User:Matete Plays
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About me
Hello, I am Matete Plays. I contribute mainly to articles connected with Albania, especially Albanian politics, elections, political parties, civic protests, public institutions, protected areas, and Albanian cultural figures.
I have been contributing to English Wikipedia since 2021. My recent editing has focused on improving outdated Albania-related pages, expanding short articles, creating or improving missing pages, adding reliable sources, updating election and political information, and maintaining articles during major political and civic developments.
Editing interests
- Politics of Albania
- Elections in Albania and Albanian election results
- Albanian political parties, politicians, governments, and public institutions
- Civic protests, anti-corruption movements, political crises, and current events in Albania
- Albanian protected areas and environmental issues
- Albanian composers, artists, cultural institutions, and education-related pages
- Improving underdeveloped Albania-related biographies and institution pages
- Article cleanup, redirects, wikilinks, infoboxes, tables, and sourcing
Main areas of work
Albanian politics, elections, and institutions
I frequently work on articles related to Albanian political life, including election pages, political-party pages, government pages, and institutional pages. This includes updating political developments, election results, party information, government composition, controversies, and related biographies.
Selected articles I have worked on include:
- Politics of Albania
- Elections in Albania
- 2025 Albanian parliamentary election
- 2025 Albanian local elections
- Rama IV Government
- Parliament of Albania
- List of political parties in Albania
- Socialist Party of Albania
- Democratic Party of Albania
- Social Democratic Party of Albania
- Opportunity Party (Albania)
- Special Structure against Corruption and Organized Crime
Albanian politicians and public figures
I have created, expanded, updated, or helped maintain several Albania-related biography pages, especially politicians and public figures connected with recent political developments.
Selected articles include:
Protests, political crises, corruption, media, and democratic backsliding
A major part of my recent editing has focused on Albania-related protest movements, political crises, corruption, media freedom, and democratic backsliding. I try to improve these pages by adding reliable sources, updating outdated information, and separating allegations, investigations, official statements, and confirmed facts.
Selected articles include:
- Flamingo Revolution
- 2011 Albanian opposition demonstrations
- 2017 Albanian opposition protests
- 2018–2019 student protests in Albania
- 2019 Albanian opposition protests
- 2019–2021 Albanian political crisis
- National Theatre of Albania protests
- 2022 Albanian protests
- Fall of communism in Albania
- Corruption in Albania
- Mass media in Albania
- Democratic backsliding in Europe by country
- Southeast Europe protests (2024–present)
Environment and protected areas
I have also worked on Albania-related environmental and protected-area coverage, especially where environmental issues connect with public-interest controversies.
Selected articles include:
Albanian culture, music, and education
In addition to political topics, I have worked on Albanian cultural, musical, and educational pages, especially composers, artists, and institutions.
Selected articles include:
Articles created or significantly expanded
Some pages I have created, moved from draft, expanded, or substantially improved include:
- Vjosa–Nartë Protected Landscape
- Thoma Gaqi
- Vilson Kilica
- Haig Zacharian
- Florjan Binaj
- University of Arts, Tirana
- Corruption in Albania
- Mass media in Albania
- Politics of Albania
- Elections in Albania
- Agron Shehaj
- Erald Kapri
- Tom Doshi
- Eduard Halimi
- Social Democratic Party of Albania
- Opportunity Party (Albania)
- Fall of communism in Albania
- 2011 Albanian opposition demonstrations
- 2017 Albanian opposition protests
- 2018–2019 student protests in Albania
- 2019 Albanian opposition protests
- 2019–2021 Albanian political crisis
- National Theatre of Albania protests
Editing approach
I try to improve articles by:
- adding reliable and verifiable sources;
- updating outdated political, election, and institutional information;
- expanding short or underdeveloped Albania-related pages;
- improving article structure, tables, infoboxes, redirects, categories, and wikilinks;
- fixing formatting problems, dead categories, disambiguation links, and outdated maintenance issues;
- using neutral wording, especially for living persons;
- distinguishing allegations, investigations, charges, official statements, and confirmed facts;
- avoiding original research and unsourced claims;
- participating in talk-page discussions, deletion discussions, requested moves, and current-events discussions when needed.
For controversial Albanian political topics and biographies of living persons, I try to follow Wikipedia's core content policies, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, reliable sourcing, no original research, and biographies of living persons.
Useful policy pages
Current focus
My current focus is improving Albania-related political and public-interest coverage after the 2025 Albanian parliamentary election, the formation of the Rama IV Government, and the 2026 protest movement. This includes updates to political-party pages, election tables, protest articles, corruption and media-freedom topics, protected-area pages, and related biographies.
I am also working on improving Albania-related historical protest and political-crisis coverage, including articles about the 2011, 2017, 2019, and 2019–2021 opposition protests and crises.
I am also working on improving Albania-related cultural coverage, especially pages about Albanian composers, artists, universities, and cultural institutions.
Notes
This is a user page, not an encyclopedia article. My edits should be judged by Wikipedia's policies, consensus, and the quality of the sources used in each article.