User talk:Dellyjoe85

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Hello, Dellyjoe85, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Below are some pages that you might find helpful. For a user-friendly interactive help forum see the Wikipedia Teahouse.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. Again, If you need help visit the Teahouse or you can click here to ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! We are so glad you are here! Adakiko (talk) 19:22, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Adakiko for your response Dellyjoe85 (talk) 19:27, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not over-link

See wp:overlink e.g. avoid linking to words that are known to most English speakers. World War II, and probably e-book as well. Thank you Adakiko (talk) 19:22, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

June 2025

Hello, Dellyjoe85. This is your user talk page; the purpose of this page is notification and communication with other Wikipedia editors. It is not a workspace for articles in progress or for self-promotion. Please use your user sandbox or the draft article space to practice editing or to create new articles. Thank you. —tony 20:34, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

draft:Hillary Akpua

I formatted one of the citations on draft:Hillary Akpua. Most of the other links on that page don't appear to be a working URL. You might want to fix those. You can copy that formatting for the other citations. See {{cite web}} for rather cryptic documentation. "|first1=" and "|last1=" would be where the author's name goes. BTW: If you are, or have a relationship with Hillary Akpua, you would have a wp:conflict of interest (COI) and, per Wikipedia policy, must disclose it. Cheers Adakiko (talk) 19:05, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Adakiko. I tried using your formating template but got cite error for all the references. Please, can you help out with the rest of the referencing? Dellyjoe85 (talk) 14:32, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Did you happen to read the "Help" links? That might have provided clues, though they are often cryptic. The problem was is you didn't use the references anywhere! I added a "Test" section and used references. The {{reflist|refs= usually only needs to be added once. The "|first1=" and "|last1=" should have the author of the article added. If there is no author, such as if "staff" is used for the author, just removed the first/last stuff. If there is more than one author, use first2... first3... etc. Hope this helps! You can remove my "Test" section.

The ref names need to be unique. You had "Int’l" and "Stakeholders" both twice; I added a 1 & 2 to differentiate them. Try changing them back to the same to see what happens. Please use wp:Show preview for tests to avoid adding unnecessary wp:page history. You don't want it clogged up with test edit history!

EFCC and Guardian are both wp:disambiguation pages (DAB). Please change those links to an real article. You probably want The Guardian (Nigeria) and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, but please check! If the "|publisher=" links are red, see if you can find the article, otherwise, remove the link. Make sure it's the correct article! There are a number of "Vanguard" and "Guardian" articles.

Please use straight quote and tick marks; e.g. use ' and not ’ . See wp:curly for info. Cheers Adakiko (talk) 19:26, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wow

You are an exceptional tutor. I will try your recommendations and hopefully I will get it this time around. Thank you for your time. Dellyjoe85 (talk) 19:46, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Unfortunately, I don't have as great of depth of knowledge as I would like. The wp:Teahouse, generally for simpler questions, and wp:help desk, for more complex questions might be a better choice! You can always use the {{help me}} template on your talk page. Help me often leaves a bit of a mess. You can add sources on your user page: user:Dellyjoe85. I have a fair amount on mine: user:Adakiko. Feel free to copy/paste it to yours. You can use others' user page content too. I will leave an ES when I paste it to my user page if the content appears to have taken work; something like "Copied content from user:Dellyjoe85. Thank you, Dellyjoe85!"

BTW: You don't need to use "{{reflist|refs=" and the closing "}}". You can add them directly as in wp:inline citation; this is what most people do. It can be difficult to find and edit a citation if it's inline and reused multiple times. If a ref is only used once, one can click on the section edit. Then you see only that section and not the entire article.

You should consider archiving articles, maybe with The Wayback Machine. See Help:Archiving a source and Help:Using the Wayback Machine. Articles often disappear, an while there is wp:KDL, some remove them and content anyway. With a Cite web, the fields "|archive-url=", "|archive-date=", and "url-status=". Copy the archive-url from the Wayback Machine's url in the address bar. The date from the large-font date towards the upper-right corner. For the url-status if the original url works, use "live". If dead use "dead". If it opens to something like a porn page, use "unfit" which does not display a link to the original url. See cite web archive. Cheers Adakiko (talk) 20:54, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]