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The imagemap in the African Union section needs to be redone or removed, it is highly erroneous: {{tl|Africa countries imagemap}} |
The imagemap in the African Union section needs to be redone or removed, it is highly erroneous: {{tl|Africa countries imagemap}} |
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The Wiki definition and description of Africa is from an European worldview and does not reflect any input from those who best reflect the continent; meaning what we know or refer to in modern times as Black people i.e. those that reflect the descendents of Africans, part of the Atlantic slave trade. It is a travesty how Africa (named by a European) has been raped and abused; a common and popular M.O. of the European (nomadic/white man) as reflected in their inhumane and barbaric behavior and treatment of African slaves bought to the Americas. Shameful. [[User:Truthis2020|Truthis2020]] ([[User talk:Truthis2020|talk]]) 06:21, 23 March 2017 (UTC) |
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== Description of a picture == |
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The imagemap in the African Union section needs to be redone or removed, it is highly erroneous: {{Africa countries imagemap}} — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rail88 (talk • contribs) 22:18, 24 June 2012
Description of a picture
"The intricate 9th-century bronzes from Igbo-Ukwu, in Nigeria displayed a level of technical accomplishment that was notably more advanced than European bronze casting of the same period."
The description of one of the pictures is very vague and debatable. 9th-century European craftsmanship in Europe was at the same, if not higher, level than in Africa at that time. 9th-century is already a Viking era, Carolingian Renaissance etc. Art in the 9th century was primarily dedicated to the Church and employed as basic tools of the Roman Catholic mass. Thousands of golden art objects were made: Sacred cups, vessels, reliqueries, crucifixes, rosaries, altar pieces, and statues of the Virgin and Child or Saints all kept the flame of art from dying out.
Regions of Africa map makes no sense
The colour key of this map doesn't map the regions of Africa. There are regional colours on the map that aren't in the key and colours in the key that aren't on the map. The key should be fixed or the map removed. Ross Fraser (talk) 17:26, 22 January 2015
Turks in Africa
North Africa
Region settlement | Year of Turkish settlement | Name of Turkish community | Current status |
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Algeria | 1517 | Algerian Turks | Estimates on the Algerian Turkish community vary significantly, according to the Turkish Embassy in Algeria there is between 600,000 to 2 million people of Turkish origin living in Algeria.[1] The Oxford Business Group has suggested that people of Turkish descent make up 5% of Algeria's total population, accounting to about 1.7 million.[2] However, other estimates state that the Turkish community make up 10–25% of Algeria's population, if the Turkish-Algerian creole population known as the Kouloughlis are included.[3][4] |
Egypt | 1517 | Egyptian Turks | About 100,000[5] Turks are still living in Egypt are often called "Egyptian Turkmens" or "Egyptian Turks" because various Turkic migrations to Egypt began as early as the 7th century. However, most of today's descendants, about 1.5 million, have assimilated into the Arab population.[6] |
Libya | 1551 | Libyan Turks | In 1936 there were 35,000 Turks living in Libya, forming about 5% of the total population at the time.[7] |
Tunisia | 1574 | Tunisian Turks | As much as 25% of Tunisia's population are of Turkish origin.[4] |
Algeria
= 600,000–3,300,000
[1][2][3]
Tunisia = 500,000–2,400,000 [8][9][10]
Egypt = 100,000–1,500,000 [5][6]
References
- ^ a b Turkish Embassy in Algeria 2008, 4 .
- ^ a b Oxford Business Group 2008, 10 .
- ^ a b Zaman. "Türk'ün Cezayir'deki lakabı: Hıyarunnas!". Retrieved 18 March 2012.
- ^ a b Hizmetli 1953, 10 .
- ^ a b Baedeker 2000, lviii .
- ^ a b Akar 1993, 94 .
- ^ Pan 1949, 103 .
- ^ a b Akar 1993, 95 .
- ^ Zaman. "Türk işadamları Tunus'ta yatırım imkanı aradı". Retrieved 27 March 2013.
- ^ Ertan, Fikret (1998), Tunus ve tarih, Zaman.
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Erroneous Africa map for certain African country pages
Morocco was readmitted into the African Union recently. Yet in certain African country pages, Wikipedia is still using maps showing Morocco is not in the African Union and singling it out as grey. For example: South Africa, Lesotho, Tanzania, Togo, Republic of the Congo, Kenya and many many other African country pages, whereas some other African country pages avoid this problem. E.g. pages for Algeria, Egypt, Sudan, Nigeria etc. Isn't it high time we unified the way of presentation and remove all presentations of Morocco as outside the Union? First I was tempted to put this note on specific African country pages afflicted with the problem, then I discovered it is a widespread misrepresentation on Wikipedia, so I thought posting it here on Africa talk page. werldwayd (talk) 15:15, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
- High time? It's been little over a week! That's 55 separate maps someone has to update. The AU really shouldn't feature on country location maps, and the orthographic maps are better, but in the meantime, while the AU maps should be updated it's a very understandable error. That said, if no-one else does it I'll see if I can find time over the next few days to fix that particular map series, lest it turn into another south sudan situation! CMD (talk) 16:35, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
- Much appreciated for any effort in this regard. Since most of these are to be updated anyway, that we adopt the more esthetic formula used in Algeria, Egypt, Sudan, Nigeria. No need to mention which country is member of AU or not a member when we are basically talking about a country's location on a continent. werldwayd (talk) 22:31, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
- Location in the world is what the proper aim should be! You can find the orthographic maps as Commons:Grey-green orthographic projections maps. CMD (talk) 00:59, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
- I think focussing on position on the African Continent itself is good enough. No need to expand to a world map. This form of focussing on a continent is adopted elsewhere on Wikipedia: E.g. Germany is displayed on a European Continent position, China is positioned in an Asian Continent, Mexico is in an Americas continent. So displaying African countries on an African continent basis is good enough, more importantly consistent with the rest. werldwayd (talk) 21:40, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
- Both China and Mexico have orthographic world maps (shows half the world), like Algeria etc. you mentioned at the start. CMD (talk) 02:38, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
- This just a correction comment to earlier assertion by Werldwayd. Germany, just like other EU members are still displayed on both EU and European continent position.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 17:01, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
- Both China and Mexico have orthographic world maps (shows half the world), like Algeria etc. you mentioned at the start. CMD (talk) 02:38, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
- I think focussing on position on the African Continent itself is good enough. No need to expand to a world map. This form of focussing on a continent is adopted elsewhere on Wikipedia: E.g. Germany is displayed on a European Continent position, China is positioned in an Asian Continent, Mexico is in an Americas continent. So displaying African countries on an African continent basis is good enough, more importantly consistent with the rest. werldwayd (talk) 21:40, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
- Location in the world is what the proper aim should be! You can find the orthographic maps as Commons:Grey-green orthographic projections maps. CMD (talk) 00:59, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
- Much appreciated for any effort in this regard. Since most of these are to be updated anyway, that we adopt the more esthetic formula used in Algeria, Egypt, Sudan, Nigeria. No need to mention which country is member of AU or not a member when we are basically talking about a country's location on a continent. werldwayd (talk) 22:31, 8 February 2017 (UTC)