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xhosa sound clips

Latest comment: 21 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Needs sound clips!

Those would be more appropriate on the isiXhosa page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kierano (talk • contribs) 13:07, 14 April 2005 (UTC)

initiation

The article Nelson Mandela links here with a reference to initiation in Xhosa culture -

"Following Xhosa custom he was initiated at age 16, and attended Clarkebury Boarding Institute, learning about Western culture."

--63.202.184.40 09:13, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Infobox

Latest comment: 21 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I've added the WikiProject Ethnic groups infobox to improve the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kierano (talk • contribs) 13:07, 14 April 2005 (UTC)

Remove "Great Lakes" link?

Latest comment: 20 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Why have a link to the Great Lakes of North America in this article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Siridean7 (talk • contribs) 22:28, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Population

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I don't think the population of Xhosa people is still 8,104,752 because its 2022 and it says there next the degit that it was 2011 stastic 41.114.189.128 (talk) 21:30, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

Likely AI-generated edits

Latest comment: 2 hours ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi - I've added the AI generated template here, as this edit by Omniking2100 displays many indicators of potential AI use in formatting, wording, down to the edit summary, and thus needs review for accuracy, sourcing, tone, etc. Gnomingstuff (talk) 02:21, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

I removed one of the sources added in the edit, since it was not verifiable. The accuracy of the other sources added and the claims made in the edit still need to be reviewed. Wytenoise (talk) 22:10, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

I went through the article and verified all the sources I could access, many of them failed verification (mostly ones that have their access date listed as 2017 or 2018). The article has a lot of problems with unsourced and unverified claims, but I removed the LLM banner since these claims are now marked (and don't appear to be due to LLM due to the access dates). The original edit that prompted the banner has also already been deleted. --Wytenoise (talk) 01:36, 15 July 2026 (UTC)