Talk:Zanzibar

message: It's really strange that an article about Zanzibar fails to mention Big Boss' military nation. 108.41.215.105 (talk) 06:29, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aren't we omitting the important? 

message: Should there be a mention of the recent acid attacks on two British women? Justgravy (talk) 11:50, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Trying to stir up racism? Are you white?121.219.56.45 (talk) 14:34, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: No I am blue, but that is besides the point. It has been all over the news here? Normally when a place is all over the news there is a section dedicated to the story? Justgravy (talk) 13:55, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is not a newspaper. AfricaTanz (talk) 19:22, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

text: Why are you bringing up race? Trying to stir up racism? Are you black? 2001:8003:70F5:2400:897A:E657:5680:268F (talk) 12:02, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

text: If the planned and calculated genocide and ethnic cleansing of non-Bantu residents gets only one sentence, I really don't think an incident of this sort is going to get mentioned. 2001:8003:70F5:2400:897A:E657:5680:268F (talk) 11:15, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

text: Correct ... Wikipedia is for fictionalising History. 2001:8003:70F5:2400:897A:E657:5680:268F (talk) 11:37, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  August 2013 acid attacks 

message: I've heard that Zanzibar originally came from Persian Zangebar (Zang= black , bar=ende of see/river, beach).
is that right? 
As there is no g(گ) in arabic, Zangebar turned to zanjibar.
 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.184.141.134 (talk) 07:17, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name Etymology 

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message: The map is a Swedish one, so "Mafia Island" is written as "Mafiaön" and "Indian Ocean" as "Indiska Oceanen". Should it be replaced?
Afro~svwiki (talk) 22:45, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The funny thing is that the map on the Swedish page is an English one, so apparently there has been an erroneous swap of images for some reason... Afro~svwiki (talk) 22:50, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map of Zanzibar is in Swedish 

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message: Currently the following appears in the last paragraph of #2.3 Sultanate of Zanzibar is: "One of Majid's brothers, Barghash bin Said, succeeded him and was forced to abolish the slave trade in the Zanzibar Archipelago by the British. ... Another brother of Majid, Khalifa bin Said, was the third sultan of Zanzibar and furthered the relationship with the British which led to the archipelago's progress toward abolishing slavery." 
That's followed by "In 1856, Sultan Majid consolidated his power around the African Great Lakes slave trade, and in 1873 Sir John Kirk informed his successor, Sultan Barghash, that a total blockade of Zanzibar was imminent, and Barghash reluctantly signed the Anglo-Zanzibari treaty which abolished the slave trade in the sultan's territories, closed all slave markets and protected liberated slaves." in #2.4 British protectorate.
To me they read as if they're from two articles. Perhaps someone could edit #2.3 and 4 so that they read more as part of the same article. Mcljlm (talk) 04:13, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sultanate and protectorate  

message: Wikipedia's inline links are not intended to replace writing in complete, well explained sentences, they are designed as easy additional information.    
My frustration with these Wikipedia articles make it difficult to keep from using offensive language here.  This is why people now avoid Wikipedia inline links and why they are called rabbit hole, lazy links.   For example, talking about Zanzibar's animals in the lead, why couldn't the author have used the terms "cat-like" and "monkey" along with the inline link rabbit holes to your mystery animals??   And guess what? The lead sections that those point to, —also only have other blue hole lazy-links pointing away from the definition! And so on.  This is why they are called lazy links, this is why they are called rabbit holes and this is why people avoid Wikipedia inline links.   They have become a sucker's gamble.
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thread_title:  Lazy Links 

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message: We have to stop being a part of this Islamic propaganda ok? There is no way of knowing this because Tanzanian gvt doesn't collect data based on one's ethnicity or religion and I thk that's good news henceforth there isn't any proof of this bogus 99% which is a big swallow since we know religion is barely a choice and we are assuming all that grow up choose to remain in this religion. Even by background 99% is still a huge swallow. Even in Totalitarian Islamic theocracy like Saudi Arabia they have placed the number to around 90% yet people insist on this 99% having conducted no census or no way of knowing. We could say it's predominately Muslim yes but no official data and by estimates maybe around 80 to 85% not 99% Nlivataye (talk) 12:20, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Your opinion of "maybe around 80 to 85%" would need sourcing, so if you have alternative sources and constructive suggestions, feel free to propose improvements to the article. Otherwise, see WP:NOTAFORUM. Greenman (talk) 09:58, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can we stop with the 99% Muslim already?