Ibramu

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I noticed you just added two new articles to the Wikipedia. I hope you will add more articles about the Dagomba and Dagbon -- it looks like we're very light in that area.

It would also help to link to other Wikipedia articles. To do that, just put the article name in double brackets, for instance:

     "[[Dagomba]]"

If you need to alter the name of the article slightly so that the article "flows" more easily, you can use a | "pipe" symbol (it's located over the slash key on an English language keyboard). For instance, if you wanted to write, "Many Dagombans went to the soccer match", you'd find there's no article named "Dagombans"; instead there's an article entitled "[[Dagomba]]". You can still use the word "Dagombans" -- you would just used the pipe symbol like this:

    "[[Dagomba|Dagomban]]"

The left side of the pipe sign is the actual article name, the right side is the word or phrase you're substituting.

Also, you should backup your articles with links to verifiable sources outside Wikipedia. One way to do this is to add the links after the end of the article. For instance:

    Ghanaian Chronicle, 4 June, 2006

To do that, you list the URL first, then the name you want to give the link. Set the whole thing off in single brackets like this:

    "[http://www.ghanaian-chronicle.com/thestory.asp?id=9871 Ghanaian Chronicle, June 4, 2006]"

Regards, --A. B. 19:01, 6 June 2006 (UTC)