User talk:Nathan Holland
New pages[edit]
These all look really good. --Danny Reese 02:23, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
It seems that you believe you removed the POV from this article. However, it is still VERY heavily POV. As you may or may not know, Cabinda has been subject to pov vandalism and I suspect you did not fix this. Look, for example, at the ending: "On 18 July 2006 FLEC and the government of Angola signed a sham peace treaty with FLEC renegade Bento Bemebe. The cease fire took effect on 19 July. [1] However, the war has continued unabated." Now, what proof is there that it was a sham agreement? or that the war has continued? or that Bento Bemebe is a FLEC renegade? The link that is cited says none of that. Granted, the link is to official Angolan press, but I believe one could find a BBC article to say the same. Please consider the whole article next time when trying to get rid of POV.--Thomas.macmillan 15:20, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi Nathan, thank you for your message and contributions. Good job on Angola-related article.--Stavenn 16:32, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Angola: Official Languages[edit]
Hi Nathan Holland,
I agree with you regarding your statement:
(Kikongo and other Bantu languages are not official languages. Portuguese is the official language which is indicated in the CIA world factbook. Otherwise the infobox would have to change)
I added that link to try to resolve the issue with a citation needed. Unfortunately, there are many ways to look at this:
- Kikongo is a actually a dialect
- The Congo language areas overlap the physical border, meaning that other languages are spoken there as the CIA website indicates.
- There is significant creolization still happening with the languages. (Afrikaans, for example is thought to have been a creole of Portuguese, Dutch and indigenous languages)
- Numerous other websites currently list Kongo as an official language of Angola
I added information to the footnotes section of the Info Box to try to address the question. The Kikongo article states that it is spoken in Angola as well.
Now, you know everything that I know! :-)
Take care and good luck.
Larry
Lmcelhiney 17:56, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
cabinda.net[edit]
It was removed from all the pages I found it on, because every time I added the unsourced tag to the articles, the system kicked them back as having a spam blacklist link in them, specifically the cabinda.net site. That is evidently not allowed by the wiki system, as it has been spammed across too many pages. I didn't add it to the list, I'm just trying to edit in good faith, and then have to remove something so the article will load.--Vidkun 23:20, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
I am from Angola and I work as translator. I am planning to provide as much information as I can on Angolan music since I am very fond of it and have lots of CDs and so on.
Unreferenced BLPs[edit]
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File permission problem with File:TJ McCloud.jpg[edit]
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