Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sociology/Archive 9
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 5 | ← | Archive 7 | Archive 8 | Archive 9 | Archive 10 |
RfC on Scientific opinion on climate change
Please comment on Talk:Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change#RFC_Controversy_about_the_policy_section where the topic is in dispute but there are few contributors currently. The RfC was raised by Serten who put in the previous request here. He marked the RfC as of interest to the Politics, government, and law RfC list but not the Maths, science, and technology RfC list, and refers as you see in the comment above to those interested in science as tekkis which perhaps gives an idea of the lack of meeting of minds there. Dmcq (talk) 16:25, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
Notification of a TFA nomination
In the past, there have been requests that discussions about potentially controversial TFAs are brought to the attention of more than just those who have WP:TFAR on their watchlist. With that in mind: Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties has been nominated for an appearance as Today's Featured Article. If you have any views, please comment at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests. Thank you. — Cirt (talk) 22:16, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
New article on viral video - From The Doctor to my son Thomas
I've created a new article on viral video From The Doctor to my son Thomas.
Help or suggestions with additional secondary sources would be appreciated on the article's talk page, at Talk:From The Doctor to my son Thomas.
Thank you, — Cirt (talk) 23:18, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
Please review Hitachi Magic Wand
As part of a Quality improvement project, I've recently put the article Hitachi Magic Wand up for Peer Review.
Participation would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Peer review/Hitachi Magic Wand/archive1. — Cirt (talk) 06:20, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel
I've started a new article on the book by Janice Dickinson — No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel.
Feel free to help out with additional secondary sources, and/or chip in with collaborative discussion at Talk:No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel.
Thank you, — Cirt (talk) 06:39, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
One of your project's articles has been featured
Hello, |
Opinions are needed on whether or not the Agender article should exist. Flyer22 (talk) 16:30, 20 November 2014 (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) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Sociology: student data highlights
Piotr reminded me I hadn't shared this here; here's a link to the article we wrote for the ASA's Footnotes publication about the great impact their Wikipedia Initiative has had so far to sociology content on WP.
Highlights:
- We’ve had 34 sociology classes participate in our program, and students in those classes edited 967 unique articles. Sociology students all told have contributed 8.76 million bytes of content to Wikipedia.
- We did an article quality study in spring 2012, which found that students improved Wikipedia an average of 88 percent.
You can see more at: http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/septoct14/wikipedia_0914.html#sthash.Jt81C5ie.dpuf
We have two more articles coming out in forthcoming Footnotes, one from professors talking about their experiences and one about how to join the initiative.
Eryk (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:39, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
- @Eryk (Wiki Ed):: Wonderful, again. Would it be possible to see the (meta?) pages where data for this quality study, as well as the list of courses and articles, is presented? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:32, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
One of your project's articles has been featured
Hello, |
Editing Sociology Articles: A guide for students and instructors
Hello! I'm the new Communications Associate for the Wiki Education Foundation. We're in the process of compiling a preliminary draft of an advisory brochure for instructors and students regarding Sociology articles on Wikipedia, and how to most effectively contribute and improve them. We've done this previously for psychology -- you can view the results of that endeavor here.
I'm hoping to hear from regular contributors to sociology-related articles. What would you tell a student, or new Wikipedian, to help them start editing sociology topics? Any advice on editing in this field is welcome, particularly related to sociology-specific issues, such as finding good candidate articles for improvements, what constitutes a good (and bad) source, and what kind of topic posts should be avoided. Any other topics or ideas are welcome.
I'll be posting a draft for review once we have an idea of the shape it will take -- for now, I'm collecting feedback and ideas from the community to guide it. Feel free to contact me here or on my talk page!
Eryk (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:47, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
- @Eryk (Wiki Ed):: It's a wonderful initiative. You may want to see what you could take from my long (too long...) intro pages such as Wikipedia:School and university projects/User:Piotrus/Fall 2011, which are tailored for sociology students. The Introduction, Assignment and Important tips may be of particular interest to you. And inviting them to check out this WikiProject is a good idea, too. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:31, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
I've had a look at the suggestions offered by Piotrus and have worked some aspects into the current draft. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to read that draft here. We're looking forward to hearing feedback from the community. Ideally, we'll collect suggestions and make revisions by Dec. 1. Thanks everyone! Eryk (Wiki Ed) (talk) 00:23, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
WikiProject Academia?
Please see here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Academia. Thanks. Fgnievinski (talk) 18:40, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
Open Access Reader, tool to find missing academic citations
Hi, I'm working on a project to find important academic citations missing from Wikipedia, which I think might be useful for this Wikiproject. It's just a proof of concept right now, but if you have any ideas or feedback, that'd be really helpful at this early stage. Check it out: Open Access Reader.
Help with two articles?
I'm going to post this on multiple applicable WikiProjects, so my apologies for the cut and paste. I don't really see the purpose in writing a new one for each WP. In any case, I need some help fleshing out the article for Gender Advertisements, the book by Goffman. Long story short, the article was created by a group of students who were sent here with apparently little to no instruction or education about Wikipedia and writing encyclopedia articles, so the page had the standard issues: original research, bad sourcing, tone- the works. I've done enough to show where the book would be notable, but the page does need to be fleshed out to focus on the book's influence on others and a basic outline. I'm not overly familiar with the work, so it'd be better for someone familiar with the work to edit the page. I think that the students probably saw the basic article for gender advertisement, which has similar issues (but better sourcing), and modeled their page after that and after the basic student paper type outline. Both articles could use some work from a savvy editor, if anyone's up for the challenge. I've cleaned out the worst in the book article and threw some sources in, so it has that going for it. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 01:00, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
Request for review
Draft:IPCC consensus is about the social science say on the topic, so I invite reviewers from WikiProject Sociology to have look on it. Regards Serten II (talk) 18:39, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
White savior narrative in film
The sociological article white savior narrative in film has been put up for deletion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/White savior narrative in film. Thanks, Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 02:57, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
Request for comments at Talk:White supremacy
There is a request for comments at Talk:White supremacy. It concerns the wording of the opening sentence of the lead. 86.170.130.156 (talk) 02:11, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello, sociology experts. This old AfC submission will soon be deleted as a stale draft. Is this a notable topic that should be kept and improved instead? —Anne Delong (talk) 03:28, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
- Seems notable, and a major improvement of our existing Conversion theory of minority influence where it should be merged to (and moved to just Conversion theory). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 12:41, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
- Agree it is notable. If no one else takes it on first, I can probably do a merge & move sometime in Feb. Meclee (talk) 22:08, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks. I have postponed its deletion for six months, so you can take your time... —Anne Delong (talk) 00:02, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Streisand effect category deletion discussion
- Category:Streisand effect
- Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_March_12#Category:Streisand_effect
Category:Streisand effect has been nominated for deletion, the discussion is at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_March_12#Category:Streisand_effect.
Feel free to participate there.
Thank you for your time,
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.
Merger proposal of Trustworthiness to Trust (social sciences)
Some time ago I proposed merging Trustworthiness to Trust (social sciences). There was some discussion of it, but not a large response. It's probably safe to merge them, and I will if no one else responds soon, but I figured I would bring it to the attention of anyone who is interested, so I am posting notices on the related WikiProject talk pages. Cheers, DiscantX 21:12, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
- Considering the pitiful state of trustworthiness, I don't see a reason to object. If/when the subject is expanded, it can be separated again. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 14:22, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
I wrote an article on Superdiversity. Please help me make it better if you can. BrumEduResearch (talk) 11:40, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
Sociology Userbox updated
Just FYI, I updated the {{User Sociology expert}} to include up to 3 specializations. See template page for usage and examples. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 19:56, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Wiki Ed "Editing Women's Studies" brochure: feedback requested
Hello all, Wiki Ed will be distributing a brochure to Women's Studies courses in the USA and Canada that edit Wikipedia as part of their classroom assignments. It will also be available on-wiki and as a pdf for anyone to read or use. I'm hoping to get some feedback on the brochure's contents -- if anyone has some time to review it, I've uploaded a Wiki draft here. We're looking to have it ready to print by March 3, so feedback would be most useful before then. Thanks everyone! Eryk (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:21, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Writing new article on undocumented immigrants: feedback welcome
My name is Katherine and I am currently a senior attending Rice University. I intend on writing a new Wikipedia page titled “Healthcare availability for undocumented immigrants,” for which I thought this page would serve as a great parent article for. In this new article I intend on including four main sections on the following: introduction/background, usage of healthcare services, barriers to accessing the health care system, and relevant federal and state-level policies. Under each of these main sections, except the introduction, there will also be at least one subsection related to particular populations, such as women or specific data found on the topic. This proposed contribution is also part of a course I am taking for my minor on poverty, justice, and human capabilities. Please feel free to offer thoughts, advice, and suggestions! Katcai02 (talk) 19:40, 25 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 Sexism — Domestic violence — Gender stereotypes , 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) 17:33, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
Notice of split discussion for Counterculture of the 1960s
There is a proposal to split the lengthy timeline into its own article, thus alleviating some of the immense size of this article. Please feel free to join the discussion here. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 21:15, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
I plan on moving the Workplace harassment page to “Workplace Harassment in the United States” page, because the current page only focuses on the United States and I also plan to contribute the content that is specific to the US. If you have any other suggestions as to how I can better move the article, please let me know.
In addition to moving the article, I plan to delete some of the sections, such as “Responsibilities” and “Productivity”, and add new sections, such as “Definition”, “Victims”, “Impacts” and “Preventions”. I believe such change in the page will make the navigation of the page much easier and allow the content to be more specific. Also, I plan to significantly expand the reference section with more scholarly sources.
I would appreciate any kind of help with the article. I am also open to suggestions, so please let me know if there is anything I can do better. Thanks!
Lindaticket (talk) 14:52, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
- @Lindaticket: Looking at this article, I don't think you need to move it, it's pretty generic. You should probably write Workplace harassment in the United States from scratch. See also Harassment in the United Kingdom for a so-so layout on a related topic. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:56, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
- @Piotrus:: Hi, Piotrus. Lindaticket also left a note on Talk:Workplace harassment and the response there was that it would be better to leave the material in that article than starting a subarticle. I think so long as the material in the current article is left in place (it's fairly generic, as you say), it's up to Lindaticket which she would prefer to do -- start a new article or expand the old one. FYI, I'm supporting the course Lindaticket is enrolled in. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 15:48, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
One of your project's articles has been featured
Hello, |
Large scale changes to multiple articles
There have been recent massive refactorings of articles egocentrism, obedience (human behavior) and minority influence, at least some of which are in this project's scope. Similar changes to another article, egocentric bias, were reverted by JorisvS with an edit summary of "rv: too many poor-quality edits". I'm therefore drawing attention to these other edits as well, so that you can ensure quality of these articles is not compromised. Regards, Samsara 02:19, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Superdiversity and WP:NEO
Expert input is requested into this discussion about whether the superdiversity article breaches WP:NEO. Cordless Larry (talk) 19:51, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Could some folks check out this new article? This area of study/research is unknown to me. Liz Read! Talk! 11:54, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
- Hi, Yes, this is legit. Article is a decent start, though further development & referencing needed. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 13:18, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
Restavec listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Restavec to be moved to Restavek. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 22:48, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
List of people with the most children listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for List of people with the most children to be moved to Lists of people by number of children. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 23:16, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!
- What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
- When? June 2015
- How can you help?
- 1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here
- 2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)
- 3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)
Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!
If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.
Thanks, and happy editing!
Let's merge slum and shantytown
See my rationale at Talk:Slum#Merge_with_shanty_town. As nearly two weeks have gone without anyone comment, I'd appreciate if members of this project (for which those articles are in scope) would take a look at this. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 01:24, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
One of your project's articles has been featured
Hello, |
Two of your project's articles have been selected for improvement!
Hello, |
Hello, |
need help with a section
In Institutional racism, had to redo the section on Canada due to an edit war with another editor over sources. Looking for an editor to collaborate on the canada section with... Robco311 (talk) 18:47, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
I have started to revise this article to try to meet the outstanding criticisms. I am currently responsible for latest version the first two paragraphs, but will be working through the rest. If anyone wants to help out (at least to read through and check it makes sense) you're most welcome. Jalfro 11:28, 16 August 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jalfro (talk • contribs)
Income packaging / survival strategies
Hi, I'm interested in seeing Wikipedia coverage of the concept of "income packaging," defined by Hetling, Kwon, and Mahn (2014) as "piecing together cash and non-cash resources from a variety of sources... a common financial survival strategy among low-income [people]" (from abstract).(1) Looking for feedback if this should be a subheading within an existing article (e.g., poverty) or a new article? You can reply to me here or post on my talk page if you have thoughts! Much appreciated. Melody.waring (talk) 16:29, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
(1) HETLING, A., JINWOO, K., & MAHN, E. (2014). Income Packaging Strategies of Economically Disconnected Women and the Implications for Social Policy and Practice. Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare, 41(3), 85-113.
- Hi, Melody. You might review WP:NOTABILITY, including WP:PAGEDECIDE, to help answer your question. WP:NOTDIC also may be relevant. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 20:22, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
Proposed change to sociology navbox
See Template talk:Sociology#Change to footer? RockMagnetist(talk) 19:41, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
Help with an article?
I was wondering if anyone could help with the article Paddywhackery. I think that this might fall under sociology guidelines since it's part of a culture, but I'll ask around in other WPs as well. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 04:28, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Edited by: George Ritzer, eISBN: 9781405124331, Print publication date: 2007, DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405124331.2007.x http://www.sociologyencyclopedia.com
If anyone knows how I could access this, let me know. It would be quite useful for my planned articles on sociology, and presumably, a useful tool for the entire project here. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:05, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Piotrus, You can try searching via WorldCat. Here's the URL: Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online. Good luck! DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 09:36, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
going to edit Leader-member Exchange Theory
I plan to edit the Leader-member exchange theory page. Here is the sandbox I'll be working in, if anyone has suggestions: https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/User:Alinenaroditsky/sandbox/leadermemberexchangetheory Alinenaroditsky (talk) 00:58, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
AfC submission
See Draft:Retroduction. Thank you, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 11:53, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
Cleared the entire GA Review backlog for Sociology
- Thank you all to all our editors who help to contribute to Quality improvement efforts on Wikipedia related to WP:SOCIOLOGY.
- I've helped to clear the entire GA Review backlog for Sociology, which can be seen at Wikipedia:Good article nominations/Topic lists/Social sciences and society.
- I'd like to make a suggestion, here, which is optional, for you to please consider:
- Suggestion: This suggestion is optional only, but I ask you to please at least read over the Good Article review instructions, and consider reviewing two to three (2-3) GA candidates from good articles nominations, for each one (1) that you nominate. Again, this is optional and a suggestion only, but please do familiarize yourself at least with how to review, and then think about it.
Thank you,
Not in Front of the Children - at Peer Review
I've requested Peer Review for Not in Front of the Children.
Feedback would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Peer review/Not in Front of the Children/archive1.
Thank you,
From The Doctor to my son Thomas - featured article candidate
I've nominated the article about the video From The Doctor to my son Thomas for Featured Article consideration.
The article is about a message sent from actor Peter Capaldi in-character in his role as the Doctor on Doctor Who, to console an autistic young boy over grief from the death of his grandmother.
Comments would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/From The Doctor to my son Thomas/archive1.
Thank you for your time,
Scientific American source/prevalence of domestic violence data at the Domestic violence article
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Domestic violence#Should the Scientific American "rates of domestic violence are roughly equal between men and women" material be included? A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 (talk) 06:00, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
Gender gap on Jimbo Wales talk page & on the Signpost
FYI:
- Jimbo Wales talk page
- Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching
- "Wikipedia's hostility to women"
- One year of GamerGate, or how I learned to stop worrying and love bare rule-level consensus Ottawahitech (talk) 12:40, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
- @Ottawahitech: Not news to me, but thanks for the ping. Check out this and [1] (reviewers are ultra slow...). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:29, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for responding,Piotrus. I am glad that my posting is not considered "spam" as it apparently was at Wikiproject Women, where it was not even collapsed, but simply removed. Ottawahitech (talk) 12:04, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
- @Ottawahitech: Not news to me, but thanks for the ping. Check out this and [1] (reviewers are ultra slow...). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:29, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
Nomination of List of films featuring whitewashed roles for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of films featuring whitewashed roles is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of films featuring whitewashed roles until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 14:25, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
"Burial Ground"
The usage and primary topic of Burial Ground is under discussion, see talk:Burial Ground (Grave album) -- 70.51.44.60 (talk) 05:50, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
"Slow Science"
The naming of Slow Science is under discussion, see Talk:Slow Science -- 70.51.200.135 (talk) 07:16, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
"Fan"
The usage and primary topic of fan is under discussion, see talk:mechanical fan -- 70.51.200.135 (talk) 06:22, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
Please visit and help
Hello friends. The following articles could really use some neutral input:
Many, many, many, and I mean many thanks. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 03:46, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
relevant Wikipedia Visiting Scholars opportunities
Of potential interest to members of this WikiProject, Rollins College is looking to sponsor a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar to improve Wikipedia articles on development, urbanization, and tourism in the Southern United States; connections between American literature and feminist thought, desegregation, the civil rights movement, environmentalism, or political activism; or the relationship between the South and Cuba, especially in higher education.
The University of San Francisco's Gleeson Library is looking to sponsor a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar to improve articles about social justice reformers and reform movements.
This is a great way to get access to university library databases and other resources while making an impact in areas you may already contribute to. For more information, including an overview of library resources, see the Rollins College Visiting Scholars page or USF's Visiting Scholars page. Thanks. --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:15, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
Social justice warrior - move discussion
- Notifying this WikiProject talk page as article is relevant to the topic
There is a move discussion ongoing related to this WikiProject.
- Article = Social justice warrior
- Move discussion at Talk:Social_justice_warrior#Requested_move_6_April_2016.
Feel free to comment however you wish.
Thank you,
Women's History Month worldwide online edit-a-thon
| |
---|---|
Women's History Month worldwide online edit-a-thon
|
(To subscribe, Women in Red/Invite list. Unsubscribe, Women in Red/Opt-out list)
--Ipigott (talk) 08:13, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
Query re: Pandering
In the article for Pandering, this sentence, "An example of pandering would be Hillary Clinton's statement that marriage is a bond between a man and a women in 2004. While in 2015, Hillary Clinton adopted a supportive position of gay marriage to gain support in the political landscape. [2]", I believe is a reflection of the writer's perception of Clinton's actions. The writer assumes Clinton's actions to be Pandering as fact, but in this context I don't accept the writer's example for Pandering as valid. That this is also part of Sociology, humans do sincerely educate themselves, gain enlightenment, and have a change of heart throughout their lives on a variety of social or political issues (I personally am an example). Therefore, I believe the writer's example of Pandering should be deleted or changed as it is more an example of political bias than a fact of Pandering. Perhaps using a hypothetical candidate would be best. Full disclosure... I am not a supporter of Hillary Clinton.Wallee27 (talk) 16:16, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
I was clicking around and found myself on the Anti-psychiatry page and... it's a mess. I didn't know much of anything about antipsychiatry, but the blatant character attacks and POV pushing were red huge flags, so I started checking sources and none that I've checked so far have anything to do with antipsychiatry. I got the sense from the talkpage that there's a lot of poorly sourced information backing up ideas about psychiatry that stem from Scientology. Their beliefs do have a place in the article... but with proper sourcing and NPOV. There are other POVs being pushed as well. Apparently it's a very contentious topic. Now that I've read up a bit about it, it's actually quite interesting. But cleaning up the article will be a lot to tackle... so I'm posting this on the relevant wikiprojects in the hopes that others might find it interesting too and want to help. :) I've started a discussion about it at Talk:Anti-psychiatry/Archive 8#Sources. Thanks! Permstrump (talk) 19:23, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
- I believe it's tagged for WP:SOCIOLOGY because "antipsychiatry" refers to a movement, more or less. Permstrump (talk) 19:23, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
Duplication in articles on consanguinity, incest, etc.
Participants in this project may be interested in a discussion I have (hopefully) started on the WikiProject Law's talk page. J. D. Crutchfield | Talk 17:56, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
Trouble finding references? The Wikipedia Library is proud to announce ...
Alexander Street Press (ASP) is an electronic academic database publisher. Its "Academic Video Online" collection includes videos in a range of subject areas, including news programs (notably shows like 60 minutes), music and theatre, lectures and demonstrations, and documentaries. The Academic Video Online: Premium collection would be useful for researching topics related to science, history, music and dance, anthropology, business, counseling and therapy, news, nursing, drama, and more. For more details see their website.
There are up to 30 one-year ASP accounts available to Wikipedians through this partnership. To apply for free access, please go to WP:ASP. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk}
06:57, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
Talk Page for Theory of Change?
Firstly my apologies if this is not the correct place to have this discussion (I am not a frequent editor on Wikipedia).
I came come across the Theory of Change page, which is part of Project Sociology, and it needs some attention. While this topic is an area of my academic studies, I do not want to make changes without a talk page first. However, there doesn't seem to one set up - and I am not sure to do that. Can someone assist?
There are three concerns I have the page: (1) it is reads like a pseudo-advertorial given it basically references one main source. (2) it is not written from a neutral point-of-view as it is highly positive of the method, and does not present alternatives ideas (and the Theory of Change is not perfect) and (3) at least one reference [#14] does not even relate to content as indicated. It just seems a very random inclusion for whatever reason.
If someone can help with setting up the talk page, I am happy to help improve the page. Mari370 (talk) 17:11, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
- I added a talk page tag that gives a link to start a new topic on the Theory of change talk page. I would also suggest proposing a page move to change the title of the article to something more descriptive like "Theories of social change" or "Theory of change (sociology)." Best wishes, Meclee (talk) 17:51, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
Difference between civic, community and social movement organizations
If we have any experts in social movements and related topics, input would be very welcome at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2016_April_4#Category:Civic_and_political_organizations and Talk:Community_organization#Requested_move_6_April_2016. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:44, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
Globalization categories
Due to the inherent inter- and multi-disciplinary nature of the Globalization topic, there is a lot of intersection with categories of related WikiProjects. Currently, comments would be welcome on a proposed re-name of Category:Sociocultural globalization (a major aspect of and 2nd tier level of the Globalization category) at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2016_May_28#Category:Sociocultural_globalization. Thank you in advance. Regards, Meclee (talk) 14:58, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
RfC notice: image montages of individual faces on ethnicity and other demonym articles
Please participate in the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Images#Proposed repeal of WP:NOETHNICGALLERIES. It is a proposal to vacate the previous consensus reached in the February 2016 RfC that resulted in the creation of the MOS:NOETHNICGALLERIES provision at MOS:IMAGES, and also relates thematically to Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 127#RfC: Ethnicity in infoboxes (all of these discussions are ultimately about using infoboxes to identify individuals as members of particular ethnicities, and this relates also to MOS:IDENTITY). — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 17:24, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
A discussion of interest to this project...
...can be found at Talk:Prostitution#Sin. BMK (talk) 18:26, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
Moving the Genderqueer article to Non-binary gender
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Genderqueer#Requested move 4 June 2016. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 18:53, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
Help with an article?
I'm going to be posting this in several different areas, but I was wondering if anyone could help out with the draft Draft:Rape joke. I think that this could be independently notable outside of rape culture, but the draft needs a lot of work and it'd stand a better chance of holding up to scrutiny (since let's face it, this would get a ton of scrutiny once it was accepted) if we had multiple editors working on it. Anyone interested? Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 05:45, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
WikiProject: Bullying
Hello!
I would just like to inform you about Proposal for WikiProject Bullying. If you have any comments on this matter, either use my talk page or use the proposal page. Thanks,
Looking for feedback on a tool on Visual Editor to add open license text from other sources
Hi all
I'm designing a tool for Visual Editor to make it easy for people to add open license text from other sources, there are a huge number of open license sources compatible with Wikipedia including around 9000 journals. I can see a very large opportunity to easily create a high volume of good quality articles quickly. I have done a small project with open license text from UNESCO as a proof of concept, any thoughts, feedback or endorsements (on the Meta page) would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
White savior narrative in film and The Matrix
There is a request for comment underway regarding whether or not to include The Matrix in the list of films at white savior narrative in film. The RfC can be seen here: Talk:White savior narrative in film#Inclusion of The Matrix. Editors are invited to comment. Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 18:09, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
Hello, I hope I can reach out to somebody here to have a further look on the article Racism in South Korea.
There is a dispute about the use of webblogs and the notability of an event. More is stated on the Talk:Racism in South Korea#Reliability of Weblogs and you can see also some minor notes in the "history". It would be nice to get some more opinions since the article is mainly protected by one user. The issue is that there was a bar owner in Seoul who set up a note at his bar that due to Ebola, he would not let in black people. He apologized four days later, said, it was due to his bad English skills and gave out some beer. I find this event highly insignificant for an article like this. It is as notable as a local murder. Maybe a bad comparison, but still, it should not be in this article. And maybe you can also give your opinion on the use of webblogs. Thanks. --Christian140 (talk) 08:11, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
PS: Actually, I have more issues with the article which completely lacks any scientific approach. The article is basically build up on news reports. However, I think news reports are only legitimate for articles on current events, video games, films and persons. However, articles on racism and discrimination should follow sociological research. Moreover, in contrast to the United States, which has been a melting pot from the beginning, South Korea is a homogene state. So, research is apparently also just at a beginning stage, making knowledge based on news papers even more invalid, I think. Furthermore, I think when the article is named "racism in South Korea" it should follow the definition of Racism. Even, if an wikipedia author does evaluate events by herself/himself, it is original research. Nonetheless, the article also has a section Discrimination against North Korean defectors. In my opinion, racism and discrimination are not the same. Therefore, some could argue that this section does not belong in the article.
Conducting an article like "racism in South Korea" is much effort. Basically because it is not a textbook topic like let's say Product Innovation Charter, where you can find a basic theoretical introduction in books and get very specific literature from databases. So, my approach to start an article like this would be to search for international ranking/indexes that follow a scientific approach to get a country comparison. Than someone could look for literature reviews to get a hold of the state of art of and find some more articles on databases like Google Scholar or ScienceDirect. I cannot see how source articles can give any information on such a new, in regards of South Korea, and specific research field. --Christian140 (talk) 08:11, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
- @Christian140: You are mostly right. The article is in a bad shape, full of anecdotal examples based on low quality sources (blogs). Now, news can occasionally be use to fill in such an article, so I wouldn't say all the news sources should be removed, but such an article should be based on academic sources first (and those do exist). Frankly, this article - given its sensitive topic - is not far from being a candidate for WP:TNT, because it seems to be written almost like a rant, in a style that resembles journalistic one much more the encyclopedic. The story about the bar ([2]) could be kept, but not as a weirdly placed image / caption. I think the quote from the ambassador is relevant, and could be reported in the article, but the trivial case of the bar itself is not really worth mentioning, except in the context of citing an ambassador who commented on the racism in Korea. PS. Regarding looking for sources, I'd also suggest the use of Google Books. PPS. I see you nominated it for AfD at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Racism in South Korea and I voted keep. Well, having looked into it again I do think that the article is salvagable, but half if not more of the content should probably go. Sadly, I don't have time to dissect it right now. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:53, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
- @Piotrus: Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately I also don't have the time to imporve the article. But at least the most "ridiculous" information should go and it is also a problem that Spacecowboy is "protecting" the article, making constructive improvements nearly impossible. The user also has a history of highly questionable edits. Unfortunately, the article is apparently not on the watchlist of many other users. The ambassador opinion could be relevant, but I would not mentioning the bar more than maybe like: "The Kenyan ambassador took up position in the course of a incident in a bar in Itaewon to the topic of racism in Korea. He stated that ′the issue of racism is very deep.′" That is not well worded. I just mean, the focus should clearly lie on the ambassador while the bar event is not notable but just "triggered" a statement. Considering there are ten-thousands of bars in Seoul and the owner made a sign to not let in black people due to Ebola and removed it one hour later, apologized and said it was due to bad English. The owner is not even a public figure. --Christian140 (talk) 09:17, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
Literature
The discussion is ongoing with Prokonsul Piotrus' lengthy analysis here: Talk:Racism_in_South_Korea#Problems_with_citations. Further, I propose to place {{TNT}}
at the head of the article. I have no time and will not edit the English wikipedia any further. Spacecowboy420 continously bullying and alleging me of being offended by a disagreeing opinion. Although, every edit and change I made at the article, I justified lengthy on the summary and on the talk page, but it was promptly reverted by the user. If another user made the same change, he did not revert it. Although my proposals were backed by other users, he did not accept it. He seems to have a personal problem with me since I have less edits than him on enWP. Well, the English wikipedia is not my home wiki and I just wanted to raise attention for a biased, not well-sourced article. Unfortunately, unsuccessful. I will leave the literature that Piotrus collected and that I expanded, here.
- Futher citation issues, just for reference
Also, there are of course more citation issues with the article. In the section "employment discrimination", it states "with even Irish expatriates suffering some discrimination, with South Koreans viewing them stereotypically as drunkards." This is not in the content of the citation [3], also not on the second page. However, by googling you can at east find something [4]. However, it is a single incidents, so you can not conclude that "South Koreans viewing them stereotypically".
Moreover, it states "Many employers in South Korea often ask for a photograph as part of a job application, to ease the process of employers engaging in racist discrimination." This sounds like the reason for application photos is to discriminate other races. However, the reason of them stem from history of course. Application procedures differ from country to country, and in some countres, photos are usual and in other countries are not. Nevertheless, there is a risk that a photo makes application discrimation easier. The statement is biased.
In the section "Marriages and relationships". "International couples have often been forced to leave South Korea due to most South Koreans harshly disapproving of relationships between South Koreans and foreigners." The source only can be found after the following sentence. It is about a football player, who left Korea with his wife. [5] There is no general statement, still, here on wikipedia it is depicted as if this was often the case.
One might should also note the conditions under which the article was created, with the main author stating: "It's pretty disappointing that the article is very small, considering the extremely widespread nature of racism in South Korea. I'll try to expand the article a bit." It is also quite dangerous for the neutrality of an article, writing with such a biased opinion.
Starting from scratch seems reasonable. --Christian140 (talk)
- Ryuko Kubota; Angel M.Y. Lin (2 June 2009). Race, Culture, and Identities in Second Language Education: Exploring Critically Engaged Practice. Routledge. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-135-84569-8.
- Shin Gi Wook (1 November 2012). "Racist South Korea? Diverse but not tolerant of diversity". In Rotem Kowner; Walter Demel (eds.). Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Western and Eastern Constructions. BRILL. p. 369. ISBN 90-04-23729-1.
- Rotem Kowner; Walter Demel (23 April 2015). Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Interactions, Nationalism, Gender and Lineage. BRILL. pp. 242–. ISBN 978-90-04-29293-2.
- Uk Heo; Terence Roehrig (28 June 2010). South Korea Since 1980. Cambridge University Press. pp. 76–. ISBN 978-0-521-76116-1.
- Watson, I. (2012), Paradoxical Multiculturalism in South Korea. Asian Politics & Policy, 4: 233–258. doi:10.1111/j.1943-0787.2012.01338.x
- Campbell, E. (2015), The end of ethnic nationalism? Changing conceptions of national identity and belonging among young South Koreans. Nations Natl, 21: 483–502. doi:10.1111/nana.12120
- Kim, Sookyung (2012), Racism in the global era: Analysis of Korean media discourse around migrants, 1990–2009. Discourse Society November 2012 vol. 23 no. 6, 657-678.
- Durham & Carpenter (2014), The face of multiculturalism in Korea: Media ritual as framing in news coverage of Jasmine Lee. Journalism November 2015 vol. 16 no. 8, P. 975-992.
- Watson, I. (2010), Multiculturalism in South Korea: A Critical Assessment. Journal of Contemporary Asia, Page 337-346.
- Lee, Incho (2009), Situated Globalization and Racism: An Analysis of Korean High School EFL Textbooks, Language and Literacy.
Time-off (annual vacation)
I know in Europe employees get much more generous paid time-off than in North America, but do we have an article about this other than Paid time off? USA Today has some information on the topic at: Some companies force workers to stop working, use time off. Ottawahitech (talk) 01:21, 21 August 2016 (UTC)please ping me
- Hi Ottawahitech, "Vacation"? And others listed under "See also" in that article. Kind regards, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 12:40, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
Problematic article
List of countries and dependencies by population is an article that is relevant to this project. After having it drop off my watchlist some time ago I returned on 9 August 2016 to find that the population table is constantly being edited without any indication of sourcing, or edit summaries, usually by IPs or newly registered editors. The complete lack of sourcing for new edits means that the data in this article is dubious at best. One particular problem that I found is that data templates, which are used to automatically calculate today's population based on official sources, have been removed and replaced with unsourced manual calculations. Several times now I have had to restore these templates after yet another unsourced, unexplained change.[6][7][8][9][10] I have now tagged the article to identify issues, and requested semi-protection, but the input by responsible editors who can update the article with accurate, sourced data is needed. --AussieLegend (✉) 04:40, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!
Hello, |
One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!
Hello, |
There's a question at the family talk page under section the genetic overlap table that needs replies or help. Thanks. 92.13.128.131 (talk) 09:04, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
- I was trying to make a comment on the article Closed community
- Some discussions or topics that the article could use to improve, i have researched such articles and books that can add information to the article.
- Kinkead, Gwen. "CHINATOWN: A PORTRAIT OF A CLOSED SOCIETY." CHINATOWN: A PORTRAIT OF A CLOSED SOCIETY (1992): n. pag. Print. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers Chinatown Little Italy Little Havana
- Reiff, Joseph T. Born of Conviction: White Methodists and Mississippi's Closed Society. New York: Oxford UP, 2016. Print.
- Gibney, Mark. Open Borders? Closed Societies?: The Ethical and Political Issues. New York: Greenwood, 1988. Print.
- Gontier, Thierry. "Open and Closed Societies: Voegelin as Reader of Bergson." Politics, Religion & Ideology 16.1 (2015): 23-38. Web.
- Here is the bibliography.--Dianaboli18 (talk) 17:14, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
Brown, Temple, USF, and SFSU opening access to library resources for Wikipedians interested in certain sociology-related topics
Hi WikiProject Sociology. Of possible interest to readers of this page, there are multiple opportunities for Wikipedians interested in sociology to get full access to university library resources simply for working on articles in particular topic areas.
- The John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University wants to help an experienced Wikipedian improve the quality of articles related to ethnic studies. Examples of possible topics include, but are not limited to, diaspora, migration, social movements, and/or political economies of social inequality and racial formation.
- Temple University Libraries wants to help an experienced Wikipedian improve the quality of articles related to the history of Philadelphia and/or the history of African-Americans in Philadelphia.
- The Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University wants to help an experienced Wikipedian improve the quality of articles relevant to disability studies, focusing on non-medical aspects of disability and important historical moments in disability history (in the United States or elsewhere in the world).
- The Gleeson Library/Geschke Center at the University of San Francisco wants to help an experienced Wikipedian improve the quality of articles related to social justice movements and reformers.
Each of these universities will provide full access to its library's resources (databases, ebooks, etc.) in exchange for a commitment to bring some of the articles you work on to B-class or better. This is a remote Wikipedia Visiting Scholars position open to editors anywhere. For more information, see the Brown, Temple, SFSU, or USF Visiting Scholars pages. If you have questions, you can ask on my talk page (or email if you prefer). If you know you're interested, head to the application form. --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:10, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
How many articles on progress do we need?
See merge suggestion at Talk:Social_progress. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:54, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
RFCs on citations templates and the flagging free-to-read sources
See
- Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Access locks: Visual Design RFC
- Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Access Locks: Citation Template Behaviour RFC
Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:26, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
Of interest
Discussion of interest to project members: Talk:Women_in_STEM_fields#Requested_move_27_October_2016. Montanabw(talk) 06:43, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
The following discussion may be of interest to project participants. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Danielle Bleitrach Montanabw(talk) 05:50, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
Split homelessness discussion
The article homelessness is very long and probably should be split. Please join the discussion. Ottawahitech (talk) 16:03, 8 November 2016 (UTC)please ping me
There is a discussion ongoing at Talk:Homelessness#Incidents involving homeless people which may interest editors. Absolutelypuremilk (talk) 21:39, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
Alternate title for Michel Foucault's Surveiller et punir
At Talk:Discipline_and_Punish#Crime_and_Punishment_.3F, I have sought opinions regarding possible alternate translations for the title of Michel Foucault's Surveiller et punir. I encountered someone who felt it was known as Crime and Punishment rather than Discipline and Punish. Should we have a redirect at Crime and Punishment? Please comment there if you have an opinion on this issue.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 16:46, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!
Hello, |
User:Spacecowboy420 is constantly reverting my changes on the article Korean ethnic nationalism, demanding consensus, although my changes are well explained. [11]
- Hwanung is the spelling that also the wikipedia article uses by the revised romanization. Also, Hangul and Hanja is not needed here, since it is in the article about Hwanung.
- For the removal of Myers claims, see Talk:Korean ethnic nationalism#Too Much POV Bias in the Article. If needed, I can also give more explanations. But I think the possibilities are well explained on the talk page. Since more than two weeks, no one commented on the talk page, so, there was nothing critical in changing it. I definitely do not have to ask all wikipedians if I can edit it like Spacecowboy420 claims.
- I fixed the template that showed an error
- The sentence: "North Korea is rumored to have abducted foreign women to marry to American men that defected to North Korea in order to keep these American men from having relationships with North Korean women." does not have any source at all. Also, it says "is rumored". This shouldn't be in this article. Also, the source of the following sentence does not back this claim.
- For the other sentence, also see talk page. It doesn't belong in this article because there is no direct connection to nationalism.
2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages
Greetings WikiProject Sociology/Archive 9 Members!
This is a one-time-only message to inform you about a technical proposal to revive your Popular Pages list in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:
If the above proposal gets in the Top 10 based on the votes, there is a high likelihood of this bot being restored so your project will again see monthly updates of popular pages.
Further, there are over 260 proposals in all to review and vote for, across many aspects of wikis.
Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.
Best regards, Stevietheman — Delivered: 18:08, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
Polygyny
Please provide comment at Talk:Polygyny#Map of polygyny w.r.t. Russia. (This project is being pinged because the topic-in-question is listed as a topic under this WikiProject's umbrella.) --Izno (talk) 13:47, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
RfC: Korean ethnic nationalism
There is an RfC at Korean ethnic nationalism concerning whether certain paragraphs in the article are POV and/or undue weight. Scolaire (talk) 15:35, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Research on the effects of violence in mass media#Latest edits. Permalink here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 15:16, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Missing topics list
My list of missing topics about social customs is updated - Skysmith (talk) 18:41, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
Child marriage and Teen marriage articles
Opinions are needed on Talk:Child marriage/Archive 1#Recent changes and Talk:Teen marriage#Recent image addition. The first discussion concerns changes made to the article's terminology, the use of images and whether or not to merge the article. And the second discussion concerns whether or not the lead image is appropriate for the article. Permalinks here and here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 21:22, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
Salon
Please merge Salon (gathering) & Salon (France) & Historiography of the salon since they have identical content. Xb2u7Zjzc32 (talk) 01:15, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
Child marriage and Teen marriage articles
Opinions are needed on Talk:Child marriage/Archive 1#Recent changes and Talk:Teen marriage#Recent image addition. The first discussion concerns changes made to the article's terminology, the use of images and whether or not to merge the article. And the second discussion concerns whether or not the lead image is appropriate for the article. Permalinks here and here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 21:22, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
Salon
Please merge Salon (gathering) & Salon (France) & Historiography of the salon since they have identical content. Xb2u7Zjzc32 (talk) 01:15, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
Amateur observations of this article (Food deserts)
This article on food deserts is very organized and full of useful information. The links to the citations are diverse and scholarly and the subheadings are easy to navigate. In addition, the language is simple and understandable and sounds like it is coming from an actual human being who has done the adequate research on this topic. However, I feel that there can be much more information added to this article. The section on food deserts in countries seems to be lumped together into single geographical groups. Maybe more information on the regions within each country, or a diagram representing the geographical differences of food desert density within each will bring to light the smaller realities of certain peoples within those countries. This, in turn, will also help avoid the persistence of stereotypes about countries like Africa that show the country as always hungry, poor, and unable to take care of themselves. Another piece of information that could be added is some literature about the perspective of large supermarkets. Although it would be quite difficult to get this type of information because they are seen as constantly silent in food desert matters, it would also be very interesting to see a possible perspective of the other side. Finally, a section that is missing in this article is a section on how communities within food deserts have adjusted to their situation. The advent of urban farming would be a great place to start. For example, urban farming in Detroit is a very popular topic, especially within the documentary Urban Roots.Jade Everage 06:51, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!
Hello, |
Upcoming "420 collaboration"
You are invited to participate in the upcoming which is being held from Saturday, April 15 to Sunday, April 30, and especially on April 20, 2017!The purpose of the collaboration, which is being organized by WikiProject Cannabis, is to create and improve cannabis-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in a variety of fields, including: culture, health, hemp, history, medicine, politics, and religion. For more information about this campaign, and to learn how you can help improve Wikipedia, please visit the "420 collaboration" page. |
---|
RfC on the WP:ANDOR guideline
Hi, all. Opinions are needed on the following: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#RfC: Should the WP:ANDOR guideline be softened to begin with "Avoid unless" wording or similar?. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 22:46, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
Citation overkill proposal at WP:Citation overkill talk page
Opinions are needed on the following: Wikipedia talk:Citation overkill#Citations. A permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 06:32, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Popular pages report
We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, Community Tech bot will post at Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology/Archive 9/Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject Sociology.
We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:
- The pageview data includes both desktop and mobile data.
- The report will include a link to the pageviews tool for each article, to dig deeper into any surprises or anomalies.
- The report will include the total pageviews for the entire project (including redirects).
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 Sociology, 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)
One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!
Hello, |
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) 16:52, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
Transformation of culture is a mess
It looks more like someone's personal essay than an encyclopedia article. It would probably be easier to merge whatever is worth keeping into a related article and delete the rest. I created a merge proposal suggesting it be merged into Culture change, but if someone has a better idea for an article to merge it into, then we should go with that. TheDracologist (talk) 22:37, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Wikipedia talk:Citation overkill#Should this essay be changed to encourage more citations?. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 01:26, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
Dispute at Economic sociology
Hello, Economic sociology has been repeatedly edited in recent months to re-add information about minor research groups and a personal website, but these edits lack independent sources to show their significance (imo). Please see the article's history and talkpage for more information. It would be great, if uninvolved editors could take a look at the dispute and offer additional opinions and advice - I have started a thread to summarize my concerns at Talk:Economic sociology. Thanks in advance. GermanJoe (talk) 19:42, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
RfC regarding the WP:Lead guideline -- the first sentence
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section#Request for comment on parenthetical information in first sentence. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 04:59, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
Government page
The page was a stub when I found it. I've added minimal content (and references), but it could use multiple additional editors. Power~enwiki (talk) 21:18, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
- Big concepts like this are tough to write about. Thanks! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:56, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
I have started the draft, please feel free to participate in developing it further. I have posted a list of sources that I can share on the draft's talk page. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 10:26, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
- Looks good to me. When you mainspace it, do go for a T:TDYK, if it is confusing ask me for help. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:50, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
- @Roger (Dodger67): If you are done, how about moving it to mainspace? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 17:56, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
Domestic violence
I'd like to work on articles related to domestic violence. Advice or direction from those active in this project is welcome.
- Best Regards,
- @Barbara (WVS): There is not much I can say except - chose an article/topic and try to get it to WP:GA standards, ending with a GA review. Btw, do you have any connection to the World Value Survey? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 17:55, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
- No. WVS is an abbreviation for Wikipedia Visiting Scholar with the University of Pittsburgh. I created this second account so that the supervisor at the University could follow my editing more specifically. I did go the article that you linked to in your response above and noticed that it needs a bit of work. But I am not affiliated with this group. Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 18:16, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
Nomination of Donald Trump's handshakes for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Donald Trump's handshakes is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Donald Trump's handshakes until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Sagecandor (talk) 04:44, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
RfC: Red links in infoboxes
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Infoboxes#RfC: Red links in infoboxes. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 13:17, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
The Matrix and the white savior cinematic trope
There is a discussion at The Matrix about whether or not to include White savior narrative in film, a topic involving both sociology and film, in the article's "See also" section. Please see the discussion here. Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 21:15, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
Women in Red's new initiative: #1day1woman
A new initiative for worldwide online coverage: #1day1woman | ||
(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Ipigott (talk) 11:29, 30 July 2017 (UTC) |
Criticism section of the Symbolic Interactionism article
The "Criticisms" section of the symbolic interactionism article reads more like a defense and elaboration of the theory rather then actually laying out criticisms leveled against it by its opponents. Instead it smugly concludes that some social scientists/ scholars don't know that they are applying it in their own "theoretical assumptions and formulations". It also just blatantly states "language is the source of all meaning" rather then "language is viewed/thought to be the source of all meaning" or something more neutral. A statement which is certainly contestable (what about symbolic/image meaning? what about song and unspoken thought?). I edited the statement but I suspect someone might change it back. They shouldn't if they want to read like an encyclopedia and not a professor's opinion piece. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Whathappenedhere9899 (talk • contribs) 16:49, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!
Hello, |
Merge proposal
A merge proposal was started from a consensus on the article talk page of Alt-left, which is an article within the scope of this WikiProject.--Mark Miller (talk) 20:58, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
ISO 4 redirects help!
{{Infobox journal}} now features ISO 4 redirect detection to help with the creation and maintenance of these redirects, and will populate Category:Articles with missing ISO 4 abbreviation redirects. ISO 4 redirects help readers find journal articles based on their official ISO abbreviations (e.g. J. Phys. A → Journal of Physics A), and also help with compilations like WP:JCW and WP:JCW/TAR.
The category is populated by the |abbreviation=
parameter of {{Infobox journal}}. If you're interested in creating missing ISO 4 redirects:
- Load up an article from the category (or only check for e.g. Sociology journals).
- One or more maintenance templates should be at the top of page, with links to create the relevant redirects and verify the abbreviations.
- VERIFY THAT THE ABBREVIATION IN
|abbreviation=
IS CORRECT FIRST
- There are links in the maintenance templates to facilitate this. See full detailed instructions at Category:Articles with missing ISO 4 abbreviation redirects.
|abbreviation=
should contain dotted, title cased versions of the abbreviations (e.g.J. Phys.
, notJ Phys
orJ. phys.
). Also verify that the dots are appropriate.- If you cannot determine the correct abbreviation, or aren't sure, leave a message at WT:JOURNALS and someone will help you.
- Use the link in the maintenance template to create the redirects and automatically tag them with {{R from ISO 4}}.
- WP:NULL/WP:PURGE the original article to remove the maintenance templates.
Thanks. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 13:34, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
A race- and crime-related RM and RfD
Please see:
- Talk:Race and crime#Requested move 6 September 2017
- Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2017 September 6#Racial differences in crime
— SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 04:53, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
RfC: Should the WP:TALK guideline discourage interleaving?
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Wikipedia talk:Talk page guidelines#RfC: Should the guideline discourage interleaving?. A permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 02:29, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
RfC at Karl Marx
Should the categories Ashkenazi Jews, German people of Jewish descent, Jewish atheists, Jewish philosophers, Jewish socialists, Jewish sociologists be added to this article?Talk:Karl_Marx#RfC RolandR (talk) 11:34, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
Women in Red November contest open to all
Contest details: create biographical articles for women of any country or occupation in the world:
| ||
(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) |
Suicide terminology: "committed"?
Your opinion regarding the proper style of language to use when discussing suicide would be appreciated at the Manual of Style guideline. Mathglot (talk) 02:12, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
Gender of rearing is up for deletion. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 03:35, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
Comment on Proposal for WikiProject STS
Hi WikiProject Sociology!
I've just proposed WikiProject STS to cover issues in the academic field of Science and Technology Studies, which examines scientific issues from a social sciences/humanities perspective. As our main article is tagged with your Wikiproject, we thought you might be interested in looking at the proposal. This would be a sort of sister group to Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Science.
We'd appreciate if you took a look at the proposal and commented on it! We'd be a relatively small project, but if we can find 10 or so people who'd be willing to help out, we could get started on organizing the project!
We're also open to the creation of a task force within this WikiProject, or within wikipedia:WikiProject History of Science or Wikipedia:WikiProject Technology if we thought that'd be better given the scope. Again, let me know what you think!
Requested move discussion
Readers here may be interested in the discussion at Talk:Oregon Trail Generation#Requested move 17 November 2017. -GTBacchus(talk) 01:00, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject
Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.
A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Sociology
Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.— Rod talk 18:43, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
"Essentialness" of gender per W+Z at Social construction of gender
Your feedback is requested regarding whether or not the article Social construction of gender misrepresents West + Zimmerman's views in "Doing Gender" (1987) about the "essentialness" of gender difference. Please see Talk:Social construction of gender#W+Z views on essentialness. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 11:04, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
Feedback requested at Post-structuralism
Hi, need your help again to improve an article . Am I the only one that can't understand large portions of this article? Looking for your thoughts at Talk:Post-structuralism#Technobabble. Mathglot (talk) 22:16, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
- I don't know if I am qualified to improve the article, but I posted my comments there. --Mark viking (talk) 23:52, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
The article Typification has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Wikipedia isn't a dictionary, but this article reads exactly like a badly formatted dictionary entry. Exactly one sentence has been added since its creation 7 years ago, despite it being frequently linked to. It serves little to no purpose, and belongs as a redirect to Wiktionary at the least.
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}}
notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}}
will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. 2601:643:8102:AAA0:6DA9:5B1E:98F4:B48C (talk) 22:31, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
Eyes needed...
...on current editing on Aryan Brotherhood. Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:37, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
- Still more eyes needed... Mathglot (talk) 07:21, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
The sources cited (most of which are simply wikilinks to the Journals, not the article) do not use the term "male expendability". I am not sure if the article meets notability requirements and appears more as an attempt to coin the phrase; i.e., noncompliant with WP:OR. I attempted to speedy delete it, but the tag was removed. Before I nominate it for AfD, I would appreciate more input. Also of note, when I saw "journal" refs, my impulse reaction was Project Med, so I'll share that response here. Atsme📞📧 16:09, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
- I checked also, and saw plenty of references, but no explicit definition. Are you planning on opening a discussion at Talk:Male expendability about this? Mathglot (talk) 00:39, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
- I had not planned to but you can. Atsme📞📧 00:59, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
- Done. Mathglot (talk) 12:10, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
- I had not planned to but you can. Atsme📞📧 00:59, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
Seeking feedback on a guide for students who edit articles in anthropology
Hello! Wiki Education is developing a guide to help students write about all topics related to cultural anthropology. The handout is meant to supplement other resources that they consult, such as an interactive training and basic editing brochures (as well as a Linguistics-specific guide we have already developed). We’d love to get some community feedback on the draft here: User:Cassidy_(Wiki_Ed)/Cultural_anthropology. We're looking to gather feedback by April 18th. Feel free to respond here or on the draft's talk page if you're interested. Thanks so much! Cassidy (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:26, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
Paganism vs religion
Please see a discussion here on whether some articles like Slavic paganism should be better renamed as Ancient Slavic religions or such. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:07, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Please come and help...
A page-move debate was just relisted at Talk:Rogue (vagrant)#Requested move 2 April 2018. It would be a great help if you could come and add your !vote, rationale and imaginings to the discussion. Thank you in advance! Paine Ellsworth put'r there 19:25, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
Feedback requested at Drag queen
Your feedback is requested at Talk:Drag queen#Sidebar about changing from one sidebar to another on the article. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 22:06, 18 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) 00:48, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
Interruption (speech) editors requested
New article needs editors with sociological expertise. https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Interruption_(speech) AnaSoc (talk) 00:16, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
- Still hoping some sociologists will drop by to help improve the article.AnaSoc (talk) 21:11, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
Sociological editors needed for Sexism
Please help improve the sociological content of the Sexism article https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Sexism See the discussion on the Talk page. If you are interested in improving the Sexism article, please join the discussion.AnaSoc (talk) 21:28, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
- AnaSoc, per WP:Canvassing, you need to use more neutral wording when asking others to weigh in. The above is a mischaracterization of the literature since it is not solely dictionary sources, but sociology sources as well, that define sexism more broadly. Similar goes for feminist sources and other sources on the topic. It is also biased of you to only alert this WikiProject and not the others, but I'm not too concerned about that. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 22:02, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
- point taken, thanks.AnaSoc (talk) 22:16, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
- Saw your edit. Thanks. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 22:37, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
Merger discussion for Longitudinal study
An article which may be of interest to this project—Longitudinal study —has been proposed for merging with Long-term experiment. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Mathglot (talk) 03:14, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
Invitation
Hello, WikiProject Sociology/Archive 9!
|
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.
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 07:56, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
This article is rightfully a high priority for WikiProject Sociology but the Key themes section is in bad shape--it appears to copy/paste from a sociology text. I wanted to flag this here before I make any changes. AugusteBlanqui (talk) 10:24, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
This article had huge copyright problems from an anonymous edit on 1 April 2014. The article is now subject to a copyright violation investigation. I have started a rewrite based on the version prior to the 1 April 2014 copy/paste dump. However, this version does not contain any of the good material added after 1 April 2014. I will try to salvage what I can, but intend to wait until admins have had a look at this in case there is a better/easier to sort out the good edits from the bad material. The rewrite is here: https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Talk:Medical_sociology/Temp AugusteBlanqui (talk) 10:05, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you, AugusteBlanqui. Regards, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 12:47, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
I worked on the Laud Humphreys piece today https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Laud_Humphreys. Quite satisfying to try to provide some balance to the article. Please drop by to take a look and to edit. Also, shall we consider combining the Tearoom Trade article https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Tearoom_Trade with the one about Humphreys? Currently, the Tearoom Trade article is poorly sourced, outdated, and unbalanced. Please share your thoughts on the Talk pages for either of those articles.AnaSoc (talk) 03:54, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
- Replied on talk of TT, short version: it's a notable work and reasonably well sourced, I see no reason for it to be merged. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:30, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
- Agreed; posted on the TT Talk page. Thanks for your work on this article!AnaSoc (talk) 03:26, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
I made some changes to the article today. Any other sociologists interested in the topic? There are some sections that could use some sociological expertise. There are also some concerns expressed about neutrality. Perhaps you could help? https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Political_views_of_American_academicsAnaSoc (talk) 03:58, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
Rural sociology article needs expansion
The article needs expansion and updating. AnaSoc (talk) 01:48, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
- Hi Anasoc, Agreed. A first step might be to set up a sandbox page to work on an outline for a more fully developed article. Once there was consensus on an outline, it could be posted to the article's talk page. Thanks & Kind regards, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 21:27, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, my specialty in rural sociology is too narrow to be of use. But thanks for the suggestion, @DA Sonnenfeld Perhaps someone will come along. The Wikipedia Fellows Program recruited another batch of sociologists this past month. Maybe one of them will be interested.AnaSoc (talk) 04:06, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
- Hi Anasoc, Agreed. A first step might be to set up a sandbox page to work on an outline for a more fully developed article. Once there was consensus on an outline, it could be posted to the article's talk page. Thanks & Kind regards, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 21:27, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
- Any other rural sociologists out there?AnaSoc (talk) 01:21, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
@AnaSoc: Unfortunately, thousands of articles here need expansion and sociologist. And as for your second question, unlikely - we have a handful of semi-active people here. My specialty is new media and social movements, for the record. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:28, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
- True about the thousands of articles! I'm like a kid in a candy store.AnaSoc (talk) 04:02, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
Tie signs is a newly created by student editor as part of a WP:WIKIED class project. I believe the article might fall under the scope of this WikiProject, so I've add the project's banner to the talk page. Would someone mind taking a look at it and assessing it? The article is also in need of categories and might need some other cleanup as well, so any help with those things would also be welcome. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:30, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!
Hello, |
Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content
WikiProject Sociology members are invited to contribute to the 2018 Wiki Loves Pride campaign, which runs during the month of June and seeks to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. In-person events are being organized in some cities, and editors can also participate remotely. Results are being tracked here, so feel free to show off your work. Happy editing! ---Another Believer (Talk) 01:13, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
- So much good work has been done! And we still have nine more days until the end of June.AnaSoc (talk) 01:20, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
- I have worked on the article for Katharine Lee Bates and also the one on Katharine Coman. Stop by to take a look if you are interested. Bates, you may know, is the person who wrote "America the Beautiful." Just in time for the Fourth of July!AnaSoc (talk) 03:03, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
- So much good work has been done! And we still have nine more days until the end of June.AnaSoc (talk) 01:20, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
I've repurposed a well-received long thread post – on "race" and "ethnicity" as labels on Wikipedia and why they're generally a poor idea – and posted it to WP:Race and ethnicity. It's a "crash course" educational piece rather than the typical "do it this way not that way" Wikipedia essay. People may find it of interest. It doesn't address race from the Racial bias on Wikipedia angle, which is certainly a valid one, within the confines of race as a social construct and all the effects that has. Rather, it's an anti-racialism summary of why people's beliefs that "races" are a biological fact are confused and misleading. We shouldn't be "pegging" our article subjects with racialist labels, absent a strong personal or RS identification of the label with the subject. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 13:48, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
Domestic violence article -- RfC on NPOV
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Domestic violence#Does the article lend undue weight to women as victims and/or their use of self-defense as a reason for domestic violence?? A permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 12:06, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
"Chinese social structure" needs editing
Hi. The article Chinese social structure needs editing and assessing. Thanks! Thinker78 (talk) 04:13, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
Wiki Education hiring an experienced Wikipedian
Wiki Education is hiring an experienced Wikipedian for a part-time (20 hours/week) position. The focus of this position is to help new editors (students and other academics) learn to edit Wikipedia. The main focus of the position is monitoring and tracking contributions by Wiki Education program participants, answering questions, and providing feedback. We're looking for a friendly, helpful editor who like to focus on article content, but also with a deep knowledge of policies and guidelines and the ability to explain them in simple, concise ways to new editors. They will be the third member of a team of expert Wikipedians, joining Ian (Wiki Ed) and Shalor (Wiki Ed). This is a part-time, U.S. based, remote or San Francisco based position.
See our Careers page for more information. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:05, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
As of now, this deserves an article (passes GNG). The movement has been going on for around five years: plenty of sources. Also, other documented requests redates the events of Maratha Kranti Morcha. I have created a rudimentary draft, and added some sources at Draft talk:Maratha Aarakshan movement#Usable sources. But unfortunately I dont have much experience with creating such articles. Would somebody help me please? But I can work on it with help/collaboration. Also, I can bring in the relevant sources from last 10 years easily.
Once the article is in mainspace/listed by search engines, a lot more people would add to it; and I will handle the issues of POV, adding sources, and other stuff including gnoming. All I need is help in the beginning. Also, I request to continue the discussion on Draft talk:Maratha Aarakshan movement, as I have posted this message to 3-4 different, but mostly inactive, venues. Thanks a lot in advance, —usernamekiran(talk) 19:15, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
- Hi Usernamekiran, Thanks for your note. If I understand correctly, you are seeking collaborators to help you write such an article. Is that right? (As an editor who has been on Wikipedia for six years, I'm guessing you're not asking for technical assistance.) Regards, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 19:59, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
- @DASonnenfeld: Hi, thanks for the reply. yes, I am asking for collaboration. If the draft gets in "post rudimentary" state, I can do most of the work. Its just the beginning stuff that I am stuck on. —usernamekiran(talk) 20:37, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
- @Usernamekiran: Thanks for the clarification -- and good luck! Regards, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 20:44, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
- @DASonnenfeld: Hi, thanks for the reply. yes, I am asking for collaboration. If the draft gets in "post rudimentary" state, I can do most of the work. Its just the beginning stuff that I am stuck on. —usernamekiran(talk) 20:37, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
Split discussion for Community
An article which may be of interest to members of this project—Community—has been proposed to be split into Community (settlement) and Community (sociology). If you are interested, please participate in the split discussion.—A L T E R C A R I ✍ 17:23, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
Merger discussion for Comparative research
An article that you have been involved in editing—Comparative research—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Waddie96 (talk) 12:07, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
Newbie - Self Intro
Hi,
I'm Chuck and have never attempted anything like this. I'm a student @ University of Massachusetts Dartmouth taking MGT331_7101.
My goal is to participate and help improve https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Charismatic_authority. Any support and direction from those of you that have been doing this for a while is greatly appreciated!!
Thanks, DivSky95Divsky95 (talk) 15:00, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
Sociology in Japan
Hi, I've been working on a new Wikipedia page Sociology in Japan. I was hoping for it to be included to the sociology wikiproject and a review. Is it possible to be included? --S.Zhang18 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 05:14, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia has no article on the concept of the stranger, but we have a draft well underway at Draft:Stranger, if anyone would like to work on that. Cheers! bd2412 T 03:45, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
2000s in sociology, etc.
I'm probably not going to monitor this discussion; I'm just trying to determine if it was intended.
There are a lot of publication entries with both the author and the name of the book redlinked. Many projects would reject such entries in their timelines. I don't know if this project wants to discuss the issue. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 03:25, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
Campbell Collaboration collaboration
The Campbell collaboration (sister group to the Cochrane collaboration are possibly interested in forming a collaboration to use their systematic reviews of policy interventions to help update Wikipedia (analagous to Cochrane's medical meta-analyses). WP:MED already has a collaboration with Cochrane, so Campbell could be a good fit. Let me know if you'd like to be part of the email thread following up on this. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 08:19, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
Featured quality source review RFC
Editors in this WikiProject may be interested in the featured quality source review RFC that has been ongoing. It would change the featured article candidate process (FAC) so that source reviews would need to occur prior to any other reviews for FAC. Your comments are appreciated. --IznoRepeat (talk) 21:46, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
Is the Kathan clan notable?
Is the inbred Kathan family notable for an article? Dwanyewest (talk) 21:56, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
Notable female sociologists lacking a Wikipedia article
While investigating a new article for Dr. Susan Myra Kingsbury, I chanced upon the following paper:
- Luo, Wei; Adams, Julia; Brueckner, Hannah (2018), "The Ladies Vanish?", Comparative Sociology, 17 (5): 519–556, doi:10.1163/15691330-12341471
It specifically mentions certain women lacking articles on Wikipedia. Just thought it might be of interest. Thanks. Praemonitus (talk) 18:37, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
- Among women sociologists referred to in the article:
- Amy Hewes
- Annie Marion MacLean
- Caroline Baer Rose
- Cecilia L. Ridgeway
- Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
- Dorothy Swaine Thomas
- Edith Abbott
- Elizabeth Briant Lee
- Ellen Gates Starr
- Erica L. Harth
- Ethel Shanas
- Frances R. Donovan
- Harriet Mowrer
- Hattie Plum Williams
- Helen MacGill Hughes
- Helen Merrell Lynd
- Jane Addams
- Joan Huber
- Lila Ver Planck North
- Lucile Evans
- Margaret Jarman Hagood
- Marion Parris Smith
- Mary Roberts Coolidge
- Maureen T. Hallinan
- May Allinson
- Pauline V. Young
- Rosalie Wax
- Ruth Shonle Cavan
- Susan Myra Kingsbury
- ... Some (in many cases, quite recent) progress being made... DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 07:49, 21 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.
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) 09:57, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
I'd be obliged if project members could have a look at Intermarriage in the United States in the Early Twentieth Century with an eye on whether this is a duplication of material already covered somewhere else. I have a feeling it would be, as this is pretty basic US sociology material, but I don't have an overview. If so, it should probably be merged. Also notified the United States wikiproject. Cheers --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 17:53, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
Digital dependencies and global mental health
Hi everyone. I'd like to join the project and this article I have just written I would like in the project if that's OK. I put it in the anthropology project too. I think this particular article should be sociology and anthropology primarily and the medical articles that it links to should remain primarily medical. What do we think? Thanks a lot! Digital dependencies and global mental health E.3 (talk) 05:33, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
LGBT
LGBT, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. AIRcorn (talk) 21:37, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
Gender feminism merge discussion
Input is requested for a discussion at Talk:Gender feminism as to whether the contents of Gender feminism should be merged into other existing articles, and if so, whether the page should become a redirect or disambiguation page. Thank you. –Sangdeboeuf (talk) 02:55, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
Discussion re: lead image at Woman
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Woman#A woman is more than a vagina?. Your input would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Levivich 04:48, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
Toxic masculinity
There is currently a discussion ongoing about whether to make Toxic masculinity its own page. Interested editors may wish to participate at Talk:Hegemonic masculinity#Proposed split "Toxic masculinity". Thank you. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 00:05, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
Discussion about article "Rent regulation"
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Rent regulation, which is about an article that is within the scope of this WikiProject. I would appreciate your input on the POV issues we have been discussing on this talk page. The most recent discussions are under § Significant viewpoints missing. Qzekrom (talk) 07:17, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
Please review birth rate effect additions to the Population decline article
More eyes are needed, please, for the additions at [12] to Population decline#Interpretation of statistical data:
- White nationalists use evidence of a declining birth rate in support of their extremist views and calls to violence.[1] Lower fertility rates are generally associated with dramatic increases in population health and longevity.[2] Increasing populations are not necessary to maintain economic growth and social vitality because of advances in automation and workers living healthy lives much longer into old age. Declining populations require fewer scarce resources and pollute less.[3] Fewer dependents mean that families, regions, and societies can achieve more productive uses of available resources and increase their quality of life.[4] While there were in the past advantages to high fertility rates, that "demographic dividend" has now largely disappeared.[5]
References
- ^ Betuel, Emma (January 13, 2019). "CDC Data on Declining US Fertility Rate Is Being Used by White Nationalists". Inverse.
- ^ ESHRE Capri Workshop Group (1 October 2005). "Noncontraceptive health benefits of combined oral contraception". Human Reproduction Update. 11 (5): 513–525. doi:10.1093/humupd/dmi019. ISSN 1355-4786.
- ^ Davis, Nicola (26 December 2018). "Falling total fertility rate should be welcomed, population expert says". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ Lee, R; Mason, A (10 October 2014). "Is low fertility really a problem? Population aging, dependency, and consumption". Science (New York, N.Y.). 346 (6206): 229–34. doi:10.1126/science.1250542. PMID 25301626. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ Smeeding, TM (10 October 2014). "Economics. Adjusting to the fertility bust". Science (New York, N.Y.). 346 (6206): 163–4. doi:10.1126/science.1260504. PMID 25301602. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
The objections stemmed from a legitimate dispute at a different article, but I don't believe they are valid for that article. Thank you. EllenCT (talk) 18:52, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
I'm wondering if someone from this WikiProject could take a look at this article and assess it. It was created by a student editor as part of Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Brigham Young University/HIST 221 - Gonzales - The United States Since 1877 (Winter 2019), and student moved the article to the mainspace on their own without submitting it for WP:AFC review. There are some WP:MOS and other similar errors which can be cleaned up, but my main concerns are that it's a WP:CONTENTFORK which might not need it's own stand-alone article. I don't believe the university course this student created the article for has ended; so, it's possible that they are still going to get graded on their work; at the same time, it's been added to the mainspace which means that it probably shouldn't be left as is just because it's part of a student editing project. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:44, 9 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)
Nomination of Portal:Furry fandom for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Furry fandom is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Furry fandom until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 07:17, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
Economic sociology task force
I am currently taking an economic sociology course at my university and have become interested in improving articles related to the subject, such as Embeddedness. Who would be interested in forming a task force? Qzekrom 💬 theythem 03:10, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Qzekrom: Cool topic area, but I don't think we need a task force subpage. This entire project is barely active enough, and I doubt Wikipedia:WikiProject Economy is doing much better. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:54, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
Nomination of Portal:Community for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Community is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Community (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 11:24, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
Nomination of Portal:Gangs for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Gangs is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Gangs until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 12:15, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
Formal equality
Please discuss at Talk:Gender_equality#Is_formal_equality_the_same_term_or_should_it_have_its_own_article? AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 18:22, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
Nomination of Portal:Civilizations for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Civilizations is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Civilizations until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 06:20, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
Society, social class, social structure of Foo country - separate or same topics?
I've noticed we have some articles on topics like:
- society of the United States/social class in the United States/social structure of the United States (redirects to class)
- society of the United Kingdom/social class in the United Kingdom/social structure of the United Kingdom (redirects to class)
- society of Canada/social class in Canada/social structure of Canada
- society of Germany/social class in Germany/social structure of Germany
- society of France/social class in France/social structure of France (redirects to class)
- society of Italy/social class in Italy/social structure of Italy
- society of Spain/social class in Spain/social structure of Spain
- society of Poland (redirects to demographics)/social class in Poland/social structure of Poland
- society of Russia/social class in Russia/social structure of Russia
- society of Brazil/social class in Brazil/social structure of Brazil
- society of Mexico/social class in Mexico/social structure of Mexico
- society of China (redirects to Chinese culture)/social class in China/social structure of China
- society of India/social class in India/social structure of India
- society of Japan/social class in Japan/social structure of Japan
- society of South Korea/social class in South Korea/social structure of South Korea
etc. I haven't done a complete overview for all countries, but, first, I think social structure is a bigger concept than social class, so I think it should be possible for social class in Fooland and social structure of Fooland to co-exist, except that social structure is not a very common term and when it comes to country overview, it is likely synonymous with society. Consider: what is the difference between "society of Fooland" abd "social structure of Fooland"? Should eventually an article on social structure of the United States exist separately from society of the United States, or are there too synonymous? I know that in sociological theory society and social structure are separate constructs, but when it comes to specifics in the 'by country' overview... this becomes really blurry. Thoughts? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:53, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
- Maybe we need an RfC seeing as this project is very inactive... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:31, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
Given this mid importance articles medical and culture/society/psychology scope, would greatly appreciate any further comments at its peer review. I've worked on it a lot and got it to GA, User:Doc James and User:Casliber have given invaluable comments so far. I'm aiming for a Wikijournal and FA status towards the end of the year.
Peer review here! Thanks so much it was a difficult article to write, with many thanks to involved contributors. --[E.3][chat2][me] 16:11, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
Defining/relaying the concept of "woman" at the Woman article
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Woman#Proposed edits to lede. A permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 20:43, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
A related RfC has commenced: Talk:Woman#RfC: Article lead. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 03:45, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
Discussion of double Venus flag in LGBT symbols on the reliable sources noticeboard
There is a discussion on whether the double Venus flag should be included in the LGBT symbols article on the reliable sources noticeboard. If you're interested, please participate at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard § Getty Images. — Newslinger talk 23:06, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
RfC of interest
The RfC located here may be of interest to the members of this project. Beyond My Ken (talk) 14:54, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
RfC of interest
this RfC may be of interet to the members of this project. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:49, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
The article "Attraction to transgender people"
If anyone would like, some more input would be helpful here:
https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Talk:Attraction_to_transgender_people#Attraction_to_trans_men
RFC of interest
There is an RFC that may be of interest to participants in this Wiki-project. The RFC deals with how to characterize the academic research on campus sexual assault. Comments appreciated (link) Nblund talk 17:20, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
Nomination of Portal:Education for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Education is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Education until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 19:34, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
Hello! I was wondering if any members of the WikiProject could kindly take a look at the review for this article that I nominated. With many kind thanks --[E.3][chat2][me] 13:46, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
Request for input on edit dispute: Tressie McMillan Cottom
Hello there. Over at Tressie McMillan Cottom's article Talk page, @Noq and I can't see eye to eye on whether a particular award should be included in the article for Dr. McMillan Cottom. We've hit a stalemate and I'm wondering whether anyone here could weigh in and help nudge our disagreement to an end. I'm also posting this same message at the WikiProject Women Writers talk page and the WikiProject Biography talk page, each as projects listed at Dr. McMillan Cottom's article's talk page as having an interest in her article. (Edit conflict is new to me, so my apologies if I'm going about this wrong.) Triplingual (talk) 01:55, 19 September 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) 04:00, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
Nomination of Portal:Sociology for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Sociology is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Sociology until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. Certes (talk) 10:58, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!
Hello, |
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)
Inviting new editors to Call-out culture
I'd like help improving the Call-out culture article. It went from this to this. I believe it requires the attention of a diverse group of Wikipedia editors. Thank you.
(Please ping me when replying anywhere but my Talk page)
Sociology VITAL articles
Please consider commenting at my proposals at Wikipedia talk:Vital articles/Level/4 and Wikipedia talk:Vital articles/Level/5, many of which are about adding or adjusting the current sociology-related topics related to those WP:VITAL lists. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:38, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
Definition of 'Language'
Contributors to this WikiProject may be interested in discussion at Talk:Language#Definition of 'Language'. I think changing the definition warrants input from more editors, but unfortunately don't have time to add much to the discussion right now. Cnilep (talk) 07:49, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
Article issues
There are comments at Talk:Jane Addams#Article issues that might be of interest to members. Otr500 (talk) 12:58, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
RfC: Male privilege
There's an RfC at Talk:Male privilege#RfC about sociological concept vs phenomenon about whether the first sentence of the article should define Male privilege as a concept in sociology or as a phenomenon that indisputably exists. More editor input is needed. Thanks. NightHeron (talk) 00:49, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
Article Evaluation - Content evaluation: Preference falsification
Content evaluation: Preference falsification The article content is relevant to the topic; however, the article fails to cover newer developments regarding the topic, including new research such as the 'Living a Lie: Theory and Evidence on Public Preference Falsification' paper by John Duffy and Jonathan Lafky. These new developments deserve their own sections with the larger topic and should be added to provide a holistic picture of the topic. Furthermore, the topic that is covered in the article has an associated academic, namely Timur Kuran, who has conducted a wide array of research that points to or involves this idea of 'preference falsification', which should accordingly by incorporated in the article.Mandobobafett (talk) 22:35, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
More eyes needed at Talk:Race and intelligence
Editors who watchlist the article Scientific racism might be interested in looking at the related article Race and intelligence, which has been an area of contentious debate and edit-warring. (It is currently locked down for 3 days.) While Scientific racism is, I think, a good example of how Wikipedia handles fringe, the article Race and intelligence has a very different tone and content, as is clear from the first paragraph of the lede. See also Race and intelligence#The Jensenism debates. I'm putting this notice on all the WikiProjects that list Scientific racism as of high importance, in the hope that more editors will participate in discussions at Talk:Race and intelligence and help make the article compliant with WP:NPOV and WP:FRINGE. The problems at Race and intelligence were discussed off-wiki here: [13]. Thanks. NightHeron (talk) 13:37, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
AfD discussion of Race and intelligence
A discussion is taking place of whether to delete the article Race and intelligence, see [14]. NightHeron (talk) 12:22, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
RfC notice
There is a request for comment concerning {{Masculism sidebar}} at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Gender studies, which relates to this project. Please join the discussion there. Thank you. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 00:03, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
Language
Contributors to this WikiProject may be interested in a discussion at Talk:Language#Edits undone March 2020 regarding making that article easier to read. Cnilep (talk) 03:02, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
Discussion about article "Race and intelligence"
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Race and intelligence#Requested move 4 March 2020, which is about an article that is within the scope of this WikiProject. Levivich [dubious – discuss] 19:57, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
Noticeboard discussion on reliability of Areo magazine, The Crimson White, and The Post Millennial
There is a noticeboard discussion on the reliability of Areo magazine, The Crimson White, and The Post Millennial for the Bo Winegard article. If you are interested, please participate at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard § Sources for Bo Winegard. — Newslinger talk 03:30, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
Request for Peer Review of the following articles
I would like a peer review of the following articles: Marxist humanism, Western Marxism
Would someone please check the spate of edits to these two articles by newish editor Buzinezz? I'm not sure what to make of them. Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:00, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
Violence interruption
I've created a stub on violence interruption, which seems like a very relevant topic at the moment. I'd appreciate any help other editors can provide to expand and improve it. -- The Anome (talk) 11:44, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aurat (word) has been relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Merge discussion
This merge discussion may be of interest to the members of this project. Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:21, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
Source for knowledge society
Hello Wikipedians. I found an article the other day titled A Critical Guide to Knowledge Society Newspeak: Or, How Not to Take the Great Leap Backward, and none of the information that it lists is on the knowledge society page. It'd expand the article quite a bit, but I have almost no prior experience with this subject matter, so I want to know if anyone else here can help add it to the article/has background information on some of the topics in it (there's this bit about computers that I can't even summarize, Lyotard and Castell's models, etc). puggo (talk) 20:45, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
- The source seems good, and the article needs more information. Unfortunately that's all I have the time to say right now. Hope you can add it to the article! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:03, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!
Hello, |
One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!
Hello, |
HASS
Hi all, I've made a stub on Humanities, arts, and social sciences to mirror the STEM article. I think there are sufficient research and commentary about HASS as a combined concept that there enough to discuss as a topic. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 23:49, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
Old project watchlist
The page Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology/Watchlist was created in 2014 but appears to be obsolete. If so, please blank it, to save it from appearing in "What links here" lists that admins are supposed to check after page moves. – Fayenatic London 19:41, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
Age-structured homosexuality
Please help provide input at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 August 6#Age-structured homosexuality. Thank you.—Naddruf (talk ~ contribs) 02:01, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
Hey, in about 40 minutes I'm going to spend an hour editing role theory. Does anyone have any pointers for me or wishes about what should happen to the page --Talpedia (talk) 09:35, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
Violence article
Violence (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Violence#Defining violence in the lead sentence. Considering that violence is a broad term (as is clear by the Wikipedia article), but it is especially relevant to the medical/health area, how to define the term in the lead sentence needs discussion. Flyer22 Frozen (talk) 05:48, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
It's now an RfC: Talk:Violence#RfC about the first and second sentences in the lead. Flyer22 Frozen (talk) 03:52, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Article Superstition in Judaism has been nominated for deletion
Hello,
Since some editors are contesting existence of articles associating religions and religious communities to superstitions, One of the article which concerns this project/topic has been nominated for deletion. You can support or contest the deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Superstition in Judaism by putting forward your opinion.
Thanks and regards Bookku (talk) 04:54, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
Should we have an article on Sociology of organizations/organizational sociology ?
Those are currently just a redirect to Organizational behavior but I don't think they are just synonyms. Ping User:Pundit. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:53, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
- Possibly - it is definitely a separate notion. Pundit|utter 16:37, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
- According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Sociology, this would be Organizational theory. BD2412 T 21:08, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Timeline of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests (November 2019) § Split request for "2019 November Shooting Incident in Sai Wai Ho". 2pou (talk) 17:49, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
- The Social Movements task force talk page did not appear to be frequented. -2pou (talk) 17:49, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Notice of RFC at Category:Communism
Your participation is invited at Category talk:Communism § Categorization of Communism, Totalitarianism, Authoritarianism. Thanks, Lev!vich 03:12, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!
Hello, |
The Big Butt Book
Ignore: User account is suspended for sock puppetry.
I created a new article, about the literary work which traces the cultural history of the buttocks -- The Big Butt Book. Let me know if you want to help out with further research! Thanks very much, Right cite (talk) 02:03, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
Adding sociologists to WikiProject Sociology
I have noticed that a number of articles in the do not have the WikiProject Sociology template in their talk pages. One project I would propose to WikiProject members is to scour sociology related Wikipedia Categories to locate articles that ought to be added to our WikiProject by placing the above-mentioned template into the article's talk page. This dovetails with the social movements task force's effort to tag articles with the 'Social movements=yes' tag to their WP Sociology templates. --Joeyvandernaald (talk) 18:53, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi all, I've boldly updated your project's peer review page (Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology/Peer review) by updating the instructions and archiving old reviews.
The new instructions use Wikipedia's general peer review process (WP:PR) to list peer reviews. Your project's reviews are still able to be listed on your local page too.
The benefits of this change is that review requests will get seen by a wider audience and are likely to be attended to in a more timely way (many WikiProject peer reviews remain unanswered after years). The Wikipedia peer review process is also more maintained than most WikiProjects, and this may help save time for your active members.
I've done this boldly as it seems your peer review page is pretty inactive and I am working through around 90 such similar peer review pages. Please feel free to discuss below - please ping me ({{u|Tom (LT)}}) in your response.
Cheers and hope you are well, Tom (LT) (talk) 23:41, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
One non review was present on the page which I'm placing here for some more attention. That was: "Draft:Rural diversity
- I'd love to get some comments on this draft before moving it to main space. Joecipsurprise (talk) 13:59, 20 October 2020 (UTC)"
- I support tagging sociologist with WP:SOCIO assessment banner. Thank you for your help with other maintenance tasks. We need more activity here :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:26, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
RfC about stubbing an article
Talk:Queer theory § Stubbed I dream of horses (Contribs) Please notify me after replying off my talk page. Thank you. 03:30, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
Aroused peer review
I've put the good article on the documentary film Aroused (film) for peer review at Wikipedia:Peer review/Aroused (film)/archive1. Feedback to help improve its quality further would be appreciated, thank you, Right cite (talk) 14:21, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
Nomination of Superstitions in Muslim societies for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Superstitions in Muslim societies is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Superstitions in Muslim societies until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Bookku (talk) 05:22, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
Move discussion in progress
The page Transsexual has been proposed to be renamed and moved to a different title. Interested editors may wish to join the discussion on the article talk page. Thank you. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 05:49, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
Draft:Art of Hosting
I'm not sure if this falls within the realm of sociology, but the psychology WikiProject is only semi-active and this does deal with human interactions so this may fall into the sociology wheelhouse at least somewhat. I was looking at Draft:Art of Hosting and the draft needs some work but I genuinely don't know how to approach this. It needs to be clearer, since some parts of it are kind of muddy as far as explanations go (ie, what it is, how it differs from other approaches, etc) but I think it would be best if someone more familiar with writing these types of articles goes about helping the editor (@Asimong:). It looks like a notable topic, but I'm a little concerned that it being at AfC may just result in the draft getting declined and there not being enough explanation for the article to be improved so it can be accepted. Anyone interested in helping the editor out? I've pinged them here so they can introduce themselves and all that good stuff. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (。◕‿◕。) 09:54, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
- ReaderofthePack, Hmmm. This may be salvageable as the topic seems notable, but it is a red flag where the article's suggested name seems very promotional (it is a title of a recently published article, see footnote 7). Once the lead is fixed, a simple enough matter, I think this would make a publishable article. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:54, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
- Piotrus I was worried about that as well, but it looks like others have used the name. The earliest source (in the article) that uses the specific term "Art of Hosting" is from 2015, so it may have had an earlier term. The article has the term "participatory leadership" so that may be the earlier term (the one source with this in the title is from 2011), although I wonder if this could be called just "hosting". I suppose that there is likely a question of how different this is from the topic of participatory management as well. @Asimong: can you help resolve these questions? ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (。◕‿◕。) 02:43, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
- ReaderofthePack, "Art of Hosting" is fine, it seems to be used, but "The Art of Hosting and Harvesting Conversations that Matter" is not, I think it refers only to a small number of works and may be advertising. I think it should be removed from the lead. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:14, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
- Piotrus I've removed it from the lead! ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (。◕‿◕。) 07:26, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
- ReaderofthePack, I have no objection to it being published now, through I see User:DGG called it too essay-ish. I don't think this is really the case, and I'd suggest publishing it and at worst, sending it to AfD. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:16, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
- ReaderofthePack,Piotrus More exactly, having read more of the the references, I consider this a somewhat disguised advertisement for https://www.artofhosting.org , which seems to have usurped the generic phrase. I shall certainly list it for AfD. DGG ( talk ) 06:02, 2 November 2020 (UTC)``
I'd just like to touch in here and say thank you, ReaderofthePack! I've been rather busy to work on this for the last few weeks but hope to get back on the case soon. Simon Grant (talk) 13:03, 5 December 2020 (UTC) The background is that I came across Art of Hosting, and talking to their people it seemed like several of those, who may be perhaps too involved and with a vested interest to author the article themselves, were happy to help assemble a good list of references and help ensure that it was a good representation of the field. It's a small community, but I guess no smaller than many of the academic communities around particular practices. The challenges here that the Art of Hosting community has to work with are that (a) with a few notable exceptions, it has not yet made a great impression on the academic mainstream, and for that reason there are not yet many secondary sources; and (b) there is no actual central organisation, unlike for topics like Theory U or Nonviolent Communication. So, any further guidance would be much appreciated. Simon Grant (talk) 13:17, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Asimong: I'd be willing to publish this. Btw, the reference to Facebook needs to be removed, also apparently Medium is flagged by me reference script as generally unreliable too, but here, considering the author, I am fine with it. Ping me when the Fbook reference is gone/replaced, and I'll publish it. I think it deseserves to be mainspaced (or, perhaps, and AfD is User:DGG still has concerns about this being a non-notable ad). I think it is borderline but overall more helpful than not. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:01, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
- Pietrus, and Asimong my objection is not only that it is advertising, but that it makes or at least implies a questionable claim to ownership of a general phrase. So, feeling up to a challenge this evening, I rewrote and accepted it. I tried to clarify that this is a specific technique as applied by a specific group, and I changed from passive to active. I did not attempt to really deal with the section on Practice Principles, which I think is too jargon-ridden to be encyclopedic—but there are many other articles where one could say the same. I may try some more here. Asimong, I'd appreciate clarification of the legal status of the name. Pietrus, if you can do anything more with this, please do. I've almost finished with what I'm going to do, but it it gets too much in-universe again, I will AfD. DGG ( talk ) 19:03, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
neurosociology
neurosociology is a relatively new field with the first major publication in 2010
I want to write an article on this subject as well as to add information on the main sociology page concerning this new development. especially since Wikipedia doesn't mention this subject at all.
some sources
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789400744721
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781441955302
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glc1_fGHdUQ
any thoughts? advice? — Preceding unsigned comment added by RJJ4y7 (talk • contribs) 19:28, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
Would some members of this WikiProject take a look at this new article? It seems to be a candidate for speedy deletion per WP:A5 and WP:NOTNEO since it seems to be basically nothing more than a combining of wikt:hobnobbing and wikt:hobnobber with a touch WP:OR added. — Marchjuly (talk) 13:03, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
- Marchjuly, I could see potential for it to become a legitimate article, perhaps roughly similar to an article like Syncophant. I'm not sure WP:NOTNEO applies all that well, both because the term has substantial usage and because the page is (or should be) about the concept rather than just the word. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 16:51, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you for taking a look and clarifying things a bit. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:19, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
- @Marchjuly and Sdkb: Right now it can be deleted due to not having any references. The topic may be notable, but the current execution brings up the WP:TNT consideration. I'd recommend WP:PROD or WP:AFD over speedy. AfD in particular would tighten the chance someone may bother to rescue it by adding good sources. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:00, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
- Update: For reference, the article was restored as a redirect by another editor because it was unsourced and per WP:NOTDICT. The creator of the article also had their account globally locked by the WMF (which means they most likely did something pretty bad and thus can't really come back without WMF approval). So, if someone else feels the "article" should be restored, they probably should start a discussion about it on its talk page. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:00, 8 December 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) 11:21, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
Discussion at Talk:Intimate partner violence
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Intimate partner violence. Generalrelative (talk) 04:32, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
This needs a lot of work. Bearian (talk) 21:21, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
- Bearian, Like do many thousands of other stub, start and so on of relevance to sociology. Your point? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:30, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
Advice Needed on proposed Cultural Universals to Cross-cultural Studies merge
I need some help on this Talk:Cross-cultural studies proposed merger. My first cited addition to Wikipedia was on the Cultural universal page and was reverted. In response, I have been trying figure out how to improve the page and when researching the topic I thought Cross-cultural studies might be the best fit, and might get new opinions. So I proposed this merger. At this point it seems that both Cross-cultural studies and Cultural universals are orphaned pages and haven't garnered any collaborative interest. There is also suspect behavior like a deletion on the Human Universals page marked Afd which have shaken my assumption of good faith. I reached out to the anthropology wiki project not realizing it is inactive and received no response there either.
I am new and genuinely trying to learn and improve my editing and Wikipedia. So I thought I'd ask for advice on how to handle this here as a next step before I walk away from the whole thing. Which is about where I'm at. DHHornfeldt (talk) 04:12, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
- DHHornfeldt, Thanks. This project is not every active either, sadly, attempts to attract professional sociologists here have failed. A few people including myself may look at this, and there is also the 'article alerts' system that can be watchlisted. Thank you for posting here. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:30, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
The template "Interpersonal relationships footer" is a mess
{{Interpersonal relationships footer}} This nabox is a major mess, none of the sections make much sense.★Trekker (talk) 20:28, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
-
*Treker, You need to be more specific. I glanced at it and some of it at least makes sense, though I am not sure if anything is grounded in a particular theory. As a navigational aid it ok-ish. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:27, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
- @*Treker: There's certainly room for improvement; for instance, it's odd that marital separation is listed as a type of relationship whereas legal separation is listed as a relationship event (it's not even clear to me that those should be separate pages). There hasn't been much attention in this area; feel free to boldly fix it up. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 13:35, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
- @Piotrus: The "Friendship" section had stuff like Kinship, Non-monogamy, Polyamory, Polyfidelity, Polygamy, Romantic friendship and Same-sex relationship. Seems very very odd to me.★Trekker (talk) 13:47, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
- Yes, it was a total mess, and I have re-sorted it into something much more sensible. Thanks for pointing it out. Crossroads -talk- 21:11, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
- It's a great deal better than it was, but it's still not right. In particular, gold digging is in the Casual line, but gold digging can be in the context of anything from casual sex to hypergamy. I can't work out where it should be placed. Jim Michael (talk) 12:08, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
- I put it under "Human practices". Crossroads -talk- 07:42, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
- It's a great deal better than it was, but it's still not right. In particular, gold digging is in the Casual line, but gold digging can be in the context of anything from casual sex to hypergamy. I can't work out where it should be placed. Jim Michael (talk) 12:08, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
- Yes, it was a total mess, and I have re-sorted it into something much more sensible. Thanks for pointing it out. Crossroads -talk- 21:11, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
Activity Check
What's the activity status of WP:SOCIO these days? See WP:INACTIVEWP for more. DHHornfeldt (talk) 14:12, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
- DHHornfeldt, Well, it's not great, but I don't think we are inactive. I do reply to stuff here occasionally, as you can see... Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:28, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
- Yeah, I'm here as well, although I only respond occasionally. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 13:29, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
So semi-active it seems? DHHornfeldt (talk) 18:31, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
- Most discussions on this Talk have been responded to, many of them within a day or less (including this "activity check"). It may not be as active as other projects, but I'd hardly consider that semi-active. --Pinchme123 (talk) 04:57, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
Splitting discussion for Collective intelligence
An article that been involved with (Collective intelligence ) has content that is proposed to be removed and moved to another article (General collective intelligence). If you are interested, please visit the discussion. Thank you. AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 17:45, 14 February 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)
Request for feedback: Societal guilt
A discussion is taking place at Talk:Social issue#The question of societal guilt which could use your feedback. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 06:34, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!
Hello, |
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 20:58, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
Democratization of knowledge
I stumbled upon the article Democratization of knowledge, which seems quite important, but with a poorly defined subject and poor treatment. It's currently part of the wikiproject philosophy (which seems somewhat appropriate, but hasn't a lot to do with the way the subject is currently treated and didn't really help in improving the article this far). I'm mostly trying to bring more attention and possibly better sources to this article, a sociological approach seems a good way to achieve this, especially in a somewhat culture independent way (I'm also considering addding a similar comment to WP:History) Personuser (talk) 02:55, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
I have a draft underway for Draft:Thank you (phrase), which I think could be developed into something along the lines of Please, if anyone has ideas for directions for expansion and improvement. Cheers! BD2412 T 06:42, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
- BD2412, I'm surprised we don't have an article on it already; definitely a notable topic (and one that I'm sure has potential for an interesting DYK)! {{u|Sdkb}} talk 16:34, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
- @Sdkb: I promoted this to mainspace earlier today, having expanded the draft somewhat. There is still room for much improvement, but the bones are there. BD2412 T 05:47, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
Most viewed stub in this Wikiproject
Breast Tax 57,257 1,908 Stub--Coin945 (talk) 15:16, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
- Coin945, very interesting! How did you calculate that? The article is clearly more developed than a stub so I recategorized it as start-class. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 16:32, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
Gendered associations of pink and blue
Newly released stub article Gendered associations of pink and blue needs your help in expanding it. Can you lend a hand? Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 20:01, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
- Mathglot, odd that I'm replying to you twice in a row in totally different contexts haha. Anyways, wasn't pink at one point in history associated more with boys? That would make a fantastic DYK fact! {{u|Sdkb}} talk 02:17, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Sdkb:, yah, that is a coincidence! Before we go the DYK route, we really need to nail down whether that was really the case, or not. I thought so too, having read it in more than one place. I alluded to this uncertainty on the TP of the article. Paoletti, who spent 20 years writing her book, seems the most authoritative on the topic, but I only have access to parts of it. The Intro and relevant parts of Chap. 5 are readable online, and give a different view. My personal view, having only come upon this recently, is that there is a fairly complex history and evolution over two centuries and not all uniformly in one direction, which may have led to some over-hasty conclusions among writers having done some research, but not enough. I can't understand why those 19th historians didn't pay more attention to WP:DUE WEIGHT; will have to check my 1865 edition of Ye Olde Wikipaedia and see what they said about it then. We should probably adjourn this to Talk:Gendered associations of pink and blue so others can take part, too. If we could figure out a good DYK out of it, that would be great! Mathglot (talk) 02:53, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
"Gay lifestyle" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Gay lifestyle. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 June 17#Gay lifestyle until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. --Sangdeboeuf (talk) 22:35, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
Task Force page
Hi all,
The task force page for social movements seems like bits of it aren't working (e.g. stats) / dead links (e.g. portal).
Is this an active task force? Jamzze (talk) 19:20, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
Assessing the unassessed
Hello!
Setting about to tackle the large number of unassessed articles (729 as of 2021-June-24) in the scope of sociology. Feel free to join in!
Currently tackling:
0 to C (124 articles)Jamzze (talk) 17:55, 24 June 2021 (UTC)- D to F (96 articles) Jamzze (talk) 20:11, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
- Glad to hear; good luck! {{u|Sdkb}} talk 20:06, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!
Hello, |
Requested move at Talk:First National Population Census of the People's Republic of China#Requested move 14 August 2021
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:First National Population Census of the People's Republic of China#Requested move 14 August 2021 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. —hueman1 (talk • contributions) 13:11, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
Just a friendly reminder we have this nice feature, which lists many discussions such as requested moves or deletions that can use more input. You can also watchlist it! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:56, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
Global chains/networks
I would like to bring closer synergy to the subtly different concepts of Commodity chain, Global value chain (Global supply chain redirects here) and Global care chain. Before we start, are there any other related articles missing, e.g. Global Production Network? ~ Shushugah (talk) 15:54, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
- @Shushugah This project is not very active these days :( Anyway, are you asking whether a merge is needed? I'd say it might be. Did you ask the WikiProject Economics? They may be a bit more active than we are here... (it won't take much, I guess, sigh). Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:56, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
To-do list: Sociological Portal
Just reviewing the to-do list, it mentions to create content for the sociological portal which doesn't exist.
Is this something that is of interest to be created, or has been created and then removed? I assume the society portal is the best one for this project?
The list probably needs this updating either way. Jamzze (talk) 17:57, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
- I've changed this to the society portal. Jamzze (talk) 09:22, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Jamzze Setting aside that this wikiproject is mostly inactive, IMHO all portals are a waste of time, they have next to zero visibility. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:57, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
Merge proposals for Interpersonal attraction
Heads up that there's 2 proposals for merges into Interpersonal attraction. The articles proposed to merge into it are Attractiveness and Chemistry (relationship) (i.e. interpersonal attraction would be the last one standing). Please come give your thoughts at Talk:Interpersonal attraction#Merger proposal. --Xurizuri (talk) 01:30, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
Horizontal mobility
Hi everyone, I've just created the Horizontal mobility article, can someone review this article who has time. 𝗩𝗶𝗸𝗶𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗿 ℣ 15:21, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
Environmental Racism in the US
Hi, all, I will be creating a new Wikipedia article titled "Environmental Racism in the US." The article “Environmental Racism” includes a section on the United States, but a specific article is necessary in order to give a more extensive overview of environmental issues and their unequal effects on different racial groups within the US.
Contributions welcomed at Draft:Naming, Blaming, Claiming
Hi everyone. I know the project is not too active, but if anyone's interested, I've started a draft article on Felstiner, Abel and Sarat's seminal socio-legal article "Naming, Blaming, Claiming" on the transformation of injuries to grievances to (legal) disputes. Any contributions from others are welcomed. Sincerely, InsaneHacker (💬) 14:46, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello, WikiProject,
I don't think this WikiProject is very active but I wanted to bring this draft to your attention in case anyone was interested in working on it. It was due to be deleted in an hour as a CSD G13 stale draft but an editor put a lot of work into it. I'm not a content creator but I think it just needs some finishing off and a fresh pair of eyes from an editor experienced in working on academic biographies. Thanks for any help you can offer. Liz Read! Talk! 02:00, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
- I forgot to check and there is an existing Robert Miles (sociologist) but it's basically a stub with a bibliography. Liz Read! Talk! 02:08, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
- edited to avoid deletion, but needs to be merged. DGG ( talk ) 06:07, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
- Hey, @Liz I think it's gonna be great to merge them because @VersaceSpace's draft includes good content. 𝗩𝗶𝗸𝗶𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗿 ℣ 15:16, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
Sociology of small groups
Hi everybody, I've created the Sociology of small groups article. 𝗩𝗶𝗸𝗶𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗿 ℣ 18:22, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
Merger proposal: Organizational studies & Organization studies
Please visit Talk:Organizational studies § Merger discussion, November 2021 to discuss the proposed merger of Organizational studies and Organization studies. Thanks! Biogeographist (talk) 01:45, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
Proposed redirect: Race and crime→Race and crime in the United States
A redirect proposal that may interest members of this project is taking place at Talk:Race and crime § Propose redirect to Race and crime in the United States. ––FormalDude talk 11:12, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
Black Matriarchy
Hi, just getting in touch to draw your attention to this article, which I came across while I was resolving or removing "by whom" tags. I am no kind of expert on this topic, but when I googled "black matriarchy" in google scholar, the majority of articles referred to it as a myth, and a racist myth at that. As it stands the idea is presented in the article as if it were an established consensus with little criticism. If there is anybody here with some expertise on this topic, a complete rewrite might be in order.
"Summary relative" article
I'm deeply confused as to what the article Summary relative is saying.★Trekker (talk) 17:18, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
Discussion to unprotect Guy Standing (economist)
Talk:Guy Standing (economist) § Extended confirm protection too much? ––FormalDude talk 03:30, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
Notice of WP:DS tags
Hi! I have added a bunch of gender and sexuality discretionary sanction tags to a number of articles, mostly in intersex-related articles and a number of sex/gender difference medical articles as well. Please see my contribution log to see which ones (this is a short, on-going process). Just thought I'd give a notice here. Feel free to discuss the merits of these actions in my talk page, as this has been a WP:BOLD edit and I am very open to discussing/reverting these changes. Santacruz ⁂ Please ping me! 12:06, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!
Hello, |
One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!
Hello, |
Church and sect typology
Here a discussion on the Weberian distinction between church and sect. Gitz (talk) (contribs) 13:48, 27 January 2022 (UTC) Gitz (talk) (contribs) 13:50, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
- I’ve finished working on the article
and here in my sandbox you can find some new contents. Here there’s a draft of the article as it would be if my edits were to be accepted. Help from users with an interest in sociology of religion and/or in Max Weber's thought is very much appreciated! Gitz (talk) (contribs) 16:21, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
- The article is online here. There's wide room for improvement and I'll be grateful for your help. --Gitz (talk) (contribs) 14:07, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi! If anyone wants to help, I'd like some assistance with the article Critique of political economy
Hi!
I'd like some help with the article critique of political economy, I imagine that people here could contribute, especially those interested in the sociology of economics.
Kind regards,
Pauloroboto (talk) 13:28, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
There seems to be a certain lack of consensus at Misandry. So I am asking interested editors at all related wikiprojects if they would care to help in some consensus building. Though editors should be aware that this topic can be divisive. Talpedia (talk) 16:48, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
Discussion about merger Federated state into Federation
An editor has requested for Federated state to be merged into Federation. Since you had some involvement with Federated state or Federation , you might want to participate in the merger discussion (if you have not already done so). Alvdal (talk) 20:39, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
WP:The Core Contest
WP:The Core Contest will take place from April 15 to May 31 this year, in its tenth iteration. It's an exciting contest, running over a period of six weeks, with £250 of prize money for the articles that are most improved. It would be great if we could get participants to improve topics related to the social sciences. Vital articles that participants here may find interesting include Human rights and sexism, both judges to be C-class. Femke (talk) 15:09, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
"Transgender and transsexual" renaming discussion
There is an ongoing discussion concerning renaming "Transgender and transsexual" categories to just "Transgender". The discussion can be found here. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 04:50, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
New stub Everything's Gonna Be All White created
I've created a new stub called Everything's Gonna Be All White. I've added 9 references to the article and have added the infobox as well as the overview, cast, episodes and reception sections, but the article still needs some work like expanding and the episode list reformatted to the correct format. —Mythdon (talk • contribs) 19:30, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
User script to detect unreliable sources
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.
This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
Move discussion in progress
A user has requested that a topic within this WikiProject, Transsexual, be moved to Transsexuality. Interested editors may wish to join the discussion at Talk:Transsexual. Thank you. --Sangdeboeuf (talk) 04:28, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
AfD: Animals in LGBT culture
Looking for peer review of Paul Goodman
Hi all, I'm looking for peer reviews of our article on the American public intellectual Paul Goodman, a major social critic of the 1960s, before the article goes to FAC, if anyone would be so inclined: Wikipedia:Peer review/Paul Goodman/archive1. No prior experience necessary—just want to know how it reads for a general audience, given that the content gets a bit obtuse. czar 19:09, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
Move request at LGBT
A user has requested that a topic within this WikiProject, LGBT, be moved to LGBTQ. Interested editors may wish to join the discussion at Talk:LGBT#Requested move 28 May 2022. Thank you Sideswipe9th (talk) 03:08, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
Growing Up Absurd FAC
Growing Up Absurd, our article on the 1960 book by Paul Goodman, is up for featured article status consideration. Since this WikiProject doesn't get these kind of nominations too often, I thought I'd share the link in case anyone from the project is interested: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Growing Up Absurd/archive1
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Family structure in the United States#Requested move 19 September 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 18:30, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
RFC: Proposed move/renaming of Breast binding to "Chest binding"
A proposal has been made to have Breast binding renamed as "Chest binding". You are invited to participate in this discussion @ Talk:Breast binding#Requested move 2 November 2022. Pyxis Solitary (yak). L not Q. 06:12, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
This topic could be a good candidate to develop into a DYK or GA. Whizz40 (talk) 08:22, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
Self-esteem vs. Self-worth
Need your thoughts on whether these topics should be split articles, at Talk:Self-esteem AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 19:35, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
Feedback about "types" of Communication
Your feedback on "types" of Communication would be helpful at Talk:Communication/Archive 1#Types of communication. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 20:09, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
Disambiguation of links to Interaction
Could you help to disambiguate some of the links to Interaction? This list shows the 200+ articles with links to the disambiguation page. It would help readers to link to a more specific article. Some are sociology related and others biology, physics, mathmatics or other sciences. Any help with sorting these out would be appreciated.— Rod talk 12:41, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
WP:LABOR edit-a-thon
Please consider joining the closely related WikiProject WP:LABOR Edit-a-thon Wikipedia:WikiProject Organized Labour/Online edit-a-thon February 2023. ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 21:09, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
Feedback on Human behavior
I'm trying to expand Human behavior, and I could use some feedback on its scope and what areas need to be expanded the most. I've also asked for feedback at WP:PSYCH, but I figure there might be other users here that could provide input. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 22:58, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tri-Ess
Noting Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tri-Ess here, as the nom claims that the organization, which represents cross-dressers, is transphobic. Comments would be appreciated. Historyday01 (talk) 02:58, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
Discussion at Talk:Lists of LGBT figures in fiction and myth
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Lists of LGBT figures in fiction and myth#Expansion of LGBT figures in fiction and myth page, asking how to expand the "Lists of LGBT figures in fiction and myth" page so as to more fully encompass topics about LGBT characters and media within the scope of "fiction and myth", which is within the scope of this WikiProject. Thanks! Historyday01 (talk) 17:24, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
RFC on whether citing maps and graphs is original research
Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#RFC on using maps and charts in Wikipedia articles. Rschen7754 19:05, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
Category:Anti-white racism has been nominated for discussion
Category:Anti-white racism has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. 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. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 08:58, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
Good article reassessment for Acting white
Acting white has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 21:39, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
Good article reassessment for African Americans in Omaha, Nebraska
African Americans in Omaha, Nebraska has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 22:10, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class=
parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.
No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.
However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom
parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 14:22, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
For quality reviews in Transnational authoritarianism
Sorry for leaving the messages for discuss issues on Transnational authoritarianism about orginal reaserch problem,as the local memmber suggest it should geting WIKIPROJECT involved
The party in the case is well known in zhwiki communities for long of violatimg rules and acting like Wolf warrior,that keep on ideological battles and conflicts for no end with anyone against it. Those matters could be comfirmed by other memmbers in zhwiki communities if they could well defend the complicated annoying and unwanted contacts, attacks, intimidation from this user.
I would be ok for local professional memmbers to assist the topics,but as I have reported locally,the pattern of the user could make anyone involing the processes suffer,I suggest the parties of communties should holding enough strong mental powers for the matters. Longway22 (talk) 10:04, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
2022 Peruvian political crisis move discussion
An editor has requested for 2022 Peruvian political crisis to be moved to another page. Since you had some involvement with 2022 Peruvian political crisis, you might want to participate in the move discussion (if you have not already done so).--WMrapids (talk) 00:50, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
CfD for Indian subcontinent descent categories
Please see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_May_23#Indian_ancestors_by_region —Lights and freedom (talk ~ contribs) 00:39, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
Missing article: Socio-politics
Please see: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Politics#Missing article: Socio-politics. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 12:41, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:LGBT#Requested move 5 June 2023
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:LGBT#Requested move 5 June 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 13:28, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
It looks like there is ZERO activity on this WikiProject but just in case there are editors who still read messages posted here, it was recommended by DGG a while ago that this draft be merged into a general article on the history of sociology. If you are interested in a merger project, please have at it. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 03:46, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
RfC
An RfC which may be of interest to the members of this project can be found here. Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:58, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
Witchcraft: Requested move
There's a discussion about moving the article Witchcraft to Witchcraft (classical) and moving Witchcraft (disambiguation) to Witchcraft instead, at Talk:Witchcraft#Requested move 19 July 2023. Esowteric + Talk + Breadcrumbs 07:22, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
Good article reassessment for Sociology
Sociology has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 23:26, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
Notification of 'Welsh Revolt' move discussion
Helô! I have opened a discussion at Welsh Revolt about moving the article to 'Glyndŵr Rebellion'. If you would like to participate please do so, particularly if you are familiar with Welsh history. Diolch, A.D.Hope (talk) 21:21, 30 July 2023 (UTC)