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I want to make a minor change in this section by replacing the phrase "Abyssinia, derived from Habesh, an early Arabic form of the Ethiopian Semitic name "Ḥabaśāt" (unvocalized "ḤBŚT")" (before I made the edit by 24 September this phrase has been tagged with "citation needed") to "Abyssinia, derived from Al-Habasha which Arabs used it as a translation for the Greek word Aethiopia." based on the following citations:

Abyssinia derived from arabic word Al-Habesha

1) "ETHIOPIA (etheo'peu) or, as it is often unofficially called, Abyssinia (derived from Arabic El Habesha)" [1]
2) "Abyssinia (the European term for the ancient Arabic term al-Habasha)" [2]

Al Habasha used by Arabs to refer people south of Egypt as a translation for the Greek word 'Aethiopia'

1) "The original use of the Greek designation `Ethiopia' was either as a general designation for the black peoples south of the Egyptian border (as the Arabs later used `al -Habasha' or its plural `Ahabish' for groups like the Zanj, Beja, and Nubians as well as the Abyssinians or more specifically as a reference to the kingdom of Kush or Kasu, with its capital at Meroë on the Sudanese Nile. But after the eclipse of this state, the kings of both Aksum and Nubia used the name `Ethiopia' to refer to their own countries and peoples" [3]
2) "‘Habasha’ and it’s variants have been used to name various geographical pockets that are located in the vast territory extending from the southern Arabian peninsula to the southern tip of the African continent and the groups of people inhabiting these areas" [4]

The meaning of the Greek word 'Aethiopia' or 'Aithiopis' which are known in English as 'Ethiopian'

1) "The Greeks added their word opsis, in the sense of “face” or “countenance,” to their word aithein, “to burn,” to form the name of the Africans they called Aithiopis, or the “burned-face” ones – a name preserved in modern English as Ethiopian." [5]. For more see the article for Aethiopia

Before I make this change I want to get comments — EthiopianHabesha (talk) 13:21, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

EthiopianHabesha, as explained, that last bit on Habasha stretching all the way to the southern tip of Africa is false and irrelevant here anyway. As to the actual Aethiopia etymology, Aethiopia was originally the toponym for Nubia, not the modern Ethiopia nation-state (which did not exist in antiquity). The appellation was only later adopted by the Aksumites when they conquered Nubia. An etymology that does not explain this ancient conquest and appropriation is misleading, so the following works better:

The Greek name Αἰθιοπία (from Αἰθίοψ, Aithiops, 'an Ethiopian') is a compound word, derived from the two Greek words, from [Template:M used with invalid code 'grc'. See documentation.]αἴθω + [Template:M used with invalid code 'grc'. See documentation.]ὤψ (aitho "I burn" + ops "face").[1] The historian Herodotus used the appellation to denote the parts of Africa below the Sahara that were then known within the Ecumene (inhabitable world).[2]
In Greco-Roman epigraphs, Aethiopia was a specific toponym for ancient Nubia.[3] At least as early as c. 850,[4] the name Aethiopia also occurs in many translations of the Old Testament in allusion to the latter territory. The ancient Hebrew texts identify Nubia instead as Kush.[5] However, in the New Testament, the Greek term Aithiops does occur, referring to a servant of Candace or Kandake, possibly an inhabitant of Meroë in Nubia.[6]
Following the Hellenic and Biblical traditions, the Monumentum Adulitanum, a third century inscription belonging to the Aksumite Empire, indicates that Aksum's then ruler governed an area which was flanked to the west by the territory of Ethiopia and Sasu. The Aksumite King Ezana would eventually conquer Nubia the following century, and the Aksumites thereafter appropriated the designation "Ethiopians" for their own kingdom. In the Ge'ez version of the Ezana inscription, Aἰθιόπoι is equated with the unvocalized Ḥbštm and Ḥbśt (Ḥabashat), and denotes for the first time the highland inhabitants of Aksum. This new demonym would subsequently be rendered as ’ḥbs (’Aḥbāsh) in Sabaic and as Ḥabasha in Arabic.[3]
In the 15th-century Ge'ez Book of Aksum, the name is ascribed to a legendary individual called Ityopp'is. He was an extra-Biblical son of Cush, son of Ham, said to have founded the city of Axum. [7]
In English, and generally outside of Ethiopia, the country was once historically known as Abyssinia. This toponym was derived from the Latinized form of the ancient Habash.[8]

That is how and when the Aksumites actually came to adopt the toponym Aethiopia for their ancient kingdom. Soupforone (talk) 16:56, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

  1. ^ Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert. "Aithiops". A Greek-English Lexicon. Perseus. Retrieved 16 March 2009.
  2. ^ For all references to Ethiopia in Herodotus, see: this list at the Perseus project.
  3. ^ a b Hatke, George (2013). Aksum and Nubia: Warfare, Commerce, and Political Fictions in Ancient Northeast Africa. NYU Press. pp. 52–53. ISBN 081476066X. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  4. ^ Etymologicum Genuinum s.v. Αἰθιοπία; see also Aethiopia
  5. ^ Cp. Ezekiel 29:10
  6. ^ Acts 8:27
  7. ^ Africa Geoscience Review, Volume 10. Rock View International. 2003. p. 366. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  8. ^ Schoff, Wilfred Harvey (1912). The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea]]: travel and trade in the Indian Ocean. Longmans, Green, and Co. p. 62. Retrieved 28 September 2016.

Files

EthiopianHabesha, please stop with the file jamming. It is contorting the layout per MOS:IMAGES. You appended those superflous files in February without discussion much less consensus, and in the process you also removed and replaced a few too (such as the Aussa Sultanate flag). It's therefore disingenuous to now claim that the jammed files were somehow the original files, when they in fact weren't. Anyway, no hard feelings, but please heretofore adhere to the standard discussion and consensus process as per policy. Soupforone (talk) 16:03, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

Soupforone, Actually, why I am reverting your edit has got to do with how you make edits i.e. deleting several images & phrases and moving paragraphs up & down in one edit and in your edit summary saying you just did sorting while your edit is not just simply sorting but a major change in the article. My opinion is if you think this kind of editing is appropriate for whatever justification then we we will request administrators or other editors intervention and they will solve the issue. I will revert to last edit made by the administrator Materialscientist on 19th October and I will also explain the issue in the users talkpage. Soupforone, please make 1 edit for deleting images, 1 edit for deleting paragraphs and 1 edit for moving paragraphs/phrases up & down while providing reasons for each. — EthiopianHabesha (talk) 13:40, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
And I didnot delete Aussa flag, please check the edit history. Make your edits transparent and for what ever reasons you may have as to why you need to roll to an edit made 8 months ago we may ask other editors opinion (rfc, 3rd opinion, dispute resolution or administrators opinion). — EthiopianHabesha (talk) 14:43, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
Comment:I assume that "jammed files" just means "too many files crowded together, which translates into a poorly formatted, clustered, over-busy crowd of images". If that's the case, then I agree, there are rather too many images for comfortable reading of text. On the other hand, the formatting could be adjusted appropriately; as a gallery, for example.
There's nothing wrong with bold editing, whether in addition or removal of material; but it's certainly better to provide a straightforward, self-explanatory edit summary for every particular change. If an edit can't be adequately explained or justified in the edit summary box, I suggest that such an edit merits additional explanation on the talk-page, whatever its nature. I also strongly suggest you guys try to reach a compromise here, as an RfC is unlikely to be accepted unless you've exhausted talk-page procedures. Haploidavey (talk) 15:00, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
Thanks, and agreed. Soupforone (talk) 15:07, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

EthiopianHabesha, actually, I simply rolled the files only, no text (though the consensus policy applies to text as well). And specifically because they contorted/jammed the layout contra the manual of style and were undiscussed to begin with. Anyway, please note that per WP:BURDEN, "the burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material". The onus here would therefore be on you, not me. I rolled to the original files prior to your undiscussed file changes from a few months ago. I did this because the file jamming was contorting the layout, and also because you erroneously claimed that you were rolling to the original files, when in fact you had apparently changed the original files without discussion to begin with. This is not to finger-point, just an observation. Why, for example, append an 1840 geopolitical map of Africa (which was mislabeled 1884) in the Menelik area, when there was already an 1891 map of Ethiopia specifically alongside another file on the king [6]? This is what I mean by superfluous. These and the other file changes needed justification in the first place. Anyway, discussion and agreement is necessary per WP:BRD. Soupforone (talk) 15:07, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Soupforone, you claimed I deleted Aussa flag and Addis Ababa stadium, could you show me the diffs supporting this claim of yours because I didnot remove those images. As said you didnot specify to which specific date you have reverted the whole article (which you claim is original edit). You have made several unexplained changes in various sections and for all your changes in several sections it's not fair to give reason in your edit summary saying file jamming (because 4 images in one section). — EthiopianHabesha (talk) 15:12, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
EthiopianHabesha, my apologies. Other than the geopolitical map from 1840, it was apparently the user Henocksey who made the major, undiscussed file changes and in April rather than in February [7]. This is the user whose edits on the political riots you reverted the other day [8]. Since the file changes were undiscussed and contorted the layout, I simply rolled to the original files, as you did with the political stuff. Soupforone (talk) 15:24, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Haploidavey, the edit is made on various sections and it would have been better if one edit per section besides the reason given is vague. In the edit summary 'rolled back to original file' and 'file jamming' are stated and I am not sure either the editor just reverted to past edit while not making any changes or user made changes on the most recent edit. I think it is better if it is rolled back to 19th October edit and then user makes 1 edit per section or may be list down the the changes and the reasons here in talk page. As for file jamming it is better we discuss here on which images we should keep and which one we should delete and if we don't have consensus on this matter then we may ask other editors opinion. — EthiopianHabesha (talk) 15:44, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Obviously, the rolling was in various areas because the initial, undiscussed file jamming from April (not October) was in various areas. Likewise, the rolling of the political text was for the same reason limited to the political area. It's also quite easy to see from the actual dif that indeed only the original files were rolled to [9]. Anyway, the WP:BURDEN is on the user to justify each of his initial changes and obtain consensus for them. For one thing, the Homo sapiens idaltu skull would probably work better in the prehistory area, as it is normal-sized and the hominid species is actually linked to there. Soupforone (talk) 16:24, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
Visual overcrowding is always a risk when adding images to the inevitably shortish, summary sections of text employed in such general articles. Tastes vary, I guess. So do expectations, and I'm accustomed to dealing out huge chunks of text, with very few supporting illustrations, or (sadly) none. That said, the prehistory section needs something; the Lucy (Australopithecus) illustration has little immediate impact - perhaps a scholarly reconstruction is available, somewhere. Anyway, I'll keep an eye on this talk-page, in the hope of a speedy consensus. Haploidavey (talk) 16:48, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
The Homo sapiens idaltu skull could probably work [10]. It's pretty small, so the size would be ideal. Soupforone (talk) 16:58, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
I could live with that - as long as it's dealt with in the text (being lazy, I've not checked), which it is, of course, ahem. And of course, size matters. Imo, images should be of sufficient size and clarity to remain readable without resort to magnification. I don't know if that's policy or not, but its also pertinent to the number of images per section. Better two decent sized images than three that must be made unreadably small. Haploidavey (talk) 17:11, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
Indeed. Soupforone (talk) 17:17, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Omission?

The article's missing any historical information between the late Axumite Empire (ending? or at its peak? around the late 4th century or so) and the Zagwe dynasty (beginning in the early 12th century). That seems an implausibly long time for nothing in particular to be going on; but according to the article on the Aksumite Empire, very little is known of its long, slow fading out. So that probably needs clarification here. Haploidavey (talk) 19:12, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

As the Aksumite kingdom gradually declined, one of the earliest local Muslim kingdoms, the Makhzumi sultanate, was established. Its ruling dynasty was deposed in the late 13th century, around the time the Zagwe dynasty ended. Soupforone (talk) 02:49, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

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Adding Information about Hydropower

Professor and researcher Claudia Carr from UC Berkeley has discussed the Hydrodam construction that is contraverstial since it would reduce river flow to a lake which hundreds of thousands of people rely on. The native people there have also are in the middle of a famine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shteffy409 (talk • contribs) 06:35, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Please Update the numbers

Most of the economy and demography related numbers are unbelievably 4 (FOUR) YEARS OLD. Please update it. Ethiopia has shown so much change in those four years in every aspect. So please update your info as you have the duty to spread true,updated and unbiased information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.11.234.106 (talk • contribs) 05:49, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Economy section has been updated by previous edits, and demography data is based on released official census. Once new census data is available it will be updated. —አቤል ዳዊት?(Janweh64) (talk) 21:38, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Official language in Ethiopia = none (all Ethiopian languages enjoy equal recognition)

Carefully read art. 5 of the constitution — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.225.72.49 (talk) 13:53, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Article 5: Languages
  1. All Ethiopian languages shall enjoy equal state recognition.
  2. Amharic shall be the working language of the Federal Government.
  3. Members of the Federation may by law determine their respective working languages.
I will make the necessary changes. —አቤል ዳዊት?(Janweh64) (talk) 21:38, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
(Janweh64) ትንሽ አታፍርም? http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Hornet/Ethiopian_Constitution.html <-ተመልከት. The official language has always been Amharic. And if anything your link suggests the that part of the factbox should be filled in as 'none', like Eritrea's page.Resourcer1 (talk) 17:15, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
Rough translation of Amharic: "Aren't you a little ashamed?" http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Hornet/Ethiopian_Constitution.html <- "Look". --Resourcer1
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You may be correct. None is better. I reverted your edit because it makes many POV edits under the summary "Reverted to last edit by Janweh64. The official language is Amharic." Did you intend to make all those changes? Please take a good look at this link. Changing only the official language back would have be fine. Although, I would WP:DR it. If you would like to do that manually change back this edit, and then we can discuss.—አቤል ዳዊት?(Janweh64) (talk) 19:44, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

About the ethiopian orthodox tewhado church

The church was referred as a monophysite and that is completely false. The church itself claims it is miaphysite and believes in the united nature -[divine and human united] of Jesus Christ. Even its name explains that. Tewhado means united when translated to english- which describes unity of divine and human nature. So i hope it gets corrected. date jan 9/2016...i am waiting — Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.11.234.106 (talk • contribs) 05:39, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

This requires a reliable source.—አቤል ዳዊት?(Janweh64) (talk) 21:38, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
In all fairness, the existing text didn't provide a source, either. I've added a citation from Oriental Orthodoxy and attempted to provide some clarificarion. - Gyrofrog (talk) 14:20, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

The photo of the 'Mountain Nyala' is actually a photo of a Greater Kudu.

Photo needs changing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wolftans (talk • contribs) 13:46, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Fixed. Soupforone (talk) 14:24, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

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cushioned gerbils

Here they are listed as critically endangered. If I follow the link to "cushioned gerbil" in Wikipedia, I find them classed as "least concern"... 79.41.165.35 (talk) 12:10, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Lebna portrait

@Soupforone: sorry for the revert. I usually support almost all of your edits. I just could not understand the reasoning behind these two photo changes edits. Could you just give me a quick reasoning for each? Thanks!  —አቤል ዳዊት?(Janweh64) (talk) 16:44, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

BTW, I am perfectly willing to revert myself. —አቤል ዳዊት?(Janweh64) (talk) 16:57, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

The Emperor file was dead-linked and the Prime Minister file was too large, pushing the file below it down. On closer inspection, it turns out that both premier files were not based in Ethiopia, so I used a small Addis Ababa one. Soupforone (talk) 16:59, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Agreed on Hailemariam. Good choice! I still don't understand the issue with the better photo of Lebna potrait. It is "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". Therefore, there are no copyright issues. —አቤል ዳዊት?(Janweh64) (talk) 17:03, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

@Soupforone: Looks like the original is completely different: https://vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=243793&sos=0  —አቤል ዳዊት?(Janweh64) (talk) 17:16, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

The link on the derivative emperor file was dead, so its existence could not be confirmed. That said, I've found a webarchive of it [11]. I'm not sure, though, whether the file above is the original. There is an earlier one dated to before 1568 that looks similar, yet different [12]. Soupforone (talk) 17:28, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

All portraits of Dawit II as reference for discussion (feel free to edit/add)

The b/w file appears to be the oldest, as it is apparently a derivative of a portrait by the Portuguese diplomat Lazaro de Andrade, dated to ca. 1526 [13]. Soupforone (talk) 05:05, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

There is no need of historical demonyms

There is no need of historical demonyms because the articles are about the current countries, and not about the historical. Sashko1999 (talk) 17:36, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

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Somaliland

I have included the unrecognised de facto state[1] of Somaliland as bordering on Ethiopia since it seems rather eccentric not to describe the physical reality - especially as Ethiopia was the first country to establish diplomatic relations with a diplomatic presence in Somaliland’s capital Hargeisa by opening a consulate that issues visas to Somaliland passport holders, while Somaliland also has a diplomatic office in Addis Ababa. In addition, the state airline, Ethiopia Airlines flies to Somaliland several times per week and Ethiopia's prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, seems directly supportive of Somaliland [2][3][4] but probably doesn't wish to jump first by being the first country to recognise this relatively well-run territory that achieved independence from Britain a tad before its chaotic neighbour[5] to the south.--BushelCandle (talk) 02:58, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

Good call. El_C 03:00, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
I agree it works well in the Geography section, but hesitate to include it in the lead as that would give it far more prominence than RS do. A source including Somaliland in a list of countries bordering Ethiopia would be a good addition to the Geography section to bolster the new text. As a final clarification, Ethiopia and Somaliland do not have diplomatic relations, as this specific term is used for states which recognise each other. CMD (talk) 03:36, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

References

  1. ^ Keating, Joshua (20 July 2018). "When is a nation not a nation? Somaliland's dream of independence". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 19 May 2019. When you are in Somaliland, there is never any question that you are in a real country. After all, the place has all the trappings of countryhood. When I arrived at the airport, a customs officer in a Somaliland uniform checked my Somaliland visa, issued by the Somaliland consulate in Washington DC. At the airport, there was a Somaliland flag. During my visit, I paid Somaliland shillings to drivers of cabs with Somaliland plates who took me to the offices of ministers of the Somaliland government.
    But, according to the US Department of State, the United Nations, the African Union and every other government on Earth, I was not in Somaliland, a poor but stable and mostly functional country on the Horn of Africa. I was in Somalia.
    Even among unrecognised states, Somaliland is a special case – it is both completely independent and politically entirely isolated. Unlike South Sudan before its independence, Somaliland's claim for statehood is based not on a redrawing of colonial borders, but an attempt to re-establish them. Unlike Taiwan, it is shackled not to a richer, more powerful country, but a poorer, weaker one. Unlike Palestine, its quest for independence is not a popular cause for activists around the world.
    The journalist Graeme Wood has described places such as Somaliland as the "limbo world": entities that "start by acting like real countries, and then hope to become them". What separates "real" from "self-proclaimed" countries is simply the recognition of other countries. There's no ultimate legal authority in international relations that decides what is or isn't a real country, and differences of opinion on that question are common. What separates the Somalilands of the world from, say, Sweden is that Sweden is recognised by its peers. Statehood may be a legal concept, but achieving it is an entirely political process. To the degree that foreign officials acknowledge Somaliland at all, they are generally sympathetic to its history and admiring of its recent accomplishments. Somaliland's main obstacle is not the world's animosity, but its indifference. Its current predicament answers the question: what would happen if you created a new country and no one noticed?
  2. ^ "Ethiopia, Somaliland discuss relations and port utilization". Horn Globe News. 20 February 2019. Retrieved 18 May 2019. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed received the President of the Somaliland Administration Muse Bihi Abdi and his delegation in Addis Ababa on Wednesday, the Ethiopia Prime Minister's office said. The visit by the Somaliland president to Addis Ababa, the first since Abiy took office, came following invitation by the Ethiopian Prime Minister. A statement released from Abiy's office noted that the sides agreed key issues concerning Ethiopia and Somaliland on mutual interest.
  3. ^ "Somaliland, Ethiopia Develop Promising Relations". 24 February 2019. Retrieved 18 May 2019. The relations between Ethiopia and Somaliland have witnessed remarkable development in various fields. These relations have moved to advanced stages of mutual understanding between the two countries' leaders. The growing relations between the two sides culminated in the visit of Somaliland President Musa Behi Abdi on Wednesday, heading a large delegation to Ethiopia, during which he met Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
  4. ^ "Somaliland, Ethiopia Develop Promising Relations". 24 February 2019. Retrieved 18 May 2019. Aqal said that the Berbera corridor project will be launched in Ethiopia at the end of February, adding that the project contributes to linking the two countries via highways and railways, thus providing a series of shipping services to and from Ethiopia. He added that the development of the Berbera corridor is a major gain for Ethiopia, which is a strategic partner in the port of Berbera in Somaliland by 19%. He pointed out that the rapid changes witnessed by Ethiopia require the strengthening of relations between the two countries, especially as the new leadership in Addis Ababa launched an initiative for integration in the Horn of Africa. He explained that the port of Berbera serves Ethiopia as an outlet to the sea, and enhances its efforts to provide port services, which have increased because of the tremendous economic progress during the past decade. Observers believe that the rapprochement between the two countries is evolving day by day thanks to the strong policy of Addis Ababa Ethiopia towards its neighbour in Somaliland, which seeks to create a strong economic interdependence with Somaliland, for the benefit of the peoples of the two countries.
  5. ^ "Why Somaliland is not a recognised state". The Economist. 1 November 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2019. The government, located in the capital city of Hargeisa, maintains a respectable degree of control over its territory: the country is, by and large, peaceful, in stark contrast to Somalia to the south—where bombings and a rampage through a popular hotel in the capital killed at least 14 people at the weekend. Somaliland enters into legal contracts (signing, for example, oil-exploration licences with foreign corporations), and it engages in diplomatic operations with the United Nations, the Arab League, the European Union and nations such as Britain, America, and Denmark. But it has yet to receive official recognition from a single foreign government in the years since it declared independence in 1991. To the outside world, it is an autonomous region of Somalia, subject to the Somali Federal Government (SFG) in Mogadishu. Why is it not a state?

Ethiopian king

The mythical king of the Ethiopians, a people cited by Homer and located in the archaic period in Africa, south of Egypt is Memnon (in ancient Greek Μέμνων / Memnôn, "the one who stands firm") living towards. 1250 BC AD --Kiss de Băbeni (talk) 13:19, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

Source?
So?
Why did you sign your cryptic comment THREE times? (With the identical date stamp for each of the three signatures! I've now removed 2 of the duplicates. Why do you give a 2500 year time span for this character?) --BushelCandle (talk) 01:05, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

On Ethiopia's national team basketball success

My attention has been caught by the last sentence of the entry, namely: "Ethiopia has Sub-Saharan Africa's longest basketball tradition as it established a national basketball team in 1949, which won the basketball world cup in 1986.[303]" There are some issues regarding the last part of this statement:

  • The link referenced as [303], "FIBA National Federations – Ethiopia, fiba.com, accessed 24 May 2014." [14] is no longer valid.
  • The winner of the 1986 basketball World cup was USA according to FIBA [1]; see also [2].
  • According to FIBA, Ethiopia has participated in 4 FIBA competitions, none of them at world level, [3]. Similar information is reported elsewhere in Wikipedia [4].

Based on this, I suggest to either rewrite that last sentence of the current entry as "Ethiopia has Sub-Saharan Africa's longest basketball tradition as it established a national basketball team in 1949." (if this information can be properly referenced), or remove it entirely. (I prefer not taking any of these actions myself due to my very limited knowledge of this country and its sporting history.)

References

  1. ^ "1986 World Championship for Men". FIBA. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
  2. ^ "FIBA Basketball World Cup". Wikipedia. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
  3. ^ "FIBA Archive: National Teams: Ethiopia". FIBA. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
  4. ^ "Ethiopia national basketball team". Wikipedia. Retrieved 2019-07-21.

Jordimp (talk) 23:06, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

I've removed the dubious assertion. --BushelCandle (talk) 10:18, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Images and their captions

Ras Seyoum Mengesha, Ras Ghetacciù Abaté and Ras Kebbedé Guebret with Benito Mussolini on 6 February 1937 after the Italian military occupation of Ethiopia.

Recently, User:Mathew Warwick considerably shortened the caption of an image. I don't understand either his rationale or his edit summary of "Avoid stating opinions as facts". Is there some dubiety about the date of the photograph? Is that why he changed the image caption from

"Ras Seyoum Mengesha, Ras Ghetacciù Abaté and Ras Kebbedé Guebret with Benito Mussolini on 6 February 1937 after the Italian military occupation of Ethiopia."

to

"Ras Seyoum Mengesha, Ras Ghetacciù Abaté, Ras Kebbedé Guebret and Benito Mussolini

? --BushelCandle (talk) 10:18, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

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GDP

user:KREOH, user:Li56741, instead of reverting each other until doomsday on this page, would you please start discussing the issue that you are haggling about? Landroving Linguist (talk) 07:18, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Please change BCE to BC.

Ethiopia is a Christian country, both majority wise, as well as historically. As such, its history page should also use the Christian terminology. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:810D:640:DB8:142A:697E:3468:35DA (talk) 17:06, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

In the Ethiopian Encyclopedia, you could maybe do that. Wikipedia in English is not an Ethiopian encyclopedia, and we use (or should use) what sources in English do. On top of that, Ethiopia is a less of a Christian country than many, with 34% Muslim. Mathglot (talk) 00:03, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
Actually, for a country with such a strong Christian tradition, it may not be the worse idea. Mathglot, I struggled to understand parts of your explanation, such as: "Wikipedia in English is not an Ethiopian encyclopedia" —what? El_C 00:21, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
I see the argument over and over again at country articles, "Please don’t say 'Foo' because that’s not the way we do it here in Slobovia." And I respond, it doesn’t matter what the official Slobovian position on this is; what matters is what the preponderance of reliable sources published in English have to say about it." This is another one of those. I should create a template for it, with params country and language to save time. If English sources use BCE then so should we. If it’s not clear, then MOS:ERA should pertain. Mathglot (talk) 00:41, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Intro

In the second paragraph:

The Ethiopian calendar, which is approximately seven years and three months behind the Gregorian calendar.

Great subject and subordinate clause (albeit without a citation), but where is the predicate?  Someone please help.  Thanks  —PowerPCG5 (talk) 21:11, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Copyright/plagiarism violation on WP or Amazon?

I wrote a long section highlighting the many, many overlaps between a photo book description on Amazon and the introduction section for this article, but WP ate it in a server error. I don't have the time to re-create that list here, but just made the coypypaste template live on the article, so I'm posting this quickly here to explain.

The entire intro appears to have been initially lifted completely from the book description, then expanded and slightly updated as needed. Nearly every sentence from the description on Amazon appears nearly unchanged here on Wikipedia.

One source is plagiarizing the other; I personally think it's easier to expand than summarize, so my inclination is that Wikipedia's page is the violator here.

I've tagged this article's intro section (not great, I know, but this really needs to be dealt with).

--Pinchme123 (talk) 15:55, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Other way around.--Moxy 🍁 16:26, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Official name in 5 major languages (collapsible list)

Native Names


  •  Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዴሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ 
     (yeʾĪtiyoṗṗya Fēdēralawī Dēmokirasīyawī Rīpebilīk)     




     Afar: ityoppiah federalih demokrasih ummuno 




     Oromo: Rippabliikii Federaalawaa Dimokraatawaa Itiyoophiyaa 




     Somali: Jamhuuriyadda Dimuqraadiga Federaalka Itoobiya 




     Tigrinya: ናይ ኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዴሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ 
     (nayi'ītiyop'iya fēdēralawī dēmokirasīyawī rīpebilīki)


— Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.5.215.225 (talk)

192.5.215.225, Ethiopia has two official languages. We usually use official languages not regional languages in the infobox.--SharʿabSalam▼ (talk) 18:39, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Amharic is the official working language of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Other regional Ethiopian languages "shall enjoy equal state recognition" (Article 5). [1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.5.215.225 (talk) 18:47, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Our article says that there are only two official languages. Languages that the government use for official documents.--SharʿabSalam▼ (talk) 18:51, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Read Article 5

There is only one official language at the National Level. That language is Amharic and it has always been a lingua france used for inter-ethnic communication with different groups that speak different native languages. Article 5 says that even though Amharic is the official language at the national level, sub-national regions can have their own regional languages for their respective jurisdictions. Again, Amharic is the official language at the national level, if we are going to add only official languages, Amharic should be the only one included not Affan Oromo. But the reasoning I had prior to this was to add the major languages spoken into the native name section because they are the native names of the country (if you would look at the infoboxes for other countries the same thing has been done).

But we need to set the record straight: Amharic is the only official language while other regional languages do exist.

Here is a quote from Article 5: "Article 5 Languages 1. All Ethiopian languages shall enjoy equal state recognition. 2. Amharic shall be the working language of the Federal Government. 3. Members of the Federation may by law determine their respective working languages. "[2] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.5.215.225 (talk) 19:06, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Read the constitution you wrote. Amharic is not national language and not recognised in many regions. It is only language of Federal government. Anyways, Oromo was declared to be language of Federal as Abiy posted on his facebook and other media broadcasted. Maammee (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 09:50, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

References

  1. ^ https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Hornet/Ethiopian_Constitution.html
  2. ^ https://www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/et/et007en.pdf

"Formation" section in infobox

I reverted a malformed edit by an IP editor to this section, but do feel like the section could be improved. Right now, we have the establishment of the Ethiopian Empire (listed as the [speculative] 1137 of the Zagwe dynasty), the invasion by Italy in 1936, and the re-establishment of sovereignty in 1941.

Possible changes include: using 1270 for the establishment of the Solomonid dynasty, not mentioning the Italian invasion, mentioning the Derg, and mentioning the post-Derg republic. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 21:44, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

I've switched the date for the Ethiopian Empire to 1270, as it's the date given on this article and on the linked Ethiopian Empire. As this section is meant to lay out when a country gained sovereignty, the conquest by the Italians and subsequent re-establishment seem quite key events. The Derg however is a change of government form within a sovereign state, it didn't really impact on the sovereignty. Similarly, the recent addition of Eritrea is undue. Eritrean independence did not affect Ethiopia's sovereignty, and Eritrea (as a whole unit give or take various border fluctuations) was only part of Ethiopia for 50 years of what is an 1000 year history. CMD (talk) 06:59, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

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Images and other non-text elements

Currently there are too many images and similar elements in this article (and the article itself is too long which suggests the issue is larger than it appears). They are causing formatting issues such as sandwiching, overflowing into subsequent sections, and leaving large areas of white space. Previously I removed the Share of World GDP table as it seems quite meaningless without other reference points (overall world GDP, direction of world GDP, direction of Ethiopian GDP, etc.) and is part of the large number of objects in the Economy section that currently don't fit into the subsections and push the objects in the demographics section down. Demographics has its own issue, opening with two tables one on each side of the central block of text. The Religion section is particularly overfull, with space for 0-1 images in addition to the pie chart (assuming pie chart is kept), but currently has 3 and creating a large blank area above the cities table. The Rural and urban life and Health subsections also need attention, as does the overall Culture section. I have no strong preferences as to what exactly is used, but given some images I have taken out were restored (and one to an even bigger size), I am interested what preferences other may have. Best, CMD (talk) 05:30, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

Let's try and take your points in order:
1) "too many" is highly subjective and begs the question: too many for what exactly? I appreciate that the modern trend, especially in North America, is for analysis to be truncated to the length of a tweet and many people now view Wikipedia on tiny mobile phone screens. However, I believe that we can cater both for the teachers in third world countries that may need a lengthier exposition and for those with the attention span of a typical Texan teenager. Personally I don't like Infoboxes since they are a source of edit warring and black or white judgements without the necessary nuanced analysis. However, they do mean that many of our readers never bother reading beyond them to find that there are too many informative images "and similar elements". Images (and other non-text elements such as tables) are often an important illustrative aid to understanding. When possible, please consider finding better images, placing them more appropriately and improving captions instead of simply removing them especially in articles like this one with relatively few visuals.
2) I'm sure that an erudite and experienced Wikipedian such as yourself realises that formatting is very fluid and depends on the width of your screen, it's textual enlargement level, fonts and font sizes chosen, and a few other user-chosen or user-definable factors. We try to cater for 2 broad classes of configuration by having "mobile" and "desktop" versions. It's a fact of life that the vast majority of of our readers won't have created a Wikipedia account and logged on to it, but, for those that do, they can set the default size of images according to their personal preferences and, with relative sizing, their view of a page may be greatly different to your own.
3) Sandwiching is generally a non issue if images are carefully placed and aligned as this edit of mine may demonstrate
4) Why exactly is "overflowing into subsequent sections" an issue ? I really fail to understand this. Can you provide some screenshots (of the subjective view of your own very special and individual configuration) that you think is problematic?
5) Expressed in bytes, this article is of a similar size to other country articles such as Australia (a country with less than one quarter the population and, arguably, a country that, over the last one and a half thousand years has had less influence on its neighbourhood) so why exactly do you think "the article itself is too long" ?
I'll deal with your other points when we've put to bed these first five.... , BushelCandle 07:10, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
1) Too many in terms of there being so many that they do not fit into the current article without causing sandwiching and/or significantly overflowing into subsequent sections.
2) The issues I mention are to do with the desktop view, of which I have default settings.
3) Sandwiching should be avoided per MOS:SANDWICH and MOS:ACCIM, the alternative in that mentioned edit of putting everything down the right side potentially causes overflow/WP:whitespace.
4) My configuration is not customised, although we should probably try to cater for a few different screen sizes. The issue with overflow is that when images overflow into subsequent sections, they move all of the images/tables etc. in those subsequent sections below the overflowing images. Even elements set to appear on the opposite side of the page are affected by this. For example, the Boeing 787-8 is pushing down the table in Demographics, and the mosque image is pushing down the street image which is in turn pushing down the Largest cities table creating whitespace.
5) This article has 96kB of prose, Australia only has 56 kB. Beyond 10,000 words/50kB is where articles should start to be condensed. CMD (talk) 11:23, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
What's an easy way to calculate the kilobytes of prose this article has CMD, please? --04:32, 4 September 2021 (UTC) BushelCandle

Excessive apostrophes with s

There are a lot of observable apostrophes with s in the article. Those are unnecessary otherwise should insert to appropriate context and may need cleanup. The Supermind (talk) 23:23, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

You are doubtlessly aware that <'s> is English's way of expressing genitive/possessive relations, next to the language's other way of using constructions with <of>. So, unless you point the other editors' attention to a relevant section in Wikipedia's Manual of Style, I cannot really see what your problem is. Are you trying to be prescriptivist? LandLing 06:48, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
I still observe in the article and it may affect the grammar and cohesion. You could alternatively use for possession. For example, you can use Ethiopian instead Ethiopia's. I also notice in Ethiopia-related articles as whole. The Supermind (talk) 15:01, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
All hail the The Supermind !
On the version of your user page current as I write this, you categorise your fluency in the English language as "intermediate" or "en-2". After reading the rest of what you have written on your user page, I would certainly agree with an assessment that your use of English is no higher than en-2 level.
Consequently, don't you think you should stop messing around with the prose of this article (and its grammar) ? Wouldn't it be better if instead you limited yourself to helpful edits within your competence such as facts and dates and citations and images and other elements that are not so dependent on a good command of English ?
Please don't let these comments above inhibit you from writing in broken English whatever you choose - but when others copy edit or rearrange or correct your tortured prose, please cogitate for a few more microseconds before you hit the revert button... --00:23, 3 September 2021 (UTC) BushelCandle
@BushelCandle: What do you mean? Please can you explain the above and concise your idea about my grammar style before blaming unwelcomely. Where do I made fault? The Supermind (talk) 07:39, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
I'm afraid I can't write in Amharic and I simply don't have the time to individually tutor you in English grammar and intelligible sentence constructions. Have you considered applying your talents to the Simple English version of Wikipedia that needs a great deal of updating at simple:Ethiopia ? --01:29, 5 September 2021 (UTC) BushelCandle
@The Supermind: please thread your posts and use incrementing indentation as shown in Help:Using talk pages § Indentation, to clearly indicate to whom you are replying, as with usual threaded discussions.
After you've learned more about talk page etiquette, please would you properly indent your recent posts on this page? --01:37, 5 September 2021 (UTC) BushelCandle

Removal of local language/script equivalents for Ethiopia from opening sentence

If we follow the advice at MOS:LEADSENTENCE and MOS:LEADLANG, we don't really need to include SIX local language equivalents (or, indeed, any at all) in the opening sentence of our article on Ethiopia. I think ALL of the current 6 local language equivalents should be removed (since they appear in the Infobox anyway).

Who disagrees ? --05:26, 5 September 2021 (UTC) BushelCandle

My proposal only relates to removing clutter from the first sentence of the lede (and not from anywhere else in our article) which, according to our policies, should be in plain English and not cluttered with parentheses and non-English scripts and languages except where absolutely vital. The current arrangement damages readability - particularly when readers of the destop version hover hover a Wikilink to Ethiopia.
Five of the six language versions (Geez seems to be identical to Amharic) will remain right at the top of the Infobox and visible if one clicks on the "show" (Name in national languages) prompt. --02:53, 6 September 2021 (UTC) BushelCandle

Removal of pronunciation guide for Ethiopia from opening sentence

Similarly, who disagrees that the pronunciation guide should also be removed from the first sentence if we are to follow the advice at MOS:LEADPRON ? --05:36, 5 September 2021 (UTC) BushelCandle

Intro deletion

@BushelCandle: An intro is opening sentence that briefly summerize the subject notability before going to the main paragraph, and is important form of encyclopedia. You're deleting the intro and retaining "the most populous landlocked country in the world", which is nonsense to the readers. In order to avoid repetition, you need to de-link the same words and put them away to appropriate section. But please do not remove the intro in case of repetition. Regards! The Supermind (talk) 22:22, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Recommendation: Please rewrite the subtle lede to clearest form. This lede is arguing us. The Supermind (talk) 22:34, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
Notability
General notability guideline
Subject-specific guidelines
See also
I'm not sure that I understand what you are banging on about, but I will take a guess.
Perhaps you are labouring under the delusion that the first sentence of every one of our articles (ie the first sentence of what you call "the intro" and I call the lede) must never be changed because that is the sentence that establishes the notability of the article.
That may well be a good idea for articles on minor boy bands or obscure video games but I can assure you that anyone proposing the deletion from the English Wikipedia of our Ethiopia article, one of the world's oldest and most populous countries, on the grounds that the first sentence does not establish satisfactorily our article's notability, would have less chance of succeeding with their deletion proposal than a snowball surviving a sojourn in hell.
Although you may have read somewhere, some text like "Wikipedia articles cover notable topics—those that have gained sufficiently significant attention by the world at large and over a period of time, and are not outside the scope of Wikipedia. We consider evidence from reliable and independent sources to gauge this attention", perhaps you missed similar text that states unequivocally that: The notability guideline does not determine the content of articles, but only whether the topic should have its own article ?
As a rough rule of thumb, may I suggest that articles in the English Wikipedia about very well known, major entities such as countries, languages, religions, seas and "Everyday words understood by most readers in context", are immune from any notion that their first sentence must always establish their notability and consequently remain immutable? --10:45, 3 September 2021 (UTC) BushelCandle

@BushelCandle: Fixed by rewriting the lede and puting "the most populous landlocked country" into Demographics section. The Supermind (talk) 23:02, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

I can't agree that you have "Fixed" our lede, but I can agree that no factoids should appear in the lede that do not appear in one of the main, body text sections - so, thanks for that! --10:45, 3 September 2021 (UTC) BushelCandle
@BushelCandle: Intro is an "introduction". See in intro. That make no difference with lede, but intended for referring the first sentence of paragraph/lede. Secondly as you say the "lede" is significant because without it, readers may confused and unable to easily understand what the subject talks about. For example, For Ethiopia: Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world. And...
Ethiopia is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. Compared to them, both are notable but removing the latter in the first sentence causes readers to speculate "where is the most populous landlocked country in the world?" and I hope you (or every Wikipedian) accept "Ethiopia is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa" first. Regarding the grammar and meaning issues, I will improve it soon because we are humans and humankind is able to evolve and learn progressively. Thank you for your recommendation. Cheers! The Supermind (talk) 21:19, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
I think I understand your point(s) now and I hope the changes I have recently made address them.
However, I do think that you are missing part of the point that the whole of the first part of the lede (and not just the first sentence) is the "intro" (in your terms) and most of our readers have an attention span and language ability that allows them to read past the very first sentence... --04:28, 4 September 2021 (UTC) BushelCandle
@BushelCandle: No, there is a problem in the lede. The previous version is plausible and the I still observe "most populous" repetition in the top. Please see MOS:SO and reconstruct the lede in appropriate section. Not only Ethiopia, but also there are the most populous landlocked country in Asia, such as Kazakhstan and replacing the introductory definition with this is non-significant. The Supermind (talk) 07:45, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
From reading your very informative user page I sympathise that you are handicapped by editing on a tiny mobile screen, but I think we are making incremental progress in reaching a consensual version of the lede.
Concentrating only on the prose, your most recent quibble changed
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, in the Horn of Africa, is the most populous landlocked country in the world.
to
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country in the Horn of Africa, and the most populous landlocked country in the world.
with an edit summary of "Rmv exact definition is nonsense".
Because some editors have already complained (with justification) that both the article and the lede are too long, I obviously have a preference for the first version above, but I'm certainly not going to edit war about a little bloat (& repetition of "country") and a less than elegant sentence complexity.
More substantively, I really don't think that your insistence in including "Horn of Africa" in the very first sentence of the lede is very important in understanding Ethiopia. To many of our readers, the "Horn of Africa" conjures up images of modern-day pirates marauding off a sweltering coast (whereas most of the most densely populated areas of Ethiopia are in the temperate highlands with not a beach umbrella in sight). Unlike some other geographical regions, being in the "Horn of Africa" does not really make Ethiopia eligible for any useful regional organisations or assist in understanding its predicaments or opportunities. I believe that Ethiopia's large (and rapidly growing) population and landlocked status are far more important to emphasise early on because these will increasingly define its future challenges.
Going forward, I really would appreciate it if you took a more collegial attitude to your editing of the English language version of Wikipedia and spent a great deal more time reading and trying to understand appropriate guidance such as Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section and less time spasm reverting on sight. Remember, be wary of cluttering the first sentence and making it difficult to actually read; this information can be placed elsewhere.
-- --01:09, 5 September 2021 (UTC) BushelCandle
@BushelCandle: I have accepted your idea and that's mandatory for all Wikipedians to reach consensus after editing warring is intense. We are collaborating together for knowledge using reliable sources as proof, and I'm totally disagreed with possessing article and insisting "my edit is right" without reaching consensus or rationale. For your concern, the "Horn of Africa" is not useful for "understanding its predicaments or opportunities". But replacing preliminary with "Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world"— is not addressing the identity description, such as geographical location. One reader may confused by asking "where?" and "what?" if he begins with the introductory. Wikipedia's goal in MOS is describing the article topic efficiently so that readers comfortably sense pleasant knowledge. Every countries' article listed in English Wikipedia, or others, and sister projects start with descriptive introductory sentence first. This answers "what is the subject?" and make attribute notability. The Supermind (talk) 08:35, 8 September 2021 (UTC)
It's clear to me from this most recent edit of yours here that you are either not bothering to read the hyperlinks I am giving you or you are failing to understand what is written at those hyperlinks.
(For example, I wrote to you 2 days ago: "@The Supermind: Please Thread your posts: Use indentation as shown in Help:Using talk pages § Indentation, to clearly indicate to whom you are replying, as with usual threaded discussions." and "After you've learned more about talk page etiquette, please would you properly indent your recent posts on this page?" and yet immediately above at 08:35, 8 September 2021 (UTC), you just preface your comment with your usual 2 colons instead of the needed 6 colons if you were to indent following that advice!) --09:11, 8 September 2021 (UTC) BushelCandle
@BushelCandle: OK, perhaps you are saying this type of comment... The Supermind (talk) 10:08, 8 September 2021 (UTC)
NO, NO, No! Either you still haven't read the advice at Help:Using talk pages § Indentation, or you haven't understood it, (or you refuse to comply).
Since my post immediately above this post had 7 preceding colons, your reply to me should have been incremented by one and had 8 preceding colons and not one less, or 6 as you quite wrongly used. It seems that it is quite literally a waste of my time discussing anything with you, Supermind or not, as you either don't have sufficient English to understand what I am writing (or our policies) or refuse point blank to comply. -- 11:08, 8 September 2021 (UTC) BushelCandle
@BushelCandle: Got it!, I admit this type of colon. In nutshell, you are saying if you're going by one colon, I would go by two depending step by step replies. Thanks for your explanation because I don't use it since starting my first discussion, and now I've learned about this type of Wikipedia's guideline. The Supermind (talk) 13:33, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

Ethiopian Empire liberation date controversy

In the article Ethiopian Empire, the empire restored on 5 May 1941, not 1942, and even Ethiopians celebrate The Patriots Day on May 5 – is evident for its liberation. Can someone else with history expert define why the empire restored in 1942. I'm not sure at. The Supermind (talk) 21:19, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

Haile Selassie returned to the throne on 5 May 1941, but the Anglo-Ethiopian Agreement was signed on 31 January 1942. I think it makes sense to have the 1941 date for the Ethiopian Empire article, since it regards the restoration of the monarchy (and, therefore, the empire), while 1942 makes sense for Ethiopia, since it regards the statehood of the country. Thiqq (talk) 22:07, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

Cite error

There is an undefined refname in the info box that is causing a cite error. The reference was removed in this edit, but the refname was still in use.


The first instance of:
<ref name="IMFWEOET"/>

should be replaced with:
<ref name="IMFWEOET">{{cite web|url=https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/weo-database/2020/October |title=World Economic Outlook Database, October 2020 |publisher=[[International Monetary Fund]] |website=IMF.org |access-date=1 December 2020}}</ref>


Thanks 89.241.33.89 (talk) 18:20, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for pointing out that error. Thiqq (talk) 18:35, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

Outdated economy paragraph in the lede section

Today Ethiopia may change economic and living standard status and the 2010 consensus may not satisfy with update. I suggest the lede section talking about economy should be rewritten, or updated. Please leave comment or help to improve the lede economy status of Ethiopia. I'd like to remove the whole paragraph starting from "In the 1970s and 1980s, the Ethiopian Civil War and communist purges hindered its economy but it has since recovered and, as of 2010, has the largest economy by GDP in East Africa." The Supermind (talk) 19:45, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 5 December 2021

173.183.161.26 (talk) 19:32, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

I would like to edit this site because there are old statistics in here. Some are not real

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 19:50, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Lead re-write

@Tbhotch:, you added a template saying "The lead section of this article may need to be rewritten". What specific changes did you have in mind? User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 00:14, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

@力: The lead looked like this then. It was completely unorganized, choppy and random. If anything, the article should summarize more the fourth paragraph. (CC) Tbhotch™ 00:56, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
@Tbhotch and 力: Some more changes have been made. What else needs to be done with the lede ? --04:02, 4 September 2021 (UTC) BushelCandle
力 is right because significant informations regarding its formation was removed or missing. I recently tried to improve it, but were totally reverted by Thiqq. Unlucky, they reverted my all typo in sections that were deemed uncomfortable to read such as excessive apostrophes. The Supermind (talk) 07:37, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

I think the lead is far too long. I would reduce it to the first paragraph. The history can be below. 2607:FEA8:FF01:79BF:B1D3:7F81:90D4:2E9B (talk) 11:55, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

I certainly agree. However, I think the first paragraph alone isn't sufficient. I would suggest that the second, third, and fourth paragraphs be condensed into a much shorter overview of Ethiopia's history, reducing the lead to four paragraphs overall. Thiqq (talk) 14:31, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

The lede is not readable. Many sentences are nonsensical. There are too many grammatical errors to list. The sources don't support the sentences. How did this get accepted at Wikipedia? MBUSHIstory (talk) 02:18, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Mobile data GPRS network

iPhone 6 196.191.48.183 (talk) 11:36, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Please specify what changes shall be measured in this article. The Supermind (talk) 21:13, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

Poor English

Grammatical errors in the subsection "Zagwe dynasty and Ethiopian Empire (900–1500s)" impede easy comprehension. 24.42.141.194 (talk) 18:45, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Also applies to subsection "Abyssinian-Adal war (1529–1543)"

Regretably I don't know enough about Ethiopian history to propose an edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.42.141.194 (talk) 18:51, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Disruptive behaviour

@The Supermind: I'm not the clean up crew for your errors and unsourced pov push! [[15]], you added the a journal [16] which doesn't support the entire mid section of the first one. before it, and putting bernld on top of first section in the first section [17] does not support the majority of text you made up.

Your wording of Oromo imperialism in the second section is not supported by the Berndl source, please stop misusing sources.

I also made the source quickly available by adding the webarchived one, reverting to your haphazard sourcing is unacceptable. Dawit S Gondaria (talk) 07:52, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

@Dawit S Gondaria:, you're acting out of WP:BRD, by removing reliable source from section including Bruce source, and instead you're obligated assuming faith with correcting the perceived pov push not removing the reliable source. Please do that. I would like to delete "Since the Portuguese peaked its diplomatic influence on Ethiopia,[114] several attempts were missioned to convert or reduce influence of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church state administration to Roman Catholic Church since 13th century. Trials to maintain adhesion to Holy See failed for the sake of scrupulous national and religious ties loyal to the Coptic party and their Miaphysite doctrine, and link between political and religious struggles. In 16th century, the Ethiopian rulers allowed Jesuits to proselytize in their empire.[115]" but not the latter part because you're looking for this paragraph and consider it full of POV. The Supermind (talk) 10:13, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
@The Supermind: We will talk at the ANI about you're accusation of me breaching WP:BRD, your content was reverted first, i iniated the conversation first, you reverted your crap time and time again, i argue you're the one breaching WP:BRD. Dawit S Gondaria (talk) 22:47, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
@Dawit S Gondaria: Good! I'm not forwarding for your threatening me but if you challenge me by removing reliable source, I will soon report to admin to settle your behavior and personal attacks. You're out of policy of BRD, which states that anyone (users) can/have right to revert with good rationale. But you're action goes beyond of it. Please here we're serving as a contributor nor feuding each contribution of us. The Supermind (talk) 05:32, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
@The Supermind: You have been caught vandalizing the article by making edits/claims/storytelling that was not supported by the sources you introduced, and then you kept reverting to it, where else did you think it was going to go? I have zero faith in your edits, you recently included a source footnote with [1] please include the name of the book/ISBN as well, as much as possible Dawit S Gondaria (talk) 06:35, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 February 2022

please revisit Etymology of the Word ETHIOPIA, the attached resource has misinterpreted the word (Αἰθίοψ) The Greek name Aithiopia (Αἰθιοπία, from Αἰθίοψ, Aithíops, 'an Ethiopian') is a compound derived of two Greek words: [αἴθω], aíthō, 'fire, light, burn' + [ὤψ], ṓps, 'to the eye'. This designation properly translates to "light to the eye" and not "burnt face". Yohannes shibru (talk) 05:00, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Ue3lman (talk) 18:45, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

March 2022

Hello @Shirshore:,

I manually reverted your recent edit since, again like your recent edit in Djibouti, it was quite frankly unnecessary and disruptive. I've copied an efn tag from the Djibouti article, which clearly explains the situation. Gebagebo (talk) 23:51, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

@Gebagebo: If it is “necessary” or not is a POV argument. According to its government, Djibouti borders Somalia and not Somaliland as a country. This should suffice but you think this should be substantiated more — a plethora of reliable publications are available. I would advise you to please resist reverting an edit before engaging on the talk page unless the edit clearly violates Wikipedia guidelines. Shirshore (talk) 00:03, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Considering that Somaliland is not a sovereign state and it is not recognized by anyone outside Somaliland, you should be aware of Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Horn of Africa. (CC) Tbhotch™ 01:07, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
@Ue3lman:, this also applies to you. (CC) Tbhotch™ 01:16, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
  1. ^ Bruce, p. 287
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