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53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! So it would be a good chance to win something for improving stubs on African sportspeople, including footballers, athletes, Olympians and Paralympians etc, particularly female ones, but also male. Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing a few expanded articles on African Paralympians, Olympians and committees etc, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks. --

250:, which has produced over 1700 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for the region but fuelled by a series of contests to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. The Africa contest scaled worldwide would naturally provide great benefits to Oceania countries, particularly Australia and attract new editors. I would like some support from existing editors here to get the Challenges off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile and potentially bring about hundreds of improvements in a few weeks through a contest! Cheers.♦ -- 381: 674:

it is currently, if that is possible? Or are you asking for change?. It's also no different to the other code of union, (perhaps I use it as a comparison far too much) players from England have "English" and players from New Zealand just use the the country name. Based on your possible options I just think it would be too massive of a change to get your head around. You would then need to go around and just thousands of articles to fit in with the new system. Perhaps some editors who don't keep up with discussions like this may not be aware of the new format?

1181: 700:, but then most of the subjects of the association football biographies have actually played for the New Zealand national football team, and I assume that rugby union will likely be same. I wasn't particularity looking for a change, I just thought it was odd that it appeared to be only New Zealanders, and Cook Islanders that had this issue (are there others? any country ending in …islands? …Solomon Islanders?), and I just wanted to make sure that all (two/three of us) were okay with that. Best regards 😩 322:

IP editor may interpret a flag as indication of birth, give too much credence to the nation, and the decision was made previously. To remove them from all rugby league templates when there is a limited conversation would seem more than a little unfair I would say, hence the attempt to reach out. I'm quite happy to voted down, but would appreciate a few more voices to the discussion, else it would seem quite wrong to move from the majority into the minority.

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Hi Sirpottingmix, I've come here in the hope of a civil conversation that it would seem is not possible at 'WikiProject Rugby league'. It appears that the biographies of New Zealanders are unusual (Cook Islanders another?) in that they use the country name rather than the nation/ethnic group name to

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which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the

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There are similar differences between demonyms and adjectives in Briton/British, and Spaniard/Spanish, although it is acceptable to say "Smith is British" (possibly more common that to say "Smith is a Briton"), but not acceptable to say "Smith is New Zealand". It may be that English has evolved to

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Hey, fair enough, your post hasn't exactly attracted much interest. Yeah I do believe it is gramatically correct but very inelegant. It would be better if you just say "New Zealand", likewise for Cook Islands as you said. Based on your possible provided options I just think it should be kept to how

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if you can, but the crux of my position is that the flags are prevalent elsewhere, are consistent with usage by the MOS, and their implementation for their rugby league national squad/team or representative nationality, is in line with their intended purpose. The crux of the remove side would be an

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HI there. I'm coming to Palmerston North on Sunday 13th to run an Edit-a-thon at the central library. Unfortunately they only have a couple of enrolments, and really need to 10 for it to happen. Are you able to come along, and do you know other Wikipedians in Palmy that would be interested? Details

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which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. The Australia challenge would feed into the wider region one and potentially New Zealand could have a smaller challenge too. The main goal is content improvement, tackling stale old stubs and important content and improving

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I'm still able to refine it; do you have any comments or ideas? There's a Discussion tab on the grant if you do. If you think a "Wikipedian at Large" is a good idea, it would be great if you could write a short endorsement; support the Knowledge community will make a big difference to the grant's

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to widen the conversation on "Flags in European current templates", in the hope to gain a wider consensus. I imagine that this message may well never be read, dismissed, see me lose support, potentially gain some or take the discussion forwards. Please do take the time to read the discussion at

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Hello, I'm so excited you've put this together! This will be really cool for the Manawatu to get into Knowledge. Unfortunately I cannot go at this stage, if I can I'll get back to you. I do not know any others from Palmy or surrounding area. I really hope this comes together nicely. Cheers.

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sourcing/making more consistent but new articles are also welcome if sourced. I understand that this is a big goal for regular editors, especially being summertime where you are, but if you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Oceania and Australia like

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Hi there; I'm applying for a Wikimedia Foundation grant to support a year of Wikipedian in Residence postings at a wide (and growing) range of institutions throughout New Zealand. The grant is open for community comments at the moment:

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accept the use of the adjective in place of a demonym in many cases, but New Zealand is not one of these cases. In all cases where the demonym and adjective differ, using the demonym in place of an adjective is not acceptable.-

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I like the idea of a Palmerston North editathon; even a sports-based one. If the grant comes through, let's have a chat about what the gaps are in NZ sports coverage. Perhaps the NZ Rugby Museum would be keen to host it…

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for a person from New Zealand is "New Zealander". For a person from Australia, it is "Australian". However, when you write "Smith is an Australian player", the word Australian is not a demonym but an

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would be great. If in doubt add a reference I say. If you're not sure on formatting don't worry, just add the ref and I can make the formatting consistent! Thanks. --

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Hi Sirpottingmix, I also had a look through the biographies of New Zealander association footballers, and (almost) all said, e.g.

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Yes, you're right. If you look at arguably the most notable sportsperson from the Soloman Islands (

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be the way to go, or is the ambiguity acceptable in these cases? Best regards 😩

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