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Women in Red World Contest

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Help me to improve Ra Khengar Vav

Hi Nizil shah , Kindly help me to improve Ra Khengar Vav .. want to add some pictures of Ra Khengar Vav but i am unable to do it please help ...

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... and review these articles too. Tulasi Gowda, Yazdi Karanjia.-- Harshil ^{want to talk?} 06:21, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

@Harshil169:, I will review. Please note following things:

1. Wikipedia has international audience. Please write in that context. They may not know about Indian things so better clarify or link in the article. I have done some such corrections.
2. Format your references properly and completely. Autogenerated references are not always good. You may find some additional information in Gujarati newspapers for Gujarati awardees. Please do not forget to archive your references on archive.org or similar services to avoid dead links and failed verification in future.
3. Instead of creating short stubs, please focus on content. Try to make articles more complete and readable. Reader should not be left thinking that the article had nothing informative. You may expand these stubs later. Please create talkpages with appropriate WikiProjects templates, add appropriate categories as well. Please also link article at appropriate places so they are not left WP:ORPHAN. It may take sometime but they are worth the effort because better integration of article means better readership and better maintainance.

Regards,-Nizil (talk) 06:39, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Can you review this one? Jagdish Lal Ahuja? I have followed your advice largely in this. Harshil ^{want to talk?} 13:13, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

@Harshil169:, reviewed and have done some copyediting. Please fix autogenerated/malformed references there. Please continue your good work. Regards, Nizil (talk) 05:50, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Sayed Mehboob Shah and Sixteen Stormy Days.— Harshil ^{want to talk?} 07:50, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

@Harshil169:, Please add talkpages and relevant projects. Add categories and fix ORPHAN issues.-Nizil (talk) 12:06, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

A Dominant Character--Can you review this one? Also, can we create pages on Munshi's Patan Trilogy? Harshil ^{want to talk?} 03:58, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

@Harshil169: Reviewed with some copyediting. We can create articles on Munshi's Patan trilogy if enough references are available. You may ask Gazal world for reference help. See Prithivivallabh for idea. Regards,-Nizil (talk) 04:37, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

@Harshil169:, Just curious. Did you read A Dominant Character? How is it? What inspired you to make an article on that book? -Nizil (talk) 04:37, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Not yet but I received copy on yesterday. Currently reading India's Coal Story and દ્રષ્ટા અને ચિંતકો. After these two, will read Sixteen Stormy Days and this one. India’s coal story is amazingly researched book; can give copy for reading if you can return back. I generally create Wikipedia pages of books to decrease content gap and to help readers which are rare species nowadays.— Harshil ^{want to talk?} 04:44, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

@Harshil169:, Happy to hear that. I would like to read India's Coal Story but it would be difficult to receive/return the book as we live in different places. Thanks for filling the content gap on books. Regards,-Nizil (talk) 04:52, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

• @Nizil Shah and Harshil169: See, User:Gazal world/Patan triology. --Gazal world (talk) 05:55, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

  Gazal world, surprised that why it is not in main space. We require just two reviews to meet WP:NBOOK criteria. Should we move this to main space? Harshil ^{want to talk?} 03:21, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

  @Harshil169: No. It is still incomplete. I will add a plot-line of three novels. And if possible 'll add analysis section. 'll also expand criticism section. --Gazal world (talk) 05:46, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Ratilal Borisagar

On 13 February 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ratilal Borisagar, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Gujarati humourist Ratilal Borisagar was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award by India's National Academy of Letters in 2019? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ratilal Borisagar. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ratilal Borisagar), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Golkeri has been accepted

Golkeri, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. If your account is more than four days old and you have made at least 10 edits you can create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.

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Nizil (talk) 06:05, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Update

Hi ...

• Winston Price needs a bit of research which I will do in slow motion if okay.
• Thank you for looking over this... quite an emotional article to write and one I was initially hesitant to do incase someone felt it needed deleting. I noticed some edits on his daughters. I think you are correct to link him and I will try and look out for citing the edits. BTW...The prison and chocolate cake might help. Whispyhistory (talk) 21:19, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

• @Whispyhistory: Take your time with Price. Regarding Pandit, I felt that too. I feel like history has ignored his contribution due to his short career. Nehru and her sister were far more popular and visible so they eclipsed him. I will read Prison and Chocolate Cake some day. Reagrds,-Nizil (talk) 07:38, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

GA

Hi! Can you please check Vivek Agnihotri is qualified for WP:GA? If yes then can you please review it or no then can you please help in copy editing and guiding for it?-- Harshil ^{want to talk?} 13:56, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

@Harshil169: It does not qualify as GA. At best it qualifies as B-class IMO. Few points at a glance:

1. The article misses many details such as birth date, something about his early life, those "several tele-serials".
2. There is less detail on his career than his controversies and political activism. A good biography should have more details on his career.
3. The article may need copyediting for grammar and prose.
4. Reference formatting is inconsistent and quality/reliability of some references is questionable. There are some primary references as well.

I like you to add more details, then get it copyedited by someone at WP:GOCE. There is a peer review process which will give you further suggestions, see WP:PR, from broad range of editors. Sorry for late reply because it needed some time. Regards,-Nizil (talk) 07:51, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Malayanil

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GOCE copyedit request for Malayanil

Changed template to show it's finished. --Tenryuu (🐲 • 💬 • 🌟) 17:01, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup 2020 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 57 contestants qualifying. We have abolished the groups this year, so to qualify for Round 3 you will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two contestants.

Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

• Epicgenius, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with a featured article, five good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 895 points.
• Gog the Mild came next with 464 points, from a featured article, two good articles and a number of reviews, the main theme being naval warfare.
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WikiCup newsletter correction

There was an error in the WikiCup 2020 March newsletter; L293D should not have been included in the list of top ten scorers in Round 1 (they led the list last year), instead, Dunkleosteus77 should have been included, having garnered 334 points from five good articles on animals, living or extinct, and various reviews. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:30, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Can you..

.. review The Death And Afterlife Of Mahatma Gandhi? -- Brihaspati (talk) 09:11, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

 Done. -Nizil (talk) 04:40, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Mahatma's autobiography is in pathetic condition. Any ways to improve it? I mean sources in which someone has written review of it. I don't think these parts are required in the page. Brihaspati (talk) 03:43, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

@Brihaspati: Yes, I agree. The long Parts need to shortened to summaries. There is a need to have Publication history, Reception, Analysis etc sections. @Gazal world: may provide some references. You can go ahead with expansion. -Nizil (talk) 04:40, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

I am adding Gandhi's autobiography in my 'to do' list. --Gazal world (talk) 16:43, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Amar Asha

Hello! Your submission of Amar Asha at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 18:40, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Question about WP:RS

Hello, I hope you are well. I'm concerned about the arguments raised here. I read WP:RS, and bias is clearly not a reason for sources to be blacklisted in Wikipedia, even if it is a bias against Wikipedia. In fact, there's an entire article devoted to Criticism of Wikipedia which has reliable sources. No examples are provided of a lack of editorial oversight or inaccurate reporting, so it seems the discussion is based more on retaliation than reason. Blacklisting sources without sound reasoning risks NPOV. In your experience, what's the best way to refute these assertions? Moksha88 (talk) 05:00, 8 March 2020 (UTC)