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I corrected the false information you published about Monday Okpebholo. As a member of his media team, I can confirm that he has been married twice and has four children from his previous marriages.
Contrary to your claims, Monday Okpebholo is not married to Blessing Okapi, nor has he been married to her in the last 15 years. After his previous marriage, he married another lady, with whom he has two kids and has since parted ways.
Publishing false information on a public domain can have serious consequences, including legal action. I urge you to correct this mistake and avoid spreading misinformation.
@Jeromeugbe Hello! I’d like to address a few important points.
First, as a self-identified "member of his media team," you have a clear conflict of interest (COI) concerning Monday Okpebholo. I recommend reading WP:COI and reviewing WP:COIDISCLOSE to understand how to disclose your COI appropriately. As a COI editor, you are not permitted to edit the Monday Okpebholo article directly. Instead, you should propose your edits on the article’s talk page (Talk:Monday Okpebholo) for others to review. Continuing to edit the article directly despite your COI could lead to the loss of your editing privileges.
Second, one of Wikipedia's core content policies is the requirement to verify information using reliable sources. Removing well-sourced information from the article and replacing it with unsourced content is unacceptable. Every statement in a biography of a living person must be backed by a reliable source. Unsourced or poorly sourced additions will be reverted, and persistently adding such content could also result in the loss of your editing rights.
It is also imperative I mention that I didn't create the article, neither did I put the information there, but they're verifiable and you are removing them, and that is a problem.
Monday's second wife is a barrister, and she and her kids are alive and well. My attention was brought to this page on our platform and it's my job to correct any wrong information being peddled out there. To avoid potential legal conflicts, I suggest removing all personal and family information about Monday and focusing solely on him as the primary subject.
Hi there, please don't tag G13s - the admins who handle this bucket use categories to deal with it, and tagging them just makes more work for yourself and for the admins who patrol the tagged CSD categories. -- asilvering (talk) 18:42, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I’m sorry but I’m not in agreement with this. Is this supposed to be a problem? In fact, I shouldn’t not be asking this, it isn’t supposed to be a problem. I just don’t agree to the fact that you’re telling me to not tag drafts correctly. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 18:46, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I am sorry, but I don't think G13 tagging by non-admins creates extra work for admins who handle deletions. Admins aren't obligated to delete G13s if they are not interested in handling them. This is just like any other maintenance task. The real concern should be if Vanderwaalforces tags a draft incorrectly or ineligibly. – DreamRimmer (talk) 03:18, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You may disagree, but all the work is done by volunteers, and G13-eligible pages do not automatically appear in categories or lists. Admins who delete them have to spend hours finding eligible pages and then deleting them. So, if non-admins are helping by identifying and tagging these pages, it should not be a problem, but rather a help. My list is new, but before this, Liz and Explicit had to spend a lot of time finding G13-eligible pages. This is not a simple task of just selecting drafts from a list or category and deleting them, so any help is greatly appreciated. – DreamRimmer (talk) 04:03, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I really don't see any problems with this, Asilvering. Explicit and I delete the majority of CSD G13s and we don't use categories, we use the SDZeroBot G13 soon list for the day. I think Vanderwaalforces is using a new list that was just created by DreamRimmer, User:GalaxyBot/Reports/G13 eligible drafts, that shows drafts that are eligible for CSD G13 tagging. This list was mainly created to highlight drafts that were last edited by a bot, which can cause problems, but the list also shows other drafts that are eligible for CSD G13 deletion, too.
There are other editors who sometimes tag CSD G13s but Vanderwaalforces has been more active in this activity lately. There are times of the day when neither Explicit nor I are active on the project and so this tagging brings eligible G13s to the attention of other admins who can delete them. We even have a CSD category, Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as abandoned drafts or AfC submissions, where these tagged drafts and sandboxes can sit after they are tagged. I appreciate you watching out, Asilvering, but what Vanderwaalforces is doing isn't causing any problems. LizRead!Talk!00:18, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, sorry, I meant the list, not a category. G13s are not urgent and I continue to think it is a waste of everyone's time to tag them specifically. -- asilvering (talk) 00:22, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Those curation tools have lots of bugs. Another one is when the tool is used to add a cat improve tag. That tool adds a space above the SD. Example is your edit at The Tiger's Cub. I fixed that one. I suggest to manually fix the bugs at each edit until the bug is fixed properly. Masterhatch (talk) 16:29, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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