Talk:List of African educators, scientists and scholars

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This article was nominated for deletion on 11 October 2010. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

This is an exhaustive list of all scientists, scholars, on the african continent, who were born in Africa. Including foreign born first generation with African parents. Kacembepower (talk) 22:41, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's in Article space - it needs some explanatory text, just a list is not sufficient - that would be better as a category (and probably easier to maintain). Ronhjones ^(Talk) 23:52, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Point taken --accept speedy deletion. In fact i already started that. Kacembepower (talk) 00:23, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Instead of deletion, the topic is better served by the list being split up into several subheadings. Personally, I think it should be separated into time (people born in antiquity, 500 AD - 1899 AD, and recently born people) and separated into part of Africa (parts following the linguistic families) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.96.239.183 (talk) 07:44, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Needs cleanup[edit]

This list bears a somehow elevated risk that it includes people without any notable contributions to science. All names that do not link to an existing article should at least provide a source, or otherwise be removed. Examples:

Francis Shasha Matambalya: entry mainly lists where he studied or lectured instead of contributions
Emma Tibayungwa: being an IT specialist is hardly relevant without further context
Ernest Simo: only mentions that his colleagues died
Fredrick Romanus Ishengoma: is not even linked at all

It may well be that such names belong into the list, but that should also be made clear to sceptical readers. --152.84.71.74 (talk) 19:05, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]