Talk:Kinky hair

Calling African hair afro-texture is the most racist thing to call African hair.
Afro isn't a texture it's a style. As an African hairstylists I'm beyond offended by this. 96.245.213.132 (talk) 17:17, 31 August 2022 (UTC)


 * I think this article could do with some analysis and potential revision in relation to WP:CSB, particularly from a perspective outside of North America. In terms of nomenclature specifically, if there is a problem with the word "kinky" hair, then that should be mentioned. Right now, the article directly mentions the Andre Walker Hair Typing System, but when referring to this type of hair, doesn't use the related name of the classification, and misleadingly implies "afro-texture hair" is the word used in that classification. The sentence "English adjectives such as "woolly", "kinky", "nappy", or "spiraled" have been used[year needed] to describe natural afro-textured hair." also implies that "afro-textured" is the 'natural' or correct word, without offering any context or reference. Llamageddon (talk) 20:59, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

The article also, somewhat ironically, has sections on "The United States" and "other diasporic African populations" and nothing on Africa or any African nations, even though it mentions African styles in reference to the other two, and elsewhere. Modern perceptions and controversies only has one mention of anything specifically independent of the USA. Ideally, this should be remedied or accounted for. Llamageddon (talk) 21:13, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

Overload of images
Please folks. When you're formatting an article, spare a thought for mobile users. From memory, something like 60% or more of readers are mobile. If you need to check, you can use developer tools on Chrome and switch to mobile viewer.

I'm sure this looks nice on your wide screen monitor. For mobile users, what you get is not a neat gallery; you get a vertical stack of images that's like a foot long and takes up the entire width of the screen. I don't care which ones, but this article needs easily 85% of the images removed. G M G talk  12:20, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 16 September 2023

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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Vpab15 (talk) 14:54, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Afro-textured hair → Kinky hair – The prefix afro- implies that kinky hair is only found in the Indigenous peoples of Africa, when in reality it is also found in the Indigenous populations of many places outside of Africa, including but not limited to Australia and Melanesia. Using the term kinky instead of the term afro-textured would prevent this implication. – Treetoes023 (talk) 16:36, 16 September 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. – robertsky (talk) 15:52, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Support per WP:COMMONNAME based on the Google Ngrams. Rreagan007 (talk) 21:34, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment: See the prior RM discussion at Talk:Kinky hair/Archive 2. There is also some discussion of the title in Talk:Kinky hair/Archive 1 and another comment at Talk:Kinky hair/Archive 2. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 22:33, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
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Papuan girls
There is an image with the subtitle "papuan women", yet the image was shot (based on its description) in Nigeria, which is not very close to Papua New Guinea. I cannot verify any of those, but I guess it's not right. grin ✎ 10:20, 18 May 2024 (UTC)