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331dot (
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09:19, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
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...is on its way to being deleted, as twitter content (where you got it) is copyright protected. The most simple way to replace it is for you to take a photo of Rana and upload it at Commons. David notMD ( talk) 15:01, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
Hello Quentinhotwater. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.
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15:36, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.
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Theroadislong ( talk) 16:20, 1 August 2022 (UTC)Hi Quentinhotwater. I've moved here to assist with the DYK, since the Teahouse contributions tend to get rapidly archived just when you don't want that! The mechanics of submitting a proposal are given at WP:DYK but can be a bit daunting the first time you try.
One of the rules is that the "hook" must be directly sourced in the article. Hence "...that Rana X. Adhikari, an experimental physicist at Caltech, worked as a car mechanic before joining academia?" currently fails as I see no mention of it in the bio (it was in a part that rightly was trimmed). I don't like the "was the subject of an inspirational short film" as it breaks our neutral point of view guideline and again the article now doesn't say "inspirational". On the other hand, I think your final suggestion is fine, especially as it mentions India: en:Wikipedia has lots of Indian readers but rarely Indian-related DYK. The formatting for the text could be (see source for details):
...that the idea of building a gravitational-wave observatory in India was first proposed by Caltech experimental physicist Rana X. Adhikari?
If alternative hooks occur to you, they can be added as "ALT1" and so on within the nomination page. There are editors who specialise in approving DYKs and they are good at choosing the best one. Also, If a picture of Adhikari is available to go in the article, the hook could be extended with the word (pictured) and the photo placed alongside in the nomination (see other examples at Template_talk:Did you know). However, lack of a picture is not a problem.
As the article reached mainspace on 1 August, we have until 8 August to get it nominated. Let me know if you would prefer I made the nomination but don't be afraid of trying it yourself! Mike Turnbull ( talk) 12:07, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
The details of the protection policy are at WP:PP. There are various levels of protection: at one extreme templates used on thousands of pages (e.g. Infoboxes) can only be modified by admins since vandalism or even simple good-faith errors can cascade all around. We had an example of that recently now archived at WP:Teahouse/Questions/Archive_1160#Citation_Errors. More common are temporary blocks when vandalism from IP editors begins to overwhelm editors trying to combat that: one downside from allowing editing from anywhere without an account. These blocks are, by policy, only applied once the vandalism has already started and are requested at WP:AIV (if the vandalism is from one account so the solution is to block that account) or as described on the protection policy page if editing of a specific article is to be constrained in some way. I assume that in the case of Janna Levin the protection was put in place to stop some IP-related trolling but it is relatively unusual to see this on an article for a scientist who is only getting ~200 pageviews a day. It's more common on famous people's articles. One on my watchlist is Rosalind Franklin (~1,000 a day) which needs constant protection because, I guess, mainly schoolchildren know who she is and think it is amusing to vandalise there. Lots of politicians and many religious articles need protection, not just from vandals but from people with extreme views who want to push their world-view and refuse to stick to the core WP:NPOV policy. Bottom line: the Adhikari article is unlikely to need any sort of protection and won't get it unless something untoward happens. Mike Turnbull ( talk) 12:05, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
On 25 August 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rana X. Adhikari, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that it was Caltech experimental physicist Rana X. Adhikari's idea to build a gravitational-wave observatory in India? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rana X. Adhikari. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Rana X. Adhikari), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Hello, Quentinhotwater!
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331dot (
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09:19, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
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...is on its way to being deleted, as twitter content (where you got it) is copyright protected. The most simple way to replace it is for you to take a photo of Rana and upload it at Commons. David notMD ( talk) 15:01, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
Hello Quentinhotwater. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.
Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.
Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the
Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at
User:Quentinhotwater. The template {{
Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Quentinhotwater|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}
. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message.
Theroadislong (
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15:36, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.
The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out as Stub-Class or Start-Class and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.
If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.
If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider
.Thanks again, and happy editing!
Theroadislong ( talk) 16:20, 1 August 2022 (UTC)Hi Quentinhotwater. I've moved here to assist with the DYK, since the Teahouse contributions tend to get rapidly archived just when you don't want that! The mechanics of submitting a proposal are given at WP:DYK but can be a bit daunting the first time you try.
One of the rules is that the "hook" must be directly sourced in the article. Hence "...that Rana X. Adhikari, an experimental physicist at Caltech, worked as a car mechanic before joining academia?" currently fails as I see no mention of it in the bio (it was in a part that rightly was trimmed). I don't like the "was the subject of an inspirational short film" as it breaks our neutral point of view guideline and again the article now doesn't say "inspirational". On the other hand, I think your final suggestion is fine, especially as it mentions India: en:Wikipedia has lots of Indian readers but rarely Indian-related DYK. The formatting for the text could be (see source for details):
...that the idea of building a gravitational-wave observatory in India was first proposed by Caltech experimental physicist Rana X. Adhikari?
If alternative hooks occur to you, they can be added as "ALT1" and so on within the nomination page. There are editors who specialise in approving DYKs and they are good at choosing the best one. Also, If a picture of Adhikari is available to go in the article, the hook could be extended with the word (pictured) and the photo placed alongside in the nomination (see other examples at Template_talk:Did you know). However, lack of a picture is not a problem.
As the article reached mainspace on 1 August, we have until 8 August to get it nominated. Let me know if you would prefer I made the nomination but don't be afraid of trying it yourself! Mike Turnbull ( talk) 12:07, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
The details of the protection policy are at WP:PP. There are various levels of protection: at one extreme templates used on thousands of pages (e.g. Infoboxes) can only be modified by admins since vandalism or even simple good-faith errors can cascade all around. We had an example of that recently now archived at WP:Teahouse/Questions/Archive_1160#Citation_Errors. More common are temporary blocks when vandalism from IP editors begins to overwhelm editors trying to combat that: one downside from allowing editing from anywhere without an account. These blocks are, by policy, only applied once the vandalism has already started and are requested at WP:AIV (if the vandalism is from one account so the solution is to block that account) or as described on the protection policy page if editing of a specific article is to be constrained in some way. I assume that in the case of Janna Levin the protection was put in place to stop some IP-related trolling but it is relatively unusual to see this on an article for a scientist who is only getting ~200 pageviews a day. It's more common on famous people's articles. One on my watchlist is Rosalind Franklin (~1,000 a day) which needs constant protection because, I guess, mainly schoolchildren know who she is and think it is amusing to vandalise there. Lots of politicians and many religious articles need protection, not just from vandals but from people with extreme views who want to push their world-view and refuse to stick to the core WP:NPOV policy. Bottom line: the Adhikari article is unlikely to need any sort of protection and won't get it unless something untoward happens. Mike Turnbull ( talk) 12:05, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
On 25 August 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rana X. Adhikari, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that it was Caltech experimental physicist Rana X. Adhikari's idea to build a gravitational-wave observatory in India? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rana X. Adhikari. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Rana X. Adhikari), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.