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Hello, Mightymights.

Thanks for your edits, which are clearly made in good faith and are generally constructive.

However, you have the habit of changing content in articles, such as numbers, without making any change to the sources, as you did here. Often, the numbers you change are already sourced, so even if newer figures exist, you have to cite a newer source or keep the old content. That's per the verification policy.

Thanks. SamEV (talk) 00:49, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

July 2011

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize pages by deliberately introducing incorrect information, as you did at Islam in Nigeria, you may be blocked from editing. Are we doing this AGAIN? You've added that Muslims make up %45 of Nigerians. Except that the source you gave doesn't say this. It says %45 of respondents to a survey were Muslim. It is, in fact very clear about that. So why do you continually revise downward Muslim population figures from countries around the world? And why do you cite sources (long pdfs with no page number given) that do not support your numbers? T L Miles (talk) 08:20, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please see this page : http://pewforum.org/future-of-the-global-muslim-population-nigeria.aspx The 2003 Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS), estimated that Muslims made up 50.4% of Nigeria’s population. But the results of the 2008 Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey, which were made public after the release of the Pew Forum’s 2009 report, contradicted the 2003 NDHS, saying Muslims accounted for 45% of the population. Mightymights (talk) 10:23, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize pages by deliberately introducing incorrect information, as you did at Islam in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, you may be blocked from editing. You wrote that the source said 1.5% of the DRC population is Muslim, when the actual figure, which you removed, was over 10%. The source you cited, a 500+ page pdf for which you gave no citation page, CLEARLY says (pp. 25, 27, 381, 458) this was the percent of RESPONDENTS TO A SURVEY, not the percent of actual population. T L Miles (talk) 08:31, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

«the actual figure, which you removed, was over 10%» This actual figure is also the percent of respondents to a survey (outdated). Same as Nigeria (see above). Mightymights (talk) 10:15, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Religion in Africa, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Same misrepresented source for Congo T L Miles (talk) 08:41, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Same issue with [1]. Also a great deal of removal of stats for different Christian groups, consolidating them in to a single percent of population for comparison -- more favorable -- with Islam and other religious groups. T L Miles (talk) 08:59, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
You must understand that we will never know exactly what is the percent of actual population that is muslim or christian, since there aren't religious censuses in nigeria or dr congo. That's why we use the percent of respondents to a survey. Mightymights (talk) 10:28, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
As would be clear if you pointed to the actual place in the text, these are explicitly surveys of health and other social problems. They are not, nor do these sources attempt to argue, demographic samples or an attempt to extrapolate national census data, let alone religion. Hence the dramatically lower percent of responders who are Muslim. The sources you cite are explicit on these points.
So are you simply misunderstanding the sources you are using? For example, the page from which you draw religion % in the Nigerian example, is titled "Table 3.1 Background characteristics of respondents. Percent distribution of women and men age 15-49 by selected background characteristics, Nigeria 2008." On page XXV, the FIRST PARAGRAPH OF THE FIRST PAGE OF THE SUMMARY reads "The 2008 Nigeria Demographic Health Sur- vey (NDHS) is a nationally representative survey of 33,385 women age 15-49 and 15,486 men age 15-59. The 2008 NDHS is the fourth comprehen- sive survey conducted in Nigeria as part of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) pro- gramme. The data are intended to furnish pro- gramme managers and policymakers with de- tailed information on levels and trends in fertil- ity; nuptiality; sexual activity; fertility prefer- ences; awareness and use of family planning methods; infants and young children feeding practices; nutritional status of mothers and young children; early childhood mortality and maternal mortality; maternal and child health; and aware- ness and behaviour regarding HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections. Addition- ally, the 2008 NDHS collected information on malaria prevention and treatment, neglected tropical diseases, domestic violence, fistulae, and female genital cutting (FGC)." Did you not read this? Or the heading of the table from which you drew these figures? Why did you not go to similar effort to find limited surveys with smaller christian pools of survey respondents.
While I am attempting to give you the benefit of the doubt here; the repeated, continual, large scale misquotation of religious statistical data over a series of months and often marked "Minor" strains credulity.
The example from the Congo is equally explicit.
So did you not read the sources you've cited to provide dramatically low revisions of non-christian population? And why do your edits regarding religious demographics consistently lower the percentage of Muslim populations? Why, when you first did this in many national articles in May, did you cite lower percentage figures that were not in any form in the references you cited?
Assuming this is just a consistent, long term pattern of errors on your part, perhaps you should not be editing these articles. At very least you need to cite specific pages of huge pdfs you link to -- but do not read -- so that editors do not have to stay up all night reading book length multi-lingual health survey documents to correct your figures. T L Miles (talk) 18:18, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]


I am not going to get in an edit war with you, but the statistics you cite are clearly not borne out in the sources you cite. I don't have time to police you dozens of revisions (all downward and unsupported) of Muslim population from nations and regions across the globe. I am referring this to other editors to deal with. T L Miles (talk) 18:26, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Please see Wikipedia:ECCN. T L Miles (talk) 18:50, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

FINA

Hey, i talked with other editiors about the template use and it should just be used in the main article. It does not link to the waterpolo, or other events directly. So what can we do? Create a template with Waterolo at ____ World Aquatics Championships and then link to the specific page. Because right now it does not make sense to have it in every subarticle... Kante4 (talk) 14:46, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it's a good idea to have a specific template for each sport. Mightymights (talk) 15:17, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Water polo and syn swimming added, other will follow. Kante4 (talk) 20:54, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Added all. Kante4 (talk) 22:12, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you ! Mightymights (talk) 22:22, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

MEANING

Hello, what Please add references to the article because Wikipedia articles must not contain original research means THANK U, 99.230.42.252 (talk) 17:30, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Ancient Roman religion

You are invited to discuss your recent change to this template. The image you chose is the main image for the Roman mythology article, and should not be used for the religion template, because it should not confuse religion and mythology. I agree that the image of the Mysteries is not the best choice either, since it would be better to illustrate Rome's traditional religious practice and not the imported (but very popular!) mysteries. Therefore I've replaced the mythological scene with Marcus Aurelius conducting a sacrifice in front of the Temple of Jupiter. Cynwolfe (talk) 18:39, 28 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I like the new image. It's a good addition. Mightymights (talk) 20:06, 28 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oh good. I was in a bit of an unrelated cranky mood when I left the message, which now sounds snippy to me. Thanks for not over-reading it. Cynwolfe (talk) 22:58, 28 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Borders on the North American Union map

Hey there, sorry for the delay, I don't really check my Wikipedia account that much anymore, regarding the map, when I made it I remember that I left the borderlines on because it was illustrating the North American Region, not the hypothetical union (like the EU) that's why I thought the 3 countries should be clearly separated.

Anyway if you wish to create a new map (based on that one) showing the whole area without the borderlines please feel free to do so, you can make it using Inkscape, it is really easy to use there are a whole bunch of tutorials on Youtube, cheers. Supaman89 (talk) 03:01, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summaries

Please use the edit summary box to explain your edits, especially when deleting content or tags.   Will Beback  talk  22:57, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Islam in congo

Please do not just remove my edit. I used a highly cited source of info that says islam in congo is 10%. There is a big difference between 1.5 and 10%. So obviously you should not just remove 1 value that is much higher for no good reason.Artefactual (talk) 11:28, 27 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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"List of cities in Michigan by population"

Could you move "List of cities in Michigan by population" back to "List of municipalities in Michigan (by population)"? The original title was more correct for while townships are municipalities, in Michigan, they are not incorporated cities. The original title was more correct, and "cities" should redirect to "municipalities", not the other way around. Please correct this. Thanks. --Criticalthinker (talk) 00:46, 31 December 2011 (UTC)  Done Mightymights (talk) 10:36, 31 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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DRC Provinces, current and proposed

We have been working in parallel. I have merged most of the "proposed province" articles into the "district" articles, seeing no reason for two articles about the same physical place. But you have been removing notes on the proposed new provinces from the existing province articles. I think that is wrong - the splits remain a possibility, perhaps remote but relevant and sourced. I have also put back a couple of lists of towns in a given province, expanding them a bit to add the districts and territories, and expect to do more. The lists seem relevant to the articles on provinces. I do not have a problem with some overlap or repetition. Comments? Aymatth2 (talk) 01:24, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the DRC province articles are badly lacking information of any type, including geography, economy, history, demographics, politics, communications etc. Perhaps these aspects will be what most readers are interested in. But a list of the main communities, similar to Crete#Cities or North Yorkshire#Towns and villages but sortable, is relevant and will be of interest to some readers. Some may want to see how large their town is compared to others in the region, for example. There is also value to editors, since the redlinks indicate missing topics. Of particular interest to me is the link map of all coordinates from Google generated by the GeoGroupTemplate, appearing below the infobox in an article like Bas-Congo. This shows the locations of the listed communities, and also shows places like Kwilu-Ngongo and Kolo Fuma that Google sees as significant but that are not in the list. I find this useful. Aymatth2 (talk) 17:28, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I've noticed in checking new pages that most of the articles have no references whatsoever, nor even any geographic coordinates. This is not helpful. Even the shortest stub must have some information of this sort. If you are writing the articles, you must be adding it from some list or source, and have the information readily available; so please add the references -- and if possible the coordinates-- at the very first edit, because it will be much harder for anyone to do so later. DGG ( talk ) 01:55, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Vandalism of Population of Territories

I am not a vandal. For the article of population of territories around the world, I conducted some research of the population of Yemen on the U.S. Department website. The State department reported an estimate of 25,130,000. If you think I conducted a form of vandalism I had no intention of doing so. Ultimate7522 (talk) 21:37, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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