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Hello, Gkjohn, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like this place and decide to stay.

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How do I create an article?
Please use the Article Wizard to create one, then add references to the article as explained below.
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How do I insert a reference into an article?

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  1. Do a search on Ask.com, Google, or your preferred search engine for the subject of the article that you want to put a reference in.
  2. Click 'Edit this page' or 'Edit' in the Wikipedia article, and insert a claim into that article stating a fact about the subject. Don't click the save button just yet.
  3. In the search you did in step 1, find a website that supports the claim you made in step 2. Highlight the address in the address bar (where it says http://www.some-website.com/some-page.htm).
  4. Go to the reference generator, click on the 'An arbitrary website' bubble, and fill out the as many fields as you can. Then click 'Get reference wiki text'.
  5. Highlight, and then copy (Ctrl+C or Apple+C), the resulting text.
  6. In the article, after the claim you made in step 2, paste (Ctrl+V or Apple+V) the text you copied in step 5.
  7. If the article does not have a References, Footnotes, Notes, or Bibliography section, then add this below the See Also section and above the External Links section:

==References==
{{Reflist}}

For references put at the end of an article:

  1. Do a search on Ask.com, Google, or your preferred search engine for the subject of the article that you want to put a reference in.
  2. In the search, find a website that supports the claims made in the article. Highlight the address in the address bar (where it says http://www.some-website.com/some-page.htm).
  3. Go to the reference generator, click on the 'An arbitrary website' bubble, and fill out the as many fields as you can. Then click 'Get reference wiki text'.
  4. Highlight, and then copy (Ctrl+C or Apple+C), the resulting text.
  5. Go to the Wikipedia article. If the article does not have a References, Footnotes, Notes, or Bibliography section, then add this below the See Also section and above the External Links section:

==References==
{{Reflist}}

Then, add this after the {{Reflist}}, in a new line:

{{Refbegin}}
*Press paste (Ctrl+V or Apple+V) after this asterisk, then remove the <ref></ref> tags

{{Refend}}
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AshLin (talk) 16:50, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Time to vote again!

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WP:INCOTM - March 2012
Please suggest/vote articles for the WP:INCOTM project for the month of March 2012. You may nominate articles on the nominations page or vote for the existing nominations on the India Notice Board. Thanks! BPositive (talk) 07:25, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Just reminding you to vote for WP:INCOTM project for the month of March 2012. Please vote on the India notice board talk page. Thanks, --BPositive (talk) 15:21, 28 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

June 2013

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Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Atul Chitnis may have broken the syntax by modifying 1 "()"s. If you have, don't worry, just edit the page again to fix it. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my operator's talk page.

Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 07:46, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]