User talk:Prosper Amarachi

Mirrors

Thanks for contributing to the article Subaru Forester. However, one of Wikipedia's core policies is that material must be verifiable and attributed to reliable sources. You have recently used citations which copied, or mirrored, material from Wikipedia. This leads to a circular reference and is not acceptable. Most mirrors are clearly labeled as such, but some are in violation of our license and do not provide the correct attribution. Please help by adding alternate sources to the article you edited! If you need any help or clarification, you can look at Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia or ask at Wikipedia:New contributors' help page, or just ask me. Thank you. Sam Kuru (talk) 16:55, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What are you up to?

You created this account in October 2023 but never edited under it, yet today you've begun making odd edits to articles, in one case to add references to articles that lead to the corresponding articles on Wikipedia mirror sites, and all with the same mystifying edit summary, "#1Lib1Ref #Lib1RefNG #1Lib1RefIM". What's going on? Largoplazo (talk) 17:19, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is an annual contest/challenge; librarians across the world go through some basic training modules on Wikipedia and then are asked to provide references to live articles. The training often is fairly cursory, so they will run across the same problems as new editors (mirrors, fake sources, blogs, applicability). I think Amarachi is doing the "search in google for a direct quote that needs to be referenced" thing, which leads to a lot of material copied from Wikipedia, or worse, that we've copied from someplace else.Sam Kuru (talk) 18:01, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, OK, thank you. Largoplazo (talk) 18:39, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Bogus/invalid citation spree - mass rollback and block needed.. Largoplazo (talk) 23:01, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked as a sockpuppet

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RoySmith (talk) 00:07, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]