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List of presidents of the Maldives (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Nominator(s): Unilandofma^Talk 09:12, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list because I believe that this list meets all the criteria of FL and that it’s a step in promoting articles related to the Maldives on Wikipedia. Unilandofma^Talk 09:12, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It seems there is a lot of information on the table that is unsourced. Bgsu98 (Talk) 10:47, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What’s unsourced? The sources in the table covers it. Unilandofma^Talk 11:27, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is what is currently marked as source no. 11 cover everything on the table? Bgsu98 (Talk) 13:29, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Source no. 11 covers the list of former presidents. The sources marked on the presidents cover their rows respectively. Unilandofma^Talk 14:23, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The second president on the table has no source anywhere in his row. Additionally, if you are using one source for all of the information in a particular row, then there should be a separate column for sources down the far right hand column. Otherwise, the presence of the source in only one cell implies that it is referencing only the contents of that one cell. Bgsu98 (Talk) 15:12, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the suggestion, I added a separate column for the sources and added the source for the second president onto the article. Unilandofma^Talk 17:29, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have performed some minor copy edits to the lead. Bgsu98 (Talk) 21:20, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Unilandofma: Several of your notes (c through g) are not full sentences, so they therefore shouldn’t end with a period. I will try to do your source review later this evening when I get home from work. Bgsu98 (Talk) 15:14, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the periods from the notes! Unilandofma^Talk 15:44, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at the notes, if the word “president” is used as a title, then I believe it needs to be capitalized (ie. “President Yameen”). See President of the Maldives. Also, in notes C and G, you do not need the “the” in front of “Article 122”. Per Constitution of the Maldives, “Constitution” should be capitalized in this context.

In note A, change the comma to a semicolon after “Monarchy restored”.

Note D is awkwardly written. “Removed from power… by president Yameen by a vote taken…” Too many phrases starting with “by”. Same with note E. Bgsu98 (Talk) 01:10, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally, the caption of the president does not need the term “the incumbent”. Recommend simply “Mohamed Muizzu, President of the Maldives since 2023”. Bgsu98 (Talk) 01:15, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Bgsu98, I’ve implemented the changes you recommended! Unilandofma^Talk 06:17, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Unilandofma: It looks like you have a few instances of “vice President” as a result of converting lower-case to capital. Correct those to “Vice President” and I’ll be happy to support this list. Bgsu98 (Talk) 12:27, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Here’ll be an image review from me! Arconning (talk) 23:58, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Arconning, I added and fixed the sources on the images as well as added alt-text for accessibility. Unilandofma^Talk 02:55, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pass Arconning (talk) 17:09, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• File:Muliaage palace.jpg – CC BY 2.0
• File:The President’s Office of Maldives.jpg – CC BY 4.0
• File:Mohamed Amin.jpg – Public Domain, needing the source
• File:Ibrahim Muhammad Didi.png – Public Domain, source link needs to be fixed
• File:Ibrahim Nasir.png – CC BY 4.0
• File:Maumoon Abdul Gayoom Presidential Portrait 2000s (cropped).jpeg – CC BY 4.0
• File:Mohamed Nasheed portrait (2).jpg – CC BY 4.0
• File:Mohammed Waheed Hassan official portrait (cropped).jpg – CC BY 4.0
• File:Abdulla Yameen presidential portrait (cropped).jpg – CC BY 4.0
• File:Ibrahim Mohamed Solih official portrait.jpg – CC BY 4.0
• File:Dr Muizzu in December 2023.jpg – CC BY 4.0
• All have relevant captions, all images needing alt-text for accessibility though.

• To expand on Chris’ point above, color should not be the only way to distinguish something: use a symbol (and a legend) too. See List of World Heritage Sites in Burkina Faso for an example of this.
• Use {{abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}} as the header of the Ref column.
• The name column sortability needs to be based on last name. Use the {{sortname}} template.
• Tables need column scopes for all column header cells, which in combination with row scopes lets screen reader software accurately determine and read out the headers for each cell of a data table. Column scopes can be added by adding !scope=col to each header cell, e.g. ! Elected becomes !scope=col | Elected. If the cell spans multiple columns with a colspan, then use !scope=colgroup instead.
• Please see MOS:DTAB for example table code if this isn’t clear.
• Try to use the same wikitext for the names in the Vice-president and president column, That way it is more obvious that there are commonalities between the columns. (please  mention me on reply) –MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:56, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Hi @MPGuy2824, thanks for your comments. I’ve implemented them into the article! Unilandofma^Talk 04:52, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • I think you should change the alt text for Ibrahim Muhammad’s image. It makes it sound like he’s still the acting president.
  • The {{Multiple image}} template isn’t compatible with MOS:UPRIGHT. I suggest that you use separated images, one after the other. Alternatively, since you don’t mention either of those buildings in the lead, you can replace these images with one of the incumbent president. –MPGuy2824 (talk) 05:39, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    I’ve clarified the alt text on ibrahim Muhammad’s image and I replaced the pictures in the lead with the portrait of the current president. Unilandofma^Talk 16:19, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Support on accessibility. –MPGuy2824 (talk) 05:18, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• The lead image caption is not a sentence so it should not have a full stop
• “when president Mohamed Amin Didi was nearly beaten to death.[6] After he died of his injuries…..” – so apparently he was beaten to death…..?
• “President Mohamed Amin Didi was the shortest-serving president” => “Mohamed Amin Didi was the shortest-serving president”
• Sorting the first column puts the dash value at the top, meaning that it isn’t possible to sort the table back into chronological order. Use a hidden sorting template so that the dash sorts between 1 and 2
• The vacant/abolished rows also need hidden sorting templates so that they sort in the right place
• Note d should not have a full stop
• Nor should note e
• That’s what I got 🙂 — ChrisTheDude (talk) 21:52, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Hi Chris! I implemented your comments to the article besides the ones you made about the table. Could you specify what you mean by a hidden sorting template as I have no idea what you mean by that. Thanks! Unilandofma^Talk 17:17, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  I just went ahead and did it with this edit, as it was quicker than typing a long explanation. Now everything sorts in the right order — ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:06, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Thanks! Unilandofma^Talk 15:22, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Support — ChrisTheDude (talk) 16:39, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This table checks 4 passages from throughout the article (22.2% of 18 total passages).
These passages contain 6 inline citations (28.6% of 21 in the article). Generated with the Veracity user script. Bgsu98 (Talk) 00:19, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Unilandofma: There is only the one issue that needs to be addressed. Let me know once you have fixed it. Bgsu98 (Talk) 00:36, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I’ve fixed the issue. As for the old.majlis.gov.mv source, it’s a sitee (letter) by then president Mohamed Waheed to the parliament speaker calling for a vote to OK his appointment of vice president Waheeduddin under Article 122 of the constitution. Unilandofma^Talk 00:51, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It is multiple pages of scanned documents and IDs. You could clarify in the citation which page has the document to which you are referring. However, since the second source you cite verifies all of the information, it is not a big deal. Bgsu98 (Talk) 01:05, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Source review passed. Bgsu98 (Talk) 01:11, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]