User:Thantalteresco

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This user is tired of silly drama on Wikipedia

I live in Spain; my mother language is Spanish, and have never been in Australia. A few months ago I started to contribute to Wikipedia but... a couple of Wikipedia administrators confused me with a banned Australian Wikipedian and, without any sort of IP check whatsoever, blocked me! Although another admin unblocked me, I was never vindicated. Yes: I complained in many boards. But no one listened to me, even if I challenged the blocking admins to point out to a single disrupting diff from me (I have never disrupted any page whatsoever), or to run IP checks. I was ignored.

Therefore, I will retire from editing Wikipedia --for ever.

By the way, the administrators who confused me with the banned Australian Wikipedian were very zealous in censoring evidence concerning infanticide in Australia. Below I add the great chunks they removed from the Infanticide article:

Whole section censored!:

Oceania

Infanticide among the autochthone people in the Oceania islands is widespread. In some areas of the

Solomon islands almost 75% of the indigenous children had been brought from adjoining tribes due to the high incidence rate of infanticide, a unique feature of these tribal societies.[2] In another Solomon island, San Cristóbal, the firstborn was considered "ahubweu" and often buried alive.[3]

As a rationale for their behavior, some parents in

British New Guinea complained: "Girls [...] don't become warriors, and they don't stay to look for us in our old age."[4]

Australia

According to the anthropologist

Aram Yengoyan calculated that, in Western Australia, the Pitjandjara people killed 19% of their newborns.[10]

Polynesia

In ancient Polynesian societies infanticide was common.[11] Families were supposed to rear no more than two children. Writing about the natives, Raymond Firth noted: "If another child is born, it is buried in the earth and covered with stones".[12]

Hawaii

In Hawaii infanticide was a socially sanctioned practice before the Christian missions.[13] Infanticidal methods included strangling the children or, more frequently, burying them alive.[14]

Tahiti

Infanticide was quite intense in

strangulation.[15]

Two more removals when I was illegally blocked:

smothered.[16] The Tswana people did the same since they feared the newborn would bring ill fortune to the parents.[17] Similarly, William Sumner noted that the Vadshagga killed children whose upper incisors came first.[18]

It has been estimated that 40% of newborn babies were killed in

Kyūshū.[19]

In The Child in Primitive Society, Nathan Miller wrote in the 1920s that among the

Kuni tribe every mother had killed at least one of her children.[20] Child sacrifice was practiced as late as 1929 in Zimbabwe, where a daughter of the tribal chief used to be sacrificed as a petition of rain.[21]

Notes

  1. ^ McLennan, J.F. (1886). Studies in Ancient History, The Second Series. NY: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. {{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help)
  2. ^ Guppy, H.B. (1887). The Solomon Islands and Their Natives. London: Swan Sonnenschein. p. 42. {{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help)
  3. ^ Frazer, J.G. (1935). The Golden Bough. NY: Macmillan Co. pp. 332–333. {{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help)
  4. ^ Langness, L.L. (1984), "Child abuse and cultural values: the case of New Guinea", in Korbin, Jill (ed.), Child Abuse and Neglect: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, Berkeley: University of California Press, p. 15
  5. Malinowski, Bronislaw (1963). The Family Among the Australian Aborigines. NY: Scocken Books. p. 235. {{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help
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  6. ^ Smyth, Brough (1878). The Aborigines of Victoria. London: John Ferres. {{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help)
  7. doi:10.1146/annurev.es.06.110175.000543
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  8. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1978.tb01351.x
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    Murdock, G.P. (1971). Our Primitive Contemporaries. NY: MacMillan. {{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help
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  10. PMID 12260935
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  11. ^ a b Ritchie, Jane (1979). Growing Up in Polynesia. Sydney: George Allen & Unwin. {{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help)
  12. ^ Firth, Raymond (1983). Primitive Polynesian Economy. London: Routledge. p. 44. {{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help)
  13. ^ Dibble, Sheldon (1839). History and General Views of the Sandwich Islands Mission. NY: Taylor & Dodd. p. 123. {{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help)
  14. ^ Handy, E.S. (1958). The Polynesian Family System in Ka-'U, Hawaii. New Plymouth, New Zealand: Avery Press. p. 327. {{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help)
  15. ^ Oliver, Douglas (1974). Ancient Tahitan Society. Honolulu: University Press of Hawii. Volume I, 425. {{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help)
  16. Lévy-Brühl, Lucien (1923). Primitive Mentality. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. p. 150. {{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help
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  17. ^ Schapera, I.A. (1955). A Handbook of Tswana Law and Custom. London: Oxford University Press. p. 261. {{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help)
  18. ^ Sumner, William (1956 [originally published in 1906]). Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals. London: Oxford University Press. p. 274. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Text "doi" ignored (help)
  19. ^ Kushe, Helga (1985). Should the Baby Live?. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 106. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  20. ^ Miller, Nathan (1928). The Child in Primitive Society. NY: Bretano's. p. 37. {{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help)
  21. ISBN 0333223845
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