Tadyatha

Based in Australia.

Interested in religions, social sciences, history, current affairs and migrant stories.

I aim to improve the quality and reliability of articles. My focus has been on the development and integration of the multicultural communities in Australia and New Zealand, with focus on people of Asian descent.

I am an independent editor, endeavour to edit and comment in good faith, using reliable and verifiable sources. This requires a lot of (and sometimes painstaking) research, given people of multicultural backgrounds do not get as much attention in mainstream media they deserve, even for notable individuals. Hence, I'd appreciate courtesy and a bit of respect if you can inform me first before deleting my edits.

Policies and guidelines

Getting started
A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images
Getting help
Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention
Policies and guidelines
Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources 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
Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists
Writing articles
Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review
Miscellaneous
User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

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Lists of Policies: Five Pillars • List of Policies • Policies and Guidelines • Simplified Ruleset

Wikipedia Guidelines: Verifiability • No original research • Neutral point of view • Copyrights • Resolving disputes

Behavioral Guidelines: Be civil • Assume good faith • Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point • Wikipedia etiquette • Gaming the system • Please do not bite the newcomers

Content Guidelines: Notability • Verifiability • Reliable source • Identifying reliable sources • Burden of evidence • Exceptional claims require exceptional sources • Avoid mission statements • "In popular culture" content • External links normally to be avoided • Fringe theories • Common knowledge

Editing Guidelines: Help editing • Be bold in updating pages • Vandalism

Style Guidelines: Wikipedia Manual of Style • Manual of Style/Lists • Manual of Style/Tables • Manual of Style/Capital letters • Laying out a typical basic article • Writing better articles • Use English • Lead • Standard appendices and footers • Citing sources • Avoid peacock terms • Avoid weasel words

Templates • Template help

Article tags: {{abbreviations}} • {{cleanup}} • {{external links}} • {{No footnotes}} • {{Citations missing}} • {{Citation needed}} • {{Cleanup}} • {{copy edit}} • {{copypaste}} • {{Confusing}} • {{Inappropriate tone}} • {{incoherent}} • {{multiple issues}} • {{Notability}} • {{Not verified}} • {{original research}} • {{overlinked}} • {{peacock}} • {{POV}} • {{primary sources}} • {{puffery}} • {{refimprove}} • {{tone}} • {{Unreferenced}} • {{inline citations}} • {{unreferenced}} • {{verify}} • {{weasel}} • {{Wikify}}

Section tags: {{Disputed-section}} • {{POV-section}} • {{copy edit-section}} • {{expand section}} • {{fictionrefs}} • {{off-topic}} • {{in popular culture}} • {{ref improve section}} • {{unreferenced section}} • {{trivia}}

Inline tags: Category:Inline citation and verifiability dispute templates • {{citation needed}} • {{clarify}} • {{failed verification}} • {{or}} • {{request quotation}} • {{syn}} • {{verify credibility}} • {{who}} • {{whom?}}

By subject

Delete: {{delete}} • {{db-bio}} • {{db-attack}} • {{db|...}} • {{afd}} • {{cfd}} • {{ifd}} • {{tfd}} • {{rfd}} • {{mfd}}

Dispute: {{POV}} • {{disputed}} • {{Disputed-section}}

Bibleverse : {{bibleverse||John|3:16|KJV|}}

Bibleref2 : {{bibleref2|Hebrews|12:24}}

Superscript : {{bibleref2c|Mt|28:19}}

Spelling Style: {{Varieties of English templates}} • {{American English}} • {{British English}}

Citing sources • CiteEx • {{Cite web}} • {{Cite journal}} • {{Cite book}} • CITET

<ref>{{Cite news | first=John | last=Doe | title=News | url=| work= | newspaper=[[Florida Today]] | location=Melbourne, Florida | pages= 1A | date=April 1, 2011 | id= | accessdate=}}</ref>

<ref>{{Cite web |url= |title=News |accessdate= |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=2010-05-01 |year= |month= |work= Florida Today |publisher=Florida Today |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref>

<ref>{{Cite book |first = George |last = Weigel |authorlink = George Weigel |coauthors = |title = The Truth of Catholicism |publisher = [[Harper Collins]] |date = 2001 |location = New York City |pages = |url = |doi = |id = |isbn = 0-06-621330-4 }}</ref>

<ref>{{Cite journal |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |year= |month= |title= |journal=Vermont's Northland Journal |volume= |issue= |pages= |id= |url= |accessdate= |quote= }}</ref>

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