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Talk:List of universities and colleges in Ethiopia

message: Researching the dozens of redlinks has been extremely tedious. As such, after many hours (and just a few verifications) I gave up and just deleted all unsourced material from the article. If anyone wants to resurrect any of the entries, feel free, just make sure to include either a wikilink to a standalone article or a reliable citation.
Keep in mind that several of those entries were not actually universities or colleges, but were technical or vocational schools, such as found in this reference: List of Medium Level Technical and Vocational Schools.
I also noted that several of the bluelinks lead to stubs with no citations at all.
I did not spend any time checking the linked-to articles, nor checking if they were a university rather than a technical/vocational school.
Platonk (talk) 00:43, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Big cleanup
Talk:Commercial Bank of Ethiopia

message: Number of employees mentioned in introductory table is wrong it should be 22,908. Robeda (talk) 09:36, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of employees mentioned in introductory table is wrong it should be 22,908. 
Talk:United Bank Limited

message: how too check the account is active 109.161.220.100 (talk) 14:58, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Information
Talk:Transport in Ethiopia

message: Don't be fast 196.188.112.46 (talk) 15:46, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Write the historical development of transportation in Ethiopia that includes land and water
Talk:Telecommunications in Ethiopia

message: The article lede mentions that ETC is a monopoly, and that internet access requires ETC's involvement, while further along, the text says there are 89 internet hosts. I think this may be a contradiction, at least with the part about ETC being a monopoly.  I can imagine it being the case where there are 89 internet hosts, but that they still require ETC's involvement.  (Or it may be the case that "internet host" is not the same as "ISP".)  Clarification would be helpful. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 17:23, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: (I can say, based on my own experience, that Google defaults to an Ethiopian Google portal (google.com.et) in Ethiopia, and some articles that showed up on my personal news.google.com page would not load when I clicked on them.) -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 17:27, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

text: I believe the intent is to say that ETC is, to use computer jargon, part of the network backbone for Ethiopia. That is, it is the ISP for the ISPs in that country. This is not an unusual situation: even in the US, most ISPs own outright no more bandwidth than the few yards of cat-6 connecting their servers to the interconnect at the Central Office, & lease the rest of their bandwidth. That may sound as if ISPs are an unnecessary middle-man in the business, but they play a useful role dealing, on one hand with the individuals at the phone company who actually know how the Internet services work (all phone companies are huge bureaucracies where most of even the technical people have no clue how to fix, nor even if anyone at their corporation knows if it is possible), & on the other with the end users who have problems -- or need to be taught how to do stuff. The problem with ETC in this case, if the external links I added to this article are to be trusted, is that it is spending more effort as an agent of the government controlling the information passing over its Internet connections, rather than improving those connections both in number & speed. (There have been times when I accessed an .et sub-domain when I honestly wondered if the entire country is connected to the rest of the Internet by a T-1 line. The data transfer speeds have been that slow!) -- llywrch (talk) 19:56, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanx for the info.  (I know about U.S. phone company bureaucracy, having worked at one for 10 years - actually I was trying not to think about it) -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 20:12, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
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Talk:Endubis

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message: The transcription of the coin markings included several obvious errors, which I've addressed:
*the letter W, which doesn't exist in Greek. I assume it's a form of omega. Changed to Ω
* X or Χ (chi) for the sound  in "Aksum", which makes no sense. (Admittedly the inscription is rather unclear.) Changed to Ξ, which does have the correct value
* C for Ϲ (lunate sigma, which appears similar but has a different code point).
Unfortunately there is no authoritative transcription of this coin, so this has a faint whiff of original research about it. But this is at least more plausible than W and "Akhum". Hairy Dude (talk) 05:25, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coin enscription
Talk:Wonderland Sydney

message: Does anyone remember when Wonderland closed down the owners used every excuse in the book from SARS to terrorism to insurance for the closure??? Doesnt it seem a little funny that the site is now at the junction of two motorways and being redeveloped as commercial land Soundabuser 09:38, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Funny as in twisted, not haha. I find it really disappointing that no value was seen in the place by the owners except of course the monetary value the land offered. It has to be said the place didn't do too well in its lasted couple of years of operation. However, nothing was done to give the park a boost since the new owners took over, so it would seem they had little intention to keep the place going from the get go. I think its sad. Tinkstar1985 11:01, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I tracked down that article about them blaming everything and added the information to the article :) Freikorp (talk) 06:49, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Closing down 

message: Does anyone have a map they can scan? It would be very helpful to show just how large the theme park was  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.239.61.50 (talk) 10:33, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Map???

message: I removed the text "A former employee did make a list of what happened to some." and the external link to the pdf article. I checked it a few months ago and it was a detailed well written page. Unfortunately it is now a dead link, the home page "www.wonderlandhistory.net" now simply has the text "Nothing to see here". If anyone knows what happened to the pdf article or has a copy let me know, I'd love to get a copy. Freikorp (talk) 06:29, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, so upon randomly checking the link is working again, don't ask me what's going on with the website, I don't know. Anyway I've added it back to the article. I've also saved a copy of the Pdf in case the site goes down again. Freikorp (talk) 03:42, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fate of the rides
Talk:Ousas

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message: * Is "Ousas/Ousanas" a Ge'ez name? Has anyone offered an etymology of his name, or any other Aksum ruler?
* There are at least two kings of Aksum by this name. (At one point, it was believed there were three kings of this name.) How were they distinguished?
* Proposed identification with Tezena, father of Kaleb; Nezana/Nezool has also been identified with Tezena.
* A description of the coins issued during his reign.
-- llywrch (talk) 08:01, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notes to improve this article
Talk:Kaleb of Axum

message: WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive
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message: First time I removed the stub note, it was because the template didn't exist; now the template does. However, I'm removing it this time because a stub template is a warning to the reader that the article is too short to provide a satistfactory overview of the subject. (One rule of thumb I use depends on how many paragraphs an article has: less than 3 multi-sentence paragraphs, it's clearly a stub.) I feel this opinion is in harmony with the guidelines at Wikipedia: Stub.
Just because an article is no longer a stub -- or even if it's achieved Featured Article status -- does not mean it wouldn't be a better article if more material were added. But at the moment, I'd say this article clearly is long enough to be generally useful, in a large part due to Yom's additions. -- llywrch 16:32, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, that's fine. I thought that, generally, the more important/more an article could be written on, the longer an article could be and still be considered a stub. Just as a note, the royalty stub existed before; it was just mispelled in this article. Just a note, but check out the geography talk at WikiProject Ethiopia, some of the woredas don't show up on the map. — ዮም (Yom) | contribs • Talk 16:37, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: Wouldn't one of those accents have to go?--Richardson mcphillips (talk) 13:08, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  from the Greek Ελεσβόάς
Talk:Wazena of Axum

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Talk:WʽZB

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message: I was expanding several of the articles on kings of Aksum by adding information about the coinage issued during their reign -- which in several cases is all we have about a given personage -- but ended up skipping this one due to issues I could not resolve. Primarily, experts have not only identified this ruler with several others, but have also identified two rulers of this name, as well as offered several different dates. In short, there is more information about this personage, but I was/am unclear how to organize this conflicting information into an intelligible form. So in short, there is more information available about W`zb, it just needs to be sorted out. -- llywrch (talk) 16:05, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Note on expanding this article
Talk:Ashama ibn-Abjar

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replies: text: Too right, it's rather a mixture of an article and some Muslims attempt to preach Islam passed of as biography. Needs a complete re-write. Pbhj (talk) 13:36, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
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message: The use of the Arabic variant is both irregular and unhelpful- it is not the Ge'ez term, nor the English one. --Simfan34 (talk) 02:21, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming
Talk:Dil Na'od

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message: Dil Naod escaped according to ethiopian tradition to shoa, menz.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.76.22.72 (talk) 01:19, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dil Naod-escaped to menz..
Talk:Tatadim

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message: So is Tatadim the same Zagwe ruler known as Tantawedem, for whom there is independent evidence of his existence? See Derat Marie-Laure, "The Zāgʷē dynasty (11-13th centuries) and King Yemreḥanna Krestos", Annales d'Ethiopie, 25 (2010), pp. 162f. -- llywrch (talk) 01:11, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Tatadim sounds alot like Gudit's other alias as other sources indicate her name was Tedin and she was the daughter of Maya, obviously this would be too embarrassing for the dyanasty hence the distortion. According to the source you posted it could be an alternative spelling of his name, since p.163 states he was indeed succeeded by Jan Seyum. Magherbin (talk) 07:05, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question
Talk:Kedus Harbe

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message: According to Germa Seyum, Kedus Harbe was his son, while in this article it is claimed that he was the son of Jan Seyum, the brother of Germa Seyum. Whose son was Kedus Harbe? Bamse 06:53, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  son of whom?
Talk:Balakishi Arablinski

message: Descendants and relatives can claim a lot of things. A source from a neutral third party would be nice. Lida Vorig (talk) 19:14, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: They know better than anyone else who their great grandad was. His descendants live in Azerbaijan and Moscow. All say that he was Azerbaijani, and that was the language spoken in their family. You haven't presented any source for your Avar claim. Grandmaster 07:35, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No, historians would be better than anyone else to know. Kathleen McGowan, self claimed descendant of Jesus lives in California, that doesn't make Jesus Californian, does it? Azerbaijani language was not developed until 1930's. It was a Turkish dialect before that. But considering the fact that he spent his entire life serving the Russians, it's safe to assume that Russian was his primary language. Lida Vorig (talk) 19:42, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Azerbaijani language existed already in the 14th century. That's when the first literature in this language appeared. And self-declared descendant of Jesus is not a good example. Andrei Arablinsky is a well known person, a doctor in Moscow. No one doubts that he is descendant of the general. So enough is enough. It is a pointless argument, unless you present a reliable source to support ypur claims. Grandmaster 05:26, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Avar or Azerbaijani
Talk:Newaya Maryam

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Talk:Dawit I

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message: Is he the David of Ethiopia mentioned in the chapter 54 of the Kebra Nagast? I mean, this David is Menelik rebaptised, but I'm wondering if this king David couldn't be like and historical base for certain parts of the Menelik legend from the time he adopts this name... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.244.11.49 (talk) 20:32, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The Kebra Negest was written centuries before he was born. His regnal name was taken after the biblical King David. — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 23:37, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  In the Kebra Nagast? 

message: Solomonic there:List of Emperors of Ethiopia, Zagwe in this article. In the end?--BrakPomysłuNaNazwę (talk) 18:59, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family
Talk:Yeshaq I

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Barely a Start class.
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message: @2601:280:CB02:1AA2:A414:EDC4:17BD:F4D4 You have been reverted  because Tadesse Tamrat view was properly referenced. I verified it. If there any doubts, you can verify it yourself, the source is available on web archives. It only requires free registration. The url in the source will take you directly to the page. Dawit S Gondaria (talk) 16:56, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tadesse Tamrat interpretation of medieval sources on how Yeshaq I died.
Talk:Eskender

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message: There appears to be a problem with the primary sources, if the account of James Bruce can be trusted:
: A wonderful confusion seems to be introduced at this time into history by the Portuguese writers. Iscander is said to die in the year 1490. he began, as they say, to reign in 1475; and this is confirmed by Ludolf; and, on all hands, it is allwoed he reigned 17 years, which would have brought the last year of his reign to 1492. It seems also to be agreed by the generality of them, that Covillan saw and conversed with this prince, Iscander, some time before his death: this he very well might have done, if that prince lived to 1492, and Peter Covillan came into Abyssinia in 1490, as Galvan says in his father's memoirs. But then Tellez informs us expressly, that Iscander was dead six months before the arrival of Peter Covillan in that country. If Peter Covillan arrived six months after the death of Iscander, it must have been in the end of his son's reign, Amda Sion, who was an infant, and reigned only seven months. (Travels, vol. 3 p. 146)
Bruce concludes, "Alvarez omits this king, Amda Sion, altogether, and so does Tellez; and there is a heap of mistakes here, that shew these Portuguese hhistorians paid very little attention to the chronology of these reigns." However, in more recent histories of Ethiopia, there is no indication of a conflict in these sources. Have these contradictions been resolved? Or is this another example of Bruce's well-known attitude towards his Portuguese/Jesuit antecedents, in whom he found fault at every opportunity? -- llywrch (talk) 20:58, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  James Bruce on Eskander 
Talk:Gelawdewos

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Talk:Sarsa Dengel

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Talk:Yaqob

message: This article says 1606, Susenyos I syas 1607. DuncanHill (talk) 00:53, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of Battle of Gol 

message: Wallis Budge is known in Egyptology to be inaccurate (even for his own time), outdated and mixing opinion with facts (see bottom of this page, for James Peter Allen's criticism on him). So it is advised to double-check any info taken from Budge's books, even on topics outside of egyptology, such as this article. The duke (talk) 13:38, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm the one who cited Budge in this article, so I'm well aware of his flaws. But we are stuck with citing him due to a lack of any other sources of Ethiopian history in English. (The only other general histories of Ethiopia are James Bruce's book -- which only covers the history up to 1780, the year he left the country -- & Henze's Layers of Time, which is useful yet has a number of subtle flaws in his acocunt.) At first I thought that his history of Ethiopia was more reliable than his Egyptian work -- at places Budge updates bruce -- only to be surprised when I consulted one source he had used (i.e. H. Weld Blundell, The Royal chronicle of Abyssinia, 1769-1840), & found Budge had relied on an old student's trick in using that book: instead of reading it, he used the index to mine what he was looking for. It's one thing to plagiarize another man's work, it's another to do it badly. -- llywrch (talk) 23:12, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beware of Budge
Talk:Fasilides

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message: Not sure where to suggest this, but I'll try here:
His name in Wikipedia is Fasilides. The article also lists alternative spellings Fāsīladas, Fāsīledes. Should not Fasiladas and Fasiledes also be valid search words to find this page? Internet also uses Fasilades, so perhaps this should also be included?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.210.46.118 (talk) 22:57, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no single, widely-accepted system for transliterating Ethiopian names into English; I've seen the same writer spell the same name differently due to publisher's preferences. If you believe these alternative spellings are common enough to justify their inclusion, then go ahead & create redirects for them that point to this article. The only reason I don't give you a green light to add these alternate transliterations to the article lead is that doing so ends up with a block of the same name repeated over & over with only minor variations -- which looks bad & discourages casual readers from reading much further. -- llywrch (talk) 19:18, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternate spellings of names
Talk:Iyasu II

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Good references, but I wouldn't rate it a B. However, a previous editor has, and I'll let it stand.
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