User talk:Sunshineflowers91
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[edit]Look. I'm sorry that I had to revert you on whales. I'm the swine responsible for basically writing or completely reformatting the 670 odd articles on each known Aboriginal people and culture. It took two years, and was an apology for the fact that I belong to the white majority that, as my parents told us children, wore an inerasable guilt and responsibility for being the beneficiaries of what was an historical genocidee of colonization. My approach was to ensure that these articles reached a high level of quality, strong sourcing and accuracy. Quite a few people of aboriginal descent disliked my intrusiveness. It looked paternalistic. Well, that couldn't be avoided for the simple reason that I felt responsible to get the whole list of communities, their languages and cultures and tragic history up, and on a 'scientific' footing. Too many existing articles were liable to challenge because they were poorly sourced and often anecdotal. There is a huge amount of information that no one appears willing to read, and harvest, information which, if diligently fossicked out from the archives, is both fascinating in itself and makes those suppressed worlds suddenly appear in all of their complexity and sophistication. So don't take my removal as discouraging. Best wishes Nishidani (talk) 07:58, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
- Honestly, thankyou so much for writing this and explaining and I think it is so important to document and make sure people have access. I understand the importance as you just explaned of citations and I do agree. Is is just often so difficult as alot of our knowledge is passed down orally, however in recent times alot of this has been started to be transcriped and some great documents compiled. I appreciate your approach and dont mind people fixing if I cite wrong/messy references as long as it is fixed/edited/explained, thats all :) Sunshineflowers91 08:49, 9 August 2022 (UTC)