Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sierra Leone/Archive 1

Crossposting from Template talk:Languages of Sierra Leone
Is it indeed true that Bengali is an honorary language of Sierra Leone? I have seen varying reports on this on the Internet, but I have not found any official verification. Certainly, Bengali is not spoken much in the country, and so to be an honorary language, I would expect it would require official government recognition in the form of a bill declaring this status. No such bill seems to exist. I suggest we move this language from the template pending verification. 2604:2000:1304:418B:38D7:28B:B6E7:7B6B (talk) 03:22, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

If this fact is however true, that Bengali is a language of Sierra Leone, I think it deserves a mention in the Sierra Leone or Bengali articles, rather than only appearing as a passing link on a template without further info 2604:2000:1304:418B:38D7:28B:B6E7:7B6B (talk) 03:22, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Deletion sorting
I would suggest the use of WikiProject Deletion sorting/Africa for listing items that are nominated for deletion that are in-scope for this workgroup. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 15:02, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Template
How about a template for pages on Sierra Leone rather than the Wikiproject tag?--Thomas.macmillan (talk) 21:07, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Do you mean the wikiproject Africa tag? If so it would make deciding the importance of articles easier as they could just be considered in terms of Sierra Leone rather then the whole of Africa and it would advertise the project as the wikiproject Sierra Leone is hidden by default on the African template.  Would it have any affect on the relationship between this project on the WikiProject Africa?  --Kaly99 (talk) 21:26, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I've created a Sierre Leone template, hopfully it works ok as I've not made one before. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kaly99 (talk • contribs) 19:52, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The only reservations to using it would be that it doesn't do anything that the AfricaProject banner doesn't already do, and in fact doesn't do as much. Also, unfortunately, several articles relative to Sierra Leone will also be important to other nations as well, and there is already a lot of discussion about trying to reduce the number of project banners on talk pages. Also, there are provisions in other banners for allowing for separate importance ratings for the main project and subprojects. I just haven't done that before myself, and am hoping to try it in a week or two with a hopefully less involved banner. If it works there, I'll be incorporating those parameters into the Africa project banner as well. John Carter (talk) 19:56, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I've commented out the banner stuff on the page and I'll leave tagging articles for now. A country importance rating on the african banner would sort out the problems of whether to assess the importance relative to Sierra Leone or Africa.  The other thing is that the information about the Sierra Leone project is hidden which means the project isn't being advertised very well on the banner.  Do you know if it is possible to have a parameter to choose whether to show or hide the informatin about the country wikiprojects?  --Kaly99 (talk) 22:24, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Proposal to consolidate African country WikiProject banners
Template:AfricaProject was recently modified, and now contains individual parameters for all countries in Africa (see usage notes). Since project-specific assessment for all African countries can now be accomplished through the template, a proposal has been made at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa to consolidate all individual African country WikiProject banners.

Comments or suggestions would be most welcome. Thank you, Black Falcon (Talk) 23:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Photographs of Sierra Leone
I've found a collection of excellent photographs of Sierra Leone on a Government/UN site, there under the library menu and then photographs option, (for example the ones on Health). There's a message at the top that says ''Please feel free to use any of these photographs in your work. All photos should be credited SLIS''. I know we would need a more specific license to use them but I haven't had any experience obtaining permission from external sites and wondered if anyone could offer me some advice on how to approach this. --Kaly99 (talk) 18:13, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Portal
I've created a portal for Sierra Leone any comments or suggestions for changes to the design articles, pictures or biographies are welcome. --Kaly99 (talk) 19:51, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

I found a beautiful picture of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Can someone please put the image on wikipedia?
I've found a pretty photo of Freetown and other parts of Sierra Leone at this website http://www.sierra-leone.org/Freetown/content/postcard07_Freetown_skyline__large.html. Since i do not know how to put the images on wikipedia, i would like someone that knows how to put images on wikipedia to please post this beautiful photo of Freetown on the Freetown wikipedia page. Thank You

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
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Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Sierra Leone
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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 Sierra Leone. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up - if there is enough interest, then the task force will be created! Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 03:54, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
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Ernest Bai Koroma
I've just done an update of Ernest Bai Koroma. I was working on Sierra Leone Anti-corruption Commission and got a bit carried away. I'd appreciate someone with greater background in Sierra Leone looking at it to make sure it's sound, and that I didn't miss really obvious developments. Thanks much, T L Miles (talk) 20:36, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest
A proposal has been posted for a contest between all 200 country WikiProjects. We're looking for judges, coordinators, ideas, and feedback.

The Transhumanist 00:39, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  23:34, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Sierra Leone Civil War
Article needs alot of extra refs, I have tagged accordingly. --Τασουλα (Shalom!) (talk) 11:20, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Sierra Leone articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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We would like to ask you to review the Sierra Leone articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

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WikiProject cleanup listing
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Aniru Conteh
Hello. The biography project recently reassessed this article as B-Class. If there is no objection, I would like to carry this assessment over to the project. Please review the article at your convenience. If possible, feel free to make suggestions for improvement or recommend any sources on the talk page. Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 13:03, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Update: the article is currently nominated for GA. Viriditas (talk) 05:43, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014
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Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses
Pleas add information about this country to this articles--Kaiyr (talk) 13:03, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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WikiProject X is live!


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Contests
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WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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