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Munneswaram GA

I've tried to answer all the q's per your comments. Pls look. Thnx Taprobanus (talk) 19:40, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Will get back to it tonight. cheers. –SpacemanSpiff 21:29, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Done everything except one :( couldnt do it, in talk page Taprobanus (talk) 14:02, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well get back to it this evening, cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 17:50, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tamil status

Hey Spiffy, do you think I'll be accused of POV editing, favoring my Tamil brothers, with this edit, which places them first in this set of examples? Drmies (talk) 18:45, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate your bravery in dwelling into such contentious waters. As for the official languages, both Hindi and English are. I'd think that most of those examples need to go. If any I'd say Bengali or Telugu should stay (based on population) and Kashmir (based on number of official languages). Also, the official languages are Hindi and English, the constitution mandates English as an official language until Hindi is accepted as the sole official language. Some legalese in all this, that's where the POV gets in to these articles. See Talk:India#National language for a recent discussion. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 20:19, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
From what I understood, one was official and the other was also-official-but-slightly-less-so. Anyway, it seems you're sleeping on the job: get to work! Your Tamil pal Drmies (talk) 17:20, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that's what I added to the lede of the article a couple of days ago. Of all the things wrong with that article, you caught an upper-case anomaly! According to my copy of Hermann Kulke's A History of India, the Mature Harappan period starts around 2600-2500 BCE and was at its most mature phase between 2300-2200 BCE. I'd already alerted Fowler to the need for clean-up on the article. Maybe Abecedare will get to it. Stock up on bacon and beer for the evening? —SpacemanSpiff 17:50, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
one issue which is quite clear as we speak is that India doesnt have a national language. but about the official languages, there is still confusion about the constitutional interpretation. Ramachandra Guha in his book in page 9 says
I assume he interprets Schedule 8 languages also as official. Broadly speaking, his interpretation doesnt appear wrong, but it ignores the fact the constitution gives special status to both English and Hindi. However, considering 0.5% speaker of Romansch language in Switzerland being one of their official languages, how 60% non-Hindi speakers lost their voice during the framing of Indian constitution is something very interesting. --CarTick 18:27, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Haven't read the book and don't have it, but as far as the Schedule 8 languages go, I think this interpretation of them as official stems from the fact that they may be used in Parliamentary proceedings and governmental business and that the Union of India should ensure that translation is available for such purposes. But there's generally been back and forth with different people about whether these are "official" or "national" (I've seen both terms used quite often). cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 18:39, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
besides, some scholars may interpret official language of a particular state to be official language of India. with the false propaganda of Hindi-the national language at rest, and an ambiguous status of the Schedule 8 languages, and various Indian states adopting different official languages, I will not be surprised, if more scholars will start interpreting Indian official languages the way Guha did.
By the way, it is a great book. must read for all who are interested in Indian history after Independence. i havent read it all though.--CarTick 18:47, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Unsourced BLP tables

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Indian coordinate-missing categories

You can now use the {{coord missing}} tag to use Indian states. For example, instead of adding an article to Category:Karnataka location articles needing coordinates by hand, you can just use {{coord missing|Karnataka}}, which is slightly shorter to type, will be compatible with the other geotagging management bots and tools in use, and will automatically add the article to the invisible category Category:Karnataka articles missing geocoordinate data at the same time. -- The Anome (talk) 23:38, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that, I hardly do the geo-tagging any more though. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 01:27, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Why are you constantly reverting the versions?

The company Glowtouch is a major one in mangalore and I want it to be noted, for benefit of people in this region, there is enough credible reference to prove this fact. Please note that it is the next biggest after infosys in this region, in terms of employee strength and financially —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.92.241.103 (talk • contribs)

No article for the company, then no linking on the article. If you think the company is important enough to be included, discuss on the talk page. Wikipedia articles are not meant to be a directory of companies. —SpacemanSpiff 06:58, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your comment "Wikipedia articles are not meant to be a directory of companies" I know that, there is wipro mentined in the article, do u even know that , this company exists in mangalore ? There many not be an article page or links but i guess you should help in getting them added. Encyclopedia means it should contain all the relevent info of the region, and how can you ignore the second largest player in this region? I havent included this in Karnataka or India !! Its in mangalore and I think it is worth getting noted being the second leading IT company in M'lore—Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.92.241.103 (talk • contribs)

Same reason that this isn't being added to Louisville either. I don't find your reasons compelling (neither did two other editors). Discuss on the Talk:Mangalore if you think it needs to be added. —SpacemanSpiff 07:14, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]


I cant discuss more on this, when you have already made up your mind not to include it. You dont even know that Wipro doesn't exist in M'lore, this shows the knowledge of editors wrt m'lore IT. I have included it in talk page, and have done my Job, its included or not, i dont lose or gain anything .. thanks

Women cricketers

Got all the Aus and NZ. Will need to get you to inugurate this yr's photo poll :) More details on my talk YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 05:20, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My Name Is Khan

Thanks for restoring protection to My Name Is Khan. It is a great deal of extra work for editors otherwise... -Classicfilms (talk) 03:09, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. Now, I just hope the film lives up to expectations, although I'm sure it won't be as good as Taare Zameen Par or 3 Idiots, but that's because I prefer the other Khan. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 03:17, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
lol :-) Well, TZP is just a special film and 3 Idiots is one of those films which spoke to many people - both excellent films. I'm a fan of both Khans so I hope for the best for all of the films. -Classicfilms (talk) 03:19, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to bug you, but could you take a look at the most recent post on the My Name Is Khan talk page? I think it is a violation of WP:NPA. Thanks, -Classicfilms (talk) 15:06, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted, nothing more to do, a 12 hour hold edit by an IP, so a warning is likely to be meaningless. —SpacemanSpiff 17:04, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Sure that sounds fine, I just thought it should be removed. Thanks, -Classicfilms (talk) 17:24, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Mishal raheja

Thank you for taking care of the CSD before. Could you please re-delete and block the user "Nisha d angel" as he/she has recreated the page for the third time now today. Simon-in-sagamihara (talk) 07:15, 9 February 2010 (UTC) Thanks for your help. Simon-in-sagamihara (talk) 07:28, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, appears that he's had multiple roles and interviews in national newspapers, so he's likely to pass WP:ACTOR as a TV actor. The article however was a terrible mess and I wouldn't expect anyone to figure this out looking at that! I'll keep a watch to make sure it doesn't get back to being a fansite. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 07:45, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of article Ambarish Srivastava

I have provided all possible references including newspaper cuttings, Pics of all awards and certificates related to article Ambarish Srivastava still it was deleted while Ambarish Srivastava is a prominent and notable person who is a best architectural engineer of sitapur who is at topmost position as well as a prominent Hindi Auther and poet, he is the first person who got the Indira Gandhi Priydarshini Award at Sitapur, although first of all this award was awarded to mother teresa so What should be the criteria of notability? and how it should be prove as per your rules? because in our country coverage in news papers are to much important than coverage in website. now i am feeling insulting myself and it appears i am wasting my valuable time with wikipedia so i can not work with wikipedia! so bye.... for ever and it is suggested that you should review your policies in future. Sad: S. P. Jaiswal. Please delete my account! Spjayswal67 (talk) 08:23, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As I mentioned to you on your talk page, the right forum to discuss the deletion is Deletion Review as this was deleted through the AfD process. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 08:28, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism by Sanam

Hi... the article Nair is being vandalized by Sanam001 despite my requests to reach a consensus on the talk page. Please stop the vandalism. Axxn (talk) 16:52, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is not explicit vandalism and looks like a content dispute, specifically related to the sources. If you can't get consensus, take the discussion to WP:RSN to discuss if the sourcing is correct, or even try dispute resolution. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 17:03, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mishal Raheja

Pretty fantastic work cleaning up that article. Just sayin' :). ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡbomb 17:46, 9 February 2010 (UTC) [reply]

Thanks, it's always difficult to identify the notable stuff from the slobbering fan-boy syndrome articles. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 18:09, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:Rivatphil

This editor is adding false info to a lot of political party articles. Talk page shoes he has done this in the past. Since his edits are being reverted, he has logged out and reinserting them from this ip. should he be warned or blocked or something?--Sodabottle (talk) 04:49, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like it, some of those village articles appear suspect. Can you check with User:Salih on the Kerala villages bit? I'll look at the other stuff and warn appropriately for now. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 04:53, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Flag of India

Spaceman, can you drop me a note when you are done with the article, and I'll take a quick re-look ? I took a stab at rephrasing the "supercilious" sentence; as usual, free feel to tweak or even revert. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 05:37, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Will do. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 06:33, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

fellow editor khatri doesn't mean kshtriya . word khatri means account book

khatri belong to mercantile vaisya caste and you can check this out .

rohit agarwal —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rohitagarwal50 (talk • contribs) 08:01, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not the place for your original research. If you have any reliable sources, discuss on the article talk page. —SpacemanSpiff 08:03, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Spacemanspiff, I am getting a little sick of Rohitagarwal deleting refernces on various articles. He seems to be fixated with Khatris for some reason. I am going to issue yet another warning and get him blocked if he does not desist. Thanks --Sikh-History 09:15, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The edits precede my final warning, but if this continues, I will block. —SpacemanSpiff 09:30, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Photo poll

Off and running, the parts that have been uploaded anyway. Commonist only works on certain machines YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 08:27, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

All up and running YellowMonkey (Southern Stars photo poll) 06:43, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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Category:Tamil-language films

I give up. I thought I'd do a little cleanup (rm bold from actor's names), but there's too many damn movies. Do we have any other letters but A in our beatiful language? I got to Aayirathil Oruvan, but I'm calling it quits. Drmies (talk) 20:45, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ha ha. "அ" (IPA:[ʌ]) and "ஆ" (IPA:[ɑː]) are the most common word starters, so there's definitely going to be a lot more "A" words. But, to do what you're looking to do, you could use WP:AWB (I'm guessing you use Windows). It's so much simpler and you could handle about 300 articles in an hour (assuming only 30% are goofy). I've been meaning to do that for a while to fix all these typos and MOS issues, but I had to uninstall AWB due to some security setting on my office pc. It'll also help you get your edit count right up there with CoM in less than a few days. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 21:15, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I do use Windows. I don't know what AWB is; I'll check it out. Do I need to outdo CoM in everything? I'm already much better looking. Maybe you can help--start by blocking me a couple of times and bring me up at ANI... Drmies (talk) 02:55, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I've used AWB, it's good for a lot of mindless tasks like fixing typos, removing duplicate words, capitalizing, removing redundant wiki links/pipes, fixing duplicate references, mass adding categories, etc. But it gets boring as you really don't read anything, you wait for the computer to read it and tell you that "tamilnadu" should be replaced with "Tamil Nadu" and asking you to agree to that change. I'll block you for disruptive editing once you're done with all movies starting with Y, that way I can still justify that your disruption would continue to the letter Z. deal? —SpacemanSpiff 03:37, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Rohitgarwal50

Hi fellow editor, I think that user maybe this user and you may wish to do a sockpuppet investigation. Thanks--Sikh-History 22:48, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe, but unless there's some significant activity from the IP it's not worth it. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 23:06, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Namaskar SpacemanSpiff jee, i am impressed to see your talk page which is looking very good. Seemavibhaji (talk) 08:22, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of article Ambarish Srivastava

the above link is although a blog still it consists photographs of original award, award certificate, and pics of original news paper cuttings related to this award (coverage through print media). Unfortunately perhaps it was not visited by you being a blog but i request you please visit it and enlarge all related pics two times, i hope that you will be satisfied to visit it, you can also download all related pics for the record. Or please show me any email address so that these all certificates and coverage through print media can be sent to you. I have visited above link which is related to article ambarish srivastava, i have seen all references also after two times enlarging, i found there that all sources are reliable which i read in newspapers previously, it appears this article was deleted unfortunately. so it is requested here that it should be restored after reviewing above link. Seemavibhaji (talk) 08:22, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm still not convinced that the award confers notability; however, others may hold a different opinion. As a couple of others and I have mentioned at User_talk:Spjayswal67, the best way forward is to create the article in user space, reference every statement within the article to the respective newspaper references, once the userspace draft is done, take it to deletion review to ask if you can recreate the article. That's the best process for you to follow. You can start the article at User:Seemavibhaji/sandbox. You can also use the article wizard for help on creating the article. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 08:28, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You no for good..rascal...

I give u proof that dhoni is a rajput chk it http://my.opera.com/AaryanRajput/blog/. You mother fucker you bastard u biased ronchos...the bastard gujjar suppporter.. I am a badgujjar and i am a rajput..why are u vandalising our histroy by removing my content..u suckdickeer.. Y u add contents about other castes.. Badgujjars are raghav and are rajputs... u bastard.,..

Proof taht badgujjars are rajputs.. chk.. http://ebadgujar.com/history.html

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