Talk:Paul Biya: Difference between revisions

Content deleted Content added

Inline

Latest revision as of 12:00, 9 November 2024

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Paul Biya article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

The subject of this article is controversial and content may be in dispute. When updating the article, be bold, but not reckless. Feel free to try to improve the article, but don't take it personally if your changes are reversed; instead, come here to the talk page to discuss them. Content must be written from a neutral point of view. Include citations when adding content and consider tagging or removing unsourced information.

This page is not a forum for general discussion about Paul Biya. Any such comments may be removed or refactored. Please limit discussion to improvement of this article. You may wish to ask factual questions about Paul Biya at the Reference desk.

This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.

This page is about a politician who is running for office or has recently run for office, is in office and campaigning for re-election, or is involved in some current political conflict or controversy. For that reason, this article is at increased risk of biased editing, talk-page trolling, and simple vandalism.

If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.

Biography: Politics and Government

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography
	This article is supported by the politics and government work group (assessed as Low-importance).

Africa: Cameroon Top‑importance

	Africa portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Africa, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Africa on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.AfricaWikipedia:WikiProject AfricaTemplate:WikiProject AfricaAfrica
Top	This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale.
	Cameroon portal This article is supported by WikiProject Cameroon (assessed as Top-importance).

Recent additions

The new additions are sourced, so I'm reluctant to remove them, but I have temporarily tagged the article as being in violation of Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View Policy. I'll try to bring the prose in line with this policy sometime soon. -- BrianSmithson 02:22, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Removed current events info

Per WP:BLP, all material in an article about a living person must have references. I've removed some material on these grounds until such references are provided. — Dulcem (talk) 12:52, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rosicrucians

There have been claims and allegations that Biya is tied to the Rosicrucians. I have found a source mentioning this claim in an article by Le Monde diplomatique. [1] I cannot confirm this rumour, but it would be helpful if anyone could debunk it, either confirming it or deying it. ADM (talk) 23:02, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Franck

Some sources say that Franck is Paul's son with another woman; some sources say Franck is Jeanne-Irène's son with another man, cos they could not have a child (she had a miscarriage once or twice). Have U got any information bout it? V1^t 21:41, 1 July 2009

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 4 external links on Paul Biya. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}).

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 17:24, 9 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 3 external links on Paul Biya. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 06:00, 4 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
+{{Talk header}}
-{{WikiProject Biography
+{{Controversial}}
-|class=C
+{{Not a forum}}
-|living=yes
+{{WikiProject banner shell|blp=activepol|class=C|vital=yes|listas=Biya, Paul|1=
-|politician-work-group=yes
+{{WikiProject Biography|politician-work-group=yes|politician-priority=low}}
-|listas=Biya, Paul
+{{WikiProject Africa|importance=Top|Cameroon=yes|Cameroon-importance=Top}}
 }}
+{{Annual readership}}
-{{WikiProject Africa|class=C|importance=Top|Cameroon=yes|Cameroon-importance=Top}}
-{{Vital article|level=5|topic=People|subpage=Politicians|class=Start}}
-==[Untitled]==
-Hello I'm I fellow Cameroonian who has a few things that I'd like to address and let people know about Mr. Paul Biya. I'm an Anglophone and yes I do believe that Paul Biya is a strongman he doesn’t care about our country he only cares about him self and HIS money. Cameroon used to be a very beautiful place VERY beautiful in he became president. And it upset me greatly to hear my parents talk about how it was so beautiful and I not getting a chance to see my country, as it was when Paul Biya wasn’t president. Recently he has made the citizens of Cameroon do a tax I believe it was which isn’t really necessary it's just taking up money that the citizens don’t have because he's taken everything away. He's a fake and hopefully within a couple of years when he dies we will have a fresh start with a new person in charge. Every time he visits America we've come up with un expensive ways that we can help the improvement of Cameroon with all of the technology and computers that we have hear in America for instance radio stations and so forth. I may even blame we the people as well because when he come we don’t present him with ideas we try and get him to improve our villages and family which is unrealistic when we can present him with bigger ideas which cost less and will benefit more people.
-Hopefully with time and patience our once beautiful country wont be a memory but a reality.
---[[User:70.248.169.229|70.248.169.229]] 23:08, 29 July 2005 (UTC) Anonymous Cameroonian
-== Response to the fellow Cameroonian ==
-My Dear fellow,
-There is no Anglophone in Cameroon. Cameroon is a mixte of more than two hundred tribal groups such as Bakwedi, Bakossi, Beti, Bakoko, Bassa, Grassfield and so one. Our country accepts by the constitution to use both french and English to connect itself with the International communities. You can not describe yourself as an "Anglophone". It not a shame to say that you are from Bakwedi or Duala. Before Western European Countries such are UK and French come to our country, our ethnic groups exist. Is it because you speak the english language that you define yourself as an "Anglophone"? What mean an Anglophone in the Cameroonian context? I am from Bakoko, and Iam proud of that. I speak Bakoko, Duala, Bankon, Bassa, Ewondo, English and French. For you because I'm Bakoko, how are you described me? My kids are raised in USA and they speack only English and some few words in Bakoko, How are you described them? Be proud to be a Cameroonian, a beautiful contry, don't accept acculturation or division created by colonialism. We don't really need that to build our country. Together we can do better and more!
 == Recent additions ==
@@ Line 32: / Line 22: @@
 Some sources say that Franck is Paul's son with another woman; some sources say Franck is Jeanne-Irène's son with another man, cos they could not have a child (she had a miscarriage once or twice). Have U got any information bout it? [[User:Vuvar1|V1]]<sup>[[User_talk:Vuvar1|t]]</sup> 21:41, 1 July 2009
-forget about Mr Biya's personal life but that of the nation,have u heard about huge somes of money disappearing from state coffers?the self made economic crisis and untold hardship
-== OT ==
-Hello, I am a Cameroonian and proud to be.The problem with this country is us.There is a lot of hypocracy in our nation.The same people who criticize the government in hiding are the same ones who publicly praise the government of president Biya.If we Cameroonians are true patriots of our country we should be able to stand up firm to the wrongs of our president and nation even to the extend of gun point.Critically examining countries like the united states before they had to attain the level to which they are now there was a lot of sacrifices that were made(Martin luther King,Malcom X etc),who fought for the rights of the people.But here in Cameroon and Africa as a whole a lot of patriotism is sold out for money which would not last long.We really need to examine this nation and keep aside the differences of being Anglophones and Francophones because Barrack Obama rules the United States as a the president of the united states and not as a black so being a Francophone or an Anglophone does not determine the ruler rather the zeal to rule the people.People need to stand up for what the believe.I am sure and certain that someday the change we need will come and also to stay.
-God Bless CAMEROON  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/41.204.79.86|41.204.79.86]] ([[User talk:41.204.79.86|talk]]) 11:29, 3 July 2009 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
-Paul Biya wasn't born in Njinikom, I WAS BORN THERE.  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/82.169.21.160|82.169.21.160]] ([[User talk:82.169.21.160|talk]]) 17:48, 1 October 2010 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
 == External links modified ==