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Girka is a village in Kaita Local Government in Katsina state. The word 'Girka' in Hausa may literally mean 'to base something in.' It may also mean (the spiritual activities of Bori.) But this meaning has nothing to do with Girka village etymologically or historically. Sauri is the title of the Village Head.

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Thanks once again Altered Walter for the info. I just made some changes to my article that I think it is worth looking at and removing those 'challenging templetes'. Pls advise me. Shamsu Rabiu Galadunchi 11:09, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

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Ambiguity is corrected and hope the issue is resolved! Shamsu Rabiu Galadunchi 11:13, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

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Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse![edit]

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I, and the rest of the hosts, would be more than happy to answer any questions you have! SarahStierch (talk) 09:41, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Abubakar Sani[edit]

Hello Shamsurabiu,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Abubakar Sani for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly indicate why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks!

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Too Early for Publishing[edit]

Thanks for the response to my article, Abubakar Sani. I believe the problem arose when I could not use sandbox to create and develop the article. I am making efforts to move it to sandbox. I welcome all your suggestions and criticisms. Thanks Shamsu Rabiu Galadunchi 10:57, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

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Thanks Captain. It might be I wasn't able to make proper description due to my poor knowledge of Wikipedia but I have email permission to use it here from the owner. Please guide me on where to forward that email in order to avoid deletion. Thank you. Shamsu Rabiu Galadunchi 15:48, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

It might be I was unable to make proper description due to my poor knowledge of Wikipedia but I have email permission from the owner to use it in Wikipedia. Please guide me on where to forward that email permission so as to avoid deletion of the image. Thank you. Shamsu Rabiu Galadunchi

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You are lucky to block me from editing Wikipedia. How capable are you to block me from breathing air? Shamsu Rabiu Galadunchi 10:00, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

It gives you pleasure and pride to make things worse and I wonder how could that make world a better place. Shamsu Rabiu Galadunchi 10:02, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. I understand where the problem came from. Shamsu Rabiu Galadunchi 16:42, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

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March 2020[edit]

Hello Shamsurabiu. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Shamsurabiu. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Shamsurabiu|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. GSS ^💬 18:03, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your openness and clarity of explanation.

It took me weeks to gather facts about the subject and initially my thought was to write about prisoners' activists but it's somewhat too wide for me, thus narrowed to Louis L Reed. I'm not paid to write about him. I gleaned my facts from his TV and newspaper interviews, and their websites. Shamsu Rabiu Galadunchi 19:49, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

@GSS I saw your message asking whether I'm a paid editor. I categorically told you that I AM NOT A PAID EDITOR. I asked you to tell me where my article goes wrong so I'll avoid the mistake in the future. Shamsu Rabiu Galadunchi 06:21, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

@Yunshui: in response to this comment by Shamsurabiu can you please check your inbox? Thank you. GSS ^💬 04:34, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Bridgemaker? Bridge burner, more like. Your above claim is easily disproved by off-wiki evidence, and you are now blocked from editing. Yunshui ^雲 _水 08:05, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]