Mushroom9
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Some tips to help you out!
editHi Mushroom9, I thought I'd drop a few notes on your talk page with some help on writing articles :o)
First of all, it may be best for you to do a bit of reading, starting with the Wikipedia manual of style, which will give you a lot of information about how Wikipedia prefers its articles to be written. It's not as hard to follow as it might look; quite a bit of the information there probably won't be vital for you at first.
Second, I recommend you make a user sandbox - which is just an area you can use to practise in, and to make notes in, and to get things ready in. If you click this red link: user:Mushroom9/Sandbox, that will let you create that page (it gives you an edit window to start work in). Anything, anywhere, on the help and information pages which gives you an example, try it out in your sandbox until you're familiar with it.
For your article, the next thing you want to do is start collecting as much information as you can about it. Google searches (particularly in Books and Scholar) will be your best friend for this! Once you've found the information, the next most important thing is to start writing up each fact in your own words (very important, this), and make a note at the same time of exactly where that information came from. Build in the references as you go along; I'm going to copy in, down below this, a whole heap of help on doing references, which was produced by one of our best teachers (Chzz).
Here's another place that you'll find incredibly useful - citation templates which you can copy and paste into your sandbox, between <ref></ref> tags; you just fill in the blanks from your sources into the template, and you'll end up with nicely formatted inline citations :o) It all helps. Remember to add a references section to your sandbox (make a new line, and put ==References== on it, and type {{reflist}} on the next line, so that you can see how your citations look as you do them. Remember to save your page often! You don't want to lose your work.
Hopefully this will give you a good start and make life easier for you.
One last thing to keep as a motto: "It's better to write one good, well-referenced, nicely-presented article than it is to create fifty unreferenced one-line stubs!" Pesky (talk …stalk!) 14:17, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
How references work
editSimple references
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Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> He likes tea. <ref> [http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com Tea website] </ref>
- b) A section called "References" with the special code "{{reflist}}";
== References ==
{{reflist}}
(an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections)
To see the result of that, please look at user:chzz/demo/simpleref. Edit it, and check the code; perhaps make a test page of your own, such as user:Mushroom9/reftest and try it out.
Named references
editChzz was born in 1837. <ref name=MyBook> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> Chzz lives in Footown.<ref name=MyBook/>
Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result.
Citation templates
editYou can put anything you like between <ref> and </ref>, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look;
Chzz has 37 Olympic medals. <ref> {{Citation
| last = Smith
| first = John
| title = Olympic medal winners of the 20th century
| publication-date = 2001
| publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
| page = 125
| isbn = 0-521-37169-4
}}
</ref>
Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result.
For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.
Here's a little bit of magic which can save you an awful lot of time and effort!
editYou might want to consider using this tool - (tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/webreflinks.py) - it makes your life a whole heap easier, by filling in complete citation templates for your links. All you do is install the script on Special:MyPage/common.js, or or Special:MyPage/vector.js, then paste the bare url (without [...] brackets) between your <ref></ref> tabs, and you'll find a clickable link called Reflinks in your toolbox section of the page (probably in the left hand column). Then click that tool. It does all the rest of the work (provided that you remember to save the page! It doesn't work for everything (particularly often not for pdf documents), but for pretty much anything ending in "htm" or "html" (and with a title) it will do really, really well all by itself. For those it can't do by itself, it gives you a pull-down (or up) menu of templates to choose from, which you can then fill in manually. Often the problem is "No title found" - sometimes the title is obvious (especially if it's a pdf), bit, if not, just open the page yourself and choose something appropriate if there's not already a clear title there. Happy editing! Pesky (talk …stalk!) 14:17, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
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A barnstar for you!
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| For your contributions towards Mumbai related articles. Hope you won't mind adding your name here to the list of WikiProject Mumbai members list. The Mumbai WikiProject is a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to Mumbai. Feel free to add your name and join in this initiative. -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 11:12, 13 March 2012 (UTC) |
Nice work on Walk of the Stars , but needed some tweaks
editGreetings, nice work on Walk of the Stars , especially with establishing WP:Notability. Two things you'll want to keep in mind:
- Categories should be as narrow as possible so everything can be in its right place; accordingly "India" and "Entertainment" are way too broad, so I changed that to "Visitor attractions in Mumbai" and "Bollywood". See WP:Categories for tips on how to most make categories work to your advantage and make your articles easy for readers to find.
- Your footnotes themselves are good, however they are lengthy URLs (www.example.in/example135874/index/.... etc.) The danger of that is such footnotes are subject to "link rot"; that is, if the website ever moves the page around the link will be hard to find again because we might not be able to ascertain the title/date/author. Please read WP:LINKROT for ideas on how to format your footnotes for maximum utility and permanence.
Hope this helps, shoot me a line with any questions. MatthewVanitas (talk) 19:09, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
Wikipedia Mumbai Community 15thmeetup has been announced on 7 April 2012 @ Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, Bandra.
Have a look at the event page here. Hope to see you :) -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 10:14, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Train Management System
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{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:49, 24 April 2012 (UTC)- As recently as April 18th - after multiple warnings, a contributor copyright investigation and even a prior block - you placed the following in the article Swami Vivekananda Road (Namma Metro):
The rural centre will have 86 units, which are stone-carved huts, round or rectangular in shape. The rectangular ones will be given to North Karnataka stalls and the round huts for South Karnataka. These huts will be used for storing handicrafts at night, and outside, there will be a 'juglee' (frontyard), where artisans can sell their products. These huts and spaces will be rented out to different artistes and craftsmen to help showcase all types of handicrafts. If the concept is successful, there are plans to invite rural craftsmen from other states to showcase their handicrafts in the rural centre."
- The Times of India says:
The rural centre will have 86 units, which are stone-carved huts, round or rectangular in shape. The rectangular ones will be given to North Karnataka stalls and the round huts for South Karnataka. These huts will be used for storing handicrafts at night, and outside, there will be a 'juglee' (frontyard), where artisans can sell their products. A BMRC official told TOI: "These huts and spaces will be rented out to artistes and craftsmen for some time, and then another batch will be given a chance. This will help showcasing all types of handicrafts. If the concept becomes a hit, then we can invite other state rural craftsmen to showcase their handicrafts in the rural centre."
- This constitutes both plagiarism and a violation of copyright policy. I do not believe you should be permitted to edit Wikipedia without some strong reason to believe that you understand that you cannot copy content from other sources and will comply. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:49, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Airtel Africa
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File:800px-Bharti-Airtel-Country-Map.PNG listed for deletion
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File source problem with File:Mumbai suburban rail map.jpg
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