Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tunisia/Archive 2007-2014

Tunisia discussion from WikiProject Council/Proposals
Description: This project would have as its primary work the creation, expansion, and maintenance of articles related to the nation of Tunisia.

Temporary project page: User:Badbilltucker/WikiProject Tunisia

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:
 * 1) Darwinek - created many stubs on geography in the past. - Darwinek 15:04, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) --escon dites   06:17, 10 February 2007 (UTC) - I would be interested in it.
 * 3) Chris 05:13, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments:
 * Georgie Anne Geyer called Tunisia the country that works, let's make the project work! Chris 09:08, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Absolutely not. The article that is available is already bad enough. It is extremely biased, and presents Tunisia in a context alien to it. Rather than present it as the Mediterranean country that it is, it is presented as an African country, with its Arab identity denied, and the Berber one highlighted. As a Tunisian, I can assert for a fact that Berbers are in fact the minority and looked upon as outsiders, as others, and are usually of the lower masses. Most of what is being written about this is based on a study of not even 20 individuals undoubtedly picked from a locale that is not representive of the Tunisian population, with its Arab, Turkish, Italian and sundry other roots. Most of your names do not sound Tunisian nor Arab and I am afraid another grotesque article will be created, based mostly on wishful thinking. I hope wikipedia doesn't last long, it is certainly doing a disservice to history and the world. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.88.232.156 (talk • contribs)
 * All of your edits on here have been biased and very anti-Wikipedia, you even delete sourced text. Your comments may safely be ignored. Chris 10:25, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

New project
Dear all, I would like to welcome the creation of the Wikiproject Tunisia ! As member of your French-speaking counterpart, I hope that we will collaborate to better the articles about Tunisia as we have some articles in English we would like to translate in French. I think the contrary is also true because of the number of articles we have. Best regards, Moumou82 18:47, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

New Template:Location map Tunisia
I've added a Tunisia map to the Template:Location map collection, to make it easy to add location maps to articles with a red location pog to mark a particular latitude and longitude. For more examples at different sizes, see here.

It should be easy to add such maps to Settlement Infoboxes, just by filling in the "pushpin map" field, but for some reason I can't get this to work yet -- for some reason the latitude/longitude information isn't getting through properly, and it ends up with the pin in the middle of the bottom of the map. Don't (yet) know why this is going wrong.

One thing I might change, if I have time in the next fortnight or so, would be to make the map more "landscape" rather than "portrait" -- I think that will make it work better stacked below landscape format photos in Infoboxes. But that means I need to get hold of vector graphics of some more African coast.

As well as the East-West cropping, we might also like to think about the North-South cropping. At the moment, the map is cropped fairly tight on the country. But for recognition, a wider map might include the top of Sicily, or even compare this Carthage map, from Commons.

Anyhow, let me know what you all think. :-)  Jheald 11:17, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Project banner
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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 09:38, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 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)

Proposal to consolidate African country WikiProject banners
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Comments or suggestions would be most welcome. Thank you, Black Falcon (Talk) 23:29, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
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Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Tunisia
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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 Tunisia. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up - if there is enough interest, then the task force will be created! Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 04:05, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
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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.

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Article Mahares, proper Arabic spelling?
The article Mahares needs a little work. Would appreciate any help, though I have added an infobox and map. Does anyone have its proper Arabic spelling? MatthewVanitas (talk) 05:03, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

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Tunisia articles edited by an IP
An IP editor (86.179.28.131 (talk)) made several edits to Politics of Tunisia‎, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia, and Elections in Tunisia that might be POV-pushing. Other editors and I reverted some of these, but I don't know enough about the topics to know what is and is not POV. Someone familiar with Tunisian politics might want to check these edits out, and feel free to revert my reversions if I made them in error. Thanks, PDCook (talk) 04:21, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  23:21, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Eshmun Temple for Featured article
Hey guys,we Lebanon and Tunisia share a common history; Eshmun was a common deity of the peoples of coastal Lebanon and Carthage and cities from all over the Phoenician world built temples to honor the deity. The greatest of these temples rose in Carthage, it's Lebanese counterpart is a lot older and not less important. I have nominated the Eshmun Temple for featured article, feel free to check out the Eshmun temple featured article entry and leave your comments. Thank you Eli +  16:11, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Tunisia articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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We would like to ask you to review the Tunisia articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (&diams;) 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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Wikimedia Tunisia
Hi, I d like to invite you to participate in the creation of a wikimedia chapter in Tunisia here. --Helmoony (talk) 21:02, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing
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Carthage
This article needs a serious overhaul. The article currently purports to discuss the modern city. However, nearly all sections discuss merely Ancient Carthage, and would be better merged into that article and its spin-offs. While a section on the municipality's history is relevant, it would be useful to have details of the modern municipality (population, demographics, administration, landmarks, economy, transport, education, religion, culture etc). Compare with how Rome, Athens or Jerusalem are treated!

I realise project members are likely to be somewhat involved at the moment, with recent events in Tunisia, but feel this really does need to be a priority for the project. After all, it is at the present time that most visitors will probably land on the article. Skinsmoke (talk) 23:40, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Mohamed Bouazizi
This article is currently C class and High importance to this project. I have taken this article as far as my abilities will allow being only a novice editor. As it is of High importance I am requesting that some more veteran editor take a look at seeing if it can be improved to B class or better considering the importance of the subject to modern Tunisian history. Thank you for your consideration. Glennconti (talk) 16:02, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Photo requests: Sevenair head office
Hi! Does someone have a photo of the Tunisair and Sevenair head office s ? Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 17:08, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Tunisair's is at: BD du 7 Novembre 1987 2035 Tunis Carthage - It's at File:Tunisair siège.jpg
 * Sevenair's is at: 10, Rue de l’Artisanat Z.I Charguia II 2035 Tunis Carthage

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More photo requests, and article help
I discovered Monoprix (Tunisia), so two things:
 * 1. Would anyone mind helping expand the article?
 * 2. Would anyone mind photographing the HQ at 1, Rue Larbi Zarrouk – Mégrine – Tunisie?

Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 23:16, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:List of Tunisian governorates by creation date
Template:List of Tunisian governorates by creation date has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. DH85868993 (talk) 06:34, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Who can type Tifinagh?
Who can type Tifinagh text? WhisperToMe (talk) 23:30, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Final accident report for EgyptAir Flight 843 (7 May 2002 crash)
Where may I find the final accident report for EgyptAir Flight 843 (crash on 7 May 2002) from the Tunisian authorities?

Thanks, WhisperToMe (talk) 00:53, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Redirection of misspellings
Some may wonder why I redirected misspellings of French names of Tunisian airports. That's because this Tunisian government webpage had these misspellings: http://web.archive.org/web/20030801071115/http://www.oaca.nat.tn/francais/actualites_fr.htm - http://archive.is/A36mI WhisperToMe (talk) 00:30, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Protests
Just a reminder that this page "2013–14 Tunisian protests" about the current protests was created a while ago and i apologize for failing to notify the WP about it until now. A little help in its development would be much appreciated. The article needs more pictures and most importantly "Tunisian editors". Fitzcarmalan (talk) 22:52, 4 January 2014 (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) 20:59, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Bardo Museum
The articles Le Bardo and Bardo National Museum appear to be duplicates. Is this correct? If so I suggest changing Le Bardo to a redirect to the Museum article. Dudley Miles (talk) 19:27, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:Tunisia articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 16:27, 28 October 2014 (UTC)