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Welcome

Hi Ankimai. You've been here for a while - only about 9 days less than me, in fact - so I don't suppose you'll need it, but I'd like to welcome you to Wikipedia anyways. You've been popping up in my watchlist a lot lately, seeing as we both focus on Nigeria related articles. Are you aware of WikiProject Nigeria, a wikiproject dedicated to maintaining Nigeria related topics? We'd love it if you'd join, although, of course, it isn't required. Anyways, happy editing! Picaroon 18:04, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Did I ever reply to this message? No, I didn't. I beg your pardon. I appreciate your work. --Ankimai (talk) 13:22, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

No summary deletions

Your characterization of other users' edits as "vandalism" is unwarranted and unjustified. Moreover, your summary deletions are themselves advancing non-neutral POV, which is even more unacceptable considering that you have no knowledge or experience in the subject matter that you are editing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.5.250.146 (talk • contribs) 00:12, March 22 2007 (UTC)

Help needed on Amir Taheri

• 75.16.33.230 (talk · contribs)
• 75.31.17.226 (talk · contribs)
• 68.5.250.146 (talk · contribs)

Help needed on Amir Taheri—identical reverts by three anons. Ref: WP:AN3 report. (Asked here also.) — Athænara ✉ 07:59, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Followup: all three blocked for 24 hours. — Æ. ✉ 09:18, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Ankimai

I see you are following around users and unilaterally reverting all of their edits as you see fit, no matter if they are sourced or not. I recommend you stop this practice or else you will simply end up getting all the entries "protected" and render them uneditable indefinitely. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.182.35.241 (talk • contribs) 22:39, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

User:75.26.157.62

I thought I'd let you know, it seems 75.26.157.62 has something against you. Probably a sockpuppet of some kind. Someguy1221 00:40, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

re Amir Taheri

I have issued short blocks on the two editors you are warring with on the above article, and undid the last edit by them. Please note that reverting edits, other than blatant vandalism (this being a POV/Content dispute), is not appropriate. As I note that you have attempted to discuss the matter on the article talkpage I am issuing you with a warning only. If there are further instances of edit warring by the other parties, take it to the Admins noticeboard (incidents) page but do not revert the article.

• You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Amir Taheri. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content which gains a consensus among editors. LessHeard vanU 21:34, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. I'll heed it. Ankimai 11:56, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Crime in Lagos

Hey, add the section for crime in Lagos - A lot of cities have crime sections... WhisperToMe (talk) 04:28, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

• Actually, almost no other country or city pages have crime sections.
• Please note that Whispers comments, originate from an ongoing content dispute on the Nigeria talk page regarding Advance fee fraud's relevance to the Nigerian economy. Ajisekanla (talk) 11:19, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps some sort of Law and order section would be good. Who's in control of what? How does a city (or country) work? I'd like to read (but am not able to write) a section on Lagos institutions and organizations (police, LASTMA, EFCC, NURTW etc) on the one hand and on the problems they have to cope with (robbery, area boys, wonder banks, clashes at motor parks and so on) on the other hand.

Regarding the 419ers, I agree with Ajisekanla. I doubt whether they are that relevant. They're neither peculiar to Lagos nor to Nigeria. According to the Economist the scam business has been outsourced to South Africa years ago already (Go south, con man, August 14, 2004 edition). The legend lives on, obviously, and Nigerian authorities may now and then still stage raids on some "shady cybercafes" in Festac town to live up to the expectations of foreign camera teams - but in my opinion it's the myth they combat, not a real menace.--Ankimai (talk) 01:45, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Rollback

Would you like the rollback tool? It's quicker than the undo function. Picaroon (t) 23:11, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

I would like to give it a try, yes, thank you. --Ankimai (talk) 12:47, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

I've added it to your account. Just remember, the point is for quick reversion of vandalism and spam - if you accidentally hit rollback to revert an edit where the reason is not self-explanatory, you can make a dummy edit in the page history noting this. Picaroon (t) 03:07, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

edit war Amir Taheri

I think your efforts to create an edit war with me on Amir Taheri is unproductive--Babakexorramdin (talk) 08:49, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Please see this note on Bab's talk page. I think we ought to leave the information out of the article until we can work something out on the talk page. Ursasapien (talk) 09:20, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Discussion at ANI

Please see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User:William_Ortiz_-_disruptive_editing.2C_accusations.2C_and_now_possible_sockpuppetry. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 16:12, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

See

1. Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/William_Ortiz -- results "unrelated"
2. National Space Research and Development Agency -- You remove reliable news sources about the Nigerian space program, but Nigeria does have itWilliam Ortiz (talk) 02:27, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

It rather was on a bogus astronaut story, wasn't it? - Yes, Nigeria has a space agency. I didn't deny that. Many nations have one. --Ankimai (talk) 07:46, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Re

Replied on my talk page. Khoikhoi 05:30, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Left another note on his/her talk page. As for Larno Man, if you believe he is a sockpuppet you are welcome to make a request at WP:SSP or WP:RFCU, as I mentioned to Parthava. Khoikhoi 18:53, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

• Yes, if you believe he is my sockpuppet you are welcome to make a request at WP:SSP or WP:RFCU--Larno Man (talk) 03:01, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Your Comment on my talkpage

There are no universally accepted criteria for distinguishing languages from dialects, although a number of paradigms exist, which render sometimes contradictory results. The exact distinction is therefore a subjective one, dependent on the user's frame of reference.

Language varieties are often called dialects rather than languages:

• solely because they are not (or not recognized as) literary languages,
• because the speakers of the given language do not have a state of their own,
• because they are not used in press or literature, or very little.

of course Mazandarni falls into all above categories.

Regarding my edits, for example following references consider Mazandarani as a dialect(by the way unlike what you said on my talk page all provided references are available online):

• Dictionary of Languages: The Definitive Reference to More Than 400 Languages By Andrew Dalb, page 226: (He even calls Mazandarni a sub-dialect of Caspian dialect)

• Encyclopedia Iranica: CASPIAN DIALECTS, Iranian dialects spoken along the Caspian littoral, including Ṭāleši, Gīlakī, Māzandarāni and related subdialects

• Even Borjan that you mentioned calls Mazandarani: local language, dialect, and vernaculars and not a totally distinct language

Some quotes from Borjan's article:

1. My interest in Mazandarani is largely connected to my familiarity with linguistics, sociolinguistics, and ethnography, without which I might have regarded the dialect worthless, as many of my friends from Sari do.

2. Since there exists a high mutual intelligibility among various Mazandarani sub-dialects, the broadcasts attract many listeners and are considered to be successful.

--Larno Man (talk) 02:56, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

-- Dictionary of Languages is not my only reference. Borjan also refers to Mazandarani as dialect, local language and vernaculars. I also provided accounts from Irania in my last comment, though it is not necessary to provide multi-references for one fact in WP. Nevertheless, I improve the citation for "Dictionary of Languages"--Larno Man (talk) 13:46, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

I noticed that you have a long dispute over Amir Taheri with IP 68. ? Once you told me that I am him. Is that because of this misunderstanding that you left comments such as "I wonder how you could spend hours of studies over scholarly books and journal papers, Larno Man and didn't even get that far." If you feel that I am the same guy you are more than welcome to make a request at WP:SSP or WP:RFCU. Otherwise, I kindly request you not to extend your dispute over Amir Taheri with this IP (68. ...) to Mazandarni related articles.

Regarding your last comment [[1]]. What you call OR is supported by Iranica, Borjan and Dictionary of languages. I provided those sources on your talkpage but you keep saying that this is OR. --Larno Man (talk) 17:11, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Stalking

Your most recent contributions seem to be largely focused on a single user, Larno Man. In particular, the content you wrote at User:Ankimai/Sandbox2, and your recent reverts to the History of slavery and Secession articles. Please review Wikipedia's policy on Wikistalking, and stop following this user around. If you have concerns about his edits, please discuss it with him instead of warning him. Both of you are good faith editors and I expect both of you to play by the rules. Thanks. Khoikhoi 04:09, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes if I may, I want to add that Ankimai's intervention in the Iranian articles is very disruptive, not only because of his lack of knowledge in these issues, but also his stalking of and reversion of edits by certain editors.--Babakexorramdin (talk) 13:23, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Prayer mat

Since you were active on the RfD you might like to comment on the Requested move to get Prayer mats back to their rightful place. Bazj (talk) 09:46, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

ThankSpam

My RfA Thank you for participating in my "RecFA", which passed with a final tally of 153/39/22. There were issues raised regarding my adminship that I intend to cogitate upon, but I am grateful for the very many supportive comments I received and for the efforts of certain editors (Ceoil, Noroton and Lar especially) in responding to some issues. I wish to note how humbled I was when I read Buster7's support comment, although a fair majority gave me great pleasure. I would also note those whose opposes or neutral were based in process concerns and who otherwise commented kindly in regard to my record. I recognise that the process itself was unusual, and the format was generally considered questionable - and I accept that I was mistaken in my perception of how it would be received - but I am particularly grateful for those whose opposes and neutrals were based in perceptions of how I was not performing to the standards expected of an administrator. As much as the support I received, those comments are hopefully going to allow me to be a better contributor to the project. Thank you. Very much. LessHeard vanU (talk) 19:00, 24 May 2009 (UTC) ~~~~~

Well, back to the office it is...

Report at RFPP

Note that it's preferable to warn users on their talk pages when you revert their actions. This way when admins respond to claims we can consider blocking the user. That course of action is more difficult to follow when the user has had no warnings given to them. Thanks, Nja²⁴⁷ 09:16, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Sanusi baballe ilah

Hello Ankimai, and thanks for your work patrolling new changes. I am just informing you that I declined the speedy deletion of Sanusi baballe ilah - a page you tagged - because: how is that patent nonsense? Please review the criteria for speedy deletion before tagging further pages. If you have any questions or problems, please let me know. SoWhy 19:51, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

I beg your pardon. I should have explained it. The text has been copied and pasted from here ('Barack Obama' sometimes being replaced by 'Sanusi baballe', 'Illinois' by 'Kano centeral' etc.) -- Ankimai (talk) 21:33, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

I see. The correct tags would have been G3 (blatant misinformation / vandalism) and G12 (taking text from Wikipedia sources without attributing it is also a copyright violation). It's not a G1 though because the text is understandable and makes sense. It's just not true. Regards SoWhy 22:25, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

To Ankimai from Kehz99

Hey, i have now modified the page to correspond with the text. come check it out.