Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Nigeria
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[edit] Discussion and suggestions for specific articles
I've been on Wikibreak for past month or so and I'm attempting reinvigoration of my Wikipedia contributions; particularly I would like to get this project which now has a few participants off the ground. Yesterday I added some general updates to the main page in regards to goals of the project which obviously you may alter as you please. The specific goals I added were limited despite my feeling that more may be added which also required remediation and watchlisting by all participants. I would like to reccommend the following articles been watchlisted and in some cases cleaned up and/or expanded upon:
- Ibrahim Babangida; this article is labelled as POV and complaints have been registered on a number of occassions.
- Atiku Abubakar; this article is simply a mess, particularly as a result of recent events surrounding the Vice President's apparent defection.
- The articles on the three most populous ethnic groups are subject to fairly constant misinformation; Hausa people (or Hausa-Fulani), Igbo people, and Yoruba people are all in need of attention.
--gozar 18:13, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Article for deletion: Gnaa, Nigeria
FYI, the article Gnaa, Nigeria has just entered its 3rd AfD. There's been considerable debate in the past as to:
- Does such a place even exist?
- If a place does exist with that name, is it notable?
- Is this all a hoax perpetrated by the other GNAA, the Gay Niggers Association of America; they issue press releases datelined Gnaa, Nigeria.
--A. B. 00:49, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Ibrahim Babangida
Hi, this biography needs massive work to clean up its lack of references and restored to a neutral point of view. Currently, it's a mess since a couple of anonymous IPs have edit-warred over it. -- Netsnipe (Talk) 14:30, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 15:01, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Sultan
Given the events of the last few days, we need to work on documenting the office of the Sultan of Sokoto and personalities related to it. I am not in Nigeria and don't have access to documents, but I am available if anyone can take the lead. Please drop me an email from my User page.
----iFaqeer 03:08, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] List of cities in Nigeria
The page entitled "List of cities in Nigeria" has a link to the city of Shaki. However, clicking on this link takes you to Shaki, Azerbaijan not Shaki, Nigeria!
[edit] Userbox
I noted that this project doesn't have a userbox yet. I wonder whether any of you would find this one acceptable: {{User WikiProject Nigeria}}. Oh, and I also added the flag to the project banner and made a few minor wording changes. I hope no one minds; they can always be reverted later. Badbilltucker 16:30, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Missing articles for places in Nigeria with populations > 100,000
The Wikipedia:Missing articles for towns and cities with 100,000 or more inhabitants project has identified a list of places in Nigeria which appear to have current populations of more than 100,000 and do not have articles in the English-language Wikipedia.
They are:
(Caveat: since this list was compiled by computer without any local knowledge of Nigeria, some of these names may be wrong, or alternative names for places with articles which already exist.)
Would anyone be interested in creating articles for these places? -- The Anome 11:30, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
- I'll give them a shot. Picaroon 19:19, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
- Sango Otta is another name for Otta, which is another name for Ota, which has an entry. I'll add a redirect. Rjhatl 17:04, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
- Alright, I've now created four geo-stubs and Rjhatl has created the redirect, so I think we're done. Picaroon 02:43, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:03, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Portal:Nigeria
I've given the revitalization of Portal:Nigeria a go, but Toussaint, the creator, and I won't be able to maintain it alone. Help is appreciated. Picaroon 23:36, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Please look at Lawrence Anini
He's worth an article, but the one that's there isn't good enough. You folks know (and care) more than I do about such things. YechielMan 07:41, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] New WikiProject template
User:Toussaint/WPNigeria - Based on Wikipedia:WikiProject Indonesia's Template:WPIndonesia Navigation. May be useful for future reference; if you want to use it, just mke sure to put it under its own page (preferably Template:WPNigeria Navigation or something like that. --Toussaint 14:41, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
