like to add it feel free.--Collingwood26 (talk) 03:36, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Question of whether the Black War should be included in the List of massacres of Indigenous Australians

A question of whether the Black War should be included in the List of massacres of Indigenous Australians. Also there are a number of ^{[citation needed]} tags on the entry with the potential for the noted information to be removed. There is a relationship here with the History wars article and Keith Windschuttles's approach. (See User talk:Nick-D#Black War as in List of Massacres.) -- Paul foord (talk) 12:15, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Have added some refs to that article and sought to reword the intro using the word 'massacre' (with ref) .. and will wait and see if these changes stay! From this, you can see - yes .. it does seem the article ought be included on that list!! Cheers Bruceanthro (talk) 14:11, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing

I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 21:21, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

RfC - naming of Murujuga (Burrup Peninsula)

There is an RfC regarding the article name for Murujuga at Talk:Murujuga. Hack (talk) 09:22, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

RfC - naming of Murujuga (Burrup Peninsula)

There is an RfC regarding the article name for Murujuga at Talk:Murujuga. Hack (talk) 09:22, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

RfC at Talk: Genocide of indigenous peoples

There is an RfC at Talk:Genocide_of_indigenous_peoples#RfC:_Scope_of_this_article about whether that article should employ the narrow legal definition of "indigenous peoples" or a broader commonsense definition.User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 01:02, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

RfC on Indigenous people

I have started an RfC at talk:Indigenous people regarding the definition and scope of the article because some editors are using the page to include all ethnic groups who claim to descend from the first known inhabitants of a place - such as Germans, Finns, Russians, Georgians etc. This definition would exclude several indigenous groups that have migrational histories from the scope and conflict with the established political definitions of the term. Please weigh in on which definition to use.·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 20:28, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikis in Australian Aboriginal languages

Hi, I just want to tell you that two wikis in aboriginal languages and one in a creole language are hosted in the incubator. Here are the links: Pitjantjatjara Wikipedia, Pitjantjatjara Wiktionary,Torres Strait Creole Wikipedia.--Biol. Cons. (talk) 03:06, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Category:Australian Aboriginal tribes

Category:Australian Aboriginal tribes and 5 of its sub-categories, all of which are within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:48, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikis in Australian Aboriginal languages

Hi, I just want to tell you that two wikis in aboriginal languages and one in a creole language are hosted in the incubator. Here are the links: Pitjantjatjara Wikipedia, Pitjantjatjara Wiktionary,Torres Strait Creole Wikipedia.--Biol. Cons. (talk) 03:06, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Urratjingu

Bowern lists an "Urratjingu" language in the northeast. I can't identify it, and it's not listed at AIATSIS. Does anyone have any ideas?

(Since I'm not a regular here, please ping me if you respond.) — kwami (talk) 06:23, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

AfC submission - 04/04

Wikipedia:Aboriginal Will-Making. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 17:23, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of categories below Words_and_phrases_of_Australian_Aboriginal_origin

Several categories below Category:Words and phrases of Australian Aboriginal origin have been proposed for deletion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_February_10#Words_and_phrases_of_Australian_Aboriginal_origin. DexDor (talk) 03:17, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Categories being considered for deletion or renaming.

• Proposed for renaming, Category:Indigenous Australians from Western Australia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
  

• Proposed for deleting, Category:Australian languages with mobile apps (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
  

The discussions are here, if anyone has any interest at all.... Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_December_16 __ E L A Q U E A T E 15:31, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Hey all, I've noticed in my travels that the Wikipedia article on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has a reasonably substantial amount of info on Australia's opposition to the Declaration and about a 5 word sentence to state that it was subsequently supported by the Rudd Government. I know that AIATSIS has quite substantially built their core policies on ethical research and access to the collection around the Declaration, so I've added a line about that to the article. I'm wondering though if anyone else knows more instances where the Declaration has been adopted by peak bodies or government agencies in Australia (or elsewhere of course!).

Thanks!LizLou (talk) 00:54, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Hey all, I've noticed in my travels that the Wikipedia article on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has a reasonably substantial amount of info on Australia's opposition to the Declaration and about a 5 word sentence to state that it was subsequently supported by the Rudd Government. I know that AIATSIS has quite substantially built their core policies on ethical research and access to the collection around the Declaration, so I've added a line about that to the article. I'm wondering though if anyone else knows more instances where the Declaration has been adopted by peak bodies or government agencies in Australia (or elsewhere of course!).

Thanks!LizLou (talk) 00:54, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!

Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Emu and the Jabiru

I've just restored and expanded a stub on the Aboriginal myth Emu and the Jabiru after an WP:RFD discussion. I don't have access to sources which would help to improve the article, and this is well outside my area of expertise. If you're interested, your attention to the refreshed article would be much appreciated. Thanks. Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 16:17, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Category for Australian Aboriginal elders

Do we have one already somewhere? Is it worth creating one? See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Noongar#Category:Noongar elders. Mitch Ames (talk) 13:39, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

AfC submission - 04/04

Wikipedia:Aboriginal Will-Making. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 17:23, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

New 5000 Challenge for Australia

Hi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge and the wider Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceania/The 10,000 Challenge are up and running based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge for the UK which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. If you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Australia and Oceania like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1600 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for Australia but fuelled by a contest if desirable to really get articles on every state/territory and subject mass improved. After every 100 articles done for Australia this would feed into the main Oceania one. I will start a smaller challenge for your field of focus if there is the support. I would like some support from wikipedians here to get the Challenge off to a start anyway with some articles to make doing a Destubathon for Australia and Oceania worthwhile! Cheers.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:14, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject Women in Red

Women in Red will be hosting a month-long virtual editathon on indigenous women in August to coincide with Indigenous People's Day. We welcome participation from anyone who wants to improve or help create articles. If anyone is interested in adding curated names to the potential list of new articles, the link is here Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Indigenous Women. Just add a red link and sources which confirm notability. An invitation to sign up for the event will be forthcoming. SusunW (talk) 17:06, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

Location of Wurdi Youang

Editors are invited to comment at Talk:Wurdi Youang#Location as to whether the specific coordinates of an Aboriginal stone arrangement should be included in the article. Mitch Ames (talk) 01:35, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

RFCs - Aboriginal communities in Western Australia

Editors are requested to comment at:

• Talk:Aboriginal communities in Western Australia#Rfc: Should the article include a statement about the number of communities and the number of residents?
• Talk:Aboriginal communities in Western Australia#Rfc: Should the article include a statement to the effect that 99% of the population of the communities are in remote areas?

Mitch Ames (talk) 13:09, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Categorizing Noongar people

Editors are invited to comment at Category talk:Noongar people#categorizing Noongar people, on the scope of that category. Mitch Ames (talk) 12:55, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Aboriginal homelands

It has been suggested that the Return to Country (one line) stub be merged to History of Indigenous Australians. The report Return to Country and other research and the conservative response to the homelands movement from Helen Hughes of the Centre for Independent Studies (Lands of Shame - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander 'Homelands' in Transition (2007)) and Gary Johns of the Institute of Public Affairs (Aboriginal self-determination: The Whiteman’s dream, (2010) [discussed by Guy Rundle http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/29/rundle-gary-johnss-new-book-noel-pearson-the-oz-and-sonderweg/ ) need to be covered. Paul foord (talk) 00:15, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background

On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   07:42, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Mass links / moves

I've been asked to post a summary / rationale for my ongoing edits here. There are a thousand or so articles, so I don't have the time to be sure I'm getting them all perfect, but they're just not getting interconnected otherwise. Hopefully I'm not making to many mis-ID's.

I started with the state-by-state ethno templates, such as {{Aboriginal South Australians}}, to link each ethno article with the article on their language, if it's been identified, and link back to the ethno article from the 'ethnicity' field in the language info box.

I left a list of articles I tagged for merger at User talk:Nishidani, who created many of them. He has the refs to see if they're actually duplicates, though in some cases we just don't know. Also mentioned a few other things that might need fixing.

I then tried to link up all the red links at List of Indigenous Australian group names. That list should be in decent shape now. (Not saying it's complete. I didn't add anything to it.)

Today I updated Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages/Confirmed language names at AIATSIS, which I had last done 5 years 1 day ago. I'm now going through and linking up the language articles where the AIATSIS reference name has changed. We hopefully have language articles for all the entries, though not always one-to-one. (Dialects usually don't get their own article, but what's been conflated on WP (often by me) is sometimes rather arbitrary, or follows a source such as Dixon that may be outdated.) We have many fewer of the ethno articles,, AIATSIS isn't really the source for that, as it conflates peoples that speak the same dialect/language and doesn't distinguish e.g. nations from moieties. In some cases, where the bare AIATSIS ref name is a red link, I've been moving the ethno article to that spelling/name rather than creating a rd. If the difference is minor, I haven't been adjusting the lead -- just a matter of the time I can devote to this. Given that there isn't a single preferred source for spellings, I thought AIATSIS might be the best bet. If we want to do that consistently, though, there are probably hundreds of cases where we'd need to make an admin request, and it's not worth it for me. If anyone here prefers the old name, please go ahead and move it back, just be sure to leave a rd behind so the AIATSIS ref name still connects to it.

I would like to add the {{AIATSIS}} template to the lead of each ethno article that has a corresponding AUSTLANG article. Trying to think of a way to partly automate it. I might end up pasting the code + ref name at the top of the article and then use AWB to format it into a proper reference + link. If I do, then before I get to it w AWB it's going to look bad. Just too time consuming to do it correctly manually.

Please ping me here or drop a line on my talk page if you need me to stop or fix something.

— kwami (talk) 04:27, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Indigenous women & Polar women editathons

You are invited...
	Indigenous women editathon & Polar women editathon Hosted by Women in Red - August 2016 - #wikiwomeninred

(To subscribe, Women in Red/Invite list. Unsubscribe, Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 21:08, 24 July 2016 (UTC) via MassMessage

New page Jillian Gallagher

Hey there! I just dumped a heap of text at Jillian Gallagher & published it. Its probably full of errors & I was hoping to draw some proof readers from the project --- Go your hardest 8==8 Boneso (gnaw) 01:17, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

Upcoming editathon in Sydney

The City of Sydney Library is organising an editathon on topics about Indigenous Australians on 21 March. You may see some new editors roaming around articles on that day, please say hello to them! We'll be putting a list of our main topics on our project page as that list is developed. Rubicon49bce (talk) 04:39, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia

Your feedback would be appreciated at Template talk:Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia#Mismatch between nav title and pagename. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 01:40, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

categories: People of the Australian frontier wars, People associated with massacres of Indigenous Australians

Editors are invited to comment at WP:AWNB#categories: People of the Australian frontier wars, People associated with massacres of Indigenous Australians. Mitch Ames (talk) 01:31, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Genealogy

If anyone here is interested, we are looking for volunteers at WikiProject Genealogy. Our current collaboration is Genealogy, an article which needs a lot more international perspective. Thanks! Tea and crumpets (talk) 01:13, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

RFC open concerning use of Cultural warning and advisory templates on Wikipedia.

There is currently an RFC open at Template_talk:Recent_death_Aboriginal_Aus concerning the use of templates and notices to comply with cultural sensitivities. Since it is of interest to this WikiProject, you are welcome to drop by if interested. Thanks! Dane|Geld 21:09, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

The RFC is now closed. The template has been deleted by community process via TFD. Thank you for your attention. Dane|Geld 17:29, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

New article for peer review

Hello! Over the last few months, I have been adding to the stub Koori. I've submitted it for peer review but haven't received any responses, and I thought this project base may be interested. Any suggestions for improvement are more than welcome! Thank you in advance, --Bella2129 (talk) 01:45, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Online First Nations Editathon

Hi all. Last minute notice to sign up for the Wikipedia:GLAM/Australian libraries and WP/Events/City of Sydney First Nations if you'd like to edit tomorrow morning. --99of9 (talk) 12:50, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

Massacre of Running Waters

Editors are invited to comment at Talk:Massacre of Running Waters#Expressions of doubt are not "neutral language" regarding how best to make that article more neutral. Mitch Ames (talk) 13:07, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Massacre of Running Waters

Editors are invited to comment at Talk:Massacre of Running Waters#Expressions of doubt are not "neutral language" regarding how best to make that article more neutral. Mitch Ames (talk) 13:07, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Creating a page for Wrong Kind of Black

Hello, watched Wrong Kind of Black on Netflix in Canada today and noticed there was no wikipedia page. I started a stub article for anyone interesting in improving it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Switchintoglide (talk • contribs)

Good pickup, Switchintoglide - thanks for creating the article. I have added a couple of projects to the talk page and will return to the article after watching it myself! Laterthanyouthink (talk) 02:02, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

Interactive map

Just stumbled onto this interactive map which seems like it might be of interest to the wikiproject. EdwardLane (talk) 09:15, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

The actual interactive map (rather than an article about it) is at https://native-land.ca/

Mitch Ames (talk) 09:21, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

a person's Direction Tree

Just read this article in the Independent which mentions Directions Trees - I note that it seems to be a red link, so I thought I'd come here to ask if there is a non red link to this - and also to ask if it is just a Djab Wurrung feature - or common across all of Australia? EdwardLane (talk) 22:11, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Interesting requested move

A request has been made to move Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu to "Gurrumul" and Gurrumul to "Gurrumul (album)". Please see Talk:Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu#Requested move 2 July 2021. Graham87 15:54, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

a person's Direction Tree

Just read this article in the Independent which mentions Directions Trees - I note that it seems to be a red link, so I thought I'd come here to ask if there is a non red link to this - and also to ask if it is just a Djab Wurrung feature - or common across all of Australia? EdwardLane (talk) 22:11, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Archive 1

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Indigenous placenames in lead of article

Hi all. There is an ongoing discussion about whether Indigenous placenames should be part of the lead and infobox, and it has come to a standstill on the noticeboard. If you have any input it may be helpful.

Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board Poketama (talk) 21:38, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board has an RFC

Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the [page]. Thank you. Poketama (talk) 16:24, 31 May 2022 (UTC)