Talk:Nancy Chitera

Her university has had a long relationship with the University of Strathclyde in Scotland and in 2025 they formalised their relationship.

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The result was: promoted by Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:39, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

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Vice Chancellor Nancy Chitera

• ... that Nancy Chitera (pictured) leads a university that plans to manufacture tractors and begin gold mining in Malawi?
• alt1... that Nancy Chitera (pictured) leads a university that is getting involved in manufacturing tractors and gold mining in Malawi?

• Source: Through the unit, it will make and assemble tractors, maize shellers, crop planters and maize harvesters among others....the university also has Mubas Commercial Limited which focuses on mining and plans to commence lime and cement production as well as gold mining

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Duplicating Machine Memorial
  • Comment: GhostInTheMachine helped to finesse the article. Thank you. Trying to credit other editors who assist. Feel free to be one of them.

Created by Victuallers (talk) and GhostInTheMachine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 454 past nominations.

Victuallers (talk) 15:37, 17 April 2026 (UTC).

• Comments by Tbhotch

General eligibility:

• New enough:
• Long enough:
• Other problems:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - See below
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
• Other problems:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - See below

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: A newly created article that is long enough. QPQ done, the hook is interesting. The image is free but unclear at 100px (not a reason to decline the nomination)

Here are some queries:

• Source 2 goes to https://web.ua.es/en/pme45/ It needs instructions to know where anyone is supposed to go to reach the cited article.
• Source 3 is either dead, region-blocked or doesn't open
• Source 4 is a primary source that doesn't establish its noteworthiness.
• Source 5 doesn't mention the quote "until a more substantive candidate could be found"; the most similar quote is "with immediate effect until a substantive Vice Chancellor has been identified."
• "The Chancellor who was the President of Malawi Lazarus Chakwera attended with Chitera assisting". This sentence is unclear.
• "MUBAS also has interests in mining. They intend to manufacture cement and lime and to take an interest in gold mining". The source says the interest is not by MUBAS itself but through their company MUBAS Commercial Limited. Tbhotch^™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 05:25, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

• Thanks for the review @Tbhotch:. I think I have addressed all of those points and I have added an alt. I hope you can find time to look again. Victuallers (talk) 23:12, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

• @Victuallers: the Source 2 issue is still there. Proposing ALT2 before it is reported a wording issue: ...that Nancy Chitera (pictured) leads a university whose company plans to manufacture tractors and begin gold mining in Malawi? Tbhotch^™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 23:41, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

@Tbhotch: Oops, fixed the broken url in ref 2 and alt2 is fine. thanks Victuallers (talk) 08:58, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

ALT2 is good to go. Tbhotch^™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 08:21, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

@Tbhotch: Could you consider the new image that I have included? (I had to travel over 10,000 miles to get it!). It would be good to see a successful African woman on the main page. Cheers. Victuallers (talk) 00:39, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

I don't know why the ping didn't work. The file is acceptable for the main page. Tbhotch^™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 06:32, 8 May 2026 (UTC)