User talk:Ue3lman/Archives/2021/December

The new South West Region of Ethiopia
Apparently it's a thing. They voted and passed some referendum last month and spun off 5 zones from SNNPR into its own separate new region of Ethiopia, the "South West Ethiopia Peoples' Region". There are several RS articles about it mentioned at the bottom of that article. I'm going to try to straighten out a few articles and links. First project: straightening out the dozens of confusing navigation bar templates that point to weird places or lists instead of articles. Platonk (talk) 01:38, 6 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Could you also make sure that the woreda articles are called district instead of woreda? Since woredas is the Amharic name for districts and Amharic isn't the only working language in Ethiopia. Thanks! Ue3lman (talk) 03:33, 6 December 2021 (UTC)


 * OMG, really? If we thought the Tigray War articles were a spiders web of brain mushing frustration... I'm finding just about everything about Ethiopia is a hodgepodge from too many cooks in the kitchen. I proposed it on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethiopia. Let's see if we get any responses. Platonk (talk) 04:17, 6 December 2021 (UTC)


 * I already started... It was only about 5 articles though so I'll stop for now and see how that goes before I make the rest of the changes. Also, the talk page rarely sees activity for some reason. So I don't think there will be any response for now. Might have to go onto individual users who edit Ethiopian articles and link them to the talk page. Ue3lman (talk) 04:26, 6 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Well, if they want to edit in Ethiopia articles, then they'd better at least watchlist the wikiproject pages. Otherwise, I'm taking control of the reins and just doing it. Right now I've identified something like 4 versions of navbars with the same list of 11 regions. So I've settled on one (the best one) and I just changed all the articles to use that one, and submitted to delete two template-redirects and a duplicate template... all now unused. It's a nightmare to try to maintain these vast rock piles of articles, redirects and templates that have been created in good faith. If I'm going to write to individual editors on their talk pages, it will be to tell them to join or watchlist the wikiproject. After all, that is the place WP has designated for coordination of editors on broad topics. Platonk (talk) 04:44, 6 December 2021 (UTC)