User talk:Jadia gaurang/February 2008

Your message

Hello Gaurang. Thanks for your message on my talk page, I'm sorry it has taken me a few days to get back to you. It looks like you are doing excellent work already, so well done! But I am happy to offer you some advice based on your questions.

• You asked about Wikiprojects. Well, they tend to be initialised by a few editors who have a shared interest in a subject and wish to co-ordinate efforts to improve its coverage in Wikipedia. Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide gives all the information you could want about them and Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals is where you would first suggest your idea for a project, or find one that needs some help getting of the ground.
• Administrators. There are currently 1,492 (as of 7 February 2008) administrators, (though only 1018 of them active). A complete list can be found here. Administrators are "promoted" by the community through a process known as WP:RfA (request for adminiship). Here, for example, is the record of my request (which was successful). Being an administrator is, according to Jimbo, "no big deal". We have some extra buttons that permit us to protect and delete pages, and also to block editors from editing when they disrupt the project. However, these buttons should not be used in areas we edit in, so admins have no additional authority when it comes to adding content. That said, admins tend to be experienced editors with a good understanding of our policies, so its often a good idea to learn from them and take their advice when they offer it.
• Featured articles. One of the more challenging things you can set yourself is to write a featured article. Some people consider those who write FA's to be more important to the project that other editors, but ultimately it takes all types of editors to make the project function, so don't feel you have to write featured content if your forte is WikiGnoming. Nevertheless, it is a very gratifying feeling to have an article you contributed to on the front page (I was lucky enough to have one in 2006 and another late last year). If you are interested in attempting to write one have a read of Wikipedia:Featured article criteria and User:Giano/A fool's guide to writing a featured article (which is a very funny, but helpful guide from one of Wikipedia's most talented featured article writers). Writing one by yourself is much harder than collaborating, so its often a good idea to work with others on this), and you could always start out smaller, but trying to write a Good article first.
• Encouraging other editors. The best way to encourage others is to be nice to them and to offer help and advice whenever possible. You could join the Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User, that partner's experienced editors with newbies. Another way to encourage editors is to give them a barnstar. These are awards that can be given to any editors by any editor for a number of different reasons. Wikipedia:Barnstars lists mosts of the awards (there are others on sub pages and you can create your own ones if you wish) and explains how you award them.

I hope this has been of some assistance to you, feel free to drop by if you have more questions or if there is anything else I can assit you with. Happy editing. Rockpocket 08:50, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Your messages

I am sorry that I could not answer some of your messages in time. Improving Rajkot is beyond me. I know so little about the area. There is a lot of information in Wikipedia about what to do and what not to do. If you go through them most of your questions will be answered. Regards - P.K.Niyogi (talk) 14:43, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Image source problem with Image:Tulsi Tanti.jpg

Image Copyright problem

Thanks for uploading Image:Tulsi Tanti.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, their copyright should also be acknowledged.

As well as adding the source, please add a proper copyright licensing tag if the file doesn't have one already. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 18:50, 18 February 2008 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Ricky81682 (talk) 18:50, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

New article

I think Lakhajiraj III Bawajiraj could be the heading. Normally, titles like Sir etc. are discouraged in the headings. See Winston Churchill. Categories would obviously be the same as History of Rajkot. I find that History of Rajkot could have been put up for Did you know but now it is too late. I think you should study the information about DYKs. See carefully the section on suggestions. You have to place your suggestion within 5 days of the first edit. This means that you have to create the entire article off-line and put it up in one go. Thereafter, you can make corrections, additions etc. Normally people put it up within a day or two. The article should have full/ almost full in-line citations. See Main Page for selection of DYKs. Once an article appears on Main Page it draws the attention of hundreds of readers. Regards. - P.K.Niyogi (talk) 06:24, 23 February 2008 (UTC)