This is the third of a series of suggested exercises prepared by User:AshLin to help new editors get on track and become productive contributors as early as possible.
Suggested preliminary activity : Read the following
Primer: A stub is an article containing only a few sentences of text which — though providing some useful information — is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject, and which is capable of expansion. It is the first step to creating a comprehensive, reliable and useful article on Wikipedia.
Aim : To create a new article
Instructions :
Type the following phrase in the Search box and press the Search button : Carnatic (battle honour)
The search will put up suggestions but will not find the article with exactly this name. The search page will place a message after search option check-boxes and the suggested wikipedia articles, to the effect that you may create the page named "Carnatic (battle honour)", but consider checking the search results below to see whether it is already covered. The phrase "Carnatic (battle honour)" will be a red link if uncreated and blue if created.
Click the red link to create the blank page.
Copy the text given under "Material to be added" and paste it in the blank page edit box. Copy the text from this page itself (and not by pressing the edit link for this section).
After pasting, press the "Review" button under the edit button. If you scroll up, you can see how the amended article will look. This preview permits typos or other errors to be detected and corrected before saving. If there is an error, correct it and review again till it is correct in all respects.
Give an edit summary in the text box below the edit window. Suggested edit summary for this edit is -"Created new article."
Press "Save".
Material to be added (The first sentence of the opening lead):
The battle honour of Carnatic was given to units of the British Army and of the armies of the East India Company (later the British Indian Army) which had distinguished themselves during the Anglo-Mysore Wars.
Primer: * All information needs to be provided with a reliable source. The source needs to be cited, preferably inline as has been done here in this exercise. Here we use a "cite book"template to neatly arrange the and display the information of the source. The "cite book" template is enclosed in "<ref></ref>"html-style tags. * In addition to this we need to add a references section at the bottom of the article which will list the references.
Aim : To add a reference to the new article & a section titled "References" at the end of the article.
Instructions : Add the reference (material in the first text-box) immediately next to the full-stop at the end of the sentence in the article-stub. Press enter twice to create two blank lines and then add the material in the second text-box.
Material to be added :
<ref name='Sarbans'>{{cite book |title=Battle Honours of the Indian Army 1757 - 1971 |last=Singh |first=Sarbans |authorlink= |coauthors= |year= |publisher=Vision Books |location=New Delhi |isbn=8170941156 |page= |pages= |url= |accessdate=18 March 2011}}</ref>
==References==
<references/>
Article wikitext - after adding references & "References" section
This is how the article wikitext should look after step two :
The battle honour of Carnatic was given to units of the British Army and of the armies of the East India Company (later the British Indian Army) which had distinguished themselves during the Anglo-Mysore Wars.<ref name='Sarbans'>{{cite book |title=Battle Honours of the Indian Army 1757 - 1971 |last=Singh |first=Sarbans |authorlink= |coauthors= |year= |publisher=Vision Books |location=New Delhi |isbn=8170941156 |page= |pages= |url= |accessdate=18 March 2011}}</ref>
==References==
<references/>
The first sentence must contain the words which comprise the article title and these should be made boldface. Since this particular title is not a single word or term but consists of two terms each of which mean different things from their their combined use in the title, they also need to be wikilinked.
Wikilinking is not to be restricted to just the title terms, but to any term which provides relevant connections to the subject of another article that will help readers understand the article more fully (see the example below). This can include people, events and topics that already have an article or that clearly deserve one, so long as the link is relevant to the article in question.
Aim : Format the first sentance of the lead.
Instructions :
Boldface the following words/phrases of the lead. This is to be done by surrounding the word/phrase by three single apostrophes (example - '''boldfaced term'''):
Carnatic
battle honour
Provide wikilinking to the following terms of the lead. A word of phrase can be wikilinked by surrounding it with two opening and closing square brackets (example - [[Wikilinked term]]). While providing wikilinking to the terms comprising the title, ensure that the square brackets are placed inside the three single apostrophes which provide bolding (example - '''[[bolded wikilinked phrase]]''').
Categories help us navigate, sort, find articles, find related articles, see how information is organised, etc. It is absolutely essential to add categories to an article.
Wikipedia has a category tree. The topmost category is Category:Contents and everything else is a subcategory of it or of other subcategories.
Each article is linked to one or more parts of the tree by allotting categories. Category wikilinks of an article are seen at the bottom of a wikipage. * Read the following for more information on categories:
How to find appropriate categories for a new article
Often it is difficult to categorise a new article. There is absolutely no need to search out each and every category possible for a new article, such as in the case of Barack Obama which has 45 categiries. Many of these categories are added by people who enjoy categorisation, are refining the category tree, cleaning up categories or have special interests. However, each new article should have at least one category, if not two or three, when newly created.
It is fairly obvious to allot categories such as "Rabbits and hares", "Herbivorous animals" and "Meat" to Rabbit as it is a member of that zoological grouping, eats vegetable matter and is often eaten itself, all of which are matters of common knowledge.
However, many categories such as "Populated places established in 1726" in the case of Montevideo and "United Church of Christ members" as well as so many others in the case of Barack Obama are neither easily recognised or found in the category tree. These develop over time as the article is developed and improved, categorisation enthusiasts and people having deep knowledge of the article subject etc further categorise the article.
A series of techniques may be used to select appropriate categories for an article.
One way is to use the the top level categories of interest to readers. These are Category:Articles and Category:Contents, as all articles can be found from these.
Often the article title or the subject with which the article is concerned can help you us choose a category. Often this will be a starting point. Allot this category to the article and then click on it to search for a more appropriate category.
Search for a sister article and see what categories it has. Some categories are automatically added, such as when a stub template is added to a new article. Similarly, adding WikiProject banner templates to talk pages of articles adds categories to the talk pages which help the WikiProject organise articles under their jurisdiction.
Categories may also be found by using trial and error using the search box given below:
Aim : To add a category
Instructions :
Based on the instructions in the primer above try to identify at least two categories for this stub.
Suggested categories - see only after you have attempted to find categories by yourselves.
The '''[[battle honour]]''' of '''[[Carnatic]]''' was given to units of the [[British Army]] and of the armies of the [[East India Company]] (later the [[British Indian Army]]) which had distinguished themselves during the [[Anglo-Mysore Wars]]. The battle honour is unusual in that it covered two separate campaigns - the [[Second Anglo-Mysore War]] of 1780-84 during which [[Hyder Ali]] threatened [[Madras]] itself, and the [[Third Anglo-Mysore War]] of 1790-92 up to the invasion of [[Mysore]].<ref name='Sarbans'>{{cite book |title=Battle Honours of the Indian Army 1757 - 1971 |last=Singh |first=Sarbans |authorlink= |coauthors= |year= |publisher=Vision Books |location=New Delhi |isbn=8170941156 |page= |pages= |url= |accessdate=18 March 2011}}</ref>
The award of the battle honour, likewise, was unusual in being in two instalments far apart in time. Three battalions of the [[Bengal Native Infantry]] were awarded the honour vide Gazette of the Governor General (GOGG) number 43 of 1829 and the battle honour lapsed after the Mutiny. It was much later awarded to twenty native units of the Madras Army vide Gazette of India No 378 of 1889. Today, the battle honour is considered as [[Repugnant battle honours of the Indian Army|repugnant]].<ref name='Sarbans'/>
;Madras Presidency<ref name='Sarbans'/>
* 2nd Madras Lancers - today [[16th Light Cavalry]]
* Madras Sappers and Miners - now [[Madras Engineer Group]]
* 7th Madras Infantry - later 1st Battalion, [[Punjab regiment]] - now 1st Battalion, [[Parachute Regiment (India)|Special Forces]], India
* 9th Madras Infantry - later 2nd Battalion, [[Punjab Regiment]] - now 1st Battalion, [[Brigade of the Guards]], India
* 12th Madras Infantry - now 3rd Battalion, [[Punjab Regiment]]
* 14th Madras Infantry - 4th Battalion, [[2nd Punjab Regiment]]
* [[73rd Carnatic Infantry|13th Madras Infantry]] - later 1st Battalion, [[The Madras Regiment]] - now 1st Battalion, [[The Mechanised Infantry Regiment]]
* [[75th Carnatic Infantry|15th Madras Infantry]] - now 2nd Battalion, [[The Madras Regiment]]
* [[79th Carnatic Infantry|19th Madras Infantry]] - now 3rd Battalion, [[The Madras Regiment]]
* 2nd, Madras Infantry - 1st Battalion, [[1st Punjab Regiment]] (Pakistan)
* 6th, Madras Infantry - 2nd Battalion, [[1st Punjab Regiment]] (Pakistan)
* 16th Madras Infantry - 3rd Battalion, [[1st Punjab Regiment]] (Pakistan)
* 10th Madras Infantry - Disbanded 1891
* 8th Madras Infantry - Disbanded 1902
* 5th Madras Infantry ([[65th Carnatic Infantry]]) - Disbanded 1904
* 17th Madras Infantry ([[77th Moplah Rifles) - Disbanded 1907
* 20th Madras Infantry ([[80th Carnatic Infantry]]I) - Disbanded 1921
* 3rd Madras Infantry ([[63rd Palamcottah Light Infantry]]) - Disbanded 1922
* 1st Madras Infantry (1st Bn [[Madras Pioneers]]) - Disbanded 1933
* 4th Madras Infantry (2nd En [[Madras Pioneers]]) - Disbanded 1933
;British Army
* [[72nd_Regiment,_Duke_of_Albany%27s_Own_Highlanders|78th (Highland) Foot]], later renumbered 72nd Foot in 1786.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.army.mod.uk/infantry/regiments/4596.aspx |title=The Raising of the Regiments |author= |date= |work=The British Army |publisher=Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom |accessdate=21 April 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://orbat.com/site/uk_orbats/files/6/The%20British%20Army%201775.pdf |title=The British Army (1775-1783) |author=Rinaldi, Richard A. |date= |work=Orders of Battle |publisher=www.orbat.com |accessdate=21 April 2011}}</ref>
