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User talk:Babakathy/Archive 7
Happy New YearCompliments of 2013! Almost forgot the tradition going on for some years now. Part (talk) 02:37, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
Geneva ConferenceMy labelling both ZANU and ZAPU as "communist" was perhaps an oversimplification, but both parties were influenced politically by overseas communists; ZANU's influences were from Chinese Maoism, while ZAPU's came from more classical Soviet Marxism–Leninism. While perhaps neither went so far as to be called fully "communist", per se, I don't think it is really inaccurate to say in the article that both were influenced by communist politics, both before and after 1980? After all, during the Chimurenga, apart from the training, materiel support and so on, both ZANU and ZAPU cadres often cited communist writers as influences, and ZAPU in particular used to use a lot communist symbolism (hammers and sickles, etc; unless I am much mistaken ZANU used the communist red star). And both used the title "comrade"; indeed, I remember that this term was still in political use circa 2008. I expect it still is now? Anyway, let's have a look at some source material. ZANU-PF's unity agreement, made in 1987, prefixes Mugabe's name with the title "comrade", and articles 5 and 6 describe the party's intention "to establish a socialist society in Zimbabwe on the guidance of Marxist-Leninist principles ... a one-party state". According to Daniel Gray and David Walker, in The A–Z of Marxism (p. 339), "ZANU-PF advocated Marxism-Leninism throughout its battle for liberation and into the formative years of its governing of the young Zimbabwe. Perhaps uniquely, despite this promotion of Marxism-Leninism, it strenuously denied being communist, and yet still modelled its party on the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Owing to a crippling economic downturn, by 1991 it had dropped its early Marxist rhetoric entirely, embracing free market economics with zest". Assa Okoth seems to take a similar line, in his History of Africa 1915–1995, saying on p. 138 that the "nationalists in exile tended to brandish Marxist-Leninist or Maoist ideas according to the origins of their military supplies; in their exile bases they became increasingly politicised. But they were not communists. Marxist sentiments became steadily stronger among the guerrillas, particularly those in ZANLA, but not among the political leadership as a whole. The Zimbabwean war never became a revolutionary socialist war", he concludes. So from this I see clearly that my original wording of "communist", as you pointed out, was incorrect. But I still feel some kind of comment about all this should be included. Perhaps, as I suggested above, that they were influenced or Marxism–Leninism, or communism, or something else along these lines? I would be interested to hear your thoughts and any suggestions you might have on this. Thanks again for your comments and for correcting my mistake. I look forward to hearing from you and to doing more work together. I hope you are doing well in all regards. Cheers, —Cliftonian (talk) 12:24, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
Time constraints on GZim pageJust to let you know that free time I might have had is going to be majorly sucked up by my somewhat recklessly volunteering to do a complete rewrite of Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, which is currently the worst article I have read on WP in a very long time. This in response to a recently lodged RfC by an embattled editor. I will however continue to stay active on the GZim page, but just won't have time to do much research of my own. Regards, Johncoz (talk) 08:05, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
40 kmHallo. Just to note that you live about 40 km from me. Regards Part (talk) 06:13, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
ThanksHi David. Thank you for awarding me the Biography Barnstar and for supporting my requested page move for the CCM article. Much appreciated. Ali Fazal (talk) 11:48, 22 May 2013 (UTC) Love history & culture? Get involved in WikiProject World Digital Library!
Vulcanodon bedsHello! I noticed your very useful work on the Batoka Formation article. While working on the Vulcanodon article, I got one question, perhaps you are able to help: Is the term "Vulcanodon beds" a synonym of the term "Batoka Formation", or is it a subunit of the latter or something like that? Thank you, --Jens Lallensack (talk) 10:04, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Victoria Falls (Zambezi River) linkHi Babakathy, this link is not to a single specific place at a set of coordinates. The Google Earth placemarks line out the entire Zambezi River from spring to estuary, including the Zambezi River passage of the Victoria Falls. That said, I agree, I think it's relevant in the Zambezi River and not in Victoria Falls article. TomKjeldsen (talk) 14:31, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Well thats your point of view, I see absolutely no problem with guidelines in relation to this link. This was not added to the article to promote anything. And it's not a repeat of anything. It is additional information, which can not be incorporated inline in article. I know that this file contribute lots of objective geographical new information (since I made it my self) and if you may doubt the quality, the identical file is also a moderated well recommended file at Google Earth Community › Earth - Moderator Selected › Nature and Science (Moderated) - Anyway, just tried to enhance this article, have now dropped it... TomKjeldsen (talk) 14:31, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Discussion moved to WP:ELN This file and info is by no means personal and is completely international... TomKjeldsen (talk) 14:06, 17 July 2013 (UTC) Looking back, I want to remove this post, for my part, since I see it all so useless, unproductive. Will let it be here for some days then delete, if possible TomKjeldsen (talk 14:23, 17 July 2013 (UTC) And you may have in future a hard work hard to find areas as like the source of the Zambezi River or to get an overview of the entire river only from wikipedia alone. Good luck. TomKjeldsen (talk) 14:34, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
Obvious I have no chance of convincing wikipedia / you that my humble link could contribute anything to Wikipedia. Fine, no problem. I had no intention to promote any files or info. You (and maybe wikipedia) may have missed a point. As said, I only wanted to offer additional fact information. I would prefer that this entire conversation is removed, since I find this so irrelevant for the future... TomKjeldsen (talk Have to add, Babakathy, that I originally saw this as a PM, but see now this is a kind of public chat... please consider to remove this from your "talk" TomKjeldsen (talk
July 2013
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