Talk:Oyo

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The information reverted:

''It host Ajayi Crowther University Oyo. Sport: Oyo has a 10,000 capacity stadium Television station in Oyo include NTA Oyo., Hotels in Oyo iclude Labamba Hotel Complex''

doesn't indeed seem to have much to do with the main article, but is the contributor perhaps talking about a place called Oyo? (presumably not the one in Congo, but I don't know) Adding information about TV stations, stadiums and universities doesn't look like vandalism, so is there some misunderstanding going on? Martijn faassen 00:59, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hm, I just got an email from YorubaMan saying Oyo is both a kingdom and a city and urging me not to edit again. Since I didn't edit I wonder what he's getting at. Martijn faassen 10:14, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

This is just the sort of weirdness that make me say this guy is trolling. He's already accused me of "lying", has sent me two incoherent email messages in the space of one morning, and now he's calling me a "fraud" of Hausa origin on Talk:Nigeria. How he's managed to surmise that I'm Hausa, despite my having about as Yoruba a first name as one can bear, is beyond me. Abiola Lapite 12:39, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Sorry to say this, but the Oyo empire/Kingdom has moved to a new page. There was a large Oyo kingdom in Yoruba land, that has a lasting legacy in terms of development and there is a state bearing the name Oyo. I felt Oyo state needed to be differentiated from the kingdom. The kingdom expanded into present day Osun state also.Alexlovesme

The reference to Oyo kingdom and empire is triply wrong. Firstly the empire was not just 'Yoruba' as it included non-Yoruba kingdoms such as Dahomey. Secondly, it does not cover the territory of modern day Oyo state at all, and thirdly, the article is about the empire, and not just the kingdom of Oyo (which is more limited). I have therefore corrected it.Domberlic 22:53, 16 June 2007 (UTC)