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Requesting for going through a very important article of "Transparent Hands Foundation" USA

Well done mar. I really appreciate your effort, please can you assesse this article? Draft:Transparent Hands Foundation Abubakar Balarabe (talk) 11:55, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting for reviewing an article of newly appointed emir

Well done mar. Recently a new emir was appointed in one of kingdoms in Nigeria and I noticed that the article is not on wikipedia. I request you to look into the article, thank you. Draft:Kabiru Muhammad Inuwa Abubakar Balarabe (talk) 22:54, 17 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Appreciation

Well done for good work. And thank you for making wikipidia unpromotiotional environment Abubakar Balarabe (talk) 14:00, 20 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edit has accidentally removed reference sources in use

Thank you for your contribution to improve Abdullah Al-Salloum, an article that I've created. Your recent edit has accidentally deleted reference sources -^18, ^19 and ^20- that are already being used in different locations in the article. Please help retrieve those sources back. Thank you again. --Aaehasa (talk) 12:23, 22 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There is a bot that will retrieve them in due course. Thanks Melcous (talk) 12:24, 22 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Assistance

Please mar. Can you describe me how to upload an original image on a page? Abubakar Balarabe (talk) 08:26, 27 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No sorry, this is not something I am familiar with. You can read this simple tutorial. Melcous (talk) 11:04, 27 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi gorgeous

I don't know if you know but you have just vandalised one of the most important page in the history of my school. t kakaliki. We students welcome changes and criticism but not complete deletion of a work we put in months of our efforts. Gros sauvage blanc. Please do realise that not all african countries have well access to webpage creation like you people do. Pitin, gros pitin. Thank you for your understanding and wish you and your family well. Fr moi croir. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.5.111.169 (talk) 18:35, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Melcous, do you know what this user is talking about? I blocked them for insulting you and Arjayay. If you're wondering how, look up "pitin". Sorry. Drmies (talk) 18:48, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding a recent edit

- Hi Drmies I suspect it was because both Melcous and I removed a load of unsourced/promotional additions from Sir Abdool Raman Osman State College - Arjayay (talk) 18:53, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  - That's crazy. They were complaining about lack of internet access in Africa, while editing from Scotland and Canada? Drmies (talk) 18:55, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  - Hello, I am the editor from Canada. First off, I am genuinely sorry for the Scottish editor's insults towards Melcous and Arjayay - you definitely do not deserve such remarks and this never should've happened. Let me explain the situation. A number of people put in weeks of effort to edit the high school's page and I'd assume most editors were extremely frustrated upon seeing that the page is now almost empty. A significant portion of the material was removed due to a lack of explanation/context, which is nowhere the fault of international readers. For example, a 'Laureate' is regarded as being among the highest academic achievements in Mauritius, which is a fact yet undocumented on Wikipedia. With the majority of those reading this article expected to be from Mauritius, all the editors probably saw no use in specifying such information. However, this eventually led to other editors (Melcous and Arjayay) classifying the said information as being unsourced content, for which I don't blame them. I would come to believe the Scottish editor had a bout of infuriation, which led to their remarks for which I am again deeply sorry. However, I need to highlight that the deletion of the page's content was drastic and apparently done without prior knowledge of Mauritian culture and without recognizing that many aspects of Mauritius go undocumented on Wikipedia. For this, I would request editors to inform themselves more before bringing such changes. Sincere regards, editor from Canada.
    - I guess that's one thing. But content on Wikipedia simply needs to be verified; that's really all there is to it. Undocumented facts need documentation. The other thing is, the article was way too promotional in all kinds of ways, and you can't just restore all of it--and remove the advert tag. WP:SCHOOLGUIDE is useful here. Drmies (talk) 00:03, 4 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    - Thanks for the input. I won't be having time to edit the page in the near future but I appreciate the feedback. Closing this thread and cleaning Melcous's talk page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.66.112.206 (talk) 00:24, 4 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Drmies and Arjayay. And to the IP editors, please do not remove other people's comments from talk pages, that is not ok (unless it is clear vandalism, which this was not). Melcous (talk) 03:31, 4 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Submission - Speedy DeletionPhilWeinman (talk) 02:27, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

Hello Melcous,

I hope that you are well.

I submitted an article for review yesterday and I have been notified that it has been speedily deleted due to being considered as 'unambiguous self promotion'.

I completely understand Wikipedia's stance on self promotion. The article I submitted was admittedly about my own career journey, however I was sure to write the article in a purely factual and encyclopaedic way. I considered it to be notable as I included almost 30 citations and references from secondary sources and reputable Australian publications that supported the content.

I am an Australian businessman with a passion for entrepreneurialism. My career and business successes have been well publicised in the media for several decades. I am aware of other wiki pages for business people and entrepreneurs such as Edward Pretty, which details their career and business journey's. I personally don't see any difference between those articles and my own and am therefore unsure why my article has been deleted.

I would be open to your feedback and expertise to assist me with getting my article published if you could be so kind to respond I would greatly appreciate your assistance.

Precious anniversary

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:13, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Benjamin K. Sovacool

Dear Melcous, I am not a frequent user of Wikipedia (to be fair I had never done modifications in the past), but I recently found out that the majors of study of Prof. Sovacool had been omitted except for his PhD. I see absolutely no reason for this information to be discarded (even if working as an energy expert today, he would probably prefer to leave it implied that his previous studies were in engineering or science fields which is not the case), and thus added it, which I consider important (and it is the norm in academia to be transparent about what you studied and where your expertise comes from).

I have seen the modifications I had made had been deleted, I didn't understand what happened and now I just discovered the "View history" section, and it seems that you are the one who deleted that. If this is the case, could you please tell me why ? In case, it's because you were unsure of the veracity of this change, Prof. Sovacool's CV is available on the university he is working in : https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/benjamin-sovacool(fca10105-c4eb-4f0f-99a7-a354a8a8a47a)/cv.html?id=55652968

Thank you, Best, 2A00:F90:FEB:AF00:69B2:96B3:D6CA:D35 (talk) 22:12, 14 October 2020 (UTC) Cédric[reply]

Thanks for your message Cedric. In the edit history, you can also see my edit summaries, which note that the content added is not in the sources cite, which was the reason for the removal. Usually, sources should be independent and secondary, but for information like this a primary source would be acceptable. If the information is added back, a source should be included and properly cited. Thanks Melcous (talk) 06:59, 15 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Melcous, thank you four your quick response. I edited once again doing what is (I hope) a proper job sourcing. Best, 194.230.158.199 (talk) 14:06, 15 October 2020 (UTC) Cédric[reply]

Why are you undoing all my edits?

You of all people should know how much research goes into this completely voluntary site. So, why does it seem that you are obsessively undoing every single edit I write? RedDirtRedBird (talk) 08:35, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi RedDirtRedBird, as the message I left on your talk page clearly said, your edits were reverted because they added unsourced content to the article. You then editing the article logged out and calling my edits vandalism is inappropriate: see Template:Uw-login as to why you should not make edits both from an account and an IP address, and see WP:Vandalism about what is and is not vandalism. If you cannot provide reliable, independent secondary sources for content, it should not be added to the article. Continuing to ignore these guidelines can be considered "edit warring", which can eventually lead to you being blocked from editing here. Thank you Melcous (talk) 12:04, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don’t understand why you get to determine what is and is not reputable. The sources I found were not any less than those found on other pages. You deleting literally everything that I edit is vandalism. This is a VOLUNTEER job. Treat it as such and stop being a bully. RedDirtRedBird (talk) 14:25, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It’s not fair that you’re destroying this page just because of my recent edits. Some of the edits I’m noticing were not even done by me. You can’t tell me that things such as where a person grew up is listed on some news source. It’s in a bio and that’s where I got some info as does anyone on any page about a living person. How do you have so much time on your hands to bully new users? RedDirtRedBird (talk) 14:31, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I get that you are frustrated RedDirtRedBird, but exaggerating doesn't help: I did not delete "literally everything" that you edited. And I have no idea what you mean about "the sources you found" because the edits you made to Amelia Presley that I reverted did not include any sources - that is the issue. The souYour focus on this particular person causes me to wonder whether you have a connection with her that is making it more difficult for you to be objective? Melcous (talk) 21:53, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don’t have a connection with her but didn’t realize I needed to!! I’m just trying to edit based on information I researched and it’s frustrating when it just gets deleted every time I try. No don’t really understand any of this. What is a reputable source? Her biography and news from her website doesn’t count? Where do you find information on any of the subjects then? RedDirtRedBird (talk) 03:11, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]