User talk:Raosaab7

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Raosaab7, good luck, and have fun. --KuwarOnline (talk) 05:22, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four halfwidth tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You could also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 08:15, 19 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted your deletion at Yadav

Greetings, you gave no explanation for deleting properly-cited passages from Yadav, so I have reverted. If you have concerns about the content, please bring it up at Talk:Yadav. MatthewVanitas (talk) 07:57, 30 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I have just done the same now as MatthewVanitas did on 30 May, per the notice above. Please, raise the issue on the talk page. - Sitush (talk) 11:31, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If you guys think that using refrences of historians like Todd ,sherring etc etc are invalid and useless what else can i say , please remove them.Raosaab7 (talk) 15:46, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

While Todd is a very interesting read, he's not really an academic historian, and so a lot of what he took down was legend that was passed down to him, personal opinion, etc. He's certainly a valuable primary source, but not someone to just take it at face-value. We have plenty of cases where modern academics have investigated Todd's findings, compared them with other sources, and concluded that particular points were well-founded, but overall we can't just rely directly on Todd himself. Same with Sherring: it's one thing to quote him on things he directly observed/experienced, but quite another to assume that his presentation of, for example, ancient Indian history was informed by anything more rigourous than "ask some local Indian aristocrat what he thinks happened 500 years ago." Again, a great primary source, but WP is based on secondary, not primary sources.

It'd still be great to have contributions from you, but they have to be based on WP:Reliable sources. If you have any suggestions, feel free to bring your proposed additions to the Talk page, with a link to the source, and we all can discuss them there. MatthewVanitas (talk) 16:05, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

July 2011

Your addition to Yadav has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

Your recent edits appeared to include copies of big chunks from a website that has held the information since 2007 - see http://web.archive.org/web/20071010170808/http://www.satnami.com/hist03.html Sitush (talk) 16:16, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Ahirs, please cite a reliable source for your addition. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Sitush (talk) 09:30, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Yadav. When removing content, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the content has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Sitush (talk) 09:32, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Yadav with this edit, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Katieh5584 (talk) 10:09, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Raosaab7. I have found some users having difficuly getting a grasp of how their edits are copyright violations. As such, I want to try to explain in simple terms my understanding of what this is about. I hope you would not mind if I do so. The problem is with the wording of your edits. When you use a source, you can only use it to gather some points of information. After you see the information in the source, if you want to add it to some article, you must restate the same information in your own, completely new words. This means, you cannot use the same words that the source uses. You have to put in some creativity of your own to restate the same information in new words. If you do not use your creativity to restate the same thing in completely new words, it becomes a copyright violation. While using your creativity in restating the same thing in new words, your also have to be careful that you do not say anything that the source does not say. Now, this can be a bit tricky. But that's how it is. I hope I have been able to do what I was trying to do. If you need clarification from me, you can place a comment on my talk page. More detailed and authoritative explanation can be found in the relevant copyright policy, or you can also put up questiones at the helpdesk which can be accessed through links in your welcome box.-MangoWong (talk) 16:55, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A bowl of strawberries for you!

Hi Raosaab7 MW ^ℳ 17:06, 11 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]