Ethics Task Force of WikiProject Philosophy

Welcome to the Ethics Task Force, a task force of WikiProject Philosophy. The task force is a group of pages in the "Wikipedia" article namespace which are devoted to the management of a specific topic or family of topics within Wikipedia; and, simultaneously, a group of editors who use those pages to collaborate on encyclopedic work. It is not a place to write encyclopedia articles directly, but a resource to help coordinate and organize the writing and editing of those articles. This group focuses on articles in the field of Ethics.

There are a few things you can do right now to get started helping the task force and the project.

• Add yourself to the Participants Roster.

• Watchlist and monitor the Ethics log.

• Watchlist and monitor the General Discussion.

• Add {{User WP Ethics}} to your user page. It will automatically add you to Category:Ethics task force members. You may also choose to place the Ethics navigation banner on your user page as well by adding {{Ethics/Nav}}.

Scope and Goals

The current focus of the Ethics task force is to create a representative presence of philosophy of ethics on Wikipedia. Many splinter articles on this subject are poorly written and factually inaccurate, and misrepresent some of the most important works in the history of philosophy. Since works in moral philosophy are some of the most dense and difficult to understand, but also perhaps the most important to human society, a coordinated effort to expand and improve Wikipedia's articles on this subject is needed.

Categories

The following categories are within the purview of the task force.

[−] Ethics [+] Applied ethics [+] Concepts in ethics [+] Core issues in ethics [+] Environmental ethics [+] Ethical theories [+] Ethics games [+] Humanitarians [+] Ethics lists [+] Ethics literature [+] Meta-ethics [+] Moral psychology [+] Morality [+] Moral philosophers [+] Philosophy of love [+] Professional ethics [+] Relational ethics [+] Religious ethics [+] Thought experiments in ethics [+] Value [+] Virtue [+] Ethics stubs

Ethics task force assessment statistics Ethics articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 3 2 5 GA 2 4 2 8 B 2 39 43 25 7 116 C 1 25 18 20 29 93 Start 52 118 79 217 466 Stub 22 70 127 219 438 List 1 6 7 Assessed 3 144 261 253 472 1133 Unassessed 1 1 Total 3 144 261 253 473 1134 worklist • log • category

Recognized content

Featured articles

Good articles

• Two level utilitarianism

Did You Know (DYK)s

Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

Former good articles

• Aristotle

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team selections

• Aristotle
• Ethics
• John Rawls
• Plato
• Relativism
• Social contract
• Utilitarianism

Current Priorities

edit · history · watch · refresh  To-do list for Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Philosophy/Ethics:

Recruit New Members: Invite editors to join the project. Suggest or edit an Ethics article needing attention:Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Philosophy Request or write a Ethics article: Requested articles Assess an article's importance and quality: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Philosophy/Assessment Expand an Ethics stub Category:Ethics stubs Maintain the Ethics portal: Portal:Ethics Help to resolve a dispute: Requests for comment Ask or answer a question about Ethics Reference desk Identify and catalogue all ethics articles that are in need of work by placing {{philosophy|ethics=yes}} atop the talk-pages of articles related to ethics. Note: this will automatically list the corresponding article in Category:Ethics Recent changes patrol: Monitor Recent changes to ethics topics Monitor Recent changes to pages connected to Portal:Ethics Monitor Recent changes to pages in Category Ethics

Templates

• For main project templates, see the Philosophy Templates.

Portal Pointer

{{portalpar|Ethics}} adds a box Ethics or Moral Philosophy which leads to the ethics portal. It looks like this:

It should appear at the bottom of each ethics article, immediately before the categories list.

Project page tag

Putting {{philosophy|ethics=yes}} at the top of a page will add this notice to it:

WikiProject Philosophy	(Rated NA-Class)	PhilosophyWikipedia:WikiProject PhilosophyTemplate:PhilosophyPhilosophy articles
Philosophy portal v • d • e This page is within the scope of the WikiProject Philosophy, which collaborates on articles related to philosophy. To participate, you can edit this article or visit the project page for more details.  NA  This page does not require a rating on the project's quality scale. Further information and related task forces:   Ethics

This message should be placed at the top of the talk pages of all ethics articles, especially:

• articles that members of the WikiProject are actively trying to improve.
• articles about major ethics topics.
• articles that need special attention.

Navigational

v • d • e Ethics Subfields Normative ethics · Meta-ethics · Descriptive ethics · Medical ethics · Professional ethics Concepts in ethics Freedom · Autonomy · Rights · Conscience · Value · Morality · Responsibility · Care · Humane · Justice · Principles · Virtue · Happiness · Suffering or Pain · Equality · Trust · Free will · Consent · Moral right · Human rights · Just War · Axiology · more... Theories Utilitarianism · Consequentialism · Deontology · Ethics of care · Virtue ethics Philosophers Plato · Aristotle · Confucius · Mencius · Augustine of Hippo  · Thomas Aquinas · Baruch Spinoza · David Hume · Immanuel Kant · Georg W. F. Hegel · Arthur Schopenhauer · Jeremy Bentham · John Stuart Mill · Søren Kierkegaard · Henry Sidgwick · Friedrich Nietzsche · John Rawls · Bernard Williams · Alasdair MacIntyre · Peter Singer · Derek Parfit · Thomas Nagel  · more... Portal · Category · Task Force · Stubs · Discussion

Userbox

The template {{User WP Ethics}} will add the following userbox to your user page, and add you to the Category:Ethics task force members and Category:WikiProject Philosophy members

Pages Needing Attention

• Ethics
• Consequentialism
• Cornell realism
• Deontology
• Descriptive ethics
• Ethical calculus
• Ethic of reciprocity
• Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
• List of ethics topics
• Meta-ethics
• Moral character
• Moral obligation
• Moral psychology
• Normative ethics
• Obligation
• Original position
• Prima facie duty
• Utilitarian bioethics
• Utilitarianism
• Value theory

Participants

Ethics task force

• Gregbard (talk · contribs)
• JEN9841 (talk · contribs)
• Jaymay (talk · contribs)
• Oneelephantpickle (talk · contribs)
• Popperipopp (talk · contribs)
• Sagan666 (talk · contribs)
• Simon ives (talk · contribs)
• Veritas Noctis (talk · contribs)