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Gun Politics Task Force is a task force of WikiProject Politics. The task force aims to improve articles related to gun politics. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.
Scope
editThe Gun politics task force aims to coordinate, expand and improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics broadly related to governmental regulation of firearm ownership. Examples of items within this scope include:
- Legislation such as Firearms policy in the United Kingdom
- Lobbying and advocacy groups such as NRA and Brady Campaign
- Mass shootings such as Port Arthur massacre (Australia)
- Firearms with a connection to these topics such as Ruger Mini-14
Goals
edit- Develop best practices for applying Wikipedia policies, guidelines and consensus to articles within the scope of Gun politics
- Improve neutral coverage of gun crimes in related articles
- Practical work in relation to the scope.
Participants
editYou can become a member by adding your name to the list below.
- Dlthewave
- Ｔｏｍ
- MrX
- K.e.coffman
- BullRangifer
- Krapenhoeffer
- Lightningboltz03
- Fluous
- Tomwsulcer
- HiLo48
- FormalDude
Tasks
edit- Guidelines for sources should be discussed and policy found. Gunlaws articles f.e. should prefer sources, based on original publications from the country’s. --Ｔｏｍ (talk) 20:23, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
Templates
editWikiProject Politics Banner
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The banner may be placed on the talk page of any article within the scope of the Task Force. If the page already has a WP:Politics banner, simply add the "gun-politics = yes" parameter.
- class - The article's quality rating within the parent WikiProject Politics: FA, GA, A, B, C, Start, Stub, Category or List.
- gun-politics-importance - The article's importance to the gun politics task force: Top, High, Mid, Low or NA.
Invite
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Userbox
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Assessment
edit| Gun politics articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 FL
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1 | 1 | |||||
 GA
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1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | |||
| B | 1 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 11 | 38 | |
| C | 2 | 7 | 11 | 28 | 29 | 77 | |
| Start | 1 | 5 | 21 | 41 | 68 | ||
| Stub | 3 | 12 | 5 | 20 | |||
| List | 3 | 10 | 6 | 19 | |||
| Category | 68 | 68 | |||||
| Project | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Redirect | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Template | 20 | 20 | |||||
| NA | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Assessed | 4 | 16 | 24 | 91 | 95 | 94 | 324 |
| Total | 4 | 16 | 24 | 91 | 95 | 94 | 324 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 899 | Ω = 4.28 | |||||
Alerts
editSee Article alerts to subscribe or view archives.
Articles to be split
- 09 Oct 2021 – List of March for Our Lives locations (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Blubabluba9990 (t · c); see discussion
Categories
editCategory:Gun politics task force articles
Related discussions
editActive
edit- RfC: Second Amendment sanctuary
- M1911 pistol - Criminal use
- AR-15 style rifle - Weapon of choice in the media
Inactive
edit- Colt AR-15 - RfC: Port Arthur Massacre (Closed with "consensus for inclusion" 14 May 2018)
- RfC: Coverage of mass shootings in firearms articles (See RfC for close; 4 April 2018)
- Noticeboard: Crime, guns and due weight
Arbitration
editNew Wikipedia articles related to Gun politics
editCollaborations
editPort Arthur massacre
edit- Improvement and fact check for Port Arthur massacre (Australia)
- Additional Literature:
- Simon Chapman: Over Our Dead Bodies: Port Arthur and Australia's Fight for Gun Control, ISBN 1743320310 (275 Pages),(read online)
- Improvement in the article => fact check in little steps. --Ｔｏｍ (talk) 17:40, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
- Additional Literature:
Gun laws in Australia
edit- Improvement and fact check for Gun laws in Australia
- Problems seen so far:
- the article has grown over the years and needs to be restructured.
- the article contains more "side by side" info than concentrated info according to the lemma.
- the article is incomplete and outdated concerning the laws and changes
- a section off Major players in gun politics in Australia Federal government needs to be checked. Infos concerning "A TANGLED WEB OF POLICE CORRUPTION " (see lit above) is missing.
- Improvement in the article => fact check in little steps. --Ｔｏｍ (talk) 18:22, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
- Problems seen so far:
Related projects
editResources
edit- ATF CRIME GUN TRACE REPORTS (1999) National Report online
- ATF P 5300.5 State Laws and Published Ordinances - Firearms (2004 - 25th Edition) online (optional: Download the entire publication (5.8 Mb))
- ATF 2004 Oktober online
Tools
edit- Main tool page: toolserver.org
- Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
- Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
- Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
- Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
