Talk:Yohannes IV

message: WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 02:36, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: Ive added a picture of Yohannes IV Dizzee ignorant 21:20, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I should have done that a while ago. The same exact picture is at Yohannes_IV.jpg, btw. — Yom 22:40, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Added Picture

message: The first few lines of the last paragraph in this section seem to have been scrambled. I don't know enough about the subject to make corrections. Maybe someone else can fix it. Mikenlesley (talk) 06:06, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death and descendants 

message: Obvious dated & biased, but still worth linking and drawing from:
* s:Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Abyssinia
* s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Abyssinia
 — LlywelynII 03:02, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources for article expansion

message: Substituted at 11:04, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: Leaving this notice so that no one thinks this is drive-by tagging. Some of the issues seem to be a result of a non-native English speaker, and that the article is written in a style resembling a hagiography (a lot of apologetic phrasing and whatnot). 
Regarding the original research and essay-like writing of the article, I'll be rewriting some of the prose myself in an encyclopedic tone, and taking out some of the novel synthesis. Anything that's obviously not outright original research, I'll tag with a "citation needed" in-line tag for that particular claim instead of just removing it. 
I'm just busy at the moment, and I have a whole list of stuff to do and respond to on here. Rewriting this is relatively easy fix, just one that requires a significant time commitment. Quinto Simmaco (talk) 03:50, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Maintenance Tags

message: The legacy section contains several high-flying statements that need to be backed up by sources, and probably should be reworded. at the moment, some claims sound like nationalistic propaganda, in my opinion. For example:
-"Yohannes undoubtedly had his weaknesses; they were not his own making, but rather imposed on him either by external pressure or inherited by his deep-seated values and traditional norms."
- "Above all, his concerna were focused on promoting peace the external threats rather than promoting his own personal or dynastic gain."
- The self-confidence and charitable attitude he displayed toward his vanquished enemies and rivals earned him the high esteem of his subjects.
- "Throughout his reign, Yohannes demonstrated selfless devotion to the defense of the territorial integrity of Ethiopian Empire against successive waves of external aggression, by Egyptians, Italians, and Mahdists Sudan. He also strove within the parameters of what was possible in his day to promote the welfare of his people. His devotion to his country and people culminated in the supreme sacrifice of his life at the border of his empire, in the Battle of Metemma."
--Acclesius (talk) 13:24, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legacy section sources