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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 16:44, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

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Sandister Tei

Sandister Tei
Sandister Tei
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  • ... that Sandister Tei (pictured) was the first female Ghanaian Wikipedian to attend Wikimania? Source: "Sandister Tei of Ghana was one such attendees and the first female Ghanaian representative ever at a Wikimania conference." ([1])
  • ... ALT1: that Sandister Tei (pictured) was named the Wikimedian of the Year for 2020? Source: ([2])
  • Reviewed: John F. Yardley
  • Comment: I'm no good at hooks. Hopefully somebody else can suggest a better one.

Created by Pigsonthewing (talk), Ritchie333 (talk), Enock4seth (talk), and TJMSmith (talk). Nominated by Ritchie333 (talk) at 16:55, 20 October 2020 (UTC).


  • While the hooks are probably interesting to Wikipedia users and enthusiasts, aren't both hooks rather WP:NAVELy? Maybe something could also be said about her non-Wikimedian career? Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 11:33, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

Hook eligibility:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Just three issues: (1) Earwig found one sentence about Tei's university studies here which mirrors a sentence in the article. However the sentence appeared first in the WP article, therefore the yen.com source has copied that phrase from WP. Other independent material appears on that yen.com page, though, so I believe that for the other material it is valid to use the source as a citation in the article. As the article was developed, WP and yen.com were reading each other. However, to keep everything clearly aboveboard, I suggest that the sentence in the WP article ("Tei is an alumna of the University of Ghana, where she studied geography, and of Cardiff University where she undertook an MA in international journalism on a Tullow Group scholarship.") is rephrased now. (2) I do not understand the phrase, "promoting an increase in coverage on African topics instead Wikimedia projects". Do you mean "coverage of" and "instead of"? But does that mean ditching Wikimedia projects? I'm guessing that the intention is probably fine, but the awkward language is concealing that intention. (3) About the hook and the comment about being navelly: it would be great to adjust one of the hooks to include the fact that she is a Citifilm journalist, and/or that she has been a journalist with Al Jazeera's parent company. If these three issues can be resolved, then this will be a good one for DYK in my opinion. Storye book (talk) 11:10, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

@Storye book: I have fixed the first two issues, the former by copyediting it, the latter by looking at the source and concluding the prose meant to say "promoting an increase in coverage on African topics on Wikimedia projects". I'll have a think about the hook, I just hoped somebody else would have turned up to the nomination now and suggested one, given the attention Wikimedians of the Year tend to get. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 10:08, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
  • Thank you for resolving issues (1) and (2). I have amended the review accordingly. I look forward to seeing the new hook. Storye book (talk) 10:18, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
No comment either way on ALT2, but personally it could work even without the Citi FM mention since Citi FM would be less visible to international readers than Al Jazeera. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 13:04, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
  • Sorry I'm not allowed to review my own hook (which I've just belatedly signed - sorry for any confusion), so someone else will have to do it. Yoninah? Storye book (talk) 12:12, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
  • @Storye book: since I'm probably the one who will promote it, I'd prefer that someone else review it. IMO the ALT2 hook is a standard "Did you know ... that X=Y?" It's far more interesting to me that she formed the Ghana Users Group (though this needs an inline cite). Yoninah (talk) 18:20, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
  • Yoninah OK. How about ALT3? I have added the citation to the article. Storye book (talk) 12:34, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
  • Yes, I think that works better for an image slot. @Kingsif: could you review ALT3 please? Yoninah (talk) 12:40, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
  • ALT3 interesting, hook facts in article and sourced. Image good. Article new enough at time of nomination. Article is long enough by exactly 8 words. I would prefer it be more comfortably not a stub before hitting the main page, and if possible less auto-promotional (it's basically entirely about her Wikimedia achievements) in general. Kingsif (talk) 14:01, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
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