Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon/Leaderboard
Criteria for inclusion[edit]
Apologies if I have overlooked them somewhere, but what (or where) exactly are the criteria for an editor to be included in the leaderboard? zazpot (talk) 16:33, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
- I believe it's just the most articles for any particular country, and then the total number of countries per person counted. Although that's a bit of a misnomer, because you don't get anything extra for having more countries (other than anything you'd get from each country). Miyagawa (talk) 17:17, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
Historical countries (e.g. Rhodesia)[edit]
Looking at the wikitext of the relevant section of the main Africa Destubathon page and searching for "flagicon|rhodesia", I can see three contributions that the Destubathon editors have categorised as relating primarily to the historical state of Rhodesia. Similarly, there are two contributions that have been prefixed with the flag of Zaire. However, none of these contributions are reflected in the leaderboard. Is that intentional, or an oversight? zazpot (talk) 17:06, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
- They've been claimed under the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Miyagawa (talk) 20:36, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
- I see. Thank you for explaining. Unfortunately, that approach seems to me to be uncomfortably ahistorical. It is also rather confusing: why tag the entries with one state's flag, and then, without obvious explanation, rank them under a different state's grouping? zazpot (talk) 22:07, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
- No, we should only use the flags of 54 countries eligible (plus territories), definitely not of historical entities.--Ymblanter (talk) 22:15, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
- @Ymblanter:, please could you clarify what you mean by "No"? No to what? Thanks. Incidentally, I am not sure who has been tagging entries with historical states' flags. If you think that should not have been done, you might want to track down the editor(s) who did it, and bring it up on their talk page(s), as well as discussing it here? zazpot (talk) 22:42, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
- I actually agreed with you, so it should have been "yes". Concerning tracking editors, this is a big work, and I doubt that it is so useful (we do not have prizes for Rhodesia and Zaire anyway), and currently I do not have much time, so I would rather not do it.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:49, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
- @Ymblanter:, please could you clarify what you mean by "No"? No to what? Thanks. Incidentally, I am not sure who has been tagging entries with historical states' flags. If you think that should not have been done, you might want to track down the editor(s) who did it, and bring it up on their talk page(s), as well as discussing it here? zazpot (talk) 22:42, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
- No, we should only use the flags of 54 countries eligible (plus territories), definitely not of historical entities.--Ymblanter (talk) 22:15, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
- I see. Thank you for explaining. Unfortunately, that approach seems to me to be uncomfortably ahistorical. It is also rather confusing: why tag the entries with one state's flag, and then, without obvious explanation, rank them under a different state's grouping? zazpot (talk) 22:07, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
Stub?[edit]
What if something is under 1500 characters, but marked as start-class? Also what if something covers multiple countries? An example of both of these issues is Gambia River.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:08, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
- For your second issue TonyTheTiger, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon/Entries#Multiple Countries. — Yellow Dingo (talk) 04:38, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
Mauritania[edit]
I have reverted User:Ssriram mt's additions to Nouakchott-Ouest Region and Nouakchott-Nord Region, which are articles I originally created. (I am not a participant in this contest.) The information that was added is about either Mauritania or Nouakchott as a whole and has nothing to do with these regions specifically. In fact, one of the lines added ("Mauritania has been divided into 13 wilayas (regions), including the Nouakchott Capital District.") contradicts the very creation of these regions to replace the former Nouakchott region, with the result that there are actually 15 wilayas in Mauritania now. I have no idea whether these articles were counted as entries in this contest but would advise taking a closer look at this user's edits with respect to Mauritanian regions. Cobblet (talk) 17:51, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
- Hi Cobblet - thanks for pointing out. I read from some of the sources that Nouakchott has been split into three (think it was 2015), making it 15. But there were not much of reliable English sources that I could make out and hence retained the UN/IMF information on local administration. I haven't gone through journals and would suitably modify it soon I find the details. I have removed the entries from the dashboard of Mauritania.Ssriram mt (talk) 04:44, 21 November 2016 (UTC)