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Articles of particular concern
Two OCAD-related articles I’m particularly concerned about are Inclusive Design Research Centre and Jutta Treviranus, due to their strange writing style, often confusing punctuation, imprecise citations, and often inappropriate wikifications. I probably actually know the author in real life, but I have no idea who that is. (On the other hand, because of the user name I picked, the author of these articles most likely knows who I am.)

Two editing-related articles I’m concerned about are American Copy Editors Society and Society for Editors and Proofreaders. These are extremely well known organizations in copy editing circles and I find it insulting for Wikipedia to tag them as “may not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines” and this just goes on to show how Wikipedia’s so-called notability requirement and its reference requirements to be actively harmful.

Three graphic design–related articles of particular concern are Icograda and Society of Graphic Designers of Canada, and to a lesser extent AIGA. Although the AIGA article is actually in the worst shape, it is the other two that are in much more serious trouble as they have been insultingly tagged as looking like advertisements. The Icograda article on the French Wikipedia is also in terrible shape.

The new Société des designers graphiques du Québec is now on the endangered list. The problem is, of course, that while SDGQ is clearly extremely important (especially within the political climate of Canada), online references to SDGQ is close to non-existent. Everyone in the graphic design circle just knows it’s important. Okay. So my usual rant: The reference and notability requirements are just there to marginalize already-marginalized cultures. I’m not even from that culture… sheesh…

Miscellaneous
I have removed an entire paragraph from Albert Kai-Wing Ng because it was a straight copy-and-paste job: That paragraph will need to be rewritten. The unsightly citation complaint will also need to be removed, but cannot be done until two very difficult to verify things (where he’s living right now and that his name is in Canadian Who's Who 100th edition) can be verified: The former is hard to check because he’s no longer a part of RGD and so the RGD Designer Directory is of no use (and he hasn’t put any information in the GDC designer directory, and the fact that he’s a sessional at York does not prove he’s living in the city because many sessional profs live out of town), and the latter is hard to check because while it’s trivial to verify that he’s in Canadian Who’s Who it’s not straightforward to verify that it is in the 100th edition that he first appeared.

I am of course also concerned about the main OCAD University and Université de l’École d’art et de design de l’Ontario articles, but those articles, as spotty as they are, are still in a much better shape than the two new ones.

There is no Société des designers graphiques du Canada article on the French Wikipedia. Someone should probably fix this.