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Hello, UUcontent, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:00, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

File:Cover of Americanah.jpg

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Orphaned non-free image File:Cover of Americanah.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Cover of Americanah.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

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Non-free content use

Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. We always appreciate when users upload files. However, it appears that one or more of the files you have uploaded or added to a page, specifically User:UUcontent/sandbox, may fail our non-free policy. Most often, this involves editors uploading or using a copyrighted file of a living person. For other possible reasons, please read up on our Non-free criteria. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 09:36, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi UUcontent. Non-free files like File:Cover of Americanah.jpg cannot be used in your user sandbox per Wikipedia's non-free content use criterion #9 and Wikipedia:User pages#Non-free files. I realize you're a student and you're probably working on something for a class project, but relevant Wikipedia policy is quite clear that this is not allowed. If you have any questions about this you can ask them below or at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions and someone will try and help you. You can also ask your Wiki-Ed adviser Shalor (Wiki Ed) since she's quite familiar with Wikipedia's various policies and guidelines; she has helped many students such as yourself figure out what is and isn't allowed. -- Marchjuly (talk) 09:45, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

• Hi! Marchjuly is correct in that this can't be used in your userspace. Because the image is copyrighted, Wikipedia can only use the image in very specific ways. It looks like there is already an image on the article on the book, so we also cannot upload other images to show the different book covers.

On a side note, the draft you have on the book is a bit concerning since the characters and themes sections are entirely unsourced. Keep in mind that we can only summarize what has been very clearly and explicitly stated in source material, so any content in these sections will need to come from a reliable source such as a review or commentary on the book in a place like a newspaper, journal article, or the like. If Adichie has commented on the book then we can quote or summarize what she has stated, however we cannot base these sections on our own knowledge, as this is seen as original research and runs the risk of being reverted.

I want you to review this brochure on writing book articles. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:14, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

User:UUcontent/sandbox

Hi - I saw that you tried to move your sandbox work live. Since there's already an article on this topic, you need to move your content into the existing article by following the directions here.

However before you do that, you still need to resolve the issues I mentioned earlier. The character and themes sections are completely unsourced and the themes section looks to be entirely original research. We can only summarize what has already been stated on the topic in reliable sources such as journal articles on the topic. We cannot make our own conclusions or connections. Everything must be cited to a reliable source. Also, the writing style here needs work as well. You talk directly to the reader, as well as use wording that doesn't fit Wikipedia's style guidelines. You can read more about this at this section about expressions that lack precision, this one about second person pronouns, and this one about instructional and presumptuous language. In its current state this would almost certainly be removed from the article for these issues.

Let me know if you have any questions on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:14, 7 December 2018 (UTC)