User talk:Libyan10

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Hello

I noticed your inquiry at the Tea House, and just thought I'd check out your Libyan American page and provide some suggestions:

Try to find some "official" sites; for example:

American-Libyan Council (ALC)

Libyan-American Industry And Commerce Chamber, LLC

Perhaps? Libyan American Youth (facebook)

Be sure to include redirects for "American-Libyan", Libyan-American, etc.
Try to find WP articles that include the term(s), and have them link to your page.
Notable Libyan Americans? (Jawal Nga, Mansour Omar El-Kikhia, etc.)

Anyway, good luck and have fun! ~E 74.60.29.141 (talk) 05:12, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

P.s.: my primary talk page is here, but I might not be able to respond quickly.

Teahouse talkback

Hello, Libyan10. Your question has been answered at the Teahouse Q&A board. Feel free to reply there!
Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:13, 24 September 2012 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).[reply]

Edit to Tripoli

Greetings, you made the following edit at Tripoli:

Most of the residents of the city are primary ethnic Arabs and black Africans from Sub-Saharan Africa. 95% of the city's population speaks Arabic.

For something as sensitive as demographics, and a number as specific as "95%", we really need to have a proper WP:Citation to prove it. How do you know 95% is accurate? Did you read it somewhere? If so, definitely please add a footnote to where you read it. Is it something you "just know", "everybody knows", or just a good guess? In that case it's WP:Original research and it must be removed. I'm sure you can understand, Wikipedia needs rock-solid sourcing for facts, otherwise we just don't have any stability to articles since you might say 95%, another guy 90% and another 99%, and we'd have no way of proving who's the accurate number.

Could you please either add a citation (GoogleBooks is a great place to check) or remove that info you added? Your work so far is great, it just needs a bit more strength of sourcing to bring it into Wiki standards, but you're off to a very strong start! MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:23, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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December 2012

Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Libya, but we cannot accept original research. Original research also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Wikipedia has to be based on quality published sources (see WP:RS), not on editors' own experience. In fact, the latter is expressly prohibited. (see WP:NOR). I removed your unsourced (and most probably wrong) edits. kashmiri 16:25, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]