User talk:Abigail Mbalo
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[edit]Hello, Abigail Mbalo, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
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- Good day, I needed to edit my surname and remove ex husband details as I am now divorced. Hope the edit is in order. Please do let me know if there’s more information required from me for this edit. Thanks Abigail Mbalo (talk) 18:38, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
- Would you be able to point to any published source that says this? If not, we could still remove the ex-husbands details but there's a chance that someone would put them back further down the line. -- D'n'B-t -- 18:47, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hi there is no published source except for our divorce decree (Abigail Mbalo (talk) 18:59, 14 July 2024 (UTC))
- Okay. Well I've edited out the surname and ex-husbands details. I'm assuming good faith here as I haven't verified your identity: it would still help us if you could point to a source, which for these purposes could be a tweet or similiar. -- D'n'B-t -- 19:12, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hi there is no published source except for our divorce decree (Abigail Mbalo (talk) 18:59, 14 July 2024 (UTC))
- @Abigail Mbalo: Welcome! I understand you're trying to edit the article about yourself, based on information that isn't publically available. I appreciate why you may want to do this; and like D'n'B, I assume that you have good reasons.
- Maybe you can assist us, to ensure that the changes aren't reverted, and that no fake information is added to Wikipedia. By far the easiest option would be this: Make a post with some social media account that's clearly linked to you (like on Twitter), where you confirm the recent changes, and maybe even that the edits made to the Wikipedia article were yours. Once you're done, post a link to your post here.
- I understand that this means extra effort to you. We're just trying to make sure that the information in the article remains reliable, which hopefully is in your interest as well. Thank you for your help! Renerpho (talk) 19:46, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
- Would you be able to point to any published source that says this? If not, we could still remove the ex-husbands details but there's a chance that someone would put them back further down the line. -- D'n'B-t -- 18:47, 14 July 2024 (UTC)