User talk:Nannus

Pictish language
I suspect that your additions re. Lockwood are in the wrong place. They need to appear before the Forsyth/Price material, which post-dates Lockwood by a couple of decades. Angus McLellan (Talk) 22:44, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Cameroonian template
Basically, I'm fine with your idea, so go ahead. However, I am planning on replacing the current array of "music of" boxes with a standardized format (see User:TUF-KAT/countrymusicbox for my rough demo). I tend to think we ought to remove the francophone grouping completely from those templates - I know I'm the one that put them there to begin with, but I guess I've changed my mind. I suggest moving to a strictly region-based division (so the template would have "Central African" rather than "Francophone African" lists). Tuf-Kat 01:10, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I think the East/North/Central/West/Southern is the most common division - that's already how it is everywhere on the continent except for Francophone countries (there's also a Lusophone box, IIRC, separate from the countryboxes - not sure about that one. Tuf-Kat 01:13, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Music of Africa
I commend you on your great edits on Music of Africa. Well done. --Ezeu 17:43, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Maraba Coffee
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Wikiversity
Hi, I heard that you were interested in wikiversity, and since I'm one of their "Recruiters" I thought I'd stop by and see if you had any questions.--Rayc 18:01, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Diaspora vs. Africa
I think you could help us sort out the scope for WP:AFRO I think I agree with the reasons you changed the pan-African template-- perhaps you should put your changes back. (?) This project is quite new and I'm not an expert-- it's been difficult for me to find the exact scope of the project. Can you help separate "Pan-african" from "African diaspora" from "African" by looking at how we have defined the scope of the diaspora on the project page? I think I understand the distinction, but I don't know if it is clearly outline in any place and it would help the people in the project avoid confusion over what we should, or should not include.futurebird 17:46, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Lamell[ao]phone
Hi, I've repaired that move for you. In future, if you have technical problems with moves like that, please call in an admin right away or go to WP:RM. Never move pages by cut-and-paste, it destroys the recording of the page histories. And the ring-move trick doesn't work either, as I think you found out now... Best, Fut.Perf. ☼ 00:05, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Project templates
Project templates go in article talk pages. --Ezeu 20:38, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikicat/Wikicite
Hi Nannus,

I'm the lead project member (well, only project member :) for the Wikicat and Wikicite projects. Sorry for being so late to reply, but I did not see your comments until this weekend. In any case reading your description of your work on Wikiversity it seems we have very similar ideas for building a bibliographic/scholarly infrastructure for the various Wikimedia projects- in particular I recommend you read my ideas for a citation analysis tool on the WikiTextrose project description page.

Currently I an in the early stages of development for Wikicat. Please send me any questions you may have. Thanks.

Jonathan( Jleybov 00:00, 10 April 2007 (UTC) )

Portal:African Philosophy
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Suggesting a Source for your Racism Course at Wikiversity Western States Center (www.westernstatescenter.org) has many dismantling racism resources including a history of race and racism. It might give you some useful info and resources.

Merger proposed: Dance ethnology → Ethnomusicology
It has been proposed to merge the content of Dance ethnology into Ethnomusicology. Since you have previously edited one of these articles, I thought you might be interested. You're welcome to participate in the discussion if you like. --B. Wolterding 14:38, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Invite to the African Destubathon
Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most geography, wildlife and women articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing, whether it's a river in Malawi, a Nigerian footballer, or a South African civil rights activist, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. For those of you who signed up to the North African contest, that will hopefully be held in the new year. Thanks. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:11, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest
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ArbCom 2018 election voter message

 * I don't see that you are blocked in any way. What block message are you getting when you log on? RickinBaltimore (talk) 02:04, 10 June 2019 (UTC)


 * I have posted a message to the blocking administrator, Berean Hunter, asking him to look into your unblock request, and put your request on hold. However, after doing so I noticed that he hasn't edited for a week, so you may have a long wait for him to respond. I can't just go ahead and deal with the request myself without waiting for him, because it needs a CheckUser to do so. I hope Berean Hunter will be back soon so that you don't have to wait, but if you don't get any response within a day or so then I suggest that you post a new unblock request, and this time specifically ask for a CheckUser to look into it. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:45, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I think it is time for a CU to get involved. — usernamekiran (talk)  02:32, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

I've given you IP block exemption for a month, which will hopefully be long enough for Berean Hunter to respond. I'd rather not change Berean Hunter's block without talking to him first. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:29, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

IP block exempt
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I hope this will enhance your editing, and allow you to edit successfully and without disruption. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:29, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

Since Berean Hunter has now made the block anon-only, IP block exemption should not be necessary, so I have removed it. JamesBWatson (talk) 16:08, 18 June 2019 (UTC)