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Gaal madow war moved to draftspace edit

An article you recently created, Gaal madow war, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. John B123 (talk) 23:16, 27 November 2020 (UTC)Reply

Ajuran portugese wars moved to draftspace edit

An article you recently created, Ajuran portugese wars, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. JW 1961 Talk 23:29, 27 November 2020 (UTC)Reply

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Oh my god please don’t delete it I have written my reasons wait a sec Hamza678yu (talk) 03:45, 28 November 2020 (UTC)Reply

Draft:Avalite civilisation/kingdom edit

Please do not mix AD/BC year notation with CE/BCE year notation.

Please can you figure out how to do citations for books. I corrected:

  • Avalites, Periplus (2014). The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean. Casmate: Raoul McLaughlin.

to

Do you see the difference? The guy who wrote the book was Raoul McLaughlin, so that goes in the bits for author (first1= first name, last1=last name, if there are two authors, then first2= second author's first name, etc for as many authors as there were). The publisher was Pen and Sword, so that goes under author. We need to know the page numbers, especially as the link to Google Books does not work for everybody - it did not work for me.

There are lots of statements that have no citation, so we do not know where they came from.

The first line says "Avalites was a term the ancient Greeks used for a city in the Northern Somali coast" - well that needs a citation - and it would be best if you explained what you meant. For example, which ancient Greek author called it that? The source that you used for this information, will tell you what source it used.-- Toddy1 (talk) 23:08, 1 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Another issue you want to think about is that there is already an article on Zeila. So your new article needs to tell us a lot about the place an its people during the time of the ancient Persians/Greeks/Romans.-- Toddy1 (talk) 23:13, 1 December 2020 (UTC)Reply