User talk:Blueyarn

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Blueyarn, good luck, and have fun. – War Minister (talk) 21:31, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. But why my name is appearing in red color ?

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Thank you for your information. Blueyarn (talk) 11:06, 11 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Citation templates[edit]

I am glad to see you using the citation templates such as {{cite book}}, but please learn to use them properly. By improper use, you render the citations less useful than if you had not used the templates at all. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 15:44, 19 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your information. But I believe I have dome same. Blueyarn (talk) 11:15, 20 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

By "I believe I have dome same", I understand you to be saying that you believe that you have used the citation templates correctly. In this belief, you are wrong. For one example, You used the cite book template as follows:

{{cite book|last=Lele|first=Ed. by Jayant|title=Tradition and modernity in Bhakti movements|year=1981|publisher=Brill|location=Leiden|isbn=9004063706|page=29|url=http://books.google.co.in/books?id=kLs3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA29&dq=%22MAHAR%22+%22NIRMALA%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_kLBUdW6GcqzrgfG64HYBQ&ved=0CFMQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=banka&f=false}}

which produced a citation that looked like this:

Lele, Ed. by Jayant (1981). Tradition and modernity in Bhakti movements. Leiden: Brill. p. 29. ISBN 9004063706.

The proper use of the template is:

{{cite book|last=Ghokale-Turner|first=Jayashree B.|chapter=Bakhti or Vidroha: Continuity and Change in Dalit Sahitya|editor-last=Lele|editor-first=Jayant|title=Tradition and modernity in Bhakti movements|year=1981|publisher=Brill|location=Leiden|isbn=9004063706|page=29}}

which produces:

Ghokale-Turner, Jayashree B. (1981). "Bakhti or Vidroha: Continuity and Change in Dalit Sahitya". In Lele, Jayant (ed.). Tradition and modernity in Bhakti movements. Leiden: Brill. p. 29. ISBN 9004063706.

Note that in your version, the author is listed as "Lele, Edited by Jayant", where as the proper author citation is "Ghokale-Turner, Jayashree B.", with an editor citation of "Lele, Jayant". Admittedly, this requires a bit more research to find out what author actually wrote the chapter in a book such as Lele's, but doing so gives proper attribution to the facts being presented. Also, it is generally not useful to provide a URL to the specific Google Books search result. The ISBN is sufficient; readers can find and verify the content of the citation using Google, or any other method (including finding the book at a library!)

--WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 12:30, 20 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi (talk),

I have fixed those links. Thanks Blueyarn (talk) 11:23, 20 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Image for Mahar?[edit]

Might you be of help finding any old British publications with historical images of the Mahar? These are generally old enough to be out of copyright (or published in India, where to my understanding pre-1947 items are free), so they give a great way to visualise the history of a community. MatthewVanitas (talk) 21:54, 28 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I feel this image is better. Can you please add this image if you like?Blueyarn (talk) 19:19, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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July 2013[edit]

Your addition to B. R. Ambedkar has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Sitush (talk) 10:37, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent editing history at B. R. Ambedkar shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

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Please will you stop reinstating someone's opinion, derived from a magazine. It doesn't even make any sense in English but the bigger issue is one of weight, especially in a lead section. If you want to reinstate it again then please take it to the article talk page instead. Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 10:46, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You've now reinstated the copyright violation regarding the Manusmriti and Hindu psyche - you are on very thin ice here. - Sitush (talk) 10:57, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have written what source says. I am not writing anything unreliable.Blueyarn (talk) 11:00, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please read WP:COPYRIGHT and WP:CLOSEPARAPHRASE. Honestly, the legal implications are considerable and Wikipedia simply cannot tolerate insertion of copyrighted material in the way that you have been doing. Do it again and you will be looking at a block from contributing here. - Sitush (talk) 11:13, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked from editing for a period of B. R. Ambedkar for your disruption caused by edit warring and violation of the three-revert rule. During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} below this notice, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Qwyrxian (talk) 11:30, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I suggest you review WP:RS during these 24 hours, as I'm concerned that some of those sources you added do not meet those guidelines. Finally, I mean this without any disrespect, but Sitush was correct when he stated that your grammar on some of those sentence was so wrong that it made the sentence incomprehensible. It's nice if other editors help fix your grammar, but I don't think Sitush could have done that here, since it wasn't even possible to guess what you intended. Qwyrxian (talk) 11:36, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Your reason here Blueyarn (talk) 12:02, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Deleting whole sourced content by Sitush was absolutely wrong. I have always sourced my content. Sitush not only deleted grammatical content but opposed the whole sentence without discussing.Please check the my edits again. There could be grammatical mistakes but deleting whole content is wrong. I would be happy if you could see the content properly. Blueyarn (talk) 11:41, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry about this, Blueyarn. I did ask you to discuss the ungrammatical addition on the article talk page but you continued to reinstate that and the copyvio without inviting input from others who might have an opinion. I am convinced that particular opinion piece, from a weekly news-type magazine, is not worth noting in the lead even if the grammar were fixed (there are plenty of academics who have an opinion about the guy). If it was purely a grammar issue then, yes, I would have fixed it. Merely reinstating also reintroduced another bit of nonsense that someone else had added at some point: that is something you have to be careful about if you revert someone. - Sitush (talk) 11:50, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sitush - I never opposed your grammatical corrections. why you deleted whole sourced sections that I added? Blueyarn (talk) 12:02, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

February 2014[edit]

Hello, I'm Rmosler2100. I noticed that you recently removed some content from Namaste, with this edit, without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Rmosler | ● 23:35, 16 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Namaste[edit]

Thank you for being WP:BOLD. You removed half of the content from the page. Both Basemetal and I have objected to the changes. Please discuss the proposed changes on the talk page for namaste. If you feel the sources are poor, then discuss this on the talk page. Rmosler | ● 23:58, 16 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Parashurama[edit]

I reverted you on Parashurama- there is a citation of the Mahabharata there, though the specific translation isn't identified... It would require some digging to identify the specific translation but it should be possible to confirm if the general outline is correct. --Spasemunki (talk) 09:24, 3 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reply on talk page of Parashurama -- Blueyarn (talk)

Your removals[edit]

How are you choosing what unsourced content to remove or are you doing so indiscriminately? Are you looking for sources before removal? --NeilN ^{talk to me} 19:19, 9 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reply on specific talk page -- Blueyarn (talk)

Yes, I've read your replies which mostly boil down to "no sources". Please read WP:PRESERVE and see if that affects your thinking. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 21:10, 9 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reply on specific talk page -- Blueyarn (talk)

Well that's unhelpful. And please sign your posts with four tildes ~~~~ so a timestamp is included. Thank you. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 21:17, 9 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

July 2017[edit]

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Chitpavan. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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Read the article talk page and think. You have a bit of history of pro-Mahar POV pushing and need to be careful here. Sitush (talk) 21:07, 16 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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