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Yoruba Page

Mr UKabia - I think I know who you are and your kind. You have changed items that were verified on the Yoruba page and reduced the authenticity of the page - you have then moved those items to the Igbo page - This is not the place for tribalism. If you don't have facts; don't put it up. And stop removing things that have been verified and moving it somewhere else. What rubbish? U think this is the place for lies? Behave yourself. You edited sections of population and slavery on both pages with stuff made up in your head. Are you kidding me? If you are unbaised - go and edit the Hausa page. If I see you on the Yoruba page without verifiable items I will report you. God Bless. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Toludpilgrim (talk • contribs) 22:48, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

I honestly don't know what you're talking about. If you have a problem with an edit you can edit it with a reliable source, otherwise these unprovoked personal attacks are unnecessary. Ukabia - talk 20:31, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Removal of references

Hi there. Why did you remove valid references from this article list? The article has over 40 references, yet you removed 3 of these references without stating in your edit summary why you did this. Amsaim (talk) 20:04, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Enugu blank.svg

I came across this, and then Template:Enugu LGA map. Maybe there should be different colors for each Senatorial zone, like this one? A variant could be useful to illustrate the articles on LGAs, which are mostly just stubs but should be expanded. The LGA names do not have really to be clickable, since the LGA articles have a template at the bottom that lists them all. For a different kind of map, which would also be interesting, see Maps for Free. Roads and the larger communities would also be useful. There has to be some straightforward way of creating the maps. Any thoughts? Aymatth2 (talk) 15:59, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

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Enugu peer review

Hello, I left a few comments at Wikipedia:Peer review/Enugu/archive1. Regards, --BelovedFreak 21:28, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Enugu, Good article review

Hello, I have been reviewing the article you nominated, Enugu, and have found several broken links in the article. These links must be fixed if I am to pass this article for GA. I will place the review "on hold" for one week to allow time for changes to be made. --Tea with toast (talk) 01:15, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

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Moves, Nigeria LGAs

Hello- I have just undone one of your recent moves, then noticed there was a lot more. I am not aware of any discussion being raised on these moves or any consensus being reached; maybe I missed it. None of the links would seem to have been amended which will leave an unholy mess unless they are corrected. Regards (Crusoe8181 (talk) 03:15, 19 September 2010 (UTC)).

• Please review comment at Talk:Eleme, Nigeria#moving ... moving. Thanks. I've left this comment at Crusoe8181's talk page as well. --Bejnar (talk) 19:15, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Request for proofreading

Hi Ukabia. Would you have time to please proofread this short article on Igbo Wikipedia? Thank you. Amsaim (talk) 13:04, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for proofreading the article. Regards. Amsaim (talk) 19:42, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Enugu

I'm very sorry I have not attended the the review of Enugu. I've never asked for a second opinion for a review, and I was under the impression that the second reviewer was responsible for passing/failing an article. I'm so sorry you've had to wait so long to get a review of your article! I can tell you put a lot of hard work into it! --Tea with toast (talk) 15:33, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

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FAC Welcome

Hi Ukabia, I noticed that you mentioned that Enugu was your first FAC nomination. Welcome to FAC! Unfortunately, I had to archive the nomination, as it was open for almost three weeks with no supports. It looks like you got some decent feedback (some articles have trouble drawing reviewer eyes), and hopefully any improvements that result from that will make your next foray into FAC a little easier. Please don't be discouraged - it is quite normal for first-time nominations to be archived, and most of those articles later become featured. Your quick and calm responses to reviewers were appreciated, and I hope that we see you back at FAC again soon. Karanacs (talk) 16:32, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Your edits in the Port Harcourt article

Hi Ukabia. You seem to be a reasonable and experienced editor, and as such I would like to ask you to please first discuss on the talk page the major changes which you would like to introduce into the Port Harcourt article in order to achieve community consensus. Your recent edits in the Port Harcourt Article are controversial, and they do not adhere to Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View Policy. Your controversial edits have now drawn IP editors into the article adding their own personal opinion. Thus we have a situation whereby Wikipedia is disrupted. I have thusly reverted all controversial edits for the following reasons:

• Some of the material which you added is not sourced, e.g. in the infobox data field "native_name" you placed the word "Diobu", but there's no source given for that, and in the lead section of the article you wrote that Port Harcourt in the Igbo language is Diobu, and again no source is given for that.
• The source which you attributed to this sentence of the lead section "The area that became Port Harcourt in 1912 was originally the farmland of the Diobu village group of the Ikwerre, a subgroup of the Igbo people" is from a self-published source (published by iUniverse, a selfpublishing company), and thus cannot be used for inclusion in Wikipedia, and most certainly not to source controversial material.
• In the opening sentence of the History section, you used 2 sources as a reference for Diobu. The first source is the same self-published source as in the lead section (from iUniverse), and you also used this source as a reference for your statements about Diobu. However, the word Diobu does not appear anywhere in the second source. Thusly, your additions about Diobu are either unsourced or are from a self-published source.

Try not to misunderstand me. I am neither for or against the inclusion of any alternative or native name of Port Harcourt. My only concern here is to ensure that Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View Policy and WP:RS are being adhered to in the Port Harcourt article. In the past couple of weeks I've done some research about Port Harcourt, and found out several issues. One issue is that the Nigerian City of Port Harcourt was created from the scratch by the colonial British government from empty unused and uninhabited land found in Southern Nigeria. Thus any claim by anybody or any group of people of a supposed native or alternative name of Port Harcourt is merely personal opinion.

Please do not add such controversial material into the article again. I shall be forced to bring the matter to the administrator's attention if you continue adding unsourced or self-published material into the Port Harcourt article. Thank you. Amsaim (talk) 11:15, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Since you have again refused to discuss major changes to the Port Harcourt article in the talk page of the said article, and again repeatedly added unsourced material, original research and self-published material into the article, I will proceed to report your POV-pushing to the appropriate administrator's board. Amsaim (talk) 12:11, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi Ukabia,

please look Talk:Igbo people! --Tfjt (talk) 20:15, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Father of Panafricanism

Hi, Ukabia, a famous descent of a St. Thomas Igbo was Edward Wilmot Blyden, regarded as father of Panafricanism. Perhaps important for the Igbo article. --Tfjt (talk) 20:31, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Thx, for your answer on my talk page. You are right, difficult to integrate him in the Igbo people article... perhaps he is famous enough to be represented by a picture on the top of the article? What do you think? --Tfjt (talk) 21:03, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Port Harcourt

HI nice work but can you please find sources for geography down to militancy, the article is extremely unbalanced in terms of quality/sourcing.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:48, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

P.S Enugu is an amazing article. Probably the best on a settlement anywhere in Africa and a shining example of all others to follow. Keep up the terrific work. If only we could have that sort of quality for all the LLGs!♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:52, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

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Igbo tribes

Hi Ukabia,

Since you're moving the articles, could you clarify what the Igbo tribes are? Some "subgroups" are evidently distinct enough to be considered separate ethnicities, but I haven't been able to clarify which they are, and for all I know some are clans. — kwami (talk) 16:37, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Hello Ukabia

It seems you did not allow neutral point of view to work while editing Nigerias three major languages arrangement for some reasons,maybe as i have noticed,you do more work on Igbo articles and you need to have more refs as i will provide you with one to see the figures of nigerian ethnic groups,it will help you.The new arrangement was reverted because the former arrangement you changed was done according to population estimates of various ethnic groups of Nigeria [here] thanks and don't be offended Ukabia for the reversion.yours Netknowle message me! 09:00, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Ukabia for the information,Keep on the good work.yours Netknowle message me! 07:05, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

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Ukabia, I don't care what you disagree with, you don't delete tags from articles until they've been addressed. — kwami (talk) 00:14, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

What is there to adress? The tags are completely redundant, especially when the information your requiring was referenced and has been explained in the main article. Infoboxes aren't supposed to be detailed. Ukabia - talk 00:16, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

We list dialects, and say the "standard" dialect is standard. This is empty gibberish; it would be like saying the language of Nigeria is "Nigerian". We need to define our terms. The second problem, of course, is that you're claiming nsibidi is a writing system when it's not. You may disagree with my understanding of the refs, but the tags stay until this is resolved. If you continue to delete the tags, I will ask to have you blocked. — kwami (talk) 00:30, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Standard Igbo, as explained in the article, has been modified from Central Igbo which was based largely on (but not completely on) dialects from Owerri to Umuahia. Different dialects merged together. The Standard Igbo itself is not any one pre-existing dialect and is a dialect of its own (as explained). It's nothing like saying 'Nigerian', unless Nigeria develops a language from the languages of Nigeria and calls it something else. If you ask to have me blocked, I will challenge it and I will show that Standard Igbo needs no explanation. Ukabia - talk 00:35, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

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Thank you for the invitation.

I deeply appreciate that you have invited me to WikiProject Igbo and apologize for my late response.

-Chi Bless

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Nwanna dalu Sir. Thanks for starting the article Archeology of Igbo-Ukwu and so many others. I think this is a very important topic and with your permission would like to develop the article. Dalu olu.Ochiwar (talk) 21:03, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

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Nigeria and French

I have sites like these that prove that French is a DE FACTO of Nigeria. Sites: http://www.antimoon.com/forum/t15459.htm - http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/106-french-nigerias-2nd-national-language-official.html - http://www.lingref.com/isb/4/002ISB4.PDF - http://allafrica.com/stories/200203050036.html ---- there are many other links.... i put much time into those edits which are now gone... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chukwizy (talk • contribs) 13:01, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

For something as important as an official or national language of a country, there needs to be a reliable and factual source like a source from the government or a reliable news piece. The links you gave are to an opinion piece and the other states that French is being considered as Nigeria's second official language, not that it actually has become the second official language. Also, the CIA World Factbook and other sources only list English as the official language of Nigeria. The translations you gave of mottos, national anthems, and so on into French do not exist. There's also no basis to the Biafra and French language link.Ukabia - talk 16:35, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Your ignorance is not evidence

Please stop. The purpose of WP is not to delete things you don't know, but to learn. You might want to read adjective. — kwami (talk) 20:11, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

You're/the article is trying to convince me that Igbo has only eight adjectives, so there should be evidence for this and not just a reference to a book that cannot be easily found. I know what an adjective is which is why I know there are a lot more than eight adjectives in Igbo, have you checked an Igbo dictionary yet? Ukabia - talk 22:18, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

It's an easy reference to find, and again, your ignorance is not evidence. Please stop or I will report you for edit warring. — kwami (talk) 22:37, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

(FYI to readers: I've been impatient, but Ukabia had a point, and we've reached agreement. — kwami (talk) 22:22, 14 September 2013 (UTC))

Vowel assimilation

Thanks for your addition to Igbo, but I don't understand what this sentence is saying:

Vowel assimilation in Igbo occurs when the place feature of a preceding vowel merges into the quality of the following vowel giving the latter greater prominence, but leaving the former identifiable.

Could you try to explain it? thanks, — Lfdder (talk) 21:44, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

I've expanded the paragraph a little on the article. Ukabia - talk 07:03, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

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Igbo highlife

Hello Ukabia, I just wanted to inform you about the new article which I've started Igbo highlife. I know you are probably a fan of Igbo highlife so I'm inviting you now to come check it out and also offer your contributions to the article if you can. Thank you. Stanleytux (talk) 21:21, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

[INFO] Igbo contemporary masquerade

Mr. Ukabia thank you for sharing your knowledge. I'm curious about this photo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_people#mediaviewer/File:Igbo_contemporary_masquerade.jpg I would like to know what's the meaning of the 3 masks and the lion that he's holding? Thank you.

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Kingdom of Nri

Hello Ukabia, what you deleted took me some man hours to put it up there. I am new to the Wiki platform as an editor, but I feel demotivated to continue, and that is me being honest. Since you are well advanced in this thing, you should not address new contributors just like that, rather, a two way communication should be opened where you will seek to help such a person build capacity. I want to believe that peer growth is part of the Wiki priority, and I will also want to talk with you about this. We have access to research works and print materials covering vast historical antecedents as regards the Igbo community and some other places like the Gbagyi people of Nigeria. These are verified works, but I would love to know further, how to get them onto the Wiki platform. We are also training Nigerian community youths on how to get more involved with Wiki, so I would appreciate it greatly if we can further our communication, not on the talk page, but somewhere else (and please, how do I at least retrieve what you have deleted, not for the Wiki, but for personal keeps. . .its very important). Sire rich - talk 7:35, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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Native ethnic groups of Africa

I totally donot agree with you on the recent request to move Native ethnic groups of Africa to Ethnic groups of Africa. Remember that this is the English wikipedia and not an African wikipedia. Numerous English dictionaries have pointed out that the word "Native" means "associated with the place or circumstances of a person's birth or originating in a certain place or region". That said, the topic Ethnic groups discusses mainly those ethnic groups that originated in Africa, like the original inhabitants of that land but we all know that Ethnic groups have a much broader meaning than that. For example, in many African countries including Nigeria, there are ethnic groups in Africa that traces their ancestry to other parts of the world (Category:African people by ethnic or national origin). These ethnic groups are also African ethnic groups and very much part of the African continent but are not discussed any where in the article. I suggest that the page be renamed to match the true content of the article. Stanleytux (talk) 22:23, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Portuguese in Equatorial Guinea

Hello, after looking at the talk page you linked me too, it seems that Luizdl is adamant on insisting that Portuguese is an official language of EQ when government sources AND the sources he linked (UN, CIA) do not mention Portuguese as official at all. A look at his edit history suggests that he is rather biased about this language and inflates its status. It is best to either temporary block his account or have an admin warn him about his edits unless he can present hardcore, EQ government backed sources of Portuguese as an official language. In the meantime, I will delete the edits he has made. Thanks. - Moalli (talk) 01:22, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

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Thank you. 93.133.23.16 (talk) 19:46, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for providing reliable sources for the Ika people article, and for the proper citation form.
Even though you added 2 references in the form of reliable sources into the article, yet the material you added (=Ika people are a subgroup of the Igbo people) is not found in the sources. This appears to be a be a case of Original Research whereby you reached a conclusion which is not explicitly stated by the sources. Permit me to remind you about Wikipedia's Core Content Policy of Verifiability which stipulates that "even if you're sure something is true, it must be verifiable before you can add it". Any material you add into Wikpedia articles must include an inline citation that directly supports the material.
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Thank you. 93.135.249.234 (talk) 10:49, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

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We are already resolving this as noted by the user EdJohnston above which was written after any of my edits to the disputed articles Ukabia - talk 21:51, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

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Too late. The dispute was addressed by another admin per the complaint at WP:RFPP. If you want to accept an admin offer you should do so clearly and specifically. I asked for both parties to promise to wait for consensus but neither of you did so. If I had seen at least one user definitely accept, I might have closed the complaint with no block of that party. EdJohnston (talk) 04:29, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

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Nomination of Elele for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Elele 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 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elele until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, 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.

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Gabriel (talk to me ) 16:20, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Igrita

The article Igrita has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Completely unsourced, no content whatsoever, one-sentence stub with just stating that Igrita is a town in Rivers State, Nigeria. Nothing significant can be found online about the article either.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Paul Vaurie (talk) 21:13, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 October 1 § Category:WikiProject X members

A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 October 1 § Category:WikiProject X members on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Qwerfjkltalk 09:33, 2 October 2023 (UTC)