User talk:Elmanechi

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On Evo Morales article
While I thought I had read about coca in Vietnam, I took the book that I thought referenced this back to the library. As I had no other reference that seemed to indicate coca growing in Vietnam, the claim had to be removed because without a good reference it would be Original Reasearch.

The problem with the information that your want to add to the Evo Morales article is that your not including any references, you wrote :
 * “In January of 2007, completed a year of government, the general balance of the government of Morales é partially negative, probably for not having fulfilled with the population the expectations of the first months. A ministers' wide change of primary importance, with that of economy, interior and agriculture, the resignation of the president of YPFB, and the loss of the presidency of the senate they reflect the shades in the management of government of the first year of Morales and the fall in the popular acceptance that experiments internally.”

You need to reference your work (meaning you need to show what your source for this information is). Wikipedia wants facts that can be proven not just opinion. I have read that his popularity decreased from over 80% approval rating among the people, down to a little under 70% but if you want to add this information to the article you need to cite a newspaper, book, or magazine that says this. While your opinion on why his approval ratings fell is interesting, why should a reader assume that you’re interpretation of this decline is correct? If you find an interview or article by an expert saying the same thing then a quote from that person should be included. Wikipedia wants us to find experts explaining why things happen, not give our own guess – (in Wikipedia giving your own opinion is called Original research and is not to be included in articles - see No original research).

So because I could not provide the reference about my claim about Vietnam and coca I had to remove the claim, if you can find a reference that supports your claim about how the first year of Evo Morales’ Presidency went, then your claim can be included in the article about him, otherwise it must be removed because of the guideline at No original research.
 * --Wowaconia 20:45, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

You wrote on my talk-page "Actually I have many more information, but the difficulty of the language prevents me from contributing everything." Don't forget that there is a Spanish language version of Wikipedia and they have an article on Evo Morales at http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales
 * --Wowaconia 06:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)