User talk:David Stevns

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Dear David, Welcome to Wikipedia, and thanks for your contributions so far. Unfortunately, I had to delete an image of Ato Meles that you inserted on Addis Ababa, because its insertion is inappropiate. The main reason for this is that there needs to be a good reason to link Meles with the city, and the one you have mentioned in the (much too wordy) caption is not sufficiently sourced. It may well be that Meles and the EPRDF are singlehandedly responsible for modernizing Addis Ababa, but such a claim needs a reliable source in order to be more than just original research, something we are not allowed to do on Wikipedia. Furthermore, you placed the image in the weather and climate section of the article, where it doesn't fit, and as it is rather grainy, it is of poor quality. The main reason for its deletion from the page, though, is its unsourced connection with the subject of the page. Before you can reinsert the image, you need to provide a source that clearly links Meles sufficiently to Addis Ababa to justify the inclusion of the image.

Editing Wikipedia comes with a steep learning curve for new editors, as there are many rules that need to be learned, and new editors experience frequent reverts of their edits - this happened to me, too! I hope that you don't get discouraged by this, that you get yourself acquainted with the rules that we all need to follow, and that over time you become an experienced editor with many good contributions to the project. Best wishes, LandLing 09:51, 8 July 2021 (UTC)