Talk:South West Africa

message: In the English edition the name should be South West Africa without the hyphen. SteveH 02:07, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree, outside of wikipedia, the term sometimes include the hyphen, but hyphen use is redundant. Redirecting German South West Africa, South-West Africa to move South West Africa. Electrawn 22:42, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
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message: I don't think it's proper to merge it into History of Namibia;  instead, from there a link (ie: Main article: South-West Africa) to this article can be placed instead, with only a summary paragraph in the history article.  SWA existed for long enough to have an involved history.  Look for instance what was done in the History of South Africa article, especially in the "Legalised discrimination" subsection of "Apartheid era". dewet|™ 19:03, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. As country-like entities, they can support much of the boilerplate and format that country articles have, while "History of X" articles are typically narratives not well suited for describing government, economy, communications (including my favorite, the postal system :-) ) of the colony. Colony articles have generally gotten short shrift in WP, no doubt because of the political incorrectness in describing them as anything other than evil aberrations along the way to glorious independence. 1/2 :-) Stan 22:35, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: I added the map of Namibia to the article! If I did something wrong pleace contact me. Dr.Poison 22:22, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well done...  I've moved it up a bit, but otherwise quite fine.  dewet|✉ 08:42, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

text: I added it to the article about German South West Africa also ���Dr.Poison 20:10, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:Namibia SWA Arms.jpg

message: Rather than create an article on this topic (Namibia under South African occupation), it may be better to place the material in the very short South West Africa article, which appears to be on pretty much the same topic. Nick Dowling (talk) 11:20, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with the suggestion to merge this rather redundant stub with the more substantial South-West Africa article.---PJHaseldine (talk) 16:21, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger suggestion

message: Some of the International Court of Justice links are out of date. I've updated the 1971 advisory opinion, which seemed obvious. Could an expert on the subject please attend to the others? --Wikiain (talk) 01:39, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  ICJ links broken 

message: The article's scope, infobox, and lead are incorrect:
* SWA was known under this name until 1884 and from 1915 to 1990.
* Thus the entire pre-colonial history is missing.
* It was not under a mandate of South Africa from 1915 to 1990. It was a mandate from 1920 to 1966. From 1915 to 1920 and between 1966 and 1990 it was occupied territory.
Will attempt a revamp, all suggestions welcome. --Pgallert (talk) 09:33, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major revamp needed 

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