Talk:Sahle-Work Zewde

A news item involving Sahle-Work Zewde was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 26 October 2018.

Wikipedia

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Sahle-Work Zewde article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.

This page is about a politician who is running for office or has recently run for office, is in office and campaigning for re-election, or is involved in some current political conflict or controversy. For that reason, this article is at increased risk of biased editing, talk-page trolling, and simple vandalism.

If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.

Biography: Politics and Government

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by the politics and government work group (assessed as High-importance).

Ethiopia High‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Ethiopia, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Ethiopia on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.EthiopiaWikipedia:WikiProject EthiopiaTemplate:WikiProject EthiopiaEthiopia articles
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Africa Low‑importance

	Africa portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Africa, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Africa on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.AfricaWikipedia:WikiProject AfricaTemplate:WikiProject AfricaAfrica articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Politics Low‑importance

	Politics portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Politics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of politics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PoliticsWikipedia:WikiProject PoliticsTemplate:WikiProject Politicspolitics articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

History Low‑importance

	History portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject History, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the subject of History on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.HistoryWikipedia:WikiProject HistoryTemplate:WikiProject Historyhistory articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Women's History Low‑importance

	History portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women's History, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Women's history and related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Women's HistoryWikipedia:WikiProject Women's HistoryTemplate:WikiProject Women's HistoryWomen's History articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Women

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of women on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.WomenWikipedia:WikiProject WomenTemplate:WikiProject WomenWikiProject Women articles

Wiki Loves Women High‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Wiki Loves Women, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of women in Africa on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Wiki Loves WomenWikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Loves WomenTemplate:WikiProject Wiki Loves WomenWiki Loves Women articles
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

US or non-US English?

I apologise for starting this discussion page with a triviality.

However, my experience of the English Wikipedia is that a great deal of editor time can be wasted on "correcting" spelling "mistakes" that are actually not mistakes but differences between the various flavours of English.

That is one reason that we have the MOS:ENGVAR guidance, which begins: "The English Wikipedia prefers no national variety of the language over any other. These varieties (for example American English or British English) differ in vocabulary (elevator vs. lift), spelling (center vs. centre), date formatting ("April 13, 2018" vs. "13 April 2018")..."

The first non-trivial version of this article used the principle of commonality (for an international encyclopaedia, using vocabulary common to all varieties of English is preferable) and did not use any words with a specifically US English or non-US English spelling (the first deviation from this principle was not until six years and many edits later with the US spelling of center being erroneously introduced).

However the original author of this article could not be neutral with regards to date formatting and used the non-US format of "She was appointed to this position by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 11 March 2011 and is the first person to hold the post at the level of Under-Secretary-General. " (my emphasis added and a usage opposed to the US or "American" English usage of March 11, 2011).

Consequently, spellings should not be "corrected" from non-US spelling to US spelling in this article and I have placed a reminder template at the top of this discussion page.--BushelCandle (talk) 22:58, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There's a well-established principle that editors should not change from one variety of English to another without good reason or talk page consensus. I don't believe that the presence of a date in the format "11 March 2011" establishes British English for the purposes of MOS:RETAIN (see this discussion), and so isn't a valid reason to change from "center" to "centre", nor is it a valid reason to disregard WP:BRD. Therefore I've again reverted to the previous status quo. Please don't make this edit for a third time without first establishing consensus to do so, thanks. --IamNotU (talk) 09:04, 1 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Fourth president since... when?

There is a quote from Reuters [1], saying "Sahle-Work becomes the fourth president since the ruling EPRDF coalition came to power". This has been widely distributed and repeated by numerous other sources. However, it is unclear and could be misleading. The EPRDF came to power in Ethiopia with President Meles Zenawi in 1991. Her predecessor, President Mulatu Teshome, has been described by some sources (and apparently by himself) as the "the fourth president of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia".[2].

The Reuters quote is either intended to mean she is the fourth president since EPRDF President Negasso Gidada was elected after the establishment of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and its constitution in 1995, or else the quote is saying she is the fourth since 1991. Some sources have reported it as the latter interpretation, for example: [3]. I have tried to re-write it to indicate the former interpretation: the fourth president since the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) coalition was elected in the newly-established Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in 1995. and I've added a new reference that supports that. I wanted to note it here though, as the Reuters source doesn't exactly say that. --IamNotU (talk) 12:27, 27 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion:

Sahle-Work Zewde portrait.jpg

Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 08:51, 25 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]