User talk:Izonowei

Ijaw people
Hello,.

I thought that I would respond to what you asked me after reverting my edit on Ijaw people (which I have restored, by the way).

To my understanding, an article's lead section is supposed to provide ALL of the information on a subject, not just what that subject approves of. As such, the mere fact that we are known to most as 'Ijaw' qualifies that name for inclusion. The other names also have a right to be mentioned (and in fact, I did not remove the 'Izon' and 'Izon Otu' in my latest edit), but we would be doing people a disservice by omitting the name by which we are widely known. As long as it isn't derogatory, I say that we should keep it. An example of this from outside our culture is the word 'Xhosa' in Xhosa people. That originated as an exonym from the Khoisans. We still use it though, because it is in wide usage amongst people, even the Xhosa themselves.

At any rate, I see that there is great disagreement about some of the information on the page more generally. I hope that this has given you an understanding of my thought process in regards to it.

Best wishes.

O.ominirabluejack (talk) 08:18, 22 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello O.ominirabluejack, I was kind of worried you might take my questions the wrong way, so thank you for you kind reply. Perharps we are saying the same thing because if an article is suppose to provide "ALL" of the the information on a subject, should this be something like "Izon people, also know as Ijaw/Ijo people due the corruption of word Izon...." or something of that nature, I'm not a writer but I'm sure you get what I mean. So, you're right that ALL of the information should be provided, and I agree. All I'm saying is that it should be accurate. While is see you point, I believe we are only doing ourselves a disservice, 'people' who ever they may be, would adjust accordingly as long as the information is available and accessible. Lastly, yes, being called Ijaw isn't derogatory but for me personally, it can be annoying. Imagine telling someone you're Izon and Ijaw is a corruption of Izon and they start arguing with you that Ijaw is the ethnic group while Izon is the language because "that's what it says on Wikipedia", hence why  I mentioned accuracy. I didn't mean for this to be too long. Honestly, no vex. Hopefully you'll see my point, but that would mean changing the title of the article.
 * Kind regards. Izonowei (talk) 15:27, 24 July 2022 (UTC)