Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anthropology/Archive 1

New Project Page
I'm not the best person to have created this page, although I am very much interested in seeing a project dealing with this area be successful. Please feel free to make any changes you like. The Guide has some pointers. Personally, I think one of the first things you all might do is create a project banner, letting people know the project is up and running, and also place it as a new project on the Community Portal. Anyway, best of luck. Badbilltucker 21:52, 8 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Most important thing you can do is to invite other interesting, active editors to join this project; the rest will sort itself out. linas

The project description shows: "with an emphasis on the field often referred to as cultural anthropology." Why? I think a General Anthropology focus is better.

Some articles to work on
Wikipedia's articles on important anthropologists could really use some loving. Franz Boas looks pretty good, though it could stand to be trimmed a bit. Marvin Harris, Alfred Kroeber, Bronislaw Malinowski, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown and E.E. Evans-Pritchard all need serious expansion. It would be especially good to have more information on their influence and importance to the field as a whole. My anthro books are at school right now; I'll start working on these when I have access to them again. Stilgar135 04:56, 23 November 2006 (UTC)


 * And to start us off on more inclusive footing, also consider: Eleanor Leacock, Ruth Benedict (which needs cleanup), William Allison Davis, Manchester school (anthropology), Rhodes-Livingstone Institute. The otherwise extensive W.E.B. DuBois page discusses The Philadelphia Negro only in the context of criminology, and gives little attention to his role in pushing a framework of research into African American society more generally. Likewise Jomo Kenyatta anthropological work gets a one sentence mention.--Carwil 17:53, 25 February 2007 (UTC)


 * All the articles in the context of Kinship and decent need attention, even it isn't a thrill topic. --Sven Lotz 12:02, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

COTM template
I stole the Star Wars Collaboration of the Week template and turned it into a Collaboration of the Month template. I'm going to put in Marvin Harris for our first collaboration, since his article should be far longer. As the project gathers momentum, we'll start voting for collaborations and possibly move it to a weekly format. Any improvements you can make to the template, feel free. Stilgar135 05:55, 10 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Hello, new project member here. I see that the COTM has now run for more than a month. Perhaps its time to move to another collaboration? Robotforaday 15:57, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Article that needs serious work
Ok, so I created feminist anthropology way back when and it needs some serious expansion. Any takers?  Ungovernable Force  Got something to say? 05:38, 11 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Not my gig, but I agree, it needs serious work. I have plans to improve MZ Rosaldo article (obviously relevant) and maybe Louise Lamphere.--Levalley (talk) 05:07, 2 April 2009 (UTC)LeValley

What is a good article?
FYI, you may be interested in reviewing the subtle debates about "inline citations" over at Wikipedia talk:What is a good article?. And, if you have not already done so, you may want to review Scientific citation guidelines. linas 05:28, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 22:30, 29 December 2006 (UTC)