User talk:Eruditescholar/2017b

Thomas Peters
It is an embarrassment that on Wikipedia an article on Thomas Peters does not reflect the fact that there is no documentary evidence to point to Thomas Peters being born in Nigerian or being of Yoruba descent and that this scholarly error first arose with a historically inaccurate account by perhaps the most inaccurate historian on Sierra Leone, Captain F.B. Butt-Thompson, who was well-intended and provided some useful oral history but largely published unverified errors. Not the Book of Negroes, nor any other source refers to Peters being African-born and worse still, Fyfe, the pre-eminent historian of Sierra Leone, never claimed that Peters was Nigerian.

But even worse still is that a painting of Olaudah Equiano, aka Gustavus Vassa is being used as a portrait or representation of Thomas Peters on Wikipedia. This is beyond disgraceful and reinforces the notion that Wikipedia is unreliable.

Perhaps worst of all is that when I have tried to correct these gross errors that take away from the credibility of Wikipedia, the corrections are accused of being vandalism.

--Wikiaddict6989 (talk) 19:53, 20 July 2017 (UTC)


 * I have observed that your recent edits on the biographical article of Thomas Peters are blatant vandalism because they include removal of cited information and inclusion of unsourced entries which are violations of Wikipedia's editing policy. The reliable sources in the article cite his place of birth as Nigeria and his ethnicity as Egba-Yoruba. Your assertions are just mere speculation and are not backed by any reliable source. If your claims regarding the biographical article are indeed true, other scholars, researchers and historians would have published works to reveal the truth. Even the specific image used as Thomas Peters' picture that you tried to remove a couple of times has never been verified for Olaudah Equino but has been cited as Thomas Peter's in multiple reliable sources used, compared to the other image. -- Eruditescholar (talk) 22:38, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Category:Herbert Macaulay has been nominated for discussion
Category:Herbert Macaulay, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. 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. TM 11:12, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Disappearance of Charity Aiyedogbon for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Disappearance of Charity Aiyedogbon is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Disappearance of Charity Aiyedogbon until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Sitush (talk) 16:17, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

Refactored comment
I refactored your comment at Articles for deletion/Disappearance of Charity Aiyedogbon, purely because the indenting was all screwed up. Hope you don't mind. - Sitush (talk) 08:33, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Sure, I don't mind. It's okay by me.-Eruditescholar (talk) 11:57, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

IP Address Blocked; I'm unable to edit Wikipedia

 * I can't contribute further to the current AFD discussion involving one of my articles because my IP address has been blocked by mistake (probably as a result of another user's own coincidenting with mine). Eruditescholar (talk) 12:05, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

I attempted to lift your autoblock but was unable to do so. I raised the issue here. Hold tight! --Yamla (talk) 13:05, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Yamla, a bug report has been filed to correct a regression in a recent software update. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:15, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, the block issue has been resolved. I can now edit Wikipedia. -Eruditescholar (talk) 18:42, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Latunde Odeku
He's not American. He's African. Rathfelder (talk) 23:15, 10 November 2017 (UTC).
 * Like I stated in my edit summary: He was not just African but he spent a good part of his active life in the United States while making history in the field of neurosurgery, to the extent that he earned some recognitions. Besides some slight cultural differences and some partial ancestries with other ethnic groups or races from different parts of the world, the only major difference between an African and an African-American is the location. The former is based in Africa while the latter is based in the United States. The real issue based on your argument might be whether to classify him as an expatriate or not. - Eruditescholar (talk) 10:41, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Article on Carlota (slave rebel)
Hi, my name is Manuel Barcia and I just wanted to bring to your attention my book from 2014 West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba (Oxford University Press, 2014) where I actually discuss Carlota's role in the 1843 Triumvirate revolt at some length. The reason I mention this, is because you cited my 2008 book where, as you correctly said, I barely discuss her role and that of Firming. Also, important to mention, that your methodological section could also consider including my discussion of the reasons of African slaves in Cuba to go to war in the first half of the 19th century. Please do check it out. The book came out before Aisha Finch's and just as Ada Ferrer's book came out to, and it engages with both. This is a topic that is dear to my heart (as it happens, I was the Atlantic Studies editor that saw Myra Houser to a successful publication from the moment she submitted), and I wouldn't like to leave anything out of this discussion, especially considering that my 2014 book actually engages directly with this. Best wishes

Manuel Barcia

PS: Could you please also correct the way you cite me. My books are authored by Manuel Barcia, not Manuel Barcia Paz. I don't use that name unless I need to for official reasons. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mbarcia24 (talk • contribs) 10:39, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, Prof. Barcia. Thanks for you message. Yes, I contributed to the biographical article of Carlota in its early stages but most of the additional information and citations were added by another editor (Libbygoldman). I subsequently did some minor corrections on the article afterwards. You might want to relay your observation to him since he made most of the recent edits which you higlighted from the article. Regarding the error in the citing your book; your name has been corrected - Eruditescholar (talk) 07:40, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest
Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

New Page Reviewing
I notice that you have the "administrator someday" userbox. Reviewing new pages is one of the best ways to develop experience needed to successfully wield the mop. —  Insertcleverphrasehere (or here)  10:16, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your feedback. I am eager to improve Wikipedia by becoming a New Page Reviewer :- Eruditescholar (talk) 01:37, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Removing promotional content
Hi.

I'm trying to remove a promotional article tag on the article Hotels.ng I made an edit which was deleted. After that I went back to do some more reading and so far cannot seem to understand why the page has that tag.

Can you help with a few pointers about what I should be doing? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oluwaisinvolved (talk • contribs) 17:50, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Autopatrolled granted
Hi Eruditescholar, I just wanted to let you know that I have [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&page=User%3AEruditescholar added] the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the autopatrolled right, see Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Beeblebrox (talk) 21:57, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

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Empty category
Please note that Category:Spouses of leaders of Nigeria which you created is currently empty. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:47, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your notification. The issue has been resolved. - Eruditescholar (talk) 11:30, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Category:Nigerian gynaecologists has been nominated for discussion
Category:Nigerian gynaecologists, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. 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. Rathfelder (talk) 00:07, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Category:Nigerian obstetricians has been nominated for discussion
Category:Nigerian obstetricians, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. 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. Rathfelder (talk) 00:07, 10 December 2017 (UTC)