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These are the open tasks for the Wikiproject Countering systemic bias. 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.

Themes are divided into four stages: non-existent, stubby, identifiably flawed and satisfactory. "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 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.

This open tasks list is intended to be a complement to the various Wikipedia features such as Cleanup, Requests for expansion, Pages needing attention and peer review, and you are encouraged to add articles from this list to those pages. Many articles on this page may also be good candidates for Collaboration of the week or the Article improvement drive. If you find a particularly good article in a CSB-related area, by all means nominate it as a Featured Article candidate.

If you feel an article is neglected due to systemic bias, feel free to add it to an appropriate section or even to start a new section below. Sections describing perceived biases that do not include articles are placed at the bottom of the page. If no articles are placed within the section within a month, it will be assumed that the objection is not actionable and the section will be removed.

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Geography

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Most neglected countries
 
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Wikipedia has major holes in its geographic coverage primarily in Africa, but also Asia and South America. The countries below have been identified as those most in need of work. They are accompanied by some online resources that may be useful in contributing to the articles. If a user feels that a country article has progressed to the level where it may be replaced by another, please seek consensus on the talk page.

  1. Benin (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Porto-Novo, Cotonou
  2. Burkina Faso (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Ouagadougou
  3. Burundi (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Bujumbura
  4. Cameroon (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Yaoundé
  5. Central African Republic (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Bangui
  6. Chad (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), N'Djamena
  7. Comoros (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Moroni, Comoros
  8. Democratic Republic of the Congo (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Kinshasa
  9. Republic of the Congo (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Brazzaville
  10. Côte d'Ivoire (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news)' Yamoussoukro
  11. Ethiopia (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Addis Ababa
  12. The Gambia (see Category), Banjul
  13. Georgia (see Category), Tbilisi
  14. Guinea (see Category), Conakry
  15. Guinea-Bissau (see Category), Bissau
  16. Kyrgyzstan (see Category), Bishkek
  17. Madagascar (see Category), Antananarivo
  18. Malawi (see Category), Lilongwe, Blantyre, Malawi
  19. Mali (see Category), Bamako
  20. Mozambique (see Category), Maputo
  21. Myanmar (see Category), Yangôn
  22. Niger (see Category); Niamey
  23. Papua New Guinea (see Category), Port Moresby
  24. Suriname (see Category), Paramaribo
  25. Tajikistan (see Category), Dushanbe
  26. Tanzania (see Category), Dar-es-Salaam
  27. Togo (see Category), Lomé
  28. Turkmenistan (see Category), Ashgabat
  29. Western Sahara (see Category), Laayoune

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.

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, Wikipedia:List of missing Middle Eastern topics)

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Requests for expansion

Request for review/attention

  • Afel Bocoum Popular Mali musician, no entry.
  • Apartheid A poor article for such a significant political struggle
  • 2004 Locust Swarm On-going devastation of crops in West Africa, please add to Desert locust where I have started work on the 2004 swarm --nixie 03:15, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • Added new article. Should expand as swarm progresses / concludes. -- Ilya 10:40, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Tripoli hmm... apparently Tripoli is one of those ancient cities that used to exist but it's history stopped after 1911. Oh yeah, and it doesn't have any geography, culture, politics/government, economy, demographics, recreation, transportation, all that good stuff. Quite depressing. --Dmcdevit 18:58, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Nepal Civil War Not comprehensive at all, and it's only a timeline with absolutely no real description or analysis. Really needs historical context as, unless apparently Nepal was perfect until, and the conflict had no roots earlier than 1996!--Dmcdevit 18:58, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire Needs to be updated (it's a current event and even listed on the "Ongoing armed conflicts" section of Current Events). Definitely needs more info, has nearly zero historical background, and does not even explain the causes clearly.--Dmcdevit 18:58, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • African philosophy All that was thought on an entire continent summed up into one sentence. Very poor.
  • 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)
  • Movement for Democratic Change Very small article on the Zimbabwean opposition to Mugabe
  • 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)
    • PS: also Initial events of the Rwandan Genocide per CSBOT template --Dmcdevit 00:45, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Ogaden War - could do with some work putting it into the context of both History of Somalia and History of Ethiopia
  • Politics of Uganda - a lot of copy/pasted stuff. Not very good. Tidied up but still needs some more depth, especially given recent developments re. political pluralism in Uganda. TreveXtalk 12:22, 3 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thomas Sankara A major African leader for many African people.
  • Arsen Kotsoyev, Ossetian writer and journalist, the article is a candidate for "Translation of the Week", but its English version needs to be reviewed by a native speaker of English. -- Slavik IVANOV 15:37, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
    • Done (but leaving it open in case I missed something) --Nimlot 20:58, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
  • Zimbabwe Republic Police, currently horribly pro-government POV. the wub "?/!" 10:04, 12 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Art and Design

See: Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Art and Design

Requested articles

Requests for expansion

See also: Category:Art stubs

Requests for review/attention


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

Requests for review/attention

  • 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)
  • Category:Modernist women writers

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

These are all of the nonexistent links listed under "Literature by country or language"

Post-colonialism in literature is also a common theme in that needs an article.--Dmcdevit 04:27, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Requests for expansion

  • Oe Kenzaburo Japanese Nobel Prize 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)

Agriculture and horticultural studies

 
Agriculture etc

Agricultural and horticultural studies. Not typically a 'geek' concern, especially outside of botany as such.

Requests for expansion

Requests for review/attention

Satisfactory

  • Norman Borlaug, Nobel peace prize winner for starting the green revolution and credited with saving one billion lives, almost unknown in his mother country. UPDATE: Vastly expanded and being considered at WP:FAC. - 13:20, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Ethnic minorities

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

Requested articles

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)
  • White supremacy deals almost entirely with contemporary, marginal groups and does not discuss white supremacy as a domininant ideology beginning with the period of European expansion and continuing at least well into the 20th century. -- Jmabel | Talk 20:02, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)
  • 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)
  • Aramaic-speaking Christian groups: Syriacs, Aramaeans, Assyrian, Chaldeans, Assyro-Chaldeans. These are quite a mess, as ethnic definitions are not very clear, and all of these labels have political connotations.

Labor issues

labor
labor

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

Requested articles

Requests for expansion

Limited geographic scope

 
Limited geographic scope

Most of the articles listed on Open Tasks are neglected because of their subject matter. The articles below 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. Once they have been edited to remove the geographic bias, please place them in the Satisfactory section.

  • Adoption Lacks perspective of countries that are the sources of international adoption.
  • Beekeeping Has been a subsistence method from time immemorial for some societies. Article makes it almost look like a Western hobbyist practice.
  • Breakfast Scant references to non-western practices. Much added on Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. Still lacking anything on Africa.
  • Crenellation As if the concept is only relevant in medieval western European architecture. Lacks a global point of view (at the very least, Islamic architecture should be added). See also its talk.
  • 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
  • Dinner Focuses on North America and the U.K.
  • Famine Focuses mostly on the European experience, with fairly limited discussion of the modern phenomenon.
  • Freedom of speech Developed World examples only. Short paragraphs on the situation in India, in Asia in general and in Africa. Much potential for expansion.
  • 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.)
  • Internationalization Anything but. Mentions internationalization only in one direction – from the US to other languages/cultures.
  • Journalism scandals A long list of examples, all but one or two from the U.S.
  • Labor law Limited to U.S. and U.K. mostly, misses the fact that there are international labor standards.
  • Labor union/Trade 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/Solicitor Lead has U.S. perspective, only deals with the U.S., UK and Poland.
  • Market town You wouldn't know that trade existed outside of Europe.
  • Media bias Mainly concerns itself with the U.S. liberal vs. conservative bias discussion.
  • Modesty - passes beyond systemic bias into outright chauvinism: modesty norms outside the industrialized Western world are only discussed (and then only briefly) in comparison and contrast to the average Western norm. Even that norm is generalized and ignores real variations between countries, regions, and ethnicities.
  • Music genre only US/West, doesn't even mention that there is music in Africa, or that people who are not Western have music at all. More discussion about "honky tonk" than about entire continents!
  • Nudity, especially Various modern-era attitudes has only Western perspectives, plus a short sentence on Islam, and a bit on Japan, but nothing from Central/South America, Africa, or most of Asia.
  • 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 (for historic reasons) 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. Still deals mainly with the U.S., although info on other Western democracies have been added. Very little on ongoing SoEs in e.g. Egypt and Syria.
  • 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)
      • I've added a small bit on France. The May 1968 page is extremely thorough so all we need here is a brief overview to show the context of it in student activist history. Leyanese 17:35, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Traffic congestion This article mainly focuses on traffic in the United States. It contains only a small mention of traffic in the UK.
  • Unemployment Focused on the U.S., with a lengthy discussion on the U.S. definition and little or no mention of unemployment in other parts of the world.
  • 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.
    • I've re-written and re-focused this article. As it stands, there are no explicit geographical references - don't know if that'll make you guys happy or sad. In the process of further refining this article, I expect specific geographical references will be worked back in or linked to. Toiyabe 19:44, 5 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Cannabis rescheduling is unashamedly about various bits of legislation in the USA, and has nothing to say on Cannabis legislation anywhere else. Gareth Hughes 18:21, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Wedding. Western perspective, although some four sentences are included on non-Western traditions.
  • See Category:Limited geographic scope for more.

Islam, Muslims, and the Muslim World

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Islam, Wikipedia:List of missing Middle Eastern topics
See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Islam#Theology-centrism?—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 22:41, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)

Requests for review

  • Sunbul Effendi - this article has been posted to VfD. I believe the topic is notable but there is an issue with transcription: apparently the correct spelling would be Sümbül Efendi (alternate Sünbül Efendi). Google returns 179 results but most of them not in English. There are also alternate spellings like Sümbül Efendi, Sünbül Efendi, Şeyh Sümbül, Sümbül Sinan, Sünbül Sinan etc.--AYArktos 22:09, 9 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Non-neoclassical economics

Probably the worst example of overclaiming what the status quo of experts really says about things is in economics. Many articles use definitions straight from neoclassical economics with little challenge from other theories. Though there has been work on this, it never seems to end. The article capitalism is not bad at balancing major theories and what they have to say but less-argued articles tend to be far less balanced and not give all major economic theories enough space. Where possible the claims of the economists who invent terms and metrics should be used, not the claims of those who promote them as silver bullets. Since every political party has its own theory of economics, and promotes its own policies as if they were such silver bullets, the dominant theories in rich countries have far too much space - see also Developed World bias above

Requests for expansion

Requests for review

Perspective Biases

  • paint -- only deals with the art aspect not the commercial painting aspect.
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