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The Exceptional Newcomer Award I, HeBhagawan, present you with this award for your outstanding contributions to Hinduism. This award is meant to recognize your good editing decisions, and above all your willingness to work cooperatively with others. Congratulations! The Barnstar of Diligence This is for your consistency with high quality and frequent edits on the Hinduism article! ॐ नमःशिवाय Śaiva Sujīt सुजीत ॐ 08:01, 20 December 2006 (UTC) The Hindu Firestar Thank You Award Namaste! I, Buddhipriya, humbly thank you for helping me get started as a contributor to Hinduism. You were one of the first people I communicated with when I began using Wikipedia. You quickly helped my create the Ganesha Purana page which was just featured as a DYK. It is only due to your guidance that the page has any merit. If you have any further advice or comments for me, please post me a message at my talk page. Thank you for your kindness! -- Buddhipriya I award you this Barnstar for your contributions to wikipedia on India-related articles. =Nichalp «Talk»= 12:08, 21 February 2007 (UTC) To Abecedare, for bringing some much needed clarity and sanity to the Hindu article. Hare Krishna! :-) ys Gouranga(UK) 18:36, 25 February 2007 (UTC) The Barnstar of Diligence you, sir, are an excellent editor. Your maxim of "stop worrying and love the trolls" cracked me up, and shows deep understanding of Wikipedia's secret of success :) dab (𒁳) 08:15, 27 August 2007 (UTC) The Special Barnstar Presented to User:Abecedare on 25th March, 2008, an overdue barnstar for his brilliant message [1], and great contributions. Thanks & Regards. Bhadani (talk) 18:17, 25 March 2008 (UTC) The Swine Flu Barnstar For your extraordinary efforts in keeping 2009 swine flu outbreak and Template:2009 swine flu outbreak table up to date and for your thoughtful contributions to the talk pages, I hereby award you this special barnstar. Congratulations and keep up the good work! ThaddeusB (talk) 20:31, 7 May 2009 (UTC) The Reference Desk Barnstar For treating the Reference Desk like a Reference Desk Rockpocket 01:20, 9 May 2009 (UTC) The Original Barnstar For making me smile really wide! DRosenbach 03:22, 23 August 2009 (UTC) The Helping Hand Barnstar For being extraordinarily helpful and patient with new users! Shreevatsa (talk) 15:54, 23 August 2009 (UTC) The Barnstar of Peace For quickly killing a dispute between me and an IP and setting things strait. Marx01 01:41, 4 October 2009 (UTC) The Indian Barnstar of National Merit WP:INDIA sincerely thanks User:Abecedare for his contributions to the WikiProject. And congrats again for the recent successful RFA. We are proud of you! -- Tinu Cherian - 10:20, 6 October 2009 (UTC) The Order of the Upholder of Wiki I Fowler&fowler, award Abecedare this barnstar for upholding wikipedia's core goals and values. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 19:25, 19 November 2009 (UTC) The Admin's Barnstar For your fantastic start as an admin. Keep up the great work. Aaroncrick (talk) Review me! 06:16, 21 November 2009 (UTC) Hindu iconography Thank you, returned user, for starting here with quality contributions to Hinduism, for articles such as Hindu iconography and The Jaguar Smile, for keeping articles "clean", for daring to love the trolls, - you are an awesome Wikipedian! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:05, 16 October 2013 (UTC) The Special Barnstar Consider this as a gift, I really appreciate your participation in most of the discussions I've watched. You deserve this. Ugog Nizdast (talk) 17:30, 25 September 2014 (UTC) The Brilliant Idea Barnstar Thanks for your help in finding File:1971 Instrument of Surrender.jpg and for being a productive, solution oriented member of the Wikipedia Community! Myopia123 (talk) 03:33, 22 November 2014 (UTC) On 1 December, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Hindu Iconography, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page. On 24 June, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Jaguar Smile, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On November 18, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Australian Vaccination Network, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On December 26, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Maryam Jameelah, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On 24 September 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Vivekodayam, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the name of Vivekodayam, a Malayalam literary magazine founded in 1904, was a tribute to Swami Vivekananda? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Vivekodayam. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On 3 October 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Eknath Ranade, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Eknath Ranade, who founded the Vivekananda Kendra in Kanyakumari, was honoured as a Karmayogi? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Eknath Ranade. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On 31 October 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Rani Sati, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Rani Sati, a legendary figure from Rajasthan, is worshiped for committing sati on her husband's death? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rani Sati. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On 7 June 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Pratapaditya Pal, which you recently created or substantially expanded. 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• How we are building it ? With persistence
• Who's building it ? Uhh ...

But why should I contribute to an article? I'm no expert.
That's fine. The Wikipedia philosophy can be summed up thusly: "Experts are scum." For some reason people who spend 40 years learning everything they can about, say, the Peloponnesian War -- and indeed, advancing the body of human knowledge -- get all pissy when their contributions are edited away by Randy in Boise who heard somewhere that sword-wielding skeletons were involved. And they get downright irate when asked politely to engage in discourse with Randy until the sword-skeleton theory can be incorporated into the article without passing judgment.

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