On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 12:50 AM, WereSpielChequers < werespielchequers@googlemail.com> wrote:
And most of the time I think they are being treated OK by the deletionists. Though I did see one speedy tag where I wondered if the tagger would have tagged as non notable a nature reserve of over 10,000 ha in North America or Western Europe.
Do we need affirmative action in favour of articles about Africa?
No because we already have this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias
What we do need is more of an understanding by AfD participants and by admins processing speedy candidates that African topics are far less likely to have sources immediately apparent on a simple search of Google. Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/BENDELfor an example (not to single out its nominator, but it is a good example). This is a former state of Nigeria which had a population of several million.