Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Human rights/Archive 4

Quality of article within project is challenged
Culture has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Articles are typically reviewed for one week. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here. --AlotToLearn (talk) 08:05, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Virgo
Virgo is an add-on content filter for Wikipedia currently under development. It is meant to meet the needs of those who do not wish to see nudity but who cannot do anything about it due to WP:NOTCENSORED, and works around this rule by modifying only what is viewed by those with the add-on installed. Anyone interested in reviewing/critiquing may find the proposal here, the code-under-development here, and the page for the project-under-development here. The add-on is still being coded, which is why it has zero features at the moment and does not do anything it is intended to do yet. (I'm still working on learning how to code in js, frankly). Your input is appreciated. Thanks! Bob the Wikipedian (talk • contribs) 22:42, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The project is ready to be launched. Leave your thoughts at WikiProject Council/Proposals/Virgo.  Thanks!  Bob the Wikipedian (talk • contribs) 20:38, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
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image in International_humanitarian_law
Hello, I would like to ask anybody to please comment on whether the image in that section of [[International_humanitarian_law is appropriate for the article. Discussion here. Thanks, Nableezy (talk) 06:33, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * The talk is of one of conflicting ideologies. The image mentioned is inappropriate and gone. I see the logo of The International Court of Justice. The Court is not relevant to the section & not mentioned in the article. The image must be a mistake. I will remove it. You two need to play nice.Romanfall (talk) 09:19, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

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

FAR for Equal Protection Clause
nominated Equal Protection Clause for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Cirt (talk) 08:54, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Alleged fabrication of the Nanking Massacre - nominated for deletion
Alleged fabrication of the Nanking Massacre has been nominated for deletion at Articles for deletion/Alleged fabrication of the Nanking Massacre. 76.66.202.139 (talk) 06:07, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Gay McDougall
Gay McDougall lacks sources. Please help add references. Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 12:04, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Bad page move
Against consensus and naming conventions, an editor has moved Human rights in the United States to Human rights inside the United States to push a unique POV. We need an administrator to help move the page back to its correct title. Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 12:03, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

RfC on appropriate scope of Human rights in the United States
A Request for Comment has been filed at Human rights in the United States. Editors have been debating, and failed to reach agreement on, whether issues such as Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay should be covered in the article or not. Some editors have also questioned whether issues related to sexual orientation, or the US government's response to Hurricane Katrina, should be covered in the article.

Please see the RfC thread and previous discussions on the article's talk page and help establish consensus. Thank you.  JN 466  19:35, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

FAR notice for Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
nominated Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.Cirt (talk) 06:34, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

LGBT rights in...
There is a systematic series of region- and country-level "LGBT rights in..." pages (e.g. LGBT rights in Africa, LGBT rights in New Zealand) which should be added to this wikiproject with importance mid (maybe high for regional pages?). I'm doing Oceania; do other people want to work on other regions? --IdiotSavant (talk) 10:46, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

List of torture methods and devices
I have some pictures that may be useful in articles listed in that page. Unfortunately some of them are known under different names, and I would not know where I can place them. I also don't want to upload duplicates of already existing images. I leave a list here, please contact me on my it.wiki talk if any of these pics is missing here or on Commons. Thank you. --Elitre (talk) 16:14, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Request for higher priority on improving "Stoning" article
Because of the recent theatrical release about the stoning of Soriya S (sp?), this article is likely to get many more hits. There are some good suggestions on its discussion page for improvement and NPOV. A better title might be "Stoning as punishment." I am leaving the state for more than a week and hope that some of you will do what you can now. Thanks. Cwilsym 69.153.48.173 (talk) 05:04, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Human rights in Kuwait -- excessive weight to section
was merged into Human rights in Kuwait per the WP:Articles for deletion/Katherine Phillips detention incident decision in April 2009. The section appears to be given excessive weight, and I hoped someone from this project could take a look at it an decide the appropriate level of inclusion. (The article is also targeted by the redirect .) -- ToET 10:05, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Request for peer review: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
I've expanded this and am going to put it forward for GA nomination once I've done a section on its jurisprudence. So, if people could go over it and correct any errors and point out anythign which is missing... --IdiotSavant (talk) 11:38, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Persecution of Falun Gong AfD
Members of the WikiProject Human Rights are requested to weigh in at Articles_for_deletion/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong. The question at issue is whether there are sufficient grounds to have an article called "Persecution of Falun Gong". Editors have made various arguments for and against on the AfD page. -- JN 466  23:14, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Fringe theory promotion at Human rights
A number of Iranian editors are attempting to add poorly sourced or unsourced claims to Human rights concerning a 6th century BC artifact, the Cyrus cylinder. They claim that it is supposedly the world's first charter of human rights, and that the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great effectively originated the concept of human rights. (To summarize, this is a fringe theory promoted by the late Shah of Iran in the 1970s as part of his regime's propaganda and has subsequently been promoted by Iranian ultranationalists, particularly in the pro-Shah diaspora. Mainstream historians reject this viewpoint as tendentious and anachronistic.) This has previously been discussed on the fringe theories noticeboard on two previous occasions. It's now being discussed at Talk:Human rights. Human rights is listed as a top-importance article for this WikiProject so some input from outside editors would be appreciated. -- ChrisO (talk) 19:20, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

List of national human rights institutions
Anyone currently working on |the list and pages of national human rights insitutions, please get in touch. Tlongers (talk) 11:31, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

The World Can't Wait nominated for deletion
The the article for anti-war group The World Can't Wait has been nominated for deletion. Deletion Discussion page. This organization is still very active. --George100 (talk) 04:37, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Cousin marriage kicked out
I noticed that the article cousin marriage was removed from WikiProject Human Rights. However, pages on anti-miscegenation laws and same-sex marriage are included in this WikiProject. First-cousin marriage is banned in most US states, and there are also ongoing debates in Britain and the Netherlands on banning it. Hence, this is a pressing issue and not one that should be ignored, regardless of one's feelings on it. I think that some are unaware of the human rights significance and think the article is merely about genetic or sociological issues. Those issues are present, but the right to marry has been held in the United States to be fundamental and much of the article concerns that.

I've therefore returned the article to "unassessed" status and suggest rating it as Mid-level because, based on your importance criteria, that seems reasonable. I hope it won't be removed again, although it probably will be, at least if the assessor hasn't read this.Khin2718 (talk) 17:42, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I did it, primarily because I saw it as a sociological rather than human rights issue, and becasue we don't list incest in the project. But given your response I've reassessed it --IdiotSavant (talk) 23:16, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

GAR Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women?
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women was just failed as a Good Article by a reviewer with a poor understanding of the topic and who seemed to want the article turned into a general piece on international law. I'd like some people to take a look at the good article review on the talk page and before I take it to WP:GAR for a reassessment. --IdiotSavant (talk) 22:49, 16 December 2009 (UTC)