User talk:Notebooks1920

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Hi Notebooks1920! I was looking at Omali Yeshitela and saw that you've contributed to this article. A current issue with this article is that it primarily cites material authored or published by Yeshitela, and I wanted to invite you to help correct this problem. On Wikipedia, the policy of Verifiability says that articles should rely on "reliable, independent, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy". The essay at Independent sources describes how to evaluate whether a source is "independent" according to Wikipedia guidelines.

These rules are particularly important for Biographies of living persons: "Articles should document in a non-partisan manner what reliable secondary sources have published about the subjects, and in some circumstances what the subjects have published about themselves." In short, it can be appropriate to cite Yeshitela's own work for some of the material in the article, but the bulk of the sourcing should be independent.

Also, I wanted to check - do you have any affiliation with the party or the movement? Wikipedia discourages direct editing of an article by people who are employed by or closely affiliated with the subject of the article: Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. If you are, it's fine to suggest changes on Talk:Omali_Yeshitela, but you would need to disclose your affiliation and avoid editing the article directly.

I'm happy to help with these things - let me know if you have questions. Dreamyshade (talk) 14:01, 3 January 2023 (UTC)