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The WikiProject

Sahrawis. It was initiated on December 30, 2005, by Justin (koavf). If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list
there.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see

Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices
.

Scope

Western Sahara is an obscure region, and needs to have the attention that other countries get by virtue of their population and importance in geopolitics. To that end, this project has the following goals:

Structure

There is no hierarchical structure to the project; please edit articles as you see fit. The to-do list and general goals are below. Please add any changes that you find germane to this page. If you would like guidance, please post on my Talk page.

Hierarchy definition

This is neither strictly under the

recognized by dozens of governments
.

Goals

Participants

Active members

To join WikiProject Western Sahara, edit this section and add the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of members. Members should also place member identification on their user page.

  1. Justin (koavf)
  2. ustad abu gosok (talk · contribs) 00:17:09, 8 July 2020 (UTC) [reply]
  3. Tidjani Saleh (talk · contribs) 17:12:19, 15 January 2022 (UTC) [reply]
  4. SahrawiGuy (talk · contribs) 13:05:14, 5 August 2022 (UTC) [reply]

Former members

Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.

  1. Buaidh (talk · contribs) 15:49:19, 3 May 2019 (UTC) [reply]

Member identification

Members of WikiProject Western Sahara should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Western Sahara participants.

Wikitext userbox where used
[[Category:WikiProject Western Sahara participants]] none linked pages
{{Template:User WikiProject Western Sahara}}
This user is a participant in WikiProject Western Sahara.
 linked pages
{{Template:User WP Western Sahara}}
This user participates in
WikiProject Western Sahara.
 linked pages
{{Template:User WP Western Sahara|invite}}
This user invites you to join
WikiProject Western Sahara.
 linked pages

For other Western Sahara user templates see Category:Western Sahara user templates.

Projects

  • Maps
    • If anyone has maps that they can scan or create to add to articles, that would be most helpful.
  • Pictures
    • Please add pictures to articles as you find them. If someone has the time or inclination, it would be excellent to add pictures from NASA, as they are unlicensed.
  • Re-directs
    • Since many people, places, and things related to Western Sahara were originally named in
      transliteration
      . If you can assist, please make re-directs that go to the proper article. For instance, the following articles:
      • SaHarāwī
      • SaHarāwīs
      • SaHrāwī
      • SaHrāwīs
      • Saharaoui
      • Saharaouis
      • Saharoui
      • Saharouis
      • Saharui
      • Saharuis
      • Sahraoui
      • Sahraouis
      • Sahraui
      • Sahrauis
      • Sahrawis
  • all re-direct to Sahrawi.

Image requests

In addition to posting your image requests here, on the talk page(s) of the subject(s), and on the Wikimedia Commons (Commons:Commons:Picture requests), please also post them at es:Wikipedia:Imágenes solicitadas on the Spanish Wikipedia. If you do not know Spanish, you can ask someone at es:Wikipedia:Embajadas to help you. And in addition please post them at fr:Wikipédia:Atelier photographique on the French Wikipedia. If you do not know French, you can ask someone at fr:Wikipédia:Bistro_des_non-francophones/en to help you.

Tasks

Here are the sorts of tasks that you can do to assist with this project. Please choose any of the following, based on your level of expertise and commitment.

  • Create: These are articles germane to the situation in Western Sahara that have yet to be created. Even if you know very little about the topic, start up one - something is better than nothing.
  • Expand: This is for short articles (called "stubs") that need more info. Add text, pictures, links, or anything else that can enhance a readers' knowledge of the subject. There is a category for such articles.
  • Cleanup: Sometimes, articles are made in haste, and they contain spelling, grammatical, mathematical, and/or factual errors. These articles have a good start, but they need more structure to the information presented.
  • Disputes: Such articles have information that is a matter of debate. You can help out by offering solutions and alternatives, re-wording controversial passages, or taking part in proper votes.
  • Cite: When information is suspect, an editor will request that someone else cite the source for the claim made. If you can provide one, please insert a link, or reference to a book or other external, verifiable source. Keep in mind that something unverifiable (e.g. original research) is not satisfactory.
  • Votes: A vote can be requested for several reasons: articles, templates, and categories, may need to be renamed, merged, or deleted. Voice your opinion on controversial matters by taking part in votes.
  • Merge: If two articles have similar material, it may be appropriate to combine the two. If you are capable of combining two separate articles, please consult the relevant talk pages to see what the consensus is, or simply add your two cents there.
  • Update: Some articles will necessarily need to be updated constantly, or there may be breaking news regarding a certain topic. If you have access to verifiable information, please add it to out-of-date articles, and don't forget to cite your sources, at least by mentioning them on the talk page or your edit summary if nothing else.
  • Images: For (almost) any article that describes a person or place, a picture is helpful. Try to find sources that are copyright-free (such as NASA) for quick, easy repositories for images. In the case of locations, consider creating a map.
  • Wikify: Articles at this stage of development need very little assistance, and one thing that you can do is go to the article and create links to all of the other topics that another user may find interesting. This can mean adding links to the text within an article, creating or expanding a "See also" or "External links" list at the end of the article. Keep in mind that it is generally not desirable to create a link for every year or century mentioned in an article.
  • Critique: If an article becomes well-written enough that it could be a featured article, please read it over with a critical eye, looking for any objectionable passages, claims that are not substantiated, or any omissions that could be expanded. If you can't do this peer review yourself, please request that someone else does.
  • Review: This is the last step toward becoming a featured article. Please make a request for an article to be featured on the Main Page, and join in the discussion about other candidates.
  • Translate: If you have any skills at translation, please either integrate information from other language Wikipedias into this one, or take information from this Wikipedia, and put in into others. Particularly useful Wikipedias will probably be the Arabic, French, and Spanish ones. Also, please take articles written here and translate them into simple English for that Wikipedia.
  • Watch: There are certain articles that need to be watched since they are most important to other users understanding the conflict in Western Sahara, and bias is easily introduced into these. Please add the following pages to your Watchlist:

Others may be added as they become contentious, or are about breaking news events.

  • On-going tasks: Even when all of this is done, there is always something to add or edit on Wikipedia. Such on-going tasks are listed above.

The following is the to-do table. Feel free to add it to your user page by putting in the following code: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Western Sahara/to do}}

Western Sahara WikiProject To-do list (watch • edit • discuss)

Assessment

Recognized content

Western Sahara articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 17 17
GA 14 14
B 5 4 1 11 3 24
C 15 7 4 43 21 90
Start 15 17 33 175 131 371
Stub 1 10 83 67 161
List 1 2 5 11 11 30
Category 1 451 452
Disambig 5 5
File 1 64 65
Portal 27 27
Project 28 28
Redirect 3 5 321 329
Template 2 71 73
Other 2 2
Assessed 39 31 53 363 969 233 1,688
Unassessed 2 2
Total 39 31 53 363 969 235 1,690
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 3,281 Ω = 4.85

Some articles on Western Sahara are more vital to an understanding of the region than others. Some are currently better written than others. The assessment portion of the WikiProject aims to give rankings to the relative importance and quality of Western Sahara-related articles.

See the assessment.

Featured articles

Good articles

Former good articles

Did you know? articles

In the News articles


Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

Articles you'd like to see written (please place newest articles at the top):

  • (Name) (Date) - (Explanation) Adopted by (User) on (Date)

Wikipedia articles on Western Sahara

Articles:

New Wikipedia articles related to Western Sahara

Please feel free to list your new Western Sahara-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

Templates

Project

  • {{WikiProject Africa|Western Sahara=yes|Western Sahara-importance=|class=|importance=}} - Please see WikiProject Africa for more information on the template, as well as assessment information.

Stub

Userboxes

This user is a participant in WikiProject Western Sahara.
 This user is a member of the Western Sahara WikiProject, a WikiProject which aims to expand coverage of Western Sahara (SADR) on Wikipedia.
This user is a member of the Western Sahara WikiProject, a WikiProject which aims to expand coverage of Western Sahara on Wikipedia.
This user is a member of the Western Sahara WikiProject, a WikiProject which aims to expand coverage of Western Sahara on Wikipedia.

Other

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 Western Sahara

Categories

Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Foreign relations of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Government of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Organisations based in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Polisario Front
Politics of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Society of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Tifariti
Western Sahara
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Western Sahara-related lists
Arab tribes in Western Sahara
Buildings and structures in Western Sahara
Culture of Western Sahara
Economy of Western Sahara
Education in Western Sahara
Environment of Western Sahara
Geography of Western Sahara
History of Western Sahara
Organizations based in Western Sahara
Sahrawi people
Politics of Western Sahara
Western Sahara stubs

Images

Lists

  • List of Western Sahara-related topics
  • List of active autonomist and secessionist movements
  • List of cities in Morocco
  • List of cities in Western Sahara
  • List of conflicts in North Africa
  • List of disputed or occupied territories
  • List of political parties in Western Sahara
  • List of stateless ethnic groups
  • United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories

Portals

Wikipedia surveys

Ad hoc surveys

Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

  • Requested moves
    :
  • Requests for Comments
    :

Votes for deletion

  • Votes for deletion
     (Article deletion):
  • Votes for undelete
     (Article undeletion}:
  • Templates for deletion
    :
  • Categories for deletion
    :
  • Images for deletion
    :
  • Redirects for deletion
    :
WikiProject Deletion sorting

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The Western Sahara-related articles at VFD are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Western Sahara.

Requests

Resources

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