Talk:Abortion in Togo

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Review: July 30, 2025. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from Abortion in Togo appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 August 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Togo's abortion law was one of the first in Africa to allow abortion in the case of rape?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Abortion in Togo.

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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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 14:54, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Togo's abortion law was one of the first in Africa to allow abortion in the case of rape?

Source: [1] Togo has become one of few African countries to legalise abortion if the pregnancy is the result of rape or an incestuous relationship [...]

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Meghri (river)

Moved to mainspace by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

— Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 02:05, 2 August 2024 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

All looks good on my end—thanks for the hard work! Bsoyka (t • c • g) 02:44, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback from New Page Review process

I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: Part of the series on Category:Abortion by country; well-written and linked. I note the separate reviews in the Did you know nomination section and support their positive tone.

Klbrain (talk) 09:09, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA review

Passed. Riley1012 (talk) 13:16, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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

Nominator: Vigilantcosmicpenguin (talk · contribs) 00:12, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Riley1012 (talk · contribs) 15:31, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I will review this article. My comments will be up in the next few days. -Riley1012 (talk) 15:31, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Vigilantcosmicpenguin: I have left my review below, with suggested changes in the bullet points. -Riley1012 (talk) 23:39, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Riley1012: Alright, I think I got everything. — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 04:56, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the quick response— I will pass this article. -Riley1012 (talk) 13:15, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV ()

3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant ()

Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

1. Well-written

In Togo, abortion is only legal in the cases of pregnancy... Remove the word "the" before cases in this sentence.
- Done.
By 1990, the lift of abortion restrictions had not increased the availability of services. Change to "lifting"
- Done.
The head of prenatal care at the Tokoin Teaching Hospital in Lomé, Boukari Amina, said the law "will fix a lot of things." Can you specify what "a lot of things" means?
- Removed the quote, as the source doesn't give enough detail to interpret what this quote means without original research.
In countries including Togo, U.S.–linked anti-abortion groups have set up centers disseminating misinformation related to abortion in th3 2020s. Typo here- should be "the".
- Fix3d.
Abortion is a factor in reduction of birth rates in the city. Add "the" before reduction
- Done.
Introduce the USAID acronym the first time it is used.
- Done.
PAC access for young people improved. Can you make this claim more specific- how much did it improve?
- Specified that the improvement was based on providers' understanding.

2. Verifiable
No issues with the reference layout, and the sources used are reliable. Earwig's does not indicate any initial red flags for copyright. Spot check: 1, 2, 6, 10, 14, and 21 all support the information cited and are not plagiarized.

3. Broad
This article covers the major aspects of the topic without going into unnecessary detail.

4. Neutral

A French law from 31 July 1920 banned abortion unless it threatened the life of the mother and banned birth control propaganda. Unless you can specify what the "propaganda" they banned was, I would change this to something more neutral like ...banned the promotion of birth control usage.
- Makes sense, done.

5. Stable
I have looked through the talk page and edit history to verify stability.

6. Illustrated
There aren't any images to evaluate.

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