User talk:Sitush

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Scribd dot com

Is not a wikipedia reliable source for anything it is a user uploaded site and you should do as I do and remove it on sight. Off2riorob (talk) 17:48, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Good. That was my wider point. Thanks for the info. - Sitush (talk) 17:56, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Citation Barnstar
	For your great work on Caste system in Kerala. Drmies (talk) 03:01, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Oh, thank you. Can I quote you on this? - Sitush (talk) 03:10, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

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You beat me to it.

You beat me to it. I had just concluded, via Wayback, that we had a reserve copyvio (at Kulwant Singh Virk), but you corrected yourself before I could :)--SPhilbrickT 18:13, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Yes, sorry about that. I had a brain fart at first, there. I don't usually intend to create work for others. - Sitush (talk) 18:22, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Three revert rule on Mariano Hugo of Windisch-Graetz

Dear Sitush,

It is you who have already broken the three revert rule: here [1], here [2], and here [3]. I have not broken that rule: I added a section, and then reverted your edit TWICE. If you continue to engage in this kind of edit warring, I will report your actions. 128.100.125.177 (talk) 21:52, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

I have broken no rule, and am aware of the edits that I have in fact done. The warning is preventative: if you read it in full you will understand that it is saying that you may have broken it and need to be aware even if you have not yet done so. Honestly, just keep it to the article talk page for now - I have no desire to see you blocked but it will happen if you continue in the same manner. It is obvious to me that you are inexperienced: we all have to start somewhere & people will guide you, but there are few exceptions to 3RR & being inexperienced is not one of them. - Sitush (talk) 21:58, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Addendum: when I say "inexperienced", I mean with regard to policy issues. You are clearly not inexperienced with regard to editing here. - Sitush (talk) 22:05, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Incidentally it seems that Big Hugh has his fans in Canada; both the IP and Noel McFerran hail from the University of Toronto. pablo 23:00, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I had spotted that. I am not sure that the plural of the word is correct & have been debating with myself whether to raise this at the AfD. If it is socking (or even meating) then it potentially disrupts the AfD process. There may even be another one knocking around, but I am still checking. - Sitush (talk) 23:06, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Although not yet commenting at the AfD, Special:Contributions/99.242.18.194 also locates to Toronto & is editing similar articles. There is something odd going on, given that these are fairly obscure topics. - Sitush (talk) 23:21, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Gentlemen of His Holiness

You write, If you would rather see the titles reversed - ie: Gentiluomo holding the content and Papal G redirecting to it - then feel free to start a rename discussion on the Papal G talk page. My suspicion is that you would not succeed because Papal Gentlemen is the more widely used term in English language sources (and this is the English language Wikipedia, not the Italian one) but, hey, I have no great interest and will not be involved.

• Google Books "Papal Gentlemen" 17 results
• Google Books "Gentlemen of His Holiness" 17 results

What evidence can you provide that "Papal Gentlemen" is more widely used in English? 99.242.18.194 (talk) 05:00, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

You've just quoted me. Read what I said. - Sitush (talk) 05:01, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

And, please, stop socking. You appear now to have admitted to it and you are avoiding the three revert rule at Mariano by continuing in that manner. There is nothing to stop you logging in from different computers. - Sitush (talk) 05:04, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Hello,

If I've sent a previous and similar message, please consider this deja vu. I know that our fearless leader and Foundation staff are in India with invited guests. I attended a similar but different gathering in Boston a few months ago. I don't know what continent you are on right now, but I do know that I appreciate all the work you do on India-related articles here. Thank you for the professionalism of your difficult work. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 04:59, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks very much for the note. I'm not sure where we've crossed paths before but it rather seems that we must have done. - Sitush (talk) 07:19, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

You are welcome. I am simply an ongoing observer from a distance of the good work you do for this wonderful encyclopedia. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 07:42, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

About change in Sikh Rajput's

Pl, dont'change anything without any reason, check the Jallandhar, Adampur Doaba gazette. Sikh Rajput 08:47, 19 November 2011 (UTC) Sikhdev Singh Minhas--Sikh Rajput 08:48, 19 November 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sukhdev Singh Minhas (talk • contribs)

I am afraid that I did revert, having left your additions for 24 hours. The content was unsourced & I could make no headway with your comment above that I should "check the Jallandhar, Adampur Doaba gazette". If you need some help regarding how to cite info in articles then just holler. Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 07:07, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

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Jessica Lal

Please find my comments on the article talk page. You have definitely made the article look better. But we can talk about the reservations you have over some of the information.

Regards (Prabhloch (talk) 06:11, 20 November 2011 (UTC))

Re William Crooke bibliography

Normally I would, but because the WikiProject Bibliographies has a few distractors who think the project is making unilateral moves without consensus (actually not happening) and are looking for contraversy to hold against the project, I have chosen to take the more measured approach of RM. Please add your support to the move discussion. Thanks. --Mike Cline (talk) 16:51, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Ah, well in that case you should just have asked me. I would have moved it and taken the flak, bearing in mind that I am the 99.9% contributor to that article. - Sitush (talk) 16:54, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Sitush, you used a figure in the Crooke RM - >80,000 List of Works of ... articles. I am curious as to where that number comes from. Does that include Discographies and Filmographies in that? That's a large number and if they were actually bibliographies, WP will have come a long way. Again, just curious. --Mike Cline (talk) 12:09, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Yes, like I said, it will include a lot of extraneous stuff.. I'll try to remember what I did but it may have been a search on "list of works of". Full of a cold at the moment & my brain is a bit fuddled. - Sitush (talk) 12:29, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

No hurry, I am on vacation in Florida for the week, so I won't be focused as well. --Mike Cline (talk) 12:42, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Sitush, it is refreshing to see a major contributor in one of these RM's. You asked about a meta-discussion on the naming issue. There is one here. We arrived at a formula that even one of the critics of our project liked. RockMagnetist (talk) 04:18, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Monstrous birth

Now look what you've done, you monster. Drmies (talk) 22:42, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

You beat me to it! And probably have made a better job of it also. Is there a template for "Further reading (not safe after a meal)"? We have an obvious candidate for inclusion under that. Ewww. - Sitush (talk) 00:32, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi there ....

Sorry, Sitush, but I've lately been swamped by real life and haven't been able to get back to you on a number things, including Zuggernaut's ANI. I've now decided to take four weeks off to take care of business. I had hoped that the Kurmi, Yadav, and Jat pages would be reasonably complete by now, but they are not, and I do feel badly. Anyway, I hope you continue to work on those pages and keep them honest. Regards, Fowler&fowler«Talk» 11:02, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

HTML entities

I've restored the improvements that you reverted in Indiana in the American Civil War. Please don't edit war to enforce your own opinion, but rather, please seek a third opinion. On the question of HTML entities such as —, I'd recommend you read what the article Character encodings in HTML#HTML character references has to say:

• Unnecessary use of HTML character references may significantly reduce HTML readability. If the character encoding for a web page is chosen appropriately then HTML character references are usually only required for a markup delimiting characters mentioned above, and for a few special characters (or not at all if a native Unicode encoding like UTF-8 is used). However, to prevent HTML injection attacks like Cross Site Scripting you should be very careful to use HTML entity escaping properly. If HTML attributes are not fully quoted, then you must entity encode whitespace like space, tab, and others. Other HTML contexts like javascript, css styles, and URLs require different escaping formats. See http://www.owasp.org/index.php/XSS_(Cross_Site_Scripting)_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet for details on each of the different contexts.

This is not a policy page, but nevertheless it is quite normal for our best articles to avoid such HTML for the reasons given. In general it is expected that characters are used where they are supported in preference to entities in order to make editing easier. I'll also point out to you that there is a difference between unit symbols and other countable sets. Per MOS:NUM#Unit symbols "Values and unit symbols are separated by a non-breaking space" as there is a long-standing printing convention that unit symbols should not start a new line (so we prevent them from wrapping). However we do not use a non-breaking space to separate '7500' and 'men', for example, as there is no reason why a line may not wrap at that point. I've corrected several of those that I spotted, but you may know of others. Hope that helps. --RexxS (talk) 21:51, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

It doesn't help particularly, but I am past caring. Good luck fixing all the other articles. Thanks for the note. - Sitush (talk) 00:15, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

To clarify, and to paraphrase a statement made by Jimbo in India last week, "ask 10 people about HTML entities and you get 12 opinions". - Sitush (talk) 00:23, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

I'd have expected even more than 12 opinions as the various debates have been running for around six years, but nowadays the practice seems to settled on 'replace them'. So much so that at least one automated tool (WP:AutoEd) will automatically convert entities to their equivalent characters for you. I wouldn't seriously consider trying to reverse actions that anybody can do with a single click. Canute had better odds than that. Cheers, --RexxS (talk) 02:17, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, missed this due to indents below. Canute, of course, was trying to prove that he could not' turn back the tide ;) Sitush (talk) 06:27, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

ndashes? hyphens? such things are offered for fixing by scripts such as:

• importScript('User:Cameltrader/Advisor.js');

and

• importScript("User:GregU/dashes.js");

I was at Indiana to fix a redirect to the {{sidebar}} I'd rebuilt the other day (an anon helped). As to templates, see

• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-11-21/Technology report#Horizontal lists have got class

Alarbus (talk) 03:01, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

I already have those scripts, and the harvnb script etc, thanks. Check my edit summaries & some of them show up there. The problem is when you unilaterally change something from one style to another. As I've said before, just because you can does not necessarily mean that you should. - Sitush (talk) 06:17, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

ANI

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Tooling

Wikipedia:RX#L.T.C._Rolt.2C_-_citation_request (as it was some time ago, so you might miss it) --Errant ^(chat!) 01:18, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Spotted it, thanks. You see the same as I do - bloody frustrating. I am starting to move around a little more than I have been able to do for some time & so the pleasures of Manchester Central Library may become open to me. Except that it has been shut for a year or so due to refurbs. I am pleased that you have noted RX for what it is, per your comment elsewhere. For those of us without access to sources (of various types, not just academic stuff like JSTOR) it really is a fantastic and underpublicised, erm, resource. I am on the list to respond to requests for things from the Newcomen Society. A new-ish contributor there - User:JanetteDoe - seems to have a remarkable access to all sorts of bumpf. - Sitush (talk) 01:28, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Deletion of cited content

Please do not delete cited content as you have done again on Talk Khokhar page and as I have been requesting you for long .Intothefire (talk) 12:56, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Eh? I've deleted no content from that talk page. - Sitush (talk) 13:03, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

I've now worked out what you meant. See that talk page for my reply. - Sitush (talk) 13:14, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Deletion of my comments from talk page

Sitush please do not delete the comments of other editors as you have done on the Talk Jogendra Nath Bhattacharya page. Intothefire (talk) 16:54, 27 November 2011 (UTC)