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July 2009 Newsletter

Anybody wants to start working on July 2009 Newsletter ? -- Tinu Cherian - 10:27, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Here are several items that could be covered in the newsletter.

• Meetup in Bangalore –  Done.
• Article alerts and to do list –  Done.
• India quiz –  Done.
• Wikipedia Takes Chennai –  Done.
• A task, category redundancy (permanent link).
• A reminder of our IRC channel (permanent link) –  Done.
• An RfC that has been mentioned at WP:CENT: "What is the community's opinion on using {{Italictitle}} to italicise certain articles' titles?" I think it's important to get our project's members to go over there and discuss the matter, since the result of the RfC will affect the Indian cinema, television, and literature workgroups. [sd] 21:48, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Great list...looking forward to see the newsletter. Similar to what Signpost is doing, how about adding a WikiProject report for India workgroups. I would like to request a little writeup of WP:CHENNAI if possible. It goes well with the WP takes Chennai event. Karnataka would be a good start...with them having the largest number of FAs. May be you can interview their FA writers. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 03:31, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, they have all retired, the most prolific being dineshkannambadi (talk · contribs) after Fowler&fowler (talk · contribs) went to every one of his FACs and FARs and posted long essays of 50kb trying to prove that the article was the worst ever, that every sentence was wrong, etc etc... and as hardly anybody supported him (the other KN guys having become too busy), he quit, taking with him about 70% of the FA productivity. YellowMonkey (cricket calendar poll!) paid editing=POV 04:36, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Is anybody interested in copy editing or adding more content to July 2009 Newsletter ? I am hoping to deliver it by the weekend ! -- Tinu Cherian - 07:50, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

I made a few small changes. Ncmvocalist (talk) 18:21, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

It would be a good idea to add links to the current Collaborations of the month:

• History of Mumbai
• Indian Railways
• Rail transport in India
• Indian general election, 2009
• Telecommunications in India

Perhaps this can even be a regular feature in the newsletter. Comments or objections ? Abecedare (talk) 18:35, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Added the above WP:INCOTM and other things. Can somebody do a final copy edit and go ahead before I bomb them on the talk pages ? -- Tinu Cherian - 05:47, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Please review my changes and take a final look before the newsletter is delivered. Great work! Congratulations to the editors (and copy-editors) who put this together—quite a collaboration. Happy editing, [sd] 02:21, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

I think we are ready to go now ! Thanks all... Watch ur talk pages now -- Tinu Cherian - 13:40, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

 Doing... : My pet TinucherianBot (talk · contribs) is currently busy with the delivery of the newsletter ! -- Tinu Cherian - 14:43, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for taking of the delivery! Good work, [sd] 16:25, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

 Done : Thanks for the co-operation of all who contributed to the newsletter. Delivery is complete now -- Tinu Cherian - 16:40, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Mahābhārata

A move is requested. Please give your views. --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 06:22, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Conference @ Bangalore - 'WikiWars'

CPOV - Critical Point Of View : WikiWars. utcursch | talk 16:37, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Liaquat Ali Khan GA Sweeps: On Hold

I have reviewed Liaquat Ali Khan for GA Sweeps to determine if it still qualifies as a Good Article. In reviewing the article I have found several issues, which I have detailed here. Since the article falls under the scope of this project, I figured you would be interested in contributing to further improve the article. Please comment there to help the article maintain its GA status. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 04:58, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Merger proposal

For Malabari paratha and Kerala porotta. Please comment here. Regards, SBC-YPR (talk) 18:12, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Wikpedia Bangalore Meetup 4 (Aug 09)

Wikipedia WikiMeetup
Bangalore, India

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Invitation to all wikipedians to attend the next monthly meetup in Bangalore - Bangalore Meetup 4 (Aug 09). It was agreed during the previous meetup that all wikipedians would meetup every month to share expertise, experiences and discuss topics of mutual interest.

Look forward to your active participation. Please register in the Meetup page. We have some interesting talks planned. Request all your help in reaching out to wikipedians from all languages for this meetup.

For more information on the event/details please contact Arunram (talk) or User:Sundar —Preceding unsigned comment added by Arunram (talk • contribs) 18:21, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

The meetup will now take place on Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 3:00–5:30 p.m. (at the CIS office). However, Tinu Cherian and Srikanth have been discussing an alternative time on the talk page. Thanks, [sd] 16:24, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Talk:State-sponsored terrorism

Eyes needed on Adil your (talk · contribs) per his alleged "consensus" YellowMonkey (cricket calendar poll!) paid editing=POV 03:41, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

One set of eyes added. AreJay (talk) 04:39, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

User:Adil your had the worst possible start to his wiki pov pushing career. See this edit with Urdu expletives!!! : - -- Anon —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.182.109.97 (talk) 19:00, July 17, 2009

Regarding CISF rules

Dear Friends,

we contractors are facing some of CISF rules which has to be changed so please can we start debate on it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.236.254.54 (talk) 05:06, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia isn't the forum to debate it. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 16:07, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism of India pages by User By78

The user By78 is using Wikipedia to spread his bias and has made numerous edits to India articles that cite sources which are inaccurate, outdated or biased. His edits have a fundamentally anti-India character to them and he must be closely watched.

See : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Edits_by_User_By78

Vedant (talk) 21:45, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Can you provide some differences or examples when he has shown a strong anti-India character. And for other users [1], his contributions. While his so called youtube page might be strongly anti-Indian (isn't it funny, China is perfectly awesome, India is the worst country in the world), some of his edits are correct as there should not list of missile under development listed, as they should probably be tested before they are included in a list with other countries missile which have been fully tested. And should we bring him here to get his opinion on this accusation? Deavenger (talk) 22:14, 18 July 2009 (UTC)