Talk:Sumve

Since I am the original author of this page, I would like to know from you citation gurus out there if my personal experience (I lived there for 2 years) is good enough, and if so, how do I cite it? Please help. Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Andrewcoe22 (talk • contribs) 18:56, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
 * First, many thanks for writing this article. In general, Africa topics are under-represented on the English Wikipedia. Regarding citations, Wikipedia has a firm policy that we cannot use personal experience as a basis for articles. That would be original research. We can only use reliable, published sources; see Verifiability. This can sometimes make writing articles difficult, because for some places in the world, there just aren't that many facts published in reliable sources. On the other hand, first-hand reporting about a location isn't really the responsibility of an encyclopedia, which is a tertiary source. &mdash; Matt Crypto 18:07, 1 November 2006 (UTC)