User talk:Divakar Thiru

May 2020
Please do not introduce incorrect information into articles, as you did to Vellore. Your edits could be interpreted as vandalism and have been reverted. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them again. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. - Arjayay (talk) 10:03, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

There is quite a lot of Vellore-related vandalism going on on Wikipedia. If you want to make changes related to Vellore population statistics or similar data, please provide published to back up that data. In general, additions to Wikipedia should be sourced. You might want to check out WP:VERIFY, WP:SOURCES, and if you still want to learn more after that WP:RS. Pathawi (talk) 15:23, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

June 2020
It seems that you are only using this account for Vellore-related vandalism. This will likely result in your account getting blocked. Please stop. Pathawi (talk) 05:27, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi! I have the impression that you don't have much experience at Wikipedia. You've come to my attention because there's an incredible amount of vandalism related to Vellore. I was initially concerned that yours was a vandalism account. I want to call your attention to a couple aspects of your most recent edit to Vellore that are a little bit of a problem. You can see that edit |here, even if yours is no longer the most current version of the page.

You changed the population in the infobox from 185,803 to 504,079. You cited Tamil Nadu's Urban Tree Website's Vellore Corpopration population page in your Edit summary. The idea behind this edit makes sense. However, this created a problem: The infobox lists the population source as "Primary Census Abstract - Urban Agglomeration". But that's no longer the source. If you change data, you've really got to also update the citation to reflect where the data comes from. Here's what that edit could have looked like:

| population_total               = 504,079 ← You changed this. | population_as_of               = 2011 2020 ← You should have also changed this. | population_metro               = 484690 ← This is clearly inaccurate, but is not reflected in your source. It should just go. | population_footnotes           =   ← This really had to change; otherwise, you're claiming that some other document says something it doesn't say.

That last bit—the citation from a Webpage—is formatting that can seem complex when you're starting out, but there are tools to help you. If you check the "Cite" options in the Wikipedia editor menu, you'll be prompted for the values. It's quite helpful.

There's one other minor thing: On the Vellore page, the population is listed in multiple places. If you're changing it in one, it makes sense to change it in all of them.

I hope that this is useful. Pathawi (talk) 16:07, 20 June 2020 (UTC)