Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Social Work/Archive 1

Separate article on Social Care
Do we need a separate article on Social Care? Ursasapien (talk) 10:23, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Google Scholar doesn't turn up much for this term, so I think not. Daask (talk) 13:58, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

Social Work as Social Resource Development, Identification, and Referral
Lately, in the United States, social work has become increasingly identified with clinical office visits and psychiatric medication recommendation and follow-up. This is really a long distance from the history of the profession, especially when, in our collective past, there have been well-established differentials between those persons in great and perpetual need versus those experiencing transient needs. Just now, a huge percentage of clinical social work involves extended care of "ambulatory care" persons who are often totally independent in terms of employment and their home lives....all the while, those with severe needs receive little more than verbalized concerns from the heart of our profession, in terms of resource development, research, and social advocacy efforts. Has anyone else noticed this "in bed with the drug companies" behavior? Homebuilding (talk) 22:12, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Finding a home for articles
Hello WP Social Work - its good to find you. At the risk of sounding desperate, I want to find a WP that can assist with the following articles, and aside from a non-existent WP on youth studies this might be the best location for these. However, I do not want to tag a bunch of articles where they're not wanted... Any feedback would be appreciated; following are the articles: Youth voice, Youth studies, Adultism, Adultcentrism, Evolving capacities, Fear of youth, Fear of children, Youth politics, Youth leadership, Youth development, Community youth development, Positive youth development, Youth activism, Youth participation, Youth empowerment, Youth-led media, Children's rights, Timeline of children's rights in the United States, Youth rights, History of Youth Rights in the United States, Youth philanthropy, Aging out, Youth movement, Youth engagement, Youth-adult partnerships, Youth council. • Freechild   'sup?   19:16, 8 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I have assessed those that I consider relevant to WikiProject Social Work (probably 25% of those you listed). Daask (talk) 13:57, 8 June 2017 (UTC)


 * That's a rather limited scope of what WPSW should include, don't you think? I would like to understand better what your parameters for assessment were, and whether there is a way to appeal your decision. That said, perhaps any response is better than no response after almost a decade of waiting. • Freechild |  talk to me 17:13, 25 August 2017 (UTC)


 * You're correct that social work is a broad field that could include any articles related to resisting oppression, empowerment, the needs and actions of marginalized populations, and social movements. (See Critical social work) Social Work articles on Wikipedia have a long way to go. If you're looking for assistance, I doubt tagging the pages with the WikiProject Social Work banner is going to help much. At this point, the project has a limited capacity, so I think a limited scope is warranted. Daask (talk) 22:16, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Additional Important Youth Topic
Has anyone else working with youth noted a general drop in life skills over the past couple of decades? Many school systems have dropped Family and Consumer Sciences (known previously as home economics) and various shop (or manual arts classes) and as a result very independent-minded youth do not have the required levels of skills that are not only useful, but essential for successful adult life? Social agencies become concerned and have limited programs when youth, totally without parents, reach the age of emancipation--and will leave foster homes, etc. Then there is the completely integrated item of parenting, in that youth exposed to the give and take by their bio mothers and fathers (plus the considerable and varied skills of each) are generally better prepared and are far less likely to experience poverty. The point being when parenting and skill-building is working well, desirable levels of independence can be successfully be attained with LESS institutional or social services involvement. That's what we want, isn't it? Homebuilding (talk) 00:40, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Random Fact
Social Work has a Patron Saint: Louise de Marillac. This is the only place I could think to put such trivia. --rakkar (talk) 10:26, 10 March 2009 (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) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Pageview stats
After a recent request, I added WikiProject Social Work to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at WikiProject Social Work/Popular pages.

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the Tool Labs tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 01:48, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

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Popular pages report
We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, will post at /Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of. We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:
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A new newsletter directory is out!
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Human rights commercial sexual exploitation of children
November 2019-November 2020: Wiki Loves Human Rights Child Trafficking

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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.

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Merger proposal (Effectiveness of Alcoholics Anonymous into Alcoholics Anonymous)
Please see Talk:Alcoholics_Anonymous Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 03:43, 30 September 2021 (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.

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