Wikipedia talk:WikiProject OWS/Archive 1

Archive 1

Project banner and infobox are enabled

I have created the needed pages and links for the new project banner and infobox. Coming up I will create an alternative banner for unrated articles.--Amadscientist (talk) 09:55, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

I've added the project banner to articles listed under Category:Occupy Wall Street. I've also done assessments. Feel free to reassess where needed. Several of the C-class articles are fairly close to B-class and I may have misjudged some. Gobōnobo ^{+ c} 01:09, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you!--Amadscientist (talk) 07:52, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Name

This project should be consistent as to whether it is called WikiProject Occupy vs. WikiProject OWS (I prefer the former, since I see Occupy Wall Street as a single event within the greater Occupy movement). I think this is a great idea for a WikiProject. Members will certainly have much work to do as there is a lot of inconsistency between Occupy-related articles, numerous merge discussions, other debates, etc. I hope this project can generate a quality set of articles for the betterment of Wikipedia. I will be watching this group closely! --Another Believer _(Talk) 23:17, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

I would support using WikiProject Occupy as well. Virtually all of the individual groups use "Occupy" in their names, even though Occupy Wall Street was the original. Gobōnobo ^{+ c} 01:00, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Hey...don't look at me. It was just the proposal page and then the page was moved before discussion. Moving the page at this point however...would entail work due to the amount of links now set up and a redirect may cause some confusion and errors but is not impossible. I have done it before....I could do it here. We should let this be fully discussed to gain full consensus before we act.--Amadscientist (talk) 07:50, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

My preference and the original idea was to name the actual project WikiProject Occupy Wall Street. The project is not movement associated and is geared towards the subject itself. OWS is the starting point and the basis for the scope. Naming OWS is a pretty good compromise if you think about it.--Amadscientist (talk) 23:58, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Template:WikiProject OWS

I don't think this template should place articles within the Occupy Wall Street category. This category should be reserved for Occupy-relatead Wikipedia articles, not project-related articles. --Another Believer _(Talk) 01:45, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

So, just use it on actual Wikipedia articles and not on project space talk pages? Gobōnobo ^{+ c} 03:32, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Most projects add templates to talk pages of project pages. I am just not sure how to add project pages to Category:WikiProject OWS rather than Category:Occupy Wall Street. Again, Wikipedia articles belong in the latter category; project pages belong in the project category. --Another Believer _(Talk) 15:05, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Correction. The Template does not place the articles into the Occupy Wall Street Category. That is being done manually for top importance articles within the scope of OWS as a subject, not just because it is within the scope of the project. Occupy-relatead Wikipedia articles do not all have the word "Occupy" in them.--Amadscientist (talk) 07:45, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

What do you mean the template does not place pages into the Occupy Wall Street category? Just click on the Occupy Wall Street category at the bottom of this page, look under the "W" section and you will see many project pages there. Perhaps I am misunderstanding something. --Another Believer _(Talk) 15:07, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

No, I think I was misunderstanding what you were referring to. Let me look at the template and the guidelines and other project templates to double check, but i take it your major issue is the project banner itself placing the talk page itself into the category and you feel that is not appropriate. If this is correct we can deal with that.--Amadscientist (talk) 23:05, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Looking into this and will see if this is being done properly, but I can say the the category in question, has talk pages that have been added that do not have the project banner. From guidelines, I am unclear that using the topic "Occupy Wall Street" in the Banner Project "Category" was innappropriate. I am not sure if adding a project template to a talkpage and having that template categorize the talk page into that sorting, for assessment and other automated tasks etc., is wrong.--Amadscientist (talk) 23:26, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Nope...I think I see what needs to be done. Correcting now.--Amadscientist (talk) 23:33, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Got it. The "MAIN CATEGORY" is "WikiProject OWS" for the banner to categorize the "talk page" to our category. Done!  Done--Amadscientist (talk) 23:37, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. --Amadscientist (talk) 23:39, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

I could really use some OWS help on an article

Hi guys. I'm an airline pilot. You may know that 700 of us marched at the OWS demonstrations on Sept 13th 2011. I'm trying to bring the corporate robber-Barron tactics that airline management uses against the working class to light in my new article Problems facing airline pilots. Well, wouldn't you know it, as soon as I published it, it has found immediate opposition. On my talk page there are even suggestions of nominating it for deletion. If the article is indeed written from a POV, then I'd like help making it sound more neutral. AS I'm sure you guys would agree, it's hard for someone who is losing their shirt in the process of class warfare to have as neutral a perspective as possible. I'll need your support both in editing the article and keeping it in existence. Thanks very much. --XB70Valyrie (talk) 17:53, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Here is the official recommendation for deletion Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Problems facing airline pilots --XB70Valyrie (talk) 18:55, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Chance for a DYK nomination

I've created Continental Congress 2.0 per Ne0's request. Any help/expansion would be really appreciated, because if we jump to it the project might get (it's first?) Did You Know spotlight on the main page. benzband (talk) 17:52, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

India Against Corruption

There's an active Anti-Corruption movement in India that is being suppressed by the current government through Innternet Censorship. Should we bring it under Occupy OWS, or should I create a new WikiProject for it ? I was thinking of creating "India TaskForce" under OWS. --Ne0 (talk) 15:30, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Criticism of General Assemblies

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/12/a-eulogy-for-occupy/all/

This piece, which is otherwise very pro-Occupy in tone and content, is sharply critical of General Assemblies (or at least what they eventually became). I was disappointed to see that the current wikipedia article on general assemblies is very one-sided and idealistic in tone, with leading statements like "Newcomers have sometimes indulged in soapboxing on their first speech, but folk typically soon chose to respect the process" that aren't sourced from their citations. I'd really like to read more examples of how General Assemblies worked in practiced and how they deteriorated (if they did), but the current article is really light on actual information.

I'd like to dramatically restructure this article and take the shift away from the more theoretical aspects, but figured I'd discuss it first and see if any of the current editors had any existing plans to change it. 86.173.92.238 (talk) 06:49, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Move

Proposed to move to "WikiProject Occupy Wall Street" for greater clarity. Rich Farmbrough, 16:23, 25 August 2012 (UTC).

Was about to suggest the same thing since coming across this. benzband (talk) 16:33, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Why not "WikiProject Occupy movement", since the scope of the project is not just the New York protests.Rangoon11 (talk) 16:36, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

I'm happy with that. Rich Farmbrough, 16:47, 2 September 2012 (UTC).

Yeah. benzband (talk) 16:57, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

• Support move to WikiProject Occupy movement. Gobōnobo ^{+ c} 11:10, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Occupy Melbourne is exerting personal pressure on me over a wikipedia edit

This is regarding Occupy Melbourne. http://occupymelbourne.net/2013/02/20/editgate-cyberwar-continuesthe-same-occupy-melbourne-wikipedia-page-edits-redone-but-now-from-biomathematics-and-statistics-scotland/

I believe that I have simply adhere to WP:OR and WP:Verifiability. I have stated that they can undergo usual wikipedia abitration procedures if they disagree. Instead they are posting my personal details online and issuing an ultimatum.

Can someone look into this situation please.--Fangz (talk) 00:48, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

I will look into this.--Amadscientist (talk) 01:31, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Continental Congress 2.0

The Continental Congress 2.0 article, which I created per a request on the project's to-do list, has been been proposed for deletion by User:Thargor Orlando. benzband (talk) 22:41, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

It has now been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Continental Congress 2.0. benzband (talk) 22:07, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Worldwide wave of action

Any thoughts on Worldwide wave of action#RfC: One week in, virtually nothing? Did the Worldwide Wave of Action, supposedly a sequel to OWS, happen and, if not (as seems to be the case), was this ever a genuine article? Should it be revised or deleted? —Largo Plazo (talk) 12:34, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

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WikiProject X is live!

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