Wikipedia:WikiProject Animal rights
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The aim of WikiProject Animal rights is to educate readers and editors about the concept of animal rights, the animal liberation movement, and its main concerns. The word "educate" is key. We aim to provide intelligent, nuanced, three-dimensional coverage of the topic, not propaganda or simplistic knee-jerk responses, whether for or against.
Animal rights is no longer an issue that's confined to the fringes. In fact, it has been described as one of the most central philosophical issues of our time.[1] The idea of extending legal personhood to animals is supported by an increasing number of legal scholars, including Alan Dershowitz[2] and Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School.[3] At the time of writing, 92 out of 180 United States law schools teach specialist animal law courses.[4] There is increasing support among academics for the idea of awarding very basic rights to other members of the great ape family. The Swiss, German, and Austrian constitutions have been, or are about to be, changed to reflect the status of animals as beings in their own right, rather than property, and in Austria, each province must appoint an animal solicitor, who can initiate court proceedings on behalf of animals.[5]
This is therefore an interesting time to be exploring the issue. It's an exciting period for supporters of the movement, because legal breakthroughs may be on the horizon. It's challenging for those who rely on the use of animals in research or in industry. Philosophically, we may be on the brink of an intellectual revolution in which the status of human beings at the moral pinnacle of the natural world faces serious challenge for the first time.
For all these reasons, it's a topic that provokes strong feelings. The aim of this project is to ensure that Wikipedia's coverage is not informed by those strong feelings, but by disinterested, intelligent, neutral, and reliable research.
If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.
Scope
The project encompasses issues related to animal rights and the animal liberation movement. Specifically:
- animal rights/animal liberation groups e.g. British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection
- animal rights campaigns e.g. SPEAK
- leaderless resistance movements e.g. Animal Liberation Front
- issues related to speciesism, philosophy of animal rights, ethical theories
- animals rights in law
- The scientific and philosophical problem of sentience and its bearing on the animal question
- studies into animal intelligence that may have a bearing on arguments about animal rights
- areas of concern to the animal rights movement, such as factory farming and animal testing
- individual animal rights/animal liberation activists and advocates
- lawyers, writers, and academics who work on animal rights/animal liberation theory
- Vegetarianism, Veganism, and other animal-conscious lifestyles
Categories, stubs, and templates
Categories
There are several categories related to animal rights, where the AR articles can be found. The main ones are:
- Category:Animal rights — for the concept, relevant companies, and legislation
- Category:Animal rights movement — for members of the AR movement
- Category:Animal testing — people, companies, and events related to animal testing
- Category:Animal rights stubs — for articles that are still stubs.
Stubs
To add the animal rights stub template to stubs, write {{animal-rights-stub}}. This will add the stub to Category:Animal rights stubs.
Templates
We have our key articles listed on three templates, which should be added to appropriate articles:
- Template:Animal rights, which you can see at the top of this page; it should contain the key people, movements, issues.
- Template:Alibend, which should contain the same articles as Template:Animal rights, but is for placement at the end of articles, when there isn't enough space for the upright template
- Template:Animal testing, for key people and issues related to animal testing — there may be some overlap between this and the AR template.
Shortcuts for adding the AR templates are {{Alib}} and {{Alibend}}. The animal testing template is {{animal testing}}
- To add that an article is part of WikiProject Animal rights, add {{WikiProject Animal rights}} to the talk page.
User-page template
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This user is a member of the Animal rights WikiProject. |
- To add this to your user page, write {{user wpar}}.
Suggestions for articles, or list of latest articles
Please feel free to list your new animal rights-related articles here; newer articles at the top, please. Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? (DYN) box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72-hour time limit from the creation of the article.
- Cruelty to Animals Act 1876 - December 4 2007
Article assessment statistics
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| B | 4 | 7 | 9 | 17 | 37 | ||
| Start | 3 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 49 | 73 | |
| Stub | 2 | 1 | 11 | 46 | 60 | ||
| Assessed | 8 | 20 | 16 | 18 | 114 | 176 | |
| Unassessed | 1 | 1 | 87 | 89 | |||
| Total | 8 | 21 | 16 | 19 | 201 | 265 | |
Explanation of article grading system
Recognized content
Featured articles
Good articles
Did You Know (DYK)s
Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections
These articles have been selected for one or more release versions of wikipedia. Please help ensure that these articles remain of the highest possible quality.
Assessment
The Wikiproject now has an assessment program, to better categorize the articles within its scope. An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Animal rights}} project banner on its talk page:
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Animal rights/Assessment for more information on how to assess articles.
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See also
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Notes
- ^ Najafi, Sina. "Beastly Agendas: An Interview with Kathleen Kete", Cabinet, Issue 4, Fall 2001.
- ^ Dershowitz, Alan. Rights from Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights, 2004, pp. 198-99, and "Darwin, Meet Dershowitz", The Animals' Advocate, Winter 2002, volume 21.
- ^ "'Personhood' Redefined: Animal Rights Strategy Gets at the Essence of Being Human", Association of American Medical Colleges, retrieved July 12, 2006.
- ^ Animal law program, Animal Legal Defense Fund.
- ^ Balluch, Martin. "How Austria achieved a historic breakthrough," in Peter Singer, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave, Blackwell, 2006, p. 162.
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