User talk:Suresh Elangovan

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Hello, Suresh Elangovan! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can 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 or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already loving Wikipedia you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! --Anish (talk) 10:43, 24 March 2008 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

[edit] Jainism

Thank you for your edits to Jainism and related articles. Seeing your contributions to Jainism, you may want to add your name as Jainism Project member. However, the section "Main Points in Jainism" seems to be Original Research and in violation of No Original Research Policy and may be deleted. However, all the best and happy editing.--Anish (talk) 10:47, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply.....I saw your main points and they are excellent and show clarity of thought. But Please reference each of these points as they may be deleted by someone who may come to clean up the article.--Anish (talk) 10:51, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

I am not sure whether that would be correct referencing. May be you can reference each point from the text that you picked up. While I have no disagreement with what you have written as I know it to be true, non-jains may dispute it for want of reference. Anyways please keep on contributing. The state of Jain articles is pathetic and we need more serious editors like you.--Anish (talk) 11:12, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Improvements in Jainism

Hi, Sorry for delay in responding. The problem is that there are practally no editors involved in articles on Jainism. The existing articles have no proper lead sections, no charts and diagrams, no tables, no proper pictures, and most of them have no references. I thnk we must try to improve on these things. Atleast try to have more A-class articles. Then there are Hindutva fanatics who are hell bent on subverting truth and proving that Jainism is an offshoot or part of Hinduism and that Mahavira is the founder of Jainism. Articles like Indian religions need to be watched for these things.--Anish (talk) 11:51, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Triple gems of Jainism

Hi Suresh….Let me congratulate on your initiative on Triple gems of Jainism. This is one of the most important concept of Jainism. However it is better that the article should be of encyclopedic quality that can be graded and peer-reviewed maybe upto A-class or Featured Article class. I suggest you go through the following guidelines also –

• Writing better articles
• Lead section
• Manual of Style

For this particular Article I suggest following sections:

Name – I think Ratnatraya would be a better name.

Lead Section – Brief Summary on Ratnatraya

• Samyaktva – A brief note on Samyak or rationality. Samyakta should be also a main separate article.
• Samyak Darsana
  • Meaning
  • Pre-requisites
  • Characteristics
• Samyak Jnana
  • Meaning
  • Pre-requisites
  • Characteristics
• Samyak Caritra
  • Meaning
  • Pre-requisites
  • Characteristics
• Gunasthana – A brief Description
• Comparison with Bhakti marg, Jnana Marg and Karma Marg of Hinduism
• Bibiliography
• References

I also suggest you use IAST spellings with diacritic marks. These are just my two cents for improvement of article.--Anish (talk) 12:06, 6 May 2008 (UTC)