Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic groups/Archive 16

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) 14:53, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Unintended consequence of removal of image galleries from infoboxes
Hi! I didn't participate in this discussion, but if I had I would have been generally sympathetic to the "remove the galleries" party. However, I just noticed that on at least one article this created a somewhat problematic side-effect where virtually all the images of people in an article on people were photos of uniformed military personnel. The Israeli Defense Forces are only mentioned once in the whole article, so this puts the images somewhat at odds with the text of the article. This was not the case before the removal of the image gallery, and while I am not in favour of reopening that can of worms, I do wonder what the appropriate way to deal with situations like this is. With the large number of articles affected, I have to imagine this has happened elsewhere... Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 02:10, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Images of military personnel don't account for the majority of images in that article, but I agree that the number should be reduced. The solution is to remove or replace some of them, discussing on the article's talk page if required. Cordless Larry (talk) 06:16, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
 * They aren't the majority of images in the article, but most of the other images are either not of people (the hut and synagogue images), or are specifically illustrating passages in the text of the article (the Sigd celebration Faitlovitch) and so can't be moved around, with the result that the only two images specifically portraying Beta Israel people as people are also portraying them as military personnel. There is one passage in the article that kind of implies Beta Israel might be overrepresented in the IDF, but this is not clear. Anyway, you're probably right. I haven't read through the whole long discussion that ked to the removal of the galleries -- would taking one or two of the images of "famous Beta Israel people" and replacing one or two of the current ones (not in the infobox, but in the body) be likely to cause controversy in light of some of the arguments made at the original RFC, do you think? Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 06:43, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm sure that would be OK, as long as there is a source confirming their ethnicity. Cordless Larry (talk) 06:46, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

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

Are German Americans and Hispanics comparable?
Input is sought into a discussion at Talk:German Americans. Cordless Larry (talk) 07:09, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

Two new articles need attention
An editor has created Old Stock Americans and Old Stock Canadians, with the articles describing these as ethnic groups - something that does not appear to be supported by the sources cited. Your expertise is sought. Cordless Larry (talk) 06:04, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Turkish people
Hi there, would anyone be of assistance on the Turkish people article? I have worked really hard to find as many sources as possible for the populations in the infobox (everything was even quoted - I used censuses and mostly academic sources). But I have continuously been reverted and nobody is having a discussion with me to solve the dispute. What should I do? One of the users has threatened to block me. But I just wanted to correct the figures because they are all distorted. This is what they keep reverting it to and this is my edits. O.celebi (talk) 08:50, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

RfD
The redirect ethnic subgroups (which targets to ethnogenesis), is being discussed at WP:RFD. --Prisencolin (talk) 01:40, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Brown University opening access to library resources for Wikipedian interested in ethnic studies
Of possible interest to those reading this page:

The John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University wants to help an experienced Wikipedian improve the quality of articles related to ethnic studies. Examples of possible topics include, but are not limited to, diaspora, migration, social movements, and/or political economies of social inequality and racial formation.

Brown will provide full access to its library's resources (databases, ebooks, etc.) in exchange for a commitment to bring some of the articles you work on to B-class or better. This is a remote Wikipedia Visiting Scholars position open to editors anywhere. For more information see the Brown University Visiting Scholars page. If you have questions, you can ask on my talk page (or email if you prefer). If you know you're interested, head to the application form. --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:55, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

African Americans and sexuality
There is currently a discussion at Talk:African Americans which may be of interest to this project. Timothy Joseph Wood 12:15, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

RfC (Total population number in infoboxes)
My suggestion is to exclude all the total population figures from the infoboxes. The countries listed are enough informative for the particular significant ares and the rest is often only a matter of edit-wars and inflation. The total population figures are rarely accurate as some include total population of countries, while others not. Such differences are not based on any common criteria, they are not specified in the infobox, so they may mislead the reader.Judist (talk) 23:13, 27 October 2016 (UTC) Support. The whole idea of total populations is unnecessary as the lengthy infoboxes provide the significant information. I'd rather prefer another region in the infoboxes to be called "Rest of the world" from summarization of the diaspora articles, so that the summarization to be as accurately as possible. Judist (talk) 23:13, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Could you provide examples? It's not entirely clear what you're alluding to. Best, FoCuS contribs ;  talk to me!  12:33, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
 * The infobox of the article Uyghurs is one example lacking total population figure. My suggestion is to stop using this at all and to use only figures for the countries in the infoboxes. Best.Judist (talk) 01:13, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
 * If I understand your concerns correctly, this is a variant of the RfC above, is it not? You don't think that it's appropriate information for the Template:Infobox ethnic group to carry information about diasporic numbers? If that is the issue, I do understand it to be problematic as there often isn't much information about diasporic figures in many parts of the world. Simultaneously, the articles are about specific ethnic groups, not the entire population of any given nation-state. To a great extent, ethnicity was often tied up with a particular territory, but only generically: recent history has brought about rapid global movement of ethnic groups, but does not equal assimilation. For example, Jews are an ethnic group, not simply a religious group (as are Copts, etc.). Excluding sourced information about those who identify with an ethnic group wherever they physically live on the planet, and simply calling it "Rest of the world" is misleading and unhelpful for the reader. "Rest of the world" could break down to a large portion of the population in any one given sovereign state, or multiple small populations in many sovereign states. Obviously, a large population is going to have a significant impact on another nation-state. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 02:43, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

RfC (Total number of Serbs and Slavs)
After unsuccessfully trying to resolve this through noticeboards or to drive the attention of anyone to discuss the contentious removal at Talk:Slavs, I am requesting for comments. The question is whether to include the 9 and 10 million figure for total population of Serbs which unlike the rest of the estimates of 12 million in the article(page 5) are not from Serbian sources and count 6 million Serbs in Serbia, not over 7 million, i.e. the total population of Serbia. Do you think that the total number of Serbs should include the 9 and 10 million figure?Judist (talk) 21:40, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Support. All the editors removing the lower estimates rejected to explain or justify their edit-war even after a week of full-protection of the articles. I am able to change my mind provided that any explanation can convince. Moreover, I think that these lower estimates are at least closer to the real number. Judist (talk) 21:40, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment: Why are you using the project's page to 'host' the RfC? The appropriate venue would be the talk page of the article in question. I would also ask that you please read WP:FORUMSHOPPING. I am concerned that there is no evidence of your having made a reasonable attempt to discuss this properly on the article's talk page, but rapidly posted to the NPOVN, plus have brought it here for an RfC. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 23:33, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Because this concerns more than an article. The rest edit-warred violating the 3RR, while only I attempted to invite others to discuss, but I was completely ignored everywhere.Judist (talk) 00:53, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
 * In which case, you don't seem to have properly thought out what the RfC is about. If it doesn't only concern the article you're focussing on, you need to work out what your RfC proposal is about and present a convincing case for editors !voting to understand, as well as which policies and guidelines you believe are being contravened. In its current form, the RfC can only be understood to be malformed. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 02:24, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

I misplaced this here, withdrawn.Judist (talk) 03:11, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Zomi nationalism
A pretty incomprehensible article with badly or unsourced material, most of which seemed irrelevant. I've removed quite a bit (eg "The Zo and the mi are two words but their relation is combination in physical and chemically in nature" although that might have been removed from another edit by the creator of this article). It's still a bit of a trainwreck. Doug Weller talk 10:44, 21 November 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)  00:13, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Subgroups and images
Is it permissible to, if an ethnic group article has a poor or nonexistent image, to replace it with an image that is explicitly of a subgroup?--Yellow Diamond Δ Direct Line to the Diamonds  04:07, 21 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)

Help with this article
Help with this article: Ethnic issues in Japan. Фквжьись (talk) 23:10, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Please post any replies and keep all discussion at the article talk page so we can be sure to be aware of the specific concerns. Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 18:08, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Coca and Cora?
Are the Coca people and Cora people people the same group? At a quick glance they look pretty similar and if it is true maybe the articles should be merged. Thanks Inter&#38;anthro (talk) 03:33, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Coca has zero references. Merging is certainly not an option, at least not yet. There's a hard way and an easy way handle this. Easy way: WP:AFD. Hard way: if you are motivated to research this question, then devote some time to trying to verify the info on the page. If you can't verify it, then you go to WP:AFD.  Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 04:59, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your response Lingzhi, I think I will spend at around a week on the latter option or trying to verify, and if nothing is found a deletion or redirect might be necessary. Inter&#38;anthro (talk) 14:29, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

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

RfC - Genocide
Please see Talk:Genocide addressing the scope of the article. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 04:51, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Bengali people
Hi, please develop Bengalis article, this particular article is highly under developed and requires major editing. Please do something. Religion, Culture, Bengali cuisine, Festivals these sections are all under developed. Unsourced, non-RS/blogs/poor quality sources have been provided. I don't know whether such article shall get GA or FA nomination or not. I've also mentioned in WT:INB. Thanks--Anandmoorti (talk) 04:05, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

More opinions needed
Interested editors are invited to comment at Talk:Hungarians. 123Steller (talk) 10:04, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Yellow people listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Yellow people. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Prisencolin (talk) 06:18, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Classifying ethnic minority politicians
There is a discussion talk place at Talk:List of ethnic minority politicians in the United Kingdom regarding inclusion criteria when it comes to ethnicity. Input would be welcome. Cordless Larry (talk) 12:37, 29 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) 07:37, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

Just reiterating that Jewish content is required, as is content on Italian and Irish ethnic groups, neither of which are even mentioned in the article. Coretheapple (talk) 12:08, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

British Sri Lankan Tamils
Input is requested at Talk:British Sri Lankans regarding the proposed merge of the British Sri Lankan Tamil article into British Sri Lankans or British Tamil. Thanks. Cordless Larry (talk) 16:58, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Feedback needed on project proposal: Investigating the Impact of Implicit Bias on Wikipedia
Hi Friends! Here is the current draft of my project proposal: Investigating the Impact of Implicit Bias on Wikipedia. I value your input and would greatly appreciate your feedback. Thank you in advance! Best, Jackiekoerner (talk) 04:27, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Category:American criminals by ethnic or national origin has been nominated for discussion
Category:American criminals by ethnic or national origin, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion along with most subcategories. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 03:39, 1 October 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_Ethnic_groups

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.&mdash; Rod talk 15:29, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Please come and help...
Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Talk:Jingpo people, regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Your opinion and rationale are needed so a decision can be made. Thank you and Happy New Year to All!  Paine Ellsworth   put'r there  18:07, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Ethnic issue on another Wikiproject
See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history, concerning forming a guideline for how the expression "saw action" is used, accross all articles. -Inowen (talk) 02:51, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

Template:Infobox_folk_song
You are welcome to discuss the newly created Infobox folk song and its future here. --Tamtam90 (talk) 06:15, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 06:20, 21 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 if you're interested. Thanks so much! Cassidy (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:26, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Discussion
There is a discussion here which may be of interest to members of this project. Beyond My Ken (talk) 07:37, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Capitalisation of races in South Africa
Races are capitalised or left uncapitalised with irritating inconsistency on Wikipedia. There is currently an ongoing discussion here as to whether capitalised "Black" should be used in reference to Bantu peoples of South Africa, while lowercase "black" should be used in reference to all non-white ethnic groups, including Asians and those of mixed races, on articles written in South African English. I'd encourage contributors with a focus on ethnic demonyms to give their input.

Thanks, -- Katan gais (talk) 17:14, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Requested category
We have a request at Articles for creation/Redirects that I'm not sure how to best action. Could somebody here provide input on whether it is normal to have categories for ethnic groups that include people who are members of that ethnic group? —Compassionate727 (T·C) 14:30, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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Discussion at Talk:Americans
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Americans. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 18:25, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Lebanese people articles
I've noticed that articles about ethnic-religious groups in Lebanon have non-standard titles such as Lebanese people (Shia Muslims), Lebanese people (Sunni Muslims) and Lebanese people (Greek Orthodox Christians). That's not right, is it? Cordless Larry (talk) 21:14, 23 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Move discussion for 7 affected articles HERE. Pincrete (talk) 22:15, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Dubious racial/ethnic classisifcations
The English people article has a history of periodically having the term "Germanic" applied to that people in the lede and a talk page history of discussions disputing this application with a general consensus against the use of the term. The last instance was on the 2nd of July and I reverted it. This evening I noticed the similar questionable application of the term "Celtic" to the Scottish people and that this had been done by the same user,. It would appear that a significant proportion of their prodigious edits consist of similar no-doubt well-intentioned but, as I would see it, questionable, outdated, simplistic or anachronistic pigeonholing of peoples into suchlike categories. Am I right to find this kind of labelling questionable? Mutt Lunker (talk) 22:14, 10 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Certainly. We've had a similar issue on Afrikaners in the past, which was ultimately resolved by consensus as well. However, repeated additions of "Germanic ethnic group" in the lead continued to recur until an editing notice was added explicitly requesting that editors review the preexisting consensus and discuss on the talk page before trying this again. -- Katan gais (talk) 23:24, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

RfC
Please see Reliable_sources/Noticeboard Jytdog (talk) 17:05, 9 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) 18:11, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

RfC: Origin of the Romanians
All comments are welcome here: Talk:Origin of the Romanians. Thank you. Borsoka (talk) 07:13, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Splitting proposal: Origin of the Romanians
All comments are appreciated here. Borsoka (talk) 05:59, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Featured quality source review RFC
Editors in this WikiProject may be interested in the featured quality source review RFC that has been ongoing. It would change the featured article candidate process (FAC) so that source reviews would need to occur prior to any other reviews for FAC. Your comments are appreciated. --IznoRepeat (talk) 21:46, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Help finding policies?
Someone went through an article I was watching and switched all references to "Black people" to "blacks". I'm struggling to locate a policy that applies. Is there a wiki guideline somewhere about a preferred term between "Black people", "black people", "blacks", or other terms? If not, I could've sworn there was something about not arbitrarily switching from one accepted style system to another, but I can't find that either. Can someone point me in the right direction? Allthegoodnamesaretaken2 (talk) 09:08, 24 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) 11:50, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Sámi vs. Sami vs. Saami
Please see: Talk:Kildin Sami orthography – multi-page RM primarily about diacritics in an endonym. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  19:22, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Category:Origin hypotheses of ethnic groups
Should not be categorized as it is. See Category talk:Origin hypotheses of ethnic groups. --Hob Gadling (talk) 06:22, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Mru
Hello. The disambiguation page Mru has several incoming links, mostly via redirects and. If anyone can work out whether each article refers to the Awa Khami or the Mrucha, and fix the links, that would be appreciated. Thanks, Certes (talk) 00:50, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

Discussion at Template talk:Asian Americans
You are invited to join the discussion at Template talk:Asian Americans.  Right Cow Left Coast  (Moo) 01:41, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

Merge Proposal needs input
Need additional insight and comments to the ongoing debate re: merging North Caucasian Huns into Huns. Proposer's rationale: ''North Caucasian Huns is a stub and only has one source I'd really consider reliable. I propose merging it to Huns. The vast majority of scholars believe that the North Caucasian Huns were descended from or closely related to Attila's Huns, including Denis Sinor, Peter Golden, Otto Maenchen-Helfen, and Jin Hyun Kim. There's no real reason to give them their own article. Additionally, the article currently falsely gives the impression that the North Caucasian Huns are the "Khunni" mentioned in Ptolemy.'' Proposer: Ermenrich (talk) 15:41, 26 November 2018 (UTC)  >>>The Discussion is Here<<<

Nomination of Portal:Yugoslavs for deletion
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American Jews
Can we get a few more eyes on the newest talk at Talk:American Jews. Basically a debate over if there is a debate about Jewish whiteness. The question......is there a debate within the community about Jewish whiteness label. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moxy (talk • contribs) 18:49, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

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Nomination of Portal:Newar for deletion
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Proposal for the restoration of all the galleries of personalities to the infoboxes of articles about ethnic groups

 * The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Should montages of notable people be restored from ethnic group article infoboxes? Johansweden27 (talk) 08:09, 19 April 2019 (UTC) because in my view it should never been removed the ethnic group articles was much better then Johansweden27 (talk) 08:09, 19 April 2019 (UTC) The proposing editor had made changes to the introductory question section in parallell with their new comment and !vote below. I have restored it to the version as it was when the first answer (mine) was added. : Please do not make any more edits to the introductory section. --T*U (talk) 10:58, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Strong oppose: This was discussed by a large number of editors in two RfC's back in 2015/2016, see RfC 1 and RfC 2. No new arguments have been raised. --T*U (talk) 08:37, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose because beyond the assertion that "the ethnic group articles was much better then", no argument for a change in approach has been made. Cordless Larry (talk) 08:56, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
 * If anyone is confused by that quote, the text of the RfC has since been changed. Cordless Larry (talk) 09:40, 19 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Support (adding argument) while there may be some articles that have drama because of the galleries, there are numerous articles that don't have any drama connected to this. The galleries benefit the readers, especially younger/non-native English speakers who require something visual. also The images have encyclopedic value in and of themselves. They give a good visual representation of the groups in question. If you had no idea of what Tustis or Ryukyuans looked like, wouldn't it be nice to have this visual representation I've always found these galleries informative, especially those in ethnic groups I am not familiar with. Oftentimes I have clicked on one of the personalities depicted out of curiosity and learned about them, something I could not and would not have done without the galleries. I thus think these galleries are useful to our readers. While it's true that portraits of notable personalities can simply be added to the body text, there usually isn't room for more than a handful of portraits at best. I also do not find the main argument in favor of removal, namely, that they create edit-wars, convincing. That's what talkpages, consensus and dispute resolution are for. Lastly, even if there is some sort of consensus here that these galleries should not be included, the enforcement of a consensus achieved here to be applied all across wikipedia is on dubious grounds policy-wise and will be highly problematic, causing even more strife Johansweden27 (talk) 09:27, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
 * The original RfC didn't mandate the removal of these galleries only because of conflicts, but because, "lacking objective criteria, it is original research to determine who should be featured in the gallery". Cordless Larry (talk) 09:44, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
 * , you write that "the enforcement of a consensus achieved here to be applied all across wikipedia is on dubious grounds policy-wise and will be highly problematic, causing even more strife". The first RfC was three years ago. Do you have any evidence of strife resulting from application of the RfC outcome in that time? Cordless Larry (talk) 11:35, 19 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Oppose Two very large RFCs decided this three years ago. I'm not seeing anything here to overturn those. The argument that ""While it's true that portraits of notable personalities can simply be added to the body text, there usually isn't room for more than a handful of portraits at best" is actually funny. There is far less room for a gallery of images in an infobox than in the body. Meters (talk) 09:55, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose: Rehash of a terrible idea the community has rejected multiple times for numerous reasons none of which are addressed here by the proponent. I have to observe a basic logic point here, regarding "while there may be some articles that have drama because of the galleries, there are numerous articles that don't have any drama connected to this."  This is the same fallacious reasoning as "Smoking can't cause cancer, because my Uncle Jimbob smokes a pack a day and is still alive at 87."  It's fallacious for other reasons, too, like directly inverting the cause/effect relationship. In reality, we don't have image-related drama at various articles  our approach to images at such articles.  It's like arguing that it shouldn't be legally required to stop buses at railroad crossings and check for oncoming trains just in case, "because" there are so few incidents of trains running into busloads of people.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  00:09, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose (Invited by the bot) For the reasons above, including summary of the reasons of previous RFC's.  Expanding on that, infoboxes, by their format and brevity involve more judgement calls than would normally be allowed in the body of the article under wp:ver and wp:synth.  IMO, because of that, they should be limited to being on the "safe side", i.e. uncontroversial information and selection.   The selection of "who should be on the very short list of the most prominent personalities of a particular ethnicity or nationality?"  is the exact opposite of this.....immense amount of subjective judgment calls on who to include/exclude. That is compounded with the lack of wikipedia (especially wp:weight/  wp:npov) providing any usable way to resolve such questions.North8000 (talk) 00:25, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose, getting rid of those galleries was one of the best decisions the community ever made. Fut.Perf. ☼ 07:50, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose - per everything said in the previous discussions. --Khajidha (talk) 15:58, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose - there is no logical reason to add those galleries. Peter K Burian (talk) 22:10, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose Summoned by a bot. Doesn't seem like much has changed since the last RFC's. Comatmebro (talk) 03:59, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose we should go further and say galleries are not suitable at all for group pages.-- Moxy 🍁 12:02, 15 May 2019 (UTC)


 * The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Nomination of Portal:Igbo people for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Igbo people 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:Igbo people 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 17:25, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Arab world for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Arab world 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:Arab world 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 02:59, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

What to do for articles since the implementation of MOS:NOETHNICGALLERIES?
Opinions are needed on the following: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Images. A permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 06:07, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

Develop Bengali people article
Please read thoroughly about WikiProject Ethnic groups guidelines for improvement in Bengali people article. Read articles like British people or Greeks these are all FA or Good articles. Please ensure that Bengali people article do get a FA or Good article status. Thanks--2405:201:8803:5F9D:D87:7F8F:1B1C:A4D0 (talk) 05:33, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject Genealogy
If anyone here is interested, we are looking for volunteers at WikiProject Genealogy. Our current collaboration article is Genealogy, which needs more international perspective. Thanks! Tea and crumpets (talk) 01:05, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Proper term for native americans?
Is there an official WP policy on the proper generic name for the native peoples of America? Besides "Indian", I have seen native, native american, amerindian and others. I ask because I reverted a change today where someone substituted "Native" for "Indian" because it broke a link, but it started me wondering. I asked at the Tea House, and was referred here. ubiquity (talk) 15:31, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

RfC: Splitting of the article "White Croats"
There is currently a Request-for-Comment open about restructuring the White Croats article. Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.--Nicoljaus (talk) 11:29, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Merge discussion for Expulsion of Jews from Spain
An article of interest to this project&mdash;Expulsion of Jews from Spain&mdash;has been proposed for merging from Alhambra decree. Your feedback would be welcome at the merge discussion. Thank you. Mathglot (talk) 00:58, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Discussion of interest at Reliable Sources Noticeboard
The following discussion is of interest to members at Reliable sources/Noticeboard.--Ermenrich (talk) 18:09, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Minority Languages ​​in Country Article Infobox (Serbia)
Hello, I guess that some of you may be interested to express your opinion on RfC if the country infobox (Serbia in this case) should contain "Recognised regional or minority languages" or should they be removed. The RfC can be seen on THIS LINK. Best regards and thank you for your contribution.--MirkoS18 (talk) 21:37, 16 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) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard
For the interested. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:33, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

National anthems and no end of original research: Roman Urdu
Please see Talk:Qaumi Taranah. We have no end of national anthems that have not been vetted and are rife with WP:OR. I've just been reminded of this via a change to content on Qaumi Taranah where the 'Urdu original' of 'Roman Urdu' was substituted in good faith as I can't find 'transliteration' system in place for 'Roman Urdu' anywhere. If this parameter is going to going to be used, there need to be reliable sources in order to verify its existence. Wikipedia simply doesn't support original research. This Urdu example is only the tip of the iceberg. Your input would be greatly appreciated. Iryna Harpy (talk) 11:38, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Proposed page move Visayans → Bisaya
FYI - There is an ongoing page move discussion Talk:Visayans. The article is rated "High" in the importance scale for this project. –Austronesier (talk) 16:43, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

More eyes needed at Talk:Race and intelligence
Editors who watchlist the article Scientific racism might be interested in looking at the related article Race and intelligence, which has been an area of contentious debate and edit-warring. (It is currently locked down for 3 days.) While Scientific racism is, I think, a good example of how Wikipedia handles fringe, the article Race and intelligence has a very different tone and content, as is clear from the first paragraph of the lede. See also Race and intelligence. I'm putting this notice on all the WikiProjects that list Scientific racism as of high importance, in the hope that more editors will participate in discussions at Talk:Race and intelligence and help make the article compliant with WP:NPOV and WP:FRINGE. The problems at Race and intelligence were discussed off-wiki here:. Thanks. NightHeron (talk) 13:39, 31 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) 12:23, 3 February 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] 19:59, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Kisii people
Kisii people is almost exclusively made up of original research and could do with attention from someone with knowledge of the subject. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 19:38, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 20:37, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Move/merge discussion at Talk:Miscegenation
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Miscegenation regarding moving content from that article to several new articles, and merging out some of the rest. The current article has >150 kB prose. - LaTeeDa (talk) 16:46, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Move discussion relisted
Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Talk:Yakuts, regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 21:36, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Review page
Can someone review this page? It's a quite imporant article about an existing ethnic group, who don't have a page about their ethnicity yet. Draft:Syriacs-Arameans

MixedButHumann (talk) 01:38, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Interracial marriage and Miscegenation‎‎
Would someone please check the spate of edits to these two articles by newish editor Buzinezz‎? I'm not sure what to make of them. Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:03, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Could be another sock of User:WorldCreaterFighter. Seems to have been mostly restoring things that match the editing profile of various socks active on the article. Fut.Perf. ☼ 06:40, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Mro/Awa Khami people and language
Please can anyone help at Talk:Mro people (Awa Khami) and Talk:Awa Khami language? Following repeated page moves, neutral editors have raised RMs which we neither support nor oppose. Thanks, Certes (talk) 15:19, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Tiele people
Hi. A confirmed sock  made this edit on the Tiele people article. I'm noticing the changes to the infobox are still in the article in case anybody who works on this page wants to change it back. And, as can be seen, material in the body of the article has been altered. I don't know if the material in the body of the article should be restored so I need to leave that to an editor with the expertise on this topic or who edits this article. So, I am posting here so someone can check up on it. ---Steve Quinn (talk) 21:04, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Historical race concepts
I've recently been working on some articles on Historical race concepts, i.e. Hamites, Mongoloid and Negroid. These articles are about concepts developed by Western scholars about 1800. Since they are no longer used in mainstream science, I don't think they are within the scope of this project, and just removed the project banner from the respective talk pages. What do you think ? --Rsk6400 (talk) 05:52, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
 * While I highly appreciate your efforts to bring these pages into a modern perspective, with their topics relegated to the dark past of anthropology, I think we should keep them within the project, because this will help to ensure mainstream editor attention for them. A quite active group of editors (IPs and registered) is persistently trying to push their obsolete fringe views into these articles, especially by reformulating modern genetic studies into obsolete racial concepts, and one way of countering this is to keep activities around these pages in our focus. –Austronesier (talk) 06:24, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Just during the last few days, I had enough problems with that "group" you mentioned, so I absolutely agree with you. I just restored the banners. --Rsk6400 (talk) 06:46, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Merge discussion
This merge discussion may be of interest to the members of this project. Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:22, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

How to record nationality on Wikidata?
I invite your feedback on a property proposal for nationality as a cultural identity over on Wikidata. The proposed property is meant to offer an alternative to "ethnic group" and to nationality as defined by citizenship. Your comments, particularly on how best to clarify between nationality and ethnic group, are welcome and needed. Thank you. Qono (talk) 05:07, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

RfC invitation
Hello, everybody. There's an ongoing RfC at Talk:Molossians in which members of this wikiproject could contribute and provide new perspectives.--Maleschreiber (talk) 23:48, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Kosovo move discussions
Hello, everybody. There are ongoing, relisted move discussions of several Kosovo-related articles(Vucitrn, Pec, Malisevo). Unfortunately, almost no editors have participated in those discussions since they were relisted. Maybe members of this wikiproject could contribute and provide new perspectives.--Maleschreiber (talk) 00:18, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Draft:Gafat People
This draft is mostly incomprehensible, but may be on a notable subject and has a number of good references. Can anyone assist? Calliopejen1 (talk) 20:25, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Comments requested
Please come and make your voice heard at Talk:Eskimo. Trying to discuss what, if anything, direction the article should take. I have notified all projects listed at the top of Talk:Eskimo. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 22:43, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Update to peer review page
Hi all, I've boldly updated your project's peer review page (WikiProject Ethnic groups/Peer review) by updating the instructions and archiving old reviews.

The new instructions use Wikipedia's general peer review process (WP:PR) to list peer reviews. Your project's reviews are still able to be listed on your local page too.

The benefits of this change is that review requests will get seen by a wider audience and are likely to be attended to in a more timely way (many WikiProject peer reviews remain unanswered after years). The Wikipedia peer review process is also more maintained than most WikiProjects, and this may help save time for your active members.

I've done this boldly as it seems your peer review page is pretty inactive and I am working through around 90 such similar peer review pages. Please feel free to discuss below - please ping me in your response.

Cheers and hope you are well, Tom (LT) (talk) 23:22, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Article Assessment
Australian_Jews_in_Israel Hi! I have recently added a substantial amount of information to this article page and would really appreciate an article reassessment as I believe I have progressed the article beyond a stub. Thank you in advance! B0x3rg1r1 (talk) 22:45, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

New film article - Women of the White Buffalo
I created a new article about the documentary film, Women of the White Buffalo. Let me know if you want to help with further research, Right cite (talk) 22:02, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

a project edited only by the elders of each specific tribe
Hi, Let me start by saying that I have profound respect for Wikipedia and your work here. I also saw a few projects dedicated to improve the knowledge on native peoples.

However, I wonder if it would be possible and if you would agree there is a need (unless I missed a project that do so) for a project about each native tribe edited only by the elders of this nation? No need for much references but more like the way the tribe would like it to be told.

Although not a native myself, I have a few contacts and talking with them it seems they would agree that a Wikipedia project would be the best place.

Also, there should be the option for them to keep it private at least until they agree to make it public. Is that an option? Thanks

Yannick Neveux Founder and partner of Antinanco & TropicForest 501(c)3 Non-profits — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yannickneveux (talk • contribs) 20:00, 24 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia as an encyclopedia that reflects knowledge based on WP:reliable sources will not be the apt place for it. Unfortunately, Wikipedia does not provide webspace for projects that essentially are collections of primary sources. And all content in Wikipedia is openly available, without options for restricted access. What you have in mind might fit in one of the other Wikimedia projects, but again, all of these are open-access (even at the incubator stage). –Austronesier (talk) 12:00, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your question, . While I'm in agreement with Austronesier that your idea isn't likely to work as a Wikimedia project, do note that MediaWiki, the software that Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects operate on, is available for free for you to use on your own website should you wish to establish the project yourself. Cordless Larry (talk) 14:52, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your response, and . Just to confirm the project managers in any wikiprojects can't decide who can edit? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yannickneveux (talk • contribs)
 * Projects such as Wikipedia don't have managers, - rules and policies are instead decided by consensus amongst volunteer editors. Cordless Larry (talk) 16:15, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Once again thanks for your response, makes a lot more sense now and  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yannickneveux (talk • contribs) 16:17, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

Discussion at Historical race concepts
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Historical race concepts. P,TO 19104 (talk) (contribs) 16:54, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Uyghur genocide has an RFC
Uyghur genocide 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. Mikehawk10 Mikehawk10 (talk) 23:49, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

CFD which may be of interest to users participating in this WikiProject
Categories_for_discussion/Log/2021_February_5--Prisencolin (talk) 20:36, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

An RfC on the Uyghurs
There is an RfC about the genetic origin of the Uyghurs, Talk:Uyghurs, comments are welcome. Hzh (talk) 12:14, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Sicilians
User:LambdofGod and User:Girgenti580 have been clashing at Sicilians over whether there were any Muslims in Sicily after the 13th century and whether there are close genetic relationships of Sicilians and Tunisians. I'm not an expert on either of these issues. On both LambdofGod's position is "no" and they have been deleting tags that, they claim, are unnecessary or do not prove the point the article claims they do. This might be right (the article is not currently super-high quality), but prima facie it looks concerning. Furius (talk) 20:42, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Ethnic discrimination in Ethiopia: requested move
There's a proposal Talk:Ethnic discrimination in Ethiopia to change the name of the article from Ethnic discrimination ... to Racism .... Please add Support or Oppose (in bold) or a comment, with arguments. Boud (talk) 14:58, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Chin v. Zomi
Please can someone with a clue about Myanmar take a look at Chin people? Several IP editors have indiscriminately replaced Chin by Zomi and vice versa, resulting in such nonsense as More recently the word Chin has been rejected by some in favor of Chin (wikilinked to the body part where beards grow). Something is obviously wrong, but I'm not sure which words to change. Thanks, Certes (talk) 15:21, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Roma/Romani People
Hey fellow editors, I'm currently editing and trying to build the stub "Romani people in Poland", I'd really appreciate your help and expertise! RimaB99 (talk) 19:08, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Developing a stub!
Hi everyone, my name is Amy and I'm writing my first ever Wikipedia article. It is classed as a stub in this WikiProject, and I believe I've expanded it well beyond that level. I would really appreciate some help with copy-editing but would love as well if you could just take a minute to read it as I've put a lot of effort in! I'm trying to bring the article beyond the stub category to a A, B, or C grade page. The page is about an extremist political group, the National Association for the Advancement of White People. Thanks for your help guys! Tofta22 (talk) 11:01, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Links between English and Frisian peoples and languages
Editors here may wish to join the discussion at Talk:English people about the links (or not) between the English and Frisian peoples and languages which has arisen in the wake of multiple deletions and, in some cases, reversions and re-reversions of links between these topics, so a consensus would be helpful. Other articles affected include: Frisians, Saterland Frisians and Faroe Islanders. There may be more. Cheers. Bermicourt (talk) 13:44, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (New Zealand) has an RFC
Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (New Zealand) has an RFC for possible consensus that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. 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. — Shibboleth ink  (♔ ♕) 09:39, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

RfC
See this Request for comment re: entries about ethnic groups in the United States. Page watchers are invited to participate in the ongoing discussion. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 23:55, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Origin of the Albanians
A dispute has erupted over a controversial new map at that article. I've opened a discussion thread here. In general, the article is plagued by POV-pushing (in my opinion, all "Origin of the X" articles are very bad idea and should be deleted) and could really use some community attention. Khirurg (talk) 02:45, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Category:Citizens of X through descent
When should this category be used (e.g. Category:Citizens of Lebanon through descent)? Only in case someone became a citizen (through descent) later on in their life, or even if they were born citizens of that country, but abroad? Nehme1499 18:00, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Kristen Stewart § Jewish ancestry, again
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Kristen Stewart § Jewish ancestry, again. &#x0020;Discussion of identifying someone as having an ethnic or national ancestry. Sundayclose (talk) 19:20, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Proposed redirect: Race and crime→Race and crime in the United States
A redirect proposal that may interest members of this project is taking place at. –– FormalDude  talk 11:12, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

RfC that concerns this topic
There is an RfC there that concerns this topic. Every opinion or other input is welcome. Ktrimi991 (talk) 21:51, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Vlachs
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Vlachs that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 14:49, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Category talk:Plays about race and ethnicity
Looking for input about subcategories. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:16, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Further discussion at Categories for discussion/Log/2022 January 11. –Austronesier (talk) 20:29, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

FAR for Torajan people
I have nominated Torajan people 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  09:10, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

FAR for Ketuanan Melayu
I have nominated Ketuanan Melayu 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) 16:02, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

Daunians
Hello,

A discussion relating to the genetics of the Daunians is taking place here, for anyone who is interested. Khirurg (talk) 03:22, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

Images of Australian Aboriginal Flag at FFD
I listed local copies of the Australian Aboriginal Flag images at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. --George Ho (talk) 10:15, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

WikiProject Mokshas

 * Hi. I'm going to expand the article adding more sources to Middle Ages periodNumulunj pilgae (talk) 13:49, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Sadgop
Hello, can people chime in on what looks like a content dispute and claims over reliability of sources on Sadgop. I have no knowledge of the subject to make a valid call on this. Many thanks. Keith D (talk) 14:19, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

The "art and science" sections of some articles
Most articles about ethnic groups and nations cover a very similar range of topics: history, identity, culture, (folk) arts, language, diasporas... However, there are a few articles that depart from this well-trodden path and bolt into the dense woods with lengthy sections on "science" and "education" whose only point appears to be to parade the scientific and artistic accomplishments of notable members of the ethnic groups. Among the couple of dozen random articles I checked, this occurs at Bulgarians (permalink ), Serbs, Arabs , Italians , and Greeks.

Am I the only one who sees such content as odd? – Uanfala (talk) 23:36, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I've just unarchived this post. I had made a proposal for the removal of these sections at Talk:Serbs, and after it attracted no participation at all for a whole month, I went ahead and made a light trim. Of course, I was instantaneously reverted and told to restrain myself from removing sourced material. Why did I think otherwise? Of course there'll be people who'll object if content is removed that showed how fabulously great the scientists and opera singers were of their ethic group. – Uanfala (talk) 16:06, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Especially in science, these are mostly individual contributions by researchers who happen to belong to a specific nationality or ethnic group. This is something best covered in "Notable people" lists. A section called "Science" implies a kind of collective contribution of the ethnic group or nation. Nations of course do have institution dedicated to scientific research, but that is best covered in articles about the entities (countries) themselves, not their peoples.
 * It may be a bit different with "Art", since there are art forms that are specific to a country or region, or highly favored and developed in certain countries. But again, such things are better covered in country/nation/region articles. –Austronesier (talk) 13:32, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Use of the term 'Mixed race'
I looked to see what Wikipedia had to say about the term 'mixed race' and was directed to the 'Multiracial people' article. I think that the terms 'mixed race' and 'multiracial' are entirely misleading. There are two main reasons for this, in my mind: 1. Everybody is mixed race - racial purity is a myth 2. 'Mixed race' is a term that really means 'not entirely white European'. Someone might be part Finnish, part Georgian, part Basque and part Irish and not be described as mixed race. Anyone who is part Chinese, part African, part Indian or anything other that white European will be described as mixed race. What is real is culture and different societies do have different cultural mixes. Sometimes physical characteristics such as skin colour align with cultural identity but this is not necessarily the case. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mydaemonthirst (talk • contribs) 11 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Yup. 'Mixed race' is a term that Wikipedia should never be using in it's own voice, and should be very wary of using in quotes etc, for these very reasons. AndyTheGrump (talk) 13:44, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

New stub Everything's Gonna Be All White created
I've created a new stub called Everything's Gonna Be All White. I've added 9 references to the article and have added the infobox as well as the overview, cast, episodes and reception sections, but the article still needs some work like expanding and the episode list reformatted to the correct format. — Mythdon ( talk  •  contribs ) 19:30, 23 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) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Cleanup in aisle Dom
I recently discovered a cut-and-paste move from Doma people to Vadoma from 2013, where an IP user asserted that this ethnic group of Zimbabwe is not known as the Doma according to the available sources in the article. For some reason, the IP user redirected the old title to Dom people, a completely different group that is part of the Romani people, and I had to fix all the redirects that got retargeted because of it. Vadoma and its talk page are currently flagged for a history merge. –LaundryPizza03</b> ( d c̄ ) 13:45, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Then, I discovered that Dom people is insufficiently disambiguated from thee Doms, a Bengali Indian caste,and an RM has been opened at the former's talk page. Dom people used to have an infobox image for the wrong Dom people. –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 13:45, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Balkan Latinity WikiProject
Hello, I've been thinking for a while of an idea for a new and certainly needed WikiProject. The Aromanians/Vlachs, Megleno-Romanians/Meglenites and Istro-Romanians/Ćiribirci are poorly known peoples in the Balkans, the only ones that are Romance-speaking apart of the Romanians. Tagging pages related to these with WikiProject templates can turn problematic, see this talk page for example, saturated with 7 different templates. I was thus thinking that giving them their own WikiProject could increase organization on Wikipedia about info on these peoples and increase their representation in the project, perhaps even attracting members of these groups into working at Wikipedia. The project could be split into three task forces for each of the three.

If you're interested, please ping me here or message me on my talk page. Expressing your interest in the existence of such a project is enough, you will not be compromised or pressured into working in a topic area you might lose interest to soon. After (if) I recruit enough support, I will start a formal proposal and ping you there. Regards, Super   Ψ   Dro  20:57, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

Inuit or the Inuit
Looking for opinions and comments at Talk:Inuit. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 06:28, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Jews of Color
Please contribute to this new article draft on Jews of Color.--Coin945 (talk) 20:10, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

Feedback requested at Template:Infobox language
Your feedback regarding parameter ethnicity in Template:Infobox language would be appreciated. Please see this discussion. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 00:23, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Anazzah
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Anazzah that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. – robertsky (talk) 15:42, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Hunky culture
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Hunky culture that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. — Shibboleth ink  (♔ ♕) 21:20, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples - Terminology
Hi guys I made a template to put on talk pages Template:First Nations Australians. If any of you could please take a look and see if any improvements need to be made. Thanks. AverageFraud (talk) 10:53, 1 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Hey All,
 * I have created a temple Template:First Nations Australians which is based on Australian Government Style Manual[11 ] and a couple of other sources, According to the style guide 'First Nations Australians' is now the preferred term over 'Indigenous', I feel like Wikipedia should also reflect this change. I have already made this change on Racism in Australia and Institutional racism § Australia. If anyone else would like to help with either the template, or changing articles with the term 'Indigenous' to the terms 'First Nations', 'First Australians', 'First people', etc. that would be great.
 * Thanks,
 * AverageFraud (talk) 07:38, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

RFC Metis Ontario
Pls see Talk:Métis Moxy - 15:00, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

Songhai people has multiple issues
Hello,

I noticed that the article about the Songhai people has more issues than I could possibly explain. I think it may benefit from a full rewrite, but I am by no means an expert in any of the relevant areas of study so I thought it'd be better to leave a message at WikiProject Ethnic groups and WikiProject Africa to bring it to the attention of people more qualified to help.

Thank you,

<b style="font-family:Trebuchet MS"><b style="background-color:#07d;color:#FFF"> Vanilla </b><b style="background-color:#749;color:#FFF"> Wizard </b></b> 💙 03:58, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

Listing Americans by ethnicity and occupation
Several more intersection categories of American people are probably going to be deleted at Categories_for_discussion/Log/2022_December_19. Please feel free to make lists where useful, or request a list from a particular category at the end of that CFD discussion if you would like me to do so. – Fayenatic  L ondon 13:17, 1 February 2023 (UTC)