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Please do not delete content from articles on Misplaced Pages, as you did to Berber People. Your edits do not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use Misplaced Pages:Sandbox for test edits. Please use the Talk:Berber people to discuss your feelings, and share any information you feel is relevant to the subject.
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Irashtar (talk • contribs) 13:03, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
I second Irashtar on that. The right way to deal with material you find questionable is to tag it for needing a citation, using the {{fact}} or {{cn}} templates. (Use whichever you like. They both produce this: ; "cn" stands for "citation needed".) If, after a reasonable period -- a good month, at least, I'd say -- no citation is forthcoming, then deletion might be in order, but even then you should act with care, and best would leave a note on the talk-page about the material and your plan to remove it unless it is referenced. Be especially careful with material that is likely to be contentious. Sometimes small, unannounced deletions are okay. Summarily blanking a whole article, though, or even a whole paragraph of an article, on the grounds that you believe it to be biased is not okay.
From your edit-summaries, I gather that, firstly, you are under the misconceptions that if the Berbers are indigenous then they are "Black" (as being "African"), which would make the same true of the region's Arabs to the extent that they are descended from Berbers, and that, secondly, you find this unpalatable. As to the first, it's nought but a silly notion of "Afrocentrists", not taken seriously otherwise. In other words the Berbers are "White", and being indigenous to a part of Africa does not make them "Black". As to the second, you may not edit Misplaced Pages according to what ideas you find palatable or not.
The less charitable interpretation of your actions and edit-summaries is that you are merely a trolling vandal. Be warned that if you make further undiscussed blankings of this kind, now that you've been warned against it, they will be treated as vandalism, and so will this first round, in hindsight. If you persist, you will be blocked.
-- Lonewolf BC 16:57, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
"to the extent that they are descended from berbers?" this is really quite amusing. As a native, the berbers are quite a distinct people apart and most certainly white in origin. I have no patience to edict this rubbish of a project at the moment, but will in future. And these article are being edited and hawked by afro-centric mostly non-africans who believe that Sudan is part of North Africa and that Egyptian civilization should be considred sub-saharan. Lonewolf, I need you to cite sources in making such sweeping statements.