User talk:Freeroots1979

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Hi Freeroots1979! I was looking at Omali Yeshitela and saw that you've contributed substantially to this article. A current issue with this article is that it primarily cites material authored or published by Yeshitela, and I wanted to invite you to help correct this problem. On Wikipedia, the policy of Wikipedia:Verifiability says that articles should rely on "reliable, independent, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy". The essay at Wikipedia:Independent sources describes how to evaluate whether a source is "independent" according to Wikipedia guidelines.

These rules are particularly important for Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons: "Articles should document in a non-partisan manner what reliable secondary sources have published about the subjects, and in some circumstances what the subjects have published about themselves." In short, it can be appropriate to cite Yeshitela's own work for some of the material in the article, but the bulk of the sourcing should be independent.

Also, I wanted to check - do you have any affiliation with the party or the movement? Wikipedia discourages direct editing of an article by people who are employed by or closely affiliated with the subject of the article: Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. If you are, it's fine to suggest changes on Talk:Omali_Yeshitela, but you would need to disclose your affiliation and avoid editing the article directly.

I'm happy to help with these things - let me know if you have questions. Dreamyshade (talk) 13:59, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

I am a published Africana Studies professor with multiple publications. I have cross referenced this many other authors that I am surely willing to add. Many of these authors include Robin Kelley, Max Stanford, Cedric Robinson and Roderick Bush.

This is the outgrowth of that research. Freeroots1979 (talk) 18:15, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! Yes, adding academic/scholarly sources would be very helpful. The article's citation to Donna Murch's Living for the City is good. For example, I recently worked with some other editors on creating a basic article for the Afro-American Association, and we mostly used newspaper articles and materials published on museum and library websites. I included a link to a key primary source under "Further Reading", instead of using it as a citation within the article, to stay within Wikipedia guidelines. Dreamyshade (talk) 02:57, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

I have also researched the Afro-American Association, in Los Angeles and in San Diego. I might actually see if I can contribute to that article as well. The AAA is the most understood yet one of the most important Black Power organizations. Freeroots1979 (talk) 05:43, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

That'd be great! The AAA article would definitely benefit from more detail. Black Student Union is also a pretty good article to check out as a model of implementing Wikipedia policies/guidelines (Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, etc), with citations to a number of academic sources and a newspaper article, instead of relying on primary sources. Dreamyshade (talk) 01:32, 9 January 2023 (UTC)