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There should be a wikiproject to include information about all districts of India. After that, we could try and start a project to include information about all the 600,000 villages of India ;) -- Just my 2 cents -- Hemanshu 12:31, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
There is also a List of Indian districts article. Tom Radulovich 17:03, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
For districts and their HQ that share the same name, disamb should be used eg. Ratnagiri (both a HQ and district) should be disab. as Ratnagiri district and the capital should be Ratnagiri = Nichalp ( talk · contribs)= 19:58, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)
'''$NAME''' is an administrative [[district]] in the [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[$STATE]] in [[India]]. The district headquarters are located at [[$HQ]]. The district occupies an [[area]] of $AREA [[square kilometre|km²]] and has a [[population]] of $POP (as of [[2001]]). {{India-geo-stub}} [[Category:$STATE]] {{Districts in $STATE}}
looks good to me. Tom Radulovich 15:11, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I would like to have a standard as to what should be added in each city page. I have made a list of points that I feel should be included in all cities so that they can be cerified as a Featured Article. I hope we can add five cities in the near future. I would like comments, and suggestions on the topic. Information is available here: /Indiacityproject = Nichalp ( talk · contribs)= 19:47, Apr 3, 2005 (UTC)
I'll be submitting Kalimpong next week as a Featured Article. Would be grateful if a copyedit is done on the article. = Nichalp ( talk · contribs)= 19:57, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)
I want to replace all the state location maps of India. I've made a test copy, image:IndiaMaharashtratest.png. Want feedback on the colour combination, (If colours aren't suitable, please mention the RGB values to replace). Some location such as the A&N islands, Laks., Dadra aren't clear, but it shouldb't be a prob. I'll replace all 30 odd states and UT's if there is a consensus as I don't want it to be a POV. = Nichalp ( talk · contribs)= 20:11, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)
Hey, somebody wants to engage us in a fight over lakhs and crores over at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers). I fear I might be the only one arguing the Indian side, so do join in if you can stand it. (I hate wiki-arguments, they're always so tendentious.) The user in question feels that it is "absurd" for Wikipedia to use numbers that "nobody outside of India" understands. (And what do people inside India matter? [Not to mention Pakistan and Bangladesh?] One-fifth of humanity – how trivial!) QuartierLatin1968 19:53, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Another user who saw my work on Bengali grammar asked me if I could help out with Bhili language. It was originally a nonsense article, but has been cleaned up and expanded. However, it could still use a lot of work. Unfortunately, I know nothing about Bhili, but if any of you do, or can find information on Wikipedias in other Indian languages, could you please try to improve it? Thanks! — Knowledge Seeker দ 08:11, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thanks, Sundar. It still is very incomplete but I'll be slowly adding to it. Regarding Bhili, the template is a good idea but the problem is that no one really seems to know anything about the language. The box on the side is longer than the article. Well, thanks; I'll keep poking around to see if I can find anything. — Knowledge Seeker দ 09:59, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Could some knowledgeable person please look at The name Gill which is on votes for deletion at the momemnt. As far as I can tell they are an important tribe or subcaste, but I wouldn't know how to verify the information in the article. Kappa 10:32, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
hello all,
coming here after reading some disturbing comment by a troll on S C Bose article's talk page. Please add relevant comments and do justice to the article.
A dispute has arisen over the neutrality of the history of Goa. User:Travisyoung has posted it for a Wikipedia:Featured article removal candidates#Goa. Ref to the Talk:Goa page. Inputs sorely needed. = Nichalp ( talk · contribs)= 19:25, May 12, 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket is launching a collaboration of the fortnight. All cricket-loving Wikipedians are invited to come along and help choose our first collaboration and, of course, to help in the collaboration itself.
Also, if you are interested in helping improve and expand WP's cricket coverage, please feel free to sign up to the Cricket WikiProject. Kind regards, jguk 18:42, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
Is there an article on Indian Independance Day, the August 15th? looking around on wikipedia I couldn't get to one. Please throw some light on this one, thanks. -- Neo77 11:20, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
Urdu-speaking users can now identify themselves with a "Babel tag", a User language template that puts standard text on their user page saying:
ur | This user is a native speaker of Urdu. یہ شخص صاحِبِ زبانِ اردو ہے |
All you have to do is put the following text on your User Page:
{{user ur}}
See the following page for details:
and help with similar efforts for other Indian and South Asian languages
— iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 21:48, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
The Mahatma Gandhi article is on the FARC for some POV reasons which are not clearly stated. Maybe people can clear it up on the talk page or on FARC. kaal 23:40, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
I think, that geography of a region is incomplete without any mention of the region's flora and fauna. Moreover, India being a tropical country, has a great diversity in plants and animals. Lets start a new sub article dedicated to these topics. -- Davy Jones 07:00, May 22, 2005 (UTC)
I suggest that Kannur can be nominated for FA status after some editing
sumal
I hope to nominate Gangtok as our next FA. I think a copyedit would be helpful. Thanks, = Nichalp ( Talk)= 09:49, May 30, 2005 (UTC)
Thought I would post this here FYI:
http://ifaqeer.blogspot.com/2005/05/urdu-blossoming-on-internet.html
Should we start an Urdu Project Page? It would help in reaching across countries and continents to work on issues related to the language? Or maybe an "Urdu-Hindi-Hindustani" Project page?
— iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 18:31, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
Just to clarify copyrights in India:
This should be tackled somehow; bio and geo are described, but the eco and corp stubs are soundly ignored. They could get the same treatment as bio and geo, but I think it could be done better if the section was somewhat rewritten with five stubs in mind from the start. - shuri 30 June 2005 21:21 (UTC)
You can add Category:Indian wikipedians to your user page. =Nichalp «Talk»= July 3, 2005 09:30 (UTC)
I have made a new wikiproject: Wikipedia:Wikiproject Indian cities to standardise the development of Indian cities and towns. i will be doing the same for states and UTs soon. =Nichalp «Talk»= July 4, 2005 06:17 (UTC)
Hello all. North India is currently a redirect to Indo-Gangetic plain, but somebody started another article at North india that could do with some attention. Once North india is up to snuff, I think we should move it over the redirect to North India. Does anyone want to contribute to this effort? My notion was to focus Indo-Gangetic plain primarily on geography and perhaps pre-Partition history, while focussing North India primarily on culture and perhaps contemporary politics. What do you say? Cheers, QuartierLatin 1968 21:54, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Wikiproject Indian states has gone live! Please try and improve as many Indian states as you can. (2 down, 33 to go for Featured status). =Nichalp «Talk»= 07:47, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Wikiproject Indian districts has gone live! Please try and improve as many Indian districts and divisions as you can. =Nichalp «Talk»= 12:38, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
I had a question about royal subtitles and awards given during the British Raj, should we still use the terms Maharaja/Maharani, H. H., (Rai/Khan) Bahadhur in the articles, article titles ?.
LordGulliver wants to add Category:History of India to the Subash Chandra Bose article. Please vote here!. =Nichalp «Talk»= 08:22, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
Does anybody think that Category:Indian current events was wrongly deleted?
Even though the cfd vote Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Indian_current_events has closed, I think this should be brought back. Your views? Alren ( talk · contribs) 14:05, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi folks,
I just wanted to let you know that there is a list of transcluded deletion debates on India-related articles. You can find it here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/India.
If you find this list useful, please help to keep it up to date by archiving old items and adding new ones. Thanks!
By the way, new members are needed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting. Hope to see you there!
-- Visviva 17:42, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
I've been editing a page on dowry law ( Dowry law in India). This page was moved from a page about the misuse of dowry law, which was an article pushing a single point of view. Unfortunately I know very little about the subject, so after removing the pov, the article looks little sparse at the moment. I'd really appreciate it if someone can take a look, correct anything that seems wrong and extend it generally. Thanks Zeimusu | Talk page 12:46, 2005 August 22 (UTC)
I have submitted articles on Vishnu sahasranama, Karma in Hinduism, Shri Madhvacharya, and avatar for consideration for peer review status.
Raj2004 20:26, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
Hi. In recent days, I notice that an anonymous bot is adding interwiki links to Telugu Wiki articles in many India-related articles. I was initially happy to see so many Telugu language articles coming up. But, on inspection, I found that not even a single word except the title has been translated and the full article is in English. Can someone who can read Telugu check the true status? Otherwise, we may have the ignominy of an Indian language getting demoted for falsely bloating up the article count to become 1000+. Please remember the Sanskrit case. Even though there is no harm in having a few articles in English for later translation (as we did in Tamil Wikipedia), adding a whole bunch of English articles may not be acceptable. -- Sundar \ talk \ contribs 04:20, September 13, 2005 (UTC)
This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
There should be a wikiproject to include information about all districts of India. After that, we could try and start a project to include information about all the 600,000 villages of India ;) -- Just my 2 cents -- Hemanshu 12:31, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
There is also a List of Indian districts article. Tom Radulovich 17:03, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
For districts and their HQ that share the same name, disamb should be used eg. Ratnagiri (both a HQ and district) should be disab. as Ratnagiri district and the capital should be Ratnagiri = Nichalp ( talk · contribs)= 19:58, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)
'''$NAME''' is an administrative [[district]] in the [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[$STATE]] in [[India]]. The district headquarters are located at [[$HQ]]. The district occupies an [[area]] of $AREA [[square kilometre|km²]] and has a [[population]] of $POP (as of [[2001]]). {{India-geo-stub}} [[Category:$STATE]] {{Districts in $STATE}}
looks good to me. Tom Radulovich 15:11, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I would like to have a standard as to what should be added in each city page. I have made a list of points that I feel should be included in all cities so that they can be cerified as a Featured Article. I hope we can add five cities in the near future. I would like comments, and suggestions on the topic. Information is available here: /Indiacityproject = Nichalp ( talk · contribs)= 19:47, Apr 3, 2005 (UTC)
I'll be submitting Kalimpong next week as a Featured Article. Would be grateful if a copyedit is done on the article. = Nichalp ( talk · contribs)= 19:57, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)
I want to replace all the state location maps of India. I've made a test copy, image:IndiaMaharashtratest.png. Want feedback on the colour combination, (If colours aren't suitable, please mention the RGB values to replace). Some location such as the A&N islands, Laks., Dadra aren't clear, but it shouldb't be a prob. I'll replace all 30 odd states and UT's if there is a consensus as I don't want it to be a POV. = Nichalp ( talk · contribs)= 20:11, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)
Hey, somebody wants to engage us in a fight over lakhs and crores over at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers). I fear I might be the only one arguing the Indian side, so do join in if you can stand it. (I hate wiki-arguments, they're always so tendentious.) The user in question feels that it is "absurd" for Wikipedia to use numbers that "nobody outside of India" understands. (And what do people inside India matter? [Not to mention Pakistan and Bangladesh?] One-fifth of humanity – how trivial!) QuartierLatin1968 19:53, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Another user who saw my work on Bengali grammar asked me if I could help out with Bhili language. It was originally a nonsense article, but has been cleaned up and expanded. However, it could still use a lot of work. Unfortunately, I know nothing about Bhili, but if any of you do, or can find information on Wikipedias in other Indian languages, could you please try to improve it? Thanks! — Knowledge Seeker দ 08:11, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thanks, Sundar. It still is very incomplete but I'll be slowly adding to it. Regarding Bhili, the template is a good idea but the problem is that no one really seems to know anything about the language. The box on the side is longer than the article. Well, thanks; I'll keep poking around to see if I can find anything. — Knowledge Seeker দ 09:59, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Could some knowledgeable person please look at The name Gill which is on votes for deletion at the momemnt. As far as I can tell they are an important tribe or subcaste, but I wouldn't know how to verify the information in the article. Kappa 10:32, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
hello all,
coming here after reading some disturbing comment by a troll on S C Bose article's talk page. Please add relevant comments and do justice to the article.
A dispute has arisen over the neutrality of the history of Goa. User:Travisyoung has posted it for a Wikipedia:Featured article removal candidates#Goa. Ref to the Talk:Goa page. Inputs sorely needed. = Nichalp ( talk · contribs)= 19:25, May 12, 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket is launching a collaboration of the fortnight. All cricket-loving Wikipedians are invited to come along and help choose our first collaboration and, of course, to help in the collaboration itself.
Also, if you are interested in helping improve and expand WP's cricket coverage, please feel free to sign up to the Cricket WikiProject. Kind regards, jguk 18:42, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
Is there an article on Indian Independance Day, the August 15th? looking around on wikipedia I couldn't get to one. Please throw some light on this one, thanks. -- Neo77 11:20, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
Urdu-speaking users can now identify themselves with a "Babel tag", a User language template that puts standard text on their user page saying:
ur | This user is a native speaker of Urdu. یہ شخص صاحِبِ زبانِ اردو ہے |
All you have to do is put the following text on your User Page:
{{user ur}}
See the following page for details:
and help with similar efforts for other Indian and South Asian languages
— iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 21:48, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
The Mahatma Gandhi article is on the FARC for some POV reasons which are not clearly stated. Maybe people can clear it up on the talk page or on FARC. kaal 23:40, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
I think, that geography of a region is incomplete without any mention of the region's flora and fauna. Moreover, India being a tropical country, has a great diversity in plants and animals. Lets start a new sub article dedicated to these topics. -- Davy Jones 07:00, May 22, 2005 (UTC)
I suggest that Kannur can be nominated for FA status after some editing
sumal
I hope to nominate Gangtok as our next FA. I think a copyedit would be helpful. Thanks, = Nichalp ( Talk)= 09:49, May 30, 2005 (UTC)
Thought I would post this here FYI:
http://ifaqeer.blogspot.com/2005/05/urdu-blossoming-on-internet.html
Should we start an Urdu Project Page? It would help in reaching across countries and continents to work on issues related to the language? Or maybe an "Urdu-Hindi-Hindustani" Project page?
— iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 18:31, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
Just to clarify copyrights in India:
This should be tackled somehow; bio and geo are described, but the eco and corp stubs are soundly ignored. They could get the same treatment as bio and geo, but I think it could be done better if the section was somewhat rewritten with five stubs in mind from the start. - shuri 30 June 2005 21:21 (UTC)
You can add Category:Indian wikipedians to your user page. =Nichalp «Talk»= July 3, 2005 09:30 (UTC)
I have made a new wikiproject: Wikipedia:Wikiproject Indian cities to standardise the development of Indian cities and towns. i will be doing the same for states and UTs soon. =Nichalp «Talk»= July 4, 2005 06:17 (UTC)
Hello all. North India is currently a redirect to Indo-Gangetic plain, but somebody started another article at North india that could do with some attention. Once North india is up to snuff, I think we should move it over the redirect to North India. Does anyone want to contribute to this effort? My notion was to focus Indo-Gangetic plain primarily on geography and perhaps pre-Partition history, while focussing North India primarily on culture and perhaps contemporary politics. What do you say? Cheers, QuartierLatin 1968 21:54, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Wikiproject Indian states has gone live! Please try and improve as many Indian states as you can. (2 down, 33 to go for Featured status). =Nichalp «Talk»= 07:47, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Wikiproject Indian districts has gone live! Please try and improve as many Indian districts and divisions as you can. =Nichalp «Talk»= 12:38, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
I had a question about royal subtitles and awards given during the British Raj, should we still use the terms Maharaja/Maharani, H. H., (Rai/Khan) Bahadhur in the articles, article titles ?.
LordGulliver wants to add Category:History of India to the Subash Chandra Bose article. Please vote here!. =Nichalp «Talk»= 08:22, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
Does anybody think that Category:Indian current events was wrongly deleted?
Even though the cfd vote Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Indian_current_events has closed, I think this should be brought back. Your views? Alren ( talk · contribs) 14:05, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi folks,
I just wanted to let you know that there is a list of transcluded deletion debates on India-related articles. You can find it here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/India.
If you find this list useful, please help to keep it up to date by archiving old items and adding new ones. Thanks!
By the way, new members are needed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting. Hope to see you there!
-- Visviva 17:42, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
I've been editing a page on dowry law ( Dowry law in India). This page was moved from a page about the misuse of dowry law, which was an article pushing a single point of view. Unfortunately I know very little about the subject, so after removing the pov, the article looks little sparse at the moment. I'd really appreciate it if someone can take a look, correct anything that seems wrong and extend it generally. Thanks Zeimusu | Talk page 12:46, 2005 August 22 (UTC)
I have submitted articles on Vishnu sahasranama, Karma in Hinduism, Shri Madhvacharya, and avatar for consideration for peer review status.
Raj2004 20:26, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
Hi. In recent days, I notice that an anonymous bot is adding interwiki links to Telugu Wiki articles in many India-related articles. I was initially happy to see so many Telugu language articles coming up. But, on inspection, I found that not even a single word except the title has been translated and the full article is in English. Can someone who can read Telugu check the true status? Otherwise, we may have the ignominy of an Indian language getting demoted for falsely bloating up the article count to become 1000+. Please remember the Sanskrit case. Even though there is no harm in having a few articles in English for later translation (as we did in Tamil Wikipedia), adding a whole bunch of English articles may not be acceptable. -- Sundar \ talk \ contribs 04:20, September 13, 2005 (UTC)