User talk:Mukt

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. The following links will help you begin editing on Wikipedia:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Contributing to Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Editing tutorial
• Picture tutorial
• How to write a great article
• Naming conventions
• Simplified Manual of Style

Please bear these points in mind while editing Wikipedia:

• Respect copyrights – do not copy and paste text or images directly from other websites.
• Maintain a neutral point of view – this is one of Wikipedia's core policies.
• Take particular care while adding biographical material about a living person to any Wikipedia page and follow Wikipedia's Biography of Living Persons policy. Particularly, controversial and negative statements should be referenced with multiple reliable sources.
• No edit warring or abuse of multiple accounts.
• If you are testing, please use the Sandbox to do so.
• Do not add troublesome content to any article, such as: copyrighted text, libel, advertising or promotional messages, and text that is not related to an article's subject; doing so will result in your account or IP being blocked from editing.
• Do not use talk pages as discussion or forum pages as Wikipedia is not a forum.

The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Kautilya3 (talk) 20:46, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Swami Karpatri, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Kautilya3 (talk) 19:33, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Nothing specific in WP:RS seems violated by the publisher of the book (Gita Press, which seems to comply with WP:AFFILIATE part of WP:RS), or by the well-regarded Hindi newspaper Amar Ujala, or by scholarly articles I cited from an academic library. If there is some specific violation, I'd like to be informed. - Mukt (talk) 07:27, 21 February 2020 (UTC).

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

Kautilya3 (talk) 22:07, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. I am glad to see that you are discussing a topic. However, as a general rule, talk pages such as Talk:Ideological bias on Wikipedia are for discussion related to improving the article in specific ways based on reliable sources and the project policies and guidelines, not for general discussion about the topic or unrelated topics, or statements based on your thoughts or feelings. If you have specific questions about certain topics, consider visiting our reference desk and asking them there instead of on article talk pages. Thank you. Doug Weller talk 16:48, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

• @Mukt: I have removed your latest contribution at the above talk page because it is the place to discuss actionable proposals to improve the article. It is not a place to post thoughts about ideological bias or sources which might discuss alleged bias but which are not reliable and/or are not part of a proposal. Make a proposal to change the article on that talk page. Complaints about Wikipedia can be posted on other websites. Johnuniq (talk) 05:13, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

You are free to object to my admin actions (even though hatting a section on a talkpage is not in fact an admin action, but something any experienced editor can do if they have good reason), but your comments on the blacklisted outlets are something else. OpIndia and Swaraya were not blacklisted for "criticizing Wikipedia and its editors", that's propagandistic nonsense. They were blacklisted for exposing our editors to danger, and it's what you call their "perfectly eligible" "factual content" that's the problem. This is a serious matter, and you're commenting on things you either don't understand, or don't want to understand. Have you read our article on OpIndia? OpIndia's application to be certified as a fact checker was rejected by the International Fact-Checking Network. Check out the source if you think that's something Wikipedia editors have made up. As Doug Weller and Johnuniq point out above, talkpages are for discussing improvements to the related article. not for offering so-called "resources" (actually opinions and complaints) that can't actually be used. In view of the discretionary sanctions for Indian topics (see ), you may want to raise the level of your contributions on talkpages altogether, and avoid bludgeoning the discussion with comments such as these attacks on individual users. Bishonen | tålk 08:59, 18 August 2020 (UTC).

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Swami Karpatri; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. 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.

Points to note:

1. Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made;
2. Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes and work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. Guy Foxx (talk) 07:52, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at Swami Karpatri, you may be blocked from editing. Guy Foxx (talk) 10:00, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

To anyone trying to find sense in this (like @Bishonen:), there has been a further development - User:Guy Foxx has been banned after being suspected of being a sockpuppet of a banned account. His editwarring has stopped and his disruptive edits on Swami Karpatri have duly been reverted. - Mukt (talk) 02:19, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

I agree with Guy Foxx's warning above about adding poorly sourced content. You are edit warring to insert the statement that "Swami Nishchalanand Saraswati, the 145th Govardhan Peeth Shankaracharya of Puri, Odisha, is an eminent disciple of Swami Karpatri", sourced only to Twitter. That is very dubiously relevant to an article about Karpatri (as opposed to an article about Saraswati). And arguing WP:SELFSOURCE for a statement in Wikipedia's voice that a person is "eminent" shows very little regard for WP:NPOV, as does your argument that "To improve this article, more content is needed". Maybe more content is needed, but that does not mean that badly sourced content of low quality is ever acceptable. You have failed to raise your game per my previous warning, and you are now very close to a topic ban from Indian subjects. Bishonen | tålk 11:45, 28 August 2020 (UTC).

The customary action on poorly sourced content, as second para of WP:INTREF suggests, is not removal of content but placing a citation needed template. Content removal is done when the veracity of content itself is in doubt. There is no apparent reason for Guy Foxx, or anyone else, to violate this elementary guideline. I have duly referred him to the policy on the talk page itself. I don't understand his haste, nor have any clue why he started the edit war by reverting edits despite the July 2020 note by another editor. The article in question in not BLP and must not be treated as such. - Mukt (talk) 12:55, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

@Bishonen: Guy Foxx has continued edit-warring even after this message and reverted the edits in question. Kindly detail what actions have you initiated against him. - Mukt (talk) 18:08, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

You seem to be replying quite at random. WP:INTREF is a redirect to a help page, Help:Introduction to referencing with Wiki Markup/1, which you think is a policy (?), and you believe its second paragraphs supports you (?). That's either a competence problem or trolling. Never mind, I won't repeat myself; I have told you what's wrong with your editing from the viewpoint of an experienced editor, and you don't want to know. Fine. You're inching ever closer to a topic ban. Bishonen | tålk 18:48, 28 August 2020 (UTC).

You are clearly threatening me here. I have my own questions about competence, but unfortunately it is no longer possible for me to attempt reason with you. You are an administrator. Do whatever is expected from you. - Mukt (talk) 20:27, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. An automated process has detected that when you recently edited WhatsApp, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Jammu and Kashmir. Such links are usually incorrect, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of unrelated topics with similar titles. (Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.)

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 06:46, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in articles about living or recently deceased people, and edits relating to the subject (living or recently deceased) of such biographical articles. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

Venkat TL (talk) 18:17, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

Your edit to Lavanya suicide case has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of 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 material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions 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 very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Venkat TL (talk) 08:53, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Thanjavur student suicide case. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted.

• If you are engaged in an article content dispute with another editor, please discuss the matter with the editor at their talk page, or the article's talk page, and seek consensus with them. Alternatively, you can read Wikipedia's dispute resolution page, and ask for independent help at one of the relevant noticeboards.
• If you are engaged in any other form of dispute that is not covered on the dispute resolution page, please seek assistance at Wikipedia's Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.

Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continued disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Venkat TL (talk) 13:43, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

I don't see how recording of SCMP's prejudice about a political faction in India improves the article about a particular crime. In fact removal of poorly cited and irrelevant political quotations are constructive editing, unless you want to bring focus, in equal measure, on the accussed and general observations on their side of politics in this article. - Mukt (talk) 14:14, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi Mukt! You're receiving this notification because you were previously listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Members, but you haven't made any edits to the English Wikipedia in over 1 year.

Because of your inactivity, you have been removed from the list. If you would like to resubscribe, you can do so at any time by visiting Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Members.

Thank you! Message delivered to you with love by Yapperbot :) | Is this wrong? Contact my bot operator. | Sent at 18:00, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Noted and rejoined. Mukt (talk) 05:44, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Hello, I'm DaxServer. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Godhra train burning, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 17:52, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

If SCMP is not a reliable source, perhaps remove all content taken from it on that article? Mukt (talk) 02:34, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Who is talking about SCMP? — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 07:56, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

I am. Mukt (talk) 17:09, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

apparently you have reverted two of my edits. SCMP is the issue with the other one. Mukt (talk) 17:15, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

my apologies Mukt (talk) 17:15, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Could you please tell me which edit you're referring to or perhaps the article? — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 17:21, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Here Mukt (talk) 19:14, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello. You're invited to participate in The World Destubathon. We're aiming to destub a lot of articles and also improve longer stale articles. It commenced yesterday on Monday June 16 and will run until Sunday July 13. There is over $3300 going into it, with $500 the top prize. If you are interested in winning something to save you money in buying books for future content, or just see it as a good editathon opportunity to see a lot of articles improved for subjects which interest you, sign up on the page in the participants section if interested. Even if you can only manage a few articles they would be very much appreciated and help make the content produced as diverse and broad as possible! Feel free to invite others who you think might want to contribute.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:17, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Hi Mukt! You're receiving this notification because you were previously listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Members, but you haven't made any edits to the English Wikipedia in over 1 year.

Because of your inactivity, you have been removed from the list. If you would like to resubscribe, you can do so at any time by visiting Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Members.

Thank you!

(trialing replacing Yapperbot) SodiumBot (botop|talk) 18:00, 18 August 2025 (UTC)