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Sir please don't remove my edits to page Vijay Rupani. Nitin Bhai Jhakkas (talk) 14:13, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Because if File:Vijayrupani.JPG used in article List of current Indian chief ministers it is biger on the same. But if my file used in same article my file is perfect.Nitin Bhai Jhakkas (talk) 14:18, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Sir, please please please… use my file. My file is cropped and good also.Nitin Bhai Jhakkas (talk) 14:23, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

OK, thank you. Nitin Bhai Jhakkas (talk) 14:54, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for spending your time improving it. Bgwhite (talk) 07:45, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

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Thank you for your detailed response, Nizil. The issue here is that it is not an honorific but a standard name by which he is officially addressed. No one will be searching for Rakesh Jhaveri as that is his birth name, but people will be searching for Pujya Gurudevshri or Pujya Gurudevshri. There are two alternate names - Saheb and Bapa - that he is referred to as. Would either of these be OK on the page? The benefit is that people who are searching for his name will be able to find him easily. If you search the Times of India articles, they also use the commonly referred to as names. Thank you sincerely for being an active editor on this page. Dmehta81 (talk) 05:17, 2 August 2016 (UTC) Thank you again for your response. Have created the redirect, that was a superbly helpful suggestion. Another query about the same page I have is that there are 21 verified sources on the page, why does the BOT still require further? What can be done to further clarify the page and make it completely Citations Required free.Dmehta81 (talk) 11:12, 2 August 2016 (UTC)Dmehta81 (talk) 11:55, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
Great. Will try to find scholarly articles. Could you point to a source on this page

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Also, just noticed that this page uses an honorific title but it states clearly that it is an honorific. May we also do that on the page? Please confirm.Dmehta81 (talk) 11:58, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
Will edit more pages. Send if you have any that require edits. Please confirm if OK to use honorific name if the link of (honorific) if present.Dmehta81 (talk) 13:25, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
Did you check about usage of Pujya Gurudevshri Rakesbhhai with the community? Just a follow up :) Dmehta81 (talk) 03:44, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
Hey Nizil, another point just noticed was that on all books that are written by him the name appears as Pujya Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai. He also just received a U.S. Congressional certificate of recognition with the name Pujya Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai. So even from a search perspective it would make sense to include it within that article. If you see author pages or rapper pages, you will see this trend. You can phrase it on the page yourself so we can be in the clear in that sense. Please let me know. Thanks once again!!Dmehta81 (talk) 09:04, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

Yes there are several images on the website, which are all copyrighted by the Mission so they may definitely be used on Wikimedia. Where do we go to upload these images? Please guide. Thank you, once again.Dmehta81 (talk) 06:39, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

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Hello Nizil I had requested a few additions (latest awards etc) to the page Amdavad Ma Famous (indian documentary film) and I had provided links for all of them for verification. I am afraid I do not understand how to edit and add them myself, please guide so a to how can they reflect in the page details too. You can cross check all facts in the links. Thanks. AMF AMF2016 (talk) 10:05, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi Nizil, Thank you for your reply. It was helpful. I have made the additions where I could. I have added reference where ever possible. Though I feel official film festival websites are the most reliable source to authenticate an official selection claim. Please check if they suffice. Jamuura is a reliable film blog, however since you mentioned, Ive not added that link. Please let me know if its okay. Also in the first section i cannot find the edit icon - I just want to add that Hardik Mehta is Mumbai based independent film maker. Thank you. AMF2016 (talk) 15:14, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

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And about the RBI related issue you posted earlier, I will try and have a look. Boldly merging all forks is fine by me. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {Talk / Edits} 04:37, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

I think Gujarati Cinema article is in good shape and well sourced. You can nominate it for a good article if you want. Coderzombie (talk) 06:24, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Coderzombie, thanks for suggestion. I will submit it for GA. It takes very long time to be reviewed so I mostly don't do that and move on to other works. I think article still needs some fine tuning for grammar and style. Will request it to someone. Please help me when a review is conducted. Regards,--Nizil (talk) 06:41, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Yes, it does require minor rework. Will surely help out. Coderzombie (talk) 06:49, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

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I have reviewed the honorifics guidelines as laid out by Wikipedia, but would like to bring to your attention that 'Pujya Deepakbhai Desai' is a public figure who is not recognized under any name other than 'Pujya Deepakbhai Desai'. Also the honorific guidelines do not prohibits the use of "Pujya" and "bhai" in their list. I have also gone through numerous pages of people who have honorifics attached to their name including 'Morari Bapu' (whose real name is Moraridas Prabhudas Hariyani), Govindbhai Patel (whose article you have created yourself) and Bholabhai Patel (also an article you have written.)-Kaushal (talk) 11:29, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

I am not trying to add 'Pujyashri' to the name of the page, I am simply adding 'Pujya'. As 'Pujya' is not explicitly listed in the honorifics guidelines it means that it is allowed to be used. He is known not only in India, but around the world as Pujya Deepakbhai Desai, so it is incorrect to name the page anything else. In any secondary article he is always mentioned as Pujya Deepakbhai Desai and never Deepak Desai. -Kaushal (talk) 17:00, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

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I'll give user a warning. If he continues this behaviour, we'll have to ask for protection. Coderzombie (talk) 17:54, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Definitely an important film that deserves an article, but do not have bandwidth to create a new article right now. Can help with a second look or editing if you create one. Coderzombie (talk) 14:18, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

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You have just reverted my change on the page for Wrong Side Raju. Can you please tell me why? The synopsis that I'm writing is the official one. The current synopsis is not a synopsis but the entire story of the film.

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censorship in writing whole story even if the movie is suspense film. You can read synopsis of other films to understand that this is standard practise on Wikipedia. Hope this clarifies. Happy editing. Please do not revert again and if you still have issues, you can discuss it first on Talk page of article.--Nizil (talk

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Need some help on Mahavira. Would you like to review the article? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 05:06, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Capankajsmilyo, I can help a bit in improving it. I read the Talk:Mahavira and know that article has issues regarding historicity and POV. I can not review this article until the issues are resolved. It is written in Jain's POV but needs to written in POV of historians/scholars. So how can I help?--Nizil (talk) 05:15, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

I am unable to identify the neutrality issues. If you can, please help me in identifying the statements, or in changing the statements to make it neutral. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 05:22, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi Nizil. I see you left some comments after I opened the review of this article. If you wish to conduct the review and Capankajsmilyo agrees I am happy to step aside. I would also welcome any input into my review if you do not wish to fully review the article as your comments seem very fair. I am asking as the way you have worded the comment at the articles talk page is very similar to how I do my reviews. AIRcorn (talk) 07:27, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Thank you, aircorn for inviting me. Please continue your GA review because I think a person not associated with a religion is best one to review when a subject is about that religion. I will give inputs or help if you have any comments/questions regarding the article. I am practising Jain and have good knowledge of it. I like to give inputs/comments on articles related to Jainism when they are forwarded for FA/GA review as a support to reviewer. Feel free to ask me anything about the subject, I will be happy to help. Regards,--Nizil (talk) 04:53, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

This is a good source which elaborates on a lot of aspects of Jainism in detail. It comprehensively covers a lot of content which is not there on wikipedia. Would you like to help in bringing some of that to WP? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 08:26, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

Thank you, Capankajsmilyo, for pointing the source. Jainism is not my primary area of interest on WP though I have created/improved several articles. You can create/improve articles based on the source and tell me have a look. I would like to improve or give suggestions but I am unable to commit myself to it as my priorities are different. I am involved in Jainism topics recently because I noticed that you have nominated them for GA/FA. So I provided some points on improvements and sometimes improved little bit myself. Currently I am working on Sallekhana. You may have noticed that receiving GA is not an easy task because such articles are considered as the bests in WP so quality bar is really very high. I have always believed that working on topics related to religions is complicated and tough task. And sometimes controversial and contested too. So it needs commitment of long time. I appreciate that you have taken up this bit tough task and please do continue. Don't be frustrated or demoralised if your work does not receive GA/FA as whatever you edit is going to stay as a stepping stone to better article in future. We are committed to free knowledge for all. Regards and lots of love, -Nizil (talk) 05:11, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

I have copy edited the article as you asked. It certainly explains the subject in a completely understandable way for anyone not familiar with the practice. Regards. Twofingered Typist (talk) 13:41, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

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Hi. I just mailed you a pdf containing the details about the life of R. V. Pathak. I found it from the History Of Gujarati literature Vol. 4 published by Gujarati Sahitya Parishad. Happy editing. Gazal world (talk) 17:54, 29 April 2017 (UTC) Gazal world (talk) 17:54, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

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Pujya Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai Caption

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi_Shankar_(spiritual_leader) if you refer to this page, though his name is written as Ravi Shankar on top, the honorific is regarded in the caption. Similarly, adding plainly a last name for a person who is not going to be known at all by that name - in fact - it is not utilized in any of his books, articles published by TOI or newspapers, nor followers. So at one point it becomes the sensibility issue of whether Wiki should disregard facts. In this scenario, one could either write A discourse in Dharampur, which is true or properly reference the individual, in this case a renowned author and public figure, by the name that is used by news publications, government of India officials, and on all the books written by him. Nowhere does the word "Jhaveri" appear except in this Wikipedia article and a few news sources. The reason being? That is not his public figure name. So by writing this caption, it is alienating the very individual the page refers to. This is why I had reverted to "A discourse" to avoid any issue with the name. Please either keep no name in the caption or the generic one. Earlier there was also a major error in your caption with the word 'instructing' which is to say that these were instructions to take some kind of action, when in fact, a discourse, as seen on television, published in several booklets and through magazines, blogs and newspapers under the name Pujya Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai denote that he discusses spiritual philosophy. Please check several available physical and digital publications available to verify if required. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dmehta81 (talk • contribs) 03:40, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Hello Nizil Shah. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of

12:16, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Regarding Page Deletion of "Ruchir Gupta"

The page is not created by me. The page should not be deleted as it doesn't violate with WikiPedia's policies. That's why I am removing the tag. Don't know what problem do you have with that person that you are repeatedly putting his the delete tag on his page.

Moreover, I can see you are trying to delete many pages from WikiPedia.

• It's usually best to respond to a new editor when they comment on your talk page, rather than coming to ANI. Just FYI, you may want to review
  TimothyJosephWood
  14:43, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

The article Operation Sankat Mochan (India) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Military operations of this sort are not particularly notable "air force does day job", and I dont see anything that makes this stand out against the thousands of such missions carried out worldwide in the last seventy or eighty years

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be

.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. MilborneOne (talk) 18:47, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Mifter (talk) 00:02, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi Nizil Shah,

Would you be able to help out on a short project to evaluate the accuracy of translations of Wikipedia articles from Gujarati to English WP?

The task would be to evaluate an article on English Wikipedia by comparing it to the original Gujurati article, and giving it a "Pass" or "Fail". This is strictly about whether the translation is factually correct, it's not about notability, beautiful English, verifiability, or anything else (existing guidelines already cover those issues). Here's the reason for this request:

There are a number of articles on English Wikipedia that were created as

that made it very easy for users to use Google translate to create articles in English without knowing the source language. The config problem has since been fixed, but this left us with a backlog of articles whose translations are suspect. In many cases, editors have come forward to fix up any sloppy English they find, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the translation is accurate, as any factual errors from the original translation may have simply been painted over. Or to put it another way, "good English" does not equal "good translation". (I found one from German, for example, where the English article claimed he was a "scientist" where in reality he was a journalism professor, and it was due to bad translation.)

If you can help out, that would be great. Here's a sample of three articles so you can see what's involved:

• Himanshi Shelat
• Balaram River
• Daman Tehsil

All you have to do, is compare them to the Gujarati version, and write "okay" or "bad" for each one. (Naturally, if you feel like fixing an inaccurate translation and then marking it "okay", that's even better, but you don't have to.) Once again, this is only about whether the translation is factually correct, we're not looking at notability, references, or anything else.

Thanks, and happy editing! Mathglot (talk) 02:47, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

@Mathglot:, thanks for bringing my attention. All three articles are "okay" . Himashi Shelat is improved a lot after translation (which was definitely not machine translation) including contribution by myself. All these articles are translated by KartikMistry who is one of a developer on Language Team which developed Content Translation Tool. So I think he is well aware of issues with machine translation and these all three seem manual translation. Regards,--Nizil (talk) 05:06, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! Mathglot (talk) 05:11, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

--Cameron₁₁₅₉₈ ^(Talk) 00:30, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

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Reflist|2

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Mithuben Petit

Thank you for your edits and improvements on the article Mithuben Petit, is there a chance that you could work on it to take it to a good article? Thank you  FITINDIA  12:18, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

@Fitindia:, thanks for your suggestion. Bringing article to GA level demands long commitment to article and need plenty of reliable and easily accessible sources. I am not in position to commit single article too much time as I have lot of other ideas to work on. If you work to bring it to GA level, I would be happy to help. We need many more editors from India as too many topics are still uncovered so kudos to you. If you have any queries or need of help, ping me. Keep editing. :) --Nizil (talk) 12:44, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

@Nizil Shah: Thank you for your prompt response, I am going to try and work on this and do a bit of research. There are still many Indian women freedom fighters without pages, I have created a few and I am going to try and add more. Thank you again. Cheers  FITINDIA  13:17, 2 August 2017 (UTC) 13:09, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

ITN recognition for 2017 Gujarat flood

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need your help for improving Chudasamas history

For material regarding chudasama history you can go through Gazzeter of Bombay Presidency , Kindly find junagadh staye history Gazzeter of Bombay Presidency theres information available of Chudasama's Inscription , coins , rulers. Even we have made video on Chudasamas history with help of our Bhats/Barot ji (Family Bard) which is available on youtube ( https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-v3ZZv7BbXU ).

In wikipedia Some people are trying show Chudasamas as Ahir chieftain or Shefered king which is wrong and objectionable we are rajputs. & we don't feel right when someone teies to distort our real history. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raakuldeep (talk • contribs) 18:45, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Gujarat under Delhi Sultanate and Alp Khan

The recent article on Alp Khan is probably valuable in this context. Keep up the good work! 2.68.236.155 (talk) 12:58, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

Alp Khan and Ulugh Khan

It should be obvious that Campbell is an unreliable and dated source. The mixup of Alp Khan and Ulugh Khan is unneccesary. --37.250.155.149 (talk) 08:03, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for inputs, IP. More corrections and suggestions are welcome. I guess, you can be a good editor on Wikipedia. Come, join us!--Nizil (talk) 12:00, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

ધન્યવાદ! --2.67.153.142 (talk) 18:29, 23 October 2017 (UTC)