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An article needs to be selected by the community for WP:INCOTM for February. Till now the choices are neither new nor encouraging. Please feel free to add suggestions and also vote. Last date - 1st February 2012.
I would like to bring a statistic to your kind notice. The article A. P. J. Abdul Kalam has an average of 4000 views per day. Dance in India has approximately 500 views per day. I am not saying this to advocate or disadvocate any article. There is a possibility that knowing the number of views of the article before polling enables voters to make an informed choice. Should we include the statistic during the polling of next month? Inviting your views on this suggestion... -- Anbu121 ( talk me) 16:43, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Category:India articles with comments, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you.. This relates to a WP1.0 assessment category used by WP:INDIA, and the discussion has broadened into a wider consideration of such categories. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 21:19, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
This seems like a reasonable place for this discussion, but if editors do want to consider a change to the project's assessment process, shouldn't Wikipedia talk:WikiProject India/Assessment be notified? -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 20:24, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
All ye film buffs (and others as well), do have a look at my merger proposal here: Talk:Filmfare Award for Best Film. Lynch 7 14:46, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
There had been few edits like 1, 2, 3 which were about removal of referenced content and addition of unsourced material after which arun nadar123 was blocked due to legal threats. Now this recent edit is almost similar to which were caused by arun nadar123. I believe he is a sockpuppeter of User:Bhaskar pillai and have already asked for sock investigation and even for page protection. Since this article is of High importance to wiki project India, I am bringing this to experienced user's attention for clearing out those unsourced edits. I thought to clear out those edits myself but the person has already threatened me. Not like scared but an admin intervention would make things easier I think and I hope someone would look into this as soon as possible. Shriram ( talk) 13:12, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
I need urgent attention on the following articles.
I am investigating this further, request help. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 07:02, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
I have gone through the recent edits made by the single-purpose account on numerous articles. Though Xwas does include citations to the insertions they make into the articles, however, their edits are characterized by distinct POVpushing, which place more emphasis on the surrounding controversies rather than the whole aspect of things. This is categorically against what is advised in WP:NPOV. I am listing some of the problematic edits below for analysis.
This account only exists to add sections on controversies to articles, and is likely a sockpuppet of another established user. I would like to get more opinion here before we can consider a sockpuppet investigation. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 09:20, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for highlighting and alerting what you see as a NPOV issue.
The facts presented in these sentences are objective and from widely reported news articles. By removing entire sections, which are relevant to the biographical sketch of a public figure, you are violating "Achieving neutrality: As a general rule, do not remove sourced information from the encyclopedia solely on the grounds that it seems biased. Instead, try to rewrite the passage or section to achieve a more neutral tone.... " in the WP:NPOV. To refute the insinuation that this is a sock puppet account and primarily used for POV pushing, please go earlier into my contributions which span across other fields of interest. Regards. Xwas ( talk) 13:29, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello All!
A DYK has been proposed on the newly created article
Abbas Kazmi. The article's content wasnt very clear to me. Hence i have tried my best to make things better. But i lack the recent knowledge on the
Kasab case and have a feeling that something more can go in the article; especially with regards to the Hook proposed in the DYK. Anyone with fair & square knowledge will be helpful here. Thanks! -
Animeshkulkarni (
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15:50, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Articles about events have Year/month/date of the event mentioned in the title. A simplification of this is needed and hence your views on this discussion are welcome. Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(events)#Year_in_the_title - Animeshkulkarni ( talk) 17:55, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Permanent link to the WP:AN discussion referred to above. Not done this before but I think that it is correct. - Sitush ( talk) 03:02, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Strong protest over how these sanctions have been arrived at. It is outrageous that the issue which has been ongoing for so long here be subjected to discretionary sanctions on AN without the knowledge of this Noticeboard. It is wrong for India-community members that they participate there and involve themselves in getting a discretionary sanctions imposed without informing the board before the discussion was closed. In such a situation announcing the results of AN discretionary sanctions as a fait accompli and expecting all of us to accept it at face value is a mockery of all free principles of Wikipedia. I have registered a strong protest at WP:AN and I personally feel that certain community members have transgressed in not informing their compatriots and giving them a chance to participate in this discussion. It is irrelevant as far as I am concerned which way the outcome of the discretionary sanctions goes. But it is a greater blow to free principles that the main actions to clean up Caste articles should be done in so unprincipled a manner. AshLin ( talk) 06:28, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
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McKinseies ( talk) 09:28, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Is anyone capable of cleaning up Saptarishi ? Aside from general phrasing/layout issues, much of it is unsourced and that which is sourced seems to rely on primary material and images that I am fairly sure are copyvios/dubious provenance. - Sitush ( talk) 11:17, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
We have Nathamar and Nathaman Udayar which should maybe be the same article. And if either is a caste article, does it need a template? Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 06:09, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
There is an RFC on a topic under this WikiProject: Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Indians_in_Afghanistan. Those interested may participate. Please ensure that your viewpoints are well-thought out and in the best interests of all concerned especially WP. AshLin ( talk) 04:35, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
I think that it is wise to note here the outcome of a discussion at WP:AN regarding sanctions on caste/community articles. It probably would also be wise for this to be incorporated into the Project page and elsewhere but I am not best placed to do that. The now-closed discussion is at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Discretionary_sanctions_on_caste_articles_and_more. - Sitush ( talk) 01:25, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
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Template:Castewarningtalk prove ineffective, it's also possible to create an edit notice (but only admins can create and edit them).
Salvio
Let's talk about it!
15:25, 14 February 2012 (UTC)Name of this Article should not be just Basic Structure, as just the words basic structure are not in any way related to the Basic Structure Doctrine followed in respect to constitution of India. I also tried to discuss this on the article's talk page and Wikiproject: Indian Politics, but I didn't get any answer. Alok Bansal ( talk) 08:52, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
Moving the article is simple enough but, reading it, I'm not sure whether this is an established doctrine or mere original research. The one reference provided does not make it clear whether the writer is using the term to expound a theory or whether the term is an established one. References to law articles would be helpful. -- regentspark ( comment) 16:08, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
I am moving the article to "Basic structure doctrine (Constitution of India)". I am also redirecting the "Basic feature doctrine (Constitution of India)" as these terms are used interchangably. Alok Bansal ( talk) 20:50, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Have project seen this chill to editing of caste and political party articles? [1] A template and link was just put on the Caste system in India article. [2]
These community sanctions apply not only to caste articles (many of which have almost no factual information in them and appear to be made up), but to political parties also, as if Western political parties have no direct attachment, or a remote attachment, to their tribal roots....
South Asian articles suffer from issues of ownership, but not more so than popular kiddie culture articles on en.wiki. To me, the biggest problem with South Asian articles is the lack of editors. Get 3 editors in on a discussion about a caste and two of them will come to some sort of agreement, not in support of the POV editor.
I am concerned these sanctions will keep even more editors away from improving these articles. An administrator will see an edit, a POV pusher will shout foul, and the editor who bothered to correct wrong information will get blocked.
Are my concerns necessary? Maybe they are not. If there had been notice of the impacted communities, I might have been less concerned. Are there South Asian administrators on en.wiki? Pseudofusulina ( talk) 06:20, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
The existence of practices like discretionary sanctions worries me. It is just the kind of thing a rogue admin could misuse and the clause would allow that admin to get away scot free. I hope in practice that it does not become a fault-zone. AshLin ( talk) 09:37, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Anyone at all familiar is welcome to join in and help with this page. I haven't a clue and it is in need of formatting etc. Casliber ( talk · contribs) 10:54, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
Note: The bird Greater Coucal or Crow Pheasant is also known as Bharadwaj, whose sight is considered as to bring good luck. (But sorry! No reliable sources found.) - Animeshkulkarni ( talk) 12:30, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
There is a AfD now. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bhardwaj. - Animeshkulkarni ( talk) 16:56, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Immediate attention is called for the article 2G spectrum scam. Article is ballooning into an unmanageable mess, what with the embedded lists and all. Not without NPOV concerns also. Lynch 7 14:08, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
During the FAR of Kolkata article an interesting debate which has cropped up is regarding the inclusion or non-inclusion of names of personalities. It seems that there is no existing community guideline regarding the same except from the guidelines in the WP:NOTABILITY. However, the same guidelines are silent regarding addition of names of persons to other pages and especially for a featured article, and are not adequate for the same.
A rough criteria has been drawn up by me and Dwaipayanc with the help of inputs from other members. The same is as below:
There is no strict inclusion and exclusion criteria for accomplished personalities mentioned in the article. Some individuals such as are very significantly associated with Kolkata, while there are many others whose contribution or significance may not be as important. The significance level is a matter of subjective analysis, and there is room for discussion for each individual person. The following set of guidelines is recommended, while the name should meet all the Primary criteria, the person must additionally meet any one of the secondary criteria.
I would request all to suggest and have a common consensus regarding the criteria for adding names of personalities in Cities and other related articles.
Amartyabag
TALK2ME
12:45, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
The problem can be divided into at lest three sub-problems! One is WP:WEIGHT, then context, and then establishing true relationship with the location.
Very important, as has been described above, is context. The names should be in appropriate section, and should flow with the prose. As an example, the education section in Kolkata article now reads, "Notable scholars who were born, worked or studied in Kolkata include physicists Satyendra Nath Bose, Meghnad Saha, and Jagadish Chandra Bose; chemist Prafulla Chandra Roy...".
To establish proper relationship with the location, consideration should be given to the person's birthplace, location of study, field of work. For example, Jagadish Chandra Bose was born hundreds of miles away from Kolkata, but his school and college education, and more importantly most of his research works took place in institutions in Kolkata. So, he has a significant association with the city.
The criteria that is very difficult to assess and should be considered on a case-by-case basis is WP:WEIGHT. While some persons may be clearly associated with and has significant contribution to a certain aspect of the city, it may not be enough to rationalize his/her inclusion in the city article, as we should follow summary style. And so, it is not only inclusion criteria, rather exclusion criteria that we should keep in mind, and consider on case-by-case basis -- Dwaipayan ( talk) 16:25, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
I think the primary criteria outlined above are a good "necessary" condition for inclusion. However, the resulting set of people would likely be too large for practical purposes (not to mention the resulting "I have a source" wars :) ). Looking through the list of Kolkata names WP:Featured_article_review/Kolkata/archive1#Notability here, I constructed a short list of people that I think should be included: S N Bose, Tagore, C V Raman, Amartya Sen, Satyajit Ray, Kazi Nazrul Islam, and Vivekananda. The common characteristic of all these people is that they are likely to be known outside India and it struck me that it makes sense to include names that the general reader is more likely to recognize, otherwise the inclusion is meaningless. Just a thought. -- regentspark ( comment) 16:16, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
We have numerous articles that take the form List of X caste, eg: List of Yadavs, and we also have embedded lists in articles that serve a similar purpose, such as Vanniyar#Notable Vanniyars. I have spent a long time cleaning up a fair few of these and the problems that I have found are:
Basically, these are issues concerning WP:V, WP:NLIST and sometimes WP:BLPCAT. Generally speaking, I have had support for my clean up work on the relevant talk pages from experienced contributors. However, DGG has recently felt it necessary to revert a fair amount of the work, which prompted a thread on their talk page here. Obviously, the reverts were done in good faith but I feel that we do need to clarify the situation.
It should be noted that it seems DGG's reverts were connected to the actions of Pernoctator, who was proposing a fair few list articles for deletion on the grounds that they were empty. My solution to that issue has always been to redirect the list to the article concerning the relevant community.
Comments would be appreciated. There is arguably some overlap with our recent discussion here at Wikipedia_talk:INB#Mentioning caste of Individuals but my concern here relates specifically to lists. - Sitush ( talk) 12:42, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
@Utcursch - I have said it somewhere before and would say it again now....Labelling people by a certain caste should be avoided. But mentioning caste can be done without labelling also. Eg. in this case Deepika's father's caste has a source in his article and that can be mentioned in some clever way in her article as well. That way you dont lable her nor do you prevent readers from drawing inferences; inferences that could very well be correct but are not implicitly stated because Deepika herself in her some interview doesnt say "Yeah! I am filming my next with Ranbir. And btw, i am Brahmin." or because some BLP policy (not clear enough) prevented it from doing so (And as if its a legal thing.)
@Sitush - Already replied to you inter-caste-marriage doubt. Child is presumed to be of father's caste. And you would want to keep your non-indian examples out of discussion as they dont apply. And you forgot you cardinal rule of referencing. Please give 1931's reference. (Couldnt find it.) And wasnt that census conducted by non-indians that then ruled india?
@AndyTheGrump - Thanks again! But the issue was raise here to get little response.
Wikipedia_talk:Biographies_of_living_persons/Archive_33#Whats_to_be_included_in_biographies.3F.21.3F.21 The BLP policy doesnt specifically say anything about Indian castes and above that i seriously doubt they were framed with consideration of India in mind. -
Animeshkulkarni (
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17:52, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
I wanted to start a new section to clarify a question Sitush raises above (and that he and I have talked about before). I think that the BLP issue is pretty clear, and I'm pretty sure that there really is no debate on that point. However, for non-BLP (i.e., all those people who've managed to go and die before Wikipedia ever existed), how do we feel? The reason I ask is that for BLP, yes, we'll remove on site (and, like AndytheGrump, I am happy to do so and force the issue any time it comes up, fully expecting WP:BLPN and other venues would support it). However, for a dead person, where do we want to fall on the WP:V scale of activities? Let me give three analogies about companies:
So, the question is, where do caste claims fall on this rough continuum? And, as a related question, do we treat the concern differently if its a claim in the person's own article, or when its inclusion on a list of "People in Caste X"? Qwyrxian ( talk) 11:13, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Animesh, this is not helpful. Sithush is trying to reason it out with you, but you are simply wikilawyering. If you have an issue with WP:V, then please propose changes on the respective talk page. Not here. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 17:09, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Fine! Do as you all wish! - Animeshkulkarni ( talk) 10:42, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
It is evident that WP:BLP has to be applied to these lists but there really has not been much said about the dead - whatever has been said became sidetracked by the BLP issue. Qwyrxian made a decent analysis of the situation at the head of the previous section. Can we get some sort of consensus for the approach that should be adopted? My preference is that a caste assertion must be sourced when someone is no longer living, but it is not necessary that the source should be a self-identification. If the source is in the article that is linked to from the list, then by all means copy the source over to the list (after checking that it is in fact WP:RS, says what it claimed etc). - Sitush ( talk) 17:41, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
I had raised this issue earlier here, but did not get any response. Given edits like these, I think it's high time we discuss the notability and reliability of such sources. I've started a new thread at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Sarfaroshi_Ki_Tamanna_by_Krant_M._L._Verma. utcursch | talk 06:42, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
I agree there should be additional mediation by a higher up. Many articles require extensive review and pruning for unsourced information; Not enough people to do the job me thinks. -- Fraulein451 ( talk) 07:56, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
There has been a request from India Chapter for a monthly update and I thought I'd present my report here also. Criticism, suggestions and bouquets are most welcome. AshLin ( talk) 11:26, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
The month of January passed quietly for WikiProject India on English Wikipedia. However elsewhere, the SOPA/PIPA discussion in the United States was the hot topic of the month and English Wikipedia went dark on 18 January for 24 hours in protest against these proposed laws.
At this point of time, getting the few small initiatives to keep going have been our concern in WikiProject India.
We have had Premchand as WP:INCOTM and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi as GA of the month. Premchand has had substantial improvement. The GA Master Class ( a hoity-toity name I picked up as an excuse for periodically giving a few hints on the Wikimedia-in-en list) for Gandhi has begun and some posts made. GA of the month is a misnomer because despite lots of edits, there is tremendous amount of work yet to be done on Gandhi. It seems that we will be doing a GA/FA a quarter instead. :( The new INCOTM of the month is Dance in India.
The Offline Wikipedia for Schools project has been dawdling along and we need people to recommit themselves to this Project. Recently, I realised that the most important parts of Wikipedia which need doing are not "pop corn and fast food". They require commitment and seem too much like work. They are not as much fun as editing on our favourite topics. That fact perhaps is the reason people begin working on this project and finding it is not much fun, gradually stop editing.
On the talk page, we have had a discussion since December and through January into February about whether caste should be mentioned in biographies. The protagonists quoting WP:BLP and WP:V took the stand that caste should not be mentioned unless it has been self-identified by the person concerned in a reliable source. Some Indian editors contested it vehemently arguing that caste pervades Indian society and binding strictures on its mention should not be instituted. But when it boiled down to a poll, the majority of editors stood up for the conservative position i.e. no inclusion unless self-identified in a reliable source.
An earlier discussion about which should be the languages that a title of an article should be translated into in the lead. After lots of discussion, the discussion was closed as no consensus emerged except that IPA should definitely be present for pronunciation. In this regard, I think common sense and not misplaced parochialism should help us decide which all languages the title should be transcribed into in the lead.
In this month, we saw MikeLynch (or Lynch7 as he masquerades nowadays :) ) become an admin. That is great news! Do a great job, Mike.
I am seeing more activity overall on English Wikipedia from the habitual editors - which is a very good sign. Young former CAs are playing up too but the spectre of exams had made its presence known by end January. All in all, a fairly okay month for WikiProject India.
AshLin ( talk) 11:26, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Emcx1 has been moving and redirecting Uttara Kannada to North Canara without discussion. The official website for the district says it is also known as North Canara, but the official name is still Uttara Kannada. Which one is correct? ScottSteiner ✍ 16:43, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
this may not be the appropriate place, but i noticed many of the articles on Indian topics are in need of drastic copy edit. I have started doing some myself, but there are of course too many; Do you have a team for this ? -- Fraulein451 ( talk) 07:50, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
I think there are a couple of ways of doing this. One is to create a subcategory of Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit and use that to tag India articles that need copyediting. The problem with this approach is, of course, that the tagging editor has to know that the sub-category exists. The second approach is to create a bot-maintained list on a subpage. The bot can periodically update the list by searching for articles in Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit that are also tagged as a part of Wikiproject India. Assuming someone can write that bot (tinucherian?), the latter is probably the better approach. -- regentspark ( comment) 20:15, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Saw this at User_talk:Good_Olfactory#Category_advice_requested. I'd be happy to help if i can.
In looking this over, Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit seems to be already set up for what you're talking about, complete with subcats. Is it that you aren't sure of which fixit templates populate which subcats? Or is it that you just want a big voluminous category so that you all can dive in trying to whittle down the forest to a few toothpicks? Or is there some other system that you would prefer?
Trying to understand the want so that we can implement as effectively as possible : ) - jc37 00:26, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
You can see one way the Guild of Copy Editors ( WP:GOCE) does it, here - the CatScan tool can combine multiple categories in the same search, and you can specify further refinements. I've used it successfully to search for Indian articles during copy edit drives. (And if you want to help, feel free to join in the March drive, and earn barnstars too!) -- Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 11:10, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
The article is undergoing an AfD at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bhookh.com. AFAIK, it is the only Indian Click to donate site. -- Rsrikanth05 ( talk) 10:41, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
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AshLin ( talk) 14:14, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Category:Relief workers in Noakhali, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you.. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 00:05, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey guys, i have created a separate Wiki-Project for Mangalore. Anyone interested can add your name in the following link. The project was deleted before, and i hope that this time there are enough people to keep it functioning.
Joyson Prabhu Holla at me! 18:22, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi! I just created Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi and then decided to link it to Raebareli Airport, only to find that the article "Raebareli Airport" seemed to be about the flight academy too!
Should most of the information at "Raebareli Airport" be moved to "Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi"?
Thanks WhisperToMe ( talk) 17:50, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
I have searched on this topic and in the past there have been some issues raised about the accuracy of Indian Mythology related articles, I have not found any consensus about the issue. I have come across a lot of articles about Indian families like Bharadwaj and terms like Suryavanshi and Chandravanshi. Apart from Veda's and Kurana's are their any reliable books or articles on this topic? Or is it all a matter of personal interpretation? Regards Wikishagnik ( talk) 12:02, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
There is a disagreement over framing the lead of the article and particularly over how 2002 Gujarat violence should be handled in the lead. Please comment and help build a consensus. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 17:28, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I am starting Wikipedia:WikiProject Ravidassia. I would like to get help from people who are interested. You may sign up for the project on the [ [3]]. McKinseies ( talk) 20:10, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Hyderabad, India has just been fully protected due to an edit war about whether to include Telangana in the infobox and/or article. The debate chiefly is over how "official" this region is. Comments would be welcome at Talk:Hyderabad, India#Hyderabad is in the middle of Telangana region. Qwyrxian ( talk) 03:41, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey guys, if anyone would be interested in creating any of the four required templates for WikiProject Mangalore, i would be very grateful.
Joyson Prabhu Holla at me! 17:54, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear friends,
I would like to welcome User:BPositive to the fold of people in charge of doing things in Wikipedia. BPositive is a young member (in comparison to me :)) of Pune community and Wikipedia Pune Club. He was an active Campus Ambassador in the first version of India Education Program. Energetic and enthusiastic BPositive is taking charge of the India Collaboration of the Month ( WP:INCOTM) process and is the first person to volunteer to help me keep WikiProject India active by taking on a specific responsibility.
All the best BPositive and hope you have a great time doing things new to you till now!
I request the wider India community to welcome and support BPositive as he guides us on our monthly INCOTMs.
AshLin ( talk) 04:21, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Can some one look into BCCI it needs some clean-up. Thanks -- sarvajna ( talk) 10:57, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
I have posted a question on this subject on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening. Your opinions are welcome. Wiki-uk ( talk) 18:09, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
A discussion regarding renaming the article Autonomous law schools in India is taking place here. Kindly comment. Amartyabag TALK2ME 03:22, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Just to let you know, Carmel School Giridih (a wiki article for Senior secondary school )is currently being discussed for deletion here; some members of this WikiProject might like to express their views. ( I was looking for the Talk page for Jharkhand state but was redirected here )-- Ðℬig XЯaɣ 01:08, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
After settling "transliteration of names in Indic languages" issue, how about removing Caste related mentions from Individuals' bio? Mentioning caste makes no sense in the age we're living, also religion for that matter. KevinBraun 21:29, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
May be there was already a discussion about this issue in the past. However a fresh discussion would be useful. thanks KevinBraun 21:39, 21 December 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kbr144 ( talk • contribs)
You can add anything to an article as long as the language is neutral and is supported by reliable, neutral sources. If a person is identified as belonging to a particular caste by a published book or a reputed newspaper or journal, then there is no problem.- Ravi My Tea Kadai 16:37, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Unless a person self-identifies with a caste, or the caste is relevant, I don't see why we should automatically include the caste of an individual in an article. I'd go so far as to say that self-identification without relevance is not sufficient for inclusion but .... -- regentspark ( comment) 16:52, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
I agree in general with what Animesh is saying. In UK and USA, on many forms one is asked to identify ones ethnic or racial origin. Also, biographies of a number of British politicians, i.e. Ian Duncan Smith, Sebastian Coe, Boris Johnson, David Cameron etc. give details of the mixed heritage of their subjects. For example Coe is quarter Punjabi, Smith is one eighth Japanese, Johnson has Muslim heritage, Cameron is partly of Jewish extraction etc. Are these facts relevant ? I guess they must be because the UK media and the subjects themselves frequently mention them. Similarly caste is central part of the heritage of a Hindu and therefore essential to the biographies of Indian notables. I believe, for a variety of reasons, contemporary Indians take pride in belonging to their caste and would not make an attempt to hide it. Do mistakes happen with a person wrongly being labeled? Yes, all the time. Take the Marathi surname Deshpande. A popular Marathi writer P.L. Deshpande is repeatedly added to the list of Deshastha brahmins, however he happens to belong to the Saraswat brahmin sub-caste. The surname is also found amongst the C.K.P. community. The mistake is however, immediately rectified. In P.L. Deshpande's case because one can find numerous references identifying his caste, however, with others it may take longer but not impossible to find. In my view, the way forward would be to put a citation tag if the reference is not there rather than immediately deleting the unsourced information. Thanks. Jonathansammy ( talk) 20:56, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
What is the relevance of this statement to the point being discussed, Sitush? I am a Guardian reader and was surprised to see you in one of your posts equating The Hindu, a respected. secular, and middle of the road Broad sheet being compared to the almost parochial rightwing tabloid like the Daily mail. That aside, the point I am trying to make with this and also my original message is that ethnic origin is mentioned in biographies of not only Western politicians but also scientists. Check the the List of Jewish Nobel laureates and see for yourself. If you accept what I am saying above, then I don't see why caste of an individual can not be treated in a similar way to the ethnic origin. I do, however, agree with you that caste claims should be backed with reliable sources. Jonathansammy ( talk) 19:40, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
I'd just like to add that those who argue that 'if it is sourced' it should be included are not correct. Content is guided by WP:V, which is a threshold for inclusion. Reliable sourcing is a necessary condition for inclusion but it is not a sufficient condition. Content on living people must also satisfy WP:BLP (as well as WP:NPOV and WP:OR) where there is an explicit presumption in favor of privacy. In particular, it should be possible to reasonably infer that the person does not object to the information being included and the information should be notable, relevant, and well-documented (not just well-documented). In other words, if person X has never talked about his or her caste, nor is it relevant to that person's life, it is against our policy to include caste in the article. For example, it is relatively easy to infer the caste of Ramachandra Guha from the material in the article. But, we have no reasonable basis for concluding that he would not object to its inclusion. Neither is that information relevant to his work. Therefore, his caste should not be included in the article (and, fortunately, it isn't.) -- regentspark ( comment) 16:30, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
Fine! Lets delete it. Lets start with FAs & GAs. - Animeshkulkarni ( talk) 16:36, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
The originator seems missing after opening this box. - Animeshkulkarni ( talk) 11:04, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
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The issue is whether caste should be mentioned in articles for persons when the article gives no indication of how caste has impacted that person's life. For example, there could be multiple reliable sources which state a person's caste but none of them give context about how that person's caste has ever influenced any aspect of that person's life or actions.
When reliable sources say something like "This person has caste X and therefore..." then caste is almost certainly notable and should be included. When sources mention caste but there is no source which gives context or confirms that the person's caste has ever had an effect on their life, should editors include caste identity in the article?
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WP:INCOTM for the month of March. Please feel free to add suggestions and also vote. Last date - 29th February 2012.
BPositive
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06:03, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
APJ Abdul Kalam nominated by User:Hisham got the maximum number of votes (11). It was nominated for the last month's COTM as well but fell short of one vote to Dance in India. This time, Indra Nooyi fell short of two votes. Having it as the COTM would have been a worthy cause. But I think the result is a fair one considering the popularity of APJ and the scope for improvement. Hopefully, APJ Abdul Kalam will attract many editors and we will be able to improve the article to a significant extent.
Thank you all for voting! I look forward to your contribs on the article.
The INCOTM for the month of March 2012 is
APJ Abdul Kalam.
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BPositive
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15:56, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
I find that categories for districts in India have the district name in small letters like Category:Villages in Adilabad district. I find this naming really strange and difficult to understand. Proper nouns should be in capitals and "d" in district should be capitalised as per Wikipedia:Naming conventions. Every other Wikiproject follows the conventions, like Category:People from Harris County, Texas and not Category:People from Harris county, Texas. Why does WP:INDIA alone not follow the convention? Any specific reason? I had earlier initiated a discussion here but no one bothered to reply.- Ravi My Tea Kadai 02:56, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
It is being debated whether the "district" in the names of districts in India should be capitalized. Please weigh in your opinions here and participate in this consensus
There is a proposal to expand the scope of WikiProject Protected Areas of India and expand its scope. Please join the discussion here. AshLin ( talk) 18:01, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
In the absence of any dissenting voice, Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas of India has been renamed as "WikiProject Biodiversity, Protected areas & Environment of India" with suitably enlarged scope. AshLin ( talk) 10:56, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Can someone review the edits by the above named user? They have been relentlessly adding transliteration scripts in different languages to a bunch of articles over the past 48 hours. I have reverted many of their edits, and I think further scrutiny is necessary – [8]. Thanks. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 22:27, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
ATTENTION! Can someone review the actions of this user? They are continuing to add the transliteration scripts to articles – [9]. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 19:05, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
The Economy section in Gujarat is pretty messed up and is not 'to the point', anyone interested in economics? Help is needed.-- kondi talk/ contribs 19:55, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
I kept out of the row last year re: village article names (Bogdan N was involved). Being clueless, could someone please look at the history for Madha, India and fix if appropriate - Madha, Hisar seems a more reasonable name but I do not want to start another move war. - Sitush ( talk) 00:14, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
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Dear all, since we have our first GLAM collaboration started now at the WP:GLAM/CM I was wondering if someone could help me start a GLAM COTM. We have identified 4 articles to begin with and two of them are high on importance. Any thoughts on this? Noopur28 ( talk) 05:02, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I was recently patrolling the Articles to be merged backlog for WikiProject Merge, and I came across the proposed merger of Aaladikkumulai with Aladikkumulai. The nominator didn't start a discussion for the merge, and normally in that case, I just remove the tags if it's been long enough. On this occasion, it seems likely that the articles are duplicates, but not likely enough for me to merge WP:BOLDly. I am bringing this here because I think subject knowledge is needed to be sure that the articles are duplicates, and the pages themselves are not very active. I am willing to carry out the merge if we can agree here that it's necessary. Quasi human | Talk 11:20, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello Everyone!
It's time to review the WP:INCOTM for the month of February 2012.
Last month, Dance in India was the only article chosen for the INCOTM.
During the period under question, Dance in India had 208 edits from 20 contributors. This is quite good compared to the last month's COTM - Premchand which had 133 edits from 17 contributors. This months COTM was a success in my eyes as the following improvements were seen-
However,
The top four editors of Dance in India for the month of February 2012 were:
To encourage contribution, they have been awarded a Barnstar for taking time and effort to participate. Special thanks to Karthikndr for adding the references and helping in removing the refimprove tag just a day before the COTM was about to terminate. Also, thanks to AroundTheGlobe for adding images to the article. Wikilove was sent to AroundTheGlobe for the same.
We still need more work to be done on Dance in India as it is one of the highest visibility articles of the WikiProject - it gets 500 to 600 pageviews per day!
GA/FA of the month
As far as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi goes, there were 213 edits with the major contributors being AshLin, Hisham, Rjensen and Dav subrajathan.357. Wikilove has been sent to motivate them to continue the long struggle.
The referencing is still being carefully weeded. It has been completely moved to cite templates now. A lot of dud references have been detected and replaced. In some cases what the reference was saying had no bearing to the text and was replaced. Preference was given to references which are verifiable online. Referencing continues because the article is a mixture of cite & Harvard referencing styles.
It was suggested we go in for one of three models of referencing -
It has been decided to move it to shortened urls/Bibliography model as the bibliography already exists and the Harvard referencing was in minority. Hopefully that once this ends, the GA proper can begin. The time taken for all this underlines the great importance of accurate referencing and choosing reliable sources.
Thank you all for contributing to this month’s INCOTM. Hoping for an even better response for the next COTM - APJ Abdul Kalam.
Cheers! BPositive (talk) 18:56, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
I've just noticed that a lot of entries at Indian independence activists are unlinked and unsourced. If anyone can provide some sources, that would be great - otherwise, I think they should be removed. -- Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 08:53, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Massive edit war going on in Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant. I request some experienced editors to initiate some structured disussions. -- Anbu121 ( talk me) 09:49, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks Anbu121 for bringing up the matter here. As a new user, I was advised to come here to discuss this in more detail by the TeaHouse. Could someone from the community take a look at Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant. I think the article is quite biased and not maintainable in light of the recent events and disclosures on the topic, but the user insists on reverting the changes completely without discussing the matter on the talk page. Thanks for your help. Nashtam ( talk) 15:39, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
A user ( talk to him) is adding all biased texts and reverting the articles. This user has registered only to edit Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant page. Its really wrong and unethical. Is there a way to mark him as spam? — Preceding unsigned comment added by AMuraliKumar ( talk • contribs) 01:38, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for noticing the unfair editing that has been going on AMuraliKumar. I just got another "last warning" that I will be banned without further notice for "vandalisation" on Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant. I have been waiting to discuss the matter in a fair manner on the talk page for more than four days now with no response from the people concerned. Request experienced Indian users for advice on how to proceed in this matter. Nashtam ( talk) 05:55, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
User:Yann has asked for input from the community at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Indian_maps#Location_maps_for_MP_districts. Would some one please oblige? AshLin ( talk) 17:46, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
I am currently working on creating an article titled Street children in India. Though street children are a large (estimates are over 100,000) and very disadvantaged part of the Indian population, there is no mention of them anywhere either on the articles for India or poverty in India. Researchers have noted that the circumstances in which street children live are unique from other children in poverty and they must be given their own space in policy. Their absence from pages about India, especially poverty in India, is not merited; they need to be included, especially since the independence of street children puts them more at risk than children in poverty that live with their families. When Street children in India is completed, I plan to place a link for it on the India article. On the poverty in India article, I will write a paragraph or two about street children in an appropriate section and link my article.
I would love feedback and suggestions from anyone who is willing to read my article draft when I post it in my Sandbox. (I’ll add the link here when it is completed). KiaraDouds ( talk) 21:55, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
A recent decision on the use of indic scripts in the leads of India-related articles was made (see main discussion here and clarification here). This decision has not been properly communicated and User:DeltaQuad and I agree that it should be placed in the Manual of Style somewhere. The most appropriate place would be in the India-related articles subpage, but it is currently inactive. Surely there are now enough India-related article to warrant the resurrection of these guidelines. What are your thoughts? Please join the discussion here. Bazonka ( talk) 08:59, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Since no-one has objected, I have slightly amended WP:MOSIN and reinstated it under Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (regional). The changes that I have made to it are:
I have not included anything about the decision mentioned above not to use Indic scripts in the leads of articles. This seems like a controversial decision requiring further discussion and consensus. I suggest that any further discussions about style take place at WT:MOSIN. Bazonka ( talk) 08:53, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
The dispute is over the factual depiction of PRC territories on the article on China. It involves territories currently administered by the Republic of India and the Republic of Taiwan and hence I felt pertinent to post here to attract attention of those interested in contributing to the discussion on Talk:China. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 21:14, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
An article on some children's games includes a section on "Kho Kho" and a section on "Ghoda Hai Jo Maar Khaye (The Horse Who Will Beaten)". I started copyediting Ghoda Hai Jo Maar Khaye but I don't understand some of the rules. Can somebody who's familiar with the game please rewrite some of the sentences? Also both games need references. Cloveapple ( talk) 17:20, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Sir people are removing rape by militants from Rape in Indian-administered Kashmir. Please advice what to do? Awaaz-e-Kashmir ( talk) 18:22, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Although I started discussion on talk page and moderator Mr. TopGun now threatens to block me. Mr. NerosRevenge and Mr. TopGun have removed my additions 3 times
Mr. TopGun has advised me to 'post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard' on my talk page so I am posting request here. Please tell me if there is other relevant noticeboard. Please help me. Awaaz-e-Kashmir ( talk) 19:29, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
The newsletter of WP:India project outreach department did not go out in the whole of 2011. Help is invited from members of WP:India towards the April 2012 newsletter. If you have suggestion/tips, please do leave them on the talk page. Please WP:BE BOLD and contribute to the edition. Prad2609 ( talk) 07:49, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
This is the first post from the India Program team regarding the team. I have been posting updates on the various mailing lists - but am acutely aware that the majority of our community is on village pumps or project pages and hence this post. Do excuse me for posting something which is not solely focused on this project, but the work we are doing has learnings that you might find useful for your project. Here are 5 important links that you might find useful
Please feel free to translate this post for the benefit of the larger audience. In fact, I'd be really grateful if you did!
Hisham ( talk) 03:39, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
I support Speedy delete. However the topic is notable but the container topic Education in Punjab, India already exists and is in great need for tender, love & care (viz, referenced, NPOV & paraphrased edits). I strongly recommend IntoTheFire to please slow down, stop fighting, learn the Wikipedia culture and learn how to process information so that it is useful for Wikipedia. Your product/output is flawed at the moment and unacceptable as pointed out by editors above. Strangely, after PunjabiGladiator, this is the second person on Punjabi topics who has issues learning about Wikipedia culture. Co-incidence! AshLin ( talk) 18:41, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
But as I have already shown above
With reference to this above topic i have a question. For standardization, why dont we have statewise topics for all states in India? I see that many of them have it. But few small states have some paragraphs included in their state articles itself. Wont it be better to break them apart? Thus also giving scope for expansion. Eg. Education in Maharashtra can surely have its own seperate article. - Animeshkulkarni ( talk) 13:30, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Now that the discussion on mentioning caste has been closed, I just wanted to bring to notice that there are many pages that list the people belonging to different communities.( Category:Lists of Indian people by community) Time for us to decide what to do with these. One of them is under AfD. -- Anbu121 ( talk me) 19:12, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
I would like to inform the broad community of glad tidings - we have a number of volunteers who have agreed to coordinate WikiProjects. These are:
We welcome them to their new responsibilities and they are now proud members of a select club indeed - people who have publicly volunteered to look after an area of responsibility on WikiProject India.
Please welcome them on their talk pages.
They join User:BPositive ( WP:INCOTM), User:Kondicherry ( Wikipedia:WikiProject Gujarat) & ssriram_mt ( Tag & Assess 2012).
Redtigerxyz has asked for fellow co-coordinators for WikiProject Hinduism, if any one is willing and forthcoming.
We would like to intimate readers that we are constantly looking for editors to help with the various departments and task forces. There are more than seventy more areas needing looking after. And if the project you are interested in already has one, welcome to it - we need lots of dedicated volunteers per department or task force not just one.
AshLin ( talk) 04:46, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
I would like to inform the broad community of more glad tidings - we have two more volunteers who have agreed to coordinate WikiProjects. These are:
We welcome them to their new responsibilities and they are now proud members of a select club indeed - people who have publicly volunteered to look after an area of responsibility on WikiProject India.
Please welcome them on their talk pages and not on the list(s).
We would like to remind readers that we are constantly looking for editors to help with the various departments and task forces. There are more than seventy more areas needing looking after. And if the project you are interested in already has one, welcome to it - we need lots of dedicated volunteers per department or task force not just one.
AshLin ( talk) 06:42, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
India Wikiwomen's Edit-a-thon is scheduled for 25th March 2012, Sunday from 12:00pm to 2:00pm.During the two hour time slot we all will be editing an article which will be pre-selected by way of nomination and votes. Depending on the number of members joining in we can also organise an IRC meet to meet each other before and during the event. Everyone is welcome to come edit Wikipedia with us at this event. Women, new editors, all those who relate to women's history or women's issues, those who want to learn how to edit or can teach others how, and anyone with an interest in women's history are particularly encouraged to attend.Please sign up here and suggest and vote for articles here. Nomination for articles will be closed by 22nd of March and the voting will be closed by 24th March.-- Netha Hussain ( talk) 12:25, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
I find that Mohenjodaro doesn't have a Wikiproject India tag, I don't know the rules about adding the tag or otherwise. I am going ahead with it. Yogesh Khandke ( talk) 15:53, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
We have an article about other language wikipedias on en wiki.Marathi language wikipedia is also equally prominant wikipedia with reasonable number of third party ref and criticism too SO please contribute to Marathi Wikipedia article Mahitgar ( talk) 08:04, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Monuments is a photography competition that is going international this year. The Project needs support from a WikiProject. Since there are no comprehensive working groups in WikiProject India working on monuments as such, we would love to seek the help of contributors to the Indian history working group. Also, since this project involves photographs, we also seek the help from Wikipedians in the photography department of this project. We think that these sections could work together on this project.
Please feel free to ask questions here. Your support is appreciated. The India page for Wiki Loves Monuments is here. Feel free to sign up.
Prad2609 ( talk) 08:20, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi! While going through PRODed articles of India i came across few related to Football and though of peeping in them. The first one;
Subroto Cup Football Tournament clearly is notable 60-yr old tournament with many valid google hits. I even found winners of this cup for past recent few years. Hence the reason used for PROD "no proof that the cup is still active today or that it actually existed before" by
User:Arsenalkid700 was wrong. Second PROD for
Kerala State Football League with reason "references are not even references and they dont prove the existence of the league, plus this league is supposedly defunct" is also wrong in my opinion as the league can very well be dead & decaying today but that is not the reason for deletion per
WP:NTEMP. Seeing the trend of PROD tags placed by this user, i deproded
The Street League and
Agartala League immediately as they would have been deleted in few hours from now.
Wikipedia does require to remain clean but not by deletion of some articles which are just less-attractive. Someone with interest and knowledge on this is requested to look into it as i have none. The
User:Arsenalkid700 seems to be much more experienced than me and hence i do not understand why the tags were placed. These articles might very well be worth deletion but certainly not through PROD. -
Animeshkulkarni (
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20:54, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Please nominate for the next month's COTM on the nominations page. There have already been two nominations - Ram Waeerkar & Indian National Pledge. As suggested by the community members, now onwards, the nominations & voting will take place on the nominations page itself and not on the India Notice Board.
As far as the GA/FA article - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is concerned, I've come to know from AshLin that it's getting quite difficult to get it to the GA Level. Especially the referencing part. So, shall we opt out of this and start working on a new article for the 'GA of the month' from April onwards? I'd like to hear on this from as many of you. Please post your replies below. -- BPositive (talk) 19:16, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
It is always very difficult to improve a political personality's article up o GA/FA level, especially if the article is about someone as important and as complex as Gandhi. We can pick some article which can be worked upon in easier way, and which has a better potential to reach GA/FA level (so that we can see our work getting the recognition, this would inspire more editors to participate maybe). From personal bias and experience, I can suggest that geography articles (states and cities of India) are relatively easier. You can pick some state which has significantly less representation in the project, such as Tripura. Small states would likely offer less complicated issues, and might be easier to edit and easier to improve to GA/FA level. Regards.-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 19:32, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
All might know by now that Tag & Assess 2012 drive is in full swing. What we basically do there is tag articles based on their importance like Low, Mid, High or Top and assess articles for their current class like Stub, Start, C or B class. Assessing articles for finding out their class gives us a result to know where the project stands. More the higher class articles, the better we are doing. The importance tag mentions how important the article is for this project. It's count is immaterial. But most of the times, importance of importance-tags also becomes immaterial. Hence to support the efforts taken by Tag & Assess participants, i would request INCOTM to use the importance tags to choose the article for improvement. We have 30 articles in Category:C-Class India articles of Top-importance and 96 in Category:B-Class India articles of Top-importance. Numbers might keep change now and then. Please take one of these article. - Animeshkulkarni ( talk) 21:15, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Can someone please provide links for the infobox to be used for villages and Districts in India , Thanks-- Ðℬig XЯaɣ 10:47, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
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Bhagat Singh, a former GA article has been renominated for GA and the review is ongoing here. Around The Globe सत्यमेव जयते 05:55, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey all, I was thinking maybe we can change the current invitation template code to this one, User:Debastein/WP:India Invite. Basically, this would enable any user to give a custom message and sign easily using the {{User:Debastein/WP:India Invite|message= |sign=}} functions. Also this would recognize the user name in the talk page and automatically input it. What say, should I implement this template. It seems better to me. -- Debastein ( talk) 19:37, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
I've created the article Indian Science Engineering Eligibility Test also known as ISEET which will replace IIT-JEE and AIEEE. So I request you to expand the article as I'm busy with my exams. Regards Srikar Kashyap ( talk) 11:41, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Khajuraho Group of Monuments is one of the World Heritage Site. For Madhya Pradesh Project it should be on high importance (being one of the 2 World Heritage Sites.
Rajenver ( talk) 05:15, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
I really don't know anything about how the Indian political or governmental system works, but Anam Ramanarayana Reddy needs some help. I can't tell if the subject even meets the notability guidelines because I don't know what those titles/roles/regions/offices are. / ƒETCH COMMS / 17:19, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
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An article needs to be selected by the community for WP:INCOTM for February. Till now the choices are neither new nor encouraging. Please feel free to add suggestions and also vote. Last date - 1st February 2012.
I would like to bring a statistic to your kind notice. The article A. P. J. Abdul Kalam has an average of 4000 views per day. Dance in India has approximately 500 views per day. I am not saying this to advocate or disadvocate any article. There is a possibility that knowing the number of views of the article before polling enables voters to make an informed choice. Should we include the statistic during the polling of next month? Inviting your views on this suggestion... -- Anbu121 ( talk me) 16:43, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Category:India articles with comments, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you.. This relates to a WP1.0 assessment category used by WP:INDIA, and the discussion has broadened into a wider consideration of such categories. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 21:19, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
This seems like a reasonable place for this discussion, but if editors do want to consider a change to the project's assessment process, shouldn't Wikipedia talk:WikiProject India/Assessment be notified? -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 20:24, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
All ye film buffs (and others as well), do have a look at my merger proposal here: Talk:Filmfare Award for Best Film. Lynch 7 14:46, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
There had been few edits like 1, 2, 3 which were about removal of referenced content and addition of unsourced material after which arun nadar123 was blocked due to legal threats. Now this recent edit is almost similar to which were caused by arun nadar123. I believe he is a sockpuppeter of User:Bhaskar pillai and have already asked for sock investigation and even for page protection. Since this article is of High importance to wiki project India, I am bringing this to experienced user's attention for clearing out those unsourced edits. I thought to clear out those edits myself but the person has already threatened me. Not like scared but an admin intervention would make things easier I think and I hope someone would look into this as soon as possible. Shriram ( talk) 13:12, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
I need urgent attention on the following articles.
I am investigating this further, request help. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 07:02, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
I have gone through the recent edits made by the single-purpose account on numerous articles. Though Xwas does include citations to the insertions they make into the articles, however, their edits are characterized by distinct POVpushing, which place more emphasis on the surrounding controversies rather than the whole aspect of things. This is categorically against what is advised in WP:NPOV. I am listing some of the problematic edits below for analysis.
This account only exists to add sections on controversies to articles, and is likely a sockpuppet of another established user. I would like to get more opinion here before we can consider a sockpuppet investigation. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 09:20, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for highlighting and alerting what you see as a NPOV issue.
The facts presented in these sentences are objective and from widely reported news articles. By removing entire sections, which are relevant to the biographical sketch of a public figure, you are violating "Achieving neutrality: As a general rule, do not remove sourced information from the encyclopedia solely on the grounds that it seems biased. Instead, try to rewrite the passage or section to achieve a more neutral tone.... " in the WP:NPOV. To refute the insinuation that this is a sock puppet account and primarily used for POV pushing, please go earlier into my contributions which span across other fields of interest. Regards. Xwas ( talk) 13:29, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello All!
A DYK has been proposed on the newly created article
Abbas Kazmi. The article's content wasnt very clear to me. Hence i have tried my best to make things better. But i lack the recent knowledge on the
Kasab case and have a feeling that something more can go in the article; especially with regards to the Hook proposed in the DYK. Anyone with fair & square knowledge will be helpful here. Thanks! -
Animeshkulkarni (
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15:50, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Articles about events have Year/month/date of the event mentioned in the title. A simplification of this is needed and hence your views on this discussion are welcome. Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(events)#Year_in_the_title - Animeshkulkarni ( talk) 17:55, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Permanent link to the WP:AN discussion referred to above. Not done this before but I think that it is correct. - Sitush ( talk) 03:02, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Strong protest over how these sanctions have been arrived at. It is outrageous that the issue which has been ongoing for so long here be subjected to discretionary sanctions on AN without the knowledge of this Noticeboard. It is wrong for India-community members that they participate there and involve themselves in getting a discretionary sanctions imposed without informing the board before the discussion was closed. In such a situation announcing the results of AN discretionary sanctions as a fait accompli and expecting all of us to accept it at face value is a mockery of all free principles of Wikipedia. I have registered a strong protest at WP:AN and I personally feel that certain community members have transgressed in not informing their compatriots and giving them a chance to participate in this discussion. It is irrelevant as far as I am concerned which way the outcome of the discretionary sanctions goes. But it is a greater blow to free principles that the main actions to clean up Caste articles should be done in so unprincipled a manner. AshLin ( talk) 06:28, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
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McKinseies ( talk) 09:28, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Is anyone capable of cleaning up Saptarishi ? Aside from general phrasing/layout issues, much of it is unsourced and that which is sourced seems to rely on primary material and images that I am fairly sure are copyvios/dubious provenance. - Sitush ( talk) 11:17, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
We have Nathamar and Nathaman Udayar which should maybe be the same article. And if either is a caste article, does it need a template? Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 06:09, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
There is an RFC on a topic under this WikiProject: Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Indians_in_Afghanistan. Those interested may participate. Please ensure that your viewpoints are well-thought out and in the best interests of all concerned especially WP. AshLin ( talk) 04:35, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
I think that it is wise to note here the outcome of a discussion at WP:AN regarding sanctions on caste/community articles. It probably would also be wise for this to be incorporated into the Project page and elsewhere but I am not best placed to do that. The now-closed discussion is at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Discretionary_sanctions_on_caste_articles_and_more. - Sitush ( talk) 01:25, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
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15:25, 14 February 2012 (UTC)Name of this Article should not be just Basic Structure, as just the words basic structure are not in any way related to the Basic Structure Doctrine followed in respect to constitution of India. I also tried to discuss this on the article's talk page and Wikiproject: Indian Politics, but I didn't get any answer. Alok Bansal ( talk) 08:52, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
Moving the article is simple enough but, reading it, I'm not sure whether this is an established doctrine or mere original research. The one reference provided does not make it clear whether the writer is using the term to expound a theory or whether the term is an established one. References to law articles would be helpful. -- regentspark ( comment) 16:08, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
I am moving the article to "Basic structure doctrine (Constitution of India)". I am also redirecting the "Basic feature doctrine (Constitution of India)" as these terms are used interchangably. Alok Bansal ( talk) 20:50, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Have project seen this chill to editing of caste and political party articles? [1] A template and link was just put on the Caste system in India article. [2]
These community sanctions apply not only to caste articles (many of which have almost no factual information in them and appear to be made up), but to political parties also, as if Western political parties have no direct attachment, or a remote attachment, to their tribal roots....
South Asian articles suffer from issues of ownership, but not more so than popular kiddie culture articles on en.wiki. To me, the biggest problem with South Asian articles is the lack of editors. Get 3 editors in on a discussion about a caste and two of them will come to some sort of agreement, not in support of the POV editor.
I am concerned these sanctions will keep even more editors away from improving these articles. An administrator will see an edit, a POV pusher will shout foul, and the editor who bothered to correct wrong information will get blocked.
Are my concerns necessary? Maybe they are not. If there had been notice of the impacted communities, I might have been less concerned. Are there South Asian administrators on en.wiki? Pseudofusulina ( talk) 06:20, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
The existence of practices like discretionary sanctions worries me. It is just the kind of thing a rogue admin could misuse and the clause would allow that admin to get away scot free. I hope in practice that it does not become a fault-zone. AshLin ( talk) 09:37, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Anyone at all familiar is welcome to join in and help with this page. I haven't a clue and it is in need of formatting etc. Casliber ( talk · contribs) 10:54, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
Note: The bird Greater Coucal or Crow Pheasant is also known as Bharadwaj, whose sight is considered as to bring good luck. (But sorry! No reliable sources found.) - Animeshkulkarni ( talk) 12:30, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
There is a AfD now. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bhardwaj. - Animeshkulkarni ( talk) 16:56, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Immediate attention is called for the article 2G spectrum scam. Article is ballooning into an unmanageable mess, what with the embedded lists and all. Not without NPOV concerns also. Lynch 7 14:08, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
During the FAR of Kolkata article an interesting debate which has cropped up is regarding the inclusion or non-inclusion of names of personalities. It seems that there is no existing community guideline regarding the same except from the guidelines in the WP:NOTABILITY. However, the same guidelines are silent regarding addition of names of persons to other pages and especially for a featured article, and are not adequate for the same.
A rough criteria has been drawn up by me and Dwaipayanc with the help of inputs from other members. The same is as below:
There is no strict inclusion and exclusion criteria for accomplished personalities mentioned in the article. Some individuals such as are very significantly associated with Kolkata, while there are many others whose contribution or significance may not be as important. The significance level is a matter of subjective analysis, and there is room for discussion for each individual person. The following set of guidelines is recommended, while the name should meet all the Primary criteria, the person must additionally meet any one of the secondary criteria.
I would request all to suggest and have a common consensus regarding the criteria for adding names of personalities in Cities and other related articles.
Amartyabag
TALK2ME
12:45, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
The problem can be divided into at lest three sub-problems! One is WP:WEIGHT, then context, and then establishing true relationship with the location.
Very important, as has been described above, is context. The names should be in appropriate section, and should flow with the prose. As an example, the education section in Kolkata article now reads, "Notable scholars who were born, worked or studied in Kolkata include physicists Satyendra Nath Bose, Meghnad Saha, and Jagadish Chandra Bose; chemist Prafulla Chandra Roy...".
To establish proper relationship with the location, consideration should be given to the person's birthplace, location of study, field of work. For example, Jagadish Chandra Bose was born hundreds of miles away from Kolkata, but his school and college education, and more importantly most of his research works took place in institutions in Kolkata. So, he has a significant association with the city.
The criteria that is very difficult to assess and should be considered on a case-by-case basis is WP:WEIGHT. While some persons may be clearly associated with and has significant contribution to a certain aspect of the city, it may not be enough to rationalize his/her inclusion in the city article, as we should follow summary style. And so, it is not only inclusion criteria, rather exclusion criteria that we should keep in mind, and consider on case-by-case basis -- Dwaipayan ( talk) 16:25, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
I think the primary criteria outlined above are a good "necessary" condition for inclusion. However, the resulting set of people would likely be too large for practical purposes (not to mention the resulting "I have a source" wars :) ). Looking through the list of Kolkata names WP:Featured_article_review/Kolkata/archive1#Notability here, I constructed a short list of people that I think should be included: S N Bose, Tagore, C V Raman, Amartya Sen, Satyajit Ray, Kazi Nazrul Islam, and Vivekananda. The common characteristic of all these people is that they are likely to be known outside India and it struck me that it makes sense to include names that the general reader is more likely to recognize, otherwise the inclusion is meaningless. Just a thought. -- regentspark ( comment) 16:16, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
We have numerous articles that take the form List of X caste, eg: List of Yadavs, and we also have embedded lists in articles that serve a similar purpose, such as Vanniyar#Notable Vanniyars. I have spent a long time cleaning up a fair few of these and the problems that I have found are:
Basically, these are issues concerning WP:V, WP:NLIST and sometimes WP:BLPCAT. Generally speaking, I have had support for my clean up work on the relevant talk pages from experienced contributors. However, DGG has recently felt it necessary to revert a fair amount of the work, which prompted a thread on their talk page here. Obviously, the reverts were done in good faith but I feel that we do need to clarify the situation.
It should be noted that it seems DGG's reverts were connected to the actions of Pernoctator, who was proposing a fair few list articles for deletion on the grounds that they were empty. My solution to that issue has always been to redirect the list to the article concerning the relevant community.
Comments would be appreciated. There is arguably some overlap with our recent discussion here at Wikipedia_talk:INB#Mentioning caste of Individuals but my concern here relates specifically to lists. - Sitush ( talk) 12:42, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
@Utcursch - I have said it somewhere before and would say it again now....Labelling people by a certain caste should be avoided. But mentioning caste can be done without labelling also. Eg. in this case Deepika's father's caste has a source in his article and that can be mentioned in some clever way in her article as well. That way you dont lable her nor do you prevent readers from drawing inferences; inferences that could very well be correct but are not implicitly stated because Deepika herself in her some interview doesnt say "Yeah! I am filming my next with Ranbir. And btw, i am Brahmin." or because some BLP policy (not clear enough) prevented it from doing so (And as if its a legal thing.)
@Sitush - Already replied to you inter-caste-marriage doubt. Child is presumed to be of father's caste. And you would want to keep your non-indian examples out of discussion as they dont apply. And you forgot you cardinal rule of referencing. Please give 1931's reference. (Couldnt find it.) And wasnt that census conducted by non-indians that then ruled india?
@AndyTheGrump - Thanks again! But the issue was raise here to get little response.
Wikipedia_talk:Biographies_of_living_persons/Archive_33#Whats_to_be_included_in_biographies.3F.21.3F.21 The BLP policy doesnt specifically say anything about Indian castes and above that i seriously doubt they were framed with consideration of India in mind. -
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I wanted to start a new section to clarify a question Sitush raises above (and that he and I have talked about before). I think that the BLP issue is pretty clear, and I'm pretty sure that there really is no debate on that point. However, for non-BLP (i.e., all those people who've managed to go and die before Wikipedia ever existed), how do we feel? The reason I ask is that for BLP, yes, we'll remove on site (and, like AndytheGrump, I am happy to do so and force the issue any time it comes up, fully expecting WP:BLPN and other venues would support it). However, for a dead person, where do we want to fall on the WP:V scale of activities? Let me give three analogies about companies:
So, the question is, where do caste claims fall on this rough continuum? And, as a related question, do we treat the concern differently if its a claim in the person's own article, or when its inclusion on a list of "People in Caste X"? Qwyrxian ( talk) 11:13, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Animesh, this is not helpful. Sithush is trying to reason it out with you, but you are simply wikilawyering. If you have an issue with WP:V, then please propose changes on the respective talk page. Not here. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 17:09, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Fine! Do as you all wish! - Animeshkulkarni ( talk) 10:42, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
It is evident that WP:BLP has to be applied to these lists but there really has not been much said about the dead - whatever has been said became sidetracked by the BLP issue. Qwyrxian made a decent analysis of the situation at the head of the previous section. Can we get some sort of consensus for the approach that should be adopted? My preference is that a caste assertion must be sourced when someone is no longer living, but it is not necessary that the source should be a self-identification. If the source is in the article that is linked to from the list, then by all means copy the source over to the list (after checking that it is in fact WP:RS, says what it claimed etc). - Sitush ( talk) 17:41, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
I had raised this issue earlier here, but did not get any response. Given edits like these, I think it's high time we discuss the notability and reliability of such sources. I've started a new thread at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Sarfaroshi_Ki_Tamanna_by_Krant_M._L._Verma. utcursch | talk 06:42, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
I agree there should be additional mediation by a higher up. Many articles require extensive review and pruning for unsourced information; Not enough people to do the job me thinks. -- Fraulein451 ( talk) 07:56, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
There has been a request from India Chapter for a monthly update and I thought I'd present my report here also. Criticism, suggestions and bouquets are most welcome. AshLin ( talk) 11:26, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
The month of January passed quietly for WikiProject India on English Wikipedia. However elsewhere, the SOPA/PIPA discussion in the United States was the hot topic of the month and English Wikipedia went dark on 18 January for 24 hours in protest against these proposed laws.
At this point of time, getting the few small initiatives to keep going have been our concern in WikiProject India.
We have had Premchand as WP:INCOTM and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi as GA of the month. Premchand has had substantial improvement. The GA Master Class ( a hoity-toity name I picked up as an excuse for periodically giving a few hints on the Wikimedia-in-en list) for Gandhi has begun and some posts made. GA of the month is a misnomer because despite lots of edits, there is tremendous amount of work yet to be done on Gandhi. It seems that we will be doing a GA/FA a quarter instead. :( The new INCOTM of the month is Dance in India.
The Offline Wikipedia for Schools project has been dawdling along and we need people to recommit themselves to this Project. Recently, I realised that the most important parts of Wikipedia which need doing are not "pop corn and fast food". They require commitment and seem too much like work. They are not as much fun as editing on our favourite topics. That fact perhaps is the reason people begin working on this project and finding it is not much fun, gradually stop editing.
On the talk page, we have had a discussion since December and through January into February about whether caste should be mentioned in biographies. The protagonists quoting WP:BLP and WP:V took the stand that caste should not be mentioned unless it has been self-identified by the person concerned in a reliable source. Some Indian editors contested it vehemently arguing that caste pervades Indian society and binding strictures on its mention should not be instituted. But when it boiled down to a poll, the majority of editors stood up for the conservative position i.e. no inclusion unless self-identified in a reliable source.
An earlier discussion about which should be the languages that a title of an article should be translated into in the lead. After lots of discussion, the discussion was closed as no consensus emerged except that IPA should definitely be present for pronunciation. In this regard, I think common sense and not misplaced parochialism should help us decide which all languages the title should be transcribed into in the lead.
In this month, we saw MikeLynch (or Lynch7 as he masquerades nowadays :) ) become an admin. That is great news! Do a great job, Mike.
I am seeing more activity overall on English Wikipedia from the habitual editors - which is a very good sign. Young former CAs are playing up too but the spectre of exams had made its presence known by end January. All in all, a fairly okay month for WikiProject India.
AshLin ( talk) 11:26, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Emcx1 has been moving and redirecting Uttara Kannada to North Canara without discussion. The official website for the district says it is also known as North Canara, but the official name is still Uttara Kannada. Which one is correct? ScottSteiner ✍ 16:43, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
this may not be the appropriate place, but i noticed many of the articles on Indian topics are in need of drastic copy edit. I have started doing some myself, but there are of course too many; Do you have a team for this ? -- Fraulein451 ( talk) 07:50, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
I think there are a couple of ways of doing this. One is to create a subcategory of Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit and use that to tag India articles that need copyediting. The problem with this approach is, of course, that the tagging editor has to know that the sub-category exists. The second approach is to create a bot-maintained list on a subpage. The bot can periodically update the list by searching for articles in Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit that are also tagged as a part of Wikiproject India. Assuming someone can write that bot (tinucherian?), the latter is probably the better approach. -- regentspark ( comment) 20:15, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Saw this at User_talk:Good_Olfactory#Category_advice_requested. I'd be happy to help if i can.
In looking this over, Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit seems to be already set up for what you're talking about, complete with subcats. Is it that you aren't sure of which fixit templates populate which subcats? Or is it that you just want a big voluminous category so that you all can dive in trying to whittle down the forest to a few toothpicks? Or is there some other system that you would prefer?
Trying to understand the want so that we can implement as effectively as possible : ) - jc37 00:26, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
You can see one way the Guild of Copy Editors ( WP:GOCE) does it, here - the CatScan tool can combine multiple categories in the same search, and you can specify further refinements. I've used it successfully to search for Indian articles during copy edit drives. (And if you want to help, feel free to join in the March drive, and earn barnstars too!) -- Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 11:10, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
The article is undergoing an AfD at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bhookh.com. AFAIK, it is the only Indian Click to donate site. -- Rsrikanth05 ( talk) 10:41, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
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AshLin ( talk) 14:14, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Category:Relief workers in Noakhali, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you.. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 00:05, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey guys, i have created a separate Wiki-Project for Mangalore. Anyone interested can add your name in the following link. The project was deleted before, and i hope that this time there are enough people to keep it functioning.
Joyson Prabhu Holla at me! 18:22, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi! I just created Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi and then decided to link it to Raebareli Airport, only to find that the article "Raebareli Airport" seemed to be about the flight academy too!
Should most of the information at "Raebareli Airport" be moved to "Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi"?
Thanks WhisperToMe ( talk) 17:50, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
I have searched on this topic and in the past there have been some issues raised about the accuracy of Indian Mythology related articles, I have not found any consensus about the issue. I have come across a lot of articles about Indian families like Bharadwaj and terms like Suryavanshi and Chandravanshi. Apart from Veda's and Kurana's are their any reliable books or articles on this topic? Or is it all a matter of personal interpretation? Regards Wikishagnik ( talk) 12:02, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
There is a disagreement over framing the lead of the article and particularly over how 2002 Gujarat violence should be handled in the lead. Please comment and help build a consensus. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 17:28, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I am starting Wikipedia:WikiProject Ravidassia. I would like to get help from people who are interested. You may sign up for the project on the [ [3]]. McKinseies ( talk) 20:10, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Hyderabad, India has just been fully protected due to an edit war about whether to include Telangana in the infobox and/or article. The debate chiefly is over how "official" this region is. Comments would be welcome at Talk:Hyderabad, India#Hyderabad is in the middle of Telangana region. Qwyrxian ( talk) 03:41, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey guys, if anyone would be interested in creating any of the four required templates for WikiProject Mangalore, i would be very grateful.
Joyson Prabhu Holla at me! 17:54, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear friends,
I would like to welcome User:BPositive to the fold of people in charge of doing things in Wikipedia. BPositive is a young member (in comparison to me :)) of Pune community and Wikipedia Pune Club. He was an active Campus Ambassador in the first version of India Education Program. Energetic and enthusiastic BPositive is taking charge of the India Collaboration of the Month ( WP:INCOTM) process and is the first person to volunteer to help me keep WikiProject India active by taking on a specific responsibility.
All the best BPositive and hope you have a great time doing things new to you till now!
I request the wider India community to welcome and support BPositive as he guides us on our monthly INCOTMs.
AshLin ( talk) 04:21, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Can some one look into BCCI it needs some clean-up. Thanks -- sarvajna ( talk) 10:57, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
I have posted a question on this subject on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening. Your opinions are welcome. Wiki-uk ( talk) 18:09, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
A discussion regarding renaming the article Autonomous law schools in India is taking place here. Kindly comment. Amartyabag TALK2ME 03:22, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Just to let you know, Carmel School Giridih (a wiki article for Senior secondary school )is currently being discussed for deletion here; some members of this WikiProject might like to express their views. ( I was looking for the Talk page for Jharkhand state but was redirected here )-- Ðℬig XЯaɣ 01:08, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
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After settling "transliteration of names in Indic languages" issue, how about removing Caste related mentions from Individuals' bio? Mentioning caste makes no sense in the age we're living, also religion for that matter. KevinBraun 21:29, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
May be there was already a discussion about this issue in the past. However a fresh discussion would be useful. thanks KevinBraun 21:39, 21 December 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kbr144 ( talk • contribs)
You can add anything to an article as long as the language is neutral and is supported by reliable, neutral sources. If a person is identified as belonging to a particular caste by a published book or a reputed newspaper or journal, then there is no problem.- Ravi My Tea Kadai 16:37, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Unless a person self-identifies with a caste, or the caste is relevant, I don't see why we should automatically include the caste of an individual in an article. I'd go so far as to say that self-identification without relevance is not sufficient for inclusion but .... -- regentspark ( comment) 16:52, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
I agree in general with what Animesh is saying. In UK and USA, on many forms one is asked to identify ones ethnic or racial origin. Also, biographies of a number of British politicians, i.e. Ian Duncan Smith, Sebastian Coe, Boris Johnson, David Cameron etc. give details of the mixed heritage of their subjects. For example Coe is quarter Punjabi, Smith is one eighth Japanese, Johnson has Muslim heritage, Cameron is partly of Jewish extraction etc. Are these facts relevant ? I guess they must be because the UK media and the subjects themselves frequently mention them. Similarly caste is central part of the heritage of a Hindu and therefore essential to the biographies of Indian notables. I believe, for a variety of reasons, contemporary Indians take pride in belonging to their caste and would not make an attempt to hide it. Do mistakes happen with a person wrongly being labeled? Yes, all the time. Take the Marathi surname Deshpande. A popular Marathi writer P.L. Deshpande is repeatedly added to the list of Deshastha brahmins, however he happens to belong to the Saraswat brahmin sub-caste. The surname is also found amongst the C.K.P. community. The mistake is however, immediately rectified. In P.L. Deshpande's case because one can find numerous references identifying his caste, however, with others it may take longer but not impossible to find. In my view, the way forward would be to put a citation tag if the reference is not there rather than immediately deleting the unsourced information. Thanks. Jonathansammy ( talk) 20:56, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
What is the relevance of this statement to the point being discussed, Sitush? I am a Guardian reader and was surprised to see you in one of your posts equating The Hindu, a respected. secular, and middle of the road Broad sheet being compared to the almost parochial rightwing tabloid like the Daily mail. That aside, the point I am trying to make with this and also my original message is that ethnic origin is mentioned in biographies of not only Western politicians but also scientists. Check the the List of Jewish Nobel laureates and see for yourself. If you accept what I am saying above, then I don't see why caste of an individual can not be treated in a similar way to the ethnic origin. I do, however, agree with you that caste claims should be backed with reliable sources. Jonathansammy ( talk) 19:40, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
I'd just like to add that those who argue that 'if it is sourced' it should be included are not correct. Content is guided by WP:V, which is a threshold for inclusion. Reliable sourcing is a necessary condition for inclusion but it is not a sufficient condition. Content on living people must also satisfy WP:BLP (as well as WP:NPOV and WP:OR) where there is an explicit presumption in favor of privacy. In particular, it should be possible to reasonably infer that the person does not object to the information being included and the information should be notable, relevant, and well-documented (not just well-documented). In other words, if person X has never talked about his or her caste, nor is it relevant to that person's life, it is against our policy to include caste in the article. For example, it is relatively easy to infer the caste of Ramachandra Guha from the material in the article. But, we have no reasonable basis for concluding that he would not object to its inclusion. Neither is that information relevant to his work. Therefore, his caste should not be included in the article (and, fortunately, it isn't.) -- regentspark ( comment) 16:30, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
Fine! Lets delete it. Lets start with FAs & GAs. - Animeshkulkarni ( talk) 16:36, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
The originator seems missing after opening this box. - Animeshkulkarni ( talk) 11:04, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
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The issue is whether caste should be mentioned in articles for persons when the article gives no indication of how caste has impacted that person's life. For example, there could be multiple reliable sources which state a person's caste but none of them give context about how that person's caste has ever influenced any aspect of that person's life or actions.
When reliable sources say something like "This person has caste X and therefore..." then caste is almost certainly notable and should be included. When sources mention caste but there is no source which gives context or confirms that the person's caste has ever had an effect on their life, should editors include caste identity in the article?
An article needs to be selected by the community for
WP:INCOTM for the month of March. Please feel free to add suggestions and also vote. Last date - 29th February 2012.
BPositive
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APJ Abdul Kalam nominated by User:Hisham got the maximum number of votes (11). It was nominated for the last month's COTM as well but fell short of one vote to Dance in India. This time, Indra Nooyi fell short of two votes. Having it as the COTM would have been a worthy cause. But I think the result is a fair one considering the popularity of APJ and the scope for improvement. Hopefully, APJ Abdul Kalam will attract many editors and we will be able to improve the article to a significant extent.
Thank you all for voting! I look forward to your contribs on the article.
The INCOTM for the month of March 2012 is
APJ Abdul Kalam.
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BPositive
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I find that categories for districts in India have the district name in small letters like Category:Villages in Adilabad district. I find this naming really strange and difficult to understand. Proper nouns should be in capitals and "d" in district should be capitalised as per Wikipedia:Naming conventions. Every other Wikiproject follows the conventions, like Category:People from Harris County, Texas and not Category:People from Harris county, Texas. Why does WP:INDIA alone not follow the convention? Any specific reason? I had earlier initiated a discussion here but no one bothered to reply.- Ravi My Tea Kadai 02:56, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
It is being debated whether the "district" in the names of districts in India should be capitalized. Please weigh in your opinions here and participate in this consensus
There is a proposal to expand the scope of WikiProject Protected Areas of India and expand its scope. Please join the discussion here. AshLin ( talk) 18:01, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
In the absence of any dissenting voice, Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas of India has been renamed as "WikiProject Biodiversity, Protected areas & Environment of India" with suitably enlarged scope. AshLin ( talk) 10:56, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Can someone review the edits by the above named user? They have been relentlessly adding transliteration scripts in different languages to a bunch of articles over the past 48 hours. I have reverted many of their edits, and I think further scrutiny is necessary – [8]. Thanks. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 22:27, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
ATTENTION! Can someone review the actions of this user? They are continuing to add the transliteration scripts to articles – [9]. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 19:05, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
The Economy section in Gujarat is pretty messed up and is not 'to the point', anyone interested in economics? Help is needed.-- kondi talk/ contribs 19:55, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
I kept out of the row last year re: village article names (Bogdan N was involved). Being clueless, could someone please look at the history for Madha, India and fix if appropriate - Madha, Hisar seems a more reasonable name but I do not want to start another move war. - Sitush ( talk) 00:14, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
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Dear all, since we have our first GLAM collaboration started now at the WP:GLAM/CM I was wondering if someone could help me start a GLAM COTM. We have identified 4 articles to begin with and two of them are high on importance. Any thoughts on this? Noopur28 ( talk) 05:02, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I was recently patrolling the Articles to be merged backlog for WikiProject Merge, and I came across the proposed merger of Aaladikkumulai with Aladikkumulai. The nominator didn't start a discussion for the merge, and normally in that case, I just remove the tags if it's been long enough. On this occasion, it seems likely that the articles are duplicates, but not likely enough for me to merge WP:BOLDly. I am bringing this here because I think subject knowledge is needed to be sure that the articles are duplicates, and the pages themselves are not very active. I am willing to carry out the merge if we can agree here that it's necessary. Quasi human | Talk 11:20, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello Everyone!
It's time to review the WP:INCOTM for the month of February 2012.
Last month, Dance in India was the only article chosen for the INCOTM.
During the period under question, Dance in India had 208 edits from 20 contributors. This is quite good compared to the last month's COTM - Premchand which had 133 edits from 17 contributors. This months COTM was a success in my eyes as the following improvements were seen-
However,
The top four editors of Dance in India for the month of February 2012 were:
To encourage contribution, they have been awarded a Barnstar for taking time and effort to participate. Special thanks to Karthikndr for adding the references and helping in removing the refimprove tag just a day before the COTM was about to terminate. Also, thanks to AroundTheGlobe for adding images to the article. Wikilove was sent to AroundTheGlobe for the same.
We still need more work to be done on Dance in India as it is one of the highest visibility articles of the WikiProject - it gets 500 to 600 pageviews per day!
GA/FA of the month
As far as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi goes, there were 213 edits with the major contributors being AshLin, Hisham, Rjensen and Dav subrajathan.357. Wikilove has been sent to motivate them to continue the long struggle.
The referencing is still being carefully weeded. It has been completely moved to cite templates now. A lot of dud references have been detected and replaced. In some cases what the reference was saying had no bearing to the text and was replaced. Preference was given to references which are verifiable online. Referencing continues because the article is a mixture of cite & Harvard referencing styles.
It was suggested we go in for one of three models of referencing -
It has been decided to move it to shortened urls/Bibliography model as the bibliography already exists and the Harvard referencing was in minority. Hopefully that once this ends, the GA proper can begin. The time taken for all this underlines the great importance of accurate referencing and choosing reliable sources.
Thank you all for contributing to this month’s INCOTM. Hoping for an even better response for the next COTM - APJ Abdul Kalam.
Cheers! BPositive (talk) 18:56, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
I've just noticed that a lot of entries at Indian independence activists are unlinked and unsourced. If anyone can provide some sources, that would be great - otherwise, I think they should be removed. -- Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 08:53, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Massive edit war going on in Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant. I request some experienced editors to initiate some structured disussions. -- Anbu121 ( talk me) 09:49, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks Anbu121 for bringing up the matter here. As a new user, I was advised to come here to discuss this in more detail by the TeaHouse. Could someone from the community take a look at Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant. I think the article is quite biased and not maintainable in light of the recent events and disclosures on the topic, but the user insists on reverting the changes completely without discussing the matter on the talk page. Thanks for your help. Nashtam ( talk) 15:39, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
A user ( talk to him) is adding all biased texts and reverting the articles. This user has registered only to edit Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant page. Its really wrong and unethical. Is there a way to mark him as spam? — Preceding unsigned comment added by AMuraliKumar ( talk • contribs) 01:38, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for noticing the unfair editing that has been going on AMuraliKumar. I just got another "last warning" that I will be banned without further notice for "vandalisation" on Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant. I have been waiting to discuss the matter in a fair manner on the talk page for more than four days now with no response from the people concerned. Request experienced Indian users for advice on how to proceed in this matter. Nashtam ( talk) 05:55, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
User:Yann has asked for input from the community at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Indian_maps#Location_maps_for_MP_districts. Would some one please oblige? AshLin ( talk) 17:46, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
I am currently working on creating an article titled Street children in India. Though street children are a large (estimates are over 100,000) and very disadvantaged part of the Indian population, there is no mention of them anywhere either on the articles for India or poverty in India. Researchers have noted that the circumstances in which street children live are unique from other children in poverty and they must be given their own space in policy. Their absence from pages about India, especially poverty in India, is not merited; they need to be included, especially since the independence of street children puts them more at risk than children in poverty that live with their families. When Street children in India is completed, I plan to place a link for it on the India article. On the poverty in India article, I will write a paragraph or two about street children in an appropriate section and link my article.
I would love feedback and suggestions from anyone who is willing to read my article draft when I post it in my Sandbox. (I’ll add the link here when it is completed). KiaraDouds ( talk) 21:55, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
A recent decision on the use of indic scripts in the leads of India-related articles was made (see main discussion here and clarification here). This decision has not been properly communicated and User:DeltaQuad and I agree that it should be placed in the Manual of Style somewhere. The most appropriate place would be in the India-related articles subpage, but it is currently inactive. Surely there are now enough India-related article to warrant the resurrection of these guidelines. What are your thoughts? Please join the discussion here. Bazonka ( talk) 08:59, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Since no-one has objected, I have slightly amended WP:MOSIN and reinstated it under Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (regional). The changes that I have made to it are:
I have not included anything about the decision mentioned above not to use Indic scripts in the leads of articles. This seems like a controversial decision requiring further discussion and consensus. I suggest that any further discussions about style take place at WT:MOSIN. Bazonka ( talk) 08:53, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
The dispute is over the factual depiction of PRC territories on the article on China. It involves territories currently administered by the Republic of India and the Republic of Taiwan and hence I felt pertinent to post here to attract attention of those interested in contributing to the discussion on Talk:China. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 21:14, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
An article on some children's games includes a section on "Kho Kho" and a section on "Ghoda Hai Jo Maar Khaye (The Horse Who Will Beaten)". I started copyediting Ghoda Hai Jo Maar Khaye but I don't understand some of the rules. Can somebody who's familiar with the game please rewrite some of the sentences? Also both games need references. Cloveapple ( talk) 17:20, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Sir people are removing rape by militants from Rape in Indian-administered Kashmir. Please advice what to do? Awaaz-e-Kashmir ( talk) 18:22, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Although I started discussion on talk page and moderator Mr. TopGun now threatens to block me. Mr. NerosRevenge and Mr. TopGun have removed my additions 3 times
Mr. TopGun has advised me to 'post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard' on my talk page so I am posting request here. Please tell me if there is other relevant noticeboard. Please help me. Awaaz-e-Kashmir ( talk) 19:29, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
The newsletter of WP:India project outreach department did not go out in the whole of 2011. Help is invited from members of WP:India towards the April 2012 newsletter. If you have suggestion/tips, please do leave them on the talk page. Please WP:BE BOLD and contribute to the edition. Prad2609 ( talk) 07:49, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
This is the first post from the India Program team regarding the team. I have been posting updates on the various mailing lists - but am acutely aware that the majority of our community is on village pumps or project pages and hence this post. Do excuse me for posting something which is not solely focused on this project, but the work we are doing has learnings that you might find useful for your project. Here are 5 important links that you might find useful
Please feel free to translate this post for the benefit of the larger audience. In fact, I'd be really grateful if you did!
Hisham ( talk) 03:39, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
I support Speedy delete. However the topic is notable but the container topic Education in Punjab, India already exists and is in great need for tender, love & care (viz, referenced, NPOV & paraphrased edits). I strongly recommend IntoTheFire to please slow down, stop fighting, learn the Wikipedia culture and learn how to process information so that it is useful for Wikipedia. Your product/output is flawed at the moment and unacceptable as pointed out by editors above. Strangely, after PunjabiGladiator, this is the second person on Punjabi topics who has issues learning about Wikipedia culture. Co-incidence! AshLin ( talk) 18:41, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
But as I have already shown above
With reference to this above topic i have a question. For standardization, why dont we have statewise topics for all states in India? I see that many of them have it. But few small states have some paragraphs included in their state articles itself. Wont it be better to break them apart? Thus also giving scope for expansion. Eg. Education in Maharashtra can surely have its own seperate article. - Animeshkulkarni ( talk) 13:30, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Now that the discussion on mentioning caste has been closed, I just wanted to bring to notice that there are many pages that list the people belonging to different communities.( Category:Lists of Indian people by community) Time for us to decide what to do with these. One of them is under AfD. -- Anbu121 ( talk me) 19:12, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
I would like to inform the broad community of glad tidings - we have a number of volunteers who have agreed to coordinate WikiProjects. These are:
We welcome them to their new responsibilities and they are now proud members of a select club indeed - people who have publicly volunteered to look after an area of responsibility on WikiProject India.
Please welcome them on their talk pages.
They join User:BPositive ( WP:INCOTM), User:Kondicherry ( Wikipedia:WikiProject Gujarat) & ssriram_mt ( Tag & Assess 2012).
Redtigerxyz has asked for fellow co-coordinators for WikiProject Hinduism, if any one is willing and forthcoming.
We would like to intimate readers that we are constantly looking for editors to help with the various departments and task forces. There are more than seventy more areas needing looking after. And if the project you are interested in already has one, welcome to it - we need lots of dedicated volunteers per department or task force not just one.
AshLin ( talk) 04:46, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
I would like to inform the broad community of more glad tidings - we have two more volunteers who have agreed to coordinate WikiProjects. These are:
We welcome them to their new responsibilities and they are now proud members of a select club indeed - people who have publicly volunteered to look after an area of responsibility on WikiProject India.
Please welcome them on their talk pages and not on the list(s).
We would like to remind readers that we are constantly looking for editors to help with the various departments and task forces. There are more than seventy more areas needing looking after. And if the project you are interested in already has one, welcome to it - we need lots of dedicated volunteers per department or task force not just one.
AshLin ( talk) 06:42, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
India Wikiwomen's Edit-a-thon is scheduled for 25th March 2012, Sunday from 12:00pm to 2:00pm.During the two hour time slot we all will be editing an article which will be pre-selected by way of nomination and votes. Depending on the number of members joining in we can also organise an IRC meet to meet each other before and during the event. Everyone is welcome to come edit Wikipedia with us at this event. Women, new editors, all those who relate to women's history or women's issues, those who want to learn how to edit or can teach others how, and anyone with an interest in women's history are particularly encouraged to attend.Please sign up here and suggest and vote for articles here. Nomination for articles will be closed by 22nd of March and the voting will be closed by 24th March.-- Netha Hussain ( talk) 12:25, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
I find that Mohenjodaro doesn't have a Wikiproject India tag, I don't know the rules about adding the tag or otherwise. I am going ahead with it. Yogesh Khandke ( talk) 15:53, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
We have an article about other language wikipedias on en wiki.Marathi language wikipedia is also equally prominant wikipedia with reasonable number of third party ref and criticism too SO please contribute to Marathi Wikipedia article Mahitgar ( talk) 08:04, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Monuments is a photography competition that is going international this year. The Project needs support from a WikiProject. Since there are no comprehensive working groups in WikiProject India working on monuments as such, we would love to seek the help of contributors to the Indian history working group. Also, since this project involves photographs, we also seek the help from Wikipedians in the photography department of this project. We think that these sections could work together on this project.
Please feel free to ask questions here. Your support is appreciated. The India page for Wiki Loves Monuments is here. Feel free to sign up.
Prad2609 ( talk) 08:20, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi! While going through PRODed articles of India i came across few related to Football and though of peeping in them. The first one;
Subroto Cup Football Tournament clearly is notable 60-yr old tournament with many valid google hits. I even found winners of this cup for past recent few years. Hence the reason used for PROD "no proof that the cup is still active today or that it actually existed before" by
User:Arsenalkid700 was wrong. Second PROD for
Kerala State Football League with reason "references are not even references and they dont prove the existence of the league, plus this league is supposedly defunct" is also wrong in my opinion as the league can very well be dead & decaying today but that is not the reason for deletion per
WP:NTEMP. Seeing the trend of PROD tags placed by this user, i deproded
The Street League and
Agartala League immediately as they would have been deleted in few hours from now.
Wikipedia does require to remain clean but not by deletion of some articles which are just less-attractive. Someone with interest and knowledge on this is requested to look into it as i have none. The
User:Arsenalkid700 seems to be much more experienced than me and hence i do not understand why the tags were placed. These articles might very well be worth deletion but certainly not through PROD. -
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Please nominate for the next month's COTM on the nominations page. There have already been two nominations - Ram Waeerkar & Indian National Pledge. As suggested by the community members, now onwards, the nominations & voting will take place on the nominations page itself and not on the India Notice Board.
As far as the GA/FA article - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is concerned, I've come to know from AshLin that it's getting quite difficult to get it to the GA Level. Especially the referencing part. So, shall we opt out of this and start working on a new article for the 'GA of the month' from April onwards? I'd like to hear on this from as many of you. Please post your replies below. -- BPositive (talk) 19:16, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
It is always very difficult to improve a political personality's article up o GA/FA level, especially if the article is about someone as important and as complex as Gandhi. We can pick some article which can be worked upon in easier way, and which has a better potential to reach GA/FA level (so that we can see our work getting the recognition, this would inspire more editors to participate maybe). From personal bias and experience, I can suggest that geography articles (states and cities of India) are relatively easier. You can pick some state which has significantly less representation in the project, such as Tripura. Small states would likely offer less complicated issues, and might be easier to edit and easier to improve to GA/FA level. Regards.-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 19:32, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
All might know by now that Tag & Assess 2012 drive is in full swing. What we basically do there is tag articles based on their importance like Low, Mid, High or Top and assess articles for their current class like Stub, Start, C or B class. Assessing articles for finding out their class gives us a result to know where the project stands. More the higher class articles, the better we are doing. The importance tag mentions how important the article is for this project. It's count is immaterial. But most of the times, importance of importance-tags also becomes immaterial. Hence to support the efforts taken by Tag & Assess participants, i would request INCOTM to use the importance tags to choose the article for improvement. We have 30 articles in Category:C-Class India articles of Top-importance and 96 in Category:B-Class India articles of Top-importance. Numbers might keep change now and then. Please take one of these article. - Animeshkulkarni ( talk) 21:15, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Can someone please provide links for the infobox to be used for villages and Districts in India , Thanks-- Ðℬig XЯaɣ 10:47, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
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Bhagat Singh, a former GA article has been renominated for GA and the review is ongoing here. Around The Globe सत्यमेव जयते 05:55, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey all, I was thinking maybe we can change the current invitation template code to this one, User:Debastein/WP:India Invite. Basically, this would enable any user to give a custom message and sign easily using the {{User:Debastein/WP:India Invite|message= |sign=}} functions. Also this would recognize the user name in the talk page and automatically input it. What say, should I implement this template. It seems better to me. -- Debastein ( talk) 19:37, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
I've created the article Indian Science Engineering Eligibility Test also known as ISEET which will replace IIT-JEE and AIEEE. So I request you to expand the article as I'm busy with my exams. Regards Srikar Kashyap ( talk) 11:41, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Khajuraho Group of Monuments is one of the World Heritage Site. For Madhya Pradesh Project it should be on high importance (being one of the 2 World Heritage Sites.
Rajenver ( talk) 05:15, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
I really don't know anything about how the Indian political or governmental system works, but Anam Ramanarayana Reddy needs some help. I can't tell if the subject even meets the notability guidelines because I don't know what those titles/roles/regions/offices are. / ƒETCH COMMS / 17:19, 24 March 2012 (UTC)