Talk:History of Mali

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Contents 1 Copy vio? 2 Additions 3 Merging of Mandin article 4 Revisions, additions, reheadings, corrections

[edit] Copy vio?

I notice this text is also found at: http://www.ncbuy.com/reference/country/backgrounds.html?code=ml&sec=backhistory

Is this a mirror site, or was our text taken from it in copyright violation?

--Dvyost 3 July 2005 17:38 (UTC)

That ncbuy site says its info is from the CIA world factbook...but also says copyright: Copyright © 2005 NetCent Communications, All rights reserved. Terms under which this service is provided. Data Source: Central Intelligence Agency 2004 World Factbook The CIA factbook does not have that particular language that is in this article[1]. Seems a possible copyright violation.

-Justforasecond 06:37, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

The text almost certainly originated with the US State Department Background Note; it's a widely copied text, and legally, so it's not surprising that you'd find it all over the place. I'm going to remove the copyvio notice; this is PD text. Which isn't to say it shouldn't be rewritten to not be based just on the US State Department's text... CDC (talk) 23:23, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Additions

I made several additions of text from http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles/Mali.pdf as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Library of Congress Country Studies.--Bkwillwm 20:56, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merging of Mandin article

Don't notice any discussion on this topic yet so I'll venture some (ambivalent) comments.

On the one hand it makes a lot of sense to consolidate the Mandin article into the History of Mali article. On the other hand, a case could be made to divide the Mali article into separate ones. The sum total would be a remix. (There is also an article on Mandé which treats some of the same topics, and there are certainly others.) And how should these relate to the main articles on the empirtes? A12n 20:25, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Revisions, additions, reheadings, corrections

This is not how I planed to spend my afternoon, but hopefully various additions and revisions to this page and some related sections will help. I got into this after seeing some problems with various Manding language topics. That led to various things including this page.

On H-Africa we've had some discussions re accuracy of the material. Concerns are well-placed. Hopefully my excursion today will help a little.

The big change for this page was in the headings and the addition of short items on the period between Songhai and the French (a lot happened, and there are happily linkable articles for those things, but... many of those need work too).A12n 22:30, 14 October 2006 (UTC)