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David Gerard (talk) 10:24, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

March 2024

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from Priven Reddy (entrepreneur). When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Please see Help:Maintenance template removal for further information on when maintenance templates should or should not be removed. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Thank you. Calmkelp^talk 16:41, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Could you please advise re: linking / hyperlinking. How many do you suggest per article entry? Durbaneditor (talk) 14:45, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Durbaneditor - Hi. It's not so much how many links you have as it is the quality of the sources. For example, you had one from Yahoo Finance - which is a distributor site - that is actually a press release. Newswire sites aren't the best places to use for sources as they're primary and not secondary.

I would recommend checking out the Reliable sources guideline to help with that.

Also, it's customary to consolidate duplicate references. You did this for the one used for all the items in the list under "Guiding Principles", but several others were treated as separate resources. They aren't, though. It makes it look like you're trying to pad your citations and make it appear that the person has met WP:GNG.

And I moved the link to the dealership under External links in the article instead of leaving it as a reference. OIM20 (talk) 12:30, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for getting back to me. Your comments are noted. 156.155.200.218 (talk) 07:26, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally, please review Help:Your first article as well as WP:NPOV and WP:COI. Your first articles' subjects may be notable, but the articles were certainly not neutral initially. Thanks, WhoAteMyButter (🌷_talk│🌻^contribs) 07:12, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Nonhlanhla Joye for deletion

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Bearcat (talk) 16:14, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AfC notification: Draft:Nonhlanhla Joye has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Nonhlanhla Joye. Thanks! UtherSRG (talk) 11:40, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]