User talk:Aksi great

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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\^@ 01:03, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

• great to know that amul has been nominated. don't have much knowledge about this topic. have been reminded today that i have only 12 edits to my name. planning to improve my score. hope to hit a century (does that matter??). well i have 14 now. will try to edit with my name now. would that add to the value of my vote - "This user has 123 edits. so dare not accuse him"

Aksi great, Everything in wikipedia works on consensus. It is just a dicussion point to prevent sockpuppets from voting. You can put your point across in the discussion here. Please take this discussion in your stride and continue to contribute. Please let me know if you need help with anything. Thanks for your contributions. - Ganeshk (talk) 17:33, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Copyright Paranoia

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Avoid_Copyright_Paranoia please visit this page and i am referring to the Sabarmati Riverfront Project. You have not visited the discussion page of Ahmedabad city, for a long time, or so it seems. If you are satisfied, please post the section again, or notify me, so that I start some re-writing on my own. Anirudh

You are absolutely right... I think we should rewrite that article. The Sabarmati Riverfront Project deserves to be placed as a heading, because it will soon be changing the face and outlook of Ahmedabad.

Anirudh

Image copyright problem with Image:Schoololdpic.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Schoololdpic.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images on Wikipedia is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}.

Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. You can get help on image copyright tagging from Wikipedia talk:Image copyright tags. -- Carnildo 08:04, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Politician images

Hi Aksi. I noticed your good work with articles on Indian politicians. I lifted the photo of TR Baalu from the official site of Lok Sabha. I marked it with a public domain tag by inserting {{PD-IndiaGov}} into the description. However, it was realised recently that these images are copyrighted and we can't use them. :-( They'll be deleted. If you have an image that you own or if the owner has released under a Wikipedia-compatible licence, you can upload it by adding one of the tags in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags. Also read Wikipedia:Copyrights. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 05:06, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Politician pages

About T R Baalu, there was a placeholder for Children in the infobox. I thought why not. The parliament website mentions it. It is a bio, more the info. the better.

The infoboxes can still be added to all articles. For those that we do not have copyright-free images (it is going to tough to find them, unless we hand-draw them :)), add Image:blank.jpg in the Image field. See Marina Geli i Fàbrega for example. - Ganeshk (talk)

need for redirects

Hi.. saw the changes made to T R Baalu. Have not implemented the infobox on other articles yet because there is a copyright problem with the images taken from the GOI site. Also, I feel that things like spouse and children don't make much sense and don't add value to the article.

Can you also redirect the article H R Bharadwaj to Hansraj Bhardwaj as the latter is the correct name of the person. Similarly, A R Antule needs to be redirected to Abdul Rehman Antulay.

- Aksi great 09:45, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Done. - Ganeshk (talk) 17:48, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Politics of India

I started this project to create and expand articles related to the Indian politics. I hope you would join and contribute. Thanks, Ganeshk (talk) 07:03, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

just dropped in...

...to say hi after seeing your message on the talkpage of WP:POI. btw, I saw the message about H R Bharadwaj and A R Antule above. Typically, we retain articles at the common names. You may want to see WP:MoS and related pages for further info or the talkpage of WP:INCINE where we had a discussion on Indian names. Keep up the good work. --Gurubrahma 13:35, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

9/11 Bin Laden conspiracy theory

Has been nominated for deletion as it is the same material essentially found elsewhere...best think to do is go and vote to delete it. It's just POV junk for sure.--MONGO 14:37, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Pure evil

Do you think he's a non-notable artist? If so, let me know and I'll list it at AfD on that basis. Tom Harrison ^Talk 16:48, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Done. Tom Harrison ^Talk 17:10, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for keeping on top of it. Tom Harrison ^Talk 13:37, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Kashiram Rana

I fixed the infobox with this change. Leave the footnote blank and use date and URL fields. I felt a need for the bio link and had added them to the infobox itself. - Ganeshk (talk) 10:51, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

You had not put up any picture in its stead. The blank image is irrelevant to the article. Or is it not? --Andy123 15:31, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

What you have explained here is not quite justifiable. I would like you to rethink upon it. Is there any policy on Wikipedia about it? You could have definately mentioned about the requirement of a picture on the talk page. Technically, placing a blank picture does not have a stand here. Read WP:IUP for details (nothing of the sort you are talking about exists on the page). Moreover, a blank picture taking up space on an encyclopedia article looks extremely unprofessional. --Andy123 16:23, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

The Lok Sabha website does not come under the GFDL policies of Wikipedia. For uploading pictures on a Wikipedia page, the images should be registered specifically under GFDL. If you search for promotional websites of the MPs (remember that only promotional pictures can be used, which are available with the press, but not necessarily press release photographs), you can use them under the fair use option that Wikipedia provides. The images have to be of low resolution, and used only for depiction, this would qualify for fair usage on Wikipedia. For example, the pictures used on Green Day are licensed under fair use. (The Right to Information Act, does not have any relevancy here. The copyrights applying here are of the United States copyright law). The problem faced by Wikipedia is that it is not only a free encyclopedia, but it gives all of its contents for free, even for commercial and non-academic or research purposes. Copyright infringments have the potential to cause serious damage to this encyclopedia. --Andy123 16:51, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Keep in mind that you are creating only stubs and not full length articles on Wikipedia. Such tags should be placed when the article has grown to some extent. Because the templates would only add up to the space on the page, when there is not much given about the person in the article. There are lots and lots of stubs on Wikipedia like these, and they would be quite difficult to manage if you place such templates on the whole lot of them. Furthermore, I would always suggest that you use the templates rather than images uploaded by users for such purpose. --Andy123 16:57, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Tagging Amusement Wiki as speedy

The article wasn't finished when you tagged it, maybe you could re-check it? --Gary Kirk (talk) 18:22, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

If you don't feel its notable maybe put it for AfD? Check out the humour first! :) --Gary Kirk (talk) 18:31, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Non-notable bands

A reminder that non-notable bands can be speedily deleted instead of sent to PROD. enochlau (talk) 00:18, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Holi greetings

Hi, I am wishing you a happy Holi, the unique Hindu celebration of color and brotherhood among all members of the humanity. The festival falls on 15th March 2006. I have collected A Gift Pack of Quotations for you contained in the sections Do things Differently & Something More , which are part of the on-going discussion pertaining to my nomination of Idleguy for adminship. You are aware of the tradition that if you throw colored water on flames of burning Holika, you enable a Prahlad to emerge from the flames!!! I again convey Holi greetings to you and your family!!! --Bhadani 15:04, 4 March 2006 (UTC)