User talk:Meateatingvegan

Welcome[edit]

Hello, Meateatingvegan, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on your user talk page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Invitation[edit]

You have been invited to join the WikiProject Africa, a collaborative effort focused on improving Wikipedia's coverage of Africa. If you'd like to join, just add your name to the member list. Thanks for reading!

Belovedfreak 20:50, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pygmies from South America[edit]

How come you said except South America. I would like to know how you know that there is no or never has been any pygmy people from South America. The reason I'm asking is because I have personally heard of pygmy people from South America and before reading this article it was my belief that they came from South America. I thought this because I remember reading it in a book I have, now all I need to do is find the book so i can site it. TeePee-20.7 14:44, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tindi[edit]

Hi, I actually got the photo and the caption from a book entitled, "Explorations: Great Moments of Discovery from the Royal Geographical Society." The actual image that I uploaded was from that website that no longer exists, but since I noticed they were identical (see pages 38-39 here), I figured it wouldn't be a problem. What's even more intriguing is that the Royal Geographical Society Picture Library reiterates the claim that the photograph was taken by M. de Déchy in the late 1890s (type in "Tindi" in the search box to find image S0018319). As you have noted, the American Geographical Society and/or the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries claims that it was taken in the 1930s by William Osgood Field. From a quick glance at the cloud formations and other details in the two respective images, I am pretty sure that they are identical as well. I think the best solution is to contact both parties and see what they have to say. Khoi khoi 20:45, 11 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, you will note in the link you gave me that "Iakobashvili, Irakli" is listed as one of the contributors. According to this, "In 1988 Dr. Irakli Iakobashvili, member of the Georgian Academy of Science met William Osgood Field. He had personal correspondence with him. At first in 2006 with the help of the U.S. Embassy in Georgia Mr.Iakobashvili managed to bring those photographs by Osgood Field to Georgia and now the lovers of photography have an opportunity to view these materials at Karvasla." It might be worth contacting him as well, considering that Field passed away in 1994. Khoi khoi 21:01, 11 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Invite to the African Destubathon[edit]

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)[reply]

Women in Red World Contest[edit]

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!