User talk:Ipsidel

Hi, It was a wonderful experience interacting with your class. Hope to see you guys again. Following box provides you with quick links to various help sections. Hope this helps. Enjoy editing...! Regards, Gurmeet


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Hi, friend!
Allow me to introduce myself — my name is Tim Davenport, "Carrite" on Wikipedia, and I live in Corvallis, Oregon, on the western coast of the United States of America. I'm 50 years old and have been active in the Wikipedia project since 2008.

I was just alerted this morning that I've been assigned as a "Wikipedia Ambassador" to be available to answer any questions you might have about your work on the article Marginal propensity to save. While I do have a Bachelor's degree in Economics, for the last 20 years or more I have concentrated exclusively on matters of history and political biography, so I will not be of much help to you in locating sources.

Fortunately, I do know a good deal about the mechanics of Wikipedia article writing, its sometimes confusing policies and standards, and its unique internal culture. If I may assist you by answering questions relating to any of these matters, please do not hesitate to ask. Just click TALK behind my user name below and leave a message for me on my Wikipedia "Talk Page," or you may email me directly at MutantPop@aol.com. Be sure to put the word WIKIPEDIA in your email header if you contact me directly so the message is not lost as spam.

Thank you for your forthcoming contribution to the project! Carrite (talk) 18:00, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

The Article
Looks pretty good, there's absolutely no fear of deletion as long as there is no copyright violation happening. I know that some of the student projects at WP have had this issue and it is something being monitored. But it looks quite good at a glance. I've tampered pretty heavily, as you no doubt have observed. There are a couple of the footnotes that need to be improved — 2 and 3, I believe they are, the ones with the pdfs. What is the source of those? Who wrote the material? Who published the material and where? You seem to have the knack for how footnotes are written on WP — that's probably the most difficult thing to learn — so it's just a matter of finding out this information and then inserting it at the appropriate place. The external links are "raw URLs" that need to be tweaked, too. I'll refer you to the page that I've been working on < International Unemployment Day > and you can flip over to "EDIT THIS PAGE" and see the form to use for external links and such. Basically its an asterisk, followed by the name of the author, then a single square bracket [ with the URL and one blank space plus the title, followed by a closing single square bracket ] and then other detail about the publisher and source. The cumbersome URL is thereby hidden. Well, gotta run, write again if you have questions... Carrite (talk) 17:44, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

By the way
You're now qualified for this "service badge"... You can move this code over to your user page and keep it there if you want to... You're showing 134 edits on your counter, so you are well on the way to the next "level," which happens after 1 month and 200 edits. Click the link in the "badge" box to see the various levels. In general, Wikipedia volunteers make these awards to themselves. Officially, they are utterly meaningless — unofficially, I think it helps the "quality control inspectors" at Wikipedia see who is serious about the project and makes them less apt to hurriedly tamper or do something stupid to one's work. I do encourage you to put up the "badge" and to continue to change it as you qualify for more levels. best, — Tim //// Carrite (talk) 18:01, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

Query
''Hey, Just a small issue. The second footnote in my article is a part of lecture series at the Australian Graduate School of Management (University of New South Wales). Can i put in such type of information for reference?''

Yes, it's okay to use that as a source as long as you don't steal the exact words from the source. There seems to be a huge problem with the Indian Education Project articles with newcomers copying material verbatim from the sources that are used. This is very important: things need to be changed, paraphrased, ideas put into other words... Be sure that you haven't plagiarized anywhere in the piece, and fix it as fast as you can if you did, because this is being checked very closely. But in terms of using the source, that's fine as long as you footnote it right. List the author, list the school, list the URL and the title of the publication, list the date... Get all of that into the footnote. Carrite (talk) 19:35, 10 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Let me know if there are any more fixes that you need help with. It looks like you know what you're doing though! Carrite (talk) 16:13, 12 November 2011 (UTC)