Talk:Coltan

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For hell's sake, could this article BE any more shallow, biased, unprofessional, and downright idiotic? Basically, whoever wrote it is trying to blame genocide in the Congo on a friggin' mineral. That's just about the most retarded thing I've ever seen in my life. It's articles like this one that give Wikipedia a bad name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.169.200.43 (talk) 22:21, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Do you have any real evidence or reason for dismissing it, or do you just not want to believe it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.209.65.16 (talk) 14:59, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Contents 1 No weasels, please 2 Proposed Link 3 "Ethical Grounds" 4 Clarification 5 Roskilde Festival Humanitarian focus

[edit] No weasels, please

Please follow WP:WEASEL when editing Wikipedia articles. -- 201.51.252.63 21:24, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

"In any case" ... "After all" seem out of place, as though someone was trying to emotionally load the text, but just confused me instead ! --195.137.93.171 (talk) 22:33, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed Link

Hi, I'm working with The Pulitzer Center, a non-profit journalism agency geared towards providing audience to underrepresented news stories. I'd like to link this page to a few related articles on the Pulitzer site; http://www.pulitzercenter.org/openitem.cfm?id=177 concerning the conflict surrounding coltan, Please let me know if I can post these links. Many thanks in advance. Blendus 04:59, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Part of this article is plagiarized from an article in The Industry Standard, which can be found at the following URL: http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,26784,00.html?body_page=2

("After all, the trading companies sell coltan to processing companies, which in turn sell to tantalum capacitor manufacturers - whose clients are none other than high-tech companies such as Ericsson, Intel and Nokia.

These companies deny any knowledge that tantalum originating in the Congo is used in their products. That's not surprising, considering how murky the supply chain out of the Congo is and how complicated the global trade in tantalum gets. The reality is that there's little way to prove that the tantalum used in our cell phones and laptops is or is not from the Congo.") —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.132.19.205 (talk) 13:47, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Ethical Grounds"

That story with not buying Congolese Coltan on ethical grounds sounds like a cover up story to me. I have reason to believe that they are just trying to push the price for coltan outside Congo up, while they are pulling it down inside Congo that way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.242.206.21 (talk) 14:42, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Clarification

"The exportation of coltan helped fuel the war in the Congo..." Haven't there been multiple wars in the Congo? Which one is this article referring to? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.209.65.16 (talk) 15:03, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Roskilde Festival Humanitarian focus

Perhaps this year's humanitarian focus of Roskilde Festival, dubbed "Fair Phone – Fair Futur", should be noted in the article? Sorry for the bad english. Read more here[1]. --83.72.7.63 (talk) 19:03, 4 May 2008 (UTC)