Welcome!

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Some cookies to welcome you!  

Welcome to Wikipedia, Rahulpattuvam! I am RP459 and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Oh yeah, I almost forgot, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome!

RP459 (talk) 00:32, 16 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

August 2010

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  Your addition to Kannur Airport has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. matt (talk) 16:11, 8 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

A brownie for you!

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Naveenpf has given you a brownie! Brownies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a brownie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Appreciate your good work... need to improve the map and the coloring code . Extend my invitation to വിക്കിപീഡിയ:വിക്കിപദ്ധതി/ഭൂപടനിർമ്മാണം

http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A7%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BF/%E0%B4%AD%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%9F%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%BF%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%A3%E0%B4%82

Also check http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Malayalam_Wikipedia_Map_Project
Thanx mate, I'll try to improve the map. But i stuck with its naming. the text i added is now showin as some dark boxes, dunno why..!-Rahulpattuvam talk 06:31, 31 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

An Invite to join the WikiProject Education in India

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Hi, Rahulpattuvam, you are graciously extended an invitation to join the Indian Education ! The WikiProject Indian Education is an evolving and expanding WikiProject. We are a group of editors who are dedicated to creating, revising, and expanding articles, lists, categories and Wikiprojects, to do with anything related to Indian Education System(Schools,Colleges and Universities).

As you have shown an interest in article related to Education in India we thought you might like to take an interest in this growing WikiProject.Thank you for your contributions.

We look forward to welcoming you to the project ! To join the project please click here

naveenpf (talk) 08:31, 8 September 2011 (UTC)Reply


Talkback

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Hello, Rahulpattuvam. You have new messages at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Education in India/Lists of institutions of higher education in States.
Message added 03:51, 11 September 2011 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Thanks Subin.a.mathew (talk) 18:14, 24 September 2011 (UTC)Reply


Some tips to help you out!

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Hi Rahulpattuvam, 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:Rahulpattuvam/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 (talkstalk!) 12:54, 18 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

How references work

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Simple references

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These require two parts;

a)
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:Rahulpattuvam/reftest and try it out.

Named references

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Chzz 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

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You 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!

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You 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 Special:MyPage/vector.js, or Special:MyPage/monobook.js, and 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), but, if not, just open the page yourself and choose something appropriate if there's not already a clear title there. Happy editing! Pesky (talkstalk!) 12:54, 18 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

Thanx. Will keep in mind. :) - Rahulpattuvam talk 13:58, 25 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

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Reviewing deleted Article

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This article about Celebrity Cricket League was deleted by you as the result of deletion discussion process, But it got more importance now because of new session and more public interest. And few new teams also joined, making it serious cricket(even they got logos and sponsors, it is no more a game in the front yard) with various celebrities of Indian states/language. It will be great if you can review the deletion process. Have a look at this also[1] -- Rahulpattuvam talk 06:57, 30 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

You need to file a request at WP:DRV for this, quoting as many sources as you can. Stifle (talk) 19:18, 1 December 2011 (UTC)Reply

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The image was removed by IP 189.216.36.25 with no reason. i added it again Rahulpattuvam talk 20:46, 2 March 2012 (UTC)Reply


What about Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi

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So what about Thiruvananthapuram metropolitan area and Kochi metropolitan area? Where are the changes in these articles? Otherwise Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi are not in Kerala. Some people are very very interested to show that Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi are the biggest cities in Kerala. Come on man get a break for you. Change them first not Thrissur.

124.124.211.93 (talk) 16:44, 10 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

Opinion

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Would you mind weighing in your opinion here. Vensatry (Ping me) 06:34, 4 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

Talkback

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Nomination of East Coast Vijayan for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article East Coast Vijayan is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/East Coast Vijayan until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Akasa Air (August 6)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Mcmatter was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
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Hello, Rahulpattuvam! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! McMatter (talk)/(contrib) 22:37, 6 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

Concern regarding Draft:Akasa Air

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  Hello, Rahulpattuvam. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Akasa Air, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 18:02, 3 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

Your draft article, Draft:Akasa Air

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Hello, Rahulpattuvam. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Akasa Air".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 17:03, 1 May 2022 (UTC)Reply