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Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Bir Tawil, please cite a reliable source for the content of your edit. This is particularly important when adding or changing any facts or figures and helps maintain our policy of verifiability. Take a look at Wikipedia:Citing sources for information about how to cite sources and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. William Avery (talk) 21:24, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
- Just FYI, the Bir Tawil/Nikoku stuff is a hoax - there is no such place as the Kingdom of Nikoku -- Boing! said Zebedee 21:31, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Google Maps states a place http://maps.google.de/maps/place?cid=3193671742059849794&q=Kingdom+of+Nikoku&hl=en&cd=3&cad=src:pplink&ei=55z9S8_RGMfD_gbuzZTBCA —Preceding Preacheronline0001!
- Hmm, this is quite interesting - the http://nikoku.net/ domain that it quotes gives a Japanese-language error message. Also, there is no hit for the supposed Japanese island nation that is claimed to be the Kingdom of Nikoku itself - where is that? A Google maps search on "Nikoku" (without the "Kingdom of") finds nothing. When an IP editor added the claim to the Bir Tawil article article a few weeks ago (see our discussion at User talk:84.173.74.158 - it's a German IP), there were only two sources that I could find, a wiki at http://newterritorialclaims.tk/, and a German-language article containing some similar material. That wiki has now been deleted, but it contained too many absurd claims to be plausible - and it turned out that it had been partly created by an IP in the same German range as our 84.173.74.158 editor (before it was deleted, the edit history was visible). It's all pointing to a hoax of German origin. Out of interest, are you in Germany yourself? (I ask, because I see you used google.de for your search). Best regards -- Boing! said Zebedee 08:17, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello out there... As far as I know Nikoku does not lie in Germany, but there were several newspaper reports in German Newspapers on that subject - the international interest in this useless discussion is as small as a peanut. There was also a short note about the wiki and its absurdness... :-), so I am informed pretty well on that subject. I am from France, but I sometimes travel to Germany. That is how I found out about this self proclaimed Kingdom. Could be a hoax. Nevertheless the Mannheimer Morgun has written some articles on that subject. I could send some verification mails to the local authorities. Maybe they know something about it.
Just by the way - I was not the only one to contribute to that articles. However it is also available at http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=3193671742059849794&q=Kingdom+of+Nikoku&hl=en&cd=3&cad=src:pplink&ei=55z9S8_RGMfD_gbuzZTBCA
Best Regards Preacheronline0001