Wikipedia:WikiProject Somaliland

Welcome to WikiProject Somaliland! This WikiProject is designed to provide a centralized place for Wikipedians interested in Somaliland and its related topics to gather for discussion on relevant announcements and ways to better the coverage of Somaliland on Wikipedia. If you believe in this goal and would like to help out, please watchlist this page and add your name to the participants list below. All editors who would like to join are welcome!

Scope
The scope of this WikiProject includes all articles related to Somaliland; it's cities, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. We aim to expand Wikipedia's resources and coverage on Somaliland in a fair and accurate manner. All pages within this scope should be contained within Category:Somaliland or one of its subcategories, and should be tagged with the code  on the page's talkpage.

Participants
If you would like to join the project, please add your name to the bottom of the list below by typing the Wikitext ! You may also remove your name from the list if at any time you ever find yourself becoming inactive.

Active members

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Inactive or former members
Please feel free to remove yourself from this list if you find yourself active again, or want to rejoin the project! Note that the dates listed are the dates the inactive or former member originally joined the project.
 * 02:50:12, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
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 * 18:47:48, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Member identification
All members of this WikiProject who have added their name to the list above should also place one of the following userboxes on their user page to identify themselves as a member of this group. For any members who prefer not to include a userbox, we recommend placing  at the bottom of your userpage instead.

For other Somaliland user templates, see our Userboxes subpage.

General

 * Bring all Draft-Class Somaliland articles with potential to the mainspace
 * De-stub all Stub-Class Somaliland articles
 * Get our first Somaliland-related article to Featured article status!!

User requests
Please feel free to add any requests to the list below, even if you are not a member of the project!
 * Ajuran Sultanate - Origins
 * Sultanate of Ifat - Sultans
 * Sheikh Yusuf Ali Sheikh Madar - Early life and career
 * Somaliland Government Gazette - General improvement
 * Draft:Fahima Osman - Bring to mainspace
 * Kingdom of Adal - Create a accurate reliable source of the Kingdom of Adal

Completed

 * ✅ Assess the class of and rate the importance of all pages tagged with WikiProject Somaliland
 * ✅ Referencing all Unreferenced BLPs

Recognition
To award another user for their efforts, you don't need to be an admin! Awards such as Barnstars can be placed on users talk pages to recognize them for their work, which makes both the giving and receiving users happy. While giving multiple awards to the same user may devalue it's worth, it is encouraged to still recognize those who have committed considerable effort towards bettering the WikiProject or improving the coverage of Somaliland and its related topics on Wikipedia as a whole by giving them an award. Below are examples of the awards most often given in relation to this project, with the last one being specifically WikiProject Somaliland related.

The Somaliland Barnstar of National Merit (shown above) has only been awarded three times since the creation of the award, making it a very rare honor. Below is a list of those users who have received the award, who awarded it, on what date, and for what reason.
 * List of recipients of the Somaliland Barnstar of National Merit