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elcome to the Wikipedia Occupy Project. This project is a collaboration on the organization of all Occupy Wall Street related articles and related images and media. This is an attempt to improve all articles by listing and rating within the guidelines and policy of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation towards the eventual goal of GA or better. This project will work together with other projects and editors to better research, write, attribute and reference the existing articles, bring other articles under the project scope and merge and/or split existing articles with an "OWS" subject or within the project scope. Other articles also under the projects scope include Charging Bull, Zucotti Park and Wall Street.
WikiProject OWS encompasses all articles with subjects in relation to the Occupy Wall Street occupations, protests and demonstrations. This includes all personalities with articles or notable enough to create an article for, as well as subjects with strong or reasonably notable context to OWS such as the Guy Fawkes masks and Income inequality.
Please help with our current collaboration: Thirty Meter Telescope protests
The Thirty Meter Telescope protests are a series of protests and demonstration that began on the Island of Hawaii in the United States with the choosing of Mauna Kea as the site location for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on the most sacred mountain of the Native Hawaiian people. Protests began locally within the state of Hawaii but went global within weeks after the arrest of nearly two dozen Indigenous peoples, aging between 27 to 75 years of age, who had blockaded the roadway to keep construction crews off the summit.
The TMT, a ground-based, large segmented mirror reflecting telescope is a response from scientists, answering a recommendation that a thirty meter telescope be the priority of scientists, suggesting it be built within the decade. Opposition to the project had begun shortly after the announcement of Mauna Kea as the site chosen out of a total of 5 proposals. Opposition against the observatories on Mauna kea have been ongoing since the first telescope was proposed in 1968 however, this protest may be the most vocal.
If you would like to change the collaboration, make sure the current collaboration has stood for one month and click here!.Collaboration notes
References need to be double checked. Consistent application of the MOS Hawaii for general information and orthography. Expand the article to include section on social media aspect. More detail on blockade and current camp of protesters on Mauna Kea.--Mark Miller (talk) 06:51, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
The project's article assessment guidelines are located here: WikiProject OWS – Assessment. The project welcomes all editors to be bold and assess articles themselves if they so wish however, any editor can request members here to review an article they created or contributed to greatly, if they wish outside, or project level rating.
WikiProject OWS follows all Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Please remember the five pillars of the Wikipedia community. Always remain civil and never edit war.
Wikipedia is an open and freely edited encyclopedia. Many of its editors have expertise in many different areas. For this reason many editors are close to subjects they edit. This is to be expected. Any editor may edit, even articles that are about themselves; they simply must not do anything unduly self-serving or that removes correctly attributed and well written information. Many editors will be supporters of the "Occupy Movement" and even some may be very close to events or the subject. The project itself is not partisan and welcomes both supporters and critics as well as those with any passing interest in the overall subject.
When editing an "OWS" related article:
- Remember to be as impartial as possible even if you support the movement or dislike it very much.
- All related articles should have the project banner on the talk page with a rating (when applicable). All articles without a rating are NA. You may choose to list an article with the project but feel it is not appropriate for a class or importance rating. When this occurs, rate as NA for both. If it is a project talk page this will be auto generated for class, but not importance. You may rate a project talk page no higher than mid importance.