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Hello,
As I've posted on this talk page before, I spend some time helping out with the dead-end pages project, and it appears that there are a number of pages on India-related topics listed there which could use the attention of some editors more familiar with that country/culture/etc. Some of these may need cleanup and improvement, others may merit deletion. I'll start with the C's, and continue later with other letters of the alphabet:
As a preview of the D's, Devrukhe and all of its linked articles ( Devrukhe Brahmins - Kuladaiwatas, Devrukhe Brahmins - Original 98 Villages, Devrukhe Brahmins - List of Surnames and Gotras, and Devrukhe Brahmins - List of Institutions founded by Devrukhes) could really use a look as well.
Thanks, JavaTenor 19:27, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Please have a look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Central Travancore. I nominated it, considering past history of the creator in creating hoax or self-promotion article. However, I would encourage advice whether this article could be reformed into something useful. -- Soman ( talk) 10:29, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
I found this page while on WP:CLEANUP duty. I thought I'd send it over here to see if anyone in this Wikiproject has a better idea of how to clean it up. Manning ( talk) 15:19, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
Update - I can add this page - Leva Patil to this list. Manning ( talk) 01:20, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
I could use a bit of help with the pages Ramakkalmade and Ramakkalmedu, which I came across while working on the Dead end pages project.
Except for the name, the articles are identical. Are these two different places and an editor saved a bit of time by copying the text? Or are these two different spellings / transcriptions of the same place, meaning one article should become a redirect.
Thanks for any help! -- Fabrictramp ( talk) 21:21, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
I have some good news to report. All of the articles on the Ganeshbot/Not created page have been merged to the article namespace. Thanks to all who volunteered with the project. Regards, Ganeshk ( talk) 05:56, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
The pages L Aravind, L. Aravind and User:Jivarahasya all seem to redirect to each other. I am not an Indian expert so I don't know what but what L. Aravind is but there seems to be something strange going on here! Can anyone help? Harland1 t/ c 17:19, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
I started a Chennai workgroup to focus on improving Chennai-related articles, suburbs, landmarks, transport etc. If interested, please join in and help out. Thanks, Ganeshk ( talk) 06:49, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I just decided Sachin Tendulkar should be an FA. I've done quite a bit of work on the article recently, but I was hoping someone with experience in writing an FA could help me because the article's loaded with unnecessary information and personal views and referring to people by first names etc. Thnaks. Darrowen ( talk) 05:40, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Please see here for an outline of "Wikipedia's Kamboja problem". Anyone wishing to tackle this is most welcome to it... dab (𒁳) 17:02, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
Debate reemerges at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 December 13#Category:Pakistani people of World War II. Please contribute to the discussion. As noted on this talk page before, I oppose driving an iron wedge between pre-1947 and post-1947 India. -- Soman ( talk) 17:20, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
Friends, there have repeatedly been attempts to delete Indian playback singer Anuradha Sriram. I dont understand this bias amongst the editors towards India-specific articles. I've alread provided the references and this article is quite good. I want your help in contesting the delete.Thanks --
07:27, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2007_December_15#Anti-Christian_violence_in_India. Please help the discussion as to whether this kind of religious forking should be present. Baka man 23:49, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
Noticed some important sports people without an article. If anyone has the time, please could this be populated? Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 03:55, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Template_talk:WP_India#Portal link. — Random832 17:42, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
The following new articles have been created:
These pages seem to stray into the "NOT a collection of indiscriminate lists" category. Perhaps the more notable ones could be placed on one page, but even then I think it would be a stretch. I have not AFD these pages as yet, tho I am seriously considering it. - BillCJ ( talk) 19:47, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
I am not sure that I understand your language. Could you please explain more??? What do you mean by "straying into NOT a collection of indescriminate lists"?? What is AFD???? I would like to present why I thinkl these lists are suitable here?? Fair and Honest_India —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vcpkumar ( talk • contribs) 20:46, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
Could someone please look at the article on Naresh Sonee? When I searched for references to him in English, I found self-published articles and poems on the web, but nothing else to suggest notability. His article and the one on his book, which I have put an AfD on, both make claims to notability, butthere are either no refrences or the references are not from reliable secondary sources. I am particularly concerned about this because the (English) items of his work that I have read have seemed both poorly reasoned and written. However, I really need help form someone with knowledge of India and things Indian, because of my own ignorance about such things. Anarchia ( talk) 04:26, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
please have a say at Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(people)#Initials. -- Soman ( talk) 11:42, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
Hello! By special request of User:The Fat Man Who Never Came Back and User:BorgQueen, I've started the Indian wine article. It is in a very rough, early state and I would greatly appreciate any help from the India project in developing it further. Anything from fact checking to images to expansion would be wonderful, especially from a project with such a great track record in producing FAs. Thanks! Agne Cheese/ Wine 19:58, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
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Mahitgar ( talk) 12:11, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
I would like to draw attention to a particular line in Shahrukh Khan. It reads, "Khan's family is Muslim, and he was raised by Hindus for most of his life.[3]" The reference given is this, which is an interview and indeed SRK says that he was raised by Hindus for most of his life.
My question is this - why do we need to know the religion of the people who raised him? Khan was a Hindu, but was raised by Hindus for most of his life. How is that information necessary in a biography? Its like stating "Eminem is a white rapper, and most of his colleagues are black." in an article about Eminem. Or like stating "Rakesh Roshan is bald, and most of his colleagues have hair." How is it relevant? Why do we need to have the religion of the people who have raised him in the article?
I propose dropping that part and leaving it to the relevant portion,"Khan was born into a Muslim family."
xC | ☎ 07:43, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
A vast information about Indian highways lie unorganized and is not properly shown by using infoboxes, templates and images. We shall start a project titled, Indian Highways to improve quality of articles relating to Indian highways. - Manik ( talk) 10:03, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
I sure hope this is the right project. Would someone be willing to look at Anjarle - Anjarla and see what can be done with it? It was on my watchlist, because the author originally created a near-empty page, but later added content. It's still very confusing to me, but the author removed the cleanup/confusing tags. I'm grossly ignorant on this topic, and would not even know where to begin. Thanks Yng varr 10:09, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
Is there a way to pull out the list of audio recordings for wikipedia pages related to India? Any suggestions admins can provide? Thanks Arunram ( talk) 20:20, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
There is a proposal to merge a new article, Karnataka/Carnatic music, into Music of Karnataka. There is no consensus at this point and input from people knowledgeable in the subject area and Wikipedia policy would be helpful. See the discussion at Talk:Music of Karnataka#Merge proposal. ✤ JonHarder talk 13:53, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
I was User:Librorum Prohibitorum. I had disputes mainly with two editors (Administrator Dbachmann, and Hornplease). Now the admin Picaroon ( talk · contribs) has blocked me indefinitely, claiming I was a Hkelkar sock without any evidence at all. He has done this witout even leaving a message or explanation somewhere. If you look at [3], I don't edit the same articles. In my last edit I was writing something positive about Jews. This is the only reason that I can think of that someone would think that I am Hkelkar. Picaroon (or the editor who asked him to do this) thinks that every Hindu editor who says something positive about Jews must be a Hkelkar sock (Hkelkar was a Hindu-Jewish editor). This is a grave Adminstrator abuse. Librorum Prohibitorum2 ( talk) 15:39, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
A warm, fun-filled, informative Happy New Year to you all!!! May this year give you the best and bring out the best in you. The Silent Contributor ( talk) 08:37, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Why there is no newsletter of WikiProject India since March 2007?? Can any one revive its old glory and make this newsletter a regular monthly issue. Amartyabag TALK2ME 09:32, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
I need help of YOU ONE or few Happy New year Pls help me to circulate this appeal- if any body/ or few of You brillaiants who reside in North India can tell me about newspapers in India like Punjab Kesari, Dainik Bhaskar , Rajasthan Patrika ? Their circulation or popularity . & if any body of you know Hindi. or interested to explore different/ all or specific religion , philosophy , poetry etc . I want your help to translate some few 50 line of Hindi to English. Pls. Gift your name to me on my talk page please Regards - -- Dralansun ( talk) 15:41, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
There is an article on
Hyderabadi Urdu with apparently no references and yet no sign-board. There is another article on
Dakhni. Can these articles be merged?
Also, I would like to know if we can start a Wikiproject on Hindustani(Hindi and Urdu) and the associated languages("Hindi" group: Bhojpuri, Marwari, etc. and "Urdu" group: Rekhta, Dakhni). The logic being that the subject matter is so huge and related to each other in such a complex manner that a separate treatment of these aforementioned articles would make the task difficult.
Also, which language is
Hindawi?
Maquahuitl (
talk) 18:02, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi everyone, hope you are all enjoying the cricket today. I have removed a speedy tag from the above article but I have no idea on its notability, importance or otherwise. If someone from this WikiProject could take a look and see if a decent article could be made from it, it would be much appreciated. -- Mattinbgn\ talk 00:35, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Greetings. A new project, Wikipedia:WikiProject Uttar Pradesh has been created. If you are interested in contributing, please add you name to the list located here. With regards, Anupam Talk 08:52, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Another new project, Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindustani and allied languages has been created. If you are interested in contributing, please add you name to the list located here. Maquahuitl ( talk) 20:00, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I have Deep knowledge about Mumbai Police and I want Add some picture in Mumbai Police article can any boby help me?
I want someone to help me with this template on the Maratha Empire: Template:MarathaEmpire. I started creating this template and completely messed it up. --
14:54, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Is it accurate to have a redirect from 'Red Terror (India)' to Nandigram violence? Discussion going on at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2008 January 9. -- Soman ( talk) 14:19, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
I came across List of schools by country and found India page was missing. So I created List of schools in India. Now I need content neatly catagorized by states. I am not sure but 'Category: Education in India' can help a lot in this matter. This is the place I kind of slow down. I can collect lot of content by I don't really know how to create categories. Most cities I monitor had a long list of schools so I had broken the sections into seperate pages. Please suggest how to go forward in the correct way since Im new to wikipedia. Thanks. thevikas ( talk) 16:17, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
I've created a navigation box on Hindustani(Hindi/Urdu):
Hindustani topics.
One user
Tuncrypt was saying that it is "unwarranted" and "he will get it deleted".
I would like to say that I am not a new user but have contributed something for the first time. Before this I used to post on the talk pages of articles but nobody replied ever. Now when I have created something very petty, one guy comes up and says that it is nonsensical and he will have it deleted. This kind of attitude is going to detract new users like myself and discourage us from ever contributing again. You can have a look at his comments on my talk page and my replies on his talk page.
Please comment either on this issue or give any views related to the box and how it can be made better
Maquahuitl (
talk) 19:32, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
You know, when I think about the concluding proposal I eventually reached, it's too bad I didn't just go and edit the Hindustani template into Hindi and Urdu ones in the first place, and saved myself all this back-and-forth. Tuncrypt ( talk) 19:06, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
So just now I just went and made the changes to the template, making it a Hindi one: Template:Hindi_topics (another Urdu one'll have to be created). If you look at it, you'll see that it's quite different from any possible Urdu template that'd be made, as I've noted previously. Hopefully everything I've said is understood and this issue can be concluded, and we can enjoy our templates. Tuncrypt ( talk) 19:29, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
I recently made a reply to user:Anupam's post here. Just linking it. Tuncrypt ( talk) 20:29, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
There, three new templates I have fashioned —
Tuncrypt ( talk) 20:42, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
As opposed to what? The Hindustani box you made, which was totally wrong? And why in the world do you say three boxes? The Gujarati box is a Gujarati box, another thing altogether, which I felt like making just now, being a completely different language from Hindi-Urdu-Hindustani. Honestly, do you even know that? Tuncrypt ( talk) 21:56, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
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Two new articles reference Hindi sources:
They were recently deleted:
Should they be kept?
The article's author seems new and may need some coaching. Unfortunately, I am totally unfamiliar with Hindi, philosophy or spiritualism. -- A. B. (talk) 00:22, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Mahitgar ( talk) 10:54, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi there,
Somebody inserted British Flag next to his birth country, India. I don't agree with this and I am sure everybody will do the same.
There are number of pages on the Wikipedia for number of prominent people, which do not have any such flags, particularly the flags of the countries which occupied/ruled at that time.
Manay Thanks Jagan kommareddy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.172.213.138 ( talk) 14:45, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
I am not sure that war time occupation of European countries by Nazi Germany falls in the same category as a country and its administration during the colonial era. Aside from the fact that India today is historically and politically different from British India. I dont have a problem with the flag not being shown, but do have a problem with the pages on Bose and INA becoming a battleground for PoV pushing Colonialists and nationalists. Facts are facts and that's the way it should be on an encyclopaedia. I have nearly single handedly build the entire Content on the Indian National Army (see {{ Azad Hind Fauj}}), and am bored and tired of colonial as well as nationalist half-truths and pseudo-intellectuals pushing to have their long-disproved and now-downright-ridiculed theories in these pages. Do pardon me if I seem a bit overactive in these pages. I assure you it is in the best intentions and interests. rueben_lys ( talk · contribs) 21:38, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
For future reference, Wikipedia:FLAGS#Not for use in locations of birth and death gives just a couple of the many good reasons why little flag icons aren't appropriate for birth and death locations in infoboxes. They are confusing, create nationalistic (flag-waving) disputes, and can be inappropriate because they imply nationalistic support, when the birth place is merely a geographical location. I've taken to adding the following hidden comment in infoboxes, just above birth and death location:
<!-- Do not add flag icons to place of birth/death, per [[Wikipedia:Don't overuse flags]] -->
You can see how I've added it at Subhas Chandra Bose by clicking on the edit tab and looking at the infobox. These have been effective at preventing the same dispute from happening all over again. ~ priyanath talk 22:14, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
An earlier discussion on this topic also suggests a clear consensus against using flags to indicate places of birth and death (i.e. in addition to Wikipedia:Don't overuse flags). Abecedare ( talk) 05:37, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
I would encourage all readers of this page to join in the discussion at Talk:Caste system among Indian Christians, where there is a heated debate over inclusions of material. Baka man 21:34, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
I've been looking over some of the caste articles (particularly beginning with Nadar (caste)) and there seem to be a huge amount of them - and they are all largely unsourced and POV. Has this project formed any plans for a sweep of these articles at some point? Avruch talk 19:03, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
I am reviewing Economic development in India as a "Good article" candidate. Can the folk of your Wikiproject clarify a few issues here please? Axl ( talk) 09:12, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Some people are asserting that a speech by (then) Vice-President of India Bhairon Singh Shekhawat is not notable to be mentioned in an article about a living person, who was the subject of the speech, on the basis that "Bhairo Singh Shekhawat doesn't have a reputation, because he attends meetings for large numbers of spiritual leaders" Comments? ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 19:58, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Either you think this is a notable enough act/endorsement that it goes in the article; in which case I think we owe it to the reader to tell them exactly what else the source of the endorsement supports. The truth is, of course, that it is not notable. As Rumiton says "he put his reputation on the line...". Exactly. He doesn't have one, because he attends meetings for large numbers of spiritual leaders and releases their books and opens their offices and praises their foreign exchange earnings and inner peace. So, as I said, if you make the decision to put him in the article, then you are making the decision that his words on Rawat are notable or in any way exceptional.
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Hello,
As I've posted on this talk page before, I spend some time helping out with the dead-end pages project, and it appears that there are a number of pages on India-related topics listed there which could use the attention of some editors more familiar with that country/culture/etc. Some of these may need cleanup and improvement, others may merit deletion. I'll start with the C's, and continue later with other letters of the alphabet:
As a preview of the D's, Devrukhe and all of its linked articles ( Devrukhe Brahmins - Kuladaiwatas, Devrukhe Brahmins - Original 98 Villages, Devrukhe Brahmins - List of Surnames and Gotras, and Devrukhe Brahmins - List of Institutions founded by Devrukhes) could really use a look as well.
Thanks, JavaTenor 19:27, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Please have a look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Central Travancore. I nominated it, considering past history of the creator in creating hoax or self-promotion article. However, I would encourage advice whether this article could be reformed into something useful. -- Soman ( talk) 10:29, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
I found this page while on WP:CLEANUP duty. I thought I'd send it over here to see if anyone in this Wikiproject has a better idea of how to clean it up. Manning ( talk) 15:19, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
Update - I can add this page - Leva Patil to this list. Manning ( talk) 01:20, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
I could use a bit of help with the pages Ramakkalmade and Ramakkalmedu, which I came across while working on the Dead end pages project.
Except for the name, the articles are identical. Are these two different places and an editor saved a bit of time by copying the text? Or are these two different spellings / transcriptions of the same place, meaning one article should become a redirect.
Thanks for any help! -- Fabrictramp ( talk) 21:21, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
I have some good news to report. All of the articles on the Ganeshbot/Not created page have been merged to the article namespace. Thanks to all who volunteered with the project. Regards, Ganeshk ( talk) 05:56, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
The pages L Aravind, L. Aravind and User:Jivarahasya all seem to redirect to each other. I am not an Indian expert so I don't know what but what L. Aravind is but there seems to be something strange going on here! Can anyone help? Harland1 t/ c 17:19, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
I started a Chennai workgroup to focus on improving Chennai-related articles, suburbs, landmarks, transport etc. If interested, please join in and help out. Thanks, Ganeshk ( talk) 06:49, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I just decided Sachin Tendulkar should be an FA. I've done quite a bit of work on the article recently, but I was hoping someone with experience in writing an FA could help me because the article's loaded with unnecessary information and personal views and referring to people by first names etc. Thnaks. Darrowen ( talk) 05:40, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Please see here for an outline of "Wikipedia's Kamboja problem". Anyone wishing to tackle this is most welcome to it... dab (𒁳) 17:02, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
Debate reemerges at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 December 13#Category:Pakistani people of World War II. Please contribute to the discussion. As noted on this talk page before, I oppose driving an iron wedge between pre-1947 and post-1947 India. -- Soman ( talk) 17:20, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
Friends, there have repeatedly been attempts to delete Indian playback singer Anuradha Sriram. I dont understand this bias amongst the editors towards India-specific articles. I've alread provided the references and this article is quite good. I want your help in contesting the delete.Thanks --
07:27, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2007_December_15#Anti-Christian_violence_in_India. Please help the discussion as to whether this kind of religious forking should be present. Baka man 23:49, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
Noticed some important sports people without an article. If anyone has the time, please could this be populated? Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 03:55, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Template_talk:WP_India#Portal link. — Random832 17:42, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
The following new articles have been created:
These pages seem to stray into the "NOT a collection of indiscriminate lists" category. Perhaps the more notable ones could be placed on one page, but even then I think it would be a stretch. I have not AFD these pages as yet, tho I am seriously considering it. - BillCJ ( talk) 19:47, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
I am not sure that I understand your language. Could you please explain more??? What do you mean by "straying into NOT a collection of indescriminate lists"?? What is AFD???? I would like to present why I thinkl these lists are suitable here?? Fair and Honest_India —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vcpkumar ( talk • contribs) 20:46, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
Could someone please look at the article on Naresh Sonee? When I searched for references to him in English, I found self-published articles and poems on the web, but nothing else to suggest notability. His article and the one on his book, which I have put an AfD on, both make claims to notability, butthere are either no refrences or the references are not from reliable secondary sources. I am particularly concerned about this because the (English) items of his work that I have read have seemed both poorly reasoned and written. However, I really need help form someone with knowledge of India and things Indian, because of my own ignorance about such things. Anarchia ( talk) 04:26, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
please have a say at Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(people)#Initials. -- Soman ( talk) 11:42, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
Hello! By special request of User:The Fat Man Who Never Came Back and User:BorgQueen, I've started the Indian wine article. It is in a very rough, early state and I would greatly appreciate any help from the India project in developing it further. Anything from fact checking to images to expansion would be wonderful, especially from a project with such a great track record in producing FAs. Thanks! Agne Cheese/ Wine 19:58, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
"The Internet is all set to become the preferred platform for service delivery. Ever since Wikipedia democratised the process of knowledge sharing, collaboration has become the buzzword." Dilip Dhanuka, senior vice-president and head of product and technology initiatives, Patni Computer Systems.
Mahitgar ( talk) 12:11, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
I would like to draw attention to a particular line in Shahrukh Khan. It reads, "Khan's family is Muslim, and he was raised by Hindus for most of his life.[3]" The reference given is this, which is an interview and indeed SRK says that he was raised by Hindus for most of his life.
My question is this - why do we need to know the religion of the people who raised him? Khan was a Hindu, but was raised by Hindus for most of his life. How is that information necessary in a biography? Its like stating "Eminem is a white rapper, and most of his colleagues are black." in an article about Eminem. Or like stating "Rakesh Roshan is bald, and most of his colleagues have hair." How is it relevant? Why do we need to have the religion of the people who have raised him in the article?
I propose dropping that part and leaving it to the relevant portion,"Khan was born into a Muslim family."
xC | ☎ 07:43, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
A vast information about Indian highways lie unorganized and is not properly shown by using infoboxes, templates and images. We shall start a project titled, Indian Highways to improve quality of articles relating to Indian highways. - Manik ( talk) 10:03, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
I sure hope this is the right project. Would someone be willing to look at Anjarle - Anjarla and see what can be done with it? It was on my watchlist, because the author originally created a near-empty page, but later added content. It's still very confusing to me, but the author removed the cleanup/confusing tags. I'm grossly ignorant on this topic, and would not even know where to begin. Thanks Yng varr 10:09, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
Is there a way to pull out the list of audio recordings for wikipedia pages related to India? Any suggestions admins can provide? Thanks Arunram ( talk) 20:20, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
There is a proposal to merge a new article, Karnataka/Carnatic music, into Music of Karnataka. There is no consensus at this point and input from people knowledgeable in the subject area and Wikipedia policy would be helpful. See the discussion at Talk:Music of Karnataka#Merge proposal. ✤ JonHarder talk 13:53, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
I was User:Librorum Prohibitorum. I had disputes mainly with two editors (Administrator Dbachmann, and Hornplease). Now the admin Picaroon ( talk · contribs) has blocked me indefinitely, claiming I was a Hkelkar sock without any evidence at all. He has done this witout even leaving a message or explanation somewhere. If you look at [3], I don't edit the same articles. In my last edit I was writing something positive about Jews. This is the only reason that I can think of that someone would think that I am Hkelkar. Picaroon (or the editor who asked him to do this) thinks that every Hindu editor who says something positive about Jews must be a Hkelkar sock (Hkelkar was a Hindu-Jewish editor). This is a grave Adminstrator abuse. Librorum Prohibitorum2 ( talk) 15:39, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
A warm, fun-filled, informative Happy New Year to you all!!! May this year give you the best and bring out the best in you. The Silent Contributor ( talk) 08:37, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Why there is no newsletter of WikiProject India since March 2007?? Can any one revive its old glory and make this newsletter a regular monthly issue. Amartyabag TALK2ME 09:32, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
I need help of YOU ONE or few Happy New year Pls help me to circulate this appeal- if any body/ or few of You brillaiants who reside in North India can tell me about newspapers in India like Punjab Kesari, Dainik Bhaskar , Rajasthan Patrika ? Their circulation or popularity . & if any body of you know Hindi. or interested to explore different/ all or specific religion , philosophy , poetry etc . I want your help to translate some few 50 line of Hindi to English. Pls. Gift your name to me on my talk page please Regards - -- Dralansun ( talk) 15:41, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
There is an article on
Hyderabadi Urdu with apparently no references and yet no sign-board. There is another article on
Dakhni. Can these articles be merged?
Also, I would like to know if we can start a Wikiproject on Hindustani(Hindi and Urdu) and the associated languages("Hindi" group: Bhojpuri, Marwari, etc. and "Urdu" group: Rekhta, Dakhni). The logic being that the subject matter is so huge and related to each other in such a complex manner that a separate treatment of these aforementioned articles would make the task difficult.
Also, which language is
Hindawi?
Maquahuitl (
talk) 18:02, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi everyone, hope you are all enjoying the cricket today. I have removed a speedy tag from the above article but I have no idea on its notability, importance or otherwise. If someone from this WikiProject could take a look and see if a decent article could be made from it, it would be much appreciated. -- Mattinbgn\ talk 00:35, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Greetings. A new project, Wikipedia:WikiProject Uttar Pradesh has been created. If you are interested in contributing, please add you name to the list located here. With regards, Anupam Talk 08:52, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Another new project, Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindustani and allied languages has been created. If you are interested in contributing, please add you name to the list located here. Maquahuitl ( talk) 20:00, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I have Deep knowledge about Mumbai Police and I want Add some picture in Mumbai Police article can any boby help me?
I want someone to help me with this template on the Maratha Empire: Template:MarathaEmpire. I started creating this template and completely messed it up. --
14:54, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Is it accurate to have a redirect from 'Red Terror (India)' to Nandigram violence? Discussion going on at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2008 January 9. -- Soman ( talk) 14:19, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
I came across List of schools by country and found India page was missing. So I created List of schools in India. Now I need content neatly catagorized by states. I am not sure but 'Category: Education in India' can help a lot in this matter. This is the place I kind of slow down. I can collect lot of content by I don't really know how to create categories. Most cities I monitor had a long list of schools so I had broken the sections into seperate pages. Please suggest how to go forward in the correct way since Im new to wikipedia. Thanks. thevikas ( talk) 16:17, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
I've created a navigation box on Hindustani(Hindi/Urdu):
Hindustani topics.
One user
Tuncrypt was saying that it is "unwarranted" and "he will get it deleted".
I would like to say that I am not a new user but have contributed something for the first time. Before this I used to post on the talk pages of articles but nobody replied ever. Now when I have created something very petty, one guy comes up and says that it is nonsensical and he will have it deleted. This kind of attitude is going to detract new users like myself and discourage us from ever contributing again. You can have a look at his comments on my talk page and my replies on his talk page.
Please comment either on this issue or give any views related to the box and how it can be made better
Maquahuitl (
talk) 19:32, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
You know, when I think about the concluding proposal I eventually reached, it's too bad I didn't just go and edit the Hindustani template into Hindi and Urdu ones in the first place, and saved myself all this back-and-forth. Tuncrypt ( talk) 19:06, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
So just now I just went and made the changes to the template, making it a Hindi one: Template:Hindi_topics (another Urdu one'll have to be created). If you look at it, you'll see that it's quite different from any possible Urdu template that'd be made, as I've noted previously. Hopefully everything I've said is understood and this issue can be concluded, and we can enjoy our templates. Tuncrypt ( talk) 19:29, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
I recently made a reply to user:Anupam's post here. Just linking it. Tuncrypt ( talk) 20:29, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
There, three new templates I have fashioned —
Tuncrypt ( talk) 20:42, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
As opposed to what? The Hindustani box you made, which was totally wrong? And why in the world do you say three boxes? The Gujarati box is a Gujarati box, another thing altogether, which I felt like making just now, being a completely different language from Hindi-Urdu-Hindustani. Honestly, do you even know that? Tuncrypt ( talk) 21:56, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
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Two new articles reference Hindi sources:
They were recently deleted:
Should they be kept?
The article's author seems new and may need some coaching. Unfortunately, I am totally unfamiliar with Hindi, philosophy or spiritualism. -- A. B. (talk) 00:22, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Mahitgar ( talk) 10:54, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi there,
Somebody inserted British Flag next to his birth country, India. I don't agree with this and I am sure everybody will do the same.
There are number of pages on the Wikipedia for number of prominent people, which do not have any such flags, particularly the flags of the countries which occupied/ruled at that time.
Manay Thanks Jagan kommareddy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.172.213.138 ( talk) 14:45, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
I am not sure that war time occupation of European countries by Nazi Germany falls in the same category as a country and its administration during the colonial era. Aside from the fact that India today is historically and politically different from British India. I dont have a problem with the flag not being shown, but do have a problem with the pages on Bose and INA becoming a battleground for PoV pushing Colonialists and nationalists. Facts are facts and that's the way it should be on an encyclopaedia. I have nearly single handedly build the entire Content on the Indian National Army (see {{ Azad Hind Fauj}}), and am bored and tired of colonial as well as nationalist half-truths and pseudo-intellectuals pushing to have their long-disproved and now-downright-ridiculed theories in these pages. Do pardon me if I seem a bit overactive in these pages. I assure you it is in the best intentions and interests. rueben_lys ( talk · contribs) 21:38, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
For future reference, Wikipedia:FLAGS#Not for use in locations of birth and death gives just a couple of the many good reasons why little flag icons aren't appropriate for birth and death locations in infoboxes. They are confusing, create nationalistic (flag-waving) disputes, and can be inappropriate because they imply nationalistic support, when the birth place is merely a geographical location. I've taken to adding the following hidden comment in infoboxes, just above birth and death location:
<!-- Do not add flag icons to place of birth/death, per [[Wikipedia:Don't overuse flags]] -->
You can see how I've added it at Subhas Chandra Bose by clicking on the edit tab and looking at the infobox. These have been effective at preventing the same dispute from happening all over again. ~ priyanath talk 22:14, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
An earlier discussion on this topic also suggests a clear consensus against using flags to indicate places of birth and death (i.e. in addition to Wikipedia:Don't overuse flags). Abecedare ( talk) 05:37, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
I would encourage all readers of this page to join in the discussion at Talk:Caste system among Indian Christians, where there is a heated debate over inclusions of material. Baka man 21:34, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
I've been looking over some of the caste articles (particularly beginning with Nadar (caste)) and there seem to be a huge amount of them - and they are all largely unsourced and POV. Has this project formed any plans for a sweep of these articles at some point? Avruch talk 19:03, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
I am reviewing Economic development in India as a "Good article" candidate. Can the folk of your Wikiproject clarify a few issues here please? Axl ( talk) 09:12, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Some people are asserting that a speech by (then) Vice-President of India Bhairon Singh Shekhawat is not notable to be mentioned in an article about a living person, who was the subject of the speech, on the basis that "Bhairo Singh Shekhawat doesn't have a reputation, because he attends meetings for large numbers of spiritual leaders" Comments? ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 19:58, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Either you think this is a notable enough act/endorsement that it goes in the article; in which case I think we owe it to the reader to tell them exactly what else the source of the endorsement supports. The truth is, of course, that it is not notable. As Rumiton says "he put his reputation on the line...". Exactly. He doesn't have one, because he attends meetings for large numbers of spiritual leaders and releases their books and opens their offices and praises their foreign exchange earnings and inner peace. So, as I said, if you make the decision to put him in the article, then you are making the decision that his words on Rawat are notable or in any way exceptional.