Mohamed Muizzu is currently a Politics and government good article nominee. Nominated by MAL MALDIVE ( talk) at 15:50, 28 March 2024 (UTC) An editor has indicated a willingness to review the article in accordance with the good article criteria. Further reviews are welcome from any editor who has not contributed significantly to this article (or nominated it), and can be added to the review page, but the decision whether or not to list the article as a good article should be left to the first reviewer. Short description: President of the Maldives since 2023

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Just a historical record Ismehela ( talk) 11:51, 25 February 2024 (UTC) reply

In infoboxes, there is no His Excellency in Many infoboxes, For Example Joe Biden, in Joe Biden's Wikipedia Article there is no honorific prefix, so should we remove it or not?!. MAL MALDIVE ( talk) 13:20, 25 February 2024 (UTC) reply

We don't use typically use honorifics within an article, except as part of a quote. GreenLipstickLesbian ( talk) 07:23, 22 April 2024 (UTC) reply

This review is transcluded from Talk:Mohamed Muizzu/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: MAL MALDIVE ( talk · contribs)

Reviewer: MAL MALDIVE ( talk · contribs) 21:30, 28 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Is it standard practice for one to be the GA reviewer for an article that they wrote? Placeholderer ( talk) 16:15, 22 April 2024 (UTC) reply

I find it alarming that nearly 80% of this article was written by a single editor, and that the article, while in-depth, seems to lack any meaningful acknowledgement of negatives of Muizzu or his policies and seems to be a mouthpiece for an official government narrative. The article seems to me heavily skewed to be pro-Muizzu, including by using sources affiliated with the subject. For instance, the Economic Policy section says "Muizzu has also decided to form a creative economy in the Maldives", referenced with three sources that are all predicated on what Muizzu himself has said and without any third-party interpretation given. The Presidents Office [sic] is used for 15 references, while the President's Office [sic] is used for another 15. There are also 5 YouTube interviews of Muizzu, and 3 Maldives Embassy statements referenced (Maldives ambassadors are appointed by the president). Counting those alone, over a quarter of this article's references consist of information given out by him and his administration.

What should be done about this? I myself won't have time in the near future to restructure a big article. Placeholderer ( talk) 16:07, 22 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Before you saw it, I spent some time yesterday removing prose from the article that had been copied directly from various news sites, with no evidence of it being compatibly licensed. I haven't asked for a revdel yet, because I wanted to be certain I'd removed all offending material. (I suspect prose from the foreign language sources may also have been translated and added, for which a bilingual editor would be very useful). During this process, I noticed that a lot of prose had also been copied from the Presidents office sites. This is obviously a NPOV concern, but fortuantly not a copyright one. I might have time in the next few weeks to start helpinv, but I'm not experienced at editing political BLPs. But yeah. I agree the article has issues. I advised @ MAL MALDIVE: to withdraw the GA nomination at this time, but I'm going to give them some time to do so before escalating. (Unless you disagree?) GreenLipstickLesbian ( talk) 17:10, 22 April 2024 (UTC) reply

From what I know I don't think anything dramatic needs to be done yet other than rebalancing the article and using different references. I'll try to contribute to that! I don't think there's enough evidence to accuse bad faith, since at a glance MAL MALDIVE seems to have made good and balanced contributions to other articles like this one.

@ MAL MALDIVE Sorry if I came across as too harsh in my first comment here— I came to this article looking through edits of someone else who I suspect is a bad faith editor, which may have affected my tone. The balance is a big problem, though. If you'd be up for adding some more third-party references and analysis that would be great! Placeholderer ( talk) 20:53, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply