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Kwara State has one of the world most mysterious occurence where a whole village and its residence was turned into a stone, if you have been to Esie village before you can testify to the story, over 1500 stone images of human beings and animals are on display since 1775 when they were first discovered, if you have been there before please we need pictures or share your experience with us. Thanks, Akinfemiwa Aliu. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.37.178.117 ( talk • contribs) 23:00, 21 January 2007
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Kwara which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — RMCD bot 17:00, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: No consensus after over a month of discussion. Cúchullain t/ c 16:28, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
Kwara →
Kwara State – It was fine to move the disambiguation page from Kwara to
Kwara (disambiguation), but the article on the state in Nigeria should go back to
Kwara State as that is its name, see official website
http://www.kwarastate.gov.ng .
Kwara should redirect to
Kwara State as the primary meaning. –
Fayenatic
L
ondon 20:58, 27 October 2015 (UTC) --Relisted.
Armbrust
The Homunculus
01:03, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
The article Kwarans is categorised in ethnic groups, but provides no evidence that Kwarans have a distinct ethnic identity. Even the citation given for a Muslim majority does not support that statement. I have merged the list of notable people here, and the section on population. The page should now be redirected here. – Fayenatic L ondon 14:00, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
Oppose First off, the article was wrongly categorized as ethnic group in Nigeria which is an aberration. It is illogical for anyone to imagine that Kwarans have a distinct identity. I'm not aware of the categorization. Pinging
Eruditescholar who categorized the artcle. Eruditescholar why do you think Kwaran is an ethnic group in Nigeria? Kwaran do not have a distinct ethnic identity as far as I know. Kwarans are people identified with
Kwara just as
Canadians are people identified with
Canada and
Lagosians as people identified with
Lagos. We usually do not merge pages like this.
Wikic¤l¤gy
t@lk to M£
14:27, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved – WP:SNOW close by page mover, considering citations and established Nigerian usage + recent consensus on all other states — JFG talk 11:35, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
Kwara →
Kwara State – As with all Nigerian states, the form "XYZ State" is more common.
The bold move from "Kwara State" to the US-style "Kwara" on 14 October 2015 after an obscure discussion at Talk:Kwara (disambiguation) was incorrect. A request to move back to the stable title on 27 October 2015 did not reach consensus either way, but was closed incorrectly as confirming the bold move. According to Wikipedia:Article titles#Considering title changes, " If an article title has been stable for a long time, and there is no good reason to change it, it should not be changed." There was no consensus, so the 27 October 2015 result should have been to return to the long-standing title.
Evidence that common usage is "Kwara State" is given by the first page of a search for kwara in Google News Archive [8] which (ignoring the telegraphic headlines) gives:
These are all the results on the first page, no cherry picking. A search for kwara in Google Books [9] gives the following on the first page:
These are all the results on the first page, no cherry picking. It is clear that "Kwara State" is the common name. The relevant guidelines is Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names), which says "By following modern English usage, we also avoid arguments about what a place ought to be called, instead asking the less contentious question, what it is called." In this case, it is called "Kwara State". After moves, discussions and and moves back, 35 out of 36 articles on Nigerian states now again have the standard Nigerian form "XYZ State". There is no justification for a US-style title for this one state. Aymatth2 ( talk) 13:08, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
Hello @ BlueGreenWhite:
I don't know what you're upto reverting edits, just for the sake of it; but you should realize Wikipedia is a community, not a one-man show. If your edits are being reverted, the proper way is to discuss, before making further edits.
Due to an ongoing 'debate' on Twitter and some other social nedia platforms, this page has been targeted for vandalism. I will keep its edits on watch TEK1 ( talk) 18:27, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
Kindly add these people and correct where necessary 105.112.160.106 ( talk) 16:05, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
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![]() | This article is written in Nigerian English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, realize, travelled, centre) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus. |
Kwara State has one of the world most mysterious occurence where a whole village and its residence was turned into a stone, if you have been to Esie village before you can testify to the story, over 1500 stone images of human beings and animals are on display since 1775 when they were first discovered, if you have been there before please we need pictures or share your experience with us. Thanks, Akinfemiwa Aliu. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.37.178.117 ( talk • contribs) 23:00, 21 January 2007
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Kwara which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — RMCD bot 17:00, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: No consensus after over a month of discussion. Cúchullain t/ c 16:28, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
Kwara →
Kwara State – It was fine to move the disambiguation page from Kwara to
Kwara (disambiguation), but the article on the state in Nigeria should go back to
Kwara State as that is its name, see official website
http://www.kwarastate.gov.ng .
Kwara should redirect to
Kwara State as the primary meaning. –
Fayenatic
L
ondon 20:58, 27 October 2015 (UTC) --Relisted.
Armbrust
The Homunculus
01:03, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
The article Kwarans is categorised in ethnic groups, but provides no evidence that Kwarans have a distinct ethnic identity. Even the citation given for a Muslim majority does not support that statement. I have merged the list of notable people here, and the section on population. The page should now be redirected here. – Fayenatic L ondon 14:00, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
Oppose First off, the article was wrongly categorized as ethnic group in Nigeria which is an aberration. It is illogical for anyone to imagine that Kwarans have a distinct identity. I'm not aware of the categorization. Pinging
Eruditescholar who categorized the artcle. Eruditescholar why do you think Kwaran is an ethnic group in Nigeria? Kwaran do not have a distinct ethnic identity as far as I know. Kwarans are people identified with
Kwara just as
Canadians are people identified with
Canada and
Lagosians as people identified with
Lagos. We usually do not merge pages like this.
Wikic¤l¤gy
t@lk to M£
14:27, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved – WP:SNOW close by page mover, considering citations and established Nigerian usage + recent consensus on all other states — JFG talk 11:35, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
Kwara →
Kwara State – As with all Nigerian states, the form "XYZ State" is more common.
The bold move from "Kwara State" to the US-style "Kwara" on 14 October 2015 after an obscure discussion at Talk:Kwara (disambiguation) was incorrect. A request to move back to the stable title on 27 October 2015 did not reach consensus either way, but was closed incorrectly as confirming the bold move. According to Wikipedia:Article titles#Considering title changes, " If an article title has been stable for a long time, and there is no good reason to change it, it should not be changed." There was no consensus, so the 27 October 2015 result should have been to return to the long-standing title.
Evidence that common usage is "Kwara State" is given by the first page of a search for kwara in Google News Archive [8] which (ignoring the telegraphic headlines) gives:
These are all the results on the first page, no cherry picking. A search for kwara in Google Books [9] gives the following on the first page:
These are all the results on the first page, no cherry picking. It is clear that "Kwara State" is the common name. The relevant guidelines is Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names), which says "By following modern English usage, we also avoid arguments about what a place ought to be called, instead asking the less contentious question, what it is called." In this case, it is called "Kwara State". After moves, discussions and and moves back, 35 out of 36 articles on Nigerian states now again have the standard Nigerian form "XYZ State". There is no justification for a US-style title for this one state. Aymatth2 ( talk) 13:08, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
Hello @ BlueGreenWhite:
I don't know what you're upto reverting edits, just for the sake of it; but you should realize Wikipedia is a community, not a one-man show. If your edits are being reverted, the proper way is to discuss, before making further edits.
Due to an ongoing 'debate' on Twitter and some other social nedia platforms, this page has been targeted for vandalism. I will keep its edits on watch TEK1 ( talk) 18:27, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
Kindly add these people and correct where necessary 105.112.160.106 ( talk) 16:05, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for speedy deletion:
You can see the reason for deletion at the file description page linked above. — Community Tech bot ( talk) 16:23, 24 August 2022 (UTC)