Talk:Africans

message: What if we had a template for black and african people articles that looked like ? Comments?--Filll 20:43, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Template

message: Why "african peoples" and not "africans" or "peoples of africa"? Mbisanz 03:34, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Africans 

message: How does one suggest an article be nominated for deletion? This article seems more like the personal viewpoints of a small group of posters, rather than a serious valid article worthy of an encyclopedia. The term "African people" does NOT mean what the article states. It would appear this is an attempt to validate one person's claims by making a wikipedia article. Dr Rgne (talk) 07:34, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Query for moderators 

message: So apparently this "African people" page survived nfd, and has now only gotten more and more absurdly POV. Do the editors of this particular article not realize that at least 1 in every 3 Africans would not be considered "African" by this page's main (POV) definition? Yes, there is a link to the "Demographics of Africa" article, but the bulk of this article uses the terms "Afri-", "Afro-" and "African" to refer exclusively to those people who would be termed "black" under US racial classifications. What about the hundreds of millions of North Africans? Or the large number of Khoikhoi and San peoples? Are they not "African people"? Also, in the correct usage of the term a great many Europeans and Middle Easterners would have "African ancestry" as there is clear DNA connections between Berbers, Egyptians, Libyans etc and many of the peoples of Western Eurasia, but under this awful article's skewed definition they would not. The basis of this article seems to be that someone created it as POV, and then others have added on to it from there, building the POV more and more. Whenever anyone objects they are immediately shushed. Well, where is the source/link/reference to a respected journal or encyclopedia which states that there is such a thing as an "African(apparently meaning 'black') people) which exlcudes the hundreds of millions of indigenous non-"black" Africans? A few scattered lines here and there in the article refer to how not all Africans are "bruthas", yet the article states that everyone uses the term "African" in this surreal sense! Dr Rgne (talk) 10:43, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticisms section required 

message: I quote "Zebras are African equids" - taken from the article on Zebras. Though the African article is based around African people and a Zebra is not a citizen, "... to citizens of countries in Africa, or to people with recent ancestors from the continent.".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.22.11.102 (talk) 18:37, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:   article 

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thread_title:  Citations list useful for updating this article and related articles 

message: I have inserted Africans informative people infobox and relocated  to the people of Africa section and added link. If any fellow Wikipedia editor or Wikipedia user has something to add on this informative addition then please state and comment. Regards -- User:149.254.49.123 (talk) 21:00, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: As AjaxSmack notes above, what the page needs is to be redirected to Ethnic groups in Africa. This will bring it in line with European people, which redirects to Ethnic groups in Europe. Middayexpress (talk) 23:46, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

text: Also don't engage in sockpuppetry like you just did. AcidSnow (talk) 00:03, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I've started a merge proposal here. Middayexpress (talk) 00:29, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no harm in the minor addition of an informative Africans infobox enhancing and improving the article until the outcome of Middayexpress's proposed merge proposel is resolved or closed, so I will include the article enhancing and informative Africans infobox instead of an double uninformative ethnolinguistic template which only describes the locations of native languages spoken on the African continent and which should be only in the article Languages of Africa. My opinion on the Middayexpress proposed merge proposel is that the article Africans exist as a continental "collective demonym" and should continue existing due to the many phenotypes and ethnicities that exist on the African continent as well as the African continent being the second largest continent in the world as with the phenotype and ethnicity complexity of the largest continent in the world- Asia hence the existing continental "collective demonym" article Asian people. Merging an significant informative "collective demonym" article such as Africans which describes the complexity of the many phenotypes and ethnicities on the second largest continent in the world- Africa which contains more phenotypes and ethnicities than any other continent in the world to the continental native ethnicity based and largely unsouced article Ethnic groups in Africa which solely describes the locations of the native ethnic groups inhabiting the African continent as with the continental native linguistic based article Languages of Africa which solely describes the locations of the native languages spoken on the African continent is slightly absurd and especially when comparing articles as Middayexpress has done with the redirected wikilink European people to the continental native ethnicity based article Ethnic groups in Europe that has no comparison. As to AcidSnow claimant of engagement in sockpuppetry I'am editing from a smartphone's (Samsung Galaxy S II) device 3G network which randomly switches IP addresses so I do not have control on the IP address my edit revisions  originate from. Regards -- 149.254.51.83 (talk) 06:22, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Left a reply here. Middayexpress (talk) 00:12, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Africans Infobox editorial addition