Talk:Mathanavelu Pillai

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Hi. thank you for your feedback and the edits that you have been providing. I take a little long to respond and react as I am totally new to this and I have to keep reading manuals to work on anything here. Having said that, regarding the COI, I am not the grand daughter of the person mentioned in the article. However I have done my research on this topic especially about theatre arts in Malaya and this man has contributed to the Tamil theatre much more compared to others. I met M.P's granddaughter and she contributed to the photograph. However she uploaded it into my account for easy access. The confusion maybe due to the similarity in our names. I had wrote in to the admin in this regard to remove the picture from my wikimedia account so that she can create her own account and place the picture there. But the admin did not not understand what I was trying to inform and I do not understand if Iam talking to the right admin staff. So now I am a little stuck. Need some advice and help to resolve this issue.

According to my research this man has followed some of the movies that I had linked with the titles of the street theatre dramas that he had staged. I studied the scripts that he had used in the drama and found that some coincide with the movies. Therefore I linked the drama titles to the articles that contain the information about the themes and stories. What are the alternative ways to do this since you have advised me to stop placing links? 3.2.2016 Gayatrisu --Gayatrisu (talk) 13:13, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

@Gayatrisu: Regarding the image, I asked administrators at Wikimedia Commons to delete it as you requested. You uploaded that image with a comment "This is my grandfather", so I assumed he is really your grandfather. By the way, you should not allow other people to use your user account, as that is forbidden and you may be blocked. Regarding the wikilinks, you have to understand their purpose. Wikilinks are there to help readers to navigate between pages, but they have to follow certain logic. For example, if you are reading an article about London and click on a link which says "England", you will be taken to the article about England, quite logically. But, the wikilinks that you created are totally ilogical and useless. People do not expect to click on the "Victoria Concert Hall" link and be taken to an article about Madanavelu Pillai. That simply makes no sense, and that is exactly what you made here. You should only make links from other articles that mention Madanavelu Pillai by linking his name to the article about him. Vanjagenije (talk) 20:10, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. I understand it a little clearer now. I will work on the rest. Regarding linking the name to other links, I believe then that would not be so realistic as I've searched in wiki before and his name doesn't appear anywhere else as yet. Therefore I may not be able to do so immediately right now. Any advise?

Secondly I do not understand why are the direct translations in Tamil are removed. Certain terminologies when translated to English lose their validity and are unique to the language. As such, can you please explain the reason for doing, so that I can understand clearly? Thank you.Gayatrisu (talk) 02:01, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

The local newspapers which I have cited in this article have mentioned him together with others as local pioneers. The term was derived from there Gayatrisu (talk) 06:01, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

@Gayatrisu: If he is not mentioned in other articles, then you can make links by adding his name to relevant lists (you made one such useful edit at List of Singapore-related topics). Be, be sure that his name really belongs to the list. As about your other question: this is English Wikipedia, and is written in English. Great majority of readers do not know Tamil script, as adding Tamil text to English Wikipedia is basically useless. Vanjagenije (talk) 15:01, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Updated the citation needed part. Please see if this is okay. Thanks.Gayatrisu (talk) 02:08, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

updated the in text citations as well. Gayatrisu (talk) 02:59, 5 February 2016 (UTC)e

Are you still there or should I write in to someone else to verify the changes? Or is someone else going to help? Gayatrisu (talk) 06:59, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

@Gayatrisu: Yes, I'm here, I'm watching this talk page. You can use WP:ping when you want to notify someone of your message (like I just did to notify you). In Wikipedia, pages do not get "verified". Articles are collaborative work and any user can contribute to any article. You fixed the WP:Bare URL citations, which is good. Maybe you should change the oppening sentence, it says that he is recognized as a "pioneer", but does not say the pioneer of what. Vanjagenije (talk) 10:06, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. I have added the in text references consistent to the end text references. Please advise if this is okay. Thank you.Gayatrisu (talk) 15:23, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

@Vanjagenije: Do I still have to make changes to the opening statement and the references as highlighted in the orange box?Gayatrisu (talk) 13:05, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

@Gayatrisu: THe lead now looks OK, so I removed that tag. The other two issues remain. There should be more links (see: WP:LINK), and every statement should be supported with inline CITATIONS. You don't have to do anything, though. It's all voluntary. Vanjagenije (talk) 14:41, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

{{ping|Vanjagenije} Okay, thank youGayatrisu (talk) 15:54, 11 February 2016 (UTC)