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Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 17:30, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Aymatth2, if I understand you well, you are referring to class criteria in talkpages. I believe WikiProject Nigeria already uses a class criteria to rate articles. For example, Talk:Indigenous_People_of_Biafra is rated as C class.HandsomeBoy (talk) 09:34, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Yes, that is correct. WikiProject Nigeria uses the approach documented at Wikipedia:WikiProject Nigeria/Assessment#Quality scale. That is much the same as the approach at Wikipedia:Content assessment. It seems unlikely that WikiProject Nigeria has special criteria. A biography of a Nigerian would be rated the same quality by WikiProject Nigeria and WikiProject Biography, an article on a river would be rated the same quality by WikiProject Nigeria and WikiProject Rivers, and so on. I have taken the liberty of editing Talk:Enugu to add |class=GA to {{WikiProject banner shell}}. You can see how this looks compared to Talk:Kingdom of Nri. A long way to say I do not think you need to do anything. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:17, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Feel free to share your feedback! Usmanagm (talk) 09:27, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

@Usmanagm:,Quick advice: on Wikipedia, use words like "prestigious" with care, especially when it involves a school that was founded about a one year ago. This does not mean PRU is not a great school, just that Wikipedia will want to see verifiable sources that demonstrate it is of a higher cadre, else it will reek of conflict of interest to objective editors if unfounded. And you barely see such superlative words for schools like Harvard, etc. Wikipedia states things as they are. That being said, I have done a lot of work to improve Nigeria higher institutions articles and I can see Pen Resource University already have a Wikipedia article. I don't really get the suggestions you want, are you looking for ways students and staff of the school will become Wikipedia contributors? Or you want recommendations on how to improve content of the university on Wikipedia?HandsomeBoy (talk) 23:00, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Request for Draft Review

Hello,

Please I’d love to ask for review as regards an article I created “Emmanuel Iren”

Thanks in anticipation. Mevoelo (talk) 02:10, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Mevoelo Good article but not yet a notable subject. Probably a case of WP:TOOSOON. If I were to be a reviewer, I won't accept the draft, and move to article space mainly because it falls short of the guidelines for WP:NPEOPLE. And this is not a case of not being familiar with subject or Nigerian topics, I have even worshiped in his church once, he is certainly on the right part to Wikipedia notability, but not yet there. YNaija listing and present independent significant coverage is not strong enough.Who knows you might be lucky and reviewer might accept it. I wouldn't nominate if I see it in article space though.HandsomeBoy (talk) 21:20, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Elections, Presidential

Please see here. Thanks. Bokoharamwatch (talk) 12:31, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

I agree that the 24 states and Abuja controversy should be mentioned, but there's no rush to doing that since it is still a developing story. HandsomeBoy (talk) 21:23, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:2023 Mangu violence#Requested move 18 June 2023

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2023 Mangu violence#Requested move 18 June 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 01:15, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you!HandsomeBoy (talk) 14:32, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Content assessment

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Content assessment#Proposal: Reclassification of Current & Future-Classes as time parameter, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. This WikiProject received this message because it currently uses "Current" and/or "Future" class(es). There is a proposal to split these two article "classes" into a new parameter "time", in order to standardise article-rating across Wikipedia (per RfC), while also allowing simultaneous usage of quality criteria and time for interest projects. Thanks! —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 06:46, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Hello, Please can anyone review my page?

I created a page for the incumbent member representing badagary of lagos, i will love anyone of you to go through the page and check for anything. However, I will need you to help me review the page, in other for the owner to occupy digital presence. Thanks in anticipation! Amalgoni (talk) 22:17, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, Badagry** Amalgoni (talk) 22:18, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

@Amalgoni:, as a member of Nigerian house of representatives, Oluwaseun Sesi Whingan is definitely notable. My advice for you is to keep things simple. You can start with a stub article. All those talk of him being a philanthropist should be removed or minimized from the lede. You can have a neutrally-written brief on it in subsections. As for notability, I assure you the subject is notable.HandsomeBoy (talk) 10:34, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Credibility bot

As this is a highly active WikiProject, I would like to introduce you to Credibility bot. This is a bot that makes it easier to track source usage across articles through automated reports and alerts. We piloted this approach at Wikipedia:Vaccine safety and we want to offer it to any subject area or domain. We need your support to demonstrate demand for this toolkit. If you have a desire for this functionality, or would like to leave other feedback, please endorse the tool or comment at WP:CREDBOT. Thanks! Harej (talk) 17:55, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

Thank you so much Harej, I will go through your project page soon, and give a support vote/comment if I find the proposed feature useful. But one thing, I'd love a direct reply to is - there a times we see a new editor promoting their website by adding links to multiple Wikipedia pages. Usually, I do my reverts by just going to their contribution page. But sometimes they use multiple Wikipedia accounts and it is difficult for me to know the pages (if not on my watchlist) they visit to add spam links. Does your tool have a way of letting me know where such questionable domains are used as references on Wikipedia? I am sure a number of persons associated with this WikiProject will share similar views and have had such experiences. It will be helpful if such as feature was available. HandsomeBoy (talk) 19:51, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

@HandsomeBoy: That's the basic idea, that once a domain is determined to be unreliable, you will be able to track its usage in articles. Although the bot is still under development, being able to define these domains is a development goal. Harej (talk) 17:30, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

Discussion at RSN about Vanguard

There is a discussion at the Reliable Sources Noticeboard about Vanguard (Nigeria), found here WP:RSN#Vanguard (Nigeria), about advertorials. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 11:36, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Federal Ministry of Information and Culture (Nigeria)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Federal Ministry of Information and Culture (Nigeria) that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. —usernamekiran (talk) 16:03, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

Please, need your advice at Talk:Federal Ministry of Information and Culture (Nigeria)#Requested move 18 August 2023. Thank you in advance! ~~~ <small>~~~~~</small>

Requested move at Talk:C. Odumegwu Ojukwu

A requested move discussion has been initiated for C. Odumegwu Ojukwu to be moved to Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. --Grnrchst (talk) 07:42, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

Amegbu Ogwa Proposed for Deletion

The article Amegbu Ogwa has been proposed for deletion as it cites no sources and Wikipedians could not find a source on the internet. If anyone is able to find sources supporting the notability of this village, it would be great if they could add them to the article. Otherwise, the article will likely be deleted tomorrow. Thanks, -- Lenny Marks (talk) 16:34, 14 September 2023 (UTC)

I have reasons to believe "Amegbu Ogwa" is the same as "Amaebu Ogwa". Once this is validated, there are sources that at least mentions the town.HandsomeBoy (talk) 00:41, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Women in Green's 5th Edit-a-thon

Hello WikiProject Nigeria:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2023!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2023, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there!

Grnrchst (talk) 13:30, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Please review my article

Hello, I created a recent article about a businessman and politician Sanusi Bala Turaki who is also a guber aspirant in zamfara state. I have cited all relevance, i need your review and proof-read Agbaballer (talk) 14:05, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Agbaballer, the article is really scanty. Just being a governorship candidate is not enough to be on Wikipedia. I see you added the SAN page to the "See also" section. Is he a SAN? If being a governorship candidate is presently the most "notable" thing about him, then perhaps you should wait till after elections. If he does become governor, then he will definitely be notable for Wikipedia. Read WP:NPEOPLE.HandsomeBoy (talk) 16:29, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Re:Entry on the Indigenous People of Biafra

I wish to submit that the article on the Indigenous people of Biafra be reviewed unless the intention is not to educate the public on what full profile of the organisation. This is because this organisation had a deputy leader that resigned.What for instance happened and led to the resignation of the deputy leader? Why for instance the names of the leader,the Spokesperson and/or the Media and publicity secretary be mentioned but not the deputy leader? Is that deliberate or an innocent omission? Mefonna (talk) 12:02, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Mefonna, please add hyperlinks (from reliable source) to each of your statement so it will be easy for me (or anyone) to assess and contribute to the article. For now, it is your word vs what is in the article.HandsomeBoy (talk) 16:24, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

I wish to submit that the article on the Indigenous people of Biafra be reviewed, unless the intention is not to educate the public on what full profile of the organisation. This is because this organisation had a deputy leader [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] that resigned.What for instance happened and led to the resignation of the deputy leader? Why for instance the names of the leader,the Spokesperson and/or the Media and publicity secretary be mentioned but not the deputy leader? [12] [13] Is that deliberate or an innocent omission?

@HandsomeBoyThere is so much useful information regarding this subject matter. I recommend further independent research or inquiry if need be. Mefonna (talk) 11:44, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the references. I will look at them, and if I notice any undue weight I will make the required edits. I just have a lot on my table atm.HandsomeBoy (talk) 18:12, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Article Review

Hello, I created a recent article about Dr. Mustapha Abdullahi, the DG of Energy Commission of Nigeria. draft:Dr. Mustapha Abdullahi. Help me review. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danjizle (talk • contribs) 14:40, 18 January 2024 (UTC)