Kenyaboystar

Your submission at Articles for creation: Chief Kivoi wa Mwenda (March 10)

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EROS ^message 04:30, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Speaker of the County Assembly of Machakos (March 10)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Heliosxeros was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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EROS ^message 05:22, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello, Kenyaboystar! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! EROS message 05:22, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

March 2018

Hello, I'm Shellwood. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —specifically this edit to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion— because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help Desk. Thanks. Shellwood (talk) 15:09, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Welcome!

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! GermanJoe (talk) 15:19, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Unsourced edits

Hello Kenyaboystar, thank you for your efforts to improve Wikipedia articles. However, edits should be verifiable by published reliable sources - especially edits about controversial or biographical information (see WP:BLP for more information). Ideally all content on Wikipedia should be verifiable with published sources. Your addition to Kamba people is a good example: it provides lots of interesting content, but needs to include source details for this information (such sources can be offline books or journals, if you don't have a link for them). You should provide such sources whereever possible. Please feel free to ask me if you have any further questions (WP:Teahouse is also a good forum to get additional advice). Best regards. GermanJoe (talk) 15:29, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

@GermanJoe: I think you demand a lot from a country that has been out of internet world for many years. So most of Kenyan history is not found in internet but books which are not available on net. So it's the high time Wikipedia appreciates that fact

I believe you misunderstood me, my apologies for being unclear: offline sources, that are currently not available on the Internet, are perfectly fine. Just provide general bibliographical information (author, title, publisher, year of publication, page numbers for included information) in a reference - the book (or journal or article, etc.) does not have to be available online. You'll find a more detailed and better explanation at WP:OFFLINE. Templates like Template:cite book can be used to format this information (both for online and offline sources), but their usage is completely optional. GermanJoe (talk) 15:54, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

And please don't remove tags from articles that are designed to bring other editors in who can help improve the sourcing. Thanks. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 13:49, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Kenyaboystar, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to County Governor of Kitui have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues here.

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• Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:11, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

March 2018

Your addition to County Governor of Kitui has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. The Mighty Glen (talk) 14:58, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Speaker of the County Assembly of Machakos (May 1)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Curb Safe Charmer was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 21:02, 1 May 2018 (UTC)