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Anarchism and Occupy

Hello WikiProject OWS. I'm looking for another set of eyes to take a look at Anarchism and the Occupy movement, which is currently a pending DYK. I've raised some concerns on the talk page about the balance of the article and would appreciate another perspective, especially from an editor familiar with the origins of the movement and its connection with anarchism. Thanks, Gobōnobo 18:24, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Begin guideline debate

What should be included? We need to set out some project rules and guidelines. These need to adhere to all Misplaced Pages policies as well, but we should at least have a set way of aproaching certain aspects. Do we like the basic set up of the main article or do we want to use it as a guide as we build the project?--Amadscientist (talk) 22:40, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

I will begin researching through the guidelines and start writing up basic guidelines and perhap style as well. If other members see something that absolutely stands out as "What the heck" or they just want to make some copy edits to the section, feel free to change anything I write and if there is any dispute I will discussit it here before I attempt any changes id at all. This seemed to work well on another project recently so lets try that slowly.--Amadscientist (talk) 21:43, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

That works for me. Rangoon11 (talk) 23:13, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

99% redirect

Would it be better as "WP:The99%" or just not use it at all. I will look at guidelines for project redirects but don't see a problem with it's use so far. Are there objections for any other reason?--Amadscientist (talk) 21:50, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

It looks good without the "the". I don't think anyone who knows how to look for projects will have difficulty finding this one. Gobōnobo 01:04, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Project banner and infobox are enabled

I have created the needed pages and links for the new project banner and infobox. Coming up I will create an alternative banner for unrated articles.--Amadscientist (talk) 09:55, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

I've added the project banner to articles listed under Category:Occupy Wall Street. I've also done assessments. Feel free to reassess where needed. Several of the C-class articles are fairly close to B-class and I may have misjudged some. Gobōnobo 01:09, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you!--Amadscientist (talk) 07:52, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Name

This project should be consistent as to whether it is called WikiProject Occupy vs. WikiProject OWS (I prefer the former, since I see Occupy Wall Street as a single event within the greater Occupy movement). I think this is a great idea for a WikiProject. Members will certainly have much work to do as there is a lot of inconsistency between Occupy-related articles, numerous merge discussions, other debates, etc. I hope this project can generate a quality set of articles for the betterment of Misplaced Pages. I will be watching this group closely! --Another Believer _(Talk) 23:17, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

I would support using WikiProject Occupy as well. Virtually all of the individual groups use "Occupy" in their names, even though Occupy Wall Street was the original. Gobōnobo 01:00, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Hey...don't look at me. It was just the proposal page and then the page was moved before discussion. Moving the page at this point however...would entail work due to the amount of links now set up and a redirect may cause some confusion and errors but is not impossible. I have done it before....I could do it here. We should let this be fully discussed to gain full consensus before we act.--Amadscientist (talk) 07:50, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

My preference and the original idea was to name the actual project WikiProject Occupy Wall Street. The project is not movement associated and is geared towards the subject itself. OWS is the starting point and the basis for the scope. Naming OWS is a pretty good compromise if you think about it.--Amadscientist (talk) 23:58, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Template:WikiProject OWS

I don't think this template should place articles within the Occupy Wall Street category. This category should be reserved for Occupy-relatead Misplaced Pages articles, not project-related articles. --Another Believer _(Talk) 01:45, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

So, just use it on actual Misplaced Pages articles and not on project space talk pages? Gobōnobo 03:32, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Most projects add templates to talk pages of project pages. I am just not sure how to add project pages to Category:WikiProject OWS rather than Category:Occupy Wall Street. Again, Misplaced Pages articles belong in the latter category; project pages belong in the project category. --Another Believer _(Talk) 15:05, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Correction. The Template does not place the articles into the Occupy Wall Street Category. That is being done manually for top importance articles within the scope of OWS as a subject, not just because it is within the scope of the project. Occupy-relatead Misplaced Pages articles do not all have the word "Occupy" in them.--Amadscientist (talk) 07:45, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

What do you mean the template does not place pages into the Occupy Wall Street category? Just click on the Occupy Wall Street category at the bottom of this page, look under the "W" section and you will see many project pages there. Perhaps I am misunderstanding something. --Another Believer _(Talk) 15:07, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

No, I think I was misunderstanding what you were referring to. Let me look at the template and the guidelines and other project templates to double check, but i take it your major issue is the project banner itself placing the talk page itself into the category and you feel that is not appropriate. If this is correct we can deal with that.--Amadscientist (talk) 23:05, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Looking into this and will see if this is being done properly, but I can say the the category in question, has talk pages that have been added that do not have the project banner. From guidelines, I am unclear that using the topic "Occupy Wall Street" in the Banner Project "Category" was innappropriate. I am not sure if adding a project template to a talkpage and having that template categorize the talk page into that sorting, for assessment and other automated tasks etc., is wrong.--Amadscientist (talk) 23:26, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Nope...I think I see what needs to be done. Correcting now.--Amadscientist (talk) 23:33, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Got it. The "MAIN CATEGORY" is "WikiProject OWS" for the banner to categorize the "talk page" to our category. Done!  Done--Amadscientist (talk) 23:37, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. --Amadscientist (talk) 23:39, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

The Jew problem on facebook

Guys, I'm sick and tired of it. Every time someone associated with OWS engages in antisemitic activity, it blows up. At first our Achilles heel had been crime/violence/rape but that seems to have blown over: http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/64226/occupiers-alliance-with-bds-could-be-a-deal-breaker-for-jewish-support

Apparently, too many people think OWS is the American continuation of the Arab Spring which makes it somehow acceptable for people to joke on facebook about Jews/Wall Street/Israel and most people chime in with comments which slowly degrade into outright antisemitism.

I feel like this section of the Occupy Oakland article should prompt us to adopt a mission for the Wikiproject to hold an open dialogue (apart from any one particular talk page, since this spans all the OWS articles) about how to handle bits & pieces of information which strengthen the narrative which Right-Wingers have baited us into. Now everything which OWS exhibits which plays into that pre-defined, antisemitic narrative is bleeding our fundraising efforts.

I hope Misplaced Pages can rise above politics and that we can discuss all the various Jew-related/antisemitism-related issues and how we present/disseminate that information to our readers ethically and fairly. Thanks, 완젬스 (talk) 18:42, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Maybe I should be AGF'ing more, but with your history of bringing your activism here... this seems more like a discussion about how OWS should be handling things, ie. one that doesn't belong on Misplaced Pages, but that you're trying to unnaturally twist into a Misplaced Pages issue. Misplaced Pages policy pretty much gives us what we need regarding how to disseminate information. There's no special way it needs to be handled for OWS. Equazcion 18:57, 20 Apr 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, thanks for AGF. I volunteer every day on facebook and the discussion on "reactions to OWS" page really rubbed me the wrong way. Normally I take the route traveled by Gandydancer--I just read the discussions but do not edit from this account anymore. I had to step out of character today and be real with my fellow editors. This is a make-or-break issue and it's tearing me apart. It brought me to tears earlier but I'm fine now. The OWS message was not supposed to be usurped by violence/rape/antisemitism/rat-infestations/etc. The cooptation of the occupy movement was supposed to transition smoothly before May 1st, but due to our weaknesses (the baggages, the stigmas of rape/rat-infestations/murder/antisemitism) it has all resulted in a backlash. Leaders of the occupy movement and donors from the movement resource group have partnered with moveon.org and democratic strategists for Obama's reelection to create our brainchild--the 99% spring--which has fallen way short of 100,000 enthusiasts.

The orchestrated momentum phase from mid March until last week has been struggling to outweigh the Trayvon Martin bandwagon as the #1 social issue leading into May 1st. Our May 1st general strike will accomplish nothing. George Zimmerman's bond amount is more highly disseminated by our mainstream media platform than updates from our movement. Associated Press, NYTimes, and Reuters all essentially ignore our press releases! George Zimmerman didn't just kill Trayvon Martin, he upended a crucial development in the painstakingly strategized evolution of the occupy movement into being coopted by moveon.org and Obama's grassroots campaign organizers via the 99% spring (an article I gave my word to Pete D. and Justin W. would NOT be red-linked!!!).

Don't doubt me on this--the whole purpose of Occupy Wall Street was to give to the democrats in 2012 what the Tea Party gave to Republicans in 2010! Don't you wish we could gloat after November 6th just like this? I know by your edits you are center/center-left leaning as an editor, which is why I urge you to realize the politics. We're both probably young (in our 20's), intelligent (IQ in the 130's), college educated, and we both know the social norms/guidelines of optimal Misplaced Pages behavior. I had all that stuff in late 2011 when everything was going great, but now there is too much backlash for the necessary, successful cooptation of the occupy wall street movement.

The Republicans did not *magically* turn an astroturf social movement (i.e. the tea party) into historic electoral gains during the 2010 midterm elections. I have insanely high "Machiavellian Intelligence" (which I can tell you do too, by this edit) so please forgive my panic that we're approaching an uneventful, anticlimactic, and lackluster M1GS (May 1st General Strike) that is our only hope of generating a political outcome on November 6th which is favorable toward Obama.

I agree with the rest of your post, but specifically I'm cautioning that we become extra cautious regarding how to disseminate information about antisemitism. If you believe that the status quo (and no dialogue needs to take place here) then I'll wait for one more person to chime in. If they agree with you (that no extra care needs to be applied regarding how we handle dissemination of antisemitism) then I'll respect the consensus. I just hope you realize how the Republicans have a narrative painting the OWS movement as antisemitic. Any published reports of antisemitism will fulfill the narrative designed by fox news & right wing talk radio. We need to make sure our neutrality isn't trumped by politics, at least until after Nov 6th. Hopefully I'm right, but I want to see what Amadscientist or BeCritical chimes in with. 완젬스 (talk) 19:48, 20 April 2012 (UTC)