Talk:Silas Niyibizi

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Contested deletion[edit]

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because this is a person who has clearly contributed to the development of the Rwandan socio-population studies and development. The fact that he led and presided the first ever Rwandan Population Census (1978) is enough. He was the first ever Rwandan demographer. He is the first Rwandan that studied in a local university to teach in it. Isn't that something? The fact that his career and main life was way before the electronic age (to Rwanda) wouldn't and shouldn't qualify him as unimportant. He is "unimportant" to who? How would reddogsix know of any Rwandan demographer? There are many, many African academicians that are worthy of relevance, most of whom are unknown to reddogsix, I am sure.

I am now curious to know Wikipedia's definition of "importance". I have seen pornstars and obscure athletes (who have never won anything) having Wikipedia pages. How are they important? Because they are westerners? Silas Niyibizi wasn't a head of state. He wasn't an international heroin trafficker or a Nobel Prize laureate. He was a pioneer in developing an absent area of expertise in his home country. I have provided some references of some of his publications and researches he was consulted into. More are coming. --Abdorito (talk) 20:48, 3 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This article should be kept as he was very important in the development of Rwanda. I would be happy to do copy editing if kept.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 15:39, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Speculative paragraph[edit]

This paragraph is worded in a way that makes it appear to be quite speculative: "Contrary to many of his peers among the first Rwandan academicians, he seems to have not taken part in the tumultuous political period preceding the 1994 genocide (nor has he ever occupied a political position). This aberrant political anonymity could be explained by his socialist ideals, peaceful dialogue and antagonism to the implication of the Army in Politics - mixture that could not please the Military Regime that ruled Rwanda at the prime of his career."

If his lack of participation in the political lead-up to the genocide is noteworthy among Rwandan academics, then it should be possible to find a scholar of the period who remarked on his abstention from politics.

The bracketed statement appears to contradict his CV: In most countries I am familiar with, a top ministry official would be considered a political appointment. But here I may be betraying my ignorance of Rwandan political nomenclature.

His "socialist ideals, peaceful dialogue and antagonism to the implication of the Army in Politics" should probably get an in-line reference, and "mixture that could not please the Military Regime" as currently phrased is speculative, and should probably have a reference to a source making that claim. Arbitrary Identifier (talk) 10:12, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]