Welcome to theEthics Task Force, atask force ofWikiProject Philosophy. The task force is a group of pages in the "Wikipedia"article namespace which are devoted to the management of a specific topic or family of topics within Wikipedia; and, simultaneously, agroup of editors who use those pages to collaborate on encyclopedic work. It is not a place to write encyclopedia articles directly, but a resource to help coordinate and organize the writing and editing of those articles. This group focuses on articles in the field ofEthics.

There are a few things you can do right now to get started helping the task force and the project.

• Add yourself to theParticipants Roster.

• Watchlist and monitor theEthics log.

• Watchlist and monitor theGeneral Discussion.

• Add{{User WP Ethics}} to your user page. It will automatically add you toCategory:Ethics task force participants. You may also choose to place the Ethics navigation banner on your user page as well by adding{{Ethics/Nav}}.

The current focus of the Ethics task force is to create a representative presence of philosophy of ethics on Wikipedia. Many splinter articles on this subject are poorly written and factually inaccurate, and misrepresent some of the most important works in the history of philosophy. Since works in moral philosophy are some of the most dense and difficult to understand, but also perhaps the most important to human society, a coordinated effort to expand and improve Wikipedia's articles on this subject is needed.

The following categories are within the purview of the task force.

Ethics task forceassessment statistics Ethics articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 1 2 2 1 6 GA 1 5 7 17 30 B 58 85 65 208 C 87 197 373 657 Start 38 212 670 2 922 Stub 23 364 1 388 List 1 6 13 20 Category 431 431 Disambig 8 8 File 4 4 Project 1 1 Redirect 13 29 83 125 Template 43 43 Other 2 2 Assessed 2 191 545 1,532 572 3 2,845 Total 2 191 545 1,532 572 3 2,845 WikiWork factors (?) ω =10,252 Ω = 4.64 statistics •log •category

• For main project templates, see thePhilosophy Templates.

{{portal|Ethics}} adds a box Ethics or Moral Philosophy which leads to the ethics portal. It looks like this:

{{portal|Ethics}}

It should appear at thebottom of each ethics article, immediately before the categories list.

Putting{{philosophy|ethics=yes}} at the top of a page will add this notice to it:

Philosophy:Ethics

This article is within the scope ofWikiProject Philosophy, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of content related tophilosophy on Wikipedia. If you would like to support the project, please visit the project page, where you can get more details on how you can help, and where you can join thegeneral discussion about philosophy content on Wikipedia.PhilosophyWikipedia:WikiProject PhilosophyTemplate:WikiProject PhilosophyPhilosophy ??? This article has not yet received a rating on theproject's importance scale. Associated task forces: /  Ethics

This message should be placed at the top of thetalk pages of all ethics articles, especially:

• articles that members of the WikiProject are actively trying to improve.
• articles about major ethics topics.
• articles that need special attention.

The template{{User WP Ethics}} will add the following userbox to your user page, and add you to theCategory:Ethics task force participants andCategory:WikiProject Philosophy participants

This user is aparticipant in the Ethics task force.

• Ethics
• Consequentialism
• Cornell realism
• Deontology
• Descriptive ethics
• Ethical calculus
• Ethic of reciprocity
• Good and evil
• Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
• List of ethics topics
• Meta-ethics
• Moral character
• Moral obligation
• Moral psychology
• Normative ethics
• Obligation
• Original position
• Prima facie duty
• Utilitarian bioethics
• Utilitarianism
• Value theory

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