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Welcome Keellerman!
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Sincerely, Crtew (talk) 01:07, 12 January 2012 (UTC)   (Leave me a message)[reply]

Corrected some formatting issues[edit]

Keellerman, I fixed some of the formatting problems on your page. You don't have to copy the links down twice and when you start editing you'll never have to write the references both in the article and in the reference as the latter is done automatically! When you write a reference, place ref tags around the citation. The article will have a reflist template below and it automatically will place your list of references for you at the bottom of the article. I also put the reflinks tool banner at the top of your page to generate FULL citations. Remember, I told you in the lecture that you'd never turn in bare link references to your professors or to Wikipedia! This tool saves you time by helping you to automatically turn those bare links into a citation with more details. Crtew (talk) 17:14, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep going![edit]

Keellerman, You found enough reference sources from world press freedom organizations but you'll need additional sources that are from news reports. Otherwise the quality of your Wikipedia article will suffer from lack of verification and you will not be able to show significant coverage. If you noted any variations in spellings or names used for your person, you should incorporate that into your searches. Google News is the place we will start for news. From there we will go into Lexis-Nexis. Do the Google search now and don't forget that it only brings up recent events and so you'll typically have to go into archives (using the menu on the side) to go back to past articles. You know the old saying, "Yesterday's news is today's history." I have a lecture on Blackboard about how to do effective searches for your reference. Please do that now before going to then next step. Crtew (talk) 17:15, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Evansville meetup[edit]

You're invited to help plan and attend Wikimedia's very first Evansville meetup! Bob the WikipediaN (talkcontribs) 02:40, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your article has been moved to AfC space[edit]

Hi! I would like to inform you that the Articles for Creation submission which was previously located here: User:Keellerman/Enenche Akogwu has been moved to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Enenche Akogwu, this move was made automatically and doesn't affect your article, if you have any questions please ask on my talk page! Have a nice day. ArticlesForCreationBot (talk) 04:45, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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

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Hello! Keellerman, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! Sarah (talk) 01:47, 11 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation[edit]

Thank you for your recent submission to Articles for Creation. Your article submission has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer. You are welcome to edit the submission to address the issues raised, and resubmit once you feel they have been resolved.