User talk:Dore chakravarty/Archive01

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Hello, Dore chakravarty/Archive01, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Thermal Power Station[edit]

I received your message. As I understand it, you'd like to "publish" the information you stuck on your discussion page, above this message. Looks to me like it has potential, too.

In this case, you simply need to go to [1] and paste in the article content. Add an edit summary, like created page and added basic content and click the Save button.

The great thing about a wiki is that you don't need anyone's permission to go ahead and stick information on it, or change things, or make corrections. The edit this page link means you can literally go to town on an article to bring it up to scratch.

When you've created the basic article, please take a moment to wikify it. Wikifying means turning key words into links. For instance, in the example below:

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.

"Rain", "Spain" and "plain" are all key words, so you can surround them with square brackets and to turn them into links, like so:

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.

These links are what makes the Wiki special; it's like creating a web of information.

Next up, I noticed you reference an image in your article. You can in fact go a step further, and as you've uploaded the image, you can embed it into the article. For instance:

The Wikipedia logo [2] features a ball constructed in the form of a jigsaw.

You can just go ahead and stick the image in there, as shown below:

Wikipedia logo

The Wikipedia logo features a ball constructed in the form of a jigsaw.

For more information on using images in articles, please refer to Wikipedia:Picture tutorial. Another excellent place to get help on editing is Wikipedia:Tutorial and you can always leave requests for help on other users' talk pages, including mine. Happy editing! Rob Church ^{Talk | Desk} 00:42, 24 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. We were all new once. Rob Church ^{Talk | Desk} 17:50, 24 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good to me. Rob Church ^{Talk | Desk} 18:59, 27 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Confused[edit]

I'll take a look at what's going on and get back to you shortly. It seems that you've lost some article content somewhere between moving your part one into articlespace, which isn't too much of a problem, as we can restore your old user page to get it back.

Incidentally, with respect to splitting the article into two, it's generally preferred that we don't do that. If an article is too large, often, parts of it are forked (split) off from the main article into sub articles, which are then linked to from the main page, and summarised. In addition, large articles can sometimes be cut down.

I'll get back to you with some more specific stuff within a couple of days. Rob Church ^{Talk | Desk} 02:28, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Found it! I located the missing data in an old version of your talk page and have copied it into the top of the article. You now have the article content complete, and can go through and begin formatting and cleanup. Congratulations on publishing your first major article on Wikipedia! Rob Church ^{Talk | Desk} 14:44, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thermal Power Plant[edit]

Well, the article certainly contains a lot of information, and is going to need a bit of cleanup, but it shouldn't be too difficult to make it readable. The main issue people might have is that we already have an article on Thermal power plant - while I'm not for one minute saying you ought not to have created the article you did, it might be an idea to move the article. From what I can tell, your write-up details a particular "model" of power plant. If you could tell me the name, e.g. BHEL ZX-34983 (number picked at random), then I could help you move the article to a new name. You would still get the credit for it, and we can in fact link from the existing article, e.g. "See Also...BHEL ZX-34983 technical details" - to your article.

If you want to start cleaning up the article, might I suggest taking it a bit at a time, and reading through the Manual of Style to see what conventions we follow. Having a look at some other technical articles on Wikipedia might also give you a feel for what needs to be done.

The main graft is done, all we need now is to pretty it up a bit. Regardless, it's an article with excellent prospects. Well done. Rob Church ^{Talk | Desk} 14:31, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Incidentally, if you want to be credited by name in the article's history, then you need to be logged in when you make your edits. Rob Church ^{Talk | Desk} 14:32, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Thanks[edit]

You're welcome. Rob Church ^{Talk | Desk} 13:54, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]