Talk:Harcharan Singh (writer)

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Objections to Deletion

This page is in no way a "Vanity page". Dr. Harcharan Singh dedicated 65 years of his life to theater and drama I am just trying to keep his legacy alive. He passed away 10 years ago and in no way I am trying to "market" his page for financial interest.

Objection to deletion - "Unreferenced" Books The books do not have ISBN numbers as they were published more than two decades ago or more. I can provide publisher info in the table if that helps. That is the reason I gave the link to his E-books which are by the way free to everyone to read and download. I have no financial interest in anyway for selling his books.

Objection to deletion - "No support/claim" for Awards The same applies for the awards. They have been given so long ago that no news articles or references are available. I have the physical awards or photos of the award ceremonies which I can attach.

I am not very savvy with Wikipedia so please do give any suggestions on how to improve the article and its content.

Thanks in advance. Punjabson (talk) 06:19, 15 March 2016 (UTC)Punjabson[reply]

Yes, I can see your efforts are improving the page and it seems proper to keep it now. At the beginning the page had a very promotional language, which is now more encyclopedic and 'objective'. The references you added are good. There is a tool that you can use to format google books references more easily, called the Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books. When you find something in Google Books, copy the Google URL into the Citation tool above. Click "load" and it will give you, near the bottom of the page, the Wikipedia code already formatted. Then you do not need to use the "cite web" tool-- you just paste in the wikicode from the Citaitontool. It also adds "ref names" wich are very useful, as instead of pasting in a whole new ref, you can just click on "named ref" in cite toolbar when editing a page, then select from a list of references. As long as they are named, they will appear in the nameed ref list. One last hint/pointer: references always follow the punctuation. Don't worry about making mistakes, as someone will certainly be along to fix whatever small errors you might make. The main thing is to focus on adding material for which you have a source, and to avoid adding material that you personally know is correct, but for which you have no source (that is called " original research", and it is in most cases not allowed). Also, a book does not need an ISBN. Books published in 340BC, 1755 or 2015 are equally good. They do not have to be published on the Internet. If you have the book in front of you, just copy as much info as possible into the "cite book" tool on the editing page, and insert the reference. OK over and out for now. HappyValleyEditor (talk) 06:39, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]