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Citations and uncited content

Hi, you will often find uncited content with "citation needed" tags. In general, we don't remove such content unless it is contentious (opinionated) or seems unverifiable. If possible, you should attempt to improve the articles rather than remove content. Secondly, if a web link to a published article is broken, you should remove the web link, but the citation should remain. Cheers, Kautilya3 (talk) 12:02, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

I was reading some wikipedia guidelines and they seem to suggest that the burden of proof lies on the person wishing to add or restore content. In most cases, content that is uncited is also unverifiable. A lot of it is potentially contentious. Is it not better to err on the side of caution? I, for one, would rather have articles that are less detailed but reliable than detailed articles that are potentially full of lies. Givemeplease (talk) 14:27, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

This is one of the gray areas of Wikipedia policies and you won't find agreement among all the editors about what to do when there is uncited content. We usually tag it for citations, but delete it only when it is obviously wrong or sounds unlikely. Since you are a beginner yet, I would advise caution. If you go around deleting content but rarely add anything of your own, you will probably head for a block. For example, this deletion [1] is quite unwarranted. Do you not know that Vajpayee's NDA government did not pursue the controversial issues in its manifesto? The BJP article is a good article and has been reviewed by numerous experienced editors. I would say you are taking too much liberties in deleting it and labelling it as "POV" (whereas in fact it is factual). You may be within your rights to delete it, but you will piss people off. When the times comes for somebody to assess whether you are here to build a Wikipedia or to take it down, your behaviour will be found to be wanting. - Kautilya3 (talk) 15:40, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your feedback. I think removing iffy content is not inherently destructive but I concede that the BJP edit was indeed unwarranted. Givemeplease (talk) 15:49, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

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Censoring my userpage

Don't try to censor my userpage.  A m i t  웃   08:21, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Ironically, it is you who is censoring your userpage. Also, any actions that are not in the spirit of Wikipedia must be dealt with accordingly. Givemeplease (talk) 08:24, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

New users

Hi Givemeplease, if you turn on Twinkle in your user preferences, you get buttons for welcoming new users. You also get a Twinkle (TW) menu on user pages, from which you can pick the appropriate welcome message. To give ARBIPA sanctions alert, you need to write {{subst:alert|ipa}}. I don't usually give the alert for new users, but only if they prove to be troublesome over a period of time. But the welcome message is quite important. Otherwise, they wouldn't know why their edits are getting reverted. Cheers, Kautilya3 (talk) 23:37, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the tips! I did not notice the sanctions alert at first, and did not mean to thank you for that particular edit. I mistook it for the welcome message edit which I later thanked you for, as I had originally intended, to acknowledge that it was preferable to the warning I had initially posted. Givemeplease (talk) 23:59, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

It is a good idea for the first message to a new user be a welcome rather than a warning, because it is informative and friendly. We can also use it to refer the people back to the core policies. - Kautilya3 (talk) 00:08, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Agreed! Givemeplease (talk) 00:09, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Beyond JNU

Going beyond JNU, perhaps you can pay some attention to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad page, which is currently just a propaganda page? I have added some Further reading entries yesterday, which can be used to build a proper article.

We also need to look into the various "Adhivakta Sanghs" that are going around in the country. I have found it hard to get enough information about them. Cheers, Kautilya3 (talk) 23:46, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing that out. I will contribute to the best of my ability when I can. Givemeplease (talk) 00:05, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

I took a very cursory look and most of the Further reading entries seem to be either books or dead links.Givemeplease (talk) 00:11, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

To comment based on a 'very cursory look' was premature. It seems that the linked pages do have potentially useful information. Apologies! Givemeplease (talk) 00:20, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

(ec) Yes, books are the best possible sources. You can either get enough info from Google Books or try to find a copies in a library. You can also try to find research articles on "Google Scholar" but it is unlikely that there will be any papers devoted to such specialized subjects. - Kautilya3 (talk) 00:33, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

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