User:AlasdairEdits/WikiProject Human rights(draft)

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Human rights. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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Title
WikiProject on Human rights

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Scope
Our scope is each and every Wikipedia article that concerns Human rights, be it Natural/Unalienable/Inalienable/Civil or any other sort of Rights.

For assessment of importance of human rights articles see importance assessment criteria.

Parentage
WikiProject Human rights stands aside from other WikiProjects, but it is most related, of course to WikiProject Law, WikiProject International law, and, to lesser degree, to Wikipedia:WikiProject Anti war movements and ideologies

Related Wikiportals
WikiProject Human rights maintains Portal:Human rights.

Related pages in Sister projects

 * Commons:Human Rights
 * Human rights
 * Human rights
 * Human rights
 * Human rights
 * Human rights
 * Human rights
 * Human rights

Participants
Feel free to add yourself with the template - ~. User0 shows a talk link.
 * Lucinor
 * BlueLankan
 * Evrik
 * Todeswalzer
 * Ikasawak
 * NinaOdell
 * Mostlyharmless
 * Taprobanus
 * WJBscribe
 * SebastianHelm
 * Futurebird
 * Scarykitty
 * Sephui 09:51, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Rayis
 * Freechild
 * Drakein
 * Cgingold
 * Glider88 11:23, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * tkn20
 * Cailil  talk
 * Phyesalis
 * Grrrlriot
 * Shruti14 t c s 04:37, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * IdiotSavant
 * 22:11, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Juice07
 * Tyciol (talk) 05:52, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Timeshifter
 * --Cdestree (talk) 20:25, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * JavierMCTalk
 * El cangri386
 * Watabak
 * nadodi
 * Wiki Raja
 * Jrtayloriv
 * Autoplay91
 * Wallie (talk) 09:20, 27 April 2009 (UTC) Promoting inter cultural awareness.
 * - For a more knowledgeable and relaxed Wikipedia - 11:06, 6 June 2009 (UTC) Human rights for all.
 * 22:08, 6 July 2009 (UTC) LGBT human rights
 * - Templates and Categories; Vandal Patrol - Mjquin_id (talk) 17:45, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Tlongers
 * Crtew
 * Crtew

Goals

 * 1) To create separate, structured, greatly-written Wikipedia segment pertaining to Human rights.

Adopt an article
Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.
 * Example article: User:Example
 * Reproductive rights: User:Phyesalis
 * International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: User:IdiotSavant
 * International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance: User:IdiotSavant
 * Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: User:IdiotSavant

General strategy and discussion forums

 * /General
 * /Strategy

Infoboxes

 * e.g.
 * Infobox Human rights

Navigation templates

 * Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
 * Human rights
 * International human rights legal instruments
 * International human rights organizations
 * Particular human rights
 * rights

Stub templates

 * e.g. {{Humanrights-stub
 * {{tl|Humanrights-stub}}
 * and the associated stub category Category:Human rights stubs

Other templates

 * WikiProject Human rights
 * or
 * User Human Rights Project - userbox

Categories

 * Category:Human rights

Wikipedia articles on Human rights

 * Human rights

Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Human rights

 * Human rights

New Wikipedia articles related to Human rights
Please feel free to list your new Human rights-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

 * Requested moves:
 * Requests for Comments:

Votes for deletion

 * Articles for deletion
 * Deletion review:
 * Templates for deletion:
 * Categories for deletion:
 * Miscellany for deletion:
 * Images for deletion:
 * Redirects for deletion:
 * Proposed deletion:
 * Images for deletion:
 * Redirects for deletion:
 * Proposed deletion:

WikiProject Deletion sorting
WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The Human rights-related articles at VFD are listed at WikiProject Deletion sorting/Human rights.

Requests

 * Human rights in Canada
 * Please move the article Female Genital Cutting to Female Genital Mutilation, this name is correct and encyclopedic, as you see in WHO and UN's articles. Thanks--Taranet (talk) 17:58, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Please assign initial rating to a newly created article Committee of Concerned Scientists. Since I created the article myself, I'd prefer if someone else assigned the rating. Thanks, Nsk92 (talk) 08:59, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Can someone please check Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women against the Good Article criteria? I'm thinking of noming it, but want someone to take a look first to avoid embarassment.  --IdiotSavant (talk) 12:34, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Can someone please come to War crimes committed by the United States and try to help come up with a valid definition of "war crime"? There is an editor there whose position is essentially "nothing is a war crime, if it was committed by the U.S.", and he has already changed the definition of war crime during an earlier edit conflict, so that he could say that something that fit the definition was not a "war crime" (Haditha killings). The fact that My Lai and a few crimes from World War II are the only "war crimes" ever committed by the U.S. according to this article, should speak to the need for work to be done to improve it. I think once we've gotten a solid definition down, we can avoid stupid conflicts like "(A) That's not a war crime, because I say so. (B) But the definition in the lead says it is. (A) Well now that I've changed the definition, it no longer fits the definition, so it's not a war crime anymore." Jrtayloriv (talk) 21:15, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Resources
At the moment the Washington University in St. Louis [Film and Media Archive] has a collection of interview transcripts that might useful as resources covering the civil rights movement in america until 1965. In the coming months, interviews covering the period from 1965-1985 will become available. The interviews were conducted in the 1980s. These might be useful in providing clearer personal perspectives, and accounts from both big names in particular civil rights struggles and smaller community perspectives from within the movement. Here's the link [Eyes on the Prize (episodes 1-6) interview transcripts] Tychoish (talk) 15:45, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Archives

 * #1

Sister Project links
fr:Projet:Droits de l'homme