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Are you kidding me? India is perheps the only country in the world that has trouble with all its neighbours. Fought war with China, 4 wars with Pakistan, orchestrated tamil tiger movement in Sri lanka that led to a brutal terror in that country, border disputes with Bangladesh, Involvement in Maldives and Nepal? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.136.250.4 ( talk) 23:52, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
Note 153 seems to have a bit of a problem. Not much of an issue, but I noticed it and so I thought I should point it out - the article is dated 2009, but it says it was retrieved in 2007
^ "Country profile: India". BBC. 2009-08-19. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/country_profiles/1154019.stm. Retrieved 2007. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.181.108.28 ( talk) 00:36, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
1. kaveri river was mistakenly given as kasveri river 2. krishna river was mentioned as tapati 3. godavari river was misspelled as godavara 4. mahanadi was was misspelled as manahadi 5. yamuna was was misspelled as yamunda —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.166.52.28 ( talk) 07:57, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
This is absolute nonsense that idiots have unleashed on the world, It's not true, and cursory evaluation of a real encyclopedia will show that India's not a part of Asia. Neither is Saudi Arabia. It's only idiots who buy into this puerile nonsense. And, btw, Europe IS a part of Asia. Why don't you people go to that page and write West Asia there? Read a real dictionary or encyclopedia and you'll see. Stop catering to idiots. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.173.110.157 ( talk) 16:00, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
I cannot understand how some of the established users here agreed to add images shot in U.S. and other countries to the India image rotation template. The Red Panda image was shot in Munich Zoo and the Bengal Tiger image was shot in a zoo in U.S. Anyways, I have replaced the Red Panda image with one on the Common Kingfisher and I removed the Tiger image since I could not find a high quality image of the Bengal Tiger shot in India.
Secondly, there are other low quality images in the template. The first one I want to point out is -- Image:Wheel of Konark, Orissa, India.JPG. It is a ridiculously low quality image and is nothing better than what a tourist would take. I'm sorry but that image does not deserve to be in the template.
The other one of concern is Image:Shiva Bangalore .jpg. There are several disturbances in the image including a plant, people roaming around, a tent etc.
Please, there is no point in adding images just for the sake of it. -- Nosedown ( talk) 06:11, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Well, it eventually turned out that apart from the image on the Golden Langur, none of the images in the Flora and Fauna section were shot in India. I had a frustrating time trying to find replacements for all those images. I'm really disappointed by the lack of concern shown by other Wikipedians towards this issue. --
Nosedown (
talk) 07:14, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi, let me just make it clear that the original rotation has been decided by a consensus of around 20 editors. If you would like to suggest changes, please discuss it here before changing. Do not make unilateral changes to a consensus. Thanks.
Nikkul (
talk) 07:17, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
First of all, the main monuments & animals to be included in the rotation was discussed in a consensus with around 20 editors. Please see past discussions here here here and more!
You have gone ahead and replaced entire monuments and animals without discussion. In the past, I've only improved pics of the monuments and animals that had already been AGREED upon.
The Lotus Temple was agreed upon by past consensus. I simply changed the brightness of the image.
Second of all you need to discuss ANY major changes. This is wikipedia policy!! Changing the subject of an image is TOTALLY different than changing brightness/contrast of images. For example, in the past I replaced the image of Shiva in Bangalore (which had been agreed upon in consensus) with a better clearer image of the same monument. You have replaced entire monuments without any discussion!
P.S. Do not threaten to start a edit war next time. I have worked on this page long before you started. Don't dare tell me I'm disruptive! Most of the images on India-related pages have been my contributions!
Nikkul ( talk) 03:44, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
How about mentioning the fact that India's second official language was Persian for over 500 years. There are many words in Hindi and Punjabi languages that are borrowed from Persian.
24.80.113.143 ( talk)ditc —Preceding undated comment added 00:00, 7 April 2010 (UTC).
This article is about the Republic of India, not Indian civilization. The republic of India started in 1947 Nikkul ( talk) 05:06, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
Isn't india the world's 11th largest economy ? (see IMF update for 2009). Theeconomiics ( talk) 20:06, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
This may be a larger concern than just India itself, but I've noticed lately that Wikipedia articles on countries lack maps of the country. IE, I'm looking for a map of India right now, so I come here to Wikipedia and look up India, but the only two maps I find on the screen show India's place in the world and it's administrative divisions, respectively. This is very confounding to me; Maps of countries are probably the biggest use I get out of my aging World Book Encyclopedia (which lists, among other things, the USSR), and it'd be great to be able to get that here. 66.53.194.117 ( talk) 03:00, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
I wonder if there would be opposition to including the {{ Largest cities of India}} template if it were designed to give readers a choice? The template could be collapsed thusly:
The collapsed version could be added at the bottom of the Demographics section. It would be hidden until a reader clicks on the [show] link. When I first saw this template, I thought how well-puttogether it is. It shows a lot of interesting info, city population comparisons, in a very brief table-like structure. Wouldn't it be better if we let the readers choose?
— Paine (
Ellsworth's
Climax) 21:49, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
(od) Without commenting on the inclusion or exclusion of this particular template (I haven't given thought to it), it is useful to note that, while verifiability may be the main threshold, it is a necessary rather than sufficient condition for inclusion. Clearly, if we include all verifiable information in an article, the article will be no longer manageable. Along with verifiability, it is necessary for us to make consensual editorial decisions on what should be included and what should be excluded from any particular article. To that extent, we should be looking at whether sufficient value is added to the article by including this information or whether there is little value in including it. -- RegentsPark ( talk) 16:05, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
Cities by population
Rank City State Population Rank City State Population view • walk • talk
Mumbai
Delhi
1 Mumbai Maharastra 13,662,885 11 Jaipur Rajastan 2,997,114 2 Delhi Delhi 11,954,217 12 Lucknow Uttar Pradesh 2,621,063 3 Bengalouru Karnataka 5,180,533 13 Nagpur Maharastra 2,359,331 4 Kolkata West Bengal 5,021,458 14 Indore Mathya Pradesh 1,768,303 5 Chennai Tamilnadu 4,562,843 15 Patna Bihar 1,753,543 6 Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh 3,980,938 16 Bhopal Mathya Pradesh 3,792,375 7 Ahmedabad Gujarat 3,867,336 17 Thane Maharastra 1,673,465 8 Pune Maharastra 3,230,322 18 Luthiana Punjab 1,662,325 9 Surat Gujarat 3,124,249 19 Agra Uttar Pradesh 1,590,073 10 Kanpur Uttar Pradesh 3,067,663 20 Vadodara Gujaraj 1,487,956 2008 estimation[1]
122.164.44.49 ( talk) 11:01, 26 April 2010 (UTC) Hello Sir, Please add the Indian Cities by Population
122.164.44.49 ( talk) 11:17, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
Spitfire19 ( Talk) 11:39, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
I recently removed some links from the lede which I think made it difficult to parse, didn't give the reader guidance to what other articles were most relevant to understanding, India, the subject of this article, and IMO violated WP:OVERLINK (see diff). In particular, see the following recommendations in the MOS as to what should be linked:
Here is (in part) what the guideline says should not be linked: "...avoid linking terms whose meaning can be understood by most readers of the English Wikipedia, including plain English words, the names of major geographic features and locations, religions,..." (emphasis added). All the removed links fall under this category of links to be avoided, except possibly
Zoroastrianism. Furthermore, most all these countries and religions are already linked from the body of the article - although arguably, they shouldn't be! (I am not going to remove those links though).
I am starting this section to expand upon the edit-summary accompanying my edit (especially since I
misspelled the link to the cited MOS page), and because not linking those terms perhaps goes against the instinct we have developed on wikipedia. Perhaps the whole article should be reviewed for other instances of overlinking. Comments and objections welcome.
Aside: I found
this exercise and tips very useful in thinking about and questioning what shouldn't be linked (we almost never make an error in what should be linked.).
Abecedare (
talk) 02:50, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
{{editsemiprotected}}
please change the chief justis of india to "Sarosh Homi Kapadia"
Digicomrajkumar ( talk) 05:20, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
Please change the Hindi demonym of Indian from 'Hindustani' to 'Bhartiya' becuase the proper Hindi demonym is Bhartiya and not Hindustani.
Siddharth4 ( talk) 16:20, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Over the past few days, quite a few charts and tables have been added, a couple of them simply repeating the prose (religious breakup, economic indicators), another on the rankings. I don't believe these are needed in the article currently, and quite honestly, especially the first two are quite distracting, they've caused images to bleed into the next sections and visually disrupt the flow of text. If no one has any objections, I'd like to remove these. — Spaceman Spiff 16:44, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
Please,its my humble request to bring some changest in the 3rd para of India's introduction.They are as follows: 1.Please include international organisations of which India is a part of. 2.India's military budget has been excluded,I don't know for what. 3.Many people talk about India,as a global power & as a potential superpower(even wikipedia has it"potential superpowers").Kindly include that if necessary.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH! —Preceding unsigned comment added by DeadRed94 ( talk • contribs) 14:06, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
India has the 2nd largest standing army not 3rd.If you combine active & reserve troops,India has 2nd largest army after China.Please correct those silly errors.Wikipedia is an international website & such errors on such a reliable source is seriously untolerable.Also,please include the internationl organisations of which India is a part of.India is also considered a potential superpower.So,please include that too.Also,its the 10th largest military spending country.Please make these changes soon.
Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DeadRed94 ( talk • contribs) 20:04, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
I thought 'indo' was a latin word for 'south', like, we say Indochina and whatnot.. and 'indies' .. was there ever an overarching ancient name for the country used by the people in it? Or did they never have that fully developed sense of geography? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.11.36.165 ( talk) 16:47, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
see names of India. -- dab (𒁳) 14:07, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
I found it strange that u reverted my edits, you that and every body knows that India is the largest democracy in the world. So why did u reverted my edit? And 2ndly the most populous term have been used many times in other articles too therefore its better to change and make it as the largest democracy.-- Kkm010 as© 13:07, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
In the brif introduction section on the top left, the GDP data is for 2010. I request to edit it back to 2009 data, because we are not even half way through 2010, and the 2010 data is not out yet from IMF, and it is only estimate data. Plus all other countries are using 2009 data. talk 18:24, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Newer inclusions
Newer inclusions:
Replacement:
Old version:
Replacement:
Old version:
It has been more than two months since the voting was posted and no one has opposed the suggestions apart from Nikkul. I believe there is a clear consensus to incorporate the suggestions posted above. -- Nosedown ( talk) 16:55, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
{{editsemiprotected}} in the paragraph which descibes that poverty, corruption, healthcare, and malnutrition are issues in india(or india is lagging in these aspects), please add caste system and oppression of SC/ST's in rural areas, as this is the single biggest reason in Indian masses social and economic backwardness.
Iamswapniljadhav ( talk) 13:25, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Not done —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chzz ( talk • contribs)
please sign your posts. Iamswapniljadhav is making a reasonable proposal, but you should ask them to provide an actual suggestion of text to be inserted. "SC/ST" refers to Scheduled caste/ Scheduled tribe. The reason they are "scheduled" in the first place is that they are (or were) disadvantaged. This is positive discrimination, and ironically, castes are now clamouring to be considered "backward" because they want to benefit from the positive discrimination.
The main articles for this are Healthcare in India and Poverty in India. Iamswapniljadhav, these are not semiprotected, and you are welcome to work on them. Once you have produced a clean account in these articles, you can ask for inclusion of a summary here. -- dab (𒁳) 13:56, 20 May 2010 (UTC) India is suffering by terrorist activities so far.......but India is a very peaceful country.This is held by some neighbouring countries. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.240.169.63 ( talk) 12:46, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Like in flora section consider changing su-30mki,Hal tejas,Arjun tank,ins viraat,ins shivina,T-90,Akash SAM,Nag missile,Agni missile series etc at regular interval.-- 59.94.131.202 ( talk) 17:18, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Agni-II_missile_%28Republic_Day_Parade_2004%29.jpeg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IA_Dhruv_Berlin-08.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brahmos_imds.jpg
And i could post more pics which are top quality and so consider them for rotation.-- 59.94.135.209 ( talk) 03:53, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
The introduction needs a serious overhaul. That India is being considered a potential superpower by many analysts, that we are active members of groups like BASIC, BRIC, United Nations G20, G8+4 need to be stated. And why should things like poverty, and malnutrition be mentioned in the introduction? China too is suffering from more or less the same problems as India but I don't see anything being mentioned in the introduction of China.
Also, a mention should be made of the recent UN report in the 'economy' section which praises India for taking giant strides in terms of slum development.
Someone make these necessary changes as soon as possible. Otherwise questions would arise about the credibility of a Wikipedia article which ironically has been termed as one of wikipedia's bests despite containing so many discrepancies as stated above. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.242.184.93 ( talk) 09:14, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
See the section above "Intro needs reworking". Munci ( talk) 09:17, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
I've added a sentence about potential superpower since all other potential superpowers have this states on their page (China, Russia, etc.). Nikkul ( talk) 17:04, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
I would like to switch the existing Taj Mahal image with this better image. What do you guys think? Nikkul ( talk) 06:43, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
In general "Federation" means a country formed by separate states that have given certain powers to a central government while keeping control over local matters and "Constitution" means the system of beliefs and laws by which a country, state, or organization is governed. Previously you said that both are same while its not true. Therefore I thought its worth mentioning it.
2ndly you removed a vital point that is (It is a constitutional republic and representative democracy, "in which majority rule is tempered by minority rights protected by law) it must be mentioned what kind of democracy does India follows there two type of democracy one direct democracy and other representative democracy, & India maintains a representative democracy and in what way.
3rd In ( Indian federalist system) the term should be mentioned why because commonly there are two type of gov one is "Unitary sate" other run as "federal structure". It should be clear that in Indian federalism the preamble of the constitution defines India as a sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic. Generally Unitary states are like UK, Canada or Japan whereas federalist gov are like Brazil or USA etc.-- Kkm010 as© 06:51, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Another thing I didn't get why Sodabottle removed the term federation instead of constitution pls make it clear. I explained earlier whats the difference where Arjun was stating both are same.-- Kkm010 as© 10:14, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
I believe the introduction needs reworking. There are lots of links but none of them are to the religions. There is recentism in that the only ruler mentioned is the British East India Company and the economic reforms of the nineties are mentioned as significant when they are nothing compared to the whole scale of history. And the negative aspects, here such as corruption and poverty are not normally put in the intro of country of articles. You don't see United States leading with "It has a high wealth disparity and a high homicide rate, do you? Munci ( talk) 18:10, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Specifically I propose removing the part "however, it still suffers from poverty, illiteracy, corruption, disease, and malnutrition." and adding in wikilinks to Hinduism in India, Jainism in India etc. I'm not entirely sure how to balance the history more about pre-18th century history though. The other bits is enough for now. Any objections? Munci ( talk) 00:04, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
I also propose adding a sentence about membership of international organisations like so: India is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, G15, G20, Asia Cooperation Dialogue, the Colombo Plan, Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation and the Non-aligned movement. What do others think? Munci ( talk) 15:06, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
The Nano image need to be rotated with images of other automobiles from India like the Reve electric car. Bcs09 ( talk) 02:34, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
wonder how much credibility Institute for Economics and Peace have and if this is an information worth adding. -- Car Tick 12:33, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
{{editsemiprotected}} Where it says that India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and Maldives in the Indian ocean, please add ", and its Andaman and Nicobar Islands are also in the vicinity of the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the Andaman Sea. [4]"
92.8.202.26 ( talk) 19:19, 11 June 2010 (UTC) Not done
Done
This article, while highly visible and important to Wikipedia, has been indef-semi-protected since Nov. 2007. Quite a long time... I believe it may be safe to unprotect the article, at least on a trial basis. I had asked on WP:RFPP, and was advised to ask for public opinion here. I think it's a good idea to give casual editors a chance to contribute. :) Thoughts, comments? Avic enna sis @ 05:41, 30 Sivan 5770 / 12 June 2010 (UTC)
Is it not unbalanced to have the English category without the one for Hindi? As long as we stick to only the union languages rather than the regional ones, it won't make too many categories. The Eighth Schedule languages would instead fit on the various states. As for it being named Hindustani rather than Hindi, I'm sure it's so that both Hindi and Urdu are included. Would the title 'Category:Hindi and Urdu speaking countries and territories' be better? Also, I'm not entirely sure what " somewhere between 25 and 30 on the priority list of categories based on languages". Could this please be explained? Do you mean there are 25-30 languages more important for which to have such a category? Munci ( talk) 16:10, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
My two cents: First, there exists an inconsistency between the criteria for including articles in Category:English-speaking countries and territories and Category:Tamil-speaking countries and territories — the latter (as also Category:Hindustani-speaking countries and territories) has an official language requirement, the former does not. So, the criteria for including articles in equivalent categories need to be made uniform (I don't see why there should be any requirment for the lanuage to be official if the category includes territories where the language is spoken - these are two different things and the former, in my opinion, imposes an unnecessarily high standard). Second, the Union Territories are administered by the Union Government (even though Puducherry, the UT in question, has a legislature) and technically, Tamil could be considered the official language of a federally-administered territory. In any case, all the 8th Schedule languages are Constitutionally recognised and I see no reason why one or more of them should be preferred over the other(s). Regards, SBC-YPR ( talk) 16:40, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
interesting observation, nothing to improve the article, but still related to this page. according to my theory, of the 2000 odd watchers, atleast 100 people are "actively watching" this page. The peak in page view of this recently created article by me on 15, 16 and 17 after I participated in a conversation starting 15 on this page. I am assuming each page view corresponds to an independent user and each user clicked the page only once. -- Car Tick 21:24, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
I notice an edit war going on between Nikkul and some other users. I am not sure if we need to have images of any of these cars. -- Car Tick 20:12, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
(od) I've got nothing against showing the Nano. It is identifiably Indian and is notable as the epitome of the 'cheap car'. Not sure about the Reva (relatively unknown).-- RegentsPark ( talk) 21:27, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
I think Reva NXR will be better. But if someone is having objections why not have the Reva NXG. Bcs09 ( talk) 14:16, 18 June 2010 (UTC) Mr.Binoy, Reva is also an Indian brand. Now purchased by Mahindra & Mahindra Limited. I would like a rotation of both images. Both Nano as well as Reva NXR/Reva NXG. That would be nice. Bcs09 ( talk) 14:18, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
-- BINOY Talk 11:03, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
The images will change each hour. Can make changes and can add to the article if there is no objection. -- BINOY Talk 11:31, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
-- 116.72.157.56 ( talk) 21:57, 30 June 2010 (UTC)== Contradiction with other wiki pages ==
There is contradictions on this page with other wiki pages. For example when you type in Aryan it tells you how the word Aryan comes from Sanskrit but on this page there is no mention of anything Aryan at least not that I know of. Or for example on Aryan invasion theory then it lists that Aryans possibly came from India or invaded India, but here I don't think there is any mention of thing's like that at least not that I know of then 71.105.87.54 ( talk) 23:16, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
yes thats correct —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.72.157.56 ( talk) 21:57, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
In the 1st para of the sports section,its written that "BCCI also conducts Ranjee trophy,Duleep trophy,Deodhar trophy,Irani trophy and the Challenger Series".
Let me make myself clear."Challenger Series" is an ATP(tennis)tournament.It has nothing to do with BCCI and its a big error by somebody.
So please do the needful changes in it.I hope you understood what I meant.
And aslo there aren't articles like-"science & technology in india,transport,education & envirnment" and other stuff as well.If you go to countries like USA,China,Israel,Singapore,Russia and others,you'll find their profiles are well maintained and recorded.So please do make our country's profile like them as well.India's profile is very short & empty compared to other countries.So please do the needful changes.
And India has the 2nd largest standing army not 3rd.The whole world know that India is 2nd to China in number of army troops.Only Wikipedia thinks its 3rd largest army.So here also please make a needful change at he introduction in 3rd para.
PLEASE DO THESE NEEDFUL CHANGES,ITS MY HUMBLE REQUEST. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DeadRed94 ( talk • contribs) 21:31, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
In the 1st para of the sports section,its written that "BCCI also conducts Ranjee trophy,Duleep trophy,Deodhar trophy,Irani trophy and the Challenger Series".
Let me make myself clear."Challenger Series" is an ATP(tennis)tournament.It has nothing to do with BCCI and its a big error by somebody.So please do the needful changes in it.I hope you understood what I meant.
And aslo there aren't articles like-"science & technology in india,transport,education & envirnment" and other stuff as well.If you go to countries like USA,China,Israel,Singapore,Russia and others,you'll find their profiles are well maintained and recorded.So please do make our country's profile like them as well.India's profile is very short & empty compared to other countries.So please do the needful changes.
And India has the 2nd largest standing army not 3rd.The whole world know that India is 2nd to China in number of army troops.Only Wikipedia thinks its 3rd largest army.So here also please make a needful change at he introduction in 3rd para.
PLEASE DO THESE NEEDFUL CHANGES,ITS MY HUMBLE REQUEST. Thank you. -- 116.72.157.56 ( talk) 21:46, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
Okay thanks for responding.So remove that tennis(challenger series) & put the real on which is this-" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKP_Salve_Challenger_Trophy".Please correct this error.BCCI conducts cricket challenger series not tennis.
And what about articles like:"science & tech in india,tourism in india,education in india,health & environment in india & many more"!! These articles are absent only in India(profile).Its available in all other countries.So please make these changes requested!! -- DeadRed94 ( talk) 15:20, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
I've made the changes -- 116.72.157.56 ( talk) 15:45, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
You mean,Wiki has not got enough space to store more info than this??? If so,how can articles of other countries be so big??? -- DeadRed94 ( talk) 15:55, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
half of the worlds hungry are in india poverty has incresed more and yet not a single mention of it.
what a biased article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.95.131.67 ( talk) 16:54, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
I dont know about other pages. But, it is so much waste of everybody's time for a matured page like this. i thought we probably have one of the best internet connections, but yet reviewing the India page for some reason takes so much time. Semi-protection is so much better. -- Car Tick 21:08, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
We should change that Su-30Mki pic with INS Viraat pic as aircraft carrier is true symbol of military might .Example- Russia proudly shows Admiral Kuznetsov, United Kingdom proudly shows HMS Illustrious, France proudly shows Charles de Gaulle and US proudly shows USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier.Su-30MKI is not true symbol of military might but aircraft carrier is.we should add the INS Viraat pic in page. Any thought.-- 59.94.129.136 ( talk) 19:34, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
yes yes........that's a good point,,,,,please change it!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by DeadRed94 ( talk • contribs) 10:24, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
why INS Chakra, it is even not in service and not true symbol of military might whereas INS Viraat is in service. why not INS Viraat pics should be in place of INS Chakra. Any thought-- 59.94.128.233 ( talk) 20:11, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
For example in the Indian language section it mentions Indo-Aryan language but, there is no mention in this article of Indo Aryan language. Another example on some articles there is information about Aryan invading India or coming from India, and yet there is no mention of Aryans in this article then. I might be able to give more examples but I hope this gives you an idea. Plus if I give more examples Deepak the Dictator might erase this anyway so I might be wasting my time. And for those of you who might block me becuase I called him a Dictator, take into considertaion that he calls me a troll, erases my edits, erases my posts in the discussion area (i can understand erasing edits but erasing posts in a discussion area?) he tells people to ignore me, he gets me blocked without telling me why, he doesnt always answer questions, and yet you people dont block him. So if you dont block him then please dont block me for calling him Deepak the Dictator. And by the examples I gave of the kind of things that he has done/does, I hope you can understand why I call him a dictator. 71.105.87.54 ( talk) 00:42, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
give it up,these ppl hav no patriotism for their country.in my opinion the profile of india is 50% empty.why??-coz other articles like "science & tech in india,tourism in india,education in india,health & environment in india,transport in india" dont exist.ive requested several times to them.....but none have taken any action....perhaps they are anti-india or pakis.....keeping the reputation of our profile(india) low....just look at other tiny or small countries like singapore,israel,chile & countries like russia,usa,china,brazil........their's are so well maintained & recorded & is very systematic....so dont hope any good from these ppl —Preceding unsigned comment added by DeadRed94 ( talk • contribs) 09:27, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
I have
reverted approximately 10KB of new, undiscussed additions to the article, added by Aryan818 (now in his new reincarnation DeadRed94). This is a featured article, and any large scale additions need to be discussed and also comply with
WP:S. --
Ragib (
talk) 20:26, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
u ppl say we need to discuss....
well how long will u ppl take to execute ur decisions...u ppl hav are just behaving like corrupted cheap indian politicians who take years to implement plans.
2 days back some1 said we need to change india's sukhoi with indian aircraft carrier to show our country's military might......but still there is the old pic of sukhoi...PM Singh has only met russian president nobody else....no required pictures..
watever u all do,do for our country's sake.......let those who wish to make changes incorruptebly allow them.....& if it sucks then remove it! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.72.157.56 ( talk) 08:11, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
hey guys..........hello pay attention.......Im DeadRed94 & I know nothing of who the hell aryan is!!! and ive only made chenges in the sports section okay?? wat wrong have i done??? ive just improved and updated my country's profile damn it! plus ive only made changes like- wat else india has hosted (world military games,afro asian games),wat it has achieved through (hockey,cricket,chess)& other very important stuff!!! ive done nothing else!!
now listen to me.......im only concerned of my country's reputation in the entire world,do u get it u anti-indians??!! u ppl hav no patriotism for our motherland.......JUST COMPARE PROFILES LIKE RUSSIA,USA,UK,CHINA,JAPAN,SINGAPORE,ARGENTINA,ISRAEL N SO ON SO FORTH.......why are u ppl leaving our country's profile completely barren & empty there are no- 1.not much of variety of pics in sports,flaura & fauna,military,foreign relations &........ 2.invaluable articles missing-tourism in india,indian food(cuisine),education in india,sci & tech in india,health & environment &........ 3.our profile is empty & that is not the way we represent a country which is considered as a potential superpower
all i want in the end is INDIA,INDIA,INDIA,INDIA & ONLY U PPL CAN DO IT COZ U ALL KNOW HOW TO MAKE THE CHANGES & WHATEVER.......... —Preceding unsigned comment added by DeadRed94 ( talk • contribs) 07:56, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Do we need a cities by population or a similar template?. Indian population is more rural than urban and there is no need for this template in a summary style demographics section. I think this is excessive detail that increases article size.-- Sodabottle ( talk) 04:44, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
Go through my cleanup job in the past five minutes. I cannot understand how such low-quality changes are incorporated into this featured article and other Wikipedians do not even oppose them? If things continue at this rate, it won't be long before this article loses its featured status. -- King Zebu ( talk) 14:43, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
i saw that under India, it said that India suns on 'left. I think India has come a far way from being a communist country! it's almost center of right! it is turning into a highly open economy! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.178.165.100 ( talk) 12:13, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
User Nirvana888 has reinserted the following line which was removed sometime before:
however, it still suffers from high levels of poverty, illiteracy, corruption, disease,and malnutrition.
I think the phrase "high levels" is vague. Poverty and corruption sure (but a better source for corruption is needed). But Malnutrition and Disease?. Malnutrition was around 16-17% sometime back and how does one measure disease levels? (and what disease?). The reference given for disease is a general report on "healthcare in india", which says nothing about how there are "high levels of disease" in India. My point is: this assertion is too vague to be in the lead. Any suggestions?-- Sodabottle ( talk) 05:07, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
I think we need to remove "high levels" because India is a lot better off compared to most African and latin american countries. Nikkul ( talk) 02:21, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
The Su-30 MKI image need to be replaced. One suggestion is the NAMICA and Nag missile image. Bcs09 ( talk) 02:07, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
And what about the population fact.-- Kkm010 | Talk with me 05:48, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
The Persian transliteration is absent in the paragraph —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.112.212.62 ( talk) 16:33, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
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Archive 20 | ← | Archive 25 | Archive 26 | Archive 27 | Archive 28 | Archive 29 | Archive 30 |
Are you kidding me? India is perheps the only country in the world that has trouble with all its neighbours. Fought war with China, 4 wars with Pakistan, orchestrated tamil tiger movement in Sri lanka that led to a brutal terror in that country, border disputes with Bangladesh, Involvement in Maldives and Nepal? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.136.250.4 ( talk) 23:52, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
Note 153 seems to have a bit of a problem. Not much of an issue, but I noticed it and so I thought I should point it out - the article is dated 2009, but it says it was retrieved in 2007
^ "Country profile: India". BBC. 2009-08-19. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/country_profiles/1154019.stm. Retrieved 2007. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.181.108.28 ( talk) 00:36, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
1. kaveri river was mistakenly given as kasveri river 2. krishna river was mentioned as tapati 3. godavari river was misspelled as godavara 4. mahanadi was was misspelled as manahadi 5. yamuna was was misspelled as yamunda —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.166.52.28 ( talk) 07:57, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
This is absolute nonsense that idiots have unleashed on the world, It's not true, and cursory evaluation of a real encyclopedia will show that India's not a part of Asia. Neither is Saudi Arabia. It's only idiots who buy into this puerile nonsense. And, btw, Europe IS a part of Asia. Why don't you people go to that page and write West Asia there? Read a real dictionary or encyclopedia and you'll see. Stop catering to idiots. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.173.110.157 ( talk) 16:00, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
I cannot understand how some of the established users here agreed to add images shot in U.S. and other countries to the India image rotation template. The Red Panda image was shot in Munich Zoo and the Bengal Tiger image was shot in a zoo in U.S. Anyways, I have replaced the Red Panda image with one on the Common Kingfisher and I removed the Tiger image since I could not find a high quality image of the Bengal Tiger shot in India.
Secondly, there are other low quality images in the template. The first one I want to point out is -- Image:Wheel of Konark, Orissa, India.JPG. It is a ridiculously low quality image and is nothing better than what a tourist would take. I'm sorry but that image does not deserve to be in the template.
The other one of concern is Image:Shiva Bangalore .jpg. There are several disturbances in the image including a plant, people roaming around, a tent etc.
Please, there is no point in adding images just for the sake of it. -- Nosedown ( talk) 06:11, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Well, it eventually turned out that apart from the image on the Golden Langur, none of the images in the Flora and Fauna section were shot in India. I had a frustrating time trying to find replacements for all those images. I'm really disappointed by the lack of concern shown by other Wikipedians towards this issue. --
Nosedown (
talk) 07:14, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi, let me just make it clear that the original rotation has been decided by a consensus of around 20 editors. If you would like to suggest changes, please discuss it here before changing. Do not make unilateral changes to a consensus. Thanks.
Nikkul (
talk) 07:17, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
First of all, the main monuments & animals to be included in the rotation was discussed in a consensus with around 20 editors. Please see past discussions here here here and more!
You have gone ahead and replaced entire monuments and animals without discussion. In the past, I've only improved pics of the monuments and animals that had already been AGREED upon.
The Lotus Temple was agreed upon by past consensus. I simply changed the brightness of the image.
Second of all you need to discuss ANY major changes. This is wikipedia policy!! Changing the subject of an image is TOTALLY different than changing brightness/contrast of images. For example, in the past I replaced the image of Shiva in Bangalore (which had been agreed upon in consensus) with a better clearer image of the same monument. You have replaced entire monuments without any discussion!
P.S. Do not threaten to start a edit war next time. I have worked on this page long before you started. Don't dare tell me I'm disruptive! Most of the images on India-related pages have been my contributions!
Nikkul ( talk) 03:44, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
How about mentioning the fact that India's second official language was Persian for over 500 years. There are many words in Hindi and Punjabi languages that are borrowed from Persian.
24.80.113.143 ( talk)ditc —Preceding undated comment added 00:00, 7 April 2010 (UTC).
This article is about the Republic of India, not Indian civilization. The republic of India started in 1947 Nikkul ( talk) 05:06, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
Isn't india the world's 11th largest economy ? (see IMF update for 2009). Theeconomiics ( talk) 20:06, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
This may be a larger concern than just India itself, but I've noticed lately that Wikipedia articles on countries lack maps of the country. IE, I'm looking for a map of India right now, so I come here to Wikipedia and look up India, but the only two maps I find on the screen show India's place in the world and it's administrative divisions, respectively. This is very confounding to me; Maps of countries are probably the biggest use I get out of my aging World Book Encyclopedia (which lists, among other things, the USSR), and it'd be great to be able to get that here. 66.53.194.117 ( talk) 03:00, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
I wonder if there would be opposition to including the {{ Largest cities of India}} template if it were designed to give readers a choice? The template could be collapsed thusly:
The collapsed version could be added at the bottom of the Demographics section. It would be hidden until a reader clicks on the [show] link. When I first saw this template, I thought how well-puttogether it is. It shows a lot of interesting info, city population comparisons, in a very brief table-like structure. Wouldn't it be better if we let the readers choose?
— Paine (
Ellsworth's
Climax) 21:49, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
(od) Without commenting on the inclusion or exclusion of this particular template (I haven't given thought to it), it is useful to note that, while verifiability may be the main threshold, it is a necessary rather than sufficient condition for inclusion. Clearly, if we include all verifiable information in an article, the article will be no longer manageable. Along with verifiability, it is necessary for us to make consensual editorial decisions on what should be included and what should be excluded from any particular article. To that extent, we should be looking at whether sufficient value is added to the article by including this information or whether there is little value in including it. -- RegentsPark ( talk) 16:05, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
Cities by population
Rank City State Population Rank City State Population view • walk • talk
Mumbai
Delhi
1 Mumbai Maharastra 13,662,885 11 Jaipur Rajastan 2,997,114 2 Delhi Delhi 11,954,217 12 Lucknow Uttar Pradesh 2,621,063 3 Bengalouru Karnataka 5,180,533 13 Nagpur Maharastra 2,359,331 4 Kolkata West Bengal 5,021,458 14 Indore Mathya Pradesh 1,768,303 5 Chennai Tamilnadu 4,562,843 15 Patna Bihar 1,753,543 6 Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh 3,980,938 16 Bhopal Mathya Pradesh 3,792,375 7 Ahmedabad Gujarat 3,867,336 17 Thane Maharastra 1,673,465 8 Pune Maharastra 3,230,322 18 Luthiana Punjab 1,662,325 9 Surat Gujarat 3,124,249 19 Agra Uttar Pradesh 1,590,073 10 Kanpur Uttar Pradesh 3,067,663 20 Vadodara Gujaraj 1,487,956 2008 estimation[1]
122.164.44.49 ( talk) 11:01, 26 April 2010 (UTC) Hello Sir, Please add the Indian Cities by Population
122.164.44.49 ( talk) 11:17, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
Spitfire19 ( Talk) 11:39, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
I recently removed some links from the lede which I think made it difficult to parse, didn't give the reader guidance to what other articles were most relevant to understanding, India, the subject of this article, and IMO violated WP:OVERLINK (see diff). In particular, see the following recommendations in the MOS as to what should be linked:
Here is (in part) what the guideline says should not be linked: "...avoid linking terms whose meaning can be understood by most readers of the English Wikipedia, including plain English words, the names of major geographic features and locations, religions,..." (emphasis added). All the removed links fall under this category of links to be avoided, except possibly
Zoroastrianism. Furthermore, most all these countries and religions are already linked from the body of the article - although arguably, they shouldn't be! (I am not going to remove those links though).
I am starting this section to expand upon the edit-summary accompanying my edit (especially since I
misspelled the link to the cited MOS page), and because not linking those terms perhaps goes against the instinct we have developed on wikipedia. Perhaps the whole article should be reviewed for other instances of overlinking. Comments and objections welcome.
Aside: I found
this exercise and tips very useful in thinking about and questioning what shouldn't be linked (we almost never make an error in what should be linked.).
Abecedare (
talk) 02:50, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
{{editsemiprotected}}
please change the chief justis of india to "Sarosh Homi Kapadia"
Digicomrajkumar ( talk) 05:20, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
Please change the Hindi demonym of Indian from 'Hindustani' to 'Bhartiya' becuase the proper Hindi demonym is Bhartiya and not Hindustani.
Siddharth4 ( talk) 16:20, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Over the past few days, quite a few charts and tables have been added, a couple of them simply repeating the prose (religious breakup, economic indicators), another on the rankings. I don't believe these are needed in the article currently, and quite honestly, especially the first two are quite distracting, they've caused images to bleed into the next sections and visually disrupt the flow of text. If no one has any objections, I'd like to remove these. — Spaceman Spiff 16:44, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
Please,its my humble request to bring some changest in the 3rd para of India's introduction.They are as follows: 1.Please include international organisations of which India is a part of. 2.India's military budget has been excluded,I don't know for what. 3.Many people talk about India,as a global power & as a potential superpower(even wikipedia has it"potential superpowers").Kindly include that if necessary.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH! —Preceding unsigned comment added by DeadRed94 ( talk • contribs) 14:06, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
India has the 2nd largest standing army not 3rd.If you combine active & reserve troops,India has 2nd largest army after China.Please correct those silly errors.Wikipedia is an international website & such errors on such a reliable source is seriously untolerable.Also,please include the internationl organisations of which India is a part of.India is also considered a potential superpower.So,please include that too.Also,its the 10th largest military spending country.Please make these changes soon.
Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DeadRed94 ( talk • contribs) 20:04, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
I thought 'indo' was a latin word for 'south', like, we say Indochina and whatnot.. and 'indies' .. was there ever an overarching ancient name for the country used by the people in it? Or did they never have that fully developed sense of geography? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.11.36.165 ( talk) 16:47, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
see names of India. -- dab (𒁳) 14:07, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
I found it strange that u reverted my edits, you that and every body knows that India is the largest democracy in the world. So why did u reverted my edit? And 2ndly the most populous term have been used many times in other articles too therefore its better to change and make it as the largest democracy.-- Kkm010 as© 13:07, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
In the brif introduction section on the top left, the GDP data is for 2010. I request to edit it back to 2009 data, because we are not even half way through 2010, and the 2010 data is not out yet from IMF, and it is only estimate data. Plus all other countries are using 2009 data. talk 18:24, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Newer inclusions
Newer inclusions:
Replacement:
Old version:
Replacement:
Old version:
It has been more than two months since the voting was posted and no one has opposed the suggestions apart from Nikkul. I believe there is a clear consensus to incorporate the suggestions posted above. -- Nosedown ( talk) 16:55, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
{{editsemiprotected}} in the paragraph which descibes that poverty, corruption, healthcare, and malnutrition are issues in india(or india is lagging in these aspects), please add caste system and oppression of SC/ST's in rural areas, as this is the single biggest reason in Indian masses social and economic backwardness.
Iamswapniljadhav ( talk) 13:25, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Not done —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chzz ( talk • contribs)
please sign your posts. Iamswapniljadhav is making a reasonable proposal, but you should ask them to provide an actual suggestion of text to be inserted. "SC/ST" refers to Scheduled caste/ Scheduled tribe. The reason they are "scheduled" in the first place is that they are (or were) disadvantaged. This is positive discrimination, and ironically, castes are now clamouring to be considered "backward" because they want to benefit from the positive discrimination.
The main articles for this are Healthcare in India and Poverty in India. Iamswapniljadhav, these are not semiprotected, and you are welcome to work on them. Once you have produced a clean account in these articles, you can ask for inclusion of a summary here. -- dab (𒁳) 13:56, 20 May 2010 (UTC) India is suffering by terrorist activities so far.......but India is a very peaceful country.This is held by some neighbouring countries. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.240.169.63 ( talk) 12:46, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Like in flora section consider changing su-30mki,Hal tejas,Arjun tank,ins viraat,ins shivina,T-90,Akash SAM,Nag missile,Agni missile series etc at regular interval.-- 59.94.131.202 ( talk) 17:18, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Agni-II_missile_%28Republic_Day_Parade_2004%29.jpeg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IA_Dhruv_Berlin-08.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brahmos_imds.jpg
And i could post more pics which are top quality and so consider them for rotation.-- 59.94.135.209 ( talk) 03:53, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
The introduction needs a serious overhaul. That India is being considered a potential superpower by many analysts, that we are active members of groups like BASIC, BRIC, United Nations G20, G8+4 need to be stated. And why should things like poverty, and malnutrition be mentioned in the introduction? China too is suffering from more or less the same problems as India but I don't see anything being mentioned in the introduction of China.
Also, a mention should be made of the recent UN report in the 'economy' section which praises India for taking giant strides in terms of slum development.
Someone make these necessary changes as soon as possible. Otherwise questions would arise about the credibility of a Wikipedia article which ironically has been termed as one of wikipedia's bests despite containing so many discrepancies as stated above. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.242.184.93 ( talk) 09:14, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
See the section above "Intro needs reworking". Munci ( talk) 09:17, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
I've added a sentence about potential superpower since all other potential superpowers have this states on their page (China, Russia, etc.). Nikkul ( talk) 17:04, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
I would like to switch the existing Taj Mahal image with this better image. What do you guys think? Nikkul ( talk) 06:43, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
In general "Federation" means a country formed by separate states that have given certain powers to a central government while keeping control over local matters and "Constitution" means the system of beliefs and laws by which a country, state, or organization is governed. Previously you said that both are same while its not true. Therefore I thought its worth mentioning it.
2ndly you removed a vital point that is (It is a constitutional republic and representative democracy, "in which majority rule is tempered by minority rights protected by law) it must be mentioned what kind of democracy does India follows there two type of democracy one direct democracy and other representative democracy, & India maintains a representative democracy and in what way.
3rd In ( Indian federalist system) the term should be mentioned why because commonly there are two type of gov one is "Unitary sate" other run as "federal structure". It should be clear that in Indian federalism the preamble of the constitution defines India as a sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic. Generally Unitary states are like UK, Canada or Japan whereas federalist gov are like Brazil or USA etc.-- Kkm010 as© 06:51, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Another thing I didn't get why Sodabottle removed the term federation instead of constitution pls make it clear. I explained earlier whats the difference where Arjun was stating both are same.-- Kkm010 as© 10:14, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
I believe the introduction needs reworking. There are lots of links but none of them are to the religions. There is recentism in that the only ruler mentioned is the British East India Company and the economic reforms of the nineties are mentioned as significant when they are nothing compared to the whole scale of history. And the negative aspects, here such as corruption and poverty are not normally put in the intro of country of articles. You don't see United States leading with "It has a high wealth disparity and a high homicide rate, do you? Munci ( talk) 18:10, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Specifically I propose removing the part "however, it still suffers from poverty, illiteracy, corruption, disease, and malnutrition." and adding in wikilinks to Hinduism in India, Jainism in India etc. I'm not entirely sure how to balance the history more about pre-18th century history though. The other bits is enough for now. Any objections? Munci ( talk) 00:04, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
I also propose adding a sentence about membership of international organisations like so: India is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, G15, G20, Asia Cooperation Dialogue, the Colombo Plan, Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation and the Non-aligned movement. What do others think? Munci ( talk) 15:06, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
The Nano image need to be rotated with images of other automobiles from India like the Reve electric car. Bcs09 ( talk) 02:34, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
wonder how much credibility Institute for Economics and Peace have and if this is an information worth adding. -- Car Tick 12:33, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
{{editsemiprotected}} Where it says that India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and Maldives in the Indian ocean, please add ", and its Andaman and Nicobar Islands are also in the vicinity of the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the Andaman Sea. [4]"
92.8.202.26 ( talk) 19:19, 11 June 2010 (UTC) Not done
Done
This article, while highly visible and important to Wikipedia, has been indef-semi-protected since Nov. 2007. Quite a long time... I believe it may be safe to unprotect the article, at least on a trial basis. I had asked on WP:RFPP, and was advised to ask for public opinion here. I think it's a good idea to give casual editors a chance to contribute. :) Thoughts, comments? Avic enna sis @ 05:41, 30 Sivan 5770 / 12 June 2010 (UTC)
Is it not unbalanced to have the English category without the one for Hindi? As long as we stick to only the union languages rather than the regional ones, it won't make too many categories. The Eighth Schedule languages would instead fit on the various states. As for it being named Hindustani rather than Hindi, I'm sure it's so that both Hindi and Urdu are included. Would the title 'Category:Hindi and Urdu speaking countries and territories' be better? Also, I'm not entirely sure what " somewhere between 25 and 30 on the priority list of categories based on languages". Could this please be explained? Do you mean there are 25-30 languages more important for which to have such a category? Munci ( talk) 16:10, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
My two cents: First, there exists an inconsistency between the criteria for including articles in Category:English-speaking countries and territories and Category:Tamil-speaking countries and territories — the latter (as also Category:Hindustani-speaking countries and territories) has an official language requirement, the former does not. So, the criteria for including articles in equivalent categories need to be made uniform (I don't see why there should be any requirment for the lanuage to be official if the category includes territories where the language is spoken - these are two different things and the former, in my opinion, imposes an unnecessarily high standard). Second, the Union Territories are administered by the Union Government (even though Puducherry, the UT in question, has a legislature) and technically, Tamil could be considered the official language of a federally-administered territory. In any case, all the 8th Schedule languages are Constitutionally recognised and I see no reason why one or more of them should be preferred over the other(s). Regards, SBC-YPR ( talk) 16:40, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
interesting observation, nothing to improve the article, but still related to this page. according to my theory, of the 2000 odd watchers, atleast 100 people are "actively watching" this page. The peak in page view of this recently created article by me on 15, 16 and 17 after I participated in a conversation starting 15 on this page. I am assuming each page view corresponds to an independent user and each user clicked the page only once. -- Car Tick 21:24, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
I notice an edit war going on between Nikkul and some other users. I am not sure if we need to have images of any of these cars. -- Car Tick 20:12, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
(od) I've got nothing against showing the Nano. It is identifiably Indian and is notable as the epitome of the 'cheap car'. Not sure about the Reva (relatively unknown).-- RegentsPark ( talk) 21:27, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
I think Reva NXR will be better. But if someone is having objections why not have the Reva NXG. Bcs09 ( talk) 14:16, 18 June 2010 (UTC) Mr.Binoy, Reva is also an Indian brand. Now purchased by Mahindra & Mahindra Limited. I would like a rotation of both images. Both Nano as well as Reva NXR/Reva NXG. That would be nice. Bcs09 ( talk) 14:18, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
-- BINOY Talk 11:03, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
The images will change each hour. Can make changes and can add to the article if there is no objection. -- BINOY Talk 11:31, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
-- 116.72.157.56 ( talk) 21:57, 30 June 2010 (UTC)== Contradiction with other wiki pages ==
There is contradictions on this page with other wiki pages. For example when you type in Aryan it tells you how the word Aryan comes from Sanskrit but on this page there is no mention of anything Aryan at least not that I know of. Or for example on Aryan invasion theory then it lists that Aryans possibly came from India or invaded India, but here I don't think there is any mention of thing's like that at least not that I know of then 71.105.87.54 ( talk) 23:16, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
yes thats correct —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.72.157.56 ( talk) 21:57, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
In the 1st para of the sports section,its written that "BCCI also conducts Ranjee trophy,Duleep trophy,Deodhar trophy,Irani trophy and the Challenger Series".
Let me make myself clear."Challenger Series" is an ATP(tennis)tournament.It has nothing to do with BCCI and its a big error by somebody.
So please do the needful changes in it.I hope you understood what I meant.
And aslo there aren't articles like-"science & technology in india,transport,education & envirnment" and other stuff as well.If you go to countries like USA,China,Israel,Singapore,Russia and others,you'll find their profiles are well maintained and recorded.So please do make our country's profile like them as well.India's profile is very short & empty compared to other countries.So please do the needful changes.
And India has the 2nd largest standing army not 3rd.The whole world know that India is 2nd to China in number of army troops.Only Wikipedia thinks its 3rd largest army.So here also please make a needful change at he introduction in 3rd para.
PLEASE DO THESE NEEDFUL CHANGES,ITS MY HUMBLE REQUEST. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DeadRed94 ( talk • contribs) 21:31, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
In the 1st para of the sports section,its written that "BCCI also conducts Ranjee trophy,Duleep trophy,Deodhar trophy,Irani trophy and the Challenger Series".
Let me make myself clear."Challenger Series" is an ATP(tennis)tournament.It has nothing to do with BCCI and its a big error by somebody.So please do the needful changes in it.I hope you understood what I meant.
And aslo there aren't articles like-"science & technology in india,transport,education & envirnment" and other stuff as well.If you go to countries like USA,China,Israel,Singapore,Russia and others,you'll find their profiles are well maintained and recorded.So please do make our country's profile like them as well.India's profile is very short & empty compared to other countries.So please do the needful changes.
And India has the 2nd largest standing army not 3rd.The whole world know that India is 2nd to China in number of army troops.Only Wikipedia thinks its 3rd largest army.So here also please make a needful change at he introduction in 3rd para.
PLEASE DO THESE NEEDFUL CHANGES,ITS MY HUMBLE REQUEST. Thank you. -- 116.72.157.56 ( talk) 21:46, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
Okay thanks for responding.So remove that tennis(challenger series) & put the real on which is this-" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKP_Salve_Challenger_Trophy".Please correct this error.BCCI conducts cricket challenger series not tennis.
And what about articles like:"science & tech in india,tourism in india,education in india,health & environment in india & many more"!! These articles are absent only in India(profile).Its available in all other countries.So please make these changes requested!! -- DeadRed94 ( talk) 15:20, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
I've made the changes -- 116.72.157.56 ( talk) 15:45, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
You mean,Wiki has not got enough space to store more info than this??? If so,how can articles of other countries be so big??? -- DeadRed94 ( talk) 15:55, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
half of the worlds hungry are in india poverty has incresed more and yet not a single mention of it.
what a biased article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.95.131.67 ( talk) 16:54, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
I dont know about other pages. But, it is so much waste of everybody's time for a matured page like this. i thought we probably have one of the best internet connections, but yet reviewing the India page for some reason takes so much time. Semi-protection is so much better. -- Car Tick 21:08, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
We should change that Su-30Mki pic with INS Viraat pic as aircraft carrier is true symbol of military might .Example- Russia proudly shows Admiral Kuznetsov, United Kingdom proudly shows HMS Illustrious, France proudly shows Charles de Gaulle and US proudly shows USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier.Su-30MKI is not true symbol of military might but aircraft carrier is.we should add the INS Viraat pic in page. Any thought.-- 59.94.129.136 ( talk) 19:34, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
yes yes........that's a good point,,,,,please change it!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by DeadRed94 ( talk • contribs) 10:24, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
why INS Chakra, it is even not in service and not true symbol of military might whereas INS Viraat is in service. why not INS Viraat pics should be in place of INS Chakra. Any thought-- 59.94.128.233 ( talk) 20:11, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
For example in the Indian language section it mentions Indo-Aryan language but, there is no mention in this article of Indo Aryan language. Another example on some articles there is information about Aryan invading India or coming from India, and yet there is no mention of Aryans in this article then. I might be able to give more examples but I hope this gives you an idea. Plus if I give more examples Deepak the Dictator might erase this anyway so I might be wasting my time. And for those of you who might block me becuase I called him a Dictator, take into considertaion that he calls me a troll, erases my edits, erases my posts in the discussion area (i can understand erasing edits but erasing posts in a discussion area?) he tells people to ignore me, he gets me blocked without telling me why, he doesnt always answer questions, and yet you people dont block him. So if you dont block him then please dont block me for calling him Deepak the Dictator. And by the examples I gave of the kind of things that he has done/does, I hope you can understand why I call him a dictator. 71.105.87.54 ( talk) 00:42, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
give it up,these ppl hav no patriotism for their country.in my opinion the profile of india is 50% empty.why??-coz other articles like "science & tech in india,tourism in india,education in india,health & environment in india,transport in india" dont exist.ive requested several times to them.....but none have taken any action....perhaps they are anti-india or pakis.....keeping the reputation of our profile(india) low....just look at other tiny or small countries like singapore,israel,chile & countries like russia,usa,china,brazil........their's are so well maintained & recorded & is very systematic....so dont hope any good from these ppl —Preceding unsigned comment added by DeadRed94 ( talk • contribs) 09:27, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
I have
reverted approximately 10KB of new, undiscussed additions to the article, added by Aryan818 (now in his new reincarnation DeadRed94). This is a featured article, and any large scale additions need to be discussed and also comply with
WP:S. --
Ragib (
talk) 20:26, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
u ppl say we need to discuss....
well how long will u ppl take to execute ur decisions...u ppl hav are just behaving like corrupted cheap indian politicians who take years to implement plans.
2 days back some1 said we need to change india's sukhoi with indian aircraft carrier to show our country's military might......but still there is the old pic of sukhoi...PM Singh has only met russian president nobody else....no required pictures..
watever u all do,do for our country's sake.......let those who wish to make changes incorruptebly allow them.....& if it sucks then remove it! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.72.157.56 ( talk) 08:11, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
hey guys..........hello pay attention.......Im DeadRed94 & I know nothing of who the hell aryan is!!! and ive only made chenges in the sports section okay?? wat wrong have i done??? ive just improved and updated my country's profile damn it! plus ive only made changes like- wat else india has hosted (world military games,afro asian games),wat it has achieved through (hockey,cricket,chess)& other very important stuff!!! ive done nothing else!!
now listen to me.......im only concerned of my country's reputation in the entire world,do u get it u anti-indians??!! u ppl hav no patriotism for our motherland.......JUST COMPARE PROFILES LIKE RUSSIA,USA,UK,CHINA,JAPAN,SINGAPORE,ARGENTINA,ISRAEL N SO ON SO FORTH.......why are u ppl leaving our country's profile completely barren & empty there are no- 1.not much of variety of pics in sports,flaura & fauna,military,foreign relations &........ 2.invaluable articles missing-tourism in india,indian food(cuisine),education in india,sci & tech in india,health & environment &........ 3.our profile is empty & that is not the way we represent a country which is considered as a potential superpower
all i want in the end is INDIA,INDIA,INDIA,INDIA & ONLY U PPL CAN DO IT COZ U ALL KNOW HOW TO MAKE THE CHANGES & WHATEVER.......... —Preceding unsigned comment added by DeadRed94 ( talk • contribs) 07:56, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Do we need a cities by population or a similar template?. Indian population is more rural than urban and there is no need for this template in a summary style demographics section. I think this is excessive detail that increases article size.-- Sodabottle ( talk) 04:44, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
Go through my cleanup job in the past five minutes. I cannot understand how such low-quality changes are incorporated into this featured article and other Wikipedians do not even oppose them? If things continue at this rate, it won't be long before this article loses its featured status. -- King Zebu ( talk) 14:43, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
i saw that under India, it said that India suns on 'left. I think India has come a far way from being a communist country! it's almost center of right! it is turning into a highly open economy! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.178.165.100 ( talk) 12:13, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
User Nirvana888 has reinserted the following line which was removed sometime before:
however, it still suffers from high levels of poverty, illiteracy, corruption, disease,and malnutrition.
I think the phrase "high levels" is vague. Poverty and corruption sure (but a better source for corruption is needed). But Malnutrition and Disease?. Malnutrition was around 16-17% sometime back and how does one measure disease levels? (and what disease?). The reference given for disease is a general report on "healthcare in india", which says nothing about how there are "high levels of disease" in India. My point is: this assertion is too vague to be in the lead. Any suggestions?-- Sodabottle ( talk) 05:07, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
I think we need to remove "high levels" because India is a lot better off compared to most African and latin american countries. Nikkul ( talk) 02:21, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
The Su-30 MKI image need to be replaced. One suggestion is the NAMICA and Nag missile image. Bcs09 ( talk) 02:07, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
And what about the population fact.-- Kkm010 | Talk with me 05:48, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
The Persian transliteration is absent in the paragraph —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.112.212.62 ( talk) 16:33, 23 July 2010 (UTC)