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Propose widening the topic area of "Racism in ..." articles through moves to "Racism and prejudice in ..." or "Discrimination and racism in" titles

The following discussion is an archived record of a request for comment. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

I do not believe that the number of responses is enough to form consensus, but if I had to find one it would be oppose. AlbinoFerret 20:20, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

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I think that there is an imbalance in the treatment of different forms of discrimination within Wikipedia. In the current condition of Wikipedia:

• There are many articles starting with the format "Racism in ..."
• There are no articles for titles with the format "Prejudice in ..."
• There are a small handful of articles for titles with the format "Discrimination in ..."
• There are, however, a large number of articles for titles with the format "Human rights in ..."

All the same I think that there is a potential lack of coverage of other non racially motivated forms of prejudice.

The Template:Discrimination sidebar lists "general forms" of discrimination as follows"

• Age
• Caste
• Class
• Color
• Disability
• Genotype
• Height
• Hair
• Language
• Looks
• Mental type
• Race / ethnicity / nationality
• Rank
• Religion
• Sex  / Gender
• Sexuality
• Size
• Species
• Weight

If there are any particularly notable issues in regard to any of these forms of prejudice in any particular location then I think that there should be a platform within Wikipedia for the presentation of related content.

When weighing up possible titles I did the following searches in books which showed that:

• "Racism and prejudice in" gets "About 9,750 results"
• "Racism and discrimination in" gets "About 1,060 results"
• "Prejudice and racism in" gets "About 8,700 results"
• "Discrimination and racism in" gets "About 23,400 results"

Personally I prefer the "Racism and prejudice in ..." format as both titles deal with attitudes. My thought here was that perhaps the Human rights articles could deal with results.

It may also be notable that other books searches revealed that:

• "Prejudice and discrimination in" got "About 144,000 results" and
• "Discrimination and prejudice in" got "About 17,700 results"

None the less I thought that articles might start with a topic change to something like "Racism and prejudice in ..." and then, if content develops, further moves or divisions of article content may occur at a later date.

Please give comments in terms of Support or Oppose and add any further comment for instance in regard to preferred title. Thanks.

GregKaye 16:52, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

• Clarify - Are you proposing we start moving "Racism in ..." articles to "Racism and prejudice in ...". Can you give a simple practical example of article you'd like to rename/create? NickCT (talk) 18:07, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
  • It appears that the suggested change deals with changing the scope of {{Discrimination sidebar}} to be broader. Dustin (talk) 01:42, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
    • @Dustin V. S.: - Maybe I'm being a little slow here, but how is he proposing we change the discrimination sidebar? NickCT (talk) 16:42, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose any blanket move or other wide-spread change. These articles are generally based on the context of the subject and its history; if a country (or other subject) has a long history of racism in particular, it is appropriate for it to have an article here discussing that racism, and it seems like it'd be inappropriate and unhelpful to turn that article into a general dropping-ground for all forms of prejudice. If a particular country (or other subject) has enough of a history of other forms of prejudice to form an article, we could start a separate article; and if multiple forms of prejudice in a particular topic seem tightly entwined (or if none of them have enough material to support their own articles), we could combine them into one article for that specific topic. But I don't see any particular benefit to lumping all forms of prejudice together as a general rule. --Aquillion (talk) 07:14, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
• Weak oppose any blanket move or other wide-spread change. As per Aquillion, and, because, like NickCT, I am unclear as to precisely what is being proposed.Pincrete (talk) 16:41, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Revisions to Housing Segregation article

I am planning on editing and restructuring the current Housing Segregation article. It belongs in the scope of WikiProject Discrimination and is rated Start-Class, Mid-Importance. I hope that my edits will bring up both the quality and importance of this article. It is currently lacking in depth of content and use of scholarly sources. I plan to provide a holistic coverage of this topic by adding material from reputable sources such as peer-review journal articles, published books, and articles from academic journals.

I plan on adding a "Causes of housing segregation" section, an "Effects of housing segregation section", and an "Initiatives against housing segregation section". My hope is that by adding material in these new sections, there will be a more comprehensive coverage of the topic. In addition, I plan on revising the current "History of housing discrimination" section by adding more content and creating two sub-sections: "Legislation" and "Government agencies". The legislation sub-section will focus on laws passed regarding housing discrimination while the government agencies sub-section will focus on the various government bodies dealing with housing segregation issues. I also want to focus on other minority groups affected by this issue, as the page currently focuses on the effects of housing segregation on the African American community.

If anyone is interested in this modern form of discrimination through housing segregation, I would appreciate any and all feedback comments on the best ways to improve this article. I would love references to even more scholarly sources pertaining to the topic. Thank you. Aaie21 (talk) 00:44, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Revisions to 'Trans bashing'

I am a student working on the article 'Trans bashing' and I have some revisions that I would like to make to the page. I would like to change the name of the page to 'Transgender violence' and greatly expand it to include policies and attitudes globally, religious views on transgenderism, and differences in attitudes within various communities. Please let me know if any other users have feedback. BSchilling (talk) 06:36, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Note: This matter has also been discussed at the WP:LGBT talk page. Flyer22 (talk) 20:19, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia Primary School invitation

Hi everybody. On behalf of the teams behind the Wikipedia Primary School research project, I would like to announce that the articles Apartheid and Sexism (of interest to this wikiproject) were selected a while ago to be reviewed by external experts. We'd now like to ask interested editors to join our efforts and improve the articles before March 15, 2015 (any timezone) as they see fit; a revision will be then sent to the designated experts for review (for details, please see each articles' talk page). Any notes and remarks written by the external experts will be made available on the articles' talk pages under a CC-BY-SA license as soon as possible, so that you can read them, discuss them and then decide if and how to use them. Please sign up here to let us know you're collaborating. Thanks a lot for your support! Elitre (WPS) (talk) 16:57, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

RfC: Should the language of this article be softened?

There is a RfC underway at Talk:2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident#RfC: Should the language of this article be softened? on what language can be used to describe that incident, opinions welcome. Artw (talk) 21:03, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

There is also a disagreement about whether the article should be included in this project or not. The section is here: Talk:2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident#WikiProjects Thanks. Grayfell (talk) 23:39, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Help with a student draft?

Recently a student posted an article to the mainspace, which I've moved to the draftspace at Draft:Racial stereotyping in advertising. It was a little rough around the edges and needs a lot of work, but it's an extremely good topic that has the potential to be a fairly high importance article- enough to where I'm actually surprised it isn't already on Wikipedia. I'll try to get on and help them later, but this article really needs a lot of TLC and patient editors that can work with students. I don't think that you'll have to take them by the hand or anything, just occasionally explain why you're doing what you're doing. I'm going to post this in another WP as well, since it covers a few different areas. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 11:01, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Minority languages ​​in geographical Articles

Hi all! I just posted question on Minority language article talk page that you can see here: Talk:Minority language#Minority languages ​​in geographical Articles. I would be extremely grateful for your contribution through comments.--MirkoS18 (talk) 21:16, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

Baroness, Duchess, Empress and Viscountess articles

Thinking about the bias of just having male articles for different male titles I recently submitted the following RM:

• Baron → Baron and Baroness (noble titles)
• Duke → Duke and Duchess (noble titles)
• Emperor → Emperor and Empress (regal ranks)
• Viscount → Viscount and Viscountess (noble titles)

Relevant points are being raised at the RM and now I'm wondering about other options. Monarchy and nobility aren't my topics but I think that development of articles such as Baroness, Duchess, Empress and Viscountess may be useful.

I've also posted this at Wproj:Feminism GregKaye 20:05, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Consciousness-Raising Repository - Call for Feedback and Participation

This is a call for those members of the discrimination project interested in developing a resource on Wikipedia for collecting and publicizing stories from people who experience marginalization in the Wikipedia community. This is part of the Ideal Lab's Inspire grants. The purpose of the Consciousness-Raising Repository is to serve as a database of knowledge about the forms marginalization can take and as an outlet for users experiencing marginalization. Right now, we're putting together a diverse group of Wikipedians to oversee the construction of the repository and recruitment and collection of stories.

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We're also looking for questions and feedback to help crystallize the proposal. If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to message me or ask them on the discussion page --Radfordj (talk) 23:51, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Request for comment on ethnicity and sexuality in lead sections

Hey all,

I've opened up an RfC to try and clarify some of the language around the inclusion of ethnicity or sexuality-related information in the lead sections of articles about people. Comments appreciated! Ironholds (talk) 04:16, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Ellen Pao trial and coining of new words

Don’t know about others but one thing following of the Ellen Pao gender discrimination trial did for me is enrich my vocabulary. Some examples:

• Mansplaining (two meanings):
  • http://calacanis.com/2015/03/23/mansplaining-the-ellen-pao-trial-fixing-the-gender-issue-in-venture-capital/
  • http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-04-08
• Brogrammer
  • http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/2/8328115/ellen-pao-kleiner-perkins-venture-capital-verdict
• (promotion via) Shoulder tapping
  • http://www.geekchoice.com/2015/03/23/twitter-vs-discrimination/
• and many more which I noted down, but then lost my notes because I was too busy with internal wiki brawls :-) Ottawahitech (talk) 15:34, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Add Unicorn (company)] to the list. Ottawahitech (talk) 03:53, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Looks like I am way behind the times. Mansplaining is a well established term and dilbert wins. Too bad, I actually liked the calacanis version better. Ottawahitech (talk) 15:54, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

The white genocide

Anyone want to help look for sources for the article The white genocide? I'd declined a speedy on it as something that was made up one day and I've stubbified the article from its original version. I was going to nominate it for AfD but there does seem like there's an assertion of notability here and the concept is not new, so this may merit a page. However so far the going is fairly light, so I could definitely use some help fleshing it out. Merging and redirecting is also an option, but I'm not sure where to merge it to. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:59, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

I wonder if this theory goes by any other names that might generate more sources. Bali88 (talk) 06:14, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

Southern strategy

There is a complicated discussion at Southern strategy going on right now which may be of interest to members of this project. Essentially it involves the claim that the political shift of the American South to the Republican party after the end of Jim Crow was not racially motivated. --Sammy1339 (talk) 04:08, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Article request: Joyce Ann Brown

I just read this interesting article in The New York Times on Joyce Ann Brown. I am surprised there is no wikipedia article on her and thought I might inspire someone to create an article by putting a message on this page. Best.4meter4 (talk) 04:41, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

RFC on Shaun King (activist)

[1] There is an RFC on the Shaun King page regarding the prominence we are giving of the recent Breitbart generated scandal. Input would be appreciated. Artw (talk) 22:01, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

New Article

Hi, I am a student in a class where we have the opportunity to work on or create a new article and so as I am greatly interested in gender discrimination, I am hoping to write an article about gender discrimination and inequality in Sri Lanka. This is my first time working on Wikipedia so if anyone has any advice about this process, I would love to learn more! Thanks! Lnicholson14 (talk) 15:19, 30 September 2015 (UTC) User:Lnicholson14

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I see no article alerts here?

Just wondering why this Wproj has no wp:article alerts section? Ottawahitech (talk) 20:33, 4 December 2015 (UTC)please ping me

Choc ice

Should the article Choc ice include its alleged/occasional use as an ethnic slur? This editor thinks that it should not. I have no strong view at all, other than that I am always a bit concerned about the unexplained removal of referenced content, which is where this started. I can see arguments for and against its inclusion. I'm posting to both Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Discrimination and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Food and drink about this. The editor concerned is now discussing it at Talk:Choc ice#Racism and it would be great if interested editors from these projects, or anywhere else, wanted to help reach a consensus. Thanks and best wishes 213.205.251.29 (talk) 08:27, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Also added at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Food and drink/Desserts task force. 77.96.249.228 (talk) 23:02, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

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"White Pride" under Wikipedia is racist

If I type "Black Pride, Asian Pride, Gay Pride" it all comes up positive. "White Pride" shows up as bad! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:547:C302:8005:9595:35E2:B528:9B0C (talk) 06:06, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Racial Discrimination

The premise of current racial discrimination another tool to divide and control us. As the world merges racially we are becoming blended, yet articles still focus on race (outward appearance) as defining factor. No one can effectively prove one race or another yet we still keep fighting this racial war even though most of us are mixed race.

Race is still used as a tool to divide the poor spawn hate and pit us against each other. Its sad state of affairs, dominated by our culture media and political institutions for their own selfish gains, we are taught hate so we can be used as pawns. How many of us will die over this issue with hate in our minds whipped up for political gains. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.101.174.254 (talk) 22:35, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia Primary School invitation for sexism

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Nomination of List of films featuring whitewashed roles for deletion

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RfC notice: Use of flag icons on genocide-related articles

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White savior narrative in film and The Matrix

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Drury Hotels and a transwoman of color

This information is being repeatedly removed from Drury Hotels:

On July 13, 2015, management at a Drury Inn in West Des Moines, Iowa had police arrest hotel guest Meagan Taylor, a trans woman of colour, falsely claiming her to be engaged in prostitution as she and a travel companion were "men dressed like women." Profiling based on race and gender identity is illegal in Iowa. The American Civil Liberties Union intervened before the Iowa Civil Rights Commission, obtaining an out-of-court settlement.

The matter was raised at Talk:Drury Hotels#Whitewashing and a third opinion obtained at WP:3O stated (in part) "That the Meagan Taylor incident was covered internationally shows it is not trivial, especially since Iowa specifically protects the rights of transgender people under its laws. (I will note that on June 29 of this year, the ACLU reported that the case had been settled – see this and this.) Receiving a major award for multiple consecutive years is also not trivial. Therefore, it is my opinion that having been awarded "the J.D. Power and Associates 'Highest in Guest Satisfaction Among Upper Midscale Hotel Chains' award for 11 consecutive years" is fitting for the article in the appropriate section, as is a brief description of the Meagan Taylor incident, given that both would be properly cited. I would admonish the editors not to go into so much detail regarding Meagan Taylor as to give that incident undue weight." Unfortunately, the removal of the content from Wikipedia (and, by extension, the erasure of Meagan Taylor from history as a trans woman of color) continues, despite plenty of WP:RS (those cited, plus [2][3][4][5][6][7][8]).

I'm not sure whether this issue belongs here or at WikiProject LGBT studies - this is a racial incident, but there's also the gender identity question. Any input would be appreciated? 66.102.87.210 (talk) 13:31, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

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please assist with this

dear sirs, this wikipedia will never become great if you dont do any serious work to improve it. please assists with this article: ethnic issues in Japan. it has many problems. thank you from the depth of my heart. Фквжьись (talk) 23:11, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

Please post any replies and keep all discussion at the article talk page so we can be sure to be aware of the specific concerns. Thanks! ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 18:08, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

RfC about SPLC identifying Charles Murray as a White Nationalist

Recently, all reference to the SPLC identifying Charles Murray as a White Nationalist was removed from the Charles Murray article. I would think editors looking at the issue of Discrimination would be well qualified to comment on an RFC concerning White Nationalism. The RCF is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Charles_Murray_(political_scientist)#RfC_about_SPLC_identifying_Murray_as_a_White_Nationalist Please consider commenting. Gouncbeatduke (talk) 18:10, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

How to describe the Emmett Till case in the lead sentence of the Emmett Till article

Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Emmett Till#RfC: Should we include the "accused of showing an interest in a white woman" aspect in the lead or specifically the lead sentence?. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 03:06, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Missing white woman syndrome

Hi, I was wondering if I can get some input at Talk:Missing_white_woman_syndrome#POV_pushing_by_IP_editor. An editor is reframing Missing white woman syndrome as a primarily racist phenomenon, whereas the article in its current form also defines it as a sexist phenomenon too. I don't think the edits are neutral so I would appreciate another set of eyes at the article. Betty Logan (talk) 17:55, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

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We're grateful to Mr.Z-man for his original Mr.Z-bot, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of WikiProject Discrimination, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.

Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Transgender legal history in the United States

(This announcement is cross-posted from WT:LGBT.)

Announcing new article Transgender legal history in the United States, which is a move of about 68kb of content from History of transgender people in the United States to the new article, in a size split. Additional refactoring and section re-org may be needed in both articles, as well as other cleanup to complete the split. You are invited to contribute. Mathglot (talk) 01:51, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Category discussion

You are invited to participate in the Critics of Islamophobia discussion. 79.67.78.57 (talk) 14:28, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Sexism in medicine

Sexism in medicine is a relatively new article being worked on by members of WP:FEMINISM, WP:MED, and WP:WH. It also seems to fall into the remit of WP:DISCRIMINATION. Other articles around discrimination in medicine have also been proposed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine/Archive_101#Sexism_in_Medicine Little pob (talk) 11:47, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Anyone interested please help?

If any wants to do any improvent on a under served subject, Anti white racism it would be most welcome. Dwanyewest (talk) 18:42, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Also does anyone think Anti-white and Anti-White Racism should be redirected to Anti white racism. Dwanyewest (talk) 01:50, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

First, English grammar requires the use of a hyphen, so Anti white racism should be moved to Anti-white racism. There's no question that Anti-White Racism should redirect to Anti-white racism, because it's the same thing with an alternate capitalization. Whether Anti-white should direct there or to another article depends on whether there are other possible uses for the phrase.

Before you start making those changes, however, you should review the histories and talk pages of both Anti-White Racism and Anti-white. Is there a reason why nobody wrote an article about anti-white racism until now? Was an earlier article deleted? WP:Articles for deletion/Anti-white and WP:Redirects for discussion/Log/2010 August 24#Racism against whites may (or may not) be helpful. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 03:46, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

List of monuments and memorials of the Confederate States of America

I added List of monuments and memorials of the Confederate States of America to WikiProject Discrimination. The history of these monuments and memorials is intertwined with the Jim Crow era and similar efforts to terrorize African-Americans. Many monuments are explicitly monuments to white supremacy. It's horrible. The article and talk page could really use some fresh eyes. Right now, there's a small group of older, conservative "military history" types who I believe are holding the article back from what it could become. Anyway, check it out. We could use the help. Thanks everyone. Fluous (talk) 07:18, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Attention needed: Reverse sexism

See Talk:Reverse sexism#Neutrality of section "Examples of reverse sexism" Staszek Lem (talk) 23:13, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Deletion discussion

The members of this Project might be interested in participating in the discussion at WP:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Catalan Racism. Thank you for your attention. NewYorkActuary (talk) 19:22, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Antisemitism in 21st-century Italy

This page is outdated (2012), NNPOV and most likely non-encyclopedic in contents. What should be done?--Dans (talk) 19:20, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

The subject probably isn't notable, and any useful content should be merged into Antisemitism in Italy. Oh, wait -- that subject isn't sufficiently notable for its own article, so it redirects to Antisemitism in Europe#Italy. — MShabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 19:29, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968) requested move

There is an ongoing move request for the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968) and similar pages. Please feel free to comment at the move request page. Thanks  — Amakuru (talk) 15:41, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Coffey v. State Educational Finance Commission

It seems like we should have an article on Coffey v. State Educational Finance Commission. The case was significant setback to the efforts to preserve school segregation in Mississippi. The appendix to the case has some interesting tables that have been cited by historians.

References

Billhpike (talk) 01:39, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Eyes needed...

...on current editing on Aryan Brotherhood. Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:37, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Anti-Orthodoxy that affects several topics on religious discrimination regarding some Christian denominations. Interested users are welcome to participate in the discussion. Thank you. Sorabino (talk) 19:15, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Persecution of Eastern Orthodox Christians listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for Persecution of Eastern Orthodox Christians to be moved to Anti-Eastern Orthodox sentiment. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. Sorabino (talk) 21:28, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

RfC on NRA advocacy for black gun owners

There is a new RfC on the NRA's lack of advocacy for black gun owners[9]. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 18:37, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

RfC

There is an RfC on the talk page of the article Neo-Nazism which may interest members of this project. It can be found here. Beyond My Ken (talk) 01:48, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Defining slut-shaming in the lead of the Slut-shaming article

Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Slut-shaming#WP:Undue weight with regard to changing the lead sentence to "people". A permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 00:53, 23 April 2018 (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   07:34, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello, Please note that Xenophobia, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 00:05, 11 June 2018 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team

Possible merge?

I was wondering if The Pink Tax should be merged into Gender-based price discrimination in the United States. An argument against the merge would be that the pink tax article could be about the term itself and has some content to that extent, however an argument against is that it does cover some of the same information as well and could be seen as largely redundant.

This was part of a student's class assignment and while I do like the article, I'm also concerned that it takes a specific viewpoint and doesn't use as strong of sourcing as they could - a lot of it looks to be Internet media as opposed to academic and scholarly sourcing.

What do you guys think? Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:14, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

Embassy chapels

Hi everyone, I created a new page, Embassy chapel, that displays an interesting and underrated feature of Religion persecution: Embassy chapels. For example, before Catholicism was legal, English Catholics were able to worship at the Embassy chapels of foreign governments, like the French, Portuguese, or Sardinian embassy. Four London churches today have roots in those embassies (Church of St Anselm and St Cecilia, St Etheldreda's Church, Church of our Lady of the Assumption and Saint Gregory, St James's, Spanish Place. The page also talks about other embassy chapels around the world (for example, protestant churches in Italy of churches in China and the Ottoman Empire), which provided religious havens to persecuted religions thanks to diplomatic immunity. I've linked a lot of resources but I don't have much time to fill in the page. Any and all help is welcome. Eccekevin (talk) 18:43, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Confused Wording

What's the difference between "???" and "NA" in the section of "Assessment Statistics"? Whoisstephanie (talk) 23:47, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

RfC: Antisemitism in the UK Labour Party

Talk:Antisemitism in the UK Labour Party/Archive 7#RfC: Inclusion of expert opinions, views of pundits, activist groups, tweets, etc. may be of interest to project followers.Icewhiz (talk) 15:23, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Intersectionality

Hello, can someone check the Intersectionality page? The "Criticism" section was full of non notable and irrelevant content. Rupert Loup (talk) 12:10, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Hello again, there is currently an RfC in Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard#Intersectionality, comments are appreciated. Rupert Loup (talk) 10:57, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Consent search and Terry stop (stop and frisk)

Hello, I would like to lobby your WikiProject to add Consent search and Stop and frisk (which redirects to Terry stop, the technical term) to your project. Both are major drivers in racial profiling and police abuse. A good example is in the following LA Times story: "L.A. County deputies stopped thousands of innocent Latinos on the 5 Freeway in hopes of their next drug bust". Other examples are: Stop-and-frisk in New York City and Ferguson unrest (caused by a terry stop, community exploded because of heavy-handed use of terry stops and consent searches). Also, both pages need work, so please come by and help out. Thanks! Seahawk01 (talk) 09:11, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

References

Moose Lodge

There is an effort to whitewash the racist history of the Loyal Order of Moose. — BillHPike (talk, contribs) 02:15, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Request for comment at Jackie Walker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jackie_Walker_(activist)#Request_for_comment_can_we_say_Jackie_Walker_is_Jewish Slatersteven (talk) 13:34, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Stop-and-frisk in New York City

Hello everyone, I'd like to get Stop-and-frisk in New York City (talk) up to WP:GOOD standards over the next few weeks. This is an especially important topic as using stop-and-frisk in cities like Chicago have been discussed in the news recently. So, if you have the time, please come by and help out. Thanks! Seahawk01 (talk) 02:58, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

WikiJournal of Humanities published first article

The WikiJournal of Humanities is a free, peer reviewed academic journal which aims to provide a new mechanism for ensuring the accuracy of Wikipedia's humanities, arts and social sciences content. We started it as a way of bridging the Wikipedia-academia gap. It is also part of a WikiJournal User Group along with Wiki.J.Med and Wiki.J.Sci. The journal is still starting out and not yet well known, so we are advertising ourselves to WikiProjects that might be interested.

Editors

• Invite submissions from non-wikipedians
• Coordinate the organisation of external academic peer review
• Format accepted articles
• Promote the journal

Authors

• New Wikipedia articles on topics that don't yet have a Wikipedia page, or only a stub/start
• Existing Wikipedia articles to be externally peer reviewed (analogous to GA / FA review - see submission page)
• Image articles, based around an important images, photographs or summary diagrams

If you want to know more, please see this recent interview with some WikiJournal editors, the journal's About page, or check out a comparison of similar initiatives. If you're interested, please come and discuss the project on the journal's talk page, or the general discussion page for the WikiJournal User group.

As an illustrative example, Wiki.J.Hum published its first article this month!

• Miles, Dudley; et al. (2018). "Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians". WikiJournal of Humanities. 1 (1): 1. doi:10.15347/wjh/2018.001. ISSN 2639-5347.

T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 09:35, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Quotaism

I added Quotaism to this project as it appears relevant but also low quality and possibly overlapping with articles such as affirmative action. If this was inappropriate please feel free to remove the project. MegaSloth (talk) 09:56, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

white pride article

Hi, I posted on the talk page over there, this article is in dire need of some positivity.

Surely the use of 2 simple words, white and pride, by bad actors cannot make the two words together racist and equivalent to "white power" for example can it? Like wikipedia in general expects good faith, I think the concept of white pride deserves a good faith article, expressing a white person being proud of their heritage, without being presented as explicitly racist.

the sources at least for the introduction are biased and questionable or unavailable, and the rest is 3 similar reading sections all talking about how racist white people are, or how some hate groups are hateful thus rendering white people unable to express pride. I dont see why the concept of white pride cannot be expressed in the same fashion as pride of any other color or creed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.246.155.171 (talk) 22:41, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

This is being discussed pretty much to death on the article talk page, to the point where we've gone into WP:NOTAFORUM territory - so it will soon have to stop. The IP editor doesn't seem to want to accept the reality that "white pride" isn't a simple unloaded and neutral term, it's being deliberately promulgated by white supremacists, white separatists and white nationalists to provide cover for their loathsome ideologies. Folks can come over to the discussion if they want, but I doubt it's going to do any good: when it comes to "white pride", the IP sees no evil, hears no evil and speaks no evil. Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:04, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

My two cents on the matter is that the article is racist against white people, period. Other groups can have their pride groups fine, but whites? Their article is littered with decade-old pictures of thuggish-looking monster skinheads. However this article is backed up by reliable sources, so I think the bigger discussion should be about the sources themselves. Is it appropriate to demonize an ethnic group and justify it through hateful reliable sources? Because that's what it does. If one hundred reliable sources suddenly in unison say the earth is flat, should the earth Wikipedia article suddenly go along with what they say? The reliable sources have an innate bias (racism against whites) and suddenly their opinion becomes crystallized and set in stone as fact on Wikipedia. RandomUser3510 (talk) 12:04, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Looking for help

Hi,

I was looking for some small help. I created a new article en:Kithaab-a play about women rights issues- which has been copy edited and is ready for translation in various languages. Looking for your possible help in translating the article en:Kithaab to your language. If you are unable to spare time yourself then may be you like to refer the same to some other translator.

Thanking you , with warm regards

Bookku (talk) 04:11, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

RfC

Talk:Antisemitism in the UK Labour Party/Archive 9#RfC: Stamford Hill may be of interest to this project.Icewhiz (talk) 13:31, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Discussion on Antony Lerman of openDemocracy at the reliable sources noticeboard

There is a discussion on the reliability of Antony Lerman of openDemocracy on the reliable sources noticeboard with respect to the Antisemitism in the UK Labour Party article. If you are interested, please participate at WP:RSN § Antony Lerman at openDemocracy. — Newslinger talk 03:40, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

RfC: And Then There Were None and racial language

A discussion is taking place that members of this project may be interested in:

Talk:And Then There Were None § RfC: And Then There Were None and racial language

Any input would be appreciated. WanderingWanda (they/them) (t/c) 18:35, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!

A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.

– Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

RfC: Rota

Talk:Anti-German sentiment/Archive 2#RfC: Rota may be of interest to this project.Icewhiz (talk) 09:10, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Portal:Discrimination

Portal:Discrimination, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Discrimination and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Discrimination during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Guilherme Burn (talk) 17:24, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

Suidlanders discussion could use more input

If anyone would like to weigh in on whether a group should be called racist, here is an ongoing discussion. -Furicorn (talk) 18:04, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

Bigoted comments in Talk sections

Sorry if I'm not asking this in the right place, but I'm not sure how this works. I just saw a minor but decidedly antisemitic remark at the bottom of the talk section of the Cliff Robertson article (someone wrote, "Typical Hollywood Jewish producers!") and I was wondering what the Wikipedia policy is about dealing with racist, antisemitic, and other hate speech-type comments in the Talk sections. Do you have a procedure for removing them, or do you allow them in the spirit of free speech? Embram (talk) 14:33, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

I went ahead and deleted it. WanderingWanda (talk) 16:36, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Okay, if that's the accepted procedure. I did not know deleting someone's comment in a "Talk" section was allowed. I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of Wikipedia rules and I didn't want to get on Wikipedia's Sheiße list. Embram (talk) 17:06, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Deleting talk page comments is usually best avoided but in this case the post was clearly harmful with no value to the encyclopedia. WP:TPO says that it is OK to cautiously remove harmful posts, including personal attacks, trolling, and vandalism. WanderingWanda (talk) 17:53, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Good to know. Thank you! Embram (talk) 23:13, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Harry Hay

Hi, I found some content that seemed wrong on Harry Hay and opened NAMBLA content on Harry Hay. Any interest is appreciated. Gleeanon409 (talk) 12:56, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

NPOV/n discussion on inclusion of Islamophobia/Antisemitism/religious hate in Racism in X articles

Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard#Islamophobia, Antisemitism, and other religious hate in "racism in X" articles may be of interest to talk page watchers here. The issue is whether to include Islamophobia, Antisemitism, and other religious hate in Racism in country X articles. Icewhiz (talk) 19:33, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Merge discussion for Expulsion of Jews from Spain

An article of interest to this project—Expulsion of Jews from Spain—has been proposed for merging from Alhambra decree. Your feedback would be welcome at the merge discussion. Thank you. Mathglot (talk) 00:56, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

"Great Replacement" move discussion

Interested users may wish to join a requested move discussion at Talk:The Great Replacement that concerns this project. Thank you. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 09:02, 9 October 2019 (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)

Ageism

Do folks on this project believe the article on the ageist dismissal, OK Boomer should be part of this project's purview? Toddst1 (talk) 03:13, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

Referring to ships as "she"

FYI

 – Pointer to relevant discussion elsewhere.

Please see Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#"She" vs. "it" for ships. This is a perennial discussion that never seems to reach consensus. Notice of this round of discussion was sort of spammed to various ship- and military-related projects and pages (i.e., places of strong concentration of fans of using "she" for ships, and of male editors in particular), so I'm notifying some other wikiprojects and such that are apt to have wider views and demographics, for balance.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  09:30, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

RfC on the talk page of the article Race and Intelligence

In the hope of getting more editors involved and getting a consensus on an NPOV-compliant lede, I started an RfC about the first paragraph of the lede at Talk:Race and intelligence#RfC about lede of Race and intelligence. More eyes welcome. NightHeron (talk) 15:12, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

AfD discussion of Race and intelligence

A discussion is taking place of whether to delete the article Race and intelligence, see [10]. NightHeron (talk) 12:19, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

RfC on Ronald Reagan referring to blacks as "monkeys"

There's a RfC on the Ronald Reagan page on whether the page can include recently uncovered content on racist remarks made by Reagan.[11] Snooganssnoogans (talk) 01:02, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

Insitutional Racism

There is a discussion ongoing on the talk page for Institutional racism about the length of the article and whether it would benefit from being split. Further opinions would be appreciated. Best, Darren-M talk 19:43, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Merging African Americans and the G.I. Bill with G.I. Bill

Feedback on a merger proposal would be great[12]. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 00:07, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

Feedback requested at Talk:Anti-LGBT rhetoric#Merger

Your feedback would be appreciated at this discussion, which proposes the merger of four articles into Anti-LGBT rhetoric. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 18:22, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

RfC at Cracker (term)

Hello, there is an RfC that y'all might be interested in here. It is in regards to the lead of Cracker (term).  Bait30  ^{Talk 2 me pls?} 23:38, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

Discussion of draft Wikimedia Universal Code of Conduct closing in nine days

A Wikimedia committee has posted a draft version of a Universal Code of Conduct at meta which, while it contains language about respecting the diversity of community members and condemning hate speech that appears in vandalism, does not appear to prohibit or otherwise mention racism, sexism, homophobia, or other forms of prejudice outside of vandalism and direct insults (in the English version, at least.) It does concern itself with, for example, defining repeated sarcasm as a form of harassment. In the page containing summaries of committee meetings the words "racism", "sexism", and "homophobia" also do not appear. (In the English version.)

Perhaps there is a good or practical reason for this; I'm not personally familiar with the high-level Wikimedia policy development process. But the discussion of the UCoC draft closes on October 7, after which the drafting committee will submit its recommendation to the Wikimedia Board of Trustees, so I am placing this message in this talk page in the hopes of ensuring that editors who can comment constructively on the absence of language providing guidance on non-insult, non-vandalism expressions of prejudice get a chance to comment. --▸₷truthious Ⓑandersnatch◂ 19:36, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Thinking of creating a list page for overweight/obese characters or a page about overweight/obese characters in media

Hello everyone! I'm new to this WikiProject, although I wish I had joined earlier. Looking through the Social stigma of obesity page, I was thinking about something. How about creating a page a bit like the List of fictional vegetarian characters but it would be the titled something like List of fictional overweight characters or List of fictional obese characters. The only fear I would have in doing that is that so, so many characters are negative. The only two positive depictions I can think of, off hand, are Steven Universe in Steven Universe and Valentino in Victor and Valentino, so perhaps a page a bit like the Asexual characters in fiction page would be better? It would be called something like Obese characters in fiction or Overweight characters in fiction. I'd like your thoughts on this, fellow members of this WikiProject, as I was also thinking of posting about this on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Health and fitness page too. Thanks.--Historyday01 (talk) 02:09, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Invitation to US Housing Edit-a-thon

Please join us on 13 December 2020, 12:00-14:00 EST, as we update and improve articles in Wikipedia related to housing in the United States of America. Sign up here. -- M2545 (talk) 11:22, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Confusing trio of WW II orgs with similar names

Your feedback would be appreciated at this discussion about three German propaganda organizations during World War II with very similar names, and what to do about it. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 01:30, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

BLM collaboration for Q1 2021

You are invited to join the ongoing Black Lives Matter collaboration for Q1 2021. Happy editing! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 17:53, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Discussion of interest

Members of this project may be interested in this discussion. Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:38, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Uyghur genocide has an RFC

Uyghur genocide 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 discussion page. Thank you. Mikehawk10 Mikehawk10 (talk) 23:50, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

RfC on including speciesism in the Discrimination article

Can we include speciesism in the main article on discrimination since it is a type of discrimination, too? Rasnaboy (talk) 03:51, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

• No. Per Chrisahn's comment here. As a side note, this really ought to have been posted at Talk:Discrimination. I would support it being moved. R2 (bleep) 07:10, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
• Procedural note: I have commented out the RfC tag in this thread, because the question as posed does not adhere to WP:RFCNEUTRAL. Please resolve that issue before restoring it. I would also suggest taking up R2's suggestion to move it to Talk:Discrimination. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 07:24, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

  @Sdkb: Commenting out is not enough, see WP:RFCEND and Template:Rfc#Usage. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 10:14, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

WP:RFCNEUTRAL isn't a basis for unilaterally cancelling an RfC. You need consensus for that-- as Redrose65 notes, see WP:RFCEND. We allow non-neutral RfCs to proceed all the time. Personally, I think the RfC is good enough. The requestor's clear preference doesn't taint the request. R2 (bleep) 17:06, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

*Yes. I do not support the RfC being removed, although it should be re-worded. Anyway, discrimination applies to speciesism too. No-brainer imo--SlatSkate (talk) 18:40, 27 January 2021 (UTC) Striking sockpuppet comment. Generalrelative (talk) 05:17, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

RfC on Los Angeles Police Department

A request for comment regarding whether the lead of Los Angeles Police Department should note the department's exceptional history of corruption, brutality, and discriminatory policing (including the 2000 federal Department of Justice investigation which found racism, brutality, and corruption within the department to be rampant and which led the department to be placed under federal oversight from 2001 to 2013) is ongoing. Those who wish to participate in the discussion are invited to offer their comments at Talk:Los Angeles Police Department § RfC: Should misconduct be mentioned in the lead?. 207.161.86.162 (talk) 04:29, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

FAR for Slavery in ancient Greece

I have nominated Slavery in ancient Greece for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. (t · c) buidhe 18:18, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

RfC on description of Southern strategy in lead of Republican Party

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Republican Party (United States) § RfC: Southern strategy description in the lead. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 05:12, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Racism in country topics navboxes

I noticed that there are "Racism in country X" articles in Category:Racism by country that are not in the corresponding "Country X topics" template. For example,

• Racism in Argentina is not in {{Argentina topics}}
• Racism in Brazil is not in {{Brazil topics}}
• Racism in Chile is not in {{Chile topics}}
• Racism in Cuba is not in {{Cuba topics}}
• Racism in Mexico is not in {{Mexico topics}}

It seems to me that adding "Racism in country X" to the corresponding "Country X topics" template would be a good project for anyone who is interested in doing it! Biogeographist (talk) 19:29, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Anti-French sentiment in the United States

There's a proposal to blow up the article Anti-French sentiment in the United States, and start over. Your feedback would be welcome at this discussion. Thank you. Mathglot (talk) 01:01, 21 March 2021 (UTC)