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16:12, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

May 2020[edit]

Hello, I'm Cordless Larry. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Somalis, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Cordless Larry (talk) 08:46, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ah! Thanks for your input explanatory words.

Well, I changed the demography of Somalia from 12Mya to 15Mya the and here is the link for my reference (https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/somalia-population/

And for the Ethiopian, I changed it from 4.6Mya to 6Mya-10Mya. For these one, I didn’t reference from any source (because I hadn’t seen any) but I mad a calculation. Look, the 4.6Mya is an old (2007) census when the over all Ethiopian population was 74Mya. Ethiopian statisticians calculated this to grow to 102Mya by the next decade (2017). So, if Somalis population by year 2007 was 4.6Mya, then this shall grow to 6Mya by 2017 and now maybe 8-10Mya. KenadidBile7 (talk) 16:46, 26 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explanation. World Population Review isn't considered a reliable source (see Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 261#World Population Review), but if you can find the original source of the data on there, then that can be cited instead. As for calculating your own estimate of the current Somali population of Ethiopia, that goes against WP:NOR (for a start, we can't assume that the Somali population has grown at the same rate as the overall population). Cordless Larry (talk) 17:38, 26 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don’t know who made these new changes, but just few months ago the population was as I modified it. KenadidBile7 (talk) 18:00, 26 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I recently replaced figures that weren't supported by reliable sources with the figures currently there, which are supported by reliable sources. Cordless Larry (talk) 20:33, 26 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]