Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethnic groups
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- Main Project Page
- Members
- Announcements
- Project category
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- Ethnic group infobox
- Ethnicity navbox
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- Templates category
Here are some open WikiProject Ethnic groups tasks:
- Meta-tasks:
- Place the {{Ethnic groups}} template on the talk page of articles within the scope of this project.
- Resolve the disparity in importance rankings among different ethnic groups
- Place the {{
- Articles about ethnic groups that currently have issues needing resolution:
- Start an article:
Feel free to edit this list or discuss these tasks.
WikiProject Ethnic Groups is a project to coordinate among articles about
A few Wikipedians have gotten together to make some suggestions about how we might organize data in articles about ethnic groups. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!
First, let's start with what this project is not:
- There is no intention of identifying all individuals by ethnic group or even of increasing the number of ethnic or national identifications in Wikipedia.
Let's be clear: ethnicity is a minefield. However, that is all the more reason to have clear and consistent criteria for talking about it when we talk about it.
When this project was founded, Wikipedia had relatively few articles on ethnicities; in particular, discussion of many of the world's most prominent ethnic groups was wholly subsumed into the discussion of a
When this project started in January 2004, we noted that different ethnicities were very differently handled. This still remains somewhat the case. For example, most
As remarked above, this area is a minefield. Ethnic groups have only slightly more epistemological validity than
In addition to the articles on individual ethnicities, this project also relates, in various degrees, to certain ancillary articles which describe concepts that are necessary in order to discuss ethnicities.
Also, almost every biography of a person who is not of the majority ethnicity of the country they are from already notes ethnicity. This project is a place where we can discuss such matters in a context that is not tied to work on one particular ethnicity, and try to reach some consensus by which different ethnicities will be treated in a parallel manner.
Scope
This WikiProject aims primarily to provide guidelines for articles about ethnic groups and nationalities independent of writing about nation-states. The motivation for this came in writing about Eastern Europe, but it should relevant to any other parts of the world.
This project construes the term "ethnic group" in its broadest sense. There may be identifiable ethnic (sub)-groups within an ethnic group (such as the
The scope of the project also extends to such
As of 28 April 2024, there are 7,922 articles within the scope of WikiProject Ethnic groups, of which 9 are featured and 57 are good articles. This makes up 0.12% of the articles on Wikipedia, 0.08% of all featured articles and lists, and 0.14% of all good articles. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 24,454 pages in the project.
Ethnic groups and the burden of evidence
Two facts that are particular to articles within the scope of this WikiProject place a special burden of proof upon editors:
- It is a fact of human nature that discussions become heated over issues which mount a challenge (real or imagined) to the identity that individuals have constructed for themselves. A related fact is that issues of ethnicity (however the term is defined) are all too frequently issues of identity. By extension, the content of pages that are within the scope of this WikiProject can be the source of both heated debate and hasty, unverified assertions.
- Moreover, as Franz Boas pointed out at the beginning of the twentieth century, language, culture, and biological traits vary independently, and no inferences can be made from one to the others in the absence of very precise evidence.
For these reasons, the need for accurately, verifiably and reliably sourced information for articles within the scope of this WikiProject cannot be understated. This is true of all aspects, but is perhaps especially true of concepts that are difficult to define or subject to manipulation. Prime examples of these are the concept of "related groups," as well as population data compiled from different statistical sources. While some facts can be established and verified in these domains, the opportunities for
The content policies and guidelines of Wikpedia (described Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:No original research and Wikipedia:Neutral point of view) give qualified license to the removal of unsourced info at any time by any editor. In these cases, the burden of proof is placed upon the editor who originally added the information.
Parentage
Descendant Wikiprojects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of Australia and also Wikipedia:WikiProject Demographics of Australia
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Pashtun
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Asian Americans
- Wikipedia:WikiProject African diaspora
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Arab world
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Franco-Americans
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Jewish-Americans
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Latinos
Similar Wikiprojects
The similar WikiProjects are WikiProject Clans of Scotland and WikiProject Languages.
The latter can be useful for helping avoid orphaned ethnic-group articles. Ideally, all articles on ethnolinguistic groups should be cross-listed in the corresponding language article. There is an "ethnicity" field in the language info box for this purpose. However, the writers of the language articles may be unfamiliar with which ethnicity articles have been written, so it will be helpful if writers from this project add the links or at least suggest them on the talk page.
Often speakers distinguish "languages" based on ethnicity, while linguistically they may be lumped together. In such cases there may be more than one ethnolinguistic group listed in the language info box.
Participants
See /Members.
Structure
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethnic groups/Template for a prototypical structure of an article about an ethnic group.
Hierarchy definition
No classification of ethnic groups has been defined. However, the notion of hierarchy is potentially relevant, probably yielding a directed acyclic graph, but probably not a simple tree. For example consider:
Semitic peoples | Jews / \ / \ / \ v v Ashkenazim Sephardim \ / \ / \ / v Jewish Americans
Also, there may be a need to consider (necessarily controversial) designations such as nation, subnational group, etc. Mostly, this looks like an issue to postpone for now, and to discuss at
Again, these are just preliminary notes on a subject we have not yet really engaged, and should probably be refined in the
Article naming
As of April 2012, there is no strong consensus on naming of articles about ethnic groups. In the following table the pattern is based on an imaginary
Pattern | Examples |
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Elbonians | Taiwanese aborigines
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Elbonian people | Kurdish people
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Elbonian¹ | Jew
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Ethnic Elbonians | Ethnic Germans
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Elbonians (ethnic group) | Macedonians (ethnic group) |
(other) | Asians in South Africa .
The Youtai do not have an article of their own but are covered at History of the Jews in China |
¹ Since an ethnic group is group of people, a designation in the plural is probably the least ambiguous article title.
Categories and subcategories
There are currently two norms that generally apply in using categories. The
- Articles
- WikiProject
General Strategy and Discussion forum
We use the
Templates
- talk page.
- {{Infobox Ethnic group}} – an infobox for use in articles about ethnic groups. You can (see which articles actually use the infobox.)
- {{Ethnicity}} – navbox
Stubs in this area can be marked with one of the stub types listed at the foot of this page
You also may want to place {{WikiProject Ethnic groups}} on the talk page of articles within the scope of this project. This will show as:
ethnic groups, nationalities, and other cultural identities on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. | ||||||||||||||||||||
NA | This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. | |||||||||||||||||||
Mid | This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale. | |||||||||||||||||||
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Alternatively, you can set the |small=yes option, and the template will appear more compact, as well as right-aligned:
ethnic groups, nationalities, and other cultural identities on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. | ||||
NA | This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. | |||
Mid | This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale. | |||
This article has been marked as needing immediate attention. | ||||
This article has been marked as needing an infobox. | ||||
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Adding this template to a talk page will automatically place the article into Category:WikiProject Ethnic groups articles.
There are also two userboxes available:
Partial list of pages covered by the project
We are currently (October 2006) in the process of switching over to a more automated method of tracking this: Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethnic groups/Assessment. The criteria have also changed somewhat; see Template:WikiProject Ethnic groups and Template talk:WikiProject Ethnic groups.
The rest of this section should evolve into notes on articles where more than routine attention is currently needed.
Note that there is a separate (and very active)
New classification
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Ethnic groups}} project banner on its talk page:
The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):
FA (for featured articles only; adds articles to Category:FA-Class Ethnic groups articles) | FA | |
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Ethnic groups articles) | A | |
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Ethnic groups articles) | GA | |
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Ethnic groups articles) | B | |
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Ethnic groups articles) | C | |
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Ethnic groups articles) | Start | |
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Ethnic groups articles) | Stub | |
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Ethnic groups articles) | FL | |
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Ethnic groups articles) | List |
For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Ethnic groups articles) | NA | |
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Ethnic groups articles) | ??? |
Ethnic groups article statistics
This list is generated automatically every night around 10 PM EST.
Ethnic groups articles by quality and importance | ||||||||
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Quality | Importance | |||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | Other | ??? | Total | |
FA | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||||
FL | 1 | 1 | ||||||
A | 1 | 1 | ||||||
GA | 1 | 16 | 13 | 19 | 2 | 4 | 55 | |
B | 27 | 203 | 126 | 190 | 1 | 131 | 678 | |
C | 32 | 202 | 261 | 524 | 476 | 1,495 | ||
Start | 18 | 307 | 346 | 1,551 | 1,148 | 3,370 | ||
Stub | 1 | 78 | 76 | 959 | 1 | 800 | 1,915 | |
List | 3 | 19 | 26 | 145 | 3 | 78 | 274 | |
NA | 2 | 31 | 28 | 106 | 4,131 | 4,298 | ||
Other | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Assessed | 84 | 857 | 879 | 3,497 | 4,137 | 2 | 2,637 | 12,093 |
Unassessed | 2 | 108 | 110 | |||||
Total | 84 | 857 | 879 | 3,499 | 4,137 | 2 | 2,745 | 12,203 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 36,465 | Ω = 4.85 |
Ancillary articles
Closely related:
- Ethnic group
- Lists of ethnic groups
- Nation
- Nationalism
- Self-determination
Less closely related:
Deletions
Deletion discussions can be viewed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Ethnic groups
Article alerts
Articles for deletion
- 26 Apr 2024 – East Asian identity (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Nederlandse Leeuw (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 20 Apr 2024 – Mutta (tribe) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Boleyn (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 17 Apr 2024 – Qaum (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Chipmunkdavis (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 25 Apr 2024; see discussion (2 participants; relisted)
- 28 Mar 2024 – talk · edit · hist) AfDed by JMWt (t · c) was closed as keep by ToadetteEdit (t · c) on 26 Apr 2024; see discussion(10 participants; relisted)
Proposed deletions
- 17 Apr 2024 – British in Italy (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by ReaganMc101 (t · c) was deproded by Kvng (t · c) on 23 Apr 2024
Categories for discussion
- 27 Apr 2024 – Category:Welsh people by ethnic or national origin (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 22 Apr 2024 – Category:Turkish Cypriot people (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Nederlandse Leeuw (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Apr 2024 – Category:Songs against racism and xenophobia (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Piotrus (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Miscellany for deletion
- 14 Apr 2024 – Draft:Devanga Dharma (talk · edit · hist) MfDed by Zinnober9 (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 22 Apr 2024; see discussion
Good article nominees
Requests for comments
- 20 Apr 2024 – Arab citizens of Israel (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Selfstudier (t · c); see discussion
Peer reviews
- 06 Mar 2024 – Nezak Huns (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by TrangaBellam (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 21 Apr 2024 – Weaponization of antisemitism (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Weaponization of antisemitism accusations by Selfstudier (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Apr 2024 – Arab citizens of Israel (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Palestinian and Arab citizens of Israel by Onceinawhile (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Apr 2024 –
- 21 Apr 2024 –
Articles to be merged
- 14 Feb 2024 – United to End Racism (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Re-evaluation counseling by Mrfoogles (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Jan 2024 – Yugh people (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Yeniseian people by Anonymy365 (t · c); see discussion
- 21 Oct 2023 – Antisemitism in the United States in the 21st century (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Antisemitism in the United States by GnocchiFan (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 12 Mar 2024 – Armenians in China (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 1.36.109.173 (t · c); see discussion
- 24 Jan 2024 – Ukrainians in Russia (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by HappyWithWhatYouHaveToBeHappyWith (t · c); see discussion
- 09 Oct 2023 – Vlachs of Serbia (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Super Dromaeosaurus (t · c); see discussion
- 27 Sep 2023 – Galindians (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Treetoes023 (t · c); see discussion
- 15 Sep 2023 – Irish diaspora (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Shoreranger (t · c); see discussion
- 13 Sep 2023 – Institutional racism (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Shoreranger (t · c); see discussion
- 09 Sep 2023 – Aromanians (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Super Dromaeosaurus (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Jun 2023 – Miscegenation (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Sebbog13 (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Feb 2023 – Laotian diaspora (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 82.58.201.16 (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Feb 2023 – Adi people (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 82.58.201.16 (t · c); see discussion
- (3 more...)
Articles for creation
- 14 Apr 2024 – Draft:Dumb Festival (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by JG1313 (t · c)
- 08 Apr 2024 – Draft:Kohistani Jumlo (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Acidrainwarrior67 (t · c)
- 28 Mar 2024 – Draft:Dalmatian People (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Joy (t · c)
- 25 Mar 2024 – Draft:Udejeen (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Boleyn (t · c)
- 14 Mar 2024 – t · c)
- 14 Feb 2024 – Draft:Caucasian Kurds (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Karkafs Desiderium (t · c)
Open tasks
- Use {{WikiProject Ethnic groups tasks}} to include the template below on your user page or elsewhere.
Here are some open WikiProject Ethnic groups tasks:
- Meta-tasks:
- Place the {{Ethnic groups}} template on the talk page of articles within the scope of this project.
- Resolve the disparity in importance rankings among different ethnic groups
- Place the {{
- Articles about ethnic groups that currently have issues needing resolution:
- Start an article:
Feel free to edit this list or discuss these tasks.
Stubs
- {{ethno-stub}}, which will show as:
- {{ethno-group-stub}}
- {{Africa-ethno-group-stub}} , which will show as:
Good article reassessment for Acting white
Acting white has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 21:40, 9 April 2023 (UTC)