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These are the open tasks for the Wikiproject Countering systemic bias. This open tasks list is intended to be a complement to the various Wikipedia features such as Wikipedia:Cleanup, Wikipedia:Requests for expansion and Wikipedia:Pages needing attention. Articles are listed thematically, and then by the type of assistance requested. An article stub for a feminist author would thus be found under the "Requests for expansion" section under Women's Studies.

"Requested articles" are pages that are entirely missing from Wikipedia. A little bit of research on the web is normally enough to write a stub. Be sure to move the list entry to the relevant section once you are done. Articles that are stubby, or otherwise lacking in content, may be found under "Requests for expansion". If something in particular is missing, such as a university article with a long list of alumni but little historical background, be sure to say so when you enter it. "Requests for review" is for articles that are well-rounded and of decent length but need more attention. A need for a copyedit or for a fact check by a knowledgeable reader are appropriate reasons to ask for review.

Once an article has passed through the various stages of this process it may be placed under the Satisfactory section. Satisfactory articles are well-rounded, long enough to cover the topic in reasonable detail, and lack any major flaws. They are not expected to be perfect. In fact, satisfactory articles are prime candidates for CSB collaborations to help them reach featured article quality.

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Developing World

All aspects of the "developing world", primarily in Africa, but also Asia and South America.

Requested articles

(See also: Wikipedia:List of missing Africa topics)
well List of Algerian massacres of the 1990s calls it the Algerian civil conflictGeni 18:53, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Requests for expansion

  • 2000 Mozambique flood Very recent major humanitarian disaster with many online resources, but short page so far
  • Afel Bocoum Popular Mali musician, no entry. Done. — Trilobite (Talk) 16:04, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • African languages Currently no more than a listing of the four major African language families and some big languages; so much more could be said about language and linguistic issues in Africa, alphabetization, language politics in multilingual countries, the impact of West-European languages, and so on, and so on...
Mustafaa and I have been working on this article. It is expanded considerably already, especially the part on the language families, but it is still very drafty and the issues mentioned above are not yet covered. Please check if you can help out! See also its to do list. — mark ✎ 12:39, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Request for review/attention

  • Congo Civil War Previous collaboration. Split into First Congo War and Second Congo War. Work needed on intros for both and First in particular could use some expansion. BanyanTree 20:39, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Desmond Tutu - fair amount of information, but very poorly written and organized, given the importance of the subject. Needs sustained attention, preferably from someone with some knowledge of him, or at least South African history generally. RadicalSubversiv E 04:57, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Gbe languages - Have been working on this one for quite some time; maybe someone else could take a fresh look at it and suggest improvements. — Mark Dingemanse
  • Rwandan Genocide - The French version spans several articles.
Páll has translated the French and created subpages and a navigation template, but the subpages could do with a copyedit, and content needs to be organized between the main and sub-pages. - BanyanTree 21:33, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Done

Art and Design

Requested articles

Requests for expansion

See also: Category:Art stubs
  • Ballet. Last I checked, it was underdeveloped. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 20:08, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)

Requests for review/attention

  • Arts and Art need a lot of whole lot of work. There are also several open questions about categorization - see their talk pages. Clubmarx 17:48, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)

Satisfactory

Women's studies

 
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Female oriented subjects - Feminism, Women authors, professions with high proportion of women etc

Requested articles

Requests for expansion

  • Bennett College one of only two historically black women's colleges remaining in the U.S.; we have no article
    • Someone added this article and it looks good! —Bsktcase 22:14, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Judy Chicago arguably the U.S.'s most famous specifically feminist artist, we have a tiny stub.
  • Jill Ker Conway author, first woman president of Smith College; no article
  • Nancy Cunard major figure from the 1930s Paris scene
  • Mary Daly major feminist thinker, we have little but a list of publications. Featured on todo list 20:02, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC).
  • Andrea Dworkin major feminist thinker, we have little but a list of publications
  • Feminist history is correctly described on History as an ideological approach toward general history studies, yet this article doesn't really exist; it redirects to History of feminism, not the same thing at all
  • Janet Flanner major figure from the 1930s Paris scene, was the New Yorker's Paris correspondent under the name "Citizen Genet".
  • Betty Friedan We accurately call her "one of the most influential feminists of the late 20th Century"... and we give her a stub.
  • Nadine Gordimer South African Nobel price winner in Literature 1991. Three sentences + list.
  • P. J. Harvey first-rate rock musician, short article
  • Massouda Jalal the one female presidential candidate in the Afghanistan election
  • Joan Jett pioneering woman rock performer, very politically active, you'd never know it from our short article. Featured on todo list 20:02, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC).
  • Catharine MacKinnon major feminist thinker, we have little but a list of publications
  • Princess Marie of Edinburgh (a.k.a.Queen Marie of Romania): a rather important intellectual and political figure, gets short shrift.
  • Mills College students got national attention fighting to keep Mills a women's college in the 1990s; we have a tiny stub and no mention of the history
  • Adrienne Monnier major figure from the 1930s Paris scene
  • Silvina Ocampo Argentine intellectual. We have a reasonable short article on her sister, Victoria Ocampo
  • Mary Shelley Author of Frankenstein: reasonable article on the book, but not much on her.
  • Olympia Snowe prominent U.S. Senator, little more than a stub
  • Spelman College the largest and best-known of only two historically black women's colleges remaining in the U.S.; we have a stub Featured on todo list 20:02, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC).
  • Wellesley College one of the two most prominent remaining private women's liberal arts colleges in the U.S.; basically a stub plus an un-annotated short list of prominent graduates.
  • Women's studies; stub
  • Mia Zapata highly respected (albeit not nationally famous) indie rock musician, murdered in 1993. That's about all our page says: nothing really about her music and nothing about the massive amount of work on women's self-defense done by Home Alive, founded in her memory.

Requests for review/attention

  • Djuna Barnes and Category:Modernist women writers
  • Oriana Fallaci prominent Italian journalist and author. Little though I like her remarks on contemporary Islam, she certainly deserves more of an article. We mostly have a bibliography, quotations, and links. -- Jmabel 22:59, Sep 23, 2004 (UTC)
  • List of women poets add more and follow up anything it links to
  • Smith College one of the two most prominent remaining private women's liberal arts colleges in the U.S.; basically a stub plus an un-annotated short list of prominent graduates.
    • I've considerably expanded this article, more to come, it'll be downright excessive when I'm done with it. —Bsktcase 22:14, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • Sayeth 17:25, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC) reports: ... added a bit to Spelman College... this article is almost up to par with articles on most other small schools. However, it could use some checking for grammar and spelling and a bit more info.
      • This article looks much, much better! —Bsktcase 22:14, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
      • Needs more history, lists to be put into columns and annotations for alumni - BanyanTree 23:57, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Patti Smith A major figure in the history of rock music, we have a short article.

Satisfactory

Non-English language literature

Non-English language literature (particularly writers whose work is unavailable or not widely available in English). See also List_of_African_writers.

Requested articles

Requests for expansion

  • Oe Kenzaburo Japanese Nobel price winner, yet not very long article. Unfortunately, the Japanese article seems to be equally short.
  • Yashar Kemal Major Turkish writer, no article
  • Antonio Machado One of the great poets of the 20th century gets barely more than a stub.
  • Arabic literature - a disgracefully short article on a huge topic. - Mustafaa 10:38, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Yefet ben Ali A Karaite Sage of past whose commentaries were influential on Ibn Ezra and Kimchi, and was a subject of interest during the first half of the 1900's. His writings could go under Mustafaa's suggestion, as they were all written in Arabic. --Josiah 03:16, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Requests for review/attention

Satisfactory

Agriculture and horticultural studies

 
Agriculture etc

Agricultural and horticultural studies

Requested articles

Requests for expansion

Requests for review/attention

  • Plant improvement Has been languishing half-translated from Italian. Featured on todo list 20:02, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC).
  • I've done a rewrite on plant improvement, I moved all the technical stuff to specific pages about techniques, I'd appreciate if someone without a biology backgroud could take a look and let me know if there is anything that's unclear--nixie 23:05, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Satisfactory

Ethnic minorities

Under-represented ethnic minorities in the developed world etc. (and other related topics)

Requested articles

  • Jill Nelson prominent contemporary African-American journalist and writer, no article.
  • Prince Hall Freemasonry currently a short subsection of Freemasonry. African-American Masonry has been and is important in the U.S., and Prince Hall Lodges were sometimes organizing forces in the civil rights movement.

Requests for expansion

Requests for review/attention

  • NABJ Hall of Fame is probably OK as it stands, but full of red links that could be followed up. Leading African-American journalists past and present. - Jmabel|Talk 18:04, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)
  • Edgar Nixon major civil rights leader. We have a stub.
  • Pullman Company 100 years ago, the single largest employer of African-Americans and a key in creating the Black middle class. Current article just more than a stub, doesn't mention Robert Todd Lincoln (George Pullman's successor running the company). Featured on todo list 20:02, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC).
  • A. Philip Randolph we have a moderately good article on a man who was arguably the most important civil rights leader of his generation.
  • Roy Wilkins civil rights leader, article needs work! No article on his successor at the NAACP Benjamin Hooks
  • Roger Wilkins civil rights leader, alive and very active, very well-known: no article!
    • I wrote a basic biographical summary for him - if anyone knows any details, perhaps from reading his autobiography or other books, I hope they'll fill them in. Cdc
  • Young Lords New York area Puerto Rican semi-gang, semi-political-party circa 1970, moved at least for a while towards trying to become a Puerto Rican equivalent of the Black Panthers. I got this one started: there is a lot of online material & probably more elsewhere. Expect sources to somewhat contradict one another. This would be a great topic for a good researcher who understands how to cite sources, etc. - Jmabel 23:19, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)
  • Zoroastrianism, Zoroaster and related topics all suffer from serious neglect, bias and misinformation. Someone has even categorized "Zoroastrian gods" -- despite the fact that it is a monotheistic religion -- including listing Ahriman in that category. This is equivalent to listing Satan as a "Christian God"! Zosodada 20:22, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Satisfactory

was a stub, I've researched and enlarged it, comments? — Bsktcase 20:21, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Good work! It is a decent article now. Two minor things: First, I think the article needs references; second, it would be very cool if you could find a picture. Something like this would be nice. Or a historic document like this one. (Maybe the owners of those websites would be willing to release the pictures under the GFDL). — mark ✎ 16:22, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Thanks! I added a references section (taken from the URLs which I used as my references). I am very very dubious about the copyright permissions on the pictures which is why I didn't add them originally. The Masonic websites are more likely to be violating copyright than they are to have rights to grant to us. However, the PBS source seems promising. I'll look into it. Thanks again! — Bsktcase 19:50, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
While photos would be nice, this seems to qualify for satisfactory. Great job! - BanyanTree 00:17, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Labor issues

labor
labor

Labor related issues. See also the many red links in List of trade unions.

Requested articles

Requests for expansion

  • AFL-CIO America's largest federation of unions. An important contributor to the U.S. Democratic party. Stub.
  • Congress of South African Trade Unions Played important political role as ally of the ANC. Short article.
  • CGT the major French trade union has just a stub.
  • International Labour Organization Very brief text on U.N. organization that has meant a lot for working conditions in developing countries.
  • Nigeria Labour Congress One of Africa's strongest trade union organisations, with a history of actively working for democracy in the country. Article now created, proofreading and expansion needed.
  • Strike action A reasonable article, but nowhere near as comprehensive as it could be.
  • Ver.di With 2.6 million members, this German trade union is the largest independent trade union in the world. Stub now created, more needed.
  • Worker safety and health The Wikipedia article only deals with U.S. legislation. A lot more could be done.
  • Asbestosis_-_Compensation_and_Liability_Disputes An attempt to do just that.

If any of you get the chance, please take a look at [1] and the preceding (now archived) VfD debate archive . (There was a bit of a heated debate at the outset, but it seemed to calm down and the community vote decided on keeping a standalone article). Has the article has undergone reasonable revision? (both during the debate itself, and subsequently). Maybe the time would be ripe to reconsider the NPOV and CLEANUP tags. What do you think? Wikityke 00:43, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Linguistics

Requested articles

I just made a start on this one - please review it and suggest improvements on its talk page! — mark ✎ 22:05, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

LPOV

Linguistic topics that suffer from a limited (usually Indo-European) point of view.

  • Aryan. A dearth of organization, riddled with apparent confusion.
  • Augment. Probably needs a disambig and another article. Augment can be much more than 'an affix in Indo-European languages' and is used in a broader sense in linguistics.
  • Causative. Only Indo-European examples (and some Klingon). 80% of the article deals with Sanskrit and uses Sanskrit terminology (far too much detail); nothing is said about the concept of causation itself. The opening sentence is a little conservative ('In some languages...'). Even languages that apparently do not have morphological causatives have constructions to express the notion of causation.
    • Acknowledged that, with examples, syntax, and much much less Sanskrit. Could use Japanese examples (for regular agglutinative causative inflection) and some German, French etc. to mix in with the English in the European languages department. --Pablo D. Flores 15:32, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Closed-class word. English-based. Cross-linguistically, there are interesting differences here. In many African languages for example, the class of adjectives is a closed class. On a sidenote, cognitive linguistic views of reasons for the distinction between closed and open classes (e.g. Talmy 2000:413, Langacker) are also worth mentioning.
  • Derivation (linguistics). Could use more international examples.
  • Determiner. Really should be renamed to 'Determiner (English)' or something like that. Interesting things could be said about determiners and definiteness cross-linguistically.
--this is now consciously EPOV instead of unconsciously so. More work welcome.
  • Function word. English only. It should be noted that the term 'function word' is per definition largely restricted to isolating languages (and as such is inevitably LPOV, like many Indo-European-inspired linguistic terms).
  • Grammatical tense. Only about the English tense system, only English examples. Should be renamed Grammatical tense (English) or something like that. There is also some overlap with English grammar. Steverapaport fixed this, but it still needs non-English examples. The table of tenses and their uses is a bit unwieldy and hopelessly LPOV. Useful examples: periphrastic/idiomatic "tenses" in Eurolangs; lack of distinction in Chinese; aspect emphasized over tense ibidem. --Pablo D. Flores 15:52, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
See also its talk page. Additionally, cross-linguistic data collection and some brainstorming is going on at Grammatical tense/multilingual sources — mark ✎ 21:58, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Grammatical aspect. Although the term is based on the work of Indo-European grammarians, it has been used in linguistics worldwide. At present, the article contains mainly English examples and some Serbian ones. Nothing is said about application of the term in linguistics outside the Indo-European language family.
  • Inflection. Quote from the article: 'Various major languages, including English, German, Russian, Spanish, French, and Hindi - all Indo-European languages - are inflected to a greater or lesser extent. Other languages [sic!] use almost no inflection, Chinese and Vietnamese among them.' The definition used in the article is part of the problem. More historical background should be given and current, cross-linguistical use of the term should be covered. Fixed by Steverapaport 15:39, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC), probably could be removed from this list. --Pablo D. Flores 15:52, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Mama. Currently a dab, but surely we should have an article about the striking cross-linguistical similarities in the basic word for mother (cf. Jakobson 1962 etc.). It currently reads that 'mama' is a slang word for 'mother' - speaking about LPOV! See Mama and papa --Pablo D. Flores 14:21, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Metathesis. Universal phenomenon. Mainly covers some English sound changes. Could use cross-linguistical examples.
  • Onomatopoeia. Universal phenomenon. Very stubby, needs cleanup. What is worse, at present it only includes English examples (mainly sounds of animals).
  • Palatalization. Not bad, but could be more outspoken on occurences of palatalization troughout the world (Berber, Bantu, to name a few). Especially in Bantu, interesting morphophonological things happen involving (among other processes) palatalization.
  • Papa. Currently a dab, but surely we should have an article about the striking cross-linguistical similarities in the basic word for father (cf. Jakobson 1962 etc.) See Mama and papa. There is also a completely absurd Papa (slang) on VfD. --Pablo D. Flores 14:21, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Grammatical particle. English-only. Contains a list of English parts of speech considered 'grammatical particles'. I gave it a start by toning down the misleadingly strict definition a bit, but it still needs lots of work. — mark ✎ 23:35, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Pleonasm. There was actually an edit warrior who wanted to remove the non-English examples from this article. Fortunately he is gone, but in the aftermath of the battle, this article is in pretty lousy shape, and still needs some non-Indo-European examples.
  • Possessive case. This is actually a fairly good article, even including non-Indo-European concepts like alienable/inalienable possession. The problem is its context and naming. Case is defined as a feature of inflecting languages. Indeed, many languages do not express possession by inflecting the noun (like the case article would suggest). It would be better to merge much of the content of the Possessive case article to something like Possession (linguistics) and to reserve the Possessive case article for languages that actually do show a possessive case. Additionally, all those articles could do with more cross-linguistic examples.
  • Prefix. Indo-European perspective.
  • Progressive tense. English-only. Don't know what to do with this one; maybe rename to Progressive tense (English), or maybe (considering its size) merge into English grammar.
  • Reduplication. Universal phenomenon. Needs a better definition, a more logical structure and more examples. Note the phrase 'most notably in Malayo-Polynesian' (other language-families or areas are not even mentioned).
  • Root morpheme. Limited point of view. Redirected to Root (linguistics), corrected and added examples, though a few more would be nice. Someone with more than amateur knowledge of linguistics, please correct me. Added a hook to Stem (linguistics) -- which BTW is not a synonym for root and needs a formal definition. -- Pablo D. Flores 15:17, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Spatial tense. This article should be written from a Lojban grammar perspective, and certainly should not start with the sentence: Spatial tenses are a category of tenses not found in English. See its talk for an extensive discussion.
  • Tonal language. Universal phenomenon. In desperate need of a good definition. Is too Mandarin/Chinese minded. Check the 'what links here' of that page and see why.
  • Question. The paragraph on grammar seems OK, albeit fairly short. However, the mentioning of just the Indo-European intonation pattern and the English-only examples narrow the scope.
    • Fleshed it up a bit, though examples are still welcome. --Pablo D. Flores 15:17, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Bible

Bible topics that suffer from a limited (usually pro-literal-truth) point of view. Many of these articles were imported from 19th century public ___domain sources like bible dictionaries, and were patched with some weasel words. A permanent revision needs to be undertaken, taking modern scientific/scholarly views into account.

  • Vashti records the literalist view of the Book of Esther but fails to report the view that the book is about babylonian and other gods such as the god Vashti, despite this being mentioned at the Book of Esther article.
  • Jericho records the biblical account of Jericho as if it is historic fact, despite that modern archaeologists date its destruction to before the Israelites were ever in Canaan.
  • exodus, and particularly Leviticus, ignore and suppress the documentary hypothesis' view of their origin (e.g. leviticus as law code from a rival priesthood faction), despite that this hypothesis is the modern mainstream scientific theory accepted by almost all secular scholars.
  • Near sacrifice of Isaac fails to record the fact that early and longstanding Jewish traditions held that there was nothing "near" about it, and in consequence, many modern scholars think that the story records an earlier history including human sacrifice.
  • Book of Kings, Book of Samuel fails to record the documentary hypothesis' view of their origin (as part of a larger single work by the same author at the same time including Deuteronomy, 1&2 Kings, 1&2 Samuel, Judges, and Joshua)
  • Book of Joshua describes the archaeological evidence of the Amarna letters with the implication that they support the accuracy of the text. However, it never describes why, or what the letters actually say.
  • Book of Samuel fails to record that modern scholars view 1 Samuel as invented propaganda only loosely based on events (and why they do so).
  • Samson fails to record that modern scholars view the story of Samson as an evolved story of a sun god, possibly copied to some or total extent from Herakles.
  • Ehud fails to record the view that the story of Ehud was non-historical propaganda/an invented wisdom-story (in the "The americans spent millions of pounds to develop a pen that would work in space. The russians just used a pencil" mould).
  • Book of Jonah totally fails to record any criticism of its historicity, including the victorian discovery that a man in the body of a whale for more than 2 days would have dissolved.
  • Book of Chronicles totally fails to record the modern scholars documentary hypothesis opinion, or reasons for it, that it originates as political spin by a rival group of priests to counter the deuteronomistic history (Deuteronomy, 1&2 Kings, 1&2 Samuel, Judges, and Joshua)
  • Book of Joel, Book of Amos, and others, fail to take account of modern scholarship as to the date of its origin (after 600BC), and the implications this has for its prophecies (i.e. that they occur after the events they claim to predict)
  • Book of Ruth fails to record the modern opinion that it is an early lesbian romance (i.e. a novel).
  • Book of Daniel fails to record the opinion of modern scholars that the work is non-historical, partly made up as propaganda, and partly as a collection of originally entirely independant texts relating to entirely seperate people.
  • Psalms totally fails to record the opinion of modern scholars that many of the Psalms derive from a wide range of different periods covering the whole of biblical history, some being survivals from early Canaanite religion (e.g. mentioning the Leviathon, and pillars holding up the sky, and El distributing the pantheon of patron gods amongst the nations (assigning Jaweh to Israel)), others from babylonian captivity (and thus clearly post-david/solomon).
  • Gideon (Judges) fails to record the modern scholar opinion that some or all of the traditions assigned to Gideon derive from or cause the traditions of Joshua (e.g. the Midianite conquest being the same story as that of Jericho, one being the original, and the other a re-assigned copy).
  • Book of Daniel, Book of Samuel, and Book of Ruth, fail to mention the frequently cited allegations of the homosexuality of the protagonists (Daniel, Jonathon & David, Ruth).

Subjects which would normally be longer in other encyclopaedias

If you feel an article is neglected due to systemic bias, feel free to add it to an appropriate section above or even to start a new section above. Alternatively, it may be more useful to add it to Wikipedia:Requests for expansion.

Limited geographic scope

 
Limited geographic scope

These articles are internally biased. In other words, they currently deal only with matters in certain countries, and/or often have a U.S. or developed country perspective rather than a global one.

  • Adoption Lacks perspective of countries that are the sources of international adoption.
  • Breakfast Scant references to non-western practices.
  • Coeducation Brief discussion of history in U.S. only, and some lists. Needs internationalization in any case, and might the subject of women's education in Muslim and developing countries be appropriate here?
  • Columbus Day - suggests that Columbus Day has only ever been celebrated in the United States, and that opposition to the concept is limited to the United States
  • Famine Focuses mostly on the European experience, with fairly limited discussion of the modern phenomenon.
  • Freedom of speech Developed World examples only.
  • Gang Deals almost exclusively with the U.S.
  • Illegal immigrant Only U.S. references. (Although the French Wikipedia's Sans-papiers article does not seem to have that much to add, it might at least provide a starting point for a European perspective. However, this article needs much more than that.)
  • Labor law Limited to U.S. and U.K. mostly, misses the fact that there are international labor standards.
  • Labor union Some general history, but country-specific information for U.S., UK and Sweden only (excluding half a sentence mentioning China in the introduction).
  • Lawyer Lead has U.S. perspective, only deals with the U.S., UK and Poland.
  • Media bias Mainly concerns itself with the U.S. liberal vs. conservative bias discussion.
  • Physician Generally lacking, as it currently deals mainly with training, but only covers the U.S., the UK and France.
  • Police Mostly U.S. and UK references. Nothing on the role of the police force in neither democratic nor oppressive developing countries.
  • Public relations Almost exclusively uses U.S. examples and figures.
  • Rape Western perspective. Discusses the legal definitions of the U.S. and the UK only. Apart from brief mentions of the social consequences of rape in "societies with strong sexual customs and taboos", and rape as a means of torturing detainees in some countries, the rest of the article deals with the U.S. situation. No mention of the practice of rape as a war crime.
  • State of Emergency only deals with the U.S.A.
  • Student activism Deals with the U.S. only. Nothing is said about the leading role students often take in protesting against oppressive societies, as in Czechoslovakia in 1968 (see Jan Palach), Myanmar (esp. 1988), China (Tiananmen Square protests of 1989), Iran (Iran student protests, July 1999), Serbia during Milosevic (see Otpor) and Indonesia (History of Indonesia). Also, the student protests of 1968 in places like Paris (May 1968) and Mexico City (Tlatelolco massacre) should also be mentioned.
    • I've reworked this page to give it a more international scope - US-specific stuff is in its own section now, and I've added a skeletal Indonesia section. More to do - the above is a great (inspiring!) list of places where student activists have (usually) made changes. - Cdc 20:10, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Traffic congestion This article mainly focuses on traffic in the United States. It contains only a small mention of traffic in the UK.
  • Water resources "The problem: Human populations in some areas (e.g. southern California, Israel, and Florida) are growing from 1 to 3% per year, while fresh water supplies are remaining constant or shrinking." Ever heard of a place called Africa? This article hasn't.
 
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The countries below have been identified as countries which are most in need of work. One of these countries is in the 'Country carousel' section of the To Do table. The countries change every fortnight, stepping through the list. Next weeks country is Burkina Faso. You can add subjects related to these countries in the voting section. The country list will be reviewed when all of the countries in the list have been in the To Do table:

  1. Benin (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news)
  2. Burkina Faso (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news)
  3. Burundi (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news)
  4. Cameroon (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news)
  5. Central African Republic (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news)
  6. Chad (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news)
  7. Comoros (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news)
  8. Democratic Republic of the Congo (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news)
  9. Republic of the Congo (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news)
  10. Côte d'Ivoire (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news)
  11. Ethiopia (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news)
  12. The Gambia (see Category)
  13. Georgia (see Category)
  14. Guinea (see Category)
  15. Guinea-Bissau (see Category)
  16. Kyrgyzstan (see Category)
  17. Madagascar (see Category)
  18. Malawi (see Category)
  19. Mali (see Category)
  20. Mozambique (see Category)
  21. Myanmar (see Category)
  22. Niger (see Category)
  23. Papua New Guinea (see Category)
  24. Suriname (see Category)
  25. Tajikistan (see Category)
  26. Tanzania (see Category)
  27. Togo (see Category)
  28. Turkmenistan (see Category)
  29. Western Sahara (see Category)
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Many of the above countries are Francophone, and some are Lusophone – so help may be required from French Wikipediia and Portugese Wikipedia. Even a large British library, such as the one at SOAS, has plenty of French books on the Francophone countries, but far fewer English ones. Translations of any appropriate articles in the French or Portuguese Wikipedia can be requested on Wikipedia:Translation into English - though some articles are actually shorter in the foreign language version. For materials not in Wikipedia, but available in electronic form, you could contact an appropriate individual at Wikipedia:Translators available; don't expect 100% of them to be available at any given time, but response is generally decent. Some of the people listed on that page are signed up for this project.

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