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Should Article-names be in IAST or standard English spellings? e.g. should it be Mahabharata (std. English) or Māhabhārata (IAST). Is there any MOS available? -- Redtigerxyz ( talk) 07:37, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi everyone. I took some photos of the Indian squad recently and there were also pictures that I took of hte Indian managerial staff etc, who are former players (likely) and so forth. I need some help identifying them (link below). Also there were multiple attempts to take the same photo, so there are some photos to choose from. Everyone welcome to express an opinion or identify the Indian if possible. User_talk:Blnguyen#Straw_poll_for_selecting_photos_of_the_Indian_cricket_team_for_use_in_articles. Thanks, Blnguyen ( bananabucket) 02:17, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
I added an etymology section sourced from the Oxford English Dictionary. I used an online tool [2] to generate the Devanagari script, but I am not an expert, so I would appreciate if someone would check to confirm if it is correct. Dforest ( talk) 22:32, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Dahi is listed as a type of Strained yogurt. Someone posted a comment that Dahi is not necessarily strained yoghurt. I mentioned that I've heard it referred to as chakka or chakka dahi. But, I am not a native Hindi speaker, so would someone care to comment on Talk:Strained yoghurt? Dforest ( talk) 07:20, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
I see Bharat Rakshak being used as a source on several articles. Can somebody convince me that it is RS? Or I plan to start removing them. I took a peek here and the links detailing mainstream media coverage of BR certainly proves that they are 'notable'. But reliable? Who are these people who run that site? What are their credentials? Are they acknowldged experts in the field? Or are they just amateurs taking themselves too seriously?.. These are the things that concern me most. Also, the fact that some time back I'd seen them plagiarising content from wikipedia doesnt inspire confidence. Does anyone here have info about the people who run that site. Please come forward. Thanks. Sarvagnya 23:00, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Note: I had raised this same issue a few months ago and it did not lead to a logical conclusion. So I am raising it again. Sarvagnya 23:00, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Also the senior members of this bharat-rakshak forums are very very arrogant. they dont encourage other new members to post their ideas and bash them and criticize the ignorance factors. It appears that these senior member are not PhDs are superior test pilots themselves but a bunch of friends who happens to share teen-hormone related enthusiasm about Indian military.
Sarvagnya, the best way to convince Bharat Rakshak is a reliable source is the fact so many books provide Bharat Rakshak as reference and not to mention many international think tanks. I ran a search on google and found 184 books provide Bharat Rakshak as a source.
i can give you few examples
( talk) 04:49, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
"...The site is a collection of articles with many retired people penning their thoughts...." Retired with what background? I could only spot surgeons and software professionals and various other assortments there. Please point out any real experts with a background in military and political affairs that I may have missed. I dont give a "fig" how much time a novice has spent on reading up on a subject. Or how seriously deluded he is about his expertise. Neither of us is qualified to make such judgements and that is why we go by WP:RS, WP:V, WP:NPOV, WP:UNDUE and such other non-negotiable statutes of wikipedia. The onus is not on me to prove the non-RSness of the site. It is for you to prove its credentials.
If experts have indeed cited/quoted from BR, it only means that they've taken the pains(and lots of it, I'm sure) to vet it themselves and seperate the wheat from the chaff - an exercise, we as editors of wikipedia shouldnt be expected to endure even if we thought of ourselves as being adequately equipped to carry out such an exercise. You cant be a little pregnant and a source cant be a little RS -- there's plenty of blinkered jingoistic puff pieces on that compendium of sites and this one, by an acknowledged 'leading light' of the site who heads its 'think tank' and one which BR counts proudly among its 'e-publications' is a case in point. The way the noble surgeon sets us up with a gem of a -
Imagine India to be a box with 100 eggs in it, but 30 of those eggs are broken. Imagine Pakistan to be a smaller box with 10 eggs in it, and 5 of those eggs are broken. A direct comparison will show that the India box has 30 broken eggs, and the Pakistan box has only 5 broken eggs, and it would seem that the India box is in a far worse shape, with many more broken eggs. But what is hidden from this comparison, is that the India box has 70 intact eggs while the Pakistan box has only 5 intact eggs
is particularly discomfiting. It is sources like these and their abuse that is at the heart of possibly every single 'content issue' on wikipedia. BR, to their credit are doing a good job and are certainly notable. 'Notability' however, doesnt automatically accord it 'reliability'. It is certainly a good place to start one's research but it cannot be counted as research itself. Some of wikipedia's articles are also of scholarly grade and many of them account for the very best you'll find anywhere on the internet. And yet, Wikipedia is not RS and for very good reasons. The same holds for BR too. And as for the plagiarism thing, this is what I was referring to back then. Sarvagnya 23:54, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Why are you Depending on Bharat-Rakshak?? Just go to websites of Defence services you will get all your source
http://armedforces.nic.in/ just see this site you will get the sources. PLEASE DONT 100% RELY ON Bharat-Rakshak
Suyogaerospace (
talk) 11:47, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
I started an article about most used devnagari font created by Professor Raghunath k. Joshi with the help of some recent Marathi news paper sources. I hope and request you to join in editing this article.
Mahitgar ( talk) 15:23, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
The Rajasthan article mentions the number of districts in Rajasthan as 32 in some places and 33 elsewhere. The Districts of India website has it as 32, [9] and the Rajasthan government website counts 33. [10] Does anyone know why there is this difference? Mkeranat ( talk) 14:07, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
I am generaly unfamiliar with Indian History, which is no fault of mine but rather the lack of the existence of comprehensive non-pretentious works regarding our History.
But recently I have stumbled on articles pertaining to the Astrnomical Dating of certain events in Indian Texts where Celestial events were recorded in conjunction with the events taking place at the time. This ( http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=273107) Times of India Article is a fine example, where the assertion is made that based on the astronomical positionings recorded in the Ramayana, Lord Ram's birth can be dated to January 10, 5114 BCE (or BC).
Why aren't these assertions debated more often, these avenues explored more? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.169.236.26 ( talk) 08:26, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Just wanted to say Hello to everyone. Much to read and learn here, I'm sure I will enjoy ! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.196.88.187 ( talk) 17:50, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
This wretched "article" certainly asserts notability and thus can't be "prodded". My guess is that the company really does merit an article, and so an AfD would just be a waste of everyone's time. However, googling turns up little. Does any of you have an actual book about the history of publishing in India, or is anyone here otherwise able to say some more that's worthwhile on the subject? -- Hoary ( talk) 03:16, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Religion#ISKCON work group or subproject? regarding the possibility of creating a new work group for articles relating to ISKCON. Any individuals who have opinions on the creation of such a subproject, either as part of this project or the religion project, should feel free to share their opinions. Thanks. Ism schism ( talk) 15:42, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi all I am editing Mumbai Police's page for last 2 months I have added two sections to it. Now should i remove its stub status ?? If any one is having suggestion regurding this article please tell me. Thank you Suyogaerospace ( talk) 15:09, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
I noticed WP:PIN is not at all updated. The FP and FA are too old ... from 2006 & 2007. Is this portal maintained ? gppande ( talk) 13:06, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Please have a look at the
Chanakya article. It is not any honourable, and on the contrary rather disgraceful to see Chanakya being described as the "Indian Machiavelli". It is stupid, because Machiavelli lived 2000 years after Chanakya. As an Indian I didn't even know about Machiavelli and found it funny that Chanakya was defined by someone who lived in Italy 2000 years after him. Is the English wikipedia only meant to serve Europeans or Americans or is it international in the true sense?
It's not just this particular case, but rather the general Eurochauvinism that is silly- I've heard of things like Telugu being called "Italian of the East" and Samudragupta as the "Napolean of India". I would request the WikiProject India to have a strong policy on this issue.
Maquahuitl
talk! 09:25, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
anyone can start these two projects?? Naveenpf ( talk) 18:41, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
The article on the film Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (singlehandedly upgraded by User:Mspraveen) is up for Featured article candidacy here. Please express your opinion in the FAC. Regards.-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 11:50, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Please see this snapshot of Mumbai: [11]. User:Nikkul has added a lot of images that have little or no relation to the accompanying text. I have reverted Nikkul's edits and am trying to gain consensus here for the following:
Please lend your views. This is an important discussion. =Nichalp «Talk»= 07:25, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
I think Fowler is being very hypocritical when insulting me about the images I bring to the page, when he himself has added the dharavi image under economy and an image of trash in demographics. I would also like to point out that any changes to images on the India page came with a huge consensus and thought the result didnt favor Fowler's opinions, there was strict consensus about every image on that page. So yeah, there was a discussion about images on the india page, but a huge consensus agreed that the images fowler favored were inappropriate for the India page, which is why Fowler claims he is "scarred". Nichalp is right in saying his 3 points, but I dont see how I have gone against that.
I would like to say that I am not getting paid to do this. My contributions to wiki are because of the love I harbor for Wiki and for the articles I edit. I have spent a huge part of my life trying to find images on flickr so that the reader can better understand India related articles. It is very unfair to deride my contributions to Wiki as well as all the images I have spent time finding and bringing to wiki.
I would also like to remind everyone, that there are many, many images that I have brought to this encyclopedia that have replaced bad quality images and that have been added to places where there was no image at all. You can see my contributions on my talk page. If my contributions were to be deleted, wiki's India related pages would be a lot worse off, image-wise. Nikkul ( talk) 03:14, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
I have never wanted to present a tourist brochure. If I did, I would have added pictures of essel world, Rajabhai Tower, Marine Drivem etc. Adding images that look better does not make anything a tourist brochure.
I dont think anyone is against me adding better pictures to wikipedia. And I feel that any image that I have replaced is very relevant to the topic. I think there is consensus that image should be relevant, have a succinct caption, and be pleasing. I dont think that there is consensus that I have broken that.
If Fowler adds an image of an empty room with pots under Mumbai economy section, then I dont think you have any right in telling me that my additions are not relevant. I added images of Bandra Kurla Complex and Cuffe Parade. Compare that with an image of steel pots in an empty room! Nikkul ( talk) 20:48, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Yeah fowler, your tit for tat game isn't the most mature way of going about. Your edits to Wikipedia should be based on how relevant you feel an image or text is to an article, not on who reverts what after whom. Your addition of images makes much less sense than mine. At least when I add images, they relate to the topic.
Fowler&fowler adds images of an empty room with pots under the economy section because apparently, a significant enough part of Mumbai's economy is based on ...recycling and an empty room is the exact way of showing recycling and Mumbai's economy! Ridiculous! Nikkul ( talk) 19:31, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
What does recycling have anything to do with Mumbai's economy? People blame me for adding irrelevant images, but it is people like Fowler who add images that aren't even close in relevance to the topic. The images I add atleast have something to do with the topic. Nikkul ( talk) 20:40, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
How to prevent this ? This might be the first time that I am pitching into you guys. I have been reading your *friendly* discussions on Mumbai's talk page and I am glad that discussion has been moved by User:Nichalp to an appropriate page now. I don't want to comment on who does what or who is correct and who is wrong. But I am also facing a similar problem & so wanted to know how to get rid of it. I have been trying to maintain pages of Vidarbha & Nagpur for quite sometime now. But Nagpur seems to be the favorite editing page for people without an account on Wikipedia. People keep adding information of their housing societies & localities, keep boasting of Nagpur's great future (I am for it but not on Wikipedia) and also tons-and-tons of non-encyclopedic information. Is there not a way to prevent such edits as it degrades the article? It is waste of time & energy in first correcting the page and then move on to add some real good info. Does not wikipedia provide some way of preventing such changes? I know Wikipedia's motto - "Anyone can edit" but should there be not a way to limit "Anyone" ? Should people not create an ID atleast before doing edits?? If people have an ID, we can tell them via user_talk pages that they are doing wrong and can help in better way. I may sound possessive on these article pages - but let me say that my intentions are not possessive but of really genuine good Wikipedian. gppande ( talk) 15:01, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
I don't know whether I should be writing her, so please excuse me if I'm not supposed to, but I'm disgusted by the images Fowler has brough to Wikipedia. Is he anti-Indian or something? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.107.245.8 ( talk) 07:21, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi everyone,
I would like to point out a few mistakes. First of all, there are many mistakes when using the kannada script. Please revise. For example, the name of the language kannada, is not KAN-NAN-NA-DA. Please revise. Another mistake that I have changed on the Tenali Ramakrishna page is the part where it says the he was from Andhra Pradhesh. How is this possible when those states didnt exist back then. I have appropriately written that he was a citizen of the Vijaynagar Empire.
PLEASE take care from now on.
THANKS —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.107.245.8 ( talk) 07:16, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
We are happy to announce the launch of Portal:Indian Christianity by Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian Christianity , a work force of Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity and Wikipedia:WikiProject India. Please share your comments and suggestions. - Tinucherian ( talk) 18:39, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
I have developed a template - Scheduled Tribes in India. I shall be grateful if other editors inspect it and add/delete information to make it more accurate. Many pages merely mention some people as 'tribes' or 'tribal' but do not clearly specify whether they are scheduled tribes but they are included in the List of Scheduled Tribes in India. Regards. - P.K.Niyogi ( talk) 02:10, 7 March 2008 (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. |
Should Article-names be in IAST or standard English spellings? e.g. should it be Mahabharata (std. English) or Māhabhārata (IAST). Is there any MOS available? -- Redtigerxyz ( talk) 07:37, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi everyone. I took some photos of the Indian squad recently and there were also pictures that I took of hte Indian managerial staff etc, who are former players (likely) and so forth. I need some help identifying them (link below). Also there were multiple attempts to take the same photo, so there are some photos to choose from. Everyone welcome to express an opinion or identify the Indian if possible. User_talk:Blnguyen#Straw_poll_for_selecting_photos_of_the_Indian_cricket_team_for_use_in_articles. Thanks, Blnguyen ( bananabucket) 02:17, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
I added an etymology section sourced from the Oxford English Dictionary. I used an online tool [2] to generate the Devanagari script, but I am not an expert, so I would appreciate if someone would check to confirm if it is correct. Dforest ( talk) 22:32, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Dahi is listed as a type of Strained yogurt. Someone posted a comment that Dahi is not necessarily strained yoghurt. I mentioned that I've heard it referred to as chakka or chakka dahi. But, I am not a native Hindi speaker, so would someone care to comment on Talk:Strained yoghurt? Dforest ( talk) 07:20, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
I see Bharat Rakshak being used as a source on several articles. Can somebody convince me that it is RS? Or I plan to start removing them. I took a peek here and the links detailing mainstream media coverage of BR certainly proves that they are 'notable'. But reliable? Who are these people who run that site? What are their credentials? Are they acknowldged experts in the field? Or are they just amateurs taking themselves too seriously?.. These are the things that concern me most. Also, the fact that some time back I'd seen them plagiarising content from wikipedia doesnt inspire confidence. Does anyone here have info about the people who run that site. Please come forward. Thanks. Sarvagnya 23:00, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Note: I had raised this same issue a few months ago and it did not lead to a logical conclusion. So I am raising it again. Sarvagnya 23:00, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Also the senior members of this bharat-rakshak forums are very very arrogant. they dont encourage other new members to post their ideas and bash them and criticize the ignorance factors. It appears that these senior member are not PhDs are superior test pilots themselves but a bunch of friends who happens to share teen-hormone related enthusiasm about Indian military.
Sarvagnya, the best way to convince Bharat Rakshak is a reliable source is the fact so many books provide Bharat Rakshak as reference and not to mention many international think tanks. I ran a search on google and found 184 books provide Bharat Rakshak as a source.
i can give you few examples
( talk) 04:49, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
"...The site is a collection of articles with many retired people penning their thoughts...." Retired with what background? I could only spot surgeons and software professionals and various other assortments there. Please point out any real experts with a background in military and political affairs that I may have missed. I dont give a "fig" how much time a novice has spent on reading up on a subject. Or how seriously deluded he is about his expertise. Neither of us is qualified to make such judgements and that is why we go by WP:RS, WP:V, WP:NPOV, WP:UNDUE and such other non-negotiable statutes of wikipedia. The onus is not on me to prove the non-RSness of the site. It is for you to prove its credentials.
If experts have indeed cited/quoted from BR, it only means that they've taken the pains(and lots of it, I'm sure) to vet it themselves and seperate the wheat from the chaff - an exercise, we as editors of wikipedia shouldnt be expected to endure even if we thought of ourselves as being adequately equipped to carry out such an exercise. You cant be a little pregnant and a source cant be a little RS -- there's plenty of blinkered jingoistic puff pieces on that compendium of sites and this one, by an acknowledged 'leading light' of the site who heads its 'think tank' and one which BR counts proudly among its 'e-publications' is a case in point. The way the noble surgeon sets us up with a gem of a -
Imagine India to be a box with 100 eggs in it, but 30 of those eggs are broken. Imagine Pakistan to be a smaller box with 10 eggs in it, and 5 of those eggs are broken. A direct comparison will show that the India box has 30 broken eggs, and the Pakistan box has only 5 broken eggs, and it would seem that the India box is in a far worse shape, with many more broken eggs. But what is hidden from this comparison, is that the India box has 70 intact eggs while the Pakistan box has only 5 intact eggs
is particularly discomfiting. It is sources like these and their abuse that is at the heart of possibly every single 'content issue' on wikipedia. BR, to their credit are doing a good job and are certainly notable. 'Notability' however, doesnt automatically accord it 'reliability'. It is certainly a good place to start one's research but it cannot be counted as research itself. Some of wikipedia's articles are also of scholarly grade and many of them account for the very best you'll find anywhere on the internet. And yet, Wikipedia is not RS and for very good reasons. The same holds for BR too. And as for the plagiarism thing, this is what I was referring to back then. Sarvagnya 23:54, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Why are you Depending on Bharat-Rakshak?? Just go to websites of Defence services you will get all your source
http://armedforces.nic.in/ just see this site you will get the sources. PLEASE DONT 100% RELY ON Bharat-Rakshak
Suyogaerospace (
talk) 11:47, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
I started an article about most used devnagari font created by Professor Raghunath k. Joshi with the help of some recent Marathi news paper sources. I hope and request you to join in editing this article.
Mahitgar ( talk) 15:23, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
The Rajasthan article mentions the number of districts in Rajasthan as 32 in some places and 33 elsewhere. The Districts of India website has it as 32, [9] and the Rajasthan government website counts 33. [10] Does anyone know why there is this difference? Mkeranat ( talk) 14:07, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
I am generaly unfamiliar with Indian History, which is no fault of mine but rather the lack of the existence of comprehensive non-pretentious works regarding our History.
But recently I have stumbled on articles pertaining to the Astrnomical Dating of certain events in Indian Texts where Celestial events were recorded in conjunction with the events taking place at the time. This ( http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=273107) Times of India Article is a fine example, where the assertion is made that based on the astronomical positionings recorded in the Ramayana, Lord Ram's birth can be dated to January 10, 5114 BCE (or BC).
Why aren't these assertions debated more often, these avenues explored more? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.169.236.26 ( talk) 08:26, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Just wanted to say Hello to everyone. Much to read and learn here, I'm sure I will enjoy ! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.196.88.187 ( talk) 17:50, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
This wretched "article" certainly asserts notability and thus can't be "prodded". My guess is that the company really does merit an article, and so an AfD would just be a waste of everyone's time. However, googling turns up little. Does any of you have an actual book about the history of publishing in India, or is anyone here otherwise able to say some more that's worthwhile on the subject? -- Hoary ( talk) 03:16, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Religion#ISKCON work group or subproject? regarding the possibility of creating a new work group for articles relating to ISKCON. Any individuals who have opinions on the creation of such a subproject, either as part of this project or the religion project, should feel free to share their opinions. Thanks. Ism schism ( talk) 15:42, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi all I am editing Mumbai Police's page for last 2 months I have added two sections to it. Now should i remove its stub status ?? If any one is having suggestion regurding this article please tell me. Thank you Suyogaerospace ( talk) 15:09, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
I noticed WP:PIN is not at all updated. The FP and FA are too old ... from 2006 & 2007. Is this portal maintained ? gppande ( talk) 13:06, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Please have a look at the
Chanakya article. It is not any honourable, and on the contrary rather disgraceful to see Chanakya being described as the "Indian Machiavelli". It is stupid, because Machiavelli lived 2000 years after Chanakya. As an Indian I didn't even know about Machiavelli and found it funny that Chanakya was defined by someone who lived in Italy 2000 years after him. Is the English wikipedia only meant to serve Europeans or Americans or is it international in the true sense?
It's not just this particular case, but rather the general Eurochauvinism that is silly- I've heard of things like Telugu being called "Italian of the East" and Samudragupta as the "Napolean of India". I would request the WikiProject India to have a strong policy on this issue.
Maquahuitl
talk! 09:25, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
anyone can start these two projects?? Naveenpf ( talk) 18:41, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
The article on the film Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (singlehandedly upgraded by User:Mspraveen) is up for Featured article candidacy here. Please express your opinion in the FAC. Regards.-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 11:50, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Please see this snapshot of Mumbai: [11]. User:Nikkul has added a lot of images that have little or no relation to the accompanying text. I have reverted Nikkul's edits and am trying to gain consensus here for the following:
Please lend your views. This is an important discussion. =Nichalp «Talk»= 07:25, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
I think Fowler is being very hypocritical when insulting me about the images I bring to the page, when he himself has added the dharavi image under economy and an image of trash in demographics. I would also like to point out that any changes to images on the India page came with a huge consensus and thought the result didnt favor Fowler's opinions, there was strict consensus about every image on that page. So yeah, there was a discussion about images on the india page, but a huge consensus agreed that the images fowler favored were inappropriate for the India page, which is why Fowler claims he is "scarred". Nichalp is right in saying his 3 points, but I dont see how I have gone against that.
I would like to say that I am not getting paid to do this. My contributions to wiki are because of the love I harbor for Wiki and for the articles I edit. I have spent a huge part of my life trying to find images on flickr so that the reader can better understand India related articles. It is very unfair to deride my contributions to Wiki as well as all the images I have spent time finding and bringing to wiki.
I would also like to remind everyone, that there are many, many images that I have brought to this encyclopedia that have replaced bad quality images and that have been added to places where there was no image at all. You can see my contributions on my talk page. If my contributions were to be deleted, wiki's India related pages would be a lot worse off, image-wise. Nikkul ( talk) 03:14, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
I have never wanted to present a tourist brochure. If I did, I would have added pictures of essel world, Rajabhai Tower, Marine Drivem etc. Adding images that look better does not make anything a tourist brochure.
I dont think anyone is against me adding better pictures to wikipedia. And I feel that any image that I have replaced is very relevant to the topic. I think there is consensus that image should be relevant, have a succinct caption, and be pleasing. I dont think that there is consensus that I have broken that.
If Fowler adds an image of an empty room with pots under Mumbai economy section, then I dont think you have any right in telling me that my additions are not relevant. I added images of Bandra Kurla Complex and Cuffe Parade. Compare that with an image of steel pots in an empty room! Nikkul ( talk) 20:48, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Yeah fowler, your tit for tat game isn't the most mature way of going about. Your edits to Wikipedia should be based on how relevant you feel an image or text is to an article, not on who reverts what after whom. Your addition of images makes much less sense than mine. At least when I add images, they relate to the topic.
Fowler&fowler adds images of an empty room with pots under the economy section because apparently, a significant enough part of Mumbai's economy is based on ...recycling and an empty room is the exact way of showing recycling and Mumbai's economy! Ridiculous! Nikkul ( talk) 19:31, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
What does recycling have anything to do with Mumbai's economy? People blame me for adding irrelevant images, but it is people like Fowler who add images that aren't even close in relevance to the topic. The images I add atleast have something to do with the topic. Nikkul ( talk) 20:40, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
How to prevent this ? This might be the first time that I am pitching into you guys. I have been reading your *friendly* discussions on Mumbai's talk page and I am glad that discussion has been moved by User:Nichalp to an appropriate page now. I don't want to comment on who does what or who is correct and who is wrong. But I am also facing a similar problem & so wanted to know how to get rid of it. I have been trying to maintain pages of Vidarbha & Nagpur for quite sometime now. But Nagpur seems to be the favorite editing page for people without an account on Wikipedia. People keep adding information of their housing societies & localities, keep boasting of Nagpur's great future (I am for it but not on Wikipedia) and also tons-and-tons of non-encyclopedic information. Is there not a way to prevent such edits as it degrades the article? It is waste of time & energy in first correcting the page and then move on to add some real good info. Does not wikipedia provide some way of preventing such changes? I know Wikipedia's motto - "Anyone can edit" but should there be not a way to limit "Anyone" ? Should people not create an ID atleast before doing edits?? If people have an ID, we can tell them via user_talk pages that they are doing wrong and can help in better way. I may sound possessive on these article pages - but let me say that my intentions are not possessive but of really genuine good Wikipedian. gppande ( talk) 15:01, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
I don't know whether I should be writing her, so please excuse me if I'm not supposed to, but I'm disgusted by the images Fowler has brough to Wikipedia. Is he anti-Indian or something? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.107.245.8 ( talk) 07:21, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi everyone,
I would like to point out a few mistakes. First of all, there are many mistakes when using the kannada script. Please revise. For example, the name of the language kannada, is not KAN-NAN-NA-DA. Please revise. Another mistake that I have changed on the Tenali Ramakrishna page is the part where it says the he was from Andhra Pradhesh. How is this possible when those states didnt exist back then. I have appropriately written that he was a citizen of the Vijaynagar Empire.
PLEASE take care from now on.
THANKS —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.107.245.8 ( talk) 07:16, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
We are happy to announce the launch of Portal:Indian Christianity by Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian Christianity , a work force of Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity and Wikipedia:WikiProject India. Please share your comments and suggestions. - Tinucherian ( talk) 18:39, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
I have developed a template - Scheduled Tribes in India. I shall be grateful if other editors inspect it and add/delete information to make it more accurate. Many pages merely mention some people as 'tribes' or 'tribal' but do not clearly specify whether they are scheduled tribes but they are included in the List of Scheduled Tribes in India. Regards. - P.K.Niyogi ( talk) 02:10, 7 March 2008 (UTC)