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AfD nomination of Types of decentralisation

I have nominated Types of decentralisation, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Types of decentralisation. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Kim Dent-Brown ^(Talk) 10:08, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there, I'm sorry to nominate yet another of your articles but you need to have a look at

perfecting articles at the blue links shown. If you need help with working out how best to contribute, click on the bit after my signature that says (talk) Kim Dent-Brown ^(Talk) 10:22, 23 January 2008 (UTC)|border=44CA35|icons=true|nosig=true}}[reply

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Response to email

Hello there, you sent me this email earlier today:

1 I am not a researcher, a librarian, in Kerala Institute of Local Administration. So remember that none of my write-ups are results of original research. But secondary literature, that can fit into a text book or reference book.As a librarian, my job is to gather, maintain and provide information.
2 I am a fan of Wikipedia and I wanted to create a Wikipedia for Decentralisation in India which is being decided by Ministry of Panhcayati Raj. As a much navigated site I wanted to have some pages here in Wikipedia too.

3 Meanwhile as suggested by Frederick N, a journalist of Goa, I started creating pages, probably with ignorance of editing properly.

4 I donot sign because I donot know how to sign and what to write. That is all

5 I write this mail when I got a link which I may not be able to retrieve later

6 So my need is to have a corner - a portal -for decentralisation and local governance in India /Kerala. Please help me for it
7 I am known in India as a promoter of Decentralisation particularly in the Decentralisation Community of UN Solution Exchange - an email group of 1400 persons and was the best participant in the group last year.
7 If you propose the deletion of the article Types of decentralisation, I think it is worth retaining.

8 I learn that the article must be shorter than my articles whereas m y articles are long. But they contain only points gathered from official reports such as Economic Review of Kerala government, Kerala Panchayat Raj Act and similar publication.

I want to tell you again that I am a positive person and not a manipulator

Regards,

K Rajsekharan

Librarian kerala Institute of Local Administration

I'm replying here as discussions like this are best kept public on Wikipedia: to respond, click the 'edit this page' tab at the top of this page, and place your edit under mine. If you start your paragraphs with a : symbol, they will be indented -

like this

which can make conversations easier to read.

To respond to your email: may I suggest that you start by looking through the links about

tutorial here which may be helpful for the mechanics of how it all works here. Please do reply below if you need futrther help. Besyt wishes - Kim Dent-Brown ^(Talk) 12:22, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply

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An offer of help

Hi there, thanks for your email this morning. I usually find it best to correspond via talk pages, so [please respond here by clicking the 'edit this page' tab at the top and placing your response under mine. That way everyone can see our conversation (and join in if necessary).

I have a suggestion and an offer to make: as you've discovered, writing an article is a lot more complicated than pasting in a large block of text! What I'd suggest is that we set up a test page in your own userspace, say at a page like User:Rajankila/drafts. You then paste in one of your articles and we work on it together to try and get it into a presentable format for the mainspace. Drafting it in your user space means it doesn't appear on the list of new pages or recent changes, so it won't get challenged for deletion - although other editors can see it if they know it's there.

I suggest trying just one article, ideally either the shortest, or the one with the fullest range of references (or just the one that interests you most). But it needs to be one with verifiable (and verified) facts, not opinions or theoretical material. Please reply below if you'd like to do this.

I have no doubt whatsoever that you're a sincere editor with a desire to edit constructively: vandals are very obvious by their editing behaviour and I can see you're not one. I realise it's disheartening to have your first contributions deleted, but I'd be very happy to help produce some articles which will stay - not least because I'm concerned about

systemic bias against articles on subjects away from the English speaking world. Kim Dent-Brown ^(Talk) 12:33, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply

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Reply by Rajankila

I am not matured enough to create full-fledged article right now. So please check the editing I had made today in

Decentralisation and Empowerment

and respond so that I can understand my imperfections. The first article I had posted contained only factual things like "Sun rises in the east and sets in the west"" which do not require even any citation. But it could have been provided with any number of citations too. No matter I am in the midst of the subject decentralisation and can post articles systematically later when I am more learned and technologically abled. Meantime, please watch my minor editing and advice me in case of errors. Only today I learned to use talk page and to sign. But why my sign doesn't appears as yours ? Rajankila (talk) 12:52, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, well done for figuring out the signature and also how to make wikilinks with the two square brackets. My signature look different to yours because I've customised it by clicking on the 'my preferences' link at the top of the page, then putting in an alternate signature. But until you're more experienced in Wiki markup, I suggest you don't try that right now, it can be a bit complicated! There is more information on signatures

here

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As to your edits, a few immediate bits of feedback.

1. One is that you shouldmake more use of the preview button at the bottom of the edit screen (next to the save page button). This allows you to see the effect of changes without immediately posting them to the Wiki: you can then make one big edit when you're finally happy. The reason this is a good idea is because when people look in the History of an article, your edits appear as one single one, rather than a long list of small ones and it's much easier to see who has done what.
2. You need to make better use of the edit summaries if you can manage to: if you can summarise what changes you have made so that people can see from the History how the page has evolved, this is very helpful.
3. I suspect that the large chunks of text you pasted into
   Decentralisation may be reverted by other editors, because they lack any sources or wikilinks and because you didn't discuss them on the article talk page first. In future, try discussing your planned changes before you make them, and you might also prepare a big edit in your draft page
   first. Then you can add references and links before you paste into the main article.
4. The edit to
   original research. I hope this makes sense: reply here if you want to discuss further. Kim Dent-Brown ^(Talk) 13:37, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply
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Response and querie

Hi Kim, See my referencing in

Decentralisation and comment. I saved twice today as I had to refer the placing of reference list during my editing. Empowerment referencing will be done later as I have to find out that particular document from where I had copied the list for one of my articles. Rajankila (talk) 06:23, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply

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Reply by Rajankila

When I added a new image, for the second time, I learned that the type of license need to be selected. Earlier I did not know about it. See my clarification on the image page.

Rajankila (talk) 07:47, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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File:Sfc first.pdf

I have deleted it. I you wish to have deleted a file you have uploaded, you can place {{db-g7}} on it. Then an administrator will notice it in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion and delete it. Cenarium (Talk) 11:00, 18 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not particularly familiar with pdf use on Wikipedia, but this search through the

external links is preferable. Cenarium (Talk) 01:33, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply

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Category:Local governance

How is this category distinguished from Category:Local government in India? I think the latter name more accurately reflects the scope of this category. - Stepheng3 (talk) 22:47, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

CommentThe term local government denotes a third tier government in a particular locality whereas the term local governance is broader term that refers to all the processes such as the mechanisms (like elections) for creation of a local government, the evolutionary political processes resulting in creation of governments and the whole lot of comparatively abstract aspects such as accountability, transparency, responsiveness etc in the process of government functioning. But the term local government denotes the structure, functions functionaries and such other concrete aspects. So I said local governance was a better term for including much more diverse aspects than what we include under Local governments.

But, I had created a Category:Local governance last day which includes Local governments in India as a sub-category. So there is not need to change Local governments in India to Local governance in India. Now everything on the third tier government can be placed under local governanceRajankila (talk) 06:57, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is Category:Local governance intended to include processes and mechanisms outside of India? --Stepheng3 (talk) 07:36, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment It is better to consider it as the mother category from where the entire lower categories relating to the emerging discipline Local Governance should emerge. That means it can include category Local governance in Brazil, Local governance in Columbia etc. Local governance in Brazil can have further sub category Local governments in Brazil and below that page on each Municipality can be added.That was my concept.Rajankila (talk) 05:16, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I note that there's already a Category:Local government with subcategories including Category:Local government by country. Category:Local governance seems redundant with this category. - Stepheng3 (talk) 07:55, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Certainly there is some confusion.It seems better to merge Local government in Local governance as the latter is a better term for the evolving subject. My intention while creating the Category:Local governance was to bring together all pages relating to Local governance. Kindly decide yourself as I don't find an appropriate categorization.Rajankila (talk) 11:44, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment I uploaded the file again as it is a Government owned emblem and is usable by us as Government Servants. I did not see the deletion tag in time to avert deletion done earlier. Rajankila (talk) 11:50, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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