Welcome, and what does and doesn't get an article
[edit source]Hello ABORISADEADETONA! Welcome to Wikivoyage.
To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page.
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- NPOV → be fair (not quite the same thing!)
- be bold → plunge forward
- Village pump → travellers' pub
- External links → We do not use a separate external links section, but incorporate primary links only into the text itself.
- sandbox → graffiti wall
- content assessment → article status
It may also be very useful for you to check out Wikivoyage:Welcome, Wikipedians. If you need help, take a look at Wikivoyage:Help, or else post a message in the Wikivoyage:Travellers' pub, as a reply below or on my talk page. Thanks for contributing!
Thanks for starting an article about a festival, but it should instead be covered by a "Do" listing in the Oyo article, not an article. Read Wikivoyage:What is an article, please. The article you started needs to be turned into a redirect to Oyo#Do. Ikan Kekek (talk) 12:49, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- It also looks to me like this should be a listing or a subsection in the Oyo article, rather than a separate article, & providing a redirect so that a search for the festival name will find that info is a fine idea, See Sinulog for one example of a festival handled that way.
- There are a few exceptions; extremely large and/or famous festivals such as New Orleans Mardi Gras do get their own articles; I doubt this festival qualifies. If you want to argue that it does, start a discussion at Talk:World Sango Festival then post a link to that in the pub to attract more participants. Pashley (talk) 14:27, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- See also Wikivoyage:Travellers'_pub#Festivals Pashley (talk) 15:16, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Reversion
[edit source]Hello, ABORISADEADETONA! Thank you for contributing to Wikivoyage, but please note that one or more of your recent edits has been reverted as it appeared to be an attempt to use this site to advertise or promote a business or service. Wikivoyage is created by travellers for travellers, and while business owners and employees are welcome to contribute, use of this site for promotional purposes is not allowed.
If you feel that your edits were incorrectly identified as promotional, please read Wikivoyage's guidelines on identifying promotional edits. If, after reading that guideline, you still feel your edits were incorrectly removed, please use this talk page or the talk page of the article where your edit was removed to explain why your change was not promotional. Note that it is very important that you discuss your proposed change before re-adding it since repeated promotional edits can lead to a temporary block of your account's ability to edit Wikivoyage, and in serious cases the business in question may be blacklisted from Wikivoyage. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 15:13, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Page banners
[edit source]The page banner you added to Lokoja not meet Wikivoyage requirements and must be cut down to the correct size. Please crop the banner online using CropTool. You do not have to edit it in an external picture editor.
- Open existing source the file in Commons
- Select CropTool from the Tools panel on the left
- (The first time, you have to authorize the tool)
- Select Aspect ratio: 7:1, press Preview
- Check the preview, select Upload as new file and type the new file name according to the above instructions
- Press Upload
- After successful upload, check the new file and add it to the appropriate category "Category:Wikivoyage banners of "
Also, I cleaned up a lot of formatting errors on this article. Please review them here so that you can learn how to edit better. Thank you. Ground Zero (talk) 12:34, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
Line breaks
[edit source]When you include line breaks ("hard return") within a paragraph, it messes up the formatting. Please take a look at your edit here and remove the line breaks. Thank you. Ground Zero (talk) 15:27, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- oh, Thanks ABORISADEADETONA (talk) 16:38, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Please put a space after a word in a sentence, not a hard return. Please check Osogbo again. Ground Zero (talk) 20:31, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- oh thanks ABORISADEADETONA (talk) 19:48, 22 August 2026 (UTC)
Cite web template
[edit source]This template from Wikipedia doesn't work in Wikivoyage. I recommend that you read Welcome, Wikipedians which explains the differences between the projects. Please stop using that template, and remove it from your previous contributions. Thanks. Ground Zero (talk) 12:28, 20 August 2026 (UTC)
Listings templates
[edit source]Wikivoyage uses standardized formats to list attractions and monuments, activities, shops, restaurants, bars and lodgings under the See, Do, Buy, Eat, Drink and Sleep sections respectively. You can click the "edit" tab on any article, and then select the appropriate listing type from the "Listings" section of the edit toolbar, hover your mouse over each icon, and click on the one that is appropriate. Doing so will add a blank listing template to the edit window that can then be filled out.
The See template is shown as a building with columbs (like a Greek temple), the Do template is shown as a person on a bicycle, Buy as a shopping cart, Eat as a knife and fork, Drink as a martini glass, Sleep as a bed, Go as an airplane. Others listings can use the "i" symbol. Ground Zero (talk) 12:38, 20 August 2026 (UTC)
No AI, please
[edit source]Hi, I've had to delete Ido Osun as an obviously AI-generated article. Please don't use AI to write articles in the future, please. You can use it for translation or for technical fixes, but you can't use it to generate content as the chances of AI hallucinations are way too high. //shb (t | c | m) 13:30, 20 August 2026 (UTC)
- Well received, kindly let me restructure it. Thanks ABORISADEADETONA (talk) 12:36, 22 August 2026 (UTC)
- While you're restructuring articles, could you please use a Wikivoyage:Small city article template? Copy Wikivoyage:Quick small city article template, including the default pagebanner and important codes at the end, and put the parent region article's name in "IsPartOf". Let us know if you have any questions.
- Best,
- Ikan Kekek (talk) 13:58, 22 August 2026 (UTC)
Hey!
[edit source]@ABORISADEADETONA: Why did you create another page banner that violates the Wikivoyage style? (Andoni I explained to you how to crop banners above. Are you expecting other people to clean up after you? Wikivoyage doesn't work that way. Please stop doing this, and fix your error. Ground Zero (talk) 19:56, 20 August 2026 (UTC)
- I fixed Andoni page's banner. OhanaUnitedTalk page 21:36, 22 August 2026 (UTC)

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