User talk:Bab-a-lot/Archive 1

Hello
I see that you have expressed an interest in being adopted. Whether you want to learn about wiki markup, find something to do, or just talk to somebody, I'm someone you can talk to - just leave a message on my talk page if you want advice, or if you wish to take up my offer of adoption. Good luck with Wikipedia!

Urbane  (Talk)   (Contributions)  16:19, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:EthnicSwazi.jpg
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Recent edits
I've had to undo a number of your recent edits. Instead of dropping some big nasty sign on your talk page, I'll just try to explain.

The first problem is categories. The rule there is categorize the article, not the topic. In order to be categorized as a "Person of Cherokee descent", the article has to contain a statement that says the person is of Cherokee descent. In order to contain that statement, you have to have a reliable source that says so, or you are violating WP:BLP. So, find a source, add the statement referencing the source, and then add the category.

The second problem is fair-use images. It was a good try, but no, that doesn't work. Fair-use images are not allowed to illustrate living people, except under highly unusual circumstances. Hermits, kidnaping victims, people in comas, people whose religion prohibits the taking of photographs, things like that. There are tens of thousands of celebrities that no free image has been found for, and their articles just don't get pictures. WP:IUP and WP:NFCC are the policy pages.&mdash;Kww(talk) 02:03, 21 November 2008 (UTC)


 * WP:NFCC is clear that a fair-use image is allowed when no free equivalent is available, or could be created. So long as Keke Wyatt is alive, a free image could be created. If you want to try discussing in on Wikipedia talk:NFCC, go ahead, but don't reinsert the image. It's such a common problem that our normal rules against edit warring don't apply: I can take it out every time you add it, and it will be you that is blocked for edit warring, not me.&mdash;Kww(talk) 02:33, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Why are you changing article classifications of the Keke Wyatt‎ article?
This seems wrong. Please explain. sinneed (talk) 02:10, 21 November 2008 (UTC) I have reverted them. I feel confident that if you should be doing this, you should be stating so on the edit summaries. But I could be wrong. Easily reverted if I am. sinneed (talk) 02:13, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I have checked, and this article has not been reassessed. I have flagged these changes as vandalism.  I will not revert the article again at this time, and ask you to do so yourself, and to request another assessment if you believe the article is sufficiently improved to merit it.   I would note that the biography group is running some tens of thousands of articles behind, so the old assessment will probably be in place a while.  Please do not change the ratings which an article has earned until it earns a new rating.  Thank you.  sinneed (talk) 02:26, 21 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I'll do that Bab-a-lot (talk) 02:35, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Outstanding! :) All the best to you, Bab-a-lot. :) sinneed (talk) 02:42, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

November 2008
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Orphaned non-free media (Image:WyattKeke-by-rod-spicer.jpg)
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re: Your assistance would be appreciated
Hi Bab-a-lot

It appears that I received your message too late to offer any useful advice. Please accept my apologies. However, if i can shed some light on the situation (though the message above many already have done that...) your image was tagged and deleted because it did not fully comply with the non-free use rationale. The records show that the image was not used on any wikipedia page and for a non-free image to qualify it needs to have a clear purpose.

Hope this helps

Reece  (Talk)   (Contributions)  20:45, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Re:Suggestion for Disambiguation page and creation/development of separate article pages for distinct definitions
You placed this on the Talk:List of Mario series characters page. That's probably the wrong page for it. I'm thinking this is because Nokonoko redirects to that page. First things first, those pages have to have articles. The majority of the links you provided are to external sites, and Wikipedia doesn't work that way. You'll have to create them. Make sure they pass WP:NOTABLE, put together some sources to use in the article, then create the article using this as a guide. Once they're created, you can create the disambig page. Make sure none of the articles you're creating have the name "Nokonoko," as that would cause a problem. BAPACop (converse) 19:59, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Your recent edits
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Equatorial Guinea
HI. Thanks for your great work on this part of Africa. I was wondering if you help improve some of the Category:Cities, towns and villages in Equatorial Guinea. I couldn't find much online to write about them.. Now if you could expand a few this would be great. Himalayan   21:04, 27 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I'll give it a shot Bab-a-lot (talk) 21:05, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Hello! Welcome. Hopefully with you on board the project will get somewhere. Keep up the good work with Eq. Guinea anyway. Himalayan   10:42, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, but I happen to be the same editor as Himalayan Explorer. Click User:Himalayan Explorer! I've beenm working on African topics for years. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 17:36, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Retrieved
Dear Bab-a-lot The word is retrieved (i before e) not retreived. I think I've corrected them all. I try to correct "retreived" (spelt wrong) - no worries I'm just lazy. --Arjayay (talk) 18:12, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
 * No, thank you, I'm the lazy one. I have to get better at watching my grammar/spelling. Bab-a-lot (talk) 18:37, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Bubi populations
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Articles for deletion nomination of Keke Wyatt controversy
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Collaboration offer to resurrect some type of Category for people of African, or Black, and Asian descent.
Certainly! How should we go about this????(LonerXL (talk) 04:35, 23 December 2009 (UTC))

Talk:Afro-Asian
Please look at the talk page and offer some views or opinions before you reinstate a bunch of redlinks that in the future may or may not lead to people of Afro-Asian descent. If you want to reinstate names, do so individually and offer references at the very least--you don't even know if the inclusion of these names were possible acts of vandalism, for instance, and given that these in many cases would lead to biographies of living people, WP:BLP should be a concern. And if you had looked at the talk page, you would have seen that, yes, I did bother to look some of them up. Do us the courtesy of making a similar effort. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 16:31, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Davis family
How do you know the Sierra Leonean Davis family belonged to that of the Fernando Po family?


 * give me a few days to go back into my research, and I'll let you know. Bab-a-lot (talk) 18:33, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Justo Bolekia Boleká


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Adoption
Greetings , I would be glad to adopt you. If ever you need advice or answers, just ask me -- any question, any time. I'd like to help however I can. Happy editing - Draeco (talk) 18:13, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Your recent move of this article
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List of Afrro Latinas
Hi, as you have been here quite a while I will not template you but you should understand about citations, please do not replace any uncited content that I remove unless you cite it first, thanks. Off2riorob (talk) 17:43, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

You claim this... "claims not based on genetics, but phenotype and race/social identification or category"... you will still need a citation, and if the list is based on this guideline then the list should say so. All the article says is This is a list of people of Afro-Latino descent. Which is fine but to add someone to such as list you will need a citation.Off2riorob (talk) 17:52, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Baseke
Hi,

Isn't Baseke language just Seke? — kwami (talk) 08:57, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure. It may go by both names, or one may be a sub-language of the other. Bab-a-lot (talk) 14:47, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, since even the Wayback archive is not a valid ref, I'm going to assume it is, or at least replace it by the Baseke of Ethnologue. — kwami (talk) 22:33, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Chyna Layne


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 * I believe that this prod is in the process of being rejected, just so you know. She seems to have a range of media coverage. Esteffect (talk) 21:45, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

September 2010
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would love your collaboration
www.afropedea.org —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.186.48.62 (talk) 03:39, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Re: Women singing in the Ethiopian church...
Hello, the statement was not sourced, here is what it looked like when I deleted it: link. For now, at least, I stand by my previous comments at Talk:Gigi (singer). Thanks, -- Gyrofrog (talk) 17:00, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Nomination of List of people with surname Spain for deletion
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Barber
I would but google books is picking up nothing.♦ Dr. Blofeld  21:25, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Status and Advice
I see the note on Dr.B's page, and decided to take a look myself.

I have read the complete article cited on Jstor, and it is not sufficient to support most of the material in the article & the related articles --it mentions Barber and the others of the Brleycorn family a number of times, but only mentions them. The main source for information seems to be I. K. Sundiata's publications: this article cites 'The Fernandinos: labour and community in Santa Isabel de Fernando P6o, 1827-1931' (Ph.D. thesis, Northwestern University, 1972); 'Prelude to scandal: Liberia and Fernando Po, 1880-1930',. ''Afr. Hist., xv (I974), 97-112; 'Creolization on Fernando Po: the nature of society', in M. L. Kilson and R. I. Rotberg (eds.), The African Diaspora: Interpretive Essays (Cambridge, Mass., 1976), 391-413; Equatorial Guinea: Colonialism, State Terror, and the Search for Stability (Boulder, CO, 1990), and a work of the same author cited in other related articles, From slaving to neoslavery: the bight of Biafra and Fernando Po in the era of abolition 1827-1930; by I. K. Sundiata; Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1996; ISBN, 9780299145101; p.114]. I have no read these sources at this point, but based on the cited article it would appear tha tthe only sources likely to discuss him or any of family in the detail given here would be  the archival and unpublished sources listed in that article. Possibly there is later published work, and if so you would appear to have access to it, for you must have had some basis for the detail that you included. It needs to be cited. The alternative is to write an article about the Barleycorn family as a whole. I have removed the prod tag, but added one asking for better sources. I advise you to do this very quickly, before the article gets nominated for deletion by a regular deletion process. Without additional sourcing, my guess is that it is not likely to stand.  DGG ( talk ) 00:28, 20 December 2010 (UTC)


 * The notability flag should probably be removed; the issue with the article is providing sources to back up the content. I'm having trouble finding sources online though. There is a recently published book (ISBN 1156987083) with a chapter on him but it's not in the 2 library systems I have access to. The challenge with Equatorial African articles is that there is almost no domestic publishing industry and the academic press that covers the country is usually not on the best seller list. RevelationDirect (talk) 03:41, 20 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I feel that some of the info may have been added by myself from what I read on Google Books. I didn't cite it when I entered it. And, now, going back trying to plug in key words in google books I can't find the texts. For one, Google books as changed since I last used it. Also, I don't think that I found the text using key words directly relative to the Barbers, Barleycorns or Fernandinos. I think I may have come across the information searching for information about the Bubi people, using the various spellings of the ethnic group's name. I haven't had a chance to go back and plug in the ethnic group name variations, yet. It's also likely that I may have searched for information about Samuel Johnson, the British man his forefather Francis Barber was enslaved/indentured to. Information about this man might be available by contacting the University of Edinburgh in England where his studied.


 * Also, it's not that there aren't books available. It's that they are rare and poorly documented. Also, many of the texts have been destroyed by the current dictatorship EG. I wouldn't be surprised if they have even been trying to erase what's been available on the internet about EG colonial history as the post-colonial government has been on a quest to rewrite what really happened.  I'm going to keep looking. I know the info is there for citing. He and his relatives are indeed notable. 21:41, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

March 2011
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Speedy deletion nomination of Barbara Kanam


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May 2011
Hi. If I ever see you do anything like this again, I will be blocking you indefinitely. There are multiple reasons why this is not acceptable, including but not limited to WP:V, WP:BLP, WP:NOR. Just don't even think about going there again, please. Thank you. --John (talk) 16:45, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for informing me. However, I will continue (and, yes, think about it) to contribute simply being more cognizant of the guidelines. I saw this done in other articles such as Black people where an image of Barack Obama is used to illustrate Blacks in the U.S., as well as in Afro-Asian where images of celebrities are used in the article profile images, and didn't think this was in violation because of those examples. Again, as I mention above, except for 2 bios, the rest mention specific European/sub-Saharan ancestry. Bab-a-lot (talk) 16:51, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Why are you canvassing with another editor's sig?
placed a speedy deletion notification on your talk page here. Why are you now pasting that message, including his signature, on many other editors' talk pages, e.g. here, here, here? Not only is this violating canvassing prohibitions, you're also in effect impersonating another user. Following your antics on the mulatto page yesterday, this doesn't look good. Tarc (talk) 17:06, 28 May 2011 (UTC)


 * My intention wasn't to impersonate anyone, but to hastily open dialog, and critique on the article up for speedy deletion (as speedy could mean in a matter of hours) notifying those possibly interested on the the topic. As well as mentor-ship for myself as an editor to hopefully salvaging the article. I was in no way trying to impersonate anyone and will go back to edit those posts. Bab-a-lot (talk) 17:13, 28 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Please see WP:CANVASS, and please stop canvassing.  Acroterion   (talk)   17:18, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok, I'm deleting the entries Bab-a-lot (talk) 17:19, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi Bab-a-lot ... I see that you are editing/supporting an editor who has left us, who had many speedy deletions and similar approach to you, etc ... was just wondering if you have edited under more than one user name. Thanks.--Epeefleche (talk) 18:44, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * See my user name history. I've used one other name. Bab-a-lot (talk) 19:24, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Tx ... am having trouble finding where that is, but appreciate your response.--Epeefleche (talk) 19:49, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I was mistaken. I thought there was a user history page. It was an ip address that I don't recall Bab-a-lot (talk) 12:47, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Tx.--Epeefleche (talk) 19:43, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

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Rappers of Native American descent?
I noticed you've added Category:American rappers of Native American descent to many articles today. For one of the articles, Trina, I didn't see anything to support the category. On what source are you basing this assertion? I'm asking before I remove the category en masse from the articles you edited today. —C.Fred (talk) 14:30, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
 * She has ancestry from the Dominican Republic where the population is tri-racial, having Arawak ancestry. Bab-a-lot (talk) 18:53, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * Hey, don't recall doing that. If I did, it was unintentional. Bab-a-lot (talk) 18:51, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

List of former members of the Black Panther Party
Hello,

I noticed that you added Ray West to the list. However, the link leads to an article about an Oscar winning sound engineer, clearly a different person. Do you have good quality sources to back up a new article Ray West (photographer) or something similar? I have written a couple of biographies on photographers, so perhaps I could help. The list of former members is in need of better referencing as well. If you have access to good sources verifying any of the lesser-known former members' involvement, that would be a wonderful addition to an important list.  Cullen 328  Let's discuss it  17:18, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
 * The 2007 Jet magazine article about Kanye West which is now reference 21 in that article is a start.  Cullen 328  Let's discuss it  17:24, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

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Your removal of text from the Whitney Houston article
Was your removing all of this an accident? Flyer22 (talk) 16:08, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I say where I accidentally removed that. No, I did not intend to. Thanks for fixing that. Bab-a-lot (talk) 21:21, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

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FPC/Pichi
The current state of the FPC article is not acceptable. From what you say, it's factually wrong, and needs to be fixed. Otherwise it will just be remerged, because it claims to be nothing other than Pichi. Can't think of a tag for it off hand. Do you think you'll rewrite the two articles to clarify your point? — kwami (talk)
 * Response my page. — kwami (talk) 10:53, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

March 2012
This is your only warning; if you violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy by inserting unsourced or poorly sourced defamatory content into an article or any other Wikipedia page again, as you did at Multiracial American, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 23:04, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Carol Channing is of African descent, this was sourced. Below is exactly what had been posted in the gallery. I don't see how pointing out that she's is known as white and not black, despite this is considered defamatory. Your accusation is trumped up. Bab-a-lot (talk) 23:08, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
 * File:Carol Channing colour Allan Warren.jpg|White American actress Carol Channing was born to a white mother, and a half German-American and half African-American father.


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 * OK Bab-a-lot (talk) 23:17, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

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Severo Moto and the Bubi people
Hello there!

I'm writing because I've seen someone deleted Severo Moto from the Bubi people's page and you added him back. I've been talking with my family and some elder about him and it turns out he is not bubi. How do you know he is? Which are your sources?

I'm new with the Wikipedia project so it this is not the way to talk to you about editing issues, please, let me know.

Thanks and regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Machuquiste (talk • contribs) 14:18, 7 April 2012 (UTC)


 * You know what? I really am not sure. But, I thought that Severo Moto been a leader in a political movement that wants Bioko to be it's own nation, separate from Rio Muni, and reclaimed by the indigenous people of the island - the Bubi. If not, I obviously have him confused with someone else. Whoever is/was the leader of Movement for the Self-Determination of Bioko Island is who I'm likely confusing him with. Sorry. Bab-a-lot (talk) 17:44, 7 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Don't worry, we are here to make this encyclopedia better. Severo Moto is a fang descendant and has nothing to with the group you are talking about (MAIB). The truth is we have been dragging this whole tribe vs. tribe issue for a very long time. We don't talk much about it but it's a very delicate issue. I've belived during my whole life that we were over it but in the last two year I've found that we are not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Machuquiste (talk • contribs) 21:29, 24 April 2012 (UTC)


 * That's interesting. Thanks for sharing. Bab-a-lot (talk) 08:35, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

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Formatting of Whitney Houston article
Hi, Bab-a-lot. See Talk:Whitney Houston for why I reverted you. Flyer22 (talk) 17:38, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

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