Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethiopia/History and politics

message: What do you guys think about an infobox for kings of the Solomonic dynasty and perhaps Zagwe that would incorporate years ruled (absent for the Zagwe), birthyear/date and place (when available), deathyear/date and place (when available), and Regnal name. All of the emperors should use a biographical infobox, but I think it would be useful to have regnal names in the infobox and, if we choose to incorporate it in the main text (for those where the regnal name isn't important, obviously not for kings like Libne Dingil), we would mention the name outside of parentheses at the end of the first sentence or later in the introduction. I say out of parentheses because they're already getting very long from the transliterations and Ge'ez script. Of course, portraits and images would be difficult to get ahold of for most, but we could make do with some later Gonderine interpretations for most. — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 04:06, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Medieval King infoboxes

message: I believe Richard Pankhurst has contributed a lot of historical information on Ethiopia. We should locate and use this resources to grow our project. 
P.S. : I believe we should write an article on  Richard Pankhurst for his notable work. Elfalem 06:26, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good points, but I'm not sure if he'd be available. You could try to contact him through email if you could find it. — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 04:02, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Richard Pankhurst 

message: While nothing on the scale of an actual collaboration, I was wondering if a good way to focus contributions related to history would be to go through the Solomonic Emperors (about whom there is plenty of literature) one by one and expand the articles. Users could still contribute to other Ethiopia-related (and History-related) subjects at the same time, of course, but the focus would be a particular Emperor until we got up to Haile Selassie (or we could add info about Mengistu and Meles Zenawi too, I guess). It would largely be unorganized, but I think it would be useful for coordinating edits and expanding these articles, as I find myself with a bunch of sources for different topics, but without a plan of action to improve all of these. I figure the Emperor articles are some of the most important history articles, and after that we can start focusing on religious figures and territories (and other periods of history, of course). What do you guys think? — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 03:59, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A focus for our contributions is better than none -- even if it's not the best candidate. The only problem I see with selecting Emperors is that for some of them there is not enough material available to make decent articles about them: one example of this would be the Emperors during the Zemene Mesafint that I have rated "Low" importance. -- llywrch 17:56, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Emperor collaborations

message: I just wanted to add that if one goes into the Persian empire article, you will see on the right hand side, it shows a list of rulers and when you click on each link it shows each era, and I was wondering if we could do this t the Aksumite article? Also Yom, i was wondering if you could make one BIG article on the WHOLE Ethiopian empire regarding the Aksumite Kingdom, Zagwe and Solomonoid. In my opinion, it shows that the Ethiopian empire had many kings.  I would be glad to contribute as much time as possible to add to any ethiopian history related articles, the current one being the emperors article
Cluckbang 20:30, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Such an article already exists -- History of Ethiopia. It needs a lot of work, though. -- llywrch 20:44, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethiopian history articles 

message: Should an attempt be made to standardize the usage of the term to describe the Sudanese encroachments of the 19th century?  I understand that the historical term dervishi is falling into disrepute among contemporary scholars. 165.2.186.10 18:02, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usage of [[Dervish]] vs. [[Mahdist]] 

message: Could an expert on the history of the Aksumite Kingdom and speakers of the Ge'ez language please have a look at Geez People‎? I believe it lacks references supporting the assertion that there was an ethnic group by that name. Thanks, OnionRing (talk) 14:22, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geez People‎ 

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message: Hello! I'm currently working on edits to the Human rights in Ethiopia page. After taking a look at pages focusing on human rights in other countries, including Human rights in the United States, Human rights in South Korea, and Human rights in Australia, I think that it would be helpful to restructure the Human rights in Ethiopia page by adding a "Civil liberties" section and moving some of the existing sections, such as "Freedom of the press" and "Freedom of association," under it as subsections. This change would better organize other existing material. Information on legislation that limits each of the civil liberties can be placed under the corresponding subsection; for example, the "Anti-Terrorism Proclamation" section would be a subsection under "Freedom of expression," and information about the Charities and Societies Proclamation (currently in the vague "Incidents" section) would be moved under "Freedom of association." 
What do you think? I'll add a note proposing these edits to the Human rights in Ethiopia talk page as well to try to get feedback from those who have edited the page. Sago1031 (talk) 23:38, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restructuring Human rights in Ethiopia page 

message: Hello!
I can't find any map of autonomous ethnic territories (kebeles, woreda, zones, and regions) on Wikipedia or elsewhere online. I found this map of districts and this map of zones but I'm not sure they are up-to-date as they differ from each other (In particular, the Eastern shape of the Gambela Region looks different.) Also, most woredas are not ethnic, in order to become an autonomous ethnic territory a woreda must be officially declared as such.
Dr Tomasz Kamusella and his colleagues published a table of the autonomous ethnolinguistic territories in Ethiopia as they were in 2019 (reference: Asnake Kefale, Tomasz Kamusella, Christophe Van der Beken. 2021. Eurasian Empires as Blueprints for Ethiopia From Ethnolinguistic Nation-State to Multiethnic Federation. London: Routledge, pp 69-76.) Tomasz Kamusella and I would love to turn this table into a map. However, I'm afraid I don't know Ethiopia (and mapping tools) enough for such a task.
Is there anyone who could help here to produce such a map?
A455bcd9 (talk) 16:44, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map of autonomous ethnic territories in Ethiopia