Talk:Dinka people

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Alphabet Display issues
The extended characters do not display on most computers due to limited Unicode support for the Dinka alphabet. A bitmap alternative should be provided Softgrow 00:59, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * They weren't showing up in IE due to a limitation in IE's font handling, but I've added the Unicode template to the characters in question which works around the problem. Unicode itself doesn't have "limited support", just IE or the user's fonts. The characters are in the font Arial Unicode MS, which is commonly included with Microsoft Office, or several freely downloadable Unicode fonts. You can add a notice if you feel this needs to be explained in the article. DopefishJustin (･∀･) 20:01, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

Actually, you need OpenType fonts with support for combining diacritics. Arial Unicode MS can not support two of the uppercase characters that require combining diacritics.

Move to Language
Don't you think that alphabet+ should be moved to the language article? Koryakov Yuri 18:01, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Picture from The New Student's Reference Work
Here is link to a portrait circa 1914 for when the article expands further: Image:NSRW Africa Dinka.png -- Birgitte§β ʈ  Talk  01:31, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Suggested update in re Macharia Yuot
On the list of prominent members of the Dinka tribe, can someone include the runner Macharia Yuot? He is a distance runner at NCAA Div III Widener University. He recently won the 10k, 3k steeplechase, and 5k at the Div III track & field championships - the first runner in any division to win all three of those in the same year. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=2466635&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab2pos1

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=santoliquito/060420

http://www.widener.edu/Athletics/Outdoor_Track_and_Field/Schedule_and_Results/May_26_27_NCAA_/7386/

I'd do the editing myself, but I'm afraid I'd muck up the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.245.147.124 (talk • contribs) 00:15, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Ref Maasai
Two errors in the information here: Wanyonyi (talk) 07:02, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
 * the Maasai are not River and Lake Nilotes, as alleged here - they are Plains Nilotes (see http://www.bluegecko.org/kenya/contexts/nilotes.htm, and http://www.kenyafilmcommission.com/Home/Facts-&-Figures. Maasai are pastoralists, and have never inhabited riverine / lake regions. In Kenya and Tanzania, they inhabit some of the most arid sections of the two countries.
 * the Maasai are not the tallest group in East Africa - not by a long shot. The Tutsi are far taller, and even the Kalenjin are probably taller. The Maasai are perhaps more famous, but they are not very imposing vertically!

1991 Southeastern Dinka Massacre
This section levels accusations against Riek Machar that need to be documented from reliable sources. Pending such documentation, I have tagged the section as failing in neutrality. Awien (talk) 18:18, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
 * It's a really badly documented event but it happened. The Dinka are very bitter about it. It's hard to find a proper source but Google books as a mini achieve of texts with their numbers. The range appears to be from 2,000 to 3,000, obviously not the previously linked 69,000. Secondat of Orange (talk) 04:35, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

[http;//www.sudancapcity.og]

Cow Customs?
How come no mention of the practice of young boys orally stimulating cows and also the pratice of washing their hair with cow urine?

It was on national geographic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ8OSUXlpRw —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.204.152.228 (talk) 02:01, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * "This video has been removed as violation of Youtube's policy on nudity and sexual content" :P
 * It's true but it's not a common phenomenon, hence not a ethnic image. The Cow urine thing however is most probably true. Secondat of Orange (talk) 04:39, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Bad to worse
This entry just seems to get worse and worse every day. Non-neutral garbage gets removed, then put back in 20 edits later. No one can even decide what the various Dinka regions are called. References are added with no respect for guidelines, or even common sense. "Notable Dinka" invariably ends up looking like people's personal guest books of friends and relatives.

Someone knowledgeable really needs to go through this mess and make the entry readable and informative.

Horstvonludwig (talk) 11:33, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I completely agree. There's the JiangJang guy who just edits this page likes it's his personal site.
 * Secondat of Orange (talk) 14:59, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

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"Notable" Dinka?
Just removed a "defence lawyer" from the Notable Dinka section, only to have my edit reverted. It's amazing what a low bar there is to be considered "notable" here. I suspect people add themselves or their relatives, often without respecting alphabetical order. Horstvonludwig (talk) 00:13, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Flag
How do we know that the flag shown at the top of this article is real?

I see no references for this in the article, and I cannot easily google up anything. The one site that I do uses Wikipedia as the reference, which is not acceptable.

If there is no source, it should be removed.

Tagging User:C1MM, who added it. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 20:16, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

Useful link
In case anyone might care to follow up on it:

https://books.google.ca/books?id=z7Y4X9kHeU8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Lienhardt%2BDinka&ei=iLgOS_DfFKPqygS179HlDA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Lienhardt%2BDinka&f=false

Awien (talk) 20:51, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

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New research about the Dinka people
Some of the information on this page is wrong. I did research on the Dinka people and will add new information along with correct information.Kyoung823 (talk) 14:16, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Adding a section about Christianity
I have added a section about Christianity among the Dinka. These are the sources I used.

Fancher, Karen. "Ritual and Sacrifice Among the Dinka of Southern Sudan: Implications for Christian Evangelism and Discipleship."https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e996/1d8e9447e2ec2ec6ea656f09c5d9570b8b7d.pdf

Nikkel, Marc R. “Aspects of Contemporary Religious Change among the Dinka.” Journal of Religion in Africa, vol. 22, no. 1, 1992, pp. 78–94., www.jstor.org/stable/1580785. Accessed 30 Mar. 2020.

Snyder, Kathryn, ""In My Heart I Had a Feeling of Doing It": A Case Study of the Lost Boys of Sudan and Christianity" (2010). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 614. https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/614

Zink, Jesse. “Women and Religion in Sudan’s Civil War: Singing through Conflict.” Studies in World Christianity, vol. 23, no. 1, Apr. 2017, pp. 67–83. EBSCOhost, doi:10.3366/swc.2017.0170.

Mr. Hill 99 (talk) 19:50, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Is there not a better ethnic picture?
I feel like the first picture used seems quite colonial and there should be a coloured people to more positively express the Dinka people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EmilePersaud 16:11, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
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