User:Thantalteresco

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=This user is tired of silly drama on Wikipedia=

I live in Spain; my mother language is Spanish, and have never been in Australia. A few months ago I started to contribute to Wikipedia but... a couple of Wikipedia administrators confused me with a banned Australian Wikipedian and, without any sort of IP check whatsoever, blocked me! Although another admin unblocked me, I was never vindicated. Yes: I complained in many boards. But no one listened to me, even if I challenged the blocking admins to point out to a single disrupting diff from me (I have never disrupted any page whatsoever), or to run IP checks. I was ignored.

Therefore, I will retire from editing Wikipedia --for ever.

By the way, the administrators who confused me with the banned Australian Wikipedian were very zealous in censoring evidence concerning infanticide in Australia. Below I add the great chunks they removed from the Infanticide article:

=Whole section censored!:=

Oceania
Infanticide among the autochthone people in the Oceania islands is widespread. In some areas of the Fiji islands up to 50% of newborn infants were killed. In the 19th century Ugi, in the Solomon islands almost 75% of the indigenous children had been brought from adjoining tribes due to the high incidence rate of infanticide, a unique feature of these tribal societies. In another Solomon island, San Cristóbal, the firstborn was considered "ahubweu" and often buried alive.

As a rationale for their behavior, some parents in British New Guinea complained: "Girls [...] don't become warriors, and they don't stay to look for us in our old age."

Australia
According to the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski's book on indigenous Australians, "infanticide is practiced among all Australian natives." Brough Smyth, a 19th century researcher, estimated that in Victoria about 30% of the births resulted in infanticide. Mildred Dickeman concurs that that figure is accurate in other Australia tribes as a result of a surplus of the birthrate. In Queensland a tribal woman could have children after the age of thirty. In other places, babies would be killed. The Aranda in the Northern Territory used the method of choking the newborn with coal, sand or kill her with a stick. Twins were always killed by the Arrernte in central Australia. Aram Yengoyan calculated that, in Western Australia, the Pitjandjara people killed 19% of their newborns.

Polynesia
In ancient Polynesian societies infanticide was common. Families were supposed to rear no more than two children. Writing about the natives, Raymond Firth noted: "If another child is born, it is buried in the earth and covered with stones".

Hawaii
In Hawaii infanticide was a socially sanctioned practice before the Christian missions. Infanticidal methods included strangling the children or, more frequently, burying them alive.

Tahiti
Infanticide was quite intense in Tahiti. Methods included suffocation, neck breaking and strangulation.

Two more removals when I was illegally blocked:
Lucien Lévy-Brühl noted that, because of fear of a drought, if a baby was born feet first in British East Africa, she or he was smothered. The Tswana people did the same since they feared the newborn would bring ill fortune to the parents. Similarly, William Sumner noted that the Vadshagga killed children whose upper incisors came first.

It has been estimated that 40% of newborn babies were killed in Kyūshū.

In The Child in Primitive Society, Nathan Miller wrote in the 1920s that among the Kuni tribe every mother had killed at least one of her children. Child sacrifice was practiced as late as 1929 in Zimbabwe, where a daughter of the tribal chief used to be sacrificed as a petition of rain.