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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 Biocrawler. 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 Biocrawler 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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Contents
1 Geography
2 Developing World

2.1 Requested articles
2.2 Requests for expansion
2.3 Request for review/attention

3 Art and Design

3.1 Requested articles
3.2 Requests for expansion
3.3 Requests for review/attention

4 Women's studies

4.1 Requested articles
4.2 Requests for expansion
4.3 Requests for review/attention

5 Non-English language literature

5.1 Requested articles
5.2 Requests for expansion

6 Agriculture and horticultural studies

6.1 Requests for expansion

7 Ethnic minorities

7.1 Requested articles
7.2 Requests for expansion
7.3 Requests for review/attention

8 Labor issues

8.1 Requested articles
8.2 Requests for expansion

9 Limited geographic scope
10 Islam, Muslims, and the Muslim World

10.1 Requests for review

11 Non-neoclassical economics

11.1 Requests for expansion
11.2 Requests for review

12 Perspective Biases
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Geography

Most neglected countries
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Biocrawler 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 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1064527.stm) timeline (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/3638535.stm), HRW (http://hrw.org/doc/?t=africa&c=benin), google search (http://www.google.com/search?q=benin&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) images (http://images.google.com/images?q=benin&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wi) news (http://news.google.com/news?q=benin&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wn)), Porto-Novo, Cotonou
  2. Burkina Faso (see Category, BBC profile (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1032616.stm) timeline (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1032662.stm), HRW (http://hrw.org/doc/?t=africa&c=burkin), google search (http://www.google.com/search?q=bukina&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) images (http://images.google.com/images?q=burkina&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wi) news (http://news.google.com/news?q=burkina&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wn)), Ouagadougou
  3. Burundi (see Category, BBC profile (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1068873.stm) timeline (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1068991.stm), HRW (http://hrw.org/doc?t=africa&c=burund), google search (http://www.google.com/search?q=burundi&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) images (http://images.google.com/images?q=burundi&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wi) news (http://news.google.com/news?q=burundi&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wn)), Bujumbura
  4. Cameroon (see Category, BBC profile (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1042937.stm) timeline (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1021488.stm), HRW (http://hrw.org/doc?t=africa&c=camero), google search (http://www.google.com/search?q=cameroon&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) images (http://images.google.com/images?q=cameroon&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wi) news (http://news.google.com/news?q=cameroon&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wn)), Yaoundé
  5. Central African Republic (see Category, BBC profile (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1067518.stm) timeline (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1067615.stm), HRW (http://hrw.org/doc?t=africa&c=carepu), google search (http://www.google.com/search?q=%22central+african+republic%22&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&sa=N&tab=iw) images (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&tab=ni&ie=UTF-8&q=%22central+african+republic%22&sa=N) news (http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&q=%22central+african+republic%22&btnG=Search+News)), Bangui
  6. Chad (see Category, BBC profile (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1068700.stm) timeline (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1068745.stm), HRW (http://hrw.org/doc?t=africa&c=chad), google search (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=chad+africa&btnG=Search) images (http://images.google.com/images?q=chad+africa&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&sa=N&tab=wi) news (http://news.google.com/news?q=chad+africa&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&sa=N&tab=in)), N'Djamena
  7. Comoros (see Category, BBC profile (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1070727.stm) timeline (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1070770.stm), HRW (http://hrw.org/doc?t=africa&c=comoro), google search (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&q=comoros&sa=N) images (http://images.google.com/images?q=comoros&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&sa=N&tab=wi) news (http://news.google.com/news?q=comoros&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&sa=N&tab=wn)), Moroni, Comoros
  8. Democratic Republic of the Congo (see Category, BBC profile (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1076399.stm) timeline (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1072684.stm), HRW (http://hrw.org/doc?t=africa&c=congo), google search (http://www.google.com/search?q=democratic+republic+of+congo&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) images (http://images.google.com/images?q=democratic%20republic%20of%20congo&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wi) news (http://news.google.com/news?q=democratic%20republic%20of%20congo&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=N&tab=in)), Kinshasa
  9. Republic of the Congo (see Category, BBC profile (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1076794.stm) timeline (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1076836.stm), HRW (http://hrw.org/doc?t=africa&c=congob), google search (http://www.google.com/search?q=congo%20brazzaville&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=N&tab=iw) images (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&tab=ni&ie=UTF-8&q=congo+brazzaville&sa=N) news (http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&tab=in&ie=UTF-8&q=congo+brazzaville)), Brazzaville
  10. Côte d'Ivoire (see Category, BBC profile (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1043014.stm) timeline (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1043106.stm), HRW (http://hrw.org/doc?t=africa&c=cotedi), google search (http://www.google.com/search?q=Ivory%20coast&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) images (http://images.google.com/images?q=Ivory%20coast&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wi) news (http://news.google.com/news?q=Ivory%20coast&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=N&tab=in))' Yamoussoukro
  11. Ethiopia (see Category, BBC profile (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1072164.stm) timeline (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1072219.stm), HRW (http://hrw.org/doc?t=africa&c=ethiop), google search (http://www.google.com/search?q=Ethiopia&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=N&tab=iw) images (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&tab=ni&ie=UTF-8&q=Ethiopia&sa=N) news (http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&tab=in&ie=UTF-8&q=Ethiopia&btnG=Search+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 Biocrawler can be requested on Biocrawler:Translation into English - though some articles are actually shorter in the foreign language version. For materials not in Biocrawler, but available in electronic form, you could contact an appropriate individual at Biocrawler:Translators available.

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Developing World

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

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Requested articles

(See also: Biocrawler:List of missing Africa topics, Biocrawler:List of missing Middle Eastern topics)
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Requests for expansion

  • 2000 Mozambique flood Very recent major humanitarian disaster with many online resources, but short page so far
  • African diaspora A big, big group of people with a small, small article
  • 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)
  • African National Congress Again a poor article for such a significant organisation
  • African slave trade Doesn't even exist! (But Slave trade has some info already).
  • African Union also a CotW
  • AIDS in Africa Barely above a stub. Sacrilege really.
    • Improved, but it still needs a section on Women and HIV. Some data tables for each region sould be good too. TreveX 22:37, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Ali Hassan Mwinyi Former Tanzanian president but little analysis of his reign in power
  • Andean States A very neglected article for an entire important region of the world. --Dmcdevit 03:17, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, Sierra Leone's old army, ruled after the 1997 coup, its leaders are currently being prosecuted for crimes against humanity during their civil war. --Dmcdevit 23:17, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Benjamin Mkapa Tanzanian president could do with more detail
  • Cenepa War Two sentences, one of which is "The fighting stopped and war ended."currently top hit on google
  • Commission for Africa - started by Tony Blair to provide new impetus for development. TreveXtalk 23:17, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Culture of Iraq currently (26 Nov 2004) a pitiful stub
  • Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) Nepalese government party
  • Dependency theory Influential political theory within the developing world
  • Ethiopian famine Major media event. One of the few events to actually catch Western attention, renamed 1984 - 1985 famine in Ethiopia
  • First Sudanese Civil War, article begun but few specifics
  • Futa Toro, on the recent changes list, Senegalese tribal group
  • Gacaca, or maybe Gacaca courts are made up of the common people to prosecute the Rwandan genocide perpetrators. Witnesses, survivors, etc. participate. see [1] (http://www.penalreform.org/english/theme_gacaca.htm). -- little stub created, help expand!--Dmcdevit 05:07, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Guinea-Bissau Civil War
  • History of Africa Article is very poor on African in the 20th Century, just an incomplete list of events. The article also needs to be reduced in size, and some child articles set up for the periods
  • History of North Africa extremely spotty coverage of some periods, 20th century section only talks about Suez canal
  • International development Huge topic, very little on this in Biocrawler anywhere
  • Land Reform Major issue in Africa gets little more than a stub. also listed under Agriculture and horticultural studies
  • List of countries where language is a political issue Not a single African country in this list. There should be at least ten and most probably many more.
  • Maria Lionza should be a challenging topic to research, but is also a very interesting one.
  • Neocolonialism At least until recent times the dominant ideology.
  • Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika Redirects to National anthem of South Africa; inspiring anthem of the ANC deserves its own article explaining its origins, apartheid-era history, translations, etc., prior to its adoption as half of the anthem (all of which the Afrikaans portion of the anthem, Die Stem van Suid-Afrika, has!)
  • Nollywood Nigerian Cinema, massively popular (particularly in Africa) but only a stub
  • Pan African Parliament OK, it exists only since september 16th, but we should have an article on this...
  • Parishes of Jamaica the 14 main regions of Jamaica have only a handful of stubs
  • Politics of South Africa Poor article considering the ongoing difficulty of transition to stable, free and prosperous post apartheid state.
  • Prime Minister of Uganda needs info on the role and also some of its other office holder. TreveXtalk 00:21, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Salif Keita One of the best known Mali musicians has a small article
  • Sarcade The article is on an exotic little town in Somalia with 25,000 inhabitants. Would be a real challenge to expand it.
  • Tamasheq languages - languages of the Tuareg, stub
  • Third World debt Still remains the dominant issue for governments for most countries in the developing world. Only a stub
  • Tuareg needs research on current situation after the fighting in the 1990s.
    • Poking around on Lexis-nexis, it looks like the biggest Tuareg news recently has been the album release and world tour of the band Tinariwen.. Fighting is very limited - one news source, a few articles last summer. Anyway, this is reasonably up-to-date now. - Cdc 18:22, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Yacin Yabeh, former chief of staff of the Djibouti National Police Force, led an attempted coup.
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  • 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.<strike> Tidied up but still needs some more depth, especially given recent developments re. political pluralism in Uganda. TreveXtalk 12:22, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
  • 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)
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Art and Design

See: Biocrawler:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Art and Design
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Requested articles

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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)
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Women's studies

Logo for Female-oriented section of Countering systemic bias
Female oriented subjects - Feminism, Women authors, professions with high proportion of women etc
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  • 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
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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.

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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)

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Requests for expansion

  • Nuruddin Farah a Somali writer, substub.
  • Daniel O. Fagunwa, Nigerian writer, highly regarded in Africa.
  • 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)
  • Benedict Wallet Vilakazi, Zulu writer
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Agriculture and horticultural studies

Agriculture etc

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

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Ethnic minorities

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

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Requested articles

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Requests for expansion

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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.
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Labor issues

labor
Labor related issues. See also the many red links in List of trade unions.
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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 Biocrawler'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.
  • 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. -