User talk:Matt Ndirangu

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:01, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Your draft

I moved your draft back to your sandbox; it is currently back at User:Matt Ndirangu/sandbox. Instead of creating a duplicate article, you need to make improvements to the existing Wikipedia article. Please revisit this training module for details as to how to add your improvements to the existing Northern Command attacks (Ethiopia) article.

There are also some issues with your additions. For example, you added:

The war in Tigray is the worlds unseen conflict. It has been a sprawling conflict which has not been given enough attention mostly because the Ethiopian government has severed communications and locked out reporters from the region; the world has also been too focused on the Russia-Ukrainian war.

• The lead section of an article is suppose to summarize the major points of the article. This addition is almost all background, and includes a number of opinions ("unseen conflict", "has not been given enough attention"). While I agree with these opinions, Wikipedia articles are supposed to stick to facts. If opinions like this are included in an article, they need to be attributed to the people or organizations expressing these opinions.

• None of your additions cite sources. Everything you add to Wikipedia needs to be tied directly to a reliable source. After the statement, there should be a source. You can use a single source to support several sentences in a row, if it supports everything you say in those sentences, but you need to have at least one source per paragraph, and you shouldn't have any text after the final reference in a paragraph (because that content is effectively unsourced).

Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:30, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

April 2023

Hello, I'm Mr.weedle. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Northern Command attacks (Ethiopia), but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Mr.weedle (talk) 02:58, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

Hey Mr. Weedle, you removed the content I was adding to this page and I really didn't have it saved since it was not complete yet, is there any way I can get my work back? Its a school project so i need it. Matt Ndirangu (talk) 04:02, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

If you wish to contribute to Wikipedia articles as part of a school project, then you still have to follow Wikipedia guidelines. As a new editor, it would be best to try editing the body of an article, not the WP:LEAD, so that you give other editors a chance to make corrections if there's a problem and they will hopefully explain what they think the problems are. If there's a misunderstanding, then use the WP:TALK page of the article to sort out the content changes for that particular article.

Please read WP:COPYRIGHT carefully: it is only acceptable to summarise (or extract) key information from sources. It is not acceptable to copy/paste the particular style of writing of a source, nor to WP:PARAPHRASE a source. Brianda (Wiki Ed) can give you hints if you are a bit lost navigating the guidelines and policies.

In the case of Northern Command attacks (Ethiopia), I think you didn't notice the scope of the article: it's about the 3–4 November 2020 Northern Command atttacks, not about the other events of the Tigray War, which are (partly) covered in a wide variety of articles, some more specific, some more broad. Most of the content you added already exists in the other articles.

Among your removed additions here, one specific topic that has not yet been added to Wikipedia as a standalone topic is the issue of infrastructure and physical resource destruction (in addition to genocide) and what possibilities Tigray Region may have for recovery. I would recommend that you start it as a WP:DRAFT article. I'm not even sure of a good name - it would depend on what sources you find and what their information is. Something like Post-war Tigrayan economy might be broad enough, starting with info on what happened during the war (not completely over - Eritrean forces are still killing Tigrayans).

Disclaimer: It is unlikely that there are currently enough strong sources to achieve consensus on the term Tigrayan genocide; personally, the evidence is strong enough for me (10% of the population eliminated in 2 years by direct and indirect methods), but that doesn't count. I use it here as my personal assessment, not as a term that is usable as "a sourced fact" in Wikipedia articles. Boud (talk) 20:24, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

Suggestion: Looking at the overall topic of your course, a topic that is currently missing and that is underrepresented because "it's not sexy in the media" and it's not as "exciting" as battles and deaths, is a topic that could be called Foreign influences on the Sudanese Revolution, where "Sudanese Revolution" is interpreted to mean the whole sequence of events from Dec 2018 to now and predictions for the future through to hypothetical elections and a hypothetical democratic government. (Others might disagree on the best name - this is just a suggestion.) At this archived talk-page section there are six high-quality sources - these also cover the questions of prospects for peace and democracy. If you can summarise the key points (think about the meaning, don't copy the particular style of the authors) and integrate them into the topic of Foreign influences on the Sudanese Revolution, starting off in WP:DRAFT space, then I think you would have a good chance of writing an article satisfying your lecturers :) and also a good chance of making a significant contribution to the distribution of knowledge in relation to a current event that is at the top of the news (because killing attracts more media attention than negotiating). Of course, you might also find other good sources. Boud (talk) 20:42, 1 May 2023 (UTC) PS: There is currently a brief section Sudanese transition to democracy#Foreign influence on the transition; you could also use some of the 7 sources listed there, although the 6 I listed earlier seem more in-depth to me and take in the more recent context of the past few weeks. I have not checked that brief section for copyright violations, so you either have to check it yourself if you like the wording there and use the {{copied}} template, or you have to use your own, original wording. The info there would be useful as the first part of a more in-depth article. Boud (talk) 20:59, 1 May 2023 (UTC)