Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wikipedians against censorship

Grants:IEG/Wikipedia likes Galactic Exploration for Posterity 2015

Dear Fellow Wikipedians,

I JethroBT (WMF) suggested that I consult with fellow Wikipedians to get feedback and help to improve my idea about "As an unparalleled way to raise awareness of the Wikimedia projects, I propose to create a tremendous media opportunity presented by launching Wikipedia via space travel."

Please see the idea at meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikipedia_likes_Galactic_Exploration_for_Posterity_2015. Please post your suggestions on the talk page and please feel free to edit the idea and join the project.

Thank you for your time and attention in this matter. I appreciate it.

My best regards, Geraldshields11 (talk) 21:19, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

this looks like a dead project...

or is it not ? I ve read up and down and see no activity. I saw a huge membership list of 600 people most from before 2014, 1 addition 2015.

I dont know and am waiting to find out, if anybody of the supposed 177 watchers really watches this page...

More to the point, I am wondering why this project never took on censorship outside "indecency", which is a small part and not what comes first to people's mind usually. --Wuerzele (talk) 21:23, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

@Wuerzele:Please see WT:WikiProject Freedom of speech. — Cirt (talk) 23:36, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Quantum_anthropology help

Hi! I wrote an article about emerging field of anthropology and it is threaten by deletion (probably from people who are interested in another fields). So if somebody has a time for a quick view and discussion (keep or delete) the article will be glad! Wikiditor (talk) 08:53, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Critical Topic/Subject Project

This is a critical subject topic / project. There is also a seemingly increasing degree of censorship happening on Wikipedia articles by mob rule aka tyranny of (quite small) majorities. Why is this not receiving more attention??!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fatbatsat (talk • contribs) 11:22, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Eskimo

The article titled eskimo is being repeatedly censored by a small group of users. The word means "one who nets snoeshoes" [see Goddard, 1984], but there is a folk etymology that it means "eaters of raw meat", hence it was thought to be a pejorative term by a lot of people for quite awhile. Some people, whether through this ignorance or for some other reason, nonetheles still consider it offensive, but it there is no actual replacement term which encompasses all Inuit and Yupik peoples (nor, arguably, the Aleut). The aforesaid small group of users is concerned about political correctness, and repeatedly deletes or papers over references to the correct etymology, and removes any information connecting the false etymology to the perceived offensiveness of the word, and possible unintentional deception, i.e. appeal to ignorance (argumentum ad ignorantium). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fatbatsat (talk • contribs) 11:32, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Educational Reading

• Donna Patrick (10 June 2013). Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 2–. ISBN 978-3-11-089770-8. OCLC 1091560161.
• Archie Hobson, ed. (2004). The Oxford Dictionary of Difficult Words. Oxford University Press. pp. 160–. ISBN 978-0-19-517328-4. OCLC 250009148.
• Constance Backhouse; Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History (1 January 1999). Colour-coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950. University of Toronto Press. pp. 27–. ISBN 978-0-8020-8286-2. OCLC 247186607.
• John Steckley (1 January 2008). White Lies about the Inuit. University of Toronto Press. pp. 21–. ISBN 978-1-55111-875-8. OCLC 1077854782.
• McElroy, A. (2007). Nunavut Generations: Change and Continuity in Canadian Inuit Communities. Waveland Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-4786-0961-2. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
• Louis-Jacques Dorais (2010). Language of the Inuit: Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the Arctic. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. pp. 297–. ISBN 978-0-7735-3646-3. OCLC 1048661404.

Online News Act concerns

There is a discussion that may be of interest to this Wikiproject at Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF)/Archive 6#Online News Act. Regards, Thinker78 (talk) 00:39, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

About deletion of Behzad Qasemi (Hacktivist)

@Garshaasp:, I am starting this thread to address your post at WikiProject Wikipedians against censorship. There was a discussion about this deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Behzad Qasemi (Hacktivist).

I understand your concerns as I also am in general concerned about the topic of censorship. At one point I may have wanted to include every possible article in Wikipedia. But nowadays I understand also why there is a limit in the articles published. There certainly needs to be a fair balance between censorship and inclusion. In Wikipedia there may not be a perfect balance as such balance is really a range of a gray area. Some editors favor inclusion, others favor deletion.

Check the pages about consensus and the bold, revert, discuss cycle so your articles stand more chance of getting published or at least you know more about why they get rejected.

(PS: To other editors, I know the editor is blocked but I respond out of principle because they contacted this wikiproject with their concerns beforehand and it's not possible to post in the talk page of a deleted page to keep it there, as guidance of this wikiproject otherwise states.)

Regards, Thinker78 (talk) 20:15, 7 October 2023 (UTC)