Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Disability

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.

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Disability
Wikipedia:Disability

Description[edit]

Today, May 29 2009, I looked at the article on Tom Shakespeare and saw it is under the auspices of a Wiki group for the North-East England. However, I would have thought that the subject of Disability would be a more fitting project group for this article. There are probably a lot of articles on this topic, covering both physical visible disabilities and "unseen disabilities" such as epilepsy, diabetes mellitus, autism, asthma, dyslexia or learning disabilities. Indeed, if you go to the talk page at Disability, you can see that there is already a Wikipedian wanting a project on this subject. The article on disability is currently under the auspices of a project group on human rights, but a topic as wide as this surely merits its own project group. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 23:04, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support[edit]

Please specify whether or not you would join the project.

ACEOREVIVED (talk) 23:04, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Ross Rhodes (T C) ^Sign! 19:51, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

There are many articles in Wikipedia, other than those on specific disablities, which could be watched by this group.For example,those with legal expertise may keep close eyes on articles relating to disability rights acts, while those with expertise on technology to help the disabled could look at articles on specific technologies (such as wheelchairs) to help the disabled. I think that this project group could have a future, and a first task could be to consider what articles should go in its watchlist. Next, importance ratings could be attached to various articles. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 23:05, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Have you considered connecting with WikiProject Accessibility instead? WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:01, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, after making this proposal, it did occur to me that this might be the place to go. Thank you anyway, ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:28, 16 July 2009 (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.