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* work in [[Abortion]] (which itself is lame right now) somewhere | * work in [[Abortion]] (which itself is lame right now) somewhere | ||
* create a separate article about "the abortion pill" or (is it distinct?) "the morning after pill", including efficacy, politics and availability struggles | * create a separate article about "the abortion pill" or (is it distinct?) "the morning after pill", including efficacy, politics and availability struggles | ||
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Revision as of 11:53, 2 May 2024
PRIORITY
- Nguyen Ngoc Bich for User:Loc Vu-Quoc
- Ahimsa
- Karl S. Pister not conforming to conventions
- Bertolt Brecht - needs much cleanup
- rename Diego Garcia ?
- Iraq War and other articles starting with that name
- Louis Behrens and Louis Behrens (fireboat) - cross-link with cities at a minimum
- all the articles on User:Ori Redler probably need looking at
- James H. Schmitz incomplete, needs works list for one thing
- London disambig is a mess, as is London, United Kingdom (should probably rename as London, England
- User:Martin Nolan and the embarrassing Tim Redfern
Wikipedia
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillibullero
- does not mention the English Country Dance by the same name using this tune
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Whole_Earth_Center
- still stuck in Draft space per the message at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Harborsparrow
media
started
- Washington Examiner [r]: A newspaper in Washington, D.C. that is moderately to strongly biased toward conservative causes. [e]
- Washington Post [r]: A daily newspaper in Washington, D.C. with a slight to moderate liberal bias; first published details of the Watergate scandal. [e]
- National Review [r]: An American conservative publication founded in 1955 by William F. Buckley Jr. that is moderately to strongly biased toward conservative causes. [e]
not started
checklist
- template definition
- rating
- owner
- circulation
- external link to website
- other crosslinks
WW II
- World War II [r]: (1931–1945) global war killing 53 million people, with the "Allies" (UK, US, Soviet Union) eventually halting aggressive expansion by the "Axis" (Nazi Germany and Japan). [e]
- World War Two in the Pacific [r]: The part of World War II (1937-45) fought in Asia and the Pacific Ocean between Japan and the U.S., China, Britain, Australia, and other Allies. [e]
- Indochina and the Second World War [r]: Between 1936 and 1947, external events, related to the Second World War, which affected French Indochina [e]
helicopters
- MQ-1 Predator [r]: A medium-altitude, long-endurance, unmanned aerial vehicle used for armed reconnaissance by the Central Intelligence Agency, and for reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition at the level of Unified Combatant Commands; it will be replaced by its larger descendant, the MQ-9 Reaper [e]
- possibly needs to be merged into an article about military drones and their uses
- V-22 Osprey [r]: Military tilt-rotor aircraft capable of vertical takeoff as a rotary-wing helicopter, but faster horizontal flight using after converting its rotary-wing helicopter blades to propeller blades on a fixed-wing. [e]
- CH-47 Chinook [r]: Medium transport helicopter developed by the U.S. Army and used by a wide range of countries [e]
- H-60 helicopter [r]: A family of light transport helicopters used by the U.S. services, including the standard troop carrier UH-60 Blackhawk, naval rescue and surface/subsurface warfare, and the MH-60 special operations variant that is not really a Black Helicopter but instead very, very dark gray [e]
more HCB links to check
- Central Intelligence Agency [r]: The principal civilian intelligence organization of the United States, specializing in all-source intelligence analysis, clandestine human-source intelligence, and covert action. [e]
- Charles Krulak [r]: Add brief definition or description 1995-1999
- Victor Krulak [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Joint Chiefs of Staff [r]: The staff committee of the most senior members of the U.S. military services, charged with policy advice, doctrinal development, and preparedness rather than operational control of forces [e]
- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff [r]: The senior member of the uniformed services of the United States, statutory senior military adviser to the President and Secretary of Defense; currently Admiral Mike Mullen; policy developer and adviser not in the operational chain of command [e]
- Secretary of the Navy (U.S.) [r]: U.S. civilian official, of Assistant Secretary of Defense rank, who heads the U.S. Department of the Navy and to whom the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps report [e]
- U.S. Department of Defense [r]: one of more than a dozen U.S. executive-managed government agencies; this one administers the military forces of the United States, and their supporting civil servants. [e]
- Common operational picture [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Swarming (military) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Blue Force Tracker [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fratricide (military) [r]: Add brief definition or description
nuclear
- Accidental release source terms [r]: The mathematical equations that estimate the rate at which accidental releases of air pollutants into the atmosphere may occur at industrial facilities. [e]
- Acute radiation syndrome [r]: Disease or death caused by whole-body irradiation, over a short period of time, with a significant quantity of penetrating radiation [e]
- Caesium [r]: A chemical element, having the chemical symbol Cs, and atomic number (the number of protons) 55. [e]
- Cobalt [r]: A hard, lustrous, grey metal, a chemical element with symbol Co and atomic number 27. [e]
- Counterproliferation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Decontamination [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Explosive ordnance disposal [r]: The techniques of identifying hazardous explosive devices, including unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IED), determining if they can be rendered safe, and either attempting to render them safe or, after suitable precautions, destroying them in place [e]
- Federal Emergency Management Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Incident Command System [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ionizing radiation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mission-oriented protective posture [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Preventive medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Radioactivity [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Self-propelled artillery [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Solution Unsatisfactory (short story) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Terrorism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- UNSCOM [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Weapons of mass destruction [r]: Add brief definition or description
ISMs for review
- American Conservatism: Add brief definition or description
- market (economics): Add brief definition or description
- American exceptionalism: Add brief definition or description
- liberalism: Add brief definition or description
- socialism: Add brief definition or description
- communism: Add brief definition or description
- Libertarianism: Add brief definition or description
- Social conservatism: Add brief definition or description
- nativism (politics): Add brief definition or description
- Neoconservatism: Add brief definition or description
- Amphibious warfare: Add brief definition or description
- Landing craft: Add brief definition or description
- Landing Vehicle Tracked: Add brief definition or description
TO DO
- Glacials, set up a redirect from Ice age; rename to singular? and possibly look at intro
- U.S. Department of Defense
- World War II, and especially World War II/Related Articles
- The Prodigal Son
- combine everything in Erlang_(disambiguation)
- Internet Protocol version 6
- Greg Abbott
- Kansas Nebraska Act
- Open Shortest Path First
- 1 CE
- Interest group - look at its links; should be deleted eventually (correct term is "non-profit" research group
- Iraq War
- Football (disambiguation) - need dambigbox templates added
- Is Forms of football really needed?
- Icebreaker - disambiguate, or add a note about parlance
- Great Storm of 1703
- rename Ontario Line and Corktown Station
- Singapore
- we now have 5 articles instead of one, thanks to guess who
- 9-11 Attack
- 9-11 Attack in New York
- 9-11 Commission/Definition which redirects to National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
- Definition: A bipartisan U.S. government committee, formally the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, that reviewed why the 9/11 attack was not detected or averted, evaluated the response to it, and recommended improvements for the future
- merge Provinces of Iraq into Irag, then delete it
- merge Ganga in Hindu tradition into Ganges River, then delete it
- U.S. intelligence and transnational human rights issues
- merge Intelligence interrogation]] and Extraordinary rendition, U.S., George W. Bush Administration into George W. Bush and then delete them
- merge George W. Bush Administration into George W. Bush, then delete
- rename Naval Station Guantanamo Bay? and add subpages; get rid of the several redirects pointing to it (starting with Naval)
- get rid of the detention center cluster of articles, and the one about cats at Guantanamo Bay
- Recipe
- review and rename the Canadian states
- China snarl
- Small's Creek (Ontario) - rename to Toronto
- E. J. White: Add brief definition or description - rename?
- World War I needs to be shortened and consolidated
- World War I, American entry - merge into World War I
- also, delete the stub World War I, Homefront and plain Homefront for possible mergers
- look at World War I, Australia and merge it into World War I?
- World War I, American entry - merge into World War I
- Park51 - move summary to Islamophobia
- User:Howard_C._Berkowitz
- See some articles considered ready for reading.
- Big 6 tech stocks: Alphabet , Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla
- Amazon - disambiguate?
- Amazon.com and Jeff Bezos - merge?
- Social conservatism - improve or delete; merge w/Christian Right?; parts written in "present tense"
- CZ:Rules - example of marked not in use
- U.S._Federal_Police_agencies not interlinked adequately
- World War I, American entry and World War I, American entry
- Research_peer_review: Add brief definition or description
- Epaminondas, Thebes and Sparta are not interlinked and are very sparse as topics
- rename Ashbridge's Creek and Tomlin's Creek
- Great Britain and United Kingdom
- 32 Names of Durga: Add brief definition or description
- Mantra: Add brief definition or description
- Markandeya Purana: Add brief definition or description
- Om Jayanti Maṅgalā Kālī: Add brief definition or description
- Asana: Add brief definition or description
- Bhagavad Gita: Add brief definition or description
- Buddhism: Add brief definition or description
- Hatha Yoga Pradipika: Add brief definition or description
- Hinduism: Add brief definition or description
- Hindustani classical music: Add brief definition or description
- Pali: Add brief definition or description
- Pali Canon: Add brief definition or description
- Pali Text Society: Add brief definition or description
- Patanjali: Add brief definition or description
- Sanskrit: Add brief definition or description
- Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: Add brief definition or description
- Yoga: Add brief definition or description
- Ancient Egypt and History of Egypt - merge the 2nd into the 1st?
- https://pr.princeton.edu/pwb/05/0307/2a.shtml - a second obit for P'ton economist David Bradford
- Georgine Milmine - WP version does not mention the authorship challenge from 1993 onward; re: also Willa Cather and McClure's Magazine
- Martha Wells (author) and Witch King (novel)
- Henry Wellesley (1794–1866)
- 2012
- Osprey (plane/copter) history of deaths (plus 8 more as of Dec 2023)
- Humanities grads as a share of workforce in US (Oct 2023)
- Gun culture in the U.S. (US deaths vs. GB)
- Racism in the U.S.
- Jacksonville, Florida
- Houston, Texas
- Norfolk, Virginia
- Farmer, Jared. Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees. Picador, 2023.
- Dr. Farmer is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He received the American Philosopical Society 2023 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History to this book. (OMNIA, Nov 2023, under "Faculty Book Honors"). His temporal expertise is the long nineteenth century; his regional expertise is the American West. His recent work has turned to global environmental history across the modern period. Originally from Provo, Utah, Farmer earned his degrees from Utah State, the University of Montana, and Stanford. He has family roots in Bear Lake County, Idaho, and is a past and future resident writer at the Ernest and Mary Hemingway House in Ketchum. Prof. Farmer is the award-winning author of four books, most recently Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees. He’s on Instagram and Twitter @geohumanist. Learn more at jaredfarmer.net.
- need an article on Rosa Parks
- Larry McMurtry
- Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique
- Virginia Foster Durr
- missing the bibliography etc (and a video) from Wikipedia; needs rewriting generally
- Canadian people
- United States Coast Guard
- Jesus
- Secret Intelligence Service and MI6
- U.S. Federal Police agencies
- get rid of First Nations redirect to Native American (?)
- Alpha (letter) and Alpha (Greek letter), dumb intermediary redirect (along with much of the Greek alphabet)
- Acid rain - could this be made fit to be a front page article?
- Christian_Science_Monitor needs more cleanup
- Daniel_Everette_Hale had a duplicate ref
- move icebreaker to Icebreaker (boat) and disambiguate
- Martial arts needs expansion and cleanup
- Mary Baker Eddy needs more cleanup
- Radiation Units
- The Al Qaida Plan (film)
- CZ:The Article Checklist
- Richard Condon and Richard Condon/Citable Version - rename, relink?
- Ben Tillman: Add brief definition or description
- possibly rename, link appropriately to white supremacy ideas
- Texas,_history#Lynching - header levels probably all screwed up
- look at Ho Chi Minh
- complete the cities for National_Basketball_Association
Martin Nolan, starting early Aug 2023
U.S. Treasury downgraded
- Fitch downgrades Fannie and Freddie LinkedIn writeup
- Fitch Downgrades U.S. Credit Rating, but Businesses Don't Need to Worry Just YetEven JPMorgan Chase's CEO Jamie Dimon said the downgrade 'doesn't really matter that much.' by Melissa Angell on Inc.com, Aug. 3, 2023.
- Fitch downgrades U.S. long-term rating to AA+ from AAA by Darla Mercado on CNBC, Aug. 1, 2023
- Fitch downgrades Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac after US rating cut on Reuters, Aug. 2, 2023
presidential
- President_of_the_United_States_of_America/Related_Articles/Masterlist#List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States_of_America
- John F. Kennedy/Related Articles
Hitler : merge?
- Adolf Hitler: Add brief definition or description
- Historiography of Hitler: Add brief definition or description
- Hitler and his youth: Add brief definition or description
- Political beginnings of Hitler: Add brief definition or description
- Hitler in Vienna: Add brief definition or description
- Hitler as soldier: Add brief definition or description
- Hitler and his personal life: Add brief definition or description
- Political beginnings of Hitler: Add brief definition or description
- Hitler as military leader: Add brief definition or description
- Hitler Youth ------------------------------> Combine this into Nazi Party
- 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
- Heinrich Bruening: Add brief definition or description
- Joseph Goebbels: Add brief definition or description
- Alfred Hugenberg: Add brief definition or description
- Paul von Hindenburg: Add brief definition or description
- Otto Meissner: Add brief definition or description
- Franz von Papen: Add brief definition or description
- Ernst Roehm: Add brief definition or description
- Kurt von Schleicher: Add brief definition or description
- Gregor Strasser: Add brief definition or description
- Karl Doenitz: Add brief definition or description
- Nazism Subgroup
- Germany
- Weimar Republic
- Nazi Chancellery (disambiguation)
- Nazi Germany/Definition
- Nazi Party
- Nazi SS and military ranks/Definition
- Nazi concentration camps
- Nazi epidemic jaundice experiments
- Nazi euthanasia program
- Nazi racial and biological ideology
- SS
- Third Reich
- National Socialism
- Lebensborn
Related articles
Yet more
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Major camps:
- Auschwitz Concentration Camp
- Auschwitz main concentration camp
- Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp
- Auschwitz-Monowitz Concentration Camp
- Buchenwald Concentration Camp
- Dachau Concentration Camp
- Majdanek Concentration Camp
- Treblinka Concentration Camp
Other Camps:
- Flossenburg Concentration Camp
- Mauthausen Concentration Camp
- Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp
- Nordhausen Concentration Camp
WITH DEFINITIONS:
Perpetrators at Auschwitz:
- Rudolf Hoess: Add brief definition or description
- Arthur Liebehenschel: Add brief definition or description
- Richard Baer: Add brief definition or description
Other camps:
- Buchenwald Concentration Camp: Add brief definition or description
- Dachau Concentration Camp: Add brief definition or description
- Flossenburg Concentration Camp: Add brief definition or description
- Mauthausen Concentration Camp: Add brief definition or description
- Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp: Add brief definition or description
- Nordhausen Concentration Camp: Add brief definition or description
Other:
- World War I: Add brief definition or description
- World War II: (1931–1945) global war killing 53 million people, with the "Allies" (UK, US, Soviet Union) eventually halting aggressive expansion by the "Axis" (Nazi Germany and Japan). [e]
- https://citizendium.org/wiki/Category:Citizendium_Subgroups
- Fossil_fuel: Add brief definition or description
- Executive Schedule (U.S. government): Add brief definition or description
- Cricket_(sport) - batsman, batsmen and batswoman/women --> batter
- also the associated Glossary of terms, but we could use an explanation for the change
- Bill Clinton: Add brief definition or description
- Panthera tigris (Tiger): Add brief definition or description
- Jacques Goudstikker: Add brief definition or description
- Norway_Debate - rename? (see it's Talk page)
- Geothermal power
- Martial arts: Add brief definition or description
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Add brief definition or description
- needs a lot of work
- 32 Names of Durga, Mantra, Markandeya Purana and Om Jayanti Maṅgalā Kālī
- Arizona_(U.S._state) needs more
- Manumatavai Tupou-Roosen practically unlinked to anything
- History_of_the_United_States_of_America/Related_Articles
- https://citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/New_York&limit=500 - pages that link to New York
- look at subpages of User:Daniel_Mietchen/Sandbox
- [[1]] - cities needing renaming
- United States of America/Related Articles
- All pages beginning with United States
- All pages beginning with U.S.
- Government_of_the_United_States_of_America/Related_Articles - listing the executive branch agencies (cabinet positions often at the head of each)
These still link to Delaware, preventing me from making Delaware (disambiguation).
- Thomas McKean --> this is a hot mess of bad, duplicated links
- John McKinly
- Caesar Rodney
- John Dickinson
- User talk:Jim Earl
These need to be reconciled and cleaned up:
- Florida (U.S. state) and Spanish Florida; main article needs work + merge Spanish Florida into it
- California, history (disambiguation) may not be helpful
articles from Wikipedia
Birth control article cluster needs major re-org
Contraception_(disambiguation)
- Birth control: Add brief definition or description - redirected
- Contraception (medical methods): Add brief definition or description
- Sterilization_(human,_elective_procedures): Add brief definition or description
- Natural family planning: Add brief definition or description
Social:
Animals:
Another reorganization coming
If no one objects, I'm going to break this article into smaller articles. IUD's, birth control pills/patches, cervical caps, condoms, etc. each have a very different record of effectiveness, and I think the reader ought to be able to see clearly on the disambiguation page which methods are more vs. less effective. It's going to be a lot of work. And really, I think the top-level article ought to be called "birth control" and not "contraception". Why use a great big word that only doctors use, when the rest of the planet uses the everyday words? Maybe when this was all first written, people were trying to avoid controversy, but it can't be avoided. Let's just tell the facts, then separate out the controversy part into separate articles or at least sections.Pat Palmer (talk) 12:13, 22 January 2023 (CST)
- In the process of doing this, it means this article will need to be "unapproved", which in a way is a shame, because the bulk of the information has not changed. But I don't agree with having all these many different medical approaches lumped into one article; it's a disservice to women, who cannot quickly and easily decide which topic they want to read about but are instead exhausted with a deluge of technical information. Thus, I will "unapprove" this article, not because it's out of date per see, but because I don't agree with the structure.Pat Palmer (talk) 12:16, 22 January 2023 (CST)
ordering
- create a draft of a new version of Birth control intended to be the top level article
- what needs to be disambiguate, and why?
- break the unapproved Contraception (medical methods) into its constituent parts, with a good opener and /Definition for each part showing the effectiveness of that method
- work in Abortion (which itself is lame right now) somewhere
- create a separate article about "the abortion pill" or (is it distinct?) "the morning after pill", including efficacy, politics and availability struggles
Templates to study
To read (policy)
- CZ:Managing_Editor/2013/001_–_Modifying_the_Functionality_and_Policy_of_Signed_Articles
- CZ:Naming_conventions
Examples
- Civil_society: Add brief definition or description
- admin info at bottom about subpages morrass
- Flue_gas_desulfurization: Add brief definition or description
- See section on "Facts and Statistics" for how to give open credit
- Solomon_Islands: Add brief definition or description
- REFERENCES DONE WELL with named {{cite}} templates
- Papacy: Add brief definition or description
- Redirection: #REDIRECT [[Papacy]]
- Hilary_Davidson_(historian): Add brief definition or description
- uses the tweet template
- United States of America: Add brief definition or description
- example of expandable / collapsible element
Move for disambig
- Penguin
- Thomas Jackson and disambiguation (see its Discussion page)
- And now, Michael Brown (youth)/Definition and Michael Brown (youth) won't do either
- Also, John_Shaw
- Bruce_Jackson
- Gary Schmitt
- Richard Perle
- Bruce Jackson/Definition
- Lisa_Jackson
- Frederick_Jackson_Turner
- Sheila Jackson-Leev
- Jesse Jackson, Jr.
- Jackson Street Railway
- Michael Jackson/Definition
- Charles Gittins
- Vanessa Guillen
- Benjamin B. Dailey
- Mike Cabana
- Henry Larsen
- Norman Lubbock Robinson
articles maybe to rename
- George_Farmer
- Maxim Grigoriev
- Kiva_Reardon simple name as title
- Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali
- Bright Leaves needs TLC
- Shannon Bohle also still designated as "from WP"
duplicate articles now exist about the Bright Leaves documentary film
Please see the note at Talk:Bright_Leaves. Of the two articles, Bright Leaves and Bright Leaves (documentary), please tell me which to keep and which to delete. And after that's done, I think the one that remains should be Bright Leaves (documentary), with Bright Leaves being a redirect to Bright Leaf (disambiguation).Pat Palmer (talk) 14:52, 21 December 2022 (CST)
consider Bot Ton for deletion
Hi George, I see you created Bon_Ton here 6 months ago and gave it {{WPattribution}}, but nothing links to it, nor does it say you wrote it yourself. Thus, I propose deleting it. Please let me know if there is some reason it should NOT be deleted. I'm trying to clear out things from Wikipedia that are not in the act of being improved. If you wrote it over in WP, please make a note on the Talk page here and let me know. Pat Palmer (talk) 13:15, 27 December 2022 (CST)
Kali mantra
DEVI ARGALĀ STOTRAM Hymn to Goddess to Remove Impediments From the Devī Mahātmyam [Mārkendeya Purana]
Kalika Mantra, below -- that is a wonderful mantra for the first three days of Navatri. Helps to clear out the old, transform whatever muck lies in the subconscious, and integrate all aspects of our being -- even those aspects we try hard to pretend are not there. It makes space for the new, unveils our beautiful inner light, and supports our evolution, as individuals and as a community!
With love, and prayers for all good things, Ananya
Om Jayanti Mangalā Kālī Bhadra Kālī Kapālinī Durgā Kshamā Śivā Dhātrī Svāhā Svadhā Namostute
From WP: (Kali article)
Kali could be considered a general concept, like Durga, and is primarily worshiped in the Kali Kula sect of worship. The closest way of direct worship is Maha Kali or Bhadrakali (Bhadra in Sanskrit means 'gentle'). Kali is worshiped as one of the 10 Mahavidya forms of Adi Parashakti. One mantra for worship to Kali is:[32]
सर्वमङ्गलमाङ्गल्ये शिवे सर्वार्थसाधिके । शरण्ये त्र्यम्बके गौरि नारायणि नमोऽस्तु ते ॥ ॐ जयंती मंगला काली भद्रकाली कपालिनी । दुर्गा क्षमा शिवा धात्री स्वाहा स्वधा नमोऽस्तुते ॥
Sarvamagalamāgalyē śivē sarvārthasādhikē. Śaraṇyē tryambakē Gauri nārāyaṇi namō'stu tē. Oṃ jayantī mangala kālī bhadrakālī kapālinī . Durgā kṣamā śivā dhātrī svāhā svadhā namō'stutē.
In fact, chanting of Mahishasura Mardhini is a daily ritual in all Hindu Bengali homes especially during Navratri / Durga Pujo as it is called.[citation needed]
The chant of the first chapter of Durga Saptashati is considered a very important hymn to Sri Mahakali as Devi Mahatmyam / Durga Saptashati dates back to the Upanishadic Era of Indological literature.
Maintenance
- Of Mice and Men: Add brief definition or description
- California (U.S. state): Add brief definition or description
- Related Articles
- Civil Rights Movement: Add brief definition or description
- Troy (ancient city): Add brief definition or description
- Ivy_League: Add brief definition or description
- Odyssey AND Odysseus - duplicative, only one links to Ithaca; both linked TO
- Ithaca, New York - needs a better image; also, links to above, which might need renaming
- Fokker and Anthony Fokker, little linked; Fokker needs renaming or something
- Harold Denny is unlinked
- North American Newspaper Alliance needs references and more work
- Jèrriais - unlinked, and questionable name
- is it really a romance "language"? or just a dialect?
- Juneau (disambiguation) is sparse
- URGENTLY NEED TO BRING THIS UP TO DATE: Wikipedia
- California,_history_to_1845/Related_Articles - add bot-suggested to top, and organize it
- Philia (Aristotle's philosophy) - Aristotle does not even link to it
- PMID and PubMed could use cleanup and maybe consolidation
- Essential_oils - WP import with many problems
- Privacy Act of 1974 needs the amendments clarified
- Plain Folk of the Old South
- Ashram_system, Mysticism, Faith healing, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
- turn Patriot_Act (now empty and status "from WP") into a real stub
- Jan_Mayen: Add brief definition or description
- Mohamed_Abdulkarim_Ali
- on CZ:Workgroups, how to add yourself as Editor or Author, and when to do either
- Mariana_Vishegirskaya
- move Andrea Pitzer to Andrea Pitzer (journalist), or maybe just delete it
- Molten_chloride_fast_reactor/Definition has no definition
- Plural could use new attention
- Connect of combine Smog with Urban heat island - see also German "DunstGlocke"
- https://citizendium.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Fahrenheit
- Rock music/Catalogs/Rock bands, Rock music/Catalogs and Rock music
- Fast_neutron_reactor - D. MacQuigg
- no subpages, and external links right in the article; WP attribution at top (move to bottom?)
- [2]
- President_of_the_United_States_of_America#Admin:_subpages_of_this_article
- check out the Master List subpage, work with it, figure out how to incorporate it?
- Germany: Add brief definition or description
- needs stats update with references; also bibliography recheck
- and is there section on reunification?
- needs stats update with references; also bibliography recheck
- New York, New York: Add brief definition or description
- has ref error(s)
- Buddhism in the United States: Add brief definition or description
- Anti-spam techniques: Add brief definition or description
- links twice directly to Wikipedia; maybe just delete the whole thing?
- 0 (number): Add brief definition or description
- Zero (mathematics): Add brief definition or description
- Association/Definition
- also Association and its messy disambiguation page
- Cleanliness and its unruly, unlinked subpages
- Cholera has subtle ref error; how to reuse a ref with different page number?
- See also Bone_tools
- Tennessee (U.S. state)/Related_Articles is a hot mess
- Kansas
- needs Kansas (disambiguation) and Kansas (state), with all links to it fixed
- existing pages beginning with Kansas: Special:PrefixIndex/Kansas
- Special:WhatLinksHere/Conjunction
- Conjunction_(logical_and): Add brief definition or description
- needs subpages template
- Kansas City (metropolitan area): Add brief definition or description
- Kansas City, Kansas: Add brief definition or description
- Kansas City, Missouri: Add brief definition or description
- see list of cities at Federal_Reserve_System#The_Federal_Reserve_Banks
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge: Add brief definition or description
- add writing samples of the matters mentioned in the description
- Rainer Maria Rilke: Add brief definition or description
- add the 5 main works
- Inferno_(disambiguation) needs work
- Inferno (novel) needs renaming
- Chicago (disambiguation): Add brief definition or description
- Life
- For additional uses of the word Life, see Life (disambiguation); see User:Pat_Palmer/sandbox/Life_disambig_from_WP
- rename John_Baker to John_Baker (slave) or some such
- Civil society
- Civil society: Add brief definition or description
- CZ:Introduction_to_CZ_for_Wikipedians - needs rescue
- Home-based records: Add brief definition or description
- should be moved to Personal Health Record
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK557757/
- African American: Add brief definition or description
- Atlanta, Georgia: Add brief definition or description
- should be moved to Toronto, Ontario prolly
- Kansas City (disambiguation)
- Major League Baseball: Add brief definition or description
- Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. (fireboat): Add brief definition or description
- look at Metadata of above
- Moss Park (Toronto): Add brief definition or description
- Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington: Add brief definition or description
- Academy: Add brief definition or description might ought to be a disambig page instead
- Phoenix, Arizona: Add brief definition or description
- Rebecca_Gordon: Add brief definition or description
- Red dwarf (star): Add brief definition or description
- Slavery_in_Canada: Add brief definition or description
- Turkey: Add brief definition or description
- above needs disambig and other things, see Talk:Turkey
- PLACEHOLDER: rpl template above this line
- CZ:We_aren't_Wikipedia and Wikipedia's We aren't Citizendium
- input box to make a template
- check out the rest of the articles listed at User_talk:George_Swan#articles_about_living_people_known_to_the_public
- [[File:SaraMoonvesWMagazine.jpg]] - license?
ToDo items and notes
- American Civil War: Add brief definition or description
- nominated by Pat Palmer, 12/28/2021
- written and revised by a variety of authors; see Talk page; removed from Ready to Read
- work on headers, generally needs updating
- see Peter Jackson's comments at bottom of its Discussion page
- Antonin Wagner (sociologist): Add brief definition or description
- shorten the definition
- Boat_nerd: Add brief definition or description
- prolly needs renaming
- Bug_(software): Add brief definition or description
- above could use some fleshing out; the WP version is IMO overkill
- Concentration camp: Add brief definition or description
- Conjunction (disambiguation): Add brief definition or description
- Conjunction (grammar): Add brief definition or description
- semantics
- Cuneiform: Add brief definition or description
- Diamond (gemstone): Add brief definition or description
- Diatom: Add brief definition or description
- Digital object identifier: Add brief definition or description
- Drexel University: Add brief definition or description
- Duino Elegies: Add brief definition or description
- Eugene,_Oregon: Add brief definition or description
- Fuel oil: Add brief definition or description
- Gail_Helt: Add brief definition or description
- Hieroglyphics: Add brief definition or description
- Hydrogen_fusion: Add brief definition or description
- John Keats: Add brief definition or description
- Imagist poets: Add brief definition or description
- Knee-on-neck_restraint: Add brief definition or description
- see Discussion page on above article
- Marbles: Add brief definition or description
- maybe move and disambiguate
- Message (disambiguation): Add brief definition or description
- Nancy_Pelosi: Add brief definition or description
- Norman language: Add brief definition or description
- Pali: Add brief definition or description
- references for the three different grammarians
- Panis: Add brief definition or description
- Patrick Center for Environmental Research: Add brief definition or description (PCER)
- People's Republic of China: Add brief definition or description
- above: is messy (and lacks a Definition page)
- Phycology Section of the Patrick Center for Environmental Research: Add brief definition or description
- Poverty: Add brief definition or description
- Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom: Add brief definition or description
- Queen Street (Toronto): Add brief definition or description
- cross-link, maybe, with Moss Park station or maybe Moss Park (Toronto)
- Rainer Maria Rilke: Add brief definition or description
- Regards ring: Add brief definition or description
- merge into Ring (jewellery) or Ring (disambiguation)
- Ring (disambiguation): Add brief definition or description
- Ring (jewellery): Add brief definition or description
- Ruth Patrick: Add brief definition or description
- Shabdrung_Ngawang_Namgyal: Add brief definition or description
- above: headers need fixing?; check in WP, check sources
- Shortest_path_routing: Add brief definition or description
- above getting some hits around end of 2021
- Signal (disambiguation): Add brief definition or description - needs a lot of fleshing out
- Slavery in Canada: Add brief definition or description
- Sonnets to Orpheus: Add brief definition or description
- Speaker of the United States House of Representatives: Add brief definition or description
- Superfund: Add brief definition or description
- Swami_Rama: Add brief definition or description
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge: Add brief definition or description
- U.S._Constitution: Add brief definition or description
- ABOVE ALPHABETIZED
- Alaric A. Piette: Add brief definition or description
- John Baker: Add brief definition or description
- High Arctic Haulers: Add brief definition or description
- Curtis_Dagenais: Add brief definition or description
- above: another killer article brought from WP by GS
- Monitor_theory: Add brief definition or description
- above mostly by John S., this also got search engine hits around the end of 2021
- Dimorphos: Add brief definition or description
- above needs its references fixed (and message Mark)
- Thorstein Veblen: Add brief definition or description
- Oswald Veblen: Add brief definition or description
- Metadata: Add brief definition or description
- The elimination of metaphysics: Add brief definition or description
- consider what to do with this, if anything; it got search engine hits around the end of 2021
- What_is_language?: Add brief definition or description
- in parallel with Language (general)
- Zophar Mills (fireboat): Add brief definition or description
- PLACEHOLDER: rpl template above this line
- House_of_Commons_(United_Kingdom)/Catalogs/Political_parties - maybe move or rename; used in various pages as a resource
- Nellie_Bly - ship needs disambig and renaming; also definition and change link on Fireboat/Related Articles
- Fireboat and 9/11 would benefit from some TLC
- Fireboat/Related_Articles - list needs completing; and, article naming convention needs to be applied
- Roy S. Kelley - fireboat, needs subpages
- Procedural programming language could use links to it from Stack frame, Stack and other prog. lang. articles
- Ursa Major and Ursa Minor - Definitions and Related_Articles are screwed up for both articles
- Rebecca_Gordon - needs stuff
- Small,_Stupid_and_Insignificant film
- USCGC_Joseph_Gerczak
- Social_legislation_(U.S.) - see Related Articles (ERA)
- The_Elder_Scrolls - orig. from WP in 2009; remove?
- Fireboats_of_Duluth - should this even be an article?
- Scientific_visualization and Data visualisation - merge?
- Need to complete update of CZ:Active_Users and get emails for all of these
- Save a copy of MediaWiki:Common.js somewhere
- User:Howard_Arvi_Hughes/Pictures_to_be_deleted
- Forum_Talk:Technical_Issues#Google_Search - look into this
- Schloss Neunhof - barely more than a stub
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugeilio%27r_Gwenith_Gwyn - rather poor
- (Redirected from Watching the white wheat)
- Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn
- Breathwork - needs subpages, a definition, a bit more
- i.e., holotropic breathwork (Google it)
- CZ:Personnel - needs some cleanup
- CZ:Friends_of_Citizendium
- Deus ex machina
- Relative_volatility
- Probability_blindness - was this in the Kahnemann book?
- evaluate Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh for "Ready for Read" list
- Gutenberg_(disambiguation)
- Keats's_poems_of_1820
- Numismatics - possible new article
- Medieval_English_Mystics
- Tennessee
- could use a list of ship, or lists or different kinds of ships; who can I ask?
- Christian Science
- USS_Wakefield_(AP-21) - do something with the testimony at the top
- Fix this link to look better and open in a new tab: https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/USS_Wakefield_(AP-21)/External_Links
- Should we disambiguate Endemic_species from Endemic disease?
- Galaxy
- Andromeda Galaxy vs. Milky Way - naming convention?
- New General Catalogue
- Constellation
- Titania, Oberon and Titan - disambig the latter?
- are Titania and Titan related?
- there is a grammatical ambiguity in Titan_(mythology) and its definition; research to resolve
- Per WP: the fairy queen has no name; Shakespeare took the name "Titania" from Ovid's Metamorphoses, where it is an appellation given to the daughters of Titans
- Per WP: In a Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare altered the spelling of Auberon (King of the fairies) to Oberon
High Priority
- COVID-19: Add brief definition or description
- Digital library: Add brief definition or description
- has undesirable direct external link; also just a stub
- Pali_Text_Society: Add brief definition or description - revise sections?
- Ptolemy: Add brief definition or description
- needs disambig
- The_Idler_(disambiguation): Add brief definition or description
- User:Michael_J._Formica and Buddha
- Government_of_the_United_States_of_America is a hot mess; I think I can do better
- https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:FAQ shows up in Google! REVISION NEEDED
- Nonprofit_corporation - read this!
- Football_to_1900: Add brief definition or description
- history? maybe could benefit from some images
To do, interests, bookmarks
Cryptography
HB stuff to check
- Signals intelligence collection, ship-based
- Signals intelligence before the Second World War
- Signals intelligence from 1954 to 1979
- Snake (animal) oil (cryptography)
- CZ:Security_Subgroup
- Talk:Cryptanalysis/Draft
Computers
- IoT (Internet of Things)
- Ajax
- Algorithm is in pretty bad shape
- BIOS and EFI, and the related IBM_compatible_PC - BIOS need work, urgently
- Boolean algebra - see the ref in History section; how does it work??
- Byte needs to spawn other articles (and thus be shortened)
- Closure
- Email system
- From User:David MacQuigg https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Talk:Email_system/Draft is the plan for the cluster of articles as whole
- He also wrote: "Looks to me like this basic structure is still valid. Some of the subtopics, like SenderID, may be no longer needed, Others, like Authentication Methods could be greatly expanded. The one thing I would most like to retain is a clear separation between the overview article Email Systems, and the technical details in the subtopic articles. I am open to suggestions on what should be added or deleted in the overview."
- Convergence of communications
- Military Intelligence Program
- National Security Agency and Southeast Asia, 1954-1961
- Cryptome
- Stafford Tavares and cryptographer
- Cryptography in 2008 draft mostly by me before others came in
- One-way encryption - I contributed most or all of this (but it overlaps same content in Cryptography
- Two-way encryption
- Revision as of 03:53, 20 January 2008 by Pat Palmer (Talk | contribs | block) (→Private-key encryption: grammar) (diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
- https://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Cryptography&oldid=100254226
- See also the discussion at User_talk:Sandy_Harris#Revoke_some_approvals_that_are_perhaps_questionable.3F
- Cryptography and Cryptographer
- https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Category:Security_Subgroup
- Asymmetric_key_cryptography
- Symmetric_key_cryptography
- Tactical_and_Technical_Intelligence_Subcommittee
- Operations security
- Standards:
- Advanced Encryption Standard
- Data Encryption Standard
- RSA algorithm and various related topics
- Plaintext
- Alice and Bob
- Paul and Carole/Definition
- Active attack
- Passive attack
- Operations security
- Ciphertext
- Cypherpunk
- Cryptology
- Alice and Bob
- Cipher
- Cryptanalysis
- Cryptographic key
- Steganography
- NOTE: Go through all the articles and compile a list of related topics, some of which need to be combined, or at least reorganized; it's a hot mess right now
- Design_pattern_(disambiguation)
- various design patterns probably need their own article
- ECMAscript or JavaScript
- History of computing - I want to restore the Strowger switch sections of this history ( http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=History_of_computing&oldid=100104262#Strowger_switch_and_telephone_dialing_.28.7E1920.29 ) to the timeline, now that the persons who deleted it (over my loud protests) have left the project; making a note to remind myself to go back and do it
- And while I'm at it, I might also restore my totally crushed (but formerly lucid) sections to Cryptography, especially those on one-way vs. two-way, after they were inundated in ununderstandable verbiage by a certain pushy author/editor no longer with the project; sigh
- IBM PC and related articles
- IEEE and ACM
- Java_(programming_language)/Related_Articles
- NoSQL
- Operating system could use updating; e.g., adding mobile phone OS list
- REST - article does not even exist yet
- Remote Procedure Call and RPC - these formerly existed; what happened? Can they be found again?
- SOA exists, but not Service Oriented Architecture (needs to exist and be redirected, maybe)
- SOAP: need to disambiguate SOAP (protocol) from SOAP (encoding), and perhaps other definitions of "soap"
- Software engineering
- Service_Oriented_Architecture_/_Service_Orientation sometime very soon.
- see Ajax for an example of how to disambiguate
- Web services or SOA
- World Wide Web - start article on RIA (see "Web 2.0" at bottom ?
- XML, HTML5, HTML and XHTML all could use some TLC
Disambig
- Rook (chess) and Rook (card game); maybe also the bird (?); Rookery?
- staff (music, as in 'abc notation') vs. staff (military)
- CZ:List_of_words_with_multiple_uses - disambiguation articles (complex style)
- CZ:Disambiguation
- CZ:Proposals/Disambiguation_mechanics
To work on:
- Phoneme
- Nebula Awards and Hugo Awards - possibly
- Organizer
- South Pacific
- Theatre (disambiguation) - also AE vs BE spellings
- Email (per User:Roger A. Lohmann, who wrote: "There is a lot of very interesting and useful history here, but there also seems to be a lot of overlap in the various articles. This could be a major project for someone...A quick search of the key term (and variable spellings) identified these major pages (there are dozens of others (related pages, bibs, redirects, definitions, etc.) The numbers in parenthesis after each term are the listed word lengths."
- Email (2758)
- Email abuse (92)
- Email agents (524)
- Email authentication (822)
- Email forwarding problem (610)
- Email gray listing (22)
- Email history (730)
- Email security (2320)
- Email spoofing (redirect)
- Email system (1673)
- Email user programs (39)
- Email (redirect)
- E-mail spoofing (124)
- Phishing (1975)
- Spam (e-mail) (541)
- Webmail (definition) (23)
General
- Railway_history#Geographic_histories
- it's links and related articles are a mess
- Santa_Fe_de-Luxe - add to U. S. railway history
- Special:Contributions/Phil_Hermanns
- all the articles he created need subpages
- need an over-article Realism that disambiguates to various fields
- need Realism (literature)
- Rivers in N America - catalog?
- https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Dublin/Catalogs/Suburbs is a Dublin orphan of some sort
- Abc_(music_notation) needs an update (use my workshop notes from last fall); brought over from WP on 8/18/08 and completely overhauled by me
- Association_(disambiguation) - business? non-profit?
- Automobile - for the "See Also" box in the History section
- Bell Laboratories - needed
- Brittany
- British_Islands/Related_Articles
- Coal mining - I helped start this article, and it could probably use yet more attention
- Cruise_book - Catherine Jie Brown?
- DNA - look at the text of the disclaimer on the Editable version
- Einstein biographies - is there a list?
- Ellen Gates Starr - needs images
- Exile_on_Main_St - music album
- Fur_trade - redirect, and partially moved to User:Russell_D._Jones/Fur_trade
- Bibliography, Related articles and other subpages (and metadata?) possibly left orphaned
- Greek_alphabet - compare to WP? still flagged as almost identical, though it's probably now vastly worse
- Grounds_for_Sculpture needs fleshing out; it is still a stub. Can I recruit a local friend to work on this?
- Khost and Khost Province
- Jo Davidson (sculptor) sculptor (now just a stub)
- Joe Biden
- Johannes_Gutenberg - link Computers to Printing press
- Korea - Ron Stevenson?
- Lincoln biographies - is there a list?
- Military doctrine (Howard) and Military strategy (Mietchen) - are these parallel?
- President_of_the_United_States_of_America
- Proof_(mathematics) - for Mark?
- Reading and Speed reading - possibly need to be combined
- Richard Stallman
- Roman Emperor
- Spanish missions in California
- virus or viruses (computer vs. biological or medical) disambiguation needed (see Ajax for example)
Eduzendium articles 2009
Group 1 - article: Mashup
- User:Anita_Banser - Special:Contributions/Anita_Banser
- User:Oluwabusola_Oladapo - Special:Contributions/Oluwabusola_Oladapo
Group 2 - article: Online document services, including Google_Docs_vs._Microsoft_Word
- User:Roopkumar_Kalimuthu - Special:Contributions/Roopkumar_Kalimuthu
- User:Gaurav_Banga - Special:Contributions/Gaurav_Banga
- User:Youjun_Wang - Special:Contributions/Youjun_W
Group 3 - article: speech recognition
- User:Samuel_C._Smith - Special:Contributions/Samuel_C._Smith
- User:Sean_Plankey - Special:Contributions/Sean_Plankey
- User:Nora Apsel - Special:Contributions/Nora Apsel
Group 4 - article: Online dating and possibly several smaller, related articles as needed
- User:Anas Faisal - Special:Contributions/Anas Faisal
- User:Joshua_Beckerman - Special:Contributions/Joshua_Beckerman
- User:Suva Shrestha - Special:Contributions/Suva Shrestha
Group 5 - article: Digital Rights Management (DRM)
- User:Ryan Tarrant - Special:Contributions/Ryan Tarrant
- User:Luke_Cheng - Special:Contributions/Luke_Cheng
- User:Anthony_Schreiner - Special:Contributions/Anthony_Schreiner
Group 6 - article: Adaptive learning (forwarded from Intelligent tutoring)
- User:Brian Caputo - Special:Contributions/Brian Caputo
- User:Yitzchak_Novick - Special:Contributions/Yitzchak_Novick
- User:Chad_Jackson - Special:Contributions/Chad_Jackson
Group 7 - article: Web browser media plugins, in particular Silverlight vs. Flash
- User:Paul Nikolas Phoa - Special:Contributions/Paul Nikolas Phoa
- User:Ziang Song - Special:Contributions/Ziang Song
- User:Ganggang_Hu - Special:Contributions/Ganggang_Hu
Group 8 - article: Google Android, plus a brief introductory article: Smartphone and enhancements to existing article IPhone
- User:Geraud_Campion - Special:Contributions/Geraud_Campion
- User:Surya_D._Bhattacharyya - Special:Contributions/Surya_D._Bhattacharyya
- User:Ashwath_Ravichandran - Special:Contributions/Ashwath_Ravichandran
Group 9 - articles: Ajax and Ajax framework
- User:Dhawal_Sehgal - Special:Contributions/Dhawal_Sehgal
- User:Michael_Bonanno - Special:Contributions/Michael_Bonanno
- User:Abhinav_Gaiha - Special:Contributions/Abhinav_Gaiha
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Macrobiotics
about Paris, Tennessee
about slavery
- HRK, who lives out of his car a lot and moves about from place to place, was backpacking in 2020 out West as he does every summer. He made it to Utah, but before that, for my amusement, he stopped over in Paris, Idaho, and sent me a bunch of photos of that place, which is actually quite interesting. From those photos, I got to reading about Paris, Idaho (small, unincorporated), which was founded by a Mormon named Charles Coulson Rich. He was born in Kentucky and after converting to Mormonism, tried living for a while in Missouri. And then the local population in Missouri fought a war (okay, illegally and unsanctioned, but not hindered either) to drive Mormons out of Missouri. The local non-Mormon population really got riled with hatred of the Mormons, possibly because their daughters were in danger of being married off to a Mormon extended family. After being chased out of Missouri, Rich and friends tried to go to Utah and make that place pretty much their own. But they accidentally founded Paris over in Idaho because nobody knew in those days exactly where the state line was. Charles Coulson Rich, this highly successful early Mormon who had six wives, also owned, as it turned out, six slaves--which might be another reason people in Missouri were trying to drive the Mormons out. I hadn't realize how much violence was against the Mormons back in the 1800's. And Mormonism itself is such a mixed bag of Goodness and Badness, with the polygamy thing being again both good and bad. And these ultra religious ultra righteous seeming folks owned slaves. Yep, it's a huge mess. [ I emailed this to Randall in 2020 ]
- The following is from Petra Vaughn's Facebook post on Sept. 22, 2020
“In 1866, one year after the 13 Amendment was ratified (the amendment that ended slavery), Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina began to lease out convicts for labor (peonage). This made the business of arresting Blacks very lucrative, which is why hundreds of White men were hired by these states as police officers. Their primary responsibility was to search out and arrest Blacks who were in violation of Black Codes. Once arrested, these men, women and children would be leased to plantations where they would harvest cotton, tobacco, sugar cane. Or they would be leased to work at coal mines, or railroad companies. The owners of these businesses would pay the state for every prisoner who worked for them; prison labor. It is believed that after the passing of the 13th Amendment, more than 800,000 Blacks were part of the system of peonage, or re-enslavement through the prison system. Peonage didn’t end until after World War II began, around 1940.
The 13th Amendment declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." (Ratified in 1865) Lawmakers used this phrase to make petty offenses crimes. When Blacks were found guilty of committing these crimes, they were imprisoned and then leased out to the same businesses that lost slaves after the passing of the 13th Amendment. This system of convict labor is called peonage.
The majority of White Southern farmers and business owners hated the 13th Amendment because it took away slave labor. As a way to appease them, the federal government turned a blind eye when southern states used this clause in the 13th Amendment to establish laws called Black Codes. Here are some examples of Black Codes:
- In Louisiana, it was illegal for a Black man to preach to Black congregations without special permission in writing from the president of the police. If caught, he could be arrested and fined. If he could not pay the fines, which were unbelievably high, he would be forced to work for an individual, or go to jail or prison where he would work until his debt was paid off.
- If a Black person did not have a job, he or she could be arrested and imprisoned on the charge of vagrancy or loitering.
- In South Carolina, if the parent of a Black child was considered vagrant, the judicial system allowed the police and/or other government agencies to “apprentice” the child to an "employer". Males could be held until the age of 21, and females could be held until they were 18. Their owner had the legal right to inflict punishment on the child for disobedience, and to recapture them if they ran away.
This (peonage) is an example of systemic racism - Racism established and perpetuated by government systems. Slavery was made legal by the U.S. Government. Segregation, Black Codes, Jim Crow and peonage were all made legal by the government, and upheld by the judicial system. These acts of racism were built into the system, which is where the term “Systemic Racism” is derived.