User talk:Smtchahal/Archives/1

Welcome

Hello, Smtchahal, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your school article contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intr: page provides helpful information for new users—please check it out! To know exactly what to put in your school article, visit WP:WPSCHOOLS where you will find a whole host of information and interesting tips on how to make school articles and add infoboxes. You can also ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on this page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Happy editing! Kudpung (talk) 12:29, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

I need some help...

I need some help regarding the infobox, and other types of editing materials. How do they work and how do I use them? {{helpme}}

Wikipedia has a mishmash of userboxes. Some have very good documentation and some have just about none. Documentation, if it exists, is found at the template page itself. Many users never visit the template page itself and so are unaware documentation even exists, but rather find a suitable infobox already in use in an article. If you are in that boat, take just the name of the infobox template you see in use, add the word template before it with a colon, and then type that into the search field and visit the template itself. For example, I see you've made some edits to Gyan Devi Public School. If you wanted to add an infobox there you'd probably want to add Infobox school, which is explained at Template:Infobox school. Scroll down until you see the documentation. In all such templates you'll see various parameter to be filled in, such as |name = Here you would add the name of whatever it is, after the equal sign. A lot more general information is at Help:Infobox. And general help on templates, see Help:Template. You might also try taking a tour through the Wikipedia:Tutorial. I'm not sure what else to tell you until you have a less general question. Hope this helps.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:33, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Hey thanks for helping me. I have got what I was looking for... Smtchahal (talk) 13:28, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

More info on Infobox

I have got to know that I to begin with infoboxes. Now I want the list of all the infoboxes below. I already have worked upon using the school infobox. Please help me by listing down all the infobox templates and their links to the pages where the information about using these infoboxes is given.

--Smtchahal (talk) 11:53, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

There are many infoboxes—too many to list. You can have a look at Category:Infobox templates and its sub-categories, but it's a daunting task. Favonian (talk) 12:56, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

December 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not replace pages with blank content, as you did with this edit to Gyan Devi Group of Schools, as this is confusing to readers. The page's content has been restored for now. If there is a problem with the page, it should be edited or reverted to a previous version if possible; if you think the page should be removed entirely, see further information. Thank you. Alansohn (talk) 14:19, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Mistake

I wanted to delete the page Gyan Devi Group of Schools. Have I the right to do so? If yes, then how can I delete an article and what kind of articles can I delete? Please don't delete it on your own, but tell me if I could do that. --Smtchahal (talk) 02:54, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

It's very easy to make a new page here, but getting one deleted isn't easy at all. Only admins can delete pages, and there has to be a special reason - just being untidy or badly written, or even poorly sourced are not necessarily reasons for deletion. If you want to remake a page, you could make a copy of it into your user pages, work on it there, and then paste it back into the original page. Bear in mind however that if other people have contributed to that page you would have to discuss it with them first on the article's talk page. To learn more about the actual deletion processes, look at WP:DELETE. --Kudpung (talk) 04:20, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Gyan Devi Public School

Your work on the infobox looks very good ;) --Kudpung (talk) 04:23, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Hey, thanks! --Smtchahal (talk) 05:49, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Sumit Chahal

A tag has been placed on Sumit Chahal, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect to an article talk page, file description page, file talk page, MediaWiki page, MediaWiki talk page, category talk page, portal talk page, template talk page, help talk, user page, user talk or special page from the main/article space.

If you can fix the redirect to point to a mainspace page, please do so and remove the speedy deletion tag. However, please do not remove the speedy deletion tag unless you are fixing the redirect. If you think the redirect should be retained as is for some reason, you can request that administrators wait a while before deleting it. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your reasoning on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. DASHBot (talk) 12:00, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Need help from Kudpung

I wanted to know that how can I add a template showing the current time if the time zone is UTC+5:30? Please help me back.

This is the code that makes it work the way it does on my page.

It is '''{{#time:g:i A|{{CURRENTHOUR}}:{{CURRENTMINUTE}} {{#if:{{{1|}}}|{{{1}}}|+7}} hours}}''' where this user lives.'''

If you want it as a userbox, wait until you come across one on someone's talk page. You can also have a look for it at WP:USERBOX. --Kudpung (talk) 12:42, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

There are these. Inka⁸⁸⁸ 13:06, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Need help about disambiguation pages

How can I make a disambiguation page showing something like given on the Salman Khan disambiguation page? I want to make a disambiguation page with something that's written at the bottom of the page, but customized. Please help me.

What do you want customized? Inka⁸⁸⁸ 13:04, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Please explain what you meant by customized, if you need to add more links then you can. You don't need to create another same page for one name. Petrb (talk) 13:51, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

I want to customize the bottom line which tells something like This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same name, which is written on this page, whereas on this page, something like This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same personal name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.. How can I customize the thing that I have written in bold? --Smtchahal (talk) 13:19, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Information about users

I wanted to know if an autoconfirmed user like me can become an administrator? If no, then how do administrators come about? And if yes, then what all should I do to become an administrator.

You aren't close to ready. I had over 13,000 edits when I became an admin. Some make it with fewer, but it is rare to do so with under 10,000. (The key isn't the number of edits, but the understanding of policy. However, it is hard to imagine someone having a full grasp of policy with only a few hundred edits, and even if you do, the key is that others are convinced you have a grasp of policy. That takes thousands of edits and several months of experience.)--SPhilbrickT 14:26, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

User page move

I just reverted the renaming of your user page. The only way to accomplish such a move is to request a change of user name. The procedure is described at Wikipedia:Changing username. Favonian (talk) 11:21, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Your attention needed at WP:CHUS

Hello. A bureaucrat or clerk has responded to your username change request, but requires clarification before moving forward. Please follow up at your username change request entry as soon as possible. Thank you. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 17:05, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Softendo.com Screenshot.jpg

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Softendo.com Screenshot.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. --Sfan00 IMG (talk) 10:41, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Invite to WikiConference India 2011

Hi Smtchahal/Archives, The First WikiConference India is being organized in Mumbai and will take place on 18-20 November 2011. You can see our Official website, the Facebook event and our Scholarship form. But the activities start now with the 100 day long WikiOutreach. As you are part of WikiProject India community we invite you to be there for conference and share your experience. Thank you for your contributions. We look forward to see you at Mumbai on 18-20 November 2011

MOTDs (This space for rent)

You may have noticed over the past few days that the MOTD that you link to on your user page has simply displayed a red link. This is due to the fact that not enough people are reviewing pending MOTDs here. Please help us keep the MOTD template alive and simply go and review a few of the MOTDs in the list. That way we can have a real MOTD in the future rather than re-using (This space for rent). Any help would be appreciated! –pjoef (talk • contribs) 13:25, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

I couldn't review many of the pending MOTDs, but I created a new one, which was supported by two users.

March 2012 MOTD's award for helping the project in a difficult time

		The MOTD Barnstar
		The MOTD Barnstar is awarded to Smtchahal for his invaluable contribution to our project, which was experiencing a period of extreme scarcity. Thank you from Motto of the day. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:56, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Additional note: Hoping that you feel comfortable with us, we hope and desire that you will want to continue contributing to our/your project. I personally think that if many of us contribute, then about ten minutes per week, by reviewing the existing nominations, and eventually adding new nominations, should be more than enough to get the project going! Once again, thank you from your Motto of the day. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:56, 13 March 2012 (UTC)