User talk:Mrawahi

Hi, Mrawahi, and welcome to both Wikipedia and INF1001! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. Here are some pages that you might find useful: If you're new to U of T, the best cheap, fresh coffee is at the Campus General Store across the street from Bissell (80 cents if you bring a mug), the great halls in University College and the Hart House library are the best and most serene places to read, and the two most important people to get to know at the Faculty of Information are Christine Chan at the front desk, and Aida, the cleaning lady.--Gabby.resch (talk) 02:25, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Introduction
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page
 * An even more extensive resource for editing
 * What makes a topic worthy of inclusion
 * How to write a great article
 * Help pages
 * Evolution of an article

Hi Mrawahi, I happened to stalk your comment at User talk:Jac16888‎ about student projects. Whilst this is a great idea, please be careful! It can work, it should work, but sometimes it doesn't. There has recently been a number of Indian college projects that have gone badly wrong: annoyed editors having to clear up abuse of copyright, student's seeing their work deleted (again, largely due to copyright issues). If you take a look at India Education Program or User talk:Kudpung you might see some of the pitfalls and be able to avoid them. Otherwise, good luck with it. Andy Dingley (talk) 00:06, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Welcome
Hi Mrawahi, welcome to wikipedia. If you don't mind I'll address your second question first, regarding adding false information. You absolutely must not do this, regardless of your motives it is highly disruptive and will most likely lead you to a very quick and permanant block. If you're interested in how we deal with vandalism, take a look at Vandalism and follow some links from there, or perhaps you could get involved with combating vandalism yourself. Sadly getting people interested in editing specific articles is quite difficult, the volunteer nature of the project means people edit the articles that interest them. You could also check the history to find related editors of related, alternatively you could ask someone appropriate from here, or post on this page. Telecentre does not appear to have been claimed by any WikiProject, but there are no doubt ones it can fit into, such as WikiProject Computing, you could try asking for help in one of those. Good luck-- Jac 16888 Talk 00:19, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Telecentre
Re. - which we discussed in the live chat; I thought it might help to add some quick notes here;


 * I already removed that old 'merge' thing, and tidied up the talk page.


 * I suggest asking for help on both Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Telecommunications and Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Computing
 * Take a look at some 'featured articles' on similar things for ideas: Parallel computing, Search engine optimization - those are good examples
 * Too many 'external links' - take a look at WP:EL - especially noting we should avoid Any site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a featured article. Cut them down a lot.
 * Try to improve the 'wikilinks'. Currently, there's links to computing and internet at the start; they're not really any use - they're such common-terms, and don't help the reader to actually understand this topic.


 * But, the main thing is, to try and ensure all facts are referenced in reliable sources. That is the most important thing, for any article. It has some inappropriate claims that don't keep to a neutral point of view - for example, public access seems like one of the most promising alternatives - but, if you fix references (and removed unreferenced claims), then the 'neutrality' side should sort itself out.

Best of luck.  Chzz  ► 05:48, 24 October 2011 (UTC)