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This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2016)[edit]

King Mswati III, the monarch of Swaziland, one of the Monarchies in Africa.
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This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2016)[edit]

Depictions of various deities on the entrance tower of Sri Mariamman Temple, Singapore, dedicated to the Hindu goddess of rain; Mariamman.
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WikiProject Cameroon[edit]

Hi, Masssly,
I noticed that you signed up as a participant on Wikipedia:WikiProject Cameroon and had recently edited. I was doing some work on creating new categories and am confused by the assortment of different names of categories for Cameroon as can be seen at Category:Decades in Cameroon. A lot of these category names were devised by the use of a template and there might be some misidentification. It would be great if you could help me sort out the Kamerun‎, British Cameroons, French Cameroons and Cameroon categories so they accurately reflect the history of this country. Thanks for any help you can offer. Liz Read! Talk! 17:23, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Liz, I would be happy to help sort this out. I have had a look and I think you made a genuine observation - the name of the category is problematic in many ways; I wouldn't advocate for the existence of a category named Category:Decades in Cameroon simply because the German, French and English protectorates that once existed are not necessarily subsets of the present day Republic of Cameroon. Parts of those protectorates are now part of modern countries like Central African Republic, Gabon, Nigeria, etc. In other words, Republic of Cameroon does not completely encompass these past staes. Well, unless we can find another name for it, Decades in Cameroon is misleading and we should put them all in their separate categories; Decades in German Kamerun, Decades in French Cameroun, Decades in British Cameroons, and Decades in the Republic of Cameroon. What do u think?—M@sssly 00:33, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
That sounds good to me. What is confusing is that there are simultaneously categories for British Cameroons and French Cameroons for the same years. Looking over Cameroon article, I couldn't easily determine which decades were covered by which names. I should explain that oftentimes, red-link categories are created by editors who aren't particularly knowledgeable about the topic, they are just creating categories based on other categories in the same group. So, it is likely that not a lot of thought went into making sure the category structure is consistent.
For some of these categories, we can simply change the template to the correct one and change the categories on the child/subcategories. For others, we might have to post the changes at WP:CFD for speedy renames. This situation isn't an emergency, but if you had a little time to help me straighten this out, I think it would benefit the readers. Also, I think these territorial confusions exist for other geographic entities like Macau and other African countries. Liz Read! Talk! 01:11, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Right, I may be able to work on this next weekend, that's in case you don't happen to get to it first. —M@sssly 14:47, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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OTRS ticket from hospital[edit]

I saw that you had WP:OTRS Ticket:2015081710021635 about Draft:MedStar_-_Georgetown_Surgical_Outcomes_Research_Center_(MG-SORC). It seems like you handled this by putting the page in a category. I am not sure what the right response is, but this is not what I would have done, and I wanted to talk with you about best practices.

I am actually not sure how the WP:AFC queue works, but somehow, I think the goal was to tag this draft so that it gets community review. I submitted the article for review, then I reviewed the article myself. I did this using the WP:Twinkle tools. I do not know if this is the best way, but it works for me, and it creates a record of submission and review on the page. I could be incorrect about the best way to do this.

The problem with your way was that whatever else happen, it did not seem to put the article in line to be reviewed. Your way seems reasonable because it was dated.

Thoughts? Thanks for doing OTRS. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:28, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Bluerasberry, thank you for reaching out. You're absolutely right; I should have handled it differently by making it visible to reviewers instead of simply including it a category, like you mentioned. I think placing {{subst:submit}} on the draft is enough to produce the desired result (see Wikipedia:Articles for creation), but I'm curios to find out more how to do that with twinkle. On the drop down list in twinkle, what particular command do you use? I'm happy to learn more.—M@sssly 14:35, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Some baklava for you![edit]

I am a new user. Thank you for wiki page about the Ngizim people who up-to-date continue to raise above the oppression caused by colonial rule and changes in the region.

I want to let you know that most pages on wiki bearing Mai Potiskum Ibn Wuriwa are somewhat under attack and I noticed a page has been created called 'Potiskum Emirate' here to spite the works of this organisation as most newspaper related articles to the topic by daily trust are considerably misguiding and untrue. SchroCat and Aymatth2 (I notice are in control of the page and undo edits almost immediately.

Getting straight to the point - I am asking for your help and unbiased knowledge. I believe the page 'Potiskum Emirate' was created for some sort of campaign and to spite the restoration and social effort of the Ngizim people.

I have started a talk on EdJohnston page and I am not sure how it will unfold. Ga.gatto.sa (talk) 01:27, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ga.gatto.sa, I have no knowledge about Potiskum Emirate and Ngizim people. I however noticed a lot of cut and paste material in the article in Ngizim people which I have since removed, (I hope that helps!). If you let me know what specifically the problem is, I could offer better advice. Regards and thanks for the baklava. —M@sssly 14:43, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, thanks for feedback - Good to know that you are an administrator. I am in a talk with *@Aymatth2: about Potiskum Emirate page. I am not sure if *@Aymatth2:is collaborating. comment added by Ga.gatto.sa (talk

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Thanks for your kind words. Have you seen my dictionaries website? -- http://lostmarbles31.wix.com/aardvarks-lexico

I don't quite understand the objection to the very existence of the Nanumba article. As a lexicographer I follow the principle of closure -- if a word is in an entry for another word, as definition or in an example, it should have an entry itself in the dictionary. Extending this to encyclopædic material is a bit less precise, but if (in this case) Bimbilla is stated to be the seat of the paramount of the Nanumba people, then I seems axiomatic to me that Nanumba people should have an entry. I am trying to fill in the coverage of the Western Oti-Volta languages and their speakers in a consistent and systematic manner. I feel that consistency is also a desirability for reference materials but it is difficult to achieve in the wiki paradigm. When I first started in the early days of Wikipedia there was a very good article on Dagbani which I wanted to clone as a pattern for entries on the other languages, but I didn't then know how to do it (and possibly the system didn't allow it at that time). Later the Dagbani entry was hijacked bu some Dagomba nationalists who made it a subjective pæan of praise for the Dagomba and their superiority to their neighbours -- nicely-done and very suitable for a website of something like a Dagomba Youth Association but not for an encyclopædia. The Dagbani entry has since been made more appropriate, and I have done some minor edits to follow its pattern in the entries for the related languages, and back-adjusted the Dagbani entry to match the more linguistically-accurate data on the comparative situation which is the area in which I am really one of the experts to go to. All this was filling out stubs: the Nanumba entry has been the first place where there was a gap needing a completely new entry, so I'm not sure how to meet the objections which have been raised to it. Tony Naden (talk) 09:40, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Tony, from where you stand, ie coming from the academic world, I can understand how frustrating it must be for you stepping into the wiki world where things are done slight differently. Strong Regerences are not enough, they should be easily verifiable (and published by neutral medias) and come from multiple locations. I have expanded the references and added URL's to existing ones. I am pinging SwisterTwister to have a look again but that'd be after you've resubmitted the draft. So please go ahead and click the Resubmit button, I am confident it will be accepted this time.
PS. I've had access to your Dagbani Dictionary since last year, I was pointed to it by Roger Blench when I needed translations for medical terms to produce an article about Ebola in Dagbani during the crisis. I have since been referring to it to write others! But the Mampruli version is new to me. I am reading it now and I feel very excited. Thanks so much for your invaluable work!
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This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2016)[edit]

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Nomination of Khalid Mohammed Salih al-Dhuby for deletion[edit]

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Wikidata weekly summary #192[edit]

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 6[edit]

Newsletter • January 2016

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Hello Masssly, and happy Wikipedia @ 15. This is to notify you of Wiki Loves Nigeria Writing Contest organized by the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria to commiserate the 15th anniversary of Wikipedia. The contest will start on 28 January 2016 and end on 29 February 2016. Please help to suggest articles on notable Nigeria-related topic here and if you like to be part of the jury, add your name here. Thanks for your participation. Warm regards Wikigyt@lk to M£ 07:39, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, Nkansahrexford (see here) was blocked some 10 months ago and as such is left with no opportunity to request an unblock and learn from their mistakes them self. My question has to do with requesting for an unblock on their behalf. I am seeking a second opinion since I have not seen anybody do this before. Thanks.}} —M@sssly 13:02, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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