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Speedy deletion of Mr. Ogbonna O. Onovo, O.O.N., N.P.M., nmi - An Epitome of Public Safety Leadership

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Ogbonna O. Onovo

Hello Okay Uzoma, I read your message on the article talk page, and I believe you. Unfortunately, the article also has some other problems, above all the question whether Ogbonna O. Onovo is notable enough to merit inclusion in an encyclopedia. Please check the links in the posts above, and Wikipedia:Notability in particular. To give you some time to edit this article without the immediate threat of deletion, I moved the article to your user space, to User:Okay Uzoma/Ogbonna O. Onovo. I recommend joining Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa and asking people there for advice. Happy editing! — Sebastian 04:35, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Okay Uzoma, please listen to me. Now you moved the page to the title "Nigerian Police Officers", and I had to revert that. The problem is not the title, but that Wikipedia is not meant for personal web pages or memorials. I turned a blind eye to it twice, because my impression of you is that you honestly want to constructively contribute to Wikipedia, and I take your other edits as a sign that my trust in you is not mistaken. But please don't create new articles for a while, until you had a chance to familiarize yourself with our policies. PLease take this advice seriously. — Sebastian 02:58, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Ogbonna Okechukwu Onovo article now exists

I just started an article on Ogbonna Okechukwu Onovo, and while checking for sources came across yours on the same subject!

Don't be discouraged by the comments above, and don't take them personally. It takes a while to learn the conventions of a Wikipedia article - I am still learning. The basic idea is that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, like any other encyclopedia. A good article should be entirely neutral, and all the information should be based on reliable independent sources, shown as references. An article should never try to advance a viewpoint. It should just provide generally accepted information. I think it is useful to imagine that you are writing for a skeptical high school student on the other side of the world, explaining a subject that they know nothing about.

You obviously know about this subject, so could do a much better job than me in tracking down reliable sources that give more information. The tough thing is to avoid giving any information that is not backed up by the sources, even if you know it is true, to keep the tone strictly neutral, and to avoid unnecessary material. You are giving the essential and important information, not every little detail. Wikipedia articles about living people have to be very carefully written, with no assertions that could possibly be disputed. "Let the facts speak for themselves" is an excellent principle.

I hope you decide to make further contributions. Perhaps, for practice, you should first try researching and writing one or two articles on subjects you know nothing about. That way, the articles have to be entirely based on the sources. It can be an interesting challenge and very good practice. There is a huge list at Wikipedia:Requested articles. Maybe a nature reserve in the Amazon basin... Aymatth2 (talk) 17:23, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

I have to apologize for my previous message; I had not read your article thoroughly and wrongly assumed that Mr. Ogbonna O. Onovo was not notable. Thanks to the good work of Aymatth2, I now stand corrected. I will place a {{mergeto}} template on User:Okay Uzoma/Ogbonna O. Onovo; eventually we should probably change that page to a redirect to Ogbonna Okechukwu Onovo. — Sebastian 19:10, 28 September 2009 (UTC)