Re: [WikiEN-l] New articles from the third world

2009-12-05 Thread Charles Matthews
Sam Blacketer wrote: On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: 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 Which

[WikiEN-l] New articles from the third world

2009-12-04 Thread WereSpielChequers
At Newpage patrol I've been seeing quite a few articles about towns and wildlife parks in Africa and South Asia, often by newby editors. Getting them categorized, wikified and ideally referenced is enough of a challenge let alone getting them geocoded. But I do get the impression that we are

Re: [WikiEN-l] New articles from the third world

2009-12-04 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 12:50 AM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@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