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Call for Wikipedians in Residence in Africa
Hello,

I hope you are well and thriving!! WikiAfrica has just put out a call for two Wikipedians in Residence. One in Cape Town at WikiAfrica, at the Africa Centre; and the other for WikiAfrica Cameroon in Douala, at doual’art. I would be very grateful if you could spread this call far and wide among your networks to ensure that both projects get excellent candidates. Here is the link for the information page http://www.wikiafrica.net/two-wikipedians-in-residence-for-africa/

Isla Haddow 09:57, 8 November 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Islahaddow (talk • contribs)

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Edit warring at Black British
Hello Ackees. Recently you tried to file a report at WP:AN3 but your report was declined as malformed. My guess is you were trying to draw attention to a dispute at Black British where you and another party have each made several reverts. If the reverts continue, blocks of both sides are possible. It would be better for you to start a discussion at Talk:Black British and explain why you think your material belongs. Though I don't know the background here, the other party removed your material with this edit summary, "non-applicable; adjective referred to all ethnic minorities in the past & modern term refers first & foremost to subset of afro-caribbeans". It is up to editor consensus as to whether the material stays or goes. Your reference to WP:FRINGE is puzzling and it would certainly help to know your rationale. Presenting your views on the article talk page is best. There's a previous discussion at Talk:Somalis in the United Kingdom. If you are stuck, see WP:Dispute resolution. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 16:36, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Please see the result of the edit warring case at Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring. Admins may block one or both of you if the war continues. You should not make any edits that assume an answer to the question whether Somalis are black until a consensus has been reached on a suitable talk page. An WP:RFC is one way to ensure a decisive answer. If necessary you can ask for admin to close the RFC. RFCs can address multiple questions at the same time if needed. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 03:17, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

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Black People - Order of Continents
Hi Ackees,

I edited the page Black People in January 2013 and rearranged the continents by alphabet.

This was because the existing order did not make sense. It was not arranged by any perceivable rationale; neither population of black people, use of the term 'black people' nor anything else. You reversed the edit back to the order which I can see no logic in.

I've started a new topic in the discussion section, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Black_people I'd appreciate it if you'd discuss with me the reasons you propose for maintaining the current order. Without such discussion I see no reason not to perform my re-ordering again to reflect an objective, un-bias (non-US-centric) perspective within the article.

Thanks. Nebuliser Nebuliser (talk) 18:28, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Category:British slave traders and slave holders
Category:British slave traders and slave holders, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. JFH (talk) 15:15, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Category:British investors in slavery and slave trading
Category:British investors in slavery and slave trading, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. JFH (talk) 00:04, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

GA review of Maria Firmina dos Reis
Hi Ackees, Thank you for nominating Maria Firmina dos Reis, but I have Quick-Failed the GA review. If you have any questions, just let me know. Rosiestep (talk) 14:51, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Slave Coast
You might wish to comment on the article Slave Coast and its apparent lack of neutrality here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard .Richard Nowell (talk) 11:14, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Copying within Wikipedia
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Somalis in the United Kingdom into Black British. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted copied template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. Cordless Larry (talk) 21:25, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me knowAckees (talk) 23:11, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Contests
User:Dr. Blofeld has created WikiProject Africa/Contests. The idea is to run a series of contests/editathons focusing on each region of Africa. He has spoken to Wikimedia about it and $1000-1500 is possible for prize money. Would you be interested in contributing to one or assisting draw up core article/missing article lists? He says he's thinking of North Africa for an inaugural one in October. If interested please sign up in the participants section of the Contest page, thanks.♦ -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 01:08, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Attention: WikiProject African diaspora participants
Hello fellow project participants. Not sure how many users are still active as normal Wikipedia editors but felt the need to attempt to get a gauge on who can be called on for help with articles falling under the umbrella of the African diaspora project. According to the project's article table there are over six thousand articles related to the African diaspora; there's not a hundred at FA/GA grade and there's over twelve hundred that are unassessed. With Wikipedia being one of the major information reference points in the world today we should consider this unacceptable. Much work needs to be done on the rating of the importance of articles as well. With more communication amongst participants and a dedication to addressing the articles on the to-do list I believe we can make this WikiProject one of the most well organized and thorough on the site. If you are interested in collaborative work with some of your fellow project members, have certain expertise on any particular subjects, ideals on/about the WikiProject, etc. simply drop your name under the "Project revision" section I've created on the project's talk page and state your intentions and main points of interest in our WikiProject and we can attempt to move forward from there. Hoping to hear from everyone soon! WikiGuy86 (talk) 03:45, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

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