Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sierra Leone

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  15:40, 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)

Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!
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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

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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) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Queen of Sierra Leone
A discussion about the article Queen of Sierra Leone is open at Talk:Queen of Ghana. Please comment there to generate a clear consensus. Thanks.  Peter Ormond &#128172;  08:34, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Notice of Good Article reassessment
Hi there! This is a notice that I have opened an individual Good Article reassessment on the article Sierra Leone women's national football team, which falls under the domain of this WikiProject. The review can be seen at this link (Talk:Sierra Leone women's national football team/GA2) and any editor is welcome to help fix it up so that it can maintain GA status. Thanks! PCN02WPS ( talk  &#124;  contribs ) 16:57, 2 July 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) 14:08, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Help needed - multiple Sierra Leone articles proposed for deletion
The following Sierra Leone articles have been proposed for deletion due to lack of notability:
 * William Campbell (Sierra Leone)
 * Race Course Cemetery
 * James Corker
 * John William Campbell (Sierra Leone)

Can anyone help me find sources for these people? Perhaps in old history books? Or journals of Sierra Leone history?

This article, Campbell family (Sierra Leone) was converted from a stub about a prominent family to a redirect to William Campbell (Sierra Leone) (see above)

These articles are at Articles for deletion:
 * Articles for deletion/Conton family (Sierra Leone)
 * Without good sourcing, this will justifiably be deleted
 * Smith family (Sierra Leone)
 * Because we found good sourcing, the Smith article will likely be kept

Additional articles have recently been tagged for notability and may be deleted:
 * William Smith (registrar)
 * William Broughton Davies
 * Awoonor-Renner family
 * George Brigars Williams (Ghanaian from the Awoonor-Renner family)
 * Sherbro Tuckers
 * Emmanuel Cummings
 * Freetown Secondary School for Girls
 * James Thomas Roberts
 * John Meheux

It doesn't help that names like Campbell, Corker and Smith are so common that searches turn up thousands of extraneous hits to the wrong people. -- A. B. (talk • contribs • global count) 03:11, 11 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Two more AfDs:
 * 2022 Sierra Leone doctors strike
 * Articles for deletion/Adam Fulton (2nd nomination)
 * Notability problems
 * -- A. B. (talk • contribs • global count) 03:20, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Proposed for deletion (PROD): Evans Brima Gbemeh
FYI, the article Evans Brima Gbemeh has been proposed for deletion (WP:PROD). The first sentences summarize the subject this way:


 * "Evans Brima Gbemeh is a Sierra Leonean politician from Kenema District. He was the mayor of Kenema, and he is a member of the Sierra Leone People's Party "

The nominator wrote this summary of their concerns:


 * "This two sentence biography article has zero citations to establish notability. The one External link is a passing mention, but no indepth content about the politician. After searching, I did find a few social media sites, so-called "encyclopedias", but unable to locate reliable sources to provide sufficient coverage. Created on 22 November 2007."

If you agree or disagree with deletion, there are instructions on the deletion notice for what to do.

Thanks,

-- A. B. (talk • contribs • global count) 23:51, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

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

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) 13:42, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Developing Countries WikiContest
Starting this July, we will see a new contest on the scene - the Developing Countries WikiContest (WP:DCWC)! Think of it as a WikiCup but only for articles and media on developing countries.

Competitors may submit GAs, GTs, FAs, FTs, FLs, FPs, and DYK and ITN entries from/on developing countries to gain points and proceed to further rounds. Points are also awarded to those who review GAs, FAs and FLs.

Sierra Leone is listed as a least-developed country for the purposes of this contest, which means Sierra Leone-related submissions to the contest will get a multiplier in points. I encourage everyone here to sign up and compete with editors from around the world to create high-quality content!

Append your name to the DCWC signup page today!

Best wishes, Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI ( talk to me!/my edits ) 17:50, 18 May 2024 (UTC)