Wikipedia talk:WikiProject African diaspora/Archive 4

New Great Migration
Have just started this article, related to the reverse migration of African Americans back to the South from 1965-2000. It's still going on, of course, but they have a lot of data on it. This is the real story, or the bigger story, behind some aspects of Black flight. In 2000 GA, MD and TX were the gaining states for black college graduates (this is mostly a middle class migration). CA was the largest net loser of African Americans, unlike its trend for the previous few decades. Gaining states are the New South: GA, TN, VA, MD, NC, and FL - where there are good jobs, knowledge industry, tech, service fields. People are going to metro areas, and Atlanta is the biggest draw of all. I found a big Brookings Institution paper on this, and have seen other references.--Parkwells (talk) 03:02, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Free people of color
Tagged with this project. AgnosticPreachersKid (talk) 04:03, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Timeline of riots and civil unrest in Omaha, Nebraska
Tagged with the project. It will probably be a DYK feature in a few days.  APK  yada yada  07:40, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Perry Farm
New stub.  APK  yada yada  05:20, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Charlotte Forten Grimke House
This is a new NHRP article for Washington, D.C. I don't have alot of info about the house itself, just Grimke. I also tagged her article with the project.  APK  yada yada  05:43, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Zotero - web-based citation manager
Just wanted to let project members know about a great resource I've been using - zotero, which can be downloaded for free, is a web-based citation and source/material manager developed by the Dept. for History and New Media at George Mason University near Washington, DC. I've been using it for a few months but am just beginning to capitalize on it and shift from using notes and scraps of paper around my computer! You can take "notes", create tags for notes and articles, books, etc.; download snapshots of title pages, capture URL and titles, access dates, etc. There is more that I have not begun to touch, not yet having made it through the instructional video. --Parkwells (talk) 16:19, 17 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Freechild told me he thought it would revolutionize his research.--Parkwells (talk) 20:30, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Robert Purvis
Expanded the article, got a DYK on May 11, and added the WP:AFRO banner to this article about a leading abolitionist.--Parkwells (talk) 16:25, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:List of African-American firsts
Interested editors, please go the below link where discussion will be centered, to avoid having it scattered across different pages.

Here is a cc encapsulating the issue being discussed there.

Contradiction needs resolved re: 1st Af-Am female pilot
There is contradictory reportage from two sources making competing claims. Since this involves not just List of African-American firsts but also the article Vernice Armour, which makes a major point of this claim, I've removed this entry from ["List of African-American firsts"] article until the competing claims can be sorted out on this talk page and any related pages can be adjusted.

The Wiki article Vernice Armour cites the Jet magazine article "Vernice Armour, 1st black female combat pilot, serves in Persian Gulf as family copes - National Report", April 14, 2003, by Nicole Walker. It says, "After flight school, Armour took an assignment at Camp Pendleton Naval Air Station near San Diego, CA, and honed her skills piloting the famed Super Cobra. In March 2002, she was recognized as the Department of Defense's lone African-American female combat pilot."

The editor changing the claim to that of Captain Christina Hopper (who has no Wikipedia article) cites the webzine Talking Proud!, which has much less of a publishing history than Jet and may not or may not use professional journalists, but is a niche publication specializing in the subject. The article "'Thumper' Hopper, F-16 fighter jock, Iraqi war vet, instructor pilot", non-bylined, published February 26, 2005, says, "Her squadron deployed in December 2002 to Al Jaber Air Base, Kuwait as part of the 332rd Air Expeditionary Wing supporting Operations Southern watch and Iraqi Freedom, making her the first Air Force African-American female fighter pilot to fight in a war."

I'm wondering whether Armour was the first female Af-Am combat pilot, and Hopper the first female Af-Am combat pilot deployed in a war zone?

Could fellow editors come in and help research/comment on this? --Tenebrae (talk) 15:27, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

List of first African-American mayors
Editors on the "List of African American firsts" decided to set a list up for "First African American mayors" to be able to reflect the many varieties of cities represented. Please feel free to add appropriate mayors; be sure you use the year elected (not sworn in to office) or appointed. They run on irregular schedules.--Parkwells (talk) 20:34, 25 May 2008 (UTC) Thanks for contributions!--Parkwells (talk) 11:13, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Help request: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hello, I would like to request some help with this article, which is under the scope of this project. I fully sourced it over the past week, and I would like to help it get to GA or FA status. It would be great if any editors from this project could look it over, possibly do some copyediting, and give some feedback in the peer review. Thanks, GaryColemanFan (talk) 23:35, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Signifying
Would any of you be able to clarify this bewildering article? &mdash; Hex    (❝  ?!  ❞)   05:51, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

African American culture GA Sweeps Review: On Hold
As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria and I'm specifically going over all of the "Culture and Society" articles. I have reviewed African American culture and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. I have left this message at this WikiProject's talk page so that any interested members can assist in helping the article keep its GA status. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. I have left messages on the talk pages of the main contributors of the article and several other related WikiProjects. Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix if multiple editors assist in the workload. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 07:52, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Strivers' Section Historic District
New article about a historic district in Washington, D.C. that was home to upper-middle-class African Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  APK  PRAISE JEEBUS  15:28, 24 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Nice work! futurebird (talk) 03:15, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Free people of color
There is a proposal to merge this article with Freedman. I've discussed at the Talk page of FPC why I think this is inappropriate - both in terms of societies (this article refers to more than the US and to earlier than US history in Louisiana) and timing (Freedman defines former slaves freed by the Emancipation Proclamation and Civil War)- but it would be good for others with an interest to chime in. Thanks.--Parkwells (talk) 14:36, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
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Louisiana African American Heritage Trail
The state of LA has designated sites and is promoting this directed cultural heritage trail. It includes more than 20 sites ranging from Congo Square/Louis Armstrong Square in New Orleans (and other sites there) to the River Road African American Museum in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, and other sites up to Shreveport. I'm going to create a stub article on the trail, use it for a category, and mark sites included in it.--Parkwells (talk) 10:59, 8 July 2008 (UTC)


 * The article is up, and all sites with articles are identified on the "Trail" in text and category. There are a few museums and a church without articles, including the New Orleans African American Museum, so editors with an interest in culture are invited to write up articles so that all sites on the new heritage "trail" will have wikipedia links. Thanks!--Parkwells (talk) 23:13, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

List of museums focused on African Americans
This list is being added to. It shows some museums needing wiki articles, too.--Parkwells (talk) 23:31, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Discussion about category Historic trails and roads in the United States
This category appeared to be set up to cover historic Native American trails (for which there is a sub-category), pioneer trails, and auto routes - especially related to the migrations of peoples, movement and trading of peoples and goods, early roadways and highways. I see from the article Historical roads and trails of the United States (watch those slight differences in wording!) that generally it applies to roads before a certain date, so is mostly a discussion/identification of roadways.

There is a growing class of Cultural or Heritage Trails, designated by themes by cities, states or federal bodies, such as the Freedom Trail and Black Heritage Trail in Boston, both pedestrian-oriented, or the LA Trail noted above, which also includes sections reachable only by car. Should this be a new category and what should be the name? I think it should be a separate category, as the sites are linked by different themes of heritage and culture. I started a discussion at the category page, Historic trails and roads in the United States, but wanted to bring up the topic here, too. Making a separate category helps highlight these trails, as the cities and states intend.--Parkwells (talk) 11:27, 8 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Maybe we should call them Cultural Heritage Trails.--Parkwells (talk) 11:48, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Or Heritage Tourism Trails, since that's what some of the states/feds call them - it's the field.--Parkwells (talk) 12:14, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

I would suggest going with the most frequently used name. "Heritage Tourism Trails" gets 338 Google hits. "Cultural Heritage Trails" gets 538 gh. "Cultural or Heritage Trails" gets 2 gh. I think an accompanying article that utilizes both of those names, and then used as a main article for the category, would settle the question of parameters for including an article. I would be glad to start that article when there is consensus. • Freechild   'sup?   02:50, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

New/expanded articles

 * James Cameron (activist) - Got a DYK.
 * St. Augustine Parish (Isle Brevelle) Church, Natchez, Louisiana
 * Alcée Fortier


 * Expanded: River Road African American Museum
 * Melrose Plantation
 * St. Augustine Church (New Orleans)--Parkwells (talk) 13:51, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Caribbean nations and leaders
There are many articles which could use good editors to add valid sources, NPOV and WP:Afro banners/tags. I've been reading a lot about Haiti and its leaders, which led me to this group.--Parkwells (talk) 15:12, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Your edits to Edward Brooke and W. E. B. Du Bois
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits did not appear to be constructive and has been removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia.

no your wrong, help me put the pictures in a better order. how do you edit the box with the pictures so that it comes out in the right order?
 * Don't bother, you've got about 5 more minutes before somebody comes along and reverses every change you have made ( that Ihave not already) . Thats the way it works sorry. Replacing other people's pictures with Barrack Obama's picture isn't something that will stay around for long - SimonLyall (talk) 06:16, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

thats bs. this is my wikipedia too, i want to change the box so all six pictures line in a better order, if you cant help then learn to at least decent to the other editor. i am trying to figure out how to do it and i guess you dont know about it good enouph to help
 * Why don't you ask for help on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject African diaspora . And it's no BS. This is what you did to the Edward Broke article. Recognize the photo?. Oh and the answer to your question the photo is one big image so you have to create a new image and change the template to point to that. - SimonLyall (talk) 06:25, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

yea i know but i am trying to do that. anyway thx for answering my question? Awdacityofluv (talk) 06:31, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

yea I was trying to move the Image:Obama.jpg one into box 1 and the Image:WEB DuBois.jpg one into box 3 so the Image:Obama.jpg one can be in box 1 since he is more in the news now. want to help instead of critic sizing? Awdacityofluv (talk) 06:30, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for African diaspora
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i know this guy gets some bad press but he's an academic.
so there it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIrWrxuR_GM St. Puid, Head of Assisi 16:04, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

AfD: Kamau Kambon
The article on professor Kamau Kambon has been nominated for deletion. His claim to fame is a comment made on C-Span about "exterminating white people". --George100 (talk) 07:23, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Black pride
Wow. I followed a wikilink to this article because I was working on referencing the article on Crip Walk where one of the references describing the term "crip walk" directly referenced the term "black pride". Amazingly, I found the black pride article to be replete with racism and lacking sources. We need some editors to help make this article better. I'm not an expert in the subject, but will lend as much help as I can.

ScienceApologist (talk) 07:34, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Deletion sorting
The project page states that deletion discussion can be located at WikiProject Deletion sorting/Ethnic groups or WikiProject Deletion sorting/Africa. wouldn't this project be better served by creating a better targetted delsort page, e.g. WikiProject Deletion sorting/African diaspora? __meco (talk) 12:13, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Expanding this WikiProject to WikiMedia?
Hi, I'm looking at the Wikimedia collection of images and the African American section seems to be ill-served. Most media (800 files) seem to be put in the category African Americans. I have created an African American History category and many subcategories. However, the task is overwhelming. Is it possible to put these sections under the aegis of the African diaspora WikiProject? Thanks --Kenmayer (talk) 21:42, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Categorization
This is a heads-up about some early chatter regarding categorizing people as Category:African American. A recent AfD deleted the category Category:African American physicians, in it an editor suggested "at some point we will need a position on how to deal with Category:African Americans." • Freechild   'sup?   05:04, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Afrocentric historiography again
Some people might find it interesting to take a look at the debate at Talk:Great Sphinx of Giza. I could use some moral support. Zara1709 (talk) 13:34, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Petersburg, Virginia
This independent city was an early industrial city in VA, and its 3,224 free blacks comprised the largest such population in the South in 1860, and one of the largest in the nation. Nearly half the city's population was black, and of that, one-third were free. Most of the free blacks lived on Pocahontas Island, now designated as a National Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places. For people interested in history, the article could use some work on African American history in the city - also, there are numerous places in Petersburg listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as well as other historic districts, which do not yet have articles written about them.--Parkwells (talk) 00:28, 24 December 2008 (UTC)--Parkwells (talk) 19:22, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Stereotypes of Whites
I know it's somewhat off-topic, but not really. ;) So, heads up.  Yep.  There's finally an article.  Well, a stub, actually.

I mean why should African-Americans be honored with such an article? Next: um ... Jews (another stub just started), Asians, Mexicans, French, British. You name it. There'll probably be a sh*t storm about it. But, hey. What's good for the goose.... Feel free to go with the trend. Something useful may come of it. Peace. deeceevoice (talk) 08:22, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

New articles related to Petersburg, VA
Pocahontas Island, Virginia, First Baptist Church (Petersburg, Virginia), Gillfield Baptist Church (Petersburg, Virginia), and Wyatt Tee Walker.--Parkwells (talk) 14:54, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

AfD: Black president
(see Articles for deletion/Black president) Outsider80(User0529)  (talk) 00:03, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Commons:Category:Negro
Would someone please weigh in at Commons:Categories for discussion/Current requests/2008/07/Category:Negro? There are really only two of us contributing to the conversation, we disagree with each other, and it would be useful to have someone else involved to move the discussion forward. - Jmabel | Talk 23:56, 27 January 2009 (UTC)