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Dhar State (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver)

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Royal Ark

Please can you revert your addition to Paramara. I am pleased to see that you did provide a citation but unfortunately it referenced royalark.net. This source was discussed on our reliable sources noticeboard and the outcome was that it is no a reliable source, sorry. - Sitush (talk) 19:47, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fine tuning needed at Dewas State

Greetings, I made some corrections at Dewas State; please note the difference in the History tab, as these are things you should do for every new article you create.

You did not apply a category; which every article must have. See WP:CAT for info.
There is no sourcing; the rule of thumb is "sources first, then article", so before even beginning an article you should have a WP:Reliable source which verifies the basic facts you'll start with.
To help keep articles organised, it's best to Wikipedia:WikiProjects to the Talk page; in this case I coded the Talk page with {{WPINDIA|class=stub|importance=low|maharashtra=yes}} While not totally mandatory, this helps other editors specialising in India to become aware of and assist with your article.

Please take a look at the coding, and please remember to include these steps each time you create a new article. Feel free to write me with any questions. MatthewVanitas (talk) 20:18, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've gone and added two links from WP:RSs from GoogleBooks; take a look at those sources, note the degree of reliability of the publications, etc. Websites not affiliated with a serious academic/journalistic source, with a reputation to maintain, just don't measure up. MatthewVanitas (talk) 21:18, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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Sisodia

Please do not reinstate the links in the See Also section again. A read of WP:OVERLINK explains why they are inappropriate. Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 20:58, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am sorry but I have also reverted your recent addition of a script to an article - User:Sitush/Common#Scripts explains. I realise that you are a new contributor and that this must all seem very confusing to you but perhaps it would be better to open discussions at the various article talk pages before making edits. You are making a lot of mistakes because these caste/community articles are a particularly touchy subject area on Wikipedia. Discussion will teach you a lot. Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 21:01, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion: WikiProject India

Greetings, to minimise the friction of starting out on WP (which I realise is frustrating) why not consider swinging by [talk page of WikiProject India]? I would suggest you make a new section, something like "New editor, looking at Parmara topics". Maybe give some (non-sensitive, anonymous) information about yourself and interests, and maybe list out some examples of things you'd like to improve in India articles.

That'd be a good way to start getting some ideas on moving forward, get some suggestions on sourcing, and get a feel for the kind of past conflicts that have come up on WP:INDIA so you can avoid treading old ground. Please understand that we get a lot of well-intentioned people with "good ideas" that don't quite fit at first, so even with the best intentions it's best for everyone to have a quick sit and discuss before launching into changes.

Learning WP methods and customs takes a little time, but despite some initial clash you've got some good ideas, so it'd be great to have you come and converse with other India-topic editors (Indians and others from 'round the world) to gain consensus. Welcome aboard! MatthewVanitas (talk) 21:37, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Paramara

You have just added royalark as a source for an article yet again. Now, please stop this and read the notice below. New contributor or otherwise, you'll only get so much rope. Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 13:46, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikipedia community has permitted administrators to impose discretionary sanctions on any editor who is active on any page about social groups, explicitly including caste associations and political parties, related to India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal. Discretionary sanctions can be used against an editor who repeatedly or seriously fails to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behavior, or any normal editorial process. If you engage in further inappropriate behavior in this area, you may be placed under sanctions, which can include blocks, a revert limitation, or an article ban. The discussion leading to the imposition of these sanctions can be read here.

Please familiarise yourself with the information page at Wikipedia:General sanctions.

Look at my sourcing on Dewas State

Greetings, you're still not grasping the absolute necessity of WP:Reliable sources (RS), especially on India-topic articles, which have a long history of being contentious.

Take a look again at Dewas State, and notice how I added proper citations to published academic works (from reputable publishers and universities, by scholars). That way if anyone has any issue with what is said in the article, they can follow the footnote back to the RS which verifies that statement. If multiple RSs disagree on a fact, we can present both facts and note the divergence.

What we cannot do is simply paste in text with no indication as to where it came from. We can't source statements about Indian history as "some random guy on the internet says", or we'll have all kinds of people coming in posting utter silliness. You must understand this, and that nobody is out to "ruin" your work or stifle your interest in the topic. If you take a slow and even approach to this, and ensure your edits are properly sourced and formatted, your edits on Puar topics will be infinitely more useful and credible. Turning the Puar articles into a tangle of unsourced "just trust me on this" information would be a disservice to the topic at hand; why should Puar coverage be held to a lower standard than other articles?

Suggest you read up on some of the basic Wikipedia tutorials to get a feel for how articles are made and improved, and again suggest you drop by WikiProject India to say hello. MatthewVanitas (talk) 16:04, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Puars

How many more times must you be told that royalark is unsuitable and that you must source all statements of the type that you keep adding? Not to mention the issues with overlinking etc. You have created a new article - Puars - and made exactly the same problematic contributions as elsewhere. What is it that you do not understand?

There are other issues with your new creation but I realise that you probably are unaware of these. Firstly, it should have been a singular title, not plural. Secondly, and more significantly, the thing probably should not exist at all - you may wish to comment on this point in the thread that I have initiated on the article talk page.

Really, you are now pushing things very close to the edge and I am tempted to seek the intervention of an administrator. I do believe that your intentions are good but you are displaying a pretty much complete unwillingness to abide by consensus and to work in a collaborative manner. You need to spend some time reading up on our policies etc and if the only way to cause that to happen is to seek a short block then that is how it is. - Sitush (talk) 23:13, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

September 2012

You have been blocked from editing for a period of a fortnight for abusing multiple accounts. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.

Salvio

^{Let's talk about it!} 12:19, 8 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Futhermore, considering you were warned about the extant, community-authorised discretionary sanctions, and yet chose to persist in editing disruptively, I am hereby imposing an editing restriction on you: you are prohibited from making any edits relating to any caste across all namespaces (i.e. everywhere on Wikipedia) for six months. Please note that this restriction applies to you as a person and not only to this account and that violating this topic ban will result in the imposition of increasing blocks.

Salvio

^{Let's talk about it!} 12:22, 8 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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