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Mistake with Official Language

Latest comment: 8 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

The article says the official language of Senegal is Arabic but in other areas of the article the only official language mentioned is French, not Arabic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2026-22322 (talk) 02:18, 2 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

Authoritative sources like Encyclopedia Britannica and the CIA World Factbook do not list Arabic as an official language. So I've removed Arabic from the infobox as it's misleading. Arbor to SJ (talk) 22:04, 10 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion

Latest comment: 7 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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Infobox

Latest comment: 2 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

The infobox for Senegal was removed ~2026-36867-76 (talk) 23:48, 1 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

This was due to an anonymous editor removing a bit of code, probably accidentally. Another anonymous editor has fixed the issue. CMD (talk) 03:59, 2 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Someone change the religion percentages every source has Islam at 97% and Christianity at 2-3%

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion

someone do it cause it’s clearly wrong ~2026-44138-49 (talk) 14:59, 11 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Not done - the only cited source (before you broke the infobox, so even that citation was broken) was ^[1]. That clearly gives 89% and 10% - you have provided no sources whatsoever to support your claim "every source has Islam at 97% and Christianity at 2-3%". - Arjayay (talk) 15:13, 11 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

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↑ "Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life / Islam and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa" (PDF). Pew Research. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 18, 2025.

[Pew_Research-1] "Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life / Islam and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa" (PDF). Pew Research. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 18, 2025.

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