User talk:Ogunabibiman

Welcome!

Hello, Ogunabibiman, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! JackyR | Talk 20:30, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze

Thank you very much for your contributions, which look very valuable. I notice you've done a lot of work on articles around the person above, which makes me wonder if you are indeed Dr Eze. Don't feel pressed to reveal this information unless you wish to, but if you are Dr Eze, can I ask that you take a look at Wikipedia's very strict policies regarding biography and autobiography?

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The articles on Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze and Philosophia Africana make both topics seem sufficiently notable to warrant their places on Wikipedia. However, disputes on notability often occur. Articles edited by interested parties are also frequently accused of being for vanity or advertising. Again, the above articles seem fine on this score, although the bio is completely lacking references and large parts might be deleted on this score.

Ideally an editor should not edit articles pertaining to themself (and certainly never start one). Reasons for this are explained at length in Wikipedia:Autobiography; and as I have spent a most tiresome week sorting out the problems surrounding a self-published novelist who gave herself an article and was then offended by a) criticism of the article itself, and b) the indignation of other editors, I can vouch for their validity.

If you are indeed Dr Eze, it would be more proper to put refs to good source material on the "Talk" page of these articles, and let others decide what to include it in articles. This is not an absolutely strict rule (see here for a positive example), but it can all go horribly wrong (see this, which caused the hassle mentioned above).

I shall put both these pages on my watchlist, and will see if material is posted on their Talk pages. I don't promise to keep up with it all, but once material is there, any future editors can find it and decide whether or not to use it.

And welcome again!

And after all that, an even bigger WELCOME! It's fantastic to have someone on board who can contribute to the appalingly under represented topics such as African Philosophy. you might also be interested in:

All very best wishes, and if there's anything I can do to help please feel free to ask. JackyR | Talk 20:30, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

John Mbiti

As if that weren't enough to take in, I have a request about John Mbiti. It was great that you reffed your contrib there, but there's also a template for a more detailed ref (more important when the journal isn't open access, I feel)I've copied this into Talk:John Mbiti. Could I beg you to fill in the more exact details of the ref? Many, many thanks and all best wishes, JackyR | Talk 23:49, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Very many thanks for the references. I've formatted them, and changed the style of my previous referencing on that page. I hope you like the result. If not, feel free to amend - or to ask for help if the horrid Wiki-templates defeat you! JackyR | Talk 18:07, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kingdom of Nri

Greetings. I noticed ur work on the Nri-Igbo page when I was trying to find an article on the Kingdom of Nri. I'm an African-American who has not too recently discovered my patenral roots are among the Igbo in modern Nigeria. I've been researching state societies among the Igbo and I plan on putting up pages for all of them (Aboh, Onitsha, etc). I noticed there was no page dedicated to the kingdom of Nri, so i made one. I think it's pretty good and it is VERY well sourced. So well sourced in fact that certain folks have disparaged my article complaining about the organization of my sources. Anyway, I felt you'd be interested in this page and might be able to contribute some vital info. I've search around my personal library and scoured google books [1], but I can't find a reliable ruler list for the eze Nri. I was hoping u might be able to help. I found one list here [2], but I don't trust the page. The earliest reign seems way too late, and there's some questionable stuff about Nri's founders coming from the Middle Eastern holyland. I won't say that kind of thing is impossible, but I haven't found any published works let alone published works from pubishers of good calibre (I mean universities) with similar claims. Holla back at me and please check out the page. Scott Free (talk) 05:29, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RE: A book you might find useful

Thanx. I will definately put it on my christmas list. :) Scott Free (talk) 06:28, 26 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]