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Revision as of 14:10, 18 February 2023

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Edit summaries

As far as I can tell, you are making good edits to the article on Sanjeev Sanyal‎. But you often forget to leave an edit summary. It would help other editors if you used the edit summary field, either: (1) to explain your reasoning for an edit, or (2) to provide a description of what the edit changes. Summaries save time for other editors and reduce the chances that your edit will be misunderstood. For some edits, an adequate summary may be quite brief.

The edit summary field looks like this:

Edit summary (Briefly describe your changes)

Please try to provide an edit summary for every edit you make (I know we all forget sometimes). With a Misplaced Pages account you can give yourself a reminder to add an edit summary by setting Preferences → Editing → Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary, and then click the "Save" button. Thanks! -- Toddy1 (talk) 08:10, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestion, I will keep that in mind.

I have something to ask- I have created a new wiki draft article. Could you please give some suggestion on how to improve it so it doesn't get rejected? Mixmon (talk) 15:53, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

Well to start with you need to delete the "Controversies" heading. See WP:CSECTION.

All the newspaper citations need going through. If there is a Misplaced Pages article on the newspaper in question, this should be wikilinked inside the citation. Newspaper articles have a publication date - that needs to go in the citation. Newspaper articles often list their authors; the best way to list these is to use the |first1 |last1 |first2 |last2 fields (if there 6 authors, you will have |first6 |last6 fields); sometimes articles list editors so use |editor1-first |editor1-last.

If someone was arrested, the article should say when. Also, when did he get bail, and when did the Odisha Government decide not to accord sanctions of his prosecution and withdraw all cases against him.

He has written for national and international dailies and has several academic publications and books - the article should say which national and international dailies he was written for, and have a section listing his books, and significant academic publications.

Do you know his date of birth? If yes, how do you know it - i.e. we need a citation.-- Toddy1 (talk) 16:10, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

The article says that he created a storm in Odisha Assembly and outside. Unless you mean that he has control of the weather, you need to rephrase that.-- Toddy1 (talk) 16:15, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

I do not understand why you had the draft article deleted. Writing a new Misplaced Pages article is a lot of work. You have to build it up, and look for mistakes and try to fix them.-- Toddy1 (talk) 23:13, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

I just shifted that article to the main space ( I still have a lot of work to do on that one). I was busy creating this article , it's 70% complete. Do you know how it's indexed on search engines? Mixmon (talk) 09:42, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

There is a utility the counts the number of page views per day. The interface has various settings on the left hand side. It shows that on 15 Feb 2023 the article on Abhijit Iyer Mitra had:

• 89 page views by users (73 desktop, 2 mobile app, 14 mobile web)
• 81 page views by spider programs (73 desktop, 0 mobile app, 8 mobile web)
• 4 page views by automated (3 desktop, 0 mobile app, 1 mobile web)

Internet search engines and some other websites use spider software (also known as web crawlers) to update their web content or indices of other sites' web content. You can see that the spiders came back each day (81 times on 15th, 21 on 16th, and 8 on 17th). If you look at a long-standing page that rarely gets edited, like this example you can see that it got an average of 2 visits from spiders per day since July 2015, but some days it gets lots of visits. You do not need to do anything to get the page indexed - the spiders will look at content and do it automatically. -- Toddy1 (talk) 14:10, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

Advice when people cite policies for reverting you

Sometimes people cite policies (or essays) and explain how the policy/essay applies.

But sometimes they cite a policy or essay but do not explain how it applied. When that happens, it is worth you looking at the policy/essay and asking how it applies. If you cannot see how it applies, say so on the article talk page. We all make mistakes - sometimes a policy shortcut that sounds like it should apply is to a policy that is either irrelevant or says the opposite of what the other editor assumed it did. -- Toddy1 (talk) 10:05, 13 February 2023 (UTC)