User talk:24.128.77.171

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[edit] Source for tribal list of Haitian slaves.

In response to a request for a citation regarding your edit introducing the following groups:

Wolof, Yoruba, Ashanti, Hausa, Mandinka, Ewe and Tuareg

as being the "seven major groups" contributing to the predominantly West-African decent of Haitians, you gave the source:

http://www.figgeartmuseum.org/SiteDefault.aspx?nt=16&PageID=133

However, that source lists

Kongos, Ibos, Nagos, Bambara, Arada, Mines, Morriquis, Sosos, Thiabas, Bobo, Mondongues, Senegals, Mocos, Hausa, Tacouas, and Yolofs

as some of the groups that were brought to Saint-Domingue as slaves. I note most of the groups on your list are not even mentioned in this supposed source, and vice versa. So this does not qualify as an acceptable source citation, and the question remains: how did you come up with this list of "seven major groups"?  --Lambiam 08:49, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Slave Trade Stats

Hi :) Happy to meet you. I want to thank you for ur interest in the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade page. Glad to see ppl being constructive. I reverted your edits to the section on region participation and wanted to give you heads up on why. The regions and numbers in that section all go to one source (the one mentioned in the paragraph). I feel adding other regions or countries into the list compromises the section since they are not mentioned in the source. I'm well aware that the present day country of Mali contributed slaves, however that was not a region recognized by the slavers since it (1) didn't exist yet and (2) was landlocked. The Senegambian and Upper Guinea regions received slaves from Mali including Bamana (many of these people ended up Louisiana) and Peuhl from Mauritania. I know Mauritania isn't landlocked, but still it should be kept out of the section for the reasons mentioned earlier.

now that we got that out the way, i'd be happy to put you down with any info related to the slave trade. I have a list of the african ethnic groups sold to Haiti as well as several other modern countries in the western hemisphere. i'm thinking of starting a page dedicated to that subject. hit me back when u can, and i apologize if my edit might have rubbed you the wrong way.

Scott Free 22:16, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please provide sources for your edits

Dear 24.128.77.171. You have a pattern of adding content to articles without citing a reliable source, as you did for example here: [1], [2], [3]. This is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. Please provide sources for your edits, and do not add unsourced and therefore unverifiable information.  --Lambiam 22:03, 22 November 2007 (UTC)


I see you persist in your habit of unsourced edits, which mostly are not at all improvements: [4], [5], [6], [7]. Do you just make that up? Doesn't it mean something to you that all your changes are reverted? Please take some time to read the Wikipedia verifiability policy, and provide sources for your edits. Stop adding unsourced and therefore unverifiable information. Thank you.  --Lambiam 11:55, 23 February 2008 (UTC)