Talk:Woman of color

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This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Dussink.

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Article photo

Why was the picture of women from the West Indian Day Parade chosen for this article? There seems to be no indication that the presumably West Indian women in the photo identify as "women of color". The term "women of color" is an identity, commonly held by women with anti-racist/feminist activist and social justice viewpoints, and is not a self-identity for all women who are non-White or of non-European descent. A different photo should be used. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 19:57, 19 April 2017 (UTC) A better picture needs to be placed under this topic. I imagine a different image when I think of "Women of color". Students may not understand. Msweezy 3 (talk) 10:49, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Unexplained cleanup tags

@IgnorantArmies: There are now several cleanup tags on this article including a {{POV}} tag, but I don't notice anything wrong with this article's "neutrality." Did you add these tags for any particular reason? Jarble (talk) 20:30, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

It appears that these tags were added by a sock puppet account, so I removed them from this article. Jarble (talk) 20:31, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

• I'm not a sockpuppet. This is my work account for Wiki Education, so it falls under the acceptable reasons for me to have an alt account. My main account is also listed on my profile page and my alternate accounts are listed on my main account's userpage as well, so everything is kosher.

The reason I marked the page with those tags is because it needed improvement - it was one of several pages that had been edited by one of the classes supported by WikiEd. One of the students that edited this page added content that could be helpful, however it was written like a personal reflection essay or academic paper. Rather than write the content in a neutral, encyclopedic tone, they wrote it in a style intended to persuade the reader to see things from their point of view and looked to have included some mild original research as well. (On a side note they also name dropped studies but didn't give the full names of the researchers, something that's not entirely helpful since the researchers' names are fairly common ones and it makes it harder to link to their articles if they have one.) They also had some issues with sourcing, as they tried to source their additions to things like Wikipedia itself. It's mostly stuff that would've been perfectly fine in something they were writing for class (minus using Wikipedia as a source - I don't know any teachers would be OK with that), but not so good for Wikipedia. A look at the page shows that the overall article needs to get a facelift. It's not that the information in the page or the information added by the student is particularly wrong, just that it needs to be re-tooled to fit Wikipedia's MoS.

I'm reposting that from Jarble's page so I don't have to retype things. Also, here's an example of the POV and essay-like writing in the article:

With such an underwhelming amount of representation she gives us hope by stating how we can help turn the tide.

A neutrally written, encyclopedic article shouldn't use terms like "us" or make a persuasive remark to the reader. Again, it doesn't mean that the article would be bad if we examined it as an academic paper, but an academic paper isn't the same as an encyclopedia article. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 12:49, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Grammatical Edit

I added an Oxford comma to a sentence within the introduction. Cg2727 (talk) 22:33, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

I added a comma, a semicolon, and an a word to the first section. I also feel as though the wording of the article could be articulated in a more neutral and simple manner. Krissy thomas (talk) 04:53, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

Edits within the "In Television" section

I worked on the formatting of the "In Television" section by changing the single, large paragraph into several paragraphs. This makes the section easier to read.

I also added information regarding the common negative stereotypes of African American women in television.

I plan to add more information regarding other stereotypes of other women of color. Cg2727 (talk) 00:28, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Grammar - particularly amount/number

When relating to women, men, children, people, soldiers, etc, then the use of 'amount' as a quantitative description just doesn't cut it. The correct term is 'number'. Each of the components of these entities is an individual, not a lump of gravel. Please refer to Wikipedia information on grammatical usage. Neils51 (talk) 10:52, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Contribution Plan

I hope to contribute within the “Media Representation” section of the article. This section touches on some aspects of media representation of women of color, but could cover quite a bit more—especially the prevalent stereotypes that are almost always present. I plan to add information about how various women of color are represented in television. There is a section titled “In Television” and I think I will move that to be a subheading under “Media Representation,” and will then put my contribution under that. The two sections have information that overlap quite a bit, and essentially talk about the same concepts, so it would be appropriate to combine them in some manner. It would also be efficient to be more specific and accurate with headings and the information under each.

I plan to go through each of these groups and discuss the stereotypes that are frequently associated with them in television and film: African American Women, Hispanic Women, Asian American/ Asian Women, Latinas, Arab American/ Arab Women, and Native American Women.

I found various credible sources which provide me with information and research that I will be using. I plan to remain neutral throughout my contribution, and follow all Wikipedia standards. Cg2727 (talk) 16:43, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

I have added this contribution. Cg2727 (talk) 13:48, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

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Requested move 12 February 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (non-admin closure) Colonestarrice (talk) 19:59, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

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Women of color → Woman of color – Per WP:SINGULAR, as we usually title articles as singular; and per WP:CONSISTENT, for consistency with similar articles like Person of color and Woman that are titled in the singular. Rreagan007 (talk) 21:24, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

• Support Per WP:PLURAL. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 05:25, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

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