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Diannaa (
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23:35, 6 May 2024 (UTC)reply
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Diannaa (
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15:20, 28 May 2024 (UTC)reply
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Drmies First of all, I am the creator of the article and this work is in collaboration with Nuer People. Secondly, the original title is Nuer Genocide, some body moved it to Nuer Massacre then i moved it back to Nuer Genocide because that's what the article is about and how the Human Right Watch and other international communities termed and warned of happening to Nuer people at the time of the event.
You don't have to threaten me of blocking. This article is about an event that actually happened. Do you work for the genocidal government of South Sudan? because they have been killing, threatening and silencing Journalists for reporting the Genocide accurately. This article is a work of Nuer People, if the title cannot be Nuer Genocide for whatever reason you guys think, please nominate this article for quick deletion right now and notify me.
Gatwech Gai (
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03:15, 30 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Thanks, and please amend your comment on the page. It does reflect very well on you. We are all here to support and help each other, and these things happens. Learn from it and move in.
Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did at
Juba Nuer Massacre, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the
edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been
reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use
your sandbox for that. You need to wait for the discussion to ends and you need to integrate the two articles properly.FuzzyMagma (
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18:52, 6 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Hi, the discussion has been going on for a while now it's clear that it has ended for more editor agrees that
Juba Nuer Massacre be merged into
Nuer massacre. If my merging doesn't seem to be constructive, then you may need to merge it yourself, I'm ok with that.
No, it doesnât work this way. And the way you merged the article is wrong so just wait if you are not familiar with process.
TNT for the language that you use, this is not the place for editorialising. You clearly missing the point here and I am yet to cross-check the sources but in case we found that you exaggerated or misrepresented the facts as they are written in these sources, then TNT might be the only way
Yes i may not be really familiar with merging the articles correctly. I will learn.
Sorry for misunderstanding what the TNT stand for. Is ok for any Wikipedian to fix any section that doesn't sound well, but not deny what is being explained. Far as I'm concerned and the sources, there is no exageration in this article, anything written is directly from the source, non of these is my opinion. Make sure you check the offline sources (books like
Bloody Nile,South Sudan: Untold story,
Nuer Nation etc) as well, because these are the books written by eye witnesses and plainly described what happened and how it happened.
Gatwech Gai (
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19:57, 7 June 2024 (UTC)reply
I need some help with question not related to this article.
for linking the articles, it is as you do normally. You wikilink in the appropriate relevant articles as you did in the Nuer massacre article. These tags of orphan need to be removed manually sometimes.
FuzzyMagma (
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20:40, 7 June 2024 (UTC)reply
if you citing an opinion from a source that might be biased or its reliability might be contest, it is better to say "According to X, a historian at the University of Y, the attack was ..." or something in this vein. Just to distance Wikipedia from being biased.
The 2 of these 3 sources that you have shared can all be easily contested and seen as biased; thus, it might be better just to convey what they say. See
WP:WIKIVOICE for more details.
No one is denying the atrocities and we all know how hard it is to be neutral in these situation, but we try.
Hello. I wanted to let you know that in your recent contributions, you seemed to act as if you were the owner of a page. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to Wikipedia. This means that editors
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welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Please do not revert my edit without first addressing the issues on the talk. I think I have warned enough by nowFuzzyMagma (
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17:46, 14 June 2024 (UTC)reply
The part that i removed seemed to be disruptive editing as per
Wikipedia:Disruptive editing, you shuffled some section, erased part of paragraphs and leaved them with just some templates while failing to provide citation. You must provide citation for your contribution instead of adding too many template and making the article unreadable. One of the core Wikipedia policy is to provide citation. And yes i know any one is welcome to contribute including me.
If you had revised the article careful before reverting it, you would have noticed that i picked up on the summary that you started and fixed almost everything, added more citations, removed the duplicated part and added new paragraphs. Now its back to unreadable article again making the editing more complicated and time consuming.
Gatwech Gai (
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03:28, 15 June 2024 (UTC)reply
I didnât do that, in every edit I provided a description of what I did and link the edit to a section on talk (see the page talk). You either do not understand what disruptive means or you just donât want people to touch âyourâ article both of which are problematic. Donât try to âgameâ the system or weaponise policies. Just take the advice, work on improving the article and learn.
I have nothing personal with you, and as I said ages ago, we need more editors to write about South Sudan but that need to be within policies.
Going back to the article, you still removed some of my tags that are linked to a section in the talk without providing an explanation. These tags and section on the talk are done to avoid warring. The more you ignore them the closer you get to be blocked.
again, you donât own anything here, and you need to be open to discussions and learning.
Iâm tired of having to do everything twice! This started with name of the article (genocide < massacre) and your behaviour when it comes to listening has not changed. This need to change now!
FuzzyMagma (
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08:42, 15 June 2024 (UTC)reply
I might have been out of line earlier but that has changed. Right now, we are both committed to improving this article and making Wikipedia a better place and that's what really matter. Your contribution to Nuer massacre is appreciated and yes I will be helping improving the
Nuer people,
Dinka people etc and other articles on other ethnic groups in South Sudan that are not yet on Wikipedia.
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04:16, 16 June 2024 (UTC)reply
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GreenLipstickLesbian (
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08:44, 30 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Thanks, I didn't actually finish editing that part of the article, I copied and past those paragraphs to finish editing after I took a nap. I didn't know it would be copy righted that quick. I fixed it now.
Gatwech Gai (
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11:09, 30 June 2024 (UTC)reply
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21:12, 30 June 2024 (UTC)reply
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I have been trying to understand how things work on commons and I guess I need to really figure how uploading image work because I just realize I don't know nothing. Thanks.
Gatwech Gai (
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00:12, 28 June 2024 (UTC)reply
We all start somewhere. If you look to my talk in commons, I almost got blocked twice. Everyone understands these mistakes were honest mistakes, you learn and you move on buddy. You doing great work
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09:27, 29 June 2024 (UTC)reply