Talk:Mauritius/Archive 1

message: hello,
would anyone know anything about the slaves freed from ships by the British Navy and sent to live in Mauritius in places such as Cassis and Roche Bois, i would like to know what happened to them i.e. surnames, cultural attributes, language spoken...anything? Not including the Malagasy indentured servants from the mid-19th to 20th century (Ti-Frere's father, i think,)please do email (doms_bakk@hotmail.com), mo remersie ou en avance
pou tou linformasyon.Domsta333 03:14, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  slaves freed by the british navy 

message: In my ongoing efforts to try to include every country on the planet included in the scope of a WikiProject, I have proposed a new project on Eastern Africa at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Eastern Africa whose scope would include Mauritius. Any interested parties are more than welcome to add their names there, so we can see if there is enough interest to start such a project. Thank you for your attention. 
Badbilltucker 16:26, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  '''Proposed WikiProject''' 

message: QUOTE: "In 1965, the United Kingdom split out the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius to create the British Indian Ocean Territory, in order to utilise the strategic islands for defence purposes in cooperation with the United States. Although the Government of Mauritius agreed to the move at the time, ..."
Is "Government of Mauritius" appropriate in this context? Mauritius gained its independence in 1968, hence there's no way that there was a government "of" Mauritius in 1965.
Phoenicians visiting Mauritius in 2000 BC? Sounds highly dubious. I doubt the Canaanites of that period were capable of the feat - later accounts exist of Carthaginians reaching West Africa, but not Mauritius.80.47.208.100 19:36, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: Who the hell is Ashvin Jugnarain?-he sounds cool And why is a quote by an unknown figuring in the wikipedia page on Mauritius. This should be removed.
Besides the Kipling quote doesn't exist. Mark Twain said a similar thing but within its original context it was not that positive.
:Have kept the quotes, but noted that they are 'variously attributed', listing Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling as possible sources. --Spudtater 17:17, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed the Kipling quote, corrected the Twain quote and stated its origin.  --Rogier Reijm, 12:11, 5 Jan 2006 (EST)
The history section does not talk at all about the history of the people who were slaves, only the oppressors.  I would like to know who were the slaves?  When did they come?  When and how did they gain their freedom?  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.232.111.116 (talk) 23:03:03, August 19, 2007 (UTC) 
on that account, Paul and Virgine (the drama) takes place in Mauritius.(if you want to be talking about litterature. And there is a poem from Mark Twain that refers to Mauriitus as a "green jewel" or something like that). -from a mauritian  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.239.87.222 (talk) 22:53, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The quotes 

message: This section is confusing:
* Hindi appears twice
* If "Mauritians" are a minority in Mauritius, this must be explained
* How is it that the "other Indian languages" are only spoken by a small minority, but these are the same as the Indo-Mauritians who comprise 60% of the population?
Yeah, the article should have said: "other Indian languages" are only spoken by a small minority of INDO-MAURITIANS. 
And the article saying Mauritians are a minority in Mauritius makes no sense and therefore I cannot correct this error. (By the way- how can Mauritiand be a minority in MAURITIUS?!)
Someone familiar with Mauritius needs to fix this.
Ubermonkey 3 July 2005 16:08 (UTC)
:Mauritius was uninhabited when discovered by Europeans, if that helps.  Tomer TALK July 3, 2005 18:17 (UTC)
:Re: "Mauritians": I believe this was meant to be interpreted as "a minority of Mauritians". I have fixed.
:Re: Indo-Mauritians: Indo-Mauritian refers to Mauritians with mostly Indian anscestry. Despite their heritage, the majority speak Creole, not indian languages. (According to the CIA World Factbook, anyway). --Spudtater 16:55, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  The CIA world factbook is correct. Dysprosia 04:05, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demographics 

message: There is something not right with the total population number of around 1,200,000. Scroll further down and you will see that the there were around 1,900,000 voters in the 2005 election.
Maybe that figure is divided by 3 votes.
  
 Re:  Quote from Elections in Mauritius: "Every voter has three votes. The total number of votes cast divided by three (648,316) is lower than the actual number people voting (666,178), because not all of them cast three votes."
Population statistics may be confusing. Central Statistics Office (Mauritius) demographics documents make a distinction between population of Mauritius and that of Republic of Mauritius (Will then include dependencies)
Reply: I do agree with the terminology. "Mauritians" is not a good term to describe non-indian descents. We are all Mauritians. Either way,there are so many intermarriages...how do you define who is who's descent. Also not all Indian descents speak indian languages and might speak french or creole or english . Does that mean they are "mauritians" , creole or what? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.233.93.3 (talk • contribs) 16:54, 28 September 2007
Speaking as a Mauritian I'd have to say this - yes, it would seem that there are so many intermarriages, but not enough to redefine the ethnic divisions of the island. Most people excluding Creoles, are, in fact, not ethnically mixed. Yes, there may be Gujarati-Marathi mixtures or so on amongst Indo-Mauritians, but they are called Indo-Mauritian, the largest ethnic group on the island. I am an Indo-Mauritian and no way would I class myself as mixed race. No, they are not CREOLE, they are MAURITIANS of INDIAN origin. They are both Mauritian and Indian (in the same way African-Americans are Americans of African origin) --Maurice45 (talk) 20:32, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population numbers 

message: *Mauritius, Geography of - contributed by an anonymous editor. Has interesting information.
Aeons | Talk 12:51, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Research material 

message: * English version
* French Version
* Creole Version
* Spanish Version
=== Mauritius virtual tours ===
Hi there,
I am a complete newbie here so please excuse me if I am saying the wrong thing or saying it in the wrong place.
I have a website that features lots of virtual tours from various places around the world and includes 19 virtual tours of different locations on the island of Mauritius. If anyone on this board thinks these would be worth adding to the External Links for the Mauritius entry then please feel free to do so.
The direct link is:
http://www.360travelguide.com/listimage.asp?StartNum=1&CountrySelect=Mauritius&LocSelect=All+Locations
This link takes you to a page of thumbnails. Click on a thumbnail and the relevant virtual tour opens in a pop-up window.
Any & all feedback on this post and/or the images themselves would be gratefully recieved.
Thanks
Confreeky 13:00, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  '''Links''' 

message: Hi there,
I am a complete newbie here so please excuse me if I am saying the wrong thing or saying it in the wrong place.
I have a website that features lots of virtual tours from various places around the world and includes 19 virtual tours of different locations on the island of Mauritius. If anyone on this board thinks these would be worth adding to the External Links for the Mauritius entry then please feel free to do so.
The direct link is:
http://www.360travelguide.com/listimage.asp?StartNum=1&CountrySelect=Mauritius&LocSelect=All+Locations
This link takes you to a page of thumbnails. Click on a thumbnail and the relevant virtual tour opens in a pop-up window.
Any & all feedback on this post and/or the images themselves would be gratefully recieved.
Thanks
Confreeky 13:00, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mauritius virtual tours 

message: I added French as an official language based on http://www.geonames.de/coumu.html
please check. 71.235.97.40 23:23, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Creole 80.5%, Bhojpuri 12.1%, French 3.4%, English (official; spoken by less than 1% of   the population), other 3.7%, unspecified 0.3% (2000 census) - French is NOT an official language, and it spoken by less than 5% of the population. If French is listed as official in this article, then Bhojpuri should be too. However, really neither should be listed. English is the official language, and Creole is the national language. Interlaker 16:14, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

text: What do you mean? It looks fine to me. Dysprosia 00:10, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)

text: It is certainly a valid thing to mention here but only if you can find trusted sources. You'll need to say something like: "According to XYZ (link to source or footnote), n% of monkeys exported from Mauritius are caught in the wild". Do make sure that there is actually an international law against what is going on as well; I'm just going on your say-so here.N.B. don't get confused with the large legitimate trade in laboratory monkeys, which may quite legally be the offspring of wild monkeys.--Spudtater 22:39, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Miscellaneous 

message: Please confirm: is Mauritius _illegally_ exporting thousands of wild monkeys for laboratory experiments? Int'l treaties forbid this.
Mention of this can certainly be considered political pressure. So?! Any other place (on WP) you think this issue should be dealt with?
Thanks.
:It is certainly a valid thing to mention here but only if you can find trusted sources. You'll need to say something like: "According to XYZ (link to source or footnote), n% of monkeys exported from Mauritius are caught in the wild". Do make sure that there is actually an international law against what is going on as well; I'm just going on your say-so here.N.B. don't get confused with the large legitimate trade in laboratory monkeys, which may quite legally be the offspring of wild monkeys.--Spudtater 22:39, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Animal rights 

message: For those wishing to include links to external sites, but are not sure if they are relevant, these may be of interest to you:
*Guideline concerning external links in Wikipedia
*Guideline concerning spam
*WikiProject Spam
Aeons | Talk 10:32, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Concerning External links 

message: It's a popular location for shooting Bollywood movies. Almost all the large grossing movies have some scenes shot in Mauritius. Maybe a mention somewhere? --nocturnal  omnivorous canine 13:30, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bollywood Movies 

message: The demographic section says that many immigrants from China are coming in but on the Demographic page it shows a net loss in migration. No where does it talk about people leaving the Island.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.110.221.182 (talk • contribs) 01:12, 11 May 2007
Please explain why they should. This is the page talking about the island and its people, NOT its diaspora! If you would like to start a page on that, please create an account and do so, providing you have significant enough information (I myself am part of this "diaspora" but have nothing to comment on) --Maurice45 (talk) 20:06, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Immigration

message: hey,
has anyone started a kreol version?
I would help...
also why is there a bit at the bottom with
'regions with an indo-iranian official language'..hindi, bhojpuri
and urdu are spoken languages BUT not official!!! please..Domsta333 14:28, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have helped create the Mauritian Creole Test-Wikipedia here. You can start contributing articles in the Mauitian language there. When a sufficient number of articles have been created (ie. 100+ or 200+), the test-project can then qualify to become a real Wikipedia. --Jose77 21:35, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mauritian wikipedia 

message: Used following policies as guidelines: WP:SPS, WP:COI, WP:NPOV, WP:VERIFY, WP:SPAM, WP:EL
The link http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=2&ItemID=11954, posted by User:Leveque, is a possible conflict of interest and target article may not comply with neutral point of view policy. Whole article was [ previously posted] on Wikipedia by User:Loulou 50, which is a previous account of User:Leveque ([ Talk page] of editor Leveque). 
Article was also previously posted in mainspace of wikipedia on [ Rodrigues (island)] article and was also  subsequently discussed on the talk page.
The following was first suggested by contributor Channer and adhered to:
Greater liberators may become worse dictators when they can't accept other people to be wrong. This is clearly a political proclamation, a beautiful and harrowing text, but not an encyclopedic one, and not fitted for Wikipédia because everybody is here free to arrange it. So don't change a word of it, but remove it from wikipedia and put a link to the site where the article has been published. User:Channer 17:11, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In my opinion, M. Alain Levêque is someone who has much to say about his island's political status, who wants to do so and who publishes articles on the matter in some newspapers or websites.  What he says is interesting but his writings are clearly a spell for independence.  These writings are partial by nature, they are lyric in style but right in historical references though not completely honest in presentation (stake of polling in 1967 was what he says but question of attachement or non-attachment was not so clearly asked). Of course this kind of writings has no place on WP because of their political commitment but they are an actual evidence of the national debate in Rodrigues. Linking to or quoting in a way or another such declarations of a declared opponent seems to me logical. Rodrigues is a small country : don't expect to get headlines in major world newspapers or top sale essays as references. Although, article should be better well-balanced if all different political trends with their respective weight were exposed. Leveque's one seems somewhat extremist in the current political scene.--Channer 16:16, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Since I was asked... I really don't know anything about the matter at hand; my reference was only pertaining to the case of M. Leguat, and how Rodrigues always seems to have been a bit of "that other island" from a Mauritian perspective. I think the matter of Rodrigues' status and relations could benefit from a more thorough treatment (as everytning...), but that's all I can say. Dysmorodrepanis 22:39, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#User_Leveque --Ronz (talk) 16:45, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

text: No, I've not reverted all your contributions.  Dozens of editors have removed your spammed links that you added against WP:COI.  Instead of misrepresenting these edits as vandalism, instead of threatening to disrupt Wikipedia further, you should take some time to respond to the comments on your talk page and in WP:COIN. --Ronz (talk) 04:30, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible conflict of interest 

message: That africans are not mentioned in the demographic section yet somehow they created creole, the languge that all the people on tthe island speak.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.238.27.30 (talk) 19:54, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I find it funny 

message: It is quite surprising that 50+ % of population is of Indian descent but there are no pictures representing this ethnic group. Are we being biased here?
23:35, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  50+ % of population Indian? 

message: Quoted from Mauritius page:
The following are a selection of the "Star schools" in no particular order http://www.gov.mu/portal/site/education/menuitem.90dd48116d1a5504631e691048a521ca/?content_id=1d9f800e57af7010VgnVCM100000ca6a12acRCRD#TRANSFORMATIONOFSTARSTATESECONDARYSCHOOLSINTOFORMVICOLLEGES:
=== State Schools ===
* Dr. Maurice Curé SSS – Vacoas
* Droopnath Ramphul SSS – Calebasses	
* Gaetan Raynal SSS - Belle Rose
* John Kennedy College - Beau Bassin	
* Mahatma Gandhi Institute - Moka
* Queen Elizabeth College - Rose Hill
* Royal College Curepipe
* Royal College Port Louis
* Sir A. Raman Osman SSS – Phoenix 	
* Sir Leckraz Teeluck SSS - Centre-de-Flacq	
* Sookdeo Bissoondoyal SSS - Rose Belle
----
I noticed that some editors have often removed and added schools randomly in the list. The list of star schools posted on the Mauritius article is taken directly from the Mauritian government website. If any school has to be added to the list or taken out, please add references to support your claims or this section might be used for self-promotion or bashing other schools. Thank you.
--Ju CAN (talk) 19:46, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it would be helpful to provide a reference for this.  Otherwise, it looks like the removal of sourced information. --Ronz (talk) 00:46, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of star schools 

message: * Dr. Maurice Curé SSS – Vacoas
* Droopnath Ramphul SSS – Calebasses	
* Gaetan Raynal SSS - Belle Rose
* John Kennedy College - Beau Bassin	
* Mahatma Gandhi Institute - Moka
* Queen Elizabeth College - Rose Hill
* Royal College Curepipe
* Royal College Port Louis
* Sir A. Raman Osman SSS – Phoenix 	
* Sir Leckraz Teeluck SSS - Centre-de-Flacq	
* Sookdeo Bissoondoyal SSS - Rose Belle
</blockquote>
----
I noticed that some editors have often removed and added schools randomly in the list. The list of star schools posted on the Mauritius article is taken directly from the Mauritian government website. If any school has to be added to the list or taken out, please add references to support your claims or this section might be used for self-promotion or bashing other schools. Thank you.
--Ju CAN (talk) 19:46, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it would be helpful to provide a reference for this.  Otherwise, it looks like the removal of sourced information. --Ronz (talk) 00:46, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  State Schools 

message: Under the subtitle of education
Queen Elizabeth college is a link to the one in england not mauritius.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.12.35.34 (talk) 03:53, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  wrong link for Queen Elizabeth college 

message: It's written like a mess and contains original research.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.59.164.148 (talk) 14:21, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean up article 

message: Hi,I have a website named islandinfo. After orange.mu, government portal, Islandinfo is the 3rd portal of Mauritius. It has loads and loads of Information about places, activities, etc, in Mauritius. Islandinfo website can be beneficial for people wishing to know important places in Mauritius specially for those who knows nothing about Mauritius. It will be grateful if you can reviewed my site and have a link on Wikipedia. I hope Wikipedia's team find my site worthy to be included here. Thanks in advance. 
Abhikerl (talk) 12:21, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inclusion of my website on wikepedia 

message: Hi all...
We have started a new project in regards to Mauritius... Visit Mauritius in pictures... Our aim is to atain over 15000 pictures dedicated to Mauritius by the end of 2009. We are currently over 200 and more pictures are currently being uploaded on a weekly basis.
We will really appreciate to have it added as an external link as it will provide users to know about mauritius from the Wiki pages as well as visit Mauritius online through the picture gallery.
The website is: www.mauritiuspics.com
With Thanks
Kamal
Kamal2099 (talk) 08:54, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Instead, upload a few of the best images for inclusion in Wikipedia, after getting proper permission.  See WP:IMAGE for details. --Ronz (talk) 16:07, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Website Inclusion