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Please could you delete Cyril Alington, then I can move Cyril Argentine Alington to Cyril Alington, as this fits with Wikipedia naming policy. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have created Cyril Alington page in the first place. Flozu 10:18, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

will do, thanks! Flozu 10:39, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, While I respect the decisions of an administrator of Wikipedia, I have problems with your decision concerning the deletion of the article Comparison of Windows and Mac OS X. Looking at the deletion talk page, we can see that the users' vote are 6 for deletion and 4 for keep. While Wikipedia is not a democracy, and I have absolutely no problem with that, where things start to bug me is that the 'delete' guys wrote like 250 words each about why it should be deleted, then the 'keep' guys would say like 'No, we should keep it because it might become good'. I would like to understand the rationale of the decision, could you enlighten a soul in sorrow ? :) Dravick 14:08, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, In the 'delete' decision you stated that it fails

You seem to have blocked Qxz as anon-only account-creation-blocked on their request for leaving. Wouldn't this run the risk of preventing account-creation and anon edits by mistake if Qxz is on a shared IP? --ais523 11:12, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure how this block is inline with

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Hi, he uses... changing IP addresses. They aren't always the same and come from I think a group of IPs in San Antonio. A permanent block will probably get someone else later. Up to you! - Denny 16:46, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for your Support on my recent nomination for adminship, which passed with a final tally of 89/1/1. I probably owe you a cookie or ten for your help back when I was new here, but I will no doubt come up with some way to weasel out of it. If there's anything I can help with, then you know where to find me. Cheers. - Michael Billington (talk) 12:54, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Username blocks

Hi, I see you've been issuing a load of username blocks, most of which look like good calls. I'm a bit puzzled as to what's wrong with Simontinks (talk · contribs) though... Can you help me out? --kingboyk 13:39, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Just FYI the subst template you added at this talk page was 'inside' an unended HTML comment. This meant your ~~~~ didn't work, same as for their subsequent block message! Anyway I fixed it and used

I here you blocked my friend communist China! You are a spolied rich nerd. That is very mean to block someone for their views. Please be nicer in the future. Thanks Spread the love --—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Anti Communist China (talk • contribs) 13:37, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the working mans barnstar, I enjoy fighting vandalism and reporting inappropriate usernames to try to prevent any future vandalism and so all username are suitable per

• Thanks for the support position. However, I've decided to withdraw my acceptance because of real
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because of the block, i was unable to respond in my defence. the truth has to be known. let malaysian people decide.62.30.230.62 12:29, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I changed my 'skin' on WP and now cannot reverse it. It is making life very inconvenient. Any tips? Thanks Mrsradcliffe23 11:49, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Hoping you would return back some time. All the best with your real-life. -- Ganeshk (talk) 22:21, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Although I probably didn't know you that well, I wish you the best of luck in your real life.--Ed ^{¿Cómo estás?} 19:46, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Why did you block me indefinitely without comment? Thanks. El_C 14:36, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What, I don't even get a "no comment"? :( I notice that you retired a week ago., so welcome back! :) El_C 14:43, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently it was a joke, but you really shouldn't block people as a joke. Friday (talk) 15:06, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh? You know something I don't, Friday? El_C 15:09, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, it just thought it could only have been a joke. Or looking further, I suppose it could be a last "parting shot" on an account that's being abandoned anyway. A retirement announcement, a couple weeks of inactivity, and then an unexplained block on a regular... bizarre. Maybe this should be checkuser'd. Friday (talk) 15:14, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Or just blocked and de-sysop'd for

severe pointy-ness.--Isotope23 15:35, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply

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Only those with IRC access can reach stewards, I presume! Speaking of IRC, I wonder if any of my opponents... Nah, I won't go there! El_C 15:54, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You will need to account for the block first. El_C 17:55, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

For what it's worth, I emailed Shreshth to say "You may want to come by and explain your block" and he replied saying to block his account and remove the sysop bit. I told him he'd have to go through proper channels for that. Friday (talk) 17:58, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I already placed a note at

WP:BN#Shreshth91. El_C 18:00, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply

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WikiProject India Newsletter Volume III, Issue no. 001 - June 2008

Project News Tag & Assess 2008, an assessment drive initiated by the assessment department began on June 7, 2008 and will be running until July 2008. Many Wikipedians have started contributing to this mammoth task. This housekeeping activity will help manage articles in better way. You can also get involved ! Bot0612 in May 2008. 1744 articles (18.5%) of all India unassessed articles were marked if they had been assessed by some other project. What's Featured and Good? Five new articles were promoted to Kannada literature in the Vijayanagara Empire . Two new lists were given featured list status in 2008: List of international cricket centuries by Sachin Tendulkar, List of Victoria Cross recipients by nationality. There is currently featured article nominee. Two more articles, (Bengali language, Kazi Nazrul Islam) are undergoing featured article reviews . You could help save these two articles by leaving your comments or assisting the involved editors. Three articles are undergoing good article nominations: Anekantavada, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and Santosh Subramaniam . most frequently edited articles . It is currently the only Indian article in top 100, occupying 58th spot. Do you know of an article that is currently underrated? If so, please nominate the article at the Assessment Department's request for assessment. This will allow our project to get a better idea of the quality of our articles. Article statistics and to-do lists Article Statistics Make visible or invisible by clicking Show or Hide, respectively. India articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 19 20 16 10 8 73 FL 1 4 2 1 1 9 A 2 3 3 8 GA 4 5 7 12 16 44 B 87 128 194 153 263 825 Start 74 208 530 946 2730 4488 Stub 36 159 428 2540 18644 21807 List 360 360 Assessed 221 526 1180 3665 22022 27614 Unassessed 1 7 46 92 12815 12961 Total 222 533 1226 3757 34837 40575 Complete To-Do List Make visible or invisible by clicking Show or Hide, respectively. Indian noticeboard v • e • d • h • w Requests: Sibichen K Mathew, Dominic Emmanuel, AK Merchant, Counterfeiting of currency notes in India , Akhand Pratap Singh, Asura (band), Asian Variety Show, Cultural liberalism in India, India Export Tax, India Import Tax, More... NPOV: Greater Nepal Rajneesh, Ranjit Lal Jetley Hedgewar , Puttanna Kanagal, Bride burning, Sonia Gandhi More... Wikify: Railway stations, Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar , Silk in the Indian subcontinent, IDBI Bank More... Cleanup: , Rampur, Tav-Prasad Savaiye , Shipping Corporation of India, Velama, Medical college (India) , All India Radio, More... Merge : Sammar Bahisht, Sathya Sai Baba movement,More... Expand: Prime Minister of India, Krishna district, List of railway stations in India, Swaraj, Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case) , Barak Missile Deal Scandal , 14th Lok Sabha, Adithada , Ali Sardar Jafri, Bandhani work , Bhaiband, Chikan (embroidery) , China Town, Kolkata , Rahi Masoom Raza, Energy policy of India, Essar Shipping, Fair use , Hinduism in India, Imperial Bank, Inbuan Wrestling , Iran-India relations , Islam in India, Arjuna award , Sunil Mittal, Save Indian Family , Anjana Sukhani, Rajendra K. Pachauri, More... Stubs : Anand Math, A R Antule , Arjuna award , Army of India , Bapudeva Sastri, Bombay Dyeing, Indian Copyright Act , Marimallappa , Mumbai Skywalk , More... Translate : Bhojpuri Wikipedia articles, Maithili Wikipedia articles, Telugu Wikipedia articles, Marathi Wikipedia articles, Hindi Wikipedia articles, Sanskrit Wikipedia articles, Tamil Wikipedia articles Kannada Wikipedia articles Collaborate: Collaborations of the Month , Notice board , Category Adoptions To do, Version 1.0 assessment, India Portal, Life in India , India quick links Indian Wikipedians, More... Requested images: Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan, Aarti Chhabria Other requests: Add maps from List of regions in India Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template v • e • d • h • w

Current proposals and discussions Is India the largest democracy? A the Mediation Cabal for mediation on India article. There is currently an ongoing edit war if India be called the largest democracy of world. Interested in a specific topic? Article watchlists have been automated using Ganeshbot. Just locate your watchlist to keep track of all articles within the topic. Example:Wikipedia:WikiProject Chennai/Articles. Wikipedia India Quiz continues to attract old and new Wikipedians and remains a hotspot of the community. You are invited to join in and have fun. From the Editors If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject India and also may choose to get this newsletter get it delivered as desired. This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 2 – July 2008). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! The feeling the pinch , we got together in working towards in renewing this feature for our members. Fresh pair of legs we are, and hence can greatly improve with your suggestions and ideas. Please feel free to let us know of your thoughts. We hope to release the newsletter on a monthly/bi-monthly basis as per our initial thoughts. Contributors to this Issue Mspraveen (Co-editor) Gppande (Co-editor) Tinucherian (Co-editor, Distributor) Did You Know? ... that India was the 44th most visited page on Wikipedia in February 2008 and it received received 706,558 visitors in May 2008? ... that if you need any help, advice, or have any announcements to make regarding India-related articles then you can do it here?

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On In the news candidates page .

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Seeing you back on Wikipedia after a long time. How are you doing, and is everyone you know safe? =Nichalp «Talk»= 18:49, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good to know people you know are safe. I'm doing fine too. Could you provide me the coordinates of the bombings if possible? I can make a map then. =Nichalp «Talk»= 19:13, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Happy birthday

Happy birthday Shreshth! =Nichalp «Talk»= 09:58, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cactions tool

Hey Shreshth91, hope you're enjoying your break! Just to inform you, I've released a long-overdue upgrade to the cactions tool, which you should be able to see already (Ctrl-F5 if not). The tool should still work just as before, although you no longer need the ctIsAdmin variable; see

User:Haza-w/Caction tool for the documentation. If you find any bugs or have any queries or feature requests, please get in touch. Thanks, and enjoy! haz (talk) 19:42, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply

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AfD nomination of Bartimaeus (Bartimaeus trilogy)

Bartimaeus (Bartimaeus trilogy), an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bartimaeus (Bartimaeus trilogy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. TTN (talk) 01:03, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply

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AfD nomination of Nathaniel (Bartimaeus trilogy)

Nathaniel (Bartimaeus trilogy), an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nathaniel (Bartimaeus trilogy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. TTN (talk) 01:03, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply

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AfD nomination of Magic in the Bartimaeus Trilogy

Magic in the Bartimaeus Trilogy, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Magic in the Bartimaeus Trilogy. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. TTN (talk) 01:05, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply

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The Indian Barnstar of National Merit

		The Indian Barnstar of National Merit
		Awarded to most prolific editors and an admin from India. We are proud of you ! And I hope you return to WP soon.... -- Tinu Cherian - 07:08, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply ]

How to use this top Indian Wikipedian list for effective collaboration

Hi, I have added a section 'How to use this list for effective collaboration' on

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Speedy deletion of Amit Jadhav

criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies

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If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. JaGa^talk 19:25, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Admin Coaching

I saw that you were listed in the Coaches for reconfirmation section of the admin coaching status page. Could you please update your status, and if you are still interested, drop me a note on my talk page? Thanks, Genius101^Guestbook 22:23, 25 April 2009 (UTC) This message was delivered semi-automatically by

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My apologies, I see you are not a coach. Sorry, Genius101^Guestbook 22:44, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 1 – June 2009

Project news » State Highways. After all, India has the second largest road network in the world. Iravan, the son of Arjuna, is now our 85th good article. How do we know this? Since last year, more processes have been automated, increasing productivity. Article alerts update the project with what's happening to India-related articles, from copyright violations to featured article candidates. To do… During the last few weeks, peer reviews for the recent general election and 2003 Afro-Asian Games (held in Hyderabad) were opened and are waiting for more comments, as are several articles at the peer review department. Sikkim has been nominated for FAR, and Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay has been nominated for FAC. » Currently, 10,622 Indian articles need images. Please improve these pages, especially if you enjoy photography! We look forward to more contributions from you. To get started, go to the noticeboard. »

From the editors… The India quiz continues to attract old and new Wikipedians, so join in the fun! Wikipedians are organizing a meetup in Bangalore on July 4 or 5. If you are interested, head over to the page and add your name! Topics of discussion include Indian language editions of Wikipedia and Wikimedia India. this list . "While MiD DAY as deeper implications of the Scientology arbitration case,1 reminding us of the core principles of verifiability and the neutral point of view . This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! — [sd], Ganeshk and Tinu Cherian Project · Portal · Members · Noticeboard · Discussion+

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Proposed deletion of Amit Jadhav

The article Amit Jadhav has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

reality show contestant with no evidence of notability, fails

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Happy Birthday

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File:Nehru signing Indian Constitution.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered,

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Unreferenced BLPs

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}} tag. Here is the list:

1. Manav Gohil - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
2. Arijit Singh - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
3. Deepshikha Sharma - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
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5. Chhavi Sodhani - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
6. Anubhav Suman - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
7. Deepak Singh Meher - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
8. Dale Stewart - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

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Proposed deletion of Deepak Singh Meher

The article Deepak Singh Meher has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Doesn't pass

WP:BIO. Two news hits, one briefly mentions him in the context of 14 finalists in a TV show

, other is currently a dead link.

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Admin Coaching: Reconfirmation

I was looking through the coaches at Wikipedia:Admin_coaching/Status and saw that there are a lot under "reconfirmation".

Could you let me know if you are still interesting in being involved with Admin Coaching, or if you would prefer to have your name removed from the "reconfirmation" list. If you want to be involved, could you please move your entry from "Reconfirmation" to "Active" and indicate how many students you would be willing to have (obviously, if you are actively coaching at the moment, then please indicate this!)

If I do not hear from you within a week, I will assume that you would like to have your name removed from the list of coaches.

Regards, -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 07:28, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Replaceable fair use File:Takht-i-Jahangir crack.jpg

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Ditto for File:Takht-i-Jahangir.jpg. --Geniac (talk) 01:13, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FA Review for Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India

I have nominated

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WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 1 - (June 2010)

Project News WP:IND Newsletter is back! It's been nearly a year since the last edition, but we hope to bring out issues on a more regular basis now. The India Wikiproject was set up to increasing coverage of India-related topics on Wikipedia, and over the past few months the focus has been on improving featured lists saw a 33% increase from 12 to 16. Due to the recent policy changes regarding unreferenced Biographies of Living People (BLPs), an effort was started in January 2010 to source all unreferenced BLPs coming under Wikiproject India. 1200 such articles were identified initially and more were added to the list later. Due to the sourcing effort, the number of Indian unreferenced BLPs is down to 565 currently. During February-April 2010, There was a large scale disruption of Kerala related articles by a Thrissur based IP vandal. Editing from a dynamic IP BSNL connection, the vandal changed dates of birth, death and ages of a number of Malayalam and Tamil film actors. Later he added a few international biographies to his list. He also marked some living people like Arvind Swamy as dead. A month long range block was imposed on his IP range two times and each time he came back to vandalise dates once the block expired. Currently the range has been blocked for three months till September 11, 2010. What's New? Three members of the project, Abecedare, Tinu Cherian and SpacemanSpiff received their sysop mops in October-December 2009. Congratulations! Wikipedians in Bangalore have been organising periodic meetups over the past year, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society. The next meetup is scheduled for July 18, 2010. Indian and other Wikipedians from all Wikipedias in various languages are welcome to attend.

Current proposals and discussions Please add Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics to your watchlist in order to stay updated with the latest discussions regarding various aspects of the project. A discussion is underway here to reach a consensus regarding the use of Indian number names (lakh, crore etc.) in Wikipedia articles. Please participate and add your comments. Join the effort to source and save unreferenced Indian BLPs. Some unintended vandalism is going on at the Assamese Wikipedia by the sole active editor. This is a request for Assamese-conversant Wikipedians to help resolve the issue. A discussion is in progress here in order to determine whether non-Western (including Indian) forms of classical music should be referred to by the nomenclature of art music instead of classical music. Please participate and add your comments. Watchlist the Articles for Deletions page for India related discussions. Opinions from more Indian Wikipedians are required in many of the discussions. The World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 is at present underway in Coimbatore, and the Tamil Wikipedia is actively involved at the event. A detailed report will follow in the next issue. Wikimania 2010 is happening in Poland from July 7-11. Indian Wikipedians attending include Gurubrahma, Shiju Alex, Ravidreams , Santhosh Thottingal, Tinu Cherian, WMF Board member Bishakha Datta and Advisory Board member Achal Prabala. We wish them all the best! More on their experiences in the next issue. If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of WikiProject India. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy! Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 2 – (July 2010)). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Complete To Do List Complete To Do List Indian noticeboard v • e • d • h • w Requests: Counterfeiting of currency notes in India , Swami Bhaskaranand Saraswati, Akhand Pratap Singh, Ravindra Gujjula Irrigation in India, Asura (band), Asian Variety Show, Cultural liberalism in India, India Export Tax, India Import Tax, Grand Hyatt Hotel, Mumbai , More... NPOV: Greater Nepal Rajneesh, Ranjit Lal Jetley Hedgewar , Puttanna Kanagal, Bride burning, Sonia Gandhi More... Wikify : Railway stations, Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar , Silk in the Indian subcontinent, IDBI Bank More... Cleanup: articles on castes, Rampur, Tav-Prasad Savaiye , Shipping Corporation of India, Velama, Bangaru Adigalar, Medical college (India) , More... Merge : Sammar Bahisht,Sathya Sai Baba movement,More... Expand: Prime Minister of India, Krishna district, List of railway stations in India, Swaraj, Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case) , Barak Missile Deal Scandal , 14th Lok Sabha, Adithada , Ali Sardar Jafri, Bandhani work , Bhaiband, But Marma Atti, Chikan (embroidery) , China Town, Kolkata , Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza, Energy policy of India, Essar Shipping, Fair use , Hinduism in India, Imperial Bank, Inbuan Wrestling , Integral humanism, Iran-India relations , Islam in India, Arjuna award , Sunil Mittal, Save Indian Family , Anjana Sukhani, Rajendra K. Pachauri More... Stubs : Anand Math, Andhra Bank, A R Antule , Arjuna award , Army of India , Bapudeva Sastri, Bombay Dyeing, Indian Copyright Act , Marimallappa , Mumbai Skywalk , More... Translate : Telugu Wikipedia articles, Marathi Wikipedia articles, Hindi Wikipedia articles, Sanskrit Wikipedia articles, Tamil Wikipedia articles Kannada Wikipedia articles Collaborate: Collaborations of the Month , Notice board , Category Adoptions To do, Version 1.0 assesment , India Portal, Life in India , India quick links Indian Wikipedians, More... Requested images: Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan, Aarti Chhabria Other requests: Add maps from List of regions in India Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template v • e • d • h • w Signed... SBC-YPR (Editor) Sodabottle (Editor) Tinu Cherian (Distributor)

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WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 2 - November 2010

English WikiProject News After a missed issue, the WP:IND newsletter is back on track to being a regular bimonthly feature. The Indian WikiProject has seen plenty of online and off-line action, both in English as well as other Indian languages, and we now have a bigger, better format that intends to feature content and news from the English as well as other Indian language Wikipedias. Reaching out to Indians has been the theme of the Indian Wikiproject over the past couple of months, aiming to involve a greater number of Indians in editing both the English and Indian language Wikipedias. To this end, efforts to set up the Indian chapter of Wikimedia have moved into their final stages, and registration of the society is currently pending. An effort is underway to push for "WikiMarathons" at meetups, where attendees will be encouraged to edit the English and/or Indian language Wikipedias. This is intended to popularise Wikipedia editing among the general public. In addition, a bot to post DYK's from the Indian Wikiproject to Twitter was created and launched by User:Logicwiki. What's New? Regrettably, the number of Featured Articles has dropped from 63 in June to 58 at the end of October 2010. Several FAs came up for review and were delisted, while Chalukya Dynasty appeared on the main page on July 9, 2010. Hearteningly, the number of Good Articles increased from 130 to 136 during the same period, while the number of Featured Lists remained constant at 16. The article alerts for the Indian Wikiproject will again be available, enabling editors to easily keep track of developments in respect of reviews, nominations, deletions etc. The date change vandal mentioned briefly in the previous issue made a reappearance when the range block on his IP range expired in September. Consequently the block was extended till September 2011. In October there was a heated discussion in the India project noticeboard regarding the copyright status of the Indian party symbols. The discussion was triggered by the deletion of Wiki San Roze's party symbol images by Hammersoft as copyright violations. No resolution was reached, partly because of our inability to explain to Hammersoft how election symbols in India differ from party logos. Comments are requested from anyone with a background in Indian copyright law to clarify this issue. Complete To Do List Complete To Do List Indian noticeboard v • e • d • h • w Requests: Sibichen K Mathew, Dominic Emmanuel, AK Merchant, Counterfeiting of currency notes in India , Akhand Pratap Singh, Asura (band), Asian Variety Show, Cultural liberalism in India, India Export Tax, India Import Tax, More... NPOV: Greater Nepal Rajneesh, Ranjit Lal Jetley Hedgewar , Puttanna Kanagal, Bride burning, Sonia Gandhi More... Wikify: Railway stations, Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar , Silk in the Indian subcontinent, IDBI Bank More... Cleanup: , Rampur, Tav-Prasad Savaiye , Shipping Corporation of India, Velama, Medical college (India) , All India Radio, More... Merge : Sammar Bahisht, Sathya Sai Baba movement,More... Expand: Prime Minister of India, Krishna district, List of railway stations in India, Swaraj, Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case) , Barak Missile Deal Scandal , 14th Lok Sabha, Adithada , Ali Sardar Jafri, Bandhani work , Bhaiband, Chikan (embroidery) , China Town, Kolkata , Rahi Masoom Raza, Energy policy of India, Essar Shipping, Fair use , Hinduism in India, Imperial Bank, Inbuan Wrestling , Iran-India relations , Islam in India, Arjuna award , Sunil Mittal, Save Indian Family , Anjana Sukhani, Rajendra K. Pachauri, More... Stubs : Anand Math, A R Antule , Arjuna award , Army of India , Bapudeva Sastri, Bombay Dyeing, Indian Copyright Act , Marimallappa , Mumbai Skywalk , More... Translate : Bhojpuri Wikipedia articles, Maithili Wikipedia articles, Telugu Wikipedia articles, Marathi Wikipedia articles, Hindi Wikipedia articles, Sanskrit Wikipedia articles, Tamil Wikipedia articles Kannada Wikipedia articles Collaborate: Collaborations of the Month , Notice board , Category Adoptions To do, Version 1.0 assessment, India Portal, Life in India , India quick links Indian Wikipedians, More... Requested images: Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan, Aarti Chhabria Other requests: Add maps from List of regions in India Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template v • e • d • h • w

News from Indian-language Wikipedias The Bengali Wikisource, which contains the literary works of many prominent writers of Bengali language including Rabindranath Tagore, has crossed the 5,000 pages milestone. According to List of Wikisource page, Bengali Wikisource is now at rank 21 among 56 Wikisource based on number of content pages. The uploading of Tamil technical words donated by Tamil Virtual University to the Tamil Wiktionary was completed in October. The words were donated by the Government of Tamil Nadu due to lobbying efforts by Tamil Wikipedians during the runup to the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 (WCTC) in June. Nearly 70,000 words were uploaded increasing the word count in Tamil Wiktionary from 1,20,000+ to 1,90,000+. This has brought Tamil to the 10th place (from 17) in the list of largest wiktionaries and has earned it a place in the Wiktionary front page logo . In addition, Tamil Wikipedians set up a stall at the WCTC and introduced Tamil Wiki projects to people from all walks of life. Wikimania 2010 at Gdansk. The Hindi Wikipedia and its sister wiki projects migrated to the new vector interface on September 1, 2010. In addition, Hindi is the first (and so far the only) Indian language to be incorporated into the WikiBhasha translation and contribution toolkit developed by Microsoft Research. Malayalam wikimedian Santhosh Thottingal has developed a software (Wiki2CD) for the creation of the Malayalam Wikipedia CD, which was launched in 2010. In addition, Santosh, along with fellow Malayalam wikimedian Shiju Alex coordinated a panel discussion at Wikimania 2010 on creation of offline Wiki content.

Community news Hyderabad also held its first meetup. Wikipedians in Bangalore continued their tradition of meeting up regularly at the Centre for Internet and Society, with the nineteenth meetup in September featuring Barry and Bishaka as attendees, and marking the release of the community newsletter . Along with Delhi and Mumbai, Bangalore is reported to be one of the three cities in contention for the Indian office of the Wikipedia Foundation. Wikipedia founder third Wikipedia meetup in Mumbai on October 31, 2010. The first Chennai on November 14, 2010. Wikipedians in Delhi also held a meetup the same day. The Malayalam Wikipedia held several academies in different parts of Kerala over the past few months. Wikimedia Foundation board member Bishakha Datta and Indian Wikipedian Srinivas Gunta co-authored a panel presentation at Wikimania 2010 on the Wikimedia Asia Project.

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