Talk:Bassirou Diomaye Faye

Caught flat-footed?

First off, thanks to @BastianMAT for creating this article. Back in 2018, Wikipedia caught a lot of flak for not having an article on Donna Strickland when she won the Nobel Prize in Physics. We dodged the bullet -- narrowly -- this time, having created the page for the man who would win Senegal's presidential election two days before he did.

I'm not going to pretend I have some magical solution to systemic bias, but this near-miss should give us some time to reflect. Any thoughts on how to prevent this sort of thing in the future? Bremps... 06:31, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Kia ora Bremps, I suppose the only solution is just to spend less time arguing over details on existing articles and more time making new ones. I'm an editor from Aotearoa New Zealand, and I've only just made this account pretty much so I can create more articles about Māori history, which is very underlooked. Tuai nō Ngare Raumati doesn't have a page, and Te Rauparaha's one belies how incredibly significant he was (there aren't even any pages devoted to the Ngāti Toa conquests). I get sick of the arguing and reverting by the establishment editors - we simply need to expand and expand. You seem pretty on to it. Dhantegge (talk) 22:51, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Very bad quality photo

Hi Current photo has a very bad quality. It should be replaced. see here Panam2014 (talk) 15:13, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Could you upload the best photo from here and from here? Both are HD.--Panam2014 (talk) 15:50, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Hopefully there will be either an official portrait or some high-quality diplomatic photo published in the coming days or weeks. The quality of the current photo is ridiculous. Dhantegge (talk) 22:45, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Yeah I am shocked to find that the current photo is actually the new one already, it's pretty awful. Yeoutie (talk) 18:19, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Could we use the one off his Facebook for example? Presumably as a govt. source it would be public domain... Bayonet-lightbulb (talk) 13:53, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi Panam2014. It's fine to ask for a photo, but an Rfc is a formal, 30-day process that takes up the time and energy of lots of users, and is a last resort after other methods of dispute resolution have failed, such as long Talk page discussions that are deadlocked after much input. I've dropped the Rfc header, but it's fine for the discussion to just continue on below. In the meantime, you might try asking at Wikipedia:Files for upload instead, where you may get more response than here. Mathglot (talk) 16:52, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Upgrade from low-importance to mid-importance

Macky Sall's page is graded as "mid-importance" by WikiProject Africa and this one should be as well. Dhantegge (talk) 22:46, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 4 April 2024

change World War II in early life section to World War I. His grandfather fought for Francw during World War I not II Cfaye217 (talk) 20:00, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Liu1126 (talk) 20:08, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/world/africa/senegal-faye-president-home.html

Here in the New York Times it says, "His grandfather was the village chief and one of the African soldiers conscripted by France to fight in World War I before he was badly wounded in battle. Returning home, his grandfather fought for the establishment of the first high school in Ndiaganiao — a struggle that was such a threat to colonial-era administrators that it landed him in jail." Cfaye217 (talk) 21:07, 10 April 2024 (UTC)