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[edit] Population Figures

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I notice that you have been making changes to population figures in articles relating to Sierra Leone. Please note that some previous editors have been making false edits to these figures. I am not suggesting that you are doing this, but all anonymous editors' changes to articles are monitored more closely, so you might wish to create a user account. Because diferent websites give differing estimates on populations, I suggest that we either round the estimate to the nearest 10,000, or give the source and also retain the official 2004 figures which are available from many sources such as [[1]].
Also, to avoid a similar problem with percentages, please avoid decimal places in percentages of populations. One significant figure is sufficient accuracy, and giving tenths of a percent cannot be justified, in fact it is probably original research based on questionable estimates. Best wishes, dbfirs 10:18, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

I notice that you have either not read or are ignoring my request. Please could you make up your mind on the correct figures for Sierra Leone Lebanese, preferably rounded to a sensible estimate, cite your sources, then stop making changes? Thank you. dbfirs 22:21, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Do you have any evidence for the change in population of Waterloo, Sierra Leone, or are you just guessing at random?
Also, please keep percentages to whole numbers. Giving two significant figures suggests an accuracy which is not justified by the estimates used in your calculations. dbfirs 19:46, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Please do not introduce incorrect information into articles. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them again. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you.
    We are disappointed to see that you are not prepared to discuss your changes, and that you have now made clearly false edits such as this: [2]. If you continue to introduce false information to Wikipedia in this way, you will be blocked. Are you a sockpuppet of User:Sittaconde? dbfirs 07:58, 8 April 2008 (UTC)