User talk:Chirags

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India quick links

pamri 05:51, August 13, 2005 (UTC)

Image

Hi, did tou take this picture Image:RoadTrip 2005 0526 223808.JPG, if so could you please add copyright information.--nixie 06:46, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

If you took this image yourself you can add {{PD-self}} as the copyright tag. Thanks. ∞Who?¿? 02:27, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for info. I updated the copyright. Chirags 16:43, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

External links

Hi, Chirags! There's a way you can link. For example, if you wanted to link an article called "Trains" to the Spanish Wikipedia, type the following at the bottom of the article: [[sp:Ferrocarril]]. The first two lettters represent the destination wiki, while the name of the corresponding Spanish article follws. Hope this helps! - Lucky 6.9 01:02, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Portal

Thanks for starting the Portal, I've added a collaboration page.

What did you mean about Netherlands? (I live in the US)

Vvuppala 06:53, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

No big deal. Amherst(USA) is very similar to Amsterdam (Netherlands). Vvuppala 17:44, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

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Mahitgar 18:01, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

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Category:Telugu people

Hi, best wishes for a happy new year. I have reverted your changes to the above as per the consensus on its talkpage. --Gurubrahma 12:25, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Hyderabad page

Did you mean "review the external links"? - Ganeshk 20:51, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

I agree. External links should be only at the end of the article. That article needs a big cleanup. You should post this on the India notice board and see what others say. - Ganeshk 21:09, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

You showed support for Indian Colloboration of the Week. This week Hyderabad was selected to be improved to featured article status. Hope you can help…

Thanks for the suggestion....

Hi Chirag,

  Thanks for the suggestions regarding additions in the page devoted to Vidyavihar. I will attempt to add more information about Rajawadi,the ONGC Colony & Kirol Village.
  I am 48 years old & have been born and brought up in Rajawadi..I reside at Chittaranjan Nagar i.e the old colony beyond Rajawadi Hospital. I am a Management Consultant in the field of Executive Placements & Industrial Relations.
  Although in the US presently, your roots must be in RajawdiTrust you must be an old Rajawadi inhabitant although presently.
  Thanks for the suggestion & do let us keep in touch..Ny e-mail i.d is mganeshrecruit@gmail.com .

M.Ganesh

User:203.101.18.67

I have removed this entry from WP:AIV for people engaging in spamming please warn them with a {{spam}} template, if they further spam then {{spam2}} and then if they continue list on WP:AIV. I have rolled back all there other spam links. Thanks --pgk^(talk) 16:19, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Indian COTW

You voted for Amul, this week's Indian Colloboration of the Week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. - Ganeshk^T/_C\^@ 01:02, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

About COTW Hyderabad

Hi chirags,

Nice work on making the article on Hyderabad better. I noticed the COTW sign has been removed. Are you and others still working on it. If so let me know.

hydkat 06:44, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

re: Hyderabad

About the second point thats troubling you: That only the muslim community speaks deccani is well... idiotic. I can assure you that it is spoken everyone who wish to survive in the streets here. Its the best way to commnicate with auto drivers, ask for direction from complete stranger. Shop-keepers need to speak it simply to better sell their wares. It need not be your mother-tongue, (I'm a Tamilian) but stay a few years in Hyderabad and you will end up thinking in it!! BTW I don't think most Hyderabadis realise they are speaking in that language when they do. I suspect they think they are speaking some form of Hindi (Which, much to my embarassment includes me.)

About Telugu Nationalism; I'll try to find some stuff up on it.

As for distorting history: Its a too common occupation, my mom claims that the present Indian civilisation dates back to about 800,000 years ago. And the Ramayana and Mahabharata occuring 200,000 and 100,000 years ago (or something like that) I end up getting into furious arguments with her and everbody who takes her side, which believe me is quite a few people :(

hydkat 11:03, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Grammatical errors and more

Hi, Can we please correct the grammer of the 'Media - Tollywood' section? And i kind of feel Media is a useless subsection in that page unless it talks about something unique to hyderabad... like Radio Biryani, Channel 6 Hyderabad Magazine, and the Deccan Chronical (ok...the last one is not exactly unique.)

hydkat 10:27, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Arbitration Commitee Election

Anyone from the ICOTW standing for election? Or any IndWik for that matter? I found one Indian User:Magicalsaumy but don't know much about him. Elections have always been my favorite pastime :)

Arbitration_Committee_Elections_January_2006/Vote

hydkat 14:54, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Saw the user contrib page you sent... is he worth voting for?

That is something I'm trying to decide. 'Cause I have noone else whom I could consider. (well.. apart from this woman who says she'll beat everyone with a stick :) I'm a bit dissapointed that no one is actively campaining... that is always a very good sign a system is working.

hydkat 20:25, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

take look at Indian mafia

Hi, take a look at the article Indian mafia and suggest something will you. At its current state it would probably get the cleanup to higher stadards tag.

hydkat 06:18, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

regarding calstreet

Hi,

You have mentioned not to add calstreet.com as it is an incomplete portal. First of all a portal is never complete. Our portal contains lots of information at this moment its self. You cannot comment without seeing properly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.11.120.67 (talk • contribs)

Indian COTW

You voted for Srinagar (city), this week's Indian Colloboration of the Week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. - Ganeshk (talk) 23:56, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:GTRoad_Ambala.jpg

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google search on indian cities

Hi, I did a search in google to find out how wikipeidia some of the articles on Indian cities rank and heres what I found: (def - google has a definition link on the search)

• Calcutta - 6 def? yes

• Kolkata - 8 def? no

• Bombay - 7 def? yes

• Mumbai - 6 def? yes

• Chennai - 6 def? yes

• Madras - 9 def? yes

• Bangalore - 5 def? yes
• Ahmedabad - 6 def? yes
• Hyderabad - 12 def? (no link to content)

well...excepting Hyderabad, I think its a fairly good result: its going to lead to a lot more vandalism attacks though. --hydkat 07:38, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Holi greeting...

HAPPY HOLI TO YOU!

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Happy Holi!

--hydkat 12:13, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello

Greetings, the holi-hangover continues! --Bhadani 07:52, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

RE:Joen and Google

i understand, but for that it doesn't matter if it comes from the indian (i guess) google or the .com one, i think it's wiser and less confusing for people to use the .com one. Boneyard 17:41, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

oh like that, well you can download it now and upload it to wiki, not sure if that is allowed though, im really not into the rules on that. Boneyard 21:14, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Welcome back

Been sometime since I saw you on my watch list. Hope you had a nice break. - Ganeshk (talk) 22:06, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Hello! The comments are my sentiments exactly. --hydkat 04:12, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

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11. Please leave no article without an appropriate category. See the list of created categories here; you can also make a new category (pref. in Hindi). Please leave no article without at least ONE off page (like en:) interwiki link. E.g., the user can check the article name (say Apollo) on the finally redirected English page and append to the Hindi article ([[en:Appolo]])). These interlanguage links will help a bot to update all interwiki links for that article in all wikipedias. The category and the aforementioned link should be typed at the end of the article. If the article is very small, mention it as a stub/substub.
12. Use of templates is welcome. See the list of templates here. If creating a template, name it pref. in Hindi.
13. Use पूर्णविराम ( । ) instead of a period (.) for ending statements. The पूर्णविराम, semicolon, colon and dash (but not comma) must come after one space after the word to prevent ambiguity. Use the international form of the Hindu-Arabic numerals (1,2,3 instead of १,२,३), as used by the Constitution and the Government of India (even for Hindi). There is no need to use the हलन्त at the end of Sanskrit words wherever it occurs. Hence, prefer: संसद over संसद्; अथर्वन over अथर्वन्. Use the proper quotation marks “” from the Insert toolbox, not "". Write dates as 2 मई 2006 (ईसवी or ईसापूर्व). Write time as 3:45 pm. Separate common suffix-words like शास्त्र, विज्ञान, ज्ञान with a hyphen. Thus: रसायन-शास्त्र. For most others, leave both the words of the noun-cluster free. Combine them into one word only if it is very common to do so. Thus: सामवेद.
14. The use of ज़ for the en:voiced alveolar fricative (/z/, as in zoo, rose) is fundamentally wrong. Its nearest counterpart is the en:voiceless alveolar fricative /s/ (as in sea), and not Hindi ज (en:voiced palatal plosive). Hence, it is suggested and recommended that for the sound /z/, whether it comes in English (etc.) spellings (z) for while pronunciation otherwise, should be transcribed as स़ (स with a dot below, available in the Insert toolbox). Hence: Reason रीस़न, not रीज़न ; Roses रोस़ेस़, not रोज़ेज़. But common Hindi words borrowed from Persian/Arabic (so-called Urdu words) are allowed to continue with ज़ spelling. Thus: ज़रा, नज़र, तर्ज़. The en:voiced postalveolar fricative (/ʒ/ as in treasure), inexistent in Hindi, can similarly be transcribed with श़. Thus: treasure ट्रॅश़र. The nukta (dot) available in the Insert toolbox can be combined with various consonants to suggest a more exact phonetic devanagari rendering of foreign sounds. E.g., since phonetically, English Think and this are not equal to थिंक and दिस, a better transcription could be थ़िंक and द़िस. Please take care of the dot below in so-called Urdu words, otherwise the Hindi spelling is deemed incorrect.
15. For the following English vowels met, mate, mat, transcribe as मॅट (short vowel), मेट (not मेइट), मैट (not मॅट, as popular in Marathi). However in contemporary Hindi and here, it is acceptable to use ए instead of ऍ. Thus: अमेरिका is more popular than अमॅरिका. For cot, coat, caught, transcribe as कॉट, कोट, कॉट (not कौट). Transcribe English /t/ and /d/ as ट and ड.
16. Use half-न before त, थ, द, ध, न, instead of anuswaar अं. Use half-म before प, फ, ब, भ, म. Use the anuswaar before all the rest of the consonants (not half-ङ, ञ, ण). If the मात्रा is not above the alphabet, use chandra-bindu, but only for nasalization. Thus: अन्दर, not अंदर ; अन्त, not अंत ; हिन्दी, not हिंदी ; सम्भव, not संभव ; पंचमी, not पञ्चमी ; अंडा, not अण्डा ; कंठ, not कण्ठ ; लैंड, not लैण्ड ; आँख, not आंख. However, both forms are acceptable in contemporary Hindi as well as here; the prec. are just recommendations.
17. When proceded by another vowel, use the pure vowels instead of य (unless the य is clearly articulated while pronouncing). Thus : जाएँ, not जायें (not जावें) ; आएगा, not आयेगा . However, both forms are acceptable in contemporary Hindi as well as here.
18. Please pay careful attention to the masculine/feminine gender (and singular/plural) in adjectives and verbs, else the sentence becomes ungrammatical.

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This page can also be found here.

Thank you,

Cygnus_hansa 02:02, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Talk page archive

Hello Chirag, I saw you removing sections after they are answered. How about you archive them instead. For more, please read this. -- Ganeshk (talk) 22:29, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello

I just came to say Namaskar to you. I saw the WP Jainism commenced by you. Really nice thing you had done. --Bhadani 13:41, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Captain Jack Sparrow

Reply on Talk:Captain Jack Sparrow. :) RadioKirk (u|t|c) 02:58, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

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Minor?

Hi, I wonder if you realize that each and every one of your edits are being marked "minor." The problem may be that this has been set as a default. You can click the "my preferences" tab at the top of your screen, then go to "editing" and set this right. Regards, ImpuMozhi 16:38, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Need your support

Chirag, You should support Nagpur for the Indian collaboration of the week. Go to the discussion page of Nagpur, and following the approval process from there. Be sure to put your name in the list, and sign you comments below other people's previous comments. I mean, don't pair them together. --Wikindian 17:55, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

INCOTW

You voted for Dhondo Keshav Karve, this week's Indian Colloboration of the Week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. - Ganeshk (talk) 02:21, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Good work!

It is great to see Dhondo Keshav Karve improve a lot. While I nominated it for INCOTW, I have been busy of late and could not improve it. I believe you deserve a barnstar for the great work you have done. Please add references as well. Keep up the good work!! --Gurubrahma 13:31, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		For sticking around and adding content, especially to the current INCOTW of Dhondo Keshav Karve, I award Chirags the original barnstar. --Gurubrahma 13:31, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

INCOTW

Hello Chirag. I noticed that you have nominated several articles for INCOTW. Please keep in mind the rule - At any given time, a maximum of 6 candidates must be open for voting. Please do not nominate additional articles when six nominations are already present. Cheers! - Aksi_great (talk - review me) 17:02, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Also, Please nominate only one article at a time, the first point on the Nomination criteria. Thanks for your contributions to INCOTW. - Ganeshk (talk) 17:09, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

I have removed the nominations for now. Please feel free to nominate any 1 of the 4 articles removed when Pyarelal Nayyar (nominated by you) completes one month (or gets selected). - Aksi_great (talk - review me) 17:08, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

jainism

You're welcome. The jainism section needs a lot of work.--D-Boy 17:36, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

George Washington Carver

Please add George Washington Carver. I didn't see him on the lists.

A start to his bio: http://law.wustl.edu/Staff/Taylor/manual/manual.htm

Opposing votes an INCOTW

Hello. I have removed your oppose vote at INCOTW. There are no oppose/against votes. Only vote support for article which you support. Oppose votes don't add to anything. The article with the maximum number of support votes gets selected. Also, please feel free to add an (only 1 at a time) article to INCOTW. - Aksi_great (talk - review me) 17:02, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

I am really sorry that I have to remove your nomination once again. That article was just removed from INCOTW today as a failed nomination. See Talk:Pyarelal_Nayyar. Articles that stay here for a month but don't get enough support votes are removed. Please add another article. I had removed Bismillah Khan, Raghunath Karve, Bhanu Athaiya and Social Reform Movement in Maharashtra earlier because at that time there was already one article nominated by you on INCOTW. If you want add any one of them back at INCOTW. As for your comment on AB - they are valid. The article is not a stub. I have asked the wider Indian community for guidance on this. If there is consensus that the stub rule should prevail then I will remove the article from INCOTW. - Aksi_great (talk - review me) 17:44, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

INCOTW

You voted for Bismillah Khan, this week's Indian Colloboration of the Week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. - Aksi_great (talk - review me) 07:10, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Trishala

Hi, you seem to be knowledgeable on the topic of Jainism. Do you think you can help me improve my article on Trishala? - Zhang Guo Lao 22:46, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks alot! If you want, you can also join the revamped WikiProject Jainism. I totally re did it. I really hope to slowly clean up the Jainism articles and straighten everything out. I know it can't all be done in one day but slowly :) Thanks again! - Zhang Guo Lao 02:30, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes, please join it. You seem to know a lot about the topic. Right now Zhang Guo Lao and I are alone and we need more experts. Thanks. --queso man 00:35, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

INCOTW

You voted for Sudhir Phadke, this week's Indian Colloboration of the Week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. - Aksi_great (talk) 16:37, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi Chirag, how are you ? can you give me your email id.

request

hey Chirag:

I have put a detailed analysis of Jainism qua the legal status, and perspective.

This is crucial since there are attempts across the States of India to put Jainism into the domain of Hinduism, and disregard it as a seperate religion.

Could you please: 1. Put the content on "legal debate" etc. on a new page. 2. add jainism and law, or jainism-legal debates in the side box

thanks a lot rishabh

rsanchetiATgmail

Portal:Hyderabad

Chirags, How are you? Long time. The portal seems to be in bad shape. Could you please take a look when you get a chance? Belated Diwali wishes! Thanks, Ganeshk (talk) 04:50, 23 October 2006 (UTC)