Talk:Sitting on a man

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Article Evaluation
This article provides a fair starting point in understanding the practice of 'sitting on a man'. It does not, however, offer much detailed information on the practice, and does not note the effectiveness of it. The sources in the article are strong, but are not utilized to much extent in the article. A suggestion for improving the article would be to ultimately elaborate on some concepts which are mentioned, such as explaining what Warrant Chiefs are. It would be helpful to explain why they were targets of the practice during times of colonization, or at minimum link a source which will explain what they are, as someone who is not previously familiar with the content may be unaware of such information. The information presented in the article does not reflect the current state of the practice, so it is not fully up to date, though the sources are reliable and the links are functioning.Awilson107 (talk) 16:52, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I agree with the above statement. Also, maybe it would help to develop categorical sections to make the article an easier read.Bbutler20 05:30, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

As I read this article, I noticed that although "sitting on a man" gave a brief explanation of the practice it didn't provide more information on it. Was this practice inly privy to the Igbo women? if so why and if not, who were the other tribal women involved? Anene80 Anene80 (talk) 03:45, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

To improve this article, i would suggest that your starting point talks about the organizational structure to this society during the Pre Colonial period and use relevant resources emphasize how harmounious the socio-political and economical life was before the colonial contact. Once that is done, you would have laid a strong foundation to no talk about the Colonial encounter and what the Europeans introduced to the region and most importantly how significantly devastating the encounter was to the previously established social structure that was in place in the region for many years. Finally, you will evaluate the Post Colonial realities in the region and talk about how the society has responded and adapted to life since the colonial period.

Mbokoum1 (talk) 03:50, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Photo
I know "sitting on a man" is more of a practice than it is a noun, but maybe if there was some sort of photo that could demonstrate the act of "sitting on a man" the article would be more appealing to readers.Bbutler20 05:28, 6 March 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bbutler20 (talk • contribs)

One source for entire article?
It is surprising given the two class projects that no one noticed that the majority of citations refer to the same journal article, plus a book chapter by the same author. I have consolidated these into two named references.--WriterArtistDC (talk) 16:06, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Upon checking further, it appears that the other two references use Van Allen as their source.--WriterArtistDC (talk) 16:10, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Terrible article, as if written by a child
Absolutely abysmal writing. Grammar mistakes are abundant. Repeats itself line to line and the structure is confusing. The tone is clearly anti colonial (written poorly as if by some barely literate and bored high school students in some inner city American school)

Example: article states in precolonial times Igbo women had all these rights and status blah blah, but then says were ‘second to men’ and has no independent status. Could only speak on matters that involved women, and then by invitation only. Further, it says (paraphrase) ‘though exceptionally rare for it to happen, there was no official limit to women gaining power in Igbo society’ lol of course not, there was no official anything in a decentralized tribal society that’s the whole point.

Finally, all this rubbish relies on one single out dated source from 1972. This type of garbage wouldn’t be put up if it were about any other subject, let’s not tolerate it here. I know some editors here are tripping over themselves in excited delirium because ‘OMG BLACK WOMEN!!’ but do the subject the justice is deserves.

This is an interesting topic and I want to see it written properly. 2607:FEA8:3AA1:1F00:2193:8310:207D:F7B3 (talk) 11:25, 19 January 2023 (UTC)