User talk:Deananoby2
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[edit] License tagging for Image:374955346 m.jpg
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Please refrain from adding nonsense to Wikipedia, as you did to Talk:Ashkenazi Jews. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. -- Avi 20:30, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Gnaa, Nigeria
If you get the chance, can you look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gnaa, Nigeria (2nd nomination). --A. B. 22:18, 19 July 2006 (UTC) (PS I'm off to Nigeria in 2 weeks -- never been before).
- Why do you wanna delete the page???Deananoby2 01:50, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
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- The question is whether or not the town exists and if it does is it notable? The concern is that it may be a hoax perpetrated by the other GNAA, the Gay Niggers Association of America (they issue press releases datelined Gnaa, Nigeria).
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- The AfD I mentioned was closed but a new one has been opened at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gnaa, Nigeria (3rd nomination). I understand you're Nigerian, if you get the chance (and if you're interested), can you maybe take a look and render an opinion pro or con? Or at least point us toward some reliable sources on this town? Thanks, --A. B. 01:02, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Genetics vs. Climate
Copied over from Talk:Albinism#white ppl:
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- Well if it was about the equator at all than how come eskimos are darker than USA native americans? and how come Sami ppl are darker than germans? — Deananoby2 (Talk | contribs)
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- Inuit and other so-called eskimos do not appear to me to be darker than their more southerly North American counterparts. I live in Canada and there are many Native people around, who are about the same complexion as the Navajo and other Pueblo Indians I grew up around in New Mexico. The Saami people are not of Indo-European stock for the most part; naturally they are darker than the western branch of the Indo-Europeans (who aside from some of the Japanese are the palest population in the world) - it's kind of tautological, otherwise the Saami would be palest and this original thread would be about Saami people instead of Indo-Europeans ("white people"). :-) Anyway, as I wrote above, genetic predisposition for a particular range of skin tones is going to FAR outweigh climatic forces, which only operate on the slow, evolutionary-level time scale. That is, climate had a very long slow effect on the evolution of melanin-rich skin in the heat belt of the planet, and lack thereof in the Ice Age north. Presumably the unknown ancient ancestors of the Saami were considerably darker than the Asian ancestor of the Europeans of the same time period, and simply not enough time has passed for climate to evolve the Saami to be any paler than they already are (or perhaps their skin hue genes are linked to other genes that provide traits more important in their natural selection than not wasting bodily resources producing unneeded pigment, which is probably a pretty minor evolutionary force, really). I don't think this discussion should continue any further on the Albinism talk page, though - there's no evidence that the Saami are descended from albinos either! There are a lot of other articles more appropriate. PS: Please sign your Talk page posts (just add ~~~~ (four tildes in a row) to the end of your post. Otherwise its difficult to keep track of who is talking to whom. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 19:15, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Image:S guards.jpg
please don't upload unsourced images, and please don't tag them with bogus templates. Your image has no source whatsoever, but I don't think it can be argued to depict a unit of currency. Maye this was an accident, bu if you should repeat such apparent bad-faith tagging, you may be blocked for vandalism: it is rather difficult to discover such things, so please don't do it. dab (ᛏ) 12:57, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Vandalism
Hi, never do this again or you will get blocked. -- Aka 16:03, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Greetings
Greetings from a fellow Nigerian Wikipedian too. I just need to tell you that you may add this to your profile: {{User Nigerian}} -- This template will show that you're a Nigerian. Well, holla back if you feel like it. - Qasamaan
[edit] Personal Attack
Please refrain from discussing changes in the way you did here. You will be blocked if you continue in this manner. --Thaddius 04:04, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
- You seriously gotta start signing your posts. Please don't post on my talk page. I was merely delivering a warning because you personally attacked someone. There are mods floating around everywhere, one even managed to put an unsigned template on my talk page soon after you posted. To sign your posts you put four tildes (~) after your post. It will put your username, the date and time that you posted. Thanks. --Thaddius 04:24, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
