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Image copyright problem with Image:Soyinka and Cheney-Coker.jpg[edit]

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Tone of the article[edit]

The Modern Culture section of the article is full of the kind of sweeping generalisations that were common in nineteenth century orientalist "People of the World" children's books, but which are not really helpful or appropriate in a twenty-first century encyclopaedia. I don't really feel I'm qualified to correct this, but I would suggest that if broad generalisations are all that can be provided, they should at least be identified as such in the text.

For example: "The Creoles are a sociable people, given to joking and teasing." This sentence is as ridiculous as if, in the French People article, there was a sentence saying: "French people are surly and rude, yet have an impeccable sense of fashion." I think the general tone of at least this one section of the article needs to be changed.--Benwilson528 (talk) 00:59, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The entire article quality is very poor with sweeping sections of WP:OR and WP:POV. It's written as an essay, not an article. I've flagged many requirements for citations. I will consider removing unreferenced material wholesale should citations not appear in a reasonable period. Almost the whole article appears to be based upon conjecture. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 06:39, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

removing POV tag with no active discussion per Template:POV[edit]

I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:

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Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 01:24, 30 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Main photo - Samuel Coleridge Taylor[edit]

The main photo is of a man who is half Krio (father) and half English (mother). It should be replaced with a more representative photo 90.254.121.165 (talk) 10:06, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]