Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Edinburgh Award/Political Theories
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Political Theories in a nutshell:
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About
[edit]This is my project page and it will focus on improving pages on Political Theories and other interested areas.
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[edit]The outreach dashboard link somehow (incorrectly) marked the Japanese nationalism article as a Deleted Article. My edits toward this article were therefore not counted in the total words added.
Articles edited
[edit]- Neofunctionalism (https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Neofunctionalism)
- Post-war Japanese nationalism (https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Japanese_nationalism#Post-war_developments)
- Sectarianism (https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Sectarianism)
- Theories of European integration (https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/European_integration#Theories_of_integration)
- 莫失莫忘 (Chinese version of Never Let Me Go)(https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%88%A5%E8%AE%93%E6%88%91%E8%B5%B0)
- Soraya de Chadarevian (https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Soraya_de_Chadarevian)
Articles created
[edit]- 午夜图书馆(Chinese version of The Midnight Library)(https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%88%E5%A4%9C%E5%9B%BE%E4%B9%A6%E9%A6%86)
- 克拉拉与太阳(Chinese version of Klara and the Sun)(https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%8B%E6%8B%89%E6%8B%89%E4%B8%8E%E5%A4%AA%E9%98%B3)
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[edit]- DiscoverEd
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