Sulṭān ʿAbdullāh al-Hindi



Who are you?

I am a random little Muslim guy from a tiny region in this massive world.

What is all this stuff on this page?

I essentially use this page to dump info about Wikipedia which are useful to myself and hopefully, to others.

That's about it. :D








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  1. Help: Getting Started
  2. How to get things going for your first article on Wikipedia
  3. Subpages in Wikipedia
  4. Introduction to text-editing on Wiki


Editing Guidelines and Text Formatting

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  1. Wikpedia Text Markup or this can be used as well.
  2. Internal links
  3. Hidden text - commenting while editing and More on the same
  4. Distinguishing Template - It adds a warning on top of Wikipedia articles saying: Not to be confused with so-and-so.
  5. What is "Disruptive Editing"?
  6. What is "Tendentious Editing"?


Regarding Citations in Wikipedia Articles

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  1. Introduction to referencing with Wiki Markup
  2. Signal words - Citation needed, Who?, etc.
  3. Citation needed
  4. Citing Sources
  5. Reliable Sources
  6. To indicate the existence of duplicated citations in an article
  7. In order to replace duplicated citations


Principles of interacting/behaving with others' and Codes of Conduct

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  1. Be civil in your interactions
  2. Assume Good Faith or as we also say, Avoid much negative assumptions
  3. No Personal Attacks - Ideally, the job of the doctor is to wipe out the disease and not the patient.
  4. Do not be rude to newcomers - Be kind to the unacquainted for you were also once the same. You get what you pay out.


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  1. The Signpost - a Wikipedia online mag
  2. On the biographies of living persons


Educational copy-pasted responses

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Your additions to so-and-so have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

  • If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
  • In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are PD or compatibly licensed) it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions, the help desk or the Teahouse before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa