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Indian Railways

To start with: I like the condescending way you posted this sentence: expected more informed people like you to take it up instead of bringing it down. I certainly had reasons to remove as the article is a featured article, or one of the best on wikipedia. Reasons why I had removed content:

When adding content, cite credible sources. Without a source, certain content can be deleted as 'unsourced'.
As for the coaches: The article is about the company; to add stuff on coaches etc, it should be correctly placed in/linked in Rail transport in India.
Unfilled sections like 'Modernization' and few subsections like 'Passenger safety', 'Station cleanliness', 'Coach cleanliness'. -- Having blank subsections reflects poorly on the structure of the article: If content is needed, place a request on the article's talk page.
- Also isn't it's a bit unfair on your part to place empty sections on a page and expect others fill in content? As a railfan you're more than welcome to add content from credible sources and do your bit to improve the coverage of railways in India.
info calculation rules of FINE imposition (why not as this is faced by several railway passengers). -- isn't this a bit subjective?
Lastly, as you rightly put it our purpose is to inform readers. However, this is not a complaint forum against the Indian Railways for them to see their pitfalls. Report things as is keeping in mind the neutral point of view.

Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:34, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism by 152.12.4.15 on 'Binaca Geetmala' releated pages.

Hi,

Kindly check the link below and you will find the user using this IP is consistently engaged in vandalism, would request to facilitate in blocking this IP (below list suggest it is used by the user in question only)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=152.12.4.15

Thanks,

Vjdchauhan 05:51, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I can't really tell if they're obvious vandalism. You'd probably be better off reporting to the administrator's noticeboard for more views. —Mets501 (talk) 12:22, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding "alleged" Vandalism by 152.12.4.15 on 'Binaca Geetmala' releated pages.

Mr Chauhan

Here is the bottom line - I was the person that started these webpages; however the person who had supplied me with some of the lists had requested me to take them off this website temporarily till Oct/Nov of this year. So I had tried to delete the contents but they were later put up again by Samir among others, I sent a message to Samir requesting him to take down those pages at least till October - however I have had no reply or positive feedback. I would like to request you to do the same i.e take down the lists till Oct/Nov. Also I have every Binaca geetmala annual list from 1954 till 1993. If you guys do choose to keep these pages up denying my request, I will make sure that neither I nor the other people that have access to these lists will ever put up anything in these pages. However if you do hide these lists temporarily, then we will put up all the lists after November. The choice is yours - do you wish a wonderful web resource to be created or do you choose to ignore our request and have these incomplete lists be all the resources that is put up.

Cheers 152.12.4.15 16:23, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reply to your reply

In response to your question, the person who supplied us with at least some of the lists is writing a book which will be published in Oct/Nov: we dont want his book sales to be hurt.

Re:Your 'rm parent cat, category diffusion' changes

I am afraid you've got the idea of categorization on Wikipedia wrong. From Wikipedia:Categorization: "Categories help users find information, even if they don't know that it exists or what it's called."

"If one knows only the name of university/college", the search box is there to help. Categorization is for organizing the information.

Please see the guidelines on Wikipedia:Categorization#Some_general_guidelines: "Articles should not usually be in both a category and its subcategory". Also, cycles should be avoided (on same page).

As about breaking the category 'University and colleges' in India, you can put forward the proposal at Wikipedia talk:Notice board for India-related topics. utcursch | talk 14:16, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

cateogry

Please don't revert the removal of the category. It was discussed on Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 October 20 and such category has been disbanded. When you readd it you recreate it, going against stablished consensus, if you persist going against agreed decisions, you may find yousrelf subject to sanctions. -- Drini 17:55, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You may need to read your own ('wisdom') page more carefully. If you see the pervious checkin by me, the page was not showing the (deleted) category in question, in fact your checkin messed up (visually) my user page and I am not sure whether you feel sorry about it or not. Vjdchauhan 05:44, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

I must apologize then. The thing is that political-type categories are usaually reverted and fought by users going against the consensus. I'm sorry then. -- Drini 21:27, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My response was quite rude, sorry for that. Regards, Vjdchauhan 04:37, 4 November 2006 (UTC).

IMS-BHU

The article didn't (and still doesn't) say that the Institute has its own hospital. Maybe you can expand the article by adding that info in.

Second, I don't think you're supposed to remove the merge tag before at least one day is up. You're probably the only person who's seen the proposal and removing the tag early does not give others a chance to comment. But since I have no problems with not merging the article, never mind. ;-) Kavadi carrier 10:07, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. I think the article should be called "Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University" since that is its official name. Kavadi carrier 10:09, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am not an IMS-BHU passout so would not be able to contribute there. I agree that the page should be renamed. Lastly sorry for reverting merge tag without waiting for at least a day. With due regards, Vjdchauhan 04:35, 4 November 2006 (UTC).

Your edit to Category:Sangrur

Your recent edit to Category:Sangrur (diff) was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to recognize and repair vandalism to Wikipedia articles. If the bot reverted a legitimate edit, please accept my humble creator's apologies – if you bring it to the attention of the bot's owner, we may be able to improve its behavior. Click here for frequently asked questions about the bot and this warning. // AntiVandalBot 17:39, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well that's the problem with automated tasks, I deleted complete portion as the Category:Sangrur category page itself was having complete article copied from its main page Sangrur, pls check. Vjdchauhan 17:46, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

I blanked it. ;-) Kavadi carrier 00:30, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. A questoion: why 'AntiVandalBot' haven't reverted your changes, are you operating it. Thanks again. Regards, Vjdchauhan 04:27, 4 November 2006 (UTC).

Wikimapia

Hello! Look at http://wikimapia.org/#y=8495988&x=76930561&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2&show=/503821/, there are two marks Pettah railway Overbridge, you will see one place is marked for deletion. It will be deleted in 12 hours. You may cancel deletion. Click Cancel deletion and use delete request in menu! You will see again this sign. Will this work, I mean the deletion? Because I think you pressed the bottom one (it's for normal users). Alexandre Koriakine 11:50, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I just tried deleting some heavily oversized boxes using ('UserBox->Menu->Deletion Request') menu at Aligarh at Wikimapia and got pop up sure you wand to delete with OK/Cancel option and on clicking OK threw another popup saying The place is marked for deletion and will be deleted soon with OK button. Reopening the box says This place is marked for deletion. It will be deleted in 12 hours. You may cancel deletion., wonderful. I think you just now raised my privilege level further (earlier it was raised to 2 votes level) and am also seeing a bit changed main popup box where now I cannot see Report Problem->Delete Request menu option at bottom-right of the box (this was the menu using which I deleted some boxes which didn't work always).
Thanks a lot for further enhancing the privilege (on seeing power of this privilege level I think we need 12 hours or some other appropriate gap to revert deletion by mistake).
May be you would like to correct the spelling mistake in sure you wand to delete to sure you want to delete. Regards, Vjdchauhan 12:29, 8 November 2006 (UTC).

Yes, We are making more and more futures. What about temples: http://wikimapia.org/112312/ and near on the left is also an Ganesha temple. Are they real temples or they are homes? Alexandre Koriakine 14:11, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

They seems to be Hindu Temples not private houses. I don't think people name their houses as Temple. Vjdchauhan 16:58, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Vjdchauhan, good luck! Alexandre Koriakine 11:59, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Vjdchauhan, you wrote that some boxes are not deleting. Could you give me URL that I take look.Alexandre Koriakine 12:20, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That was some other user not me, I deleted some improperly sized boxes that he was pointing to. Vjdchauhan 12:29, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Your edit to Pandit Raghunath Vinayak Dhulekar

Your recent edit to Pandit Raghunath Vinayak Dhulekar (diff) was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to recognize and repair vandalism to Wikipedia articles. If the bot reverted a legitimate edit, please accept my humble creator's apologies – if you bring it to the attention of the bot's owner, we may be able to improve its behavior. Click here for frequently asked questions about the bot and this warning. // AntiVandalBot 16:03, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There you come again with incorrect reversal (no problem), check the diff yourself manually and see (pls note as of now the page is in proper form). Vjdchauhan 05:04, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks and nice to meet you (Cat: Kanpur)

Hi,

Thanks for your message. I will definitely add and maintain pages to and in the category you specified. Give me anything more on that region if you find.

--Bobby Awasthi 09:39, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

For that you can also open the page say Kanpur Page and click on 'What links here' link (there in left panel below Go/Search button) to see the pages related to Kanpur, some of them can be added to Kanpur category (that's how I do). Vjdchauhan 09:45, 24 November 2006 (UTC).

District-wise categories

I was doing some cleanup on that page. And moving older stuff out. I have started writing the program to move towns in district level categories. It will take some time to complete. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 16:44, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats

hello I am Jaisingh rathore congrats you have done a good job. although i am new to this work yet....

Sukriya. May I know which particular work of mine are you referring to. May be you can sign your post using 4 tildes i.e. ~~~~ which will be change to your user name with date-time on saving. Thanks. Vjdchauhan 13:01, 25 December 2006 (UTC).

My Wikipedia proposals over time

Voting Buttons on discussion page to 'build global consensus' / debate : Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). Vjdchauhan 20:42, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Enhanced notification mechanisms : Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). Vjdchauhan 20:42, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Display What links here feature more prominantly : Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). Vjdchauhan 20:42, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
ODI performance graphs and a suggestion : User talk:Raven4x4x. Vjdchauhan 13:40, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Number of Active Wikipedians Data : Wikipedia_talk:Statistics. Vjdchauhan 06:19, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
This category should contain : Category talk:State Governments of India. Vjdchauhan 13:37, 08:01, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
Separate page for Indian centres of foreign software majors : Category talk:Software companies of India. Vjdchauhan 13:37, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
Be part of local user categories as well : Wikipedia_talk:Notice_board_for_India-related_topics. Vjdchauhan 06:27, 4 November 2006
Effective and localised collaboration : Agra, Jhansi and several other Indian city categories. Vjdchauhan 07:17, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
User Boxes without 'mandatory' categories : Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Userboxes. Vjdchauhan 05:23, 2 November 2006
Several proposals for improving Wikimapia over time on : User talk:Alexandre Koriakine. Vjdchauhan 06:38, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Another proposal : Category talk:Universities and colleges in India. Vjdchauhan 06:30, 19 September 2006

Platform independent C++ counterpart for ActiveX Data Objects and 'VARIANT'

In general, you should probably read up on STL, and have a good look at Boost. Now to the specifics. One of the best C++ 'variant' implementations is probably boost::any. To get "record-like" functionality, you can simply use std::map<std::string, boost::any>. A container of those - std::vector, std::list or std::deque, depending on your needs, would be analogous to a detached recordset. What more, boost::multi_indexed_container allows for an arbitrary number of custom indices on in-memory data for fast lookup. -- int19h 19:16, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

”See also” and/or “nav box”

To be honest, I’m not that sure about it myself (sorry to revert you so bluntly there). Major problem could be that when only vaguely related links are included in the see also section (that are not in the nav box), people tend to think that’s all there is. It’s mostly unclear that the nav box contains the “primary” see also links. --Van helsing 13:11, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RE:Bot writing

I did not make that presentation. We ran out of time and had a general discussion about Wikipedia at the end of the day. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 00:05, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unblock clashing IP

Y	Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s): Autoblock of 66.230.200.149 lifted or expired. Request handled by: Veinor ^{(talk to me)} 22:23, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vjdchauhan 21:41, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Mahrajganj

I wanted to explain why I had created Mahrajganj, Mahrajganj. When two towns in the same state (UP) have the same name, the convention is to disambiguate them at the district level. In these case, there are three towns with the same name in one state. (Mahrajganj, Azamgarh, Mahrajganj, Mahrajganj and Mahrajganj, Rae Bareli) Hope that explains. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 21:31, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vote

We are holding a vote to move name of article from Rebellion of 1857 to War of Independence. If you feel strongly about either one, please come in and vote. Jvalant 08:33, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Where is the vote happening.
Also why there are two separate pages on same event namely Indian Rebellion of 1857, Indian mutiny. My attempt to redirect faied, may be you can help there (pls note Indian Mutiny where 'M' is in capital letter already redirects to main page i.e. Indian Rebellion of 1857). :
There are several 1857 related pages which is written from Brtishers perspective, if the language can be changed to more neutral then that would be better. Vjdchauhan 12:11, 31 May 2007 (UTC).

Chandrashekhar Azad's Birth place

The fact is that Chandra Shekhar 'Azad' was born in Bhaawra Tehsil of Jhabua district in Madhya Pradesh, not in Badarka village of Unnao in Uttar Pradesh. His father moved from Badarka to Bhaawra before Chandra Shekhar's birth. So the birth place needs to be corrected.-Amod Bhagwat 20:22, 16 March 2007 (UTC)Amod BhagwatAb_18.

Chandrashekhar Azad's father Pandit Sitaram Tewari was from Badarka, Unnao District in Uttar Pradesh, but Chandrashekhar Azad was born in Bhawra, Jhabua District of Madhya Pradesh. His mother, Jagrani Devi had spent her last years in Jhansi with Sadashiv Rao Malkapurkar, who was a very important man in Chandrashekhar Azad's group. After Chandrashekhar Azad's death, Sadashiv Rao Malkapurkar had been in contact with Jagrani Devi and she had told the fact that Chandrashekhar Azad was born in Bhawra, Jhabua, NOT in Badarka, Unnao. 1 June 2007. (UTC) Amod BhagwatAb18.

Etawah

Hi, I noticed you added categories for people from Etawah. Are you from Etawah ? If so, would it be possible to help me with a google earth placemark for Humeganj / Homeganj in Etawah named after Allan Octavian Hume. His biography notes The high school that he helped build with his own money is still in operation, now as a junior college, and it has a floor plan resembling the letter H. Was wondering if this might be visible. Thanks. Shyamal 13:42, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Shyamal are you from Etawah. Regarding me well my origins are in Etawah and have relations there but have not lived there. I tried finding Humeganj in Wikimapia but its not listed there. I will ask my cousin (from Etawah) to help me finding that college. Vjdchauhan 15:12, 7 July 2007 (UTC).

Thank you. I will look forward to any information on that. I looked around on Google Earth for any particularly well planned (grid-plan) part of the city and did not find it either. No, I have very little connection to Etawah, except for an interest in Hume via ornithology and a friend who once used to study Sarus Cranes there ! Shyamal 17:15, 7 July 2007 (UTC) (ps:disregard the last edit summary which was in error thanks to an autocomplete suggestion)[reply]

Biographical articles

Thanks for your work to increase Wikipedia's coverage of Indian politics. When adding articles about politicians, please try to include basic biographical data like the nationality, birth year and place of that person (I just added this for Bhagirathi Majhi), for Members of Parliament preferably also the begin of their membership. Regards, High on a tree 16:08, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi !

Hi Vjdchauhan. It's great to see a fellow KV'ite on Wikipedia. I noticed that you've contributed to the article on Halwara Air Base. I've lived at Halwara for most of my childhood, and studied at KV No. 2. I'll be glad to collaborate with you on articles on KVs and Halwara. And I too support the INC, though somewhat halft-heartedly :-P. Cheers! -- Amit 14:34, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for your messages .I will try. I am busy these days .Shyamsunder 08:32, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi!

Hi friend. Thanks for your comments my small work! I've been trying to tag the places where I've been. My wikipedia user name is Ab_18 and wikimapia user name is ab_18. But when I listed my wikimapia user name at Alexandre_Koriakine's talk page, it is taking my wikipedia user name, while I want to list my wikimapia user name over there. Is there any way out? Amod Bhagwat 09:26, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

I have seen your name on User talk:Alexandre Koriakine and tweaked a bit. First is you Wikimapia name and second one is your Wikipedia Signature so no issues, Alexandre will handle it accordingly.

As per your contribution on Wikipedia, you primarily work on Jhansi page, may be you can start creating pages on Wikipedia example page on MLBMC, BKD college, BBC College, MLA's of Jhansi, other prominent people from Jhansi whose link still appear as Red link. Have you chec kd Category:Jhansi and Category:People from Jhansi, I have created these categories and put the pages to that category, may be you would like to add those pages to your watchlist. I case of any confusion related to Wikipedia, you can write a note on this very page and I will get back ASAP. Vjdchauhan 09:43, 3 August 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Thanks for the guidance. I'll start with some places and people in Bundelkhand region. I've checked Category:Jhansi and Category:People from Jhansi and added to my watchlist. You've done a great work of organising related pages under a common title!Amod Bhagwat 10:50, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, infact I have organized similarly for all districts of UP, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, HP, Uttarakhand and some districts of MP.
While creating page(s), make sure you don't lift the text as is from other website else page will be deleted citing copyright violation (that's the reason why Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi page created by you was deleted), one have to interpret and rewrite the text from some other source not copy-paste. If data is not there then 2-3 line/single para page is enough, also ensure to add some relevant category to the page else it will get lost in this huge encyclopedia.
Amod you should start using 4 tildes for any posts on talk pages i.e. ~~~~, which will automatically add your user name and time to your posts.
Also usages of : will put once comments right indented.

Thanks for your tips! Now the work seems to be easier using these tips.

Amod Bhagwat 12:13, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Re:What is the source of city info added by Ganeshbot

I got the data from the Census 2001 website. They have removed that page now. I have stored the data on this page. It does not have tehsil/taluk information. There is a bot that added tehsil/village information for Andhra Pradesh using this excel sheet. Sumanthk can help you with questions related to that bot. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 03:22, 7 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

useful links on Census 2001

Vjdchauhan 07:03, 10 August 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Thanks

Hello,

Thank you for your kind words. In fact I have also noticed your very important contributions. I think as proud UPites we must continue our efforts on Wikipedia.

I need your help in getting myself included in the category : Wikipedians from Uttar Pradesh.

Regards moon 07:01, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Moonwiki"

Added Indian Wikipedians, Uttar Pradesh Wikipedians and Lucknow Wikipedians user categories to your page, have a look. Pls start signing your posts on talk page using 4 tildes i.e. ~~~~, which in turn will put down your user name and time to the posts. Also have you ever used What links here link there below Search button, its an important function using which I have organized pages related to Lucknow in one category. Finally have you ever visited Hindi Wikipedia, you can have its link through Lucknow page which is there on left pane below Search button. Vjdchauhan 09:22, 8 August 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Thanks for your efforts, But please study the minor details of a stub encyclopedia article and taggin in the talk pages thankyou. See Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi now ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you?" Contribs} 16:54, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

uncategorised India stubs

This keeps dropping off the end of my to-do list, sorry! Hopefully there's a dump due over the next few days; if so, I'll try to remember to use that that generate those. If I haven't got back to you by next weekend, feel free to remind me again. Alai 19:09, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DRDO Lab pages,

नमस्कार,

I saw your post last year on Archerblack's talk page. You'll be happy to know that I'm doing this at the moment. I am creating the lab pages for the individual lab pages. I'd love your help and any suggestions in this regard. I have created a sandbox page for the labs at User:Sniperz11/Sandbox 3 where I've created infoboxes for the individual DRDO labs.

I've also created general format for the lab pages. I've also created a template for the labs at Template:DRDO Laboratories. The template links to the individual lab pages, or at least to those pages that exist. I request you to help out in creating more pages... the more the merrier. Thanks.

धन्यवाद। आपसे मिलकर बहुत खुशी हुई।

Sniperz11^talk|edits 07:06, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for your message.I am pleasantly surprised to note that you keep track of my contributions. I have not writeen any great article as such.I have created mostly stubs only. I have some topics in my mind to start the articles however I do not get much quality time. Kabhi Milane ka program banayenge.Shyamsunder 15:41, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Shyam. Tumhaara India aana kab hoo raha hai, milne kaa scene ban sakta hai, ab mein kisi ko report nahin karta hoon to time nikal hee aayega.

Regards,
Vjdchauhan (talk) 05:47, 24 December 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Singh

Namaste Chauhanji,

Would appreciate your help in Singh article.

Gorkhali (talk) 21:57, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

hi

hey, I just came across your profile from one of the many page of wikipedia. I find that you are from Etawah, and I hail from Agra. It is quiet a pleasure to meet a fellow from UP, because there are hardly any active on wiki and that too at such a frequent level. I have been on wikipedia for quiet a while but started regular editing only frequently. Would be nice to work up with you. Am currently working on Law Commission of India. Let me know if you could give me some hints on the design of the page as I plan to start this page soon enough once I am done filling the content. Cheers. Tarun2k (talk) 21:38, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Tarun, the Law Commission of India page is in good shape, just content needs to be filled up. Vjdchauhan (talk) 06:38, 3 June 2008 (UTC).[reply]

Thanks for the consolation. Currently am busy with work in real life, will complete the page soon. Tarun2k (talk) 11:35, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

BAGHA JATIN

Dear VJDC, will it be possible for you to take good care of the article on this National hero as presented in the Hindi section ? Simply you have to follow the most reliable information supplied by the article in the English section. Lots of anticipated thanks.--BobClive (talk) 08:00, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject India Newsletter Volume III, Issue no. 001 - June 2008

Project News

Tag & Assess 2008, an assessment drive initiated by the assessment department began on June 7, 2008 and will be running until July 2008. Many Wikipedians have started contributing to this mammoth task. This housekeeping activity will help manage articles in better way. You can also get involved!
Bot Assisted Assessment was successfully done using Bot0612 in May 2008. 1744 articles (18.5%) of all India unassessed articles were marked if they had been assessed by some other project.
What's Featured and Good?

Five new articles were promoted to featured article status in 2008: Western Chalukya architecture, 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings, Akhtar Hameed Khan, Preity Zinta, Kannada literature in the Vijayanagara Empire.
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Three articles are undergoing good article nominations: Anekantavada, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and Santosh Subramaniam.

IPL was hot on Wikipedia too!!! During the tournament, the article was among the most frequently edited articles. It is currently the only Indian article in top 100, occupying 58th spot.
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I felt that the Top is too new a product to evaluate as "similar". The iMac, for example, does not have a touch screen. I still think that the link does not belong, though I was wrong to use rollback on a good faith edit. You can bring up the issue on the talk page if you like. --HereToHelp ^{(talk to me)} 17:07, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Nazi flag.

I don't see anything. Maybe a cache problem at your end? Try purging the cache. PS In the future, could you ensure that the subject line is a little more terse? :) It makes the ToC look ugly. =Nichalp «Talk»= 09:11, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there, Just wanted to say that I am only interested in India (and Pakistan and Bangladesh) related topics. You can include me in that list if "Indian" means people interested in those topics. Thanks. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 18:47, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

GovernIndia

Hi Vijay,

I got your email in response to our post on Shyam's talk page. Thanks for the link to the top Indian wikipedians. We can actually do with all the help we can get, including creating a coherent mandate for GovernIndia. Initially, we had thought that we'd create a sort of subgroup at wikipedia itself. However, Wikipedia told us, rightly, that our aims were not really in line with Wikipedia's and therefore we should build a separate wiki. We are currently hosted at [www.governindia.org/wiki governindia.org]. I also manage a small blog with headline updates of what I consider important national news - but its only as much as a single working person can manage.

We would like to invite you to get involved. As I mentioned on Shyam's page, we're a small group of people and we're not even an NGO as such. Just something that we though we should do. In terms of wikipedia-ness, we're looking for someone who can build the right sort of templates for webpages about politicians, etc. I went through the box-template at wikipedia but it was pretty complicated - perhaps because of an attempt to make it generic. We also need people to help us figure out how to organise the different kind of information we want on the wiki, etc. The works.

I have replied to your email from my personal address. Please do check and respond with your thoughts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Governindia (talk • contribs) 09:00, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 1 – June 2009

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 85^th 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, 11,086 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.

"While this issue has been resolved, one asks the question – what happens when there is a conflict of opinions? What about a Wikipedia entry on India and Pakistan, or the LTTE and the Tamils? Who can edit? Will the information be true?" writes B. Narasimhan of MiD DAY as deeper implications of the Scientology arbitration case,¹ reminding us of the core principles of verifiability and the neutral point of view.

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

Project news

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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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WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 1 - (June 2010)

Project News

WP:IND Newsletter is back! It's been nearly a year since the last edition, but we hope to bring out issues on a more regular basis now. The India Wikiproject was set up to increasing coverage of India-related topics on Wikipedia, and over the past few months the focus has been on improving article quality. A number of the project's featured articles underwent featured article reviews over the past year. Of these, Darjeeling and Flag of India survived the review process, while the rest were demoted. During the same period, Gangtok, Harbhajan Singh, Darjeeling and Mysore were featured on the main page respectively on August 20, September 17, November 6 and December 29, 2009. Meanwhile, articles on topics as diverse as Political history of Mysore and Coorg (1565–1760), Marwari horse and Iravan were promoted as featured articles, and respectively appeared on the main page on March 25, May 17 and May 28, 2010. Consequently, the number of FA-class articles under the project's scope dropped from 67 in August 2009 to 63 in June 2010. The number of good articles, however, saw a more than 40% increase, from 91 to 130 during the same period, while the number of featured lists saw a 33% increase from 12 to 16.

Due to the recent policy changes regarding unreferenced Biographies of Living People (BLPs), an effort was started in January 2010 to source all unreferenced BLPs coming under Wikiproject India. 1200 such articles were identified initially and more were added to the list later. Due to the sourcing effort, the number of Indian unreferenced BLPs is down to 565 currently. During February-April 2010, There was a large scale disruption of Kerala related articles by a Thrissur based IP vandal. Editing from a dynamic IP BSNL connection, the vandal changed dates of birth, death and ages of a number of Malayalam and Tamil film actors. Later he added a few international biographies to his list. He also marked some living people like Arvind Swamy as dead. A month long range block was imposed on his IP range two times and each time he came back to vandalise dates once the block expired. Currently the range has been blocked for three months till September 11, 2010.

What's New?

Three members of the project, Abecedare, Tinu Cherian and SpacemanSpiff received their sysop mops in October-December 2009. Congratulations!
This picture, shot in India, won the Commons:Picture of the Year contest 2009. Translations of the description in Indian languages are solicited.
Wikipedians in Bangalore have been organising periodic meetups over the past year, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society. The next meetup is scheduled for July 18, 2010. Indian and other Wikipedians from all Wikipedias in various languages are welcome to attend.

Current proposals and discussions

Please add Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics to your watchlist in order to stay updated with the latest discussions regarding various aspects of the project.

A discussion is underway here to reach a consensus regarding the use of Indian number names (lakh, crore etc.) in Wikipedia articles. Please participate and add your comments.

Join the effort to source and save unreferenced Indian BLPs.

Some unintended vandalism is going on at the Assamese Wikipedia by the sole active editor. This is a request for Assamese-conversant Wikipedians to help resolve the issue.

A discussion is in progress here in order to determine whether non-Western (including Indian) forms of classical music should be referred to by the nomenclature of art music instead of classical music. Please participate and add your comments.

Watchlist the Articles for Deletions page for India related discussions. Opinions from more Indian Wikipedians are required in many of the discussions.

The World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 is at present underway in Coimbatore, and the Tamil Wikipedia is actively involved at the event. A detailed report will follow in the next issue.

Wikimania 2010 is happening in Poland from July 7-11. Indian Wikipedians attending include Gurubrahma, Shiju Alex, Ravidreams , Santhosh Thottingal, Tinu Cherian, WMF Board member Bishakha Datta and Advisory Board member Achal Prabala. We wish them all the best! More on their experiences in the next issue.

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Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 2 – (July 2010)). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!

Looking forward toward more contributions from you!

Complete To Do List

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Ganga

It is proposed to move Ganges to Ganga. Please contribute to the discussion. Yogesh Khandke (talk) 13:17, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 2 - November 2010

English WikiProject News

After a missed issue, the WP:IND newsletter is back on track to being a regular bimonthly feature. The Indian WikiProject has seen plenty of online and off-line action, both in English as well as other Indian languages, and we now have a bigger, better format that intends to feature content and news from the English as well as other Indian language Wikipedias.

Reaching out to Indians has been the theme of the Indian Wikiproject over the past couple of months, aiming to involve a greater number of Indians in editing both the English and Indian language Wikipedias. To this end, efforts to set up the Indian chapter of Wikimedia have moved into their final stages, and registration of the society is currently pending. An effort is underway to push for "WikiMarathons" at meetups, where attendees will be encouraged to edit the English and/or Indian language Wikipedias. This is intended to popularise Wikipedia editing among the general public. In addition, a bot to post DYK's from the Indian Wikiproject to Twitter was created and launched by User:Logicwiki.

What's New?

Regrettably, the number of Featured Articles has dropped from 63 in June to 58 at the end of October 2010. Several FAs came up for review and were delisted, while Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India was saved. Meanwhile, Chalukya Dynasty appeared on the main page on July 9, 2010. Hearteningly, the number of Good Articles increased from 130 to 136 during the same period, while the number of Featured Lists remained constant at 16.

The source code for the Article Alert Bot is now available and the bot itself is expected to be up and running very shortly. This means that article alerts for the Indian Wikiproject will again be available, enabling editors to easily keep track of developments in respect of reviews, nominations, deletions etc.

The date change vandal mentioned briefly in the previous issue made a reappearance when the range block on his IP range expired in September. Consequently the block was extended till September 2011.

In October there was a heated discussion in the India project noticeboard regarding the copyright status of the Indian party symbols. The discussion was triggered by the deletion of Wiki San Roze's party symbol images by Hammersoft as copyright violations. No resolution was reached, partly because of our inability to explain to Hammersoft how election symbols in India differ from party logos. Comments are requested from anyone with a background in Indian copyright law to clarify this issue.

Complete To Do List

News from Indian-language Wikipedias

The Bengali Wikisource, which contains the literary works of many prominent writers of Bengali language including Rabindranath Tagore, has crossed the 5,000 pages milestone. According to List of Wikisource page, Bengali Wikisource is now at rank 21 among 56 Wikisource based on number of content pages.

The uploading of Tamil technical words donated by Tamil Virtual University to the Tamil Wiktionary was completed in October. The words were donated by the Government of Tamil Nadu due to lobbying efforts by Tamil Wikipedians during the runup to the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 (WCTC) in June. Nearly 70,000 words were uploaded increasing the word count in Tamil Wiktionary from 1,20,000+ to 1,90,000+. This has brought Tamil to the 10th place (from 17) in the list of largest wiktionaries and has earned it a place in the Wiktionary front page logo. In addition, Tamil Wikipedians set up a stall at the WCTC and introduced Tamil Wiki projects to people from all walks of life.

Jimmy Wales introduces the Malayalam Wikipedia CD of 500 selected articles during his key note address at Wikimania 2010 at Gdansk.

The Hindi Wikipedia and its sister wiki projects migrated to the new vector interface on September 1, 2010. In addition, Hindi is the first (and so far the only) Indian language to be incorporated into the WikiBhasha translation and contribution toolkit developed by Microsoft Research.

Malayalam wikimedian Santhosh Thottingal has developed a software (Wiki2CD) for the creation of the Malayalam Wikipedia CD, which was launched in 2010. In addition, Santosh, along with fellow Malayalam wikimedian Shiju Alex coordinated a panel discussion at Wikimania 2010 on creation of offline Wiki content.

Community news

Mumbai and Delhi held their first meetups in September, where Wikimedia Board members Barry Newstead and Bishakha Datta met up with Wikipedians and other interested members of the public in these cities. A month later, Hyderabad also held its first meetup.

Wikipedians in Bangalore continued their tradition of meeting up regularly at the Centre for Internet and Society, with the nineteenth meetup in September featuring Barry and Bishaka as attendees, and marking the release of the community newsletter. Along with Delhi and Mumbai, Bangalore is reported to be one of the three cities in contention for the Indian office of the Wikipedia Foundation.

Jimmy Wales speech at the Mumbai Wikipedia Meetup #3 on 31 October 2010. Intro by User:Bishdatta & User:Arunram. (Recorded by User:AshLin.)

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had an interaction with Wikipedians followed by a presentation to members of the public at the third Wikipedia meetup in Mumbai on October 31, 2010.

The first Wikimarathon, where Wikipedians and members of the public were encouraged to contribute to Wikimedia projects onsite, was held simultaneously at the meetups in Bangalore and Chennai on November 14, 2010. Wikipedians in Delhi also held a meetup the same day.

The Malayalam Wikipedia held several academies in different parts of Kerala over the past few months.

Wikimedia Foundation board member Bishakha Datta and Indian Wikipedian Srinivas Gunta co-authored a panel presentation at Wikimania 2010 on the Wikimedia Asia Project.

Current proposals and discussions

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Two current featured articles, 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings and Economy of India have been nominated for reviews here and here respectively. Contribute and help prevent these articles from being delisted!

This interesting discussion on the quality of editing in India-related articles has been underway for on the noticeboard a few days. Feel free to join in and express your opinion.

A series of discussions are underway on the neutrality of the Famine in India article. Please comment and help resolve the disputes.

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Invite to WikiConference India 2011

Hi IndianGeneralist,

The First WikiConference India is being organized in Mumbai and will take place on 18-20 November 2011.
You can see our Official website, the Facebook event and our Scholarship form.

But the activities start now with the 100 day long WikiOutreach.

As you are part of WikiProject India community we invite you to be there for conference and share your experience. Thank you for your contributions.

We look forward to see you at Mumbai on 18-20 November 2011

Redirects

When you create a new article, is it really necessary to create redirects from every conceivable mis-spelling of the subject's name? The search tool works pretty well and doesn't need all these pointless redirects. Bazj (talk) 12:01, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Its an old habit (2008 and before) which I picked as at that time Wikipedia's Search Tool was not working that well ;-). IndianGeneralist 12:25, 23 February 2012 (UTC).

Need help on the A2Z Group Article

Hello, I am trying to create an article for an Indian Organization, A2Z Group that is invested into Energy generation from renewable sources of energy like waste, biomass, etc. It's efforts have therefore helped our country a lot. Unfortunately since I am new to Wikipedia and since A2Z Group is an Indian company the wikipedia editors haven't been able to verify the 'notability' of the company.

Could you please help me with improving the Article and with convincing other editors/administrators about the notability of the Company? Thanks!

A2Z Group as the name suggests is a group of business units and therefore you will find a lot of references for each of its business units namely:-

A2Z Maintenance & Engineering Services Ltd. :(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)
A2Z Infraservices Ltd. :(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)
A2Z Infrastructure Ltd. :(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)
A2Z Powercom Ltd. :(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)
A2Z Powertech Ltd. :(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)
A2Z Water Solutions Ltd. :(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)
A2Z E-Waste Management Ltd. :(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)
A2Z International Ltd. :(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)
A2Z Admire :(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)
A2Z Travel Solutions :(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)

Willonthemove (talk) 09:46, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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References and citations

Hi IndianGeneralist. I have recently patrolled your new article Tanda thermal power plant. I noted that the article contains no in-line citation and no secondary source as a reference. This is a serious problem for any new article. Anything written on Wikipedia that is likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable published source to allow independent verification - see WP:Verifiability. This can be done using in-line citations. At present, Tanda thermal power plant has no in-line citations. To find out about use of references and in-line citations please have a look at WP:REFBEGIN. Also, all articles must demonstrate that their subject is notable - see WP:NOTABILITY. At present, there is nothing in Tanda thermal power plant to indicate that it is sufficiently notable to warrant an article on Wikipedia. If these deficiencies aren't corrected the article is vulnerable to deletion - see WP:Guide to deletion. If you have any questions about these things please leave a message on my TALK page and I will try to answer them.

I have also noticed that all your new articles have titles in which every word is spelled with a leading capital letter. Wikipedia's policy is for titles to be written in "sentence case", not "title case", so leading capital letters are not necessary. (I changed the title to Tanda thermal power plant to conform to this policy.) Please see Wikipedia:Manual of style#Article titles. Dolphin (t) 13:03, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Power Stations in Gujarat

{ It's a friendly comment. Please do not misunderstand :) } Buddy, so many articles for the different power stations! :D . Almost all of them are really short but also complete at the same time. Unless each of them will be undergoing considerable edits and expansions.. How about placing/merging them under a single page as "Power stations in Gujarat".. don't you agree? Please state your views. Abhinav (talk) 21:26, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No its ok but I don't agree. All of these plants are distinct entities and qualifies as notable articles. Regards. IndianGeneralist 21:30, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Fine. If you say so. Abhinav (talk) 22:19, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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New Category of trains

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I have noticed that on two pages .i.e. Ahmedabad Mumbai Central Double Decker Express & Jaipur Delhi Sarai Rohilla AC Double Decker Express, you have removed the category of Named Passenger trains of India & added a new one of Double Decker trains of India. Is it possible for both categories to co-exist?? Superfast1111 (talk) 04:17, 7 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

category 'Double Decker trains of India' is a subcategory of 'Named Passenger trains of India', so is there really a need for adding category 'Named Passenger trains of India' to the articles already having category 'Double Decker trains of India' ? If you feel that both should be there, am fine with that too. Regards. IndianGeneralist 09:50, 7 April 2014 (UTC).

Actually i do feel that way but i felt it was important to know your point of view. So i am re-introducing the category of 'Named Passenger trains of India' since you have no objection. Regards.

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Needed your opinion on which of the two images you would prefer to see at Mumbai Central railway station. Image A is what is presently there. Image B is an alternate image i want you to consider as a possible replacement.

A. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/MumbaiCentral.jpg

B.https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Mumbai_Central_stationboard.jpg Superfast1111 (talk) 12:12, 8 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/MumbaiCentral.jpg). IndianGeneralist 13:02, 10 April 2014 (UTC).

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hi sir my article Jaishankar Chigurla is in Deletion policy. please help me to re create are keep the article Jaishankar Chigurla.Teena D'souza (talk) 07:12, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I will try to prevent it. His movie will be releasing on 25'th Dec so even if deleted you can recreate article after 25'th Dec. Just use some news article references. IndianGeneralist 08:38, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

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Hi there, keeping INSTC alive as an article took some work and time I didn't really have. A GUUAM page maven even wiped it out as irrelevant at one point. I'm glad someone picked up the cause but where can I find the history of the original INSTC page? Thanks - chaizzilla (talk) 18:14, 24 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Every Wikipedia page/article have its history intact, just check 'View History' tab associated with the page in question (simple search for 'View History' after opening the article and then click on the tab there at top portion of the page). IndianGeneralist 17:12, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

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IRCON INTERNATIONAL LIMITED listed at Redirects for discussion

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Proposed deletion of Shreegopal Vyas

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Speedy deletion nomination of Thanga Tamil Selvan

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Nomination of Thanga Tamil Selvan for deletion

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WikiProject India Newsletter – October 2019

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Newly recognized content

The month of October 2019 started with Gateway of India re-attaining its Good Article status and the Sanjay Dutt filmography was recognized as Featured List.

Newly nominated content

News

Article India appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page on October 2, 2019.
Vijayadashami (pictured) has ended, which celebrates the victory of good over evil.
There are a lot of high-quality images on Commons uploaded by Itsmalay which can be used on some India cultural monuments articles.
Parinda is nominated to appear on the main page on November 3.

Miscellaneous

You can join the discussions opened at Noticeboard for India-related topics.
You can join the RfC on superlatives sentence at Talk:India.

Events

Events that occoured on October.

Gandhi Jayanti (2 October)
Digital Society Day (17 October)
Martyrs' Day (21 October)
Accession Day (Jammu and Kashmir) (26 October)
Thevar Jayanthi (30 October)
Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (31 October)

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WikiProject India Newsletter – November 2019

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Newly recognized content

November 2019 recognized content includes:

List of international goals scored by Sunil Chhetri

List of chief ministers of Jharkhand

Hindi Medium.

Newly nominated content

Created by Sahibdin and nominated for Featured Media by TheMandarin

News

A significant number of the new articles received each day are about South Asian topics, mainly biographies and cultural themes, along with the usual spam for companies. There is a huge backlog at the NewPagesFeed and more editors with experience and knowledge of Indian subjects are urgently needed to patrol the pages. If you are already a New Page Reviewer, please help out as much as you can. If you are not, please check out WP:NPP, then take a look at the requirements at WP:NPR and if you feel up to it, apply for the New Page Reviewer right at WP:PERM.
Kalapani territory has been a subject of edit warring by multiple editors. Kalapani is a disputed area between Nepal and India. The page was fully protected from 10 to 17 November. You're welcomed to patrol the page and keep your eyes on the new editors. Makes sure to assume good faith while editing the page.
An editor is pushing too high Jain POV in Jainism related articles. Join the conversation about the user at the noticeboard
India Search Result is a bot-generated page that tracks newly created articles related to India. It is a place to look out for new page pages. The page is updated daily and make sure to add it to your watchlist.

Miscellaneous

There are 14 Did You Know nominations, 25 Good Article nominations, 2 Featured Articles candidates, and 1 Featured List candidate to be reviewed.
The Swaminarayan Sampraday and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh are opened for requested comments.
You can review these article: Mouna Ragam, Everest (Indian TV series), Arjun Sarja filmography and Mullum Malarum for a peer review.

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WikiProject India Newsletter – December 2019

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Newly recognized content

December 2019 recognized content includes:

Newly nominated content

Created by Bellus Delphina

News

The holiday season has begun. WikiProject India Wishes you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and a prosperous decade. We look forward to working with you in 2020!
Editor Uanfala started a conversation about Lists of notable people in articles about places back in November and it still needs more editor's opinion on the subject.
Join a disscusion about formatting writing credits and music credits. The discussion is about Indian films having some differences from Western films in terms of writing and music credits.
India Search Result is a bot-generated page that tracks newly created articles related to India. It is a place to look out for new page pages. The page is updated daily and make sure to add it to your watchlist.

Miscellaneous

There are 17 Did You Know nominations, 20 Good Article nominations, and 1 Featured Articles candidates to be reviewed.
You can join the discussion at Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates#Citizenship_Amendment_Act_protests.
There are 3 articles waiting to be peer-reviewed.

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"Viram Deo" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Proposed deletion of Jai Parkash Aggarwal

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Category:Maharajganj has been nominated for merging

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Proposed deletion of Chennai–Salem Expressway

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