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Hello, Rohit nit! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking Image:Signature icon.png or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 13:57, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Professional guidance?

None of us are even remotely "professional" wikipedians, I'm afraid, so you might have some difficulty finding real professional guidance here. Regarding working on content related to India, I do know that Wikipedia:WikiProject India and all the projects related to it, which are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Geographical/Asia#India, could definitely use some more help. All the projects everywhere could use some help, actually. If you could give me a better idea of what particular kind of content or activities you'd be interested in, that would probably help a bit. Regarding the request for adoption, I have no reservations, although I would want to make it clear that my knowledge of India in general is probably not the most thorough of all the editors I know. I would be willing to offer what help I can, based on my acquaintance with wikipedia in general, though. John Carter (talk) 13:42, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunately, images is not one of my strong points. If you were to hit the "Upload file" link in the "Toolbox" bar on the left though, and indicate that you release the image as free use and that the image isn't of a copyrighted subject (like a movie poster, for instance) in the Summary and Licensing sections of the upload form, you shouldn't have too many problems. Regarding doing reviews, there are basically two kinds, the assessments and the peer reviews. Assessments are the Stub, Start, B, GA, A, FA, etc. ratings in the project banners on the talk pages, and peer reviews are the specific, generally detailed reviews of articles which are being considered for improvement and/or GA or FA consideration. Doing assessments is fairly easy. GA and FA are already determined in all cases, as there is a formal process to go through to get that rating. The other ratings can be found summarized at Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Assessment and the various similar pages many other projects have, most of which copy the standards of Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment fairly closely, and just following the guidelines is enough to get started with ratings. Trust me, after a while, it gets very easy. There are generally less people involved in peer review, as it is a bit more time-consuming, but also generally more useful to the article itself. Generally, in peer reviews, people try to point out any weaknesses they see in the article to help it reach GA or FA status. Regarding India related peer reviews specifically, User:Ncmvocalist has a lot of experience in that subject, and would be a good person to contact as well. I'm going to try to help in the India reviews as well, as time permits, but it ain't permitting much right now. Both kinds of reviews are very helpful in general, though.
If you wanted to see how assessments work in practice, one thing I did initially was just go through a few categories and try to place a banner on the talk page of an article I think is relevant to a given project on any talk pages that don't already have it. For India, I imagine that there are quite a few that don't. By doing so, you'll get a chance to see what common characteristics the various grades of article have in practice by seeing the various articles that have been rated, while at the same time placing the banner on any articles missing them, thus letting both the project and the editors of that page know that the project is at least interested in them. You'd be free to assess them as well, but I remember how some of my own early assessments later struck me as being a little hard to justify, and that might happen to you too. But those would probably be the first steps that come to mind to me anyway. John Carter (talk) 14:49, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
For fair use and free use questions, Wikipedia:Non-free content is the existing guideline. Basically, if a fair-use image usefully illustrates the article, then it can be included. The major exceptions are if there is an equivalent free use image, in which case that free use image is preferred. Regarding formatting, it helps to know that skipping a line literally shows as a skipped line. Leaving blank lines in templates makes the templates look huge and unwieldy. Remember not to hit "return" when finishing content to be added to a template, just arrow down to the next line. And only one blank line or Return is required between paragraphs. Unfortunately, there are a lot of such matters, most of which can be found in Wikipedia:Manual of style and its various subpages. They can and often do take a bit of getting used to. John Carter (talk) 15:46, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Peer Review

Did you want to nominate an article for peer review in Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Peer review? You need to replace the 'Name of nominated article' text with the title of the article you want peer reviewed. --RegentsPark (talk) 15:05, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Adoption?

I'd be happy to, but only if you don't mind having an adopter who's around only scarsely and is really outdated in terms of keeping up to the community's rules... --Deryck C. 19:32, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes that's it. Thanks for being my adoptee. Anything that you'd like me to explain to start with? --Deryck C. 10:14, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
I formalized this by changing your adoptme to adopted|Deryck Chan. however if you are looking for a co-adopter, feel free to re-add the {{subst:dated adoptme}} to your userpage. best regards, xenocidic (talk) 18:47, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox

This user is a student/alumni of the National Institute of Technology, Srinagar




[edit] Possibly unfree Image:Logo10.jpg

An image that you used or altered, Image:Logo10.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the image description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Amog |Talk 08:32, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NIT Peer Review

You can add stuff even if you don't have references. But you should be aware that unreferenced material is easy to challenge (not that that is likely!) and an article with few references to back up the claims is unlikely to be a featured article (see WP:FAC and WP:FACR). But it is better to be complete even if you don't have references. Copyedit refers to checking the article thoroughly for grammar, spelling and sentence construction. I suggest you first make all your changes and then submit the article to the copyedit section (WP:LOCE). You look like you're on the right track anyway!--RegentsPark (talk) 02:13, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Current events portal

I'm not really up on current events in India but will try to add quotes when I see something. Do you think you could take charge of the quote box and update it regularly? Especially if you have access to Indian newspapers. --RegentsPark (talk) 23:22, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

To archive news items, click on the archive link (next to the edit link on the top right corner of a box) and copy the text into the archive page (noting the appropriate date). Then you can delete the old news and replace it by whatever comes up.--Swans and ducks (talk) 12:21, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Please add the sources of news articles in parantheses. For instance:
Lord Swaraj Paul, British Parlimentarian severely criticized over his comments on West Bengal government's handling of Singur. (The Times of India)
I hope this helps. Thanks for contributing! Cheers! Mspraveen (talk) 10:14, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
To give you an idea, I've formatted the newslinks on Portal:India/news. Please pay a visit to this page for a better perspective on updating this page. Thanks for your contributions. Cheers! Mspraveen (talk) 16:07, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
Good job with the latest additions! You have gotten the idea now. The only thing that will be better off is without a repetitive use of the sources. If you notice, I tried the diversify the sources (reliable ones, that is). Otherwise, good work. I try updating this page once in a while but actual article editing and improvements keep me busy. I suppose that you are interested in maintaining this portion periodically. It would be great if you can take this up. Btw, you seem to have an origin from Andhra Pradesh, isn't it? I do too. Where are you from? Mspraveen (talk) 11:11, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. Good to hear about you. I'm a working professional based in Hyderabad. Good luck with your graduation. Should you need any assistance while on wikipedia, holler me for help. Cheers! Mspraveen (talk) 16:45, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Hello! Nice to see you regularly and vociferously updating the Current Events portal. Great work! Further to this, there is detailed current events portal in which you can notice sections below - "India in this week..." and update with multiple news items of that day. Only the most important news items of the day could be in the news section. Would you be willing to further contribute to this portal? Thoughts?? Mspraveen (talk) 06:32, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Brackets

Thanks for asking - I suppose you've forgotten the double closing brackets? They're *double* opening and *double* closing square brackets. --Deryck C. 21:45, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Is it possible that you didn't save the page properly, or your account was blocked temporarily because you used a rotating shared IP? I didn't see any edit history of you adding category tags. --Deryck C. 11:47, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
When in doubt, don't use the preview. It's better to make a mistake and revert yourself than to think you made a mistake when it's actually the preview program that was making the mistake. There are lots of things that the preview tends to screw up on. --Deryck C. 15:27, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Adoption

I think you're doing just fine (I took a look at your contributions). But, will be happy to make myself available to answer questions and help out on the off-chance that you get into trouble! --Regents Park (Feed my swans) 12:47, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Collaboration of the week

The purpose of COTW is to take one article and to collaboratively, i.e., several wikipedians work on the article, raise it to some standard (either a Good article or a Featured article. You need a few conditions for a good candidate for COTW:

1. The article should be reasonably fleshed out. Which means that the main sections should already be there and there should be plenty of text to work with. 2. There should not be any edit wars going on. (Otherwise the COTW will not work!)

Usually, the many editors then get together and find citations, do a complete copy edit, add pictures, whatever it takes to get the article to the next level.

If you take this on, don't forget to drop messages on the talk pages of the various editors involved (see the edit history) and also in the talk pages of other people with an interest in India articles. I think it is a great idea to revive this feature! --Regents Park (Feed my swans) 13:59, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

You can also get the edit history of the article through this link which will give you a much better picture of who the main editors are or have been. --Regents Park (Feed my swans) 14:00, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] comment on jimi hendrix article

i saw your talk point. i just wrote the liner notes exactly as they were written, not from my own perspective so any use of I or my etc is from the notes themselves. I hope I have done an ok job of this as I am new to this. I just thought I would pass along my knowledge of the item mentioned (the cd lifelines). any info or help you have is appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ray from texas (talk • contribs) 22:33, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A notice to all WP:IND members for comments

Hi Rohit. There is a proposal out on Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_topics#A_notice_to_all_WP:IND_members_for_comments that you might find interesting. I think it would be a good way for you to organize your contributions to India related topics. --Regents Park (roll amongst the roses) 19:59, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar:Good work

The Working Man's Barnstar
I award Rohit nit this Barnstar for his contributions to Portal:India especially udpating current news and its archival . Keep up the good work -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 09:51, 3 June 2008 (UTC)