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Requested move at Talk:Martuba#Requested move 9 September 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Martuba#Requested move 9 September 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 17:06, 25 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Battle of Tsorona#Requested move 30 September 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Battle of Tsorona#Requested move 30 September 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. --pro-anti-air ––>(talk)<–– 22:16, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request for review: Sudanese American Physicians Association draft

Hello

I’ve prepared a sandbox draft for the Sudanese American Physicians Association , a U.S.-based nonprofit supporting healthcare and humanitarian work in Sudan. The draft uses independent, verifiable sources and follows Wikipedia’s neutrality standards.

Disclosure: I am affiliated with the organization, so I’m seeking a neutral editor to review and, if appropriate, move the article to mainspace.

Sandbox link: User:Moe.hasanien/sandbox

Your feedback or review would be appreciated. Improving this article helps document verified medical and humanitarian contributions relevant to Sudan’s humanitarian & health crisis

Thank you. Reviewedo (talk) 23:41, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

List of kings of Rwanda

Hello to all the members of this WikiProject. Your input about the latest issues related to List of kings of Rwanda would be very much appreciated; feel free to leave it here. Cheers. — Sundostund mppria ^{(talk / contribs)} 09:15, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Senusiyya#Requested move 27 October 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Senusiyya#Requested move 27 October 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 14:26, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Félix Houphouët-Boigny

Félix Houphouët-Boigny has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 16:16, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Cameroon War#Requested move 29 October 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Cameroon War#Requested move 29 October 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 15:01, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request for input on AfD for black actor, comedian and peace advocate Cliff Divine

Hello, I am reaching out for outside input on an AfD discussion related to the article about Cliff Divine. There appear to be several misunderstandings in the discussion, so I am hoping that editors from this project can help review the notability question with a clear look at the sources. First, it is important to note that Cliff Divine and Andrew Cliff Tisba are the same person. This can be verified through interviews, festival programs, public nonprofit documents, and media profiles. Some news outlets use one name while others use the other, but they all refer to the same individual. This clarification is important because it affects how the sources are interpreted. The article includes a large number of independent secondary sources from established news organizations. These include ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, Orlando Sentinel, KHON2, KTVB, KUTV, Q2 Billings, and several international outlets. In these reports he is not mentioned briefly. He appears on camera and is the central focus of the stories. Film festivals and award committees have also published material that covers his work in a principal role. A link was provided that contains more than thirty broadcast news segments from major networks where Cliff Divine is clearly identified by name on air. These are public, independent broadcasts, and they show significant coverage that meets the expectations of WP:BIO. Most of the sources cited in the article come from established newsrooms with full editorial oversight. They are not self published and not produced or controlled by the subject. They meet the requirements for independent and reliable sourcing in a biographical article. There is also reporting on his acting awards, his film appearances, and a multistate public initiative that drew repeated coverage. This combination of sources shows significant independent attention over time, which satisfies the criteria for biographical notability. For clarity, I am not the subject of the article. I am participating only to correct factual misunderstandings and to help ensure the discussion stays focused on source quality and policy rather than assumptions about editors. In short, the subject has extensive coverage from reliable independent sources, including dozens of television news reports and multiple print and online publications. These appear to meet the requirements of WP:BIO, and I believe that additional input from this project would be valuable in assessing the article. The AfD discussion is here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Cliff_Divine

Thank you for taking the time to look at this. Cdlosangeles (talk) 20:38, 15 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of cancellation of WikiIndaba 2025

Dear all,

WISCom in solidarity with the 2025 Wiki Indaba Core Organizing Team regrets to announce that the Wiki Indaba 2025 has been cancelled.

While we had hoped that the annual conference would happen this year as usual, the events that unfolded so far have made it impossible.

You may recall that the 2025 Wiki Indaba conference was initially scheduled to be held in Congo-Brazzaville. However, the situation in the east of DR Congo, the neighbouring country, was taken into consideration, which resulted in a decision to change the host country. The conference was then moved to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to be held November 21-23. However, the post 2025 presidential election protests in Tanzania have once again increased security risk for international travellers.

In the final analysis we were left with the following options: A hybrid conference, with only the Tanzania scholars and the LoC attending in-person. A 100% virtual conference where everyone joins online as we did in 2022. Postponing to January or February 2026.

Unfortunately, all the above options presented demanded pivoting that would have been impossible to execute with certainty and the excellence that we (WISCom and CoT) have come to expect of this conference. In particular, as it regards postponing to January or February, we felt this would bring us back to where we are currently, since we don't know how events will unfold in the country in the next few months. It was as a result of these reasons that WISCom and the CoT decided it would be best not to go ahead with the conference.

While we understand that it is becoming difficult to organize this kind of a conference in the current global instability, we believe there is more that could have been done to avoid this situation we find ourselves in. We have therefore requested an urgent meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation in December, where we can conduct an honest forensic analysis of factors that contributed to cancellation and to rework our approach around the Wiki Indaba conference, to avoid the conference being impacted the way it has been impacted this year.

The Wikimedia Foundation has issued communications about the cancellation and necessary next steps to wind up the conference preparations and other related logistics while ensuring that all individual and collective efforts by the community members to attend this conference are honoured.

We know and understand the impact of this outcome, but we plead with our ever supportive community to trust WISCom will always put the community safety first above everything else. We will hide nothing from you, as we navigate this difficult time and we will do everything in our power to ensure that the next Wiki Indaba sessions are organized in a smooth and respectful manner that you have come to expect. We once again want to take this opportunity to apologize to you all for this disappointing news, rest assured that we did everything we could do to prepare for this conference, and are equally disappointed that we have to cancel at this eleventh hour.

We ask for your continued support in the coming days as we clear the path for Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire.

Yours faithfully, Wiki Indaba Steering Committee (WISCom) + 2025 CoT Ceslause (talk) 08:02, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

FAR for Madagascar

I have nominated Madagascar for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Kowal2701 (talk) 15:20, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for She: A History of Adventure

She: A History of Adventure has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 01:25, 30 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira#Requested move 1 December 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira#Requested move 1 December 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Aviationwikiflight (talk) 17:39, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion about WikiProject banner templates

For WikiProjects that participate in rating articles, the banners for talk pages usually say something like:

"This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale."

There is a proposal to change the default wording on the banners to say "priority" instead of "importance". This could affect the template for your group. Please join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council#Proposal to update wording on WikiProject banners. Stefen 𝕋ower ^{Huddle • Handiwerk} 19:35, 6 December 2025 (UTC) (on behalf of the WikiProject Council)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Atacora Department#Requested move 24 November 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Atacora Department#Requested move 24 November 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 03:09, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Usage of British English tags on Commonwealth countries that do not have their own ENGVAR tags (on the basis of "Strong national ties to a topic")

@Pinchme123: Hello! Please see Talk:Kenyan English. I also posted at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style#Usage_of_British_English_tags_on_Commonwealth_countries_that_do_not_have_their_own_ENGVAR_tags_(on_the_basis_of_"Strong_national_ties_to_a_topic").

Here is some information:

Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#National_varieties_of_English "Strong national ties to a topic" says: "An article on a topic that has strong ties to a particular English-speaking nation should use the standard (formal, not colloquial) English of that nation." and "For topics with strong ties to the Commonwealth of Nations, or multiple Commonwealth countries or other former British territories, use British spelling."
Template:Use Kenyan English was deleted. There is no template for specifically the formal standardized variety of academic English used in Kenya. See Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2025_November_24#Template:Use_Kenyan_English
English is an official language of Kenya, so it is under "Strong national ties to a topic".

WhisperToMe (talk) 17:06, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @WhisperToMe: what point are you making here? Is there a conclusion or recommendation in your comment? It doesn't seem clear to me. Cheers — Amakuru (talk) 17:47, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- @Amakuru: A user objects to the addition of Template:Use British English in Talk:Kenyan English because the user believes that the deletion of Template:Use Kenyan English was unfair.
  
  The user stated: "The decision was local not global as it was not announced to all of Wikipedia (and certainly no one thought to alert the actual page for the dialect itself to even attempt to find those with knowledge of the subject) and was only carried out as a TfD on an obscure technical page."
  
  I asked the user to explore Wikipedia:Deletion review if the user believes the deletion was unfair. Also, the user can gather evidence that formal, standardized, academic written English for Kenya is sufficiently different from that of the UK to warrant a separate template.
  
  WhisperToMe (talk) 17:50, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  Ah, I see. Well clearly the user you mention is correct that we can't add "Use British English" to an article about a Kenyan topic. That is a direct violation of the MOS:TIES guideline, which says the article must be written in the flavour appropriate to the locale the article pertains to. Since the Use Kenyan English template is no more, we're left with having to use no template at all. It might be better if you flagged it as using British English spelling specifically, since as you correctly mention above, Kenyan English is an acknowledged official language of that country. — Amakuru (talk) 18:24, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  When I stated that I planned to replace instances of "Use Singapore English" with "Use British English" at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Singapore#Discussion_about_the_Tempate:Use_Singapore_English (after the Singapore template was deleted), a user replied that there will be a bot replace all instances of Singapore with UK. Also, I read Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2025_November_24#Template:Use_Kenyan_English and the general thrust of that discussion was that the formal standardized, written academic English of Kenya was not sufficiently different from that of the UK to warrant a separate template, and that UK should be used in place of Kenya. I agree with you that "Use British spelling" (+vocabulary? if no international equivalents exist) would be better (to reduce nationalism issues with these templates). The issue with having no template is that then users have no guidance on what spelling+vocabulary to use (as they are not familiar with geopolitics). I found that there is a move to add "Use American spelling" on US articles, and I'm trying to find a way on how to manage this with other English-speaking countries.
  
  Before the deletions I used "Use Kenyan English", "Use Singapore English", etc. See Talk:Singapore_Airlines_Flight_321#Variety of English. In 2019 I added Kenyan English to articles like this.
  
  WhisperToMe (talk) 18:34, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  There is now a broader discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Use_British_English_templates WhisperToMe (talk) 21:39, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]