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Talk:Zagwe dynasty

message: Can you guys please always add sources? --HalaqaTruth(ሀላካሕ) 00:57, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: REFERENCES

message: "Around 960, Queen Gudit destroyed the remnants of the Aksumite Empire causing a shift in its temporal power centre that later regrouped more to the south. For 40 years she ruled over those remnants, eventually passing them on to her descendants. According to other Ethiopian traditional accounts, the last of her dynasty was overthrown by Mara Takla Haymanot in 1137. He married a daughter of the last king of Axum, Dil Na'od, putting control of Ethiopia in Agaw hands."
This makes no sense.  Dil Na'od  lived in the 9th and 10th century    and was the last king of Aksum,  of which the last remnants were destroyed in 960.     So how does he have a daughter of marriageable age ( even elderley marriageable age ) to Mara Takla,  a whopping 177 years later ?    Was this the Methusalid dynasty, or what ?122.106.205.74 (talk) 16:33, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: yeah it is complicated Braganza (talk) 16:35, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not complicated: Most ancient (and modern) African History on Wikipedia is fabrication - part revisionist History by students with an ideological bent and part invention. Sadly, anybody using Wikipedia as a source for History is naive in the extreme and yet you see these errors compounded in modern media everywhere. 2001:8003:70F5:2400:F1A4:DC59:8E2A:5BF8 (talk) 23:30, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anachronism ? 

message: How did zagwe dynasty emerge to christian state power?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.190.186.139 (talk) 09:37, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  History
Talk:Church of Saint George, Lalibela

message: This could really use some information on how this was constructed!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.162.7.207 (talk) 06:37, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No one knows for sure how it was constructed -- that's the problem. ;-) llywrch (talk) 21:13, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

message: In the History section, the passage beginning "The churches at Lalibela are clustered..." appears verbatim on several websites, eg. here, although it's not clear which is the original. A part of that passage has been placed in quotation marks, suggesting that this article isn't the original. The quotation marks may mean that it was perhaps intended as a cited quotation, but no source is indicated. Another part of the passage ("The dimensions of the trench...") are outside the quotation marks, yet also appear on other websites, which may mean that other passages could also be copypasted, but I haven't checked the whole article. DoubleGrazing (talk) 07:46, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible copyvio
Talk:Anna Phoebe

message: replaced the whole article with a copyvio from here.  Then, changes were added onto that.  I reverted to immediately before this point.  Signficant items may need to be added back to the article.  --Rob 01:15, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  copyvio 

message: There's a general lack of evidence for this page's content - I've highlighted two claims that particularly need citations, but there are several more. Ministry (talk) 13:28, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations not up to standard 

message: Phoebe is married to former BBC news presenter Gavin Esler, his second wife.
Don't you think the grammar is just a little off there? Gavin Esler is whose second wife? Toddcs (talk) 18:46, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Personal life
Talk:Yemrehana Krestos

message: WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive
Barely a Start class.
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 08:51, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment
Talk:Sa'ad ad-Din II

message: I've promoted this article from "Start" to "B" because I feel that while more could be written about Sa'ad ad-Din, the article fairly covers the subject & supplies ample cites for its statements. Anyone disagree? -- llywrch 18:22, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This is the correct information
; Reign
Fought not revolted
The Gadla Marqorewos records that he "easily destroyed" an army of Emperor Dawit I. Taddesse Tamrat, p. 151 The Egyptian encyclopedist Ahmad al-Qalqashandi (died 1418) also praises Sa'ad ad-Din's victories against the Ethiopians.Taddesse Tamrat, p. 152
; Legacy
According to al Shardi, Ali ben Omar may have encountered coffee during his stay with the Adal king Sadadin's companions in 1401. Famous 16th-century Islamic scholar Ibn Hajar al-Haytami notes in his writings a beverage called qahwa developed from a tree in the Zeila region.
كشنيسنم (talk) 18:43, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: merged the two headings above to the same editreq section  melecie  t - 00:16, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 19:57, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 17 November 2021
Talk:Ethiopian Highlands

message: The article: "with little of its surface falling below 1500 m" however, the elevation for 12°32′0″N, 41°23′8″E is about 410 m. Something doesn't seem right. Is there a better coordinate that can be used for the article that is above the 1500 m break? +mt 04:36, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinate choice
Talk:Haqq ad-Din II

message: : Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 18:43, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 17 November 2021 

message: Haqq ad-Din triumphantly
==Death==
until he was killed in action كشنيسنم (talk) 18:39, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Regin=

message: until he was killed in action كشنيسنم (talk) 18:39, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Death
Talk:Jamal ad-Din I

message: His predecessor was Sabr ad Din I, should mention that in the infobox Opiinqi12945 (talk) 14:26, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, I see no reason not to do this. The article already claims it and there is a fancy navigation box at the bottom that says as such. Thank you for your request! —Sirdog (talk) 21:11, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 8 December 2021
Talk:Mansur ad-Din of Adal

message: While the Walashma chronicle gives the credit of killing Sa'ad ad-din ll to Yeshaq l who was not the immediate successor of Dawit l and even Sabr ad-din ll is only reported to have fought against Yeshaq leg, Ragnimo misused already featured sources to claim that Mansur ad-din had defeated and killed Dawit l who had famously died of Horse-kick before Sabr ad-din came back to the Horn of Africa. If there is any argument against my statement I will be glad to see it. Krosherer (talk) 09:27, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mansur ad-din and Dawit l
Talk:Jamal ad-Din II

message: There is no evidence for the death if Emperor Yeshaq at the hands of the sultan and the more scholarly analysis by E.A Wallis Budge concludes the Emperor was assasinated. And there is no statement in the real Ethiopian Borderlands by Richard Pankhurst that supports the claims made by Ragnimo such as completely illogical claim of mass enslavement of Abyssinians and embrace of Islam by a specific Abyssinian tribe. Krosherer (talk) 20:50, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jamal ad-din 

message: To the user who is continuously including Zeila in the infobox, the city of Zeila was important for the early Muslim states to gain a foothold in the region however the region had become Muslim hence the more militant states were located further in the interior especially Ifat which was near Abyssinian frontier provinces, the province of Ifat in the Ifat Sultanate would conduct slave raids and as a result they came into conflict with the Abyssinians. The Abyssinians annexed the Walasma state in the 1300s therefore some of the rebel faction of this family moved out of Ifat to the Harar region around Adal, however Jamal and others continued to try and liberate their people in Ifat. Historical texts mention Zeila to mean the whole region see Zeila (historical region) not just the town of today Zeila city. Jamal was based in modern day eastern Ethiopia around Harar see Richard Pankhurst on Jamal . Likewise the later Abyssinian monarchs were based in Fatagar a border province of Abyssinia in order to defend their territory from Adal Magherbin (talk) 17:13, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zeila in the middles ages
Talk:Barakat ibn Umar Din

message: Explain the removal of sourced information on the page.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:280:CB02:1C79:146E:722B:2C2B:5CC7 (talk) 03:48, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I understand that most of the information here was originally added by a now-blocked user, and that the IP above probably is said user, but that is not in itself enough to justify its removal. To anyone removing it: please explain here what is wrong with the content of the edit itself. I already removed one unreliable source from it; is anything else wrong? Thanks, ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 10:15, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reign
Talk:Arsi Zone

message: On 1 November, Randomuser17 published ethnic slur on this page. I have removed it.Rastakwere (talk) 08:10, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethnic slur
Talk:Borena Zone

message: Just noting, in case an editor in this subject area might want to reuse it, that there's a three-paragraph overview of the Borana region in this old revision of Borana. – Uanfala 07:39, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relevant content in another article 
Talk:Plump DJs

message: Is it The Plump DJs, Plump DJ's or The Plump DJ's? --Abdull 09:16, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I removed the album art covers from the discography to keep the article in compliance with Wikipedia's fair use policy.  It explicitly states that album art cannot be used in a discography.  It states that album art can only be used in a critical commentary of the artwork. --RDavi404 (talk) 17:28, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Album images
Talk:East Shewa Zone

message: This region is actually called West Arsi Zone. Please correct it!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.137.198.141 (talk) 04:18, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
Talk:West Shewa Zone

message: Debub Mirab Shewa is a redirect to this page.  However, it appears that this is a new and separate Zone, with a population at the 2007 census of 1,111,442 and consisting of the following weredas:-
* Ameya
* Becho
* Dawo
* Goro
* Ilu
* Kersa Ena Malima
* Sebeta Hawas
* Sebeta Town
* Seden Sodo
* Sodo Dacha
* Tole
* Woliso
* Woliso Town
* Wonchi
Unfortunately, I am unable to access the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia's website at present, and am therefore unable to confirm the information.  GeoHive, which tends to be pretty accurate, does confirm this (see GeoHive : Ethiopia : Oromia : Administrative Units).
GeoHive gives Mirab Shewa itself as having a population of 2,072,485 and consisting of the following weredas:-
* Abuna Gindeberet
* Ada Berga
* Ambo Town
* Ambo Zuria
* Bako Tibe
* Cheliya
* Dano
* Dendi
* Ejere
* Elfata
* Ginde Beret
* Holeta Town
* Jeldu
* Jibat
* Meta Robi
* Midakegn
* Nono
* Tikur Enchini
* Toke Kutayu
* Wolmera
GeoHive sourced the information to the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia, and specifically the 2007 census report.  Skinsmoke (talk) 14:30, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The CSA website can be difficult to access at times -- as can every URL in the .et subdomain. (I don't know if it's due to network problems, or that they have insufficient bandwidth to handle the demand on their servers. But the website is very useful, unlike a lot of other Ethiopian websites.) The GeoHive information appears to be drawn from the summary of the latest national census. The reasons I haven't updated most of these geographical articles is that (1) I'd like to be able to say when these reorganizations took place -- so far, I've been compiling a table of the various mentions & making my inferences from that; & (2) finding accurate, up-to-date information on how Ethiopia is organized into Zones & woredas is difficult, even for people with access to the Ethiopian government records -- from what I've read, I gather that even the local officials don't have a comprehensive understanding of it for their own areas; (3) I've been procrastinating over this -- I figure that there are about a hundred new woredas & Zones, some of which appear & vanish like blobs in a Lava lamp. (And then there is the matter that I've got a number of other Ethiopia-related topics to work on, so if something looks like too much work I'm easily tempted to move on to another area.) If someone else would like to take this challenge on, I'd not only be happy to let them -- but also help them with it. -- llywrch (talk) 22:13, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Debub Mirab Shewa
Talk:Kombolcha

message: Those numbers can't be right. It would put the city in Wellega or Gojjam to the west, not in Debub Wollo Zone. — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 01:47, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. --Petercorless 02:05, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Location

message: https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/spaccio/:
"Sale to the public; exaples: 
"Shop, grocery store or even retail resale exercise like foodstuffs, salts and tobaccos, especially in communities, like the spaccio within a ministry, a hospital, barracks." GianMarco Tavazzani (talk) 16:55, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "spaccio" a "tobacco shop"??? Oh please!!!!
Talk:Metu, Ethiopia

message: I removed the reference to an electric generator that gives only limited power to Mettu. The city is supplied by the Sor dam, with 24 hour electricity. The previous material cited a book, but I have strong doubts as to its veracity. I have been to the Sor site and enjoyed its electricity in Mettu, so I am not sure of the factual basis for the previous description. Pete unseth (talk) 19:58, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Electric power 
Talk:Brent Russell

message: This article is about Brent Russel the South Afircan Rugby Player
Please stop defacing this article with your personal CV. If you believe you are worthy of mention please create your own article for peer review, but stop changing this one please.
Khukri  (talk . contribs) 09:19, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I was thinking that, too... -- Scientizzle 23:17, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Great.  This was getting ridiculous. -- Scientizzle 00:02, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What happened to the protection? -- Scientizzle 00:19, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

text: No problem - I complied with your request, it's now really sprotected :-) Vsmith 00:56, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Whoo hoo Khukri  (talk . contribs) 08:52, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This is getting silly; warnings and blocks don't seem to be deterring the vandalism. Should we make this a protected page until it passes?
Saint-djc 23:17, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I was thinking that, too... -- Scientizzle 23:17, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Protected Page?

message: Over 100 edits and reverts have been made in the past month, with appropiate messages, warnings and blocks being made. This hasn't ceased and I think we need to have a period of calm.
Saint-djc 00:01, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Great.  This was getting ridiculous. -- Scientizzle 00:02, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What happened to the protection? -- Scientizzle 00:19, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

text: No problem - I complied with your request, it's now really sprotected :-) Vsmith 00:56, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Whoo hoo Khukri  (talk . contribs) 08:52, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Temporarily Protected Page
Talk:West Welega Zone

message: I really don't understand why you call it Mirab Welega Zone instead of West Welega zone. Mirab means West, that is it. Nobody calls it Mirab Welega in English, never seen.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Teferi Kebebew (talk • contribs) 06:50, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why Mirab
Talk:Asnaketch Worku

message: There had been a couple of unreferenced edits indicating that the subject had died.  It was a couple of days before I was able to find any corroborating reports on Google News, but I found two articles: one from Ezega.com and another from NewsDire.com.  The latter, in turn, was copied from a Wordpress blog so I am inclined to stick with the former, which gives the daye or death as September 14, 2011. It indicates that the subject was 75 when she died (the blog said she died on September 15 at age 78).  However, we had already cited a reference which put her year of birth at "around 1926 EC", which would be (around) 1933 or 1934 using the Gregorian calendar.  For now, I am leaving the year of birth as "c. 1935". -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 18:14, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death sources 
Talk:Mahmoud Ahmed

message: Is he Muslim? Badagnani 21:09, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: he was muslim and converts to christian and again convert to islam sorry for his ignorance  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.116.206.228 (talk) 09:22, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Are you sure that he converted back to Islam? I know that he converted to Orthodox Christianity a couple of years ago, with the baptismal name "Tewelde Medhin". According to sources who knew him from church, he was a regular church goer. But I got that information about two or three years ago, I don't know about now. Do you have any source on that?   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.219.56.89 (talk) 10:03, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Religion
Talk:Hadiyya language

message: Hadiyya is a cultural group, not just the language of that people.211.225.37.140 (talk) 12:52, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Right. This article is about the language, but you will find more information on the people on this  page. Landroving Linguist (talk) 21:08, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

message: The article currently reads, "most speakers live within 100 miles of Addis Ababa in a town called Hosaena." Given 900,000 or so Hadiyya speakers, the statement suggests that the population of Hosaena should be in the hundreds of thousands. However, the population is given as approx. 50,000. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 18:59, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Right. I will attempt to fix it. Landroving Linguist (talk) 06:07, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hosaena 

message: The two each have ISO numbers. What is the evidence for seeing Libido and Hadiyya dialects? Blench? Pete unseth (talk) 21:25, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Libido and Hadiyya
Talk:Aster Aweke

message: I guess her birth date is dynamic in every sources, some say 1961, 1958 and 1959. Due to absence established reliable sources, her birth year should be removed until someone find independent  multiple reliable sources to verify the actual year. The Supermind (talk) 18:11, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth date information 

message: Her record label, Kabu Records, has stated that Chewa (2019) is her 25th release. For instance, look at the YouTube descriptions of her full albums released on her official channel. Looking at Discogs, the most comprehensive source available in English on her discography I could find, many of her releases (especially earlier releases) are not dated, and are therefore difficult to put into chronological order. If anyone can find a full chronology please update. Holidayruin (talk) 21:23, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incomplete albums list
Talk:Begena

message: The article states that "The singer may compose his or her own texts or they may be taken ... from the Book of Qine, an anthology of proverbs and love poems": however, I can find no online references to a Book of Qine, except for those that appear to be copied verbatim from this Wikipedia page. Is this a mistranslation or mis-transliteration of an Arabic term? ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 19:44, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Book of Qine? 

message: To add to this article: the traditional material from which the strings are made. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 18:18, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The strings are made from sheep/goats intestines. I'll include it in the article with a reliable source, if it's not in there, in the next few days or so. Dawit S Gondaria (talk) 22:54, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: To add to article

message: Ds77 (talk) 08:17, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's a girf?
Talk:List of political parties in the Czech Republic

message: I added the 26 parties participating in the recent elections that were not yet added to the page. I have not found the authorative English translation of these parties, except for Balbín's Poetical Party, so this list is incomplete. I can't say if all the previous parties still exist.  jax 09:30, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I am not sure whether this is good decision. It is easy to set up a political party in the Czech Republic and easy to register it for elections. Some of those tiny "parties" have certain entertainment value but cloning the official list from the Ministry makes little sense, IMHO. Pavel Vozenilek 02:57, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update for June 2006 elections 
Talk:Masenqo

message: I agree with mid-importance.  Like the krar, it's an iconic instrument for Ethiopian storytelling and traditional music, and probably these two are the most familiar traditional Ethiopian instruments.  There are more than 10 traditional instruments but many of the obscure ones are played only in very limited areas, by specific ethnic groups.  Badagnani 22:26, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: True. Don't forget the begena (very important) and washint (important, but less so), and to a lesser degree the kebero. Those with limited geographic extent can probably be labeled as "low importance,"  though. Feel free to assess other articles, Badagnani. We have a long way to go! — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 22:29, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Importance

message: Shouldn't the Tigrinya=language equivalent of this instrument from Tigray be mentioned: the chera wata/chira wata? 173.89.236.187 (talk) 20:01, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chera wata/chira wata 

message: ?? 196.190.60.98 (talk) 19:21, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  In which year is masinqo is invented
Talk:Abay River

message: There is a merge proposal at the top of this article, to merge with Blue Nile.  This seems logical to me.  Merge the material from Abay into this Blue Nile, then make Abay a redirect [to Blue Nile].  If there is no objection, I will do this in the near future. Unschool (talk) 01:41, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have completed the merger to Blue Nile.Unschool (talk) 02:53, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge?
Talk:Antal Szerb

message: According to the article Szerb was Catholic, but in the categories at the bottom of the article he's twice listed as Jewish. Is there any reason for this other than Anti-Semites classifying him as Jewish because all his grandparents were? --Paularblaster (talk) 01:02, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Catholic/Jewish 

message: Antal Szerb  wrote:  DIE  SUCHE  NACH  DEM  WUNDER  (1938  Leipzig  Amsterdam). 
On  NOVELWRITING.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.104.27.225 (talk) 10:20, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Omission of his most important book 