Talk:Deforestation in Nigeria

Heavy reliance on Mongabay
This is not necessarily bad: I am pretty sure they are considered reliable. However surely there are journal articles out there in this topic, and they would improve the article, as would a diversity of sources Elinruby (talk) 18:58, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Unencyclopedic tone, moved here for consideration
Nigeria needs to stop the exploration of fossil fuels. And nobody or exploration company should stop looking for new oil, gas, or fuel reserves. With more exploration, we are going to have more floods, more desertification, higher temperatures, and high-water stress, and more land are going to be lost in Niger delta. Elinruby (talk) 19:25, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Consequences of deforestation on biodiversity conservation in Nigeria into Deforestation in Nigeria
The former article has too little content and a too limited scope to justify a separate article. Might be better off as part of the latter. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 02:58, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Proposed merge of multiple articles into Deforestation in Nigeria

 * Reforestation and urbanization in Nigeria
 * Deforestation and food security in Nigeria Not done (article scope expanded) by IceBergYYC (talk) 16:25, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Animal grazing and deforestation in Nigeria Not done (Article expanded beyond just deforestation, now titled "Animal agriculture in Nigeria) by IceBergYYC (talk) 16:23, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Effects of Deforestation on the Paper Industry in Nigeria Done by IceBergYYC (talk) 16:33, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Tourism and Deforestation in Nigeria Done by IceBergYYC (talk) 08:52, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Impact of deforestation on plant species diversity in Nigeria Done by IceBergYYC (talk) 16:19, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

Someone went a little overboard with the "topical" article creation. These five new articles should all be merged into Deforestation in Nigeria, especially since one of them is 80% empty, one consists of 80% bullet-pointed filler, and the overlap between all of them and the merge target is substantial. - Possibly I overlooked other articles of the same vintage, there seems to be a nest somewhere - please add here if applicable. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 14:26, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Added another one, Impact of deforestation on plant species diversity in Nigeria. There's really no benefit to this type of salami-slicing. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 12:36, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Support merge, there's really only one notable topic here. Horse Eye&#39;s Back (talk) 15:19, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Support merge - individual articles are short, and can be merged. There is only one really notable subject here. PhilKnight (talk) 19:15, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Support merge- the accounts involved are affiliated with the University of Nigeria and are doing some kind of project, obviously in good faith, but don't seem to have grasped some basic principles of Wikipedia. Some articles they have created have already been deleted, one for copyvio concerns.JohnmgKing (talk) 13:33, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Support Another likely connected article, Spatial pattern of deforestation in Nigeria, has been prodded because it is entirely WP:SYNTH. –LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄ ) 01:57, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge the lot, the new articles look to be more like essays than encyclopedia articles, and there's no need to split the topic up at present. firefly  ( t · c ) 15:03, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
 * One of the articles (the one on Animal agriculture) was actually pretty good, I spun it up as a separate article since we don't have much info on Animal agriculture anywhere else, Sadads (talk) 23:05, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge as second best; Draftify would be better in my view. There is very little that could be added to this article from these new creations; I note that Spatial pattern of deforestation in Nigeria has already been redirected here, and realistically, "merge" is going to mean "redirect". Draftifying would give the new editors involved in the ill-directed project (whose organisers failed to note the existence of this article) an opportunity to improve their work, and by not hiding the articles behind redirects, would perhaps make more experienced editors more likely to look at them for information to merge here, from a list at one or more wikiprojects. Draftification is also what we normally do with new articles that are either on dubiously independently notable topics or poorly realized; it's both fairer and less of a drain on community resources if we don't treat the products of editathons and other special projects promoting new article creation differently. Draft space is for new articles that aren't ready for mainspace; let's just use it. (Note that draftification was suggested at AN/I by . At least one other editor there agrees with the idea, and I'd be tempted to just do it if not for this discussion.) Yngvadottir (talk) 00:08, 25 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Support merger per nom. 223.123.87.28 (talk) 07:30, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
 * The merging and cleaning are ongoing now. Check the article (Deforestation in Nigeria) again. Within the life of our project, we promise to clean off all biases from our contributions. The organizers of this project remain grateful to you for bringing the shortcomings of their teams to their notice. Ngozi osadebe (talk) 16:15, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Merging of the articles
We prefer merging the articles by copying relevant ideas from the ill-fated articles to the main article "Deforestation in Nigeria". Later, the ill-fated articles will be deleted. We feel that it is better done that way as merging the articles directly creates a repetition of ideas within the main articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ngozi osadebe (talk • contribs) 16:32, 11 September 2023 (UTC)