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Non-people

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Genealogy

LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer)

  • Divergenres - A community Quebec City-based organization that educates people about the plurality of genders and helps those in the LGBTQIA2S+ community having troubles with their gender identity.
  • Equality Forum - a Philadelphia nonprofit; promotes GLBT rights.
  • Evangelicals Concerned - a U.S.- wide network of LGBT and allied evangelical Christians, founded by Dr. Ralph Blair.
  • Gay and Lesbian Outreach to Elders - US G&L rights for elders.
  • Gay Radical Organization for Women (GROW) - 1970s radical lesbian group from Rochester, New York.
  • Gay Women's Liberation - 1970s San Francisco Bay Area lesbian liberation organization.
  • GRIS-Québec (A regional Quebec-based organization providing aid to LGBTQIA2S+ individuals.)
  • The Guide (LGBT magazine) (LGBT travel & culture magazine) (2010 Wayback of guidemag.com, ONE Archive)
  • The Legacy Project - Chicago. Only outdoor museum of LGBT people.
  • LGBT refugees and asylum seekers - There is a page describing LGBT refugees and asylum seekers in Canada, but there is no page describing it on a broader scale.
  • LGBT rights support in companies - support of LGBT rights, in detail, from companies; categorized by headquartered country, then state, province, etc.
  • LGBT rights opposition in companies - opposition of LGBT rights, in detail, from companies categorized by headquartered country, then state, province, etc.
  • List of American LGBT people
  • National LGBT+ Police Network UK - The National Representative body for LGBT+ Police officers and Staff in the UK. Formed in 2015 following the collapse of the National Gay Police Association. The network supports regional and local networks across the UK.
  • Psi Lambda Theta - A faith-based LGBTQ welcoming sorority.
  • radical feminist psychology
  • Stichting Yoesuf - former Dutch foundation that wanted to create more awareness on the subject of homosexuality/LGBT in Islam. (Wikidata link)
  • Tenderloin Hotel (A location that rented to early transgender citizens of San Francisco predating the Compton Cafeteria riots, important location for transgender history).
    • Article seems to focus on neighbourhood as a whole rather than singling out any specific hotel, I suggest adding content to Tenderloin, San Francisco and/or solidifying existing information into an LGBT section if necessary.
  • Trans Health Conference - annual meeting of transgender people, advocates, and healthcare providers.
  • Transgender lesbian
  • Uganda Bisexual and Lesbian Movement (UBILE HAVEN) redlinked here
  • Vagina (journal) - a US lesbian journal in the 1970s.
  • WeQueer - hashtag and online movement.
  • western feminism
  • Wishing Well (magazine) - a US lesbian quarterly in the mid-1970s; devoted to personal ads.
  • Sexuality-based defamation would probably be the most accurate, using "defamation" instead of "libel" to be inclusive of slander and false light (even though false light isn't quite considered defamation, the page is in the Defamation category, so it's close enough). – Lexid523 (talk) 18:32, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
  • Androsexual, redirects to Androphilia

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Linguistics

A–J

  • Aṭam - It is a critically endangered language spoken in Southern India (I believe)
  • Cilician dialect - Armenian dialect for Armenians in Cilicia and the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. Armenian article could also be used here.hy:Կիլիկիայի բարբառ
  • Concatenative morphology
  • Co-official language
  • CQP - Corpus Query Processor
  • Dargudi (Targudi) - see Western Desert language dialects
  • Deaf interpreter - Sign language interpreters who are themselves Deaf, used when expertise in sign language is more important than expertise in spoken language, can interpret between different sign languages, or interpret a literal translation from a hearing interpreter to a more fluidly signed form
  • definitions of management
  • definitions of leadership [4]
  • definitions of magic word[5]
  • definitions of name[6]
  • Dissibilation – a phonological process in which a consonant loses sibilantarity; e.g., /?/ > /ç/
  • Dynamic aspect tree (DAT) - a method of analysing verb phrases (VPs)
  • Feature checking - Merge (linguistics)
  • Full interpretation - Merge (linguistics)
  • Gender Deficit Model - mentioned in the article on Robin Lakoff, theory attributed to her based on her work Language and women's place. Assumes women's language is deficient compared to men's language. Ideas of the Gender deficit model can also be found in Otto Jespersen's work Language: Its Nature, Development, and Origin, specifically the Chapter The Woman.
  • ha-yom harat olam - meaning "Today the world is born"; phrase recited after blessing at the end of each of the three sections of the Rosh Hashanah Musaf
  • Hindi Particles - The particles of Hindi should be explained in more depth and precision. The topic is also discussed in Grammatical particles but lacks clarity about the topic (Hindu particles). The new article on it should be created.
  • Implied subject – possibly talked about in pro-drop language and null-subject language, but it could have its own article?

K–O

  • Languages used in books and other media - Languages used on the Internet, List of languages by total number of speakers, List of languages by number of native speakers, and others already exist. I believe a similar article about languages used in books and other print media would be highly informative and useful. This also applies when expanded to other media, such as radio, television, movies, songs, software, video games, etc.
  • learning strategies – in second-language acquisition
  • lexical phonology - An approach to phonology that accounts for the interactions of morphology and phonology in the word building process (https://glossary.sil.org/term/lexical-phonology). This theory has been mentioned by ~10.000 papers and books (according to google scholar).
  • List of definitely endangered languages
  • List of phrases unique to Indian English
  • Malefactive case
  • Mariupol Greek phonology
  • modal words in Ukrainian [uk]
  • Mudalga - see Western Desert language dialects
  • Nana (Nganawongka) - see Western Desert language dialects
  • Ndlambe - dialect of the Xhosa language
  • needless variants – usage issue, as discussed by Bryan Garner
  • Netymology – to try and get linguistic understanding around digital media use and mental health using this https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/netymology-tom-chatfield/1116412908?ean=9781623651640 as a reference and primary starting point
  • nominative–genitive conversion (nominative-genitive conversion) – in Japanese: conversion between ga (? / ?) and no (? / ?) (see Genitive case)
  • oppositive case and situative case - in Finnish (if you can call these constructions "cases") (rarely used); but even if they were not "cases" (only used for adverbs and nouns), it would still be important to know when and how they are used; both the oppositive and situative case express the location of two things compared to each other; the oppositive case with the meaning "facing each other"; the situative case has the ending -kkain / -kkäin, the oppositive case the ending -tusten / -tysten; Mäkinen, Panu. "Finnish Grammar - Adverbial Cases". users.jyu.fi. University of Jyväskylä. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  • orthographic mapping - refers to the phenomenon that our brains can quicker re-emerge the concept of a chair from its written word "chair" than "the picture of a chair". It explains why we can read faster than we speak. The concept is mentioned in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonics#Sight_words_and_sight_vocabulary

P–Z

  • palatal vocalization – a phonological process in which a labial consonant is replaced with a glide or vowel
  • Peripheral language
  • periphrastic future (informal future) - a form of periphrasis for the future tense of various languages
  • personhood (linguistics) – Personhood is a noun class(grammatical gender) recognised in some languages
  • polytony - Attribute of some languages, mentioned in Corded Ware culture but currently redirected to Greek diacritics. Dialects of Serbo-Croatian also refers to a "polytonic three-accent system."
  • Proto-Sinhala - Saw this linked on a page but it doesn't have a page, would be nice to see.
  • Recursive Baerian Phonotactics Notation[7]
  • Speech Accent Archive#Elicitation Paragraph - The speech accent archive is a project of George Mason University and is a collection of thousands of professional and amateur recordings of English spoken with different accents and dialects. All recordings feature the same elicitation paragraph which can be found here http://accent.gmu.edu/howto.php. This would complement Harvard sentences nicely and fit into the standard test items template. I think the speech accent archive would be stronger as a page than the elicitation paragraph itself, but this information could be added to the GMU page otherwise.
  • stop shortening – a phonological process in which a long consonant is reduced to a single consonant
  • stress shift/stress retraction/iambic reversal/rhythm rule
  • syntactician - an individual working in or associated with the study of syntax within the field of linguistics
  • Texan Spanish - the unique form of Spanish that is spoken by Tejanos in Texas; it is debated among linguists whether it is a dialect or its own language; many non-linguists and laypeople insist it a bastardization of English and Spanish
  • Triplification of Chinese characters [zh]
  • Understanding Computers and Cognition – a 1987 book by Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores; a great arch from philosophy of language to computer design; outlines classic language theory and shows how its language-is-to-describe-objective-reality paradigm fails to provide a useful foundation for applied artificial intelligence; then proposes an alternative perspective on language as a means of communication and coordination among social biological beings "being in the world", based on works of Gadamer, Maturana and Heidegger; results in an outline of computer software design that will support such real-life communication
  • Verbalplanet - Provider of online language learning using VOIP technology. Established in 2006 and played an important role in the development of online language learning platforms. Worthy of inclusion to trace how the industry developed over time and who the pioneers were. Notably references include [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]
  • vocal placement - refers to how one positions their voice resonance within their body. Mastering this can help someone sound more like a native speaker of a given language. Most pages on the internet only mention the vocal placement for English. It'd be nice if Wikipedia covered the subject both for English and for other languages.
  • vocalization (linguistics) – a phonological process in which a sound, often labial or lateral, is replaced with a glide or vowel
  • Vötgil - a famous and controversial experimental auxiliary constructed language inspired by the game Minecraft with notable grammatical features.
  • Watha dialect - dialect of the Western Desert language used east of Meekatharra, Western Australia
  • Wonggayi dialect - dialect of the Western Desert language used by the Pindiini and Wangkatha peoples, from Kalgoorlie to Cosmo Newberry and the Wiluna region (Western Australia)

Profanity

Military and military history

Mythology

Politics and government

Psychology

Religion

Sociology

Sociology people

  • Canton Winer, sociologist and gender/sexuality researcher, pioneer in asexuality studies, Substack, Google Scholar,
  • Riley E. Dunlap, sociologist and professor emeritus, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Psychological Association, pioneer in environmental sociology, highly cited rsearcher (Web of Science), CV, CV short, Google Scholar
  • Sami Joseph Karam, Lebanese-American notable for founding populyst, a demographic research platform, and for writing the weekly Wednesday Briefs starting in March 2020. Notable for making a connection between demographics and economics in Foreign Affairs and for analyzing the impact of cronyism on politics in Foreign Affairs and in Quillette . Published frequently in New Geography and National Review. Son of Joseph Philippe Karam and nephew of Nicolas G. Hayek. Graduate of The University of Texas at Austin, Cornell University and The Wharton School.
  • Jonathan Hearn, notable for being president of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism since 2019. Professor of Sociology at Edinburgh University since 2014. He wrote upon the renaming of David Hume Tower and writes about similar topics on his blog.
  • Nitza M. Hidalgo - notable for his educational theory re. the three levels of culture; ;
  • Barry Sandywell - sociologist particularly concerned with sociological issues in philosophy and visual culture; ; ; ; Sandywell is cited in 11 places in Wikipedia ()
  • Jens Qvortrup - Danish sociologist who created and led for 10 years the Research Committee 53 on Sociology of Childhood for the International Sociological Association (ISA), shedding light on the importance of childhood studies. He is one of the editors of The Palgrave Handbook of Childhood Studies. ()
  • Sun Liping (Chinese: 孙立平) - Chinese sociologist, born in 1955; a member of the dissertation committee of Xi Jinping, he is a critic of current policies of the Chinese Communist Party under Xi
  • Jackson Toby - Jackson Toby (1925-), American sociologist, educator. Achievements include special research adolescent delinquency in the United States, Sweden, Japan, other countries, on violence and dropouts in American public schools. Recipient Research Excellence award, Rutgers University Board Trustees, 1984, numerous research grants.
  • Dr. Mark Umbreit - Professor of Social Work and one of the founders of restorative justice. hundreds of publications and books about restorative justice
  • Professor Edward Charles Webster - Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Prof. Eddie Webster was an important figure in South African academia, particularly in the field of sociology. [20]

Cultural practices, customs and folkways

A–G
  • anal sex history
  • atak - apparently also called a nukh; an Indian surname or clan name of some sort; seems to be(en) in use in NW India.
  • Bamileke Mdouba
  • be (Japanese society) - according to , a "be" is a hereditary occupational group in early Japan. None of the entries in BE seem to describe this
  • I'd recommend expanding Yamato period with information from[21] rather than creating an independent article.
H–M
N–Z
  • Parents Without Partners - Also known as PWP, this social and support organization for single parents has been in existence since 1957, having grown from its first meeting in NYC to multiple chapters across the U.S. and Canada. See: https://www.parentswithoutpartners.org/page/AboutWho
  • Paper Plate Awards – US culture
  • parietal hours - something to do with US universities (the hours permitted to entertain opposite-sex guests in one's room)
  • Perth Regatta Day
  • oriental nepotism or polygamic nepotism
  • Poniatiya ru:Воровской закон - code of conduct of humans applied in social, law enforcement, political, governmental practices throughout the Soviet and Postsoviet land. The article already exists in 3 non-latin languages The article needs to be created in English language for the Western world to better understand the nature of Soviet and Postsoviet thinking/behaviour. This article could be a great contribution to the research initiated by George Frost Kennan and developed by later authors he inspired
  • stone letters – pre-literate form of communication at a distance; described in the film Departures (2008); round stones indicate content, rough stones indicate concern
  • straw boys – participants of an old marriage custom in Ireland
  • tandem nursing
  • Thakkars
  • twin goddesses (Anatolian civilizations)
  • Wanshougong Taoist Temple - not to be confused with Wanshou Buddhist Temple in Beijing; the Wanshougong Taoist Temple is in Xishancun, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China; an annual Taoist festival is held there every year; search Google Images for "China江西省南昌新建西山村"
  • wedding chamber – specially with reference to Jewish wedding customs as hinted in Jesus's Parable of the Ten Virgins; could this be the the same as a bridal chamber?

Feminism and women's studies

A–M
N–Z
  • Native-American women
  • Panel of American Women – desegregation and cultural-expansion effort started by Sara Alderman Murphy; grew out of the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC)
  • Permanent Wave (organization) – online network of feminist artists and activist; founded in 2010; has chapters in New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and San Francisco;
  • Prepatriarchy
  • Saudi Arabian Female Refugees - Multiple articles describing such cases warrant an article for such.
  • Shifting Criteria - spontaneous shifting of criteria that disadvantages minority groups. Criteria may be based on merit, but the importance of that merit/accomplishment becomes less critical to managers.
  • Third World Conference (Third World Conference on Women)
  • Thursdays in black
  • Women In International Security
  • Women in motorsport – The FIA have had a WIM Commission since 2009, there are many national initiatives, much history and advocates to be considered as well as notable women participants and championships etc including W series.

Folklore and folkloristics

  • tale-type - a definition exists as a section in the "Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index" article.
  • Tennessee Folklore Society
  • Urban Legends Newsgroup alt.folklore.urban (This crowdsourced engine devoted to separating fact from falsehood preceded the world wide web and gave rise to snopes.com. One of the largest of the newsgroups, its participants developed a complex set of mores.)

Other social and cultural topics

A to G

  • economy of mass media

H to M

  • Homolco - tribe of Coast Salish peoples
  • Hong Kong diaspora - there is a navigational template named after it, and the Chinese edition has an article corresponding to it
  • Hongkongers in Germany (also called Hong Kongers in Germany or Hong Kong people in Germany)
  • Hongkongers in Japan (also called Hong Kongers in Japan or Hong Kong people in Japan)
  • Hongkongers in Macau (also called Hong Kongers in Macau or Hong Kong people in Macau)
  • Hongkongers in Malaysia (also called Hong Kongers in Malaysia or Hong Kong people in Malaysia)
  • Hongkongers in New Zealand (also called Hong Kongers in New Zealand or Hong Kong people in New Zealand)
  • Hongkongers in Singapore (also called Hong Kongers in Singapore or Hong Kong people in Singapore)
  • Hongkongers in Taiwan (also called Hong Kongers in Taiwan or Hong Kong people in Taiwan) Chinese edition

N to Z

  • In progress National Silver Haired Congress - see Silver Alert
  • National Society, United States Daughters of 1812 - founded in 1892 by Flora Adams Darling
  • National Strike Information Center - at Brandeis University 1970
  • Native Hawaiians in the United States Mainland - Native Hawaiians have a long history of migration to the United States Mainland, as well as large populations in the United States Mainland.
  • Nazism in the West vide: nazism in the Americas
  • Pennsylvania Hunger Action Center - mentioned in over 150 Wikipedia articles
  • Peoples of Coast Salish
  • Popular epidemiology
  • Pūtarō / Pyutarou (ja:プータロー) - similar to the term NEET, a pūtarō is someone between the ages of 15 and 34 who does not have a job.
  • Scientific sexism = Similar to the idea of scientific racism. The notion or arguments that males or females are biologically or psychologically superior; these ideas have been flirted with by radical feminists as well as supporters of patriarchy (ex. the notion that women aren't capable of doing men's work due to biological differences, etc).
  • Science ethics [] pt:Ética na ciência
  • Shiloh Kalona or Shiloh Kalona Iowa Cult
  • social-bond theory – criminology
  • social framework - I stumble into this article on Social framework analysis, to discover there is no article on Social Framework, nor the use of Framework in a sociological context, and to top it off, there is only a "Framework disambiguation page" - just click "framework" to get ot it, with +50 terms that have the word "Framework" in them, of which a large number have a sociological context!? Thy
  • Sociocryonics - the (usually externally imposed) preservation of archaic social forms, from How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa, by Olufemi Taiwo
  • Sub tribe - not to be confused with subtribe - see Xhosa people
  • Tʼlatʼlasikwala - Kwakwakaʼwakw tribe
  • vihervasemmisto - Finnish political neologism, mostly derogatory + fi-wiki article (N.B. not the same as green left, which is vihreä vasemmisto or punavihreys)
  • volunteer simplicity - do you mean voluntary simplicity?
  • waistcloth
  • Witness tree - In the general sense (although related, not A Witness Tree or The Witness Tree). There are many good sources, here are a few: , , , , . -- Frankly, I was surprised that WP didn't already have an article.
  • Wiwekam - Kwakwakaʼwakw tribe
  • Woodstock Artists Cemetery, a cemetery in Woodstock, New York, US where a number of noteworthy artists are buried who contributed to the village’s reputation as an artists colony (42.043°N 74.119°W / 42.043; -74.119). Landing page
  • World Congress of the Tatars
Some useful sources: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Yanko Tsvetkov's stereotype maps, seen here, and here.--Coin945 (talk) 17:03, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
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Holidays

Fraternal organizations

  • Battle of Quebec (sports) - the sports rivalry between Montreal and Quebec City in the province of Quebec, especially in ice hockey
  • champagne fight (ja:シャンパンファイト)
  • living landmark (req. 2016-07-27) -
  • Samba do Crioulo Doido
  • Smoking in Thailand
  • toss somebody into the air (ja:胴上げ (Douage))

Paranormal

  • Animated Armor - Armor that has been brought to life by a supernatural force; animated armor has become a stock character. A key element of the armor is that while it moves and fights as a knight, upon removing the helmet nothing will be present. [26][27][28] [29]
  • Superstition in Southern Italy There are corresponding articles for superstition in various other regions (e.g. India).

Unsorted

  • Montagnais de Pakua Shipi [fr] - located in the community of Pakuashipi, Quebec, on the western shore of the mouth of the Saint-Augustin River on the north shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in the Côte-Nord region.[30] The community is adjacent to the settlement of Saint-Augustin.
  • Montagnais de Unamen Shipu [fr] - located in La Romaine, Quebec at the mouth of the Olomane River on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. They have one reserve; Romaine 2.[31][32]

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