User talk:Thomas.W

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Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh

Sir, I was about to give full link and reference with all the necessary information but I thought to save it first but as soon as I was going to fill up all other details the name of sarwan singh was removed by you. He is a genuine and authorised person. It is not a spam page. AmolSinghonly1 (talk) 22:02, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@AmolSinghonly1: You were reverted for adding the name of a person who doesn't have an article under "Notable people", a list that should only include people who have an article here, on the English Wikipedia, and have been deemed as being notable, per Wikipedia's rules (see WP:Notability). - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 22:16, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Encino, Los Angeles

Thanks for helping correct my addition to the "Encino, Los Angeles" entry. JTF17A (talk) 23:19, 18 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding reserve troops

That's fine but this was before the global index reference Pakistan has more than 0 reserve troops Please see click link here the IISS source mentions that there are reserve troops I think 513000 or something 500000 plus. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_countries_by_number_of_military_and_paramilitary_personnel&diff=752963562&oldid=751062541 (Wiki id2 (talk) 15:01, 20 December 2016 (UTC))[reply]

RE: Forced disappearance

By definition of Forced Disappearance, rumors is all you would have to go on if someone had been disappeared. My twitter citations were to back up my claims about the twitter account's activity, which is exactly when a twitter citation should be used. Jimethn (talk) 19:03, 20 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Jimethn: In addition to not being a gossip rag Wikipedia isn't a news site either. Your conspiracy theory about Julian Assange perhaps having been abducted from the Ecuadorian embassy in London during an "Internet blackout" might belong in the article if and when mainstream media report it, but not now. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 19:10, 20 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas, my friend. May this find you in good health, good spirits, good company, and good finances. If any of these be missing, may God see fit to restore you in good time. EurovisionNim (talk to me)(see my edits)

Hi Thomas

Thank you for your message. I've always heard that the Paratarajas were Indo-Scythians. This is at least what coin sites generally state CNG Coins. But looking again, I found this site which claims they are Indo-Parthians [1]. I hope I can oneday find better sources on this. Merry Christmas! Tahar Jelun (talk) 16:32, 21 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your deletion request for the Paratarajas map on Commons. Well, the Wikipedia article en:Paratarajas says that the Paratarajas were located in Baluchistan. This source New Light on the Pāratarājas by PANKAJ TANDON explains that their coins are found over the area of Baluchistan. Pankaj Tandon is a Professor of Economics and Numismat at Boston University [2], so it is not a bad source. I just tried to illustrate visually what the area of Baluchistan corresponds to, in order to clarify where the Paratarajas resided, in an otherwise pretty obscure article which needs help. I think the map is useful and ask for it to be kept. If you have a better source regarding the Paratarajas territory, just tell me, I'll be glad to illustrate it. Tahar Jelun (talk) 17:11, 21 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Tahar Jelun: Per Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:Reliable sources all material added must be provided with reliable sources. Period. And where coins were found says absolutely nothing about the extent of a historic kingdom, Greco-Bactrian coins have been found in Great Britain and thousands of 9th-11th Century coins minted in South-West Asia have been found in Scandinavia, but no-one would ever claim that Great Britain was part of a Greco-Bactrian realm or Scandinavia part of the Arab world... - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 18:12, 21 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it's not just the coins at all. Pankaj Tandon in p.37 of his article explains clearly that they resided in Baluchistan (not just that their coins were found there). And if you read the full article, you will see that ancient sources too are quite coherent with this region being their dwelling place, and this is overall subscribed to by Pankaj Tandon.Tahar Jelun (talk) 18:31, 21 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Tahar Jelun: "They resided in Baluchistan" is not the same as "they ruled all of Baluchistan", as the map you uploaded to Commons, and added to the article here, claims. And to make things worse a quick check of the paper you linked to as source for your map shows that the source doesn't even say "they resided in Baluchistan", but describes the Paratarajas as residing "in the interior of Baluchistan", i.e. only a fairly small part of present day Baluchistan. Which fits in well with their coins being found only in Baluchistan, since the places where coins were found shows trade routes, and which other peoples those who minted the coins traded with. So if the Paratarajas had ruled all of present day Baluchistan, their coins would have been found in a much wider area than just present day Baluchistan. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 18:47, 21 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Paratarajas location.jpg

In this case, it seems we are never going to agree to a map that even attempts to show an actual territory. And sources on this are not many (at least I don't known any for a map of the Paratarajas at this point). How about a map that doesn't show territory, but only general location like this one? At least it should help clarify an otherwise obscure article... Tahar Jelun (talk) 06:00, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As you wish, I was just trying to help. You could have answered to my proposed map here instead, which has remained without any answer from you for four days. That's not very kind. Tahar Jelun (talk) 17:01, 26 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't spent much time on Wikipedia for a few days (it's Christmas-time), and chose to spend that time on articles/edits that I felt had higher piority than your map... - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 17:13, 26 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Extended confirmed protection policy RfC

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Shopclues founding date & founder information

Sir,

ShopClues page says it was founded in July 2011, but actually it was founded in June, 2011 [3]. Amitbhatia83 (talk) 12:09, 26 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Amitbhatia83: The page you linked to does not say that Shop Clues was founded in June, 2011, it says that a registration for Clues Network, Inc was filed in Delaware on June 24, 2011. It's also only the very first page of that registration, leaving out all the important information, such as who the founders were. Sandeep Aggarwal himself is the only source for his claim that he founded Shop Clues alone, all independent reliable sources say he was one of three co-founders, along with Radhika Aggarwal and Sanjay Sethi, so that's what we'll go by. Multiple independent sources also say Sandeep Aggarwal was forced to leave ShopClues after being charged with insider-trading in the US, being replaced as CEO by Sanjay Sethi, making the repeated attempts by you and various IPs to rewrite the history of ShopClues a possible part of a power struggle, and making his repeated claims about being the only founder of the company even less credible. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 12:41, 26 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

December 2016

Dear Thomas, please stop undoing my edits of my article as well as blaming me in "making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia", such as "Caution for unsourced, unexplained and undiscussed major changes, including masive removal of content" regarding my article.

Here is the list of my edits to that exact article. All include edit reason. (cur | prev) 11:53, 26 December 2016‎ Жовтневе багаття (talk | contribs)‎ . . (52,116 bytes) (-44)‎ . . (fixing categories) (undo) (cur | prev) 11:52, 26 December 2016‎ Жовтневе багаття (talk | contribs)‎ . . (52,160 bytes) (+6)‎ . . (Trying to fix some category because links dont work) (undo) (cur | prev) 11:50, 26 December 2016‎ Жовтневе багаття (talk | contribs)‎ . . (52,154 bytes) (+268)‎ . . (Adding categories) (undo) (cur | prev) 11:37, 26 December 2016‎ Жовтневе багаття (talk | contribs)‎ . . (51,886 bytes) (-8)‎ . . (removed link which did not work for some reason in many combinations (did not redirect to Ukrainian Wikipedia)) (undo) (cur | prev) 11:35, 26 December 2016‎ Жовтневе багаття (talk | contribs)‎ . . (51,894 bytes) (-2)‎ . . (undo) (cur | prev) 11:25, 26 December 2016‎ Жовтневе багаття (talk | contribs)‎ . . (51,896 bytes) (-49,067)‎ . . (Significant update of the table with list of occupied settlements, fixing some display errors, changing positions of table 1 with table 2.) (undo)

Please note that all of them have editing reason. Why so many? because some minor changes like hyperlinks to other WIKI articles did not work and I was trying to fix them. Why content removal? because one of tables (called 'landmarks bordering with ATO zone') that I have added to this article originally is not related to this article and I moved this table (which means deleted here) to another article called ATO zone which is also mentioned.

Next time before blaming editors in unreasonable changes, please go through them first (you can compare versions before content removal and after) and do not just check content removed by number of characters but also by meaning. Thank you. What is more is I do not see how to contest the nomination of article you proposed for speedy deletion. Can you please help me to find it? Please note that there is similar article called Occupied_territories_of_Georgia and it exists without deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Жовтневе багаття (talk • contribs) 05:08, 27 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Update: Also what is the point to write 4 times the same things as separate entries on my talk page within 10 mins period? One time is enough to understand. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Жовтневе багаття (talk • contribs) 05:27, 27 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Changing all names in an article to the modern Ukrainian language forms, while pointing in your edit summary to a Ukrainian law that only applies within the Ukraine, is not editing constructively, nor is recreating an article that was deleted at AfD, and that is nothing but a POV content fork with material from other articles, editing constructively. Just to give two examples. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 08:50, 27 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Kalash people genetics

Hi, thanks for letting me know. I'll add a reference for the segment that I add. — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Sith Order of Darth Krayt (talk • contribs) 17:16, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You will have to add a reliable source for both the first bit of the text, about a genetic study having found that the Kalash people descend from Alexander the Great's Greek soldiers, and for the last bit of it, about serious academic sources having said that the study you provided a source for isn't reliable... - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 17:32, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

you are reverting edit deliberately without considering citation. Patr indian (talk) 19:37, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Patr indian: The edits I reverted changed caste data, with no sources and no explanation, so reverting them is most definitely not vandalism... - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 20:01, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Albanians

Kosovans are not Albanians ! Velleglava (talk) 22:32, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Im From Kosovo and you must know that Kosovo is a country from 2008 and there lived Kosovans Not Albanians because Albanians lived in Albania not in Kosovo whe are like Belgium with netherlands they speak one language but they have there countries ! Velleglava (talk) 22:36, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Velleglava: Yes they are, ethnic Albanians, that is. The English language uses the same word for both Albanian nationality and Albanian ethnicity. and the article named "Albanians" is about ethnic Albanians, regardless of which country they live in, as clearly stated in the first sentence of the lead. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 22:37, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I respekt your mind but you are wrong buddy ;) Velleglava (talk) 22:48, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Velleglava: No, I'm not wrong. If you don't understand enough English to be able to understand what the lead of an article says (where the scope of the article is stated), you shouldn't edit the English language Wikipedia. And please post of all of your messages in this section, instead of placing them all over this page, leaving to me to sort it out... - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 22:52, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Added Website name as its relevant in the context

Hi Thomas,

As i understand that you have considered mentioning of particular website as SPAM when my intention was to add relevancy to the article. In this context DistancesBetween is indeed a multi modal journey planner like anyone else has mentioned and in fact to provide relevancy I have stated one article link. In addition to that Cleartrip Way to Go is no more a multi modal and they have stopped providing it but link is still there.

With due respect to all accuracy and relevancy guidelines I have taken liberty to add DistancesBetween name to list of Multi Modal journey planners. And I am not here to get any external link like you have mentioned. I am open to discuss any query that you may have regarding accuracy and relevancy. And not spam the reputed institution.

Thanks Bharat Malik (talk) 13:14, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Bharat Malik: Wikipedia isn't a link repository or a collection of links to various websites (see WP:ELNO). The only links to other websites that, with very few exceptions, belong here are official websites of the subjects of the articles. One of the links you added is also to a website that has been actively spammed here, by multiple IPs/users, for a long time, and most definitly does not belong here, for that reason alone. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 13:46, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ok now i Got it. But I sincerely request you to review this website again as It provides relevant content and actually fits in the article. Just for reference, here is a brief about - An Artificial Intelligence & Big Data based "MultiModal Door-to-Door Journey Planner". Technology works on heuristic search & routing algorithm and also has User Generated Content enabled, which will help travellers find the best way to travel from point A to point B. Currently its providing various options to its users and redirecting it to desired service providers. Now, we are integrating end to end booking APIs so that its a seamless experience to book all legs at once. We have an organic traffic of around 18M per annum, primarily capturing the intent of customers at discovery stage of their travel and exploring various options. We would look at tapping this Tier 2 & Tier 3 customer base thru our organic reach strength.

As the owner of the portal that wants to build the brand, can't say who on our behalf spam this reputed source. I again put in a request for review and let me know if need to provide any other detail.

Thanks Bharat Malik (talk)

@Bharat Malik: There are many websites like that (including at least two other sites in India that are also being spammed here, though to a lesser degree than your site), so your site isn't in any way unique, but it wouldn't belong here even if it were unique, since Wikipedia isn't a travel guide but an encyclopaedia. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 16:03, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I am not debating about Wikipedia, my point was if its a comparison of various intermodal journey planner in the category then certainly its worth a mention. on top its giving the competing solution with visitor database of 18 Million per annum and currently addressing only Indian market and has the capability once it reaches out to global audience. I am not sure what other two websites were, and with us gaining momentum with our reach we are competing against the likes of Rome2Rio and other played in the offing.

I am not sure if I can change your mind if you have decided already any how. But if there is still a room for chance then I am ready to put my point across to prove that I am a credible source and not a spammer as it turned out wrongly in front of you by some one not known to us.

Bharat Malik (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:55, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's not about my opinion, what my personal opinion is, is irrelevant, it's about the repeated spamming of links to your site violating Wikipedia's rules. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not a travel guide, a site that provides free advertising or a site for increasing the visibility and the search engine rating for your website. Period. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 17:29, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I can't change what has been done without our knowledge but what I can present and assure this prestigious medium that I am the owner of this Brand and website and not a spammer to get the link. No intention what so ever. When I came across an article where our possible competition names were appearing with links, there I presented my case for consideration and certainly it should for the facts stated earlier. Let me know how can we change this stance of yours and move forward. Thanks Bharat Malik (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 07:55, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Notability

Hi. Could you point to where it says that a person has to have an own article to be mentioned in a wikipedia article? It sounds like an odd requirement.Asilah1981 (talk) 18:37, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Asilah1981: You added a name with no sources whatsoever, only saying "passes a notability test after a Google search" in your edit summary, so of course it was reverted. If he had had an own article here there would be no need to add sources in the section you added the name to, hence my comment, but since he doesn't you can't just add him, and seriously expect the addition to be allowed to remain. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 19:05, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thomas, i didn´t add it. It was there before and someone removed it. Have a look at the page history.Asilah1981 (talk) 04:16, 9 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Asilah1981: That's no excuse. If it's removed for being unsourced you can't add it back again without providing sources for it. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 07:54, 9 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Modern equipment of the Turkish Land Forces

If you have a problem with the sources or you have further issues, please go to WP:ANI. 0 zero O naught (talk) 21:10, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, E. So you found a way around the range block? - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 21:11, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe you ought to read WP:WWIN. 0 zero O naught (talk) 21:12, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Another appearance

If you'd like to drop back in here [4].......

I have made a comment there now. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 16:32, 11 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

My edits to the page Scandinavia

My bad, thanks for correcting my (in)correction! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dreaming brain (talk • contribs) 06:34, 13 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]