User talk:Tezamen/Help

Seeking Guidance (non-urgent)
Hi, and thank you for returning my request. I am curious of suggested way(s) to approach adding information to an existing article in light of a Current Event/article from a News Item.

As there is a recently declared famine in South Sudan, I wanted to ask if it would be appropriate and/or useful to add a section to this article. If so, I am curious of the best approach to this -- with regards to suggested diction within the section, properly linking citations from the news article and any other suggestions.

I notice that information has already been added to the South Sudan article.

I understand that the Unity State is no longer considered a State of South Sudan. Perhaps it might be informative to link article to the See Also portion of Unity State? Maybe it would be informative to add information to this article instead/as well?

I am also asking all of this in order to help aid me in the future.

Also, was this an appropriate use of the Help me template? If not, where should I direct future inquiries such as these?

Many thanks,

Tezamen (talk)


 * I'm rather skeptical about adding information on an event to a political entity that no longer existed when the event took place. You wouldn't add the information on the 2017 famine to the article on the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan either, would you? If there are references explicitly connecting the famine to either Unity State or the Greater Upper Nile region, we can summarize in the respective articles what those sources report about the famine within those territoried, but otherwise I'd not add anachronisms. The only information on Unity State in the famine article seems to discuss events in 2015 or earlier, when it still was Unity State. Huon (talk) 00:48, 22 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the reply. I agree that I wouldn't add such information to a historical region article. Thanks again. Tezamen (talk)