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Former good article nomineeSocial work was a Social sciences and society good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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Current status: Former good article nominee

When was social work created?

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When did social work originate and how did it first evolve from its beginnings? 2607:F010:2E9:18:B169:AE8C:E763:F6C1 (talk) 00:23, 4 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

the first university program for social work started in 1898 in New York (Columbia University) RJJ4y7 (talk) 19:30, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

source: https://www.socialworkers.org/News/Facts/Social-Work-History#:~:text=Since%20the%20first%20social%20work,problems%20to%20the%20public's%20attention.

Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?

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Sjkline3 (talk) 21:33, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]


Suggestions for Improvement

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The introductory paragraph is a bit long and jam-packed with information. There is too much detail in the first few paragraphs to call it a simple overview. In my opinion, the first paragraph is enough to sum up what the profession is all about. This helps the reader make a quick decision on whether this article will be helpful and whether they want to continue reading. The paragraphs following should have a separate section because they start going into the specifics of the field when the first paragraph is only supposed to be a concise summary.

Lianna Joe (talk) 00:38, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Give me the short profession social work

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gi 120.28.212.106 (talk) 13:17, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Hip Hop 50

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 31 January 2024 and 4 May 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Bribacardi (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Bribacardi (talk) 23:32, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.


This review is transcluded from Talk:Social work/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: RJJ4y7 (talk · contribs) 19:26, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Phlsph7 (talk · contribs) 09:33, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Hello RJJ4y7 and thanks the improvements to this article. However, despite the improvements, the article fails criterion 2b since there are too many unreferenced paragraphs. Examples are the paragraphs starting with "Other important historical figures that shaped", "In Ontario, the regulator, the Ontario College of Social Workers", and "After Independence in 1947, general hospital psychiatry units" as well as various "citation needed" tags. According to criterion 2b, these passages require inline citations "no later than the end of the paragraph". I suggest that you add all the relevant references before a renomination.

A few other observations

  • WP:EARWIG shows a few potential copyright violations but the detections seem to be triggered by quotations that are properly cited in our article.
  • the article has the following maintenance tags: 1x need quotation to verify, 6x citation needed, 2x dead link, 2x full citation needed, 3x page needed, 1x permanent dead link
  • the section "Definition" should probably not be entirely made up of quotations.
  • in the first sentence of the section "Definition", the expression "Social work" should not be bold.
  • the section "Theoretical models and practices" contains a lengthy list of links to articles discussing theories. It would be better to replace this with prose explaining the most important theories.
  • Later, the mental health consumer movement came by 1980s. should this be "... emerged in the 1980s."?
  • where psychiatric social workers indulges in the diverse approaches replace "indulges" with "indulge" and remove "the"
  • During this period, age of industrial capitalism began add "the" before "age".

Phlsph7 (talk) 09:33, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

an educational resource

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i reacently found a website (started by a social worker academic) which is a database of freely available, open source social work textbooks on every course a social worker would need to take from entry all the way to an advnced practice degree. will be useful for building Wikipedia articles. also please spread the word if any social workers you know would benefit. URL: https://opensocialwork.org/textbooks/ RJJ4y7 (talk) 12:49, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]