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Good article reassessment for Tyrion Lannister

Tyrion Lannister has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 21:26, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Walt Balenovich, Disabled Author

Hello,

I am a disabled Author, Walt Balenovich, from Canada, who has written a book about backpacking the world alone, in a wheelchair.

The book is "Travels in a Blue Chair: Alaska to Zambia, Ushuaia to Uluru". How do I get a page about me written, without it getting deleted? I have tried over the years, but to no avail.

I can't even find much content about Disabled Authors' contributions to literature, although much is included about Black, LGBTQ+, Hispanic, Asian and various Religious folk! Can someone please help me/us to get out of the Wikipedia shadows, and receive a bit of Wikipedia equality?!!!

ISBN 978-0-59-546149-3 2607:FEA8:1380:276:1599:D439:6DD0:ACAB (talk) 10:46, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You may be Wikipedia-notable if people with no connection to you have written about you. Ditto your book may be Wikipedia-notable (separate from you) if people have written about/reviewed your book. Your social media and bookseller websites (Amazon, etc.) do not count as references establishing notability. Same for published interviews. See WP:42. David notMD (talk) 17:06, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So not hope of this project identifying Disabled Authors then? What is the point of this project? 2607:FEA8:1380:276:1599:D439:6DD0:ACAB (talk) 23:30, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 November 14 § Identity-first language for autistic people categories

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 November 14 § Identity-first language for autistic people categories, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. Raladic (talk) 23:05, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ongoing dispute in the Wikipedia page on Autism, need to brought into attention on several issues.

I recently went through the current version of the Wikipedia article on Autism , and I found that this article is NOT representing the reality or encyclopedic wholeness. The huge, verbose, highly technical article is biased towards medical model of disability, medical genetics, and nearly zero information regarding the anthropology, evolution, neurodiversity, accommodation, accessibility, Augmentative and alternative communications, and all that actually helps wellbeing of Autistic people. The page boldly focuses on controversial methods such as ABA, such as EIBI (Early intensive behavioral interventions), DTT (discrete trial training) etc. without any mention of the concerns or criticisms against them. I entered the talk page, but it has been turned literally into a warzone, where any dissenting viewpoint is being silenced in name of "global and unanimous scientific consensus" which is simply wrong. It is mostly a view held by biomedical and pharmaceutical majority. But outside of that, opposing viewpoints do exist in actual Autistic populations (who have the lived experience), anthropology, sociology, psychology, etc. I added an "unbalanced" tag for reader information (I did not speak for complete erasure of controversial viewpoints, just needed the reader to know that there are other views), however the "unbalanced" tag was soon reverted.

It is not possible for me to daily attend and post arguments and counter-arguments. I have to acknowledge that, if this kind of silencing continues, this time Wikipedia literally failed as an encyclopedia, as well it failed at public health and education welfare perspective.

RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 05:45, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Patrice: The Movie

I just created an article for the newly released documentary Patrice: The Movie. It may be of interest to members of this project. Thriley (talk) 23:20, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Activity-centered ergonomics

Please, let's fix this or delete it. Bearian (talk) 03:11, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]