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February 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content (particularly if you change facts and figures), as you have to the article Cinema of Nigeria, please cite a reliable source for the content of your edit. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. Take a look at Wikipedia:Citing sources for information about how to cite sources and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Amsaim (talk) 00:37, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content without citing verifiable and reliable sources, as you did to Cinema of Nigeria. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Amsaim (talk) 01:06, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Oba of Benin

Hi,

I reverted your changes to Oba of Benin, as they contained some apparent nonsense. For one, you said that royal red features strongly in the Edo script, which is false: at least according to our (dubious) article, red is just one color of many. Second, you said the script is unchanged for 2000 years, which is almost certainly BS (the color scheme, for example, is modern European, not ancient nor Nigerian). I've also put Edo script up for deletion as apparent nonsense. If you have any evidence that this script actually exists, that would be much appreciated! (Given your user name, would it be possible for you to confirm the 1999 book quoted at the Cornell page on the Edo script, and maybe provide some more detail? If the Edo script you referred to is a different script, then we should rewrite the article to correspond to it. Our coverage of African scripts is woefully inadequate: we didn't even have Bamum until I wrote the article yesterday!) kwami (talk) 15:11, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Ogbanje and Iyi uwa

Since Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart which popularized the myth of ogbanje through the character Ezinma who was considered an ogbanje.[2][3], the term Iyi-uwa is erroneously considered an Igbo name though no meaning of it exist in the Igbo. Similarly, since the Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart, the myth of Ogbanje has been readily accepted as a term in Igbo mythology though along with its other name, abiku, the myth has no specified origin but is rather a kind of reincarnation myth shared across West Africa.

Where did you get this from? Iyi Uwa literally means to return to earth in Igbo, so how does it have no meaning in this language? I undid your edits to both articles as none of it was making sense, especially attributing well known Igbo words (e.g academically) to languages they have no meaning in. Could you also explain how iyi-uwa and ogbanje are "southwestern Nigerian"? -- Ukabia (talk) 00:22, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

February 2011

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Iyi-Uwa. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Ukabia - talk 01:11, 27 February 2011 (UTC)Ukabia

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Ogbanje. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Ukabia - talk 01:11, 27 February 2011 (UTC)Ukabia

Speedy deletion nomination of Usonigbe

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