Wikipedia:WikiProject Philosophy/Ethics

Welcome to the Ethics Task Force, a task force of WikiProject Philosophy. The task force is a group of pages in the "Wikipedia" article namespace which are devoted to the management of a specific topic or family of topics within Wikipedia; and, simultaneously, a group of editors who use those pages to collaborate on encyclopedic work. It is not a place to write encyclopedia articles directly, but a resource to help coordinate and organize the writing and editing of those articles. This group focuses on articles in the field of Ethics.

There are a few things you can do right now to get started helping the task force and the project.


 * Add yourself to the Participants Roster.


 * Watchlist and monitor the Ethics log.


 * Watchlist and monitor the General Discussion.


 * Add   to your user page. It will automatically add you to Category:Ethics task force participants. You may also choose to place the Ethics navigation banner on your user page as well by adding   .

Scope and Goals
The current focus of the Ethics task force is to create a representative presence of philosophy of ethics on Wikipedia. Many splinter articles on this subject are poorly written and factually inaccurate, and misrepresent some of the most important works in the history of philosophy. Since works in moral philosophy are some of the most dense and difficult to understand, but also perhaps the most important to human society, a coordinated effort to expand and improve Wikipedia's articles on this subject is needed.

Categories
The following categories are within the purview of the task force.

Good articles

 * Two level utilitarianism

Former good articles

 * Aristotle

Version 1.0 Editorial Team selections

 * Aristotle
 * Ethics
 * John Rawls
 * Plato
 * Relativism
 * Social contract
 * Utilitarianism

Templates

 * For main project templates, see the Philosophy Templates.

Portal Pointer
  adds a box Ethics or Moral Philosophy which leads to the ethics portal. It looks like this:

It should appear at the bottom of each ethics article, immediately before the categories list.

Project page tag
Putting   at the top of a page will add this notice to it:

This message should be placed at the top of the talk pages of all ethics articles, especially:
 * articles that members of the WikiProject are actively trying to improve.
 * articles about major ethics topics.
 * articles that need special attention.

Userbox
The template User WP Ethics will add the following userbox to your user page, and add you to the Category:Ethics task force participants and Category:WikiProject Philosophy participants

Pages Needing Attention

 * Ethics
 * Consequentialism
 * Cornell realism
 * Deontology
 * Descriptive ethics
 * Ethical calculus
 * Ethic of reciprocity
 * Good and evil
 * Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
 * List of ethics topics
 * Meta-ethics
 * Moral character
 * Moral obligation
 * Moral psychology
 * Normative ethics
 * Obligation
 * Original position
 * Prima facie duty
 * Utilitarian bioethics
 * Utilitarianism
 * Value theory