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Wiki Education assignment: INFO 200 Selected Topics in Information Literacy - Wikipedia

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The result was: rejected by 97198 (talk) 09:46, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that in the last 40 years, over half the total deaths involving police violence in the United States were not reported? Source: https://time.com/6102324/study-police-killings-significantly-underreported/

Created by NCawit (talk). Self-nominated at 23:14, 18 March 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Ineligible. Has not been expanded recently nor promoted to GA, and was created back in 2010. Daniel Case (talk) 02:41, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On top of that, if all those deaths were "not reported" how are they determining that "half the total deaths" have, somehow, been swept under the rug? -- Gwillhickers (talk) 19:00, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:SYNTH issues

The article contains a lot of detail that is only indirectly related to the article's topic, i.e. police brutality (or which is connected to it only in mind of the Wikipedia editor who added it, without the cited source making that connection). Two examples of many, both from the "History" section:

[The AIM] grew while 75 percent of Native Americans had moved to urban areas, becoming Urban Indians as a result of federal Indian Termination Act and other policies. A.I.M. was later accepted by traditional Elders living at Native American reservations.
police typically cast a blind eye toward gambling and prostitution (police corruption is not the same thing as police brutality)

The "Effects" section is also in need of a major cleanup in this regard (having been tagged for NOR issues since December 2017 already).

As a rule of thumb, if the cited source doesn't even mention police brutality or a synonym, we're likely dealing with improper synthesis that violates the "no original research" policy. It also seems that some past contributors to this article have, incorrectly, regarded any type of police misconduct as police brutality.

Regards. HaeB (talk) 09:02, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I found a source that partially supports the first bullet above, though not exactly as it's written. Ironic sensibilities (talk) 22:47, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Follow Up regarding Reversion/Redaction

@Writ Keeper Thank you for your feedback. When my admin returns on Monday I will ask her to review your comments. Interestingly, it was considered poorly written and sourced because she was asked to aggregate information from other published Wiki pages that would apply to the topic. I will ask her to review with our internal team here to show which pages she pulled each cut and paste from and how long those contributions have been published. Thanks RFAvaria (talk) 12:59, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]