Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anthropology/Archive 6

Leaflet for Wikiproject Anthropology at Wikimania 2014
Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film

• Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.

• Less known major projects: Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, etc.

• Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____

• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost The deadline for submissions is 1st July 2014 For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to: Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 09:47, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:People by ethnic or national origin
Category:People by ethnic or national origin has been nominated for. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page. 068129201223129O9598127 (talk) 10:53, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:People by ethnic or national descent by continent
Category:People by ethnic or national descent by continent has been nominated for. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page. 068129201223129O9598127 (talk) 21:12, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

Requested move at talk:Neanderthal extinction hypotheses
There's a move discussion for Neanderthal extinction hypotheses → Neanderthal extinction, where I'd like to have more input. --Cold Season (talk) 00:15, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

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

WikiProject Academia?
Please see here: WikiProject Council/Proposals/Academia. Thanks. Fgnievinski (talk) 18:40, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Launch of WikiProject Wikidata for research
Hi, this is to let you know that we've launched WikiProject Wikidata for research in order to stimulate a closer interaction between Wikidata and research, both on a technical and a community level. As a first activity, we are drafting a research proposal on the matter (cf. blog post). Your thoughts on and contributions to that would be most welcome! Thanks, -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 02:16, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Categories: why "Human biology" and "Human geography" are next to "Anthropology" under "Social sciences"?
Maybe I misunderstand what anthropology is about, but is this correct way of categorization: ?
 * Category:Social sciences
 * Category:Anthropology
 * Category:Human biology
 * Category:Human geography

While: Should not "Human biology" and "Human geography" be under "Anthropology"? And can Category:Humans be under "Anthropology"? Kazkaskazkasako (talk) 12:00, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Category:Anthropology
 * Category:Biological anthropology
 * Category:Human genetics


 * I dont think any of those categorizations work. I dont think many people consider human biology to be a social science. And Human genetics is definitely not a subfield of biological anthropology. Human geography is an inter sectional field between anthropology and geography so it could go under either - but probably makes more sense under geography.User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 15:24, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Homo tsaichangensis - new article to keep an eye on
Homo tsaichangensis, more widely known as Penghu 1, an apparently new species of Homo, described and named (apparently concurrently but by different authors) in the last few days. --Animalparty-- (talk) 07:58, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
 * As far as I can see there is very little reason that jaw couldn't fit within Asian Homo erectus. It is ridiculous how quick people are to name any tiny fossil a new species without any substantial anatomical evidence for doing so. thanks for bringing the article to our attention.User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 00:31, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Male body shape article needed
Back-round: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Gender gap task force

The article is already requested in articles for creation but it would be nice to have this done sooner rather than later. Please if anyone would be willing to help out. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 02:44, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

RFC that may affect this project
There is an RFC that may affect a page in this project at WikiProject Tree of Life. The topic is Confusion over taxonomy of subtribe Panina and taxon homininae (are chimps hominins)?

Please feel free to comment there. SPACKlick (talk) 17:00, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

History and founders of Anthropology
I am participating in a discussion at Talk:Anthropology regarding how best to describe the early history of the discipline including its founding figures and the relation between the various subdisciplines, and the conceptual history of the term "anthropology". Participation by as many anthropologically inclined editors as possible would improve the outcome of the discussions. ·maunus · snunɐɯ· 16:45, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Presentations and pluralisations of peoples

 * The following OP has been multiply posted and my suggestion is that Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (ethnicities and tribes) might act as a centralised location for related discussion.

Use of the pluralisation of a demonym where this is possible

A recent successful RM was made for the following:

– And many similar articles which, on the same president, I would like moved - as would apply to all demonym based population describing articles in those cases those cases in which the plural form of the demonym differs from the singular form of the word.
 * Azerbaijani people → Azerbaijanis
 * Bahamian people → Bahamians
 * Bangladeshi people → Bangladeshis
 * Barbadian people → Barbadians
 * Bolivian people → Bolivians
 * Chilean people → Chileans
 * Colombian people → Colombians

(explanation was given)

As per: Albanians, Americans, Armenians, Australians, Austrians, List of Bahranis, Belarusians, Bosnians, Brazilians, Bulgarians, Lists of Cameroonians and Canadians, ...

As per WP:UCRN as demonstrated in searches ...

Designations that seemingly should remain as "... people" as the demonym retains the same form when indicating either singulars or plurals: Bhutanese people, British people and Chinese people,

Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ethnicities and tribes)

On this basis I would suggest that any editor with authority to directly make sensible changes to article and category contents could go ahead and make sensible moves (as relevant to article content naturally).

I would say that this issue also relates to content in which two ethnicities are mentioned such that relating to Afghan American(s) and perhaps this will also need to be sorted out at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ethnicities and tribes).

I propose that the table on that project page might read as something like the following:

Peoples for which two nationalities/ethnicities/descents are referenced

In the case of people who are described by use of two national/ethnic descriptions I was interested to see the navigational content at: British Korean which reads as follow:

British Korean or Korean British may refer to:
 * Koreans in the United Kingdom
 * British people in North Korea
 * British people in South Korea
 * North Korea-United Kingdom relations
 * South Korea-United Kingdom relations
 * Eurasian (mixed ancestry) people of Korean and British descent

Mention of this content is also made at: Wikipedia talk:UK Wikipedians' notice board and, as potentially an example of good practice, I thought I would also present this content "here".


 * Again, this OP has been multiply posted and my suggestion is that Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (ethnicities and tribes) might act as a centralised location for related discussion. This is by no means meant as a discouragement of location specific discussion.

GregKaye 11:20, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

"Man" infobox bias
The article about man has an infobox collage of male pictures, the selection of which seems bias and arbitrary. The editors prevent members from editing it without first suggesting it on the talk page, but a few editors seem to have final say and they favor pictures of men they personally favor for arbitrary reasons. I implore members of the WikiProject Anthropology to chime in on this topic, as I have suggested one image, perhaps a classic representation of man, be displayed. JosephSpiral (talk) 22:43, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

AfC submission
Hello again! Here's a draft we'd appreciate if you reviewed: Draft:Geometric Morphometrics in Anthropology, Draft:Shell tools in the Philippines, Draft:Philippine prehistoric beads and Draft:Philippine Jade Artifacts. Thanks once more, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 16:45, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Article on Avi Tuschman and Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us
This article is up for deletion, if people want to have a look here. -- Avi Tuschman (talk 22:52, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

ITN candidate Australopithecus deyiremeda
Hello. The article Australopithecus deyiremeda has been proposed on In the news candidates -- Aronzak (talk) 16:40, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Acceleration (human)
Experts are invited to see Acceleration (human) to review for accuracy and scope, and ideally add some equivalent English language sources. --Animalparty! (talk) 20:52, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Article request
When I was doing research for different topic I came across lot of anthropological, historical researched references to Pole-star worship This is a request to develope a good article on this issue. (Pl.avoid ocnfusion,Pole worship is distinct)
 * Pole-star worship

Thanks and regards Mahitgar (talk) 06:12, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

RfC at Homo naledi
Interested editors are invited to comment at Talk:Homo_naledi. --Animalparty! (talk) 07:20, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: the article is currently protected until the dispute is resolved. Consensus is needed to resolve the dispute and resume article improvement. --Animalparty! (talk) 00:24, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Genetic anthropology
Not sure what to make of this article. The lead says "Genetic anthropology (Human genetics) is a branch of human genetics" and then says it's a "field of anthropology." I removed an unsourced section which said:

"There seems to be a divide in the academic community as to what is Genetic Anthropology and what is Molecular Anthropology. There are many universities that offer degrees in Genetic Anthropology or Anthropological Genetics, while others offer degrees in Molecular Anthropology, but all are considered to be under the umbrella of Evolutionary Anthropology. In most universities genetic anthropology is taught in conjunction with other anthropological areas such as paleoanthropology, primatology, human biology, Bioarchaeology and osteology."

IMHO this needs to be redirect or rewritten. Crossposting to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Genetics Doug Weller (talk) 10:47, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Article upgrade assistance request (Pre-translation stage)
Seasons Greetings,

Hi, I am looking for support for  a relatively new umbrella article on en-wikipedia named Ceremonial pole. Undersigned seeks your help specially to improve defenition and lead sections of the article.

Ceremonial pole is a human tradition since ancient times; either existed in past at some point of time, or still exists in some cultures across global continents from north to south & from east to west. Ceremonial poles are used to symbolize a variety of concepts in several different world cultures.

Through article Ceremonial pole we intend to take encyclopedic note of cultural aspects and festive celebrations and dances around Ceremonial pole as an umbrella article and want to have historical, mythological, anthropological aspects, reverence or worships wherever concerned as a small part.

While Ceremonial poles have a long past and strong presence but usually less discussed subject. Even before we seek translation of this article in global languages, we need to have more encyclopedic information/input about Ceremonial poles from all global cultures and languages. And we seek your assistance in the same.

Since other contributors to the article are insisting for reliable sources and Standard native english; If your contributions get deleted (for some reason like linguistics or may be your information is reliable but unfortunately dosent match expectations of other editors) , please do list the same on Talk:Ceremonial pole page so that other wikipedians may help improve by interlanguage collaborations, and/or some other language wikipedias may be interested in giving more importance to reliablity of information over other factors on their respective wikipedia.

This request is made to you since culture related topics may be of intrest to you.

Thanking you with warm regards

Mahitgar (talk) 11:15, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Semitic people merge discussion
Forgive me if this is in the wrong place, I do not know my way around Wikipedia and its protocols at all. I am alerting you to the fact that an article of interest to you (and you are marked as this article being relevant to you) is currently being debated for removal/merging. It is being argued (I believe wrongly) that the article is irrelevant and has no place in having its own page, so I do think someone from your group should keep an eye on the discussion on the talk page. They already merged the article today into another article without any discussion but I managed to get an admin to move it back again. Conversation has now started on the talk page and I think it is definitely something you will want to keep an eye on. Talk page here; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Semitic_people Taurusthecat (talk) 14:13, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi Taurusthecat, thanks for the heads up! I'll take a look at the discussion and hopefully can add to it. In the future you may want to look at WP:CANVAS which is a policy about how to advertise ongoing discussions. Alerting wikiprojects to ongoing discussions is fine, but you want to make sure that your notification is neutral and doesn't bias people coming to the discussion. Happy editing! Wugapodes (talk) 19:33, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Thankyou for the advice, appreciated. It seems some people are determined to merge this page elsewhere, I think to bury the information, also numerous small edits are being done now in an effort to make the material seem less and less relevant, I guess to support deleting/merging the material later. I have noticed that this article (which has been around for quite a few years with much effort put into it) is of particular interest of a large number of focus groups, so I do think it is important for it to be monitored. As the article stands and as far as I can tell, it is extremely factual and contains much useful information, it would be a shame for it to be eroded away and finally removed. As the subject matter is sensitive to some and can elicit emotional interpretations according to their own personal views, it is important the article remains un-biased, factual and complete and is not vandalized. Taurusthecat (talk) 22:12, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Cradle of Humankind
Could someone please reassess the above article ? Thanks Anthere (talk)
 * What did you have in mind? I don't know about the topic and I've only skimmed the article at this point, but there are some words I might put in a different order if I had written it, like I might swap the first and second sentences, for example. I could tweak some grammatical things here and there, but I wasn't sure if you want feedback or were just pointing out this article more generally? Permstrump (talk) 15:41, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
 * @user:Permstrump. Well... first, this page is part of a research project : m:Research:Wikipedia Primary School SSAJRP programme and as part of the project, this is one of the 100 or so pages that we hope to see improved in the course of the project. Now... whilst I was looking on the talk page at the assessments proposed by the wikiprojsects it is associated with, I saw important discrepancies (from start to C level). Not surprisingly so as many of the assessment were made a long time ago. Hence my request to review.
 * Now, any improvement to the article itself would be great as well :) Anthere (talk)

Proposed article move from Syro-Palestinian archaeology to Levantine archaeology
There is a proposal to move from Syro-Palestinian archaeology to Levantine archaeology here and to create separate pages for Archaeology of Syria and Archaeology of Palestine. Your opinions would be welcome, thanks! Drsmoo (talk) 07:34, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Please visit and help
Hello friends. The following articles could really use some neutral input:


 * Nations and intelligence, (talk)
 * Race and intelligence, (talk)
 * Richard Lynn, (talk)

Many, many, many, and I mean many thanks. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 03:46, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of List of films featuring whitewashed roles for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of films featuring whitewashed roles is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/List of films featuring whitewashed roles until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Erik (talk &#124; contrib) (ping me) 14:26, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Proposed Merger of Cultural entomology and Ethnoentomology
I was thumbing through articles that needed work for WikiProject Insects and found that Cultural entomology has a (very old) proposed merge with Ethnoentomology. There are no comments on the Cultural entomology page, but one vote for and against merger at the Ethnoentomology page. These articles cover a lot of the same ground, and the merge request was never settled. Please provide additional comments on the talk page M. A. Broussard (talk) 04:10, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

User:The Ungovernable Force/Wikiproject Anthropology
User:The Ungovernable Force/Wikiproject Anthropology looks like it was the first precursor to the creation of this project. I've listed it for deletion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:The Ungovernable Force/Wikiproject Anthropology but if someone thinks it should be kept (historical reasons?), maybe it can be moved to somewhere in this project space, please vote keep at the MFD. Thanks! -- Ricky81682 (talk) 20:33, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Help expand an article?
Hi! I recently chose to redirect the article Postpartum confinement, as someone nominated it for deletion saying that it didn't expand on Postpartum_period. It looks like the section Postpartum_period covers confinement, but I can see the merit in having a separate article that goes into this in greater detail across the various cultures and discussing this in more general detail on a cultural level.

Anyone interested in taking a crack at this to see if this is warranted? I've dropped this same notice (more or less) at WP:MEDICINE as well. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  05:41, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

Duplication in articles on consanguinity, incest, etc.
Participants in this project may be interested in a discussion I have (hopefully) started on the WikiProject Law's talk page. J. D. Crutchfield &#124; Talk 17:54, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

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There are up to 30 one-year ASP accounts available to Wikipedians through this partnership. To apply for free access, please go to WP:ASP. Cheers! 06:45, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

100% Shameless Canvassing
Trying to get a goon squad together to tackle war. The article is in shambles. It's rated high importance by this WikiProject, so I'm trying to get some goons. Please goon over and see if we can get something going. Timothy Joseph Wood 17:54, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

Chribaya
We're missing a number of specific-culture articles that are redlinks at Cultural periods of Peru. At this point we even have an article on the Chiribaya dog mummies, but not the culture and people they were buried with. Seems a bit backwards. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  16:13, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

Need help with Cyber-ethnography article
Hi all hope you are having a great day. Please contribute to the discussion on Talk:Cyber-ethnography --Have a great day :), Sanjev Rajaram (talk) 00:35, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

RfC notice: image montages of individual faces on ethnicity and other demonym articles
Please participate in the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Images. It is a proposal to vacate the previous consensus reached in the February 2016 RfC that resulted in the creation of the MOS:NOETHNICGALLERIES provision at MOS:IMAGES, and also relates thematically to Village pump (policy)/Archive 127 (all of these discussions are ultimately about using infoboxes to identify individuals as members of particular ethnicities, and this relates also to MOS:IDENTITY). — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  17:24, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

RM on anti-national sentiment
Hello, if you can please participate in this discussion on nation-related articles. Thank you. Bataaf van Oranje (Prinsgezinde) (talk) 10:17, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Looking for feedback on a tool on Visual Editor to add open license text from other sources
Hi all

I'm designing a tool for Visual Editor to make it easy for people to add open license text from other sources, there are a huge number of open license sources compatible with Wikipedia including around 9000 journals. I can see a very large opportunity to easily create a high volume of good quality articles quickly. I have done a small project with open license text from UNESCO as a proof of concept, any thoughts, feedback or endorsements (on the Meta page) would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

--John Cummings (talk) 14:52, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Missing article: Native American nation
Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  13:11, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Navbox for prehistoric caves
I'm translating a French one. See Draft:Navbox prehistoric caves. If anyone either is fluent in French or in navboxes, please feel free to help! Doug Weller talk 13:03, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Category move for discussion
There is a proposal being discussed for moving (or renaming) Category:Science organizations by topic to Category:Organizations by academic discipline. The discussion is here (at CfD). Steve Quinn (talk) 03:08, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Request for comments
Those skilled in the art are invited to comment here. Эйхер (talk) 13:16, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Family
There's a question at the family talk page under section the genetic overlap table that needs replies or help. Thanks. 92.13.128.131 (talk) 09:05, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

Commons Challenge about local culture
This months on commons we have organized this challenge. You can upload some pictures or help with the categories and the description of pictures uploaded so far. You can also vote starting from the 1st of October, and use them immediately if you think they're useful. Bye!--Alexmar983 (talk) 11:06, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Copy of article on finds of people of East Asian descent in Roman-era London
Does anyone have a full text copy of this article?

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440316301030

Thanks.--Beneficii (talk) 18:55, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

"Mongoloid" article and pictures of private persons
I posted this on the talk page of the Mongoloid article, about the use of photographs of private persons, whereas the article on Caucasian race only uses sketches and the article on White people only uses famous people. I was concerned about posting photos of private persons being objectifying, but before making any determinations, I would like to discuss the matter. What is the opinion of others here?--Beneficii (talk) 18:59, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Meitei language → Manipuri language
There is a move discussion going on at Talk:Meitei language. If you're interested in commenting. The issue is about a language name but the same arguments apply equally to ethnic group names as well. Thanks. – ishwar – ishwar  (speak)  00:12, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Polygyny
Please provide comment at Talk:Polygyny. (This project is being pinged because the topic-in-question is listed as a topic under this WikiProject's umbrella.) --Izno (talk) 13:47, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Missing topics list
My list of missing topics about ethnic (and social) groups is updated - Skysmith (talk) 13:51, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

WikiJournal of Science promotion
T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 10:29, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Child marriage and Teen marriage articles
Opinions are needed on Talk:Child marriage/Archive 1 and Talk:Teen marriage. The first discussion concerns changes made to the article's terminology, the use of images and whether or not to merge the article. And the second discussion concerns whether or not the lead image is appropriate for the article. Permalinks here and here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 21:25, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Anthropological theories of value
Anthropological theories of value was recently proposed for deletion by User:Ysangkok and I opposed deletion. The article needs major work, certainly much better referencing and possibly a rewrite. Help is appreciated from anyone who can contribute. See also: Talk:Anthropological theories of value. Thanks, Biogeographist (talk) 19:07, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Caucasian race
Caucasian race is in need of attention, I am discussing how to improve the article with another user and your input will be appreciated. ·maunus · snunɐɯ· 20:16, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Move request - American ethnicity
Please see Talk:American ethnicity --Moxy (talk) 08:09, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

User is using article space to push an unsourced personal POV that Filipino Datu are Monarchs
Hi. A user has been insisting on using the main article space of the Datu article to assert his/her point of view that these Filipino rulers are monarchs, and that the polities and social groupings they lead are monarchies. It's a topic that has had an impact on very many early Philippine history articles, and this "monarchist" POV has been pushed hard by numerous editors in numerous articles. Datu, I think, is the right place for a proper discussion. May I request people take a look, and add their five cents before I elevate this dispute any further? I feel that more voices are needed for this discussion to go anywhere. I've created a discussion at the relevant talk page: Talk:Datu Thanks! - Alternativity (talk) 10:17, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

Jewish content at the Definitions of whiteness in the United States article
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Definitions of whiteness in the United States. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 07:36, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

ISO 4 redirects help!
Infobox journal now features ISO 4 redirect detection to help with the creation and maintenance of these redirects, and will populate Category:Articles with missing ISO 4 redirects. ISO 4 redirects help readers find journal articles based on their official ISO abbreviations (e.g. J. Phys. A → Journal of Physics A), and also help with compilations like WP:JCW and WP:JCW/TAR.

Thanks. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 13:39, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

A "race"- and crime-related RM and RfD
Please see: — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  04:53, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Talk:Race and crime
 * Redirects for discussion/Log/2017 September 6

New addition to Periodicals page?
Hi all,

I'd like to propose adding SAPIENS, an editorially independent magazine of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, to the WikiProject Anthropology/Periodicals page (disclosure: I work for them). Ds SAPIENS (talk) 16:00, 20 November 2017 (UTC)


 * try reading WP:COI, WP:SPAM, WP:PAID JarrahTree 16:09, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Outside input needed on Wikipedia Original Research Noticeboard: Polyandry in Islam
There is an ongoing discussion on Original Research Noticeboard: Polyandry in Islam regarding whether or not a statement about Islam and polyandry is original research. The statement says that a particular Quran passage allows polyandry in some circumstances. Other editors have questioned whether this would qualify as "polyandry". Outside input would be appreciated. [[User:Nblund |Nblund ]]talk 17:06, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Racism is creeping back into mainstream science – we have to stop it
That's the title of an article in The Guardian today. It starts with "University College London has been unwittingly hosting an annual conference attended by race scientists and eugenicists for the past few years. This might have come as a shock to many people. But it is only the latest instalment in the rise of “scientific” racism within academia." Doug Weller talk 11:08, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Ancient Beringian
There's a merge discussion at Talk:Ancient Beringian about a merger with other articles. There's also a content dispute that could use more input. Doug Weller talk 12:57, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Eye_color needs a quick edit
The (locked) article Eye_color includes the text


 * "As of 2016, the earliest light-pigmented and blue-eyed remains of Homo Sapiens were found ..."

That obviously should read Homo sapiens.

Can somebody please fix that?

thanks -- 189.60.63.116 (talk) 02:06, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Template:Infobox_folk_song
You are welcome to discuss the newly created Infobox folk song and its future here. --Tamtam90 (talk) 06:07, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Seeking feedback on a guide for students who edit articles in anthropology
Hello! Wiki Education is developing a guide to help students write about all topics related to cultural anthropology. The handout is meant to supplement other resources that they consult, such as an interactive training and basic editing brochures (as well as a Linguistics-specific guide we have already developed). We’d love to get some community feedback on the draft here: User:Cassidy_(Wiki_Ed)/Cultural_anthropology. We're looking to gather feedback by April 18th. Feel free to respond here or on the draft's talk page. Thanks so much! Cassidy (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:25, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Witch and witchcraft: two Wikidata items, and a problem
I have opened a discussion at Talk:Witchcraft which is of relevance to this WikiProject. Narky Blert (talk) 21:40, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Discussion
There is a discussion here which may be of interest to members of this project. Beyond My Ken (talk) 07:35, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

New WikiProject: WP:Folklore
This is an invitation to check out a new WikiProject, WP:Folklore. As folklore studies is ultimately a field of anthropology, chances are members of this WikiProject will find WP:Folklore of interest. &#58;bloodofox: (talk) 17:08, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Longitudinal study
An article which may be of interest to this project&mdash;Longitudinal study &mdash;has been proposed for merging with Long-term experiment. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Mathglot (talk) 03:46, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template Transclude lead excerpt.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:25, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

New essay on race and ethnicity
I've repurposed a well-received long thread post – on "race" and "ethnicity" as labels on Wikipedia and why they're generally a poor idea – and posted it to WP:Race and ethnicity. It's a "crash course" educational piece rather than the typical "do it this way not that way" Wikipedia essay. People may find it of interest. It doesn't address race from the Racial bias on Wikipedia angle, which is certainly a valid one, within the confines of race as a social construct and all the effects that has. Rather, it's an anti-racialism summary of why people's beliefs that "races" are a biological fact are confused and misleading. We shouldn't be "pegging" our article subjects with racialist labels, absent a strong personal or RS identification of the label with the subject.

PS: I haven't been in an anthro classroom in years and am not an academic subscribing to all the journals. If I'm leaving out something crucial, or misapprehending something the understanding of which has changed in recent years, feel free to clue me in. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  13:48, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

Cultural anthropology / social anthropology / ethnology / ethnography
We have a four-way clarity problem. While I have a degree in the field, it's not fresh, I didn't study abroad, and I'm not a professional in it (I'm a tech consultant these days, and formerly a civil liberties activist), so I'm probably not in the best position to tease out these differences in encyclopedically sculpted wording. PS: I did hatnote-disambiguate ethnology and ethnography, since they are very frequently confused. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  15:42, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Ethnology distinguishes between that discipline and all the others. It's quite good in that regard, but is still a stub, and probably deserves more attention, presumably from Continental Europeans who can describe their field well.
 * Social anthropology distinguishes between s.a. and c.a., but not ethnology, nor with ethnography (which it seems only mention as the adjective ethnographic).
 * Cultural anthropology distinguishes between c.a. and s.a., but not ethnology; worse, it seems to directly confuse ethnology with ethnography in parts, as I mentioned on the talk page there.
 * Ethnography barely mentions ethnology. It does have a section that clearly distinguishes ethnography from c.a. and s.a.

Anthropology and Global Health assignment
Hi, just to make you aware that we are looking to train students on the Global Health MSc at the University of Edinburgh how to edit Wikipedia on 26 October 2018 with a view to improving articles related to anthropology and global health on 30th October 2018. (Wanted to make you aware in case any issues cropped up with new editors requiring any assistance or support). In addition, the course leader wanted to check whether the anthroenyclopedia.com site would be considered an acceptable source to cite? If you have any thoughts or questions on this then do let me know. Best wishes, Stinglehammer (talk) 17:46, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Australo-Melanesian
I've just come across Australo-Melanesian which has been moved from Australoid race unilaterally and has seen a significant rewrite. I don't pretend to have strong views on the subject, but it feels wrong to be moving such a major article without consensus, and I can imagine that there's probably an article to be had on the historical aspects of "Australoid" regardless of modern terminology. Le Deluge (talk) 18:12, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Splitting proposal: Origin of the Romanians
All comments are appreciated here. Borsoka (talk) 06:01, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

WikiJournal of Humanities published first article
T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 09:39, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

RfC: Origin of the Romanians
There is currently a Request-for-Comment open about restructuring the Origin of the Romanians article. Any comments or suggestions for improving the article would be greatly appreciated. Borsoka (talk) 11:51, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Don Kulick
I'd never heard of Don Kulick (apparently an anthropologist); but this means nothing as I know very little about anthropology. The article on him is over a decade old, yet the sole sourced factual statement within it is that he was born on such-and-such a day. Any takers? -- Hoary (talk) 23:18, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Maku people vs Maku language
A discussion of Maku people and Maku language is taking place at Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation. Please join the discussion. Leschnei (talk) 19:39, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Discussion re: lead image at Woman
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Woman. &#x0020;Your input would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Levivich  04:47, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

Lotska
Is "lotska" legitimate? (BMJ & BBC references.) If so, should we have an article on it? Axl ¤ [Talk] 15:26, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
 * a search of google scholar for any reliable, reviewed research on lotska here does not immediately reveal any reliable references or research on this, leading me to suggest you may wish to edit/add something including the links provided into the existing Hibernation article? Bruceanthro (talk) 23:28, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

Utah Polygamy and Law Since 2000
I'm wondering if someone from this WikiProject could take a look at this article and assess it. It was created by a student editor as part of Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Brigham Young University/HIST 221 - Gonzales - The United States Since 1877 (Winter 2019), and student moved the article to the mainspace on their own without submitting it for WP:AFC review. There are some WP:MOS and other similar errors which can be cleaned up, but my main concerns are that it's a WP:CONTENTFORK which might not need it's own stand-alone article. I don't believe the university course this student created the article for has ended; so, it's possible that they are still going to get graded on their work; at the same time, it's been added to the mainspace which means that it probably shouldn't be left as is just because it's part of a student editing project. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:44, 9 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)

Heather Levi
I came across this article on a woman who studies Lucha Libre. It's had a notability tag for 7 years and seems to lack the coverage needed to meet the GNG, but I don't really know much about notability in anthropology. I'm looking for some opinions on whether or not she's notable. Thanks.Sandals1 (talk) 21:52, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Anthropology for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Anthropology is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Anthropology until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 00:32, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Human body for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Human body is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Human body until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 14:52, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

A possible Science/STEM User Group
There's a discussion about a possible User Group for STEM over at Meta:Talk:STEM_Wiki_User_Group. The idea would be to help coordinate, collaborate and network cross-subject, cross-wiki and cross-language to share experience and resources that may be valuable to the relevant wikiprojects. Current discussion includes preferred scope and structure. T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 02:55, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Civilizations for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Civilizations is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Civilizations until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 06:19, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

Digital media use and mental health
Given this mid importance articles medical and digital anthropology/digital sociology/psychology scope, would greatly appreciate any further comments at its peer review. I've worked on it a lot and got it to GA, User:Doc James and User:Casliber have given invaluable comments so far. I'm aiming for a Wikijournal submission and FA status towards the end of the year.

Peer review here! -- [E.3]  [chat2]  [me]   16:14, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

Defining/relaying the concept of "woman" at the Woman article
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Woman. A permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 20:41, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

A related RfC has commenced: Talk:Woman. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 03:43, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

Defining Epicanthic fold
From the history and talk page of Epicanthic fold, it seems that no one agrees on what the epicanthic fold actually is, with various images being added and deleted due to confusion. I've added a section to Eyelid at Eyelid with an image distinguishing a "single" and "double" eyelid, but I would not be able to distinguish between an epicanthic fold or lack of an epicanthic fold. Commons has images at Category:Epicanthic fold which may or may not actually be epicanthic folds, but could serve to illustrate when someone actually knows what they are. 93 (talk) 18:04, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Digital media use and mental health FA nom
Hello! I was wondering if any members of the WikiProject could kindly take a look at the review for this article that I nominated. With many kind thanks -- [E.3]  [chat2]  [me]   13:47, 12 September 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)

Standardization of era "successions"?
Please see: Talk:Mousterian.

This started as a one-article issue report, but looking around I see that the problem is pretty common (in short: conflicting "preceding/following era" links in infoboxes, navboxes, leads, and article bodies).

It needs a site-wide solution (perhaps a cross-wikiproject guideline or at least a WP:PROJPAGE with some advice in it). — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  10:36, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

Merger proposal
Proposed merger to Cultural mapping and Cultural geography, please discuss ~ R.T.G 14:20, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

Definition of 'Language'
Contributors to this WikiProject may be interested in discussion at Talk:Language. I think changing the definition warrants input from more editors, but unfortunately don't have time to add much to the discussion right now. Cnilep (talk) 07:49, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

Troy could use a review
If anyone has time, could they take a look at the recent edits? Thanks. Doug Weller talk 13:36, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

Is the Horn of Africa still considered where Homo Sapiens evolved?
That's what Horn of Africa says, but this article seems to suggest that's not the case. Doug Weller  talk 16:05, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

AfD discussion of Race and intelligence
A discussion is taking place of whether to delete the article Race and intelligence, see. NightHeron (talk) 12:37, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Language
Contributors to this WikiProject may be interested in a discussion at Talk:Language regarding making that article easier to read. Cnilep (talk) 03:02, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Discussion about article "Race and intelligence"
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Race and intelligence, which is about an article that is within the scope of this WikiProject. Levivich [dubious – discuss] 19:56, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

GA reassessment
Outremer, an article that you or your project may be interested in, 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. Borsoka (talk) 03:56, 20 April 2020 (UTC)