Talk:Ethiopian literature/Archive 1
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Chronicles
Needs more direct discussion of the Ethiopian chronicles and their literary tradition, currently mostly housed at Ethiopian historiography. — LlywelynII 10:56, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
Requested move 26 October 2021
- The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: Moved. Clearly meets the standards of a technical request: reverting a controversial undiscussed move. (closed by non-admin page mover) Srnec (talk) 02:16, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
Ge'ez Literature → Ethiopian literature – This page was recently moved with an explanation of "Using the correct and non-political word," but how is "Ethiopian" a political word? The box at the bottom of Nigerian literature has links to all African countries' literature. Most all of them use an adjective form of the country's name; the only exceptions are the Congo countries and Sao Tome & Principe, which have really convoluted names because the countries' names are convoluted. Second, as soon as the person moved this page, it was scrubbed of references to Ethiopia, including at one point, changing a sourced historical entry from talking about "Ethiopia" to talking about "Eritrea" and also adding unsourced text. This looks like a politicized move, not a correct move in line with Wikipedia policy. 64.203.186.106 (talk) 16:24, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
- Support. I can guess the prior mover's motivation, in that both Ethiopia and Eritrea write in Ge'ez. But he was wrong to change the article title, as it seems he didn't quite realize what the article was about. There already is a page on Eritrean literature, whereas this one is about Ethiopian literature. I can see cause for his confusion, not realizing there are national literature pages on Wikipedia defined by country, not by language or script. At any rate, move should not have been done without an RM. So support moving back to status quo ante (including reversing the internal article edits). Walrasiad (talk) 23:38, 26 October 2021 (UTC)