Talk:Nias

message: "Nias Island lies on latitude 10 30' north and longitude 970 98' east" This can't be right. --Wetman 07:08, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: early comment

message: So recently I was introduced to the <ref> tag and to be honest, I'm quite enamored (more details concerning the tag's syntax, and footnotes in general here). It could conveniently round up external links and auto-magically create a reference section. I know, I'm a lamer for having just discovered it.
Anywho0.. a result of my <ref>-ing fun is that I discovered a broken link to an article supposedly citing the damage to the museum at Gunung Sitoli. I hate to remove the sentence since I know first hand that the statement is true, but then it just means that a citation is needed. Perhaps I should have put a 'citation needed' tag there and moved the dead URI here. Anyone feeling like doing so is welcome to it (not me, though, at least not today; I've been up all night just goofing around Wikipedia. Perhaps tomorrow :p)
:I had added the original link to an article written by one of the Museum's employees, but the link (as you noted) is now defunct months later.  The good news is that the Museum now has its own website so I added a link to it although I'm not sure I did it correctly (Plus the website is in Indonesian).  But I'm going to dig around and see if I can find another similar article that details more of the museums damage.64.81.100.40 23:11, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely. It's public domain, so it would probably be even better to upload it to Commons; the Germans could safely remove it then. Edricson 20:28, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  References Section and Other 'Pretifying' 

message: Article reads like a travel guide / tourist sales pitch. "The worldy Nias are global traders and welcome the historically familiar tourist etc." Historically the Nias are a fierce warriors culture feared as slave traders and headhunters actually. Just saying. Rgds, Karl --KARL RAN (talk) 04:15, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lonely Planet or Wiki? 

message: Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that :File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM 'Het verslepen van de steen 'Darodaro' voor de gestorven Saoenigeho van Bawamataloea Nias TMnr 1000095b.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on July 9, 2011. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2011-07-09. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! howcheng  {chat} 20:43, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM 'Het verslepen van de steen 'Darodaro' voor de gestorven Saoenigeho van Bawamataloea Nias TMnr 1000095b.jpg]] to appear as POTD soon 

message: I have reference from a prominent Indonesian historian (Rosihan Anwar), who referred to a Dutch historian in the area, that Nias was once, at least nominally, a Nazi Germany territory. The story was that approximately three dozen Germans were about to be transported to India via Sibolga but the Dutch ship they boarded was shot down by a Japanese plane. The Germans made it onto the island, proclaiming Nazi Germany independence of the island. The Japanese allies of Germany let them have it; they even had a party on the island, commemorating Adolf Hitler's birthday. I believe these accounts to be true, as I have conversed with several friends of Nias origin whose parents told the story too. I don't know, however, how to put them in here, since it doesn't have a history section yet, and putting one just for the sake of this German tidbit is too much. Anantagita (talk) 13:23, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nias as former Nazi Germany territory 

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thread_title:  External links modified (February 2018)