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Feel free to tag Deaf- and Hard-of-Hearing-related articles, on their talk pages, by placing the following text at the top of the article's Talk page: {{WikiProjectDeaf}}.
Please do not write articles that advocate one particular viewpoint on deaf, politics, religion, or anything else. Understand what we mean by a neutral point of view
WP:NPV before tackling/editing this sort of topic.
Be neutral. Citation is your gateway to allowing a sentence/paragraph in. Do not copy original text as-is; you must reword them as neutral and non-offensive as possible.
Neutral point-of-view is the primary goal of Wikipedia.
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Taric25 Available to translate to and from English, Spanish, Arabic, and ASL.
Ara Pelodi Won't write articles, but willing to do non writing support, such as take pictures, con knowledgable people into helping, copy edit, or discuss and advise on talk pages, or other types of non article writing help requested.
Yupik Available for translations to and from Finnish and from Swedish, Spanish and Catalan
User:Halyna Haiko Je suis français et le créateur de le projet de culture sourde en version français. Je suis ici pour échanger ou entraider sur les articles.
Akifumii Fluent speaker of over 5 languages. Can contribute with a intermediate level of American Sign Language.
To improve the overall quality of articles relating to sign languages, Deaf culture and deafness.
To encourage collaboration and the formation of a community of Deaf, hard of hearing and interested Hearing wikipedians.
To achieve a consensus from a wider group on what are sometimes controversial topics, emphasising a representation from Deaf/deaf and hard of hearing people.
To improve the relevant content from all regions of the world.
To integrate all the articles into a consistent classification schema (e.g. category hierarchies).
Projects
(proposed) Sign languages and linguistics. Establish conventions for sign language pages and implement them (a draft page is now online at
Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages/Template (sign language)). Give examples of different sign languages with images and video samples. Also, create a network of pages on sign language linguistics.
(proposed) NPOV. Manage pages to insure that all aspects of deafness are addressed in a
NPOV, i.e.- both medical and cultural.
BSL Lives: add at least 50 new articles related to British Deaf people/BSL ([[[British Sign Language]]]) users in 2021
Formulate conventions on terminology ("hearing loss", "hearing impairment", hard of hearing, deaf/Deaf, hearing/Hearing, etc.) and apply throughout Wikipedia.
Add more photos of technology marketed to/used by Deaf and deaf people (such as loop systems, hand-held caption displays, hearing aids, cochlears, etc) to Wikimedia Commons.
This article is part of WikiProject Deaf, the WikiProject which seeks to improve articles relating to all aspects of
deaf-related and
Deaf culture. For the Project guidelines, see the
project page or
talk page.DeafWikipedia:WikiProject DeafTemplate:WikiProject Deafdeaf articles
History of Deaf Education or similar title, to explain residential schools, the fight over oralism, the politics of how it was decided what kids would be taught, etc. (My request, please move if in wrong place.
BrainyBabe 13:11, 4 July 2007 (UTC))reply
I went ahead and gave it a more concise title if that's okay with you. I may get to this if I have time in the future.
Working for Him (
talk) 00:52, 20 February 2010 (UTC)reply
May I recommend that we break up Deaf history into one or more of the following focus
Articles linked from
Laurent Clerc Award probably need to be created, as they are probably prominent and notable figures.
Disavian (
talk) 00:08, 4 June 2012 (UTC)reply
American Indian Sign Language (AISL), which is considered an endangered language variety but is still used and learned natively by some members of various Indian nations across Canada and the United States (including the Assiniboine, Blackfeet/Blackfoot, Cherokee, Crow, Northern Cheyenne, Nakoda/Lakȟóta, and Mandan-Hidatsa). Adding this here after not finding this article to use as a link for
John Louis Clarke.[1][2]PigeonChickenFish (
talk) 01:46, 16 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Deafness in LGBTQ+ or similar title, to explain the intersection of Deaf and queer communities, Deaf drag, list of influential Deaf queer individuals, organizations nationally supporting the Deaf queer community. (
Kmak 32 8:55, 11 November 2022 (UTC))
The articles could be broke up into the following
History about the Deaf community and LGBTQ community in general
Deaf culture#history
Please note that the Wikipedians only want to see new categories that are 'notable'. The explanation at
WP:OCTrivial is worth noting: "Avoid intersections of two traits that are unrelated, even if some person can be found that has both traits. For example, celebrities are usually notable for reasons other than being gamers." So while
Marlee Matlin really is notable for being a deaf actress, people in occupations like astronomy or book binding are not, to choose two of the more extreme cases above.
The Deafness Barnstar is an award of WikiProject Deaf, and may be bestowed to anyone who has made significant contributions to Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to deafness, or to the project itself. This award may be given by anyone, to anyone, in a
barnstar-like fashion.
The Deafness Barnstar
To use this Barnstar, create a new section on the user talkpage of the user you want to give the award to, and add {{subst:The Deafness Barnstar|1=message ~~~~}} to the talk page.