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Reliable and verifiable sources

Hello MoroccoGoals7,

We have told you several times that sites like countrymeters.info are by no means sources that can be used for Wikipedia. They give estimates, and nobody knows what these are based on (not reliable). They do change numbers every couple of seconds, so the number you saw five minutes ago can not be reproduced (not verifiable). I know you want the number of the Moroccan people to be as big as possible, but this is not the way to handle this. Stick to verifiable and reliable sources, like the CIA factsheet. Furthermore, when you change a number that is in Wikipedia and has a source, it is no good just updating the number. This change says in the remark that the number is based on worldbank (which site, which page, when viewed,...???), but the reader will see that it is based on [1], a site using a forecast based on numbers from 2014 (8 years old, pre-COVID,...). The world has changed in these 8 years, and so has the growth rate of population in the world.

You are not constructively working on Wikipedia by giving all kinds of estimates based on some (more or less informed) guesses. You could contribute to Wikipedia by improving the site (articles) with updates based on reliable information, when these are from reliable and verifiable resources, whilst indicating which source you have been used and when. Full page details are needed!

If you have questions about which sources could be used, you are welcome to ask.

• No good: countrymeters.info, hcp.ma, worldometers,info, ...
• Accepted: CIA-factbook, Worldbank (facts, no estimated), ...

Feel welcome to improve Wikipedia, but refrain from asking time over and over again by introducing guesses. Thanks, RonnieV (talk) 07:03, 12 September 2022 (UTC)