Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Universal Basic Income

The defining entry restricts the provision of a basic income to individual countries/states. I feel the possibility of greater good could be achieved with a truly universal program, and that even without specific academic or political proposals, an international system should not be eliminated from consideration. ^[1] Stephenstillwell (talk) 18:18, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

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		This Basic Supply of Barnstars is for everyone who worked on getting WikiProject Basic Income up and running. Three cheers for providing basic information about Basic Income! It's an important topic, and you've pitched in to help us make a good start.-- Djembayz (talk) 15:35, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks to everyone for getting this project up and running! I've distributed a Basic Supply of Barnstars, updated the project page, and done a bit of assessment. Anybody here with more expertise than me who can assess the importance of articles? Djembayz (talk) 16:06, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Could the project weigh in on the state of the basic income page. A lot of content has been recently stripped. What is left seems pretty shaky. The difficult issue is whether content that lacks prestigious sponsorship (Academic or Commercial publication) should be selectively scrubbed from the page even when other content is unreferenced, and confused, and the best argument against removing it, is that it would cause the core page content "properties" to be completely blank.

It would be helpful to state an exemption to the Academic only content reference policy since either none is available, or no one with access to such references is willing to contribute to the wiki page. Perhaps, what seemed to me to be useful and informative content could be restored until academic sources are contributed to replace it. Godspiral (talk) 03:27, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

I want to second this, It's now more than a year later and it would good to get some opinions about what we need to do to improve the quality of the article and get it up to 'Good'. 109.78.68.250 (talk) 04:03, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

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Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

I'm starting a wiki solely dedicated to basic income at http://basicincome.wiki.yt/ (hopefully with a nicer URL in the future). There's a lot more editorial freedom. E.g. references are welcome but definitely not a requirement. And you can If any of your work here is about to be deleted you can move it there. It's also CC-BY-SA. Guaka (talk) 10:42, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

I have made three big changes to the main article, basic income.

1. I have removed the country specific texts to a new article called "Basic income around the world"

2. Instead of using too much space in the main article on pilots I have made a new article, "Basic income pilots".

3. I have added some photos under the headline Advocates and opponents.

What do you think about these changes? --Mats33 (talk) 15:38, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

I cleaned up some stuff on the main article. I disambiguated a wikilink, removed a certain bias, removed a tag that didn't belong there and removed an unnecessary redlink. Not sure if I'm missing something. Hope that helps! Lighthead ^þ 02:55, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

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Possible category merge due to meeting the criteria of Wikipedia:Merging (overlap and possibly duplicate).

There currently exists the categories Category:Basic income advocates and Category:Basic income proponents. One definition of a proponent is 'One who argues in support of something; an advocate.' These categories seem to significantly overlap and there are some of the same people listed in both categories. The definition of advocate and proponent are very similar and many people listed in one category could be listed in the other or both. It is very difficult to see why many of the people should be listed in one category and not the other. They seem like they could all, or at least mostly, be listed in both categories. Therefore I think something should be changed. Perhaps delete one of these categories and merge those from the deleted category into the remaining one? Any and all thoughts would be much appreciated. Helper201 (talk) 22:22, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

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Now that the page basic income has been re-named to universal basic income for the sake of consistency I think we should also re-name this WikiProject to WikiProject Universal Basic Income and Category:Universal basic income to category:Universal basic income. Helper201 (talk) 05:21, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

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Hi folks,

I have cleaned up the main page on English Wikipedia, "Universal basic income", substantially. Take a look. See also the discussion page for further improvements. Regarding the German Wikipedia, I suggest that they create a special article about Grundeinkommen in Germany. (Like "Basinkomst i Tyskland" on Swedish Wikipedia).

--Mats33 (talk) 22:22, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

The last topic added was three years. Why did the community of advocates abandon it?

I want to push to reactivate the this all important adjustment to the Welfare State . But do not know where to start. Going to the Teahouse, as advised, resulted in no help.

Meanwhile, there is an overriding question: Why is a social movement with impeccable historical support-precedent spanning more than two centuries, failed to achieve UBI?

And, please, no clever explaining-away of the point of this leading question: Something is missing from the framing-strategies used by this liberation movement... possibly awareness of what is known as systemic change resistance? Janosabel (talk) 20:14, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

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