Nzingamina

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Your de Brazza edit

I came over to the de Brazza page from WP:RSN and tried to assist in the controversy about Dr. Obenga's writings by adding a carefully drafted, reliably sourced statement. You have now deleted my work and replaced it with your own version, which contains no sourcing. Please be aware of WP:3RR which sanctions repeated reversion of the edits of others. Your work will almost certainly be deleted by someone on grounds of sourcing and undue weight, whereas mine was carefully drafted to survive such a challenge and remain in the article. Jonathanwallace (talk) 03:25, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Looks good. I will try to help keep the information on the page. Jonathanwallace (talk) 04:07, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you Jonathan. Your edits and recommendations were perfect. Thank you for your assistance. Nzingamina (talk) 22:11, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

A gentle reminder

This may be a surprise to you, but I actually agree with you that the new mausoleum is controversial, odd in its choice of one of King Leopold's lackeys, and probably is a huge waste of money for a post-war country with far greater priorities (an opinion which is not just held by people in Congo, by the way) - but we have a principle in WP that our personal point of view should not blind us to the counter-argument, e.g. that some people decided for some reason that he was significant enough to commission the monument and to host a big international party when it was opened. But my biggest issue with the way that the article was written was the source of the allegation that Brazza was a rapist, which has now been dealt with. That allegation (e.g. a rumour) was not encyclopaedic, and (rather suspiciously) has only appeared a century later from a single source. This is classed as a fringe theory in Wikipedia and so it needs strong substantiation if it is to be treated as anything more than Obenga's personal allegation, if it even warrants a mention. See WP:RS.

This is WP and pages will change over time. Get over it. So to make it easier for you can I kindly suggest you read up on Wikipedia's rules and etiquette? Particularly:

• assume good faith - hopefully you now understand that just because someone edits an article it does not mean that he is trying to be evil or disruptive.
• maintain a neutral point of view - thus we do not write anything exclusively from a wholly nationalist or anti-colonialist perspective, when there might other valid perspectives
• recognise that no-one owns a page ("Wikipedia" does not have to 'approve' an edit, and nor does another editor, even if they contributed to an earlier version of the page)
• accept that pages will change over time - even without our permission and that confronting people over edits is disruptive, and
• respond to requests to co-operate before getting into a revert war.

Also, if you add four tilde marks '~' after your edits we will see who posted the message. Thank you. Ephebi (talk) 14:23, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

A gentle rebuttal

None of your changes were accepted because you took everything personal Ephebi . I would like to thank the Wiki community for supporting the Congolese POV. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.192.191.243 (talk) 20:44, 4 February 2013 (UTC)