Talk:Proto-Australoid
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[edit] Cleanup
This article needs copyediting (which I can do, but not tonite), editing for clarity (which I can do some of but not all because I don't know the subject well enough to know what was intended), and hopefully some citations/sources/links, which hopefully someone with an interest in the topic can do.--Anchoress 06:33, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
- First sweep of copyediting done. Capitalisation was inconsistent and is not my strength, so I tried to make it consistent but I don't know if I did it right. I'm wondering about cap conventions about the following words:
- Australoid
- Makran
- dravidian
- red sea
- proto-australoids
- I know it'll need at least one more sweep of copyediting, I'll come back to this or if someone else gets to it first then cool.--Anchoress 00:47, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
- I've noticed that the tense is contradictory in places, but I don't know the conventions for fixing it; the problem is that the article is concurrently covering both the historical and present-day examples of the race, and not making a distinction between them (for instance, their physical description is probably consistent over time, but is the description of their diet historical, or modern? If it's modern, is it consistent across all the pockets of this race throughout Australasia?).--Anchoress 01:47, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Question about content
Please, explain, who exactly are "Proto-Australoids" and "Negritos"? I guess that Proto-Australoids are the Veddas+some continental Indian tribes, but who are Negritos? The nearest Negritos I know live on the Andamanese Islands. Cartouche, 19th August 2006
- I don't know who you are asking but I moved it out of the 'cleanup' section because it doesn't seem to have anything to do with cleanup. I didn't write the article and I don't know anything more about the topic than you do (probably a lot less), and if the article itself doesn't answer the question maybe the best thing for you to do would be to find some refs and add the info? Anchoress 01:50, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Websites on Proto-Australoids
I don't know if these will be any good, but it's a start.
--Anchoress 01:04, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Evidence!
I see no evidence for this. Citations are most definately needed. To say a group of "Proto-Australoids" "are known to have spoken" a particular language is especially ridiculous sounding. D.E. Cottrell 05:13, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
- I agree. I was the one who added all the citation tags; I thought at the time I might have gone overboard, but looking back now (after a couple of months) I think it's actually an exceptionally sloppy article. I'd almost favour scrapping it and starting over (except I'm not volunteering :-).)--Anchoress 05:25, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
