SreejanAlapati
Welcome!
editHello, SreejanAlapati, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for August 15. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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Good for you! I have that feeling every time I edit, too. If you ever need help editing, please try Help desk and the help pages. Hope you have a great time here!
Vincent Liu (something to say?) 12:53, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Good job, I hope you enjoy editing here and can contribute more of your knowledge to this project. If you need assistance, please see Wikipedia:Help_desk.
Valenciano (talk) 12:55, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia and copyright
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 20:50, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!
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- Hi SreejanAlapati! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
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If the list can be better, please correct it. It's a very bad page. Unsourced, no explanation. There is an error now, please correct it.Xx236 (talk) 06:45, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
The article List of toy mechanisms has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
no sources to indicate this list will ever be more than a very small random collection of articles.
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. UnitedStatesian (talk) 17:50, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
List of toy mechanisms listed at Redirects for discussion
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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect List of toy mechanisms. Since you had some involvement with the List of toy mechanisms redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. UnitedStatesian (talk) 15:33, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
The article Bump and Go toys has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)#Products_and_services requirement. WP:BEFORE did not reveal any significant coverage on Gnews, Gbooks or Gscholar. Given the near total lack of references (outside crwodsourced=unreliable fan project), there is no content to merge and anyway there is no valid merge/redirect target I see. If you disagree and deprod this, please explain how it meets them on the talk page here in the form of "This article meets criteria A and B because..." and ping me back through WP:ECHO or by leaving a note at User talk:Piotrus. Thank you.
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:07, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
Greetings, Bump and go toys are everywhere. Children play with them a lot. I created the article exactly when I couldn't find much info about them in trusted sources. I believe that to be exact reason, to keep the article and let people edit it further. As you said, There is no similar thing on wikipedia. And also, there are no significant articles on toy mechanisms in wikipedia. Some of the mechanisms are real science and enthusiastic. Toy mechanisms are a branch where articles need to be added. This article could be the beginning of it. I hope sourcing knowledge is important too, than meeting criteria itself. SreejanAlapati (talk) 01:36, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
Nomination of Bump and Go toys for deletion
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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Bump and Go toys is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bump and Go toys until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:18, 23 October 2020 (UTC)