Talk:Southern Cameroons

What's the current population of the Southern Cameroons? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aataboh (talk • contribs) 11:54, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Capital of Northern Cameroons
Are we sure that Bamenda was the capital of the Northern Cameroons? Bamenda is part of the modern nation of Cameroon and is located within the territory claimed as Southern Cameroons in the map used in the article. The Northern Cameroons opted to join with Nigeria in 1961 rather than with Cameroun. — Brian ( talk ) 06:50, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * This was indeed an error. I have corrected it. — Brian ( talk ) 06:54, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Some queries about the recent edit
I have removed a couple of statements to here because I think they require clarification: Scolaire 11:21, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) "[administered through the British Resident] which was appointed since 1916 at the headquarters in Buea." How does that fit with the statement above that "Kamerun was formally divided on 28 June 1919 [between the British and] the French, who had previously administered the whole occupied territory?
 * 2) "It had a population of 817,616 in 1938." What had – The British Cameroons or the British Southern Cameroons?

Recent edits
Unfortunately, I have to revert this series of edits from last week. There are just too many problems with them. First of all, they created a number of sections without any indication that they would be filled (I left it a week to give the editor a chance). Second, creating an empty "History" section, and then putting what actually was its history under "Government", made no sense. Third, the content that was added was completely unsourced, extremely long-winded and often unencyclopaedic (e.g. "Augustine Ngom Jua stands out as the most perceptive, courageous, accomplished and nationalistic, ever with the supreme interest of Southern Cameroons in his heart"). Most of it, even if it were edited to make it encyclopaedic, was biographical and properly belonged in articles on the people in question. E. M. L. Endeley, John Ngu Foncha and Salomon Tandeng Muna all have their own articles. I don't like undoing the work that somebody has put long hours into, but in this case I don't feel I have a choice. Scolaire (talk) 17:52, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Need for a little copy editing?
The penultimate para of the 'Complaint with the African Commission' section does not quite read well. I don't want to edit it because I might misrepresent the author's intended meaning, but if pressed I would hazard a guess that adding 'and' before 'while' might make it clearer.79rr (talk) 10:10, 30 March 2017 (UTC)


 * The actual words of the report (here, page 36) are:, "The Commission has however accepted that autonomy within a sovereign state, in the context of self government, confederacy, or federation, while preserving territorial integrity of a State party, can be exercised under the Charter." At some point an editor has changed "accepted" to noted, and added "is acceptable" in the middle of the sentence without removing "can be exercised" from the end. I think it's safe to say that virtually the whole section is taken verbatim from the report, and therefore fails WP:COPYVIO. What's needed is not a little copy editing but a major reduction and paraphrasing. Scolaire (talk) 09:48, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Name
Why the plural (Southern Cameroons vice Southern Cameroon)? 67.231.67.253 (talk) 02:22, 3 June 2024 (UTC)