User talk:Machuka Erick

August 2017
The title of a Wikipedia article should not be all in capitals. Also, we don't include honorifics in article titles. For those reasons the article which you created as HON. JANET ONG’ERA was renamed as Janet Ong'era.

It is almost never suitable to copy content from another web site to Wikipedia, for more than one reason, the most important being copyright. When you post anything to Wikipedia you release it for anyone in the world to reuse it, either unchanged or modified in any way whatever, subject to attribution to Wikipedia. It is very rare that the owner of a web site licenses content for such very free reuse, and in those few occasions when they do so, we require proof of the fact. We don't assume that content is freely licensed on the unsubstantiated say so of just anyone who comes along and creates a Wikipedia account, for the simple reason that very often people come to Wikipedia and falsely claim to have copyright rights that in fact they don't have. Also, even on the rare occasions when there is no copyright problem, content from an organisation or business's own website is not usually suitable for a Wikipedia article, as it is almost invariably written in terms designed to promote the organisation and give a good impression of it, rather than presenting it from a neutral point of view, as required for a Wikipedia article. Such promotional editing is not permitted by Wikipedia policy.

The article which you created suffered from both the problems mentioned in the paragraph above: it was unambiguously laudatory and promotional in character, and its content was an almost identical copy of content at www.janetongera.com/about-me. For both those reasons the article has been deleted. I am sure that Janet Ong'era is entirely suitable to be the topic of a Wikipedia article, but I'm afraid the article you created was not suitable.

My advice to new editors is that it is best to start by making small improvements to existing articles, rather than creating new articles. That way any mistakes you make will be small ones, and you won't have the discouraging experience of repeatedly seeing hours of work deleted. Gradually, you will get to learn how Wikipedia works, and after a while you will know enough about what is acceptable to be able to write whole new articles without fear that they will be deleted. Over the years I have found that editors who start by making small changes to existing articles and work up from there have a far better chance of having a successful time here than those who jump right into creating new articles from the start. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 12:32, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

Ways to improve Janet ong'era
Hi, I'm Domdeparis. Machuka Erick, thanks for creating Janet ong'era!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. please provide reliable secondary sources to back up the claims in the article

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

Domdeparis (talk) 00:28, 27 September 2017 (UTC)