Districts
No. of districts in India = States + Union territories =(26+26+35+38+32+2+33+22+12+24+31+14+56+36+16+12+11+16+30+23+33+6+38+33+8+75+13+25) + (3+1+3+20+2+1+11+4) = 726 + 45 = 771 (not 775) Please clarify my doubt... 106.76.208.222 (talk) 01:25, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
- @106.76.208.222: You're taking these figures from where? I found a government site that gave figures for the states but no total for the country. There are also the various state articles that give district totals. However, I'd like to find an online site (especially since new districts are created so often) that would be reliable (preferably government site?) that would give a total for the country (otherwise one could be accused of original research by adding the state totals as you've done). Dhtwiki (talk) 01:33, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
Why you edit Kerala Backwater ?
We are from Kerala we know our state. Nadhukerala (talk) 03:30, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
- @Nadhukerala: It might be that you are trying to include too much of what you know in the encyclopedia. I thought that giving the alternate name for Alappuzha district wasn't necessary in that context. Even if it were necessary to give the alternate name, it should be set off with commas – "the Alappuzha, or Alleppey, and Kottayam Districts" – not the way you wrote it, without the commas. Dhtwiki (talk) 04:23, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
You're kidding me, right?
I've been involved in MANY CE drives. I was going to edit Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2005. But: for a word count of 315 words?! I don't think so. What's up with the word count widget? I'm not a math major or anything, but look at that article! Something is amiss.--Bddmagic (talk) 15:36, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
- The script doesn't count words that follow bullets and some other kinds of formatting. Copy and paste to Microsoft Word or a text editor to count the words in the article, then use that count on the drive page. Thanks for editing! – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:59, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
- @Bddmagic: I removed the bullet points from the version before you started editing, whose word count was 315 with bullet points (using a regular expression, in wikEd, that converted ^\*+[ ]? to \n), ran the "Page size" script, and got 3412 as a result. That's probably a too complex process for most people, but I was trying to determine is if you could infer the word count from any of the other values returned by the script. I didn't see anything that one could use. So, using a text editor's word-counting function is probably the best bet for most people. Dhtwiki (talk) 22:28, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
- Hi Dhtwiki; the OP has posted the same at GOCE talk, where the OP has received replies to the same effect. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 22:45, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
wikEd
Thanks for the help. I would like to learn more about wikEd. Where/how can I do that?--Bddmagic (talk) 17:48, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
- @Bddmagic: See User:Cacycle/wikEd. You also might look for similar editors with better support, as wikEd seems to be somewhat orphaned at this point. It works well enough for my purposes, but there may be better out there. Dhtwiki (talk) 03:22, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
July drive bling
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This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Dhtwiki for copyediting two old articles during the GOCE July 2022 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 23:15, 4 August 2022 (UTC) |
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This barnstar is awarded to Dhtwiki for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2022 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 23:15, 4 August 2022 (UTC) |