Talk:Nigerians

Countries by Nigerian population
The infobox currently lists Nigeria populations across 12 countries, including Nigeria. Some lack citations, and each country with a citation has its own source. Some of these are questionable, such as the estimate of 6M Nigerians in Benin, a country of 11M people (the source is a broken link).

I'd suggest consolidating around the World Bank's Bilateral Migration Matrix. This spreadsheet has Nigerian populations by country from this dataset (2013 version, latest). Top countries (excluding Nigeria) are:
 * 1) United States 252,172
 * 2) United Kingdom 184,314
 * 3) Cameroon 163,831
 * 4) Ghana 57,056
 * 5) Italy 48,073
 * 6) Cote d'Ivoire 43,761
 * 7) Benin 42,575
 * 8) Spain 35,872
 * 9) Germany 29,878

Are there concerns with this? A drawback is that it captures Nigerian-born migrants, not all claiming Nigerian heritage. But I think consistency would be more valuable than completeness in this case. In the meantime I've added citation needed tags to the existing numbers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MaxGhenis (talk • contribs) 06:13, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
 * First. revert your edit in which you removed Sun News sources because it is deadlink. Dead links are not removed. I already waited to see whether you'll comment, I don't like reverting people unnecessary Ammarpad (talk) 06:27, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Done, sorry. MaxGhenis (talk) 15:43, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Next time if you encounter dead link just place this near it. A while after, a bot will come and fix it if found in archive databases. And don't forget to sign your comments with ~~~~ when on talkpage. Ammarpad (talk) 15:46, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Good to know, just added the tag to the Benin line. Thanks!MaxGhenis (talk) 15:50, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Duplication
As much as I love that this page exists, I do worry that it duplicates much of the information that can already be found on the Nigeria wiki page. I'm not entirely sure of what the best course of action is however but it seems worth pointing out.

Style
The style of the last paragraph in the article (I placed this in the "Sectarian" section in a recent edit) seems somewhat jarring to me. It reads more like opinions that are being presented as fact rather than something more objective. It is also mostly backed up by a reference to a physical book which could be difficult for some Wikipedians to verify. I think it might be simpler to present these more clearly as the Wikipedian's (or potentially Toyin Falola's) opinion though again, not sure how one should go about it.

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