User talk:Helen Ikua

February 2024
Hello, I'm Maxim Masiutin. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person   on Hellen Obiri, 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! Maxim Masiutin (talk) 20:00, 8 February 2024 (UTC)


 * That's all well and good to keep information about living persons accurate and verifiable. And I assure you that Hellen Obiri is very much alive.
 * Suffice to say that information regarding Obiri's best times across all distances is easily verifiable by anyone with internet access, and by extension (no pun intended) access to the IAAF's or World Athletics' all time lists over the mile, 3000 meters, 5000 meters, half marathon, marathon, etc.
 * And if we're going to split hairs over citation, let me state that earlier supposedly verified information found on Obiri's Wikipedia page was patently inaccurate in its suggestion that Obiri is the national record holder over the mile and the 5000 meters.
 * Because as all the world knows, the current World Record over the mile is held by Obiri's countrywoman Faith Kipyegon, Kipyegon is therefore naturally the national record holder over the mile.
 * Additionally, Obiri is provably not the national record holder over the 5000 meters. Again, as all the world knows, two of Obiri's countrywomen in Faith Kipyegon and Beatrice Chebet have posted faster 5000 meter times than Obiri's 5000 meters best.
 * Ergo. It was such blatant inaccuracies as I've mentioned above, which led me to make this edit that's still up on Obiri's Wikipedia page I notice.👇
 * Obiri is the (former) Kenyan national record holder for the mile and the 5000 metres. Both those records were only recently broken by Faith Kipyegon on her way to setting the current mile World Record of 4:07.64 set in Monaco on 21 July 2023. Kipyegon is also the national 5000 metre record holder, by reason of being the immediate former 5000 metre World Record holder with a time of 14:05.20 set in Paris France on June 9 2023. 
 * Of course and most curiously, the information in brackets was provided by myself before I created an account with your Wikipedia organization.
 * Anywho, you have yourself a nice day Maxim. Helen Ikua (talk) 07:16, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Anywho, you have yourself a nice day Maxim. Helen Ikua (talk) 07:16, 9 February 2024 (UTC)