Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Libya/Archive 1

Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 15:03, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Bilateral relations discussion
I would like to invite you all to participate in a discussion at this thread regarding bilateral relations between two countries. All articles related to foreign relations between countries are now under the scope of WikiProject Foreign relations, a newly created project. We hope that the discussion will result in a more clean and organized way of explaining such relationships. Thank you.  Ed  ¿Cómo estás? 18:01, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Council/Proposals
I believe this very unique culture, with a one-of-a-kind alphabet Tifinagh and history dating back as far as ancient Egypt, merits it's own WikiProject. There is a beautiful portal at Portal:Berbers, and I think Wikipedia would benefit greatly from this. Chris 02:20, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Project Banner
The Africa Project now includes assessment parameters for Libya. If any parties would be interested, replacement of the existing WikiProject Libya with that banner would be greatly appreciated, and probably help this project have a clearer idea of where it stands regarding content. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 23:04, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

neighbor Wikipedia:WikiProject Berbers
We're up and running! Please visit and contribute at WikiProject Berbers! Thanks! Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 05:39, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Libya material for List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area.
Greetings! I'm having trouble tracking down a reliable accounting of the area of Libya's largest political subdivisions for the set of lists under the auspices of this project - Municipalities of Libya lists the area of 32 municipalities, but indicates that these have now been reorganized into 22 Shabiyah, for which the areas are not provided. Cheers! bd2412 T 02:14, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Libya
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Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Libya
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African cinema task force
An African cinema task force has been proposed at WikiProject Films, which would include the cinema of Libya. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up - if there is enough interest, then the task force will be created! Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 03:44, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
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Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest
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GA Sweeps invitation
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Libya articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Gaddafi
The naming of the Gaddafi articles are up for discussion, see Talk:Saif al-Islam Muammar Al-Gaddafi and Talk:Muammar al-Gaddafi

65.95.14.96 (talk) 01:19, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Experienced editors with specialist regional knowledge urgently wanted
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File:Libyan Fragment.jpg
File:Libyan Fragment.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 05:50, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

File:Amazonguards.jpg
File:Amazonguards.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 04:38, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Libyan money up for deletion
These bills have been nominated for deletion at WP:PUF -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 06:16, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

"Libya's reaction to the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence" proposed move to "Kosovo–Libya relations"
Please can you voice your opinions here. Regards IJA (talk) 19:14, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Discussion regarding renaming Category:African_people_of_Arab_descent and four other categories
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Pleas add information about this country to this articles.--Kaiyr (talk) 20:51, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

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Mustafa Tajouri
An article, albeit a stub at moment, which I created has been put up at Afd. The article being Mustafa Tajouri. Tajouri is the Ambassador of Libya to Russia, and only a few sources can be found on this highest level diplomat from Libya - those sources being in English and Russian. As Tajouri is Libyan, it is likely there are going to be sources for information out there in Arabic, however, not understanding Arabic, I can't find and add these sources to the article. If any of this project members could take a look and see if they can find any info on this ambassador, and add it to the article. There are going to be a heap of ambassador articles on subjects from the Arab world, and they are forming part of this article I am working on developing. Also if someone could add the name in Arabic to the article, and correct it if incorrect, that would be good too. On a small sidenote, Category:Articles needing Arabic script or text has more article in it which I have created and also need names in Arabic. Ambassadors are high level representatives of their nations, and they have likely had a multitude of credentials for which they were appointed to the position in the first place, it's just finding the info that can be difficult, and it is important to fight systematic bias to have articles on these ambassadors. We need editors help. Thanks. --Россавиа Диалог 19:12, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Border crossings of Libya
I have created Category:Border crossings of Libya. Please include any border crossings you know of. Cheers. Hakeem.gadi (talk) 05:19, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Megrahi and Lamin - Free Use Licenced Images
Does anyone know of a free use licenced relatively recent photo of Megrahi suitable for upload to the Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi article and of Fhimah for the Lamin Khalifah Fhimah article which would comply with Wiki policy? --Cyber Fox (talk) 07:07, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Lamin Khalifah Fhimah or Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah
Please excuse my ignorance in this matter, but can anyone tell me why this Libyan man's name is spelt in two different ways in the one article, namely, Lamin Khalifah Fhimah??

I also note that his name is spelt as Lamen, is this just a quirk or what?? --Cyber Fox (talk) 10:51, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Inaccuracy at List of heads of state of Libya?
Please see Talk:List of heads of state of Libya. Calliopejen1 (talk) 21:36, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  00:41, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Arabic article
Someone who knows Arabic needs to start an article on Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 ASAP. WhisperToMe (talk) 17:16, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
 * The Arabic article about Afriqiyah has a section here: ar:الخطوط_الجوية_الأفريقية but it needs to be expanded and split into another article. WhisperToMe (talk) 18:16, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Now there is an article at ar:الخطوط الجوية الأفريقية رحلة 771 - Thanks, guys! WhisperToMe (talk) 23:03, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Libyan placenames
I'm working on a standard (and official) system to transliterate (and retrotransliterate) Arabic script into my native language (applyable also for Spanish and Portuguese with some changes) and I'm nowadays trying to apply it in toponimic names for a publication, so I've chosen Libyan names first. The system has already been published and can be seen here, section 5.2. I've seen some inconsistencies in the name (transliteration) of some shabiyas of Libya (some articles give one transcription, some others give one different) in the articles of Wikipedia and its sources (mainly articles Districts of Libya and List of FIPS region codes (J-L), and sources for ISO 3166-2:LY here and here and statoids.com; if needed I can provide the differences in sources leading to confusion), and ask for help from a native speaker of Arabic to clear some doubts. Can you help me?

Problems are mainly concerning the unmarked harakaat for long vowels in the Standard Arabic version of the placename, and are the following:

I am committed to upload the publication of the final article, if released, the same way I did with the previous one. Please check in my talk page if this is already answered. Sobreira (parlez) 15:24, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Mohammed El-hadhiri
The article on Libyan politician Mohammed El-hadhiri has been tagged as an unreferenced BLP since December 2008, which is the current focus month of the BLP Rescue Project. It's a very short stub asserting that he's a member of the Pan-African Parliament but I can't find any reference to him there, nor any other reliable sources of any kind. This could be due to the spelling of his name - or to a general lack of notability. I'm posting here in the hope that someone with better knowledge of the area might like to take an interest and either source the article or PROD it.--Plad2 (talk) 07:02, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing
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Warfalla tribe
Just a quick note that I've started an article at Warfalla tribe. Anyone interested is more than welcome to help out. — V = IR (Talk&thinsp;&bull;&thinsp;Contribs) 20:14, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Mersa Brega Seaport
Mersa Brega Seaport, being fought over today, might need keeping an eye on to ensure it doesn't become a live blog. Totnesmartin (talk) 10:22, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

userbox
--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 11:41, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Hrawah
I've created a stub for Hrawah, based on its mention in press reports (see reference). I can't find it on any map, although this is not necessarily a problem, due to Arabic transliteration problems, can anyone confirm this is a real place, and verify its real name? -- Eckumen (talk) 22:19, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

What to do with the articles Italian Libya, Fourth Shore and Italian North Africa ?
I started a discussion in Talk:Italian Libya--Kimdime (talk) 11:23, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Network of Free Ulema – Libya
Please take a look at this article, Network of Free Ulema – Libya and read my comment on the discussion page. This is not acceptable on an encyclopedic project that professes to be a neutral source of knowledge and brings shame on Wikipedia. For the record, I'm neither pro or anti Gaddafi or the rebels. 85.211.62.194 (talk) 01:22, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Urgent need to update image


This map needs to be updated with battle lines and dates a la the Tripoli and Misrata battle maps. I'd do it myself but I'm not that good at Inkscape yet. -Kudzu1 (talk) 18:34, 20 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I dont think that anyone but Rafy is experienced enough to do such thing. EllsworthSK (talk) 23:34, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

1920 Jabal al-Gharbi civil war
WikiProject Libya,

Article: 1920 Jabal al-Gharbi civil war.

There seems to be a slight problem with the above article. It appears as to be a "Stub", but has been assessed as "Start". Then there is the name of the city/place in Libya "Jabal al-Gharbi". According to Wikipedia, there is an article that is quite similar to the above name Al Jabal al Gharbi and Google Earth has "Al Jabal al Gharbi". Which is correct? I a Coordinator of the WikiProject Military History and would like to try and improve the article. It maybe small, but it's worth getting things right than just leaving things incorrect. Adamdaley (talk) 04:58, 25 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Oh its the same place. From my limited understanding of arabic, I believe Jabal al-Gharbi is essentially, Gharbi Mountains or mountains of gharbi.  Al Jabal al gharbi would then be THE mountains of gharbi.  The format we have been using is to mostly drop that.  Its part of the arabic word, but in english it wouldn't be, so in the transliteration it has been getting removed.  Mind you, I don't speak arabic, so i could be completely wrong, but from what I've seen, that's pretty much how its been. By all means try and improve it :) Jeancey (talk) 07:20, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

Party of the Brotherhood
Currently we have two articles on Islamist parties in Libya with links to the Muslim Brotherhood. National Gathering for Freedom, Justice and Development, whose foundation was announced in November 2011, and which is reportedly led by Ali al-Sallabi, and Justice and Development Party (Libya), which was officially founded on 3 March 2012 and which is led by Mohamed Sowan. Could it be that both are in fact one and the same party? Particularly given that the source from November 2011 pointed out that "National Gathering for Freedom, Justice and Development" was a "provisional name". For me, this indicates the possibility that they changed the (complicated) name to a more simple one before the official foundation took place. Could someone of the WikiProject Libya team with knowledge in the emerging post-Ghaddafi politics of Libya please check this and answer at Talk:National Gathering for Freedom, Justice and Development? Thank you in advance. --RJFF (talk) 20:13, 5 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, that should be the case although we got both names wrong. According to these two articles  name of MB party is Justice and Construction Party, head of party is Mohammed Sawan and has backing of Ali al-Sallabi and Abdulhakim Belhaj. EllsworthSK (talk) 23:23, 5 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Now, if I understand it right, there are two parties and they are rivals: "...he (=Belhaj) is joining the National Party. The party is said to have the backing of Sheikh Ali Salabi and is seen as a strong competitor to Muslim Brotherhood’s Justice and Construction Party." So we have (1) National Party=National Gathering for Freedom, Justice and Development of Sallabi and Belhaj and (2) Justice and Construction Party=Justice and Development Party (Libya) of the Brotherhood. --RJFF (talk) 00:10, 6 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, that is probably the way it is. I had a link few weeks ago where one Libyan activist have written names and websites of all parties. It will be probably helpfull to find it and post it here. EllsworthSK (talk) 02:20, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Army
Hi, I would like to ask you to participate on discussion I open on National Liberation Army talk page since right now we on wikipedia have mess in what is actually difference between regular army of Libya and groups of militias. For that I think we can thank ingenious move of Military of Libya article but there is nothing that can be done about it now. So feel free to join. EllsworthSK (talk) 10:26, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

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Mercenaries in 2011 Civil War at History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi
Hello. I have twice reverted the removal of the word 'mercenaries' at the page about the history of Libya under Gadaffi. Another editor says the reference I have used is 'a lie'. I just want to follow policy, and I would ask a few others to see what they think. Thanks. Dbrodbeck (talk) 21:30, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The use of "mercenaries" at the infobox is a lie, more when its only applied to the pro-Gaddafi forces, like if the so-called "rebels" did not have foreign fighters in its ranks. (Irony ON) Or perhaps the "rebel" foreign ones were "volunteers" or "freedom fighters" instead "mercenaries"? (Irony OFF). Come on...--HCPUNXKID (talk) 12:01, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
 * There actually is a very distinct difference between Freedom Fighters and Mercenaries. If the foreign fighters on the Gaddafi side were being paid, or promised money, and the foreign fighters on the rebel side were doing it because they either wanted to help or were simply against Gaddafi for their own reasons, then the first group would be termed mercenaries, while the second group would not be.  It is a simple definition issue.  If you have evidence showing rebel foreign fighters were paid, please feel free to share it. Jeancey (talk) 18:26, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Ansar al-Sharia needed
The Islamist group which was partially responsible for the embassy attack in Libya does not have a page. Ansar al-Sharia redirects to Ansar ash-Shari'a, a Yemeni group. Ansar al-Sharia should become its own entry with a notice. Thanks! -- Jprg1966  (talk)  20:07, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

2012 Benghazi attack
A discussion has begun in order to gain a consensus on whether to include or exclude material involving the CIA and weapons smuggling in the article. Please weigh in on the discussion at the talk page. This may also be a good time to reassess the rating on the article. Thank you.--Maleko Mela (talk) 22:02, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

Help with a place name
Hi, I'm currently working on the article Italian battleship Sardegna, which according to a contemporary source took part in an attack on a port named "Buscheifa". It appears to be located near Misrata, based on the context. I assume that's an old name, but can't identify what it place it refers to now. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks. Parsecboy (talk) 17:45, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

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I just started stubs...
on Mohamed H. Fhema and Mostafa Salem, but I can't read Arabic, can someone find more information from Arabic sources? Thank you!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 12:05, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

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The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template Transclude lead excerpt.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:45, 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  15:37, 20 October 2018 (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)

Revamp of Libya wikiproject
Hello to all active members, I was wondering if I can make this page as interactive and attractive as wikiproject Syria? If so please shoot me a message on some changes you want to see or if you want to join in! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Max Pigeon (talk • contribs) 12:57, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a good idea. I suggest removing inactive editors from the list of participants. This makes the project look bettter supported than it really is, and might serve to bring in new members. Are the 2006 goals stil relevant, or should revised goals be proposed? Either way, I suggest putting in a new date. Goals dated at 2006 make the project look instantly stale. Good luck? Nick Moyes (talk) 06:26, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Started work on it. AhmedTMM (talk) 23:15, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Misurata Province vs Misrata District
There has been edit-warring over this split for years. I have no idea which approach is better, but the latest incarnation of historical Misurata Province did not even have a hat note to disambiguate it from modern Misrata District! Because I didn't see any discussion, I reverted, but the Misurata Province article included historical details that are not found in the Misrata District article. It seems entirely reasonable that we should have both. Could y'all here take care of it? Maybe a mention on the Misurata Province talk page summarizing your decision to either have two articles or to keep just one? — kwami (talk) 05:28, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!
You can opt-out of this annual reminder from The Afrocine Project by removing your username from this list

Re: Abdulhamid Dbeibeh
Hello, I recently created an article on Abdulhamid Dbeibeh, Libya's new Prime Minister. However, the way his name is written in his official Twitter account is 'Abdulhamid Dabaiba'. This was also the choice of the US Embassy in Libya.

Is there someone how could tell me which option is preferred? Thank you! --Bespin (talk) 13:56, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Indaba 2021 is here!
Hosted by the Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda, the first ever virtual Wiki Indaba conference is taking place online from the 5th to the 7th of November 2021 under the theme Rethink + Reset : Visions of the future.

Wiki Indaba 2021 is a unique opportunity to come together to build the capacity of African Wikimedians both within the continent and the diaspora to foster the growth of the coverage and our involvement in Wikimedia projects.

The call for submissions is open, please submit your session proposal either as a presentation, panel discussion, lightning talk, or workshop before September 24th 2021.

Most importantly, we would like to have you at the conference, please register here to get your free ticket and spread the word to your community members.

Looking forward to seeing you and hearing you speak at the conference.

Geoffrey Kateregga (talk) 23:45, 16 September 2021 (UTC) - On behalf of the Wiki Indaba 2021 Local Organizing Committee

The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!
You can opt-out of this annual reminder from The Afrocine Project by removing your username from this list

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:2011 military intervention in Libya
An editor has requested for 2011 military intervention in Libya to be moved to another page. Since you had some involvement with 2011 military intervention in Libya, you might want to participate in the move discussion (if you have not already done so). DJ (XTheBedrockX) (talk) 13:59, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:25, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Input needed on Libu article
Hi, I've been having a discussion with another editor on the Libu article over whether the Libu people should be considered a civilization. Since I'm not a regular contributor to Libyan articles, I would like some input from those more familiar with the topic. The talk page discussion is at Talk:Libu. Thanks! Liu1126 (talk) 20:09, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

Women in Green's 5th Edit-a-thon
 Hello WikiProject Libya:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a  month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2023!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2023, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there! Grnrchst (talk) 13:18, 21 September 2023 (UTC)