User talk:Blambloom

African immigrant article
I have contributed to your article on African immigrants; specifically where education is concerned. I would like to inform you of a good page that provides statistics and charts that should be positive to the page.

I have considered starting my own African Immigrant article in the past. I am glad that you have started one, and I will continue to contribute in the future.

Migration policy institute: http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/print.cfm?ID=366

Ashanti article
Excellent article on the Ashanti, thanks for contributing it. I added an unreferenced tag as no sources are yet cited, but it's otherwise very informative and well done. Seraphimblade 07:09, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Your questions
As to leaving a message, I did receive it. Generally a message should be left for a user on their talk page rather than user page (just click the "Discussion" link after clicking on the user, or the "Talk" link in the parentheses after their names.) I moved it over to that page, no big deal. :) Also you generally should sign your comments by using four tildes ( ~ ) after them.

I don't think you should run into much trouble with the article, it's an excellent start. If you do have any difficulty at all, please feel free to leave a message on my talk page, I'll be happy to help. Seraphimblade 07:30, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Ashanti Confederacy
Please stop redirecting this page to a different one. You're wiping out a perfectly good African article. Rusty2005 08:03, 27 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi there Blamboom, sorry about the earlier message, seems to have been some confusion.

I've had a look at the Ashanti article and yes you're perfectly right, it does summarise what I wrote. It looks like we got off on the wrong foot, so please accept my apologies! Right, let's see if we can work together on this.

I studied West African history at Cambridge, and I run three international development projects in Ghana and Cameroon, so I'm pretty well-informed about the topic. Allow me to say Akwaaba (yes, I know West Africa too), and I hope we can collaborate on these articles!

Seems that the best thing we can do for starters is to erase the Ashanti Confederacy page and see if we can redirect relevant searches to the Ashanti page. I'm not sure how we go about doing that but I'm sure we can find out how.

I'm currently writing a new article for the Ashanti Confederacy page on MS Word, I haven't uploaded it yet as I'm still in the process of writing it, so how's about I give you a preview when I've written it and we can work on editing it to a mutually-acceptable copy to slot into the Ashanti article?

I see you have serious issues with the "Snot-nosed Brits". I didn't choose the country I was born in any more than you did, so don't hold it against me. And for future reference, please don't get cocky and try and get one up on me, eg: "I'm sure you don't know what that means, its a word the Ashantis use...how do I know? because I've researched.". You're not the only person on the planet who knows about Asante history, you know.

But anyways, let's put that all aside. Let's see if we can bury the hatchet, and work together to get some first-class Asante articles for Wikipedia :)

Rusty2005 23:12, 27 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Is your name Kofi by any chance? My Asante name is Kodjo :)  Rusty2005 23:15, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Hello again kofi, I just had a quick look through the previous edits you made to my page, particularly a paragraph you wrote then deleted (feel free to do the same with this section here). You say I'm not that bad, and I think the same about you. As you say, our career goals are similar, we both want to do the same thing. Let's stop bickering and work together :)  The UN teaches us to put aside our diffences in pursuit of the greater good. Let's do that! Rusty2005 00:13, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Medcab
I am going to assume you resolved this issue. G e o. 01:43, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Pre Christian Broom Jumping
Hi and thanks for adding to the jumping of the broom article. Its really cool u studied at Cambridge. Can you do me the favor of citing the source of that info you added recently (Jumping the Broom in Pre Christian societies). I didn't see a link to it at the bottom of the article and I want to ensure that this topic is beyond reproach. I love African history and consider myself a sort of custodian of African articles here at Wiki. Thnx in advance and keep up the good work. Scott Free 14:11, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

An article you created maybe deleted soon: Tools which can help you
The article you created: African immigrants to the United States may be deleted from Wikipedia.

There is an ongoing debate about whether your article should be deleted here:
 * Articles for deletion/African immigrants to the United States.

The faster you respond on this page, the better chance the article you created can be saved.

Finding sources which mention the topic of your article is the very best way to avoid an article being deleted Findsources3:
 * Find sources for African immigrants to the United States: google news recent, google news old, google books, google scholar, NYT recent, NYT old, a9, msbooks, msacademic ...You can then cite these results in the Article for deletion discussion.

Also, there are several tools and helpful editors on Wikipedia who can help you:
 * 1. List the page on Article Rescue Squadron. You can get help listing your page on the Article Rescue Squadron talk page.
 * 2. At any time, you can ask any administrator to move your article to a special page. (Called userfication)


 * 3. You can request a mentor to help you: Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User. But don't wait for a mentor to respond to you before responding on the article for deletion page.
 * 4. When trying to delete a page, veteran editors love to use a lot of rule acronyms. These acronyms don't need to intimidate you. Here is a list of acronyms you can use yourself: Deletion debate acronyms, which will help you argue that the article should be kept.

If your page is deleted, you also have many options available. Good luck! Ikip (talk) 17:47, 20 April 2009 (UTC)