User talk:Digavalli

Help me!
I started learning the basics for writing article. Yesterday I opened my user sub page. As I understand that all the headings should be in bold and for getting the bold I placed  3 apostrophes on either side. As soon as I saved a message appeared that this page is 'black listed' because of that reason. PLEASE TELL ME THE IMPLICATION OF THIS 'BLACK LISTING' DOES IT MEAN I CAN NOT USE THE TITLE AGAIN. The word 'black listing' is harsh. Probably 'blocked' would have been more appropriate.--Digavalli (talk) 02:22, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

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Digavalli (talk) 02:22, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

I started learning the basics for writing article. Yesterday I opened my user sub page. As I understand that all the headings should be in bold and for getting the bold I placed  3 apostrophes on either side. As soon as I saved a message appeared that this page is 'black listed' because of that reason. PLEASE TELL ME THE IMPLICATION OF THIS 'BLACK LISTING' DOES IT MEAN I CAN NOT USE THE TITLE AGAIN. The word 'black listing' is harsh. Probably 'blocked' would have been more appropriate.--Digavalli (talk) 02:22, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Digavalli, you'll have to be slightly more specific about your issue, because I think something else happened entirely. There is a BLACKLIST which lists all of the references that cannot be used because they are potentially harmful sites. My guess would be that you added one of these website addresses and Wikipedia noticed it. I do not think it has anything to do with you bolding a few headers. It should have listed which web pages weren't allowed, but I would suggest creating your subpage without any references (just as a test) and then add them after the text is saved. If you want more help, stop by the Teahouse, the IRC channel, or the help desk to ask someone for assistance. Primefac (talk) 09:42, 11 May 2015 (UTC)


 * There are two blacklists that might have caused this problem (without knowing wht you were trying to add, I can only guess). Some article titles are blacklisted because they have been repeatedly recreated in various forms and page protection has not been effective. The other - and more likley - possibility is that you've included a link to a blacklisted external site - you should see a message when you try to save the page which will tell you which link is the problem.
 * If it's neither of these, please post a copy of the message you see when you try to save the page, and I'll take a closer look. Yunshui 雲 水 09:43, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

I am not able to find out that message. I tried to see the history of page etc. I am giving the contents of the message as I remember. First let me narrate what exactly happened in sequence: I was under impression that writing an article in English Wikipedia is the same as I did in Telugu Wikipedia where I published 4 articles. In May 1st week I logged in and ensured that there is no article existing in English Wikipedia on Digavalli Thimmaraju (1794-1856) who was a prominent official in East India Company rule. I prepared the article on my PC in MS word. I Logged in and pasted straight away along with references in the main page. The title I put was Digavalli Thimmaraju Pantulu (1794-1856) same as it was in Telugu. And edited the article then and there by making it into sections using ‘==’ on either side of section head as I did in Telugu Wikipedia for creating sections. Then I saved it. As soon as I saved it, the whole thing vanished. No message came. I was wonder struck and then started studying the basics of Wikipedia (English) manual of instructions on line to know what could have gone wrong. That was just in the 1st week of May 2015. After reading the Wikipedia manual on line for 2  days and slowly  absorbing a few basics when my enthusiasm increased on 8th May I opened  My Sandbox “Digavalli Sandbox” and on 9th May I got little confidence of making a beginning to create article in English Wikipedia. To begin with, I wanted to create a draft in sub page as suggested in the manual. In the draft page at appropriate place I typed ‘’’Digavalli Thimmaraju Pantulu (1794-1856)’’’ with three apostrophes on either side. Because, I learned that all titles should be in bold letters and one should put 3 apostrophes on either side for making letters bold. After typing like that I saved the page. Pat came a message saying that “you cannot edit this page, it is black listed because you enclosed it ‘’’….’’’ Probably you mean to put ‘’………’’ For this reason it is black listed”. That was precisely what happened. Please tell me whether I can make another attempt to create my draft page again and of course cautiously and after reading manual for some more days. I do not know how to bring back that message now to show it here otherwise I would have copied and pasted here.--Digavalli (talk) 17:00, 11 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Primefac's suggestion is "I would suggest creating your subpage without any references (just as a test) and then add them after the text is saved." Sounds like a good suggestion. Yes, do please try again to create this article. It might be a good idea to compose it in parts -- the beginning first, and then, if all goes well, the rest of the article. Giridhar (talk) 17:47, 11 May 2015 (UTC)