User talk:Ksparikh17

This user is a student editor in Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/University_of_California,_Berkeley/African_Politics_(Spring_2019) .

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Hello, Ksparikh17, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:50, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Politics and Football in Africa for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Politics and Football in Africa is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Politics and Football in Africa until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Praxidicae (talk) 20:15, 28 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi - my recommendation here is as follows:

The article can only contain content that is explicitly stated in the source material. We cannot create our own conclusions or theories, even if it seems to be implied.
Do not use point of view terms in the article, as these will be subjective to the reader. For example, someone may agree that something is eerie while another would not. It also runs the risk of being original research since it would also be a conclusion or theory we created on our own, which we should avoid.
Avoid self-published sources like YouTube videos, blogs, and the like. The reason for this is that self-published sources often do not have the type of (or any) editorial oversight or verification process that they would need to really be considered reliable sources. The only time they can be used is if they're routinely seen as a reliable source by other reliable sources such as academic and scholarly sources.

Once the content has been cleaned up, you may want to merge the content into the main article on football in Africa, as the main page is fairly short and these two article could probably be merged into a single one. I'd definitely make sure to watch over the deletion discussion to see what their recommendations and concerns may be. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:37, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]