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here, I read this line: the most widespread protests took place in Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh.
All this 4 states situated in North India.
Rizosome (
talk) 01:49, 26 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Because that's where
most of the rice and
smog is made. (Correction: wheat, maize, and pearl millet were the significant crops leading to the regional differences in production, in the 1960s, see link below.)
Card Zero (talk) 02:33, 26 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Punjab is well-known for having embraced the 1960s "Green Revolution" (which had more to do with agriculture than environmentalism) quickly and thoroughly...
AnonMoos (
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Punjab is well-known for having embraced the 1960s "Green Revolution" (which had more to do with agriculture than environmentalism) quickly and thoroughly...
Rizosome (
talk) 01:54, 27 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Resolved
The least obscure person
Who is the least obscure, most deserving person in world history who has not yet had a Wikipedia article written about them? --
Jack of Oz[pleasantries] 20:11, 26 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Ah, thank you, AnonMoos. At least twice I've suggested to the wiki-gods that we have some sort of list of redlinks readily available to gap-pluggers, but I've been rebuffed. It's all too hard, they told me. It would consume far too many resources, they said. And now this. Cheers. --
Jack of Oz[pleasantries] 21:15, 27 December 2021 (UTC)reply
I maintain a (shrinking) list of scientists that have an entry in the book Top 1000 Scientists: From the Beginning of Time to 2000 AD but no article (yet) here:
User:Lambiam/RedlinkedScientists. --
Lambiam 00:06, 28 December 2021 (UTC)reply
I also have my own list of redlinks that ought not to be red, as do many other editors. What we lack is one grand unified list that is maintained at the project level. Why is this so hard? --
Jack of Oz[pleasantries] 11:34, 28 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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From
here, I read this line: the most widespread protests took place in Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh.
All this 4 states situated in North India.
Rizosome (
talk) 01:49, 26 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Because that's where
most of the rice and
smog is made. (Correction: wheat, maize, and pearl millet were the significant crops leading to the regional differences in production, in the 1960s, see link below.)
Card Zero (talk) 02:33, 26 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Punjab is well-known for having embraced the 1960s "Green Revolution" (which had more to do with agriculture than environmentalism) quickly and thoroughly...
AnonMoos (
talk) 09:43, 26 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Punjab is well-known for having embraced the 1960s "Green Revolution" (which had more to do with agriculture than environmentalism) quickly and thoroughly...
Rizosome (
talk) 01:54, 27 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Resolved
The least obscure person
Who is the least obscure, most deserving person in world history who has not yet had a Wikipedia article written about them? --
Jack of Oz[pleasantries] 20:11, 26 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Ah, thank you, AnonMoos. At least twice I've suggested to the wiki-gods that we have some sort of list of redlinks readily available to gap-pluggers, but I've been rebuffed. It's all too hard, they told me. It would consume far too many resources, they said. And now this. Cheers. --
Jack of Oz[pleasantries] 21:15, 27 December 2021 (UTC)reply
I maintain a (shrinking) list of scientists that have an entry in the book Top 1000 Scientists: From the Beginning of Time to 2000 AD but no article (yet) here:
User:Lambiam/RedlinkedScientists. --
Lambiam 00:06, 28 December 2021 (UTC)reply
I also have my own list of redlinks that ought not to be red, as do many other editors. What we lack is one grand unified list that is maintained at the project level. Why is this so hard? --
Jack of Oz[pleasantries] 11:34, 28 December 2021 (UTC)reply