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Are the social sciences within the scope of WikiProject Science?

I've noticed in User:Tom.Reding's wikiproject tagging that the WikiProject Science banner was being added social sciences categories such as Category:Political scientists, which seems like it shouldn't be within the scope of this wikiproject, though the project scope description only says "science-related articles", which isn't very clear. In my view, the intent of the project seems like it's supposed to be limited to the natural sciences, but I'm not sure if this is correct? --Paul_012 (talk) 16:07, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

N.B. Talk:Political science is tagged with both {{WikiProject Politics}} & {{WikiProject Science}}. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 17:01, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Electrofax

This is an interesting little stub. It's marked as being associated with this project. It's been unsourced for 15 years. Is there someone who knows anything about this process who can help to source this? Bearian (talk) 09:51, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RfCs on autism

There's an RfC on whether the current article is consistent with NPOV and a second RfC on whether to keep the current lead or replace it. Oolong (talk) 14:18, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Geographic categorization of species

There's been a longstanding consensus, applicable for at least a decade now, that since plant and animal species are not constrained by national borders, it would lead to extreme category bloat to microcategorize them for every individual country in which they could be found — so, instead, plant and animal species were only supposed to have one or two categories for the continent level, instead of five or ten or fifty different categories for the individual country level.

Within the past couple of weeks, however, an editor named TheTechnician27 has started subcategorizing beetles and spiders in particular back down to the country level again, often recreating categories that were deleted a decade ago when the consensus was first established and/or leaving pages filed in redlinked categories that don't exist at all in defiance of WP:REDNO.

I know that consensus can change, so I'm bringing this to the project's attention rather than immediately nominating all of their new categories for deletion. Has this project come to a consensus that you want plant and animal species to be subcategorized for individual country again, or is the consensus still that this would be an overcategorization nightmare that needs to be deleted and reversed? Bearcat (talk) 16:09, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Scientific language (linguistic classification)

The new stub article Scientific language (linguistic classification) could use some attention from editors with knowledge or interest in the subject. It could use some English-language references. Biogeographist (talk) 16:09, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Francisco Javier Carrillo Gamboa#Requested move 12 March 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Francisco Javier Carrillo Gamboa#Requested move 12 March 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. —usernamekiran (talk) 21:07, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Help illustrate climate change information on Wikipedia and win a signed copy of The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg

Dear all

I’m very happy to let you know we are running a competition at Wikiproject Climate Change to encourage people to help improve visual information about climate change including the science behind it. The competition is open until the 17th of May for all language versions of Wikipedia. The top three point scorers will each win a signed copy of The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg.

Please let me know if you have any questions

Thanks :)

John Cummings (talk) 17:23, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Unsolved

Template:Unsolved has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Aca (talk) 08:33, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello,
Please note that Internet research, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of the Articles for improvement. The article is scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing!
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