User talk:Chiwara

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Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content which gains a consensus among editors. Thank you. 207.114.16.210 19:21, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

If anyone is running the risk of being blocked, it's you. Your edits on this subject have been both unorthodox and pretty clearly agenda-driven. ~ João Do Rio 19:58, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Lanzón, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

UIUC

Wow, you went throught the list and counted out all the private schools, too, huh? Wish I had known—would have saved me the time. Thanks for cleaning up the cite! HuskyHuskie 04:31, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Incomplete vandalism revision

For your information, your revert of the Leopold II article was incomplete. The vandal IP had done other modifications you did not revert; here is what I still had to do after you: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leopold_II_of_Belgium&diff=next&oldid=130127170

Having stayed myself at some distance from Wikipedia for a while, I don't know which tools are currently best for efficient fighting of vandalism, but you should perhaps always have a look at an article history before reverting. In this case, the vandal had done several successive changes, and it looks like you reverted only one of them.

Well thanks for trying anyway ;-)

--FvdP 18:16, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Ah, so sorry I didn't notice that. I promise to be more thorough next time.Chiwara 17:57, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (Image:IU Seal.jpg)

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Thanks!

Thanks for the kind words. Chiwara still needs a good bit on regional/stylistic varriations, since the object itself is such a rich form.

And I like your " ...articles should use the correct, local name of something rather than an ad hoc translation for English speakers"! T L Miles 15:38, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

RfA Thanks

Dear Chiwara, Thank you for voting in my RfA, which closed successfully with 34 support, 2 oppose, and 0 neutral. I appreciate your support! I promise I will wield the mop wisely, and do my best to improve Wikipedia. -- AKeen (talk) 15:07, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:UIUC2.JPG)

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Nomination of Illinois Loyalty for deletion

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Perhaps you would like to help?

Hi, Chiwara, we haven't met before. I usually contribute on articles related to Brazilian 19th century and I was able to promote several of them to Featured Article level. I saw that you're a member of Wikiproject Brazil and an active editor. I'm trying, along with other users, to bring the wikiproject back to life and I'd be very helpful if you could join us. Don't worry, you won't need to do anything that will take your time. All we want is to editors to share their thoughts, give ideas, suggestions to what we should do. We want a place where anyone interested on Brazilian articles, not just Brazilian editors, may find safe heaven, where they will be able to find other editors who might help them with dispute reoslution, article reviews, etc... I'm trying to gather everyone on the Empire of Brazil task force. If you're interested, place your name on the list of participants and add the task force to your watch list. I'd be very glad if you could give us a hand. Kind regards, --Lecen (talk) 01:21, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

Happy to help! And I remain very impressed with all the work you did on Pedro II of Brazil.Chiwara (talk) 02:57, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

You've got no idea how glad I am for your interest on joining us. We are in need of more people around, either suggesting, reviewing, making comments, etc... Welcome aboard, Chiwara. P.S.: If it's not a problem, would you mind sending me an email (see the link on the top right on my talk page) so that we can talk in private? --Lecen (talk) 03:30, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Pedro III of Portugal

I was amazed and outraged once I learned that Qwyrxian closed the move request for Pedro III of Portugal claiming lack of consensus.[1] Twelve editors supported the move and only four opposed. I complained to him about how unfair and absurd was his action and that he should accept the will of the vast majority or at least reopen the move request. I'd like to ask you to share your thoughts about it on his talk page. Thank you, --Lecen (talk) 16:50, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

• Hi, this is a mass-produced message which means it may duplicate a message already on your Talk:page. As a result of the lack of reference to specific sources or guidelines such as WP:SOVEREIGN, User:Qwyrxian closed the RM at Talk:Peter III of Portugal but said a new RM could be started if new evidence was presented. This I have done after discussion with Qwyrxian and User:Lecen. This means that your previous support or oppose will not be counted, and must be resubmitted. However please note Qwyrxian's request that support/oppose be made with reference to specific arguments guidelines or sources, and (quote) especially recommend that people don't do the "Support per person X and Y", as such comments are close to useless, (unquote). Thanks for your time. Best regards. In ictu oculi (talk) 01:32, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

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Attention: WikiProject African diaspora participants

Hello fellow project participants. Not sure how many users are still active as normal Wikipedia editors but felt the need to attempt to get a gauge on who can be called on for help with articles falling under the umbrella of the African diaspora project. According to the project's article table there are over six thousand articles related to the African diaspora; there's not a hundred at FA/GA grade and there's over twelve hundred that are unassessed. With Wikipedia being one of the major information reference points in the world today we should consider this unacceptable. Much work needs to be done on the rating of the importance of articles as well. With more communication amongst participants and a dedication to addressing the articles on the to-do list I believe we can make this WikiProject one of the most well organized and thorough on the site. If you are interested in collaborative work with some of your fellow project members, have certain expertise on any particular subjects, ideals on/about the WikiProject, etc. simply drop your name under the "Project revision" section I've created on the project's talk page and state your intentions and main points of interest in our WikiProject and we can attempt to move forward from there. Hoping to hear from everyone soon! WikiGuy86 (talk) 03:39, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Amistad, the movie.

I am not the most versed about what is what in WP so am taking a long shot here to get some direction about a situation that hope to resolve at least for this film. I see that you seem to champion for names that which is most appropriate for those that it concerns instead of making everything so "American" that some people will think that Europe is the 51st state of the Union. I feel someone along the same lines when it comes to the significance of non-English dialogue in films and what impact it might have on the plot since it seems that so many people in English speaking parts of the world know very few other languages so rely only on those English portions of a films to understand it.

With the movie Amistad there are portions in Mende that Spielberg uses for the Africans to express themselves in the film. Part of the subtitles include the language that when the African's lawyers enter their cell yard some of the Africans say to the lawyers, in Mende, that they do not want the table in "Temneland". I attempted to use this incidence as a way to expand that it was more than Mende among the prisoners but since i could not provide a citation or a full translation that those having more influenced would not edit the article to indicate that in this film there also were Temne in the group of prisoners.

The reason why I would like to have this reflected in the article is so that among limited language people there would be a greater emphasis put on non-English portions of films when they occur. What matters in the world is more than just what is to be found in our primary language especially those that have been significantly impacted on by the English speaking world. Is there someone that you can direct me to that might share a similar view and lift us out of isolationism? There are a lot more people migrating into English language areas of the world that maintain their own primary language or even learn more non-English languages that what most English language people do. WP needs to emerge out of this "English" only counts world view.

Your guidance would be appreciated.2605:E000:9143:7000:EDDF:3478:DA35:A87D (talk) 03:39, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

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Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

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The AfroCine Project invites you to join us again this October and November, the two months which are dedicated to improving content about the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

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The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!

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Welcome to the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

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The AfroCine Project core team is happy to inform you that the Months of African Cinema Contest is happening again this year in October and November. We invite Wikipedians all over the world to join in improving content related to African cinema on Wikipedia!

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