User talk:VickyOmondi

Welcome

I saw you added external links in the body of the article of Climate change. Wikipedia does not link to outside organisation except when in sources. A few additional external links can be added to an External links section at the end of article, but most links are unsuitable there too (see WP:external links). For exciting things to do as a newer editor, please see the suggestions at Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change. Femke (talk) 17:59, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

October 2022

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Your edit to Climate finance has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Femke (talk) 17:13, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions. It seems that you may have added public domain content to one or more Wikipedia articles, such as 2022 Africa floods. You are welcome to import appropriate public domain content to articles, but in order to meet the Wikipedia guideline on plagiarism, such content must be fully attributed. This requires not only acknowledging the source, but acknowledging that the source is copied. There are several methods to do this described at Wikipedia:Plagiarism#Public-domain sources, including the usage of an attribution template. Please make sure that any public domain content you have already imported is fully attributed. Thank you. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 12:25, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

Please do not use first person

I've partially reverted your edits to climate governance. Wikipedia does not use first person (our lives, us), as that is not sufficiently neutral and formal tone for an encyclopedia. Also note that article bodies should contain wikilinks to other WIkipedia articles, but no external links. Finally, bolding is only applied to the title in the first sentence. (there is a whole WP:Manual of Style to Wikipedia if you're curious about the details).

I've left in some of your edit with a citation needed tag. I hope you can find a good citation, because the new text you added was better than the old in terms of understandability :). (the first paragraph is full of jargon, and your text isn't). Femke (talk) 16:31, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for providing a citation! Unfortunately, I cannot access the video (I've tried multiple browsers). I was trying to check if the entire paragraph was supported by the citation and if the edit complies with copyright. Is there a better link?

Another tip: if you use {{cite media}} you can use the parameter time= to indicate which part of the video supports the text in the paragraph. You can find use this template by clicking cite, then clicking manual and typing {{cite media|people= |date= |title= |type= |url= |access-date= |archive-url= |archive-date= |time= |location= |publisher= |quote=}}. Femke (talk) 16:28, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Image captions

I've noticed you're adding image captions which are identical to the file name. Could you rewrite these as WP:CAPTIONs? A short sentence, or sentence fragment describing the picture, and sometimes why it's relevant to the article? Thanks :). And feel free to reply here. Femke (talk) 16:32, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

I see your still struggling with this [1]. Do you have a technical problem I could help with? —Femke 🐦 (talk) 20:04, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

Yeah, have tried but couldn't find a solution VickyOmondi (talk) 20:18, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

I can't reproduce what you're doing, so hope this will help. When you insert an image in an article, the second screen you get is for the caption. You can write a short caption there, and then click Insert on the top-right.

Changing the image caption (where you've included the file name rather than a caption) is also very easy. When you use the Visual Editor, you can change the text in exactly the same way as you'd normally change text! —Femke 🐦 (talk) 16:28, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

Suggestion to write on talk pages first

I see that quite a few of your edits had to be reverted. I've explained in the edit summary of my recent changes at effects of climate change on oceans why I reverted your edits there. I suggest that you use article talk pages more by suggesting there what you are planning to change and why, in order to avoid disappointment. I am not sure if you are participating in an editing contest that just counts the number of edits? This would be a pity because the quality of edits should be what counts, not pure quantity. EMsmile (talk) 22:10, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

November 2022

Your edit to Climate change in Kenya has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. This is your third warning. — Diannaa (talk) 20:14, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate images to Wikipedia, as you did to 2020 East Africa floods; it is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Thank you. In Special:Diff/1117166382 you added commons:File:2021-12-12 Flood in Dili.jpg, which is a 2021 image of flooding in Dili, East Timor and is not related to the article in question. I have removed the image in question and as an aside also captioned two others you added without a proper caption, as was previously discussed above. – Recoil (talk) 10:21, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

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Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 05:09, 7 November 2022 (UTC)