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Speedy deletion nomination of S5 class
Hello Adamgerber80,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged S5 class for deletion, because it seems to be an article that was previously deleted by a consensus decision.
If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.
You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Nicky mathew (talk) 10:28, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
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March 2016
Hello, I'm MBlaze Lightning. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Indian Coast Guard, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. MBlaze Lightning (talk) 19:25, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
Hey,the updates I did are based on the numbers(sum of each category class) actually present in the columns for the respective boat classes. The cumulative numbers were outdated as over time some boats have been decommissioned/commissioned but they were not updated. Each of those boat class numbers are backed by their respective class pages which have all the necessary references(I know because I update them frequently and add the necessary references). As I said in my commit message, not everything needs a reference(because there might not actually exist one,AFAIK the coast guard does not publicly publish cumulative class category numbers, nor does any other agency including Jane's) but can derived from inference, the very reason Wikipedia exists is to collect open source information. If you would like to confirm references for each of those individual numbers, please feel free to visit individual boat classes and confirm(again I did mention that in my commit message to check the Bharati class page for more information). Please do a bit more verification/checks before randomly reverting edits. Thanks
Visakhapatnam-class destroyer
Sir, I edited page on P15B about it's armaments, I don't have any reliable source but have images from Defexpo 2016 in which MDL had an poster in which it was clearly stated that 4x8-cell BrahMos will be on P15B, so I edited P15B armaments. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mularam2014 (talk • contribs) 16:42, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
Hey Mularam2014, Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your valuable contributions to the Indian Navy associated pages. The reason I edited your contributions was because they did not have references which could be verified by a third party. Most newspaper articles(existing references which can be verified) point to 8-16 BrahMos missiles not 32. It is great to hear that you have pictures of the MDL poster on P15B and you can use that as a reference(as long as the text is legible in the photos). A good way to do this is to upload these photographs to Wikimedia Commons and then refer to that in the article. Contributing to Wikipedia at times might involve a bit of work but is necessary to ensure the authenticity of information. Keep up the good work and let me know if I can be of any help.
Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Adamgerber80, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to INAS 561 has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 18:52, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
June 2016
{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. — Diannaa (talk) 01:19, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
Adamgerber80 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
Request reason:
Hey Diannaa, I understand that this was my second copyright violation and thus warranted the block. I agree that I erred the first time since I am relatively new to Wikipedia and was not aware of the extent of this policy. But I have been careful of this since the first warning. If I remember correctly, there was no direct copy of text and I did reword the lines on the Yudh Send Medal Page from the Indian Navy website. Maybe the rewording was not enough and thus warranted this block again but in my defense at times there is not much rewording to be done when describing a medal or an object. I have been a responsible editor for the last seven months and am very excited to do my bit for the wikipedia community. I have added numerous new pages(related to Indian Navy) and added extensively to existing pages(related to Indian Armed Forces) where most of my information is sourced from news articles. I will be extremely careful of this in the future and request you to please unblock me. Also, I feel a 24 hour block was called for because of my mistake but an indefinite block is bit too harsh and might discourage me from being an active participant of the wikipedia community. Thanks. Adamgerber80 (talk) 22:02, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
Accept reason:
Obviously I disagree that the edit for which you were blocked was a copyright violation. Regardless of that, your unblock request demonstrates that you understand copyright law and how it applies to Wikipedia editing and plan on following our copyright policy in the future. In the future, if you can't add a description without it being a copyright violation, don't add it at all. Further copyright violations will result in you being re-blocked. — Diannaa (talk) 22:56, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
Just saw your note regarding 24-hour block versus indefinite block. The reason we started using indef block is because if we do it that way the editor cannot resume editing until they provide us with a clear statement that demonstrates that they have read and understand our copyright policy. There's been many people who simply resume what they were doing, to the detriment of the encyclopedia. Copyright is a very serious issue on this wiki and this is one of the ways we are trying to control it. Sorry if that seems harsh. Best wishes to you and happy editing. — Diannaa (talk) 12:59, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
Invitation to join the Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Incubator/Indian military history
I invite you to join the Indian military history group, an initiative of the Military history WikiProject. This group is created to deal exclusively with the topics related to Indian military. If you're interested, please add you name to the participants list. KCVelaga ☚╣✉╠☛ 12:30, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
Discussion at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of frigates of the Indian Navy/archive1#List of frigates of the Indian Navy
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of frigates of the Indian Navy/archive1#List of frigates of the Indian Navy. Please add your comments and suggestions to improve the list and get it featured. Regards, KCVelaga ☚╣✉╠☛ 14:01, 28 July 2016 (UTC)Template:Z48
Indian military history group; Worklist for August 2016
- Improvements
| # | Article | Present class | Target class | Editor(s) currently working | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam Manekshaw | C |  GA |
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga | Undergoing construction |
| 2 | List of destroyers of the Indian Navy | BL |  AL |
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga | Undergoing A-class review |
| 2 | K M Cariappa | Start | GA |
None | |
| 3 | Arjan Singh | C | GA |
None | |
| 4 | Padmanabha Gautam | Stub | GA |
None |
- Articles to be created
| # | Name | Notability | User(s) working | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sant Singh | Recipient of Maha Vir Chakra, India's second highest wartime gallantry award twice in 1965 and 1972. | Example | Example |
| 2 | Jag Mohan Nath | Recipient of Maha Vir Chakra, India's second highest wartime gallantry award twice in 1962 and 1965. | Example | Example |
| 3 | Rakesh Singh | Recipient of Ashok Chakra, India's highest peacetime gallantry in 1993. | Example | Example |
| 4 | Army Dental Corps (India) | Support corps of Indian Army which deals with the dental care to the personnel. | Example | Example |
| 5 | Army Education Corps (India) | Support corps of Indian Army which deals with educating the personnel throughout the different training academies of army. | Example | Example |
| 6 | Indian Army Remount and Veterinary Corps | Veterinary corps of Indian Army | Example | Example |
| 7 | Indian Army Pioneer Corps | Support corps of Indian Army | Example | Example |
| 8 | Indian Army Judge Advocate General's Department | Legal branch of Indian Army | Example | Example |
| 9 | Military Farms Service (India) | Tasked with the food production and other canteen needs of Indian Army. | Example | Example |
All the participants are encouraged to work according the worklist and are also free add articles to the "worklist" and "articles to be created" that they wish to work on accordingly. This would help to keep track of progress done by the group. Please choose the articles that are related to the Indian Armed Forces only. Sources and references can be found from the resources section of the workgroup's page.
- Useful links
Newsletter: Indian military history work-group August 2016
- Improvements
- List of destroyers of the Indian Navy was almost improved to
class status (awaiting a closure of review) by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga. - Kamorta-class corvette was improved to
GA status by UY Scuti - Sam Manekshaw was improved to
class by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (also a present GA nominee)
Please see the group's "To do" section. You may work accordingly to ensure group's progress. To unsubscribe, remove your username from the participants list.
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INS Vikramaditya Image
How to report the image for deletion to Wikimedia? I had uploaded it and am not happy with doing that. I have lost password of the account I used to upload it.
-Anuj.direct
You can put in a deletion request for the image and state your reason at Wikimedia Commons. In general when you upload an image to Wikimedia you give up any copyright to the image and it is released to be under the Common Creative license. But if there are copyright violations or other specific reasons then you can request a deletion. You can find more information here. Adamgerber80 (talk) 07:32, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for the information.
-Anuj.direct
Asian 10,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like South East Asia, Japan/China or India etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 01:00, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!
Hello, Adamgerber80. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.
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Rollback granted
Hi Adamgerber80. After reviewing your request for "rollbacker", I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:
- Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
- Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
- Rollback should never be used to edit war.
- If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
- Use common sense.
If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! -- samtar talk or stalk 16:41, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
Thanks a lot. Adamgerber80 (talk) 18:09, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
INS Betwa
The ship INS Betwa is currently being salvaged after an accident where it is tipped over. The ship will not be operational for about two more years. Please reflect this in the page.