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Welcome to WikiProject Botswana! This group was formed to better organize articles on Botswana in a spirit of cooperation.

Scope[edit]

This group includes within its scope all articles related to Botswana, its cities, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Botswana in a fair and accurate manner. All of these articles should be contained within the Category:Botswana or one of its subcategories.

To-do[edit]

Get all Botswana districts to GA class.

Assessment of Botswana Districts

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See Template:Botswana Barnstar

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Categories for discussion

26 Apr 2024 – Category:Natural history of Botswana (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion

Redirects for discussion

28 May 2024 – Kanye East (talk · edit · hist) →Parliamentary constituencies of the 2014 Botswana general elections was RfDed by 108.21.221.8 (t · c); see discussion

Featured list candidates

22 May 2024 – List of general elections in Botswana (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by 48JCL (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

29 May 2024 – President of Botswana (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by 48JCL (t · c); start discussion
28 May 2024 – Jwaneng diamond mine (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by 48JCL (t · c) was not promoted by Esculenta (t · c), see discussion

Peer reviews

29 May 2024 – Botswana (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by 48JCL (t · c); see discussion
07 May 2024 – Mining industry of Botswana (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by 48JCL (t · c); see discussion
20 May 2024 – List of general elections in Botswana (talk · edit · hist) put up for PR by 48JCL (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Articles for creation

20 May 2024 – Draft:Dereck Joubert (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Rosguill (t · c)
05 Feb 2024 – Draft:Mmantlha Sankoloba (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Youknowwhoistheman (t · c)

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

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