Talk:Coalition of Domestic Election Observers

Wiki Education assignment: POLC 3200 African Politics

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 21 August 2023 and 15 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Clowery1 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Clowery1 (talk) 17:45, 22 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Lead + refs need reorganising

WP:ABOUTSELF references are to some degree acceptable in non-controversial factual claims, but this is a bad idea in the WP:LEAD, which should summarise the article, not present the subject's view of itself. The Journal of African Elections source^[1] is an academic source and likely to be a lot more reliable than what CODEO says about itself; info from this - and other independent sources - should be used to source the lead.

In any case, the lead should be re-written as a summary of the article, independently of what CODEO says about itself. After all, an independent monitoring organisation should expect to be independently monitored (studied) rather than having its own point of view be used as a Wikipedia lead. Boud (talk) 03:15, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Sakyi, E Kojo; Oduro, Franklin (2002-10-01). "Reflection on the activities and contributions of the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) to the success of Ghana's 2000 elections: lessons for other African countries" (PDF). Journal of African Elections. 1 (2): 55–68. doi:10.20940/JAE/2002/v1i2a4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-07-05.

[Sakyi-2002-1] Sakyi, E Kojo; Oduro, Franklin (2002-10-01). "Reflection on the activities and contributions of the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) to the success of Ghana's 2000 elections: lessons for other African countries" (PDF). Journal of African Elections. 1 (2): 55–68. doi:10.20940/JAE/2002/v1i2a4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-07-05.

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