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Your submission at Articles for creation: Rail line Kilometres by Country (February 4)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Heliosxeros was:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage (not just mere mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject—see the general guideline on notability, the golden rule and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners and Help:Introduction to referencing/1), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

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EROS ^message 14:54, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Ivanlm78! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! EROS ^message 14:54, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

November 2019

Hello, I'm ~riley. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to Syria because they seemed inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. ~riley (talk) 08:46, 23 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, ~riley. thanks for the message and your help. So I don't repeat this mistake, can you confirm this is in reference to the external link datamun.com? Thanks in advance!

December 2019

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. [1] MrOllie (talk) 12:22, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi MrOllie. I haven't seen anything in this user's contribution history that warrants the above warning. What exactly is your concern? Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 17:53, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nearly 100% of his edits are additions of datamun.com, an unreliable source. - MrOllie (talk) 17:54, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

He's adding useful content along with links to datamun. I agree that datamun does not meet our criteria for being a reliable source, but adding good content with an unreliable source is an error that we can assume is made in good faith. IvanIM78, it's really great that you want to add this information to Wikipedia, but you should do so while citing the original sources of that information, e.g. the World Development Indicators or the OECD, rather than datamun.com. That way, readers can be verify the numbers. Does that make sense? Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 18:02, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

External links

Dear all, Please accept my apologies for the number of external links added. The reason I did so was to facilitate the exploration of historical data and country comparison to readers, so I didn’t have to add an overwhelming and irrelevant about of information to the given page. In relation to datamun, I can confirm I have an affiliation and I was not aware this was not allowed to do. I’ll make siete no more external links are added. In saying that, I’d like to state sources such as the CIA, world Development Indicators indicators and OECD are not the “primary” source of information but a collection of. Governmental and non-governmental sources. It is for that reason I thought datamun could be used as a source. I will go through the guidelines to better understand how to meet the criteria of realisable source. Finally, I just want to assure there is no commercial goal behind my posts, datamun is a free (and as free) source creates to advance knowledge. Many thanks and apologies again Ivanlm78 Ivanlm78 (talk) 20:45, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ivanlm78. Thanks for writing this note. I think you will be a very valuable contributor to Wikipedia - you have a good sense of what makes information reliable, which is the most important thing. I hope you will continue to write about African countries in particular, as we're really lacking editors in this area. P.S. You might be interested in updating this article: List of countries by rail transport network size. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 18:26, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A belated welcome!

Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Ivanlm78. I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:

Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes (~~~~); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post.

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page, consult Wikipedia:Questions, or place {{help me}} on your talk page and ask your question there.

I just realized how much stuff there is to read in all these links. Just read the first one or two links and you'll be fine. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 19:05, 6 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Again, welcome! Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 18:27, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much Clayoquot, there is certainly a lot I need to read through, but I look forward to it.Ivanlm78 (talk) 11:44, 6 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]