Talk:Yohannes IV

Biography assessment rating comment
WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive

The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 02:36, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Added Picture
Ive added a picture of Yohannes IV Dizzee ignorant 21:20, 8 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I should have done that a while ago. The same exact picture is at Yohannes_IV.jpg, btw. &mdash; Yom 22:40, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Yohannes IV airport
Haile Selaisse named the Asmara airport after Yohannes IV without Eritrean consent. After independence the name was turned back to Asmara airport. Therefore I've edited the article.82.156.100.120 15:59, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The airport was named Yohannes IV Airport by the government of Eritrea under Dejazmatch Tedla Bairru, the first Chief Executive of Eritrea during the Federation, in honor of the last Ethiopian Monarch who had reigned over the region before it was colonized by Italy. The act was approved by Emperor Haile Selassie, who was an admirer of Yohannes IV, but it was a locally initiated action.

Death and descendants
The first few lines of the last paragraph in this section seem to have been scrambled. I don't know enough about the subject to make corrections. Maybe someone else can fix it. Mikenlesley (talk) 06:06, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Request move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: page moved. Dralwik&#124;Have a Chat 22:50, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Yohannes IV of Ethiopia → Yohannes IV – He is notable enough by his name as are other non-European monarchs and like all other Category:Emperors of Ethiopia. --The Emperor&#39;s New Spy (talk) 05:34, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Support to match the other Emperors' article title styles. Dralwik&#124;Have a Chat 03:40, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Sources for article expansion
Obvious dated & biased, but still worth linking and drawing from: — Llywelyn II   03:02, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Abyssinia
 * 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Abyssinia

Assessment comment
Substituted at 11:04, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Maintenance Tags
Leaving this notice so that no one thinks this is drive-by tagging. Some of the issues seem to be a result of a non-native English speaker, and that the article is written in a style resembling a hagiography (a lot of apologetic phrasing and whatnot).

Regarding the original research and essay-like writing of the article, I'll be rewriting some of the prose myself in an encyclopedic tone, and taking out some of the novel synthesis. Anything that's obviously not outright original research, I'll tag with a "citation needed" in-line tag for that particular claim instead of just removing it.

I'm just busy at the moment, and I have a whole list of stuff to do and respond to on here. Rewriting this is relatively easy fix, just one that requires a significant time commitment. Quinto Simmaco (talk) 03:50, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Legacy section sources
The legacy section contains several high-flying statements that need to be backed up by sources, and probably should be reworded. at the moment, some claims sound like nationalistic propaganda, in my opinion. For example:

-"Yohannes undoubtedly had his weaknesses; they were not his own making, but rather imposed on him either by external pressure or inherited by his deep-seated values and traditional norms."

- "Above all, his concerna were focused on promoting peace the external threats rather than promoting his own personal or dynastic gain."

- The self-confidence and charitable attitude he displayed toward his vanquished enemies and rivals earned him the high esteem of his subjects.

- "Throughout his reign, Yohannes demonstrated selfless devotion to the defense of the territorial integrity of Ethiopian Empire against successive waves of external aggression, by Egyptians, Italians, and Mahdists Sudan. He also strove within the parameters of what was possible in his day to promote the welfare of his people. His devotion to his country and people culminated in the supreme sacrifice of his life at the border of his empire, in the Battle of Metemma."

--Acclesius (talk) 13:24, 1 April 2021 (UTC)