Wikipedia talk:WikiProject African diaspora/Archive 5

Newly tagged for the project
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center - Definitely not a new article, but I just found it while adding some HU pix & cats. APK  is ready for Spring  09:09, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Same thing with North Carolina Central University. *sigh* I miss my home state. APK  is ready for Spring  17:50, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Black culture
An editor has expressed concerned that the link Black culture redirects to African American culture expresses "US-centralism". I've responded that maybe there's potential for conversion to a disambiguation page, but thought I'd ask for wider input on the issue. The thread can be found here. Thanks. – The Parting Glass 14:29, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Category nominated
If anyone would like to comment, an editor has nominated Category:African American Supreme Court judges for deletion. APK  is ready for Spring  17:57, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

suggestion
I think it would be a good idea to have a "new article" section on the project page. Instead of listing them on the talk page (ex: I just tagged Myrtilla Miner), it would be easier to have a designated place to add them. Does anyone object? APK  is ready for Spring  02:46, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Image dispute on page for Harriet Tubman
There is a discussion happening here about an image that was removed from the article about Harriet Tubman. I wonder if folks involved with this WikiProject might like to share their thoughts. Scartol •  Tok  14:37, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

African Americans in Davenport, Iowa
The article African Americans in Davenport, Iowa could use some very prompt attention; it is nominated for deletion, but I think with some cleanup it could grow to become an outstanding article. Bill Whittaker (talk) 13:33, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I've done some beefing up on this, but there seems to be a consensus developing among others on Articles_for_deletion/African_Americans_in_Davenport,_Iowa that the community is inherently not notable, whereas the history might be. I'm afraid the subject is outside my area of knowledge, so any help on sourcing (for those with better libraries) or ideas on how/if the article should be refocused, please step in.  T L Miles (talk) 22:33, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Featured article review
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William H. Lewis
An article has been started on William H. Lewis, who was the first African-American to be named a college football All-American (in 1892), and also the first to be appointed a United States Assistant Attorney General (in 1910). At the time, it was the highest position ever held by an African-American in the executive branch. My access to sources is limited, and so if anyone involved with this project has access to helpful information about Lewis, you are encouraged to contribute. I plan to submit the article for a DYK spot on the main page in a couple days. Cbl62 (talk) 15:08, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Merger proposal
Consider Person of color into racism - discuss at Talk:Racism. Casliber (talk · contribs) 03:01, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Moors # Seensawsee's edits # The facts
Hi! You might be interested in the discussion at. Thank you. The Ogre (talk) 14:44, 26 April 2009 (UTC) The Ogre (talk) 14:44, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

WP:NOT#PLOT
Apologies for the notice, but this is being posted to every WikiProject to avoid accusations of systemic bias. Hiding T 13:19, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Janet Jackson
How on earth does Janet Jackson fall under the scope of this project? --Cryptic C62 · Talk 16:44, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Martin Luther King, Jr. Request for comment
There is currently a discussion regarding how much material regarding certain matters of the subject's private life should be included in the article above. A request for comment on the subject can be found at Talk:Martin Luther King, Jr.. Any input is more than welcome. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 14:15, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

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Africana womanism
Hello everyone! Please check out Africana womanism. Thank you! The Ogre (talk) 12:27, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Black church GAR notice
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FAR
nominated African American literature for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) paid editing=POV 02:15, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Black Seminoles
nominated Black Seminoles for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. &mdash; Mattisse (Talk) 17:21, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Soul on Ice is now rap album; no article on influential Eldridge Cleaver book
Eldridge Cleaver's 1968 book Soul on Ice is regarded as "a classic statement of black alienation in the United States" (Encyclopedia Britannica http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/555219/Soul-on-Ice ) and "one of the seminal works of the black power movement" (Cleaver's obit in BBC, http://212.58.226.17:8080/1/low/world/americas/86889.stm ). - However, our page Soul on Ice is currently about a rap album. Eldridge Cleaver also doesn't have much to say about the work. IMHO we should disamb the rap album and the book, and add some worthwhile info about the latter. Thanks. -- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 12:11, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

AFD Notification
The article Joe Banks is currently undergoing discussion for deletion. You may wish to participate at the discussion.--Paul McDonald (talk) 03:00, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Bob Marley GAR notification
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Civil Rights Movement group
Hi. Would anybody mind (and everybody join!) if a separate but related wiki group be formed of those of us who work on Civil Rights Movement history? This group could have a userbox (Moni3 came up with a beautiful one, with a small photo of the March on Washington and the motto "This user keeps their eyes on the prize"), could list its members on a page, and, more importantly, could list tasks to do and rate articles, etc. Many of the Civil Rights movement activists' pages don't have photos, and we could work on that (Fred Shuttlesworth's main photo, for example, is of one of his statues, interesting but could be further down the page if we get a photo of the "real" Fred Shuttlesworth). Thoughts, and thanks, Randy Kryn (talk) 19:14, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

African Americans in Texas
This is an idea for a possible article.

See the sources: WhisperToMe (talk) 02:17, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
 * http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/AA/pkaan.html
 * http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/BB/icb3.html

Citations needed for Rosa Parks
Citations are needed for Rosa Parks. If they are not supplied, this article could be delisted from FA status! WhisperToMe (talk) 18:31, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Let me take a look. futurebird (talk) 04:36, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Article nominated for deletion
Members of this project might be interested in Odette Krempin. She is an African living in Germany.Northwestgnome (talk) 19:25, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

New category Category:African diaspora history
I realised there was no common cat between Category:African American history and Category:Black British history, so I created Category:African diaspora history to establish a linkage, joining at the trees: Categories: African diaspora | History by ethnic group | History of Africa. Anyone object, propose a re-name, or have other articles/cats to add? MatthewVanitas (talk) 01:07, 23 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Also added: Category:Languages of the African diaspora, Category:Music of the African diaspora. MatthewVanitas (talk) 01:41, 23 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Did a lot of moving articles around into cats, however 90% of the remaining articles under the main cat actually belong in Category:Peoples of the African diaspora. Anyone have some kind of bot to sort all those into the subcat? MatthewVanitas (talk) 04:04, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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Article needing review/cleanup: African American Women, 1960's
I noticed a new article that needs work and wanted to draw this project's attention to it: African American Women, 1960's. The article needs review; since it appears to be based largely on an ethnography published as All Our Kin, should it be refactored and moved to an article on that study? Or perhaps it could be the starting point for a broader article? Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 10:02, 30 January 2010 (UTC) (cross-posted to Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_United_States_History

Black Death (American band)
Template:WikiProject African diaspora was added to Talk:Black Death (American band). Is this subject covered by this project? (Sugar Bear (talk) 22:15, 18 February 2010 (UTC))


 * The article is probably in this WikiProject because the band's members are African Americans. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 22:26, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:United States ghettos
The related Category:United States ghettos has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for Discussion page.

Blues FAR
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GA reassessment of African American culture
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List of black ice hockey players
FYI, List of black ice hockey players has been nominated for deletion. 70.29.208.247 (talk) 05:52, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Editing warring on an article: your input would be appreciated
There is a discussion taking place about the Dancehall article. Different editors have different ideas about what should be put in the article.

If anyone could pop over and read what is being said (and the different versions of the article in the history), then it would be most useful! The discussion is here. -- Phantom Steve /talk &#124;contribs \ 17:14, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Popular pages
This is just a note that I am filing a request with User:Mr.Z-man, asking him to add this WikiProject to the list of projects that User:Mr.Z-bot compiles monthly "Popular pages" reports for. (See example at WikiProject Birds/Popular pages). The report will be located at WikiProject African diaspora/Popular pages, but will not be posted until the end of this month, as it is only done once a month. Wikignome0530 (talk) 23:52, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Segregation in churches
There doesn't seem to be an article on racial segregation in American Christianity. This has got to be an important historical topic. Steve Dufour (talk) 00:13, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

This might be fairly hard to do, considering that many denominations didn't have a set policy nearly so much as they adhered to their own regional norms. For example, the Society of Friends (Quakers) in colonial and federal-period America, while taking a strong abolitionist stance, still practiced varying degrees of segregation in the congregation. It's not an impossible task - just hard to get a grip on. LTC David J. Cormier (talk) 15:34, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

New image
Astounding person. Managed to get a career as a major Shakespearian actor in a time of exceptional prejudice, when even such roles as existed were played by white men in blackface. Had to leave America for Britain to do it, but he did, and he was, by all accounts, magnificent. How magnificent? He is one of only 33 actors to get a bronze plaque at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:43, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

FAR
nominated Shotgun house for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.  YellowMonkey  ( vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll )  02:02, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Pageview stats
After a recent request, I added WikiProject African diaspora to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at WikiProject African diaspora/Popular pages.

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the toolserver tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 01:07, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Bibliography That May Help for Editing Some Articles in This Project
I see that some articles in the scope of WikiProject African diaspora relate to the contentious issue of IQ testing. You may find it helpful while reading or editing articles to look at a bibliography of Intelligence Citations, posted for the use of all Wikipedians who have occasion to edit articles on human intelligence and related issues. I happen to have circulating access to a huge academic research library at a university with an active research program in these issues (and to another library that is one of the ten largest public library systems in the United States) and have been researching these issues since 1989. You are welcome to use these citations for your own research. You can help other Wikipedians by suggesting new sources through comments on that page. It will be extremely helpful for articles on human intelligence to edit them according to the Wikipedia standards for reliable sources for medicine-related articles, as it is important to get these issues as well verified as possible. I'd love to hear from anyone who has done research on these issues. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 21:24, 30 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Just to let everyone involved in this project know, your help with further updates to the Intelligence Citations list would be much appreciated. Feel free to put your  suggestions there. Thanks. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 01:30, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Article for Deletion Notice: Race baiting
The article Race baiting has been nominated for deletion. You may wish to add a comment on the discussion page --George100 (talk) 08:18, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

BBC: African-Americans and lack of swimming ability
Here is a BBC article that discusses African-Americans and a lack of swimming ability present in the communities: Rohrer, Finlo. "Why don't black Americans swim?." BBC. September 3, 2010. WhisperToMe (talk) 18:46, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

AfD
Here is a project related AfD. Thanks for your opinions. I nominated it but if you think it should be kept please explain why. Articles for deletion/Africoid peoplesJaque Hammer (talk) 22:12, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

African diaspora articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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LGBT and black churches
Hi! I found: If anyone needs a source for articles about African-American churches and homosexuality... WhisperToMe (talk) 06:11, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Lee, Shayne. "Why black church culture rejects homosexuality." CNN. September 26, 2010.

African American Families
A source: WhisperToMe (talk) 06:39, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Hattery, Angela and Earl Smith. African American Families. SAGE, 2007. ISBN 1412924669, 9781412924665.

Sons of Haiti
FYI, Articles for deletion/Sons of Haiti. I started the article as a stub without much information, and am not sure but think it seems relevant to this WikiProject. --doncram (talk) 18:33, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to help with WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 03:18, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Birth rate of African-American children to unmarried parents
I found: WhisperToMe (talk) 17:45, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Washington, Jesse. "Blacks struggle with 72 percent unwed mothers rate." Houston Chronicle. November 6, 2010.

WikiProject cleanup listing
I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 20:06, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Notice of ArbCom decision on Race and intelligence and related articles
The Arbitration Commmittee case on race and intelligence has just been decided. Thus articles that are either in the Race and intelligence controversy category or mentioned in the  findings of the 2010 Arbitration Committee  case on Race and intelligence or closely related to those are subject to  active arbitration remedies that you may wish to review. The case decision seems to have resulted in an immediate improvement in the editing environment of several articles that previously were very contentious. Peaceful, collaborative editing that turns to sources and upholds Wikipedia policy is enjoyable editing. I thought I should let participants on this WikiProject know that this improved atmosphere now exists, because some of the articles related to that case have long been marked as part of this project. Your participation in editing those articles is welcomed and encouraged. You can look up sources to help improve articles in the source lists I have been compiling to share with all Wikipedians. And because the source lists span several different topics, and those topics fit quite a few articles in this WikiProject in whole or in part, suggesting new sources would be a very kind thing to do. The atmosphere has improved a lot, so the articles can improve a lot. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 01:43, 28 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I would appreciate help from anyone who happens to visit this page with the source lists I keep in user space for ongoing editing of articles in the scope of this WikiProject. Thanks for any suggestions you have for those. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 02:25, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Articles up for deletion
Please see Articles for deletion/Black Buddhist and Buddhist Nation (which is proposed for speedy deletion). Borock (talk) 16:31, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Jumping the broom: origins
At present the article on Jumping the broom reflects current perceptions that this tradition was a survival from African marriage ceremonies, and implies the custom was practised primarily by African Americans during the 19th century. Sources quoted in the article however suggest that it originated among Welsh Romani (gypsies), spread to marginalized British groups in the mid-to-late 18th century and was quickly adopted by African Americans at a time when normal wedding ceremonies were not available to them due to witholding of full civil status. There is an ongoing discussion as to whether to create two separate articles, one on the Romani origins of Jumping the Broom and another on the African American aspect; or else have just one article on the custom, but rewrite it to state its Romani origins more clearly. You're invited to contribute to this debate on the Jumping the broom talkpage, particularly if you know of any additional sources that will help clarify the matter.RLamb (talk) 23:31, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Featured portal candidate: United States
Portal:United States is a current featured portal candidate. Please feel free to leave comments. -- RichardF (talk) 14:33, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Article for Deletion; Black Golden Globe Award winners
Some readers of this page may be interested in the current AfD at Articles for deletion/List of Black Golden Globe Award winners and nominees.--Epeefleche (talk) 00:36, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

FA review of The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X has been nominated as a Featured Article candidate. The editors who have nominated it would appreciate it if editors would volunteer to review it.

If you're interested, please see the second blue box ("Supporting and opposing") at the top of WP:FAC and the review FAQ for additional information. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 19:54, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Proposal to eliminate many African-Americans from lists and categories
A proposal has been made at Wikipedia_talk:Biographies_of_living_persons to expand the WP:BLPCAT policy to include lists and categories based on ethnicity. This proposal, if adopted, would eliminate all living persons from African-American lists and categories, unless certain stringent criteria are met (for instance, the person must self-identify themselves as African-American to be included). Input is welcome. --Noleander (talk) 20:37, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

What is the current view of editors working on this project regarding usage of "black" and "African American" terminology
Hello, I came across an article where the term "black" was used to describe African American people. I was advised that a discussion about using these terms took place on Wikipedia a while ago and the consensus was that neither term was preferable over each other, if an article used one term, it just had to be consistent. I would be interested to know what current editors of WikiProject African diaspora think about this. Personally, I prefer using the term "African American" but I'd like to hear what people think. Russell Dent (talk) 10:19, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

WP:UNDUE issue at Chris Brown (American singer)
Opinions are needed on this matter. Earlier, I reverted to the previous formatting, per my reasoning at Talk:Chris Brown (American singer). Splitting up the sections to where his domestic violence case is highlighted is a sure case of WP:UNDUE. There is no valid reason to highlight the section by making it its own section and separating it from his career efforts at that time, especially since it (the domestic violence case) affected those efforts. It makes more sense to keep all that information there in one place. This is also how biographies of living people are typically done -- avoiding Criticism or Controversy sections by themselves. They especially follow chronological order. If the Michael Jackson article (which is featured) can combine controversy with career happenings without any problems, then I do not see why this article cannot as well. Flyer22 (talk) 05:23, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Slave health on American plantations
This article needs tons of work. There are hardly any citations, the article needs to be majorly cleaned up, it needs copyediting, there is no lead section, the list goes on and on. Somebody needs to repair this article. --Nat682 (talk) 10:43, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Tom Kahn DYK
Tom Kahn helped Bayard Rustin organize the 1963 March on Washington, for which he ghost wrote the speech by A. Philip Randolph. He ghost wrote Rustin's 1965 "From Protest to Politics", before turning his attention to Democratic Party and AFL-CIO politics. I would appreciate help with exanding the civil-rights section of the new article.

Also, there will be a DYK soon:


 * ... that Tom Kahn organized American unions' $300,000 aid to the Polish labor-union Solidarity in 1979–1981, despite Secretary of State Muskie warnings that this aid might provoke a new Soviet invasion?

Best regards, Kiefer .Wolfowitz 01:36, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

African Americans in Texas
The Texas Historical Commission has a pamphlet and website about African Americans in the State of Texas http://www.africanamericansintexas.com/ Could be useful in developing sources on stuff WhisperToMe (talk) 05:41, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Marimba Ani
I've created an article on Marimba Ani; it seemed rather extraordinary that after 10 years, we did not have an article on her. Expansion and further input from knowledgeable editors welcome. -- J N  466  19:03, 4 July 2011 (UTC) Thank you! futurebird (talk) 03:23, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Commons:Harmon Foundation
Hi, on Commons:Category:Harmon Foundation and Commons:Category:African Americans in art, a substantial amount of African-American art pictures are arriving. --Foroa (talk) 15:48, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

slave narratives
where is the reference for the claim that there are 6000 slave narratives? that number is much higher than any of the usual long-respected sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.183.146.98 (talk) 16:45, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Earl Best DYK needs help!
The DYK for Earl Best seems to be getting stuck in an endless loop: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#Earl_Best I think it needs some copyediting because of paraphrasing concerns, and also disambiguation. The DYK keeps moving around, and was last spotted in the DYK July 23 nominations. If there was ever a guy who ought to get his day on the front page, it's him. Anyone able to help with this? Trilliumz (talk) 02:10, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

New article on "treatment of slaves"?
Please see Talk page proposal on possible WP:content fork of article Slavery in the United States, creating a new article on Treatment of slaves, particularly treatment of female slaves by white masters. Comment (at that talk page) is welcome. --Noleander (talk) 00:00, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Are African American women not important enough to have a list? Some say they aren't.
List of African American women was deleted because the list was too long, and other ridiculously invalid reasons. I took this to the deletion review at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2011_September_13 Please look through the AFD discussion and state your opinion if that was a valid reason to delete it. The List of Native American women that was previously deleted, was overturned today. No reason not to have one for African American women also.  D r e a m Focus  03:22, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Fall 2011 Photo Contest
WP:NRHP is having a Fall Photo Contest running from Oct. 21-Dec. 4, 2011. I'd like to encourage anybody who enjoys photography, and anybody who is interested in historic places to participate as a photographer, a sponsor, or both.

One way that an individual editor or a project can participate is to sponsor their own challenge. For example, somebody here might want to include a challenge such as "A barnstar will be awarded to the photographer who adds the most photos of previously non-illustrated NRHP sites related to African-American history to the NRHP county lists." To sponsor a challenge all you need to do is come up with an idea, post it on the contest page, and do the small bit of work needed to judge the winner(s).

Any and all contributions appreciated.

Smallbones (talk) 15:12, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Theddis Roosevelt Coney, first black US marshall
Not sure if anybody's interested. But I found that Theddis Roosevelt Coney was the first black US marshal WhisperToMe (talk) 05:49, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Bardwell, S.K. "The first black U.S. marshal is found dead." Houston Chronicle. Thursday January 7, 1999. A26.

Featured article review for Rosa Parks
nominated Rosa Parks for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Brad (talk) 03:38, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Obituaries and African Americans

 * Carlisle, John (DetroitBlogger John). "Last writes." November 16, 2011.
 * Woman quoted in the article says that obituaries are very important in African American culture. It may be possible that they aren't as important in White American culture.
 * WhisperToMe (talk) 06:16, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

mischlingskinder
I found a CNN article about "mischlingskinder" WhisperToMe (talk) 14:34, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
 * "'Brown babies' long search for family, identity." CNN. November 20, 2011.
 * It stated that many African American magazines like Jet and Ebony talked about the kids.

"If I were a Poor Black Kid"
There's a back and forth debate over a Forbes post:
 * Marks, Gene. "If I Were A Poor Black Kid." Forbes. December 12, 2011.
 * Thurston, Baratunde. "Letter from a poor black kid: Baratunde Thurston responds to Forbes' Gene Marks." CNN. December 14, 2011.
 * Marks, Gene. "Forbes' 'If I were a poor black kid' writer Gene Marks responds to Baratunde Thurston." CNN. December 15, 2011.

And there are more responses: WhisperToMe (talk) 00:43, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Coates, Ta-Nehisi. "A Muscular Empathy." The Atlantic. December 14, 2011.
 * Crotty, James Marshall. "Four Things I Learned from Coaching 'Poor Black Kids'." Forbes. December 16, 2011.
 * Hill, Kashmere. "Trolling The Internet With 'If I Were A Poor Black Kid'." Forbes. December 14, 2011.
 * Jefferson, Cord. "An Ode to a 'Poor Black Kid' I Never Knew: How Forbes Gets Poverty Wrong." Good. December 13, 2011.
 * Touré. "If I Were a Middle Class White Guy Writing About Being a Poor Black Kid." TIME. December 15, 2011.
 * Virella, Kelly. "If I Were The Middle Class White Guy Gene Marks." Dominion of New York. December 13, 2011.

Category:Black people?
Why is there no category to group together Category:African American people, Category:Black British people, Category:Black Canadian people, Category:Black Dutch people etc? 84.198.56.170 (talk) 11:37, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

More sources
WhisperToMe (talk) 18:35, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Carter, Dorinda J. "Editor's Review of John U. Ogbu's Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement." Harvard Educational Review. Winter (Northern Hemisphere) 2004.

LGBT and Martin Luther King
CNN posted an interesting article about MLK and views about LGBT issues WhisperToMe (talk) 00:46, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Blake, John. "What did MLK think about gay people?" CNN. January 16, 2012.

Reviewer needed for W. E. B. Du Bois Featured article status
The project has an opportunity to have another Featured Article: W. E. B. Du Bois is up for FA review, at Featured article candidates/W. E. B. Du Bois/archive1. It has two reviewers, but needs a third to be ratified. If you want to review it, make sure you are familiar with the criteria at Featured article criteria, and dont be afraid to suggest improvements. Thanks. --Noleander (talk) 17:44, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:African diaspora will have interest in putting on events related to women's roles within the African diaspora. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 19:10, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Line in a section "Slavery in the United States" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States)
The line I'm addressing says: "Many mixed-race children were born into slavery because white men took advantage of slave women." At best, this seems highly euphemistic. At worst, this makes it look like it could have been a matter of slave-holding white men making enticing but ultimately unfulfilled promises of social advantage to naive enslaved black women. Wouldn't the truthful statement simply be that "white men raped slave women"?Lufernac (talk) 07:28, 19 February 2012 (UTC)


 * I agree with you, but this is a discussion that should take place at Talk:Slavery in the United States. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 07:35, 19 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Is a consensual relationship even posible with that power dynamic in place? futurebird (talk) 05:42, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Philadelphia Doll Museum
I've created an article on the Philadelphia Doll Museum and would appreciate if you oversaw the progression of the article. The Philadelphia Doll Museum is the only museum in the United States that emphasizes the collection and preservation of black dolls. eg480510 (talk) 18:07, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Life in Philadelphia
I am currently working on an article called Life in Philadelphia, a cartoon series by E.W.Clay. In the series he portrays anti-abolitionist sentiments by depicting free slaves in a satirical way. I would really like this article to be developed and worked on more closely because it is important for Philadelphia's history.

CPsju 17:11, 20 March 2012 (UTC)CPsju (talk)

African Americans and Police
A source: WhisperToMe (talk) 01:58, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Granderson, L.Z. "Why black people don't trust the police." CNN. Thursday March 22, 2012.

Free HighBeam accounts
The internet research database HighBeam Research has 1000 free accounts available. HighBeam has full versions of tens of millions of newspaper articles and journals and should be a big help in adding reliable sources--especially older and paywalled ones--into the encyclopedia. Sign-ups require a 1-year old account with 1000 edits on any Wikipedia. Here's the link to the project page: HighBeam (account sign-ups are linked in the box on the right). Feel free to sign up to help improve your work on this project's articles. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 15:47, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

The Middle Passage.
Hello, My name is Kameron Raynor and I am a student at Drew University who currently did some research on the Middle Passage and I would like your feedback on this topic and anything else that might be beneficial to this project. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coldhotsauce58 (talk • contribs) 05:23, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Reassessment of the Afro article's quality scale class
I don't think the class of the Afro article has been assessed in some time; it is still rated at "start class". Could someone maybe take a look? Cheers! --Marchije•speak/peek 18:56, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Barack Obama FAR
There is a discussion ongoing at Featured article review/Barack Obama/archive9Lihaas (talk) 16:28, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Perth requested-move notification
A requested move survey was started at Talk:Perth_(disambiguation), which proposes to move:
 * Perth → Perth, Western Australia
 * Perth, Scotland → Perth, Perthshire
 * Perth (disambiguation) → Perth

Background: There was a previous requested-move survey which ran from late May to mid June. There was a great deal of controversy surrounding the closure and subsequent events, which involved a number of reverts and re-reverts which are the subject of an ongoing arbitration case. There was a move review process, which was closed with a finding that the original requested-move closure was endorsed; however, the move review process is relatively new and untried. — P.T. Aufrette (talk) 03:06, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Choochoos team
I WILL LKIE TO BE ON THE CHOOCHOOS TEAM OK. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.29.250.94 (talk) 00:00, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Top importance African diaspora articles?
I have recently gone through the "Africana" encyclopedia and listed all the articles it has. The list can be found at User:John Carter/Africa articles. I have started going ahead, as per discussion, with tagging those articles in wikipedia which have articles in that book and that directly relate to Africa as being of "Top" importance to Africa, and any of the directly relevant national subprojects, based on that. There are a number of articles in "Africana" however which do not relate at all to Africa, but do relate to the African diaspora. I would be interested in seeing what the members of this project would think of my doing basically the same thing here, for the articles relating to the African diaspora. I figure it might be as many as 2000 or so, but, given the breadth of the spread of the diaspora, I also think that number might be about right. Several countries and territories have substantial articles there, like those of the Caribbean, and there might be some objection there, but I doubt much.

Anyway, I would welcome all responses. John Carter (talk) 21:49, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, considering there have been no responses whatsoever, I am going to go ahead with it. John Carter (talk) 19:25, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

List of African-American firsts
You are invited to visit the article's talk page and comment on inclusion criteria. Zepppep (talk) 09:19, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Question regarding definition of project scope
I note that this project as it stands does not contain on the main project page a clear statement of its intended scope. I would propose, if possible, that it relate to articles contained in the Category:African diaspora and its related subcategories, because that category seems to me to be the most clearly relevant to this project. Also, I suppose I should point out the reason for making this change. I have recently started tagging articles which have matching articles in the Africana encyclopedia by Appiah and Gates for this project. It seems to me likely that the content of a reference book whose two subjects are "Africa" and the African diaspora would relate to either one of the Africa WikiProjects or the African diaspora project. The articles in the first edition all contain article headings, indicating whether they relate to Africa specifically or Africans outside Africa in some way. I have been tagging all the articles with the "Africa" heading for WikiProject Africa and its related projects, and recently started tagging the other articles for this project. Now, some of those articles are about people of non-African descent who played a significant role in the history of African peoples outside of Africa, very often significantly relating to issues of importance to the individuals of the African diaspora, often involving matters relating to African slavery, persecution, etc. in some way. I would think it not unreasonable that, if those subjects have separate articles in that source, they might reasonably qualify for inclusion in Category:African diaspora history. Would the members of this project object to changing the scope to allow for the inclusion of the comparatively small number of biographical articles whose subjects seem to have been important to the history of the African diaspora even if they themselves had no clearly African blood? John Carter (talk) 22:18, 15 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I've noticed your assessment campaign and I meant to thank you for it. I appreciate it, and I'm sure other members of the WikiProject do as well.
 * With respect to your question: It seems reasonable to me that people not of African descent, such as prominent white abolitionists, might be considered within the scope of this WikiProject because of their impact on the lives of people of the African diaspora. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 02:19, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Racial segregation in US cities
Hi WPAD. Bringing to your attention some ongoing work on racial segregation in US cities, particularly Pittsburgh and Detroit. (Soon: Baltimore; possibly a whole page on Racial segregation in Baltimore.) See the talk pages to get a sense of the difficulty involved in adding this type of information to the page of a major city. Segregation and racially motivated violence was and is a major aspect of life in these cities, yet some are resistant to including it on the encyclopedia. Racial segregation in the United States is good but not linked as often as it should be. groupuscule (talk) 18:12, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Black History Month UK style
Just let everyone know that there is a BHM event in London on Friday 26th October.

Hi! Speaking of Black History Month, I would like to invite all of you to join participants of the WikiAfrica wikiproject in the final efforts. There are hundred of pictures waiting to be included in Wikipedia articles in all languages or to get a better name, description or category. See you there? Thanks! --Elitre (talk) 04:52, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Elitre, we had a look at the material and will consider how we can work with you in the future.Leutha (talk) 14:31, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

We had about a dozen people and we looked at the list Charles had. We discovered LoopZilla had been editing from home. However we did a bit of work on the League of Coloured Peoples and African Progress Union. We then broke up as individuals started work on articles of interest to them ising material that the Equiano Centre provided as reference sources.Leutha (talk) 16:44, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry that I could not be there in person today. Gordo (talk) 16:48, 26 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Had a wonderful afternoon. Thanks to the Equiano Centre, Leutha, Charles Matthews, and everyone at Wikimedia who made it happen. Looking forward to more activity on Black British history. Eartha78 (talk) 19:29, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Category:American people of African-American descent
Recently, an editor created Category:American people of African-American descent with no description or inclusion criteria and started populating it. I don't whether this is a valid and useful navigation aid or not within the direction of your project. If not, your project can undertake to put its articles back into their original categories and get this new category deleted. Thanks Hmains (talk) 21:33, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedians in Residence wanted in Cameroon and South Africa
WikiAfrica is seeking Wikipedians in Residence! One to work in Cameroon and one in South Africa. Please visit their blog to learn more. SarahStierch (talk) 18:49, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

African American sign language
Here is a source about African American sign language: WhisperToMe (talk) 08:37, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Sellers, Frances Stead. "Sign language that African Americans use is different from that of whites." Washington Post. September 17, 2012.

Are Ethiopians and Somalis African American?
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Americans. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 01:45, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Are British Somalis Black British people?
Join in the discussion about this edit. One editor thinks it shouldn't be there because, in their opinion, British Somali people are 'not black'. What's your opinion? You are invited to participate in these discussions about Somali people living in the UK. Should Somalis in the UK be included as of the many different communities that identify as Black British?   Ackees (talk) 18:06, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Seasoning (slave)
Hi,

The above article is part of the African diaspora project, so this seems the best place to bring this up since the article talk page is empty and there have been very few edits on the article.

I am by no means an expert on the subject, so the article may be correct. However, I have for the past year or so been studying colonial empires and have only seen information to the contrary of this article. I no longer process the various books I have on the subject, so cannot provide book-based evidence, but the general consensus was that "seasoning" was the term used for Europeans and Africans who had survived a year or so in the Americans and not just a general term for the torture and breaking of slaves. The article contains no sourced information on the subject, other than where slaves were destined for, their price, and the average mortality rate.

The internet is full of examples of the term: google search. I therefore propose that the project takes steps to move the article, and reword it.EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 00:59, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Due to the article being more of a history related subject rather than "related to the cultural contributions of people of African descent all over the world", I have also left a message on the History Project talkpage. Regards EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 01:14, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Request for input on peer review of Zong Massacre article
I've recently been working on the Zong Massacre article, which is now in peer review. I'd appreciate any feedback that project members might have on this article. Celuici (talk) 11:39, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

File:Afrodias logo.svg
In the logo for the WP, is there any meaning associated with each of the arrows? Because having an arrow heading Southeast from Africa/Madagascar just looks odd in the context of the African Diaspora. Not only wasn't there a significant diaspora in that direction, there aren't even that many people in that direction (Mostly the French Southern Islands)Naraht (talk) 16:03, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
 * It looks like they just used cardinal and ordinal directions. The real question is, why isn't there an arrow pointing directly south? –Mabeenot (talk) 03:08, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

MLK to Good Article?
With Martin Luther King Day around the corner in the US, I'm making a push to bring his article up to Good Article status. Anybody who would like to help out is welcome. -- Khazar2 (talk) 13:17, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Article request: Hortense Spillers, Hortense J. Spillers

 * because i don't really believe anyone ever looks at the request section of any wikiproject page. ;-). As for Spillers, she is somewhat oft-cited etc. Cross-posting in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Feminism • Serviceable†Villain 07:22, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

James DePreist
The article for James DePreist, one of the first African-American conductors with an international career, will be receiving a lot of traffic in the near future due to his death. The article needs work, as much of the text has been pulled from his Allmusic and NEA biographies. It appears to be incomplete and needs expanding, re-wording, sourcing, etc. Any assistance improving this article would be much appreciated. -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 17:51, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Roots fiction merged with fact in some articles
There seems to be quite a mess in a few articles, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Lord_Ligonier_%28slave_ship%29#Needs_citations_to_distinguish_fact_from_fiction FunkMonk (talk) 12:02, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Assessment for George Howard, Jr.
I am requesting an assessment for George Howard, Jr. from someone on this project. I recently made some changes and was looking for some input. Dlfreem (talk) &#91;&#91;D-free&#93;&#93; (talk) 01:04, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

George Herriman FAC
I've nominated the George Herriman article for FAC, with the hope of having it appear as Today's Featured Article on 13 October 2013, which is the 100th anniversary of his signature work, Krazy Kat. Any attention, feedback, and support would be greatly appreciated. Curly Turkey (gobble) 16:33, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

New Article on African American Family Structures
For a school project, I will be expanding the African American Family Structure Section on the Family structure in the United States article by creating an additional article on African American family styles and linking it back to the original article and section. Currently, there is not much information on the African American family style besides the article on Black matriarchy. While black matriarchy is a component of African American Family Styles, it does not cover all forms of African American families in the United States. I plan to expand on other forms of African American family structures in the United States, provide historical context for these family styles and discuss some of the consequences of the current trends in African American families. Specifically, I will be addressing the historical connotation of the African American family structure, the rise in African American divorce, and the high rate of African American male incarceration and how it affects the African American family structure. I will also be discussing some of the effects of the typical African American family structure including black matriarchy, poverty, and teen pregnancy. I will be using many scholarly articles on the topic from varied published journals including the Child Development journal and the Feminist Economist Journal. This topic seeks to expand on African American culture and history, specifically how it relates to family and is in guidelines with the current WikiProject African Diaspora goals of documenting African American topics. I welcome any feedback or suggestions any of you may have for my article contribution and goals. B.chachere (talk) 19:55, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Igbo Landing
I have started this new article and submitted to AfC. I would be grateful for your review, input and further development of the article. Thanks.Ochiwar (talk) 10:11, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

TuskegeeP40.jpg
image:TuskegeeP40.jpg has been nominated for deletion-- 70.24.250.103 (talk) 00:41, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Scott Joplin 19072 rd.jpg
file:Scott Joplin 19072 rd.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.250.103 (talk) 01:32, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

African American Latter Day Saints
The following category is up for deletion, please contribute to the debate: Category:African-American Latter Day Saints--MacRùsgail (talk) 17:38, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

article requested on Black Student Associations generally
There's a request that I agree with and wish I had time to do myself. Nick Levinson (talk) 16:17, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Flist nom

 * If you care about Flists, here's a nom: Featured list candidates/List of winners of the William E. Harmon foundation award for distinguished achievement among Negroes/archive1. • Serviceable†Villain 04:56, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

File:Alex Haley thank you note.jpg
File:Alex Haley thank you note.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 07:32, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

File:Viola Davis Brown, Graduation photo, Nazareth School of Nursing, 1959.jpg
File:Viola Davis Brown, Graduation photo, Nazareth School of Nursing, 1959.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 09:00, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

File:Pythian Baseball Club.jpg
File:Pythian Baseball Club.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 05:35, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Talk:Rape during the liberation of France

 * Section determined to violate WP:CANVAS and user responsible currently blocked. Eh doesn&#39;t afraid of anyone (talk) 05:07, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

There is a page Rape during the liberation of France, which mentions descrimination against African American soldiers. But some people want to hide historical shame articles. Need some opinions. See Talk:Rape during the liberation of France.--Syngmung (talk) 05:35, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Please see WP:CANVAS. Also, what does this have to do with African diaspora? Inserting links to articles about prostitution in order to promote your own POV that this is the same as rape is not REMOTELY related to Africa. You are going a bit to far in your extensive campaign of canvassing here...
 * For everyone else: please ignore this person. Xe has been inserting OR (particularly of the SYNTH variety) into numerous articles on rape and other almost entirely unrelated articles (read: adding a paragraph about rape to Invasion of Normandy), and inserting links to completely unrelated articles about prostitution in South Korea. These edits are at the very best highly offensive and inappropriate. Cheers!
 * Eh doesn&#39;t afraid of anyone (talk) 13:30, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
 * What is the OR? Sourced contents. Eh doesn't afraid of anyone, the SPA comments are filled with OR without reliable sources.--Syngmung (talk) 14:01, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Is Juneteenth part of WikiProject African diaspora?
If Juneteenth Wikipedia page is part of WikiProject diaspora, your assitance is greetly appreciated. Please review the Talk section on the Wikipedia Juneteenth section and provide whatever advice you have on getting our African dispora information maintained.

Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D. JuneteenthDOC (talk) 16:39, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Should Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention be tagged as LGBT-related?
Please see Talk:Malcolm_X:_A_Life_of_Reinvention WhisperToMe (talk) 07:17, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Project bias
this project seems to have a bias towards the promotion of african diaspora articles, rather than simple assessment and improvement. the introduction makes it out to be a celebration of the cultural achievements found in the diaspora (instead of a coordination effort across all diaspora related articles), and the stats on articles are heavily skewed towards "top", which is not typical for a project, which usually shows a very steep pyramid shape:
 * top high mid  low  na     unasse  total
 * 693 116 	284 	565 	732 	1,321 	3,711

this would be more appropriate: (if all na/unassessed were given proper ratings)
 * top high  mid  low       na    unasse    total
 * 50  250   500   2800   111    0            3711

movement towards numbers like this would show progress. its just a guesstimate, but you cant have 700 top articles out of 3700 total.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 06:00, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Edward "Ned" Hector - Black Revolutionary War Hero
Is this article within the scope of your project? Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Edward "Ned" Hector - Black Revolutionary War Hero If so, can someone help the editor fix up the article? It is full of interesting information, but far from encyclopedic. &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 07:47, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Great Migration (African American), African aesthetic, Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, Afro-American music, Black flight — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.149.7.213 (talk) 12:44, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

NorbertRillieux.jpg
image:NorbertRillieux.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.249.39 (talk) 09:20, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Trayvon Martin on the backseat of a car.png
image:Trayvon Martin on the backseat of a car.png has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.249.39 (talk) 05:31, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Long Branch Slave quarters.jpg
image:Long Branch Slave quarters.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.181.39 (talk) 05:27, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

talk:Black Entertainment Television
Request is still discussed; comment while it lasts. --George Ho (talk) 02:31, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Michael Jackson's health and appearance article
Anyone willing to help out with the Michael Jackson's health and appearance article? The same back and forth mess is still going on at that article, such as with this and this edit by "new editor" Firstcomp, especially with regard to Jackson's skin color and whatever plastic surgery he might have had. See Talk:Michael Jackson's health and appearance for further detail. Flyer22 (talk) 21:58, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Popular pages tool update
As of January, the popular pages tool has moved from the Toolserver to Wikimedia Tool Labs. The code has changed significantly from the Toolserver version, but users should notice few differences. Please take a moment to look over your project's list for any anomalies, such as pages that you expect to see that are missing or pages that seem to have more views than expected. Note that unlike other tools, this tool aggregates all views from redirects, which means it will typically have higher numbers. (For January 2014 specifically, 35 hours of data is missing from the WMF data, which was approximated from other dates. For most articles, this should yield a more accurate number. However, a few articles, like ones featured on the Main Page, may be off).

Web tools, to replace the ones at ~alexz/pop, will become available over the next few weeks at popularpages. All of the historical data (back to July 2009 for some projects) has been copied over. The tool to view historical data is currently partially available (assessment data and a few projects may not be available at the moment). The tool to add new projects to the bot's list is also available now (editing the configuration of current projects coming soon). Unlike the previous tool, all changes will be effective immediately. OAuth is used to authenticate users, allowing only regular users to make changes to prevent abuse. A visible history of configuration additions and changes is coming soon. Once tools become fully available, their toolserver versions will redirect to Labs.

If you have any questions, want to report any bugs, or there are any features you would like to see that aren't currently available on the Toolserver tools, see the updated FAQ or contact me on my talk page. Mr.Z-bot (talk) (for Mr.Z-man ) 04:50, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission - 05/03
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Jean Blackwell Hutson. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 19:19, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Born with dreadlocks
In Nigeria, there are several babies born with dreadlocks.They are usually given a name as a result. The yorubas name such a child "Dada". I am a living proof of a person like that. I have pictures I can show anyone that has questions.

People that go to salons or make their dreadlocks through artificial means are only try to replicate what exists normally.Just because it doesn't occuring Europe, Caribbean or America means nothing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.88.174.84 (talk) 23:33, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Does this relate to an article? Bali88 (talk) 19:29, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

List of African-American Academy Award winners and nominees
Until yesterday this was "List of black Academy Award winners and nominees"; now it's been moved and all of the non-Americans purged from the page. I think it should be changed back but I don't want to start an edit war over it. I was wondering if anyone here had a opinion on the subject (either way). - AdamBMorgan (talk) 02:59, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Carol Jenkins
I started the page Murder of Carol Jenkins the other day. It's a 60's era murder thought to be a racially motivated murder committed by by a KKK member (he died before trial). I'm new to wikipedia and don't fully know my way around. Is this appropriate for the african diaspora project? (Also, anyone who'd like to help me work on it is welcome!) Bali88 (talk) 03:05, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Mia Love
There is currently a discussion on the article on Mia Love about what ethnic labels apply to her as the child of Haitian immigrants to the United States, who is often referred to by reliable sources as "African American". Some of this boils down to whether "Black" when applied to people n the US can be assumed to be the same as "African American". This is a major issue that applies much more broadly than this one biography, and imput from people in this project woul greatly help the discussion.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:40, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

RfC: Talk:List of African-American Academy Award winners and nominees
There is an open RfC at Talk:List of African-American Academy Award winners and nominees. The question is whether List of African-American Academy Award winners and nominees should be moved to List of black Academy Award winners and nominees so that its scope would include black Oscar winners and nominees from countries other than the United States. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:35, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Christine Jax
Hello, there.... This old abandoned Afc submission may be of interest to members of this project. It will soon be deleted as a stale draft unless someone thinks it's about a notable topic and begins improving it. &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 14:43, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission - 18/03
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Lucy Stanton. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 18:54, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Improving Afrofuturism article
Hello, all: I've been working on updating the citations in the Afrofuturism article, which I believe falls under this WikiProject, as well as removing older dead links and reformatting existing citations. I was wondering if anyone had any feedback on the body of the article itself -- I'd like to add a section on literature, for example, but would welcome other ideas or assistance. AmandaRR123 (talk) 03:09, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission - 09/04
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Black Panther Party Chapter. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 17:08, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

"Merging" (aka Deleting) categories
There is a discussion on merging Category:American women philosophers, Category:Asian American philosophers and Category:African-American philosophers into Category:American philosophers which would, in fact, lead to their deletion. If you would like to weigh in on the conversation (pro or con), go to Categories for discussion/Log/2014 April 17. Liz Read! Talk! 21:08, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

African-American fashion
I'm thinking about creating an article about African-American fashion trends. Anyone interested in working on this with me? Bali88 (talk) 19:36, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Article Request
Hi. I have created a number of articles on Ethnic groups in Baltimore. I have mostly focused on the European heritage of the city. As I am not as informed about the African-American history of the city, I thought that it might be a good idea if someone more knowledgeable could begin an article on the History of African Americans in Baltimore. Are there any takers? Thank you. Solar-Wind (talk) 06:23, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:List_of_people_of_African-American_and_Native_American_admixture#Requested_move
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:List_of_people_of_African-American_and_Native_American_admixture. Thanks. Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 22:52, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet For Wikiproject African Diaspora At Wikimania 2014
Are you looking to recruit more contributors to your project? We are offering to design and print physical paper leaflets to be distributed at Wikimania 2014 for all projects that apply. For more information, click the link below. Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 10:44, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Requesting 3rd opinions on Talk:Black Bike Week
An editor at Black Bike Week has made a series of changes which have the effect of watering down the reports of racism and systemic discrimination by the police, government and businesses in Myrtle Beach, SC, and adds loaded terms to cast doubt on the statements of the NAACP in the various court cases that took place there. I suggested seeking 3rd opinions from other WikiProjects African diaspora and Countering Systemic Bias, but User:Factchecker atyourservice objected, even though, for example Third opinion suggests that the talk page of a relevant WikiProject is a good place to seek additional editors to settle a disupte. The discussion threads Talk:Black Bike Week, Talk:Black Bike Week, and Talk:Black Bike Week ended with me being called "asshole" and "Mr. Conspiracy". I don't really want to go on putting up with that, so I'm requesting others come and read the sources and see if they can help build a consensus. Paywalled and offline sources might need help from HighBeam, WikiProject Resource Exchange, or I can email you copies. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 23:09, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm not seeing a major difference in the content between the two. Certainly not enough that I'd say it was watering down the racism. I feel like factchecker/centrify's edit fits more in line with wikipedia policies. When I write crime articles, regardless of how solid the evidence is, I always frame it in terms of who is making the allegation. So like, "the prosecution alleges he killed his wife" as opposed to "he killed his wife". I think the same should apply here. We can't really know for certain that that restaurant closed their doors, all we can know is that the lawsuit alleged it. I don't think there is a major difference in the content, but framing things in terms of what you can absolutely know is important in situations like this. I don't think it casts doubt on any of the statements made, it just errs on the side of accuracy. Bali88 (talk) 02:34, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Aubrey Pankey
I have rewritten Aubrey Pankey. A review and a rewrite of the lead would be appreciated. Possible DYK also. Similar notice posted to WikiProject Classical Music. - - MrBill3 (talk) 23:52, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Where do you think this book sample would be of good use? WhisperToMe (talk) 17:23, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
 * http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jdowd/tatum-blackkids.pdf - http://www.webcitation.org/6QIyDri52

has been proposed to be renamed to, for the discussion, see talk:Black billionaires -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 06:11, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Update: discussion has been closed. Bali88 (talk) 17:58, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

The Lynchings of the Frenches of Warsaw
Was this incident notable? Bearian (talk) 20:46, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Request for help editing African American article
Several editors are arguing over what the first line of African American should consist of. As per custom, the first line is the definition. See the discussion at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:African_American#Antebellum.3F

Thanks. Mr. Swordfish (talk) 22:32, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Removing inactive members
Not a terrible idea. Although, I am still active I just hardly ever login due to the harassment. futurebird (talk) 11:40, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Category:Peoples of the African diaspora nominated for possible deletion/renaming
Read more about it here. the category's entry and share your views.

There is a move to change the category to "Black people" which is not an equivalent set. I Strongly Oppose deletion. Though, we could consider renaming it "Peoples of the Black Diaspora". But, in the past I have had issues with the term "black" on wikipedia from various people. Calling it "black people" however would lump in all of the black people in Africa and defeat the purpose of talking about the African Diaspora (as it is called in most articles on the subject.) futurebird (talk) 11:56, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

African American lead straw poll
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:African American. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 18:34, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

L.A. edit-a-thon this Sunday, December 14
Thought this might be of interest to some of you... Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:07, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Southern Negro Youth Congress
Hello I am currently an undergraduate student at UCLA and for my class project I am going to be adding information towards the Southern Negro Youth Congress wiki page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oransub (talk • contribs) 22:11, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

GAR
I have put up Darius Rucker for Good Article reassessment. If you're interested in discussing the matter, please look here. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 20:49, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

GA noms
I recently nominated William Owen Bush and Michael Ross for GA, if anyone is interested in tackling them. DOCUMENT ★  ERROR  11:25, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

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Slavery and/or Slave rebellion and resistance task force? Project?
How many people would be interested in working specifically on a task force (or, if admins here prefer, a separate project) on slave rebellion and resistance? Depending on those who are interested, this could be broadened to address articles on slavery more generally. Three of us are already preparing to work on articles connected to slave rebellions in the Americas (eventually including rebellions by enslaved indigenous persons), and thought it would be useful to engage with or create a broader group. Isaaccurtis (talk) 21:51, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

February editathon events for Black WikiHistory Month
We'd like to invite folks to participate in editathon events for Black WikiHistory Month in February! This started with an initiative at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, but we'd like to expand it beyond that.-Pharos (talk) 00:28, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I encourage new editors to Wikipedia participating in the editathons this month to join this WikiProject by signing their name on the WikiProject African diaspora list so people can find other people who share their interests. Sydney Poore/FloNight&#9829;&#9829;&#9829;&#9829; 21:56, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Somalis in the United Kingdom RfC
There's a Request for Comments for the Somalis in the United Kingdom article, regarding alternative suggested wordings for additions to the article. Your input would be welcome! Cordless Larry (talk) 14:12, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Frank Marshall Davis
There is a dispute on Frank Marshall Davis about whether Davis was a Communist. I think the article would be greatly improved by editors who have a good understanding of history. Is this the right place to invite editors to drop over? --Nbauman (talk) 23:40, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

How to handle African American firsts biographies, and history of desegregation in universities
Having my first discussion at Talk:Donald R. Brown regarding biographies about African American firsts in desegregating professional schools. Can some more experienced person weigh in on this? --Djembayz (talk) 04:52, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Alpha Phi Alpha FAR
I have nominated Alpha Phi Alpha for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 13:59, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Fannie Pennington
Hi, not sure whether this should go here ..... an article on Fannie Pennington is up for deletion. The article's creator did not place any wikiprojects in the talk page such as yourselves so there hasn't been much discussion so far, thought you might like to know.Coolabahapple (talk) 00:36, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/African American men in computer science
African American men in computer science is at AfD; as is African American women in computer science.--Djembayz (talk) 04:05, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Sources for "The Talk"?
Has anyone run across any good sources that would support an article about "The Talk"? It has been mentioned in passing a lot in the media over the past few month and I have found a couple of so so sources, but I would really like to have something substantial upon which to base it. (or is it already covered somewhere else?) -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  22:06, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
 * There's numerous Google news hits, mostly passing mention. I'd probably lean on...
 * "Trayvon Martin and 'The Talk' No American Child Should Have to Hear." Contributors: Hanley, Delinda C. - Author. Magazine title: Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Volume: 31. Issue: 3 Publication date: May 2012. Page number: 34+. Provided by ProQuest LLC. via Questia
 * Trayvon Martin, Race, and American Justice: Writing Wrong – September 5, 2014 by Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner (Editor)
 * --Dennis Bratland (talk) 23:39, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks! the book says the formal name is racial socialization. Would that be a better article? -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  02:48, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Casey J
There's a current deletion discussion regarding female Gospel recording artist Casey J.--BoboMeowCat (talk) 00:00, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Main article needed to prevent deletion of the Template:2010s controversial killings of African Americans
As the nom in the TfD at Templates_for_discussion/Log/2015_May_3 noted, without a main article, it is difficult to prove this is not a NPOV OR. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 01:57, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Articles_for_deletion/Zephyr_Wright
Please comment: Notable or not? Bearian (talk) 21:12, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Sade Adu listed at Requested moves
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Hard Scrabble listed at Requested moves
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British Black Music Editathon
There will be a WikiProject African diaspora/Black British Music Editathon at Development House (HQ of Wikimedia UK) on Sunday 30th June.

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Ahmed Mohamed clock incident listed at Requested moves
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Article request: Joyce Ann Brown
I just read this interesting article in The New York Times on Joyce Ann Brown. I am surprised there is no wikipedia article on her and thought I might inspire someone to create an article by putting a message on this page. Best.4meter4 (talk) 04:42, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the suggestion. I started it. Sydney Poore/FloNight&#9829;&#9829;&#9829;&#9829; 22:12, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

A Request for comment
People in this project may be interested in commenting upon this RfC: Talk:IQ_and_Global_Inequality -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  19:26, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Category class
I think Template:WikiProject African diaspora should turn on category class. Category:Category-Class African diaspora articles already exists but only gets populated via a Wikiproject Africa call (see Category talk:Togolese diaspora) so it's just the one article. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 06:06, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

RfC
Hi, I have opened an RS discussion about a page that seems to be pro-Apartheid. If someone is interested please comment in Rhodesiana. Rupert Loup (User talk:Rupert loup) 18:26, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

African-American architects
I restored this article, got rid of the most obvious copyright infringement and began to fix the references. This article needs more work and I'd welcome any help to get it in Wikipedia shape. I think there is much that can be preserved here but the overly promotional language has to go. Liz <sup style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b style="color:#006400;">Read!</b> <b style="color:#006400;">Talk!</b> 13:22, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Freedmen's Hospital listed at Requested moves
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The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Please expand The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education with referenced info if you can. Thank you.Zigzig20s (talk) 14:39, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

Black Student Unions
Hi, is there anyone available from this project who can start an article on Black Student Unions? We have White Student Unions that just popped up and it does seem to meet the notability guideline so I tried to help the newbie who started it. However it's a shame we don't have any article on Black Student Unions, since they exist at thousands of universities and high schools. I could try creating it myself but I thought I would appeal here first. Thanks and Happy New Year! —Мандичка YO 😜 18:54, 1 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Good idea. If there are others, I am willing to join efforts. Caballero<font color= "#003878">/<font color= "#145073">/ <font color= "#006E0D">Historiador    ☊  20:18, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm not a project member but I'll help. Looks like Google Books is a great source for background. I can start a stub this weekend but anyone else is free to start if they have free time.       —Мандичка YO 😜 12:32, 2 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks for taking this on. I hope to help with sources too. The first link you gave is to a dissertation fully available here for a time only. Here is a review for the next book. Here is review to the third one, Ibram's. Here is an interview with Ibram. Here is an article by Ibram. Here is another dissertation freely available on the WEB. Here is MacClelland short essay. And Reis' essay. Except for the second dissertation, all this material is accessible while working on the start of this project, only. This would ensure that others who have limited access to resources could also join. 71.63.91.85 (talk) 16:10, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Black education
Someone (someone who is smarter than me) needs to write up the article (you can rename it if you like, I don't much care) on this topic; right now it's just a redirect to a subsection of African Americans. I left a quick overview of a JSTOR search at Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2016_January_28; it's notable beyond belief. Drmies (talk) 17:05, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

R. S. Lewis Funeral Home
A few years ago I made some edits to R. S. Lewis Funeral Home after discovering that Martin Luther King, Jr. had his first funeral there. While not the most significant event in American history, it seems kinda notable. The article was assessed as low importance, and I appealed to the assessor once, but still low importance. Curious to know how other assess the importance. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 02:26, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

[| Black figures working with glass- compiling and researching]
Hi, I'm starting a project to research and document Black people (not only African Americans but also those across the African diaspora) working with or being depicted in glass. Full disclosure, I do presently work for a glass museum - but on a fellowship for a completely unrelated project. My project, [| Blacks in Glass], a working document created today, was not created to say that there are no artists, designers, etc. or figures depicted in glass, but that I presently am not aware of more than a handful and am creating a space to collect and explore the topic. If anyone would like to check it out or add resources I'd appreciate it. Trwinc (talk) 16:26, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/African-American heritage of United States presidents AfD
A proposal to delete African-American heritage of United States presidents is pending, with this discussion. Please feel free to participate. Nick Levinson (talk) 03:26, 27 February 2016 (UTC) (Corrected subject/title that caused redlink: 03:30, 27 February 2016 (UTC)))
 * Resolved. The article is being kept. Editing is welcome. Nick Levinson (talk) 05:10, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Coonskin (film) nominated for Featured Article review
I have nominated Coonskin (film) for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Dagko (talk) 04:09, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I created a separate section for this post as its own topic. (Editors should use the "New section" link at the top of the page to start any new topic.) Nick Levinson (talk) 05:10, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Neutral notification of move discussion
There is a discussion underway to move the article Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (with a single comma) to. Please share your opinion on the matter at Talk:Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 03:04, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Featured_picture_candidates/George_Washington_Carver_redux
Could I get some eyes on this? I'm deeply uncomfortable with suggestions that the image is too dark, when he's a very dark-skinned man. Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:47, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Auto-assessment of article classes
Following a recent discussion at WP:VPR, there is consensus for an opt-in bot task that automatically assesses the class of articles based on classes listed for other project templates on the same page. In other words, if WikiProject A has evaluated an article to be C-class and WikiProject B hasn't evaluated the article at all, such a bot task would automatically evaluate the article as C-class for WikiProject B.

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Requested move proposal, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Please comment on a requested move to change numerous article titles which contain Dr. King's name. Randy Kryn 11:24, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Contests
User:Dr. Blofeld has created WikiProject Africa/Contests. The idea is to run a series of contests/editathons focusing on each region of Africa. He has spoken to Wikimedia about it and $1000-1500 is possible for prize money. Would anybody here be interested in contributing to one or assisting draw up core article/missing article lists? He says he's thinking of North Africa for an inaugural one in October. If interested please sign up in the participants section of the Contest page, thanks.♦ -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 20:01, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Help improve Emancipation Day article
Hello all, I am attempting to improve the Emancipation Day article, adding citations and expanding content, and would love some help! Especially if you're familiar with how emancipation is commemorated in Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean and Latin America. Also invite comments on whether to restructure the article. Currently, although logical, the structure seems somewhat "clunky". The article is rated as Start-class, Top-importance. Many thanks. Eartha78 (talk) 08:22, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
This AFD could benefit from the input of knowledgeable editors. Thanks. --Randykitty (talk) 13:58, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

RfC
Hi all, should anyone wish to weigh in, there's a Request for Comment going on at the talk page of a U.S. racial slur that went through AfD and closed as merge (not enough material to fill out an entry--more like a dictionary definition). Current discussion is about where best to relocate the information, would welcome additional perspectives. Thanks in advance to anyone willing to have a look. Innisfree987 (talk) 19:47, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Question about the scope of this wikiproject
I happened to see a comment in WikiProject Canadian football that led me to an article with a section about antisemtism. Should the article’s talkpage be tagged with this wikiproject's banner? btw I also posted this at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Jewish_culture. Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 16:58, 2 December 2016 (UTC)please ping me


 * Hi Ottawahitech. This discussion page is pretty quiet, although by comparison to WT:WikiProject Jewish culture—which is moribund—we're the life of the party. I don't know whether there's ever been a discussion about whether biographies of people who are part of the African diaspora are within the scope of this WikiProject. When I create such an article, I usually put WikiProject African diaspora on the talk page, and judging by Category:FA-Class African diaspora articles, it looks like other editors do so as well. So feel free to add it to Talk:Khalif Mitchell. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 00:14, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Ottawahitech (talk) 16:40, 4 December 2016 (UTC)please ping me

Save a school project?
There appear to be several African-American history stubs being proposed for deleted recently. They all seem to have been created by new users, and all about Spartanburg, South Carolina, for a class project, probably at Carver Junior High School. See, e.g., Camillus C. Woodson and African American History in Spartanburg, SC. Should these be rescued? Merged? Discussed at WP:AfD? I'm tagging for ideas as well. Bearian (talk) 15:17, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I am out of time now, but I'll try to come back and look at this as soon as I can. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 15:20, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages
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Thoughts about merger?
Colleagues, please, let me know your thoughts about this possible merger. Thanks. Caballero<font color="#145073">/ Historiador ⎌  19:03, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

File:Eric Garner facebook.jpg
This image is nominated for deletion. I invite you to comment at FFD. --George Ho (talk) 03:56, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Category question
I think Category:Historically segregated African-American schools in the United States be a daughter category of Category:Historically black schools and not the other way around, so I switched the category placement. And should "Historically black schools" include universities? WhisperToMe (talk) 10:23, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Domenico Mondelli
he was the first italian african general in italian army, if you want create his article here there is the italian article :).. --2.226.12.134 (talk) 23:34, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

President of Howard University
Please review this article, and make appropriate fixes. Bearian (talk) 21:35, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

February 2017 at Women in Red
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Assata's Daughters Review
I have made substantial edits to the wiki article for Assata's Daughters. Could somebody look at my edits and provide me with some feedback - what I could add, what does not fit, etc. Thanks! Nick M-PS489 (talk) 19:43, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I think it looks pretty good, . You may also want to look for feedback at WikiProject Women in Red which is very active since this is a women-based org. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 19:35, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Unassessed articles on popular pages list
Just a quick note to say that I began digging into the unassessed articles using the bot-generated list of "popular pages" (highly viewed) in the project...only belatedly realizing the bot only runs a new list once a month, so now lots of the top pages still indicating unassessed on that list actually have assessments. In case anyone else has same bright idea, I wanted to let you know I made it down to around page #500--if you like, you can pick up there and continue down the list, to avoid wasting your time checking pages that do have assessments now! Innisfree987 (talk) 07:08, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

some article suggestions
These might be good for Black history month, if anyone's looking for ideas. I don't yet know what my schedule is going to look like. --MopTop (talk) 22:24, 15 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School
 * George Washington Forbes
 * Monroe Alpheus Majors
 * Black Brahmin
 * Myron O'Higgins poet who wrote a book with Robert Hayden
 * As a part of my project to write an article for Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising and fill in all of its redlinks, I just finished articles on Majors and his book: Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities (Lawson A. Scruggs is the last redlink for the project, I think). Smmurphy(Talk) 22:25, 22 February 2017 (UTC)


 * African-American bookstores Bluejamz (talk) 17:55, 10 May 2017 (UTC) BlueJamz