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Help needed at Chitpavan

I'm having a problem as an admin at Chitpavan with an editor, Authentickle (talk · contribs), who has been adding inappropriate material such as this. I've protected the page and reverted the worst of it, and the editor now accepts that he has to use reliable sources very carefully, but I remain concerned. I can't get involved in editing the page or giving too much advice about content, in part because I'm there as an admin, and also because I know nothing about the topic. If someone here could take a look and get involved on the talk page, that would be very helpful. SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 15:30, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

The problems at the above continue. It is part of Wikiproject India. If anyone from the wikiproject is able to help, please see the talk page. Many thanks, SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 05:38, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

I've reorganized the article sections, and cleaned it up. Will keep a watch on it. utcursch | talk 18:23, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Merge discussion - Saffron Terror

It has been suggested that the article Saffron terror be merged into Terrorism in India or Hindu nationalism

Pls seeTalk:Saffron_terror#Merge_discussion Arjun^codename024 13:44, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Rasul Miyan

There's a new stub on this Indian playwright and folk singer who died in 1952. Finding sources other than one website is proving tricky, so help from someone who speaks Hindi and is able to search for some sources would be appreciated. Fences&Windows 14:37, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Discussion on Manual of Style (dates and numbers)

There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Indian number names about the problem non-Indian WP users have understanding numbers that include terms such as "Lakh" and "Crore". Please help us find a solution. Roger (talk) 11:16, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Large scale misspelling in Assamese wikipedia

While this is unrelated to English wikipedia, I want to report it here in the hope that some Assamese speaking wikipedian will fix it. There is a large scale article move in Assamese wikipedia by a particular user. The user is moving articles to incorrect spellings. From his contributions, it appears that his computer is not configured to display complex indic unicode script, hence he is moving articles like কম্পিউটাৰ বিজ্ঞান to কম্িপউটাৰ িবজ্ঞান. The user doing this is as:বিশেষ:অৱদানবোৰ/Anshuman.jrt.

The 4 admins at AS wikipedia are all retired. There are also no active users other than Anshuman.jrt,. So, I am requesting an assamese speaking wikipedian to handle this as soon as possible. Regards. --Ragib (talk) 19:44, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Can someone help with this please? The vandalism (possibly unintended) is going on. If unchecked, almost all of the articles of the AS wikipedia will be affected. --Ragib (talk) 05:41, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Does Classical music refer only to Western classical music?

For those interested in terminological issues: there is a discussion going on Talk:List of art music traditions#Move proposal on (e.g.) whether "Classical music" should be reserved for Western Classical music, and other forms should be called "art music". Someone may want to take a look; remember that the point is not to say "Oppose" or "Support" but to discuss and arrive at a consensus. Shreevatsa (talk) 02:04, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

On Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1984 ghallooghaaraa‎

Fyi, Khalistanis were able to save the article Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1984 ghallooghaaraa‎ by obtaining no consensus in AfD. Advice on how to procede forward to rid Wikipedia of this massive blog entry would be welcomed. --Soman (talk) 01:12, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Sigh! Every time you try to get rid of a Sikh-related POV fork, they just descend in droves and vote anonymously. I would expect that the closer would ignore at least the anon votes. Would taking it to ANI help? --Deepak D'Souza (talk) 04:49, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Shouldn't we goto deletion review first?--Sodabottle (talk) 04:56, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Now they are trying to remove this thread itself sigh!--Sodabottle (talk) 06:20, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

What do you mean by 'they' ? --DawnOfTheBlood (talk) 06:42, 22 June 2010 (UTC)