Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Demographics of Nigeria

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was KEEP. KnowledgeOfSelf 10:44, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Demographics of Nigeria

According to the BBC, not even the Nigerians know their own demographics. As such, this article is a bit of an embarassment on Wikipedia - it seems to be fraudulent. Recommend it be deleted. - Ta bu shi da yu 02:48, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Ardenn 03:00, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep but source info (or explain why info might be inaccurate). We have similar articles like South_Africa#Demographics. Monkeyman 03:03, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, a notable topic with precedent shown per Monkeyman (see also Category:Demographics by country). Needs references. Have tagged as unsourced. —ERcheck @ 03:49, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep but source. And do you believe everything the BBC tells you?  :) User:Zoe|^(talk) 03:58, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep but source, same as above. Other than reference, absolutely positively no reason to delete. --Jay(Reply) 04:21, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. We have demographics of other countries, but source info. Carioca 05:04, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
• Mild keep. As someone who has lived in Nigeria for a few years, I think I can comment. The difficulty here is getting accurate sources. The FAO populations given in the graph, were widely believed when I was there to be grossly underestimating the population. Academics I talked to in 1980/81 considered the population then to be well over 100 million - an enormous difference from the figure in the graph. This article is valuable, but a lot of caution about the figures needs to be noted. However, it may be the best figures anyone can get. --Bduke 07:01, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
• Weak delete per nom. ComputerJoe 18:35, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and Verify: Too bad for the Nigerians if they don't know. We Wikipedians will have to find out eventually... Karmafist 18:38, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and verify. We have articles on the demographics of every African country. It would be unfortunate if we deleted the article relating to the most populous nation on that continent. There is a public domain source in the World Factbook for this type of information [1] and plenty of other almanacs would have this data. Capitalistroadster 23:20, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and source, possible add material about accuracy issues(with link to bbc article maybe?) JoshuaZ 00:13, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep but change language to make accuracy issues prominent throughout: "source x claimed figures y in year z", etc. The topic itself is encyclopedic and WP isn't making claims, just recording other people's with suitable caveats.JackyR 01:46, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Have added caveat at top of article. More sourcing work needed further down. JackyR 01:46, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Although many cautions are needed with the stats, since they may not be reliable. UncleFloyd 03:29, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep but source it; and just because the BBC says that the Nigerian's don't known their own demographics does not mean that they really don't or that someone else doesn't. Carlossuarez46 01:37, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.