WP: WikiProject Nigeria

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{{Infobox WikiProject

| name = Nigeria

| image = Flag of Nigeria.svg

| caption = This WikiProject is about Nigeria.

| portal = Nigeria

| portal_img = Nigeria coa.png

| commons = Nigeria

| parent = Africa

| notice = WikiProject Nigeria

| userbox = User WikiProject Nigeria

| csb = yes

| assessment = /Assessment and Popular Articles

| footnotes =

}}

Welcome to the WikiProject Nigeria! This project aims to deal on all articles related to Nigeria. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.

Scope

This WikiProject aims to help coordinate efforts to improve and maintain pages related to:

Goals

Goals for the project may be divisible into two domains: a general domain encompassing aims for all Nigeria-related articles, and specific goals pertaining to particular articles or sets of articles. Both sets of goals are expounded upon in the subsequent sections and both are subject to modification and discussion.

=General goals=

  1. Ensure that all Nigeria-related articles remain "cleaned up" and accurate, minimising vandalism and spam links as much as possible. These issues are the most pervasive to Nigeria-related items and therefore assume top priority; the aforementioned are also to some degree subsumed in the other general goals to follow.
  2. To create a body of articles that accurately depicts the history and cultures of Nigeria and Nigerian peoples.
  3. To highlight Nigeria's relationships and/or contributions to the rest of the world.
  4. To standardize articles on Nigeria and related subjects with similar layouts and formatting.
  5. To include all relevant information, making especially certain to include the voices of women, the poor, the indigenous, as well as the rest of Nigerian society. Note that all information must be sourced, in the form of refs or at least external links. Please try to provide a way to verify the information in an article, especially that which you add. If possible, add refs to unverified information.
  6. To standardize the use of native language terms, names, and translations into English across the series.

=Specific goals=

Specific goals may be created or abrogated on an ad hoc basis as deemed necessary and appropriate by project participants. More goals should be discussed and added; please feel free to make suggestions on the discussion page. High priority goals may include:

  • Nigeria; the article is subject to nearly constant vandalism, spam links, and the addition of false and/or biased information at all times, largely by unregistered or new users. The page thus requires constant upkeep to prevent further degradation, in addition to requiring general improvement. The Foreign relations section has been complained about frequently, as have issues regarding vandalism associated with census controversies (probably needs its own article to begin with), Nigerian cities, and other ethno-religious based unhelpful edits.
  • Adding the name of the local language(s) from [http://www.ethnologue.com Ethnologue] to articles about towns and villages, with a wikilink to the article about the language. The cite for this is easy: {{e17| [3 letter language code goes here] }}

Other suggested work

  • Looking at "What links here" for Nigeria-related articles can often turn up untagged or uncategorised Nigerian articles. Categorizing them will put them somewhere where they can be accessed for improvement.
  • Add Template:WikiProject Nigeria to the talkpages of Nigeria-related articles, to tag them as such.

==Requests for uncreated articles==

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  • Tamarind pap (Kunun tsamiya), dish commonly eaten in Northern Nigeria

Created articles that might need improvement

{{User:WolterBot/Cleanup listing subscription}}

  • Agalawa, people who migrated to Hausaland and are historically known as merchants. One of their notable descendants is Alhassan Dantata

Participants

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To join WikiProject Nigeria, add the Wikitext #{{Mailing list member|user=USERNAME}}, replacing USERNAME with your actual username to the bottom of the #Active members section. After joining, you can also display one of the our member identifications on your userpage by adding one (or more) of the templates listed in the #Member identification section. Please consider [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Nigeria&action=watch clicking here] so as to add this page and its talkpage to your watch list.

=Active members=

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=Former members=

Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.

  1. {{User|Buaidh}} 01:09:32, 7 May 2019 (UTC) – WikiProject templates and categories.

=Member identification=

Members of WikiProject Nigeria should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to {{nobreak|:Category:WikiProject Nigeria participants}}.

{{yytop}}

{{yycat|WikiProject Nigeria participants}}

{{yy|Template:User WikiProject Nigeria}}

{{yy|Template:User WP Nigeria}}

{{yy|Template:User WP Nigeria|invite}}

{{yyend}}

For other Nigeria user templates, see {{nobreak|:Category:Nigeria user templates}}.

=Sign up for announcements=

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Awards

There is now a barnstar that will be awarded to people in thanks for contributions to Nigeria-related articles.

Image:BoNM - Nigeria Hires.png|{{tlsp|The Nigeria Barnstar of National Merit|message ~~~~}}
Nigeria

Recognized content

=[[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured articles]]=

=[[Wikipedia:Good articles|Good articles]]=

;BLPs

;Albums

;Songs

;Other

=[[Wikipedia:Did you know|Did you know]] (DYK)s=

Resources

=Assessment=

{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Nigeria articles by quality statistics}}

= Templates=

General articlespace templates:

  • {{tl|Nigerian Heads of State}}
  • {{tl|NigerianVicePresidents}}
  • {{tl|President Nigerian Senate}}
  • {{tl|Speaker Nigerian House of Representatives}}
  • {{tl|Current Nigerian governors}}
  • {{tl|Nigeria states}}
  • {{tl|Supreme Court of Nigeria}}
  • {{tl|Nigeria states map}}
  • {{tl|NigerianAssembly delegation}}
  • {{tl|Nigerian federal constituencies}}

For stubs, small articles in the article namespace in need of expansion, place one of the following tags at the bottom of the article (below everything except interlanguage links):

  • {{tl|Nigeria-stub}}
  • {{tl|Nigeria-bio-stub}}
  • {{tl|Nigeria-politician-stub}}
  • {{tl|Nigeria-sport-bio-stub}}
  • {{tl|Nigeria-athletics-bio-stub}}
  • {{tl|Nigeria-boxing-bio-stub}}
  • {{tl|Nigeria-footy-bio-stub}}
  • {{tl|Nigeria-basketball-bio-stub}}
  • {{tl|Nigeria-writer-stub}}
  • {{tl|Nigeria-ethno-group-stub}}
  • {{tl|Nigeria-footyclub-stub}}
  • {{tl|Nigeria-geo-stub}}
  • {{tl|Nigeria-struct-stub}}
  • {{tl|Nigeria-university-stub}}
  • {{tl|Nigeria-hist-stub}}
  • {{tl|Nigeria-party-stub}}

For article talk pages:

  • {{tl|WikiProject Nigeria}}

For user pages:

  • {{tl|User WikiProject Nigeria}}, if you are in this WikiProject
  • {{tl|User Nigeria}}, if you are Nigerian

=Categories=

=Other pages=

Article alerts

{{Article alerts columns}}

Hot articles


{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Nigeria/Hot articles}}

Popular pages

The project's most viewed pages can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Nigeria/Popular pages (updated monthly).

Wikipedia sister projects

=Commons and Wikinews=

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| {{commons|Nigeria}}

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| {{Commonscat|Nigeria}}

{{tlp|Wikinews|Nigeria}}

| {{Wikinews|Nigeria}}

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| {{Wikinewscat|Nigeria}}

=Wikipedias in Nigerian languages=

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! What to type !! What it makes

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| {{InterWiki|code=ha|Hausa}}

{{tlp|InterWiki|code=ig|Igbo}}

| {{InterWiki|code=ig|Igbo}}

{{tlp|InterWiki|code=yo|Yoruba}}

| {{InterWiki|code=yo|Yoruba}}

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