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Nnenna Freelon

She is not Igbo or of Igbo descent. Her mother was just inspired by a Nigerian friend and gave her Igbo names stated here —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.19.94.252 (talk) 08:15, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

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Request of uncreated articles

• Stella Okoye, Miss Nigeria 1987
• Rita Anuku †, Miss Nigeria 1986, sister of Nigerian actor Hanks Anuku
• Rosemary Okeke, Miss Nigeria 1985, Miss World 1985 Nigeria representative
• Clara Emefiena, Miss Nigeria 1961
• Rosemary Anieze, Miss Nigeria 1960 also known as "Miss Independence"
• Helen Anyamaeluna †, Miss Nigeria 1958

Orphaned references in List of Igbo people

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of List of Igbo people's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Guardian":

• From Ben Enwonwu: Chuks Iloegbunam, "Independent expressions: Ben Enwonwu", The Guardian, 4 March 1994.
• From Jeremy Scott: Alice Fisher (September 14, 2014). "Jeremy Scott: "I try to convey joy in the clothes I design"". The Guardian. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
• From Bloc Party: McLean, Craig (7 January 2007). "Kele Okereke: 21st century boy". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2 May 2008.
• From Ebele Okaro: Husseini, Shaibu (18 March 2017). "A pip for beloved Nollywood actress, Ebele Okaro-Onyiuke". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 May 2017.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 16:24, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

Large addition

Copy of discussion originally at User talk:Mathglot#List of Igbo People.

Why where 100% of my revisions deleted. I'm an Igbo person and I know that these people are Igbo. Do you want me to source their birth dates? Like you just delete my work and vaguely explained how I can get it uploaded again. Please help with this as I do not want my hard work to go to waste over some miss understanding. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:70C0:4B80:C831:4A9F:964C:B54D (talk) 05:49, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

This is about this 17kb addition at List of Igbo people. As I explained in the edit summary, it's because you didn't include any references. Your hard work is not wasted, all of it is preserved in the History. But Wikipedia's WP: Verifiability policy requires citations, you can't just add a long list of names, and the fact that "you know that these people are Igbo" is not good enough; we need a source you could find in a bookstore, a library, or on the web. Do you understand what I mean about providing a citation? Please read Help: Footnotes, it may help. The only one you added that had a reference, was Gilbert Obiajulu Uzodike; however, there is no article on Wikipedia about him, so he may not be notable enough to include on the list. I'm sorry. Try bringing up your concerns on the Talk page of the article, maybe other editors can help you. If you have any other questions, please ask. Mathglot (talk) 06:57, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

Ok, so all the hyperlinks that go back to either Wikipedia pages and/or other verified sources on the web, that btw I added for most of the names listed, do not count as citations? So I'm assuming you're speaking in regards to the format, if so then that makes sense. I can change the format if you would like? However, there were names already added that match the format I used to make the initial2600:1700:70C0:4B80:B533:BDC2:7230:C8C0 (talk) 21:07, 25 July 2020 (UTC) updates.

Moved from User talk:Mathglot § List of Igbo People

Hello again, IPv6. I've moved the discussion here, so other interested editors may participate if they wish to; they are unlikely to find it on my Talk page. About your most recent questions:

• hyperlinks that go back to Wikipedia pages – unfortunately, Wikipedia itelf is not a reliable source, so those links do not verify the information. You need actual citations.
• or other verified sources on the web – those should be fine, if you have them. I scanned your post for <ref and only found two, I believe; did I miss some?

Each item you add to the list should have two characteristics:

1. A blue link, to the article for that person on Wikipedia
2. At least one reference; or more if required to source multiple assertions.

Maybe that's what you meant by a "format change", I wasn't sure. If it was, and you had references in your list that I didn't see, please move them into a regular footnote (see Help:Footnotes; using {{cite web}} or {{cite book}} makes it easier to create a footnote), and add the footnote at the end. See the entries for Adaora Onyechere or Keme Nzerem for example, and copy how they do it. Mathglot (talk) 22:02, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

Again, the majority of the page didn't and still doesn't have citations associated with their names, and most use hyperlinks going back to their Wikipedia. Why aren't most of the page deleted if we are to follow this strict standard that most do not follow. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:70C0:4B80:34DE:239E:33CC:6288 (talk) 20:03, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

My comment was about the stuff you added, not about the other stuff that's there. Some of the other items are not referenced, and 86 of them are referenced. Maybe if someone is so well-known, that it's like a "sky-is-blue" statement that doesn't need referencing, then you could leave it out. Like, for example, you could leave out a reference for an article that listed President Barack Obama as stemming from the Luo tribe. (Well, actually, no; you couldn't leave it out, because hardly anybody knows that he is of Luo ancestry, and so you'd need the reference even for him.) As for "why isn't most of the page deleted", that's partly because this is a volunteer project, and maybe no one has gotten around to challenging that material yet.

Let me respond in another way, by asking you this: is there some reason you don't wish to source the people you added to the list? (please  mention me on reply; thanks!) Mathglot (talk) 22:49, 29 July 2020 (UTC)