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I'M a new editor

I have just reached my 10th edits. How do I now build an article of my own? I can't find the much talked "sandbox". How do I add new sections to an existing article? Akgideens (talk) 11:15, 5 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Alade moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Alade, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Hitro talk 06:38, 9 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Zacharias David Idris for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Zacharias David Idris is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zacharias David Idris until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. 10MB (talk) 11:45, 24 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the concerns raised about the notability of "Zacharias david Idris" to have a wikipedia profile. All the issues raised therein have been effectively addressed and other editors have also voted in favour of the article to be published. Kindly lift deletion ban on the article and publish it. thank youAkgideens (talk) 13:51, 25 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your contributed article, New karshi

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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, New karshi. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – New Karshi. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at New Karshi. If you have new information to add, you might want to discuss it at the article's talk page.

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Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Akgideens, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Nkeiruka Onyejeocha have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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Your thread has been archived

Hi Akgideens! You created a thread called My articles have not been reviewed after several weeks of creation at Wikipedia:Teahouse, but it has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please create a new thread.

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Your thread has been archived

Hi Akgideens! You created a thread called Language translation at Wikipedia:Teahouse, but it has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please create a new thread.

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Blocked for sockpuppetry

This account has been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week for sock puppetry per evidence presented at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Akgideens. Note that multiple accounts are allowed, but using them for illegitimate reasons is not, and that any contributions made while evading blocks or bans may be reverted or deleted. Once the block has expired, you're welcome to make useful contributions. If you believe that this block was in error, and you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here ~~~~}} below. AGK ■ 15:53, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

December 2019

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), such as at WP:Teahouse, please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either:

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Thank you. David Biddulph (talk) 15:54, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not use styles that are unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles, as you did in Fred Agbedi. There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. For example, please read MOS:BOLD and MOS:SECTION. David Biddulph (talk) 20:38, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your thread has been archived

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Speedy deletion nomination of Adedayo Ojo

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A tag has been placed on Adedayo Ojo requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion discussion, at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adedayo Ojo. When a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after a discussion, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Melcous (talk) 10:28, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Adedayo Ojo

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A tag has been placed on Adedayo Ojo requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion discussion, at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adedayo Ojo. When a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after a discussion, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Celestina007 (talk) 14:23, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Editing with a possible paid conflict of interest

Hello Akgideens. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Akgideens. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Akgideens|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. --SamHolt6 (talk) 16:29, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your observations SamHolt6. Let me put it to you clearly that I am not a paid editor and I do NOT intend being one. My motivation for editing Wikipedia is to make contributions that are useful to Wikipedia readers and to do that I have to research deeply to gather facts about the topic. I would not like to make contributions that would be flagged as stub. Whatever I do, I do it well. You may be wondering if I have any other job apart from editing Wikipedia or how I got all the time to research topics, well the answer is simple. I am gainfully employed. And how I got the time to edit? The job assigned to me in the office where I work takes less than an hour to execute so after completing my daily task instead of sleeping in the office which is highly prohibited and could attract outright sack, I shift focus to Wikipedia but before I create any article I spend days researching and writing. Once again thank you for your observations. Gideens (talk) 17:08, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest editing

Hello, Akgideens. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Adedayo Ojo, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 13:26, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Melcous for your observations and corrections. You're indeed a good editor and I'm already learning from some of the articles you have created. However on the issue of relation with the subject, I wish to state that I have no connections whatsoever with them. I only want to be meticulous in what I do and that's why I take my time to research about the subject so that I could put an article that's not a stub. I see that those articles have been flagged for corrections and I have learned from it. May I kindly request that you lift the tag (COI). Once again thank you so much for the work that you do here. Gideens (talk) 15:21, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Akgideens: ok, but some of your edits fit a pattern associated with COI editing. For example, much of the content in the “Early life and education” subheading at Adedayo Ojo is not found in the relevant citation, and so questions need to be asked as to where this information is coming from. In addition, can I ask how you obtained this [1] image of the subject? SamHolt6 (talk) 18:11, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, uploading a professional looking headshot of the subject of an article as your own work is certainly a potential COI issue that needs explanation before I'd be willing to remove the templates. Melcous (talk) 22:33, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Melcous, thanks so much for helping me become a good Wikipedia editor through your corrections. I hope that some day I will be a diligent and notable Wikipedia editor as you. I sincerely appreciate the work you do here and kindly accept, the assurances of my highest regards. Let me quickly say again that I am not a paid editor and I have no personal or whatsoever connections with the subjects of the articles that I have created. But as a mentor and an editor I am looking up to, I want to sincerely say that the picture on Adedayo Ojo was taken by myself the day they visited a government agency where I work to discuss how they could use their various PR firms to get support for internally displaced persons across Nigeria. My country is in a serious humanitarian crisis resulting from a decade of Boko Haram islamists terrorists, herdsmen and farmers clashes that has led to displacement of millions of people from their homes and hundreds of thousands killed since the conflict began. Adedayo Ojo did something that made him more human than the others he came with. He volunteered to train 4 little girls between three and seven years of age orphaned by the conflicts up to university level. It was after this that I decided to find out more about him. I have no personal or any beneficial connections with him. But I now understand that that is a conflict of interest and I have learned from it. Hence, I will not edit the pages again. May I request that you kindly lift the tags. I noticed that I'm under suspicion of being a paid editor but I'm not. You have also flagged a page, NECLive as not being notable but the subject is covered by leading national newspapers, radio and televisions in Nigeria. For instance, punch, Premium Times, The Nation, Vanguard, The Guardian (Nigeria not UK) This Day, Business Day among other publications have covered the event but I was surprised to see that it had been flagged for notability issues. Once again thank you for your mentoring. I wish I could have a direct discussion with you rather than discussing on the talk page here. Kind regards. Gideens (talk) 07:35, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Melcous Gideens (talk) 05:18, 2 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

January 2020

Your addition to NECLive has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. — Diannaa (talk) 21:02, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked indefinitely for continued socking

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abusing multiple accounts. Note that multiple accounts are allowed, but not for illegitimate reasons, and any contributions made while evading blocks or bans may be reverted or deleted.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 22:26, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As you continue to violate Wikipedia's policies regarding multiple accounts in violations of WP:SOCK and WP:NOTPROMOTION, I've blocked you indefinitely.-- Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 22:26, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: NECLive (February 10)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Sulfurboy were:

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject. Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

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Sulfurboy (talk) 08:35, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Akgideens! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Sulfurboy (talk) 08:35, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:NECLive concern

Hi there, I'm MDanielsBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:NECLive, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it.

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Thank you for your attention. MDanielsBot (talk) 01:35, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:NECLive

Hello, Akgideens. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "NECLive".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 22:19, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Adedayo Ojo

Hello, Akgideens. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Adedayo Ojo".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Ə XPLICIT 12:19, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]