User talk:Lolana

November 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add content (particularly if you change facts and figures), as you have to the article Cinema of Kenya, please cite a reliable source for the content you're adding or changing. This 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. Amsaim (talk) 13:25, 29 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

May 2010

Please do not add or change content without citing verifiable and reliable sources, as you did to Cinema of Kenya. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Amsaim (talk) 16:17, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

August 2010

Please do not add or change content without citing verifiable and reliable sources, as you did to Cinema of Kenya. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Amsaim (talk) 19:37, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop making test edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Cinema of Kenya. It is considered vandalism, which, under Wikipedia policy, can lead to a loss of editing privileges. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Amsaim (talk) 20:25, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia's Policies and Guidelines

Hi there. It might be a good idea for you to acquaint yourself with Wikipedia's Basic Policies & Guidelines before editing Wikipedia articles. That way your edits won't be reverted. You might also want to read through these guidelines before editing the Cinema of Kenya article again. Thank you. Amsaim (talk) 20:29, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is the final warning you will receive regarding your disruptive edits. The next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did to Cinema of Kenya, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Amsaim (talk) 20:46, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lola Kenya Children's Screen

Hi. I've completed the promised copy edit of Lola Kenya Children's Screen. There are a few points on the talk page that you need to pick up. Also, if you want to improve the article further, you could look into improving the way all the citations are presented. Especially, you could consider using the citation templates, especially {{cite news}} and {{cite web}}. You may find you need to do some work to learn how to use these, and the best way is to look at the source of some articles that do it. It will be quite hard work at first, but the result would be a much more professional-looking article.

If you need more help, you're welcome to ask on my talk page. Good luck, --Stfg (talk) 14:43, 4 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again. I've replied to your message on my talk page here. The article is looking good. I've asked you a question about the other things you want to add. Please look and reply there, so we keep the discussion in one place. Best wishes, --Stfg (talk) 11:27, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

After all I think we had better discuss here on your talk page. When you post messages on people's talk pages, you must do it in the section dedicated to your discussion with them. When you add messages at the bottom of my talk page, they go into the wrong section, and it disrupts my discussions with other editors. From now on, let's discuss here. Please don't post messages at the bottom of my talk page any more. You said:

I have added three more references to support the focus on 'films in eastern Africa', but I didn't remove the reference (it was no17) that you said didn't contain the information though it does; it is now number 20.

What I meant by adding references from articles and memos of association and blue prints was much in the same way we add verifiable links to articles. However, these other documents--brochures, blue prints, memos--aren't online and therefore cannot be linked to articles. But the article is reading well now. Thanks for copy-editing it. § Lolana Lolana (talk) 20:07, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No, what was FN17 (now FN20) links to a Wanted Worldwide page full of advertisements. Its main section is titled "What's on in Vienna" which contains a piece called "Brilliant Times: European Art Nouveau Jewellery", about a jewellery exhibition in Vienna. There's absolutely nothing there about the Lola forum.

Reference documents don't have to be online. You can add references using <ref name=xxxx> and </ref> just as you have been doing, even if there is no URL to link to. Just put whatever details you have. For example you might create a reference to a published play like this:

<ref>William Shakespeare (c. 1593). ''Romeo and Juliet''. Globe Theatre Press. Accessed 14 August 2012.</ref>

Just put in whatever details you have. The only things you need to remember are that Wikipedia is not for advertising, so you should avoid anything promotional to ensure you don't get accused of spamming, and that "primary sources", meaning documents produced by the Lola Screen organisation, are not considered good references because they aren't neutral. What I suggest you do now is to be bold and try to insert a suitable reference in the way I've described. Just one for now, and then we can see how it looks. --Stfg (talk) 20:57, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]