User talk:Tcipere
Tochukwu Callistus Ipere is a contemporary Nigerian Poet born in Enugu. Tochukwu is a native of Ideato North in Imo State, South East Nigeria. Tochukwu was educated at the University of Nigeria and the Chartered Institute of Administration, CIA where he qualified as an Associate, ACIA in Corporate Administration and Finance in 2006. He currently has three publications (all collections of poems)to his credit, The Creeping Fire Of Hope SGS,IMT Enugu ,1999, Dance Of The Golden Baby, Delta Enugu 2000, Get The Way, Madonna University Press Enugu 2011.
Tochukwu Ipere has won many awards as a poet these include: 1. The International Poet Of Merit Award 2001. 2. National Judge/Advocate of poems @ website www.poets.com 2005. 3. International Poetry Achievement Award 2007. 4. Editor's Choice Poetry Awards 2006,2007,2008. 5. International Who's Who Golden Poet Award 2007.6.International Poetic Ambassador to the International Society of Poets 2007.
Tochukwu was an executive member of the Association of Nigerian Authors ANA Enugu State chapter from 1999 to 2003. He is active online and the founder of a Causes page called Support African Poetry. He is currently studying for a Post Graduate Degree in Education PGDE with the National Teachers Institute NTI Kaduna.He has interest in music and is a song writer. Tochukwu has up to 800 poems to his credit.
Tochukwu Callistus Ipere esq 2011.
The article Tochukwu Ipere has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.
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Nomination of Tochukwu Ipere for deletion[edit]
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January 2011[edit]
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A tag has been placed on Tochukwu Callistus Ipere prefix:Wikipedia:Deletion review requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.
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The closing administrator at the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion debate said that, as no-one contributed, the deletion should be reversed on request. I have therefore restored the article; but it may be nominated again.
What it most needs is independent references. Wikipedia's admission criterion is called notability, and is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The test is, have people independent of the subject thought it important and significant enough to write substantial comment on? More detail at WP:Notability (people), particularly the section WP:AUTHOR.
This is particularly important as your article is evidently autobiography; although strongly discouraged for reasons explained at Wikipedia:Autobiography, this is not actually prohibited, but it means that the independent evidence for notability is likely to be looked at particularly hard. What is needed is reference to reviews, or to articles about you.
Reference to awards etc should also be backed up by references to reliable sources, in line with Wikipedia's WP:Verifiability policy.
Regards, JohnCD (talk) 17:55, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Only one account, please[edit]
It seems likely that you are the same person as user Tochukwuipere (talk · contribs). If so, please choose one account and stick to it, to avoid any suspicion of sockpuppetry. JohnCD (talk) 17:58, 23 March 2011 (UTC)