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Concern regarding Draft:Multinational corporations and developing countries

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November 2024

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on History of Africa. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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Actually, you're the one that needs to read this ANI notice. 172.56.235.58 (talk) 20:27, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Talk page

Please do not blank my talk page without asking. Northern Moonlight 00:53, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Im really sorry about that, I just meant to blank the welcome message Kowal2701 (talk) 07:32, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Library

Hello! Seeing your comment in Talk:Turkey, you should be able to access Wikipedia Library. Did you try doing the initial set up? Bogazicili (talk) 17:26, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I use the Wikipedia Library loads but some of the entries on Oxford Research Encyclopedia are locked Kowal2701 (talk) 17:37, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah you are right, I was just going to come back and say that myself. I thought it would be unlocked, but it isn't. Oxford Research Encyclopedias database seem very high quality actually. Bogazicili (talk) 17:42, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, looks like there's a technical issue [1]. So access might be restored later. Bogazicili (talk) 17:45, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh nice. Yeah they're so useful, the only publisher the Wikipedia Library is missing imo is Taylor and Francis books/Routledge. Countless times has it had the perfect and only source on a topic. It's got 200 upvotes at Suggest a collection so hopefully it gets added soon. Kowal2701 (talk) 18:03, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

They have good overview sources, I use Taylor and Francis/Routledge books often. Bogazicili (talk) 18:20, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2025!

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Concern regarding Draft:Oral tradition taskforce articles

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Thankyou

Zimbabwean Barnstar of National Merit

For excellent work on Great Zimbabwe and related articles. Babakathy (talk) 14:44, 30 December 2024 (UTC) |}[reply]

Thank you so much! Kowal2701 (talk) 14:47, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Mwene Muji

On 31 December 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mwene Muji, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that grand claims that the ruler of Mwene Muji once had imperial status were dismissed by Belgian colonial authorities? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mwene Muji. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Mwene Muji), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link notification for January 5

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Adding Misinformation

Kwesi Yema can you please stop spreading misinformation about Swahili people… Leave that topic for someone like me who is a ethnic Swahili.Your adding people who just speak the language as part of them. RAFESHISTORY (talk) 13:25, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I’m not Kwesi, but the best place to have this discussion is at Talk:Swahili people, you can start one there the same way you started one here. And you can ping people using {{ping}} (Template:Ping) which sends them a notification, or just type @ followed by their username Kowal2701 (talk) 14:00, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I’ve gone and started one anyway Kowal2701 (talk) 14:01, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Scholastique Dianzinga

I saw you're adding to African historigrpahy, so tought I would drop a note that I just started a page for Scholastique Dianzinga from Republic of Congo Lajmmoore (talk) 10:39, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That’s great, thank you, I’ll add her to the list. I intend to write Women in African history, there’s so many high quality sources. Are you mainly interested in BLPs? Kowal2701 (talk) 13:10, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There are so many female rulers who are revered in their respective societies’ oral traditions, such as Gudit, Kahina, Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba, and Amina, Queen of Zazzau Kowal2701 (talk) 13:17, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

African historiography

Great job on African historiography!

recommend add History of Liberia

Rjensen (talk) 22:00, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I’m enjoying writing it although I might be a little out of my depth. I’m not sure what you mean regarding Liberia? Kowal2701 (talk) 22:09, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Liberia is not in section #8 "List of historians of Africa" --such as Abayomi Wilfrid Karnga Rjensen (talk) 03:07, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yeah, thanks, there are a few that are missing. I was just going through categories at Category:Historians by nationality. I’ll add Liberia Kowal2701 (talk) 07:11, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I’m gonna do a site search through Google for other countries as the categories are very incomplete, some non existent Kowal2701 (talk) 07:16, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ishaaq bin Ahmed

Things have gone south again.

If you have some time, could you take a look at Talk:Ishaaq bin Ahmed#Moving critical scholarship to the historicity section and the discussion immediately below?

I'd understand if you wouldn't. Kind regards, ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 18:50, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A Barnstar For You

		The Barnstar of Good Humor
		For being such a good sport and letting me pick on you at Wikipedia talk:Respect your elders. 🏵️Etrius ( Us) 00:54, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lol thanks Kowal2701 (talk) 01:39, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]