Wikipedia talk:WikiProject African diaspora/Archive 6

Project revision
Hello all. I'm attempting to get all participants involved in a large overhaul of the WikiProject. Early on in my Wikipedia career I mainly edited film and music articles but in recent time have grown to feel a higher sense of purpose for articles concerning subjects directly related to the African diaspora. If you are an active participant in the project please leave your username, main area of focus in editing on Wikipedia and possible expertise in any specific subject(s) which could help with the revamp of the project. Below are a few of the subjects I feel we in the project should focus strongly on to get the revision headed in the right direction. Happy editing! WikiGuy86 (talk) 02:50, 24 April 2017 (UTC)


 * 1) Article addition: A ton of articles on Wikipedia that fall under the criteria for inclusion in the African diaspora are not currently included/linked to the project, this needs to change. Example: as of 04/23/2017, Mariah Carey is listed as a FA-class, top-importance article for the project. Harriet Tubman is NOT.
 * 2) Article assessments/reassessments: A large number of the projects related articles have no critical and/or quality assessment. Many others that have already been assessed may need to be re-evaluated.
 * 3) Major work on Top-importance articles: Some articles about certain subjects of very high historical importance should be considered priorities amongst participants with special awards possibly being given to members that are willing to put extensive work into them. Perhaps a collaboration can take place to choose which particular articles might fall under this category.


 * Hi. I'm Malik Shabazz (although I frequently edit using my alternate account MShabazz). I'm not as active on Wikipedia as I used to be, but one of my focus areas on the encyclopedia is articles related to African Americans. I've written and collaborated on FAs and GAs, although none recently. I'd like to help revive this WikiProject. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 03:32, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, I'm ; I tend to write a lot of BLPs, often of African Americans, and sometimes entries on works related to these bios (books, films, etc.) I'd be glad to dig into assessments and looking for articles that need to be added to the project, as well as collaborating on FAs/GAs (probably as a copyeditor/gnome, although possibly with more in-depth research and writing depending on the subject.) Or other tasks as they arise--I appreciate hearing about what needs doing, so thanks for putting out this call. Innisfree987 (talk) 04:45, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Call on me for difficult research, and copyediting and review, especially in the history dimension. Maybe I'll check out some of these 450+ start/stub articles rated top-importance. I took a year or so off but would like to help out with a worthwhile project. groupuscule (talk) 05:43, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm and I'm relatively new as an editor. I would be happy to work on pages concerning Afro-Americans and Afro-Jamaicans. Astronyte -- (talk) 07:56, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, here. Not much experience writing FA/GAs - but eager to learn! Can help with corresponding Wikidata improvements and articles relating to diaspora in the UK. MassiveEartha (talk) 09:36, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * * Suggestion: can I suggest we organise in a similar way to the WikiProject Women in Red with themed monthly editathons/priorities? For example the articles related to the UNIA could do with some improvement, and a template!


 * I'm . I mostly work on articles from 19th century and early-20th century US history (often with a focus on African Americans) and on rehabilitating articles at WP:AfD. Smmurphy(Talk) 14:08, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Interested in all aspects of African diaspora (including outside the United States), but main expertise (if any at all) lies in the music of the African diaspora. Call on me, absolutely, just don't expect too much, I'm not a heavy content editor, sorry :-) ---Sluzzelin talk  17:25, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm in Alabama, USA. I'm interested in writing new articles and improving existing ones. I've been a WikiGnome for several years but have published on southern Native American history and on slavery. I can tackle Islamic and other religious topics, and can translate from German, Spanish, French. — ℜ ob C.  alias ALAROB 20:10, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm in Maine, USA. I'll begin to be available for new work in July, until then I mostly just make small contributions to existing pages and occasionally create stub articles. I can translate from Dutch, French, Spanish, and Portuguese material as necessary. I'm a Caribbean, Latin American, Early U.S., and World historian of maroon societies, Afro-Indigenous relations, abolition, and decolonization. I'm happy to be assigned significant tasks like drafting or doing a major rewrite of an article, one at a time, within those areas of expertise, or a short list of smaller tasks like strengthening citations or reorganizing article sections. For the time being I have online journal access which I am happy to share with fellow wikipedians working on the African Diaspora if you contact me privately. Thank you WikiGuy86 for taking responsibility with this and helping us organize ourselves. (I'm also really happy to see Malik Shabazz here, whose contributions I am always coming across both in my editing and my research.)
 * - I tend to work primarily on women's football and sport articles, including players in African nations. Love the re-enlivening of this project and will help support where able. For the Related WikiProjects template, feel free to add WikiProject Football/Africa task force and WikiProject Football/Women's football task force or let me know what category they should be placed (Society?) Hmlarson (talk) 01:52, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Wow, glad to see so many others interested in getting some work done here! We now have a better gauge of who some of the more active members of the community are as well as their expertise/personal points of interest. Through these points of interest maybe we can figure out a number of tasks to attempt as a group (large) or individually (small) to handle. We also know other members we might be able to call on for help in regards to reference/source material on certain subjects (ex: Alarob for French/German/Spanish translation work, MassiveEartha for UK-related diaspora subjects, etc.).

MassiveEartha made the suggestion of possibly attempting an editathon similar to WikiProject Women in Red, I believe these are done in group settings however and considering many of us might not live within close proximity to one another might present a bit of a problem. I reside in the Bay Area, California.
 * The WiR editathons encourage virtual participation too, and quite successfully I think--February's generated 213 new or improved entries on Black women! They've got a good format for tracking outcomes; I think doing something like that could definitely encourage participation even from geographically disparate participants. Innisfree987 (talk) 04:38, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Took a look at the editathon link above, very impressive. We should definitely try to organize something along those lines. WikiGuy86 (talk) 20:57, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

Also, Innisfree987 did mention that there are still many articles needing assessment. If anyone has free time outside of their own personal work here on Wikipedia we should all try to take a bit of that burden together. Sorry for getting back to everyone so late been a little busy in my personal life and just wanted to give a quick check-in to all. WikiGuy86 (talk) 04:24, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
 * On that note, I'm wondering if anyone knows how often the stats matrix visible on the project home page is updated? With a bit of elbow grease, I think we could clear the backlog on those 1200 unassessed entries pretty quickly (I did about 100 in two hours a couple days ago), which would make for a great first achievement for the reinvigorated project--but the stats don't seem to be updating, which makes it hard to mark the achievement! Anybody know more about the tech side of that than I do? Innisfree987 (talk) 04:30, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Left a message with the users that run the bot which operates the updates on the statistics table, awaiting their reply. WikiGuy86 (talk) 04:56, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Statistics table should now be fixed, much appreciation to Stevie is the man!  and ww2censor. WikiGuy86 (talk) 00:59, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
 * just noticed the [Wikipedia:WikiProject African diaspora/Assessment|assessment table]]. Well done to everyone who worked to clear the backlog of unassessed articles - especially and  whose hard work regularly showed up in my watchlist. Thank you!! MassiveEartha (talk) 18:36, 10 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Hello, I'm BlueJamz. I'm a librarian in Washington, DC who is interested in supporting this project. I led a Black History Month Edit-a-thon in Feb. 2017 with Wikimedia DC. Topics of interest are Black art, Black feminism, Afrocentric education, HBCU's, and Black bookstores. Bluejamz (talk) 18:01, 10 May 2017 (UTC)BlueJamz

How to describe the Emmett Till case in the lead sentence of the Emmett Till article
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Emmett Till. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 03:04, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

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Template-class
I think Template:WikiProject African diaspora should allow for template and category-class. Template class via that template are currently in Category:NA-Class African diaspora articles but articles from WikiProject Africa are showing up in Category:Template-Class African diaspora articles and Category:Category-Class African diaspora articles. -- Ricky81682 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 06:45, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Should it have an articles?
Should Stereotypes of Africans have an articles? Dwanyewest (talk) 18:22, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Any article is substantial and relevant if enough references and source material can be found on the subject, whether that's from the internet, books, articles, etc. There's no point in having one that's written in a style where there's no reference points and it's just going to get flagged anyway. WikiGuy86 (talk) 00:36, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

London Black Atheists
I've written a new page London Black Atheists which is an organisation for atheists from the African diaspora, and I took the liberty of adding it to the project, if that's ok and someone feels like rating it on the talk page, that would be great, thanks. Mramoeba (talk) 21:20, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Fred Jones Jr.
I started discussion at Talk:Fred Jones Jr. about the notability of Fred Jones Jr., an American entrepreneur. Please comment there. Thanks. --George Ho (talk) 12:37, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Sourcing at Dick Gregory
Can some folks help improve the sourcing on the Dick Gregory article? I nominated it for the Recent Deaths section on the main page (and added a number of sources myself), but per ongoing discussion it's not good enough to include yet (and might not be in time at this rate). As pointed out in another recent death discussion, it might look problematic to readers not familiar with Wikipedia's policies that the front page currently features comedian Jerry Lewis, but not Dick Gregory, who died sooner. (Note per WP:CANVASS I am not asking people to !vote on the recent death nomination, I'm asking for improvements to the article.) Funcrunch (talk) 16:36, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

Afro-pessimism
I'm currently writing an article on Afro-pessimism in my sandbox User:Hexatekin/sandbox/Afro-pessimism. I don't want to publish it until I know it is of at least decent quality. If anyone wants to collaborate on writing this please feel free to edit this sandbox article or ping me and we can discuss it in depth! I am not an expert on this subject, but I do think it's an important article Wikipedia should have so I started writing it as a non-expert. Cheers! Hexatekin (talk) 21:03, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
 * You've already noticed that I've started editing the draft, but I'm putting a notice here in hopes that more people want to collaborate. I'm mostly just adding some external links and fleshing out citations where I can. I'm not sure that I have what it takes to write the article either, but if there's anything in particular you'd like additional support on, just ping me and I'll give it my best. -Furicorn (talk) 01:17, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

National Register of Historic Places in the South
As a result of some stub cleanup work I've been doing, I've ended up going through a lot of NRHP listings for Arkansas and South Carolina. By the time I got to South Carolina, I was getting sick of the silence on all the plantation listings that were nothing more than summaries of their architectural features and anodyne blurbs about their previous owners. So, I felt like something should be done. I setup the template SouthCarolina-plantation-stub, added the articles to Category:Anti-black racism in the United States and in a few articles I have tried to add sourced information from here to some of the plantations about how many humans they held in captivity. Does anyone know some good sources for this kind of information for South Carolina and other states? Also is there any interest in a task force to improve this kind of coverage? -Furicorn (talk) 10:44, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
 * A very worthy project. I will try to help although probably in little bits at a time. I'm aware of (a good many) books that deal with those areas generally but I don't recall how much they discussed specific plantations by name. Here's an NYT article on the subject but it mainly speaks to the difficulty of getting info; still some links therein may have leads? Or this Post & Courier article has a bit too. I'll keep thinking on sources. Innisfree987 (talk) 16:46, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm glad someone else thinks so. For some examples, Coffin Point Plantation and Newington Plantation are indicators of the kinds of stuff I've added (compare to Lydia_Plantation. I'll probably start by gradually setting up more state level stub templates. Right now, those templates rollup to a sort of architecture parent, but I'll look into adding the plantation stub templates to an additional stub categories. Any thoughts on any additional stub categories you think might appropriate would be welcome. -Furicorn (talk) 21:47, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

I've setup some stub templates to tag plantation stubs, you can find a list of them at Category:United States plantation stubs. I've also found a resource for records of enslaved persons at sankofagen. Are there any appropriate stub categories to add that are closely monitored by this wikiproject? -Furicorn (talk) 01:22, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Merger proposal
It has been suggested that John Canoe be merged into Junkanoo. Please discuss merger at talk:Junkanoo. -- MassiveEartha (talk) 17:55, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968) requested move
There is an ongoing move request for the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968) and similar pages. Please feel free to comment at the move request page. Thanks &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 15:41, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject
Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.

A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_African_diaspora

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.&mdash; Rod talk 12:57, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Shooting of Jocques Clemmons
The Shooting of Jocques Clemmons was removed from the history section of Nashville, Tennessee, with a discussion on the talkpage. I was wondering if there was a guideline from this WikiProject about the recent shootings--should they be added to the history sections of articles about specific cities? The main argument for removal seems to be Recentism, but that is tricky because one could argue that it is history in the making. Note that similar content was not removed from St. Louis. Please ping me when you reply. Thank you!Zigzig20s (talk) 10:46, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Without reading any of those three articles, let me offer these observations: History-in-the-making is generally not included in Wikipedia because of WP:CRYSTAL and, yes, WP:RECENTISM. As somebody who lives in neither Tennessee nor Missouri but reads two national newspapers and many other news sources, especially those aimed at African Americans, I have read quite a bit about the killing of Michael Brown, the rioting that has taken place in Ferguson and in St. Louis, the police reform proposals it sparked, and the related revelation that the areas surrounding St. Louis use minor infractions and code violations to criminalize African Americans and make them pay outrageous sums to keep taxes down. Until right now, I had never heard of Jocques Clemmons. Can you see why maybe the Brown killing belongs in the article about St. Louis while the Clemmons killing may not belong in the article about Nashville? — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 17:19, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Because it was censored by the national press?Zigzig20s (talk) 17:21, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * First, I really doubt The Root and The Grio and Black Lives Matter's Facebook page are censored. Second, Wikipedia is based on what reliable sources report. Regardless of the reason for a lack of media attention, if it isn't in the press (i.e., the sources), it's not important on Wikipedia. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 17:34, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * There are lots of reliable third-party sources from the press. Just not the national press (except for two articles in The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times that I found--there may be more). And yes, BLM led a protest and criticized the mayor for it.Zigzig20s (talk) 17:39, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * The dearth of coverage in the national media can probably be explained by the fact that the protests did not turn violent (thank goodness).Zigzig20s (talk) 17:42, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * But that's precisely my point. We're writing an encyclopedia. If a reader who doesn't know anything about Nashville wanted to learn about it, the killing of Jocques Clemmons isn't one of the most important things she or he would need to know to understand the city's place in the world and in the U.S. On the other hand, many people refer to "St. Louis" as shorthand because the killing of Michael Brown made such an impact in the national media. Somebody who doesn't know anything about St. Louis would probably be under-informed about what's going on in the city in the 21st century if she or he didn't know it was closely associated with the Brown killing. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 17:49, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I disagree. The Minority Caucus of the Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County said the incident was "reflective of not just how the ‘IT’ city views and treats its black citizens, but also black elected officials."Zigzig20s (talk) 17:54, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Anyway, it looks like there is no WikiProject guideline about the recent shootings. That was my question.Zigzig20s (talk) 17:58, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Blackface
There has been a lot of editing recently on the article blackface. It might be helpful if someone with an interest in that area looked over the restructured version. I'm not sure that it is an improvement. World&#39;s Lamest Critic (talk) 16:49, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

Margold Report
Hello. While reading Condoleezza Rice's Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom, I came across Nathan Ross Margold on page 59. He authored the Margold Report, a blueprint to advance civil rights for African-Americans through the courts, as early as 1933. I've created a redirect, but feel free to create a proper article and ping me if you do. Thank you.Zigzig20s (talk) 17:09, 1 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi Zigzig20s. This page has some information about Margold's report (including a photo), which was commissioned by the NAACP in 1930, and this page has links to several pages of the report. Charles Hamilton Houston, who fought most of the NAACP's legal battles, modified Margold's strategy. Whereas Margold recommended attacking elementary-school segregation directly, Houston first sued to integrate public graduate schools (universities), because the states didn't provide "separate-but-equal" alternatives for black students, then pursued elementary schools after laying the legal foundation by winning his earlier school segregation cases. I'm not sure how notable the report itself is, but it definitely merits at least a paragraph in Margold's biography. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 22:14, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Interesting. Rice is less nuanced. I wonder why. Yes, feel free to expand the article otherwise.Zigzig20s (talk) 22:53, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Requested move: Fort Gadsden → Negro Fort
During the War of 1812, the British built a fort in Spanish Florida. When they withdrew after the war, they abandoned the fort and its armaments. The area around the fort became home to hundreds of escaped slaves (primarily from nearby Georgia, in the United States), maroons, and Native Americans. The fort became known as Negro Fort.

Georgia slave owners were not happy and they insisted that "somebody do something" about the "abomination" over the border in Florida. In one of the earliest battles of the Seminole Wars, U.S. general (and future president) Andrew Jackson led a campaign against the fort in 1816 called the Battle of Negro Fort. A lucky cannonball from a U.S. ship ignited the fort's magazine, destroying the post. The explosion was heard more than 100 miles away. One historian has described it as "the single deadliest cannon shot in American history".

After the destruction of Negro Fort, the U.S. Army built a small outpost nearby called Fort Gadsden after the man who built it. It wasn't occupied for long. Nothing of note happened there.

There is a question about whether to move the Wikipedia article about the fort from Fort Gadsden to Negro Fort. Please read the relevant articles (Fort Gadsden and Battle of Negro Fort) and join the discussion at Talk:Fort Gadsden. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 03:28, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Black film
I created a Wikipedia article for black film. Editors are invited to improve on this article. Erik (talk &#124; contrib) (ping me) 21:25, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Organizing WikiProject tags for music of the African diaspora
Added WikiProject Black British Music and WikiProject R&B and Soul Music to the related projects template. Is there a WikiProject African Music, or corresponding task force? Do we want to add WikiProject African diaspora to all articles about African diaspora musicians? --Ziggyfan23 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:56, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Demonyms of the African Diaspora
In some pages of black American artists, Ive noticed that they are referred to as African American. While I think its important that their race or ethnicity be highlighted it is not proper to designate in an artists biography a country they were not born in. If an artist was born in America, they are American. It is proper to designate their nationality first and then discuss their ancestry. For instance..."Joshua Johnson was an American painter of European and African ancestry" "Robert Duncanson was an American landscape painter of African and European ancestry". etc 160.111.254.17 (talk) 17:30, 7 February 2018 (UTC)Kassie — Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.111.254.17 (talk) 17:17, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

Template loop detected
I just noticed that this page uses a template, which calls itself recursively... Can anybody fix this? ---97.95.160.180 (talk) 03:56, 27 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Fixed. Thank you for pointing it out. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 04:35, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

New article on Relisha Rudd (8yr old who disappeared in Washington DC)
The Rudd case has been upheld as an example of media and authorities failing to respond to the disappearance of a poor African-American child, contrasted with missing white woman syndrome. I have started a short article on Rudd, but there are a lot of details that can be filled in. Posting here in case anyone wants to contribute. MatthewVanitas (talk) 01:27, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Black families increasingly choose to homeschool kids
Video segment from PBS Newshour. About 200,000 children now, almost doubled since 2003. What content could we focus on that would be useful for these families? Ziggyfan23 (talk) 00:34, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

20th Anniversary of the Million Man March: Justice or Else
I invite project members to help expand and improve the 20th Anniversary of the Million Man March: Justice or Else article. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 20:35, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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Afro pick
Hello all! I'm looking for an Afro pick photo. Anyone? Please? It's for Comb. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 02:37, 15 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi Anna Frodesiak. I assume that these won't do? Here's a Flickr image that claims to be free. Here are a few free images:
 * http://www.publicdomainfiles.com/show_file.php?id=13550916613441
 * http://www.publicdomainfiles.com/show_file.php?id=13550920815231
 * That's all I could find in a few minutes of searching. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 03:01, 15 June 2018 (UTC)


 * I didn't see anything during a quick search, but you can also try looking at nappy, a collection of free high-resolution stock photos of black and brown people. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 03:12, 15 June 2018 (UTC)


 * That's very kind of you, Malik Shabazz. It's a bit 'iconic' the sillouette. :) I actually just searched for "afro combs" and then looked in the main combs cat and found some that look right. See here, a cat I just created. I've swapped in a Wikipedia "to be xferred to commons" image and that should cause the nonfree to get automatically zapped. I'll take a look at nappy. Many, many thanks! Anna Frodesiak (talk) 03:13, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

Need help, please...
I recently discovered that the first, pioneering civilian paramedics in history were African Amercian Freedom House ambulance attendents in Pittsburg, Pa, in the late 1960s - and there's no article about them here!

I have some basic material to create an article but feel daunted by how truly important this is, both to medical and African American history. Is there someone willing and able to collaborate, or who could refer me to someone who would? For the record I'm a paleface :)
 * Cheers! Shir-El too  18:04, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi ! Great find! (Such a testament to how many entries still remain missing from the encyclopedia.) I've started the entry to get you going--Freedom House Ambulance Service--but don't be daunted! Any expansion you can contribute will improve the encyclopedia over having nothing on the subject! Innisfree987 (talk) 19:04, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * PS. While I vaguely recollect knowing that EMT services were pioneered by African-Americans, that's literally all I knew until I read your post--so I'm not an expert in this by any means, please revise anything you feel necessary as you add to what I started. Just wanted to get the ball rolling! Innisfree987 (talk) 19:06, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Wow! You may have known little, but you certainly did a great job launching it! There's much to expand and link, which is more my forte. Thank you for getting this started! Cheers! Shir-El too  04:10, 20 September 2018 (UTC) {PS is it for the film, the song or the place?}[PPS Happy Un-Birthday!]

The Emperor of Ocean Park
Hi, I have had a long term goal of writing this article after enjoying the book probably 15 years ago, and still reading it from time to time now. I'm having trouble getting anyone else to look at the article, I think it's decent but I've been very much working in isolation on it. Many of the sources/reviews described Emperor as being significant in the mainstreaming of modern African-American literature so I was hoping someone here might have their interest piqued, kindly cast their eye over the article, and perhaps expand the bits I'm not an expert in (particularly looking for some help on the Major Themes and Literary Significance sections, in particular around the race issues Carter discusses in the book). Cheers, Fish +Karate 15:12, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Hello and sorry this reply comes so belatedly--what very nice work ! Congratulations! I'm afraid I have not read the book yet (though it just went to the top of my list!) so my advice is a bit limited for the time being, but for the reception section I had a couple of recommendation. For one, the section begins by saying most reviews were positive but the paragraph then seems (in my reading at least) more to emphasize the negative; it might be worth slightly reorganizing to foreground more of the positive first and then give reservations, if indeed that's what the balance of the reviews warrant.
 * Additionally, it seemed to me that might be a good place to mention the broader impact on literature; I see the lead notes Carter's advance had broader effects on the treatment of African-American works as literary fiction, but that's not yet described in the body of the entry, I think.
 * Hope that's helpful. I see ORES joins me in being very impressed by the entry. Have you thought about taking it to GA? Innisfree987 (talk) 17:23, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
 * That's some really useful feedback, thank you! I have been mulling over trying to take it to GA.  I think I'll get through trying to get New England White (Carter's second book) through DYK, and finish off my draft of Palace Council (the third book), then I'll use the feedback you've provided and touch the article up a little, then go for it.  Cheers!  I definitely recommend The Emperor of Ocean Park, it's a really good read.  Fish +Karate  10:31, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Palace Council is now live and I shall take a crack at getting Emperor through GA next. Fish +Karate 14:08, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh terrific ! My WP time's been a bit limited as of late but I'm looking forward to reading the new entry and then seeing if I can't help you a bit through GA as I'm able! Thanks so much for your work--it's wonderful to have such strong contributions to WPAD. Innisfree987 (talk) 04:48, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
 * It's at GAN now. Let's see how it goes. Fish +Karate  12:37, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your work, Fish and karate! I also enjoyed Emperor of Ocean Park and read it a second time, as well as Carter's later books. He explored so much of society through his device of the mystery. Will be glad to read your articles.Parkwells (talk) 14:31, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I also wanted to recommend to you and others, a younger author, Attica Locke. She just won an Edgar Award for her 4th novel. Her first is Black Water Rising, set in Houston in the post-civil rights era. Others include The Cutting Season, set in contemporary times but based on a preserved plantation on the Mississippi River in Louisiana, whose curator is a professional African-American woman, Pleasantville (with the same protagonist and Houston setting as her first, set about 10 years later, but also reaching to the postwar period), and Bluebird, Bluebird, about a contemporary black Texas Ranger in small towns of East Texas. She had also been a writer and producer on Empire.Parkwells (talk) 14:38, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks Parkwells, I shall add her to my "to read" list. Also thank you for helping spruce up the article. <u style="text-decoration:none;font:1.1em/1em Arial Black;letter-spacing:-0.09em"><u style="text-decoration:none;color:#38a">Fish +<u style="text-decoration:none;color:#B44">Karate  08:33, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Kehinde Andrews
Hello. Please help me expand Kehinde Andrews if you can. I am unable to find out where he earned his degrees, so it is hard to add an "early life" section. A "career" section could include information from reviews of his books and his commentaries as a public intellectual. Please ping me if interested. Thank you.Zigzig20s (talk) 12:20, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Andrews has a PhD from the University of Birmingham, and I have added this cited info to the article. Edwardx (talk) 12:40, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

History of African Americans in Los Angeles
Your attention is called to the deficiencies called out in the hatnote over the above article. You are invited to correct those deficiencies if you can possible do so. Otherwise, the article may be deleted or severely truncated. Sincerely, BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 15:45, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Student Projects: February 2019
This spring, in a freshman writing class, I will be assigning students to choose and edit Wikipedia articles related to black history month, and encouraging a global focus. Students from various majors will select their own pages, working in groups. I plan to share with them this WikiProject, and welcome any suggestions or assistance from other Wikipedians. PCFleming05 (talk) 13:52, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Portal:Pan-Africanism has been created.
Portal:Pan-Africanism has been created. I have entered a note on the talk page of Pan-Africanism. The discussion can be found [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Pan-Africanism#Portal:Pan-Africanism_has_been_created. here]. Please centralise discussions there about ways to improve the portal i.e. if you have any suggestions or recommendations. In the meantime, please help by adding   to all relevant articles. See Category:Pan-Africanism for the list of relevant articles. Once everything is finished I will make a "link file to portal" request with the Portal team. I will be asking that they link the Pan-African flag to this portal. If you have any objections please state it in the discussion page. Thank.Tamsier (talk) 18:40, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Quality table out of date--workaround
Hi all, just wanted to flag that the quality statistics table is out of date, owing to the bot for it being down.

In the meantime, there's a pair of easy-to-use tools which together can produce the equivalent for anybody who gets motivated to do some rating:


 * This tool updates the data--select our project and just click "go".


 * After that's done (apparently it can run pretty slowly, have patience!), this tool will make you a table. Again, select the project and click "make table".

From there, you can select any list you want to work on (I've been trying to rate the unrated articles, and also check whether the top-importance stubs and start-class entries really are so essential, so we know which entries need development most urgently.) Hope that's helpful! Innisfree987 (talk) 23:54, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I'll take this opportunity to endorse the Rater script which makes updating assessments go SO much faster--I wish I'd added it years ago! Anyone who wants help getting going with it, feel free to ping me! (It's super doable, just, I imagine there are plenty of people like me who wouldn't really think to add scripts at all and don't realize it's definitely within your grasp!) Innisfree987 (talk) 00:00, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

RfC on creating a "Cultural impact of Michael Jackson" article
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Cultural impact of Michael Jackson. A permalink for it is [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Cultural_impact_of_Michael_Jackson&oldid=881410933#Should_this_page_and/or_a_%22Michael_Jackson_in_popular_culture%22_page_be_a_Wikipedia_article? here]. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 12:33, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

RfC on restructuring the Michael Jackson article with respect to child sexual abuse allegations
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Michael Jackson. A permalink for it is here. Restructuring has been suggested in light of the recent Leaving Neverland documentary. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 13:24, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

RfC: And Then There Were None and racial language
A discussion is taking place that members of this project may be interested in:

Any input would be appreciated. Wandering Wanda (they/them) (t/c) 18:36, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
 * – Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

1969 Curaçao uprising
Hi, I recently nominated the article 1969 Curaçao uprising for Featured Article status. However, the discussion doesn't seem to be attracting a whole lot of participants. In order to get the ball rolling, I was hoping that some of the experts here might be interested. Feel free to review the article and leave your comments here. Best,--Carabinieri (talk) 17:46, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

Pan toting
Hi there. I came across the newly created article Pan toting at AfC. It seems to be a significant topic, but the article needs a lot of cleanup. I don't know much about this subject so I thought I would post the article here to get some more eyes on it. Thanks, SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 16:12, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject Genealogy
If anyone here is interested, we are looking for volunteers at WikiProject Genealogy. Thanks! Tea and crumpets (talk) 01:06, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Joel Poinsett
Hi, I tried to introduce a phrase mentionning Joel Poinsett's view on the slave system, mostly because of the links with the biography of Septima Poinsette Clark (her fater was a slave in Poinsett's farm). I would need your help, because I find it hard to determine exactly how to put a phrase in his bio concerning his positions on slavery (he was a unionist, owned slaves and clearly expressed views about the alleged superiority of white people.) Here is the post I left after my phrase was reverted (alhough I admit there is more need for clarification). As you are probably more familiar with the topic than me, I would appreciate your opinion. I will post this message on various portals related ti the subject--Nattes à chat (talk) 07:47, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I'll look at it and comment there.Tamsier (talk) 14:02, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Requested move
There is a requested move at Talk:Tulsa race riot that would benefit from your opinion. Please come and help!  Paine Ellsworth , ed.  put'r there  01:31, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Request for draft article review: Julian Denegal Steele
A draft of a bio article for Julian D Steele, prominent African American officer holder, Congregational Church leader, civil rights & affordable housing advocate in New England is pending review. The West Newbury, MA, Historical Society is hoping to erect a historic marker early next year on the 50th anniversary of his death & research for that was basis for article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Julian_D_Steele_(Social_Worker,_Public_Citizen)

Article review would be most appreciated--thanks. West Newbury (talk) 12:46, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

"Slaves"
Hey all. I was just looking at Category:Slaves, after someone added that to Petro Kilekwa. Isn't it time to start changing these names to something like "Category:Enslaved people" or so? "Slaves" is terribly essentializing, and I've come to see it as degrading. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 13:58, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Re: Editors' help for an Assessment request of Henry Lewis (musician) for the WikiProject African diaspora
Hello Wikipedian Editors: - Allow me to thank you for your outstanding contributions and editorial assistance in the WikiProject African Diaspora. Bravos to all for contributing to a more complete understanding of the contributions made by outstanding Africans throughout the world. When time permits perhaps you could assess the article on Henry Lewis (musician) for WikiProject African Diaspora. Lewis was a leading African-American classical musician and conductor who made significant contributions to the development of classical music in America despite the formidable racial barriers which existed during his era. In addition to overcoming these barriers by serving as the first African American conductor of a major symphonic ensemble in the USA, he is credited with contributing to American's cultural diplomacy initiatives as a "musical ambassador" in Europe and as the musical director of the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra after World War II. The article was recently featured on Wikipedia's "Did You Know Column" on the Main Page and is well referenced. Enjoy the biography and the music! Many thanks in advance for your thoughtful assistance and best wishes for the continued success of your editorial efforts in the WikiProject African Diaspora. Repsectfully 104.207.219.150 (talk) 15:19, 12 September 2019 (UTC)PS P.S. --Sorry editors, I forgot to include the "Help me" template on the assessment request. I hope this is O.K. - thanks again for your help--with best wishes for your future success on Wikipedia 104.207.219.150 (talk) 18:57, 13 September 2019 (UTC)PS


 * I have removed the help me. Members of this WikiProject will keep an eye on this talk page anyway; the template summons random helpers from all over Wikipedia. Since I'm not involved with the WikiProject I won't assess the article, but I have to disagree with the assertion that it's all that well-sourced. It would require a library to check many of the references, but many others are not reliable or not independent. That includes, for example, Discogs (which apparently was removed for the DYK? How did that creep in again?), the Bach Cantatas website, his (ex-)wife's autobiography and so on. Then there's interpretation of events not backed up by the cited sources, e.g. "Based upon his success with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Lewis was appointed..." - the source (not a secondary source, by the way) gives no indication what they based the appointment on, particularly not "success". Or "In 1968, after returning to the United States from his European tours, Lewis also founded the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra." - wrong; he founded a different orchestra that was also known by that name, and it wasn't in 1968.
 * If I can find these problems with the comparatively few reliable sources I can access, what other problems might show up if I tried to look up the less accessible sources? Huon (talk) 21:34, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Ciao Huon: Many thanks for your kind help and assistance as well as your interesting observations concerning the founding of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Apparently there was some confusion concerning the name of the orchestra which, as you correctly indicated was not founded in 1968 but sometime earlier in the 1950's (apparently in 1958 according to a primary source in the United States Dept of State's Cultural Presentation Program as shown here books. . Sourcing for the use of the  name "Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra" was derived from Lewis's obituary in The New York Times as shown here which apparently misidentifies the orchestra's name, but seems to have the founding date nearly correct -- i.e. circa 1960 when Lewis was 28 years old. The Congressional Appropriations Hearings for The United States Dept. of State in 1964 show that Lewis led the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra on a concert tour in Europe and Yugoslavia as part of the State Department's esteemed international Cultural Presentations Program which also presented musicians such as Duke Ellignton and his orchestra See here Your observations concerning his appointment to the California Arts Commission in 1964  are also interesting -- apparently the reference citation indicates the appointment was for a newly created position which was concurrent with his tenure at the Los Angeles Philharmonic -- hence the reference "based upon his success at the Los Angeles Philharmonic". As you have properly observed, the reference citation is essentially mute on the details here so I shall try to remove the text from the article to improve its accuracy prior to its assessment. I hope that helps. Many thanks again for your kind and help. Respectfully and best wishes for your continued success on Wikipedia.104.207.219.150 (talk) 00:30, 14 September 2019 (UTC)PS


 * Ciao fellow Wikipedian Editors -- Just added a request for help to this discussion in case any other editors would care to assist in assessing this article for the Wikiproject African Diaspora in the weeks ahead or perhaps include their professional editorial insights with the observations made above. Feel free to contribute if possible to the assessment process by joining the discussion. I hope that this is OK. In any case, enjoy the article and best wishes for continued success on the Wikipedia Project! Repsectfully, 104.207.219.150 (talk) 22:44, 3 October 2019 (UTC)PS

Please look at and assess this new article
Union Literary Institute deisenbe (talk) 12:37, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

New article on Henrietta Wood
Hi -- I have been working on an article on Henrietta Wood, a woman who won a trial awarding her reparations for slavery in 1878. I noticed that many other articles on American slaves are tagged with this WikiProject, and I wanted to ask if anyone here could take a look at my draft before I publish to article space. I'm hoping for general advice on writing about this subject. I also am concerned that the article draws too much on just one source: an article in Smithsonian magazine. Wood had been entirely forgotten until a professor researched and wrote a book about her and published this article reviving her story. Thank you for any help! -- Cloud atlas (talk) 05:33, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Pinging, , , and , since I see that you have been active in this project. Would any of you be willing to take a look and let me know what you think? Thank you. -- Cloud atlas (talk) 01:30, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for creating this. Great article and a fascinating story. Hopefully more coverage will emerge, and further sources to draw upon, but there is enough to go ahead and move into mainspace. One minor concern with "remains the largest award ever given for slavery reparations". Perhaps we should qualify that in the body and the lead with something like "by a U.S. court". Edwardx (talk) 10:30, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm not a member of this project, but I have added a messagebox to the draft with a "Submit your draft for review" button; the reviewers are experienced editors affiliated with WP:WikiProject Articles for creation. If thinks the draft is ready to go live, the review process can of course be skipped. Huon (talk) 21:55, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks Huon. Well written, and everything is cited from reliable sources. She is notable enough, and died in 1912, so no COI issues to trouble us. Edwardx (talk) 23:41, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much for weighing in, and, and for your edits!  It is so great to be able to collaborate with other Wikipedians.  The article is now in mainspace at Henrietta Wood. -- Cloud atlas (talk) 04:08, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:23, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Balance at Forced into Glory
Please see:.

The article (on a somewhat controversial biography of Abraham Lincoln) rarely has editors or even talk-page comments, so additional input is requested. PoV issues with our article have been pointed out since 2009, and the off-site academic controversy involving the book's notable author, Lerone Bennett Jr., and his views about Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation goes back to the 1960s. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  23:01, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

African American task force
FYI, there's a request to create a new task force at WikiProject Council/Proposals/African-American task force -- 67.70.33.184 (talk) 13:30, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Article titles for ethnic groups
A sizable fraction of the articles on people groups listed at Template:African diaspora have singular titles (Afro-Jordanian, Afro-Peruvian, Black Belgian, etc.). Per WP:ETHNICGROUP, these kinds of articles generally take plural titles (e.g. African Americans, Afro-Brazilians). This is in keeping with our policy on using noun phrases as titles; many of the current, singular titles could be read as adjectives (e.g. Afro-Peruvian cuisine). I propose moving all the pertinent titles to their plural forms, but I thought I'd raise the issue here before before copying literally dozens of titles into an RM template. Any thoughts? —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 14:21, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

I've moved the pages that I could move on my own, and started a discussion for the others; see below. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 04:10, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

Requested move 22 November 2019
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 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: Consensus to move all as proposed except Afro-Caribbean → Afro-Caribbeans, for which there is consensus to move to Afro-Caribbean people. (closed by non-admin page mover)  SITH   (talk)   21:35, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

– Articles on ethnic groups generally take plural titles. This is in keeping with our policy on using noun phrases as titles; the current, singular titles could be read as adjectives (e.g. Afro-Cuban music, Afro-Jamaican cuisine). For consistency's sake, most should be plural, e.g. African Americans, Afro-Brazilians. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 04:10, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Afro-Aruban → Afro-Arubans
 * Afro-Caribbean → Afro-Caribbeans
 * Afro-Cuban → Afro-Cubans
 * Afro-Ecuadorian → Afro-Ecuadorians
 * Afro-Grenadian → Afro-Grenadians
 * Afro-Jamaican → Afro-Jamaicans
 * Afro-Nicaraguan → Afro-Nicaraguans
 * Afro-Peruvian → Afro-Peruvians
 * Afro-Russian → Afro-Russians
 * Black Belgian → Black Belgians
 * Black Carib → Black Caribs


 * Just a meta point to consider for next time: above you wrote "I've moved the pages that I could move on my own, and started a discussion for the others". Either these moves are not potentially controversial (in which case the remaining ones should just be listed at WP:RMT), or they are (in which case they all should have been discussed via RM, rather than being performed boldly). Colin M (talk) 04:48, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Good point; RMT might have been the better option. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 05:02, 22 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Support per nominator. Ivar the Boneful (talk) 10:24, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose Afro-Caribbeans because "Caribbeans" isn't common English usage, support the rest. I would support "Afro-Caribbean people". Guettarda (talk) 14:46, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
 * That works for me. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 05:49, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Support, but with Afro-Caribbean people as above. We usually use plural forms for peoples and ethnic groups. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:06, 27 November 2019 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. <b style="color:red">Please do not modify it.</b> Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Articles for deletion/Seanna Leath
Please discuss there. Bearian (talk) 16:16, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

Valerie Purdie Greenaway
The same new editor who created Seanna Leath also created Valerie Purdie Greenaway (Purdie-Vaughns, Purdie). The latter looks notable to me, but the article could use a good look from someone more familiar with her subjects than I am. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 17:50, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

Drafts Getting Denied :(
Hello! I have been writing and editing several drafts on African American Archivists in the United States and many of them keep getting denied as they are "not notable enough." Which is absolutely not true. If anyone is interested, please check my drafts and add any suggestions or edits that may help get these articles published. Thanks! Srcollier94 (talk) 15:53, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Hoyt Alexander King
Hoyt Alexander King, a political scientist who taught at Tennessee State University for three decades, died on December 15, 2019. His obituary was only published on December 28. I suspect he is notable but we would need more reliable third-party sources. I can't find anything on JSTOR, there are only a few matches on Newspapers.com, and I can't find any books on WorldCat. If anyone is interested in digging up more, please reply here and ping me. Thank you.Zigzig20s (talk) 19:40, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Article suggestion Slave gallery
The phenomena of areas set aside within churches for enslaved people. They are mentioned in a number of articles on historic churches. When this architectural feature is mentioned it would be great to have an article to link to. Best. MrBill3 (talk) 04:40, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

American Descendants of Slavery and African American]]
I've posted this at Talk:African American:We've got an interesting issue here. ADOS sees African Americans (why no hyphen?) who are descended from slaves as deserving their own racial classification. This explains the request above about Obama. As a consequence, we are now getting good faith editors such as User:ADOS MMXX removing some black Americans from African American categories. I think this needs discussion and I'm not sure where. There are three wikiprojects that are relevant for instance, but I don't think we want multiple discussions.

This looks like the most likely place. Doug Weller talk 16:48, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:North American slave revolts
Since I now see that User:Malik Shabazz is gone in another of WP's fits of self-defeatism, I'll ask for help here.

Template:North American slave revolts has no documentation, making it hard to say which what is wrong vs. right. I look at the entry
 * 1730 First Maroon War (British Jamaica, victorious)

and have to wonder - *who* was victorious? If you look at the linked First Maroon War (1728-1739/1740), it says 'stalemate'. If you look at the linked from there Second Maroon War (1795–1796), it says "Maroon surrender".

Only First Maroon War is mentioned in the template. Not the 50 years later Second Maroon War. I'd like to change the template mention from 'victorious' to 'stalemate'. Any problem with that? Shenme (talk) 03:50, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Afro-pessimism
The article for afro-pessimism underwent a total rewrite in December 2019. I think we could use someone familiar with the term to take a look at the different versions (old version here). gobonobo + c 18:07, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Black Lives Matter
I've created WikiProject Black Lives Matter for interested editors. Thanks, --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 21:21, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

can someone add Afro-Greeks of Athens and of Ksanthi/Xanthi, Thrace, Greece, please?
A Greek friend of mine from Thebes, south of Thrace, sent me this video documenting some of the Black Greeks of a village in Thrace, northern Greece, in an area called Xanthi, the village of Avato.

There was also the controversy kicked up when a young Black woman valedictorian, fully Greek, was allowed to carry the Greek flag in a national level parade: I cannot upload it, as a friend sent it to me, do I do not know where it came from originally. I'm not sure if the photo is in the Public Domain, but it has been all around the internet. Still searching for a link to the photo... Shiradestinie (talk) 21:34, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
 * , If you could provide a few media articles that would be great, even if they're in Greek. CaptainEek  Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 23:46, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Cool, thank you, CaptainEek: I'll work on it (I thought I'd pasted in the YouTube video link, but maybe not?), this weekend. Shiradestinie (talk) 23:53, 18 June 2020 (UTC)


 * I've asked my friend for more info. on both the photo (is it ok for me to upload it here just to show it?) and the video (YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WCOTDpIj0c&feature=youtu.be ).

Shiradestinie (talk) 00:02, 19 June 2020 (UTC)


 * If the photo is copyrighted, no. But you could provide an external link to it CaptainEek  Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 00:05, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Good morning (California time),  Edits Ho Cap'n! Here are some more links to the village: http://www.enetenglish.gr/?i=news.en.article&id=1769 and https://www.worldbulletin.net/filebox/a-unique-afro-turk-community-in-greece-h137380.html Sorry, I'm still waiting for the link to that photo! Best, Shira Shiradestinie (talk) 13:56, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

GAR notice
James McCune Smith, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Eddie891 Talk Work 23:55, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Article Assessments section, updated
Greetings - For African diaspora WP statistics, I added progression, pie chart, rainbow & wikilinks "Quality operations" and "Popular pages". JoeNMLC (talk) 16:15, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

Talk:American Descendants of Slavery
Needs attention from someone uninvolved. Doug Weller talk 14:40, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Interested editor needed
I'm an active help desk volunteer and I don't know how to help this guy. Can someone here take a look or direct me to a better place to make this request?
 * Help desk

Thanks. -Arch dude (talk) 18:31, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Talk:John Lewis (civil rights leader)
This discussion may be of interest to members of this Wiki Project. Hmlarson (talk) 19:35, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

Relevant discussion at VPP
Editors watching this page may be interested in the discussion at Village_pump_(policy) regarding whether we should use "African-American" vs "African American" in articles. signed,Rosguill talk 14:34, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Afro-Russians
It might be beneficial to include some contemporary information to the Afro-Russians (Afro-Russians) Wikipedia page. I think the article has a good foundation, but it should be a more long-term overview of the experience and roll of Afro-Russians in Russia throughout the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and modern Russia. For example, to my understanding there has been an uptick of inter-ethnic conflict in Russia as a result of recent Russian Nationalist sentiments. There should be a section that attempts to provide information about the current condition of Afro-Russians and could potentially use that sort of information.

Furthermore, the "Early Soviet Period" section of that article is missing citations and could also include more information about African Americans in Russia since — in an attempt to spread communist thought — so much of communist rhetoric was targeted at African Americans and Africans in previously colonized countries.

Carson277 (talk) 23:17, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

Notes from 28 September 2020
I have a group of new people who are interested in working on a project like this. We are a BLM group in Sandbach in Cheshire with links nationwide. Over the weekend I attended a wikkithon for something else and thought it may be something that would tie in nicely to the history and education projects we are currently working on. I have an email in with Wikimedia to see if they would like to get involved also, but I thought if you have an specific articles or areas you are keen to work on let us know. Thanks Michelle — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michellehoughwiki (talk • contribs) 12:42, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

GAR notice
Red Tail Squadron, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Hog Farm Bacon 19:40, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!
You can opt-out of this annual reminder from The Afrocine Project by removing your username from this list

Kermit Moore
Hello, I recently made an article for the musician and composer Kermit Moore. It is a work in progress. Feel free to contribute. Thanks! Thriley (talk) 07:02, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Society of Black Composers
Hello, I recently made an article for the Society of Black Composers. It is a work in progress. Feel free to contribute. Thanks! Thriley (talk) 07:39, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Cleaned up to-do list
Most of what was on the to-do list seemed to have already been done, so I cleaned it up. It could probably use expansion now, though. Luisa Koala (talk) 00:17, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Music of the Lesser Antilles Featured article review
I have nominated Music of the Lesser Antilles 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)  01:48, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

Eugene Goodman
With the proliferation of articles on individual rioters who attacked the US Capitol, I have created an article on Eugene Goodman (police officer), one of the heroes of that day. Help in building out the article would be appreciated. Cbl62 (talk) 23:20, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

BLM collaboration for Q1 2021
You are invited to join the ongoing Black Lives Matter collaboration for Q1 2021. Happy editing! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 17:52, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Is there a page about diversity in animation?
(I really mean lack of diversity in animation)

I'm thinking about this based on the incident of what happened with She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, which I have two paragraphs about on the Netflix and LGBT representation in animation page. I looked on the animation page but there isn't a section about this, so I didn't know if you know of such a page and if it exists. If it doesn't then either a section on the animation page or a stand-alone page about this should be created. --Historyday01 (talk) 16:56, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

RfC on Los Angeles Police Department
A request for comment regarding whether the lead of Los Angeles Police Department should note the department's exceptional history of corruption, brutality, and discriminatory policing (including the 2000 federal Department of Justice investigation which found racism, brutality, and corruption within the department to be rampant and which led the department to be placed under federal oversight from 2001 to 2013) is ongoing. Those who wish to participate in the discussion are invited to offer their comments at . 207.161.86.162 (talk) 04:36, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Hagler
New to this notification stuff, need some practice. American Blacks don't have wiki project so came here from usa pg. Recent deaths criterion I believe runs out for him in one day, if you must remember. Bokoharamwatch (talk) 15:53, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

RfC on description of Southern strategy in lead of Republican Party
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Republican Party (United States) § RfC: Southern strategy description in the lead. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 20:58, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Subcategories for Category:African-American culture?
Should Wikipedia have subcategories for Category:African-American culture for specific states? Feedback welcome here. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 18:31, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Thoughtful rhetoric
I am not sure that this is the right place. And, I know that I should have reached out to someone before this, but I write a fair number of articles about slavery, lives of freed people during the 18th or 19th century, and abolitionism - and I have been changing terminology based upon edits that I see. It would be great to know - if there is a good guide for better ways to word people or practices (recent: enslavers instead of masters).

Or perhaps taking a look at Slavery at Tuckahoe plantation (in progress) or Underground Railroad in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (that I would like to expand).

I would be happy to trade it for editing, starting a new article, etc. If there's a better place to ask this question or a reference document, that would be great, as well!–CaroleHenson (talk) 22:09, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Request for assessment of article's class rating
Hello, would anyone be able to assess the new article 'Afro-Caribbean Music'? I wrote it for my university class and would love some feedback and assistance if possible? Thank you, Ddra5202 (talk) 00:32, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

Most-viewed stub article within this Wikiproject
Yogananda Pittman	40,409	1,346	Stub --Coin945 (talk) 16:19, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

Ilhan Omar has an RFC
Ilhan Omar has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 01:39, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Edward Mitchell Bannister FAC
Edward Mitchell Bannister has been nominated as a featured article candidate; the nomination can be found here. Since the article falls under this WikiProject's scope, I am posting this notice here. It currently needs more comments, so if you've got time, please comment on the nomination page. If you do not believe that the article can be improved further, feel free to Support it. Otherwise, if you find issues with the article that are actionable, then please Oppose it with a list of items that can be improved on. Thanks in advance! — Wingedserif (talk) 13:26, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Merge?
A merge has been proposed for State of Black America. Discussion participation welcome. --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 00:33, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

African-American studies → African American studies
There is currently a discussion about renaming African-American studies → African American studies, which I would invite participation. Thanks! Caorongjin (talk) 10:04, 16 July 2021 (UTC)

Notice of Featured Article Review
I have nominated Malcolm X 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. Z1720 (talk) 16:13, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

Notice of Featured Article Review
I have nominated Ramón Emeterio Betances 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. Z1720 (talk) 02:53, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Hoteps article
I recently created the article on the phenomenon of hoteps, which may be of interest to this WikiProject. --Bangalamania (talk) 20:11, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Indaba 2021 is here!
Hosted by the Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda, the first ever virtual Wiki Indaba conference is taking place online from the 5th to the 7th of November 2021 under the theme Rethink + Reset : Visions of the future.

Wiki Indaba 2021 is a unique opportunity to come together to build the capacity of African Wikimedians both within the continent and the diaspora to foster the growth of the coverage and our involvement in Wikimedia projects.

The call for submissions is open, please submit your session proposal either as a presentation, panel discussion, lightning talk, or workshop before September 24th 2021.

Most importantly, we would like to have you at the conference, please register here to get your free ticket and spread the word to your community members.

Looking forward to seeing you and hearing you speak at the conference.

Geoffrey Kateregga (talk) 23:45, 16 September 2021 (UTC) - On behalf of the Wiki Indaba 2021 Local Organizing Committee

Black Student Union article
Hello! I recently created the article Black Student Union, which may be of interest to this WikiProject. ezlev (user/tlk/ctrbs) 18:29, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Fried chicken which may be of interest to you. Please consider posting a comment there. Thank you.--John Cline (talk) 21:28, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

Online edit-a-thon: Black architects of Detroit
Architects.Build.Wiki is an initiative to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Black architects and their buildings. Please join an online edit-a-thon on Wednesday, October 20, 2021, part of the 50th annual conference of the National Organization of Minority Architects. In this event we will focus on the architects of Detroit and Michigan; we hope to expand the initiative to other areas in the coming years.

Wikipedia:Meetup:Detroit/Architects Build Wiki October 2021

-Pete Forsyth (talk) 06:06, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

Obama FAR
I have nominated Barack Obama 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. Therapyisgood (talk) 01:06, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

Newsweek cover story on Black women in America
In 2003 Newsweek ran a cover story on Black women. It's available for free borrow at the Internet Archive: Probably useful for any number of Wikipedia articles. -Pete Forsyth (talk) 23:54, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
 * https://archive.org/details/newsweek141marnewy/page/n59/mode/2up

The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!
You can opt-out of this annual reminder from The Afrocine Project by removing your username from this list

Backlog of African American and related subjects at Articles for Creation
I was told I shouldn't submit more entries to Articles for Creation until more of these are approved. I would be glad to have help. Sad to see such a struggle to get African American legislators, schools, and civil rights leaders included on Wikipedia in 2021.


 * Draft:Moses Martin
 * Gilbert Horton (politician)
 * Draft:William M. Viney
 * Draft:Louisburg High School (North Carolina)
 * Draft:Cyrus Barton
 * William N. Hartshorn
 * George P. Quigley
 * Draft:Doctor Stites
 * Draft:Frederick Hill Meserve
 * Draft:Yamekraw
 * Robert McBlair
 * Draft:Kendrick Clements
 * Draft:Urbain Ozanne
 * Robert B. Anderson (South Carolina)
 * Draft:Stephen Walter Rogers
 * Draft:1619 West Poplar
 * Draft:Excel High School
 * William H. Jones (South Carolina)
 * Draft:Henry Alexander Saturnin Hartley
 * Amos Hadley
 * Harlem Hotshots
 * Draft:Hezekiah Hunter
 * Nashville Daily American
 * Leslie T. Peacocke
 * Draft:George Washington Bullion
 * Draft:Plaisance High School
 * Draft:J. Milton Waldron
 * Draft:John Ogden (academic)
 * Draft:Nelson Caeser Crews
 * Josiah Huntoon
 * Draft:Charles Reese
 * Draft:R. A. Hubbard High School
 * Bedford G. Guy
 * Draft:Rastus Among the Zulus
 * Draft:Saint Suttle
 * For His Mother's Sake
 * Draft:Philip D. Uzee
 * Draft:Alwyn Barr
 * Doc C. Lewis
 * Draft:Samuel Peck (artist)
 * George Washington (Louisiana politician)
 * Draft:Sidney Easton
 * Draft:Gilbert Horton (politician)

FloridaArmy (talk) 02:05, 2 November 2021 (UTC)


 * I, what a list...you've been busy! I just reviewed and published Josiah Huntoon, nice work. In general, it seems that you are very well versed in Wikipedia's standards, and I would encourage you to simply publish your articles, rather than submitting for review. (I do not generally recommend AfC for anyone who is willing to make an effort to learn about Wikipedia's standards, and in your case it especially looks like an annoying and unnecessary extra step.) Instead of submitting to AfC, when your draft gets to the point it seems ready to publish, choose "Move" from the top menu, and in the drop-down menu where it says "Draft", just change it to "(Article)". This will publish the article. It's good to add a few categories after you publish, too. Let me know if you have questions? -Pete Forsyth (talk) 16:53, 4 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep up the good work !! I pushed a few more of these through too, including Saint Suttle, Hezekiah Hunter‎, Samuel Peck (daguerreotypist). I did some minor editing in order to insure these articles are not deleted. Adding a note here in case anyone else is working through this list too. Joojay (talk) 19:42, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * @Peteforsyth They cannot. They are under sanctions that they must use AFC. I think that should be appealed with support. There's a subsequent sanction seeking to limit their productivity. I've been trying to guide them so that no-one gets sanction happy with them. They do very productive and useful work, and their quality is always improving. Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 16:39, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Help at Draft:Society of Black Lawyers
Hey there, can members of this WikiProject help me with this draft article? Seems to be an important organisation in Black British history, but I am struggling to find more reliable sources for the article. —AFreshStart (talk) 00:39, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Alpha Kappa Alpha FAR
I have nominated Alpha Kappa 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. Bumbubookworm (talk) 19:59, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Black Matriarchy
Hi, just getting in touch to draw your attention to this article, which I came across while I was resolving or removing "by whom" tags. I am no kind of expert on this topic, but when I googled "black matriarchy" in google scholar, the majority of articles referred to it as a myth, and a racist myth at that. As it stands the idea is presented in the article as if it were an established consensus with little criticism. If there is anybody here with some expertise on this topic, a complete rewrite might be in order.

Boynamedsue (talk) 11:11, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

FAR for Uncle Tom's Cabin
I have nominated Uncle Tom's Cabin 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. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  07:55, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

Categorisation
see Categories for discussion/Log/2021 December 28%23American women opera singers by century. Bigwig7 (talk) 09:37, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Category:Black-owned businesses
Please help populate the newly created Category:Black-owned businesses. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 03:07, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

==Discussion at Talk:Martin Luther King Jr. § Request for comment: Is it permissible to use "African American in lead" sentence?== You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Martin Luther King Jr. § Request for comment: Is it permissible to use "African American in lead" sentence?. Sundayclose (talk) 23:45, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Saturday Feb 5: Met Afrofuturist edit-a-thon (and monthlong campaign)
We'd like to invite interested Wikipedians to join Meetup/NYC/MetAfrofuturist on Saturday February 5, as well as throughout the month. The edit-a-thon addresses both African and African diaspora art and cultural topics. We also have a Met Afrofuturist channel operating on the Wikimedia NYC Discord throughout February, which you are welcome to participate in as well.--Pharos (talk) 20:16, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

GAR
Health and appearance of Michael Jackson has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.Quaffel (talk) 20:56, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

First African-American mayors of cities
I was wondering what the threshold is for creating an article for a Black mayoral first. Donna Johnson (mayor) is the first African-American mayor of Libertyville, Illinois (pop 20,000). As far as I can tell, she is only the second Black female mayor in Lake County. She was elected in 2021. I created a wikipedia page for her and now it has been nominated for deletion (see Articles for deletion/Donna Johnson (mayor)). As she is the first Black mayor of the city (which is only 1% Black), I deem her notable. The nominator indicates that only mayors of cities over 100,000 are possibly notable. Input would be helpful since I would like to create more Black mayoral firsts for mid-tier cities. Patapsco913 (talk) 14:50, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Category:African-American television writers
Can somebody help me populate this recently-created category? -- Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  16:12, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Sure, I'll see what I can do. --Historyday01 (talk) 17:51, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

Carla Gray
Hello! I am a former Wikipedia admin who now edits anonymously. For Black History Month I decided to add to the Carla Gray article, adding sources from print and television. I'd love for more eyes to be on this article, and could anyone help in adding some ABC promotional fair-use photographs for certain moments? I have my eye on the moment Ed and Carla wed. 173.171.68.179 (talk) 17:32, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Featured list removal: List of Major League Baseball players with unidentified given names
I have nominated List of Major League Baseball players with unidentified given names for featured list removal. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. --Dennis C. Abrams (talk) 00:30, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Talk:Asquith_Xavier
If you have an opinion, please share. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:09, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Draft:Kennedi Carter
Hello, WikiProject,

I came across this draft which was due to be deleted today and as I looked into it, I became very impressed by this young photographer. She is only about 22 years old and she has shot covers for UK Vogue and Glamour magazines, she's had coverage in Vogue and the NYTimes. It might be TOOSOON but it's really amazing what she has done at such a young age. I'm not a content creator but this draft is a good beginning, it just needs to be written in more encyclopedic style and language. Thanks. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 01:39, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

Suggested article topic
I'd love to see an article on Merion Memorial Park in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, the burial place of many prominent 19th & 20th C. Black Philadelphians (and others, including Chinese immigrants and a few whites). Notable graves include those of Fanny Jackson Coppin and James A. Bland. Basic info appears in the article on Bala Cynwyd. Is this something the Project can handle? PDGPA (talk) 19:01, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Request to add Elijah McCoy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_McCoy Please add him to your projects, topics, whatever. I just visited, and added some edits to, his talk page, but he needs some ongoing love and support. Thanks.Natcolley (talk) 10:29, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Jim's Journey--African American museum in Hannibal, MO
Greetings! I am trying to get an article on JJ onto wikipedia and accidentally uploaded two versions. One has been 86'd, with the notation that another one is already under review. How can I find out what's happening with that one? I tagged both entries with this project, FYI. Thank youZamboni54 (talk) 16:19, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

Draft on a clown
Draft:Skeeter Reece need sources to support WP:GNG, help appreciated. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:46, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Sourcing ethnicity could be better
Dear WikiProject members, I have found some glaring omissions in the articles covered here. Many categories can be applied such as Category:African-American male actors (I'm looking at Coolio for a recent example here). Coolio's got 6 categories claiming "African-American" ethnicity. Obviously, we can look at the pictures, and see he's a rapper, and nobody doubts he's Black. But nowhere in his article does it say he's Black and there's no source for his ethnicity. So per WP:CATV and WP:EGRS those categories do not belong if we can't substantiate them.

This is not an isolated issue. I find it often in these articles. Often it may be mentioned in passing: as "So-and-so was the first Black woman to do such-and-such." and other people have elaborate analysis of their ancestry, but it seems that the writers of articles on Black people do not wish to explore ancestry (which of course would be sensitive territory for slaves) or simply don't feel it's necessary to explain that a person is Black or African-American. But if these categories are to be properly applied, it is important that we explicitly mention this, and back it up with at least one reliable source. Otherwise, the categories are subject to challenge and removal, per WP:V.

It's all too often that categories are added without cause, or end up hanging around after material is deleted from an article, and so ensuring an explicit mention backed by a source is a great way to keep categories current. Elizium23 (talk) 17:18, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

Request for comments on Yasuke
Comments needed concerning the historical figure Yasuke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Yasuke#Request_for_comment_on_samurai_terminology natemup (talk) 03:37, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Draft:Mahomet Thomas Phillips
hello all, I'm working on rescuing this page from draftspace, but help would be welcome if anyone is inclined! Lajmmoore (talk) 23:22, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
 * it looks very rescued! Thank you for this. Dsp13 (talk) 12:00, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

BlackPast.org redlink lists
I've been having a go at adding all the entries at https://www.blackpast.org/ to Wikidata, using the Mix-n-Match tool. I've still got a way to go, but meanwhile there are plenty of fascinating BlackPast entries visible on wikidata which don't yet have their own wikipedia page. Here are two redlist pages generated from Wikidata: Hope others here find this useful! Dsp13 (talk) 18:45, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
 * BlackPast people
 * BlackPast other (items which aren't people - organisations, speeches, events, newspapers, etc.)

Requested move at Talk:Compas
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Compas that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. —usernamekiran (talk) 17:13, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

Proposed Edits
Hi all. I would like to expand the Lead section with info on the Harlem Renaissance artists whose work laid the ground work and inspiration for BAM. Takeyce (talk) 18:19, 8 December 2022 (UTC)


 * which article are you wanting to improve in this way, Takeyce? Dsp13 (talk) 15:45, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I am updating the Black Arts Movement article. Takeyce (talk) 16:54, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

Carla Vernón
Carla Vernón is my sister. She is the incoming Afro-Latina CEO of The Honest Company, with a start date of January 9 2023. I am trying to get someone else to create the article to avoid the strongly discouraged WP:COI editorial involvement. I am hoping someone will create the article soon so it can appear at WP:DYK on January 9. You can find source links at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Women_in_Red.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 17:16, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

Afro-Latina
At Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Women_in_Business we are trying to determine the first Afro-Latina CEO of a publicly traded U.S. company-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:49, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

James Madison
There are several ongoing neutrality disputes on the James Madison article that might be of interest to this group. This is currently a Featured Article Candidate, and there are concerns that this article is misrepresenting Madison's role as an enslaver. Freoh (talk) 01:40, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

GA Reassessment
Music of Dominica has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:00, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:2020–2023 United States racial unrest
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2020–2023 United States racial unrest that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. echidnaLives -  talk  -  edits  10:41, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Shaun King
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Shaun King. Wes sideman (talk) 14:05, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Issues with Black Hebrew Israelites article
The article on Black Hebrew Israelites has multiple issues that need to be addressed to avoid racial bias on Wikipedia. The BHIs originated at a time when many white Christian denominations preached that Black people are the cursed descendants of Ham. That is the historical backdrop of the BHI claim that Black people are not only NOT cursed, but rather the chosen. That this historical background information is never mentioned in the article is astounding and is evidence that the article is insufficient. That the voices of actual Black Jews are mentioned nowhere in the article is another glaring omission. Black Jewish writers such as Shais Rishon, and I'm sure others, have written about the BHI appropriation of Black Jewish identity. The sentence in the opening paragraph about the SPLC considering BHIs to collectively constitute a "hate group" is contextless and inadequate. The SPLC states on their website that "SPLC uses the term Radical Hebrew Israelite to differentiate from the greater Hebrew Israelite faith...SPLC no longer refers to these groups as solely Black Hebrew Israelites...there are non-radical sects of the Hebrew Israelite faith who identify as Black Hebrew Israelites". This indicates that the SPLC distinguishes between extremist and non-extremist BHI sects, a nuance the current sentence obscures. These issues must be addressed to avoid anti-Blackness, stereotyping, and the erasure of Black Jews. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 04:41, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

The trainwreck at Afro-Surrealism
This article has been WP:OWNed for several years by a clear WP:COI editor who keeps writing promotionally about himself (D. Scot Miller) and reshaping all the material to suit his personal vision of the genre and its history (and seems to want to avoid any mention of Rochelle Spencer's work; someone I know offsite who is a writer and familiar with the parties said there's some kind of beef between Miller and Spencer). I think some worthwhile material Miller deleted can be recovered from page history, but overall it just seems to need a major, multi-editor rewriting effort. On the talk page, I've added links to recentish off-site articles about Afro-surrealism, and some JSTOR links that point to a lot of journal material (which I don't have full-text access to). — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  05:27, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

Harriet Tubman
I have nominated Harriet Tubman for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the 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" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. DrKay (talk) 15:03, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Question regarding Sally Hemings
Proposed a query at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States Presidents regarding the status of this well known enslaved woman's relationship to her enslaver Thomas Jefferson. I wanted to share the query in multiple places to get eyes on it and I think this is the other most appropriate WikiProject since I see a number of discussions regarding slavery here. If not, please excuse me. And if so, your input is appreciated! QuietHere (talk &#124; contributions) 19:51, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

James De Jongh
I recently created a draft for playwright and author James De Jongh. Any help with expansion would be appreciated. Thriley (talk) 21:03, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

User:Wagenia/sandbox
"James Francis Jenkins (1875-May 6,1931) was a Black Canadian journalist and activist from Forsythe, Georgia who was son of James Jenkins and Mary Jane Peeples. Chartered in 1925, he, a friend of famous black sociologist and activist W.E.B.  Dubois helped found the Canadian League of the Advancement of Colored People afterwards referred to as CLACP.  On July 14, 1923, he founded the newspaper Dawn of Tomorrow ..."

Does this pass the notability criteria? (Notability (people) - or is there a more specific link for this case)

Note the draft author is Wagenia and I am a draft reviewer; this isn't my strong topic area, and I would greatly appreciate any feedback.

Thanks, Gryllida (talk, e-mail) 02:51, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Maryanne Oketch nominated for deletion
Maryanne Oketch has been nominated for deletion. Your input there is welcome. George Ho (talk) 11:17, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

Earl Cole nominated for deletion
The article about Earl Cole is nominated for deletion. I welcome you to input your comments there. George Ho (talk) 20:19, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Vecepia Towery nominated for deletion
The article about Vecepia Towery is nominated for deletion. Your input there is welcome. George Ho (talk) 07:38, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

Witchcraft
There is a discussion at Talk:Witchcraft about whether the lead should maintain a global and traditional focus or shift to prioritize the more modern, western, pop culture and neopagan redefinitions of the term (which are linked in hatnotes). As African and Indigenous practices are covered in the body of the article, this could use input. - CorbieVreccan  ☊ ☼ 17:50, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

"Template:AFRO" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:AFRO&redirect=no Template:AFRO] &#32;to the template Template:WikiProject African diaspora has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached. SWinxy (talk) 00:30, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Talk:Witchcraft
The article has sections on African cultures. There has been conflict around the meanings of the words "traditional" and "witchcraft". - CorbieVreccan  ☊ ☼ 20:00, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

Wendell Holland nominated for deletion
I have nominated the article about Wendell Holland for deletion. You may input your comments at Articles for deletion/Wendell Holland. Thanks! George Ho (talk) 23:17, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

Category:Slaves has been nominated for renaming
Your input would be appreciated at Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_September_12--User:Namiba 15:14, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

JoAnne A. Epps
Could use help adding needed citations to the article for JoAnne A. Epps, president of Temple University who died yesterday. Funcrunch (talk) 20:19, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Jeremy Collins nominated for deletion
I have nominated the article Jeremy Collins for deletion. You're welcome to input at Articles for deletion/Jeremy Collins. George Ho (talk) 03:01, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Women in Green's 5th Edit-a-thon
<div style="border: 6px solid #2bbf08; background: #FFF; background-color:#FFFFFF; padding: 1ex 1ex 1ex 1.5ex; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em; font-size: 99%"> Hello WikiProject African diaspora:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a  month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2023!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2023, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there! Grnrchst (talk) 14:22, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Afro-textured hair
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Afro-textured hair that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. – robertsky (talk) 15:53, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

Requested input on Talk:Janelle Monáe
There's a discussion on Talk:Janelle Monáe about whether to change Monáe's pronouns, in the biography article, to they/them (the article currently uses she/her) and if Monáe's choice of pronoun order should impact the pronouns used in the biography article. Historyday01 (talk) 21:17, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Featured Article Save Award for Harriet Tubman
There is a Featured Article Save Award nomination at Wikipedia talk:Featured article review/Harriet Tubman/archive1. Please join the discussion to recognize and celebrate editors who helped assure this article would retain its featured status. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  17:19, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Ball culture
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Ball culture that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. —usernamekiran (talk) 03:45, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

Article suggestions
I saw the visual task force is inactive, so I'll leave the message here. While visiting The Phillips Collection's current exhibit, I photographed a lot of African art. The following artists do not have articles, but I have photos (fair-use) that can be used if anyone else wants to help me create them. I plan on working on this list in the coming week because this subject seems very unrepresented. Thanks. APK<span style="display:inline-block;transform:rotate(30deg)"> hi :-)  ( talk ) 19:29, 25 November 2023 (UTC) APK<span style="display:inline-block;transform:rotate(30deg)"> hi :-)   ( talk ) 19:29, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Aimé Mpane
 * Joyce Wellman
 * Akinola Lasekan
 * Mamo Tessema
 * Miranda Burney-Nicol (Olayinka)
 * Buluma Mordecai Ochungo
 * Pilipili Mulongoy
 * Solomon Irein Wangboje
 * George O. Talabi
 * Mohammad Omer Khalil

Requested move at Talk:Southern University and A&M College
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Southern University and A&M College that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 22:15, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Edward Clark (artist)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Edward Clark (artist) that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 17:00, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Drawing of Billy Simmons
A drawing of Billy Simmons is held in the Special Collections Library of the College of Charleston. The drawing can be viewed here on page 25. I was wondering if anyone has the know-how on how to access the drawing and use it for Simmons' Wikipedia article? Thank you! Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 04:53, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Black Horror on the Rhine
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Black Horror on the Rhine that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 23:51, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Draft:Brittany Spanos
Please see Draft:Brittany Spanos, which may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. (The article was AfD'd for notability concerns, and has now landed in draftspace.) Cheers, Cl3phact0 (talk) 10:27, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

African-American women lawyers
Please comment Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_February_14.--User:Namiba 14:45, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!
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Welcome to the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!
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Requested move at Talk:Afrophobia
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Afrophobia that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 15:07, 4 March 2024 (UTC)