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This is to notify that the names of some of the towns in Karnataka which have been proposed for renaming by the Karnataka Government have not been renamed, due to the fact that the Union Government has not yet given its approval. The names are not official unless the Government of India approves it.
Further, if one argues that article names on English Wikipedia are based on how much the name is assimilated into the English Language, here are some statistics based on Google searches, which is an accepted way of determining assimilation into the language:
Proposed Name | Search engine hits |
---|---|
Mangalooru | 29,200 |
Hubballi | 263,000 |
Shivamogga | 88,400 |
Mysooru | 69,000 |
Chikkamagaluru | 35,000 |
Original Name | Search engine hits |
---|---|
Mangalore | 8,150,000 |
Hubli | 7,110,000 |
Shimoga | 7,350,000 |
Mysore | 9,740,000 |
Chikmagalur | 636,000 |
I think its quite clear beyond doubt that the Original names are more in use, and the 'Changed names' haven't been approved by the Government anyway, so I think all the pages relating to these towns in Karnataka need to be moved to their Original names.
These tables are not exclusive, and these statistics extend to other towns in Karnataka as well. I've gone through the earlier discussion in the archive, and found that it wasn't properly substantiated through hard facts and references.
Please refer to the following articles/discussions, one is an article from the Times of India, Bangalore, and another is a discussion on the Bangalore talk page. Name change not official yet Talk:Bangalore/Archive_4#Bangalore_or_Bengaluru.3F
I'd like to request editors to edit/move with caution (as I'm having a bad time requesting moves for all these pages). Regards. Swaroop ( talk) 11:46, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
A dispute about the inclusion of Bali Sacrifice in the article Hinduism is on on Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2010-07-29/Hinduism. Please help build a consensus by giving your comments. Thanks. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 16:58, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
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What is the difference between Buranji and Itihaas? Your thoughts please! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.40.6.143 ( talk) 15:10, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
At the article Harmonium, in the India section there's a list of harmonium players, and most of the names are prefixed by "Pt." What does this stand for? Is it some sort of title? MatthewVanitas ( talk) 10:48, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
While working on the article Harmonium (and noting the mass of redlinks for supposedly noteable players), I discovered that there are plenty of WP articles (of varying quality) on harmonium players, but no category joining them. Accordingly, I created Category:Harmonium players, which should help expand the music/musicians tree. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 07:48, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
Gazetteer of India that comprises of various locations and the information gathered is authentic. They are full of detailed information of almost everything in India. British developed it for the benefit of their officers so that they can manage the country properly. The process of updating these valuable volumes stopped after they left India on 1947. I want to suggest to Wikipedia Administration to make all the Gazetteers available on Wikipedia mainspace; there is no problem of verification as far as these Gazetteers are concerned. A separate Category should be created to accommodate them, named "Indian Gazetteer". By a special arrangement with the Government of India and States they can be had without any difficulty. Pathare Prabhu ( talk) 07:46, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello, Sodabottle, I am presently working on an article on acient links of a community called Pathare Prabhu. I have chronicle records of this community in a book. This book is often required for references by the community people for essential references. If I want to put that book on Wikisource, how to do it? That book is printed in 1862 and it is no more available in new print and so I have taken out photos of every page. I am presently uploading them on Wikipedia Commons. Please guide me. Pathare Prabhu ( talk) 08:07, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
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This article was uncategorised since May and has apparently had no references since it was first written in 2006! I have restored the deleted categories, and tagged it for 'maintenance'. Could editors with expertise (and NPOV) in this area please take a look at this article and improve it? I personally have no idea about its' subject. Thanks! 220.101 talk \Contribs 15:03, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Needs attention; see more at Wikipedia:No_original_research/Noticeboard#History_of_Gorakhpur. East of Borschov 21:24, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Is it really known as Paper Flowers (1959 film)? The imdb entry is that way, but imdb is seldom right about these things. I can't ever recall hearing the title Paper Flowers in reference to this movie. Recently moved citing WP:UE which like many things around here is a confused policy. — Spaceman Spiff 06:37, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
potential deletion candidate? -- Car Tick 14:56, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Whether it is ok to use this {{nowrap|[[Image:Indian Rupee symbol.svg|8px|link=Indian rupee sign]]}}
long sentence to disply a single rupee sign or any alternative available?
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There is an Afd going on for PC Pandey - a winner of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (which is the highest award for science in India). Unfortunately because of nature of this particular article (SPAs, vanity pieces, peacocking etc), the entire prize's notability is being questioned at the AfD. I am afraid, if they establish a precedence that this award is not-notable in this AfD, articles of other awardees will follow this one into AfD. I have explained as best as i can there. Can someone tell these people why the top award for science in India is notable.-- Sodabottle ( talk) 06:04, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
Not sure if everyones following Wikimedia-India mailing list,so cross posting it.We have launched DYKIndia at WP:MBL17 aiming at reaching out to twitter folks with DYK facts related to India.Some relateed links :- Thread on mailing list, Code that powers it, GerardM blogpost. I would like to thank every DYK creator here and this is possible only because of you folks.If you have any questions / suggestions please ping me. Srikanth ( Logic) 14:11, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
I would like draw your attention to this long standing edit war. I have opened a discussion here. -- Car Tick 15:17, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
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There is a dispute on Talk:Maharashtra#Marathi_statement_dispute about inclusion of the following ststements in Marathi (lead), Maharashtra and Pune articles:
“ | Standard Marathi is defined as the language that is spoken by the Deshastha Brahmins of Pune. Standard Marathi is the official language of Maharashtra. | ” |
Please help to form a consensus by giving your valuable comments. Thanks. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 09:53, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
The interesting article and discussion thereon Talk:Stray cow problem in India. Shyamsunder ( talk) 10:57, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
I deleted this article, the deletion was later overturned on grounds that there was enough context to permit the article to remain. I suggested to the other editor that the matter be raised here for an opinion on the project whose tag appears on the article's talk page. Is a one liner on a village like this notable insofar as WP:INDIA is concerned? TomStar81 ( Talk) 23:56, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
A move request is open for this article. -- RegentsPark ( talk) 21:32, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
Could someone please check the dispute here, as well as other issues on that talk page (if you have the time for all of them). Thanks. -- Nazar ( talk) 18:17, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Content about one dialect out of the 40 odd dialects (sometime referred to as varieties) of Marathi has been disputed by some experienced users. The dispute is a long one spanning almost 3 weeks and it can be found in three sections: [2] [3], [4]
Several allegations have been made against this content, all of which have been addressed IMO. User:Redtigerxyz alleged WP:Fringe which ended up being the longest discussed one in terms of responses and duration. User:Redtigerxyz's allegation was eventually thrown out by the fringe theory noticeboard [5] so why should we simply accept User:Redtigerxyz's POV and continue to exclude my content from the article? My content has been lying in talk-space and out of article-space for more about 3 weeks now. I am a newbie on Wikipedia whereas all of the people I am defending my content against are experienced users such as User:SpacemanSpiff, an admin, User:Deepak D'Souza another very experienced user and User:Redtigerxyz who has been around very long. In fact User:SpacemanSpiff has left a warning on my talk page to block me regarding the very same content [6]. This was misguided on User:SpacemanSpiff's part because his actions came too soon and despite my efforts to communicate with him as edit summaries and histories will show. I feel intimated because if I go ahead and include content in Marathi lead, Maharashtra and Pune, I might be blocked. I welcome help from any other editors or admins who can insert the one line stated at the top of this section [7] in the three articles Marathi, Maharashtra and Pune. I will take off the content if the RFC [8] comes back negative. Thanks. Zuggernaut ( talk) 23:02, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
Should the titles of the articles on the last British kings/emperors of India contain the phrase "of the United Kingdom"? Please see Talk:George VI of the United Kingdom#Requested move and comment there if you wish.-- Kotniski ( talk) 07:18, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi! Over at the disambiguation pages with links project, one of the older disambiguation pages on our maintenance list is Yadav. Basically, everyone is uncertain how to deal with it. We need to fix these links to the disambig, but need help doing it. The worst is, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to decide when an article should link to Yadav caste, and when it should link to Yadu. Could you help us out? Thanks, -- JaGa talk 23:49, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
I request the attention of interested editors to this Afd. Thank you, Shiva (Visnu) 13:56, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi - I am noticing some confusion about what is the correct, uniform name for India's state legislatures. Some articles are titled using "Vidhan Sabha", others using "Legislative Assembly." Should this link to the NIC website be used for correct naming? Shiva (Visnu) 15:38, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
The page was moved to 1984 Sikh Genocide and I reverted. Now a duplicate GFDL vio has been created at the latter title. Can someone else take a look at this please? I've got to be offline for a while. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 03:51, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, we're writing a short piece on Google's "Health Speaks", and there's a translation on the Hindi WP of the enwiki article on aspirin that I've been referred to. I wonder whether someone could take a look at the translation and comment on it, since I speak only English. diff of translation. Copy deadline is less than 24 hours away. Thank you. Tony (talk) 02:30, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
A few years back I had created a stub on Mohammed Tayab Khan a noted craftsman from Jodhpur in Rajasthan who was awarded Padma Shri award in 2004 by Government of India. The article was recently deleted. I did not notice its nomination for deletion. How can it be revived. Can someone please advise. Thanks. Shyamsunder ( talk) 06:47, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
The article on a former president of Shiromani Akali Dal, Jathedar Sekhwan, has been tagged as an unreferenced BLP since May 2008 (which is the current focus month for the UBLP Rescue Project). I have tried, and failed, to find any suitable third-party references to support the text (notes on the article talk page). I'm posting here in the hope that someone with better knowledge of the field might like to take and interest and be able to help.-- Plad2 ( talk) 07:35, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
I recently created a template Template:Anglo-Indian Wars to link the various events and movements leading to the Indian independence. Specifically I linked various wars such as the First Anglo-Maratha War, Second Anglo-Maratha War, Third Anglo-Maratha War, First Anglo-Sikh War, Second Anglo-Sikh War, Indian independence movement, Indian rebellion of 1857, the four Anglo-Mysore Wars, etc. The template is a mere chronological linkage of events/movements with similar objectives. It looks like:
Preceded by: Second Anglo-Maratha War |
Indo-British conflicts | Succeeded by: First Anglo-Sikh War |
Please help form consensus at Template_talk:Anglo-Indian_Wars#.27Indian_freedom_struggle.27 regarding the matter. Thanks. Zuggernaut ( talk) 19:40, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
“ | I think the problem is that you are viewing all previous wars and the Indian independence movement as one cycle. That's not the case. Just like the events preceding the movement, the Indian independence movement was not an endless cycle. It had a definite beginning (after 1857) and a definite end-point (when the Indians helped the British grasp the civility in leaving India). In other words, the wars and 1857 lasted over a shorter period, say a few days whereas the movement began after 1857 and lasted over several years. But both - the various wars and the Indian independence movement (which was dominated by Gandhi) had very specific start and end dates. Zuggernaut (talk) 19:27, 5 September 2010 (UTC) | ” |
Another relevant discussion is at Template_talk:Anglo-Indian_Wars#Appropriate_title Zuggernaut ( talk) 19:47, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
After a long inactiveness, I have returned back to find out some pages like West Bengal, Kolkata has been mercilessly edited and lots of POV and outsourced comments has crept in between. The pages has been filled up with images, which might not meet the criteria of a FA article. I would request all my Wikimates to have a look and decide the images that should be used in those pages and correct the pages as required. Amartyabag TALK2ME 02:15, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
There's some sort of off wiki canvassing to change WP articles on this, constantly changing many history and dynasty articles to replace one or the other. I removed references to both from our main articles and have protected quite a few of these dynasty and history articles. If someone wishes to clean up, all they'd need to do is monitor the links into Gujjar and Rajputs to see the daily changes. If you have some time to spare, please do that. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 05:12, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
To the article about Leng, a fictional place, someone has added information about Leng Khua, a village in Mizoram. If such a place exists, and there's enough to say about it for it to merit an article, can someone farm it out to an appropriate article, as it obviously doesn't belong in the page about the fictional place. I can't find much of merit when searching Google in English. -- Finlay McWalter ☻ Talk 11:30, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
I have nominated Lion for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ( Otters want attention) 00:46, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Can someone pls keep an eye on what User:Southindia is doing in Talk:Upper cloth revolt. guess he has mistaken discussion page for the main page. -- Car Tick 18:30, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Please help form consensus regarding inclusion of content about the starvation deaths of 37 million Indian during the British era. The relevant discussion is on the talk page of the article at [ [9]]. You will also find relevant objections raised by other users in the preceding sections. Thanks. Zuggernaut ( talk) 22:04, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
I've taken this British_empire#East_India_Company_in_Asia content from British Empire to the WP:SYN notice board here - Wikipedia:No_original_research/noticeboard#British_Empire_-_15_million_Indian_famine_deaths. Please help form a consensus. Thanks. Zuggernaut ( talk) 01:21, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello! Barry Newstead, who has recently come on board as the Foundation's chief global development officer, comes to Mumbai 20-21 Sept as part of a weeklong India visit.
He and I are hoping to meet with wikipedians in Mumbai on 20 Sept eve - informally, to share and discuss the Foundation's plans for India, and to hear from the community on how to boost and strengthen projects in English and other Indian languages.
Would you be available and interested to meet with us on Mon 20 Sept eve? Please leave a message on my talk page. Thanks!
Bishdatta ( talk) 13:51, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Folks, of late we've been having a lot of city size related vandalism on the two main list articles as well as on individual city articles. List of most populous cities in India and List of most populous metropolitan areas in India can serve as starting points. On clicking through to different cities on these links I've found that they contradict the list(s) which are correctly sourced and/or multiple cities have grown at levels beyond belief. When you have a few minutes can you check as many of the individual cities as you can? The sources on the two lists can be used as they are standard sources for all such articles across WP. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 11:54, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
I agree that there have been many views on this. It may not be always considered as Vandalism, as the definition of the borders of a city is not standard. For example, Area of Bangalore can be considered as the area of the Bangalore Urban District, or as the Metropolitan area(controlled by BBMP/Municipality), or as the area upto which some other agency operates. So the sources themselves may not be considered wrong, but just that there is no standard. It would be helpful if someone could regularise the lists properly. Thanks. MikeLynch ( talk) 16:45, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
I've made some sandbox changes to India (article) which can be seen here. Your observations and suggestions are welcome and appreciated. Please post them here. Also read these talk topics, Famines in India, Famine, starvation deaths during British era and Famine, starvation deaths during British era to understand the background and the reasons behind making the modifications.
Regards,...
Amartya ray2001 ( talk) 19:22, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Amartya - I not too experienced with featured articles either but I know that they are the best articles from the community so, it best to take up changes bit by bit - adding and expanding paragraphs before splitting them in to smaller ones. Zuggernaut ( talk) 04:01, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Could someone high up in the wikipedia admin system take this up?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ganges#Ganga_vs_Ganges
It's 'being' discussed for over 3 years now. All the major organizations in India refer to the river as Ganga. Not Ganges --
SpArC (
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Sparc - I haven't looked at the debate but it makes sense to use the Indian name Ganga. I will participate soon and more the article to Ganga if there is consensus.
Zuggernaut (
talk) 04:03, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Please have a look at this article without bias and help in bringing out the facts to that article. Wasifwasif ( talk) 14:57, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Can someone please fix format of List of magazines in India.I do not know how to. Thanks. Shyamsunder ( talk) 23:52, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
In the course of evaluating the copyright concerns related to the source Banglapedia, a contributor discovered more copyright concerns in the contributions of one now retired editor, which is going to necessitate looking at his articles to make sure that we are not publishing copied content in more articles. The full list is at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20100917 and subpages.
This one looks like it could be bad. :( This contributor was most likely acting in good faith but unawareness that we can't copy content from previously published sources with jeopardizing the legal standing of Wikipedia itself. This involves over a thousand articles, many of which are of interest to your project and many of which are quite extensive. Some of his content looks okay, but some of it is obviously copied from books and other websites.
What we really need here are volunteers to help review these articles who can carefully evaluate to see if content is copied, directly translated or closely paraphrased who can then either remove or replace unusable content. Please, any assistance you can provide will be much appreciated. It can be very discouraging to look at a stable, well-written article and realize that it must be cut apart or rewritten because of copyright concerns, but in the long run this is a great service to Wikipedia, our readers and our fellow contributors. Thanks for reading. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:16, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Our old friend the date change vandal is back. He has now switched from Malayalam and film related articles to other india related articles but is continuing the same "changing date" pattern. The block on his range expired on sep 11. I have asked at ANI for an extended block. If some admin sees this before, please block this range ASAP for atleast a year. This guy shows so sign of abandoning his mission to disrupt wikipedia.-- Sodabottle ( talk) 17:37, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
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This article needs help from editors knowledgeable about the issue and is currently a POV mess. Thanx.-- Wikireader41 ( talk) 18:10, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
There is currently discussion at the talk page of the above category regarding what would be the optimal name for this subject. Any input is welcome. John Carter ( talk) 18:06, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
According to some information I got at the reliable sources noticeboard here, Ayyavazhi may be an alternate name for the Vaikunta branch of Vaishnavism. If this is true, it would help to note that, and maybe merge or at least link some of the related content together. John Carter ( talk) 21:31, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
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are there really Tamil Kshatriyas? looks like a case of WP:OR ans WP:Synthesis. would like to nominate the article for deletion. what do you guys think? -- Car Tick 13:58, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi.... we're having a bit of an issue with the title of the Invasion of Goa 1961 page. Some say that 'Liberation of Goa' is too much Indian POV, while others say that 'Invasion of Goa' sounds like Portuguese POV. As such we're short of NPOV ideas for the title
We would like your opinion on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:1961_Indian_Annexation_of_Goa#Title_tag Tigerassault ( talk) 10:17, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
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Ezhava says: "They were formerly known as 'Ilavar'". Is this the same as the Eelavar mentioned in Eelam ? Apokrif ( talk) 17:04, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, if possible, can anyone look at this proposed article - see if it is acceptable to be made live. Thanks, Chzz ► 03:28, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
Can anyone give their suggestion's to improve the Pallar article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tamil1988 ( talk • contribs) 15:55, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
We should create stubs for all winners of gold medal for India. see list at India at the 2010 Commonwealth Games They deserve it. I have created a few but request others too to do so by taking one or two winners each. Thanks Shyamsunder ( talk) 21:18, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, a discussion between a few editors has led us to ask here if the Lusophony Games receive active media coverage in your country? Since India is one of the participants of the Games. In case you don't know (which we hope not), the Games is the Portugese-speaking equivalent of the Commonwealth Games.
Hi everyone. I ran across this page doing new page patrol you can help!, and it is way outside my areas of interest or expertise. It needs quite a lot of cleanup in terms of English usage, needs references as well. I am not sure whether Chandigarh is a notable enough region that an article about its economy is needed, either. Cheers. → ROUX ₪ 08:06, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, we seem to have some concerned newbies who aren't very happy with the sourced info at Barwar (caste). Would someon from this project mind running an eye over it? Thanks Ϣere SpielChequers 22:31, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm trying to improve Famine in India to a GA level article. However some sections of the article are being called to have an "Indian nationalist" viewpoint. If you have an interest in the topic, please help improve the article to GA level. I've asked for a peer review for the article. Zuggernaut ( talk) 16:46, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard can be useful. but, i wouldnt be surprised if nothing improves afterwards. -- Car Tick 17:42, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
The article Ayodhya debate has been renamed to Ayodhya conflict by an editor without any reference or discussion. I must note here that Ayodhya dispute is clearly not an armed conflict like Kargil Conflict and neither the mainstream media or government refers to the Ayodhya dispute as conflict. Even the term Ayodhya conflict has never been used in the article itself. Could someone revert the name of the article back to Ayodhya debate or dispute.-- UplinkAnsh ( talk) 08:11, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
Among all the articles on wikipedia about countries only main Indian and Pakistani articles seem to be showing disputed territories in the political map on article. I must note here very few countries in the world are totally free from territorial disputes but the political map in these countries only show the territories claimed by that particular country with no references to disputes. In this example that I gave Russia is shown without any territorial disputes. Also even in India's map only the disputed regions of Kashmir are shown and the rest of disputed regions are not shown. Why is the territorial dispute in Kashmir been given a special place?? I would request other editors to have a look at this List_of_territorial_disputes including rest disputes that India has. I think the disputed map should be added in the article about the particular territorial dispute.-- UplinkAnsh ( talk) 18:56, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Kindly take a moment to read the Indic Sysop proposal in meta and express your opinion. Thanks -- Jyothis ( talk) 19:25, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
I have reported User:Jamesinderbyshire at ANI for providing ficticious references attempting to bolster his claim that 26 million Indians did not perish of famines during 1875-1900. Separately, my attempts to include the a line about Green Revolution in the lead section of the same article is being resisted by the same user. Please vote/participate in both the ANI as well as the inclusion of Green Revolution in the lead. Zuggernaut ( talk) 00:04, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
I've posted it before. Posting it again. Would any kind sirs/madams take at look at Ganges. It should be Ganga. And how does one reach consensus on something? How many should agree? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ganges#Ganga_vs_Ganges -- SpArC ( talk) 16:23, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Can someone on this project take a look at this article. It clearly has some merit but needs a considerable amount of work to bring it up to scratch. Cheers. Daemonic Kangaroo ( talk) 18:12, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
The constituencies need to be wikified to their respect pages, if they exist that is. Bihar legislative assembly election, 2010#Schedule Lihaas ( talk) 10:01, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hello all. I am posting this message in regard to a new issue that has come up in regard to electoral symbols of Indian political parties and their copyright. I had created some files and had uploaded them on Wikipedia. A user is claiming that it is copyright infringement. I would like to know if this is the case. The files in question are:
I really doubt that this is the case as most Indian parties have their party logos and flags uploaded on Wikipedia when users create these files. Cheers -- Wiki San Roze †αLҝ 07:40, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Let us put it this way: Breaking it down helps sometimes. Pattali Makkal Katchi uses Mango as its party electoral symbol. So would you claim that it is a copy right infringement if someone uploads a picture of mango on wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiality123 ( talk • contribs)
Note to the uploader: Please refer to Wikipedia:Logos and Wikipedia:Fair use for the current policy on the use of non-free images on the English Wikipedia. As long as the uploader asserts that there are no free alternatives available for the logos and is willing to reduce the resolution of the images, your uploads are acceptable under the fair use exception in the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. The Indian Copyright Act is irrelevant since the servers are located in the United States. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 15:23, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
take it easy guys. I understand both side of the argument. I understand Hammersoft's argument that derivative works are still copyrighted to the original creator. I also understand Wikiality's argument that Indian parties use such common objects (such as mangoes and hand) as symbols and it is not really clear if these common objects can be considered their copyright. I guess this is a grey area that has to be addressed with elaborate consideration. I would say it is important we demonstrate (cite Indian law or court judgements) which clearly says Indian party symbols are (or not) necessarily copyrights of the parties. Until then (because wikipedia has a strict copyright policy though I am doubtful Ramadoss is preparing to sue us), we can use these symbols in party's pages using Fair use rationale (like Nick suggested above). -- CarTick ( talk) 16:17, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm at a complete loss as to figure how to convey this very basic concept; creative works are copyrighted at the moment of creation. I've cited this from the India copyright office, noted the Berne convention, etc., to no avail. I just don't get it. Where am I failing in conveying this point? What the hell does it matter if these symbols are like logos or not? It has absolutely no relevance. It's blatantly obvious these are creative works (because otherwise, as I previously noted, still life paintings could never be copyrighted, and they most emphatically are). They are therefore eligible for copyright and were so at the moment of creation. There's no wiggle room on that. The issue isn't whether or not these can be copyrighted. It's blatantly obvious they can be. The issue is whether or not the uploader created them as entirely new works of creativity without them being derivative works, or not. If not, then we can not tag them as being freed of copyright by the uploader since he does not have the right to release all rights. THAT is the question. All this stuff about whether or not they're logos, whether or not mangoes are copyrighted, whether or not they are kept by a party, etc...it's rubbish, the lot of it. It has nothing to do with this. Absolutely nothing. The FACT is these were created, and being beyond the threshold of originality, they were copyrighted at the moment of creation. PERIOD. If this isn't clear, I just fail to see how in the world I can possibly make this clearer. I'll be bald faced honest here; I see an utter lack of understanding of copyright on the part of the people arguing that these are not copyrighted. I'm desperately trying to educate on this point, without any success. But, regardless of my ability to educate or not, the fact remains these were copyrighted at the moment of creation. What remains is being able to prove they have been released from those rights. Right now, since the uploader has refused to respond on whether he created them entirely independent of the parties or if they are copies and/or derivative works of other originals, we must assume the rights have not been released. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 19:14, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
-- Sodabottle ( talk) 13:42, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Cool, can you specify the page numbers? And how about the depiction of the electoral symbol. Are they specific? If I am to go by their publicity materials, most parties would seem to be campaigning for someone else. A simple example would be the two leaves depicted on ECI's official document, the one on AIADMK's official website and the party's leader's. The question is the same as we were dealing from the begining. Is there a fixed depiction for the electoral symbols? -- Wiki San Roze †αLҝ 14:24, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
I am starting a new section to discuss the second issue in regard to electoral symbols of Indian political parties. How stringent are these symbols in terms of depiction?
My understanding is that they are very flexible. That is, if a party has been allotted Elephant as its symbol, it would freely use any depiction of elephant and does not restrict itself to how Election Commission of India might be representing it. So all these depictions are in fact used as the party’s electoral symbol. I am not without reason to believe so.
1. DMK and its versions of rising sun:
Party’s official page and
its chief’s official page
2. AIADMK and its versions of two leaves:
Party’s official page and
its chief’s official page
All these are markedly different from each other AND with ECI’s. Comments are welcome. -- Wiki San Roze †αLҝ 12:43, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
I get the confusion when I look into the WP:CAT section of administration. I'd like to know if the categories section follow the administration section recognized by the Indian administration see here. As an example, if I go to Category:Villages_in_Pathanamthitta_district it shows about a 100 villages, where as the official one has only 68. I guess the question is how to divide villages further. There are articles of small developed(township)/rural hamlets which are classified as town/villages. If we have a different category for these, it would reflect the official version. Mathew Joy ( talk) 12:30, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
I've created a new infobox template that can potentially be used in every famine article on Wikipedia. For a list of articles where it can be used, see the categories famines in India, famines and other relevant categories. The usage documentation still needs some improvement and the template might undergo minor teaks further - all feedback/suggestions for improvement are welcome! Feel free to link to or re-post this message in relevant places. Zuggernaut ( talk) 17:19, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
I have posted a partial draft of the latest issue of the newsletter here. Please help in expanding it and providing suggestions or making changes. Regards, SBC-YPR ( talk) 06:40, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
This new article needs work. mrigthrishna ( talk) 07:23, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Can someone take a took at the Famine in India article and evaluate if the {{NPOV}} tag can be removed? I have addressed all of the concerns raised by those who added/supported the addition of the tag. Here's the direct link to the details on the talk page. Per the instructions on {{NPOV}} template, anyone can take off the tag if the discussion has become dormant or the concerns have been addressed. Both conditions have been satisfied IMO. Thanks. Zuggernaut ( talk) 03:58, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello, WPINDIA. I'm hoping you can help — in the past week I've tagged a number (at the present time, six and growing) of articles on Indian educational institutions (and sub-institutions like colleges and different campuses) for copyright violations. It appears a good number of these articles are simply the schools' "about us" web pages copied and pasted. I hope the Wikiproject can help go through other educational institution articles and search for more possible violations. Regards, Strange Passerby ( talk • contribs) 16:57, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick ( talk) 20:51, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
I have nominated 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. -- JN 466 22:57, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
I have nominated Economy of India for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Dana boomer ( talk) 17:03, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
The final draft of the latest edition of the newsletter has been posted here. Please go through it and make any required changes; it will be sent out for delivery tomorrow or the day after. Regards, SBC-YPR ( talk) 22:17, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello, my friends: A group of us are working on clearing the backlog at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_lacking_sources_from_October_2006. The article in the above header has been without sources for the past four years and may be removed if none are added. I wonder if you can help do so. Sincerely, and all the best to you, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 07:36, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
Punjabi Jatt should not be merged and/or redirected into Jat people? Can someone help me clarifying it? Also, the Punjabi Jatt article "relies largely or entirely upon a single source."-- Canniba loki 12:48, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
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link)Hello, my friends: A group of us are working on clearing the backlog at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_lacking_sources_from_October_2006. The article in the above header has been without sources for the past four years and may be removed if none are added. I wonder if you can help do so. Sincerely, and all the best to you, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 15:54, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
A move/rename request has been issued for Ganga (as against Ganges).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_moves#November_16.2C_2010
Please add your consensus here -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ganges#Move_Ganges_to_Ganga Thank you! --
SpArC (
talk) 09:40, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
The new article Sultanate of Mysore appears to duplicate Kingdom of Mysore#Under Haider and Tipu. Is "Sultanate of Mysore" the generally accepted term for that state during this period? Should the new article be merged to Kingdom of Mysore? There are also some unreferenced claims in the new article which appear to be original research. Help from editors with expertise in Karnatakan history would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Top Jim ( talk) 10:24, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Kaduvetti Guru and J. Gurunathan -- CarTick ( talk) 01:28, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Uttar Pradesh and adjoining articles have serious date issues. Could someone fix it and put in some references? I posted the complaint in detail in the talk. If I can't figure out who controlled Ayodhya from the articles connecting it, then there are serious date issues. If there are date gaps, please, please label them as such, or find additional sources. Right now the pages contradict and it's really frustrating. Thank you.-- Hitsuji Kinno ( talk) 10:49, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
There appears to be a content dispute on this page, with some strong disagreements expressed by the two principal contributors, User:Achitnis and User:Tinucherian. A review/mediation by a non-involved project admin is requested. Others are also invited to take part in the discussion. (CC: User:Nishkid64, User:RegentsPark, User:SpacemanSpiff, User:Utcursch) Regards, SBC-YPR ( talk) 13:47, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Update: The discussion is still going on. Some new frequency analyses have been posted on the article's talk page, and a lot more arguments presented in favour of either solution. Feel free to weigh in with your views. -- JN 466 12:53, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
Position | Location | Number |
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Against Ganga (23) | India | 0 |
West | 13 | |
Unknown | 10 | |
Support Ganga (12) | India | 5 |
West | 2 | |
Unknown | 5 | |
Neutral (1) | Unknown | 1 |
Total votes (36) | 36 |
...and echoing Jayen466 original post - the first priority would be to join the discussion at the talk page of Ganges. Zuggernaut ( talk) 17:34, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Is there an existing article on the recent loan scam? utcursch | talk 07:27, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi
In my travels through the encyclopedia I am finding many articles on India that are badly written (or in such poor english they are unreadable), read like travel guides and generally are unencylopaedic.
For example here is the latest I have just come across - Topslip : Tagged for No References for 3 years (since Nov 2007), tagged for Written like a travel guide. Article has many problems and even includes contact details - something which should be gained from clicking on the external link, not the encyclopedia. I have also just tagged it as possible copyvio as it appears to have complete sections of text which are the same as the Indira Gandhi National Park page.
What is the procedure for the project to assess and examine its articles ?
Do you have a procedure for us to give you notice on bad articles ?
Chaosdruid ( talk) 12:36, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
I have no idea, what WMF coming to India has anything to do about the quality of India articles. I for one, welcome the move. Besides the usual arm chair napoleons who arrive to hog the media limelight, the publicity is actually doing something good for the regional language wikis. Coming back to en wiki, yes it is true that the balanced editor:POV pusher ratio is worse in India related articles when compared to western ones. The solution isn't bitching about Indian society - it is bringing more people into the fold. Even if we gain one serious balanced indian editor for five POV pushers it is a net gain for the project as a whole. The astroturfers leave eventually or get blocked. The good ones stay and do something positive. Many people who came as unbalanced POV pushers here have changed into valuable balanced editors.-- Sodabottle ( talk) 07:42, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps it would be beneficial to take a look at some of the recent cases where editors have been found to be doing copyviolations and check up on their other work (which would perhaps save the copyvio team a large amount of headaches):
Chaosdruid ( talk) 15:52, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
The Topslip article is a stub class article without an importance rating on the importance scale (now set to low). India articles that are rated important on the importance scale are well written. I do not think any special processes are required specifically for India articles. The existing processes like the quality, importance ratings, GA/FA review processes are good enough. English is not the first language of most the contributors to India articles but I have seen numerous occasions when the copy-editors guild improved these articles. Unless there are statistics comparing articles from different projects, we cannot assume that India articles have a higher percentage of copyvios or POV editors or even bad grammar. Zuggernaut ( talk) 16:18, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
I've been fighting similar fights on South Asian articles the last couple years, though since I cover mainly Pakistan and Muslim issues the religious issues are arguably worse. Particularly in terms of IPs calling me " kuffar" for deleting "His most holy and gracious" from the front of Sheikh So-and-So's name, and complaining of "disrespect" for removing unreferenced and laudatory passages about miracles and So-and-So being a master of 120 languages and memorising the Quran overnight. However, I would submit that far more concerning than the plethora of "MY TRIBE IS BEING BEST AND BRAVEST TRIBE IN HISTORY OF PAKHTUNS" or "FOOABAD IS NICE VILLAGE AND PEOPLE VERY KIND" is the historical revisionism and caste bias of the huge primary articles like Maratha and Rajput. Some may recall that Maratha clan system was an ungodly honeypot of people lising hundreds of last names, removing them, modifying them to "prove" Maratha affiliation. I did a slash-and-burn on the rather shaky Kunbi article and it's been running smoothly since then, though folks occasionally sneak in to remove the clearly-footnoted use of the term Sudra. I would submit that rather than worry (in the immediate moment) about travelogue-style vilage articles or laudatory micro-clan/caste/tribe articles, now might be a good time to get a half-dozen editors together and do a full-out assault on a major article to drag it into respectability. Maratha and Rajput have been unfootnoted for quite a long time, and Maratha gets 300 hits a day, and Rajput over a thousand. Running AWB on the tiny articles gets us some cleanup, but some big-ticket pages are still awfully rough. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 17:34, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
On a sidenote, wanted to express my concern for recent (2008-2010) books by Indian authors which appear to take chunks of text directly from WP. I haven't done in-depth analysis of the chronology to determine which are cut-pastes and which are copyvios, but the book Martial Races of Undivided India either draws extremely heavily from Rajput, or else the WP article is an extreme copyivo. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 18:23, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
I think it is safe to assume that Pakistani editors are also under-represented on Wikipedia. But their problem is likely much worse and very different than India articles so I think it probably not a good idea to compare the two.
Unfortunately it should just have been deleted from the article. It is the same as saying "the air smells good" or "and the people are all human".
These are the very issues we are talking about - completely unecessary uncyclopaedic and non notable additions. I am pretty sure that even though the editor is convinced of peace and harmony it only takes one argument between two people to make it a false statement. Chaosdruid ( talk) 17:24, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Along the lines of "not biting newcomers", which is difficult on India articles due to just the sheer quantity of often well-intentioned editors adding unusable material, is there any set template on "hey, the stuff you added needs a footnote, here's links on how to do footnotes"? Kind of like the {{vw|1 vandalism tags (which I use a ton on blatant IP vandalism), but something where at least someone knows why their edit was removed, as I'm sure it must be mystifying for someone who doesn't check the History to see what's changed, but just sees their work (shoddy though it may be) disappear.
Separately, on the Kunbi and Kurmi issues with the term "Shudra": the frustrating thing to me is that there are tons of good works on GoogleBooks clearly explaining how "formerly poor Shudra classes gained political power, and were able to strong-arm Brahmins into suddenly 'discovering' links to Kshatriya status and 'restoring' them." So when editors breathlessly rush in to add "Kshatriya" to the lead of "Kurmi", we're seeing the actual process of caste revisionism, not the unemotional description thereof. I just need to work up some time and background reading to go tackle the various "recently discovered we're Kshatriya" subcaste articles. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 15:18, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Please weigh-in with your opinion at Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion#Bajrang_Lal_Takhar. -- Gurubrahma ( talk) 14:39, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
I have received via OTRS some images of the 1987 South Pole expedition by an international team including Col. J K Bajaj. Col. Bajaj has released a dozen images taken by him or with his camera on his behalf.
These can be found at Commons:1987_South_Pole_expedition
I hope you will find these of interest and perhaps will be motivated to use them in articles. Col. Bajaj is keen that he share these to further our educational mission - not least as proof that yes, the Indian flag has flown at the pole! Guy ( Help!) 13:38, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
There is a discussion going on at Tamil people about what images to add to the montage. Your thoughts are solicited.-- Sodabottle ( talk) 10:24, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Kāliyā is proposed to be moved Kaliya. Please give your comments in the discussion at the Talk:Kāliyā. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 15:45, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
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For anyone else interested in Shi'a sects in India, I've been hacking away at Mustaali and Dawoodi Bohra, both of which were largely unreadable reams of script regarding these branches of Ismaili Islam. In particular, I have great concerns that many articles under Category:Mustali and Category:Bohra have been written or edited by parties with a strong POV (maybe unconciously) for the Dawoodi Bohra faction. This faction appears to be the largest, and relatively wealthy, so it may be the case that they simply have a good body of English-speaking, computer-literate supporters in India to add their POV. For example, many of the articles on predecessor branches of Dawoodi Bohra, such as Mustaali and Taiyabi, appear to have been written from a DW perspective, portraying that branch as the "rightful heirs" all the way back to the time of Ali. Note particularly Dawood Bin Qutubshah, where is basically flat-out says that he was the right inheritor of the faith and other claims are false. In addition to that, there's a strong tendency to define the history, all the way back to Ali, as "the history of the DW (Fatimids)". This rather revisionist perspective confuses the issue of when the DW became a separate entity from competing sects (mid-1500s), and ends up summarising a millenium of history in each article, with a strong DW bias. In any case, I've had fun trying to pick through this, untangle all the jargon to make it something an average reader can grasp, and try and reconstruct the chronology to make sure that each step clearly indicates where it branches off, and where it's actually "Group X's" history, and where it's just background of a larger faction. So Muslim history should be in Muslim, Shi'a in Shi'a Islam, and so on for Fatimid, Ismaili, Mustali, Tayabi, Dawudi, etc. all the way down. What they're doing now is not unlike having World War II get into in-depth explanation all the way back to the Middle Ages. Any help in untangling these threads would be appreciated. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 20:12, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
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Minor issue, but is there a way the wiki project userbox for this project can be reduced?
It's much larger than the standard userbox size and way too big.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by TrevelyanL85A2 ( talk • contribs) 01:12, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
I recently started an article on Muddupalani, an eighteenth century Telugu poet, seeking to preserve material up for deletion. Any help in expanding it, adding the name in Telugu script, and searching about whether she has an article on a sister project would be appreciated. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 18:28, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
The article on Bengali poet Tridib Mitra has been tagged as an unreferenced biography of a living person since July 2008, which is the current focus month of the BLP Rescue Project. I have tried, and failed, to find any reliable sources to support this text. There are more details on the article discussion page. I'm posting here in the hope that someone might be kind enough to take a look and help determine the subject's notability and provide at least one reliable source. If it stays unreferenced much longer, it may be nominated for deletion.-- Plad2 ( talk) 21:39, 8 December 2010 (UTC)-
Hello, I've created a new page at Kristubhagavatam for a notable (and multiple award-winning) Sanskrit poem. I'd like to express the name of the poem itself in Devanagiri script. However, even after viewing the Devanagari page, I'm not sure how to create the necessary conjuncts where several letters are written together. I've succeeded in making kr, but not kri. Similarly, I've made st, but not stu. So the Sanskrit version of the name looks miserable, as I've just stuck in "i" and "u" as placeholders: " Sanskrit: क्रiस्तuभागवतम". Can the two needed conjuncts even be formed within WP? Any suggestions? Or if anyone knows how to simply implement such conjuncts, the text in question is on line 1 of the lede. Many thanks -- Health Researcher ( talk) 06:03, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Are the above notable? -- Wiki San Roze †αLҝ 12:23, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
I am quite curious about the special characters in article names pertaining to Tamil literature. I understand that spelling this way helps with pronunciation. However, in my opinion the article names should use a common spelling found on the net. A pronunciation help or an audio file might be a useful addition.
The articles include most listed in this template: {{ Sangam literature}}. -- Wiki San Roze †αLҝ 16:39, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Famine in India is currently undergoing a GA review and I would like to add back content quoting Churchill on Indians and the Bengal famine of 1943.
“ | According to a book authored by Madhusree Mukherjee, Winston Churchill deliberately ignored pleas for emergency food aid for millions in Bengal and left them to starve causing the deaths of millions. Mukherjee attributes Churchill's behavior to his racist views, who is known to have made statements like "I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion." Mukherjee suggests that Churchill's racist hatred toward Indians was due to his loving for the British Empire which he would rather destroy than let go.(Nelson:2010:p 1) | ” |
Source: Nelson, Dean (9 September 2010),
Winston Churchill blamed for 1m deaths in India famine, London: Telegraph, retrieved 5 October 2010{{
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The above paragraph was deleted in October 2010 and I think it's a substantial piece of information that can enhance the article. I am trying to re-instate the content - please join the discussion at talk page of the article to enhance the quality of discussion and help in reaching a consensus on whether this content should be included in the article. Zuggernaut ( talk) 01:43, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
The current consensus is heading towards exclusion of even the one line on this so I've decided not to pursue it any further. Thank you to all of those who participated. Building on User:Shreevatsas suggestion that this content may be appropriate in the Bengal famine of 1943, I would propose that we improve that article to a good article first and then a featured article. I will add it to the "Need to be FA" list of articles on the collaboration dashboard. Reasons for doing so and some notes:
Zuggernaut ( talk) 03:04, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
There is an article 1981 Karnataka liquor deaths, and somehow, I feel that the name doesn't sound right. It is supposed to mean 'The incident of deaths due to illicit liquor in Karnataka in 1981', but '1981 Karnataka liquor deaths' means something else. I had also proposed it for deletion, because I felt it was more like a news article, but I guess that was denied anyway. Ok, so now can anyone propose a new suitable name for the article(I couldn't think of one). MikeLynch ( talk) 13:02, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
I am looking for volunteers for a Wikimeetup in Orissa, preferably Bhubaneswar? Please contact me if you are from Odisha/Bhubaneswar. Thanks -- Tinu Cherian - 12:39, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
FYI. postdlf ( talk) 04:35, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi guys, some weeks ago an IP user added a whole bunch of text to this article, covering alleged financial crimes, fraud, corruption etc, committed by the owner of this group. It is fully unreferenced and poorly written, especially there is no neutral point of view. But I thought that the information itself might be relevant, so I didn't remove it. I am neither an expert on financial subjects nor on India, so I cannot improve the article by myself. But I'm quite sure the right one to do so is a member of this Wikipedia project, which is why I'm posting the matter here. Thanks for your help!
Per aspera ad Astra (
talk) 21:35, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
Oops, sorry, that's a Pakistan related subject.
Per aspera ad Astra (
talk) 21:39, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
I noted Category:Indian caste system was getting a little cluttered, so I moved individual castes and individual leaders/activists into their respective cats, and created and populated a few new ones:
Any help populating these would be great; I'm sure the "violence" section has a ton of articles that just weren't directly in the Caste System cat. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 21:09, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
FYI, Taare Zameen Par recently became a featured Article. I think this is the fourth Indian film-related article to become FA (after Satyajit Ray, Lage Raho Munnabhai, and Preity Zinta).-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 21:23, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
There is an Afd - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sahitya Akademi Award to Dogri Writers about the "non-notable" sahitya akademi award. Apparently since the prize money is "only $1000", the Indian govt's highest literary honour is deemed non-notable. Your comments are welcome-- Sodabottle ( talk) 10:25, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
I've noticed that a ton of Indian caste/community articles tend to have lengthy (and oft-edited) lists of surnames pertaining to that community. Does WPINDIA have a particular stance on such lists? Are they a valuable addition, a good addition only if cited to a specific reference which mentions those names (although that cited text is bound to be modified with no explanation by IPs regardless of what footnote links to), or are they a useless honeypot that draws in IPs to add unhelpful information? I'd like to know the group opinion just so I can know whether to delete such lists with extreme prejudice when I run across them, such as in this article: Roman Catholic Kshatriya. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 15:18, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
"great ethnographic / anthropological resource" would imply that it had any credibility whatsoever. The list changed to absurd degrees. To paraphrase one commentor: "add a name, drop a name, change a clan devak, just do whatever willy-nilly." A Wikipedia article with no sourcing that's constantly changing may be an interesting object of study, but it certainly makes for a terrible article. The current article at least explains what the concept is and its history. Having a full, complicated list just provides a target for vandalism and uninformed/POV editing. The main thing the current article lacks is some link to a page of a book offering one (of the many) claimed lists. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 20:09, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Famine_in_India#Recent_deletions_by_Snowded. Zuggernaut ( talk) 08:01, 6 January 2011 (UTC) (Using {{ Please see}})
I noted in Rajput that the town of Condore is redlinked. Given that Indian towns have decent coverage, I wonder if this is just an obsolete spelling/name of a town for which an article exists. Here's some context for the area [22], can someone glance and maybe make a redirect to the article on the modern town? MatthewVanitas ( talk) 15:25, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
History of Bombay in Independent India is requested to be moved to History of Mumbai in Independent India. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 15:28, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
Can anyone please try to answer my question at Talk:Jalandhar#6 A.M. Jullandar Shere? -- Amir E. Aharoni ( talk) 09:54, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
There is a new category Category:Kamma people. I was under the impression that there was a consensus not to categorize people by membership in an Indian caste, but I could be wrong. I don't really know enough about the issue to confidently start a deletion discussion, so I thought I'd just drop a notice here and allow anyone who wants to pursue this issue with a WP:CFD nomination. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:53, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
Good compromise suggestion; I'm likewise vaguely charitable-feeling towards the list as separate articles, reckoning that most people going there are really into the subject and interested in minutiae. Though I strongly doubt IP editors will source any of those claims, I am (at this juncture) fine with putting up a bunch of warning banners to indicate "this article is quite possibly crap" and letting it sort itself out where it does little external harm. On actual articles like Rajput though, I'd suggest a much, much higher standard for inclusion, and immediate deletion of any redlinks, especially obvious ones like " HON. Ch. CHALAWALI, important busynessman" which crop up so often. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 05:19, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Could someone knowledgeable take a look at the edit history of Makar Sankranti? Over the past several days, it's become a battleground with large chunks of text being deleted. I reverted to a steady version from several days ago, and now my reversion has been undone and more text removed. I don't know if the version I reverted to is actually correct or not, but it was certainly stable until the massive amount of editing over the last few days. I may have to ask for protection if the deletion of large portions of the article is not at least explained. Corvus cornix talk 19:11, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi all
The page Kutch Gurjar Kashtriya was far too big and needed splitting into smaller articles. I have started copyediting the page and created a new page Kutch Gurjar Kashtriya contributions to Indian railways which I have copyeditied the opening paragraphs and end one.
Unfortunately there is a lot of work needed and a new page patroller nominated it for deletion almost immediately. Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Kutch_Gurjar_Kashtriya_contributions_to_Indian_railways
I have now been attacked by an editor User_talk:Chaosdruid#Nomination_of_Kutch_Gurjar_Kashtriya_contributions_to_Indian_railways_for_deletion and find this behaviouor a little lacking in respect.
The article has been nominated as there are no inline references in either the original page Kutch_Gurjar_Kashtriya or the new page Kutch_Gurjar_Kashtriya_contributions_to_Indian_railways
Can someone try and find the correct references in the original to transfer over to the new one/
thanks Chaosdruid ( talk) 09:51, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
To all wikipedians living in or visitng Tamil Nadu in the next few months; Please look out for interesting and relevant election related images (cut outs, local rallies, and so on) which would be suitable for Tamil Nadu legislative assembly election, 2011. -- CarTick ( talk) 14:22, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
There's now a new template for individual Upanishads. If you have an interest, please help adding it to the 10-12 Mukhya Upanishads like Chandogya, Kena, Katha, Mandukya, etc as well as to the 100s of other Upanishads. An example of syntax usage is given below. Documentation can be found at the template documentation page as well.
Brihadaranyaka | |
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Devanagari | बृहदारण्यक उपनिषद् |
IAST | Bṛhadāraṇyaka |
Title means | The great wilderness |
Date | 1200-800 BC |
Author(s) | Yajnavalkya |
Type | Mukhya Upanishad |
Linked Veda | Shukla Yajurveda |
Linked Brahmana | Shatapatha Brahmana |
Linked Aranyaka | Brihad Aranyaka |
Philosophy | The basic identity of the Atman |
Commented by | Adi Shankara |
Popular verse | "Aham brahmāsmi" |
Zuggernaut ( talk) 14:57, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
I don't speak much Hindi, but shouldn't the article Sri make clear that this is a completely normal form of polite address in Hindi, much like Sir or Mister in English? -- JN 466 00:37, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
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There is a suggestion to merge NACIL destinations with Air India destinations - please comment here 1. Thanks, Around The Globe सत्यमेव जयते 14:12, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
There is a new cleanup listing available for the India project. 54% of the articles require cleanup. — Ganeshk ( talk) 19:47, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
I would like to have some images of census enumerators at work for 2011 census of India. If we missed the opportunity in the first phase, somebody with a camera would like to snap a couple of images when these enumerators drop by their neighborhood in the second phase. Please remember March first week onwards is when you will expect them to show up. -- CarTick ( talk) 14:42, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
The article on the actor Kamal Haasan has recently undergone a significant expansion. The overall effect has been to give enormous weight to what a highly respected and celebrated guy Kamal Haasan is, so I tagged it with {{fanpov}}. Now I'm wondering if perhaps I was hasty; it's not as adulatory as many Indian actor articles I've edited, and the new additions do seem rather thoroughly sourced. The editor who has expanded the article has challenged me to suggest concrete improvements, and that's where I find myself in over my head and could use some help. I'd like to invite whoever's interested to scan through the article and share your thoughts on whether it needs any adjustments for neutrality -- if not, feel free to remove my tag -- because editing for neutrality really isn't my strength. (I'm more of a straightforward copyeditor.) If you do find room for improvement in the article's neutrality but don't feel like messing with it, perhaps you can leave a friendly message on Talk:Kamal Haasan so the editor reworking the article can know how best to improve it. AtticusX ( talk) 23:12, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Accidentally I found
someone is contesting my contributions with respect to the princely states of India. I now would like to get clearance from WP:INDIA regarding the contributions I made and which I would like to do in the future. I do not want to spend time on something unwanted.
There existed more than 550
Native/Indian/Princely states.
Category:Indian Princely States contains some of them. It also contains other things,
some I removed already, it seems that other users agree to remove
categories that kind of do not belong to an article.
Some of the states existed well before the British arrived, and it was them who invented the designation "princely". Some of the articles deal with the time before they were made "princely", so I in my opinion it is not correct to have the term "princely" included for each of them. If the articles are named without princely, like e.g. Hyderabad State, Bhopal (state), Pudukkottai state then they can also contain state information before the time they became "princely". I created some articles in the format of the 21 gun salute Hyderabad State. I could also have used the Bhopal (state) format. I think to have it like Hyderabad State is more convenient.
Hyderabad State format flows well with articles like:
I made some move requests and would invite you to have a look at:
See also recent:
It also flows well with
I would also suggest to merge the lists
and to make the result sortable. Maybe also include the number of gun salutes. Listings by region exist in the agency articles
Also I think all articles should get an infobox. Hyderabad State uses: Template:Infobox Former Country
I like the Template:Princely states of India. Maybe it can be extended to include all salute state as listed until 9 gun salutes, or even more.
Thank you to
User:Boing! said Zebedee who pointed me here.
TopoChecker (
talk) 07:49, 22 January 2011 (UTC) comment by banned user
Please have a look at the Controversies and criticisms section of the article Indian National Congress. The section is quite long, and I feel that it should be integrated into the rest of the article, or so WP:CRIT advises. Please comment on the talk page, and establish a consensus. I have also notified WikiProject Political parties about this. TheMike • Wassup doc? 16:43, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
As one of the editors who frequently deals with the Uncategorized Articles project, I've come across an issue that needs to be discussed.
On any given day, between 10 and 20 per cent of the uncategorized articles list consists of Indian towns and villages on which somebody has changed the existing category link to some alternate spelling that isn't reflected in our category system, with the result that the article becomes decategorized because its "category" is now a broken redlink. The most common example of this is "Orissa" → "Odisha", though this is far from the only one — but regardless, it's incredibly frustrating to have to clean up a dozen or more of these each and every day.
I realize that geographic naming can be a political issue with language implications — I'm Canadian, so trust me, I'm quite familiar with such matters — but from a strictly encyclopedic perspective, we need to maintain a consensus around how to handle naming disputes.
Could I ask that somebody involved in this project please review how the Indian-related geographic categories are named, and whether some of them need to be moved to new titles or to have {{ categoryredirect}}s in place at common alternate spellings? I know it's complicated, but this constant breakage of Indian category links really needs to stop. Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 00:47, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
In the short term, can we make Odisha and other common currently-non-WP spellings category redirects? At least that way we won't be losing articles to WP:UNCAT while we sort out what the preferred/official spelling is. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 04:43, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
There's now a new template ( template:Religion in India) listing the numbers and percentages of all the religions in India. The template is based on the 2001 census. Please feel free to improve, expand or modify the template. Zuggernaut ( talk) 04:35, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
I have seen many articles about Indian towns and have observed that some lists the schools in the area. These articles are usually written in poor english too. I really doubt that the schools in the district should be put on wikipedia. What do you people think? Ysjzysn ( talk) 05:30, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
I don't know what to do with the article Scams in India. It just doesn't seem right. Can we make this into a list article, and should we move it to a name like 'List of Political scams in India', or something like that? I await comments. TheMike • Wassup doc? 08:38, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
Could somebody take a look at Wazirabad (Gurgaon) and wikify it and provide sources? The first couple of sentences alone make absolutely no sense to someone who knows nothing of India, and it seems to read like there are legal problems there, though I really can't make heads or tails out of the article. Corvus cornix talk 06:18, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
In the following move discussions:
-- rgpk ( comment) 17:27, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
The File:India location map.svg, misrepresents the Kashmir area. The Kashmir area should be represented as a part of India. Atleast should be represented as a different shade as "conflict land". -- ashwinikalantri talk 15:32, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
I came upon the article Nirbachito Column while doing new page patrol. It looks to be clearly notable and worth keeping, but is in need of a major cleanup from someone familiar with the work and culture. I've done a basic cleanup, but have asked for assistance here and at the Bangladesh wikiproject. Thanks, -- ThePaintedOne ( talk) 15:56, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
There's a proposal to classify WP:India articles under WP:Central Asia -- Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Central_Asia#Proposal_of_addition_of_India_to_WP_Central_Asia. — Spaceman Spiff 22:33, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I have some photo requests related to Mumbai:
Thank you, WhisperToMe ( talk) 00:48, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
These articles appear to be alternate spellings, often mentioning each other as alternate spellings as well. A lot of the "notables", geographic territories held, etc. appear to be related. Also some of the cut-n-paste IP junk such as "JEMS OF THIS CLAN" have been dumped identically into each of these. What differences there are between the articles (particularly in terms of religion) might be POV forks rather than actual distinctions. Can someone more familiar with Rajput groups take a squint and let me know if these need to be merged? They vary somewhat in quality (just did a basic cleanup of Panhwar), and use probably eight different spelling variants between the three of them, so could be interesting work. So far as importance, they get around 300, 2500, and 900 hits monthly, respectively, so composite they could be a semi-popular article. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 15:24, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
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United Kingdom | - | - | 1.1 | 1.8 | 2.9 | 5.2 | 9.1 | 8.3 | 6.5 | 4.2 | 3.3 |
India | 32.9 | 28.9 | 24.5 | 22.6 | 24.4 | 16.0 | 12.2 | 7.6 | 4.2 | 3.1 | 5.0 |
USA | - | - | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 8.9 | 19.1 | 27.3 | 22.0 | 21.9 |
A quote that is seen often in many India articles is the one by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about the historical GDP of India. That quote often occurs in various shapes and forms so here's a new template that allows inclusion of the quote (and the data the Prime Minister was quoting from) quickly. Please feel free to improve the template or use it liberally in economy related and other articles. Direct link to the quote: Template:Historical_GDPs_of_India,_UK_and_USA
Zuggernaut ( talk) 14:52, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
{{Major provinces of the British in India in 1907}}{{Minor provinces of the British in India in 1907}}There are now two new templates for provinces of the British in India in 1907. Please feel free to improve/use in relevant articles. Direct links to the templates: Major provinces of the British in India in 1907 and Minor provinces of the British in India in 1907 Zuggernaut ( talk) 05:26, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
As part of the WP:WWF/D/2011/F wikification project I came across the article Children's literature in Oriya. I found it was not really about children's literature but was about a children's writer, Dr. Basanta Kishore Sahoo. I have suggested on the article's discussion page that the article be renamed.
I also wikified Kusupur, the village where he was born, and removed a large chunk of the article that was irrelevant. It referred to Dr. Basanta Kishore Sahoo and had been copied and pasted from Children's literature in Oriya. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 09:39, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
There is a discussion going on at Talk:India regarding the legal ramifications of using a map of India, different from the official govt version. Please weigh in there.-- Sodabottle ( talk) 09:37, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I'm looking for some clarification by experienced Indian topic editors. A new account Iamkkn ( talk · contribs · count) has been editing a slew of articles related to Nainwa. He/she has created a few offshoot cut and paste versions at Nainwan bundi and Nainwan-bundi which I redirected to the existing Nainwa article. My main question is that now the Nainwa article says that it is in Hadoti and not in Bundi...so why is he still calling it Nainwan-bundi? Is there just a subtlety that I am missing here? Thanks. Syrthiss ( talk) 12:41, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
I've just found a stub for Salumber and am not sure whether it is the same as Salumbar. Please see Talk:Salumber for more information. PamD ( talk) 17:50, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
Can I have a few volunteers develop the article SME Rating Agency of India. It would be much appreciated. There is a lot of info on the web and I am constrained for time to develop the article regularly. Pratul 08:39, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
Please look into this edit by political activist user [24] to this article concerning allegations that the 1984 anti-Sikh riots was a "genocide" on par (apparently) with the Holocaust [25]. 117.194.195.48 ( talk) 11:33, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello,
Not sure if this is a right forum to post this, so feel free to move it to a more appropriate place.
February 27th is celebrated as World Marathi Day. To mark this occasion, your friends at Marathi Wikipedia have organized a day-long editathon. We invite you to visit us at mr:विकिपीडिया:संपादनेथॉन/संपादनेथॉन १ to check it out and tell us about your level of participation.
We would also love it if you can spread the word among your Marathi (and non-Marathi) friends to visit w:mr and participate.
Thank you.
Abhay Natu mr:सदस्य:अभय नातू Sysop, Bureaucrat, w:mr — Preceding unsigned comment added by अभय नातू ( talk • contribs) 22:46, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
The article Deobandi has the following phrase: "The newly elected MBA clarification needed Vice Chancellor of Deoband Seminary, Maulana Ghulam Ahmed Vastanvi". What does "MBA" mean in this context? Should that meaning be added to MBA (disambiguation)? MatthewVanitas ( talk) 19:30, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
I've started a new article Ghulam Ahmed Vastanvi, and agree the MBA would definitely be worth mentioning there. But I submit it's excessive in the section on his controversy in Deobandi, as his position as Vice Chancellor (which presumes some high level of education) far outweighs the other specifics of his background. It's not controversial because an MBA said it, but because the VC of DUB said it. If you're feeling frisky tomorrow, any additions to Vastanvi's new article from the refs you cite would be great. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 21:01, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi all. I've been editing the article Banswada, and I'm having a little trouble with a sentence in the intro. A previous editor has referred to the Mahabarata in discussing the origins of the town's name. Hoping someone more familiar with the Mahabarata could have a look at my comment on Talk:Banswada and help to clarify this sentence. Cheers, Katherine ( talk) 00:26, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Hariharganj#Capitalization and other uses. (Also, note that the article needs some wikification.) - dcljr ( talk) 00:21, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
I have been asked by user DailyEditor ( talk · contribs) to move Orissa to "Odisha", but I am not clear from Talk:Orissa#Odisha or Orissa? whether the name change is yet fully official. Please comment there. JohnCD ( talk) 16:57, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
After some thought, I put this to AfD. At present, this is neither a list nor prose. Content of this article is subject to opinion of a few magazines, and participation by all colleges is not guaranteed. Please put your comments at the AfD entry here. TheMike • Leave me a message! 15:57, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
There's a page that lists each country's declaration of independence. It links to an Indian Declaration of Independence. This is the first I've heard of the phrase, and I believe it isn't actually used. Should the article be deleted or something? Shreevatsa ( talk) 19:39, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
A new lead is being proposed for the featured article on India. Please participate in the discussion at new lead to enhance the quality of the discussion. Zuggernaut ( talk) 03:32, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Dear fellow editors,
A reminder to you that work has begun on assembling a list of articles suitable for a Wikipedia For Schools Offine Edition (Indian version). At present, we have two volunteers. The project pages are located here :
http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:_Wikipedia_for_Schools/Indian_version
The immediate reason for this is that the present version is tailor-made for the UK schools curriculum. User:BozMo (creator of WPSOE) has indicated that about 300 articles extra have been added for this reason. User Bozmo has promised guidance to this project once the 2011 version will be released in a couple of months time. In the meantime, if anybody feels that some particular article on India should be added to the 2011 version, please contact Bozmo immediately.
The aim of this endeavour is two-fold. The first is to have an Indian version tailor-made for our context and which will (hopefully) tackle all the issues you all mentioned in the recent thread. The second is - to have a framework of articles on Indian subjects. This list will help us to ensure that core knowledge will be developed and brought up in standard. The same list can be used to cross-check the articles in Indic-language wikipedias so as to prioritise content needing development.
The methodology and progress are as indicated :
Comments and participation welcomed. All of you are requested to please contribute timely so that issues can be sorted out during the procedure rather than having to redo the work afterward. Since this is an Indian initiative on English Wikipedia, I am using this post to inform all of you, as has been suggested earlier - get the relevant language wikipedia community in the picture.
(copy of email posted on wikimediaindia-list, slightly modified).
AshLin ( talk) 18:00, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
AshLin ( talk) 16:23, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
The map of India on 2011 Cricket World Cup article, shows Kashmir Valley (POK) and Aksai Chin in different shading as compare to general shade of India; which clearly depicts that they ain't under the administration of India, which is as according to other maps of India's on other articles of Wikipedia (no problem with this). But there state of Arunachal Pradesh is also shown with dotted boundaries from both China's and India's side, to signify that this is also the disputed region, which is true but the problem is why specially on this article it is shown with different boundaries as compare to other Indian states?. So, i want to propose an necessary amendment in this map to show Arunachal Pradesh solely under the administration of India only, without any special boundary.
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. |
This is to notify that the names of some of the towns in Karnataka which have been proposed for renaming by the Karnataka Government have not been renamed, due to the fact that the Union Government has not yet given its approval. The names are not official unless the Government of India approves it.
Further, if one argues that article names on English Wikipedia are based on how much the name is assimilated into the English Language, here are some statistics based on Google searches, which is an accepted way of determining assimilation into the language:
Proposed Name | Search engine hits |
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Mangalooru | 29,200 |
Hubballi | 263,000 |
Shivamogga | 88,400 |
Mysooru | 69,000 |
Chikkamagaluru | 35,000 |
Original Name | Search engine hits |
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Mangalore | 8,150,000 |
Hubli | 7,110,000 |
Shimoga | 7,350,000 |
Mysore | 9,740,000 |
Chikmagalur | 636,000 |
I think its quite clear beyond doubt that the Original names are more in use, and the 'Changed names' haven't been approved by the Government anyway, so I think all the pages relating to these towns in Karnataka need to be moved to their Original names.
These tables are not exclusive, and these statistics extend to other towns in Karnataka as well. I've gone through the earlier discussion in the archive, and found that it wasn't properly substantiated through hard facts and references.
Please refer to the following articles/discussions, one is an article from the Times of India, Bangalore, and another is a discussion on the Bangalore talk page. Name change not official yet Talk:Bangalore/Archive_4#Bangalore_or_Bengaluru.3F
I'd like to request editors to edit/move with caution (as I'm having a bad time requesting moves for all these pages). Regards. Swaroop ( talk) 11:46, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
A dispute about the inclusion of Bali Sacrifice in the article Hinduism is on on Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2010-07-29/Hinduism. Please help build a consensus by giving your comments. Thanks. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 16:58, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
I have nominated Indian Institutes of Technology for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Dana boomer ( talk) 17:04, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
What is the difference between Buranji and Itihaas? Your thoughts please! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.40.6.143 ( talk) 15:10, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
At the article Harmonium, in the India section there's a list of harmonium players, and most of the names are prefixed by "Pt." What does this stand for? Is it some sort of title? MatthewVanitas ( talk) 10:48, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
While working on the article Harmonium (and noting the mass of redlinks for supposedly noteable players), I discovered that there are plenty of WP articles (of varying quality) on harmonium players, but no category joining them. Accordingly, I created Category:Harmonium players, which should help expand the music/musicians tree. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 07:48, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
Gazetteer of India that comprises of various locations and the information gathered is authentic. They are full of detailed information of almost everything in India. British developed it for the benefit of their officers so that they can manage the country properly. The process of updating these valuable volumes stopped after they left India on 1947. I want to suggest to Wikipedia Administration to make all the Gazetteers available on Wikipedia mainspace; there is no problem of verification as far as these Gazetteers are concerned. A separate Category should be created to accommodate them, named "Indian Gazetteer". By a special arrangement with the Government of India and States they can be had without any difficulty. Pathare Prabhu ( talk) 07:46, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello, Sodabottle, I am presently working on an article on acient links of a community called Pathare Prabhu. I have chronicle records of this community in a book. This book is often required for references by the community people for essential references. If I want to put that book on Wikisource, how to do it? That book is printed in 1862 and it is no more available in new print and so I have taken out photos of every page. I am presently uploading them on Wikipedia Commons. Please guide me. Pathare Prabhu ( talk) 08:07, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
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This article was uncategorised since May and has apparently had no references since it was first written in 2006! I have restored the deleted categories, and tagged it for 'maintenance'. Could editors with expertise (and NPOV) in this area please take a look at this article and improve it? I personally have no idea about its' subject. Thanks! 220.101 talk \Contribs 15:03, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Needs attention; see more at Wikipedia:No_original_research/Noticeboard#History_of_Gorakhpur. East of Borschov 21:24, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Is it really known as Paper Flowers (1959 film)? The imdb entry is that way, but imdb is seldom right about these things. I can't ever recall hearing the title Paper Flowers in reference to this movie. Recently moved citing WP:UE which like many things around here is a confused policy. — Spaceman Spiff 06:37, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
potential deletion candidate? -- Car Tick 14:56, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Whether it is ok to use this {{nowrap|[[Image:Indian Rupee symbol.svg|8px|link=Indian rupee sign]]}}
long sentence to disply a single rupee sign or any alternative available?
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There is an Afd going on for PC Pandey - a winner of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (which is the highest award for science in India). Unfortunately because of nature of this particular article (SPAs, vanity pieces, peacocking etc), the entire prize's notability is being questioned at the AfD. I am afraid, if they establish a precedence that this award is not-notable in this AfD, articles of other awardees will follow this one into AfD. I have explained as best as i can there. Can someone tell these people why the top award for science in India is notable.-- Sodabottle ( talk) 06:04, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
Not sure if everyones following Wikimedia-India mailing list,so cross posting it.We have launched DYKIndia at WP:MBL17 aiming at reaching out to twitter folks with DYK facts related to India.Some relateed links :- Thread on mailing list, Code that powers it, GerardM blogpost. I would like to thank every DYK creator here and this is possible only because of you folks.If you have any questions / suggestions please ping me. Srikanth ( Logic) 14:11, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
I would like draw your attention to this long standing edit war. I have opened a discussion here. -- Car Tick 15:17, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
I have nominated Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Dana boomer ( talk) 16:06, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
There is a dispute on Talk:Maharashtra#Marathi_statement_dispute about inclusion of the following ststements in Marathi (lead), Maharashtra and Pune articles:
“ | Standard Marathi is defined as the language that is spoken by the Deshastha Brahmins of Pune. Standard Marathi is the official language of Maharashtra. | ” |
Please help to form a consensus by giving your valuable comments. Thanks. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 09:53, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
The interesting article and discussion thereon Talk:Stray cow problem in India. Shyamsunder ( talk) 10:57, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
I deleted this article, the deletion was later overturned on grounds that there was enough context to permit the article to remain. I suggested to the other editor that the matter be raised here for an opinion on the project whose tag appears on the article's talk page. Is a one liner on a village like this notable insofar as WP:INDIA is concerned? TomStar81 ( Talk) 23:56, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
A move request is open for this article. -- RegentsPark ( talk) 21:32, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
Could someone please check the dispute here, as well as other issues on that talk page (if you have the time for all of them). Thanks. -- Nazar ( talk) 18:17, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Content about one dialect out of the 40 odd dialects (sometime referred to as varieties) of Marathi has been disputed by some experienced users. The dispute is a long one spanning almost 3 weeks and it can be found in three sections: [2] [3], [4]
Several allegations have been made against this content, all of which have been addressed IMO. User:Redtigerxyz alleged WP:Fringe which ended up being the longest discussed one in terms of responses and duration. User:Redtigerxyz's allegation was eventually thrown out by the fringe theory noticeboard [5] so why should we simply accept User:Redtigerxyz's POV and continue to exclude my content from the article? My content has been lying in talk-space and out of article-space for more about 3 weeks now. I am a newbie on Wikipedia whereas all of the people I am defending my content against are experienced users such as User:SpacemanSpiff, an admin, User:Deepak D'Souza another very experienced user and User:Redtigerxyz who has been around very long. In fact User:SpacemanSpiff has left a warning on my talk page to block me regarding the very same content [6]. This was misguided on User:SpacemanSpiff's part because his actions came too soon and despite my efforts to communicate with him as edit summaries and histories will show. I feel intimated because if I go ahead and include content in Marathi lead, Maharashtra and Pune, I might be blocked. I welcome help from any other editors or admins who can insert the one line stated at the top of this section [7] in the three articles Marathi, Maharashtra and Pune. I will take off the content if the RFC [8] comes back negative. Thanks. Zuggernaut ( talk) 23:02, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
Should the titles of the articles on the last British kings/emperors of India contain the phrase "of the United Kingdom"? Please see Talk:George VI of the United Kingdom#Requested move and comment there if you wish.-- Kotniski ( talk) 07:18, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi! Over at the disambiguation pages with links project, one of the older disambiguation pages on our maintenance list is Yadav. Basically, everyone is uncertain how to deal with it. We need to fix these links to the disambig, but need help doing it. The worst is, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to decide when an article should link to Yadav caste, and when it should link to Yadu. Could you help us out? Thanks, -- JaGa talk 23:49, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
I request the attention of interested editors to this Afd. Thank you, Shiva (Visnu) 13:56, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi - I am noticing some confusion about what is the correct, uniform name for India's state legislatures. Some articles are titled using "Vidhan Sabha", others using "Legislative Assembly." Should this link to the NIC website be used for correct naming? Shiva (Visnu) 15:38, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
The page was moved to 1984 Sikh Genocide and I reverted. Now a duplicate GFDL vio has been created at the latter title. Can someone else take a look at this please? I've got to be offline for a while. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 03:51, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, we're writing a short piece on Google's "Health Speaks", and there's a translation on the Hindi WP of the enwiki article on aspirin that I've been referred to. I wonder whether someone could take a look at the translation and comment on it, since I speak only English. diff of translation. Copy deadline is less than 24 hours away. Thank you. Tony (talk) 02:30, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
A few years back I had created a stub on Mohammed Tayab Khan a noted craftsman from Jodhpur in Rajasthan who was awarded Padma Shri award in 2004 by Government of India. The article was recently deleted. I did not notice its nomination for deletion. How can it be revived. Can someone please advise. Thanks. Shyamsunder ( talk) 06:47, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
The article on a former president of Shiromani Akali Dal, Jathedar Sekhwan, has been tagged as an unreferenced BLP since May 2008 (which is the current focus month for the UBLP Rescue Project). I have tried, and failed, to find any suitable third-party references to support the text (notes on the article talk page). I'm posting here in the hope that someone with better knowledge of the field might like to take and interest and be able to help.-- Plad2 ( talk) 07:35, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
I recently created a template Template:Anglo-Indian Wars to link the various events and movements leading to the Indian independence. Specifically I linked various wars such as the First Anglo-Maratha War, Second Anglo-Maratha War, Third Anglo-Maratha War, First Anglo-Sikh War, Second Anglo-Sikh War, Indian independence movement, Indian rebellion of 1857, the four Anglo-Mysore Wars, etc. The template is a mere chronological linkage of events/movements with similar objectives. It looks like:
Preceded by: Second Anglo-Maratha War |
Indo-British conflicts | Succeeded by: First Anglo-Sikh War |
Please help form consensus at Template_talk:Anglo-Indian_Wars#.27Indian_freedom_struggle.27 regarding the matter. Thanks. Zuggernaut ( talk) 19:40, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
“ | I think the problem is that you are viewing all previous wars and the Indian independence movement as one cycle. That's not the case. Just like the events preceding the movement, the Indian independence movement was not an endless cycle. It had a definite beginning (after 1857) and a definite end-point (when the Indians helped the British grasp the civility in leaving India). In other words, the wars and 1857 lasted over a shorter period, say a few days whereas the movement began after 1857 and lasted over several years. But both - the various wars and the Indian independence movement (which was dominated by Gandhi) had very specific start and end dates. Zuggernaut (talk) 19:27, 5 September 2010 (UTC) | ” |
Another relevant discussion is at Template_talk:Anglo-Indian_Wars#Appropriate_title Zuggernaut ( talk) 19:47, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
After a long inactiveness, I have returned back to find out some pages like West Bengal, Kolkata has been mercilessly edited and lots of POV and outsourced comments has crept in between. The pages has been filled up with images, which might not meet the criteria of a FA article. I would request all my Wikimates to have a look and decide the images that should be used in those pages and correct the pages as required. Amartyabag TALK2ME 02:15, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
There's some sort of off wiki canvassing to change WP articles on this, constantly changing many history and dynasty articles to replace one or the other. I removed references to both from our main articles and have protected quite a few of these dynasty and history articles. If someone wishes to clean up, all they'd need to do is monitor the links into Gujjar and Rajputs to see the daily changes. If you have some time to spare, please do that. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 05:12, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
To the article about Leng, a fictional place, someone has added information about Leng Khua, a village in Mizoram. If such a place exists, and there's enough to say about it for it to merit an article, can someone farm it out to an appropriate article, as it obviously doesn't belong in the page about the fictional place. I can't find much of merit when searching Google in English. -- Finlay McWalter ☻ Talk 11:30, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
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Can someone pls keep an eye on what User:Southindia is doing in Talk:Upper cloth revolt. guess he has mistaken discussion page for the main page. -- Car Tick 18:30, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Please help form consensus regarding inclusion of content about the starvation deaths of 37 million Indian during the British era. The relevant discussion is on the talk page of the article at [ [9]]. You will also find relevant objections raised by other users in the preceding sections. Thanks. Zuggernaut ( talk) 22:04, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
I've taken this British_empire#East_India_Company_in_Asia content from British Empire to the WP:SYN notice board here - Wikipedia:No_original_research/noticeboard#British_Empire_-_15_million_Indian_famine_deaths. Please help form a consensus. Thanks. Zuggernaut ( talk) 01:21, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello! Barry Newstead, who has recently come on board as the Foundation's chief global development officer, comes to Mumbai 20-21 Sept as part of a weeklong India visit.
He and I are hoping to meet with wikipedians in Mumbai on 20 Sept eve - informally, to share and discuss the Foundation's plans for India, and to hear from the community on how to boost and strengthen projects in English and other Indian languages.
Would you be available and interested to meet with us on Mon 20 Sept eve? Please leave a message on my talk page. Thanks!
Bishdatta ( talk) 13:51, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Folks, of late we've been having a lot of city size related vandalism on the two main list articles as well as on individual city articles. List of most populous cities in India and List of most populous metropolitan areas in India can serve as starting points. On clicking through to different cities on these links I've found that they contradict the list(s) which are correctly sourced and/or multiple cities have grown at levels beyond belief. When you have a few minutes can you check as many of the individual cities as you can? The sources on the two lists can be used as they are standard sources for all such articles across WP. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 11:54, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
I agree that there have been many views on this. It may not be always considered as Vandalism, as the definition of the borders of a city is not standard. For example, Area of Bangalore can be considered as the area of the Bangalore Urban District, or as the Metropolitan area(controlled by BBMP/Municipality), or as the area upto which some other agency operates. So the sources themselves may not be considered wrong, but just that there is no standard. It would be helpful if someone could regularise the lists properly. Thanks. MikeLynch ( talk) 16:45, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
I've made some sandbox changes to India (article) which can be seen here. Your observations and suggestions are welcome and appreciated. Please post them here. Also read these talk topics, Famines in India, Famine, starvation deaths during British era and Famine, starvation deaths during British era to understand the background and the reasons behind making the modifications.
Regards,...
Amartya ray2001 ( talk) 19:22, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Amartya - I not too experienced with featured articles either but I know that they are the best articles from the community so, it best to take up changes bit by bit - adding and expanding paragraphs before splitting them in to smaller ones. Zuggernaut ( talk) 04:01, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Could someone high up in the wikipedia admin system take this up?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ganges#Ganga_vs_Ganges
It's 'being' discussed for over 3 years now. All the major organizations in India refer to the river as Ganga. Not Ganges --
SpArC (
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Sparc - I haven't looked at the debate but it makes sense to use the Indian name Ganga. I will participate soon and more the article to Ganga if there is consensus.
Zuggernaut (
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Please have a look at this article without bias and help in bringing out the facts to that article. Wasifwasif ( talk) 14:57, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Can someone please fix format of List of magazines in India.I do not know how to. Thanks. Shyamsunder ( talk) 23:52, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
In the course of evaluating the copyright concerns related to the source Banglapedia, a contributor discovered more copyright concerns in the contributions of one now retired editor, which is going to necessitate looking at his articles to make sure that we are not publishing copied content in more articles. The full list is at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20100917 and subpages.
This one looks like it could be bad. :( This contributor was most likely acting in good faith but unawareness that we can't copy content from previously published sources with jeopardizing the legal standing of Wikipedia itself. This involves over a thousand articles, many of which are of interest to your project and many of which are quite extensive. Some of his content looks okay, but some of it is obviously copied from books and other websites.
What we really need here are volunteers to help review these articles who can carefully evaluate to see if content is copied, directly translated or closely paraphrased who can then either remove or replace unusable content. Please, any assistance you can provide will be much appreciated. It can be very discouraging to look at a stable, well-written article and realize that it must be cut apart or rewritten because of copyright concerns, but in the long run this is a great service to Wikipedia, our readers and our fellow contributors. Thanks for reading. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:16, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Our old friend the date change vandal is back. He has now switched from Malayalam and film related articles to other india related articles but is continuing the same "changing date" pattern. The block on his range expired on sep 11. I have asked at ANI for an extended block. If some admin sees this before, please block this range ASAP for atleast a year. This guy shows so sign of abandoning his mission to disrupt wikipedia.-- Sodabottle ( talk) 17:37, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
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This article needs help from editors knowledgeable about the issue and is currently a POV mess. Thanx.-- Wikireader41 ( talk) 18:10, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
There is currently discussion at the talk page of the above category regarding what would be the optimal name for this subject. Any input is welcome. John Carter ( talk) 18:06, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
According to some information I got at the reliable sources noticeboard here, Ayyavazhi may be an alternate name for the Vaikunta branch of Vaishnavism. If this is true, it would help to note that, and maybe merge or at least link some of the related content together. John Carter ( talk) 21:31, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
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are there really Tamil Kshatriyas? looks like a case of WP:OR ans WP:Synthesis. would like to nominate the article for deletion. what do you guys think? -- Car Tick 13:58, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi.... we're having a bit of an issue with the title of the Invasion of Goa 1961 page. Some say that 'Liberation of Goa' is too much Indian POV, while others say that 'Invasion of Goa' sounds like Portuguese POV. As such we're short of NPOV ideas for the title
We would like your opinion on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:1961_Indian_Annexation_of_Goa#Title_tag Tigerassault ( talk) 10:17, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
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Ezhava says: "They were formerly known as 'Ilavar'". Is this the same as the Eelavar mentioned in Eelam ? Apokrif ( talk) 17:04, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, if possible, can anyone look at this proposed article - see if it is acceptable to be made live. Thanks, Chzz ► 03:28, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
Can anyone give their suggestion's to improve the Pallar article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tamil1988 ( talk • contribs) 15:55, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
We should create stubs for all winners of gold medal for India. see list at India at the 2010 Commonwealth Games They deserve it. I have created a few but request others too to do so by taking one or two winners each. Thanks Shyamsunder ( talk) 21:18, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, a discussion between a few editors has led us to ask here if the Lusophony Games receive active media coverage in your country? Since India is one of the participants of the Games. In case you don't know (which we hope not), the Games is the Portugese-speaking equivalent of the Commonwealth Games.
Hi everyone. I ran across this page doing new page patrol you can help!, and it is way outside my areas of interest or expertise. It needs quite a lot of cleanup in terms of English usage, needs references as well. I am not sure whether Chandigarh is a notable enough region that an article about its economy is needed, either. Cheers. → ROUX ₪ 08:06, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, we seem to have some concerned newbies who aren't very happy with the sourced info at Barwar (caste). Would someon from this project mind running an eye over it? Thanks Ϣere SpielChequers 22:31, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm trying to improve Famine in India to a GA level article. However some sections of the article are being called to have an "Indian nationalist" viewpoint. If you have an interest in the topic, please help improve the article to GA level. I've asked for a peer review for the article. Zuggernaut ( talk) 16:46, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard can be useful. but, i wouldnt be surprised if nothing improves afterwards. -- Car Tick 17:42, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
The article Ayodhya debate has been renamed to Ayodhya conflict by an editor without any reference or discussion. I must note here that Ayodhya dispute is clearly not an armed conflict like Kargil Conflict and neither the mainstream media or government refers to the Ayodhya dispute as conflict. Even the term Ayodhya conflict has never been used in the article itself. Could someone revert the name of the article back to Ayodhya debate or dispute.-- UplinkAnsh ( talk) 08:11, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
Among all the articles on wikipedia about countries only main Indian and Pakistani articles seem to be showing disputed territories in the political map on article. I must note here very few countries in the world are totally free from territorial disputes but the political map in these countries only show the territories claimed by that particular country with no references to disputes. In this example that I gave Russia is shown without any territorial disputes. Also even in India's map only the disputed regions of Kashmir are shown and the rest of disputed regions are not shown. Why is the territorial dispute in Kashmir been given a special place?? I would request other editors to have a look at this List_of_territorial_disputes including rest disputes that India has. I think the disputed map should be added in the article about the particular territorial dispute.-- UplinkAnsh ( talk) 18:56, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Kindly take a moment to read the Indic Sysop proposal in meta and express your opinion. Thanks -- Jyothis ( talk) 19:25, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
I have reported User:Jamesinderbyshire at ANI for providing ficticious references attempting to bolster his claim that 26 million Indians did not perish of famines during 1875-1900. Separately, my attempts to include the a line about Green Revolution in the lead section of the same article is being resisted by the same user. Please vote/participate in both the ANI as well as the inclusion of Green Revolution in the lead. Zuggernaut ( talk) 00:04, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
I've posted it before. Posting it again. Would any kind sirs/madams take at look at Ganges. It should be Ganga. And how does one reach consensus on something? How many should agree? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ganges#Ganga_vs_Ganges -- SpArC ( talk) 16:23, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Can someone on this project take a look at this article. It clearly has some merit but needs a considerable amount of work to bring it up to scratch. Cheers. Daemonic Kangaroo ( talk) 18:12, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
The constituencies need to be wikified to their respect pages, if they exist that is. Bihar legislative assembly election, 2010#Schedule Lihaas ( talk) 10:01, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hello all. I am posting this message in regard to a new issue that has come up in regard to electoral symbols of Indian political parties and their copyright. I had created some files and had uploaded them on Wikipedia. A user is claiming that it is copyright infringement. I would like to know if this is the case. The files in question are:
I really doubt that this is the case as most Indian parties have their party logos and flags uploaded on Wikipedia when users create these files. Cheers -- Wiki San Roze †αLҝ 07:40, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Let us put it this way: Breaking it down helps sometimes. Pattali Makkal Katchi uses Mango as its party electoral symbol. So would you claim that it is a copy right infringement if someone uploads a picture of mango on wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiality123 ( talk • contribs)
Note to the uploader: Please refer to Wikipedia:Logos and Wikipedia:Fair use for the current policy on the use of non-free images on the English Wikipedia. As long as the uploader asserts that there are no free alternatives available for the logos and is willing to reduce the resolution of the images, your uploads are acceptable under the fair use exception in the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. The Indian Copyright Act is irrelevant since the servers are located in the United States. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 15:23, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
take it easy guys. I understand both side of the argument. I understand Hammersoft's argument that derivative works are still copyrighted to the original creator. I also understand Wikiality's argument that Indian parties use such common objects (such as mangoes and hand) as symbols and it is not really clear if these common objects can be considered their copyright. I guess this is a grey area that has to be addressed with elaborate consideration. I would say it is important we demonstrate (cite Indian law or court judgements) which clearly says Indian party symbols are (or not) necessarily copyrights of the parties. Until then (because wikipedia has a strict copyright policy though I am doubtful Ramadoss is preparing to sue us), we can use these symbols in party's pages using Fair use rationale (like Nick suggested above). -- CarTick ( talk) 16:17, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm at a complete loss as to figure how to convey this very basic concept; creative works are copyrighted at the moment of creation. I've cited this from the India copyright office, noted the Berne convention, etc., to no avail. I just don't get it. Where am I failing in conveying this point? What the hell does it matter if these symbols are like logos or not? It has absolutely no relevance. It's blatantly obvious these are creative works (because otherwise, as I previously noted, still life paintings could never be copyrighted, and they most emphatically are). They are therefore eligible for copyright and were so at the moment of creation. There's no wiggle room on that. The issue isn't whether or not these can be copyrighted. It's blatantly obvious they can be. The issue is whether or not the uploader created them as entirely new works of creativity without them being derivative works, or not. If not, then we can not tag them as being freed of copyright by the uploader since he does not have the right to release all rights. THAT is the question. All this stuff about whether or not they're logos, whether or not mangoes are copyrighted, whether or not they are kept by a party, etc...it's rubbish, the lot of it. It has nothing to do with this. Absolutely nothing. The FACT is these were created, and being beyond the threshold of originality, they were copyrighted at the moment of creation. PERIOD. If this isn't clear, I just fail to see how in the world I can possibly make this clearer. I'll be bald faced honest here; I see an utter lack of understanding of copyright on the part of the people arguing that these are not copyrighted. I'm desperately trying to educate on this point, without any success. But, regardless of my ability to educate or not, the fact remains these were copyrighted at the moment of creation. What remains is being able to prove they have been released from those rights. Right now, since the uploader has refused to respond on whether he created them entirely independent of the parties or if they are copies and/or derivative works of other originals, we must assume the rights have not been released. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 19:14, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
-- Sodabottle ( talk) 13:42, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Cool, can you specify the page numbers? And how about the depiction of the electoral symbol. Are they specific? If I am to go by their publicity materials, most parties would seem to be campaigning for someone else. A simple example would be the two leaves depicted on ECI's official document, the one on AIADMK's official website and the party's leader's. The question is the same as we were dealing from the begining. Is there a fixed depiction for the electoral symbols? -- Wiki San Roze †αLҝ 14:24, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
I am starting a new section to discuss the second issue in regard to electoral symbols of Indian political parties. How stringent are these symbols in terms of depiction?
My understanding is that they are very flexible. That is, if a party has been allotted Elephant as its symbol, it would freely use any depiction of elephant and does not restrict itself to how Election Commission of India might be representing it. So all these depictions are in fact used as the party’s electoral symbol. I am not without reason to believe so.
1. DMK and its versions of rising sun:
Party’s official page and
its chief’s official page
2. AIADMK and its versions of two leaves:
Party’s official page and
its chief’s official page
All these are markedly different from each other AND with ECI’s. Comments are welcome. -- Wiki San Roze †αLҝ 12:43, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
I get the confusion when I look into the WP:CAT section of administration. I'd like to know if the categories section follow the administration section recognized by the Indian administration see here. As an example, if I go to Category:Villages_in_Pathanamthitta_district it shows about a 100 villages, where as the official one has only 68. I guess the question is how to divide villages further. There are articles of small developed(township)/rural hamlets which are classified as town/villages. If we have a different category for these, it would reflect the official version. Mathew Joy ( talk) 12:30, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
I've created a new infobox template that can potentially be used in every famine article on Wikipedia. For a list of articles where it can be used, see the categories famines in India, famines and other relevant categories. The usage documentation still needs some improvement and the template might undergo minor teaks further - all feedback/suggestions for improvement are welcome! Feel free to link to or re-post this message in relevant places. Zuggernaut ( talk) 17:19, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
I have posted a partial draft of the latest issue of the newsletter here. Please help in expanding it and providing suggestions or making changes. Regards, SBC-YPR ( talk) 06:40, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
This new article needs work. mrigthrishna ( talk) 07:23, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Can someone take a took at the Famine in India article and evaluate if the {{NPOV}} tag can be removed? I have addressed all of the concerns raised by those who added/supported the addition of the tag. Here's the direct link to the details on the talk page. Per the instructions on {{NPOV}} template, anyone can take off the tag if the discussion has become dormant or the concerns have been addressed. Both conditions have been satisfied IMO. Thanks. Zuggernaut ( talk) 03:58, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello, WPINDIA. I'm hoping you can help — in the past week I've tagged a number (at the present time, six and growing) of articles on Indian educational institutions (and sub-institutions like colleges and different campuses) for copyright violations. It appears a good number of these articles are simply the schools' "about us" web pages copied and pasted. I hope the Wikiproject can help go through other educational institution articles and search for more possible violations. Regards, Strange Passerby ( talk • contribs) 16:57, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick ( talk) 20:51, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
I have nominated 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. -- JN 466 22:57, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
I have nominated Economy of India for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Dana boomer ( talk) 17:03, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
The final draft of the latest edition of the newsletter has been posted here. Please go through it and make any required changes; it will be sent out for delivery tomorrow or the day after. Regards, SBC-YPR ( talk) 22:17, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello, my friends: A group of us are working on clearing the backlog at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_lacking_sources_from_October_2006. The article in the above header has been without sources for the past four years and may be removed if none are added. I wonder if you can help do so. Sincerely, and all the best to you, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 07:36, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
Punjabi Jatt should not be merged and/or redirected into Jat people? Can someone help me clarifying it? Also, the Punjabi Jatt article "relies largely or entirely upon a single source."-- Canniba loki 12:48, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
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link)Hello, my friends: A group of us are working on clearing the backlog at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_lacking_sources_from_October_2006. The article in the above header has been without sources for the past four years and may be removed if none are added. I wonder if you can help do so. Sincerely, and all the best to you, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 15:54, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
A move/rename request has been issued for Ganga (as against Ganges).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_moves#November_16.2C_2010
Please add your consensus here -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ganges#Move_Ganges_to_Ganga Thank you! --
SpArC (
talk) 09:40, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
The new article Sultanate of Mysore appears to duplicate Kingdom of Mysore#Under Haider and Tipu. Is "Sultanate of Mysore" the generally accepted term for that state during this period? Should the new article be merged to Kingdom of Mysore? There are also some unreferenced claims in the new article which appear to be original research. Help from editors with expertise in Karnatakan history would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Top Jim ( talk) 10:24, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Kaduvetti Guru and J. Gurunathan -- CarTick ( talk) 01:28, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Uttar Pradesh and adjoining articles have serious date issues. Could someone fix it and put in some references? I posted the complaint in detail in the talk. If I can't figure out who controlled Ayodhya from the articles connecting it, then there are serious date issues. If there are date gaps, please, please label them as such, or find additional sources. Right now the pages contradict and it's really frustrating. Thank you.-- Hitsuji Kinno ( talk) 10:49, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
There appears to be a content dispute on this page, with some strong disagreements expressed by the two principal contributors, User:Achitnis and User:Tinucherian. A review/mediation by a non-involved project admin is requested. Others are also invited to take part in the discussion. (CC: User:Nishkid64, User:RegentsPark, User:SpacemanSpiff, User:Utcursch) Regards, SBC-YPR ( talk) 13:47, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Update: The discussion is still going on. Some new frequency analyses have been posted on the article's talk page, and a lot more arguments presented in favour of either solution. Feel free to weigh in with your views. -- JN 466 12:53, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
Position | Location | Number |
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Against Ganga (23) | India | 0 |
West | 13 | |
Unknown | 10 | |
Support Ganga (12) | India | 5 |
West | 2 | |
Unknown | 5 | |
Neutral (1) | Unknown | 1 |
Total votes (36) | 36 |
...and echoing Jayen466 original post - the first priority would be to join the discussion at the talk page of Ganges. Zuggernaut ( talk) 17:34, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Is there an existing article on the recent loan scam? utcursch | talk 07:27, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi
In my travels through the encyclopedia I am finding many articles on India that are badly written (or in such poor english they are unreadable), read like travel guides and generally are unencylopaedic.
For example here is the latest I have just come across - Topslip : Tagged for No References for 3 years (since Nov 2007), tagged for Written like a travel guide. Article has many problems and even includes contact details - something which should be gained from clicking on the external link, not the encyclopedia. I have also just tagged it as possible copyvio as it appears to have complete sections of text which are the same as the Indira Gandhi National Park page.
What is the procedure for the project to assess and examine its articles ?
Do you have a procedure for us to give you notice on bad articles ?
Chaosdruid ( talk) 12:36, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
I have no idea, what WMF coming to India has anything to do about the quality of India articles. I for one, welcome the move. Besides the usual arm chair napoleons who arrive to hog the media limelight, the publicity is actually doing something good for the regional language wikis. Coming back to en wiki, yes it is true that the balanced editor:POV pusher ratio is worse in India related articles when compared to western ones. The solution isn't bitching about Indian society - it is bringing more people into the fold. Even if we gain one serious balanced indian editor for five POV pushers it is a net gain for the project as a whole. The astroturfers leave eventually or get blocked. The good ones stay and do something positive. Many people who came as unbalanced POV pushers here have changed into valuable balanced editors.-- Sodabottle ( talk) 07:42, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps it would be beneficial to take a look at some of the recent cases where editors have been found to be doing copyviolations and check up on their other work (which would perhaps save the copyvio team a large amount of headaches):
Chaosdruid ( talk) 15:52, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
The Topslip article is a stub class article without an importance rating on the importance scale (now set to low). India articles that are rated important on the importance scale are well written. I do not think any special processes are required specifically for India articles. The existing processes like the quality, importance ratings, GA/FA review processes are good enough. English is not the first language of most the contributors to India articles but I have seen numerous occasions when the copy-editors guild improved these articles. Unless there are statistics comparing articles from different projects, we cannot assume that India articles have a higher percentage of copyvios or POV editors or even bad grammar. Zuggernaut ( talk) 16:18, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
I've been fighting similar fights on South Asian articles the last couple years, though since I cover mainly Pakistan and Muslim issues the religious issues are arguably worse. Particularly in terms of IPs calling me " kuffar" for deleting "His most holy and gracious" from the front of Sheikh So-and-So's name, and complaining of "disrespect" for removing unreferenced and laudatory passages about miracles and So-and-So being a master of 120 languages and memorising the Quran overnight. However, I would submit that far more concerning than the plethora of "MY TRIBE IS BEING BEST AND BRAVEST TRIBE IN HISTORY OF PAKHTUNS" or "FOOABAD IS NICE VILLAGE AND PEOPLE VERY KIND" is the historical revisionism and caste bias of the huge primary articles like Maratha and Rajput. Some may recall that Maratha clan system was an ungodly honeypot of people lising hundreds of last names, removing them, modifying them to "prove" Maratha affiliation. I did a slash-and-burn on the rather shaky Kunbi article and it's been running smoothly since then, though folks occasionally sneak in to remove the clearly-footnoted use of the term Sudra. I would submit that rather than worry (in the immediate moment) about travelogue-style vilage articles or laudatory micro-clan/caste/tribe articles, now might be a good time to get a half-dozen editors together and do a full-out assault on a major article to drag it into respectability. Maratha and Rajput have been unfootnoted for quite a long time, and Maratha gets 300 hits a day, and Rajput over a thousand. Running AWB on the tiny articles gets us some cleanup, but some big-ticket pages are still awfully rough. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 17:34, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
On a sidenote, wanted to express my concern for recent (2008-2010) books by Indian authors which appear to take chunks of text directly from WP. I haven't done in-depth analysis of the chronology to determine which are cut-pastes and which are copyvios, but the book Martial Races of Undivided India either draws extremely heavily from Rajput, or else the WP article is an extreme copyivo. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 18:23, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
I think it is safe to assume that Pakistani editors are also under-represented on Wikipedia. But their problem is likely much worse and very different than India articles so I think it probably not a good idea to compare the two.
Unfortunately it should just have been deleted from the article. It is the same as saying "the air smells good" or "and the people are all human".
These are the very issues we are talking about - completely unecessary uncyclopaedic and non notable additions. I am pretty sure that even though the editor is convinced of peace and harmony it only takes one argument between two people to make it a false statement. Chaosdruid ( talk) 17:24, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Along the lines of "not biting newcomers", which is difficult on India articles due to just the sheer quantity of often well-intentioned editors adding unusable material, is there any set template on "hey, the stuff you added needs a footnote, here's links on how to do footnotes"? Kind of like the {{vw|1 vandalism tags (which I use a ton on blatant IP vandalism), but something where at least someone knows why their edit was removed, as I'm sure it must be mystifying for someone who doesn't check the History to see what's changed, but just sees their work (shoddy though it may be) disappear.
Separately, on the Kunbi and Kurmi issues with the term "Shudra": the frustrating thing to me is that there are tons of good works on GoogleBooks clearly explaining how "formerly poor Shudra classes gained political power, and were able to strong-arm Brahmins into suddenly 'discovering' links to Kshatriya status and 'restoring' them." So when editors breathlessly rush in to add "Kshatriya" to the lead of "Kurmi", we're seeing the actual process of caste revisionism, not the unemotional description thereof. I just need to work up some time and background reading to go tackle the various "recently discovered we're Kshatriya" subcaste articles. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 15:18, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Please weigh-in with your opinion at Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion#Bajrang_Lal_Takhar. -- Gurubrahma ( talk) 14:39, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
I have received via OTRS some images of the 1987 South Pole expedition by an international team including Col. J K Bajaj. Col. Bajaj has released a dozen images taken by him or with his camera on his behalf.
These can be found at Commons:1987_South_Pole_expedition
I hope you will find these of interest and perhaps will be motivated to use them in articles. Col. Bajaj is keen that he share these to further our educational mission - not least as proof that yes, the Indian flag has flown at the pole! Guy ( Help!) 13:38, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
There is a discussion going on at Tamil people about what images to add to the montage. Your thoughts are solicited.-- Sodabottle ( talk) 10:24, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Kāliyā is proposed to be moved Kaliya. Please give your comments in the discussion at the Talk:Kāliyā. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 15:45, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
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For anyone else interested in Shi'a sects in India, I've been hacking away at Mustaali and Dawoodi Bohra, both of which were largely unreadable reams of script regarding these branches of Ismaili Islam. In particular, I have great concerns that many articles under Category:Mustali and Category:Bohra have been written or edited by parties with a strong POV (maybe unconciously) for the Dawoodi Bohra faction. This faction appears to be the largest, and relatively wealthy, so it may be the case that they simply have a good body of English-speaking, computer-literate supporters in India to add their POV. For example, many of the articles on predecessor branches of Dawoodi Bohra, such as Mustaali and Taiyabi, appear to have been written from a DW perspective, portraying that branch as the "rightful heirs" all the way back to the time of Ali. Note particularly Dawood Bin Qutubshah, where is basically flat-out says that he was the right inheritor of the faith and other claims are false. In addition to that, there's a strong tendency to define the history, all the way back to Ali, as "the history of the DW (Fatimids)". This rather revisionist perspective confuses the issue of when the DW became a separate entity from competing sects (mid-1500s), and ends up summarising a millenium of history in each article, with a strong DW bias. In any case, I've had fun trying to pick through this, untangle all the jargon to make it something an average reader can grasp, and try and reconstruct the chronology to make sure that each step clearly indicates where it branches off, and where it's actually "Group X's" history, and where it's just background of a larger faction. So Muslim history should be in Muslim, Shi'a in Shi'a Islam, and so on for Fatimid, Ismaili, Mustali, Tayabi, Dawudi, etc. all the way down. What they're doing now is not unlike having World War II get into in-depth explanation all the way back to the Middle Ages. Any help in untangling these threads would be appreciated. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 20:12, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
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Jeepday (
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Minor issue, but is there a way the wiki project userbox for this project can be reduced?
It's much larger than the standard userbox size and way too big.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by TrevelyanL85A2 ( talk • contribs) 01:12, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
I recently started an article on Muddupalani, an eighteenth century Telugu poet, seeking to preserve material up for deletion. Any help in expanding it, adding the name in Telugu script, and searching about whether she has an article on a sister project would be appreciated. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 18:28, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
The article on Bengali poet Tridib Mitra has been tagged as an unreferenced biography of a living person since July 2008, which is the current focus month of the BLP Rescue Project. I have tried, and failed, to find any reliable sources to support this text. There are more details on the article discussion page. I'm posting here in the hope that someone might be kind enough to take a look and help determine the subject's notability and provide at least one reliable source. If it stays unreferenced much longer, it may be nominated for deletion.-- Plad2 ( talk) 21:39, 8 December 2010 (UTC)-
Hello, I've created a new page at Kristubhagavatam for a notable (and multiple award-winning) Sanskrit poem. I'd like to express the name of the poem itself in Devanagiri script. However, even after viewing the Devanagari page, I'm not sure how to create the necessary conjuncts where several letters are written together. I've succeeded in making kr, but not kri. Similarly, I've made st, but not stu. So the Sanskrit version of the name looks miserable, as I've just stuck in "i" and "u" as placeholders: " Sanskrit: क्रiस्तuभागवतम". Can the two needed conjuncts even be formed within WP? Any suggestions? Or if anyone knows how to simply implement such conjuncts, the text in question is on line 1 of the lede. Many thanks -- Health Researcher ( talk) 06:03, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Are the above notable? -- Wiki San Roze †αLҝ 12:23, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
I am quite curious about the special characters in article names pertaining to Tamil literature. I understand that spelling this way helps with pronunciation. However, in my opinion the article names should use a common spelling found on the net. A pronunciation help or an audio file might be a useful addition.
The articles include most listed in this template: {{ Sangam literature}}. -- Wiki San Roze †αLҝ 16:39, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Famine in India is currently undergoing a GA review and I would like to add back content quoting Churchill on Indians and the Bengal famine of 1943.
“ | According to a book authored by Madhusree Mukherjee, Winston Churchill deliberately ignored pleas for emergency food aid for millions in Bengal and left them to starve causing the deaths of millions. Mukherjee attributes Churchill's behavior to his racist views, who is known to have made statements like "I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion." Mukherjee suggests that Churchill's racist hatred toward Indians was due to his loving for the British Empire which he would rather destroy than let go.(Nelson:2010:p 1) | ” |
Source: Nelson, Dean (9 September 2010),
Winston Churchill blamed for 1m deaths in India famine, London: Telegraph, retrieved 5 October 2010{{
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The above paragraph was deleted in October 2010 and I think it's a substantial piece of information that can enhance the article. I am trying to re-instate the content - please join the discussion at talk page of the article to enhance the quality of discussion and help in reaching a consensus on whether this content should be included in the article. Zuggernaut ( talk) 01:43, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
The current consensus is heading towards exclusion of even the one line on this so I've decided not to pursue it any further. Thank you to all of those who participated. Building on User:Shreevatsas suggestion that this content may be appropriate in the Bengal famine of 1943, I would propose that we improve that article to a good article first and then a featured article. I will add it to the "Need to be FA" list of articles on the collaboration dashboard. Reasons for doing so and some notes:
Zuggernaut ( talk) 03:04, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
There is an article 1981 Karnataka liquor deaths, and somehow, I feel that the name doesn't sound right. It is supposed to mean 'The incident of deaths due to illicit liquor in Karnataka in 1981', but '1981 Karnataka liquor deaths' means something else. I had also proposed it for deletion, because I felt it was more like a news article, but I guess that was denied anyway. Ok, so now can anyone propose a new suitable name for the article(I couldn't think of one). MikeLynch ( talk) 13:02, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
I am looking for volunteers for a Wikimeetup in Orissa, preferably Bhubaneswar? Please contact me if you are from Odisha/Bhubaneswar. Thanks -- Tinu Cherian - 12:39, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
FYI. postdlf ( talk) 04:35, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi guys, some weeks ago an IP user added a whole bunch of text to this article, covering alleged financial crimes, fraud, corruption etc, committed by the owner of this group. It is fully unreferenced and poorly written, especially there is no neutral point of view. But I thought that the information itself might be relevant, so I didn't remove it. I am neither an expert on financial subjects nor on India, so I cannot improve the article by myself. But I'm quite sure the right one to do so is a member of this Wikipedia project, which is why I'm posting the matter here. Thanks for your help!
Per aspera ad Astra (
talk) 21:35, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
Oops, sorry, that's a Pakistan related subject.
Per aspera ad Astra (
talk) 21:39, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
I noted Category:Indian caste system was getting a little cluttered, so I moved individual castes and individual leaders/activists into their respective cats, and created and populated a few new ones:
Any help populating these would be great; I'm sure the "violence" section has a ton of articles that just weren't directly in the Caste System cat. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 21:09, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
FYI, Taare Zameen Par recently became a featured Article. I think this is the fourth Indian film-related article to become FA (after Satyajit Ray, Lage Raho Munnabhai, and Preity Zinta).-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 21:23, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
There is an Afd - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sahitya Akademi Award to Dogri Writers about the "non-notable" sahitya akademi award. Apparently since the prize money is "only $1000", the Indian govt's highest literary honour is deemed non-notable. Your comments are welcome-- Sodabottle ( talk) 10:25, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
I've noticed that a ton of Indian caste/community articles tend to have lengthy (and oft-edited) lists of surnames pertaining to that community. Does WPINDIA have a particular stance on such lists? Are they a valuable addition, a good addition only if cited to a specific reference which mentions those names (although that cited text is bound to be modified with no explanation by IPs regardless of what footnote links to), or are they a useless honeypot that draws in IPs to add unhelpful information? I'd like to know the group opinion just so I can know whether to delete such lists with extreme prejudice when I run across them, such as in this article: Roman Catholic Kshatriya. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 15:18, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
"great ethnographic / anthropological resource" would imply that it had any credibility whatsoever. The list changed to absurd degrees. To paraphrase one commentor: "add a name, drop a name, change a clan devak, just do whatever willy-nilly." A Wikipedia article with no sourcing that's constantly changing may be an interesting object of study, but it certainly makes for a terrible article. The current article at least explains what the concept is and its history. Having a full, complicated list just provides a target for vandalism and uninformed/POV editing. The main thing the current article lacks is some link to a page of a book offering one (of the many) claimed lists. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 20:09, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Famine_in_India#Recent_deletions_by_Snowded. Zuggernaut ( talk) 08:01, 6 January 2011 (UTC) (Using {{ Please see}})
I noted in Rajput that the town of Condore is redlinked. Given that Indian towns have decent coverage, I wonder if this is just an obsolete spelling/name of a town for which an article exists. Here's some context for the area [22], can someone glance and maybe make a redirect to the article on the modern town? MatthewVanitas ( talk) 15:25, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
History of Bombay in Independent India is requested to be moved to History of Mumbai in Independent India. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 15:28, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
Can anyone please try to answer my question at Talk:Jalandhar#6 A.M. Jullandar Shere? -- Amir E. Aharoni ( talk) 09:54, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
There is a new category Category:Kamma people. I was under the impression that there was a consensus not to categorize people by membership in an Indian caste, but I could be wrong. I don't really know enough about the issue to confidently start a deletion discussion, so I thought I'd just drop a notice here and allow anyone who wants to pursue this issue with a WP:CFD nomination. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:53, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
Good compromise suggestion; I'm likewise vaguely charitable-feeling towards the list as separate articles, reckoning that most people going there are really into the subject and interested in minutiae. Though I strongly doubt IP editors will source any of those claims, I am (at this juncture) fine with putting up a bunch of warning banners to indicate "this article is quite possibly crap" and letting it sort itself out where it does little external harm. On actual articles like Rajput though, I'd suggest a much, much higher standard for inclusion, and immediate deletion of any redlinks, especially obvious ones like " HON. Ch. CHALAWALI, important busynessman" which crop up so often. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 05:19, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Could someone knowledgeable take a look at the edit history of Makar Sankranti? Over the past several days, it's become a battleground with large chunks of text being deleted. I reverted to a steady version from several days ago, and now my reversion has been undone and more text removed. I don't know if the version I reverted to is actually correct or not, but it was certainly stable until the massive amount of editing over the last few days. I may have to ask for protection if the deletion of large portions of the article is not at least explained. Corvus cornix talk 19:11, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi all
The page Kutch Gurjar Kashtriya was far too big and needed splitting into smaller articles. I have started copyediting the page and created a new page Kutch Gurjar Kashtriya contributions to Indian railways which I have copyeditied the opening paragraphs and end one.
Unfortunately there is a lot of work needed and a new page patroller nominated it for deletion almost immediately. Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Kutch_Gurjar_Kashtriya_contributions_to_Indian_railways
I have now been attacked by an editor User_talk:Chaosdruid#Nomination_of_Kutch_Gurjar_Kashtriya_contributions_to_Indian_railways_for_deletion and find this behaviouor a little lacking in respect.
The article has been nominated as there are no inline references in either the original page Kutch_Gurjar_Kashtriya or the new page Kutch_Gurjar_Kashtriya_contributions_to_Indian_railways
Can someone try and find the correct references in the original to transfer over to the new one/
thanks Chaosdruid ( talk) 09:51, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
To all wikipedians living in or visitng Tamil Nadu in the next few months; Please look out for interesting and relevant election related images (cut outs, local rallies, and so on) which would be suitable for Tamil Nadu legislative assembly election, 2011. -- CarTick ( talk) 14:22, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
There's now a new template for individual Upanishads. If you have an interest, please help adding it to the 10-12 Mukhya Upanishads like Chandogya, Kena, Katha, Mandukya, etc as well as to the 100s of other Upanishads. An example of syntax usage is given below. Documentation can be found at the template documentation page as well.
Brihadaranyaka | |
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Devanagari | बृहदारण्यक उपनिषद् |
IAST | Bṛhadāraṇyaka |
Title means | The great wilderness |
Date | 1200-800 BC |
Author(s) | Yajnavalkya |
Type | Mukhya Upanishad |
Linked Veda | Shukla Yajurveda |
Linked Brahmana | Shatapatha Brahmana |
Linked Aranyaka | Brihad Aranyaka |
Philosophy | The basic identity of the Atman |
Commented by | Adi Shankara |
Popular verse | "Aham brahmāsmi" |
Zuggernaut ( talk) 14:57, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
I don't speak much Hindi, but shouldn't the article Sri make clear that this is a completely normal form of polite address in Hindi, much like Sir or Mister in English? -- JN 466 00:37, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
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There is a suggestion to merge NACIL destinations with Air India destinations - please comment here 1. Thanks, Around The Globe सत्यमेव जयते 14:12, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
There is a new cleanup listing available for the India project. 54% of the articles require cleanup. — Ganeshk ( talk) 19:47, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
I would like to have some images of census enumerators at work for 2011 census of India. If we missed the opportunity in the first phase, somebody with a camera would like to snap a couple of images when these enumerators drop by their neighborhood in the second phase. Please remember March first week onwards is when you will expect them to show up. -- CarTick ( talk) 14:42, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
The article on the actor Kamal Haasan has recently undergone a significant expansion. The overall effect has been to give enormous weight to what a highly respected and celebrated guy Kamal Haasan is, so I tagged it with {{fanpov}}. Now I'm wondering if perhaps I was hasty; it's not as adulatory as many Indian actor articles I've edited, and the new additions do seem rather thoroughly sourced. The editor who has expanded the article has challenged me to suggest concrete improvements, and that's where I find myself in over my head and could use some help. I'd like to invite whoever's interested to scan through the article and share your thoughts on whether it needs any adjustments for neutrality -- if not, feel free to remove my tag -- because editing for neutrality really isn't my strength. (I'm more of a straightforward copyeditor.) If you do find room for improvement in the article's neutrality but don't feel like messing with it, perhaps you can leave a friendly message on Talk:Kamal Haasan so the editor reworking the article can know how best to improve it. AtticusX ( talk) 23:12, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Accidentally I found
someone is contesting my contributions with respect to the princely states of India. I now would like to get clearance from WP:INDIA regarding the contributions I made and which I would like to do in the future. I do not want to spend time on something unwanted.
There existed more than 550
Native/Indian/Princely states.
Category:Indian Princely States contains some of them. It also contains other things,
some I removed already, it seems that other users agree to remove
categories that kind of do not belong to an article.
Some of the states existed well before the British arrived, and it was them who invented the designation "princely". Some of the articles deal with the time before they were made "princely", so I in my opinion it is not correct to have the term "princely" included for each of them. If the articles are named without princely, like e.g. Hyderabad State, Bhopal (state), Pudukkottai state then they can also contain state information before the time they became "princely". I created some articles in the format of the 21 gun salute Hyderabad State. I could also have used the Bhopal (state) format. I think to have it like Hyderabad State is more convenient.
Hyderabad State format flows well with articles like:
I made some move requests and would invite you to have a look at:
See also recent:
It also flows well with
I would also suggest to merge the lists
and to make the result sortable. Maybe also include the number of gun salutes. Listings by region exist in the agency articles
Also I think all articles should get an infobox. Hyderabad State uses: Template:Infobox Former Country
I like the Template:Princely states of India. Maybe it can be extended to include all salute state as listed until 9 gun salutes, or even more.
Thank you to
User:Boing! said Zebedee who pointed me here.
TopoChecker (
talk) 07:49, 22 January 2011 (UTC) comment by banned user
Please have a look at the Controversies and criticisms section of the article Indian National Congress. The section is quite long, and I feel that it should be integrated into the rest of the article, or so WP:CRIT advises. Please comment on the talk page, and establish a consensus. I have also notified WikiProject Political parties about this. TheMike • Wassup doc? 16:43, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
As one of the editors who frequently deals with the Uncategorized Articles project, I've come across an issue that needs to be discussed.
On any given day, between 10 and 20 per cent of the uncategorized articles list consists of Indian towns and villages on which somebody has changed the existing category link to some alternate spelling that isn't reflected in our category system, with the result that the article becomes decategorized because its "category" is now a broken redlink. The most common example of this is "Orissa" → "Odisha", though this is far from the only one — but regardless, it's incredibly frustrating to have to clean up a dozen or more of these each and every day.
I realize that geographic naming can be a political issue with language implications — I'm Canadian, so trust me, I'm quite familiar with such matters — but from a strictly encyclopedic perspective, we need to maintain a consensus around how to handle naming disputes.
Could I ask that somebody involved in this project please review how the Indian-related geographic categories are named, and whether some of them need to be moved to new titles or to have {{ categoryredirect}}s in place at common alternate spellings? I know it's complicated, but this constant breakage of Indian category links really needs to stop. Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 00:47, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
In the short term, can we make Odisha and other common currently-non-WP spellings category redirects? At least that way we won't be losing articles to WP:UNCAT while we sort out what the preferred/official spelling is. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 04:43, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
There's now a new template ( template:Religion in India) listing the numbers and percentages of all the religions in India. The template is based on the 2001 census. Please feel free to improve, expand or modify the template. Zuggernaut ( talk) 04:35, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
I have seen many articles about Indian towns and have observed that some lists the schools in the area. These articles are usually written in poor english too. I really doubt that the schools in the district should be put on wikipedia. What do you people think? Ysjzysn ( talk) 05:30, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
I don't know what to do with the article Scams in India. It just doesn't seem right. Can we make this into a list article, and should we move it to a name like 'List of Political scams in India', or something like that? I await comments. TheMike • Wassup doc? 08:38, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
Could somebody take a look at Wazirabad (Gurgaon) and wikify it and provide sources? The first couple of sentences alone make absolutely no sense to someone who knows nothing of India, and it seems to read like there are legal problems there, though I really can't make heads or tails out of the article. Corvus cornix talk 06:18, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
In the following move discussions:
-- rgpk ( comment) 17:27, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
The File:India location map.svg, misrepresents the Kashmir area. The Kashmir area should be represented as a part of India. Atleast should be represented as a different shade as "conflict land". -- ashwinikalantri talk 15:32, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
I came upon the article Nirbachito Column while doing new page patrol. It looks to be clearly notable and worth keeping, but is in need of a major cleanup from someone familiar with the work and culture. I've done a basic cleanup, but have asked for assistance here and at the Bangladesh wikiproject. Thanks, -- ThePaintedOne ( talk) 15:56, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
There's a proposal to classify WP:India articles under WP:Central Asia -- Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Central_Asia#Proposal_of_addition_of_India_to_WP_Central_Asia. — Spaceman Spiff 22:33, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I have some photo requests related to Mumbai:
Thank you, WhisperToMe ( talk) 00:48, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
These articles appear to be alternate spellings, often mentioning each other as alternate spellings as well. A lot of the "notables", geographic territories held, etc. appear to be related. Also some of the cut-n-paste IP junk such as "JEMS OF THIS CLAN" have been dumped identically into each of these. What differences there are between the articles (particularly in terms of religion) might be POV forks rather than actual distinctions. Can someone more familiar with Rajput groups take a squint and let me know if these need to be merged? They vary somewhat in quality (just did a basic cleanup of Panhwar), and use probably eight different spelling variants between the three of them, so could be interesting work. So far as importance, they get around 300, 2500, and 900 hits monthly, respectively, so composite they could be a semi-popular article. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 15:24, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
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Year | 0 | 1000 | 1500 | 1600 | 1700 | 1820 | 1870 | 1913 | 1950 | 1973 | 1998 |
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United Kingdom | - | - | 1.1 | 1.8 | 2.9 | 5.2 | 9.1 | 8.3 | 6.5 | 4.2 | 3.3 |
India | 32.9 | 28.9 | 24.5 | 22.6 | 24.4 | 16.0 | 12.2 | 7.6 | 4.2 | 3.1 | 5.0 |
USA | - | - | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 8.9 | 19.1 | 27.3 | 22.0 | 21.9 |
A quote that is seen often in many India articles is the one by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about the historical GDP of India. That quote often occurs in various shapes and forms so here's a new template that allows inclusion of the quote (and the data the Prime Minister was quoting from) quickly. Please feel free to improve the template or use it liberally in economy related and other articles. Direct link to the quote: Template:Historical_GDPs_of_India,_UK_and_USA
Zuggernaut ( talk) 14:52, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
{{Major provinces of the British in India in 1907}}{{Minor provinces of the British in India in 1907}}There are now two new templates for provinces of the British in India in 1907. Please feel free to improve/use in relevant articles. Direct links to the templates: Major provinces of the British in India in 1907 and Minor provinces of the British in India in 1907 Zuggernaut ( talk) 05:26, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
As part of the WP:WWF/D/2011/F wikification project I came across the article Children's literature in Oriya. I found it was not really about children's literature but was about a children's writer, Dr. Basanta Kishore Sahoo. I have suggested on the article's discussion page that the article be renamed.
I also wikified Kusupur, the village where he was born, and removed a large chunk of the article that was irrelevant. It referred to Dr. Basanta Kishore Sahoo and had been copied and pasted from Children's literature in Oriya. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 09:39, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
There is a discussion going on at Talk:India regarding the legal ramifications of using a map of India, different from the official govt version. Please weigh in there.-- Sodabottle ( talk) 09:37, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I'm looking for some clarification by experienced Indian topic editors. A new account Iamkkn ( talk · contribs · count) has been editing a slew of articles related to Nainwa. He/she has created a few offshoot cut and paste versions at Nainwan bundi and Nainwan-bundi which I redirected to the existing Nainwa article. My main question is that now the Nainwa article says that it is in Hadoti and not in Bundi...so why is he still calling it Nainwan-bundi? Is there just a subtlety that I am missing here? Thanks. Syrthiss ( talk) 12:41, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
I've just found a stub for Salumber and am not sure whether it is the same as Salumbar. Please see Talk:Salumber for more information. PamD ( talk) 17:50, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
Can I have a few volunteers develop the article SME Rating Agency of India. It would be much appreciated. There is a lot of info on the web and I am constrained for time to develop the article regularly. Pratul 08:39, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
Please look into this edit by political activist user [24] to this article concerning allegations that the 1984 anti-Sikh riots was a "genocide" on par (apparently) with the Holocaust [25]. 117.194.195.48 ( talk) 11:33, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello,
Not sure if this is a right forum to post this, so feel free to move it to a more appropriate place.
February 27th is celebrated as World Marathi Day. To mark this occasion, your friends at Marathi Wikipedia have organized a day-long editathon. We invite you to visit us at mr:विकिपीडिया:संपादनेथॉन/संपादनेथॉन १ to check it out and tell us about your level of participation.
We would also love it if you can spread the word among your Marathi (and non-Marathi) friends to visit w:mr and participate.
Thank you.
Abhay Natu mr:सदस्य:अभय नातू Sysop, Bureaucrat, w:mr — Preceding unsigned comment added by अभय नातू ( talk • contribs) 22:46, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
The article Deobandi has the following phrase: "The newly elected MBA clarification needed Vice Chancellor of Deoband Seminary, Maulana Ghulam Ahmed Vastanvi". What does "MBA" mean in this context? Should that meaning be added to MBA (disambiguation)? MatthewVanitas ( talk) 19:30, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
I've started a new article Ghulam Ahmed Vastanvi, and agree the MBA would definitely be worth mentioning there. But I submit it's excessive in the section on his controversy in Deobandi, as his position as Vice Chancellor (which presumes some high level of education) far outweighs the other specifics of his background. It's not controversial because an MBA said it, but because the VC of DUB said it. If you're feeling frisky tomorrow, any additions to Vastanvi's new article from the refs you cite would be great. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 21:01, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi all. I've been editing the article Banswada, and I'm having a little trouble with a sentence in the intro. A previous editor has referred to the Mahabarata in discussing the origins of the town's name. Hoping someone more familiar with the Mahabarata could have a look at my comment on Talk:Banswada and help to clarify this sentence. Cheers, Katherine ( talk) 00:26, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Hariharganj#Capitalization and other uses. (Also, note that the article needs some wikification.) - dcljr ( talk) 00:21, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
I have been asked by user DailyEditor ( talk · contribs) to move Orissa to "Odisha", but I am not clear from Talk:Orissa#Odisha or Orissa? whether the name change is yet fully official. Please comment there. JohnCD ( talk) 16:57, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
After some thought, I put this to AfD. At present, this is neither a list nor prose. Content of this article is subject to opinion of a few magazines, and participation by all colleges is not guaranteed. Please put your comments at the AfD entry here. TheMike • Leave me a message! 15:57, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
There's a page that lists each country's declaration of independence. It links to an Indian Declaration of Independence. This is the first I've heard of the phrase, and I believe it isn't actually used. Should the article be deleted or something? Shreevatsa ( talk) 19:39, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
A new lead is being proposed for the featured article on India. Please participate in the discussion at new lead to enhance the quality of the discussion. Zuggernaut ( talk) 03:32, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Dear fellow editors,
A reminder to you that work has begun on assembling a list of articles suitable for a Wikipedia For Schools Offine Edition (Indian version). At present, we have two volunteers. The project pages are located here :
http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:_Wikipedia_for_Schools/Indian_version
The immediate reason for this is that the present version is tailor-made for the UK schools curriculum. User:BozMo (creator of WPSOE) has indicated that about 300 articles extra have been added for this reason. User Bozmo has promised guidance to this project once the 2011 version will be released in a couple of months time. In the meantime, if anybody feels that some particular article on India should be added to the 2011 version, please contact Bozmo immediately.
The aim of this endeavour is two-fold. The first is to have an Indian version tailor-made for our context and which will (hopefully) tackle all the issues you all mentioned in the recent thread. The second is - to have a framework of articles on Indian subjects. This list will help us to ensure that core knowledge will be developed and brought up in standard. The same list can be used to cross-check the articles in Indic-language wikipedias so as to prioritise content needing development.
The methodology and progress are as indicated :
Comments and participation welcomed. All of you are requested to please contribute timely so that issues can be sorted out during the procedure rather than having to redo the work afterward. Since this is an Indian initiative on English Wikipedia, I am using this post to inform all of you, as has been suggested earlier - get the relevant language wikipedia community in the picture.
(copy of email posted on wikimediaindia-list, slightly modified).
AshLin ( talk) 18:00, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
AshLin ( talk) 16:23, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
The map of India on 2011 Cricket World Cup article, shows Kashmir Valley (POK) and Aksai Chin in different shading as compare to general shade of India; which clearly depicts that they ain't under the administration of India, which is as according to other maps of India's on other articles of Wikipedia (no problem with this). But there state of Arunachal Pradesh is also shown with dotted boundaries from both China's and India's side, to signify that this is also the disputed region, which is true but the problem is why specially on this article it is shown with different boundaries as compare to other Indian states?. So, i want to propose an necessary amendment in this map to show Arunachal Pradesh solely under the administration of India only, without any special boundary.