User talk:Almawateraid

July 2017
Hello, I'm Flyer22 Reborn. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Water supply and sanitation in Saudi Arabia have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 15:59, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

Welcome!
Welcome to Wikipedia, Almawateraid! Thank you for your contributions. I am EMsmile, and I am a part of a group of people wishing to improve sanitation-related articles on Wikipedia (which also includes topics around water supply and public health). If you have any questions about editing on Wikipedia, please feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Questions.

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Your edits about access data for country profiles
I am copying here what I had put on the talk page of another editor, User:Nsoqe. Thanks for adding all this access data to the country profiles. However, please take a look how I have just changed it for the article on Drinking water supply and sanitation in the United States and please do it accordingly for the others. I.e. no need to say "according to WASHWatch" (reference itself is sufficient) and please round to sensible numbers - millions in most cases, I guess. I also spoke about this with Ruth on Tuesday, did she mention it to you yet?


 * Really great to see that you're continuing with this, User:Nsoqe. I have two suggestions: Let's round big figures, so instead of 3 643 000, I would suggest 3.64 million, in the case of South Africa. Also there is a field called refname. In source editor it looks like this:

 In 2015,the total number of people in South Africa lacking access to an "improved" water supply was 3 643 000. 
 * Please change the :1 (which is the default) to something else like "SAJMPWash". This is related to referencing and it's a bit complicated in WP, but if you want to know more please read here: WP:REFB


 * Another thing for all the pages: please consider adding wikilinks to improved water source, sanitation and improved sanitation (see how I've just done it for the South Africa article). Wikilinks are not to be added each time when the term appears but it can be added in the lead and also once or twice in the main article (especially if it's a long article). EMsmile (talk) 14:10, 20 July 2017 (UTC)