Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Human rights

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This article is part of WikiProject Human rights, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Human rights on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.

1 Project directory
2 Wikipedia Day Awards
3 Userbox
4 Happy King Day
5 Slavery WikiProject
6 Youth rights are human rights
7 Categorization of Human Rights Organizations

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 20:25, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 22:33, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox

We need a userbox - does anyone know how to make one? I'll start searching for an icon to use. Nina Odell 18:21, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi, just signed up. I've made a start on a UserBox for the project. You can find it here {{User Human Rights Project}} (reproduced below). Obviously we need an icon. Any idea what colour you want it to be? WJBscribe ^{(WJB talk)} 00:18, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

I've used a set of scales as the temperory photo but its still pretty similar to the Wikiproject Law template. Any ideas for something new and distinctive? WJBscribe ^{(WJB talk)} 00:36, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

I've included a second version. Its different but maybe a bit overdramatic?WJBscribe ^{(WJB talk)} 01:45, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Happy King Day

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won; you earn it and win it in every generation. - Coretta Scott King (attributed)

Image:Martin Luther King Jr NYWTS 5.jpg|From Commons. NinaOdell | Talk 13:13, 15 January 2007 (UTC) </gallery>

[edit] Slavery WikiProject

It would be great to have an organized wikiproject on slavery. A lot of these articles need expansion or contain errors and other problems. I don't have the time to lead the project myself, but I thought some of you here might be interested in forming a slavery subproject some day, so I thought I'd drop a suggestion on this page. Richard001 02:12, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm in! I can focus on the USA. We ought to try to make this international, though. How do we start a project? futurebird 02:15, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Part of a series of articles on...


1739 Stono Rebellion 1741 New York Insurrection 1805 Chatham Manor 1800 Gabriel Prosser (Suppressed) 1811 Charles Deslandes (Suppressed) 1815 George Boxley (Suppressed) 1816 Fort Blount Revolt 1822 Denmark Vesey (Suppressed) 1831 Nat Turner's rebellion 1839 Amistad 1854 Pottawatomie Massacre 1859 John Brown This box: view • talk • edit

I made this cute little infobox a week ago, but all of these pages need a lot of help. And I worry I might have left a few revolts out. Could we start with this?futurebird 02:21, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

The best thing to do would be to add a proposal on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals page, and maybe put a note on a couple of the more important article talk pages and related project talk pages announcing the proposal. Then, if you get enough support, you'll know that the project has a decent hope of actually working. Badbilltucker 02:29, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Youth rights are human rights

Hello all. There is definitely a ton of info out there to justify this project, and I'm sure the users will come pouring in. I would like to join the WikiProject Human Rights, and in doing so, I want to usher in a formidible analysis that has been excluded from the Project so far: Youth rights. There are a large number of articles in Wikipedia that deal with the many angles of youth rights, and I will include them as well. - Freechild 04:48, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Categorization of Human Rights Organizations

Hello! I joined this project to promote better categorization of human rights related article, particularly as it pertains to human rights' organizations. Presently, human rights organizations can be found in: