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I just reverted two edits by MfactDr. I wanted to briefly explain the reasoning: The edit which expanded the Cushitic peoples considered non-Habesha was probably accurate, but it attributed a claim to Fouad Makki's thesis which was not present in the source. I did not restore the other edits because I did not have access to the sources cited & could not verify them; given that this batch of edits included a sourcing problem, I didn't want to add the other material back without verification. Pathawi ( talk) 05:37, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Pathawi the source and the contents added to Hebesha People are from Amhara people page. it says " Many scholars have classified the Amhara and the Tigrayans as Abyssinian" I have added more because existing contents not make sense and nor the existing content and sources verifiable at all. e.g "Historically, the term "Habesha represented northern Ethiopian Highlands Orthodox Christians, while the Oromos and other ethnic groups, as well as Muslims, were considered the periphery.[1][2][3][4]" these statement is not in the source either! as you said Cushitic people not hebesha. I will try to find the more source for Cushitic people. MfactDr ( talk) 04:52, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

Hi! Feel free to add back anything that's sourced. I didn't restore it because the edits other than the Makki bit all came together, & I couldn't verify them, so didn't want to put my name to them. Two things, tho: 1) The current wording on who's considered the periphery does come from the thesis cited. Are we having a miscommunication here? 2) We should draw from external sources rather than other Wikipedia pages. I might be wrong, but I think that's true even when copying citations. Pathawi ( talk) 05:01, 30 June 2021 (UTC)