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Hello, Rahularch, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Ravi Gomatam. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Hi Muhandes. Thanks for your kind welcome message. I am a wiki fan, and would like to contribute more with each passing day. There is a lot to learn and I think I am making my share of mistake as well. I recently removed the "new article, review needed" banner from the top of Ravi Gomatam page, but on thinking more I feel it might have been better to have some other expert remove it. Can you please advise? If we need to put it back, should I do it, or let some expert do it? And, how long should that banner be kept, some guildeline on when it is appropriate to remove? Rahularch (talk) 17:16, 29 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I checked the article: no major problem. You may want to check WP:RG. Happy editing, Racconish^Tk 18:10, 29 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I would recommend that you convert those sources to proper citations:

If you have a source already, this is how to convert it to a proper citation:

Go to the citation generator, click the appropriate bubble on the left (news article, website, book, etc.) and fill out as many fields as you can about the source.
Click the 'Get reference wiki text' button.
Highlight, and then copy (Ctrl+C or Apple+C), the resulting text (it will be something like <ref>{{cite .... }}</ref>, copy the whole thing).
In the Wikipedia article, paste (Ctrl+V or Apple+V) the text you just copied, replacing the original <ref> .... </ref> code with the text you just copied.

Thanks, Samwb123^T-C-E 18:32, 29 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

External links

Please peruse WP:EL and especially WP:ELNO (rule #19, but also other) before adding more external links. Best regards. --Muhandes (talk) 11:53, 26 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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 :I checked the article: no major problem. You may want to check [[WP:RG]]. Happy editing, <span style="padding-left: 5pt; font-size: 0.9em; letter-spacing: 0.1em">'''[[User:Racconish|Racconish]]'''[[User talk:Racconish|<sup>  Tk  </sup>]]</span> 18:10, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
+::I would recommend that you convert those sources to proper citations:
+'''If you have a source already, this is how to convert it to a proper citation:'''
+#Go to the [http://toolserver.org/~magnus/makeref.php citation generator], click the appropriate bubble on the left (news article, website, book, etc.) and fill out as many fields as you can about the source.
+#Click the 'Get reference wiki text' button.
+#Highlight, and then copy (Ctrl+C or Apple+C), the resulting text (it will be something like <code><nowiki><ref>{{cite .... }}</ref></nowiki></code>, copy the whole thing).
+#In the Wikipedia article, paste (Ctrl+V or Apple+V) the text you just copied, replacing the original <code><nowiki><ref> .... </ref></nowiki></code> code with the text you just copied.
+Thanks, [[User:Samwb123|Samwb123]]<sup>[[User:S9/t|T]]-[[Special:Contributions/Samwb123|C]]-[[Special:EmailUser/Samwb123|E]]</sup> 18:32, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
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