Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Alternative News

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The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.

The proposed WikiProject was not created. Closed due to insufficient interest from other editors. Ajpolino (talk) 22:05, 11 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Description[edit]

This project should be aimed at keeping track of news that are highly significant for minorities, subcultures or small communities. These events are basically unrepresented in wikipedia's "In the News" section which focuses entirely on elections, sporting events, natural disasters or other instances of mass death. The project be a subproject of the countering the systemic bias project. It would include events such as events affecting for national minorities, subcultures or intellectual communities (including academia, literature, art and music which are not currently given any prioroity at ITN), cultural events outside of the "global mainstream", and certain kinds of "curiousity" items . The project should have as its aim to eventually get a sport of featured content on the mainpage. ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 01:05, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

List of important pages and categories for this proposed group
List of WikiProjects currently on the talk pages of those articles
Please invite these and any other similar groups to join the discussion about this proposal. See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory to find similar WikiProjects.
Why do you want to start a new group, instead of joining one of these existing groups?
Your answer goes here.

Support[edit]

Please specify whether or not you would join the project.

  1. ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 01:05, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Fifelfoo (talk) 01:33, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  3. VolunteerMarek 04:41, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

I think this would be a great way to counter bias at the article and focus level. Fifelfoo (talk) 01:35, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or at the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.
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