User:Wikireader41/Scratchpad

My Scratchpad

Welcome

Hello, Wikireader41! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! --Avant-garde a clue-hexa Chord ² 16:46, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Getting started
A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images
Getting help
Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention
Policies and guidelines
Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability

The community
Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists
Writing articles
Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review
Miscellaneous
User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Wikipedia Links

Wikipedia key policies and guidelines

Five pillars
- Ignore all rules

Content

P	Verifiability No original research Neutral point of view What Wikipedia is not Biographies of living persons Copyright (Copyright violations) Image use Article titles
G	Notability Autobiography Citing sources Reliable sources Medicine Do not include copies of lengthy primary sources Plagiarism Don't create hoaxes Fringe theories Patent nonsense External links

Conduct

P	Civility Consensus Harassment Vandalism Ignore all rules No personal attacks Ownership of content Edit warring Dispute resolution Sockpuppetry No legal threats Child protection Paid-contribution disclosure
G	Assume good faith Conflict of interest Disruptive editing Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point Etiquette Gaming the system Please do not bite the newcomers Courtesy vanishing Responding to threats of harm Talk page guidelines Signatures

Deletion

P	Deletion policy Proposed deletion Biographies Speedy deletion Attack page Oversight Revision deletion

Enforcement

P	Administrators Banning Blocking Page protection

Editing

P

Editing policy

G

Article size Summary style Be bold Disambiguation Hatnotes Broad-concept article Understandability
Style	Manual of Style Contents Accessibility Dates and numbers Images Layout Lead section Linking Lists
Classification	Categories, lists, and navigation templates Categorization Template namespace

Project content

G	Project namespace WikiProjects User pages User boxes Shortcuts Subpages

WMF (?)

P	Universal Code of Conduct Terms of Use List of policies Friendly space policy Licensing and copyright Privacy policy

List of all policies and guidelines
- P: List of policies
- G: List of guidelines
Summaries of values and principles

Wikipedia:Manual of Style

Wikipedia:Writing better articles

Wikipedia:Quick directory

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost

Template talk:Did you know

Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page/Candidates

Wikipedia:WikiProject Terrorism

Wikipedia:NPOV tutorial

Special:NewPages

Wikipedia:Welcoming committee

India

Links for Wikipedians interested in India content

Welcome kit

Welcome kit - Swiss Army Knife for newcomers.

Register

Category:Indian Wikipedians - Indian Wikipedians category.

Network

Notice board for India-related topics - Forum for India content discussions and Networking. (Shortcut: WP:INWNB)

Contribute content

WikiProject India - Join the group and help improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to India.
Portal:India - India Kaleidoscope on Wikipedia.
Indian current events - India events page. (Shortcut: WP:INCE)
Notice board for India-related topics/INCOTW - Vote for the Indian Collaboration of the week. (Shortcut: WP:INCOTW)
Notice board for India-related topics/Category Adoptions - Adopt an India category and better it.
WikiProject Deletion sorting/India - Articles related to India listed for deletion.
WikiProject Indian cinema - Join the project and contribute to articles on Indian cinema.
WikiProject History of India - Join the project and contribute to articles on History of India.
WikiProject Politics of India - Join the project and contribute to articles on Politics of India.

Wikipedia:WikiProject India

Wikipedia:Noticeboard for India-related topics

Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics

Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Indians WP

Pakistan

Wikipedia:WikiProject Pakistan

Wikipedia talk:Notice board for Pakistan-related topics

Portal:Pakistan

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Dealing with Vandals

Wikipedia:Guide to administrator intervention against vandalism

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations

Wikipedia:Requests for page protection

Wikipedia:Blocking policy

Wikipedia:Banning policy

Wikipedia:Banning_policy#Enforcement_by_reverting_edits

Wikipedia:Banning_policy#Editing_on_behalf_of_banned_users

Wikipedia:Sock puppetry

Wikipedia:Vandalism

Check any editors Contributions

contact one of the admins

Wikipedia:Administrators

Wikipedia:Highly Active Users/North America

Nangparbat Today

86.162.67.192 (talk⁺ · contribs · deleted contribs · tag · block user · block log · CheckUser). This IP address appears to be a sock of banned user Nangparbat (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) . Please consider Blocking him and semiprotecting some of the pages he has vandalized.

Banned User Nangparbat

86.162.67.192 (talk⁺ · contribs · deleted contribs · tag · block user · block log · CheckUser). This IP address appears to be a sock of banned user Nangparbat (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) . Please consider Blocking him and semiprotecting some of the pages he has vandalized.

Nangparbat (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

User:Hersfold/Vandal_watch#Nangparbat

User:Thegreyanomaly/Nangparbat the evader

Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Nangparbat

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nangparbat/Archive

AKA

Algebraic123 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

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Jailstorm (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

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Rashtra (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

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Ectoplasm67 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

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Forzacry65 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

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Michale245 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Also refer to Wikipedia:Banning_policy#Editing_on_behalf_of_banned_users

Policies

Wikipedia:List of policies

Wikipedia:Civility

Wikipedia:Ignore all rules

Wikipedia:UNDUE#Undue_weight

Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions

Wikipedia:Citing sources

Miscellaneous

Wikipedia:Userboxes#Gallery

Sources

Frontline Archives

Outlook India Archives

TIME Archives

Tribune Archives

NYT Search

LA times archive

Guardian Archive

References

My References are here

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