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May 2020

Thanks for contributing to the article Catherine Ndereba. However, one of Wikipedia's core policies is that material must be verifiable and attributed to reliable sources. You have recently used citations which copied, or mirrored, material from Wikipedia. This leads to a circular reference and is not acceptable. Most mirrors are clearly labeled as such, but some are in violation of our license and do not provide the correct attribution. Please help by adding alternate sources to the article you edited! If you need any help or clarification, you can look at Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia or ask at Wikipedia:New contributors' help page, or just ask me. Thank you. Kuru (talk) 14:47, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ooh that might have been an error i did.. I will definitely correct that. Thank you and my apologies Cmwaura (talk) 15:26, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You've just done the same thing here, with the same reference. Please be more careful when evaluating sources, and please do not use the ones that have been specifically pointed out as not acceptable. Thanks! Happy to help if you have questions. Kuru (talk) 21:15, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

here and here. Same false reference, same problem. Please consider this a final warning. Kuru (talk) 14:23, 26 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Citing Tourism Websites

Hey, I noticed in a few situations you have been citing Tourism websites for topics like your citations about the this article about the Sebei people. Though this might be an adequate short term fix, most tourism websites don't have a high standard for research: so will probably get removed in the long term -- I recommend trying to find more reliable pieces, like research produced by academics. Sadads (talk) 15:58, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Your addition to Development Bank of Kenya ‎ 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. Kuru (talk) 23:36, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Noted. Apologies Cmwaura (talk) 23:51, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Same at Consolidated Bank of Kenya, Absa Bank Kenya Plc and Bank of Africa Kenya Limited; please do not copy material like that. Kuru (talk) 23:52, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Mistake noted and will be corrected. Thanks for the alert. Cmwaura (talk) 00:06, 30 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletion of Jackie Nyaminde (Wilbroda or Awilo)

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DYK for Anita Kiki Gbeho

On 19 February 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Anita Kiki Gbeho, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Anita Kiki Gbeho (pictured) is still working for the United Nations in Somalia, even though her boss was lucky to escape assassination? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Anita Kiki Gbeho. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Anita Kiki Gbeho), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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@Clayoquot I am a payed WiR with Code for Africa working on climate change project with a community of volunteers. Cmwaura (talk) 08:27, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I'm looking forward to collaborating with you. Best, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 11:48, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

External links in body

Hello! I saw you just added an external link in the body of climate change in Kenya. Per WP:External links, external links should not be placed in the body of an article. If the website supports a claim, please add it as a citation with <ref> tags. If instead it gives more background than Wikipedia, you can consider adding it to an External links section at the bottom of an article.

Over the last week I've been monitoring + mentoring CfACP participants (and unfortunately reverting many). This is one of the more common mistakes you should keep an eye on. Given the lower quality of edits, the participants need quite a lot of mentoring. While I can't continue doing that, I'm happy to support you supporting them. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 17:47, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Femke Hello, I understand. I was not meant to publish that specific. was showing them an example. I will definitely delete that. I would appreciate your support. I had a meeting with the participants an hour ago and citations and references was the major issue they have. would you be available for a zoom meeting to take them through? I will appreciate your support. Cmwaura (talk) 18:48, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, I don't really have time for that. @Clayoquot: would you be willing to share your slides with Cmwaura? —Femke 🐦 (talk) 19:50, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I would be happy to help over Zoom. Cmwaura, I'll email you. Take care, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 21:44, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Clayoquot@Femke Thank you for finding time to help. i hope to learn as much as i can from both of you. Cmwaura (talk) 09:53, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Two more things

Could you ask the CfACP contributors to respect WP:ENGVAR. I see a lot of them changing the variety of English in an article from British to American. Generally, this should not happen. Articles without a clear link to a particular country should stay in the same variant of English.
Is there a minimum amount of citations or edits people must make to qualify for the data bundle, or a prize? That may explain absurd additions like adding a dermatology paper into Temperature. If so, this needs to change, as we've seen in the past that these kind of incentives lead to disruption. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 17:10, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Femke this is noted. We shall have a zoom training next week with the help of @Clayoquot . Are you in a postition to let me know all the issues arising then we can get guidance on that? I appreciate Cmwaura (talk) 17:40, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Problems not yet mentioned here or at WP:AN.
Introducing typos

Adding WP:duplicate links (I believe if you use the WP:Growth team#Newcomer tasks, it will only suggest links that aren't already in the article).

When adding a source, adding a main page of a website that does not support the information. Instead, the appropriate subpage should be cited.
—Femke 🐦 (talk) 18:49, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Please answer my question about if there are any requirements people must meet to qualify for a data package. Do they need to add a fixed number of citations, no matter how irrelevant? Pinging @Jwale2.

We're getting close to the point where I'll be asking uninvolved admins to consider blocking participants for lack of competence and copyright violations. I hope that can be avoided for most participants. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 17:18, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Cmwaura, in yesterday's Zoom session you asked me if I could clarify Femke's earlier question, Is there a minimum amount of citations or edits people must make to qualify for the data bundle, or a prize?. I apologize for not being able to answer this before I had to go to another meeting. I think Femke is asking this question because she is wondering why CfACP participants have been adding references to totally irrelevant sources, and making other edits that don't seem to serve any purpose. She is asking you if participants will be rewarded for making lots of edits. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 18:29, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Femkeand @Clayoquot, participant are not rewarded based on the number of edits made but rather rewarded based on their engagements in the project and the use of their personal data, so basically we are just given them back what they used during editing. Jwale2 (talk) 13:19, 4 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
And how is engagement measured? Do people who persistently add copyright violations get reimbursed? And people who persistently add nonsensical citations?

I'm still baffled by the low quality of the edits. Are you getting the wrong audience? Are you getting an audience that needs strong training, but isn't getting it? Why are you not cleaning up after your participants yourself?

I will be opening another section at the administrative noticeboard when I have some time to spare. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 07:28, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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