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Talk:Yoruba people

message: Hello the 52,000,000 million,  I believe is overstated. According to several figures including census and cia factbook Yorubas are 15.5% of Nigeria respectively. This is out 230 million equal to around 35-37 million people. WikiFan45TY (talk) 03:01, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: If anything it's underrated. There's no proof that Yoruba people are 15% of Nigeria population and the last Census was 2006 or so. The population of Yoruba people are way about 50 million, and don't forget about the Yoruba people in Benin, Togo and the diaspora and their children. Researcherofgreatness (talk) 00:23, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I haven’t seen proof for an estimation of over 50 million WikiFan45TY (talk) 21:01, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yoruba demographics  

message: Yoruba people are the largest West african and Nigerian ethnicity in the UK. Appropriate UK and England population approximate of the Yorubas should be added. It looks off that the region with one of the highest Yoruba diaspora demographic isn't included in the list. Researcherofgreatness (talk) 00:29, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please someone add relevant UK Yoruba population stats  

message: There is no verified sources that say Yorubas are 50,000,000. There was an extra 10 million in population added randomly I believe to inflant the numbers. According to CIA factbook they’re 15% of Nigeria. 2600:1017:B016:2B70:48C0:2988:8AC2:85 (talk) 02:45, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yoruba population  

message: Ethnologue is not too accurate for population numbers. The links are broken a lot of times, and they’re being used to inflate numbers on this page. There is no source that says they’re 50,000,000 Yorubas 2600:1017:B016:2B70:48C0:2988:8AC2:85 (talk) 02:48, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethnologue  

message: Does the troll involved in that edit know the meaning of etymology? I guess not. One, there is no need for a name section when there is am etymology section. Two, why didn't the name section appear for other ethnicities in Nigeria? Not even etymology section appears for them, should I start adding? Sounds like a great idea. Thirdly, the name section was created for a troll attempt with no source, the person who edited didn't read what they sourced and what it said. Lastly, I will be reporting troll attempts now. Researcherofgreatness (talk) 02:29, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why was there recently a "name" section added when there was already an etymology section?
Talk:Nmci

message: Putting this up for speedy deletion because it is not linked to by any other article.  The actual page that should be matched is NMCI.  (Note all caps.) Vesta 08:34, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Read the policy on redirect deletions, I guess this has a use after all. :) - Vesta 08:50, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Talk:John L. Sullivan

message: I'm getting lots of conflicting information. John L. Sullivan won a bout in Cincinnati under the Queensbury rules in 1885, being the first prize fight under those rules. Can someone clarify? JoeHenzi 08:44, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: Looks like Charles Bronson as Sullivan in “The Hand That Shook the Hand” episode (1961), S5 E20 2600:1700:8281:410:E032:3DE:D31E:C67B (talk) 23:17, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tales of Wells Fargo  

message: this is not considered a full world champion title!If the WBA Gold is now taken into account on Wikipedia then the WBC Silver, which has an equivalent status, and the WBC Franchise Champion, which should even be taken into account like the WBA Super. 84.152.86.116 (talk) 15:33, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  WBA GOLD
Talk:Typography

message: The dagger symbol is just another symbol and it is just strange (to my eyes) to disambiguate using  rather than  like every other ambiguously named symbol. Quite a few articles link here so rather than just WP:BEBOLD, I thought it best to ask have I missed something, why has no one moved it before now. Any comments to talk:Dagger (typography)#Proposal to move this article to Dagger (symbol), please. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 18:43, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intent to move Dagger (typography) to Dagger (symbol) 

message: Moving unsourced comments from the article here instead of deleting them. Restoring them to the article should be done with an accompanying reference.
The aesthetic concerns in typography deal not only with the careful selection of one or two harmonizing typefaces and relative type sizes but also with laying out elements to be printed on a flat surface tastefully and appealingly, among others. For this reason, typographers attempt to observe typographical principles, the most common of which are:
* Limit up to three colors, which should harmonize with each other and with the color of the paper and the dominant color(s) of the photo or graphics
* Limit to two typefaces on a single page, which should "match"
* Limit up to three fonts and sizes
* Select the size of leading to be optimal and most pleasing to the eyes.
* The number of different enhancements such as greater size, bold, italic fonts, capitalization, or different typeface, different color, as used for headlines and emphasized words inside the text block, should be limited and consistent and be judiciously selected
* Avoid underlining, which when used should not be on top of another enhancement
* Text should be placed judiciously to naturally lead the eye from one text to the next
* Multi-line headlines should be segmented by phrases (no phrase should be split into two lines)
* No widows and orphans (no beginning line of paragraph at the bottom of page, no last line of paragraph at the top of page)
* Likewise no headline is at the page bottom
* The last line of a paragraph should flush with the preceding lines and not stand alone below a picture
* The printing elements should not be scattered in the hodgepodge fashion across the page unless it truly conveys hodgepodge.
* The letters V and W at the beginning of a paragraph line should extend a little to the left of the vertical left flush line to give an optical impression of being flush with lines below.
Airborne84 (talk) 00:07, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unreferenced section
Talk:Anderson

message: Some more Andersons who do not yet have articles in Wikipedia:
*Anderson, Charles, recipient of a Victoria Cross for valour
*Anderson, Charles, a 19th century convict on Sydney's Goat Island
*Anderson, Jessica, novelist
* Anderson, John - Canadian Admiral
* Anderson, John, country musician
* Anderson, John, Representative from Maine in the early 19th century
* Anderson, John, actor
* Anderson, John D., professor of aerospace engineering and author of several books on aerodynamics and the history of aircraft
* Anderson, John R., professor of psychology and computer science at Carnegie Mellon University
*Anderson, Mal, Australian tennis player (forget it, it's just a redirect)
*Anderson, Reid
*Anderson, Rod, Canadian writer
*Anderson, Ruth
|l'KF'l| 23:53, Aug 16, 2004 (UTC)
:: Hey KF, you've really done a great job here with all the Andersons! Alter Ego 17:01, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of people 

message: In the interests of avoiding duplication, I think all of the people here should be migrated to List of people by name: Ande#People named Anderson, and removed from this disambiguation page, per Wikipedia:Disambiguation ("In most cases, do not list names of which Title is a part, unless the persons are very frequently referred to simply by their first or last name (e.g. Galileo, Shakespeare).")  The goal is to bring this page more in line with the Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages).
We can leave a prominent link to the List of people by name, as was done at Smith.  Is there enough to be said about the surname to make a separate Anderson (surname) article (in parallel to Smith (surname)), perhaps with redirects from Andersson and Andersen?   Let me know what you think.  — Catherine\talk 23:19, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: An excellent idea! Tedernst | talk 23:21, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Anderson names
Talk:Heterosexuality/Archive 2

message: The bulk of the Urban Dictionary link was concerned with the childfree movement, which has no particular link to the gay community - many people in the childfree movement are straight, and simply uninterested in having children, or believing that having children is a poor decision with the world being what it is. The citation, therefore, is not germaine to the article. (Though, to my surprise, we have no article on the childfree moment. Huh.) Snowspinner 06:00, 4 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Urban Dictionary Link

message: Discussion moved to: Prevalence of heterosexuality. Hyacinth 03:20, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been told that having a heading w no text other than See: Prevalence of heterosexuality. (or whatever) is bad style. Was I misinformed? It certainly looks odd, and is far from common. Is any separate article worthy of a subheading? Why was this made into a separate page anyhow? Sam [Spade] 05:07, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

text: Apologies to User:Raul654, but the link is listed in ==See also==. It wouldn't be a horrible idea for someone to provide a short summary around the link, thus deserving of a header. Hyacinth 05:15, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

text: That's what I tried to say but I have now had 3 edit conflicts! →Raul654 05:15, Jul 4, 2004 (UTC)
That section was moved to its own article because of the length of the discussion and the controversy surrounding the issue. That way this page may simply summarize what that page says, while that page may take the abuse and endless amounts of text produced by conflicts. Hyacinth 02:36, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Prevalence of heterosexuality
Talk:Stupid White Men

message: 206.123.202.54 changed the title of this page into "Stupid Fat Men" as well as some details.  I think I reversed most of it but watch out for future edits this person makes. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.51.112.158 (talk) 02:12, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: I added an "unreferenced" flag to this page. Most of this article is a narrative of the troubles Moore had with publishing the book, but with no mention of the sources for any of that story, or for any of the (somewhat outlandish) quotes. Not quite up to encyclopedia standards. 
:: the "narrative of the troubles Moore had with publishing the book" was included in the (revised edition?) book in the forward. --Hypo Mix (talk) 14:13, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  References? Neutrality? 

message: Fine with me. SP-KP 17:29, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Can someone who read this book explain why the first prayer listed here makes any sense? If we are sufficiently old enough, there is a good chance of getting cancer so it's not something that being a person of establishment helps in avoiding. Also any member of House of Representatives should have a good medical coverage that give them the advantage in fighting cancer that "ordinary" people may not have. This is like saying "You have a great medical coverage so I hope you get sick to feel the pain of ordinary people who can't afford it!". It just doesn't make any sense. --Revth 09:05, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal for [[A Prayer to Afflict the Comfortable]] 
Talk:Field hockey

message: This sentence is just left hanging, without context or explanation. 
I suggest we work the following into the text: "Field hockey, a mostly male-dominated game in Europe, is almost exclusively played by girls in the US due to the passing of Title IX in 1972, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in public schools and made field hockey a counterweight to boys’ football."  CapnZapp (talk) 14:51, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "In the United States field hockey is played predominantly by females." 

message: In third paragraph: "the term "field hockey" (and sometimes "grass hockey" informally) is used primarily in Canada and the United States where ice hockey is more popular.
I don't think adding the words (and sometimes "grass hockey" informally) is too disruptive to the field hockey world outside Canada and the United States. Thoughts? Google "grass hockey" -> About 50,200 results (0.56 seconds) Facts707 (talk) 20:12, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually I'm not too concerned about it because I see Google "field hockey" -> About 19,600,000 results (0.82 seconds). I won't add "(and sometimes "grass hockey" informally)" unless a consensus here develops. Cheers, Facts707 (talk) 18:40, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Good. -Roxy  . wooF 20:19, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Term "grass hockey" sometimes used informally in US, Canada 

message: There is Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey, as I suppose I would expect, but field hockey doesn't have a WikiProject. Would anyone be interested in forming it?
Sistorian (talk) 04:46, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, it would be a great idea. Fma12 (talk) 00:03, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Wikipedia:WikiProject Field Hockey 

message: I have been doing what I can to try and resolve some of the issues which mostly concern both lack and reliability of sources. I am going to be away for a lengthy period after today but, if anyone can help with the problems here, that will be appreciated. Good luck.
Sistorian (talk) 12:37, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  State of this article
Talk:Whakaata Māori

message: I'm not impressed with the addition about unrest and discontent at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Maori_Television&diff=4554008&oldid=4554004 - can it be backed up with documentation? Robin Patterson 11:26, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Translation of mā rātou mā mātou mā koutou mā tātou: for them, for us, for you, for all of us. Kahuroa 03:41, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

message: The citation for this is dodgy as hell - it references a quote from the chairman of the board of Maori Television, which is hardly objective.
The citation structures this information in a misleading way - BERL reported solely on economic data. The audience survey appears to be the one that Maori Television quote in their annual reports. This is performed by TNS, and appears to survey only regular Maori Television viewers.
Given the "84 percent" figure is dubious at best, and at worst, based on incredibly flawed methodology (i.e. not 84 percent of the general population), I suggest this be removed from the article, as it's hardly novel that 84% of viewers think the channel should continue permanently.
Samrussellnz (talk) 22:37, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  84% of NZ believe Maori TV should be permanent? Really?
Talk:Fairport Convention

message: Th article claimed: The large number of personnel who have been part of the band are among the most highly regarded and influential musicians of their era and have gone on to participate in a large number of significant bands, or enjoyed important solo careers. Of course, all these superlatives go with neither reference nor quote. -- Zz (talk) 23:34, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The person who wrote that was probably thinking of Sandy Denny, Ashley Hutchings, Dave Mattacks, Dave Pegg, Dave Swarbrick and Richard Thompson. Probably not everybody though. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 07:50, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Superlatives in the lead 

message: I finally got around to writing an introduction that properly summarizes the band's history and influence. It possibly has the opposite problem to the old one of now being too long, but I feel like two paragraphs on their first three years, one for the next 45, and one on their influence is about as laconic as you can get without leaving out significant parts of the story. I do welcome others improving on what I've done, though; in particular the final paragraph is as good as I could manage with summarizing their influence without merely spouting suparlatives or doubling the length of the intro.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.178.80.99 (talk) 10:45, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improved Introduction 

message: I proposed merging Woodworm Records and Matty Grooves Records into this article, since the labels appear to have operated purely to put out records by Fairport and solo endeavors. (Perhaps they should be merged into a single standalone article themselves?) Chubbles (talk) 19:13, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a good case for Woodworm Records and Matty Grooves Records to share one article, but I don't think that they should be merged into Fairport Convention. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:44, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

text: Agree with Rosie above. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:51, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: What makes this group a British Folk Band? An English Folk Band would appear to be more a correct description and I propose to change it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.70.161.206 (talk) 10:54, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  British Folk Band
Talk:Lyall Watson

message: Is this the same guy who provided the commentary for Channel 4's wonderful coverage of Sumo during the early years, which has now sadly been dropped and replaced with codswallop like Big Brother? --Phil | Talk 11:55, Aug 16, 2004 (UTC)
Yes! Pawnkingthree 20:27, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: He has also left Santa Fe, New Mexico and moved full time to Ireland. Carptrash 20:42, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Living with his brother in Australia or South Africa?  Carptrash (talk) 14:03, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

text: It's published in today's (Saturday 26 July) The Age.  I totally missed his death and this came as a surprise to me.  It confirms he settled in Ireland but died of a stroke in Gympie, Queensland (that's pronounced with a hard "g" and rhymes with wimpy, for those who might be wondering), where his brother Andrew lives.  Another brother Craig lives in South Africa.  --  JackofOz (talk) 23:14, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: As stated in the body of the article, Mr Watson wrote Supernature.
In it he describes such matters as how a blunt razor blade sharpens itself overnight if left under a pyramid.
The clue to the true nature of the contents of this book come from Mr Watson's first name, sadly. Fletcherbrian (talk) 17:17, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Watson's book "Supernature"
Talk:Sarajevo Canton

message: Currently, there is no proof Mirza Čelik is the president of the assembly. There are well substantiated claims the session during which he was chosen was illegal because it wasn't scheduled properly and illegally. Yes it was requested by the majority, as an urgent session, but the presidium, the sole body charged with deciding the urgency of the session, decided that there was no urgency at all, let alone the type (specified by the standing orders) that would warrant an urgent session. Also, the president (chairperson) of the assembly isn't chosen by the majority, according to the standing orders, rather by the internal agreement of presidium itself, which consists of the four representatives of the constituent peoples (Bosniaks, Croats, Serbs, and the Others) and a secretary of the assembly. The vote of the presidium was 3-2 in favour of not scheduling the session, and members were notified. The majority scheduled this illegal session without notifying the members of the presidium that voted against scheduling the session, and without notifying members of opposition. The members of the presidium heard about the session from the media, and came to inform members that arrived that the session will not be held because it was not scheduled, but the 18 members of the majority (there are 35 seats) elected, with 18-0 in favour, Mirza Celik as president (chairman) of the assembly, even though it is clearly unconstitutional and illegal. I ask of you name the right person which is still legally the president of the presidium in the adequate spot, or to at least leave it as currently vacant. I have links to substantiate these claims.  109.175.46.201 (talk) 18:57, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  President of the assembly
Talk:Yuuzhan Vong invasion

message: Just a note to whoever is organizing this article... there is a rather large spoiler (deaths of major characters) in the intro... these should probably be moved...  --Forcemasteryoda
:Agreed, at the very least the spoiler warning needs to be moved to the top of the page. Stardust8212 02:26, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spoilers in opening paragraph 

message: One question: Was this written by eight year olds? This page had the highest amount of copyedits I have ever seen. I made as many as possible of them, and it now reads much better in many ways: verb tenses, grammar, spelling, etc. You all can thank me later. Teh tennisman 20:28, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Worse- the masses of Star Wars fans who like whatever is new. --maru   (talk)  contribs 00:30, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ooh. Painful. Teh tennisman 01:22, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lots of edits made 

message: Can somebody make the infobox about the war here? I would make it myself but, I don't know how.
*Just did the infobox. I hope it helps. QelDroma06 05:05, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I would like to make a request... 

message: I don't contest the prod, but suggest Yuuzhan Vong invasion might be better off as a redirect to New Jedi Order. --EEMIV (talk) 23:04, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: * This seems like a very unlikely search term. Anyone looking for information about the conflict is probably going to end up at Yuuzhan Vong through the search box before getting to "Yuuzhan Vong invasion". Otto4711 (talk) 00:58, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect/prod
Talk:Sunraysia Television

message: I removed the reference to the callsign STW9 standing for Swan Television Western Australia as I think it is merely apocryphal and largely irrelevant. The W is mandated by the Australian Broadcasting Authority (similarly, in WA 6 is mandated for radio stations), and the licence holder gets to nominate the other letters. --Kjd 13:01, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Callsign origins
Talk:African Reference Alphabet

message: I'm working on articles around the Gbe languages. These languages all have phonemic nasalized vowels, and the standard orthography for writing these is adding a tilde above the vowel. I can't find the e+tilde in Wikipedia:Special Characters, however. 
A workaround or solution might be the one already used at, for example Fon: that is, indicate nasalization on the vowel by writing a nasal after the vowel. 
Anyone suggestions?
strangeloop 13:13, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind. Use ẽ, thank Lee. strangeloop 19:37, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Nasalization on Wikipedia

message: "in quite some orthographies" : the meaning of this is obscure. Someone who knows the topic should rephrase. Matt Whyndham 12:16, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Miscellany 

message: One still hears reference to African language orthographies that use characters present in IPA as "IPA orthographies" in apparent ignorance of the process of developing the African reference alphabet. The links should be made more clear - that the latter (and predecessors) in effect borrowed selected IPA characters, and that in turn is reflected in various African language alphabets.--A12n (talk) 18:43, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links with IPA 

message: Ghys, "ɴ" isn'o a tiide. Thanks.
(Guys, "ɴ" isn't a tilde. Thanks.) UniformMilk192 (talk) 18:23, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It is a tilde and designed as such, see Mann/Dalby p. 210 (included as a reference in the article). -- Karl432 (talk) 23:42, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ok