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K. Nanjil Manoharan to Nanjil K. Manoharan. it is a non-controversial move. thanks. --CarTick 13:36, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Done. cheers. -SpacemanSpiff 15:55, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

thanks. --CarTick 18:19, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Your Noble Action as an Administrator Is requested

Dear Respected Administrator . Congratulations for becoming an Administrator. You appear to be managing Carnatic Music and/or Purandara Dasa, and/or Ugaboga articles.

Without discussion the original position of Purandara Dasa photo was replaced with a non-human photo with no RS. Based on information posted already by different editors of Wikipedia following are references.

1. Dr. Piero Scaruffi (international author on music books) in the article A Summary on Indian Music: 'The founder of Karnataka style is considered to be Purandara Daasa'. : [1]
2. Prof VSS Rao- 'Shri Puradara Daasa is known as the pra-pithamaha (founder) of modern Carnatic classical music.' [2]
3. Shri P.N.Krishnamoorthy – Director. [3] The Sangeetha Vidyalaya 'Purandara Dasa (1484 - 1584) can be said to be the principal founder of the Carnatic system as we know it today.'
4. Kamat Research Database : 'The Father of Carnatic Music Composer Purandaradasa (15/16th Century) was a great literary and musical genius. [4]
5. Independent group: 'Shri Purandara Daasa is known as the pra-pithamaha (founder) of modern Carnatic classical music.' [5]
6. In the book 'MS – A Life in Music' by TJS George. New Delhi: HarperCollins, 2005 (4th Impression).-ISBN 81-7223-527-5. '... the development of Carnatic music from the times of Purandara Dasa (1480-1564), considered to be the father of the genre' (see [Music genre])

All wikipedia editors of Carnatic Music have unanimously agreed that Purandara Dasa is Pitamaha ( meaning father in Kannada ) of Carnatic Music. In English to call someone the "father" of something means he created it, not merely enhanced it or popularized it . Therefore Purandara Dasa is called either the creator or inventor or founder of todays Carnatic Music (Aka Karnataka Music). The editor responded to RFC also concluded the same.

PN. I am not Naadapriya but followed above articles since many years. Please change the above three articles to the original status before the current sole owner Ncmvocalist have changed them with out discussions. So far several attempted correct it but they were all tainted with sock puppetry.

Your noble action as an Administrator of highly respected Wikipedia will make Wikipedia still a better place for all of us live, particularly users like me who help children to use wikipedia. FROM A MULTI_USER COMPUTER SYSTEM 76.212.15.89 (talk) 05:26, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Please stop synthesizing material. How does someone become the founder of something that existed before them? In addition, claiming that you aren't Naadapriya after checkuser has confirmed it, isn't exactly going to get you many ears. Stop your disruption. -SpacemanSpiff 05:47, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Respected New Adminstrator . Following is not a synthesis:

1. Dr. Piero Scaruffi (international author on music books) in the article A Summary on Indian Music: 'The founder of Karnataka style is considered to be Purandara Daasa'. : [6]
2. Prof VSS Rao- 'Shri Puradara Daasa is known as the pra-pithamaha (founder) of modern Carnatic classical music.' [7]
3. Shri P.N.Krishnamoorthy – Director. [8] The Sangeetha Vidyalaya 'Purandara Dasa (1484 - 1584) can be said to be the principal founder of the Carnatic system as we know it today.'
4. Kamat Research Database : 'The Father of Carnatic Music Composer Purandaradasa (15/16th Century) was a great literary and musical genius. [9]
5. Independent group: 'Shri Purandara Daasa is known as the pra-pithamaha (founder) of modern Carnatic classical music.' [10]
6. In the book 'MS – A Life in Music' by TJS George. New Delhi: HarperCollins, 2005 (4th Impression).-ISBN 81-7223-527-5. '... the development of Carnatic music from the times of Purandara Dasa (1480-1564), considered to be the father of the genre' (see Music genre)

There is no RS to state that Non-human invented today's Carnatic Music. If as an wiki admistrator you are endorsing non-scientific statement, it is time for us to stop approching you and try to seek others. BTW I am reading CM even before Naadapriya entered. You were not invovled unless we are mistaken. Any specific reason for your ad-hoc involvement. It will clear the air. Applying approved wiki tool such as CU is OK on our system. Of recent our system adminstrator has indicated possibilities of external intruders. We are in the process of contacting appropriate team to clarify. USER FROM MULTI_USER SYSTEM76.212.15.89 (talk) 08:08, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Our system adminstrator informed us that no indication of CU being applied to our system. You state that CU has been applied. Please provide the statistics when and who applied it. We will make sure that their will be no viloations. Thanks.76.212.15.89 (talk) 08:45, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Just an explanation - Check user tool is a wikipedia internal tool for analyzing the pattern of edits and identifying sock puppets. It does not do anything physically in your computer/network. It analyzes edits to wikipedia coming from your IP address. More here WP:CHECKUSER. Also if you get an user id, you will be able to talk to admins and other editors better.--Sodabottle (talk) 09:50, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

வனக்கும் (greeting) Thanks for the response though expected answer from SS. Based on CU description what would the relation between NV and SS since both use word 'synthesizing ' to defend POV in CM. I guess they are called meatpuppets if I understood correctly. NOT Naadapriya76.212.11.35 (talk) 18:12, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

<--Look, Spiff, if someone asks you nicely to do something, you should just go ahead and do it. No need to get all particular about details like "synthesis" and "chronology"--the latter is just a colonialist concept anyway. I wish I had as many acronyms and IPs as NOT Naadapriya; I could do some useful stuff on Wikipedia. Greetings from your honorary Tamil, Drmies (talk) 03:17, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for stopping by and for the wise counsel doc, I was expecting you to follow Satbir Singh around for a while, but you have come in search of nobler pursuits I guess. How are things that side of the good fight? cheers -SpacemanSpiff 04:02, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

I left a note under your notice on my talk. In short: I was about to get busy, but I was interrupted, and then some Respected Administrator had already taken care of business--just as I was ready to show my balls on some talk page or other, haha. So--you agree that chronology is overrated, and that someone, if they are talented enough, can easily spawn something that's born a thousand years before them? Drmies (talk) 04:29, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

NO Synthesis

All accept that Purandaradasa is the father of Carnatic Music. As seen in wikipedia articles Jimmy Wales is called both Father of Wikipedia and Founder of Wikipedia. Just like that Purandaradasa is the founder of today's (modern, post 15th CE) Carnatic Music. Please use your editing capability of surgical precision to make the correction to CM article. Wikipedia readers will remember this extraordinary act by a new Admn grown beyond language barriers.76.192.201.42 (talk) 07:27, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

• Sorry, NOT Naadapriya, I'm not feeling you. The slippage between "Carnatic Music" in your first sentence and "today's (modern, post 15th CE) Carnatic Music" is telling. I find it strange, though, that you are arguing this point, when your disruptive edits were intended to have the image caption call him "founder" of Carnatic music. Your real intent, obviously, is to equate the metaphorical "Father" with the non-metaphorical "founder"--but the latter term cannot be taken metaphorically, and thus your house is not built on solid rock. I think most Wikipedia readers, and certainly most editors, will understand this. Greetings, Drmies (talk) 19:15, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

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Congrats on getting Admin status. Best wishes Si Trew (talk) 08:00, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, cheers. -SpacemanSpiff 08:15, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

How's it going? If you want to block someone, Drmies is long over due. ChildofMidnight (talk) 02:41, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

I was actually thinking of granting you rollback rights instead. -SpacemanSpiff 02:42, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

I had them once, but I try to mark up my watchlist by clicking a bunch of things in a row so I know where I'm up to, and I ended up undoing a week's worth of other people's article work. Why is everyone trying to give me tools? Let's cut to the chase and make me an admin already. Or an arb. Although I can't promise I will read all the evidence. Too time consuming. But I will review the arguments of the other Arbs and assess the usernames and cabal membership affiliations of those participating in any case I decide. It's the least I can do. ChildofMidnight (talk) 05:34, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

You can have my rollback; I barely use it anymore--I'm all Twinkley, thanks to Sky. And before anyone makes CoM an admin, I want to see him on barrel duty for a couple of weeks. CoM is right, though: I am long overdue for a block, but make it long enough for me to finish this book. Drmies (talk) 20:40, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

I must admit I am quite happy being a normal editor and not having these tools, that way I can't accidentally abuse them. Either by an accidental click of a button, or being too hasty. But that is just my self-knowedge. most who have them seem to use them responsibly Si Trew (talk) 07:07, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Don't encourage CoM or Drmies, they're enough trouble already! But, the only thing that can be accidentally misused is rollback, pretty much everything else has a fairly decent check mechanism. cheers. -SpacemanSpiff 07:11, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

User:Jayminsoneji

Have a look at this newly created userpage. Salih (talk) 16:59, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Both the article and user page have been deleted and a note left on the talk page. -SpacemanSpiff 18:50, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Tarati

Spiff, thanks for the advice. That took another half an hour from my life which I'll never get back. Do you mind going over the infobox? I can't get the demographics to come out right. Also, feel free to cut from the template whatever is unlikely to ever be important. As you know, I don't do geography... Thanks! Drmies (talk) 20:36, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Looks good, I've cleaned it up -- removed the unused sections/titles and also fixed the ethnicity and faith bits. In future, to simplify your life, you could do something else too, place the project tag in the talk page and add the "|needs-infobox=yes" bit in there. Someone from the Pakistan project would be able to fill it in!-SpacemanSpiff 22:17, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Sure--but will they? I'm an impatient person, dear Spiff. Thanks for your help! Drmies (talk) 00:13, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Delete and unprotect

Will you please unprotect and delete User:Btilm/signature? It is no longer needed. Thanks. Btilm 23:01, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Done. -SpacemanSpiff 23:09, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Deleted article

Hello,

It looks like our article did not qualify for wikipedia.  :(

We will revise this to sound encyclopedic and with other requirements.

Based on the deleted comments, it requires that we contact you in the even we need to post a similar/revised writing to be sure it qualifies to all requirements. :)

Please let me know when we can proceed.

Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mp3hp (talk • contribs) 01:53, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Replied at user's talk page. -SpacemanSpiff 03:48, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Just a simple thank-you

Thanks for blocking 76.98.50.251 for me. I was too busy doing other things to watch my userpage that they used as a target for their vandalism.

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Thanks for the cookie! cheers. -SpacemanSpiff 04:57, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

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I had noticed the edits by the users who created Khurai District etc. Shall take a look and mark the ones to be deleted. Paalappoo (talk) 19:33, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Why??

did u have to delete my page about my mate? —Preceding unsigned comment added by MickHouston1995 (talk • contribs) 21:31, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Replied at user's talk page. -SpacemanSpiff 22:11, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

dynamic IP vandalism

Hey Spiff, if you have a minute, please have a look at Kastor. A variety of similar IPs keeps reinserting the same BS, overriding the current redirect. Can you push a quick "protect" button, or should I go to the board? Thanks! Drmies (talk) 06:07, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

• Hey thanks, that was quick! Drmies (talk) 06:10, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
  • Oh, guitar players--I just got this, finally, and now I know what the big deal is all about. Drmies (talk) 06:11, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
    • This one was pretty straightforward; I think the page should have been deleted first and then redirected, so that more reverts won't happen, but I'll let someone else do that if needed. You mean you haven't heard Layla before??? Do you ever listen on Pandora (music service). I find it very good, introduces me to all sorts of new artistes I've never heard before. cheers. -SpacemanSpiff 06:16, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
      • BTW, Tongue 'n Groove by Kimock might be more to your liking than Cole's Law. Many versions for this one too. -SpacemanSpiff 06:22, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

<--I'll check it out. Listen, Spiff, you know you are dealing with a commaf***er here: you're referring to the song, which even dead people can whistle along with, I was talking about the album. Truly a find. Oh, what you said about deleting and redirecting, I don't get it--unless you mean by that that the acts of vandalism are simply "undo"s. Is that how you mean it? I'm trying to learn for when I run for office, though I am aiming to shoot for bureacratship straightaway, without stopping at admin. Drmies (talk) 06:45, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

• Thanks for the block. You know, it's still a bit disconcerting to hear that kind of stuff. ANYWAY--I never knew how great the album was; I'm on this mission to complete my Duane Allman collection. Do you know that, after two months of practice, I can play the first two licks from the Allman Brothers' version of "Statesboro Blues?" I don't know how much further I am going to get. OK, I'm going to head out and leave the fort to you. Keep on fighting the good fight! Drmies (talk) 06:54, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
  • I'm reading a few uninteresting articles to update the history section of Flag of India, so the whack-a-mole bit in between is the least I could do! Ah, didn't realize you were talking about the album, I got it as a gift a few years back, and I loved it despite my misgivings with the title. I tried my hand at a cheap guitar a couple of years ago, no luck, got to blame the bad genes for the fingers. I can play the Indian national anthem though, but it's difficult to do it while standing still! G'nite. -SpacemanSpiff 07:04, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
    • Not bad. That steel player is nice too--and did you see those two beautiful Mesa Boogies behind him? Later, Drmies (talk) 07:26, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
      • Hey Spiff, when we have time, shouldn't we turn Layla into a GA, or even an FA? The album deserves it, I think--and I say that also because Remain in Light was on the front page a couple of days ago. Take care, Drmies (talk) 18:16, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
        • I normally stay away from (Western) music articles because of our strange customs around them. I've found real world notables not accorded the same importance here and vv. I can help out when you're ready to start, though, it'll be more on the sourcing and expanding bit, you'll have to take care of the MOS thingy (I can't figure out many of these requirements on film and music articles). cheers. -SpacemanSpiff 22:25, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Tendulkar

Eyes roll! Aaroncrick (talk) Review me! 23:10, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, this chap has been inserting his blog links everywhere. He's never got a final level warning because he blanks it out. He's on his last strike now, let's see. -SpacemanSpiff 23:12, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Oh .. clever! Thanks for letting me know. Aaroncrick (talk) Review me! 23:22, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Cheley

Hey, thanks for the advice, I've improved the article, I was wondering if you could give me some tips on what else to add. I'm sorry to bother you, I was just wondering if you have any advice, as I don't want it to be nominated for deletion again. (also, could you please place a on my talk page?)

Thanks, HaiyaTheWin (talk) 23:54, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

hey!, i didn't understand, why was my edit for Sachin Tendulkar page was removed? i just contributed few things & just put a reference?