Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ghana/Archive 4

Draft:Friends of the Earth-Ghana
I dratified this in lieu of deletion. Dlohcierekim (talk) 15:53, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

mormon temple in Accra
There is a Mormon temple in Accra. Should the article belong to this WikiProject? LDS-SPA1000 (talk) 18:14, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes. &thinsp;&mdash; Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)&thinsp; 22:20, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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Background
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Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:39, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

RfC on election/referendum naming format
An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation). Cheers, Number   5  7  15:36, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
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Abandoned Portal?
Portal:Ghana has been categorized in Category:Abandoned country portals. If the members of this WikiProject are interested in "un-abandoning" it, please do so by adding additional content to the Portal. UnitedStatesian (talk) 13:54, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Ghana for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Ghana is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ghana until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 03:49, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Request for input on Ghanaian journalism
I'm putting together an RfC to be held at the reliable sources noticeboard to get baseline reliability assessments for Ghanaian news sources. I'd appreciate help in setting up the RfC framing, and in particular I'm looking for feedback on whether there are any important Ghanaian outlets that should be included, as well as if anyone has more up-to-date information on the relative editorial skews and/or practices. Please feel free to edit and comment on the draft in progress, User:Rosguill/GhanaNPPSGRFC. signed,Rosguill talk 20:57, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

New MP articles
I have noticed a lot of new articles on Ghanaian MPs being created recently, which is great. However, many have issues from a quality point of view. The most obvious issues are: Helen Adjoa Ntoso is an example of an article where these issues have been resolved, although is still lacking details on her political career. Cheers, Number   5  7  13:22, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Lack of categorisation (e.g. Herod Cobbina, which has no categories, or Joe Baidoo-Ansah, which only has year of birth). All articles needs to be categories. The minimum set of categories you should be adding are year of birth, Living people, where they are from, which parliamentary terms they served during (you can see a list here) and which political party they represent (list here).
 * Improper or inconsistent date formats. Dates should be written "1 May 2020", not "1st of May 2020" (see MOS:DATE) and the same format should be used throughout the article
 * Colloquial language – avoid using terms like "he's" instead of "he is" or talking about someone "bagging" a diploma.
 * No infoboxes; these help summarise politicians' careers and give context to some of the details in the text.
 * Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We're currently running the second iteration of the Parliament of Ghana contest, and many of the participants are new editors. I'm pinging one of our jurors Celestinesucess, who is checking Wikipedia articles to take notice of this, so that we can notify the contestants on our platform. I myself will keep an eye and correct these as well. We still need many eyeballs on this, so thanks for your help so far. -Masssly (talk) 15:44, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Notice: NPP source guide discussion about Ghanaian sources is underway
The new pages patrol is hosting its first discussion of sources from regions affected by systemic bias, starting with Ghana, and editors watching this page are invited to participate. This discussion is being hosted in order to better equip new page reviewers to be able to assess articles about subjects in these regions, and is intended to build editor’s basic familiarity with sources. You can find a past discussion of this proposal here. signed,Rosguill talk 19:13, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Assistance request Draft:Wode_Maya
Seems to be one of the most-subscribed youtubers from Ghana (>300k subscribers). Are there protocols for interpreting WikiProject_YouTube/Notability with regards to more typical non-western subscriber counts? I also note that few of the people on this list are on Wikipedia. Any advice appreciated T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 06:10, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Regions in Ghana
There seems to be some inconsistency in the naming of the articles for the various regions in Ghana. The articles for Bono region, Bono East region and Brong-Ahafo region are named with a lower-case 'r', and the other regions are named with an upper-case 'R' for Region. See Category:Regions of Ghana. Is there any reason for this? Coyets (talk) 13:12, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

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June 4th revolution in Ghana
I came across the (WP:ORPHAN) article June 4th revolution in Ghana today; it seems to be largely similar to the content at Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (Ghana) regarding the 1979 coup. Should the articles be merged? power~enwiki ( π, ν ) 05:02, 11 December 2020 (UTC)