jmabel, can you provide wikilinks to pages containing the sort of templates that you would like to employ here? tks --Ling.Nut 21:37, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Ling.Nut clarified on my user talk page that he was talking about evaluation templates. He also suggested that we look at WikiProject Mesoamerica and {{WP Mesoamerica}} as a model for this. I'm all for that, but it sounds like neither Ling.Nut nor I are likely to get to this any time in the next couple of months.
Looking at that project also reminds me: I was only a few months into my time on Wikipedia when I starte this one, and I slavishly followed the suggestion at the time for how to set up a Wikiproject. There is probably a lot we could do better in the presentation of information on this project. I promise to get to this within a few months if no one beats me to it, but I'd be thrilled if someone else who knows what they are doing carries the ball sooner. -- Jmabel | Talk 04:08, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
See discussion here: Wikipedia_talk:Africa-related_regional_notice_board#Free_books. - Francis Tyers ยท 14:15, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
Thanks!--Ling.Nut 21:34, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Pashtun people is up for Featured article review here. The review period has just started so there'll be plenty of time to address concerns. Anyone interested may leave suggestions on the review to ensure the page retains Featured article status. Marskell 11:37, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
When we set up the rating system, I was saying we should leave out "importance" because I thought this would only be ethnic groups as such. But now that I see the start of a list of articles, I see I was wrong. We have topics like Fort Mose Historic State Park and List of Scottish Americans.
The importance categories used on Wikipedia are "Top", "High", "Mid", "Low".
So maybe the approach is something like:
I'm not as sure what would go in "Mid" vs. "Low"; it is a matter of what would have broad interest... - Jmabel | Talk 07:49, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
... are not an ethnic group, only a language minority in Finland. This has been discussed on the F-S talk page, and the consensus was that F-S are the same ethnicity as Finnish people, at least nowadays. Read what the article says, in the "Identity" section! --Janke | Talk 07:03, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
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 20:27, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
This talk page contains many comments which I regard as racist against this ethnoc grouping. I believe they should be removed. Can I remove these comments or is this against policy? Downunda 02:43, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
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Deleting the comments of other users from Talk pages other than your own, aside from removing internal spam, vandalism, etc. is generally considered vandalism. Removing personal attacks is often considered legitimate, and it is considered acceptable to archive an overly long Talk page to a separate file and then remove the text from the main Talk page.
The comments I read were quite prejudiced, but not precisely personal attacks or vandalism. I suspect it flies below the threshold of things that are brought to any admin attention... I'll look into this!--Ling.Nut 03:46, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
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Ling.Nut 15:45, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Ethnic groups have to be ascertainable in objective terms. The clearest one of these is endogamy. It may not always be so easy to gauge since marriage stats don't always include ethnic identifiers, and not all groups have been examined for characteristic average genetic frequencies, but without endogamy, ethnicity is reduced to membership in a cultural club, and becomes almost entirely a matter of choice, i.e. subjective. Tmangray 18:01, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Tamil people has been brought to FAR. Please be there and comment. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 15:46, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
The American Anthropological Association Statement on "Race" (May 17, 1998).
Apparantly Wikipedia does not take into account the "the contemporary thinking and scholarly positions of a majority of anthropologists" on the issue of ethnicity. -- Stbalbach 18:22, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
I was referred here by Stbalbach about how to present the names of historic (i.e. groups of people who either no longer exist or no longer are recognized as identifiable) ethnic groups, for example the Visigoths or Vandals. At the moment, the article about the Germanic people who once ruled over parts of southern France & Spain is at Visigoth; the accepted name for the entire nation is "Visigoths", and I would like to move the article there. However, Stbalbach argues that whatever we call these historic peoples should conform to this Wikiproject's standard -- which, after reading the project page, I am not sure exists yet. Comments, anyone? -- llywrch 19:32, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Romanians is either a high B or a low A. The revert wars etc. seem to have stopped (?). You may wanna assess it. Cheers.--Ling.Nut 02:25, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
I requested a multiple renaming of several ethnic group articles. I hope that you don't mind that I created a subpage at this WikiProject; it looked like the most reasonable place. The survey is at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic groups/Renaming survey. Dujaโบ 11:28, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
In the article Vascon, I have proposed a move to Vascones, now a redirect. It seems obvious to me but I'd like more opinions before I request the move. --Sugaar 18:48, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
I just added a bit of background to the confusing categorization issues regarding the Jingpo/Kachin (same page, different names) in China and Burma/Myanmar. Much of the confusion arises from the troublesome effort (IMHO) by the Burmese, British colonial and Chinese governments to create "ethnic group" or "nationality" categories that map to languages and territory. But never mind that, we have the categories, now how do we make pages that make sense.
Um... this is going to be a lot of fun to sort out. Lots of red links out there that refer to either a language or a sometimes recognized ethnic group, and nearly all should probably redirect here. Before embarking on that, though, we should try to clarify a structure. Key questions:
Using Maru as an example for all the (sub)groups
This is too much work for me alone, so I'm asking for input and creating a space to discuss it; go to the Talk:Jingpo page to chime in.--Carwil 03:17, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Can I add Wikipedia:WikiProject Basque as "descendant". I'm not sure what's the requirements but it seems somehow logical that it is "parented" by this one. --Sugaar 05:50, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Beginning cross-post.
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Correct me if I did it wrong: High priority, B class and needed of some attention.
My biggest doubts are about the class. I think is getting a high B class, it's not just a vague article with disorganized info and edit wars seem to have ceased totally. But I'm not sure if A is better than GA or lower. If it's better A articles can only be those that have been previously nominated as GAs and are approaching FA status. If A is lower than GA, then Basque people might soon deserve an A (after some cleanup I'm going to make tonight). --Sugaar 23:36, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
I am considering proposing this for deletion. It doesn't seem to distinguish between national groups by citizenship and ethnic groups, and the intro definition won't help decide that issue. I see some politically dubious entries (Frisians a "Germanic people", a term only used by the far right), and in any case most of the world's ethnic groups are not on the list. Formal ground for deletion would be maintainability and verifiability (what is not defined can not be checked).Paul111 20:28, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
I've been slowly using this list as guidance for things to evaluate; also looking at the redlinks as article requests. Like Ling.Nut, I was planning to kick into gear on this in about 4 weeks.
On the whole, I'd rather see it cleaned up, organized, and with groups better classified, rather than removing it. I don't have much opinion either way on it as an encyclopedia article, but it is useful to us as notes. If it is to be removed from mainspace, I'd like to see it kept somewhere until we have gone through the list, made sure all of the articles are tagged for this project, etc. - Jmabel | Talk 21:18, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
The proposed grounds for deletion, as I would put them in the AfD are: List has no good definition of what constitutes an ethnic group and inclusion is consequentially unverifiable, list is potentially very large since some sources estimate over 10 000 ethnic groups, list is selective toward USA and groups involved in autonomy disputes. Most of the links come from Template:Female porn biography. I will wait for any more comments here, I still think it is inherently unimprovable as a list.Paul111 11:43, 30 November 2006 (UTC)