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Thanks for creating Alioune Diop University.

User:TomCat4680 while examining this page as a part of our page curation process had the following comments:

Punctuation should always go before references, never after.

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Thank you User:TomCat4680. I am still somewhat new to editing so appreciate the feedback and help. ~~~~

Reference in Kayleigh McEnany article

Hi, Amaanki. In this edit to the Kayleigh McEnany article, could you please tell me what tool you used to add the reference? Jason Quinn (talk) 08:40, 6 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jason Quinn, for that citation, I used cite function in visual editing mode to add the reference. Hope that helps. Amaanki (talk) 00:50, 8 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Overlinking

Please don't add wikilinks to well-known places. It's unnecessary and against our manual of style: MOS:OVERLINK EddieHugh (talk) 20:17, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thank you for the suggestion. I will keep that in mind going-forward Amaanki (talk) 20:48, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

David Attenborough

When you edit David Attenborough page can you make sure if your edit need to also be updated to the Draft:List of Achievements, awards and recognition received by David Attenborough P+T 92.236.253.249 (talk) 10:01, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, will do, thank you for letting me know. Amaanki (talk) 14:21, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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CS1 error on Fitsum Arega

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A "bare URL and missing title" error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)

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Thank you for flagging the issue - I have fixed it. Amaanki (talk) 19:32, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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"Turkey" vs. "Türkiye"

Hi! I saw you used the name "Türkiye" as the name of the country generally known in English as "Turkey" in your recent edit.

Q: Why don't you use the name Türkiye, the correct name for this country?

A: Because the English-language Wikipedia has a WP:COMMONNAME policy. We use names for countries and places that are the names commonly used for them in English, regardless of what official organizations use. Technically, this kind of name is known as an exonym. For example, we use the name Germany, instead of the native endonym Deutschland, and we use the name Japan instead of the native name 日本.

Q: But the Turkish government, U.S. State Department, and United Nations all use "Türkiye", so it must be correct.

A: Indeed they do. But WP:COMMONNAME is not authority-based, but usage-based.

Notice that this does not apply when we are quoting a literal name in Turkish; for example, the newspaper is called Türkiye, not Turkey. To do that would be hypercorrection, and we don't do that. Nor do we mangle the name into English in direct quotations, including titles of documents, nor in URLs. But it does apply for all uses in Wikipedia's own voice in the English language, including article titles (so the capital is Ankara, Turkey, not "Ankara, Türkiye")

If or when that general English-language usage changes (as has happened in the past with place names such as Mumbai and Beijing), the same WP:COMMONNAME policy implies that the English-language Wikipedia will necessarily also follow suit. So far, that hasn't happened.

This has been discussed many times, with the same result every time because of the common name policy. If you'd like to discuss this further, please take it up at Talk:Turkey. — The Anome (talk) 13:27, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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