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Human rights portal

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Human rights. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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WikiProject on Human rights

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[edit] Scope

Our scope is each and every Wikipedia article that concerns Human rights, be it Natural/Unalienable/Inalienable/Civil or any other sort of Rights.

Human rights articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA			3	6		9
	GA	2		9	15		26
	B	7	59	66	48		180
	C	10	64	54	52		180
	Start	18	130	203	255		606
	Stub		58	69	214		341
	List		7	9	19	41	76
	Assessed	37	318	413	609	41	1418
	Total	37	318	413	609	41	1418

For assessment of importance of human rights articles see importance assessment criteria.

[edit] Parentage

WikiProject Human rights stands aside from other WikiProjects, but it is most related, of course to Wikipedia:WikiProject Law, Wikipedia:WikiProject International law, and, to lesser degree, to Wikipedia:WikiProject Anti war movements and ideologies

[edit] Related Wikiportals

WikiProject Human rights maintains Portal:Human rights.

[edit] Related pages in Sister projects

• Commons:Human Rights
• Wikibooks:Human rights
• Wikinews:Human rights
• Wikiquote:Human rights
• Wikisource:Human rights
• Wikispecies:Human rights
• Wiktionary:Human rights
• meta:Human rights

[edit] Participants

Feel free to add yourself with the template {{User|YourUserName}} - ~~~~. {{User0}} shows a talk link.

• Lucinor
• BlueLankan
• Evrik
• Todeswalzer
• Ikasawak
• NinaOdell
• Mostlyharmless
• Taprobanus
• WJBscribe
• SebastianHelm
• Futurebird
• Scarykitty
• Sephui 09:51, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
• Rayis
• Freechild
• Drakein
• Cgingold
• Glider88 11:23, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
• tkn20
• Cailil ^talk
• Phyesalis
• Grrrlriot
• Shruti14 ^{t c s} 04:37, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
• IdiotSavant
• AlexNebraska (talk · contribs) 22:11, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
• AltioraPeto (talk · contribs)
• Juice07
• Tyciol (talk) 05:52, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
• Timeshifter
• --Cdestree (talk) 20:25, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
• JavierMC^Talk
• El cangri386
• Watabak
• nadodi
• Wiki Raja
• Jrtayloriv
• Autoplay91
• Wallie (talk) 09:20, 27 April 2009 (UTC) Promoting inter cultural awareness.
• Nemesis646 (talk) - For a more knowledgeable and relaxed Wikipedia - 11:06, 6 June 2009 (UTC) Human rights for all.
• MishMich (talk • contribs • count) 22:08, 6 July 2009 (UTC) LGBT human rights
• Mjquin_id (talk • contribs • logs) - Templates and Categories; Vandal Patrol - Mjquin_id (talk) 17:45, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
• Tlongers

[edit] Goals

1. To create separate, structured, greatly-written Wikipedia segment pertaining to Human rights.

[edit] Projects

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[edit] Tasks

1.  ?

[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

• Example article: User:Example
• Reproductive rights: User:Phyesalis
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: User:IdiotSavant
• International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance: User:IdiotSavant
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: User:IdiotSavant

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

• /General
• /Strategy

[edit] Other subpages

[edit] Recognitions

Image	What to type	Category	Description
	{{subst:The Barnstar of Liberty|message ~~~~}}	Human rights	The Barnstar of Liberty The The Barnstar of Liberty may be awarded to an editor who contributes significantly to expand or improve Wikipedia's coverage of Human rights or Freedom of expression This barnstar was proposed by evrik 2005, and was designed by Smurrayinchester.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Infoboxes

• {{subst:template}}
• e.g.{{Infobox Human rights}}
• {{Infobox Human rights}}

[edit] Navigation templates

• {{Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights}}
• {{Human rights}}
  • {{International human rights legal instruments}}
  • {{International human rights organizations}}
  • {{Particular human rights}}
• {{rights}}

[edit] Stub templates

• e.g. {{Humanrights-stub
• {{Humanrights-stub}}
  • and the associated stub category Category:Human rights stubs

[edit] Other templates

• {{WikiProject Human rights}}
• {{portalpar|Human rights}} '''or''' {{portalpar|Human rights|image=Liberty torch drawing.png}}
• {{User Human Rights Project}} - userbox

[edit] Categories

• Category:Human rights

[edit] Lists

[edit] Articles

[edit] Wikipedia articles on Human rights

• Human rights

[edit] Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Human rights

• meta:Human rights

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Human rights

Please feel free to list your new Human rights-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

[edit] Did you know?

[edit] Article improvement drive

[edit] Collaboration of the week

[edit] Peer review

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Featured article candidates

[edit] Featured pictures

[edit] Featured picture candidates

[edit] Featured lists

[edit] Featured list candidates

[edit] Wikipedia surveys

[edit] Ad hoc surveys

[edit] Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

• Requested moves:
• Requests for Comments:

[edit] Votes for deletion

• Articles for deletion
  • Hedvig Malina at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hedvig Malina (5 January 2008)
  • CIPFG at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CIPFG (28 December 2007 – 4 January 2008) Kept
  • Squirrel (eavesdropping) at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Squirrel (eavesdropping) (22 December 2007 – 29 December 2007) Deleted
• Deletion review:
• Templates for deletion:
• Categories for deletion:
• Miscellany for deletion:
• Images for deletion:
• Redirects for deletion:
• Proposed deletion:

• Rollback (civil rights) (via WP:PROD on 3 January 2008) Deleted
• National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights (via WP:PROD on 2 January 2008) Deleted
• Thomas Edwards Brooks (via WP:PROD on 26 September 2007) Deleted

[edit] WikiProject Deletion sorting

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The Human rights-related articles at VFD are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Human rights.

[edit] Requests

• Human rights in Canada
• Please move the article Female Genital Cutting to Female Genital Mutilation, this name is correct and encyclopedic, as you see in WHO and UN's articles. Thanks--Taranet (talk) 17:58, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
• Please assign initial rating to a newly created article Committee of Concerned Scientists. Since I created the article myself, I'd prefer if someone else assigned the rating. Thanks, Nsk92 (talk) 08:59, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
• Can someone please check Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women against the Good Article criteria? I'm thinking of noming it, but want someone to take a look first to avoid embarassment. --IdiotSavant (talk) 12:34, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
• Can someone please come to War crimes committed by the United States and try to help come up with a valid definition of "war crime"? There is an editor there whose position is essentially "nothing is a war crime, if it was committed by the U.S.", and he has already changed the definition of war crime during an earlier edit conflict, so that he could say that something that fit the definition was not a "war crime" (Haditha killings). The fact that My Lai and a few crimes from World War II are the only "war crimes" ever committed by the U.S. according to this article, should speak to the need for work to be done to improve it. I think once we've gotten a solid definition down, we can avoid stupid conflicts like "(A) That's not a war crime, because I say so. (B) But the definition in the lead says it is. (A) Well now that I've changed the definition, it no longer fits the definition, so it's not a war crime anymore." Jrtayloriv (talk) 21:15, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Resources

At the moment the Washington University in St. Louis [Film and Media Archive] has a collection of interview transcripts that might useful as resources covering the civil rights movement in america until 1965. In the coming months, interviews covering the period from 1965-1985 will become available. The interviews were conducted in the 1980s. These might be useful in providing clearer personal perspectives, and accounts from both big names in particular civil rights struggles and smaller community perspectives from within the movement. Here's the link [Eyes on the Prize (episodes 1-6) interview transcripts] Tychoish (talk) 15:45, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Human rights Meetups

[edit] Archives

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[edit] Sister Project links

Find more about Human rights on Wikipedia's sister projects:

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