User talk:Jindam vani/Archive 3

is it compulsory to add colon on articles in my userpages & where to find icons
if i want to add article to my userpage, should i add colon? ex: wikipedia or just wikipedia in which situations should i add colon? i also want to add icons on my userpage. for ex: done, incomplete, etc.. <_> Jindam vani (talk) 08:39, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
 * You only need to use a colon if you're interwiki linking. A list of icons is kept at Template:Done/See also. –– FormalDude  (talk)  09:14, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

WCW introducing errors
Hello, I've recently undone three of your edits which were done with WCW. I'm not very familiar with that system, but the edits you made introduced many errors. It incorrectly removed or changed characters with diacritics and it incorrectly changed en-dashes to hyphens. Don't let a program make changes you don't understand. Please undo the other edits which used Wikipedia:WCW. Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you. SchreiberBike &#124; ⌨ 18:26, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
 * @SchreiberBike i have just found root issue. reported it at upstream. i ought to be more careful. thank you. <_> Jindam vani (talk) 02:32, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Good to know you are on top of it. Keep up the good work. SchreiberBike &#124; ⌨ 12:10, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

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hiding blacklisted url in reference & template to inform others about replacing it
i copied source text on my sandbox & when i tried to save, it inform about then24.com is blacklisted. i did not deleted blaclisted url & reference. instead i hid it using. is my approach correct? is there any template to add for informing other editors to replace it? <_> Jindam vani (talk) 09:49, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
 * If you have a blacklisted reference, you should just remove it and/or replace it with citation needed. If you want more help, change the help me-helped back into a help me, stop by the Teahouse, or Wikipedia's live help channel, or the help desk to ask someone for assistance. Primefac (talk) 09:52, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Sandbox pages
Please note that your personal sandbox pages, such as User:Jindam vani/zandbak, are not allowed to be filed in mainspace categories as if they were articles. It's fine to use that page to work on articles that you're planning to transfer into mainspace, but there can't be categories on it until you've actually moved it into articlespace. I've had to come in and remove categories from the page several times now -- though I see that you've reworked the page to be about a different topic each time -- so just for future reference you have to keep the sandboxed version out of categories, and add the categories only when you're actually mainspacing the page. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 16:58, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
 * @Bearcat thanks for bringing to my attention, i will not add categories on sandbox pages <_> Jindam vani (talk) 17:08, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ Jindam vani (talk) 14:20, 28 October 2022 (UTC)