User talk:Kudupi

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Sitush (talk) 14:48, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

January 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from Ramesh Aravind. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Sitush (talk) 10:35, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Ramesh Aravind, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Sitush (talk) 02:24, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Your addition to Ramesh Aravind has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Sitush (talk) 15:29, 10 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Will you please stop and think about your contributions to Ramesh Aravind. You are making a mess of an already poor article and I am beginning to wonder whether you have some personal investment in the man. Poor citations, incorrect removal of maintenance tags, incorrect statements etc - you name it, you are doing it at present. - Sitush (talk) 15:12, 11 January 2012 (UTC)


 * And I have had to do it again. You cannot use another Wikipedia article as a reference - see WP:CIRCULAR. You must maintain neutrality - see WP:NPOV. You can only use self-published sources in certain situations - see WP:SPS. Do you know Ramesh? - Sitush (talk) 08:08, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi Kudupi, my name is Qwyrxian, and I'm an administrator here at Wikipedia. Sitush asked me to help explain what's going. He's actually done a pretty good job of listing the problems with your changes, but I'll try to summarize:
 * You can't copy words (or pictures) from somewhere else on the internet and put them directly into a Wikipedia article. We call that a copyright violation, and it's not only against our rules, it's actually against the law.
 * When you write on Wikipedia, you have to be neutral. That means you can't praise or criticize someone (though you can say other reliable people's opinions, like "According to Magazine X, Person Y was the most popular actor of 2011".) So, in Ramesh Aravind, you can't say things like, "The keen eyes of the legendary K. Balachander" or "The climb from there has been steady and deserving."
 * On Wikipedia, any claim that isn't "obvious" has to be verified by a reliable source. That means good newspapers and magazines (not gossip), television news programs, etc.  If something isn't referenced, others editors can (and often should) remove it.

I hope that you're reading this. If you have any questions, please ask me (just post a new message here). I do have to tell you that if you don't start changing how you add information to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. I know you're probably still learning (Wikipedia's a pretty difficult place with a lot of rules), but we have to make sure to protect the encyclopedia, and we do block people if that's the only way to do so. Copyright violations are one of the worst, but consistently violating other rules can also lead to being blocked. I'd rather not do that--I'd prefer to help teach you how to get better, so, like I said, please ask questions. Qwyrxian (talk) 23:29, 12 January 2012 (UTC)