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Cultivate a network of university-based leadership committed to using the Wikipedia Education Program (WEP) Model I suggest one of our goals as a project is to cultivate a network of university-based leadership committed to using the Wikipedia Education Program (WEP) Model to strengthen the network of articles that fall under the interest of Cultural Evolution. This would provide a broad base of continual engagement on these important articles, and also provides valuable service-learning experiences for students. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DustinEirdosh ( talk • contribs) 10:40, 15 April 2016 (UTC) DustinEirdosh ( talk) 10:43, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
The current page Cultural Evolutionism obviously needs to be either completely changed and renamed, or perhaps more likely a disambiguation with a new page called simply "Cultural Evolution". Which do you think is the better move? DustinEirdosh ( talk) 10:56, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
Also, there is the significantly better page of Sociocultural Evolution which is perhaps a better starting point? Is there any reason to disambiguate cultural evolution from sociocultural evolution? - DustinEirdosh ( talk) 12:11, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
A final thought. In terms of structure and coverage, what I have in mind is something very much like the History of Evolutionary Thought page which begins with a link to the Sociocultural Evolution page Paul McLaughlin 66.67.50.220 ( talk) 15:03, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
I suggest the creation of a new 'Cultural Evolution' page for CE as a field of study as differentiated from a set of evolution based viewpoints. This page might explain the distinction between cultural evolution and cultural evolutionism (as non-synonymous). I suggest also make this point on other closely related pages (ie
Cultural Evolutionism) and link back to the CE entry. As an overall project I suggest the creation and hyperlinking of any "gap" pages rather than trying to cram everything into a CE page. Obviously suggest off-site links to more in-depth academic stuff such as hosted by the CE Society. Andy Lord
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I've submitted a very short Cultural Evolution page for review - its just some partially thought out explanation, and incomplete references so that others can correct and complete it. AndySLord ( talk) 15:40, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
Perhaps we can use this Project Talk Page, until a CE page goes live. Nudge the habbit to using Wikipedia for Wikipedia issues, and use email for other CES stuff. AndySLord ( talk) 12:44, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
Just a quick note on the logistics of starting a cultural evolution article: as @ AndySLord: just found, submitting an incomplete draft to the main article namespace is likely to get shot down very quickly, because editors outside the WikiProject will be looking for a new article that substantially expands on sociocultural evolution (which cultural evolution currently redirects to).
I'd suggest working on a draft at Draft:Cultural evolution (and I've taken the liberty of moving Andy's draft there as a starting point) first, which we can then move to article space when it's reasonably developed. The other advantage of this is that it will then be eligible for WP:DYK, which will get us a lot of visibility. Joe Roe ( talk) 13:32, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
Is there anyone reading this page? Why do people create projects on super niche topics... join Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology or Wikipedia:WikiProject Culture , which have 3-4 semi-active members. Nobody will contribute here except the initial creators, for a few years until they move on. Prove me wrong. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:57, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
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I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like
John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.
)and turns it into something like
It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{ cite web}}, {{ cite journal}} and {{ doi}}.
The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.
Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.
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Unfortunately this project never got off the ground. Are there any objections to me merging it with Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthropology? – Joe ( talk) 09:27, 14 May 2024 (UTC)