Send African-Wikimedians mailing list submissions to african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to african-wikimedians-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at african-wikimedians-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of African-Wikimedians digest..." Today's Topics: 1. 300 African women football players to rescue (Florence Devouard) 2. Re: 300 African women football players to rescue (Samuel Guebo) 3. Re: 300 African women football players to rescue (rupert THURNER) 4. Re: 300 African women football players to rescue (Florence Devouard) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 18:17:01 +0100 From: Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org> To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [African Wikimedians] 300 African women football players to rescue Message-ID: <177f45c1-7647-6fe6-6085-427a91449b35(a)anthere.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Hello there So....I just checked the recent activity on the Wiki Loves Women assessment board. And my attention was raised by a serious list of red links (which used to be blue... right ?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wiki_Loves_Women/Assess… It appears that all those articles were bot-moved from article status to "draft" status. They were all created by User:Sander.v.Ginkel (for a grand total of 16,104 articles) due to various quality issues. All articles created were moved to draft space, where they can rescued one by one (being fixed first). Upon quick checking... roughly 300 african women articles were concerned by the purge. It appears that many of them are about footballers (I opened 10 articles and the 10 were of that sort), a lot being Ghanean Quick sampling * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Belinda_Kanda (Ghanean football player) * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Maureen_Eke (Nigerian football player) * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Aminatu_Ibrahim (Ghanean football player) It is possible to volunteer to rescue those articles (fix them, then move them back in the main space). Join the rescue team here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aymatth2/SvG_clean-up/Guidelines Main role required... sourcing... in particular to prove notability. Please help :) Florence ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 21:22:38 +0000 From: Samuel Guebo <samuelguebo(a)gmail.com> To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] 300 African women football players to rescue Message-ID: <CAKbRZiqWdxVhpvBcV4OLONu1h6wPOhUD-XkbwExM50hwcqEASg(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hello @Florence, I took a look a the links and opened randomly several of them among which: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Sheila_Okai - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Flore_Enyegue - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Basilea_Amoa-Tetteh In my humble opinion, I do not see any substantive reason to delete them. Of course they are merely stubs, but stubs with a least one reference. What do you suggest? Adding additional references and moving them back to the main space? I am afraid the bot will do the same bulk deletion. On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org> wrote: