User talk:Margaret Guha
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March 2021
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Hello, I'm Toddy1. In the English language, citations normally go AFTER punctuation, not before as you have been doing.-- Toddy1 (talk) 08:08, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
When you are adding citations, please can you follow the date format used in the article. So if the article uses the format "3 December 2020", it is unhelpful if you add dates to citations in the format "2020-12-03".-- Toddy1 (talk) 08:08, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
Do you understand the concept of a quotation? Please do not alter quotations to say what you think they ought to have said. They need to say what quoted source says. In this edit you inserted a new citation into the middle of a quotation. This is the wrong thing to do, and has been reverted.-- Toddy1 (talk) 09:26, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
What you appear to have been doing is find a word, and then adding a citation for that word (usually from Encyclopædia Britannica). For example: "In Baramulla they killed Colonel D.O.T. Dykes. Dykes and I were of the same seniority. We did our first year's attachment with the Royal Scots in Lahore[1]"
References
- ^ "Lahore | Facts & History". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
The citation you added is about Lahore. It does not mention the stuff you are citing it for. So the citation is bogus. Please read Wikipedia:Citing sources. I am sure you have good intentions with your edits to Baramulla, but the result is not constructive.-- Toddy1 (talk) 09:51, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi Margaret Guha! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at Delhi Metro that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. -- Toddy1 (talk) 10:00, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
Your edit to the article on the Delhi Metro added a general citation on COVID-19. The citation was irrelevant to the content it was cited for. tThe citation was about COVID-19 and did not mention that Phase III of the Delhi Metro was expected to be completed by the end of 2020 but construction was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This kind of edit is not constructive. Placing this kind of citation is misleading, and therefore damages the quality of articles.-- Toddy1 (talk) 10:00, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
Your edit to the article on Sarojini Nagar metro station added a "citation" to a google search that repeated what Wikipedia says. Please read WP:CIRCULAR. The edit was also misleadingly labelled as a minor edit.-- Toddy1 (talk) 10:05, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
Please do not "correct" quotations to make them say what you think they ought to have said. You did this to the article on Sri Pratap College and it has been reverted.-- Toddy1 (talk) 10:46, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for your time. Margaret Guha (talk) 14:58, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
Adding new citations is NOT a "minor edit". So please do not mark edits like this or this as minor edits. See Help:Minor edit.-- Toddy1 (talk) 15:27, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
Then what should be new citation marked as? Margaret Guha (talk) 15:31, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
- You should not be ticking the minor edits check box when you make substantial changes. Adding a citation is a substantial change. The edit summary should say that you are adding a new citation.-- Toddy1 (talk) 15:45, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
Thank you very much. Margaret Guha (talk) 16:13, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
You added the following citation to this sentence in the article on Agartala:
- Agartala is the capital city of the Indian state of Tripura, and is one of the largest cities in northeast India.[1]
References
- ^ "India | History, Map, Population, Economy, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
Please can you explain which words in the Encyclopædia Britannica article in your citation mention either that Agartala is the capital city of the Indian state of Tripura, or that Agartala is one of the largest cities in northeast India.-- Toddy1 (talk) 16:28, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
- Can you show me how to correct. Margaret Guha (talk) 19:58, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
- Read the Encyclopædia Britannica article you gave as a citation. Tell me what is says about Agartala.-- Toddy1 (talk) 20:08, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
Toddy1
[edit]Thanks Margaret Guha (talk) 09:01, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
- If you look at the history tab for an article you can see the edits made by different editors at different times. You can then compare differences, for example the difference between the version of 15:34, 14 March 2021 and after your edits of 18:09-19:48, 19 March 2021. You can also see the kinds of corrections that I put in. These comparisons are known as "diffs".-- Toddy1 (talk) 09:16, 20 March 2021 (UTC)