User talk:Eruditescholar/2020a

Requests for uncreated articles
Greetings & a great weekend to you all. I believe it would be great if the (Requests for uncreated articles) section in our wiki project can be attended to & at least one article be created this weekend as some requests have been pending since 2016. I believe this would be pivotal to the encyclopedia as a whole & a means to get editors who have gone inactive to revive their Wikipedia activities. Sent by. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:26, 25 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your observation. Which of the WikiProjects are you referring to? Please revert to me for further clarifications. -Eruditescholar (talk) 09:33, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

February with Women in Red
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Efunsetan Aniwura
Happy new month sir. Please your opinion in this discussion will be highly appreciated. I know you are quite knowledgeable about Yoruba history. HandsomeBoy (talk) 21:11, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Happy New Month. I will give my input to that discussion when feasible. Eruditescholar (talk) 04:47, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Ikenna Aniekwe
Eruditescholar I went through your page and I must say that you are doing a great job. I need your help. I created an article titled Ikenna Aniekwe and it appears it hasn't been approved, I don't find it listed when I use a search engine. Apparently there is something I need to do be publication. Please what am I supposed to do differently? MarkCarey911 (talk) 07:13, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Images of Herbert Macaulay


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Vehicle manufacturers
Please see my proposal to merge :Category:Vehicle manufacturers of Nigeria to Category:Motor vehicle manufacturers of Nigeria Hugo999 (talk) 02:29, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

September Women in Red edithons
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October editathons from Women in Red
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Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Bangladeshi expatriates in Nigeria


A tag has been placed on Category:Bangladeshi expatriates in Nigeria requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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November edit-a-thons from Women in Red
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Your advice on BUX article
Hi. Please take a look at Draft:BUX (brokerage). It is a properly stated WP:COI contribution about a Dutch brokerage company. Considering your great experience of editing Wikipedia and also the fact that you are a member of WP:FINANCE, I decided to ask for your advice. My concern is that most of the sources for this article are in Dutch. Do you see it as a problem? Are there any specific requirements for financial services companies, that I should follow? What could/should be improved in the article? Thanks! Peter. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 14:28, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi. I just saw your message and decided to leave a quick reply. Revealing the WP:COI status of the article is a step in the right direction but not guaranteed for viability. WP:GNG is the general notability guideline for articles which you should refer to. Since most of the sources included in the article are Dutch-related, it might imply that the company is more known in the Dutch-speaking world than the English-speaking world. The evident inclusion of some English sources may lend support. Notwithstanding, the quality of the sources (i.e. reliable and independent) is more important than the language used in publication and it should carry a lot of weight in the final assessment by AFC reviewers. You may also want to look at WP:Org for further guidance. I hope that helps. Eruditescholar (talk) 15:49, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

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December with Women in Red
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December 2020
Hello, I'm Namiba. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person   on Olaoluwa Abagun, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. ''Do not add unreferenced ethnicity categories. You have been warned (and blocked) for this multiple times before. Please revert any such categories you've added before further action is taken.'' User:Namiba 00:30, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Namiba. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person   on Ryan Olowofela, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! User:Namiba 00:33, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. User:Namiba 00:44, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

December 2020
 To enforce edit restrictions placed by the community, you have been temporarily blocked from editing. You are welcome to make useful contributions once the block expires; however, please note that the repetition of similar behavior may result in a longer block. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text below this notice:. Reminder to administrators: Edit restrictions placed by the community are enacted by community consensus. In order to overturn this block, you must either receive the approval of the blocking administrator or consensus at a community noticeboard (you may need to copy and paste their statement to a community noticeboard).
 * You have repeatedly violated your topic ban on adding ethnic categories to articles. Cullen328  Let's discuss it  02:06, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your notification. I try my best to comply with Wikipedia's editing policies. I don't add categories to articles unless I deem it relevant or necessary. In many cases, I add reliable sources to support my edits or categorizations and in the remaining ones that I am unable to add sources, there are existing supporting evidences related to the article's topic or subject to validate my edits. I'm not surprised that this issue has been brought up again by this same editor. If what I have contributed to Wikipedia till date has been really disruptive, he wouldn't be the only editor reporting me to the Administrators for disciplinary action. Multiple editors would have done likewise. This latest incident only confirms that he has probably been stalking my edits to achieve his goal. -Eruditescholar (talk) 08:32, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Compliments of the season Eruditescholar, I remember this case from 2017 as I believe I was indirectly involved. It is unfortunate that you have been blocked for two weeks for violating the topic ban. I want to assume good faith that what Namibia is trying to enforce is that before you can add a category that suggest that an individual is "Yoruba" you need a source where it is explicitly stated. And not just because the person has a Yoruba name, there might be some merit in that argument and I can give examples. Considering the current realities, I want to recommend that whenever you think Namibia is indiscriminately removing appropriate categories from articles, create a discussion in WP:WikiProject Nigeria, so I and other interested editors will weigh in on it. This is because the topic ban prevents you from directly editing the article, but you can make recommendations through other editors. What I am saying is that even if your edits are on point, the fact that there is an active ban means you should not be the one to edit it else you will be doing the right thing the wrong way. You can also appeal the removal of the topic ban after a while (I believe 6-12 months of no issue should be enough). For now, I advise you spend the next 2 weeks enjoying the holiday, then return back better. You are doing an excellent job on Wikipedia, and I respect you for that. HandsomeBoy (talk) 16:12, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Okay. Noted. Thanks.-Eruditescholar (talk) 19:32, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Casting aspersions onto my editing habits is not assuming good faith. My edits are based on policies that have been repeatedly pointed out to this editor and persistently ignored. Per WP:RS "Contentious material about living persons (or, in some cases, recently deceased) that is unsourced or poorly sourced—whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable—should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion."]] Adding categories to any article based on your own standard is not allowed. For the purposes of Wikipedia, ethnicity can not be determined by name or nationality. You must provide reliable and independent sources which explicitly state a subject's ethnicity, religion, nationality or any other feature. Given the above response from Eruditescholar and the numerous times they have been told to read WP:RS and WP:BLP, I am not confident that the editor is willing to comply with basic Wikipedia standards for editing. It's a shame because we need more high quality editors on Africa-related content. Being African oneself does not make you an expert on the topic nor are you a reliable source on a subject's ethnicity. Lastly, I strongly urge you to familiarize yourself with the core policy of verifiability. Please consider this before editing once more.--User:Namiba 17:44, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
 * My categorizations are not solely based on my own standards. As much as possible, I also comply with WP: BLP and WP:RS while editing. I have just stated the facts and pointed out some of your disruptive editing till date which you are trying to wrongly portray as good intentions -Eruditescholar (talk) 19:32, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
 * The standard for including potentially controversial information is far higher than the personal standard you describe above. If you were familiar with Wikipedia's policies, you would know that. If there is not a source explicitly stating that someone is a member of X group, you cannot include that information. Period. That's the standard. There is no room for personal standards.--User:Namiba 20:09, 28 December 2020 (UTC)