User talk:Nazikiwe

Hello there, "Nazikiwe", welcome to the Wikipedia. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. -- Infrogmation 21:09 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Image tag

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:

• Image:E.U._Essien_Udom3.jpg

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status?

You can use {{gfdl}} if you release your own work under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{PD-self}} if you wish to release your own work to the public domain, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, and so on. Click here for a list of the various tags.

If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the image from, and I'll tag it for you. Thanks so much. Denni☯ 04:23, 2004 Dec 13 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at Wikipedia:Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

Afrophobia

Hello Nazikiwe and welcome to Wikipedia! There is a discussion taking place on VfD regarding the Afrophobia article which you initiated last December. Your feedback would be appreciated on how this content may be encyclopedic and why it should be included! --GRider\^talk 23:57, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Greetings! Thanks for creating and then weighing in on Afrophobia. I think it should be saved and expanded, as well. I haven't run into too many other black folks on the website, and you're the first brother from the continent I've encountered here, so discovering you has been a pleasant surprise. I see our interests are somewhat similar, so I'm sure our paths will cross in the future. Peace 2 u. :) deeceevoice 15:15, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Its getting hot

The afrophobia discussion seems to be triggering an afrophobic response of its own. Clearly, there are those who have not delved into the errors of non-discrimination. The ability to determine what is real from that which is not real is a function of truth-seeking. The afrophobia article was started as part of my own curiosity. Many of us who have participated in the VfD discussion have probably heard of homophobia. There seems to be a mental barrier to the notion that phobias come in all forms. What other term can be used to describe the behavior of someone who clutches their handbag at the mere sight of a person of African ancestry? Not to mention the fact that said big black man probably has more currency in his pocket than equals said bag clutcher's personal wealth. Slavery is a function of the mind. None of us are free...if one of us is chained. The mental chains are more insiduous than the physical chains. Denying the existence of a limitation does not render it non-existent. If it is true what Friedrich Nietzsche said, "That which does not kill you makes you stronger", then we may be able to perceive as absolute truth "that which I confront cannot destroy me." In Igbo there is a proverb "ode-isi". It means "do your worst". In this circumstance, not reading the voluminous source material is the worst that those who are opposed to the revealing social history embodied in the articles on colorphobia, afrophobia, negrophobia and pigmentocracy. The best that can be done is to use the sources to develop an article which demonstrates the value of wikidom while confronting the above mentioned phobias (if you got 'em.) The afrophobia article is intended to be used as a means for freeing the minds of those who are hindered by it, not as a "political weapon". Apprently, its true what Harriet Tubman said, "If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more." There are some who are comfortable with their chains, there are those who will not consider the possibility that the chains exist and then there are those who will be free. --Nna

Phobias

Colorphobia appears to be the only article currently VfD'ed. I see no similar notations on the pages for Negrophobia or Pigmentocracy. Frankly, I don't see the issue as "non-conventional truths are not viable to some." It's that Wikipedia is a predominantly white website. It's my experience that most whites are exceedingly uncomfortable with frank discussions of racism. They get silly, illogical, defensive, even hostile, adopting a "shoot the messenger" kind of approach. They would prefer to ignore the subject altogether. Some actively lobby to expunge mention of such matters from various articles on the site -- or, in this case, the articles thmselves. Sometimes it's more than their own discomfort; oftentimes, it's just another permutation of their own racism, pure and simple.

IMO, the only effective response to such efforts at deletion is to do what has been done with Afrophobia, which looks as though it might survive: brainstorm the talk page and beef up the article as much and as quickly as possible— even with incomplete topics— so that people can see that the subject has substance; it just needs attention.

I'm currently engaged in a back and forth with some, IMO, rather obtuse Wikipedians about the inclusion of a substantive reference to melanin-based color bias in Melanin. One entity with whom I got involved in a revert war hasn't been active (under that user name, anyway) since I started an RfC (moving into arbitration as soon as I complete the necessary "paperwork") against him for stalking me around the site and for his blatantly racist personal attacks (classic, hackneyed references like "ape," "banana," "savage," "jungle" -- you know the drill). I think he's returned as a sockpuppet to the "Melanin" discussion, because I'm reading the same kinds of ridiculous non sequitors. So far, though, the arguments for keeping substantive references to color bias out of the article are silly and flimsy (as expected, as there is no sane reason for doing so), so I'll be reinserting that information shortly.

Again, IMO, this situation is not about the 'viability of truths' at all. The fact of the matter is a lot of white folks simply have a phobia about the discussion of race and racism. (Gee, maybe we should start an article on that! :p) deeceevoice 08:48, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Disrupting Wikipedia vote

You voted once for the policy at Wikipedia:Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point. Despite a 75% support that vote was rejected by the minority. A new vote has been called with a two week limit at Wikipedia talk:Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point. Please take a moment to participate. Thanks. - Tεxτurε 17:12, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Nazikiwe! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to insure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. if you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 975 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

1. E. U. Essien-Udom - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 20:23, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Thomas W. Anderson

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