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Merry Christmas!
Dear Missionedit, MERRYCHRISTMAS!!! Best wishes to you, your family and relatives this holiday season! Take this opportunity to bond with your loved ones, whether or not you are celebrating Christmas. This is a special time for everybody, and spread the holiday spirit to everybody out there! From a fellow editor, --Nahnah4 (talk | contribs | guestbook)
Rajesh Kumar is the founder of Takshila Education, which provides free tutoring for high school students in Georgia and South Carolina. An engineer, Kumar and some friends started the program to help students in STEM courses where high school dropout rates are high. University of Georgia is working with Takshila Education. Around 23 September 2013, Kumar began working on a plan to build a school in 90 km from New Delhi, India to “offer...education to impoverished children”.
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@Rkumar26: Hello, Rajesh Kumar! The reason why your article has not been accepted is that it is written in a way that is promotional. This means that it tries to make the subject of the article (you, in this case) look extra good by advertising your program. You need to just state the facts without adding extra bias. Wikipedia is not a place for advertising. I can try to fix it up a little. ~ Anastasia [Missionedit] (talk) 01:19, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, Heule01! To be frank, I have no ideas on how to improve your article. I get confused just looking at it :D It needs work in becoming more than a dictionary definition, and also needs some help with wording. I'm not sure how you can expand the article. Perhaps User:I JethroBT can help you out (he knows more about psychology than I do), or you can ask your question at the Teahouse Q+A Board, where a lot of other editors will see your question. Sorry I couldn't be of more assistance. Thanks! ~ Anastasia [Missionedit] (talk) 20:42, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Source Help
Hi Missionedit,
I'm working on editing a page and had a question about a source that was used for most of the article. The page is Mary Berry (writer, born 1763). The information is from WikiSource... I don't even know how to link it here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Berry,_Mary_(DNB00). What is WikiSource and is it considered a reputable/viable source to use on Wikipedia articles? It also seems that the copy from WikiSource is simply copy/pasted into the article. Can you help clarify? Thanks! User:Ahbeall — Preceding undated comment added 02:08, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, Ahbeall! I'm glad you asked :) Wikisource actually is considered a reliable source for Wikipedia, because it involves actually published public-domain sources, and not Wikipedia's anyone can edit policy. So it's fine that the article uses this as a source. Wikipedia:Wikisource explains this.
Just so you know, if you want to link to something from Wikisource, do this: [[s:Berry, Mary (DNB00)|Berry, Mary (DNB00)]] and it will show up like this: Berry, Mary (DNB00). Also, whenever you write something on a talk page, sign it with 4 tides (~~~~). This will leave your username and the date. Thanks! ~ Anastasia [Missionedit] (talk) 02:48, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
My improved article about FIT Reisen
Dear Anastasia,
Thank you for your tips on how to improve my article about FIT Reisen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:FIT_Reisen I found them very useful. I added some quotes and source and removed press releases from the source list. That was some three weeks ago and it would be great to know if now my article would be accepted. I'm exited already! Please let me know.
Hi Dr Anna Smith, I'm glad you've improved your article by adding sources. However, now there is another problem to address. It still needs some work on being written neutrally. Make sure the article has no extra, promotional words in it, and take out the lists of companies products so it doesn't look as if you are trying to sell them. If you ask at WP:Teahouse/Questions, I'm sure they'll give you some more suggestions on how to improve it. Good luck! ~ Anastasia [Missionedit] (talk) 04:38, 12 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
WP:Co-op news for December 2014 – Feburary 2015
Hey Missionedit, it's been a while. The Co-op team has been hard at work during over the winter, so let's get right into what's been happening:
Landing page draft. You know it's a draft when you need to squint at the logo, ha ha.
Graphic design work is nearing completion and development work is coming along slowly but surely. The main components of the space, profiles, the landing page, and the mentor landing page have all been built, and we're basically just putting the pieces together. We have close-to-final draft of the landing page, which is currently at User:Slalani/Landing_page, and in the thumbnail to the right. You can check out other components over at User:Slalani if you're curious. Soni, Slalani, and I are working together on some of the front page elements. We've also been doing some testing on test.wikipedia.org for profile building and matching. If you're curious about checking that out, let me know.
We've finished up a survey for newer editors to assess their experiences of using existing help spaces (e.g. Reference Desk, Teahouse, IRC, The Wikipedia Adventure) on en.wikipedia. Gabrielm199 is putting together a summary of that survey, and in the meantime, some findings from that survey of 45 newer editors include:
On average, editors found contributing to Wikipedia to be easier after using the help space compared to before.
However, after using one or more help spaces, only half of editors reported that editing, addressing social challenges, and resolving technical issues were easy or very easy. The other half of editors were either neutral, or reported that these matters were difficult or very difficult.
Just under 30% (11 of 38 editors) of newer editors said they probably would have stopped editing entirely had they not received support from the help space they used.
Editors frequently reported either 1) that they would not have been learn what they needed without the help space, or 2) That they could have found it, but admitted that it would have been difficult or taken much longer.
We will be making one final move of the pilot start date to March 4th, 2015. This is the last move (I promise), because we can't afford to run the pilot any later than that. So there it is: March 4th or bust! But we won't bust, because there are just a few things left on our plate before we can run our pilot successfully. I'll be alerting you about when you will be able to make mentor profiles soon, so when you get a message about that, please take a minute or two to create your profile here (otherwise, you won't get matched to any editors!).
Hello Missionedit, love is the language of hearts and is the feeling that joins two souls and brings two hearts together in a bond. Taking love to the level of Wikipedia, spread the WikiLove by wishing each other Happy Valentine's Day, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person.
Sending you a heartfelt and warm love on the eve,
Happy editing,
- T H (here I am) 12:09, 13 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I'm confused as to why the entry Jeff Cavins is being held up. All of the criteria for notability has been met. A biography has been written about his life, He has created the largest bible study in American History for the Catholic Church. He is a celebrated author and sought after media host and guest. Many people who are far less notable have been accepted. I just don't get it. Can you help me out with this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.130.116.140 (talk) 05:37, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, MKHarden03! Draft:Jeff Cavins (Biblical scholar) not declined because he is not notable. It was declined because the sources in the article do not show that he is notable. The only sources you cited are publications written by Jeff Cavins. Anyone can write a book. In order for your article to be accepted, you must include some reliable, independent sources that someone else has written about this man. See Wikipedia:Reliable sources for what kind of sources you need.
I just want to remind you to please log in before you edit, and to sign your posts on talk pages with 4 tildes (~~~~). The tildes will produce you username and the date. Thanks! Let me know if you have any more questions. ~ Anastasia [Missionedit] (talk) 16:49, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
WP:Co-op: Presentation at Wikimania 2015
Hey Missionedit. I've put in a submission for a presentation at Wikimania 2015 called Is Two the Magic Number?: The Co-op and New Editor Engagement through Mentorship. I'll be talking about the state of finding help spaces on en.wiki and how our new mentorship space, The Co-op, factors into that picture. Reviewing will begin soon and I'll need your help to be able to present our work. Please review our proposal and give us feedback. If you would be interested in seeing this presentation, whether you are attending or not, please add your name to the signup at the bottom of the proposal (you do not need to attend Wikimania to express interest in presentations). I, JethroBTdrop me a line on behalf of Wikipedia:Co-op.
You can now make your profile at The Co-op! Please set up your mentor profile here as soon as you are able, as the pilot begins on March 4th. It isn't very involved and should only take a minute. If you need more info about what the different skills mean (e.g. writing, communication), please refer to these descriptions.
Profile creation, invitations, and automated matching of editors, profile creation, that will be coordinated through HostBot and a few gadgets may not be ready for our pilot, and will have to be done manually until they are ready. In preparation for the pilot, please read over these instructions on how we will be manually performing these tasks until the automated components are ready. I, JethroBTdrop me a line on behalf of Wikipedia:Co-op.
For scoring #5 on the leaderboard during the February 2015 Wikification drive, you are hereby awarded the Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar! Congratulations!
Hello Missionedit !
I want to thank you for Recognize me.
I am very commerce studying Wikipedia. I have been able to edit articles but could you let me know How to deal with{Citation needed|March2015} Please help me.Your help can motive me in editing an article.
Rowdy srezan (talk) 11:43, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, Rowdy srezan! {Citation needed|March2015} means that you need to put a source for that sentence so that the source shows up under the "References" section at the bottom. Once you have added a source you can remove {Citation needed|March2015}. ~ Anastasia [Missionedit] (talk) 02:47, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hi!Anastasia its me Rowdy srezan again.I would to suggest that if you had made more than 75000 edit why dont you nominate for admins.ill be there to support you.And Happy holi
Rowdy srezan (talk) 02:31, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Rowdy srezan: Oh, that's so nice of you! Thank you for the compliment. The main reason I haven't tried to become an administrator is that I really don't have the time to be one. It is a very complicated and rigorous process to become an admin, for which you need to meet lots of specific requirements. I appreciate your support, though :) ~ Anastasia [Missionedit] (talk) 03:50, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
hi Anastasia Cold you let me know how to add image in user infobox?Rowdy srezan 03:47, 8 March 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rowdy srezan (talk • contribs)
Let it go I have uploaded file which is my real pic.At last I want you to edit my navigation bar as you have done in your user page.The link is User:Rowdy srezan/navbarRowdy srezan 09:47, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
