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For your great contributions and excellent photos, I hereby present to you this award. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 12:08, 28 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Haroon Habib

I see that you have added two or three references. I am quite sure this person is notable. The prod template gives a week for editors to reference the article properly. Anyone may remove it if they feel that sufficient references have been added. But remember, especially when it comes to a living person, every assertion in the article must be cited. Harry the Dog WOOF 18:08, 28 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Re Kumar Anish

Hi Mydreamsparrow,

I was actually going to come and a drop you a note about the Kumar Anish article.

The first concern is

Creative professional, but not sure either is really correct, and one apparently not overly significant book probably doesn't quite qualify him. Just using the general notability guidelines he doesn't quite seem to make it. Perhaps if the GOPI method was well known (e.g., there is no article on it and Google doesn't indicate much about it as a prominent specialist yoga technique from what I can find), or if he was a prominent author (a single book ranking outside the top 10 million on Amazon probably doesn't quite cut it) it would be different. If you take if from another perspective, I'm sure you could understand that Wikipedia doesn't want articles on every local personal trainer
in Australia for example, so these people do genuinely need to be notable.

The other concern is

WP:Reliability. While there was nothing in the article that appeared to be offensive, similarly there was not a lot that seemed to be verifiable. There is particular sensitivity about Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons, both for ethical and legal reasons, and in essence claims should be able to verified by reference to reliable secondary sources. Unfortunately very little of that article did so, with the references you provided not verifying the claims made. Many were simply links to the website of the organisations mentioned. Not only was Anish not mentioned on the linked pages, when I did advanced searches of the site he was not even mentioned anywhere on the sites. These cannot be used as references as they do not verify the claims made in the article. To be honest I can't help but think you know him personally and have written it partly through what you simply know or what he has told you (for a while I thought it may have actually been a Wikipedia:Autobiography). Nonetheless, if you do know him closely this then borders on WP:Advertising which is frowned upon, and brings up the issue of Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
.

Another page I'd suggest you read is Wikipedia:Citing sources. This contains a thorough discussion of how to cite sources (just providing URLs to the homepage, or even a subpage, of a website as you have tended to be doing is not recommended). There are even some automated tools that help you to create good citations that I highly recommend (I use one myself).

I realise that you are quite new to Wikipedia (perhaps introduced by Muhammad?) and a glance through your talkpage indicates problems with a number of your articles, some of which have already been deleted. Just as general advice could I perhaps suggest that you perhaps channel the initial enthusiasm you are showing for creating new pages and information into creating fewer but better articles, and improving existing articles. Indeed working through and improving an existing article can really help you to see what makes a good and bad article.

Also you may or may not be aware of the Wikipedia:Did you know process. This gets new articles onto the mainpage and can attract a lot of eyes to them and gives you a bit of acknowledgement for your work. However the other benefit to you would be that it gives some independent review to your articles providing you with a bit of feedback if things are lacking, or a pat on the back if they're really good. This would also let you look through other new articles to see what they contain and check out some of the feedback being given about them, which is far less personal than people reviewing your work.

Again I would like to welcome you to Wikipedia and congratulate you for your enthusiasm for adding content. I note you have also added some lovely photographs! I know I have sprouted an awful lot of information above and linked to lots of advice pages, but there's lots to navigate here! Many new users find the Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user program very helpful for this reason, and some users have very well structured processes in place to help new users. While I'm not part of that process, if you want further advice or clarification about anything I've said, etc, feel free to ask. I notice that some more refs have been added to this chap's article, so I'll go and check them out at some stage and see how they shape up, but in the meantime feel free to strengthen them or anything else in the article with anything I've suggested above.

Cheers, --jjron (talk) 11:12, 16 January 2013 (UTC).[reply]

Thank you so much for your guiding. I will be much careful in future. Mydreamsparrow (talk) 11:28, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Male impala profile.jpg

Hi, You didn't mention any reason at the nomination. Would you consider the original? --Muhammad(talk) 10:02, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Listed Manjula Chellur DYK nomination for discussion

DYK nomination of Manjula Chellur

Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Tito Dutta (contact) 19:48, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply
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Reply in that DYK discussion page! --Tito Dutta (contact) 19:57, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Please see new note on DYK talk page. Yoninah (talk) 19:05, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, regarding your question about this nomination. You nominated an article that was too short by DYK rules, and another editor,
sources
, the character count increased to an acceptable level and the nomination was accepted. We're now waiting for an administrator to move it to the queue for the Main Page, and you'll be notified on your talk page when the article appears on the Main Page.
For future nominations, please read
WP:DYK or contact me on my talk page with questions. Best, Yoninah (talk) 10:32, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply
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DYK for Manjula Chellur