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Good article reassessment for Michael Savage

Michael Savage 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. Z1720 (talk) 02:08, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

Request to Revise International Meeting for Autism Research to International Society for Autism Research

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:International Meeting for Autism Research about re-naming the page for the (now-defunct) IMFAR meeting (replaced by the INSAR annual meeting) as the page for INSAR, the autism research professional society itself that ran said meeting and continues to run the annual meeting. This society does not have a page despite similar societies having such pages, and it could be relevant to the project. Your thoughts would be appreciated. DoubleDoctorZack (talk) 21:21, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

I replied. Bluerasberry (talk) 14:54, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_November_14#Identity-first_language_for_autistic_people_categories

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 November 14 § Identity-first language for autistic people categories. -- Elcalebo (talk) 09:54, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Cooperation proposal

Dear colleagues! Thank you for your work, it is very important and inspires people in other editions to engage in activism and education through Wikipedia. I coordinate a similar project in the Basque Wikipedia and would be very happy to collaborate with you. Eliatxo (talk) 19:49, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

Kaixo! I'd love to discuss that with you. I'm very interested in the Basque country, where I've spent a bit of time, and more generally in the project of translating ideas about autism into different languages. Oolong (talk) 11:47, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Ongoing dispute in the Wikipedia page on Autism

I recently went through the current version of the Wikipedia article on Autism , and I found that this article is NOT representing the reality or encyclopedic wholeness. The huge, verbose, highly technical article is biased towards medical model of disability, medical genetics, and nearly zero information regarding the anthropology, evolution, neurodiversity, accommodation, accessibility, Augmentative and alternative communications, and all that actually helps wellbeing of Autistic people. The page boldly focuses on controversial methods such as ABA, such as EIBI (Early intensive behavioral interventions), DTT (discrete trial training) etc. without any mention of the concerns or criticisms against them. I entered the talk page, but it has been turned literally into a warzone, where any dissenting viewpoint is being silenced in name of "global and unanimous scientific consensus" which is simply wrong. It is mostly a view held by biomedical and pharmaceutical majority. But outside of that, opposing viewpoints do exist in actual Autistic populations (who have the lived experience), anthropology, sociology, psychology, etc. I added an "unbalanced" tag for reader information (I did not speak for complete erasure of controversial viewpoints, just needed the reader to know that there are other views), however the "unbalanced" tag was soon reverted.

It is not possible for me to daily attend and post arguments and counter-arguments. I have to acknowledge that, if this kind of silencing continues, this time Wikipedia literally failed as an encyclopedia, as well it failed at public health and education welfare perspective.

RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 05:41, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

@RIT RAJARSHI: You might like this article -

• Murray, Fergus (24 November 2024). "How Wikipedia Systematically Misleads People About Autism". THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM.

Bluerasberry (talk) 14:35, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. I have already saw that article and I liked it very much. RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 14:50, 13 December 2024 (UTC)