User talk:Novafelder

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-- 18:14, Monday, April 13, 2015 (UTC)

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 * Hi Novafelder! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
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-- 19:42, Monday, April 13, 2015 (UTC)

April 2015
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Yosef Ben-Jochannan has been reverted. Your edit here to Yosef Ben-Jochannan was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://www.facebook.com/pages/DrYosef-Ben-Jochannan/51871920311) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 18:36, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Some comments that I hope will help. First, the text needs to follow the source. 'Considered to be' is from the source, which says "Yosef Ben-Jochannan, a Black Hebrew Israelite, who claims to be Puerto Rican, is considered one of the premier Afrocentric scholars." We can't turn that into 'is'. Secondly, we don't use 'Dr.' in front of people's names. WP:CREDENTIAL says "Academic and professional titles (such as "Doctor" or "Professor") should not be used before (or after) the name in the initial sentence or in other uses of the person's name. Verifiable facts about how the person attained such titles should be included in the article text instead." Third, you tried to say that he had Ethiopian citizenship. You'd need very good sources for that - see WP:RS, especially as his birthplace is contested. Hope this helps. Dougweller (talk) 19:26, 15 April 2015 (UTC)