Talk:List of pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses in 2024

Campus protests at ENS Paris

• Specific text to be added or removed: On 21 May, students set up an encampment at the École normale supérieure of Paris. Two days later, the school announced closing until the end of the occupation.
• Reason for the change: Ongoing student encampment at ENS Paris.
• References supporting change: "L'ENS Paris ferme ses locaux à la suite de l'occupation des étudiants en soutien au peuple palestinien". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2024-05-24. Retrieved 2024-05-25.

The specific wording can be tweaked of course, I just have a conflict of interest (as an ENS student myself) so I can't add it directly. Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 12:08, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

 Comment: It wouldn't be a COI if you're a student, only if you were part of the protests. That's not a question, but just to point out it'd be like Twitter users editing the Twitter article, which they do all the time. CommunityNotesContributor (talk) 22:21, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

@CommunityNotesContributor I do have a more specific conflict of interest with the protests, although for privacy reasons, I do not wish to give more information about the details of my situation if possible, thus the edit request. Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 22:44, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

 Done P,TO 19104 (talk) (contribs) 19:34, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

= University of Copenhagen Protest

Pakistan

Requesting to add Pakistan in the list of countries.

Students across Pakistan took to streets in solidarity with Palestine condemning Israeli atrocities in Gaza. Major protests happened across the Pakistani cities of Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Peshawar by university students to demand ceasefire and an end to the ongoing conflict in Gaza.

Muneebll (talk) 00:28, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

References

Muneebll (talk) 00:28, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: This article focuses on protests that occur on campus, not just student protests. Also, the presstv.ir source has been deprecated and aa.com is generally unreliable – macaddct1984 ^{(talk | contribs)} 15:15, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 12 August 2024

As a person that is involved in the university occupation at the Wrocław University, I would like to change the "Poland" section of the article and add that:

"On June 3, an encampment began at Wrocław University."

AutoniM (talk) 09:37, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

 Question: Do you have any English sources for this? — BerryForPerpetuity (talk) 18:04, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

 Done – Isochrone (talk) 13:31, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

References

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 29 October 2024

Poland

Before protest on University of Warsaw, there was protest on Jagiellonian University on May 15.

Also encampment on Jagiellonian University started on 24 may simultaneously with one on University of Warsaw, not on May 27 (that's date of sourced article not of beginning of encampment.

BR Aufhebung.wiki (talk) 22:10, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Done. Rainsage (talk) 19:15, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

edit rq - table of information incl locations and dates?

• What I think should be changed (format using {{textdiff}}): would it be possible, either on this page or as a another linked/companion page, to have a table that is actually listing protests/encampments? including the university, the start and end dates, estimated # of participants, demands, arrest #s, and if it disbanded why?
• Why it should be changed: it would likely be a lot of work but i think would be a much more helpful way to have the data organised. as the article stands, it is not clear what encampments are still standing and what are disbanded, and there is also, despite this article being a "list", no actual complete list of campuses involved.
• References supporting the possible change (format using the "cite" button): the List of hazing deaths in the United States page is organized quite in the way i'm talking about, shows that it's possible

K31r2 (talk) 11:45, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

This isn't really an edit request as such, as it's not requesting specific changes. However, it does raise an interesting point.

HEPI just published a peer-reviewed report into the encampments in the UK,[1] which includes a list (appendix A) of all 36 institutions that had encampments (not all the encampments, as there were some institutions that had multiple encampments – the report mentions Oxford and Goldsmiths as examples). They also have a timeline for the number of active encampments (figure 2), running from the first (in the UK) on 26 April, peaking at 36 on 30 May, and dropping to 5 on 31 July and 2 on 16 August.

The problem is that most sources currently are news reports about the camp at institution X where something newsworthy happened, or news reports listing encampments at a few famous or local institutions. As we get further from the events and reports that look at the broad sweep of the movement like the HEPI one appear, it may become possible to replace the summary of news coverage that we currently have with a more comprehensive listing. But it does need people (researchers or journalists) to go out, do the original research that we can't (and shouldn't) be doing as Wikipedia editors, and publish the results in a place that we can read them. Robminchin (talk) 18:11, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

References

I am admittedly new to wiki editing and haven't internalized all the rules and such yet... is there a reason we can't use social media as a source (with parameters)? ecampments at many universities (mine for example though i won't say which as of now) had their own instagrams (or the various student groups organizing did) and put out statements there when emcampments ended (voluntarily or otherwise). i know social media isn't necessarily considered reliable but would it be in this context? or is this what you're talking about as the "original research that we can't (and shouldn't) be doing as Wikipedia editors"?

and while this report is interesting, i do think that the ability of wiki to update itself lends better to this issue - there are encampments still going now (at least one in the UK!) journals/reports being published with a peer review process only allow for a certain amount of exigence/ up-to-date-ness

again just genuinely wondering what best practices are in this sort of situation... could we for example just make the table and only include what information we already have confirmed, and leave the rest blank so as not to be tempting the 'orginal research/unreliable source' fates? or is there a certain threshold of completeness we need to cross before this could be done?

and also, sorry this wasn't quite an edit request! didn't know what other option there really was to raise this issue. K31r2 (talk) 09:30, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

It is possible to use digital media posts in a very limited way, as a source of information about the poster, per WP:SOCIALMEDIA. It would probably be okay to use it for endpoints of campus, but not for claims about agreements with the university, etc., related to the encampment ending.

For UK camps at least, I think we have enough information to make a table that will give at least the names of all the institutions that had encampments and start and end dates for many of them. Where we have other reliable information this could be added in a notes column, such as there being two camps at some institutions or whether a camp ended voluntarily orby court order. Robminchin (talk) 16:03, 25 February 2025 (UTC)