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Trauma in Agbarho

What happened in Agbarho yesterday (1-11-2012) was unprecedentd. A group of young boys were playing cards in an uncompleted building when some members of the task force of Agbarho community invaded the building. They started shooting at random & in the process killed the twin brother of one of the boys playing cards in the building, while the other boys escaped. Realising they've killed someone, the task force took to their heels. The elder brother of the deceased who is a butcher pursued the task force & caught one of them. He bundled him to a popular junction at Agbarho known as( five junction) & slaughtered him in bits. He removed his head & hung it on a stick, cut away his hands & legs & divided it all over the junction. The awful thing was that he cut away his private parts, ate them raw, watered it down with alcohol, after which he set him ablaze. On arrival of the army, the man took to his heels. The army started shooting at him but the bullets were unable to penetrate due to some charms he had all over him. The stray bullets killed about 4 people while others injured were taken to the hospital for treatment. Although there were mixed feelings about the ordeal, the maJority was joyful for what happened to the task force, due to their (task force) appalling activities in the town. (Ajokpeoghene (talk) 17:25, 2 November 2012 (UTC))

Is that related to this? Is there an article which you'd like to update? bobrayner (talk) 23:47, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

rwandan refugees return home, 1996 (History of Rwanda)

http://www.fao.org/NEWS/GLOBAL/GW9716-e.htm (dated 24 July 1997) title: "Rwandan refugees' return home puts heavy strain on limited food resources" by "The Food and Agriculture Organization of The United Nations"

specifically quoted from above: "Between June 1996 and June 1997, almost all of the nearly 2 million refugees who had fled to neighbouring countries to escape civil strife returned to Rwanda"

This began in June of 1996 when "unarmed cargo aircraft under United Nations supervision" were allowed by Zaire to "airdrop food and supplies without landing" along the road from the main camp in Zaire to the Rwandan border, thereby allowing most of the refugees there to "walk home without incident" since Zaire would not allow foreign troops on their soil to move them, nor did Zaire have the resources to move them themselves. The number of returning refugees for the first 30 days of the operation was reported as "approximately 970,000" in American news media, with "about 340,000 remaining in the camp" at that time.

Youjaes (talk) 14:04, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Consistancy on two pages

On page Operation Linda Nchi & List of wars 2011–present.

• Operation Linda Nchi = has a US flag, and states French involvement, but the infobox only shows US flag and no French flag.
• List of wars 2011-present = has no US flag in the list.

Marasama (talk) 18:36, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

I'd suggest posting to the talk pages of those articles, or just going ahead and making the change yourself. Good catch! -- Khazar2 (talk) 18:43, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Done. Marasama (talk) 20:41, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedians in Residence wanted in Cameroon and South Africa

WikiAfrica is seeking Wikipedians in Residence! One to work in Cameroon and one in South Africa. Please visit their blog to learn more. SarahStierch (talk) 18:43, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Portal:Geography at portal peer review

Portal:Geography is now up for portal peer review, the review page is at Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Geography/archive1. I've put a bit of effort into this as part of a featured portal drive related to portals linked from the top-right corner of the Main Page, and feedback would be appreciated prior to featured portal candidacy. Thank you for your time, — Cirt (talk) 21:03, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

image map

Template:Africa countries imagemap of main article fame is messed to the point of uselessness. It looks pretty hard to fix, but please. trespassers william (talk) 00:18, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Changing page name

Hi I was wondering if this page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesothan_literature) could get a title change since the word "Lesothan" does not exist? The proper name for people from Lesotho is "Mosotho" for the singular and "Basotho" for the plural. I did not see a place to change the title, but "Basotho Literature" would be the correct title (or "Sesotho Literature" if you wanted to refer to the culture instead of the people). Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.123.124.4 (talk) 20:40, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Changed to Lesotho literature. Thought about the alternatives, and went with the easiest new title. Hope that works. If not, start a new section at Talk:Lesotho literature to discuss it. AbstractIllusions (talk) 20:36, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Gough Island

This article is on my watchlist, but I am not an expert. Please could editors note concerns at Talk:Gough Island#Recent specific edits and determine whether my concerns are valid? Fiddle Faddle (talk) 18:54, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

List of new articles

Hi, please where we can found the list of new articles? Regards. --Fayçal.09 (talk) 09:02, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

The Ethiopia WikiProject Redesign

The Ethiopia WikiProject has gone through a complete redesign and restart. Come check us out and please join and contribute. We need a lot of help and welcome all contributors.

Thanks, አቤል ዳዊት (talk) 10:19, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Operation Entebbe

Operation Entebbe, an article that your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. AIRcorn (talk) 14:34, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Ghana related articles

A part of Ghana is slowly disappearing from articles and being renamed Akanland. See the edits by MarkMysoe (talk · contribs) and the discussion at WP:BLPN#Nana Akufo-Addo. Dougweller (talk) 17:35, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Doug, as Mark has pointed out many many times, the only true citizens of Ghana are the Akan and the Ga, and the only true religion is Christianity. All the rest, such as the Ewe, Dagomba, and Fulani, are illegal immigrants and criminals, and the country urgently needs to be cleansed. (See for example the edit history of the Ghana article from last March and April.) I myself am investing in a barbed-wire export company for the day when Ghana is returned to its rightful owners.

Seriously, Mark tried converting the Ghana article to Akanland back in March–April. I used to revert him on sight, as reviewing his ludicrous edits was generally a waste of time and there was almost never anything of value in them. He's simply a bigot. I suspect that since he can't get his way with the Ghana article, he's switched to the Akanland article as a substitute. See also #User: MarkMysoe above.

He even moved Princes Town, Ghana to Princes Town (town) with the edit summary 'universal'! I'm going through his recent contribution history and reverting everything that's still there. — kwami (talk) 18:07, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

• It appears the issue has moved to ANI for primary discussion if anyone has comments. AbstractIllusions (talk) 20:11, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

He's been banned and has apparently left WP. Many of the articles can be found by what links to Akanland, {{Country data Akanland}}, and {{Akanland-geo-stub}}. — kwami (talk) 22:57, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Does anyone know if Category:Akan-language surnames is legitimate? MarkMysoe spent a lot of time populating it, none of them are referenced, and in light of recent events I'm curious to know if they are genuinely "Akan" surnames. —Xezbeth (talk) 21:31, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

In a normal situation it would be appropriate to remove categories from articles if they're not supported by the sources; especially if it relates to living people.

If the categories were added as part of a campaign of tendentious editing... that further removes any assumption that the categories might have been OK. bobrayner (talk) 01:47, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Auto archiver

Due to the increasing length of this page (80 threads!), I've added an autoarchiver to the top. If anyone objects, of course, please feel free to remove and we can discuss. Cheers, -- Khazar2 (talk) 19:51, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Salaamu 'alaikum. I only want to suggest that you enquire into the 1970th historic inter marriage between Nana Ajaram, a daughter of the Shehu of Borno(the late Shehu Umar ibn Abubakar Garbai EL AMIN EL KANEMI)of Maiduguri, Nigeria and the Khalifa/Sultan (died 2009/10) of Mao, Chad. This marriage symbolized a renisence of the relationship between the Kanuri (ORIGINALLY KAL NURI meaning "like light, people who were lightened by the Prophet s.a.w. without seing him") people of Borno, Nigeria and, their relatives, the Kanumbu people of Chad. Please also verify the historic fact that the KAL NURI (Kanuri), under the Mai(deputised by the Mainin Kinandi), ruled from Darfur in Sudan to Kano in Nigeria during the KANEM BORNO EMPIRE/SEFAWA DYNASTY (the longest unbroken dynasty in the world/over 1000 years) through whom Islam came to the area now called Nigeria. Please verify for more advancement of Wikipedia. Barrister(Shettima of Borno)Muhammad Bashir Alkali(PhD Sharia candidate) of Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya,Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia. Tel. +60146757383 Email: mbashiralkali@yahoo.com. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.184.111.68 (talk) 07:59, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject African diaspora

I propose the removal of WikiProject African diaspora link from the lede. WikiProject African diaspora does not mention or put any emphasis on this project and has a different topic. WikiProject African diaspora's topic is the cultural contributions of people of African descent in places outside Africa. In contrast WikiProject Africa's topic is Africa itself. 69.121.246.232 (talk) 01:47, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

• Oppose The mention in the lead is to make clear the distinction between the different projects. Hence, your argument is exactly the reason to keep the brief mention. Happy New Year all. AbstractIllusions (talk) 03:52, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Afrikaans in infobox

At the moment the Afrikaans name is listed in the infobox for the tournaments of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations and also of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. However there are 11 official Languages of South Africa. The infobox should either have all 11 offical languages, or only English. Afrikaans should not receive special treatment. Best regards. --Fayçal.09 (talk) 16:45, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

I'd suggest raising this issue on the talk pages of those articles if you haven't yet. Thanks for noticing it. -- Khazar2 (talk) 16:47, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

It has already been done, you can see here and here. Regards. --Fayçal.09 (talk) 17:06, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Coup leaders in officeholder categories?

I'd like to put Nicholas Podier in some sort of officeholder category, because as co-chairman of the People's Redemption Council, he was officially vice-head of state for Liberia for a time. However, I notice that Vice-President of Liberia and Category:Vice-Presidents of Liberia only have room for people who had the title of Vice-President, and there was no president nor vice-president in Liberia for several years after the coup. Is there precedent on what to do with coup leaders who de-facto hold certain positions without claiming the titles of those positions? Nyttend (talk) 21:29, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

• It has a precedent. Vice President of Sierra Leone does that with Sankoh, even though he didn't hold the position "Vice President" until later, and the Title column is really good at showing that. Lists of Heads of State also include coup leaders across the board, regardless of their actual title (for a non-African example, see President of El Salvador, for an African example, see List of heads of state of Togo with Bodjolle and Dadjo included). In terms of Category, although Paul-Émile de Souza was never the "President" of Benin, he has that category attached and has had it since the article was created. I think as long as there is a Title column or notes column where it can be clearly stated and that the actual title held by the person is clearly made in the lead of there personal article and there isn't an attempt to change the person's title at any point, it is following the norm on most other pages and only improves the content of that page. Hope that helps. AbstractIllusions (talk) 22:10, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Requested move for Congo

• (Discuss) – Republic of the Congo → Congo-Brazzaville Kauffner (talk) 03:30, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Akan & akan-stub

Now that WP:WikiProject Akan and {{Akan-stub}} hierarchy have been deleted as a POV-soapbox for blocked MarkMysoe (talk · contribs), there may be a need for cleanup of whatever MarkMysoe touched to emphasize WPAKAN over all other projects (WPGhana, WP Ivory Coast, WPAfrica) if previous attempts at cleanup missed anything. -- 76.65.128.43 (talk) 01:44, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

TAFI

Hello, Please note that Geography of Niger, which is within this project's scope, has been selected to become a Today's Article for Improvement. The article is currently in the TAFI Holding Area, where comments are welcome about ideas to improve it. After the article is moved from the holding area to the TAFI schedule, it will appear on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Today's Article for Improvement" section for one week. Everyone is invited to participate in the discussion and encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thank you, TheOriginalSoni (talk) 07:44, 27 January 2013 (UTC) (From the TAFI team)

Isle de France

See Talk:Isle de France and Talk:Governor of Isle de France for the discussion of the usurpation of a longstanding redirect to a different topic in France by a recently created article on Africa. -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 04:13, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Portal:Geography for featured portal consideration

• Geography

I've nominated Portal:Geography for featured portal candidacy, discussion is at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Geography. Thank you for your time, — Cirt (talk) 21:26, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

African dance

Hiya, I've cross-listed this to WikiProject Dance -- I am involved in the African dance community in New York City and am interested in improving on, linking, building, and otherwise adding to pages about African dances, teachers, dance companies, etc. Looking for others to collaborate with. Does anyone have suggestions of where to start? Gus andrews (talk) 04:05, 5 February 2013 (UTC)