Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/open tasks

These are the open tasks for the Wikiproject Countering systemic bias. Articles are listed thematically, and then by the type of assistance requested. An article stub for a feminist author would thus be found under the "Requests for expansion" section under Women's Studies.

Themes are divided into four stages: non-existent, stubby, identifiably flawed and satisfactory. "Requested articles" are pages that are entirely missing from Wikipedia. A little bit of research on the web is normally enough to write a stub. Be sure to move the list entry to the relevant section once you are done. Articles that are stubby, or otherwise lacking in content, may be found under "Requests for expansion". If something in particular is missing, such as a university article with a long list of alumni but little historical background, be sure to say so when you enter it. "Requests for review" is for articles that are of decent length but need more attention. A need for a copyedit or for a fact check by a knowledgeable reader are appropriate reasons to ask for review.

Once an article has passed through the various stages of this process it may be placed under the Satisfactory section. Satisfactory articles are well-rounded, long enough to cover the topic in reasonable detail, and lack any major flaws. They are not expected to be perfect.

This open tasks list is intended to be a complement to the various Wikipedia features such as Cleanup, Requests for expansion, Pages needing attention and peer review, and you are encouraged to add articles from this list to those pages. Many articles on this page may also be good candidates for Collaboration of the week or the Article improvement drive. If you find a particularly good article in a CSB-related area, by all means nominate it as a Featured Article candidate.

If you feel an article is neglected due to systemic bias, feel free to add it to an appropriate section or even to start a new section below. Sections describing perceived biases that do not include articles are placed at the bottom of the page. If no articles are placed within the section within a month, it will be assumed that the objection is not actionable and the section will be removed.

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Geography


Wikipedia has major holes in its geographic coverage primarily in Africa, but also Asia and South America.

Countries for improvement
The countries below have been identified as those most in need of work. They are accompanied by some online resources that may be useful in contributing to the articles. If a user feels that a country article has progressed to the level where it may be replaced by another, please seek consensus on the talk page.


 * 1) Benin (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Porto-Novo, Cotonou
 * 2) Republic of the Congo (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Brazzaville
 * 3) The Gambia (see Category BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Banjul
 * 4) Guinea (see Category), Conakry
 * 5) Kyrgyzstan (see Category), Bishkek
 * 6) Mozambique (see Category), Maputo
 * 7) Myanmar/Burma (see Category), Yangon and Naypyidaw
 * 8) Niger (see Category); Niamey
 * 9) Suriname (see Category), Paramaribo
 * 10) Tajikistan (see Category), Dushanbe
 * 11) Togo (see Category), Lomé
 * 12) Turkmenistan (see Category), Ashgabat
 * See also:WikiProject Latin America countries

Translations of any appropriate articles in the French or Portuguese Wikipedia can be requested on Translation into English - though some articles are actually shorter in the foreign language version. For materials not in Wikipedia, but available in electronic form, you could contact an appropriate individual at Translators available.

Missing geography articles
The following articles are about important geographical regions in the non-English-speaking world.


 * Northeast Africa - The region encompasses Egypt, Sudan and Horn of Africa and is missing completely from Wikipedia while other regions are available, suspecting racial bias as editors have been vandalizing sources referring to that region for fear of linking Egypt to Sub-Saharan African countries.

Developing World
All aspects of the "developing world", primarily in Africa, but also Asia and South America.

Requested Developing World articles

 * See also: List of missing Africa topics, List of missing Middle Eastern topics, List of missing Oceania topics, List of conflicts in Africa


 * Comorian Secession Crisis
 * Cascade Arpenaz
 * Ramshila Hill
 * List of missing Latin American topics, List of missing South Asian topics
 * Panhogiao or Panho Bridge (one source)
 * Phra Phutthos a 12th-century bridge in Cambodia (one source)
 * At the bottom of this page is a template showing the African countries that have an article about women in that country. Many are red links as of May 2011
 * Women in Benin
 * Women in Botswana
 * Women in Zambia
 * Women in Burkina Faso
 * Women in Burundi
 * Women in Cameroon
 * Women in Central African Republic
 * Women in Chad
 * Women in Republic of the Congo
 * Women in Djibouti
 * Women in Equatorial Guinea
 * Women in Eritrea
 * Women in Gabon
 * Cebuano Wikipedia redirects to List of Wikipedias; it has the second-most articles, nearly equalling the English Wikipedia
 * Underwater Waterfall a famous sandfall off the coast of Mauritius (potentially reliable source)

Requests for expansion of Developing World articles

 * History of South America – Brief and sketchy, nothing between 1820s and 1950s (as of May 2011)
 * Bartolina Sisa, major indigenous revolt leader. Stub as of May 2011.
 * Túpac Katari, major indigenous revolt leader. Stub as of May 2011.
 * Pablo Zarate→Willka, major indigenous revolt leader. Stub as of May 2011.
 * Katarismo, influential political movement. Stub/start as of May 2011.
 * Amrit Kumar Bohara, a leader of Communist uprising in Nepal.
 * Étienne Nzabonimana, Samuel Ndashyikirwa- were on trial for the Rwandan genocide.
 * Nepalese Civil War Not comprehensive; largely a timeline.
 * Gustavo Noboa - former Ecuadorian president.
 * Floribert Ndjabu, Nationalist and Integrationist Front's militia leader in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who was arrested for the killing of nine Bangladeshi UN peacekeepers. (Reuters AlertNet) (BBC)
 * Sami Nair es:Sami Naïr French-Algerian scholar, known for his concept of codevelopment
 * Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation – Algerian Charter supported at referendum, October 2005
 * Kintampo &mdash; archaeological site of major historical interest in Ghana. Ceramic Late Stone Age cultural complex dating around fourth millennium BP. Sometimes thought to be the first agriculturalist settlement in West Africa. Also known for its waterfalls.
 * New Halfa Scheme &mdash; scheme located in the Kassala state of Sudan where housing and work was provided by the Sudanian government for Nubians from the inundated areas around Wadi Halfa. The forced resettlement raised much controversy.
 * Yasuni National Park, in Ecuador. "Yasuní may well be the single most biodiverse forest on earth," state some of the world's leading biologists, including Jane Goodall, E.O. Wilson and Stuart Pimm, in a February 2005 letter to the president of Ecuador.
 * Media of Africa
 * Union of Forces for Change, opposition party in Togo
 * 2000 Mozambique flood Humanitarian disaster with many online resources, but short page so far
 * Afghan parliamentary election, 2005 I expanded it from stub to what it is now in the past two days, but it still lacks any candidate information or political analysis (how much power will the parliament have? What is the expected political colour? How reliable will the results be? etc.)
 * Ali Hassan Mwinyi Former Tanzanian president but little analysis of his reign in power
 * Andean states A very neglected article for an entire important region of the world. --14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Benjamin Mkapa Tanzanian president could do with more detail
 * Commission for Africa - started by Tony Blair to provide new impetus for development. --29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Culture of Afghanistan
 * Culture of Iraq currently (26 Nov 2004) a pitiful stub
 * Expanded slightly since then. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 13:58, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Nepalese government party
 * Cultural appropriation needs expansion, broadening outside Western concerns
 * Famines in Ethiopia Major media event. One of the few events to actually catch Western attention, renamed 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia
 * Converted Ethiopian famine from redirect into article, providing a brief introduction & a list of famines since 1535. (Note: at the moment, I don't have access to information for the period 1801-1880.) -- llywrch 00:18, 10 September 2005 (UTC) As of May 2011, this list is rated B Class (failed featured list nomination)
 * First Sudanese Civil War, article begun but few specifics
 * Futa Tooro, on the recent changes list, Senegalese tribal group
 * Gacaca courts are made up of the common people to prosecute the Rwandan genocide perpetrators. Witnesses, survivors, etc. participate. see . -- little stub created, help expand!--Dmcdevit 05:07, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC) --As of May 2011 this is no longer a stub & is rated C Class.
 * Also, the inyangamugayo are the common citizens elected as judges. --Dmcdevit 02:57, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Guinea-Bisseau Civil War
 * History of Africa Article is very poor on African in the 20th Century, just an incomplete list of events. The article also needs to be reduced in size, and some child articles set up for the periods
 * History of North Africa extremely spotty coverage of some periods, 20th century section only talks about Suez canal
 * International development Huge topic, very little on this in Wikipedia anywhere
 * Jamaican cuisine just a stub about a fairly well-known cuisine
 * María Lionza should be a challenging topic to research, but is also a very interesting one.
 * Cinema of Nigeria, massively popular (particularly in Africa) but only a stub As of May 2011 it's rated B Class by WikiProject Nigeria.
 * Pan-African Parliament OK, it exists only since September 16th{{Year needed|date=March 2014}, but we should have an article on this...
 * Parishes of Jamaica the 14 main regions of Jamaica have only a handful of stubs
 * Politics of South Africa Poor article considering the ongoing difficulty of transition to stable, free and prosperous post apartheid state.
 * Prime Minister of Uganda needs info on the role and also some of its other office holder. TreveXtalk 00:21, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Recreational drug use in Kenya. Got attention in The New York Times article for its poor condition. Terse, mostly unreferenced, narrowly focuses on heroin, lacks historical context and statistics. I've done what I can, but it's well outside my specialty. Neon  Merlin  07:56, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Salif Keita One of the best known Mali musicians has a small article
 * Sarcade The article is on an exotic little town in Somalia with 25,000 inhabitants. Would be a real challenge to expand it.
 * Sétif and Guelma massacre Created but could use expansion; a major incident of Algerian history.
 * Tuareg languages - languages of the Tuareg, stub
 * Vietnamese television could really use some attention from someone who is familiar with the topic or who can read the VTV website and other information sources that are available only in Vietnamese. I have looked on the Vietnamese Wikipedia but couldn't find any articles that looked like they might provide useful info upon translation, so it looks like we are on our own. Article should probably also be moved to Television in Vietnam. - AdelaMae (talk - contribs) 21:20, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
 * It redirects to Vietnam Television, which is a television channel. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 03:01, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Budhia Singh - The "Forest Gump of India" has recently completed a 65km run at the age of 4. He is a hero to many of the poorest people in India.
 * Kunjin virus
 * Rita Lobato was the first woman to practice medecine in Brazil. This is still a stub as of May 2011.
 * Shuozhou (in China)
 * Red Flag Canal (Hongqi Canal) (in China)
 * Zambezi Escarpment (in Zimbabwe)
 * Federico Errázuriz Zañartu 8th president of Chile has a 3 sentence stub Cloveapple (talk) 05:49, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
 * José Joaquín Pérez the 7th president of Chile has a 2 sentence stub. Cloveapple (talk) 06:06, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

Request for review/attention of Developing World articles

 * HIV/AIDS in Africa As of May 2011 more citations are needed. Also I saw a mention in the AIDS Wikiproject that the article could use a discussion of AIDS's effects on women. Can anybody more familiar with the topic take a look and comment on what the article needs? Cloveapple (talk) 17:33, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
 * African Union
 * African slave trade, merged into "Slavery in Africa" article, a subtopic of the redirect's title, which may cover much more than just slavery in Africa
 * African National Congress Again a poor article for such a significant organisation
 * Languages of Africa
 * African diaspora A big, big group of people.
 * Yellow Emperor Important Chinese mythological character. It should be as long as the article on Zeus for example
 * Poverty in Africa - This article needs to condsider the structural causes and external causes of poverty in Africa. The continent is not an island. This would includes multilateral agreements, neo-liberal policies, unfair trade agreements (it does an excellent job at covering internal causes, but it read very biased since that is all it does.
 * Poverty reduction
 * First Ivorian Civil War
 * Execution of Saddam Hussein -- Lack of sources other than main US and UK news outlets such as CNN or BBC. US-sources dominate the article, and this reflects in the tone. Would need an array of both independent and international sources. A number of non-US non-UK sources have been added as of May 2011
 * Settler colonialism - completely missing references As of May 2011 it has some references and a bunch of unreferenced stuff got moved to the talk page. Still needs work. Some sections are just placeholders with no actual writing. Cloveapple (talk) 18:36, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Tripoli hmm... apparently Tripoli is one of those ancient cities that used to exist but its history stopped after 1911. Oh yeah, and it doesn't have any geography, culture, politics/government, economy, demographics, recreation, transportation, all that good stuff. Quite depressing. --Dmcdevit 18:58, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC) As of May 2011 some more recent stuff has been added but it's still C Class and needs work.
 * First Congo War and Second Congo War Work needed on intros for both and First in particular could use some expansion. BanyanTree 20:39, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Rwandan genocide - The French version spans several articles.
 * Páll has translated the French and created subpages and a navigation template, but the subpages could do with a copyedit, and content needs to be organized between the main and sub-pages. - BanyanTree 21:33, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * PS: also Initial events of the Rwandan Genocide per CSBOT template --Dmcdevit 00:45, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Ethio–Somali War – now redirects to "Ogaden War", could do with some work putting it into the context of both History of Somalia and History of Ethiopia
 * Politics of Uganda - a lot of copy/pasted stuff. Not very good. Tidied up but still needs some more depth, especially given recent developments re. political pluralism in Uganda. TreveXtalk 12:22, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Thomas Sankara A major African leader for many African people.
 * Arsen Kotsoyev, Ossetian writer and journalist, the article is a candidate for "Translation of the Week", but its English version needs to be reviewed by a native speaker of English. -- Slavik IVANOV 15:37, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Done (but leaving it open in case I missed something) --Nimlot 20:58, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Zimbabwe Republic Police, currently horribly pro-government POV. the wub  "?/!"  10:04, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Seems to have been fixed adequately for a little while now. --Dpr 06:22, 9 November 2005 (UTC)


 * List of populated places in Afghanistan This article is HUGE! I put it up for deletion and no consensus has been reached so far making an automatic keep. Someone suggested that it be submitted to Systemic bias so it could be a kind of to do list. --Banana04131 19:47, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Alcoholism luckily only affects people in N. America. Rich  Farmbrough 15:59 7  March 2006 (UTC). I spoke to Rich Farmbrough and he said the bias was "mostly" edited away but that "It should still touch on the alcohol problems in post-communist Russia, and the treatment, self-help and diagnosis have a Western bent, but nothing like what it was 5 years ago." Cloveapple (talk) 06:59, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Korean War The editorial bias in this article needs be corrected. (Postdoc 04:48, 12 August 2007 (UTC)).
 * Africa - there is an ongoing problem with an editor who wants to blank out all mention of the Ethiopian famine in 1984, in which almost a million Africans perished, for obviously political reasons because the facts are inconvenient and make Marxism–Leninism look bad. This cannot be tolerated and the continuous edit warring needs to stop.  Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 12:46, 8 June 2008 (UTC) As of May 2011 the famine is mentioned.Cloveapple (talk) 16:40, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Groupuscule's userspace list of articles formerly citing Third World Traveler, now in need of attention
 * Donghak Peasant Revolution This article has been edited by a single South Korean user (myself), AWB, three non-AWB users, and bots since January 8 2013, with 267 of 290 edits being made by the single South Korean user. I would not have sent Jimbo something like this if somebody else than me was editing it.
 * Lavdrim Muhaxheri The Lavdrim Muhaxheri biography article needs to be reviewed for NPOV, bias and libel, which has become an issue in recent versions.KewinRozzKewinRozz (talk) 11:23, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Cyber Anakin No problems in the present though concerns abound that perspective biases against non-Anglosphere and some sub-cultural perspectives (hacking) will be made serious if a re-write with trimming goes through. Refer to this discussion. May apply to other Anonymous and cybersecurity related articles. 92.118.112.116 (talk) 21:03, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Contents have since been restored and expanded as of mid-June 2024, but not before it became a wider incident with news coverages such as this and this. The page still need to be monitored in case of any further untoward incidents. Please refer to this talk page discussion for further information.38.99.82.242 (talk) 09:52, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

Satisfactory Developing World articles

 * Yoweri Museveni was a featured article.
 * Second Congo War has been up for peer review and failed a FAC nomination, somewhat narrowly.
 * Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla - not sure if Mexico is in the "developing world", but this man is an absolute legend in Mexico, and his article is embarrassingly short. Batmanand | Talk 23:19, 16 September 2006 (UTC) This is now B Class. Cloveapple (talk) 18:57, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Ringley Old Bridge Seems to be a historic bridge in England?? Is there another with this name somewhere else? Or was this added to the list by accident?Cloveapple (talk) 13:34, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
 * since there was a picture i made it. class ii structure, notable. if anything adds to bias of anglophile old stonework.Slowking4 (talk) 15:20, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Featured Developing World articles

 * Ketuanan Melayu -

Requested articles

 * Alice Beard
 * Virginia Berresford
 * Jessie Benton Evans (1866–1954) her granddaughter, Jessie Benton Evans, was also an artist
 * Irene Clark (1927–1984)
 * Anna Findlay (1885–1968)
 * Mary Beth Fogerty (1948– )


 * Enid Grierson (c.1906–??)
 * Elisabetta Gut (1934– )
 * Beverly Hallam (1923– )
 * Myra K. Hughes (1884–1918)
 * Georgia Mills Jessup (1926–2016)
 * Margaret Kemp-Welch (c.1880–1968)
 * Tàigǔ (a Chinese drum and possible predecessor to taiko)


 * The Beauty Myth, a review of Western ideals of corporeal beauty, how that contrasts with those of other cultures, and effects of acculturation. I moved the article that was there on the Naomi Wolf book to The Beauty Myth.  Beauty myth now redirects there.  The blue link here should not be taken to mean that someone has started an article on the concept apart from Wolf's book.  Jkelly 07:43, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Requests for expansion

 * See also: Category:Art stubs, Category:Artist stubs, Category:Art organization stubs, Pages needing attention/Culture and Arts


 * Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876–1973)
 * Gertrude Hermes (1901–1983) Stub as of May 2011.
 * Françoise Gilot (1921–) As of May 2011: more than a stub but doesn't say anything about her artistic work
 * Judith Godwin (1930– ) Stub as of May 2011
 * Natalia Goncharova (1881–1962) Start Class as of May 2011. Needs more inline citations.
 * Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880–1980) Not rated but I'd call it Start Class as of May 2011 Cloveapple (talk) 03:21, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Ethel Léontine Gabain (1883–1950) Could use a light edit to merge some ultra small sections. Cloveapple (talk) 18:08, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Clyde Connell (1902–1998) Stub as of May 2011.
 * Mary Emily Eaton (1873–1961) As of May 2011, it's start class
 * Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) As of May 2011, it's a stub. No longer a stub, but still needs expansion as of December 2019.
 * Marina Núñez del Prado (1912–1995) As of May 2011, it's start class
 * Virginia Berresford (1902–1995) As of May 2011, it's a stub.
 * Mirella Bentivoglio (1922–2017) As of May 2011, it's a stub.
 * Young-ja Cho (1951– ) Created a brief stub on this sculptor - can't find anything else on the web with any substance though. Still a stub in May 2011.
 * Surojana Sethabutra (1956– ) contemporary Thai ceramicist. This is a stub in May 2001.
 * Sybil Gibson (1908–1995) - created a page on this artist - I'll expand it when I have time, as there is plenty of info on the web. Could do with a picture of some description though if anyone with more technical know-how than myself can look at it. TicketMan - Talk - contribs 15:18, 23 December 2007 (UTC) As of May 2011 it has a picture but needs some more citations.
 * Frida Baranek (1961– )
 * Nell Blaine (1922–1996)
 * Karen T. Borchers (1957– )
 * Caroline Durieux (1896–1989)
 * Katharine Cameron (1874–1968)
 * Louisa Chase (1951–2006)
 * Joan Danziger (1934– )
 * Dale DeArmond (1914–2006)
 * Ursula Fookes (1906–1991)
 * Patricia Tobacco Forrester (1940–2011)
 * Harmony Hammond (1934– )
 * Anna Gardell-Ericson (1853–1939)
 * Ruth Gikow (1915–1982)
 * Nancy Grossman (1940– )
 * Lilian Westcott Hale (1881–1963)
 * Marcia Gygli King (1931–2011)
 * Connie Imboden (1953– )
 * National Gallery of Thailand, Bangkok

Requests for review/attention

 * The arts and Art need a lot of whole lot of work. There are also several open questions about categorization - see their talk pages.  Clubmarx 17:48, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)
 * Chord (music) and Interval (music) have both been described as Eurocentric and are specifically biased towards European classical music. Hyacinth 19:53, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Physical attractiveness and Facial symmetry articles purport to be universal but appear to perpetuate Western aesthestic ideals of physical beauty.
 * Red squirrel, at least a section on conservation is written from an almost entirely UK-centric point of view. -- Eleassar [[Image:Slovenia flag 300.png|20px]] my talk 10:03, 28 August 2005 (UTC) The article is on a UK species. As of May 2011 there's a redirect to the US species.Cloveapple (talk) 17:39, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Harp, Lyre, Flute, Drum and Musical notation are all eurocentric and need to be split into a general part with a globalized view and special articles on special European forms of the topic. This is probably also true for other music-related articles (I am currently checking this). Nannus 18:12, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Harp Looks like there's been an attempt to make it more global but sections on Africa, Asia, and Latin America need expansion and references. Cloveapple (talk) 05:30, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Lyre has a "Lyres around the world" section that's only a list of links. (Looks like a useful list and could form the start of a separate list article but it doesn't balance the fully written text of other sections.) Cloveapple (talk) 05:30, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Flute covers a number of regional variations now, with "western concert flutes" just one variation among many. Chinese and Japanese sections could use expansion and a picture. Cloveapple (talk) 05:42, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Drum looks satisfactory now. (A music expert might see more that needs doing.) Cloveapple (talk) 05:55, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
 * My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (2010 film) seems to be written from the perspective of the producer/director.

Women and women's studies


Increasing number and quality of biographies of women, issues regarding women or under-covered topics of interest to women, as well as improving Wikilinks, categorization, etc. regarding women.


 * See also articles listed at WikiProject Gender Studies, WikiProject Feminism and WikiProject_Women's_History. Note that Wikipedia Gender gap task force additionally encourages more women to start and keep editing Wikipedia.

Requested articles

 * Many requests for female biographies can be found at List of missing Africa topics.
 * Ongoing, redlinks from List of feminists,
 * Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Karen TenEyck - postponed - added references
 * Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Tammy Gillis - postponed - added references
 * Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Cathleen Miller - postponed - added references
 * Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Christiane Lemieux - postponed - added references
 * Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Alisse Waterston - postponed - added references
 * Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Kathleen Gilje - postponed - added references
 * Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Mary Millben Draft - postponed - added references
 * Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Emma Jane Unsworth - postponed - added references
 * Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Debbie Heald - postponed - added references
 * Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Joy Rose- postponed - removed promotional material
 * Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Reel Women - postponed - added references - submitted - declined
 * Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Brittany Smooch (2) - postponed
 * Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Beverly Bond - postponed - added references
 * Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Karen D. Thompson - postponed
 * Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Margaret Williams - postponed - added references
 * Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Tanja Börzel - postponed

Requests for expansion: biographies

 * Jessie H. Bancroft (1867–1952) was an American educator, a pioneer of physical education
 * Eugénie Potonié-Pierre
 * Anne Koedt (wrote The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm)
 * Kat Cole, CEO of Cinnabon. There are 50 listed American women chief executives, out of 1,800 American chief executives. The article is written and referenced, and is waiting for an AfC reviewer to accept it . Now an article Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 00:31, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Czech feminists Eliška Krásnohorská, Anna Bayerová, Alice Masaryková
 * Sady Doyle, an American feminist journalist for The Guardian and blogger for her Tiger Beatdown blog
 * Gisella Floreanini, alias Amelia Valli, communist, antifascist, minister in the Republic of Ossola, first woman to be a minister in Italy, only member Republic of Ossola government to rejoin the guerrilla rather than flee to Switzerland after it fell to the Nazis, member of parliament after World War II. it:Gisella Floreanini.
 * Rachel Foster Avery, corresponding secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association
 * Marie-Louise Berneri, anarchist writer and activist
 * Marilyn French, American author
 * Doreen Granpeesheh, Autism psychologist and entrepreneur
 * Adrienne Monnier major figure from the 1930s Paris scene
 * Bertha von Suttner, Austrian pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
 * Helen Lynd, American sociologist
 * Judy Chicago arguably the U.S.'s most famous specifically feminist artist
 * Kartini - Indonesian feminist and anti-colonialist
 * Shidzue Katō one of the first post-war feminists in Japan
 * Martha Griffiths, US politician, made sure women were included in the civil rights bill
 * Mary Butts - important modernist writer.
 * Mary Daly major feminist thinker, we have little but a list of publications.
 * Min Jiayin - her work is based on feminist Riane Eisler's
 * Rosalind Miles very important women's history author, wrote The Women's History of the World
 * Oriana Fallaci
 * Yenlin Ku Taiwanese feminist
 * Yvonne Vera female author from Zimbabwe
 * Yoshioka Yayoi (1871-1959) Japanese woman educator & physician
 * Maiden of Ludmir (1805-1888) "one of the few female rebbes in the history of the Hasidic movement."
 * Ruth R. Benerito scientist
 * Cynthia Kenyon scientist
 * Susan Solomon scientist
 * Jean Macnamara scientist
 * Elizabeth F. Neufeld
 * Isabella Karle
 * Marjorie Lee Browne African-American mathematician
 * Esther Lederberg
 * Evdokia Anagnostou Greek-Canadian neuroscientist

Requests for expansion: topics

 * Search "List of women..." and "list of female..." and find a number of such list articles.
 * Brazilian Women's Articulation, NGO in Brazil Stub as of May 2011.
 * Chinese male writers on women's equality and feminism: Kang_Youwei's (1858-1927), Liang Qichao (1873-1929), Yu Zhengxie (1775-1804) and Li Ruzhen (1763-1830)
 * Category:Modernist women writers
 * See List of prizes, medals, and awards for women in science, L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards, List of members of the National Academy of Sciences, look for male scientists who have notable scientist wives,
 * Cyberbullying needs more info on internet harassment of women
 * modern art — no descriptions or works by female artists (only included in lists); suggested additions are Frida Kahlo and Yayoi Kusama, possibly also Barbara Kruger and Marina Abramović (though they are mentioned in postmodern art)
 * body shape — underdeveloped compared to female body shape; male body shape is only a redirect to the main article

Non-English language literature
Non-English language literature (particularly writers whose work is unavailable or not widely available in English). See also List of African writers by country.

Requested articles
These include all of the nonexistent links listed under "Literature by country or language"
 * Sorbian literature (for inspiration, see de:Kategorie:Literatur (Sorbisch))
 * Mohammed Awzal (ca. 1680-1749), the most important author of the Sous Berber (Tashelhiyt) literature tradition. Needs an article as badly as As of May 2011 has a short article.
 * the literature section of the language article needs expansion.
 * Hoda Barakat Stub as of May 2011.
 * Latin American and Caribbean women writers - Darline Dorce-Coupet, Daisy Cubías, Magaly Alabau, Mariá Álvarez Rios, Emilia Bernal, Teresa Bevin, Dulce Maria Borrero, Rafaela Chacon Nardi, Fina Garcia Marruz,  Chely Chima, Mercedes Matamoros y del Valle, Mirtha N. Quintanales, Eliana Rivero.
 * Korean women writers - Hildi Kang, Hyun-Deok Foreman Kim, Ok-Kyo Kim, Yoko Kawashima Watkins, Mia Yun
 * Indonesian women writers - Soewarsih Djojopoespito, Elisabeth Woensdregt, Mevrouw Kloppenburg-Versteegh, Nellie van Kol (alias Jacoba Maria Petronella Porreij), Medy Loekito, Jeanne de Loos-Haaxman, Harryet Marsman, Louise de Neve, Cornélie Noordwal, Karin Ottenhoff, Mary Pos, Dé-Lilah aka Lucie van Renesse, Lin Scholte, Ena Stok-van Es, C. Swaan-Koopman, Hélène Weski, Augusta de Wit, Marie C. van Zeggelen
 * Phra Maha Raja-Kru, one of Thailand's most famous poets
 * For example, the story about the tiger cub and the calf written by Raja-Ru in circa 1657 is in the Thai Wikipedia but not in the English Wikipedia
 * Red links on the Premio Nadal (a list of winners of a Spanish literary prize)
 * Red links in the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for women writers.
 * Indian woman writers - created using Women Writing in India, edited by Susie Tharu and K. Lalita, many many redlinks
 * Red links on the List of Algerian writers
 * Red links on the List of historic Indian texts

Requests for expansion

 * Indonesian women writers - Mina Kruseman, Annie Romein-Verschoor
 * Korean women writers
 * Hyung-Soon Cha As of May 2011 this links to a stub about a novel & not to a writer. Is this correct?
 * Han Kang
 * Myung Mi Kim
 * Latin American and Caribbean women writers
 * Marie Vieux Chauvet
 * Carmen Lyra Start Class as of May 2011.
 * Carmen Brannon rated a stub as of May 2011, but looks like it's moved a little beyond that
 * Mirta Aguirre
 * Dora Alonso
 * Juana Borrero
 * Julieta Campos
 * Cristina García C Class as of May 2011.
 * Mireya Robles
 * Mahmoud Shabestari Great Persian poet and Sufi Muslim. I couldn't find enough information about him in English.-- Sa.vakilian(t-c) 10:56, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Yaşar Kemal Major Turkish writer.
 * Memed, My Hawk and İnce Memed tetralogy, two articles on his novels, could also use some attention.
 * Antonio Machado One of the great poets of the 20th century gets barely more than a stub. As of May 2011, it's C Class.
 * Arabic literature - a disgracefully short article on a huge topic. - Mustafaa 10:38, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC) B Class as of May 2011.
 * Yefet ben Ali A Karaite Sage of past whose commentaries were influential on Ibn Ezra and Kimchi, and was a subject of interest during the first half of the 1900s. His writings could go under Mustafaa's suggestion, as they were all written in Arabic. --Josiah 03:16, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC) Has a neutrality tag as of May 2011.
 * Slovene literature, would expand it myself but right now I am very busy. -- Eleassar [[Image:Slovenia flag 300.png|20px]] my talk 10:22, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Chinese literature is just a collection of lists- nary a sentence to be seen. As of May 2011, there's a good deal of writing but also several clean up tags.
 * Latin American literature - outside of the Boom, almost no content. zafiroblue05 | Talk 22:26, 8 July 2006 (UTC) Looks fixed. Multiple eras are mentioned now. Could use inline citations though. Cloveapple (talk) 20:43, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Being and Nothingness - a major philosophical essay of the 20th century. The stub is not clear, with many missing parts. As of May 2011 its grown well past a stub but has many many tags.
 * My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (novel) Stub.
 * Omenuko - one-sentence stub on Nigerian novel (first novel in Igbo language)
 * Kiran Nagarkar - Indian author - he's the subject of an anthology, so surely more information is available from there if nowhere else. Up to Start Class as of May 2011.
 * Migrant literature - This is supposed to be about a category of world literature, but needs to be expanded with examples from other contexts. Also, it needs to be better sourced. Standard sources for Post-colonial literature and Exil literature would be good here, but migration is a broader topic than just its overlap with those two well-studied fields. --Doric Loon (talk) 09:43, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Ogboju ode ninu igbo olodumare a novel by Daniel O. Fagunwa is a one sentence stub as of May 2011
 * Abdullah Al-Baradouni this article needs more sources. I have tried looking for sources in English but there aren't many. I suspect there would be many more in Arabic.CircleGirl (talk) 05:09, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Satisfactory

 * Kenzaburō Ōe Now covers the basics.

Agriculture and horticultural studies


Agricultural and horticultural studies. Not typically a 'geek' concern, especially outside of botany as such.

Requests for expansion

 * United Grain Growers - also a large historical presence in Alberta, Canada Stub as of May 2011.
 * Alberta Wheat Pool - a large factor in the rural development of Alberta, Canada. Start Class as of May 2011.
 * Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research and its research organizations. Very short as of 2011.
 * Agricultural extension - the application of scientific research and new knowledge to agricultural practices through farmer education. Was GA. As of May 2011 it's C Class.
 * Grain elevator - limited history and development

Requests for review/attention

 * Farmer - modern and Western (esp. US) bias, nothing on pre-modern farming, farming in the rest of the world
 * Slaughterhouse -- Some debiasing is done. Global and historical persp. needed
 * Food science
 * Dairy science
 * Meat science was listed as needing attention but as of May 2011 it's a redirect to Meat. (should it be a separate topic?)
 * Wool -- the current article is about sheep wool, rather than an overview, while limited information about alpaca wool is relegated to the alpaca article, and other animals such as goats are merely mentioned as alternative sources. As of May 2011 it's still almost all sheep and Oceania.
 * Threshing board - great job recently done translating this from Spanish, but inevitably it show a Spanish/Iberian bias in terminology, coverage, selection of sources, etc. It's a featured article in Spanish, and it's easy to see why, but it will takes some work to get it there in English. - 19:06, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Ethnic minorities or majorities
Under-represented ethnic minorities in the developed world etc. (and other related topics)

List is accurate as of 19 July 2009

Requested articles

 * The Long Road to Freedom: 5 CD compilation of "the heritage of enslaved Africans"; Harry Belafonte started this project in 1961, it was completed only in 2001. Our article on Belafonte mentions it only in passing; I also found a mention of it in Daniel Brown, "Songs of Slavery", Index on Censorship, Volume 36, Number 1, 2007, p. 138–140, but not enough to write from. If someone is familiar with this collection, we should certainly have an article. - Jmabel | Talk 20:56, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Requests for expansion

 * Myrlie Evers-Williams, wife of Medgar Evers As of May 2011 this needs additional sources.
 * Lonne Elder III A stub as of May 2011.
 * Henry Dumas Start Class as of May 2011. Needs inline citations.
 * Sarah Ann Dickey
 * Janet Collins
 * Johnnetta Cole
 * Barbara Christian
 * Alice Childress
 * Vinnette Justine Carroll
 * Venda people
 * Marigold Linton
 * Regina M. Anderson
 * Byllye Avery
 * Augusta Braxton Baker
 * Runoko Rashidi - Afrocentric historian
 * John Alcindor - black British doctor, president of African Progress Union
 * Black History Month
 * Black Rock Coalition
 * Central College was/keeps being deleted for being "irrelevant" - a quarter of the minority students at a college left out of fear of discrimination. This goes to a disambig; unsure which college it is referring to.
 * Fanny Jackson Coppin, African-American educator and missionary, namesake of Coppin State University
 * Indian Shaker Church: notable religion among the natives of the Pacific Northwest. Missing inline citations.
 * Tina Manning, Native American activist, wife of John Trudell, died in a suspicious house fire in 1979. One of the more notable woman Native American activists of the 1970s. Wasn't even mentioned by name till recent addition to the John Trudell article. Stub as of July 09.
 * Harold Moody - leader of League of Coloured Peoples, UK black pressure group. A stub as of May 2011.
 * Morehouse School of Medicine historically black institution training health professionals.
 * Clark Atlanta University historically Black college in Atlanta, Georgia.
 * Pauli Murray, African and Native American lawyer, writer, and minister in the Episcopal church, civil rights activist
 * Muntaqim v. Coombe and Hayden v. Pataki - disfranchisement cases; Muntaqim v. Coombe filed 1994; disfranchisement of felons in NY State, being fought on a basis of racial discrimination. Latter stubby as of July 09.
 * Jill Nelson prominent contemporary African-American journalist and writer,
 * David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead - norefs
 * Prince Hall Freemasonry currently a short subsection of Freemasonry. African-American Masonry has been and is important in the U.S., and Prince Hall Lodges were sometimes organizing forces in the civil rights movement.
 * Charmaine White Face, notable Native American rights worker.
 * Wolof people, the largest ethnic group in Senegal, but has just a substub as article. no longer a stub but needs inline citations as of May 2011

Requests for review/attention

 * Mahican - editors decline to apply the self-identification guideline at Naming_conventions_(ethnicities_and_tribes), claiming that the spelling used by today's Mohican tribe should be ignored because the opinion of academics is more important than the tribe's own self-identification, despite the fact that Britannica uses the tribe's spelling. 2TWarren (talk) 21:22, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Robert Johnson - wouldn't pass V, but good article.
 * Samuel Ringgold Ward, abolitionist - needs inline citations, more sources
 * Reparations for slavery, in poor condition.
 * Tyler Perry, African American playwright and actor.
 * Morris Brown College historically Black college in Atlanta, GA
 * Lead Belly rivaled in his generation only by Woody Guthrie as a writer of folk songs and a conduit from folk culture into popular culture - needs refimproving.
 * Jacob Lawrence Notable African-American artist, needs inlining.
 * Khaled (musician) Well-known Algerian raï musician living in France.
 * E. Franklin Frazier sociologist writing on race relation in the US in the 1930s and later.
 * Martin Delany, leading 19th century black nationalist - needs referencing.
 * Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Afro-British composer: poorly referenced
 * Eldridge Cleaver Black Panther, complicated, interesting life story that we only hint at.
 * H. Rap Brown Civil rights and black power leader, weighed towards conviction
 * Sanjeev Bhaskar Fairly prolific English actor and television presenter who gets two sentences. As of May 2011 the article has multiple sections. Probably still room for more content but not a stub.
 * Romare Bearden Notable African-American artist
 * Ira Aldridge 19th century African American actor.
 * African Methodist Episcopal Church
 * African-American literature - FA, but could easily lose that status
 * Chancellor Williams - Afrocentric historian
 * Joel Augustus Rogers - Afrocentric historian
 * Ivan Van Sertima - Afrocentric historian
 * Owen Dodson
 * Alexander Crummell
 * Fanny Jackson Coppin, namesake of Coppin State University
 * Septima Poinsette Clark
 * Elizabeth Catlett
 * Leroy Carr
 * E. Simms Campbell
 * Ed Bullins
 * Sterling Allen Brown
 * Claude Brown
 * Charlotta Bass
 * Janie Porter Barrett
 * Houston A. Baker Jr.
 * Hallie Quinn Brown
 * Young Lords New York area Puerto Rican semi-gang, semi-political-party circa 1970, moved at least for a while towards trying to become a Puerto Rican equivalent of the Black Panthers. I got this one started: there is a lot of online material & probably more elsewhere. Expect sources to somewhat contradict one another. This would be a great topic for a good researcher who understands how to cite sources, etc. - Jmabel 23:19, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * Zoroastrianism, Zoroaster and related topics all suffer from serious neglect, bias and misinformation. Someone has even categorized "Zoroastrian gods" -- despite the fact that it is a monotheistic religion -- including listing Ahriman/Angra Mainyu in that category. This is equivalent to listing Satan as a "Christian God"! Zosodada 20:22, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Aramaic-speaking Christian groups: Syriacs, Arameans, Assyrian, Chaldeans and Assyro-Chaldeans. These are quite a mess, as ethnic definitions are not very clear, and all of these labels have political connotations.
 * Nowruz and Newroz as celebrated by Kurds. The old Zoroastrian new year, celebrated by Persians, Kurds and other groups in the region. One ethnic group, not surprising the by far largest, seems though to be very dominant in the coverage. Bertilvidet 13:33, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Satisfactory

 * Cheikh Anta Diop
 * Stokely Carmichael

Labor issues
Labor related issues. See also WikiProject Organized Labour.

Requested articles

 * 2006 Oaxaca protests A significant industrial conflict in the Mexican state of Oaxaca in 2006. Currently partially addressed at Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca and 2006 Oaxaca protests. A massive expansion is needed in the page on their union (Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación), the subject of major internal contention.
 * Job security, worker's sense of having continuity of employment resulting from the possession of special skill.
 * Overqualification affects Job Security,
 * African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation Regional organisation of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. Nothing.
 * ITUC-Asia Pacific Regional organisation of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. Nothing.
 * Trade Union Confederation of the Americas Regional organisation of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. Nothing.
 * I've made a start on the three ICFTU regional organisations, but all could use expansion. Most of the information I could find on the American organisation is in Spanish, so that one could use from anyone who can read Spanish (I can't.)  The lists of affiliated national unions (I couldn't find an online source for a list for Africa) also provide a collection of red links for us to make blue ;-) -- AJR 20:05, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Union federation
 * Now redirected to National trade union center, which already existed and might be a better place for an article, since some national umbrella organizations call themselves confederations, e.g. the Swedish Trade Union Confederation. The article in question really needs improvement, though. / Alarm 22:09, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Labour council
 * Trade unions in Burkina Faso. I know very few on this subject because they were in the uderground during the revolution, but they're widely considered as very powerful before and after.
 * Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Moldova
 * International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes - part of the World Bank
 * Migrant farmworker / Migratory labor
 * Okey O'Dell A crucial part of the Hardin county onion pickers strike, who is also in the Ohio labor union hall of fame.

Requests for expansion

 * AFL–CIO America's largest federation of unions. An important contributor to the U.S. Democratic party. Stub.
 * Congress of South African Trade Unions Played important political role as ally of the ANC. Short article.
 * General Confederation of Labour (France) The major French trade union needs some expansion as of November 2011.
 * European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) Similar to the ICFTU regional organisations. Very active in lobbying the EU. Nothing.
 * Bill Haywood Important leader in the Industrial Workers of the World in the early 20th century; this article could use some expansion, but it especially needs to be cleaned up and cited. --JerryOrr 22:23, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
 * moving to Requests for review/attention --JerryOrr 21:41, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * International Labour Organization Very brief text on U.N. organization that has meant a lot for working conditions in developing countries.
 * International labor standards Defined as the ILO "core conventions". We have nothing on this.
 * Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions Potentially important labour organisation in Iraq. - now a stub.
 * Nigeria Labour Congress One of Africa's strongest trade union organisations, with a history of actively working for democracy in the country. Article now created, proofreading and expansion needed.
 * Picketing
 * Strike action A reasonable article, but nowhere near as comprehensive as it could be.
 * Ver.di With 2.6 million members, this German trade union is the largest independent trade union in the world. Stub now created, more needed.
 * Occupational safety and health The Wikipedia article only deals with U.S. legislation. A lot more could be done.
 * There's also Occupational safety and health, which is more general, describing principles rather than specific national regulations (but is still a victim of systematic bias, it only specifically mentions US & EU practices.)
 * Asbestos and the law An attempt to do just that.
 * London dock strike, 1889 "...is widely regarded as a major milestone in the development of the trade union movement, marking..."

Requests for review/attention

 * Bill Haywood Important leader in the IWW in the early 20th century. I've made a to-do list; once these items are addressed, I plan on putting it in for peer review and eventually pursuing featured article status. I've pretty much been the sole contributor to this article for quite some time, so any help would be greatly appreciated! --JerryOrr 21:41, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Limited geographic scope


Most of the articles listed on Open Tasks are neglected because of their subject matter. The articles below are internally biased. In other words, they currently deal only with matters in certain countries, and/or often have a U.S. or developed country perspective rather than a global one. Once they have been edited to remove the geographic bias, please place them in the Satisfactory section. The list is split up by groups of letters of the alphabet for ease of navigation and editing.

A–E

 * Academic dishonesty All but one of the modern examples and studies are American (the one non-American example is for other countries, with an emphasis on Japan, which is only one sentence long). Johnny Au (talk) 22:21, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Adoption Lacks perspective of countries that are the sources of international adoption.
 * Interracial adoption is solely from a U.S. perspective, is from a white adoptive family perspective, and lacks information on international adoptions (which can in some cases also be considered interracial).


 * Alcohol abuse among college students is primarily US-centric (and has one image from 19th century Germany) Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 01:13, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Alcohol advertising Most examples are from the United States, Europe, or Australia. Johnny Au (talk) 23:10, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Alcohol advertising on college campuses is an academic assignment article that only has American context. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 03:12, 14 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Anti-siphoning law Do non-English-speaking countries (as well as Canada) force the broadcast of major sporting events on terrestrial television? Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 03:25, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Battle axe Lacks examples from Sub-Saharan Africa, even given that the Kongo and the Zulus (Zulu battle axes are called "imbazo") were among the best known Sub-Saharan African peoples to use them for example. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 02:15, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Battlement As if the concept is only relevant in medieval western European architecture. Lacks a global point of view, although it mentions the Great Wall of China (at the very least, Islamic architecture should be added). See also its talk.
 * Beekeeping Has been a subsistence method from time immemorial for some societies. Article makes it almost look like a Western hobbyist practice.
 * Bimetallism Deals almost exclusively with bimetallism in U.S. history; could use information on Islamic bimetallism and any other non-US historical/modern examples that may exist. Another editor removed {globalize/USA} tag when I added it to the article (twice) but raises no objection to having the tag on the talk page. --Eloil 22:40, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
 * It still is completely American. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 01:35, 3 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Block party What about those taken place outside of the United States and Europe, respectively? Here is a source documenting block parties in Canada and the Caribbean: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/crime/article/1229674---blocko-parties-have-a-long-history-in-toronto Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 00:01, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Block programming What about a few non-American examples? Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 01:46, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Bogeyman What mythical being is used in places, such as Africa and China, and among the indigenous peoples of Oceania and the Americas, is used to frighten children into being obedient? Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 20:20, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Bomb disposal This article is heavily Anglo-centric. Other definitions of domain terminology is also American.  Drdan 18:06, 9 April 2006 (UTC) - It was invented by the British, and refined to where it is today by the Americans. There hasn't been significant additions by other countries because most of the second and third world countries today send their Technicians to UK or US schools for training. It's not a topic many can speak about with authority. What about a topic that has systemic bias because it is monosystemic in nature? Shawn 11:42 15 April 2006 (EDT)
 * Breakfast Scant references to non-western practices. Much added on Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. Still lacking anything on Africa. 6 African examples as of May 2011
 * Cannabis rescheduling is unashamedly about various bits of legislation in the United States, and has nothing to say on Cannabis legislation anywhere else. Gareth Hughes 18:21, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Channel drift It seems that only American television channels are affected from this phenomenon. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 00:50, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Civilian control of the military I'm in the process of expanding this article but will be the first one to admit that my examples and structure draws heavily on the American philosophy and practice (this could be my limited perspective showing, but I think the term is probably used most frequently in this context as it is). I've attempted to add some mentions of Maoist theories and the Soviet commissars, but would really appreciate any input from editors who can contribute more material on theories of civilian control in other countries. — MC MasterChef  ::  Leave a tip — 09:22, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Columbus Day - suggests that Columbus Day has only ever been celebrated in the United States, and that opposition to the concept is limited to the United States - Now mentions similar holidays in several other countries, especially in Latin America, but none in Canada, although very few people in the latter celebrates the holiday. Examples of opposition from US and US Virgin Islands only.
 * Community service needs more examples from outside the Anglosphere (and needs a few Commonwealth examples as well); the article also implies that Christianity is the only religion in existence. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 02:59, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Contract Based almost exclusively on the law of common law nations, mostly the U.K. Even non-Anglophone common law countries like India are barely mentioned.  The article also suffers from serious perspective bias in that it only treats the "legal" aspects of contract and ignores perspectives from other disciplines. Elliotreed (talk) 04:54, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Countermovement reads as if non-American countermovements don't exist (the article also looks like an essay for a school assignment). Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 23:30, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Counterprogramming has no non-American examples (of either American shows outside the United States or non-American shows). Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 01:53, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Cronyism - only gives examples from the Bush presidency, where politicians all round the world hire their mates for the best jobs.
 * Crossover (fiction) Too many US examples, with some Canadian examples, and few British and Japanese examples; needs much more non-US examples, especially from outside the Anglosphere and Japan. Johnny Au (talk) 02:28, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Culture war focuses on the Anglosphere with a very short section mentioning Imperial Germany. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 03:10, 24 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Cyberbullying Seems as if that only occurs in the United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Australia, and Canada. Johnny Au 18:00, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Cyberstalking legislation It seems that governments outside of the United States do not take cyberstalking seriously. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 01:33, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Dayparting mostly has American and Australian examples with very few British or Canadian examples. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 01:51, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Dead mall It seems that shopping malls outside the United States and the People's Republic of China never declined. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 03:15, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Death Legal definition section should be expanded.
 * Derivative work Originally US-only, but now contains Canadian law; other countries are definitely needed. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 03:04, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Dinner Focuses on North America and the U.K.
 * Discount store is missing examples of discount stores in the Global South, as well as those in Canada and some European countries such as France, Italy, and Spain. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 02:18, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Editorial cartoon Has only examples from the United States and Canada from the past supporting the war effort. Should need current editorial cartoons from other countries regarding other issues.
 * Education reform The article is USA-centric, and is lacking information about education reforms from the rest of the world. 216.125.251.30 (talk) 22:07, 5 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Electrical conduit Cites frequent examples "in the US" and references to US law, and has some minor notes about the UK, but does not discuss anywhere else.
 * Eternal September is written from an American perspective. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 02:05, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

F–M

 * Famine Focuses mostly on the European experience, with fairly limited discussion of the modern phenomenon.
 * Fan loyalty It seems that it only exists in the United States, as if teams participating in international competitions had no fanbases. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 03:55, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Freedman USA-centred. Roman and Greek societies had such a term, to mention a quick example. Article should be rewritten as to broaden the meaning and put USA particularities in relevance proportional to the... extent to which the word refers to USA-terms. Or something, better words lacking. --portugal (talk) 09:29, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Freedom of speech Developed World examples only. Short paragraphs on the situation in India, in Asia in general and in Africa. Much potential for expansion.
 * Friday night death slot Aside from the obvious, do any other countries' television networks have this or similar death slots? Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 03:45, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Friendly political wager needs significant work, with more examples from outside the United States, Oceania, and Germany. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 16:58, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Gang Deals almost exclusively with the U.S.
 * General strike - Rome, North America, Europe have narrative sections, nowhere else does. Note that largest general strikes have probably been in India.--Carwil (talk) 02:50, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Ghosting (identity theft) The characterization deals with the U.S. as if understood, the rest is not much better.
 * Grade retention Most examples and statistics are from the United States, with a little from Canada, and much less for other countries
 * Grazing rights - mostly U.S. and a little Brit. Needs expansion for the many other countries that have domesticated grazing animals
 * Harp, Lyre, Flute, Drum and Musical notation are all eurocentric. Nannus 18:18, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Height restriction laws Has only examples from US, Canada, Europe, Hong Kong, Bali, and Singapore.
 * Homeschooling Much of the article deals with homeschooling in the United States, especially with the statistics.
 * Homework History section only deals with the United States.
 * Honor system primarily deals with the United States. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 04:19, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Hotelling's law has American examples (in the Applications and Real Life sections) and one image showing a Polish example. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 22:47, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Illegal immigration Only U.S. references. (Although the French Wikipedia's Sans-papiers article does not seem to have that much to add, it might at least provide a starting point for a European perspective. However, this article needs much more than that.)
 * Infomercial What about those outside the United States? Information about infomercials outside the United States, but is only one paragraph long. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 04:42, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
 * There is now a (short) section on informercials outside the United States, but definitely needs expanding. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 20:20, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Information and media literacy Are Canadians the only ones who are media literate? Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 01:17, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * It is more balanced, but what about continental Europeans, Africans, or Oceanians? Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 21:24, 4 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Innuendo Most of the examples are from American television programs. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 15:02, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Category:Inventions The only inventions-by-nationality categories we have are for English-speaking nations: thus there's Category:Australian inventions but no Category:German inventions, even though we have a huge number of Category:German inventors each of whom presumably invented something notable.  It's tempting to suppose that only nationalists tag articles with invention-by-nationality.  —Blotwell 22:10, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
 * There is now much more list of inventions from non-Anglophone countries, but still needs more countries, especially in the developing world. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 02:13, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Journalistic scandal A long list of examples, all but one or two from the U.S.
 * Kids' meal is primarily in the American context, with all examples of restaurants serving such being American. The legislation section lists a few countries that are not the United States. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 02:39, 25 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Labour law Limited to U.S. and U.K. mostly, misses the fact that there are international labor standards.
 * Trade union Some general history, but country-specific information for U.S., UK and Sweden only (excluding half a sentence mentioning China in the introduction).
 * Land mine. Almost entirely about the mines themselves and the countries that make and remove them.  Countries plagued by mines are mentioned only in passing.
 * Lawyer/Solicitor Lead has U.S. perspective, only deals with the U.S., UK and Poland.
 * Locomotive and the related Electric locomotive and Diesel locomotive. Articles need added material on European history and usage, without Euro-biased suppression of North American experience. (This problem affects almost every article about rail technology, though most commonly it's the North American side that's missing.)
 * Manga, specifically the International Influences section, which is mostly American with a bit of Europe. ColourBurst 04:47, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Marathon (media) has no non-American examples. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 01:47, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Market town You wouldn't know that trade existed outside of Europe.
 * Marriage too much bias on same-sex marriage—western countries are minority against China, India, Japan and Third World/South America. Article "s.s. marriage already exists". People may consider it "annoying information", just looking for man/woman marriage information. Wikipedia is not a "political platform".
 * Media bias Mainly concerns itself with the U.S. liberal vs. conservative bias discussion.
 * Military cadence Do armed services outside the United States have these?
 * Minor party There are minor political parties in many multi-party states outside of the United States and Australia as well. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 20:15, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Mixed-sex education Brief discussion of history in U.S. only, and some lists. Needs internationalization in any case, and might the subject of women's education in Muslim and developing countries be appropriate here?  As of May 2011 there's very brief sections for Hong Kong and France. The UK and China have 3-4 paragraphs. Cloveapple (talk) 18:56, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Model minority Yes, there is information about model minorities outside the United States, but information about the United States takes up the bulk of the article. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 21:41, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Modesty - passes beyond systemic bias into outright chauvinism: modesty norms outside the industrialized Western world are only discussed (and then only briefly) in comparison and contrast to the average Western norm. Even that norm is generalized and ignores real variations between countries, regions, and ethnicities. Discussions of religious and cultural norms are no longer based on mere comparison to the average Western norm.  However, still biased heavily in its general discussion of modesty toward generally accepted Western norms.  Still needs work.
 * Music genre only US/West, doesn't even mention that there is music in Africa, or that people who are not Western have music at all. More discussion about "honky tonk" than about entire continents!

N–Z

 * Naming rights All of the examples in this article are US only. Johnny Au (talk) 05:07, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * This article now has one Canadian example and a few British examples. More outside the United States are needed.  Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 20:26, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * List of cultural entities with sole naming rights Most of the examples in this article are Canadian with some US examples. Johnny Au (talk) 05:11, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It now has examples from Chile, Japan, Mexico, and the Philippines as well, though more examples from other countries are needed. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 04:42, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Narrative evaluation seems to be almost absent from outside the United States (aside from a department within Oxford University). Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 01:51, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Native American mascot controversy The article mentioned the case in Canada, but not Latin America, in the introduction, yet the article lacked any Canadian or Latin American examples. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 03:30, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Nonviolent video game mainly focuses on the American context, nothing much about non-American non-violent video games Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 03:28, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Nudity, especially Various modern-era attitudes has only Western perspectives, plus a short sentence on Islam, and a bit on Japan, but nothing from Central/South America, Africa, or most of Asia.
 * Nursery rhyme solely deals with songs sung to children from a French and English perspective, and one sentence on indigenous cultures. Nothing from the rest of the world.
 * List of oldest continuously inhabited cities — Very uneven coverage; several major cities in the Americas, including Cusco, are nowhere to be found.--Carwil (talk) 02:47, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
 * One-way traffic Seems as if one-way traffic is only used in Lima, Peru; much of the United States; Canada; and Europe.
 * Parking lot Seems as if parking lot legislation only exists in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, though there are examples of parking lots in Japan and Canada.
 * Partial cloverleaf interchange (Parclo) mainly has Canadian examples. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 02:22, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
 * PC Engine This article, which is about a 16-bit videogame console by NEC, is almost exclusively American-centric. It presents the US model of this system (the TurboGrafx) as an international reference. As discussed in the Talk page of the article, evidence clearly proves that this NEC console was known and distributed in Europe under its original Japanese name, and the name "TurboGrafx" was largely ignored there. The article doesn't need a rewrite: it mostly needs to be split into two distinct items. Kaminari (talk) 20:14, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Peasant — Focused on Europe, but most peasants don't live there.--Carwil (talk) 02:49, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Physician Generally lacking, as it currently deals mainly with training, but only covers the U.S., the UK and France.
 * Pizza delivery -- This article has become very American centric. It focuses entirely on pizza delivery in the United States. Some effort should be made to include pizza delivery in European and Asian countries as well. (RaF (talk) 16:23, 28 January 2010 (UTC))
 * Plastic surgery has a section on cosmetic surgery which deals entirely with regulatory issues in the US
 * Police Mostly U.S. and UK (for historic reasons) references. Nothing on the role of the police force in neither democratic nor oppressive developing countries.
 * Proof coinage Article reads like the world has only two countries (One is Bulgaria, guess which is the other).
 * Property law Article has almost exclusive focus on the common law tradition, with a few isolated references to other European legal systems (the civil law and Roman law). There's no discussion of non-European legal traditions and none of contemporary European-derived property law outside the Anglosphere. Elliotreed (talk) 15:17, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Public relations Almost exclusively uses U.S. examples and figures.
 * Public transport, vitally important throughout the developing world but the details focus on the decision to implement mass transit in industrialized countries
 * Rape Western perspective. Discusses the legal definitions of the U.S. and the UK only. Apart from brief mentions of the social consequences of rape in "societies with strong sexual customs and taboos", and rape as a means of torturing detainees in some countries, the rest of the article deals with the U.S. situation. No mention of the practice of rape as a war crime.
 * Repossession only has examples from the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 02:28, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Rubbing alcohol Laws and uses are only mentioned in UK and US contexts Johnny Au 17:22, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Sandpit Mostly general, but lack details about its use in playgrounds outside North America; before my edit, it was US only. Johnny Au 03:09, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Satire mainly focuses on those of the Western and Islamic traditions, with examples of Horatian and Juvenalian satire being primarily Western, with modern examples mainly from the Anglosphere. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 02:23, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Saturday-morning cartoon Do non-American television networks have such a programming block? It lists Canada (as Nelvana) and Japan (as anime) as "foreign" sources of programming for Saturday morning cartoons, but it mentions nothing about those countries having such programming blocks on their networks.  Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 15:48, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Secondary education The "in various countries" section almost entirely excludes Africa.
 * Social promotion Most examples and perspectives come from the United States with little from Canada and none elsewhere
 * Special needs consists of (a) American general view (b) American legal minutiae
 * Spontaneous order is nearly entirely about economists' views, there is short shrift given to political applications at the core of the spontaneous order concept, and even worse, little to no coverage given to the Chinese philosophers who birthed the concept of spontaneous order over two millennia ago. This is a serious problem of WP:Systemic_bias, and since Confucius and Confucianism played such a huge role in creating spontaneous order (arguably inventing the concept) failure to include this is especially problematic.
 * State of emergency only deals with the US. Still deals mainly with the U.S., although info on other Western democracies have been added. - 25 countries now.
 * Street suffix What about street suffices outside of North America? Before my edits, they were US-centric (I added a few Ontario-specific street suffixes to counter the bias somewhat).  Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 03:26, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Student activism and Youth activism Deals with the U.S. only. Nothing is said about the leading role students often take in protesting against oppressive societies, as in Czechoslovakia in 1968 (see Jan Palach), Myanmar (esp. 1988), China (1989 Tiananmen Square protests), Iran (Iran student protests, July 1999), Serbia during Milosevic (see Otpor) and Indonesia (History of Indonesia). Also, the student protests of 1968 in places like Paris (May 1968 events in France) and Mexico City (Tlatelolco massacre) should also be mentioned.
 * I've reworked this page to give it a more international scope - US-specific stuff is in its own section now, and I've added a skeletal Indonesia section. More to do - the above is a great (inspiring!) list of places where student activists have (usually) made changes. - Cdc 20:10, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * I've added a small bit on France. The May 1968 events in France page is extremely thorough, so all we need here is a brief overview to show the context of it in student activist history. Leyanese 17:35, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Store brand and Generic brand both lack non-American examples, though the latter has a few British examples (and See also links to a Canadian, a Japanese, and a fictional American generic brand). Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 03:14, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Lists of most common surnames is split up by region and has many uncovered countries
 * no lists at all for popular African surnames as of May 2011
 * Central America only lists common surnames in Nicaragua as of May 2011
 * Theme music only has examples for the United States and the United Kingdom (though the video game section has only a single example, one from a Japanese video game series) Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 00:05, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Tort This article almost exclusively discusses the common law system of the Anglosphere, contains only brief mention of the civil law, and ignores other legal systems entirely. Elliotreed (talk) 20:00, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Town drunk only has examples from the United States and the British Isles (with Shakespeare being the earliest listed example); there should be plenty of fictional alcoholics depicted in non-Anglophone media, but they aren't mentioned at all for some inexplicable reason. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 02:10, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Traffic congestion This article mainly focuses on traffic in the United States. It contains only a small mention of traffic in the UK, Iran, China (including Hong Kong), Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and Venezuela, with images from Russia, India, Thailand, Taiwan, Germany, and Portugal.
 * Transportation planning Only focuses on the United Kingdom and the United States. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 04:03, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Unemployment Focused on the U.S., with a lengthy discussion on the U.S. definition and little or no mention of unemployment in other parts of the world.
 * Underemployment, a much more widespread problem than unemployment in the developing world doesn't have an article at all, although it could be treated as part of the unemployment article if it was revised. --Sepa 21:51, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, there is an article for Underemployment, albeit a poor-quality one. --JerryOrr 16:52, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Urban planner There are many more urban planning institutes than those listed in the article, especially in countries that are not listed. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 20:17, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Variety show needs examples from other countries as well, such as from Canada, Brazil, and all of Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and South and Southeast Asia (aside from the Philippines). Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 22:10, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Veneration of the dead focusses on Chinese and East Asian practices, with nothing on Africa or Amerindians (do they have ancestor worship?) --Taejo 09:39, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Expanded, but still nothing on Indigenous Americans. Johnny Au (talk) 22:06, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Video game controversies It seems that much of the article focuses on the American perspective. All of the legal cases are in the United States.  There is almost nothing about video game controversies outside of the United States (aside from a few publicized incidents).  Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 02:35, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Gamergate controversy is also primarily from the American perspective. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 02:38, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
 * List of controversial video games emphasize those that are controversial in the United States and not in other countries much (and the list is also biased in favour of recent video games; most games that are listed are American with a few Canadian and Japanese games). Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 15:50, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Video scaler It seems that non-American television channels are not too fond of this. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 02:46, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Warship Virtually all information is about Europe.--Cúchullain t/ c 20:39, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Water resources "The problem: Human populations in some areas (e.g. southern California, Israel, and Florida) are growing from 1 to 3% per year, while fresh water supplies are remaining constant or shrinking." Ever heard of a place called Africa? This article hasn't.
 * I've re-written and re-focused this article. As it stands, there are no explicit geographical references - don't know if that'll make you guys happy or sad.  In the process of further refining this article, I expect specific geographical references will be worked back in or linked to.  Toiyabe 19:44, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Wedding. Western perspective, although some four sentences are included on non-Western traditions. Pretty comprehensive now 203.173.175.106 (talk) 10:05, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Wordfilter is mainly about its uses in Anglophone online and video gaming media, especially in the implementation section, which mainly consists of video games from the United States (and to some extent, the United Kingdom). All of the examples in the article are applicable to English-language filters.  There is completely nothing about wordfilters for other languages.  Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 02:32, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Islam, Muslims, the Muslim World, and Baháʼí

 * See also: WikiProject Islam, List of missing Middle Eastern topics


 * Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy Who would have guessed Wikipedia might attract writers with a pro-free-speech POV? Editors of this article have slanted it heavily toward describing the controversy as between religious zealotry and the ideal of free speech, and have excluded content that explains the context of ethnic hate speech or current regional conflict. Dirinici 07:11, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Istihlal is something like the crime of making up an Islamic law, recently in the news when a group of Spanish Muslims accused Osama bin Laden of the crime. --Dmcdevit 23:49, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * List of Islamic educational institutions: created this and would like people to add and expand it. There are almost no resources on the web--or anywhere that I can find, actually, on institutions like the Haqqania madarassa in northern Pakistan, where the Taliban leadership was educated. Or the historical universities in the Muslim world--other than Al-Azhar University. &mdash;iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 20:36, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Should we also have a Islam and Muslim World-regional notice board? I would want to do that, but only if we can get people with more than one kind of POV involved. &mdash;iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 20:36, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Islam &mdash;iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 22:41, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)


 * I have put in a request for Wikiportal/Muslim World at Wikiportal &mdash;iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 02:54, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * See Tripoli, I listed under Developing countries section. --Dmcdevit 04:36, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * The Islamism article ignores the concept of Ad-Din built into the religion. Raphael1 13:29, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Contrary to the antisemitism, racism, Xenophobia or Negrophobia articles the Islamophobia article contains a section called "Criticism of the concept". Raphael1 13:29, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Ayatollah Sayyid Hossein Kazemeini Boroujerdi Iranian dissident shia leader. --Varano 11:32, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Requests for expansion

 * Al-islam.org Apparently a large & popular website and forum (most popular, according to Yahoo) regarding Shia Islam, but the article is severely a stub.
 * Shalash al-Iraqi - I started this article after reading about him on an Iraqi's blog, and after doing some research I was unable to find any information on him that wasn't from other bloggers. I ended up using these as references anyway, I know that's not the ideal Wikipedia standard, but the blogs seem to suggest that he's very notable in Iraq. Is there anyone who has read a print article about him or can translate better web sources from Arabic, perhaps? Also, I'd appreciate a message on my talk page if this article is nominated for deletion. --Grace 07:28, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Requests for review

 * Sünbül Efendi - this article has been posted to VfD. I believe the topic is notable but there is an issue with transcription: apparently the correct spelling would be Sümbül Efendi (alternate Sünbül Efendi). Google returns 179 results but most of them not in English. There are also alternate spellings like Sümbül Efendi, Sünbül Efendi, &#350;eyh Sümbül, Sümbül Sinan, Sünbül Sinan etc.--AYArktos 22:09, 9 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Baháʼí Faith--Currently the editing of this entry (and related entries) is dominated by Baha'is, who take the opportunity to downplay criticisms and in general slant their information in predictable directions. Please consider this a call for non-Baha'i editors to come have a look at the site, and help ensure balance. Thank you. Dawud 10:44, 3 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I have concerns that the anti-Americanism article promotes stereotypes of the Middle East. This is mostly a bias of inclusion rather than omission, but I dislike the one-sided, slanted view. Anti-Americanism. Help in trimming it would be welcome. Noloop (talk) 17:37, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Evangelical Protestantism

 * Carlton Pearson - Tulsa, Oklahoma-based African American preacher and theologian, long a protegé of Oral Roberts&mdash;also an advisor to Bush on faith-based initiatives, had a TV show, etc.,&mdash;whose theology began to change in the late 1990s, when he decided that there is no Hell (or, more precisely, turned around to a rather existentialist view of Hell being something we make on earth, but not part of the afterlife). This eventually evolved into the Doctrine of Inclusion: that everyone is saved. As a result, his enormous Higher Dimensions megachurch slowly collapsed, though, with his new theology, he again has a congregation numbering at least into the hundreds. Fascinating figure. Recent hour-long radio story about him on This American Life, but as of when I'm writing they haven't archived it to a permanent address. Founder of a Christian music festival that I believe is called Azuza, as well. -- Jmabel | Talk 19:24, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Giving undue weight to heterodox economics and pseudoeconomics
Since economics tend to be an issue mired in politics, pseudoeconomics are frequently invoked in political discourse and by many average people who discuss economic issues. On Wikipedia, the largest problem seems to be the promotiong of monetary crankery, by New World Order conspiracy theorists and Libertarian supporters of Austrian economics. Several articles on monetary theory currently violate WP:FRINGE. However, occasionally radical Marxists also abuse Wikipedia in the same way. Because the average person is not educated in economics, they may not be aware of the fringe-status of Austrian and Marxist arguments when they are presented, or that may not recognize a certain argument as "Marxist" or "Austrian" when it is presented. However, articles related to criticism of John Maynard Keynes and Keynesian economics could use expansion...

Requests for review

 * Fractional-reserve banking
 * Fiat money
 * Debt-based monetary system <--a POV fork of Fractional-reserve banking
 * Criticism of socialism

And any articles involved Austrian and Marxist economics.

Requests for expansion

 * mating - This article is a stub and should discuss more about animal mating, apart from copulation, like the behavior of animals that court or of social animals that nurture their offspring in pairs.
 * snail - This article is underdeveloped and doesn't discuss in more detail the different taxons of snails. Also, there may be some inaccuracies.
 * tool - The section regarding tool use in animals, while having numerous references, doesn't say much besides that monkeys & other primates, ravens, and sea otters have been observed using tools. Could be expanded.
 * Chinese astronomy - 3000 years of history and until recently was a single sentence. Above all, something should be added about astronomy in China today, to counter any perception that Chinese science is only about the past. Please help counter the bias against nonwestern science in this and other history of science articles.

Requests for review

 * Electrical engineering - This article is currently focusing on the North American meaning of the term. European and Global use seems to indictate the separation of the terms Electrical and Electronic into different fields.
 * sex - This article focuses too much on the human aspect of sex and does not discuss essential things about sex like genetics, biology, biological evolution and origin of sex, etc.
 * Pregnancy (mammals) - The word "pregnancy" instead of "gestation" in the title of the article is dubious.
 * sexual intercourse
 * sexual reproduction

Perspective biases

 * Australia national soccer team - Issues with lack of gender representation for women in topical articles that are gender neutral but where the sport is gender segregated by rule. --LauraHale (talk) 10:36, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Soccer in Australia - Issues with lack of gender representation for women in topical articles that are gender neutral but where the sport is gender segregated by rule. --LauraHale (talk) 10:36, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
 * North Korean cult of personality - There are serious issues of systemic bias - specifically, assignment of negative characteristics through uncited author POV - with two sections of the entry: Holidays and International. Please see the Talk Page for more information on these issues. BlueSalix (talk) 19:00, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Barack Obama -- Written from largely a liberal view, and not neutral. No handling of current policy criticisms. Paranormal Skeptic (talk) 18:25, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I fail to see how this is written in a liberal view. It seems to be pretty matter-of-fact. If he advances a policy it is enough to say that he did so. It is a statement of fact not a statement of the benefits or detriments of the policy. As to current policy criticism, the place for that is on your favorite blog, not on Wikipedia. This is in line with the treatment of other US presidents. Look at Herbert Hoover. He was extremely unpopular, but you still don't have a huge portion of the article dealing with detailed policy criticism, when he is arguably the most deserving of it. What criticisms there are can be made with 80 years of insight and is backed up with historians as sources, not political analysts. Timothyjosephwood (talk) 19:25, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Execution of Saddam Hussein -- Lack of sources other than main US news outlets such as CNN or in the case of a British news outlet, the BBC. US-sources dominate the article, and this reflects in the tone. Would need an array of both independent and international sources. Sfacets 02:30, 2 January 2007 (UTC) As of May 2011 there are a number of non-US-non-British sources.
 * Covance -- Focuses on animal testing information with an animal rights slant. Does not provide sufficient, accurate information on other areas of business, which include FDA nutritional testing and antibody development. Orcar967 17:27, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
 * paint -- only deals with the art aspect not the commercial painting aspect.
 * Pregnancy (mammals) - focuses too much on humans by using the word "pregnancy" instead of "gestation". This article was initially split from the article about human pregnancy. Also, doesn't define well which animals gestate and which not, and discounts gestation in other animals, if any.
 * Wikimedia movement is written from an insider point of view, without mentioning criticism made by MediaWiki developer User:Tim Starling. My edit which added it was removed by a sysop who used his revert power. Wikinerd 03:31, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * FWIW, "his revert power" consists of skipping a click: it is exactly the same ability anyone else has to revert an edit, just slightly more efficient. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:14, August 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * List of people who have been considered deities - Western bias in addressing the concept of God and divinity. Article is currently protected due to ongoing disputes. Please come and help out at the talk page. --ZappaZ [[Image:Yin_yang.svg|12px]] 17:01, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
 * There is no more Western bias. Johnny Au (talk) 21:23, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Robinson list -- mentions the US Do Not Call list, but then proceeds to deal with only email spam and talk about Robinson lists as if they were only for spam.
 * Myth and related articles -- some mythologies are treated differently from other mythologies. Problems with definition. Many editors have strong feelings about these articles. – ishwar  (speak)  05:13, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * The Democracy article needs attention to ensure that it does not suffer from a bias from the point of view perspective of liberal democracy. BruceHallman 19:16, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * All articles related to the creation–evolution controversy, including Intelligent design, and Objections to evolution, among several others. Particularly strident defense of bias on talk pages.  Gnixon 23:52, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 2003 invasion of Iraq media coverage - This article would benefit from a lot more information on how media outside of the U.S. and Britain covered the war. --Mackabean 22:29, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Guantanamo Bay detention camp - The global perspective section of this article could be lengthened considerably. I don't know a lot about this, but my sense is that Guantanamo has received considerable attention from U.S. allies and opponents around the world. --Mackabean 22:36, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Alternative education - It is heavily POV in favour of this type of education, since most authors of the article are pro-alternative education. I believe that there should be a section about the criticisms regarding this written by those who support traditional education. Johnny Au 00:09, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Traditional education - There should be more background information regarding this topic rather than being mainly a comparison of the two types of education. Additionally, the article seems as if it were written by those who support alternative education.  The article is also USA-centric .  Johnny Au 00:16, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
 * It is no longer USA-centric. Johnny Au (talk) 21:19, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Joseph McCarthy - Several editors continue to alter any edits to their POV introduction, calling those who oppose Communism "extreme", and that is just the tip of the iceberg. Judgesurreal777 20:11, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Soviet history
Many articles about the Soviet Union rely on information from anti-Soviet sources. Both pro- and anti-Soviet sources can be greatly biased. Where possible, cite the sources used, and try to find balance. GRuban 14:50, 1 March 2006 (UTC) (greatly condensing Paranoid 17:00, 17 July 2005 (UTC))
 * Please review Axis powers where Soviet Union is shown as an ally of Nazi Germany, while Spain even not shown as a Nazi collaborator state.--Certh 09:43, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Um, did you read the article at all? It mentions that the Soviet Union was at one time an ally of Germany (which it was), but of course goes on to say how that changed after Operation Barabarosa. And there is a section discussion Spain's (and Portugal's) collaboration with Germany. I see no systemic bias in that article... --JerryOrr 12:26, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

People with disabilities; disability studies
I think most Wikipedians do not consider themselves people with disabilities. Therefore, things such as the sociology, history, psychology, language, etc. of disabilities do not get covered in too much detail. We do have a very nice, somewhat long List of disability rights activists, but a lot of the articles are redlinks. Some of the articles that are not redlinks go to articles about people other than the ones mentioned on the page, and need to be disambiguated; a few other are pages of politicians, whose pages need to be checked for mention in their involvement for disability rights. Also, the vast majority of people on the list, if not all of them, are from the Western world.

Requests for articles

 * How about Disability geography? Do a search on Google Scholar and you will find quite a wealth of journal articles that can be used to write that article. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 19:41, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Requests for expansion

 * William Stokoe major contributor to understanding of ASL (American Sign Language) only has a stub Cloveapple (talk) 06:29, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * ARC (formerly Association of Retarded Citizens) is tagged for reading like an advertisement. Needs better sources, most are the ARC itself. Cloveapple (talk) 06:29, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Underrepresented occupations
*Pipefitter redirects to Plumber and pipefitting redirects to Pipefitter - fixed but needs expansion --Bookgrrl 05:01, 9 December 2006 (UTC) *Steamfitter - no article - redirected to pipefitting since everything I found everywhere including the trades description lumped the two together --Bookgrrl 05:01, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Coal miner redirects Miner, which is a stub. Now redirects to mining, which is a decent article with info on the profession. Now redirects to Coal mining
 * Small engine repair - stub
 * Machinist - stub
 * Boilermaker - stub
 * Steelworker redirects to the United Steelworkers Union article.
 * Ironworker is a stub about the machine, not the profession.
 * Steel fixer - stub
 * Steel erector - stub
 * Brakeman - stub
 * Boatman - no article. Disambig page pointing to Sailor as the nearest to this sense
 * Baggage handler - stub
 * roughneck, driller (oil), motorman, etc. All oilpatch jobs are stubs.
 * General comment: one reason many of these articles do not exist, or are still stubs is that potential contributors have no model for a successful article on a profession. If one of the more complete articles could be improved into a featured article, this might help Wikipedians in filling these needs. -- llywrch 17:29, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree, are there any jobs that are FA status? Engineer, or Software writer maybe? Kevlar67 02:36, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Non-English-speaking Scientists
Numerous notable non-US/English scientists have no entries in Wikipedia. Ways to help include looking through award-winning scientists, Category:Awards by country, List of members of the National Academy of Sciences,
 * Uncredited scientific achievements should be credited in the appropriate articles, with links to the scientists.
 * Scientific "pedigrees" that include notable students or advisors should be added where appropriate. Generally advisors listed near the top with graduate and postdoc work. Notable students may be mentioned in a single paragraph about the lab and/or influences of the scientist.

Merging overrepresented content
In addition to adding new content to underrepresented areas, we should also work on minimizing content in overrepresented ones. It is easy to generate a hundred 1k articles out of 3k of text, if you break it up poorly and repeat yourself for a long intro paragraph in each of a hundred stubs, rather than making a single, concise page including them all.

Subjects to watch for:
 * Star Wars characters and locales
 * Star Trek characters and locales
 * J. R. R. Tolkien-related characters and locales
 * any modern television show (one article per episode summary, per throwaway character) -- particularly American and Japanese cartoons
 * any serialized media: comic strips, comic books, serial stories, 10-part novels. In each case, figure out what the right chunk-size is for the text...
 * slang or jargon (can be moved to Wiktionary, or combined into topical pages with the history of that jargon type, not one page per term)
 * Rapid transit, light rail transit, and bus rapid transit stations (should be combined into articles about individual rapid transit lines instead if the stations themselves are not notable)

These are all topics that should be in Wikipedia; and none of the existing content needs to be removed; but repeated content, and generation of hundreds of stubs rather than one or two good articles, is bad for readers, for categorizers, for quality-editors, and for the 'random article' feature. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sj (talk • contribs)


 * Not really sure what this has to do with countering systemic bias... --JerryOrr 11:30, 8 May 2006 (UTC)


 * It is relevant to systemic bias - contributors' systemic bias leads to these short messy articles. It isn't really what this project focuses on, though, which is more to do with filling in neglected areas. See umpteen discussions about choosing a less misleading name if you're interested. --Cherry blossom tree 22:34, 8 May 2006 (UTC)


 * isn't this akin to granting equality to cripples by chopping everyone else's legs off? certain topics are under-represented, so let's lower the representation of others to match? why not leave the content alone, and add new content for the under-represented areas, even if they're just stubs (might entice new editors familiar in those topics)? --Dak (talk) 03:50, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

List of articles every Wikipedia should have
I'm not sure this belongs here, but it seems relevant to this WikiProject -- please feel free to move it to a more appropriate place (and drop me a note).

The List of articles every Wikipedia should have is about as Eurocentric and USA-centric as it could be. I just added a comment at meta:Talk:List of articles every Wikipedia should have arguing that this is a serious problem. Perhaps attention from people in this project with more experience in these matters might help.

Joriki (talk) 22:14, 2 January 2008 (UTC)