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Malawi was one of the Geography and places good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
November 11, 2008	Good article nominee	Listed
November 17, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
November 24, 2008	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
October 25, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted
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Current status: Delisted good article

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"Women in Malawi" section needs major revisions

The placement and content of the "Women in Malawi" section of the article is fairly odd. Based on what the other major sections of the article are, it should probably be a subsection under one of them rather than its own standalone section. It would probably fit well under either the existing "Demographics" or "Human Rights" sections of the article. Additionally, the tone and grammar of the section are noticeably odd. It reads like something that came directly from a government task force or committee, instead of how informative sections are usually phrased for articles about nations here on Wikipedia. I don't want to just singlehandedly decide which parts of that section need rewriting or rephrasing, so I was hoping we could get some consensus here on what should remain in the section as is, what should be removed, and what should be rewritten or rephrased. MojaveSummit (talk) 21:59, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It is odd here, but could probably be its own article. CMD (talk) 23:23, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Consensus for language section of infobox

The language section of the infobox is being reverted back and forth by myself and user RC88. They keep blanking the language section of the infobox claiming there are no sources for the information. I have tried pointing out how the source listed clearly states the information there. User RC88 insists that it does not use the exact wording of national and regional languages so it is not a correct source. I insist that those parameters are not required to have that.

What is the consensus for this so the edit warring stops? Wkpdsrnm2023 (talk) 00:46, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Update: an agreement was reached and the languages were re-labeled as "spoken languages". Wkpdsrnm2023 (talk) 13:52, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Child who is looking for her father

Hello everyone my name is Talawa Qomisa I am looking for a my father called Innocent Patrick Fundi he is from Malawi in Lilongwe in Blantyre can anyone help me find him because I really would appreciate your help 41.114.175.75 (talk) 11:50, 17 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

Malawi

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.

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Result: Delisted. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 23:55, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple cases of missing citations/unsourced content and need for greater comprehensiveness on topic (particularly in certain sections). May also need some updating (neither the History nor Health sections talk about the COVID-19 pandemic, which I think should be mentioned and definitely has RS on). General cleanup and miscellaneous work is also needed in many sections. Dan the Animator 07:34, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Also forgot to mention this above but this is my first GA re-review proposal so if I made any mistakes please let me know. Personally would've preferred just fixing the mistakes myself but the article unfortunately is in need of many major edits. Dan the Animator 07:39, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Agree a bit of work could be done. The article has odd bits of extreme detail (I've removed some trivia about Liberland), Science and technology seems oddly undue and "Women in Malawi" feels like it was written for a different article. At the same time, some other sections/subsections are oddly short, eg. Administrative divisions. CMD (talk) 12:24, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above 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.