Talk:Rosa Parks

"White" of "white"

Why does the article use uppercase white? Graham Beards (talk) 12:22, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Template:Ping, I see you have now fixed this. You are correct, of course. Mike Marchmont (talk) 12:37, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

That would have been because of MOS:RACECAPS. Schazjmd (talk) 14:53, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

whats this 50.171.194.194 (talk) 18:58, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

I agree with lowercase white. It now needs Blacks to be in lowercase also to be consistent. Template:Tq must be wrong.

Is Template:Tq an exception as the 'worlds' counter each other. Is it Template:Tq, I am unsure. BlueWren0123 (talk) 20:10, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

@BlueWren0123 @Graham Beards @Mike Marchmont I agree. It needs to be equal. If Black is capitalized, then White should be capitalized. If not, then both should be uncapitalized. AppGoo0011 (talk) 14:30, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

I’m black 62.30.197.81 (talk) 13:16, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 November 2024

Little studied is the impact of Rosa Parks' robust yoga practice in her activism. In 1973, she started demonstrating her yoga at activist gatherings. Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela writes in her book Fit Nation (2022) that it "was important to her life but long unacknowledged as part of her civil-rights activism". A photograph available in the Library of Congress shows her in 1973 in leotards on her knees on a yoga mat. Queen Peen (talk) 16:58, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

File:X mark.svg Not done. It's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please specify the requested changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide reliable sources if appropriate. A. Randomdude0000 (talk) 19:36, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

SFN Conversion

Hello! I am about to convert a number of the citations to SFN style in anticipation of a major overhaul as part of WikiProject Women in Green (see Talk). If there are any issues with the new citations, please feel free to correct them or point them out on this talk page. Thank you for your patience. Spookyaki (talk) 18:02, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 20 February 2025

- Add line break between the education/schools listed in the infobox.

Template:Wikidata image Ww55d (talk) 05:06, 20 February 2025 (UTC) File:Yes check.svg Done, Thank you for both a good find and suggestion and for bringing it to the attention of the talk page. Randy Kryn (talk) 05:22, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on March

Please change "The crowd The crowd overwhelmingly supported continuing the boycott" to "The crowd overwhelmingly supported continuing the boycott" 59.182.201.3 (talk) 17:49, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

File:Yes check.svg Done Thanks for pointing this out! Spookyaki (talk) 18:45, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

Peer review

{{Wikipedia:Peer review/Rosa Parks/archive2}}

References to Rosa Parks: A Life in American History, by Darryl Mace (2021) seem to be wrong

"She was initially "[not] very interested in him" because of "some unhappy romantic experiences"[a]" - references page 27, wrong page, the right page would be 36.

"Rosa was introduced to her future husband, Raymond Parks, by a mutual friend.[20]" - references page 52, wrong page, the right page would be 37.

"However, Raymond eventually persuaded Rosa to ride with him in his car. At the time, automobile ownership was rare among Black men in Alabama.[23]" - references pages 22-23, again, wrong page, the right page would be 37.

The mentioned pages are all over the place. AFAIK, it is not that the information is wrong, just the pages being swapped. I suggest a revision of the references here... Manoliu1001 (talk) 03:37, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for catching this. Some of these issues might come from the fact that I was working with a PDF copy where the page numbers are offset somewhat by the front matter/introductory material (though that doesn't account for all of it; maybe I missed some stuff copy-pasting the sfn templates). I'll do a review of the page numbers tomorrow. Spookyaki (talk) 04:35, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

Actually just went ahead and did it tonight. I think they all should be fixed. Let me know if you spot any more errors. Spookyaki (talk) 05:27, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

Article history?

I was a little surprised to see this article as the lede in today's DYK, even given the clear connection to the Juneteenth theme connected to the other articles on the Main Page, since it ran as the Main Page FA back on December 1, 2005, the 50th anniversary of her arrest, as part of a wide commemoration of that event online and off. I remember that date very well.

Yet the current article history gives no mention of this, just its recent promotion to GA. So I'm curious: When was it defeatured? Why? And why is there no record of this in the article history? It isn't hard to find the article's FAC? Or its FARC, which indicates that it was defeatured in 2012.

Certainly it would be nice if it were restored to featured status, and I think whoever would be working on that might like to see those past discussions. Daniel Case (talk) 01:47, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing this out! Am hoping to (re-)nominate the article for FA, but was not aware of its history. I think I've added the FAC and FARC to the article history, though this is not a template I've ever touched before, so it's possible I might have made some mistakes. Let me know if you spot any issues. Spookyaki (talk) 02:49, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

What to do about the picture?

I see there's a lot of activity going on concerning the picture on this article. I need to go to bed because I have to catch an early flight tomorrow, and will be out of town for the next week, but I think interested parties should probably discuss what our best options are here. For context, see deletion discussions here and here. Pinging Template:Ping, Template:Ping, Template:Ping, and Template:Ping. Some questions I have:

1. Is there a way to make the image more fair use compliant, as Yagiv attempted to do?
2. In the event that the image does need to be deleted, what are some alternatives for the article portrait? Would we prefer the fingerprinting image (potentially confusing context, unclear image of Parks's face) or this image (clearer view of the face, but potentially misleading concerning Parks's age at the time of her refusal to move) or some other image?

Unfortunately, I cannot participate in this discussion. Spookyaki (talk) 03:21, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

I usually rely on @Nikkimaria when it comes to questions of image licensing. RoySmith (talk) 12:51, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

• Keep the present image in the infobox (per discussion at the deletion nomination). Randy Kryn (talk) 14:40, 19 June 2025 (UTC)