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These are the open tasks for the Wikiproject Countering systemic bias. Articles are listed thematically, and then by the type of assistance requested. An article stub for a feminist author would thus be found under the "Requests for expansion" section under Women's Studies.

Themes are divided into four stages: non-existent, stubby, identifiably flawed and satisfactory. "Requested articles" are pages that are entirely missing from Wikipedia. A little bit of research on the web is normally enough to write a stub. Be sure to move the list entry to the relevant section once you are done. Articles that are stubby, or otherwise lacking in content, may be found under "Requests for expansion". If something in particular is missing, such as a university article with a long list of alumni but little historical background, be sure to say so when you enter it. "Requests for review" is for articles that are of decent length but need more attention. A need for a copyedit or for a fact check by a knowledgeable reader are appropriate reasons to ask for review.

Once an article has passed through the various stages of this process it may be placed under the Satisfactory section. Satisfactory articles are well-rounded, long enough to cover the topic in reasonable detail, and lack any major flaws. They are not expected to be perfect.

This open tasks list is intended to be a complement to the various Wikipedia features such as Cleanup, Requests for expansion, Pages needing attention and peer review, and you are encouraged to add articles from this list to those pages. Many articles on this page may also be good candidates for Collaboration of the week or the Article improvement drive. If you find a particularly good article in a CSB-related area, by all means nominate it as a Featured Article candidate.

If you feel an article is neglected due to systemic bias, feel free to add it to an appropriate section or even to start a new section below. Sections describing perceived biases that do not include articles are placed at the bottom of the page. If no articles are placed within the section within a month, it will be assumed that the objection is not actionable and the section will be removed.

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Geography

Logo for Countries section of Countering systemic bias
Logo for Countries section of Countering systemic bias
As of May 2011

Wikipedia has major holes in its geographic coverage primarily in Africa, but also Asia and South America.

Countries for improvement

The countries below have been identified as those most in need of work. They are accompanied by some online resources that may be useful in contributing to the articles. If a user feels that a country article has progressed to the level where it may be replaced by another, please seek consensus on the talk page.

  1. Benin (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Porto-Novo, Cotonou
  2. Republic of the Congo (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Brazzaville
  3. The Gambia (see Category BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Banjul
  4. Guinea (see Category), Conakry
  5. Kyrgyzstan (see Category), Bishkek
  6. Mozambique (see Category), Maputo
  7. Myanmar/Burma (see Category), Yangon and Naypyidaw
  8. Niger (see Category); Niamey
  9. Suriname (see Category), Paramaribo
  10. Tajikistan (see Category), Dushanbe
  11. Togo (see Category), Lomé
  12. Turkmenistan (see Category), Ashgabat

Translations of any appropriate articles in the French or Portuguese Wikipedia can be requested on Wikipedia:Translation into English - though some articles are actually shorter in the foreign language version. For materials not in Wikipedia, but available in electronic form, you could contact an appropriate individual at Wikipedia:Translators available.

Missing geography articles

The following articles are about important geographical regions in the non-English-speaking world.

  • Northeast Africa - The region encompasses Egypt, Sudan and Horn of Africa and is missing completely from Wikipedia while other regions are available, suspecting racial bias as editors have been vandalizing sources referring to that region for fear of linking Egypt to Sub-Saharan African countries.

Developing World

As of May 2011

All aspects of the "developing world", primarily in Africa, but also Asia and South America.

Requested Developing World articles

See also: Wikipedia:List of missing Africa topics, Wikipedia:List of missing Middle Eastern topics, Wikipedia:List of missing Oceania topics, List of conflicts in Africa

Requests for expansion of Developing World articles

Request for review/attention of Developing World articles

  • HIV/AIDS in Africa As of May 2011 more citations are needed. Also I saw a mention in the AIDS Wikiproject that the article could use a discussion of AIDS's effects on women. Can anybody more familiar with the topic take a look and comment on what the article needs? Cloveapple (talk) 17:33, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • African Union
  • African slave trade, merged into "Slavery in Africa" article, a subtopic of the redirect's title, which may cover much more than just slavery in Africa
  • African National Congress Again a poor article for such a significant organisation
  • Languages of Africa
  • African diaspora A big, big group of people.
  • Yellow Emperor Important Chinese mythological character. It should be as long as the article on Zeus for example
  • Poverty in Africa - This article needs to condsider the structural causes and external causes of poverty in Africa. The continent is not an island. This would includes multilateral agreements, neo-liberal policies, unfair trade agreements (it does an excellent job at covering internal causes, but it read very biased since that is all it does.
  • Poverty reduction
  • First Ivorian Civil War
  • Execution of Saddam Hussein -- Lack of sources other than main US and UK news outlets such as CNN or BBC. US-sources dominate the article, and this reflects in the tone. Would need an array of both independent and international sources. A number of non-US non-UK sources have been added as of May 2011
  • Settler colonialism - completely missing references As of May 2011 it has some references and a bunch of unreferenced stuff got moved to the talk page. Still needs work. Some sections are just placeholders with no actual writing. Cloveapple (talk) 18:36, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Tripoli hmm... apparently Tripoli is one of those ancient cities that used to exist but its history stopped after 1911. Oh yeah, and it doesn't have any geography, culture, politics/government, economy, demographics, recreation, transportation, all that good stuff. Quite depressing. --Dmcdevit 18:58, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC) As of May 2011 some more recent stuff has been added but it's still C Class and needs work.
  • First Congo War and Second Congo War Work needed on intros for both and First in particular could use some expansion. BanyanTree 20:39, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Rwandan genocide - The French version spans several articles.
    • Páll has translated the French and created subpages and a navigation template, but the subpages could do with a copyedit, and content needs to be organized between the main and sub-pages. - BanyanTree 21:33, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    • PS: also Initial events of the Rwandan Genocide per CSBOT template --Dmcdevit 00:45, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Ethio–Somali War – now redirects to "Ogaden War", could do with some work putting it into the context of both History of Somalia and History of Ethiopia
  • Politics of Uganda - a lot of copy/pasted stuff. Not very good. Tidied up but still needs some more depth, especially given recent developments re. political pluralism in Uganda. TreveXtalk 12:22, 3 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thomas Sankara A major African leader for many African people.
  • Arsen Kotsoyev, Ossetian writer and journalist, the article is a candidate for "Translation of the Week", but its English version needs to be reviewed by a native speaker of English. -- Slavik IVANOV 15:37, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
    • Done (but leaving it open in case I missed something) --Nimlot 20:58, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
  • Zimbabwe Republic Police, currently horribly pro-government POV. the wub "?/!" 10:04, 12 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Seems to have been fixed adequately for a little while now. --Dpr 06:22, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Satisfactory Developing World articles

since there was a picture i made it. class ii structure, notable. if anything adds to bias of anglophile old stonework.Slowking4 (talk) 15:20, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Art and Design

As of May 2011

Requested articles

  • The Beauty Myth, a review of Western ideals of corporeal beauty, how that contrasts with those of other cultures, and effects of acculturation. I moved the article that was there on the Naomi Wolf book to The Beauty Myth. Beauty myth now redirects there. The blue link here should not be taken to mean that someone has started an article on the concept apart from Wolf's book. Jkelly 07:43, 23 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Requests for expansion

See also: Category:Art stubs, Category:Artist stubs, Category:Art organization stubs, Pages needing attention/Culture and Arts

Requests for review/attention

Women and women's studies

Logo for Gender gap task force
Logo for Gender gap task force
As of July 2013

Increasing number and quality of biographies of women, issues regarding women or under-covered topics of interest to women, as well as improving Wikilinks, categorization, etc. regarding women.

See also articles listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Gender Studies, Wikipedia:WikiProject Feminism and WikiProject_Women's_History. Note that Wikipedia Gender gap task force additionally encourages more women to start and keep editing Wikipedia.

Requested articles

Requests for expansion: biographies

Requests for expansion: topics

Non-English language literature

As of May 2011

Non-English language literature (particularly writers whose work is unavailable or not widely available in English). See also List of African writers by country.

Requested articles

These include all of the nonexistent links listed under "Literature by country or language"

Requests for expansion


Satisfactory

Linguistics

Many linguistic articles are written exclusively or largely from an Indo-European point of view. In some cases this becomes apparent in the examples provided (Onomatopoeia seems an irredeemable example), while others treat grammatical categories and linguistic terms as if they pertain to English or other well-known Indo-European languages only. This is something that needs to be remedied in an encyclopedia of international scope.

Requested articles

Requests for expansion

(The most common request is to correct a limited (usually Indo-European) point of view.)

A–J

  • Closed class. English-based. Cross-linguistically, there are interesting differences here. In many African languages for example, the class of adjectives is a closed class. On a sidenote, cognitive linguistic views of reasons for the distinction between closed and open classes (e.g. Talmy 2000:413, Langacker) are also worth mentioning.
This is very interesting. I would love to see some references of how adj's are in the closed class. While the open-closed distinction forms the basis for Talmy's model of form (grammatical) vs content, I am not sure where Langacker refers to this. Certainly it is not very prominent in his 1987/1991 texts. mukerjee (talk) 07:22, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I think I will make some additions here, the Sanskrit tradition had a lot to say on this which remains germane today. mukerjee (talk) 07:22, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Determiner (linguistics). Really should be renamed to 'Determiner (English)' or something like that. Interesting things could be said about determiners and definiteness cross-linguistically.
    • Reworded a bit, less LPOV, de-emphasized English. Desperately needs contrasting examples (please not plain ol' Western IE languages isomorphic with English). --Pablo D. Flores 15:38, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Diminutive. Oh boy, look at the structure. First, English is treated, and then a few other languages (predominantly European) are lumped together under a heading "non-English languages". This needs quite some work. — mark ✎ 16:17, 22 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • The headings are now appropriate, since there are headings based on language families and English is now grouped with other Germanic languages. However, non-Indo-European languages are grouped together. Johnny Au 19:02, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Function word. English only. It should be noted that the term 'function word' is per definition largely restricted to isolating languages (and as such is inevitably LPOV, like many Indo-European-inspired linguistic terms).
  • Grammatical tense. Only about the English tense system, only English examples. Should be renamed Grammatical tense (English) or something like that. There is also some overlap with English grammar. Steverapaport fixed this, but it still needs non-English examples. The table of tenses and their uses is a bit unwieldy and hopelessly LPOV. Useful examples: periphrastic/idiomatic "tenses" in Eurolangs; lack of distinction in Chinese; aspect emphasized over tense ibidem. --Pablo D. Flores 15:52, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
See also its talk page. Additionally, cross-linguistic data collection and some brainstorming is going on at Grammatical tense/multilingual sources — mark ✎ 21:58, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Grammatical aspect. Although the term is based on the work of Indo-European grammarians, it has been used in linguistics worldwide. At present, the article contains mainly English examples and some Serbian ones. Nothing is said about application of the term in linguistics outside the Indo-European language family.
  • Grammatical particle. English-only. Contains a list of English parts of speech considered 'grammatical particles'. I gave it a start by toning down the misleadingly strict definition a bit, but it still needs lots of work. — mark ✎ 23:35, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I just made a start on this one - please review it and suggest improvements on its talk page! — mark ✎ 22:05, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

K–Z

  • Metathesis (linguistics). Universal phenomenon. Mainly covers some English sound changes. Could use cross-linguistical examples.
    • Provided examples from Navajo (Athabaskan) and Saanich (Salishan). The Klallam example is not just phonological but grammatical (I dont explain the phono part since it would be complicated). — ishwar  (SPEAK) 03:36, 2005 Mar 28 (UTC)
  • Palatalization. Not bad, but could be more outspoken on occurences of palatalization troughout the world (Berber, Bantu, to name a few). Especially in Bantu, interesting morphophonological things happen involving (among other processes) palatalization.
  • Pleonasm. There was actually an edit warrior who wanted to remove the non-English examples from this article. Fortunately he is gone, but in the aftermath of the battle, this article is in pretty lousy shape, and still needs some non-Indo-European examples.
  • Possessive case. This is actually a fairly good article, even including non-Indo-European concepts like alienable/inalienable possession. The problem is its context and naming. Case is defined as a feature of inflecting languages. Indeed, many languages do not express possession by inflecting the noun (like the case article would suggest). It would be better to merge much of the content of the Possessive case article to something like Possession (linguistics) and to reserve the Possessive case article for languages that actually do show a possessive case. Additionally, all those articles could do with more cross-linguistic examples.
  • Prefix. Indo-European perspective.
  • Reflexive pronoun. Mostly English, mentions three other Indo-European languages and one constructed language. Nothing on non-IE languages, no typological perspective (Schladt (1999)'s 'The typology and grammaticalization of reflexives' would be a good source).
  • Rhetoric. Nothing on rhetoric in (say) Sanksrit, or other Indian languages, or for that matter any non-European (e.g. Chinese) culture. The talk page mentions this.
  • Root (linguistics). Corrected and added examples, though a few more would be nice. Someone with more than amateur knowledge of linguistics, please correct me. Added a hook to word stem -- which BTW is not a synonym for root and needs a formal definition. -- Pablo D. Flores 15:17, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Tone (linguistics). Universal phenomenon. In desperate need of a good definition. Is too Mandarin/Chinese minded. Check the 'what links here' of that page and see why.
    • Improved it by adding a section on different notational systems. Still needs much work. — mark ✎ 16:07, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Question. The paragraph on grammar seems OK, albeit fairly short. However, the mentioning of just the Indo-European intonation pattern and the English-only examples narrow the scope.
    • Fleshed it up a bit, though examples are still welcome. --Pablo D. Flores 15:17, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Relative pronoun could use some information on non-Germanic languages. The long English section is justified as these really are tricky in English, especially for foreign learners, but it's not meant to be an article just on English grammar. --Doric Loon 18:16, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    • It's severely skewed towards IE-style relativisation in general. I turned "Relative pronoun" into a stub, and kept the original Relative clause that "Relative pronoun" redirected to, which however, and rather unfortunately, treats the whole subject mostly focusing on relative pronouns. I think the whole topic should be addressed abstractly, and English should be treated along with other languages, of which more variety should be present. Hebrew was already there, and I added Japanese (which is important as a contrast because the relative clause goes before the noun it modifies, without a relative pronoun, or conjunctions, or any marks of relativisation other than word order). Chinese, I think, does the same, but it should be there too. --Pablo D. Flores 15:58, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
    • Me again: Relative pronoun filled up, Relative clause cleaner (theory only), created English relative clauses for specific English usage. Some more theory, examples and illustrating trivia needed.

Requests for review/attention

Satisfactory

  • Inflection. Quote from the article: 'Various major languages, including English, German, Russian, Spanish, French, and Hindi - all Indo-European languages - are inflected to a greater or lesser extent. Other languages [sic!] use almost no inflection, Chinese and Vietnamese among them.' The definition used in the article is part of the problem. More historical background should be given and current, cross-linguistical use of the term should be covered. Fixed by Steverapaport 15:39, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC), probably could be removed from this list. --Pablo D. Flores 15:52, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Mama. Currently a dab, but surely we should have an article about the striking cross-linguistical similarities in the basic word for mother (cf. Jakobson 1962 etc.). It currently reads that 'mama' is a slang word for 'mother' - speaking about LPOV! See Mama and papa --Pablo D. Flores 14:21, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Papa. Currently a dab, but surely we should have an article about the striking cross-linguistical similarities in the basic word for father (cf. Jakobson 1962 etc.) See Mama and papa.
  • Reduplication. Universal phenomenon. Needs a better definition, a more logical structure and more examples. Note the phrase 'most notably in Malayo-Polynesian' (other language-families or areas are not even mentioned).
    • Cleaned it up a little -- Pablo D. Flores 15:17, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • Provided biblio. The linked OT papers have many examples from unrelated langs. — ishwar  (SPEAK) 03:39, 2005 Mar 28 (UTC)
    • exanded (with organization). kind of a redupl. typological survey. now includes langs from all continents (i.e. N. America, Central America, S. America, NE Africa, Siberia, E. Asia, SE Asia, Papua New Guinea, & Australia) & a few major lang families (i.e. Salishan, Siouan, Tibeto-Burman, Tupí, Pama-Nyungan, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Austro-Asiatic, Mayan, Cushitic, & Uto-Aztecan). is this enough? peace — ishwar  (SPEAK) 15:18, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)
  • Spatial tense. This article should be written from a Lojban grammar perspective, and certainly should not start with the sentence: Spatial tenses are a category of tenses not found in English. See its talk for an extensive discussion.
    • Done from a Lojban perspective, still needs natural language examples (if Hopi does indeed have spatial tense). --Pablo D. Flores 14:38, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
      • You've done great work. I don't think natural languages have it and I think I made a clear case on why not at its talk page. I think this one can be moved to 'Satisfactory'. — mark ✎ 15:48, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Onomatopoeia. Universal phenomenon. Very stubby, needs cleanup. What is worse, at present it only includes English examples (mainly sounds of animals).
    • Not anymore, since it includes many non-English examples, as well as popular cultural references, which are mainly from Western and Japanese comic books, comic strips, animated television programs, and manga. Johnny Au (talk) 22:02, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Pronoun. English only.

Agriculture and horticultural studies

Agriculture etc.
Agriculture etc.
As of May 2011

Agricultural and horticultural studies. Not typically a 'geek' concern, especially outside of botany as such.

Requested articles

Requests for expansion

Requests for review/attention

  • Farmer - modern and Western (esp. US) bias, nothing on pre-modern farming, farming in the rest of the world
  • Slaughterhouse -- Some debiasing is done. Global and historical persp. needed
  • Food science
  • Dairy science
  • Meat science was listed as needing attention but as of May 2011 it's a redirect to Meat. (should it be a separate topic?)
  • Wool -- the current article is about sheep wool, rather than an overview, while limited information about alpaca wool is relegated to the alpaca article, and other animals such as goats are merely mentioned as alternative sources. As of May 2011 it's still almost all sheep and Oceania.
  • Threshing board - great job recently done translating this from Spanish, but inevitably it show a Spanish/Iberian bias in terminology, coverage, selection of sources, etc. It's a featured article in Spanish, and it's easy to see why, but it will takes some work to get it there in English. - 19:06, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Ethnic minorities or majorities

Under-represented ethnic minorities in the developed world etc. (and other related topics)

List is accurate as of 19 July 2009

Requested articles

  • The Long Road to Freedom: 5 CD compilation of "the heritage of enslaved Africans"; Harry Belafonte started this project in 1961, it was completed only in 2001. Our article on Belafonte mentions it only in passing; I also found a mention of it in Daniel Brown, "Songs of Slavery", Index on Censorship, Volume 36, Number 1, 2007, p. 138–140, but not enough to write from. If someone is familiar with this collection, we should certainly have an article. - Jmabel | Talk 20:56, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Requests for expansion

Requests for review/attention

Satisfactory

Labor issues

labor
labor

Labor related issues. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Organized Labour.



Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Requested articles

Requests for expansion

Requests for review/attention

  • Bill Haywood Important leader in the IWW in the early 20th century. I've made a to-do list; once these items are addressed, I plan on putting it in for peer review and eventually pursuing featured article status. I've pretty much been the sole contributor to this article for quite some time, so any help would be greatly appreciated! --JerryOrr 21:41, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Limited geographic scope

Limited geographic scope
Limited geographic scope

Most of the articles listed on Open Tasks are neglected because of their subject matter. The articles below are internally biased. In other words, they currently deal only with matters in certain countries, and/or often have a U.S. or developed country perspective rather than a global one. Once they have been edited to remove the geographic bias, please place them in the Satisfactory section. The list is split up by groups of letters of the alphabet for ease of navigation and editing.

A–E

  • Interracial adoption is solely from a U.S. perspective, is from a white adoptive family perspective, and lacks information on international adoptions (which can in some cases also be considered interracial).
  • Anti-siphoning law Do non-English-speaking countries (as well as Canada) force the broadcast of major sporting events on terrestrial television? Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 03:25, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Battle axe Lacks examples from Sub-Saharan Africa, even given that the Kongo and the Zulus (Zulu battle axes are called "imbazo") were among the best known Sub-Saharan African peoples to use them for example. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:15, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Battlement As if the concept is only relevant in medieval western European architecture. Lacks a global point of view, although it mentions the Great Wall of China (at the very least, Islamic architecture should be added). See also its talk.
  • Beekeeping Has been a subsistence method from time immemorial for some societies. Article makes it almost look like a Western hobbyist practice.
  • Bimetallism Deals almost exclusively with bimetallism in U.S. history; could use information on Islamic bimetallism and any other non-US historical/modern examples that may exist. Another editor removed {globalize/USA} tag when I added it to the article (twice) but raises no objection to having the tag on the talk page. --Eloil 22:40, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It still is completely American. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 01:35, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

F–M

It is more balanced, but what about continental Europeans, Africans, or Oceanians? Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 21:24, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Labour law Limited to U.S. and U.K. mostly, misses the fact that there are international labor standards.
    • Trade union Some general history, but country-specific information for U.S., UK and Sweden only (excluding half a sentence mentioning China in the introduction).
  • Land mine. Almost entirely about the mines themselves and the countries that make and remove them. Countries plagued by mines are mentioned only in passing.
  • Lawyer/Solicitor Lead has U.S. perspective, only deals with the U.S., UK and Poland.
  • Locomotive and the related Electric locomotive and Diesel locomotive. Articles need added material on European history and usage, without Euro-biased suppression of North American experience. (This problem affects almost every article about rail technology, though most commonly it's the North American side that's missing.)
  • Manga, specifically the International Influences section, which is mostly American with a bit of Europe. ColourBurst 04:47, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Marathon (media) has no non-American examples. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 01:47, 6 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Market town You wouldn't know that trade existed outside of Europe.
  • Marriage too much bias on same-sex marriage—western countries are minority against China, India, Japan and Third World/South America. Article "s.s. marriage already exists". People may consider it "annoying information", just looking for man/woman marriage information. Wikipedia is not a "political platform".
  • Media bias Mainly concerns itself with the U.S. liberal vs. conservative bias discussion.
  • Military cadence Do armed services outside the United States have these?
  • Minor party There are minor political parties in many multi-party states outside of the United States and Australia as well. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 20:15, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Mixed-sex education Brief discussion of history in U.S. only, and some lists. Needs internationalization in any case, and might the subject of women's education in Muslim and developing countries be appropriate here? As of May 2011 there's very brief sections for Hong Kong and France. The UK and China have 3-4 paragraphs. Cloveapple (talk) 18:56, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Model minority Yes, there is information about model minorities outside the United States, but information about the United States takes up the bulk of the article. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 21:41, 22 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Modesty - passes beyond systemic bias into outright chauvinism: modesty norms outside the industrialized Western world are only discussed (and then only briefly) in comparison and contrast to the average Western norm. Even that norm is generalized and ignores real variations between countries, regions, and ethnicities. Discussions of religious and cultural norms are no longer based on mere comparison to the average Western norm. However, still biased heavily in its general discussion of modesty toward generally accepted Western norms. Still needs work.
  • Music genre only US/West, doesn't even mention that there is music in Africa, or that people who are not Western have music at all. More discussion about "honky tonk" than about entire continents!

N–Z

Religion

Islam, Muslims, the Muslim World, and Baha'i

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Islam, Wikipedia:List of missing Middle Eastern topics
See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Islam#Theology-centrism?—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 22:41, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)

Requests for expansion

  • Al-islam.org Apparently a large & popular website and forum (most popular, according to Yahoo) regarding Shia Islam, but the article is severely a stub.
  • Shalash al-Iraqi - I started this article after reading about him on an Iraqi's blog, and after doing some research I was unable to find any information on him that wasn't from other bloggers. I ended up using these as references anyway, I know that's not the ideal Wikipedia standard, but the blogs seem to suggest that he's very notable in Iraq. Is there anyone who has read a print article about him or can translate better web sources from Arabic, perhaps? Also, I'd appreciate a message on my talk page if this article is nominated for deletion. --Grace 07:28, 13 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Requests for review

  • Sünbül Efendi - this article has been posted to VfD. I believe the topic is notable but there is an issue with transcription: apparently the correct spelling would be Sümbül Efendi (alternate Sünbül Efendi). Google returns 179 results but most of them not in English. There are also alternate spellings like Sümbül Efendi, Sünbül Efendi, Şeyh Sümbül, Sümbül Sinan, Sünbül Sinan etc.--AYArktos 22:09, 9 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Bahá'í Faith--Currently the editing of this entry (and related entries) is dominated by Baha'is, who take the opportunity to downplay criticisms and in general slant their information in predictable directions. Please consider this a call for non-Baha'i editors to come have a look at the site, and help ensure balance. Thank you. Dawud 10:44, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Evangelical Protestantism

  • Carlton Pearson - Tulsa, Oklahoma-based African American preacher and theologian, long a protegé of Oral Roberts—also an advisor to Bush on faith-based initiatives, had a TV show, etc.,—whose theology began to change in the late 1990s, when he decided that there is no Hell (or, more precisely, turned around to a rather existentialist view of Hell being something we make on earth, but not part of the afterlife). This eventually evolved into the Doctrine of Inclusion: that everyone is saved. As a result, his enormous Higher Dimensions [4] megachurch slowly collapsed, though, with his new theology, he again has a congregation numbering at least into the hundreds. Fascinating figure. Recent hour-long radio story about him on This American Life [5], but as of when I'm writing they haven't archived it to a permanent address. Founder of a Christian music festival that I believe is called Azuza, as well. -- Jmabel | Talk 19:24, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Giving undue weight to heterodox economics and pseudoeconomics

Since economics tend to be an issue mired in politics, pseudoeconomics are frequently invoked in political discourse and by many average people who discuss economic issues. On Wikipedia, the largest problem seems to be the promotiong of monetary crankery, by New World Order conspiracy theorists and Libertarian supporters of Austrian economics. Several articles on monetary theory currently violate WP:FRINGE. However, occasionally radical Marxists also abuse Wikipedia in the same way. Because the average person is not educated in economics, they may not be aware of the fringe-status of Austrian and Marxist arguments when they are presented, or that may not recognize a certain argument as "Marxist" or "Austrian" when it is presented. However, articles related to criticism of John Maynard Keynes and Keynesian economics could use expansion...

Requests for review

And any articles involved Austrian and Marxist economics.

Nature (biology, chemistry, physics and related)

Requested articles

Requests for expansion

  • mating - This article is a stub and should discuss more about animal mating, apart from copulation, like the behavior of animals that court or of social animals that nurture their offspring in pairs.
  • snail - This article is underdeveloped and doesn't discuss in more detail the different taxons of snails. Also, there may be some inaccuracies.
  • tool - The section regarding tool use in animals, while having numerous references, doesn't say much besides that monkeys & other primates, ravens, and sea otters have been observed using tools. Could be expanded.
  • Chinese astronomy - 3000 years of history and until recently was a single sentence. Above all, something should be added about astronomy in China today, to counter any perception that Chinese science is only about the past. Please help counter the bias against nonwestern science in this and other history of science articles.

Requests for review

  • Electrical engineering - This article is currently focusing on the North American meaning of the term. European and Global use seems to indictate the separation of the terms Electrical and Electronic into different fields.
  • sex - This article focuses too much on the human aspect of sex and does not discuss essential things about sex like genetics, biology, biological evolution and origin of sex, etc.
  • Pregnancy (mammals) - The word "pregnancy" instead of "gestation" in the title of the article is dubious.
  • sexual intercourse
  • sexual reproduction

Perspective biases

Soviet history

Many articles about the Soviet Union rely on information from anti-Soviet sources. Both pro- and anti-Soviet sources can be greatly biased. Where possible, cite the sources used, and try to find balance. GRuban 14:50, 1 March 2006 (UTC) (greatly condensing Paranoid 17:00, 17 July 2005 (UTC))[reply]

  • Please review Axis powers where Soviet Union is shown as an ally of Nazi Germany, while Spain even not shown as a Nazi collaborator state.--Certh 09:43, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Um, did you read the article at all? It mentions that the Soviet Union was at one time an ally of Germany (which it was), but of course goes on to say how that changed after Operation Barabarosa. And there is a section discussion Spain's (and Portugal's) collaboration with Germany. I see no systemic bias in that article... --JerryOrr 12:26, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

People with disabilities; disability studies

I think most Wikipedians do not consider themselves people with disabilities. Therefore, things such as the sociology, history, psychology, language, etc. of disabilities do not get covered in too much detail. We do have a very nice, somewhat long List of disability rights activists, but a lot of the articles are redlinks. Some of the articles that are not redlinks go to articles about people other than the ones mentioned on the page, and need to be disambiguated; a few other are pages of politicians, whose pages need to be checked for mention in their involvement for disability rights. Also, the vast majority of people on the list, if not all of them, are from the Western world.

Requests for articles

Requests for expansion

Underrepresented occupations

*Pipefitter redirects to Plumber and pipefitting redirects to Pipefitter - fixed but needs expansion --Bookgrrl 05:01, 9 December 2006 (UTC) *Steamfitter - no article - redirected to pipefitting since everything I found everywhere including the trades description lumped the two together --Bookgrrl 05:01, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

General comment: one reason many of these articles do not exist, or are still stubs is that potential contributors have no model for a successful article on a profession. If one of the more complete articles could be improved into a featured article, this might help Wikipedians in filling these needs. -- llywrch 17:29, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I agree, are there any jobs that are FA status? Engineer, or Software writer maybe? Kevlar67 02:36, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Non-English-speaking Scientists

Numerous notable non-US/English scientists have no entries in Wikipedia. Ways to help include looking through award-winning scientists, Category:Awards by country, List of members of the National Academy of Sciences,

  • Uncredited scientific achievements should be credited in the appropriate articles, with links to the scientists.
  • Scientific "pedigrees" that include notable students or advisors should be added where appropriate. Generally advisors listed near the top with graduate and postdoc work. Notable students may be mentioned in a single paragraph about the lab and/or influences of the scientist.

Merging overrepresented content

In addition to adding new content to underrepresented areas, we should also work on minimizing content in overrepresented ones. It is easy to generate a hundred 1k articles out of 3k of text, if you break it up poorly and repeat yourself for a long intro paragraph in each of a hundred stubs, rather than making a single, concise page including them all.

Subjects to watch for:

  • Star Wars characters and locales
  • Star Trek characters and locales
  • J. R. R. Tolkien-related characters and locales
  • any modern television show (one article per episode summary, per throwaway character) -- particularly American and Japanese cartoons
  • any serialized media: comic strips, comic books, serial stories, 10-part novels. In each case, figure out what the right chunk-size is for the text...
  • slang or jargon (can be moved to Wiktionary, or combined into topical pages with the history of that jargon type, not one page per term)
  • Rapid transit, light rail transit, and bus rapid transit stations (should be combined into articles about individual rapid transit lines instead if the stations themselves are not notable)

These are all topics that should be in Wikipedia; and none of the existing content needs to be removed; but repeated content, and generation of hundreds of stubs rather than one or two good articles, is bad for readers, for categorizers, for quality-editors, and for the 'random article' feature.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Sj (talk • contribs)

Not really sure what this has to do with countering systemic bias... --JerryOrr 11:30, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It is relevant to systemic bias - contributors' systemic bias leads to these short messy articles. It isn't really what this project focuses on, though, which is more to do with filling in neglected areas. See umpteen discussions about choosing a less misleading name if you're interested. --Cherry blossom tree 22:34, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
isn't this akin to granting equality to cripples by chopping everyone else's legs off? certain topics are under-represented, so let's lower the representation of others to match? why not leave the content alone, and add new content for the under-represented areas, even if they're just stubs (might entice new editors familiar in those topics)? --Dak (talk) 03:50, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of articles every Wikipedia should have

I'm not sure this belongs here, but it seems relevant to this WikiProject -- please feel free to move it to a more appropriate place (and drop me a note).

The meta:List of articles every Wikipedia should have is about as Eurocentric and USA-centric as it could be. I just added a comment at meta:Talk:List of articles every Wikipedia should have#Euro-centric arguing that this is a serious problem. Perhaps attention from people in this project with more experience in these matters might help.

Joriki (talk) 22:14, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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