Talk:Wolof people

message: For dedicated editors of this page: The "Related Groups" info was removed from all  infoboxes. Comments may be left on the Ethnic groups talk page. Ling.Nut 23:21, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "related groups" info removed from infobox 

message: Hi, I noticed the following on the Wolof disambiguation page:
:In some English publications, predominantly those referring to Gambian Wolof, the spelling "Wollof" is used, because this spelling will induce native English speakers to pronounce the term correctly as a Wolof speaker.
As a native English speaker I found this interesting, having always pronounced the name as something like "wall-off" or "whoa-loaf" (heh) or something. It sounds to me like the description in the quote is describing something more along the lines of . Does that look about right? I'd like to add the pronunciation to the article at the beginning, because I imagine many others mispronounce the word as well. --babbage 20:27, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Added the 'proper' English pronunciation from the OED; no source for an IPA on the native pronunciation, if it differs by much. — LlywelynII 16:49, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation of "Wolof" 

message: Well, I don't see a "French Boy" on the French page (wearing a baret and eating a baguette perhaps...) . Is this supposed to teach us what they look like, like in some 18th century anthropological-colonial manuscript? Wouldn't it be better to fight that White-Middle Class-Western bias of Main English Wikipedia by showing a map of the land or something? 89.0.34.12 (talk) 15:16, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, similar images have been inserted in some other articles on ethnic groups, see for example Mandinka people, Fula people etc. --BotevFixer (talk) 19:39, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

text: I was also a bit taken aback by the treatment, but more because I expect that it's just someone's friend or tour guide and it seems to fail . We *should* have some photos of the actual people, though, and not just the map. Yes, that means some simplification is necessary. — LlywelynII 16:53, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, this is, indeed, a Gambian I met in Farafenni during my visit in Gambia. If we have a better picture (a picture of someone not really posing for a photo but instead performing some every-day activity of the Wolof people) - feel free to replace this image. --Botev (talk) 16:01, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture: A "Wolof Boy"??? 

message: *El Hadji Diouf is a Serer, Diouf or Joof cannot be a Wolof. I will help you with more notable Wolofs time permitting.
*Also Diop or Jobe is Lebou not Wolof.  Although someone may be brought up in a Wolof culture,[known as Wolofization] in Senegambia it is by the father's name that determines the tribe of a person.  There a lots of notable Wolof people and I will help you with that time permitting.  Don't be discouraged though, keep up the good job.Tamsier (talk) 07:57, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable Wolofs 

message: I've removed the statement "Note however that, this figure is somewhat misleading because other tribes who have been Wolofized and speak the Wolof language are added to this figure while they are not originally Wolofs". This is not what the original source says and it reflects (besides a pro-Serer and anti-Wolf editor's pov) a misunderstanding of the mutability of ethnic identification in this region. The actual source can be found at  and is worth reading. Dougweller (talk) 09:41, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misuse of a source 

message: Hello, I was just snooping around looking through Wikipedia pages and I realised that there was a page for the Wolof. So, I looked around and realised that the name is wrong. The Wolof were not an ethnicity, but a language. They were never an ethnicity. Wolof is a means to communicate. Please fix this, it is bad enough that their people's history has been erased, I at least want them to be named properly. Thank you! MushroomCrushDoom (talk) 19:43, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wolof people is a misnomer