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Can one of you folks take a look at [[Ibrahim Index of African Governance]]? I don't know enough to know if it is notable or if it can be cleaned up. Please contact me on my talkpage if I need to follow up- I don't follow this project. [[User:Tedder|tedder]] ([[User talk:Tedder|talk]]) 04:54, 5 May 2009 (UTC) |
Can one of you folks take a look at [[Ibrahim Index of African Governance]]? I don't know enough to know if it is notable or if it can be cleaned up. Please contact me on my talkpage if I need to follow up- I don't follow this project. [[User:Tedder|tedder]] ([[User talk:Tedder|talk]]) 04:54, 5 May 2009 (UTC) |
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== Anonymous complaint about a passage in [[Mengistu Haile Mariam]] article == |
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I posted this at [[Talk:Mengistu Haile Mariam]], and I'm reposting it here and at the WikiProject:Ethiopia talk page: |
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After [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AAdministrators%27_noticeboard%2FIncidents&diff=289090159&oldid=289089405 this complaint] was posted at the "Administrators' Noticeboard/Incidents" page, I removed two unsourced, potentially libelous paragraphs about Mengistu's family members from the article [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mengistu_Haile_Mariam&diff=prev&oldid=289095208] and a sentence about Mengistu's childhood. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mengistu_Haile_Mariam&diff=next&oldid=289095208] The complaint appeared to focus on information that the article sources to the Paul B. Henze and Bahru Zewde sources. Someone with an interest in the subject may want to review that information for accuracy. Someone may also want to find sourcing for the passages that I removed, but also think about whether they violate [[WP:BLP]] whether or not they can be accurately sourced (I don't have an opinion about it). |
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Ibrahim Index for African Governance
Hey guys, just wanted to know if anyone was interested in helping me update African country pages. I want to include on every page where the country is coming on the Index for African Governance[1]. It's a really good tool for assessing governance, and I think should be part of all African country profiles. Agreed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by SimonA1986 (talk • contribs) 16:35, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Laal
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Make country-specific assessment visible
Could someone change the project template {{AfricaProject}} so that if a taskforce is specified, the country-specific importance is displayed instead of the "Africa importance"? Even though both are present in the categories, I think it would be more reasonable to visually show the country-specific rating instead of the African one. This is because many high- and top-importance articles for one country would probably be only mid- or low-importance in the context of the whole continent. And also, I think there should be more customization: for example, show the country-specific portal (if it exists), instead of the Africa portal, and so on. --Waldir talk 21:35, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi/Mid/Lo Importance? what is the standard?
Can someone explain to me how the various project importances are given?
I see that the mostly unknown group Abahlali baseMjondolo has been given a 'medium' importance rating, (in Human rights, Philosophy, Africa and Urban studies and planning).
Does anybody know how such ratings are given? What do they mean? How does such an obscure and fairly unknown group get an 'medium' importance rating? What are the requirements for low and/or high? FFMG (talk) 19:35, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
- Each project has its own standards for importance; you can see these by clicking on the "importance scale" link in the template. I'm not familiar with the group, and while I don't know whether they would count as obscure, they clearly don't merit mid importance in any of these broad projects. Warofdreams talk 20:25, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Move
{{Editprotected}} This template should be at Template:WikiProject Africa, the standard naming conventions for all such templates. The talk page already is in the right place, suggesting that someone moved it shortly before the template was protected, and didn't know what they were doing, because they left the talk page behind. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 20:42, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
- It looks to me like the template is in the correct location (and always has been; there was no move). The talk page seems to have been purposely redirected here on at least two occasions, but I'll leave it up to you to change that back if you want. --CapitalR (talk) 21:37, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
WPBannerMeta
This template is an awkward template with several coding flaws such as how is handles non-standard class and assessment options. Any feelings on converting it to {{WPBannerMeta}}? MBisanz talk 05:28, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
{{editprotected}}
- There is a version in the sandbox using {{WPBannerMeta}}. AFAICT, all functions that are in use work in this version. So, please replace the contents of {{AfricaProject}} with those of {{AfricaProject/sandbox}}. —Ms2ger (talk) 20:55, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
I don't suppose any of you fella's would mind explaining what you're doing/deciding to members of this project. These last two headings appear to be part of some other ongoing conversations you're having outside this project. T L Miles (talk) 23:05, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
- Exactly what was said: "converting [Template:AfricaProject] to {{WPBannerMeta}}". Confusion may have arisen from the fact that people (like me) may not notice they're on this page, rather than on Template talk:AfricaProject, which redirects here and use an ambiguous "it" when referring to Template:AfricaProject. For more information about Template:WPBannerMeta, please have a look at that page. —Ms2ger (talk) 15:50, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
- Well are you informing us of this, discussing it with members or this project, or just accidentally ending up here? Do we have any say in this? Does it effect us in any way? Is there anything Africa project members should be doing with this? T L Miles (talk) 16:33, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
- Everything at the same time, I'd say—informing that there are coding flaws that could be solved by using WPBM and putting the conversion up for discussion. (Usually this discussion would occur on the talk page of the template itself, though; it's more probable to reach just the people who are interested in the maintenance of the banner).
- Of course, the project has an important say in this, but since in most cases very few people are interested in the particular implementation of a banner (as long as no functionally they use disappears), the edits are generally carried out before there are comments. If there are problems with the new implementation, though, angry (and justified) comments usually start coming in pretty fast.
- AFAICT, no functions of the template were substantially changed, so this should only affect the person(s) who maintain the banner. (I believe that would be User:John Carter in your case.)
- Other project members, therefore, don't really need to do anything with this.
- I hope my answers are satisfactory; if you have any more questions, I'll be glad to try and answer them. —Ms2ger (talk) 18:45, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
- Well are you informing us of this, discussing it with members or this project, or just accidentally ending up here? Do we have any say in this? Does it effect us in any way? Is there anything Africa project members should be doing with this? T L Miles (talk) 16:33, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
The template talk redirects because User:Picaroon did that in 2007 with the edit summary "we don't want discussion getting split". I've just undone this because it can be very confusing having protected edit requests on a different talk page. I suggest that any of you who care about the project banner add it to your watchlist. Then we can move over there and stop troubling you here ;) — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 06:02, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
Mohamed Ialá Embaló article name
Hello all, Mohamed Ialá Embaló is a Guinea Bissau politician who has changed his name in mid 2008, but sources stilll use his old name - see tlak page here. What do we think the name should be at? Anyone familiar with Guinea Bissau politics? Casliber (talk · contribs) 02:10, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Typo in template code?
{{AfricaProject|South Africa=yes}} adds an article to Category:Unassessed South Africa article, see e.g. Talk:Warrick Sony. That category does not exist. Category:Unassessed South Africa articles does exist, though. Shouldn't the template add the article to the latter? BNutzer (talk) 20:38, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
TF_5_ASSESSMENT_CAT
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I believe that
|TF_5_ASSESSMENT_CAT = South Africa article
should be changed to
|TF_5_ASSESSMENT_CAT = South Africa articles
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Stepheng3 (talk • contribs)
Talk:Moors # Seensawsee's edits # The facts
Hi! You might be interested in the discussion at Talk:Moors#The_facts. Thank you. The Ogre (talk) 14:44, 26 April 2009 (UTC) The Ogre (talk) 14:44, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
'music of' templates
I built a template for the music of various regions - {{infobox music of}} - at the request of another editor (and because I thought this was something that would be nice to have a standardized template for), but when I started applying it here and there, I ran into a headache on African topics. there seem to be a bunch of different, individual templates at different levels of organization (single nations like Cameroon and the DRC, language regions like Francophone Africa, generic regions like East and Central Africa). I just don't know enough about Africa or African music to organize the material. can someone suggest an appropriate division, musically speaking? I'm happy to implement the new templates, just need guidance on the organization. --Ludwigs2 00:06, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
WP:NOT#PLOT
Apologies for the notice, but this is being posted to every WikiProject to avoid accusations of systemic bias. Hiding T 13:19, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
Heads up on a new article: Ibrahim Index of African Governance
Can one of you folks take a look at Ibrahim Index of African Governance? I don't know enough to know if it is notable or if it can be cleaned up. Please contact me on my talkpage if I need to follow up- I don't follow this project. tedder (talk) 04:54, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Anonymous complaint about a passage in Mengistu Haile Mariam article
I posted this at Talk:Mengistu Haile Mariam, and I'm reposting it here and at the WikiProject:Ethiopia talk page: After this complaint was posted at the "Administrators' Noticeboard/Incidents" page, I removed two unsourced, potentially libelous paragraphs about Mengistu's family members from the article [1] and a sentence about Mengistu's childhood. [2] The complaint appeared to focus on information that the article sources to the Paul B. Henze and Bahru Zewde sources. Someone with an interest in the subject may want to review that information for accuracy. Someone may also want to find sourcing for the passages that I removed, but also think about whether they violate WP:BLP whether or not they can be accurately sourced (I don't have an opinion about it). -- Noroton (talk) 18:11, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
- ^ www.moibrahimfoundation.org