User talk:Chenning01
Hello again. I notice you provided a source for your population figure changes on these two articles. However, the source you used, the Joshua Project, is generally not acceptable as a reliable source for articles about ethnic groups. See for example Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Igbo_people/archive1. I have reverted your changes. Thanks, cab (talk) 04:04, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
Please do not add content without citing reliable sources, as you did to Indians in Mozambique. Before making potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources please take this opportunity to add references to the article. Saying "I'm from Mozambique so I know and you don't" is not acceptable under Wikipedia's policy on reliable sources. Please provide a reliable source (not the Joshua Project) for the number of Indians in Mozambique, or we will continue to reject your editing. cab (talk) 13:22, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
- Well, for one, i am an Indian mozambican, i wasn't born there but i grew up there and the numbers of Indians as you mention in the wikipedia is WRONG. We are number tripped that number. As for the chinese, there is sible and estimation of 7,000 who work as investors in my country. I don't know where you got 1,500 or 12,000
- Do you have any RELIABLE SOURCE which states this information, such as a newspaper article, government report, scholarly book, academic journal paper, etc. which confirms any of your numbers? The confirmation of the numbers 1,500 and 12,000 is already provided in the links on the Ethnic Chinese in Mozambique article and you can read them for yourself if you follow the references. You've come back here with multiple different accounts and keep trying to change this information (not to mention changing the percentage of non-indigenous peoples from 99.66% to 91.66% on the Demographics of Mozambique article), without giving us any reason to believe you (being an Indian Mozambican doesn't mean anything on Wikipedia; we care what sources you can point to, not what your identity is). cab (talk) 13:45, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
- I have academic report which proves this that and not some Internet source because even the CIA is wrong. THERE ARE MORE INDIANS THAN WHITES IN MOZAMBIQUE, We outnumber them times 2. Most of the whites in present day Mozambique, are BRASILIANS, only about 6,000 whites of direct mozambican decent remain in Mozambique the other estimation of whites in Mozambique, which account for about 22,000, are Norwegians, Brazilians, South African, some Chileans and some Portuguese from Portugal. The information on Mozambique is full of old estimates and Wikipedia makes Mozambique look like a predominantly Bantu country meanwhile IT IS NOT. Mozambique is a country mixed with diverse races,and cultures.Please do more research :
- p.s most of the so-called whites in Mozambique, ARE LATINOS, they are much darker and have black hair like Portuguese or Brasilians. Please do more research. Mozambique is one of the most diverse country in Africa in terms of race and cultures...
- I didn't respond to the previous talks because I couldn't find where to talk; and I hope I am not talking to a machine
- WHY DON'T YOU HAVE PROFESSIONALS RUN THIS PLACE WHO KNOW MORE INFORMATIONS ABOUT SPECIFIC THINGS
- I DON'T HAVE INTERNET SOURCE BUT ACADEMIC SOURCE.... PLEASE FIND PROFESSIONALS
- AND MOZAMBIQUE IS NOT 99.66 BANTU...THAT IS JUST BOGUS LIES
- When you reply, add your reply at the bottom, not in the middle, and add four tildes ~~~~ at the end to sign it, so people know who made the comment. What is the title of the academic report you have? In what journal or book was it published? From what publisher? In what year? Giving this information is what is called a citation. If you change information in Wikipedia, you should note in the article where you got your new information from, like this:
- My new information.<ref>John Smith, "Article Title", ''Such-and-such Journal'' Vol. 1 No. 5, pp. 1-100</ref>
- And on Demographics of Mozambique, you changed it to say Indians are 2.6% of the population, which means more than half a million people --- this is clearly a "bogus lie", as you would say. With edits like that it is quite hard to assume you are trying to update Wikipedia's information in good faith; instead it looks a lot more like you are vandalising and wasting everyone's time.
- And what does it matter what the hair colour and tan of white people in Mozambique is???? That doesn't mean anything as to what proportion they are in Mozambique's population. cab (talk) 15:00, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
ERm excuse me,I am Mozambican and you not, so instead of being thankful i am doing you a favor, you better shut up after posting wrong information on the statistics of my country. I am going to cite as you mentioned
even the dumbest of people know that the Indians, are more populated than the whites in mozambique,....and as for the "Indians in Mozambique" demographics name,...name we are CALLED "Indian Mozambicans" and not "Indians in Mozambique". We are mozambicans so you better change that too.