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Maybe

Still thinking about it.. Had some time on my hands, so gave the test.. gonna be valid for the next 5 years.. How'z your residency going? -- Longhairandabeard (talk) 05:29, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Government of Orissa

Thanks for writing Government of Orissa. --Just my 2 cents -- Hemanshu (talk) 19:44, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

hi

i'm new. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.253.141.183 (talk) 13:43, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

C-class articles for WP INDIA

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  • No problem; it sounds like you and I have that in common in terms of busy-ness. I'm well thank you. I hope you are too? I just realised this notice was here when I came to reply so thought I'd note that I too would appreciate your views on the C-class matter. Cheers, Ncmvocalist (talk) 19:15, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Indian Barnstar of National Merit

The Indian Barnstar of National Merit
Awarded to Dwaipayanc for helping Delhi to FA status. This is to also to let you know that Delhi is on today's (Nov 3rd 2008) Main page. Thanks -- Tinu Cherian 07:57, 3 November 2008 (UTC) & Ncmvocalist (talk) 08:25, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I have been trying to bring up mining in India to a fully sourced version and have made some progress. Make sure to take a look whenever you find time :-) JSR 0562 20:54, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks!

Thanks for the birthday wishes -- Part II, Dwaipayan :) =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:55, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Re:Kalimpong FARC

Nice to see you back. Yes, I saw book references in the article below but I think they would hold true even now. So need not worry about them. For some information which was very hard to find elsewhere I found it on Gorkhapedia. I had opened a thread on WT:IND asking about Gorkhapedia. I think we can pick some non-controvertial information from there too. We will try our best. --GPPande talk! 07:37, 9 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Kalimpong

My primary source was this: Holidaying in Sikkim and Bhutan – published by Nest and Wings – ISBN 81-87592-07-9 Looks like we have to do another Gangtok. =Nichalp «Talk»= 19:28, 9 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I do, but would have to search. Can't remember where I kept it. PS Could you archive this page? It takes a long time to load. =Nichalp «Talk»= 19:52, 9 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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FL status

Thanks for your help during the FLC. It helped me. --GPPande 17:25, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Belated congrats ...

To add to your collection. Abecedare (talk) 10:33, 22 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This user was the winner of Round 26 of the India Quiz.

Message from JSR

Most recently I have rewritten ISRO, Vainu Bappu, and History of measurement systems in India articles. You are invited to take take a look!

JSR 0562 19:40, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Zinta

I know. Shame he isn't here to see it. Have a great Christmas! The Bald One White cat 20:14, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Honestly buddy, I have no idea where he is. I just remember he told me that he wouldn't be able to come on Wikipedia due to personal circumstances. I wish he was here to see it!! Anyways, here's wishing you a Merry Christmas!! -- Bollywood Dreamz talk 16:30, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas

Hello Dwaipayanc! I just wanted to wish you and your family a merry Christmas! May this Christmas be full of great cheer and holiday spirit. Have a great day and a wonderful New Year, from The Bald One White cat 11:19, 25 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

Thank you Dwaipayan for the warm welcome! Hope to keep in touch.

Special regards, Mainak. --Mainak (talk) 17:51, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

GAN

Hi Dwaipayanc - How's everything? I know you are on break but I thought I'd let you know that I've nominated Chak De India for WP:GAN. To do so, I had to significantly reduce the plot which was about 1000 words over the normal limit of 900 words. I think that this is potentially both a GA and FA article. -Classicfilms (talk) 20:08, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

All is well, just going back to some articles that seem to have potential. I understand about time, no pressure...When you do have a moment, if you could tell me what the lead needs to make it stronger, I would appreciate it. Good to hear from you, -Classicfilms (talk) 21:23, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks!! Let me think about these point and I'll let you know when I've revised the intro. -Classicfilms (talk) 21:52, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

More on Chak De

I re-wrote the lead. When you have a free moment, could you take a look? Make any changes that you feel are necessary or let me know on my talk page what can be improved. Thanks so much, -Classicfilms (talk) 01:45, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I made the changes. Take a look and let me know what you think. Also, the article is seriously in need of free images but I can't seem to find any - not even of SRK. If you have thoughts or ideas, let me know. -Classicfilms (talk) 02:30, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]


The Original Barnstar
A long overdue Barnstar for the many hours of advice and tips you have given towards the improvement of Bollywood articles. Much appreciated Dwaipayanc! - Classicfilms (talk) 16:23, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Images etc.

You're welcome!! The barnstar is long overdue and well deserved...

Thanks for the tip about images. Perhaps I can ask you, when you have a chance, to upload the images to the commons? I don't mind doing all of the tweaks etc. to the article (and I really appreciate your help in this area...) but it would be great to have the help of other editors in terms of uploading images - thanks for the tip though about IndiaFM, that is very helpful to know about. I did add a few free images to the article, which are somewhat related to the topic though not the best - it would be great to see more Bollywood film project editors work on the article in such areas as images and adding further information... Though I know you are technically on break at the moment so any help you can give is appreciated!! Thanks, -Classicfilms (talk) 22:44, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Happy New Year

Dwaipayan da! --Tarif from Bangladesh (talk) 20:59, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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User Box and WP:Psychiatry

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Chak De India is now GA

Hi Dwai - Good news, Chak De India is now a GA. Thanks for your help!-Classicfilms (talk) 23:45, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Actually, you did help quite a bit. Two thoughts - the first is that eventually I'd like to see Chak De move to FAC but I think it will need a fresh set of eyes - I'm sure there is more that we could add but I'd need a new perspective. The other - I'd like to see Taare Zameen Par go for GAN next but it still needs a lot of work - more could be added, the large quotes integrated and so forth. It's a wonderful and quite unique film (from what I can tell, the only feature film with the issue of dyslexia as the main theme rather than as one of many subplots) which makes innovative use of CG. Not being nominated for an Oscar shouldn't really determine the fate of this film and I think that with a little bit of help from other Wikipedians, it could grow into a fine article. I think that's it for now. -Classicfilms (talk) 02:16, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Forgot to add that I also thinkParineeta (2005 film) is a good candidate to push towards FAC. -Classicfilms (talk) 03:22, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Spartaz has warned us of (threatened to take) G4 (speedy delete) action if we run a competition that resembles the previously deleted Awards Center page. So whatever we do, any contests we run must differ substantially from the methods used there.

One type of competition I've been exploring is edit racing. I'm in the process of working the bugs out of this concept - the first race didn't work as expected - you see, because we only had an award for first place, the opponent didn't think it worthwhile to continue once it was clear who the winner would be. And since editors are in different time zones and usually need to start the race at different times, we need to base winning on personal start times - he who completes his assigned edits in the least time (rather than first), wins. And last but not least is quality control. What good is winning if your edits are ripe with errors? So I'll be exploring possibilities such as using a referee (whoever is overseeing a particular race), having participants watching each other for errors to knock them back, etc. I'm not sure yet.

Rich Farmbrough has been applying his bot expertise to filling in blanks in the country outlines (the population and area entries). I'm amazed at the number of edits he pumps out each day on a myriad of projects - ours makes up but a small time slice of his activity, and yet he has saved us many hours of manual work. Perhaps we should look into how he gets so much done.  :)

Zlerman has chosen to work on one outline at a time, and is taking on Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. He also has been keen on noticing and reporting design issues pertaining to the whole set of country outlines. Keep up the good work!

Highfields has been filling in the names of capitals, and is our first race winner. Check out the award on his user pages.

As you probably know, this project has expanded to include working on any and all sets of pages that are linked to from the country outlines. Once the set of country outlines go live (in article space), traffic will likely increase for all the links included on them. The quality and usefulness of those pages will reflect heavily on the country outlines (the outlines, which are essentially lists of links, are only as good as the links they present), and therefore we've branched out to solve the biggest problems with those as well. So far, we've taken on:

  • The creation of disambiguation pages for country adjectivals ("German", "French", "Taiwanese", etc. About half done.)
  • The clean-up of the CIA World Factbook statistics on the "demographics of" country pages. We've been renaming those sections to provide a key string that AWB can use for targetting (for skipping and filtering). Once that's done, we'll be able to break the clean-up down into simple AWB search/replace tasks, because we'll be able to target just those pages that include the CIA stuff.
  • Renaming the "Cuisine of" articles to their adjectival forms ("Chinese cuisine", "Italian cuisine", etc.)

Blackadam2 and Thehelpfulone have been helping out with the "demographics of" pages mentioned above.

And we have a couple speed addicts (addicted to wiki-velocity, not drugs)...

Both Robert Skyhawk and Thehelpfulone prefer (and excel at) simple AWB search/replaces. Robert hasn't actually joined our team yet, but he has been helping out quite a bit from the sidelines (via the WP:AWB/Tasks page. Unfortunately, there has recently been a non-AWB chore that has been holding things up on the AWB front - an edit to all the the headings which had to be reverted before too many new edits were made, because any new edits would make the reversion more difficult. The headings have been restored, so now the way is clear for AWB operations, and there are many search/replace tasks in the queue. AWB assignments have started again!

There's a similar bottleneck on the "Demographics of" pages (the "keying" mentioned above), but that's almost cleared too.  :)

With my internet access somewhat crippled, I've been finding it difficult to keep up with you guys. However, I expect to be accessing a Linky-capable workstation on a faster server (I'm on it right now, as you can probably tell from my contributions list for today), and so I should really pick up speed. Feels goooooood.  :)

Recruiting has been a bit slow (but steady), due in part to my crippled access, and because we've been waiting for the images for the awards to be completed. I expect the team to grow more rapidly as the bottlenecks are removed.

Well that's what's been happenin', and here's what's in the pipeline...

I'm about to begin work on a set of lists that corresponds to all the standard links on the country outlines, and these will be presented on the Topic outline of countries which will be organized exactly like the country outlines. Aside from being an extremely useful navigation aid, it will allow editors to easily see the state of country coverage on Wikipedia. I'll provide you with a link once I get up to speed on this.

In the meantime, keep up the good work!

Cheers,

The Transhumanist    05:50, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Message from JSR

The education in India article, a top importance article under WP: India, has recently been rewritten by me. Though the rewrite is is no way complete I invite you to take a look and see, and if possible contribute. Sincerely, JSR 0562 18:25, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Could you take a look...

Hi Dwai,

When you have some free time, could you take a look at just the lead for Taare Zameen Par? I know it needs work but I need a fresh pair of eyes to see what is needed. Hope all is well, -Classicfilms (talk) 19:38, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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How've you been pal? Long time... Shahid • Talk2me 19:42, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yeh. That must have been an exciting day and I felt very sad, but Rahul had taken a photo of the main page and it is now on my user page:) I'm very happy you're well. And I hope that you be present when Pather Panchali is featured on the main page. ;) Talk 2 me... :) Shahid • Talk2me 19:50, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Something new is if you didn't know, Zinta is nominated for a Genie Award - from the Canadian Academy of Film and Television for Heaven on Earth (film) by Deepa Mehta. It's particularly great because she is nominated along with Oscar winners like Susan Sarandon. Shahid • Talk2me 19:56, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Don't have much time unfortunatly. I had started working on a few projects before I left Wikipedia (like sourcing and expanding the Bollywood article, improving the Manisha Koirala one etc.) but had to leave it midway (at least until I have more time)
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regarding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_India#History

the matter of farmers' suicide in India is quite touchy. Yet it takes care of much that is known in public about government policy as also the problems of farmers.

The article does seem to be balanced and does not, in my opinion, push any particular bias or partial agenda. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Upendrabaxi2004 (talk • contribs) 13:00, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

re. article on farmers suicide in india http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_India#History

The article touches upon a very critical issue. The matter of farmers suicide is complex and does invite strong biased views. Yet the present article seems quite balanced. It does not push any particular agenda either. upendra 13:02, 19 February 2009 (UTC)Upendrabaxi2004upendra 13:02, 19 February 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Upendrabaxi2004 (talk • contribs)

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Remember "Around the World"?

Well, we've been around the World, and around again (virtually speaking, on Wikipedia), on this project.

Things have been slowing down again, so it's time for a big push...

We've gone live

This project needed a shot in the arm. Also, its draft pages have been littering Wikipedia's categories for months. The time seemed right to move all the country outline drafts to article space.

WHAT???

Well, the drafts had been sitting in Wikipedia space for a year.

WHAT???

Development has been moving at a snail's pace and we could use the help of the Wikipedia community at large (who are more likely to find these if they are in article space).

WHAT???

Yes, we've gone live.  :)

This puts pressure on us to get the blatantly incomplete elements of these outlines done. The only glaring problem is the government branches sections. These need to be corrected ASAP.

I've mentioned THE GOVERNMENT BRANCHES SECTIONS many times to many people over the past year, but the problem just doesn't seem to have been taken seriously. So let me put it another way:

HELP!!! I need your help on this now. Almost all the countries have a government with an executive branch, a legislative branch, and a judicial branch. The links for these branches need to be completed for each country outline:

Here's a convenient list you can use WP:LINKY on to access and edit these quickly. Please copy the list's link to the top of your talk page so that you can access it easily.

If you spot any standardization in links, and ways we can automate parts of this process, or for groups of countries that have links in common, please let me know!

Administrative support for outlines

There has been growing pressure on me to write up the administrative pages for outlines - their instructions, guidelines, etc. Therefore, I'm now in the process of composing these. Fortunately, it is mostly a matter of gathering material from messages I've written to you guys over the past year. Still, this is taking up most of my time, and I will be buried in these for the foreseeable future.

Traffic control

The next big task after the government branches sections are cleaned up is link support for the outlines.

There's quite a list of links and notices that need to be put in place around Wikipedia, providing access to them to readers, and alerting editors to the need to develop and maintain these pages. This will keep our bot people very busy (and happy).

But the most important thing right now is to get the government branches sections completed. So please, put your bots aside, roll up your shirt sleeves, and start typing.

Thank you.

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WP:INCOTM

Decent response. But, I am not sure that enough participation will be there for reaching FA-level, but GA can be met. Hopefully at least one can reach FA.--GDibyendu (talk) 06:25, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Harvnb

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Direct Action Day

Thank you for your detailed post in the above topic, I have replied to the issues outlined, please have a read. Khokhar (talk) 23:55, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]


We seem to agree on a lot of whats been stated, however I have further clarified what would be a fairer and balanced view for the start of the article, to reply to a few of the issues raised.


A perceived ambiguity in explaining the word Direct action, which was probably referred to as 'hartal' by the lay people, would not be a fair reason on it's own to assume instigation. As for not controlling/directing mobs, as explained, it would not be reasonable to assume the police/military would stand by and do nothing, what was stated in the source ([17]), I quote "The League's rally at Ochterloney Monument on that day was considered as the 'largest ever Muslim assembly'. The Muslim League Chief Minister in his address reportedly assured the audience that the military and police had been 'restrained'", when not taken out of context, it seems quite clear the chief minister's comments were aimed at allowing the protest (as such large gathering are generally not allowed) to continue and should not be construed to mean 'let the violence continue'. The inflammatory propaganda, as already stated, was probably present on both sides and can not be taken as evidence against the Muslim league or it's leaders in general.

You also take a lot of sources from Bengal divided by Joya Chatterji ([18]), Though a lot of her work is sourced and clearly well thought out, I feel it is not entirely neutral and some of what is stated is her point of view, one such example being a chapter called and based on 'Hindu unity and Muslim Tyranny', neutral historians generally do not lead you into such pre-conceptions.


You state that "Hindu mobs did not START it, Muslims mobs did"


This seems to be the core of the argument for the Muslim league being responsible for 'instigating', as mentioned in the article, you admit that violence took place on both sides and some was prepared well in advance, however you go on to state that 'Muslim mobs did' start the violence, even IF this was true it does not implicate the Muslim league (as mentioned in the article), but as you have accepted, the Muslim league might have asked for a 'general strike' but they (the Muslim league in general) did not ask for violence.


As for whether 'Muslim mobs did', seeing as some preparations were made well in advance, as acknowledged by many sources including those you posted, and as stated in one of the earlier sources in the article ([19]) which sates, I quote "Acid bombs were manufactured and stored in Hindu-owned factories long before the outbreak. Calcutta's Hindu blacksmiths were mobilised to prepare spearheads and other weapons". It would be impossible to be certain if Muslims or Hindu's 'started' the violence, for all we know, it could have been a case of a group of Muslims, while peacefully protest marching, being attacked by 'acid bombs' and this could mean 'Hindus STARTED' the violence. However such a claim would be dubious and so it is fair to state both sides had prepared for violence in advance which got terribly out of control. Best wishes Khokhar (talk) 14:45, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Lagaan

Hi Dwai, Hope all is well. I've asked for a GA reassessment of Lagaan and would like your feedback if you have some time.

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Project news
Congratulations to the West Bengal workgroup for having their flagship article featured on the Main Page! The Indian states workgroup is also involved in maintaining articles about India's states and union territories. »

WikiProject Indian roads was recently started as a new workgroup, to standardize and improve articles related to Indian roads, mainly the National and State Highways. After all, India has the second largest road network in the world.

Iravan, the son of Arjuna, is now our 85th good article. How do we know this? Since last year, more processes have been automated, increasing productivity. Article alerts update the project with what's happening to India-related articles, from copyright violations to featured article candidates.

To do…
During the last few weeks, peer reviews for the recent general election and 2003 Afro-Asian Games (held in Hyderabad) were opened and are waiting for more comments, as are several articles at the peer review department. Sikkim has been nominated for FAR, and Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay has been nominated for FAC. »

Currently, 11,085 Indian articles need images. Please improve these pages, especially if you enjoy photography! We look forward to more contributions from you. To get started, go to the noticeboard. »

From the editors…
The last newsletter was written a year ago. In June 2008, Indian Premier League was "hot" on Wikipedia, but the article about this year's IPL has attracted 477 editors, or 53% more than the previous year! Even the number of articles in the scope of our project jumped by a whopping 18,500+ articles in an year. The 3.2-year-old India quiz continues to attract old and new Wikipedians, so join in the fun!

Wikipedians are organizing a meetup in Bangalore on July 4 or 5. If you are interested, head over to the page and add your name! Topics of discussion include Indian language editions of Wikipedia and Wikimedia India.

RegentsPark, one of the prominent members of our project, was promoted to adminship this year. If you'd like to know who are the most avid editors of Wikipedia by number of edits, refer to this list.

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WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 2 – July 2009

Project news
A number of India-related articles have lost their featured article status, including Sikkim and Mumbai. The article about Gandhi was also demoted for referencing and image quality issues. Since then, Mumbai has been brought back to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Kensplanet and others.

Transport in India was promoted to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Rsrikanth05, SBC-YPR and GDibyendu.

Several new workgroups have been formed: WikiProjects Railways in India, Education in India and Transport in India. Please join us if you're interested in those topics!

To do...
The articles that have been selected for our latest collaborations of the month are history of Mumbai, Indian Railways, rail transport in India, Indian general election, 2009 and telecommunications in India. We need your help to improve them!

These India-related articles are currently on featured article review: Kerala (FAR), Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (FAR) and rail transport in India (FAR). Would you allow these articles to lose their FA status?

Wikipedia Takes Chennai – a scavenger hunt and free-content photography contest – has started in Chennai, along the same lines as Wikipedia Takes The City.

We look forward to more contributions from you. To get started, go to the noticeboard. »

From the editors...
Wikipedians in Bangalore organised a meetup on 5 July 2009; thanks to Tinu Cherian for hosting the event! Arunram and Tinu Cherian wrote extensively about the meetup, which was also covered by Wikizine, Headlines India and The Wikipedia Signpost. Photos have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Sunil Abraham from the Centre for Internet and Society has offered to help host such events in the future. All in all, the meetup was a great success. Watch out for the next meetup! »

Nichalp, an Indian bureaucrat and major contributor to more than 23 India-related featured articles and lists, was desysopped over allegations of paid editing and using sock puppets. An RfC about paid editing was opened as a result of this incident.

A prolific editor and administrator, Bhadani is among the top ten Wikipedians by number of edits across the English Wikipedia. Congratulations to Bhadani for also making the most number of edits among Indian Wikipedians!

Are you subscribed to wikimediaindia-l to learn about the latest developments of forming the Indian chapter of Wikimedia? Did you know that there are IRC channels for Wikipedians interested in India like you? Check them out at #wikipedia-in connect and #wikimedia-in connect!

Wikipedia's India quiz remains a hotspot of the community by continuing to attract old and new Wikipedians. You are invited to join in and have fun!

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Thanks for asking. I am doing quite well, and am enjoying RL and personal ventures. I will not be editing anytime in the forseeable future. Hope you are doing well as wellBakaman 20:07, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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New York City Meetup


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Wikis Take Manhattan

Wikis Take Manhattan
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WHAT Wikis Take Manhattan is a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest aimed at illustrating Wikipedia and StreetsWiki articles covering sites and street features in Manhattan and across the five boroughs of New York City.

LAST YEAR'S EVENT

WINNINGS? The first prize winning team members will get Eye-Fi Share cards, which automatically upload photos from your camera to your computer and to sites like Flickr. And there will also be cool prizes for other top scorers.

WHEN The hunt will take place Saturday, October 10th from 1:00pm to 6:30pm, followed by prizes and celebration.

WHO All Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians are invited to participate in team of up to three (no special knowledge is required at all, just a digital camera and a love of the city). Bring a friend (or two)!

REGISTER The proper place to register your team is here. It's also perfectly possible to register on the day of when you get there, but it will be slightly easier for us if you register beforehand.

WHERE Participants can begin the hunt from either of two locations: one at Columbia University (at the sundial on college walk) and one at The Open Planning Project's fantastic new event space nestled between Chinatown and SoHo. Everyone will end at The Open Planning Project:

148 Lafayette Street
between Grand & Howard Streets

FOR UPDATES

Please watchlist Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes Manhattan. This will have a posting if the event is delayed due to weather or other exigency.

Thanks,

Pharos

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Did I forget to thank you? ..

Dwaipayanc ,Thank you for participating in my RfA, which passed nearly unanimously with 174 in support, 2 in opposition and 1 neutral votes. Special thanks goes to RegentsPark, Samir and John Carter for their kind nomination and support. I am truly honored by the trust and confidence that the community has placed in me. I thank you for your kind inputs and I will be sincerely looking at the reasons that people opposed me so I can improve in those areas ( including my english ;) ). If you ever need anything please feel free to ask me and I would be happy to help you :). Have a great day ! -- Tinu Cherian - 06:02, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:FILMS' Tag & Assess Drive and Roll Call

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Darjeeling

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Articles for deletion nomination of Recalcitrance

Article Recalcitrance have been nominated for deletion. It is an article which is about the experiences of Indians during the 1857 mutiny against British rule, by an author whose ancestors witnessed it. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for deletion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Recalcitrance (2nd nomination). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

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Good to see you too!

Good to see you too... Wikipedia has become enormous and was settling into my job for 2 years. Now that monotony has struck in I am back with a vengeance! Antorjal (talk) 16:50, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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