User talk:Jyoti Prakash Mohapatra

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Hello, Jyoti Prakash Mohapatra, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Srikant Mohapatra, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Proposed deletion of Srikant Mohapatra


The article Srikant Mohapatra has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the prod blp/dated tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can when you are ready to add one. Cahk (talk) 08:18, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Copyright, and advice on editing
There were several problems with the two pages you have created, the most important one being copyright. It is almost never suitable to copy content from another web site to Wikipedia, for more than one reason, the most important being copyright. When you post anything to Wikipedia you release it for anyone in the world to reuse it, either unchanged or modified in any way whatever, subject to attribution to Wikipedia. It is very rare that the owner of a web site licenses content for such very free reuse, and in those few occasions when they do so, we require proof of the fact. We don't assume that content is freely licensed on the unsubstantiated say so of just anyone who comes along and creates a Wikipedia account, for the simple reason that very often people come to Wikipedia and falsely claim to have copyright rights that in fact they don't have. Certainly, we cannot accept content which has been published on a page which has a copyright notice saying "all rights reserved", as was the case with the content you copied. However, even if there had been no copyright problem, the pages you created would have been unacceptable for other reasons, including the presence of a promotional tone in much of the writing. My advice to new editors is that it is best to start by making small improvements to existing articles, rather than creating new articles. That way any mistakes you make will be small ones, and you won't have the discouraging experience of repeatedly seeing hours of work deleted. Gradually, you will get to learn how Wikipedia works, and after a while you will know enough about what is acceptable to be able to write whole new articles without fear that they will be deleted. Over the years I have found that editors who start by making small changes to existing articles and work up from there have a far better chance of having a successful time here than those who jump right into creating new articles from the start. Also, I can't see any useful purpose at all that was served by having almost all of the content of the page created as a template which was then transcluded into the article. Doing so is likely to merely have the effect of making it confusing and difficult for other editors who wish to edit the article. I strongly advise you not to create or edit templates until you have much more experience of how Wikipedia works. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 10:10, 23 June 2017 (UTC)