Welcome to the WikiProject Nigeria! This project aims to deal on all articles related to Nigeria. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.
Scope
This WikiProject aims to help coordinate efforts to improve and maintain pages related to:
Goals for the project may be divisible into two domains: a general domain encompassing aims for all Nigeria-related articles, and specific goals pertaining to particular articles or sets of articles. Both sets of goals are expounded upon in the subsequent sections and both are subject to modification and discussion.
General goals
Ensure that all Nigeria-related articles remain "cleaned up" and accurate, minimising vandalism and spam links as much as possible. These issues are the most pervasive to Nigeria-related items and therefore assume top priority; the aforementioned are also to some degree subsumed in the other general goals to follow.
To create a body of articles that accurately depicts the history and cultures of Nigeria and Nigerian peoples.
To highlight Nigeria's relationships and/or contributions to the rest of the world.
To standardize articles on Nigeria and related subjects with similar layouts and formatting.
To include all relevant information, making especially certain to include the voices of women, the poor, the indigenous, as well as the rest of Nigerian society. Note that all information must be sourced, in the form of refs or at least external links. Please try to provide a way to verify the information in an article, especially that which you add. If possible, add refs to unverified information.
To standardize the use of native language terms, names, and translations into English across the series.
Specific goals
Specific goals may be created or abrogated on an ad hoc basis as deemed necessary and appropriate by project participants. More goals should be discussed and added; please feel free to make suggestions on the discussion page. High priority goals may include:
Nigeria; the article is subject to nearly constant vandalism, spam links, and the addition of false and/or biased information at all times, largely by unregistered or new users. The page thus requires constant upkeep to prevent further degradation, in addition to requiring general improvement. The Foreign relations section has been complained about frequently, as have issues regarding vandalism associated with census controversies (probably needs its own article to begin with), Nigerian cities, and other ethno-religious based unhelpful edits.
History of Nigeria; nearly all of the above apply equally well to this article.
Atiku Abubakar; political controversy has left this article a mess
Lucky Igbinedion; article has been in a very poor state for a long time.
Adding the name of the local language(s) from Ethnologue to articles about towns and villages, with a wikilink to the article about the language. The cite for this is easy: <ref> {{e17| [3 letter language code goes here] }} </ref>
Other suggested work
Looking at "What links here" for Nigeria-related articles can often turn up untagged or uncategorised Nigerian articles. Categorizing them will put them somewhere where they can be accessed for improvement.
Ndagi Abdullahi, Associate Professor, #1 Nigeria's Prolific Writer and the CEO of KinNupe Newspaper (may pass GNG)
Adaure Achumba, CNN journalist (might not pass GNG)
Adeniran Abimbola Adetoro, Professor of Library Science, Tai Solarin University of Education, Ogun State, Nigeria
Julius Kosebinu Agbaje, first Nigerian Director of Standard Bank (later First Bank)
Bunmi Gabriel Alegbeleye Prof., Professor of Library ScienceDaily, University of Ibadan.
Agalawa, people who migrated to Hausaland and are historically known as merchants. One of their notable descendants is Alhassan Dantata
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Mohammed Aminu Baka, business magnate and philanthropist
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Chibuike Achigbu, Nigerian business man
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Baba Muhammad Dzukogi, one-time Secretary-General/Treasurer of Association of Nigerian Authors, the Jagaban of Northern Nigerian Writers and founder of the Hilltop Creative Arts Foundation
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Abogo Largema, Commander of the Nigerian Army's 4th Battalion in Ibadan at the time of his assassination by 15 January 1966 coup plotters
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Iyabo Mabawonku, A retired renowned Professor from the Department of Library, archival and Information Studies, University of Ibadan.
Vehicle registration plates of Nigeria. LGA code table should be verified and added to the article. Now it's published on the talk page for that article.
Ini Archibong, artist and designer of Nigerian descent
Participants
We hope to have this many members some day.
To join WikiProject Nigeria, add the Wikitext#{{Mailing list member|user=USERNAME}}, replacing USERNAME with your actual username to the bottom of the #Active members section. After joining, you can also display one of the our member identifications on your userpage by adding one (or more) of the templates listed in the #Member identification section. Please consider clicking here so as to add this page and its talkpage to your watch list.
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Awards
There is now a barnstar that will be awarded to people in thanks for contributions to Nigeria-related articles.
For stubs, small articles in the article namespace in need of expansion, place one of the following tags at the bottom of the article (below everything exceptinterlanguage links):
Category:Nigeria and its subcategories; basic overlay to be found at Portal:Nigeria/Categories. If there is not a Nigeria specific category for what you're looking to categorize, create it or try looking around in Category:Africa.
Tijani Babangida - 16 November 2008
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