Talk:AmINext

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Jordyn.seidman. Peer reviewers: Siboyle, Amyer23.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 17:10, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

NPOV

This entire page, especially the section "Political Discourse", reads to me like a blog post trying to convince people that the government of Canada is perpetuating a great injustice by "ignoring the problem". There is a strong undercurrent of dismissal about said government's claims that said problem doesn't exist. Hyperbole. Rhetoric (For example, the sentence decrying the PM of Canada for not wanting to act on "ithe more than 1,100 cases of missing or murdered Aboriginal women in Canada". Does this seem encyclopedic? Doesn't to me. Seems like it was written by proponents of #AmINext for the purpose of advancing #AmINext. I recognise it's unpopular nowadays to challenge the feminists on Wikipedia but that doesn't mean they should run rampant over this project. 151.225.115.152 (talk) 19:22, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Yes, this article is poorly written, however, don't blame the feminists. I am a feminist and I don't think this article is well written or well sourced. There are many problems with this article, that goes far beyond the lack of neutral point of view. This is a new article written by a new editor. It isn't unusual to review and edit articles written by new editors. So the next time that anyone comes across a poorly written article, put in a Cleanup tag, or some other tag so that an editor would take a look at it.

I think the biggest problem with this article is that the original writer didn't understand what the scope of the article was. The scope of the article is only the social media campaign. So, some of the things to include in the article was the creation of the social media campaign, the impact of the campaign, or whether there was any awards associated with the campaign. The issue of whether Canada should have an inquiry on missing and murdered indigenous women is not the scope of this article. This article will be edited accordingly.DivaNtrainin (talk) 04:08, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Suggestions

This article contains a few sentences that are clearly biased and without necessary citations. For example, “Aboriginal women in Canada are more likely to be subject to violence than non-aboriginal women,” should include a citation of a reputable source that states this information or it should be removed because it is an opinion statement. Additionally, local news websites such as CTV News, CBC Novia Scotia, and Rabble, as well as blog posts and twitter posts should not be used as sources in Wikipedia articles because they reflect the personal opinions of individuals or of partial groups. If no information can be found from peer-reviewed sources or international news sites then the article should not exist as part of Wikipedia’s collection because it lacks the appropriate coverage. I hope this helps. Good luck! jrseidm (talk) 02:11, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

National (CTV) and regional (CBC Nova Scotia) news stories are considered reliable sources. —C.Fred (talk) 02:14, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Intention to Edit

I would like to contribute to this article by rewording a few sentences for neutrality purposes. I also intend to corroborate the information that is already cited using reputable sources. I think there is much more that can be said about the development of this social media campaign and I want to dig deeper into the issue itself to discover if a social media presence regarding the disappearances existed before the hashtag, if possible. I also think adding a section about the disappearances of the aboriginal women will give readers a better idea of what the hashtag represents and provide a basis for the claims of this social movement. This issue has persisted within Canadian society for at least ten years, according to news reports and I think that fact should also be made clear in the article.

In the above column in which I critiqued this article, I initially stated that there was not enough information on the topic to warrant a Wikipedia article. However, after looking closer at the academic literature that exists on the topic, as well as several news sources that operate primarily in print, I am confident that this article is notable enough to deserve a Wikipedia article and I hope to improve it by modifying the tone, and adding relevant background information.

I will post a bibliography of some sources I intend to use shortly.

If you have any suggestions for me, please reach out. I would like to work collaboratively to make this article the best it can be.

Thanks!

jrseidm (talk) 03:49, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

There is already an article on Missing and murdered Indigenous women, with many sources in there, as well as information on awareness campaigns by a variety of organized indigenous groups and other organizations, as well as other public art campaigns. Please do not use this article to write at length about the MMIW issue. While this hashtag campaign may have gotten international coverage, it appears to be of limited duration. I am not sure that it deserves a separate article, as it may soon be orphaned as other related events continue; perhaps it should instead be merged into the MMIW article as one of the "Creative Responses". Parkwells (talk) 17:59, 18 January 2018 (UTC)