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Sincerely, AnomieBOT 20:59, 12 December 2011 (UTC)   (Leave me a message)Reply

Welcome

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First I would like to thank you for your photo contribution to the Kolkata page. I would request you to kindly add edit summary, so that it helps future editors to understand. Second, kindly sign by using four tildes ~~~~ when posting a message on talk pages, but don't sign on the wikipages. If, you face any problem in understanding anything on wikipedia, feel free to leave a message on my talk page. Amartyabag TALK2ME 07:32, 10 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

Suggestion

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You can try your hand in these articles as you have the requisite knowledge.

All the best Amartyabag TALK2ME 08:53, 10 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

Don't worry about the syntax and rules much, with time you will learn them easily. Start writing the articles if you can and leave the rest to other editors. There will be many editors, who will correct small errors. BTW, I am on SSC as BengaliTiger. Amartyabag TALK2ME 10:18, 10 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

Fill the articles in the list with as many images you have. The links take you to a Template, which contains sub-articles.

Photographer's Barnstar

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  The Photographer's Barnstar
For the awesome photo contributions to the articles of Kolkata. Hope for more such beautiful photos. Amartyabag TALK2ME 08:56, 17 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

Regarding edits to Kolkata

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Hi, welcome to Wikipedia! Kindly make it a habit to discuss on the talk page whenever you want to make broad edits, as you did to Kolkata. Its a much simpler and neater process than seeing your edits reverted. Hope you have a good time here! Lynch7 17:59, 30 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

Hi, thanks a lot for your honest efforts to improve the article Kolkata. Kolkata is a featured article in wikipedia, however currently it is in featured article review as the community agrees that the quality of the article has fallen from featured status. So we have to work together to improve the quality of the article. You can see the cocerns why the article is not very good any more. The article lacks adequate references and good references. So, I would request you that if you add something very new, please try to supply references for that. Also, lots of images do not make an article better, although images are very very important and complement the text.
As a relatively new wikipedian, you may be interested to know further about the referencing process, some good things are here : Wikipedia:Citing sources. Again, thank you for your effort. Please help to maintain the featured article status of Kolkata. Regards. --Dwaipayan (talk) 23:35, 30 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

Overwriting images

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Please don't overwrite images with other images except for cosmetic changes. If you have another image you want to use, please upload it to a new name and replace all the instances of the old image. Magog the Ogre (talk) 22:33, 21 December 2011 (UTC)Reply

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