Talk:Nigeria

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Extra ampersand[edit]

Paragraph 6, line 1 under "religion" has an extra ampersand: "reported that 46.5&% of the total population"

Fixed, thanks. --JBL (talk) 03:07, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 September 2015[edit]

Please change this sentence, the number suggested for the UK is far too big. ' In 2014, 17.5 million Nigerians resided in foreign countries, with the UK and the USA having more than 2 million Nigerians each.[119]'

The 2011 England census records 188,690 people born in Nigeria living in England, of whom 114,718 live in London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Nigerian

Cwacsee (talk) 12:39, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: - duplicate of the request below. Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 16:50, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 September 2015[edit]

Please change ' In 2014, 17.5 million Nigerians resided in foreign countries, with the UK and the USA having more than 2 million Nigerians each.[119]

To 'The 2011 British census recorded 191,183 in England and Wales, with the largest concentration in London (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Nigerian). A 2006 American Community Survey, recorded about 266,000 U.S. residents claiming Nigerian heritage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_American). Cwacsee (talk) 12:46, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: - there are other sources which seem to support the information in the article. This source uses 15M, and suggests an official estimate of 4 million Nigerians in the USA and Canada. I suspect it may be that the article and the various census reports are not counting the same thing: it may be "literally born within Nigeria" versus "being of Nigerian descent", and those could be very different numbers. Since the sources which use the large numbers are using them within the context of overseas remittances, the numbers are also in context, and I don't think that changing them with census figures would be appropriate. Since Wikipedia can't be used as a reliable source, I think that you should do more research, and/or develop a consensus for this change before opening a new edit request. Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 17:00, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Demographics[edit]

If you look at the calendar and read this passage, I think the problem will be self-evident: "Nigeria's largest city is Lagos. Lagos has grown from about 300,000 in 1950[145] to an estimated 15 million today, and the Nigerian government estimates that city will have expanded to 25 million residents by 2015.[146]"

May I suggest that any article that states a fact that is likely to change over time and refers to the situation "today" includes information on when "today" actually is? For example, if this passage said "Lagos has grown from about 300,000 to an estimated 15 million today (2004)", no one could have a problem with it.

135.23.68.111 (talk) 22:05, 23 September 2015 (UTC)