Talk:African Americans/Archive 5

message: Why is this talk page on this site?  There is no white american talk page, no white talk page, no european american talk page.  Makes me sick.  sundance 09:21, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Purpose of this page 

message: Notes to self (or anyone else with time to contribute):  Noble Drew Ali's Moorish Scientists (religion), Juneteenth (holidays), Congressional Black Caucus (political empowerment), disparities in sentencing & sentencing guidelines--three strikes (issues), fleshing out of Culture to include mention of and links to jazz, rhythm & blues, etc. And subheads!deeceevoice 08:40, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: To be included

message: I recently, and with great difficulty, cleaned up this talk page. About 2/3 of the sections were duplicated, in whole or in part, in no terribly obvious pattern. I some cases, one of the two versions of a section contained remarks not in the other. I've tried hard to preserve everything. Sincere apologies if anything got removed in the process, feel free to restore it. And I'm sure that the sections are no longer all in chronological order, but I'm pretty sure they haven't been in some time.
Anyway, it would be appreciated if someone would archive some of this. It might make sense to do archive a page just on the discussions of (1) whether African American is the most appropriate term and (2) whether recent white South African immigrants, Ethiopian immigrants, etc. are African American. Then when, inevitably, someone asks these questions again, we would have a single archive page to refer them to for the exhaustive, exhausting discussion. -- Jmabel | Talk 04:29, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)
:Yes, I was going to suggest an archive; you beat me to it.  I don't know how to do it myself.  I think a note at the top of the TALK page indicating what the consensus is and where the archived discussions can be found would do wonders.
:I also think it would be good to start this TALK page afresh from [date] and request that people sign and date their comments and use indenting, to keep that type of chaos from happening again.  Your cleanup efforts are appreciated.
:Quill 23:00, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been archiving (tediously: once pages get this big, Firefox chokes); I'm pretty far along. As for keeping the talk page clean: no notices will ever do that, but people should feel free (for example) to add a pseudo sig ("anon" plus a date) to newly added anonymous remarks, add a new section heading when the topic changes, etc. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:32, Apr 1, 2005 (UTC)
Kudos to ya, darlin', for a job well done.  If I had a medal, I'd definitely award it to you -- and it wouldn't be a rusty ol' barn star, either.  Somethin' wit' bling. :) deeceevoice 18:04, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  This talk page 

message: I've seen barn stars and all sorts of virtual hardware being awarded around this site to this or that Wikipedian for this and that thing.  The archiving of this talk page is quite an effort.  (((Somebody!)))  Give this man (User:Jmabel) a medal!  deeceevoice 05:47, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Give this man a medal

message: Racial profiling needs a citation -- a line in there says afr.americans are more likely to be pulled over based on race alone.   Without a citation I'm removing it.--172.191.103.186 20:45, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  racial profiling