Talk:Mozambique/Archive 1

Format
--78.86.116.190 (talk) 08:59, 9 October 2008 (UTC)The format of the page seems a little awkward. --78.86.116.190 (talk) 08:59, 9 October 2008 (UTC)--78.86.116.190 (talk) 08:59, 9 October 2008 (UTC)Either each level 2 heading should have a short blurb followed by the link to the more in-depth page, or the level 2 headings should be abolished alltogether, with the links appearing in a list directly following the main blurb. --Patik 16:21, Aug 5, 2004 (UTC)

I agree with you. I was going to get back here some time ago and fix but that slipped under the carpet. --Jcw69 09:19, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Mozambique Drill
Shouldn't that be at an article about the Mozambique Drill, not on the article about the unrelated country? Wikiacc 02:25, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Picture: money from Mozambique

The picture comes from the colonial period (it is written 100 escudos, the portuguese currency). May be a recent banknote would be better?

i think yall are not putting all the information needed for kids in schools who have projects on these countries many of them are not geeting the information that is needed i think yall need to put some stuff in on the way they dress and if schools are free or not and important places or historical sights and mostly the days they celebrate in there country.--User:klg131 2:34, 31 january 2005 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia does not exist for the sake of school projects, nor in all seriousness should you expect to find all information in one source.--naryathegreat | (talk) 18:14, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Why should a country always be compared in size to some US state? This is an us and them mentality. Think of some neutral reference, please. Geoff Woodward.

The reference to the Bob Dylan song can also be moved to something like the Trivia section. The song might have a reference to the country, but still it’s an improper way of starting the article. Dan – South Africa

TfD nomination of Template:Mozambique infobox
Template:Mozambique infobox has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you.

Demographics
The last paragraph in the Demographics section has various internal links (Wikilinks) that are incorrect.

For example, Igreja Presbiteriana de Moçambique should take the reader to an article specifically about the Presbyterian Church of Mozambique and not simply to a general Wikipedia entry on Presbyterianism (which by the way doesn't contain any information about the Presbyterian church in that African country).

Similarly, Igreja de Cristo or, literally translated, the Church of Christ should not simply take the reader to the entry about Christ. A quick research on the Internet appears to indicate that there are about three distinct groups calling themselves Igreja de Cristo in Mozambique.

Therefore, an entry needs to be created about those religious communities and their history, perhaps containing information about their parent organizations (South Africa, Brazil, Portugal, North America?).

Paul Beppler 06:12, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Adult Swim
A map of Mozambique is used in the opening credits of The Venture Brothers on Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network in America--McTrixie 18:42, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Proposed WikiProject
In my ongoing efforts to try to include every country on the planet included in the scope of a WikiProject, I have proposed a new project on Eastern Africa at WikiProject Council/Proposals whose scope would include Mozambique. Any interested parties are more than welcome to add their names there, so we can see if there is enough interest to start such a project. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 16:26, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Use of Bantu in the Demographics section
I understand the need to distinguish descendants of indigenous people from Mozambicans descended from incomers however I'm not sure "Bantu" is the best word to use. "Bantu" has been paraphrased in the first paragraph, but retained under "Languages" as the usual term for the language group - in which case it is not fully satisfactory, because although all the Mozambique languages are "Bantu" they differ widely among themselves and have their own strong identities. The study of the African vernacular languages is not developed enough to allow me to use a better terminology that would be widely acceptable (Joseph Biddulph 26 Feb 2011).

Remember that in the 'Demographics" section we are mainly discussing language groups, rather than racial groups.

In the Portugese language Wikipedia this section is caled "Languages of Mozambique" and has very different information (not neccessarily contradictory - just different).Filceolaire 15:19, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Etymology
List of country name etymologies suggests a previous Arab ruler, the sheik Mussa Ben Mbiki as the original source of the name. Other online sources say Mosa bin Bique. Nicgarner 08:09, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Territorial administration
I think that using a general term as "administrative division" or other like this is more inclusive of the five levels of administrative division of Mozambique. I know that the text explains everything but why limit the title. If provinces are still the most important division, districts are central to the current government strategy to fight extreme poverty.

This said, this is the last time I will change the title. If other contributers really need to be right or thing that that is really the best option, please change it again. Teixant 21:21, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * You are incorrect. According to wikiproject countries, you use the name of the first level administrative divisions (and second, etc, if available). The later levels can be described and referenced... but please stop changing the edits as per a wikiproject. Thank you. Rarelibra 12:47, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Institution of new currency
Did it occur on January 1 2007 or July 1 2006? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.1.185.102 (talk) 11:57, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Categories
This is obsolete, as "Category:People born in Mozambique" was deleted.

Just requesting opinions on how people born in Mozambique should be categorized. How would you define "Mozambican-Portuguese", "Portuguese-Mozambican", "Mozambican-American", for example? What do you think of a "Category:People born in Mozambique" category? SamEV (talk) 00:21, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

For ease of discussion, here are the categories and articles in question: Is this the best way of categorizing these articles? At first I thought it was odd but it apparently follows ethnic heritage. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 09:46, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Category:Mozambican-Portuguese
 * Mário Coluna
 * Eusébio
 * Hilário
 * Paíto
 * Armando Sá
 * Shéu
 * Abel Xavier
 * Category:Portuguese-Mozambican people
 * Anibal dos Santos
 * Carlos Cardoso
 * Mia Couto
 * José Craveirinha
 * Portuguese Africans
 * Portuguese Mozambicans
 * Noémia de Sousa
 * Category:People born in Mozambique
 * Alberto da Costa Pereira
 * Carlos Cardoso
 * Mário Coluna
 * Mia Couto
 * José Craveirinha
 * Eusébio
 * Teresa Heinz
 * Hilário
 * Jorge Cadete
 * Paíto
 * Carlos Queiroz
 * Armando Sá
 * Shéu
 * Noémia de Sousa
 * Abel Xavier

Commercial websites
The Mozambique article is getting inundated with commercial websites in the "External Links" section. If this not against Wikipedia's principles? Where will it stop? To the attention of administrators. Teixant (talk) 07:45, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

"Apartheid regime"
The term "Apartheid regime" is polemical ANC propaganda. Please replace with a scientific proper term. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.207.47.60 (talk) 11:15, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

History
Why is there so little information regarding the history prior to Portuguese colonization? It would be nice if someone who were knowledgeable in that area could supplement the history section. 140.247.126.161 (talk) 17:59, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. There's a couple thousand years missing. In particular, more information on the relationship to Arab trading networks in the Indian Ocean would be welcome. AusJeb (talk) 20:50, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Current-Day Health of Mozambicans
It seems to me that there should be some mention of the fact that 1 in 4 people who live in Mozambique are infected with AIDS, which means that there is a huge population of orphans, and an abundance of outright lies and rumors about "cures" for HIV and AIDS. Also useful knowledge would include information on Malaria, lethal diarrhea from lack of clean drinking water, and other information on the health of Africans in general. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4goobers (talk • contribs) 19:05, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Reducing external links
IF you want to cut the links down to the minimum, you can eliminate: all Government links except the main portal one the Standard, Index, U of Penn and Yahoo directory links in the General section (they're included in the Open Directory Project category link) all Business links all Economics links all Forum links all Tourism links except the Wikitravel one all Other links (possibly recycling some of them as footnotes if their material fits into the article) Between GovPubs and Open Directory Project, I'd be surprised if we missed any important links. Flatterworld (talk) 06:57, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Head Monarch?
Since Mozambique is part of the Commonwealth of Nations, doesn't that mean that they recognize the monarch of the UK as their own monarch? Polis4rule (talk) 02:25, 2 January 2009 (UTC)


 * No. The Commonwealth has many republics. (They tend to be the poorer, unstable states.)  The Queen is recognized as Head of the Commonwealth. In a republic she will have no constitutional role.
 * Howard Alexander (talk) 14:06, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Languages
It says in the article that most of the 6.5% of people who speak Portuguese as a first language are white or mestiços, but just above that it says that 99.66% of the population is Bantu, with whites and mestiços making up the remaining .34%. One of these figures must be wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Duffyt (talk • contribs) 16:01, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Only if 100% of the population speaks portuguese as a first language. The first number is the percentage of Lusophones, not of the entire population.The second percentage is of the entire population, which is a different figure. 64.180.40.75 (talk) 20:02, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Upon second look, I see what you mean. Excuse me for misreading. 64.180.40.75 (talk) 07:11, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Citing the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
All references to http://ine.gov.mz/ are dead links. The website for the INE has been "improved" and now all those pages are gone. You can still access them at http://196.22.54.18/ --Kanyimbe (talk) 20:56, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Mozambique
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Mozambique's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "OECD": From Macau:  From Israel:  From Russia:  From Tourism in Mozambique: OECD, Graham Todd, 2008, Tourism in OECD Countries 2008: Trends and Polices, OECD Publishing, ISBN 9264039678, p. 64-68 From Chad: "Chad" (PDF). African Economic Outlook 2007. OECD. May 2007. ISBN 978-92-64-02510-3 From Portuguese people:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 20:25, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

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