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For dedicated editors of this page: The "Related Groups" info was removed from all {{ Infobox Ethnic group}} infoboxes. Comments may be left on the Ethnic groups talk page. Ling.Nut 23:21, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed the following on the Wolof disambiguation page:
As a native English speaker I found this interesting, having always pronounced the name as something like "wall-off" or "whoa-loaf" (heh) or something. It sounds to me like the description in the quote is describing something more along the lines of /'wəlɔf/. Does that look about right? I'd like to add the pronunciation to the article at the beginning, because I imagine many others mispronounce the word as well. -- babbage 20:27, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
Well, I don't see a "French Boy" on the French page (wearing a baret and eating a baguette perhaps...) . Is this supposed to teach us what they look like, like in some 18th century anthropological-colonial manuscript? Wouldn't it be better to fight that White-Middle Class-Western bias of Main English Wikipedia by showing a map of the land or something? 89.0.34.12 ( talk) 15:16, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
@tamsier would you please stop the major distorsions of the wolof history YOUR MAKIN !!! to promote the sere culture who doesnt need it since its a great culture , but there is major biais in most of your articles because it can be seen from 10 miles a way that your subjective im an african history graduate and i take offense that your trying to reapropriate the glory of the wolof kingdoms its totally unscientific.<
its a fact that the wolof from a tekrouri background did mix with serere, fulani ,mandika and moors but they are defenetly and for at least a 1000 years an homogenous group , and we would appreciate that you respect that fact thank you . — Preceding
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23:24, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Tamsier
(Oops not sign on. Never mind). — Preceding
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21:30, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
I've removed the statement "Note however that, this figure is somewhat misleading because other tribes who have been Wolofized and speak the Wolof language are added to this figure while they are not originally Wolofs". This is not what the original source says and it reflects (besides a pro-Serer and anti-Wolf editor's pov) a misunderstanding of the mutability of ethnic identification in this region. The actual source can be found at [1] and is worth reading. Dougweller ( talk) 09:41, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I was just snooping around looking through Wikipedia pages and I realised that there was a page for the Wolof. So, I looked around and realised that the name is wrong. The Wolof were not an ethnicity, but a language. They were never an ethnicity. Wolof is a means to communicate. Please fix this, it is bad enough that their people's history has been erased, I at least want them to be named properly. Thank you! MushroomCrushDoom ( talk) 19:43, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
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For dedicated editors of this page: The "Related Groups" info was removed from all {{ Infobox Ethnic group}} infoboxes. Comments may be left on the Ethnic groups talk page. Ling.Nut 23:21, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed the following on the Wolof disambiguation page:
As a native English speaker I found this interesting, having always pronounced the name as something like "wall-off" or "whoa-loaf" (heh) or something. It sounds to me like the description in the quote is describing something more along the lines of /'wəlɔf/. Does that look about right? I'd like to add the pronunciation to the article at the beginning, because I imagine many others mispronounce the word as well. -- babbage 20:27, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
Well, I don't see a "French Boy" on the French page (wearing a baret and eating a baguette perhaps...) . Is this supposed to teach us what they look like, like in some 18th century anthropological-colonial manuscript? Wouldn't it be better to fight that White-Middle Class-Western bias of Main English Wikipedia by showing a map of the land or something? 89.0.34.12 ( talk) 15:16, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
@tamsier would you please stop the major distorsions of the wolof history YOUR MAKIN !!! to promote the sere culture who doesnt need it since its a great culture , but there is major biais in most of your articles because it can be seen from 10 miles a way that your subjective im an african history graduate and i take offense that your trying to reapropriate the glory of the wolof kingdoms its totally unscientific.<
its a fact that the wolof from a tekrouri background did mix with serere, fulani ,mandika and moors but they are defenetly and for at least a 1000 years an homogenous group , and we would appreciate that you respect that fact thank you . — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Thiedowolof (
talk •
contribs)
23:24, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Tamsier
(Oops not sign on. Never mind). — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
86.160.52.221 (
talk)
21:30, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
I've removed the statement "Note however that, this figure is somewhat misleading because other tribes who have been Wolofized and speak the Wolof language are added to this figure while they are not originally Wolofs". This is not what the original source says and it reflects (besides a pro-Serer and anti-Wolf editor's pov) a misunderstanding of the mutability of ethnic identification in this region. The actual source can be found at [1] and is worth reading. Dougweller ( talk) 09:41, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I was just snooping around looking through Wikipedia pages and I realised that there was a page for the Wolof. So, I looked around and realised that the name is wrong. The Wolof were not an ethnicity, but a language. They were never an ethnicity. Wolof is a means to communicate. Please fix this, it is bad enough that their people's history has been erased, I at least want them to be named properly. Thank you! MushroomCrushDoom ( talk) 19:43, 26 May 2023 (UTC)