Welcome
[edit source]Hello Mangilobaby! 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.
If you are a Wikipedian, then you may notice some differences in policies and the style of our articles. These include:
- 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!
In listings please use content= not description= to give a description of the place.
Page banner images need to be cropped (you can use the Crop Tool on Commons) to have a 7:1 aspect ratio and be a minimum of 1800 pixels wide.
Before creating a page for a new city, it is a good idea to start a discussion on the talk page of the region (in the Nigeria this is usually the State) and wait a couple of days for comments as to whether the place merits its own page - we don't usually create pages for city beaches.
Thank you for the content that you have added, and welcome. AlasdairW (talk) 23:38, 5 August 2026 (UTC)
Page banners
[edit source]The page banners you have added to several articles do not meet Wikivoyage requirements and must be cut down to the correct size. Please crop the banners you added . You can do so online using CropTool without editing them 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 "
Ground Zero (talk) 00:28, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
What does and does not get an article on this site
[edit source]Hello, welcome, and please read Wikivoyage:What is an article and Wikivoyage:Plunge forward#...But don't be reckless!!. When the Abakaliki article starts to become overwhelmingly long with travel-related content (not encyclopedic stuff from Wikipedia), you can then propose a districting scheme for the entire city at Talk:Abakaliki. Until then, please don't unilaterally create any district articles on this site. Thanks very much. If you need to use some small portion of the article you created in the Abakaliki article, you can see it on the left side of this page. Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:42, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
Capitalization
[edit source]Thank you for your on-going contributions to Wikivoyage. I know that there are a lot of rules for new editors to learn in Wikivoyage, so I have been correcting some of your edits, but I have to ask you to stop making these errors.
In a sentence, or in a section header in Wikivoyage:
- capitalize the first word, and
- any proper names (the names of people, places, businesses, institutions....)
Everything else should be lower case. See Wikivoyage:Section headers. Please make corrections to Bayelsa State and other articles that you have edited. Thank you. Ground Zero (talk) 18:49, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- @Mangilobaby: Why are you continuing to.make this [mistake]. Is there something thar you don't understand? If you don't understand the policy, please tell me what is unclear.Ground Zero (talk) 21:46, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Good evening sir/Ma , Pls can you check the recent edit I made if I got the capitalization correctly Mangilobaby (talk) 22:31, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- If you mean this, no, you did not. Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:40, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- feel so discourage, how do I get it right Mangilobaby (talk) 23:00, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Have you read Wikivoyage:Capitalization? You can start there, and then also remember to use capital letters at the beginnings of sentences but not for words that are not proper names in the middles of sentences. Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:07, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you, I will do better Mangilobaby (talk) 00:36, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- I have corrected your errors in the Dana Point article. Now it's your turn. Please correct the errors you have made in other articles. Ground Zero (talk) 00:44, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you, I will do better Mangilobaby (talk) 00:36, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Have you read Wikivoyage:Capitalization? You can start there, and then also remember to use capital letters at the beginnings of sentences but not for words that are not proper names in the middles of sentences. Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:07, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- feel so discourage, how do I get it right Mangilobaby (talk) 23:00, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- If you mean this, no, you did not. Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:40, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Good evening sir/Ma , Pls can you check the recent edit I made if I got the capitalization correctly Mangilobaby (talk) 22:31, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
@Mangilobaby: Please correct your errors in these articles before you make further edits. Thank you.
Ground Zero (talk) 01:51, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
What don't you understand about Wikivoyage: Capitalization? Why do you keep making the same mistake? Ground Zero (talk) 11:53, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Formatting
[edit source]Please look at your boldfacing errors here. This is another mistake you are repeating. Please fix your errors, and stop repeating them. Ground Zero (talk) 00:46, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Intentional vandalism?
[edit source]Can you explain why you linked the Pacific Coast Highway to routes in Illinois in this edit? We will watch your edits closely and will not hesitate to block your editing privileges if you repeat this kind of edit. Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:36, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Good evening, pls it wasn't intentional, I had no idea I wasn't suppose to link it, it's won't happen again, we new editors we find a lot of things so difficult, I assure you that same mistake doesn't occur again Mangilobaby (talk) 17:12, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- You had no idea you weren't supposed to link the Pacific Coast Highway to names of roads in Illinois? I'm not satisfied with your answer. Explain why you did that. Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:18, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Are you using any tools (maybe including AI) to assist you in editing? Some of the errors you are making (including using "description=" instead of "content=") are not those that a new user normally makes, and it would be useful to understand why. AlasdairW (talk) 22:35, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Good evening, and thank you for your message.
- I sincerely apologize for the edit. It was not intentional, I am still learning how Wikivoyage works, and I misunderstood how to correctly link or name routes. I did not realize that adding the Pacific Coast Highway in that context was incorrect.
- I assure you that there was no intention to vandalize the page. I am committed to learning and following the proper guidelines, and I will be more careful with my edits going forward.
- Thank you for your patience and for pointing this out. Mangilobaby (talk) 22:40, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Why did you think the Pacific Coast Highway was in Illinois? Answer the question of how you made that mistake and whether you are relying on AI. Was that reply from AI? Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:12, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- Good morning, The reply wasn't from Ai. I made that edit based on I was trying to learn how to link, so I was comparing and copying from another already made work, I never knew when I copied that particular link. So sorry for that expensive mistake. I don't rely on AI, I usually get information from Google, Wikipedia, and I just started watching YouTube videos to get more knowledge on how to edit, have pulse my editing for now, I just want to get more knowledge and clarity before I can start editing, pls you know I’m still learning how to edit properly and I will be more careful and verify information before making future edits. Mangilobaby (talk) 00:26, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- Why did you think the Pacific Coast Highway was in Illinois? Answer the question of how you made that mistake and whether you are relying on AI. Was that reply from AI? Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:12, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- You had no idea you weren't supposed to link the Pacific Coast Highway to names of roads in Illinois? I'm not satisfied with your answer. Explain why you did that. Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:18, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
And why did you add information about Australia to an article about South Carolina? Ground Zero (talk) 01:52, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Your articles
[edit source]Please review all of the changes that I have made here, and read the edit summaries. You are welcome to edit in Wikivoyage, but you must be more careful. Ground Zero (talk) 11:38, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- I cleaned up another of your articles [andhttps://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=Ustka&diff=5325964&oldid=5324298 here]. Is there a reason why you are leaving your errors for others to clean up? Ground Zero (talk) 02:01, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- And here. Reviewing these edits will help you improve your editing in Wikivoyage. Ground Zero (talk) 11:50, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Maps and images
[edit source]I'm seeing that you're adding mapframes and images to a lot of articles. This is often good to do, but you're missing some details:
- Maps need either listing markers or shapes to be useful. Some of the maps you're adding have nothing, zooming out to the entire world, and others have incorrect or useless mapshape shadings. Verify that the maps you're adding are actually usable.
- Your_image_captions_have_underscores, they need to be normal prose. They should also not repeat redundant information like state/province/country names.
Gerode (talk) 23:21, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
Q
[edit source]I'm not accusing you of such, but can you confirm or not whether you've used AI to write mainspace content? (cc Ground Zero //shb (t | c | m) 02:10, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- I don't know what to do about this contributor. Many of their edits are good, and then there are others that are just so very wrong. I don't know how they are making these mistakes. And then there are the errors that they are repeating after being asked not to make them. They don't seem to be willing to work with our community. I hope that they will change their approach to Wikivoyage and become a constructive contributor. Ground Zero (talk) 12:39, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Please check your work
[edit source]Why did you put a map of Equatorial Guinea into articles about Romania and the Netherlands? Ground Zero (talk) 10:26, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
This is just a map of the world. How is that helpful in an article about Ilha do Caju? Ground Zero (talk) 10:33, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Can we trust anything they do? Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:50, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- They have fixed their mistakes to the two articles I linked, and have addressed capitalization problems that I raised above. Domburg in the Netherlands still has a map of Central Africa on it, though. Ground Zero (talk) 22:12, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
@Mangilobaby: thank you for improving many articles with accurate maps in the last couple of days. Ground Zero (talk) 14:37, 13 August 2026 (UTC)
- Here, you added a map of Marathon, Florida, to the article about Marathon, Texas. Please check your work. It is not the job of other editors to catch and fix your errors. Ground Zero (talk) 11:16, 14 August 2026 (UTC)
Page banners again
[edit source]Please crop the banners that you added to Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Mandalika, Miller, Catbalogan, Chamba (Himachal Pradesh), Grand Rivers, Castara, Marshfield (Missouri), Mandimba, and Soroti so that they have 7:1 dimensions. I provided information on how to do that in a section above on this page. Ground Zero (talk) 10:38, 14 August 2026 (UTC)
You have confused Jining, Inner Mongolia with Jining, Shandong
[edit source]The content you have recently added to the article on Jining (Inner Mongolia) appears to be entirely about Jining (Shandong). Please kindly revert your edits and move any new content to the appropriate article. STW932 (talk) 14:47, 15 August 2026 (UTC)
- @STW932:: thank you for catching that. Ground Zero (talk) 15:42, 15 August 2026 (UTC)
Marshfield (Missouri)
[edit source]I have reverted your recent edits to Marshfield (Missouri), because they seem to be about Marshfield (Wisconsin). The world is full of cities that have the same name as another city elsewhere. Please treble check that you are editing the article about the correct city. You should have been surprised (and stopped and investigated) when you saw that the listings that you were adding all had a different phone area code from the existing listings in the article. AlasdairW (talk) 17:45, 15 August 2026 (UTC)
La Campagne Tropicana (Lagos) coordinates
[edit source]The coordinates of the entries don't seem to be correct. The restaurant is in a different city. The shops and hotels are in the ocean. OhanaUnitedTalk page 21:23, 22 August 2026 (UTC)
- @Mangilobaby: please stop ignoring comments like this one You must fix your mistakes if you wish to continue editing in Wikivoyage. Please fix the incorrect coordinates you entered. It isn't someone else's job. Ground Zero (talk) 20:08, 10 September 2026 (UTC)
Repeating text in articles
[edit source]Please don't repeat text in articles. It makes the articles boring. We don't want Wikivoyage to be boring. Ground Zero (talk) 01:04, 28 August 2026 (UTC)
Please, please take a look at this edit I made to your article. Can you see how you are repeating the same information over and over? Please stop doing that. That is not how to write a travel guide that people will want to read. Ground Zero (talk) 20:04, 10 September 2026 (UTC)

French
Deutsch