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This time as User:Lord Senapati. See [1]. Anyone bother right now to look up the diffs? Otherwise, I'll try later today. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 10:40, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
I noticed this article today. I guess this is a topic forcefully created by bundling together a bunch of skirmishes/wars etc. I am not sure if this is a mainstream history term. But of course I may be wrong. Any opinion?-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 01:45, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
Dear India experts: This article seems to be about the same place as Donkeshwar, but it has some interesting information that isn't in the mainspace article. There are no references, though. I am reporting this here in case anyone is interested in sourcing this and adding it to the main article. — Anne Delong ( talk) 13:55, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
Dear India experts: If this person really did direct 60 films, there should be sources available to show this. Should the article be kept and improved, or deleted as a stale draft? — Anne Delong ( talk) 17:30, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi! While trying to de-orphan Harischandra Range, I found out that there are two (stub) articles on the same subject. ( Harishchandra Range is the other.) Obviously, a merge is needed. But which is the right spelling? Googling either or both names does not provide any satisfactory answers, and I am otherwise clueless. Help? Thanks! - Gorthian ( talk) 05:23, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Please evaluate this submission at Articles for creation, I don't know if it is notable or if the sources are acceptable. Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 07:56, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
The article is under the former title but only uses Bhojraj Singh in the actual article. Dougweller ( talk) 12:05, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
On the Ratan Tata page, some Wikipedians are attempting to add GBE, a British post nominal, in Tata's case an honorific awarded to an Indian citizen, to his name. There is also another page, a facebook-like page of a lesser known guy, Chandrika Prasad Srivastava, which has a fruit salad trailing him, including IAS, and ICS (which he was not); see here. The Indian Home Ministry has interpreted Article 18.1 of the Constitution of India (which says, "18. (1) No title, not being a military or academic distinction, shall be conferred by the State.") to imply that Indian awards cannot be used as pre- or post nominals. (See here, where the Home Ministry says, "In terms of Article 18 (1) of the Constitution, the (Bharat Ratna) award cannot be used as a prefix or suffix to the recipient's name."). However, Article 18.2 of the Constitution of India says, "(2) No citizen of India shall accept any title from any foreign State." (See here page 8). We have already seen the bogus Maharaja and Nawab titles being used on Indian biography pages, which too are unconstitutional. These however are new ones as far as I am aware. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 23:31, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
-- Karl Stephens ( talk | contribs ) 13:46, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
Could somebody confirm the notability of the Macaulayism article? The sourcing is very iffy (such as Rajiv Malhotra) and it was created by a sockpuppet of a banned user.— indopug ( talk) 06:24, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
I haven't looked closely at what's going on here (I'll try to, shortly), but it looks as though the page needs protecting. Imc ( talk) 17:52, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
I recently watched a debate between Amartya Sen and Jagdish Bhagwati, two notable Indian economists working in the US. The debate was about Narendra Modi, the BJP candidate for prime minister in India.
The lives and career trajectories of the two economists are very similar. Both are around 80 years of age, both did their undergraduate work in India, went to the UK for a second BA, subsequently received their PhDs (one in the UK, the other in the US). Both then taught at the Delhi School of Economics during the 60s and attained early notability while there. They then left India, and have taught and worked abroad since, i.e. in the last 40 plus years, and achieved their major notability while abroad. The only difference is that Sen has retained his Indian nationality, working abroad on an immigrant visa (a green card in the US), whereas Bhagwati has become a naturalized American. In the debate, Sen was heard saying, "Do I want a Prime Minister, as an Indian citizen, who has that kind of record (i.e. Modi's)? No, I wouldn't." (See here (10:15)) And Bhagwati was heard saying, "I wouldn't vote for Narendra Modi" (2:05). Both economists, now past their academic prime, are being less than transparent. In the case of Sen, he is using his nominal Indian citizenship (he has not lived in India in over 40 years) to somehow legitimize his view. In the case of Bhagwati, the use of "wouldn't," strictly speaking, absolves him of an outright lie, but the plain fact is that he can't vote in India; he's not an Indian citizen any more.
I have since looked at pages of other notable Indians living abroad. There are various degrees vagueness or subterfuge being employed in the lead sentences about their nationality. Some, such as Indra Nooyi, were being described as "Indian-American." But that term is usually used for the so-called "ethnic group" of Americans (i.e. born and raised) but of Indian origin, and most often applied to people such as Sanjay Gupta, Kal Penn, Bobby Jindal, or Nikki Haley.
Others were being described "American." Thus Satya Nadella, who is 46 years old, and became a naturalized American in his late 30s, was being described as an "American business executive, etc." I started a discussion on Talk:Satya Nadella, but soon realized that there is a more general lack of clarity about the nationality or nationalities which are relevant to a person's notability for a host of international people, but especially for India-born people, since a large number of them were born and raised in India and left after they finished college or even after receiving a masters, i.e. after the age of consent (21). This is a matter that ultimately needs to be taken up at MOS:Biography, but if you examine the underlying discussion at Talk:MOS Biography, there is no real consensus there either, the discussion mainly an argument between two people of opposite views. So, before reopening the issue at MOS, I thought I might bounce it off people here first. I am myself toying with two alternatives:
I believe "naturalized" is important in 1., as it distinguished these people (off the bat) from people such as Kipling, Thackeray, Jim Corbett (hunter), etc who were British/etc. but born in India. I would like to hear what others think. I believe such clarity makes Wikipedia lead sentences—which appear in Google searches—immune from being used or abused for political- and other non-encyclopedic purposes. Best regards, Fowler&fowler «Talk» 06:55, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Someone has added a bunch of book covers here Nrisingha_Prasad_Bhaduri#Books, (license is not clear, that's a different thing), I am asking for second opinion, does it look like, book showcase advert? Tito☸ Dutta 14:16, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
Views sought please on the most appropriate name for this town near Bangalore, at Talk:Ramanagar,_Karnataka. Thank you. Imc ( talk) 19:25, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
Views sought please on the most appropriate name for this town near Bangalore, at Talk:Ramanagar,_Karnataka. Thank you. Imc ( talk) 19:25, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
There is a discussion going on at Talk:List_of_Indian_federal_legislation to split and move the page to a different name. All comments will be appreciated. Amartyabag TALK2ME 16:47, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
There has been an editing spree by one editor removing Kannada names from a number of mainly geographic articles on the basis of this consensus. So I thought I’d check out this RfC again. In this case, the editor has a history of trying to replace place name spellings in Karnataka with their Hindi equivalents, so other motives than sticking to consensus / general practice are possible.
The summary of WP:INDICSCRIPT is quite clear, don’t use indic scripts in the lead sentence only. But the discussion starts off suggesting no Indic scripts for biographic articles, then develops to discussing to including all India related articles. It then has votes on multiple subjects and the vote on place names has a consensus that the state language should be retained for these; but this may have been overridden by another consensus that the general discussion has agreed that there should be no indic scripts in all articles. Or has it? It doesn’t help that the original discussion was started here on this page and concluded in this discussion (possibly). Due to archiving many of the links no longer work.
Other India or Indic language specific policies, such as WP:MOSIN, WP:NCIN imply or suggest that these names should be included for various topics including places, historic and religious subjects, and gives a style guide on including them.
I would like to suggest some further clarification of this subject. The previous discussion started with biographic articles, then widened, which is not a satisfactory way of conducting a wide ranging discussion (I looked at it at the start and decided I could ignore it because of the subject, something I regret now). So does it need revisiting? Clarify the scope – what about place names (include the state language), religious subjects, et.c. And clarify that if the name is already in the lead in an uncontroversial situation, it should not be removed – move it elsewhere, replace it with IPA, but do not remove what normally is useful information. Imc ( talk) 08:17, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
I believe that the consensus was to avoid indic scripts in the lead but that it was ok to use them in infoboxes. I see that Imc has dropped a note on the user's talk page, hopefully that should settle things. -- regentspark ( comment) 20:40, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Matsya Narayana Temple, Bangalore. FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 00:22, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, I have a query about an Indian scientists name at Talk:Shankar Purushottam Agharkar#Purushottam vs Purosottum. Thanks, John Vandenberg ( chat) 10:24, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
sir/mam can i write an article on VIN RANA ,though he is just one show old.but have done lots of TV commercials and modelling assignments.be it in renownd magazines or print advertisement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rashmi11 08 ( talk • contribs) 06:18, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
Per wp:Manual of Style, I removed a circular shortcut to Shortcut: Wikipedia:INDICSCRIPT from the Indic scripts in lead subsection of the page., which comes right back (through redirect) to the origin point (page and section) from the Indic scripts in lead subsection of the page. Please do not add that back, as there is absolutely no reason to do so. GenQuest "Talk to Me" 15:52, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
See Arjuna ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) - do you think an SPI is warranted? I'm tempted to roll it back to - not sure what, and protect. Dougweller ( talk) 14:44, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/MEMU Shed, Kollam. FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 17:47, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
Does anybody know of a map of Indian states that includes Telangana? I'll need something similar to the one on the right for List of current Indian chief ministers.— indopug ( talk) 06:20, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
Does this work out? §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { T/ C} 06:38, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
Quite a bit of argument over these articles, and I blocked one editor for legal threats. Can anyone advise? Dougweller ( talk) 13:40, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
Could someone take a look there? Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 18:35, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
Dear India experts: Here's another of those abandoned Afc submissions. Is this about an actual place name? Should this be kept instead of being deleted as a stale draft? — Anne Delong ( talk) 20:32, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Dear India experts: This old AfC submission is about a school which is part of a college. The college itself is notable, but perhaps someone who is familiar with educational institutions in India will be able to tell if this section of the college is independently notable. If not, the page will be deleted as a stale draft. — Anne Delong ( talk) 22:41, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
@ Anne Delong: Almost every major universities, be it state- or private-funded, has a level-2 administration of such schools. For example, School of Life Sciences will have departments or courses of Plant Science, Animal Science, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, etc.,School of Chemical Sciences will Chemistry and its allied departments/courses. Its like clubbing of similar courses and departments. Some more: Faculties, Schools & Departments of Bharathidasan University; Schools and Departments of Bharathiar University; Anna University departments and many such Indian Universities and higher institutions like this. Hence it is not notable to have stand alone article. Either the concerned AfC may be deleted or redirected to its parent institution, SHIATS. -- βα£α( ᶀᶅᶖᵵᵶ)( Support) 19:08, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
Padutirupathi has no independent sources and a vast amount of unreferenced text - someone might like to have a look at it. Pam D 22:10, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
Please have a look at how the profile of Narendra Modi has been described at the Traffic Report. Amartyabag TALK2ME 06:01, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
There is a new article for Urdu poet and writer Fiza Ibn-e-Faizi, and there is quite a bit of confusion about the spelling of his name. If you have a chance to provide input, the question about the name is posted at Talk:Fiza Ibn-e-Faizi. The more I research the more confused I'm getting. Your insight would be very helpful! Thanks!-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 19:05, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
Ahmedabad was reviewed and listed as a Good Article in June 2012. It has been tagged with sourcing concerns since Dec 2013. I have done a GAR, and I feel that the article doesn't meet current GA criteria. The main contributors have been notified, though are unavailable or not able to do the work at the moment so there has been no progress. Following the guidelines at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment, interested WikiProjects are being contacted as editing assistance may be needed to prevent the article being delisted. See Talk:Ahmedabad/GA2 for more details. If no progress is made, and nobody expresses an interest in working on the article, it is likely to be delisted after seven days have passed. SilkTork ✔Tea time 16:15, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
Dear India experts: This old draft was never submitted to be added to the encyclopedia. Is this a notable news organization, and should the page be kept? — Anne Delong ( talk) 02:58, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi. I've been trying to improve the articles of the women in war category, and I've been focusing primarily on increasing visibility for women of color. I've noticed that Category:Indian women in war contains a lot of poorly-written articles that are in serious need of improvement, and I was wondering if anyone wanted to offer help or at least point me in the direction of English-language sources I could use to work on them. Also, I'd really like to add pictures but I'm having a hard time finding portraits of these women. I'm presuming that public domain portraits exist as most of the individuals in the category lived prior to the 20th century and were royalty, but I cannot locate them. Does anyone know of a website that contains public domain artwork of these women? Thank you very much. Asarelah ( talk) 15:22, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
Is the 15th PM designation for Modi correct? Looking at List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_India, he could be either the 16th or the 14th. If we go by terms (Elections column), then he is the 16th PM. If we go by people, he is actually the 14th (Vajpayee is counted twice in that list) . I've fixed both but figure this is important enough to need review. -- regentspark ( comment) 15:41, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
I've done quite a bit of work on the PMs list (as well as nearly all the CMs' lists), and I oppose counting Nanda as the second PM and Modi as the 15th. The fact is there is a lot of disagreement and contradiction among sources. Yes you can find Manmohan being called the 14th and now Modi the 15th PMs, but all the sources routinely refer to Shastri as the second. (Even among government sources [13], [14]) Given this inconsistency I believe we can exercise our discretion. And not counting an Acting PM makes more sense than counting him; apart from giving undue importance to placeholders, it's also the logic that is used to number the Presidents of India. As for prime ministers who served discontinuous terms (Indira and Vajpayee), they're rarely counted twice.
TL;DR: List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_India is spot on, and other articles must be made consistent with it.— indopug ( talk) 03:05, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
Here is a succinct Outlook blog on the matter.— indopug ( talk) 03:36, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_India did not mention Nanda as a prime minister (corrected now) but in reality he was sworn in as the prime minister twice. 1 former prime ministers PMO 2 personal profile PMOPMO official citations . Please don't make a mockery of this. Counting Nanda we have 15 prime ministers( all counted once ). Admins should take note of this. jthomas91 05:33, 27 May 2014 (UTC) aze0098 ( talk)
We must count Nanda as a PM in the list List of Prime Ministers of India. Even current PM's website has mentioned NANDA as a prime minister. So if we include Nanda the list will be like this. 1.Nehru 2.Nanda 3.Sasthri 4.I Gandhi 5.Desai 6.C.Singh 7.R.Gandhi 8.VP Singh 9.Chandrasekhar 10.Rao 11.Vajpayee 12.Gouda 13.Gujral 14.Manmohan 15.Modi. check out http://pmindia.nic.in/pastpm.php for further details. what i conclude is Modi is 15th PM. - user talk:kappatD 08:40 AM, 28 MAY 2014 — Preceding undated comment added 03:12, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Support Narendra Modi as 15th PM of India. The PMO has confirmed Narendra Modi as the 15th Prime Minister- Modi is 15th PM-PMO. Manmohan Singh is also given as the 14th Prime Minister- PMO- Manmohan Singh, the rest is history. Based on the number of people who were sworn in as Prime Ministers we have 15 in all including Nanda. What's the point of mentioning Nanda in List of Prime Ministers of India but not numbering him. Be practical people and fix this.— jthomas91 ( talk) 11:43, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Dr meetsingh Talk 15:24, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
I think we should either go with 15th or just drop the whole numbering thing. First, as redtigerxyz says, we shouldn't be doing any calculations ourselves. Any math at all, even 2+12=14, is borderline OR. Second, assuming we can do some math, many of you are confusing Presidents and Heads of State with Prime Ministers. A Prime Minister is a head of government and the office doesn't come with the same pomp and circumstance trappings as does a head of state. Numbering of heads of governments, mere functionaries in titular terms, is in and of itself an exercise of elevation that is quite unwarranted. But, if we do have to go with numbering, then any person who has held the office should automatically be included in the list. He or she is just another head of government. My suggestion, do what the Brits do and drop the numbers. If you want to stick with numbers, count every person who has been a Prime Minister. -- regentspark ( comment) 19:27, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Has anyone seen the list as it is currently numbered? Nanda not numbered and Shastri as 2nd, so the numbers leading sequentially to Gujral as 12th following Dr Meetsingh's numbering; NO 13th PM, Manmohan Singh 14th, and Modi 15th. NO 13th PM. This is ridiculous. Whichever way we resolve this, any numbering should at least be sequential.
Most news sources seem to number Manmohan 14th, and Modi 15th. This numbering is consistent if Nanda is numbered as a full PM. The list from the PM's office (although not numbered) seems to regard Nanda as a full PM, listed without mention of any "acting" status. As for Shastri as 3rd PM, there are some sources supporting this. LookLook36 ( talk) 10:58, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
Please consider watchlisting these two pages for sometime: Heropanti, Tiger Shroff Tito☸ Dutta 17:37, 29 May 2014 (UTC) Watchlisting for 10-14 days will be fine. Tito☸ Dutta 17:37, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
I recently added some controversial information (properly sourced) about Francois Gautier. Gautier wrote a spoof about Nostradamus predicting the results of the general elections of the Lok Sabha in 1999 and the spoof was repeated, with different predictions, before almost every elections since. My edits were removed and was stated that it was non-notable information. But it is important because those articles do not state that they are spoof (the author admitted that the original article was a spoof in a later book) and so they are misleading. The latest article, published in the author's blog in March 2014 is cited in some news articles and news channels ( oneindia.in, fijitimes, TV9) already. It is also a topic of discussion in many blogs, forums, discussion groups and other websites. I think the truth about the articles must be in Wikipedia. I request someone to take a look at the issue. A comparison between my last edit and the current version can be found here. Thank you. - Inphynite ( talk) 06:53, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
I'm ok with this. -- Calypsomusic ( talk) 12:22, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
The article Alok Nath could do with a few eyes that know something about the subject. The article has been under a longterm vandalism attack. I just reverted to a version that looked ok and semi-protected it for another 3 month. Maybe something slipped through, so more eyes welcome. Agathoclea ( talk) 14:49, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
Is there a similar site where images may have creative commons licenses? Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 23:20, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
Hello Indian Task force I'm trying to create new indian foreign players.
Are these players notable?:
Thanks and cheers-- Lglukgl ( talk) 02:12, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi Dear All, You are cordially invited to the ongoing discussion at Talk:Rajput#Vaidya and Ojha. Sincerely, ← Abstruce 07:05, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Please lend your expertise to a discussion at Koenraad Elst on the serious, long-term BLP/NPOV violations in the BLP article Koenraad Elst at Talk:Koenraad Elst.
The NPOV violations were explained in great detail by the subject of the lemma here, already in 2012 and 2013:
These links say among other things:
The blog post was from 2013, and the previous wikipedia article version was chock full of BLP attacks. Currently the article is more neutral (still contains OR in the "Islam" section) and protected.
Because of the very serious NPOV violations in a BLP article, this requires the attention of neutral editors (and also of reasonable editors, both pro and contra Elst). I hope some of you will have a look and weigh in on the talk page. Thank you very much in advance. -- Calypsomusic ( talk) 17:24, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
There is an ongoing editing dispute regarding the use of File:Massive crowd at Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University gate during Namvistar Din celebrations.png in Aurangabad, Maharashtra#Culture and cuisine. Please continue the conversation at Talk:Aurangabad, Maharashtra#Requesting outside help with image dispute. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 16:12, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Notice: This discussion has been open for 7 days. If discussion has wound down, consider closing it. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)
Due to repeated attempts to add companies that do not have articles to this list which require cleanup by other editors, this page should have an
edit notice to discourage such behavior.
I recommend one of following:
Choice #1:
Only companies which are Notable enough to have a stand-alone Wikipedia article should be listed here. If a company does not already have a Wikipedia article please do not add it here without discussing it at Talk:List of companies in Gurgaon or Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics first. If you have questions, open a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics. |
Choice #2:
Only companies which already have articles in Wikipedia should be listed here. If a company does not already have a Wikipedia article please do not add it here. Before creating any article about a company, lease read Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies). If you have questions, open a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics. |
It's implied that non-notable companies should not be listed on pages like this, but I'm not sure if there is a consensus for limiting this page to only companies with actual articles. For that reason, I'm favoring option 1 unless someone convinces me that #2 is already the consensus practice.
Please reply with your support, opposition, or recommendations for changes. Unless there is a consensus against this or there are unresolved recommendations or other, I am going to go propose that the edit notice be created in about a week. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 19:40, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Admin-intervention needed there; some editor who thinks he can bypass (a lack of) concensus. I've already warned him. Thanks. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 19:37, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
First Law minister of India - Dr.Ambedkar . (Is Indian Lawyer a better name?) It should be Jurist. Father of Indian Constitution (Largest Indian Democracy) - Dr. Ambedkar . (Is this line to be removed?) Philosopher - He wrote several books on Buddhism such as Buddha or Karl Marx, Buddha and his Dhamma etc., Riddles in Hinduism etc. (Words were removed)
Barack Obama praised him when he came to India. Noble Prize Winner Amartya Sen calls him his father in Economics. (Economist) The Table concering his writings and speeches were removed without any proper justification. Please dont revert those changes. Why am I in trouble as you mentioned? Your's sincerely. Sid Siddheart (talk) 19:55, 2 June 2014 (UTC) Siddheart ( talk) 19:45, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
I don't understand that why Joshua Jonathan wants to remove the Table of Books and about his credibility. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Siddheart ( talk • contribs) 19:45, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
There is a discussion going on at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/K. Prasad Babu regarding the article of K. Prasad Babu, an Ashok Chakra awardee. Thanks, ƬheStrike Σagle sorties 11:33, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
Dear members of this project, please take a look of these above mentioned articles and their history. The Telangana article seems to have been copied from the Andhra Pradesh article alongwith from ASI website as noted and tagged by CorenSearchBot in this edit. User:Vin09, who created the Telangana one had possibly ripped off info from Andhra Pradesh for the Telangana one. Editors could please check if the Telangana one or the concerned user has flouted any guideline. -- βα£α( ᶀᶅᶖᵵᵶ)( Support) 23:16, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
Well there are at least six places in Mahārāshtra named Thergaon, the only one at present with an article, Thergaon, Chinchwad, is currently up for a deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thergaon. -- Bejnar ( talk) 21:48, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
An editor keeps adding material to these two articles that are very promotional. Despite explaining to him, there seems to be no understanding. All this material was removed on UIAI by SpacemanSpiff and the editor keeps re-instating them citing vandalism. In the case of Aadhaar, I had to dig down and revert back to the time before this editor first edited the article, which happens to be a redirect to UIAI. I am not trying to debate whether Aadhaar deserves to be a stand-alone article, but I simply removed all the promotional stuff and if it does deserve to be stand-alone, we can develop the article. Please weigh in. — LeoFrank Talk 16:40, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
The Wiki Loves Monuments India-its website seems to have been replaced by a car rental page! Guru-45 ( talk) 03:09, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
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Dear experts, please look at this article. Hope someone could fix the issue and facts. -- βα£α( ᶀᶅᶖᵵᵶ)( Support) 18:22, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
Should Bharat Ratna be classified as an article or a list? Currently, its a start-class article but it also consists of a list of recipients which cannot be forked into another article of a list class. I have expanded the article in last couple of days and would like to take it up to GA/FA if its an article or to FL, if its a list. Please comment. - Vivvt ( Talk) 21:06, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
Support branching off the list as a separate article.— indopug ( talk) 02:12, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
{{main|List of Bharat Ratna recipients}} {{As of|2014}}, there have been 43 recipients of the Bharat Ratna x men and y women, an average of z awards every year. The Baharat Ratna was first given in 1954 to the independence activist [[C. Rajagopalachari]], physicist [[C. V. Raman]], and philosopher [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]]. The first posthumous award followed ten years later, when former prime minister [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]] received the Bharat Ratna. The Bharat Ratna has been given to non-citizens twice, namely to [[Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan]] in 1987 and to [[Nelson Mandela]] in 1990, as well to a naturalised citizen once - Mother Theresa in 1980. ...
My intention was not to have information and references duplicated. With the amount of information collected so far, it would not be very difficult to split and make it as an article and a list. But then readers would need to jump back and forth to read detailed info and list of recipients. - Vivvt ( Talk) 00:39, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Nagpur orange , has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Cnilep ( talk) 02:38, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
There are two BLP pages, Amrinder Singh (a football player) and Amarinder Singh (ex-CM Punjab). These Punjabi names are obviously same but romanization is done differently. In such cases, what is the precedent ? Should they be both moved to new title by attaching (player) and (politician) respectively and a disambiguation page be created or both article be left in present state? --Vigyani talk ਯੋਗਦਾਨ 05:45, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
{{
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to both or just the footballer (as the politician appears to be the more notable person currently. Ideally, since it's just two people, the primary topic (politician) should have the non-disambiguated title with a redirect from the poss spelling error and the footballer should be located at the disambiguated title --
Amrinder Singh (footballer) (or whatever is the WP:Footy guideline for disambiguation. —
Spaceman
Spiff 09:39, 9 June 2014 (UTC)Its pleasure to announce that Dadasaheb Phalke Award is now added in the Wikipedia:In the news/Recurring items. The news can thus be promoted to ITN. But the passing is on condition that the recipient's article should meet the high standards of grammar and NPOV which usually are observed to be lacking. Cheers! §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { T/ C} 11:47, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
I need help figuring out the film Parvathi Pura. I'm helping a user on Parvathy Nair and his understanding of Wikipedia is very low. He kept getting reverted because he couldn't express why he was removing text. He thinks the film should not be mentioned on the Nair page as Nair was never in it. I've deleted other films from the page as they were never filmed, but Parvathi Pura has me stumped. I find refs that it was filmed, it wasn't filmed, Nair was in it, Nair wasn't or Nair only did a cameo. Bgwhite ( talk) 22:35, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
Is there any inherent notability policy/guidelines regarding present day sons and daughters of Indian monarchs or in other words "titular Maharajas" ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vigyani ( talk • contribs) 07:01, 9 June 2014
Hello. In various India related articles a strange numbering format appears (from Crime in India): "as the number of incidents per 1,00,000 of the population", "an increase of 1.5% over 2005 (50,26,337)" It appears quite a lot in the particular article and I've noticed it in several other India related articles and lists, so I figured it would be a good idea to bring it to everyone's attention, rather than just edit those I happen upon from time to time. I don't know if it's just someone being sloppy, a numerical keyboard having a mind of its own or numbers just working differently in India, but it undermines the credibility of the articles when the facts presented in them appear to be nonsense. It is of course entirely possible that the problem extends beyond India related articles on English Wikipedia, but I don't recall having seen such numbers elsewhere. Dix d'Épées ( talk) 14:04, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
The numbering issue has been discussed time and again. I remain of the opinion that using lakh/crore and the associated formatting is inappropriate on the English-language Wikipedia. While the Western system is apparently comprehensible to literate Indians, the Indian system is more often than not incomprehensible to literate non-Indians. In the interests of cosmospolitan inclusionism, yes, I guess we should show both and I think that I did once ask whether the {{ convert}} could be modified to do the job ... but it still irks me. The fly in the ointment of omitting the Indian variant is WP:MOSQUOTE - we are not supposed to link terms inside quotations and that can life awkward for lakh etc. I would imagine that, for example, a nationalist politician might be very unhappy to see their use of Indian format converted by us into a Western style. Then again, I quite regularly see people moving the commas around because they think it is a typo, and that can then make a nonsense of what is said anyway. - Sitush ( talk) 06:25, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
{{
convertSouthAsianNumbers}}
or some such thing to fix this issue for a while (I think South Asian would be more appropriate as this type of numbering is common across the subcontinent, not just India). —
Spaceman
Spiff 14:26, 10 June 2014 (UTC)Draft:Bhavani Island, Vijayawada. FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 14:39, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
The following individuals who are in the scope of this project are showing to be alive on the English wiki, but deceased on another language wiki:
Please help to find reliable sources to confirm if these individuals are alive or dead, or correct any mis-categorization on the relevant foreign-language article(s). Please see WP:LIVINGDEAD for more info and raise any issues on the talkpage. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 08:43, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
List of schools in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh was just moved to List of schools in Hyderabad, Telangana. Is this uncontroversial? Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 13:04, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi all, fellow Wikimedian User:Titodutta suggested me to write to you all about the @WeAreWikipedia on Twitter. It is a rotation curation on Twitter where one Wikimedian curates the handle for a week, shares interesting community and project stories and also be the face of Wikipedia for the world. So far, 18 curators including 6 Indic language curators have already curated. I would love to hear from more Indic Wikimedians if they would like to curate it. Thanks -- Subha Utter2me! 12:21, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
Shivansh.ganjoo ( talk · contribs) has cut and paste moved "Jammu (city)" to "Jammu" and "Jammu" (original) to "Jammu division". I thought to bring the attention of WP:IN, if anyone is interested in contesting it. Otherwise I was going to request some admin to do the move properly, because history and talk pages are left behind.--Vigyani talk ਯੋਗਦਾਨ 13:29, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
I've just created Yashovarman. Does anyone know of a link to a public domain edition of the Gaudavaho by Vakpati? There are plenty of commercial editions of it but if there is a PD one then I'll shove the thing into External Links. There are, as is so often the case, numerous spellings in English of both the author and the work. - Sitush ( talk) 21:16, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
Please note: This is an updated version of a previous post that I made.
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Shall we use non english in article's talk page? Eshwar.om Talk tome 16:49, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
Has anyone got access to The Journal of Indian History from 1963 (volume 41)? I'm after the full text of an article that appeared around p. 765? I think we're misquoting it due to people using Google Books snippet view. I'll try WP:RX if no-one here can help - it is awkward because we don't have the author, precise page range etc but it looks like the JIH is published once a year, . - Sitush ( talk) 06:29, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
An IP repeatedly adds CSD tag to Ishita Malaviya claiming its not notable despite being supported by quite a lot of RS. They have started a discussion in talk and insists I let the vague CSD tag remain till 24 hours....Comments requested. Thanks, ƬheStrike Σagle 06:58, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
see Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(people)#South_Indian_names -- Soman ( talk) 15:40, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
Advertisement or Endorsement???In India article ,see under Society section the File and the image content //A Christian wedding in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. Christianity is believed to have been introduced to India by the late 2nd century//.What non sense it is? .Internet,television,radio,are all old fashion, Now India article on Wikipedia is new fashion for them might be? what doing India-related admins .thank you Eshwar.om Talk tome 15:22, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
'They switch from time to time'.yes Your correct.No words to say.Thank you. Eshwar.om Talk tome 18:13, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
see Template_talk:DEFAULTSORT#Other_naming_practices.3F - Soman ( talk) 07:10, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
The above list is now a featured list candidate. This is my first FLC, please help me. I feel that it meets the featured list criteria.-- Skr15081997 ( talk) 15:02, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
A new IP is looking for trouble: [16]. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 19:02, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
An editor is repeatedly inserting poorly sourced and POV material into the M. S. Golwalkar article, and refusing to discuss his edits on the talkpage. Could somebody take a look at this? Thanks— indopug ( talk) 14:00, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
Hello, India experts. Here's another of those old abandoned AfC submissions about a village. It includes a census record to show its existence. Should this be kept and improved? — Anne Delong ( talk) 18:05, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
New article by new editor, needs attention - just a tiny stub. Dougweller ( talk) 12:18, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
Some Wikipedians have been using Wikipedia as a complaint box. I am not sure whether this is okay or not but the pages seem to be losing their relevance. I request other editors, particularly an administrator, to kindly see some of the pages - Visakhapatnam railway station, Cuttack railway station, Sambalpur railway station and Jharsuguda railway station. Also please see Rourkela Railway Division - there is no such railway division, this article is canvassing support for one. Is Wikipedia meant for this? - Chandan Guha ( talk) 04:12, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
Hello, my apologies for the delay. I got the reply to my RTI query but looks like it is not going to be very helpful. This is what I received.
Information sought | Inputs |
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please provide me with the list of 1st Prime Minister to 13th Prime Minister including the period they served as per the records present with the Prime Minister's office. | The list of all Prime Ministers including their tenure is available on PMO's website www.pmindia.nic.in and the same may be accessed. |
I cannot ask for a clarification in an RTI, only information can be sought. My suggestion would be to consider modi as 15th and nanda as 2nd. Let me know if I can help you in another RTI :-P . - sarvajna ( talk) 12:57, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
Dear India experts: Here's another abandoned AfC submission about an Indian village. Would anyone like to improve it? — Anne Delong ( talk) 21:29, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
This account's contributions need to be gone over and either reverted or endorsed. He was recently uncovered as a sockpuppet of Nitishkumartn ( SPI), who has been banned since Feb. 2014. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 18:40, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
We could use some views here: User talk:Vin09#NOTDIR and your removal of useful sections. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 06:36, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
Please don't be swayed by the section title. I may very well be completely wrong. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 06:37, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi everyone! I was wondering if anyone could help out with the article Arjun (2011 film)? It could use some definite TLC, as there aren't many sources on there to back up the movie's information. User:NinjaRobotPirate (who alerted me to the article) is also concerned that there is a language barrier and a COI as far as the original editor is concerned. I'm going to try to find sources, but I'm running into the typical issues with Google searches in that they don't really bring up all of the Indian sources that could potentially be out there. I'd greatly appreciate whatever help you guys can provide. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 03:33, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
-- Redtigerxyz Talk 04:49, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
Admin-involvement needed for this new user: four edits, three warnings. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 02:19, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Journal of Bengali Studies where I wrote "On a side issue, I note that the organisation that publishes the journal is going to create more [17] and that its founder is the creator of the article. That might be all fine and dandy, except that they actually have an agenda. [18] "We are trying to promote Bengali history on wikipedia by authoring articles." Great. "We are working on the Jayadeva birth controversy, in order to dispel doubts about the birthplace of Jayadeva, the poet of Gitgobindo." Terrible and takes us back to this AfD. The birthplace of Jayadeva is heavily disputed, see [Jayadeva birth controversy]]. But here we have an 'academic journal' run by people who are dedicated to dispel doubts - that is to argue that he was born in Bengali and I would guess to use their journals as sources to push this position. Please read all of [19] as it appears this organisation hopes to have an impact on a number of our articles." This is basically an alert - anyone can edit Wikipedia, but if people with an agenda create a journal and write articles for it, then using them to edit.... Dougweller ( talk) 15:03, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi. An editor keeps blanking this http://cityairnews.com/content/jalandhar%E2%80%99s-surbhi-jyoti-makes-her-hindi-television-debut-zee-tv%E2%80%99s-qabool-hai actress see Talk:Surbhi Jyoti, refuses to use a normal delete tag or go via AFD. Can someone else check and see if this is appropriate for this actress, thanks. In ictu oculi ( talk) 16:35, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
Can someone tell me where I can find sub-division level/block level data of 2011 Census? Most of the Wikipedia articles have 2001 data, but 2011 information is missing. Amartyabag TALK2ME 05:17, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
@ Armbrust, Dougweller, and The Bushranger: as you particpated in Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Cskumaar/Maruthuvar community you may have an interest in these discussions as well. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 21:22, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
See User:Hiseminency/sandbox which is I think a copy of [21] - so maybe copyvio. But we also have Dayemi Complex Bangladesh which is a real article in desperate need of work (and is part bio which it shouldn't be). And User:Wmaiirfb which is even worse. Who actually is Hazrat Sheikh Shah Sufi Mohammad Nurul Alam? Dougweller ( talk) 14:25, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
Interested editors may wish to peruse Boraj Tanwaran ( 3 deletions) aka Boraj Tawaran (one deletion). The creator Boraj Tanwaran ( talk · contribs) has recreated despite an AfD ( Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Boraj Tanwaran) that resulted in deletion. Editor doesn't seem malicious, just misguided and very eager to having a page about their village on WP. I have tried to advise them but editor doesn't listen, or doesn't understand. - 220 of Borg 20:44, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
Draft:Dr. Arawind (Arvind) Thatte. FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 21:16, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
There is a dispute about the depth of content at Rama. Please help by giving your opinions on the same. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 16:47, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
Seems to be edit warring over who won here, spilling over to [22] at Maratha Empire. Dougweller ( talk) 10:59, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Talk:Guntur district#Proposed merger to merge Guntur Coast with Guntur district#Geography. Input would be appreciated. ミーラー強斗武 ( StG88ぬ会話) 18:45, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
Please provide your expertise on the issue "Narendra Modi (2002 Gujarat riots)" in the Biography of Living Persons Noticeboard. In my opinion, the article on 2002 Gujarat riots seriously misrepresents the views a couple of US Congressmen as the views of National Human Rights Commission and the US State Department. If you need more details please ask. Uday Reddy ( talk) 16:50, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I came across one video clip for ULS help for Telugu language wikipedia as shown below. The clip is usefull but it does not show how to access help page. We will apreciate if some one helps us with simmiller clip for Marathi language.
Thanks & Regards Mahitgar ( talk) 15:16, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
The category Category:Leaders of All India Muslim League is being considered for renaming to Category:All India Muslim League members. The discussion is ongoing here. An editor expressed concern that regular participants of related topics might not be aware of it and hence this note here. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { T/ C} 04:30, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
This is a huge list of Indian biographies that possibly should have their own article on Wikipedia. The text is in public domain.-- Skr15081997 ( talk) 09:01, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Please note that Sachin Tendulkar had been nominated for GA (fourth time) and is currently under review. Due to the unavailability of the nominator, requesting anybody interested in getting it passed as a good article to respond in the review here. Otherwise, the reviewer will have to fail it within a week. Sincerely, Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 13:03, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi. I was wondering if a Wikiproject India team member could have a look at Katariya. An editor has repeated a change to the location of this town. Thanks. -- Whpq ( talk) 17:12, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi, All these articles mentioned a wrong information that Khariboli originated out of Hindustani, while in reality Hindustani evolved from Khariboli(a dialect of Western Hindi). Can anyone help to get that information changed.
Ashok4himself ( talk) 19:01, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
The coordinates to the above temple seems to be wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kishorehere ( talk • contribs) 18:24, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Kosala is actually an ancient land somewhere in Northern India. But the pages attached to those categories are not related to that ancient kingdom. Few people claims that there region was in Kosala and they keep adding categories like Category:People from Kosala, Category:Geography of Kosala, Category:Economy of Kosala etc. But all these articles, categorized under above mentioned Categories, are actually related to Present Day Odisha. So delete those categories and add respective Odisha related Categories to the articles. After all Wikipedia is an encyclopedia not Separatists' Documentation.-- Shiti ( talk) 06:48, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
I recently requested an edit for {{
WikiProject India}} to include the |telangana=
parameters shown on
WP:WikiProject Telangana. I posted at
Template talk:WikiProject India and
WT:WikiProject Telangana, but apparently lost the note I wrote for this page. Sorry to leave you guys out. Your thoughts are appreciated.
—PC
-XT
+ 08:50, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
I would like to draw attention of Indian editors and admins towards the article HDVSL, I believe this article is truly useful but need to do a lot of work in order to expend and improve it. CutestPenguin { talk • contribs} 14:57, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
Pleas add information about this country to this articles-- Kaiyr ( talk) 13:20, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Admin-intervention would be welcome. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 09:50, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello friends, here again after quite sometime. Need some help here. I'm not sure if the subject meets GNG. And on the other hand the author has some serious WP:COI issues. Thanks, Jim Carter (from public cyber) 10:57, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
Can someone familiar with the language have a look at this? The article follows the source but another editor (who I assume is fluent in the language) says it means something else. I suppose the source could be wrong or contains a sloppy translation. -- NeilN talk to me 16:56, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
Dear India experts: Is this old AfC submission about a real village? Should it be kept and improved instead of being deleted as a stale draft? — Anne Delong ( talk) 13:46, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
Dear India experts: Here is another of those old abandoned AfC submissions that will soon be deleted as a stale draft unless someone decides to work on it. I have a poor understanding of this topic, so I am reporting it here. — Anne Delong ( talk) 01:46, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi All! I posted this at
Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) few days back but have no reply. I guess people over there aren't much into non-sense stuff like this.
Hence reposting it here....
Various festivals, like the
Category:Hindu festivals,
Category:Islamic festivals and many others follow the calendars of their respective religions. Most calendars being lunar, there is no fixed date of Gregorian calendar to observe a given festival. Hence, the infobox of these articles includes few recent dates; e.g. see
Eid al-Fitr where 2013-16 dates are seen. These dates would vanish after a few years and would be replaced with the then recent ones. Now my question is; is this historic data worth keeping somewhere or is it trivial enough to let go? If not in Wikipedia, is there any other project which would store this database; maybe Wikidata? Basically if and when expanded it would be a comparison of various calendars. §§
Dharmadhyaksha§§ {
T/
C} 06:37, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
FYI. Methinks you can go ahead with this.-- regentspark ( comment) 15:53, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
This subject has been frequently vandalised lately. After ClueBot had rung the bell ten times over the last 24 hrs or so, I went in and semi-protected Kishore Kumar and List of songs recorded by Kishore Kumar. I'm not qualified to say what's a good and bad contribution from among the recent activity - I trust that you guys can and will take care of this much more efficiently. Thanks. Samsara ( FA • FP) 12:58, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
There is a discussion in talk:Online journalism in India about an article you may have interest in. The topic is Removal of mention of Amit Agarwal I.e. should this material be restored? Thank you Jim1138 ( talk) 19:30, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2014_August_5#Dhanada_Kanta_Mishra. An AfD for a non-notable unsuccessful election candidate ended up with the article being redirected to the constituency, despite WP:NPOL. - Sitush ( talk) 18:33, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Himayatnagar, Telangana is similar to Himayatnagar, Hyderabad. Are these the same place? Is one supposed to be about the Vidhan Sabha constituency, as linked from Narayanguda? Should these be merged, as proposed by a template in 2011? If not, any advice in disambiguating the link on Asif Nagar or Narayanguda? —PC -XT + 22:03, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi all! Am not getting any satisfactory answers in this move request and hence thought of pointing it here. Could you please opine at the Talk:National_Film_Awards_(India)#Requested_moves_2? §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { T/ C} 12:18, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
Contributors to this WikiProject are invited to comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Film#Rupesh Paul (Productions Limited). Cnilep ( talk) 01:45, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
File:ParthasarathyTemple EasternThoranaEntrance BeachRoad.jpg Can you please read the captions in the central part below each of those figures.-- Redtigerxyz Talk 06:04, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
That's what the board outside most temples say. -- Rsrikanth05 ( talk) 20:40, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
This recent and remarkable AfD drew my attention again to this userpage/contributor and his contribution list. The bulkiest single augmentation I noticed was this one, to the article Sir Pramada Charan Banerjee. I was not so surprised to find that this was a copy-and-paste job, and dutifully reverted it. The result, with several numbered "footprints" (really), looked odd, so I did some tidying.
The "Sir" in Sir PCB seems to the institutionalized British honorific, and for that reason (as well perhaps as others) the article is mistitled. The man was often simply "P C" but often not; and, it seems, often "Pramada" often "Pramoda", often "Banerjee" often "Banerji". I'm ignorant of Indian nomenclature; which do you more knowledgable people think is the best option among the possible titles for the article? (Of course redirects can take care of the rest.) -- Hoary ( talk) 08:09, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
Editors might want to add this to their watchlist, maybe even expand it, eg [31]. Ditto Dinanath Batra who is trying to get rid of the teaching of foreign languages and the use of Urdu and English words in Hindi textbooks. [32] Dougweller ( talk) 16:08, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
Earlier this month User:Davidwr mentioned several draft articles [33]. Today I found a discussion at User talk:Sitush#User:Nayar Caste initiated by Anna Frodesiak which I followed up. Deleted that page as it was a copy of http://nayeebrahmins.hpage.com/ which I also found in other drafts and I suspecth might have something to do with these drafts. Earlier we had Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Brahmin nayee a page which was created as an article in March by User:Brahmin nayee. Still existing is User:NAYEE BRAHMINS/sandbox created in April by User:NAYEE BRAHMINS whose Draft:NAYEE BRAHMINS I've deleted today as also copyvio from the same site. We have User:Niyoginayeebramhana with Draft:Niyoginayeebrahmins. That was created last December. User:Nayar, Nayer caste created a page on the 21st this month which is now deleted as copyvio from the same site. We also have User:Vaidyanayeebrahmin which is another draft which I think has a bit of copyvio from [34] still. I hope some of this makes sense. This could be one editor but it is just as likely to be multiple editors who think they are creating articles. Dougweller ( talk) 14:06, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
Is the above newspaper a reliable one?-- Skr15081997 ( talk) 13:46, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
New user Zachary5050 ( talk · contribs) has requested help with two articles, Bidhu Bhusan Das and Prabhat Nalini Das. It seems that these are indeed notable people, but on-line coverage is limited. Print sources such as newspapers would of course be acceptable. Any assistance with locating sources would be welcome. JohnCD ( talk) 21:56, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2014_August_5#Dhanada_Kanta_Mishra. - Sitush ( talk) 09:57, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello to all,
I have been creating several articles almost all of which are related to indian railways. I have come across two main problems.
Part One of which is WP:OR which has been the result of me simply photographing the train & noting down the details such as coach composition, although the newly launched trains have some sort of coach data available on the internet.
Part Two - There is no way to get any details of the locomotives used with it going to WP:OR.
Can any one come up with a solution??
Superfast1111 ( talk) 17:16, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
I know that there are some gurus who have said that varna is not inherited and that people have for centuries been misreading the shlokas etc. Does anyone know of a source that actually discusses this contention? Does anyone know the extent to which it is or is not a mainstream view? - Sitush ( talk) 15:07, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan's Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1 discusses the issue of caste through the ages. I jotted down some page numbers:
-- Uday Reddy ( talk) 10:57, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
While stub-sorting I've found Mujauna, Samastipur (totally unsourced), a village in Bihar. I then found that there are articles Mujauna and Mujauna, Bihar, which have identical coordinates but different population statistics. In both cases the only reference is a generic link to the Indian census.
But while looking into this I also find that Samastipur seems to be largely about Samastipur district (both have the same population), rather than about the town which is the hq of the district.
I'm sure someone more familiar with Bihar can sort this all out. Good luck. Pam D 17:06, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for sorting out the many Mujuanas, but Samastipur remains a muddle. Pam D 23:24, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
There is lot of text on this page in sections after the lead, which is reproduced from the source text. Shouldn't these kind of text belong to wikibooks etc ? --Vigyani talk ਯੋਗਦਾਨ 12:43, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
Please add variant word of you languages in this list.-- Kaiyr ( talk) 08:43, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
There are speculations in the Indian media that on the occasion of independence day, the award should be declared. I request fellow editors to keep watch on the article for any vandalism. - Vivvt ( Talk) 02:22, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
Dear India experts: Here's one more abandoned AfC submission about a village. Would anyone like to improve it? — Anne Delong ( talk) 21:59, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
There is currently a superficially symmetrical debate going on at Akhil Bharatiya Itihas Sankalan Yojana between myself and three other editors, namely AmritasyaPutra/Jyoti.mickey, Uday Reddy, and sarvajna. The debate concerns whether the organisation's mission statement, as on its website, can be used in Wikipedia's voice sans attribution. More eyes would be welcome. Vanamonde93 ( talk) 10:33, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
All involved editors have been pinged: ORN link -- AmritasyaPutra✍ 16:01, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Dear Indian Wikipedians, If anybody know further about this Indian State of Nagaland's related draft, please contribute! Prateek Malviya• ✉• ✎ 03:12, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
Need a mediator at Biryani. Mintoo44 ( talk · contribs) has been removing books published by HarperCollins, Oxford University Press, University of California Press etc. calling them "cult books with no Authentic research", and replacing them with spicingyourlife.blogspot.de while adding content that is not supported even by that blog. [39]. utcursch | talk 17:08, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
I have proposed Dhupguri subdivision in West Bengal for deletion. Comments are welcome on the talk page. - Chandan Guha ( talk) 23:07, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
Just found an IP editing this and reverted him as he'd removed Brahmins from the 4 castes mentioned in the article. However, some of it is copy and paste from Andhra Pradesh (India). Backward Classes Commission, K. N. Anantaraman [40] - I don't know if that is copyright free or not. Dougweller ( talk) 16:26, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
Does anyone know where one may obtain the final accident report of the Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision in 1996? It was the third deadliest plane crash incident in the history of the world.
Thanks WhisperToMe ( talk) 19:01, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
FYI information and comment. Some funny editing going on at North Bengal(NB). 'New' editor Mohan Bose ( talk · contribs) twice deleted most content from NB. This was done without any explanation and repeated after reversion by other editors, including me. See here .
The NB page was left with only 2 links, to North Bengal, India, and to North Bengal, Bangladesh, both of which Bose also created, and appear to be simply cut and pasted from Nth Bengal.
I don't know if there is any reasonable rationale for this, as the editor has used no edit summaries, and ignored all talkpage messages.
Currently all three pages exist, so if there is no need for the two new 'daughter' pages, perhaps they should simply be deleted, leaving Nth. Bengal. If the new pages are kept, then a cut and paste repair of the edit histories needs to be done, to maintain attribution.
The editor also made unexplained/unsourced edits to Jalpaiguri, which has a history of sockpuppetry. AGF, I have only a suspicion at the moment but WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Sayan Basu/Archive may be related.-- 220 of Borg 04:12, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
I was wondering if anyone could look to see if there are any foreign language sources for the group Sabri brothers India, as their article is currently up for deletion. I didn't find anything that'd be usable as far as English language sources go, so I'm kind of doubtful about there being enough coverage in other languages to merit a keep. (Usually there'd be *something* out there.) I'd also like to ask if anyone can help either of the editors involved with the article out as far as notability and whatnot goes. They appear to be new users and I can't entirely tell if they're COI editors or just very excited about whatever they're writing about, but either way some help would be appreciated from people who are experienced with India-related subjects and are fluent in Hindi. (I say fluent as there is the possibility for FLS and they'd need someone who could help them weed through them effectively, as opposed to me running them through Google Translate or Google in general.) Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 11:57, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
Dear India experts: Is this old AfC submission about a notable person? Should the article be kept and improved? — Anne Delong ( talk) 22:45, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Namaskar! members at WikiProject India. I am thinking to improve the Welcome-India template with Indian style or you can say Indian touch. Interested editors can give their feedback below. Thank you! CutestPenguin discuss 13:38, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
@ Dharmadhyaksha: Even I use TW to welcome users but now I started using Welcome-India template. Well, I will try to enhance the template without violating any wiki policy or promoting any language. Thanks! CutestPenguin Hangout 11:05, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Dear India experts: The page Gautam Chatterjee redirects to Gautam Chattopadhyay. However, the word "Chatterjee" doesn't appear in that article. Are these really the same person? The draft appears to have different information. If these are two different men, then the redirect will need to be deleted before the draft can be accepted. — Anne Delong ( talk) 23:28, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
Chattopadhyay & Chatterjee are same or you can say alternative of Chatterjee. @ Anne Delong: It is alright to keep if the reference talk of any one of these. CutestPenguin Hangout 11:15, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
The Lok Sabha constituencies are considered article or list? A majority of them are list in format but assessed as articles.-- Skr15081997 ( talk) 11:16, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Dear India experts: Here's another village submission. It appears to be a real place. Shall it be accepted? — Anne Delong ( talk) 01:52, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
I have become aware that in India it is normal practice to format numbers as shown here:
Is there a MOS section on this, or is
@
220 of Borg and
Dharmadhyaksha:, I've checked and we should not use the Indian comma delimitation despite
MOS:TIES. See Group digits in Western thousands-based style (e.g., 30,000,000; not 3,00,00,000)
at
WP:NUMERAL, which also gives advice regarding the use of
crore etc. If there is some India-specific style guide that says otherwise, I think we need to fix it. -
Sitush (
talk) 10:43, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
Members at Wikiproject India are requested and welcome to improve the article Women in Law and Litigation. Thank you! CutestPenguin Hangout 16:37, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
While working on the unreferenced articles backlog (it's really long!) I stumbled across the article Deva Soye, which is about a purported tradition where starting "auspicious works" are prohibited from August to November. I cannot find any references on this tradition, and the original author has not edited for a year. My question to all the India experts out there is, have any of you heard of Deva Soye? Altamel ( talk) 04:12, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
Once again, more scrutiny would be welcome here. I posted here previously, and the input was useful, but apparently insufficient to end the debate. If this fails, DRN would seem to be the only option. Vanamonde93 ( talk) 06:39, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
I moved Ibrahimpatnam, Krishna to Ibrahimpatnam, Krishna district, as I thought Krishna is a river name and also confuses it with the district Krishna district. Can you guide me on naming convention of Indian villages/towns with same name and different villages in different districts. I moved some more pages in the same way because like <village name, Guntur> -> <village, Guntur district> as Guntur is a disambiguate page and it may refer to city. But the village is in district. Any help?-- Vin09 ( talk) 09:50, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
The disruptive editing at Jalpaiguri mentioned above at 'North Bengal' has started again. See [42] 220 of Borg 14:09, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
The editor in question has been temporarily blocked for a week [43] and the page fully protected. [44]
This is the 7th time this page has been protected this year, but never before. Any ideas what has triggered this? Political turmoil perhaps? -- 220 of Borg 01:26, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
I have begun a discussion on the article's talk page about edits. Edits should be discussed there and consensus established before being made. The editor or editors who are making edits that violate WP:V and WP:MOS are:
Ground Zero | t 10:04, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi. Just had a request via #en-wikipedia-help for a biography of Daying Ering, of the "Ering Commission', the North East Frontier Agency, and the Daying Ering Wildlife Sanctuary (there are also a number of schools named after him). He seems to be quite notable, but also looks like a biography to do him justice would need access to offline book sources. I'm trying to get the helpee to request the article at WP:RA, but he's rather confused about Wikipedia so I don't know if it will happen. Either way, I just though I'd mention the request here as well. Revent talk 10:19, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
We have various articles that currently use the spelling Firozpur in their titles. Examples are Firozpur, Firozpur district and Firozpur Road. Those articles seem to say that the official spelling is Ferozpur and there has recently been a query regarding which of these spellings best meets the requirements of WP:COMMONNAME.
Since they are a few articles involved, I think it better to have a centralised discussion here. I'm going to leave notes on the talk pages of the three linked articles above, directing people to this discussion. If anyone knows of any other affected articles then please could they do the same. Thanks. - Sitush ( talk) 10:53, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
Indian Railways uses Firozpur. [49]-- regentspark ( comment) 18:09, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
There has been long term disruption on Aadhaar, as well as many other related articles like Voter ID (India), and more. Some of them like List of Indian states by Aadhaar generation were turned into redirect.(to Unique Identification Authority of India) I just made Aadhaar-enabled payment system a redirect too.
On these articles as well as some other related articles, [50] Ravishyam Bangalore has added massive amount of seditious, POV and promo content.
Although I have cleaned up a lot compared to 179,000 bytes of unnecessary expansion, but Aadhaar also remained a redirect until the user has returned. OccultZone ( Talk • Contributions • Log) 15:50, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
This user Abinkose has been pushing Tamil Nationalist POV to articles like Malayalam. The user's activity so much resembles that of the notorious sockpuppet Kalarimaster. Pls see Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Kalarimaster. Can any admin around here please check and do the needful. Snowcream ( talk) 14:46, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
Anybody interested in Telugu politics may wish to take a look at this. Vanamonde93 ( talk) 20:14, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
Are Kuruvattor (tor) (created 25 August 2014) and Kuruvattoor (toor) (also 25 August) possibly the same place?-- 220 of Borg 00:20, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
As there haven't been any comments about this, and it appears that all 3 pages are about the same place, I have redirected the two 'forks' back to the parent Kuruvattur article, incorporating some useful additions [52] from Kuruvattoor. -- 220 of Borg 21:11, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
Vickysingh007bond ( talk · contribs) has created a slew of pages (≈16) with the above title format. The most recent is likely to be List of village in Sahdei Buzurg block vaishali district. I can't see if these have any real use, just bringing it to the attention of editors more knowledgeable about Indian issues than me.-- 220 of Borg 04:39, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
I hope this is the right place. If not, apologies. Publicising request to move: Operation Polo to Indian integration of Hyderabad. See Talk:Operation_Polo#Requested_move_2. Any suggestions for other places to publicize this are also welcome. Kingsindian ( talk) 21:25, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
This time as User:Lord Senapati. See [1]. Anyone bother right now to look up the diffs? Otherwise, I'll try later today. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 10:40, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
I noticed this article today. I guess this is a topic forcefully created by bundling together a bunch of skirmishes/wars etc. I am not sure if this is a mainstream history term. But of course I may be wrong. Any opinion?-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 01:45, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
Dear India experts: This article seems to be about the same place as Donkeshwar, but it has some interesting information that isn't in the mainspace article. There are no references, though. I am reporting this here in case anyone is interested in sourcing this and adding it to the main article. — Anne Delong ( talk) 13:55, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
Dear India experts: If this person really did direct 60 films, there should be sources available to show this. Should the article be kept and improved, or deleted as a stale draft? — Anne Delong ( talk) 17:30, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi! While trying to de-orphan Harischandra Range, I found out that there are two (stub) articles on the same subject. ( Harishchandra Range is the other.) Obviously, a merge is needed. But which is the right spelling? Googling either or both names does not provide any satisfactory answers, and I am otherwise clueless. Help? Thanks! - Gorthian ( talk) 05:23, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Please evaluate this submission at Articles for creation, I don't know if it is notable or if the sources are acceptable. Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 07:56, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
The article is under the former title but only uses Bhojraj Singh in the actual article. Dougweller ( talk) 12:05, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
On the Ratan Tata page, some Wikipedians are attempting to add GBE, a British post nominal, in Tata's case an honorific awarded to an Indian citizen, to his name. There is also another page, a facebook-like page of a lesser known guy, Chandrika Prasad Srivastava, which has a fruit salad trailing him, including IAS, and ICS (which he was not); see here. The Indian Home Ministry has interpreted Article 18.1 of the Constitution of India (which says, "18. (1) No title, not being a military or academic distinction, shall be conferred by the State.") to imply that Indian awards cannot be used as pre- or post nominals. (See here, where the Home Ministry says, "In terms of Article 18 (1) of the Constitution, the (Bharat Ratna) award cannot be used as a prefix or suffix to the recipient's name."). However, Article 18.2 of the Constitution of India says, "(2) No citizen of India shall accept any title from any foreign State." (See here page 8). We have already seen the bogus Maharaja and Nawab titles being used on Indian biography pages, which too are unconstitutional. These however are new ones as far as I am aware. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 23:31, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
-- Karl Stephens ( talk | contribs ) 13:46, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
Could somebody confirm the notability of the Macaulayism article? The sourcing is very iffy (such as Rajiv Malhotra) and it was created by a sockpuppet of a banned user.— indopug ( talk) 06:24, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
I haven't looked closely at what's going on here (I'll try to, shortly), but it looks as though the page needs protecting. Imc ( talk) 17:52, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
I recently watched a debate between Amartya Sen and Jagdish Bhagwati, two notable Indian economists working in the US. The debate was about Narendra Modi, the BJP candidate for prime minister in India.
The lives and career trajectories of the two economists are very similar. Both are around 80 years of age, both did their undergraduate work in India, went to the UK for a second BA, subsequently received their PhDs (one in the UK, the other in the US). Both then taught at the Delhi School of Economics during the 60s and attained early notability while there. They then left India, and have taught and worked abroad since, i.e. in the last 40 plus years, and achieved their major notability while abroad. The only difference is that Sen has retained his Indian nationality, working abroad on an immigrant visa (a green card in the US), whereas Bhagwati has become a naturalized American. In the debate, Sen was heard saying, "Do I want a Prime Minister, as an Indian citizen, who has that kind of record (i.e. Modi's)? No, I wouldn't." (See here (10:15)) And Bhagwati was heard saying, "I wouldn't vote for Narendra Modi" (2:05). Both economists, now past their academic prime, are being less than transparent. In the case of Sen, he is using his nominal Indian citizenship (he has not lived in India in over 40 years) to somehow legitimize his view. In the case of Bhagwati, the use of "wouldn't," strictly speaking, absolves him of an outright lie, but the plain fact is that he can't vote in India; he's not an Indian citizen any more.
I have since looked at pages of other notable Indians living abroad. There are various degrees vagueness or subterfuge being employed in the lead sentences about their nationality. Some, such as Indra Nooyi, were being described as "Indian-American." But that term is usually used for the so-called "ethnic group" of Americans (i.e. born and raised) but of Indian origin, and most often applied to people such as Sanjay Gupta, Kal Penn, Bobby Jindal, or Nikki Haley.
Others were being described "American." Thus Satya Nadella, who is 46 years old, and became a naturalized American in his late 30s, was being described as an "American business executive, etc." I started a discussion on Talk:Satya Nadella, but soon realized that there is a more general lack of clarity about the nationality or nationalities which are relevant to a person's notability for a host of international people, but especially for India-born people, since a large number of them were born and raised in India and left after they finished college or even after receiving a masters, i.e. after the age of consent (21). This is a matter that ultimately needs to be taken up at MOS:Biography, but if you examine the underlying discussion at Talk:MOS Biography, there is no real consensus there either, the discussion mainly an argument between two people of opposite views. So, before reopening the issue at MOS, I thought I might bounce it off people here first. I am myself toying with two alternatives:
I believe "naturalized" is important in 1., as it distinguished these people (off the bat) from people such as Kipling, Thackeray, Jim Corbett (hunter), etc who were British/etc. but born in India. I would like to hear what others think. I believe such clarity makes Wikipedia lead sentences—which appear in Google searches—immune from being used or abused for political- and other non-encyclopedic purposes. Best regards, Fowler&fowler «Talk» 06:55, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Someone has added a bunch of book covers here Nrisingha_Prasad_Bhaduri#Books, (license is not clear, that's a different thing), I am asking for second opinion, does it look like, book showcase advert? Tito☸ Dutta 14:16, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
Views sought please on the most appropriate name for this town near Bangalore, at Talk:Ramanagar,_Karnataka. Thank you. Imc ( talk) 19:25, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
Views sought please on the most appropriate name for this town near Bangalore, at Talk:Ramanagar,_Karnataka. Thank you. Imc ( talk) 19:25, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
There is a discussion going on at Talk:List_of_Indian_federal_legislation to split and move the page to a different name. All comments will be appreciated. Amartyabag TALK2ME 16:47, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
There has been an editing spree by one editor removing Kannada names from a number of mainly geographic articles on the basis of this consensus. So I thought I’d check out this RfC again. In this case, the editor has a history of trying to replace place name spellings in Karnataka with their Hindi equivalents, so other motives than sticking to consensus / general practice are possible.
The summary of WP:INDICSCRIPT is quite clear, don’t use indic scripts in the lead sentence only. But the discussion starts off suggesting no Indic scripts for biographic articles, then develops to discussing to including all India related articles. It then has votes on multiple subjects and the vote on place names has a consensus that the state language should be retained for these; but this may have been overridden by another consensus that the general discussion has agreed that there should be no indic scripts in all articles. Or has it? It doesn’t help that the original discussion was started here on this page and concluded in this discussion (possibly). Due to archiving many of the links no longer work.
Other India or Indic language specific policies, such as WP:MOSIN, WP:NCIN imply or suggest that these names should be included for various topics including places, historic and religious subjects, and gives a style guide on including them.
I would like to suggest some further clarification of this subject. The previous discussion started with biographic articles, then widened, which is not a satisfactory way of conducting a wide ranging discussion (I looked at it at the start and decided I could ignore it because of the subject, something I regret now). So does it need revisiting? Clarify the scope – what about place names (include the state language), religious subjects, et.c. And clarify that if the name is already in the lead in an uncontroversial situation, it should not be removed – move it elsewhere, replace it with IPA, but do not remove what normally is useful information. Imc ( talk) 08:17, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
I believe that the consensus was to avoid indic scripts in the lead but that it was ok to use them in infoboxes. I see that Imc has dropped a note on the user's talk page, hopefully that should settle things. -- regentspark ( comment) 20:40, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Matsya Narayana Temple, Bangalore. FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 00:22, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, I have a query about an Indian scientists name at Talk:Shankar Purushottam Agharkar#Purushottam vs Purosottum. Thanks, John Vandenberg ( chat) 10:24, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
sir/mam can i write an article on VIN RANA ,though he is just one show old.but have done lots of TV commercials and modelling assignments.be it in renownd magazines or print advertisement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rashmi11 08 ( talk • contribs) 06:18, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
Per wp:Manual of Style, I removed a circular shortcut to Shortcut: Wikipedia:INDICSCRIPT from the Indic scripts in lead subsection of the page., which comes right back (through redirect) to the origin point (page and section) from the Indic scripts in lead subsection of the page. Please do not add that back, as there is absolutely no reason to do so. GenQuest "Talk to Me" 15:52, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
See Arjuna ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) - do you think an SPI is warranted? I'm tempted to roll it back to - not sure what, and protect. Dougweller ( talk) 14:44, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/MEMU Shed, Kollam. FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 17:47, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
Does anybody know of a map of Indian states that includes Telangana? I'll need something similar to the one on the right for List of current Indian chief ministers.— indopug ( talk) 06:20, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
Does this work out? §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { T/ C} 06:38, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
Quite a bit of argument over these articles, and I blocked one editor for legal threats. Can anyone advise? Dougweller ( talk) 13:40, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
Could someone take a look there? Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 18:35, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
Dear India experts: Here's another of those abandoned Afc submissions. Is this about an actual place name? Should this be kept instead of being deleted as a stale draft? — Anne Delong ( talk) 20:32, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Dear India experts: This old AfC submission is about a school which is part of a college. The college itself is notable, but perhaps someone who is familiar with educational institutions in India will be able to tell if this section of the college is independently notable. If not, the page will be deleted as a stale draft. — Anne Delong ( talk) 22:41, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
@ Anne Delong: Almost every major universities, be it state- or private-funded, has a level-2 administration of such schools. For example, School of Life Sciences will have departments or courses of Plant Science, Animal Science, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, etc.,School of Chemical Sciences will Chemistry and its allied departments/courses. Its like clubbing of similar courses and departments. Some more: Faculties, Schools & Departments of Bharathidasan University; Schools and Departments of Bharathiar University; Anna University departments and many such Indian Universities and higher institutions like this. Hence it is not notable to have stand alone article. Either the concerned AfC may be deleted or redirected to its parent institution, SHIATS. -- βα£α( ᶀᶅᶖᵵᵶ)( Support) 19:08, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
Padutirupathi has no independent sources and a vast amount of unreferenced text - someone might like to have a look at it. Pam D 22:10, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
Please have a look at how the profile of Narendra Modi has been described at the Traffic Report. Amartyabag TALK2ME 06:01, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
There is a new article for Urdu poet and writer Fiza Ibn-e-Faizi, and there is quite a bit of confusion about the spelling of his name. If you have a chance to provide input, the question about the name is posted at Talk:Fiza Ibn-e-Faizi. The more I research the more confused I'm getting. Your insight would be very helpful! Thanks!-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 19:05, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
Ahmedabad was reviewed and listed as a Good Article in June 2012. It has been tagged with sourcing concerns since Dec 2013. I have done a GAR, and I feel that the article doesn't meet current GA criteria. The main contributors have been notified, though are unavailable or not able to do the work at the moment so there has been no progress. Following the guidelines at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment, interested WikiProjects are being contacted as editing assistance may be needed to prevent the article being delisted. See Talk:Ahmedabad/GA2 for more details. If no progress is made, and nobody expresses an interest in working on the article, it is likely to be delisted after seven days have passed. SilkTork ✔Tea time 16:15, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
Dear India experts: This old draft was never submitted to be added to the encyclopedia. Is this a notable news organization, and should the page be kept? — Anne Delong ( talk) 02:58, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi. I've been trying to improve the articles of the women in war category, and I've been focusing primarily on increasing visibility for women of color. I've noticed that Category:Indian women in war contains a lot of poorly-written articles that are in serious need of improvement, and I was wondering if anyone wanted to offer help or at least point me in the direction of English-language sources I could use to work on them. Also, I'd really like to add pictures but I'm having a hard time finding portraits of these women. I'm presuming that public domain portraits exist as most of the individuals in the category lived prior to the 20th century and were royalty, but I cannot locate them. Does anyone know of a website that contains public domain artwork of these women? Thank you very much. Asarelah ( talk) 15:22, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
Is the 15th PM designation for Modi correct? Looking at List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_India, he could be either the 16th or the 14th. If we go by terms (Elections column), then he is the 16th PM. If we go by people, he is actually the 14th (Vajpayee is counted twice in that list) . I've fixed both but figure this is important enough to need review. -- regentspark ( comment) 15:41, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
I've done quite a bit of work on the PMs list (as well as nearly all the CMs' lists), and I oppose counting Nanda as the second PM and Modi as the 15th. The fact is there is a lot of disagreement and contradiction among sources. Yes you can find Manmohan being called the 14th and now Modi the 15th PMs, but all the sources routinely refer to Shastri as the second. (Even among government sources [13], [14]) Given this inconsistency I believe we can exercise our discretion. And not counting an Acting PM makes more sense than counting him; apart from giving undue importance to placeholders, it's also the logic that is used to number the Presidents of India. As for prime ministers who served discontinuous terms (Indira and Vajpayee), they're rarely counted twice.
TL;DR: List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_India is spot on, and other articles must be made consistent with it.— indopug ( talk) 03:05, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
Here is a succinct Outlook blog on the matter.— indopug ( talk) 03:36, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_India did not mention Nanda as a prime minister (corrected now) but in reality he was sworn in as the prime minister twice. 1 former prime ministers PMO 2 personal profile PMOPMO official citations . Please don't make a mockery of this. Counting Nanda we have 15 prime ministers( all counted once ). Admins should take note of this. jthomas91 05:33, 27 May 2014 (UTC) aze0098 ( talk)
We must count Nanda as a PM in the list List of Prime Ministers of India. Even current PM's website has mentioned NANDA as a prime minister. So if we include Nanda the list will be like this. 1.Nehru 2.Nanda 3.Sasthri 4.I Gandhi 5.Desai 6.C.Singh 7.R.Gandhi 8.VP Singh 9.Chandrasekhar 10.Rao 11.Vajpayee 12.Gouda 13.Gujral 14.Manmohan 15.Modi. check out http://pmindia.nic.in/pastpm.php for further details. what i conclude is Modi is 15th PM. - user talk:kappatD 08:40 AM, 28 MAY 2014 — Preceding undated comment added 03:12, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Support Narendra Modi as 15th PM of India. The PMO has confirmed Narendra Modi as the 15th Prime Minister- Modi is 15th PM-PMO. Manmohan Singh is also given as the 14th Prime Minister- PMO- Manmohan Singh, the rest is history. Based on the number of people who were sworn in as Prime Ministers we have 15 in all including Nanda. What's the point of mentioning Nanda in List of Prime Ministers of India but not numbering him. Be practical people and fix this.— jthomas91 ( talk) 11:43, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Dr meetsingh Talk 15:24, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
I think we should either go with 15th or just drop the whole numbering thing. First, as redtigerxyz says, we shouldn't be doing any calculations ourselves. Any math at all, even 2+12=14, is borderline OR. Second, assuming we can do some math, many of you are confusing Presidents and Heads of State with Prime Ministers. A Prime Minister is a head of government and the office doesn't come with the same pomp and circumstance trappings as does a head of state. Numbering of heads of governments, mere functionaries in titular terms, is in and of itself an exercise of elevation that is quite unwarranted. But, if we do have to go with numbering, then any person who has held the office should automatically be included in the list. He or she is just another head of government. My suggestion, do what the Brits do and drop the numbers. If you want to stick with numbers, count every person who has been a Prime Minister. -- regentspark ( comment) 19:27, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Has anyone seen the list as it is currently numbered? Nanda not numbered and Shastri as 2nd, so the numbers leading sequentially to Gujral as 12th following Dr Meetsingh's numbering; NO 13th PM, Manmohan Singh 14th, and Modi 15th. NO 13th PM. This is ridiculous. Whichever way we resolve this, any numbering should at least be sequential.
Most news sources seem to number Manmohan 14th, and Modi 15th. This numbering is consistent if Nanda is numbered as a full PM. The list from the PM's office (although not numbered) seems to regard Nanda as a full PM, listed without mention of any "acting" status. As for Shastri as 3rd PM, there are some sources supporting this. LookLook36 ( talk) 10:58, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
Please consider watchlisting these two pages for sometime: Heropanti, Tiger Shroff Tito☸ Dutta 17:37, 29 May 2014 (UTC) Watchlisting for 10-14 days will be fine. Tito☸ Dutta 17:37, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
I recently added some controversial information (properly sourced) about Francois Gautier. Gautier wrote a spoof about Nostradamus predicting the results of the general elections of the Lok Sabha in 1999 and the spoof was repeated, with different predictions, before almost every elections since. My edits were removed and was stated that it was non-notable information. But it is important because those articles do not state that they are spoof (the author admitted that the original article was a spoof in a later book) and so they are misleading. The latest article, published in the author's blog in March 2014 is cited in some news articles and news channels ( oneindia.in, fijitimes, TV9) already. It is also a topic of discussion in many blogs, forums, discussion groups and other websites. I think the truth about the articles must be in Wikipedia. I request someone to take a look at the issue. A comparison between my last edit and the current version can be found here. Thank you. - Inphynite ( talk) 06:53, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
I'm ok with this. -- Calypsomusic ( talk) 12:22, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
The article Alok Nath could do with a few eyes that know something about the subject. The article has been under a longterm vandalism attack. I just reverted to a version that looked ok and semi-protected it for another 3 month. Maybe something slipped through, so more eyes welcome. Agathoclea ( talk) 14:49, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
Is there a similar site where images may have creative commons licenses? Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 23:20, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
Hello Indian Task force I'm trying to create new indian foreign players.
Are these players notable?:
Thanks and cheers-- Lglukgl ( talk) 02:12, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi Dear All, You are cordially invited to the ongoing discussion at Talk:Rajput#Vaidya and Ojha. Sincerely, ← Abstruce 07:05, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Please lend your expertise to a discussion at Koenraad Elst on the serious, long-term BLP/NPOV violations in the BLP article Koenraad Elst at Talk:Koenraad Elst.
The NPOV violations were explained in great detail by the subject of the lemma here, already in 2012 and 2013:
These links say among other things:
The blog post was from 2013, and the previous wikipedia article version was chock full of BLP attacks. Currently the article is more neutral (still contains OR in the "Islam" section) and protected.
Because of the very serious NPOV violations in a BLP article, this requires the attention of neutral editors (and also of reasonable editors, both pro and contra Elst). I hope some of you will have a look and weigh in on the talk page. Thank you very much in advance. -- Calypsomusic ( talk) 17:24, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
There is an ongoing editing dispute regarding the use of File:Massive crowd at Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University gate during Namvistar Din celebrations.png in Aurangabad, Maharashtra#Culture and cuisine. Please continue the conversation at Talk:Aurangabad, Maharashtra#Requesting outside help with image dispute. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 16:12, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Notice: This discussion has been open for 7 days. If discussion has wound down, consider closing it. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)
Due to repeated attempts to add companies that do not have articles to this list which require cleanup by other editors, this page should have an
edit notice to discourage such behavior.
I recommend one of following:
Choice #1:
Only companies which are Notable enough to have a stand-alone Wikipedia article should be listed here. If a company does not already have a Wikipedia article please do not add it here without discussing it at Talk:List of companies in Gurgaon or Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics first. If you have questions, open a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics. |
Choice #2:
Only companies which already have articles in Wikipedia should be listed here. If a company does not already have a Wikipedia article please do not add it here. Before creating any article about a company, lease read Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies). If you have questions, open a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics. |
It's implied that non-notable companies should not be listed on pages like this, but I'm not sure if there is a consensus for limiting this page to only companies with actual articles. For that reason, I'm favoring option 1 unless someone convinces me that #2 is already the consensus practice.
Please reply with your support, opposition, or recommendations for changes. Unless there is a consensus against this or there are unresolved recommendations or other, I am going to go propose that the edit notice be created in about a week. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 19:40, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Admin-intervention needed there; some editor who thinks he can bypass (a lack of) concensus. I've already warned him. Thanks. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 19:37, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
First Law minister of India - Dr.Ambedkar . (Is Indian Lawyer a better name?) It should be Jurist. Father of Indian Constitution (Largest Indian Democracy) - Dr. Ambedkar . (Is this line to be removed?) Philosopher - He wrote several books on Buddhism such as Buddha or Karl Marx, Buddha and his Dhamma etc., Riddles in Hinduism etc. (Words were removed)
Barack Obama praised him when he came to India. Noble Prize Winner Amartya Sen calls him his father in Economics. (Economist) The Table concering his writings and speeches were removed without any proper justification. Please dont revert those changes. Why am I in trouble as you mentioned? Your's sincerely. Sid Siddheart (talk) 19:55, 2 June 2014 (UTC) Siddheart ( talk) 19:45, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
I don't understand that why Joshua Jonathan wants to remove the Table of Books and about his credibility. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Siddheart ( talk • contribs) 19:45, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
There is a discussion going on at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/K. Prasad Babu regarding the article of K. Prasad Babu, an Ashok Chakra awardee. Thanks, ƬheStrike Σagle sorties 11:33, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
Dear members of this project, please take a look of these above mentioned articles and their history. The Telangana article seems to have been copied from the Andhra Pradesh article alongwith from ASI website as noted and tagged by CorenSearchBot in this edit. User:Vin09, who created the Telangana one had possibly ripped off info from Andhra Pradesh for the Telangana one. Editors could please check if the Telangana one or the concerned user has flouted any guideline. -- βα£α( ᶀᶅᶖᵵᵶ)( Support) 23:16, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
Well there are at least six places in Mahārāshtra named Thergaon, the only one at present with an article, Thergaon, Chinchwad, is currently up for a deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thergaon. -- Bejnar ( talk) 21:48, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
An editor keeps adding material to these two articles that are very promotional. Despite explaining to him, there seems to be no understanding. All this material was removed on UIAI by SpacemanSpiff and the editor keeps re-instating them citing vandalism. In the case of Aadhaar, I had to dig down and revert back to the time before this editor first edited the article, which happens to be a redirect to UIAI. I am not trying to debate whether Aadhaar deserves to be a stand-alone article, but I simply removed all the promotional stuff and if it does deserve to be stand-alone, we can develop the article. Please weigh in. — LeoFrank Talk 16:40, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
The Wiki Loves Monuments India-its website seems to have been replaced by a car rental page! Guru-45 ( talk) 03:09, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
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Moksh Juneja 20:27, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in Asia may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! -- Another Believer ( Talk) 21:16, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
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Dear experts, please look at this article. Hope someone could fix the issue and facts. -- βα£α( ᶀᶅᶖᵵᵶ)( Support) 18:22, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
Should Bharat Ratna be classified as an article or a list? Currently, its a start-class article but it also consists of a list of recipients which cannot be forked into another article of a list class. I have expanded the article in last couple of days and would like to take it up to GA/FA if its an article or to FL, if its a list. Please comment. - Vivvt ( Talk) 21:06, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
Support branching off the list as a separate article.— indopug ( talk) 02:12, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
{{main|List of Bharat Ratna recipients}} {{As of|2014}}, there have been 43 recipients of the Bharat Ratna x men and y women, an average of z awards every year. The Baharat Ratna was first given in 1954 to the independence activist [[C. Rajagopalachari]], physicist [[C. V. Raman]], and philosopher [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]]. The first posthumous award followed ten years later, when former prime minister [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]] received the Bharat Ratna. The Bharat Ratna has been given to non-citizens twice, namely to [[Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan]] in 1987 and to [[Nelson Mandela]] in 1990, as well to a naturalised citizen once - Mother Theresa in 1980. ...
My intention was not to have information and references duplicated. With the amount of information collected so far, it would not be very difficult to split and make it as an article and a list. But then readers would need to jump back and forth to read detailed info and list of recipients. - Vivvt ( Talk) 00:39, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Nagpur orange , has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Cnilep ( talk) 02:38, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
There are two BLP pages, Amrinder Singh (a football player) and Amarinder Singh (ex-CM Punjab). These Punjabi names are obviously same but romanization is done differently. In such cases, what is the precedent ? Should they be both moved to new title by attaching (player) and (politician) respectively and a disambiguation page be created or both article be left in present state? --Vigyani talk ਯੋਗਦਾਨ 05:45, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
{{
Distinguish}}
to both or just the footballer (as the politician appears to be the more notable person currently. Ideally, since it's just two people, the primary topic (politician) should have the non-disambiguated title with a redirect from the poss spelling error and the footballer should be located at the disambiguated title --
Amrinder Singh (footballer) (or whatever is the WP:Footy guideline for disambiguation. —
Spaceman
Spiff 09:39, 9 June 2014 (UTC)Its pleasure to announce that Dadasaheb Phalke Award is now added in the Wikipedia:In the news/Recurring items. The news can thus be promoted to ITN. But the passing is on condition that the recipient's article should meet the high standards of grammar and NPOV which usually are observed to be lacking. Cheers! §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { T/ C} 11:47, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
I need help figuring out the film Parvathi Pura. I'm helping a user on Parvathy Nair and his understanding of Wikipedia is very low. He kept getting reverted because he couldn't express why he was removing text. He thinks the film should not be mentioned on the Nair page as Nair was never in it. I've deleted other films from the page as they were never filmed, but Parvathi Pura has me stumped. I find refs that it was filmed, it wasn't filmed, Nair was in it, Nair wasn't or Nair only did a cameo. Bgwhite ( talk) 22:35, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
Is there any inherent notability policy/guidelines regarding present day sons and daughters of Indian monarchs or in other words "titular Maharajas" ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vigyani ( talk • contribs) 07:01, 9 June 2014
Hello. In various India related articles a strange numbering format appears (from Crime in India): "as the number of incidents per 1,00,000 of the population", "an increase of 1.5% over 2005 (50,26,337)" It appears quite a lot in the particular article and I've noticed it in several other India related articles and lists, so I figured it would be a good idea to bring it to everyone's attention, rather than just edit those I happen upon from time to time. I don't know if it's just someone being sloppy, a numerical keyboard having a mind of its own or numbers just working differently in India, but it undermines the credibility of the articles when the facts presented in them appear to be nonsense. It is of course entirely possible that the problem extends beyond India related articles on English Wikipedia, but I don't recall having seen such numbers elsewhere. Dix d'Épées ( talk) 14:04, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
The numbering issue has been discussed time and again. I remain of the opinion that using lakh/crore and the associated formatting is inappropriate on the English-language Wikipedia. While the Western system is apparently comprehensible to literate Indians, the Indian system is more often than not incomprehensible to literate non-Indians. In the interests of cosmospolitan inclusionism, yes, I guess we should show both and I think that I did once ask whether the {{ convert}} could be modified to do the job ... but it still irks me. The fly in the ointment of omitting the Indian variant is WP:MOSQUOTE - we are not supposed to link terms inside quotations and that can life awkward for lakh etc. I would imagine that, for example, a nationalist politician might be very unhappy to see their use of Indian format converted by us into a Western style. Then again, I quite regularly see people moving the commas around because they think it is a typo, and that can then make a nonsense of what is said anyway. - Sitush ( talk) 06:25, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
{{
convertSouthAsianNumbers}}
or some such thing to fix this issue for a while (I think South Asian would be more appropriate as this type of numbering is common across the subcontinent, not just India). —
Spaceman
Spiff 14:26, 10 June 2014 (UTC)Draft:Bhavani Island, Vijayawada. FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 14:39, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
The following individuals who are in the scope of this project are showing to be alive on the English wiki, but deceased on another language wiki:
Please help to find reliable sources to confirm if these individuals are alive or dead, or correct any mis-categorization on the relevant foreign-language article(s). Please see WP:LIVINGDEAD for more info and raise any issues on the talkpage. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 08:43, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
List of schools in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh was just moved to List of schools in Hyderabad, Telangana. Is this uncontroversial? Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 13:04, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi all, fellow Wikimedian User:Titodutta suggested me to write to you all about the @WeAreWikipedia on Twitter. It is a rotation curation on Twitter where one Wikimedian curates the handle for a week, shares interesting community and project stories and also be the face of Wikipedia for the world. So far, 18 curators including 6 Indic language curators have already curated. I would love to hear from more Indic Wikimedians if they would like to curate it. Thanks -- Subha Utter2me! 12:21, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
Shivansh.ganjoo ( talk · contribs) has cut and paste moved "Jammu (city)" to "Jammu" and "Jammu" (original) to "Jammu division". I thought to bring the attention of WP:IN, if anyone is interested in contesting it. Otherwise I was going to request some admin to do the move properly, because history and talk pages are left behind.--Vigyani talk ਯੋਗਦਾਨ 13:29, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
I've just created Yashovarman. Does anyone know of a link to a public domain edition of the Gaudavaho by Vakpati? There are plenty of commercial editions of it but if there is a PD one then I'll shove the thing into External Links. There are, as is so often the case, numerous spellings in English of both the author and the work. - Sitush ( talk) 21:16, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
Please note: This is an updated version of a previous post that I made.
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Shall we use non english in article's talk page? Eshwar.om Talk tome 16:49, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
Has anyone got access to The Journal of Indian History from 1963 (volume 41)? I'm after the full text of an article that appeared around p. 765? I think we're misquoting it due to people using Google Books snippet view. I'll try WP:RX if no-one here can help - it is awkward because we don't have the author, precise page range etc but it looks like the JIH is published once a year, . - Sitush ( talk) 06:29, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
An IP repeatedly adds CSD tag to Ishita Malaviya claiming its not notable despite being supported by quite a lot of RS. They have started a discussion in talk and insists I let the vague CSD tag remain till 24 hours....Comments requested. Thanks, ƬheStrike Σagle 06:58, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
see Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(people)#South_Indian_names -- Soman ( talk) 15:40, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
Advertisement or Endorsement???In India article ,see under Society section the File and the image content //A Christian wedding in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. Christianity is believed to have been introduced to India by the late 2nd century//.What non sense it is? .Internet,television,radio,are all old fashion, Now India article on Wikipedia is new fashion for them might be? what doing India-related admins .thank you Eshwar.om Talk tome 15:22, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
'They switch from time to time'.yes Your correct.No words to say.Thank you. Eshwar.om Talk tome 18:13, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
see Template_talk:DEFAULTSORT#Other_naming_practices.3F - Soman ( talk) 07:10, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
The above list is now a featured list candidate. This is my first FLC, please help me. I feel that it meets the featured list criteria.-- Skr15081997 ( talk) 15:02, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
A new IP is looking for trouble: [16]. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 19:02, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
An editor is repeatedly inserting poorly sourced and POV material into the M. S. Golwalkar article, and refusing to discuss his edits on the talkpage. Could somebody take a look at this? Thanks— indopug ( talk) 14:00, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
Hello, India experts. Here's another of those old abandoned AfC submissions about a village. It includes a census record to show its existence. Should this be kept and improved? — Anne Delong ( talk) 18:05, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
New article by new editor, needs attention - just a tiny stub. Dougweller ( talk) 12:18, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
Some Wikipedians have been using Wikipedia as a complaint box. I am not sure whether this is okay or not but the pages seem to be losing their relevance. I request other editors, particularly an administrator, to kindly see some of the pages - Visakhapatnam railway station, Cuttack railway station, Sambalpur railway station and Jharsuguda railway station. Also please see Rourkela Railway Division - there is no such railway division, this article is canvassing support for one. Is Wikipedia meant for this? - Chandan Guha ( talk) 04:12, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
Hello, my apologies for the delay. I got the reply to my RTI query but looks like it is not going to be very helpful. This is what I received.
Information sought | Inputs |
---|---|
please provide me with the list of 1st Prime Minister to 13th Prime Minister including the period they served as per the records present with the Prime Minister's office. | The list of all Prime Ministers including their tenure is available on PMO's website www.pmindia.nic.in and the same may be accessed. |
I cannot ask for a clarification in an RTI, only information can be sought. My suggestion would be to consider modi as 15th and nanda as 2nd. Let me know if I can help you in another RTI :-P . - sarvajna ( talk) 12:57, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
Dear India experts: Here's another abandoned AfC submission about an Indian village. Would anyone like to improve it? — Anne Delong ( talk) 21:29, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
This account's contributions need to be gone over and either reverted or endorsed. He was recently uncovered as a sockpuppet of Nitishkumartn ( SPI), who has been banned since Feb. 2014. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 18:40, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
We could use some views here: User talk:Vin09#NOTDIR and your removal of useful sections. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 06:36, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
Please don't be swayed by the section title. I may very well be completely wrong. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 06:37, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi everyone! I was wondering if anyone could help out with the article Arjun (2011 film)? It could use some definite TLC, as there aren't many sources on there to back up the movie's information. User:NinjaRobotPirate (who alerted me to the article) is also concerned that there is a language barrier and a COI as far as the original editor is concerned. I'm going to try to find sources, but I'm running into the typical issues with Google searches in that they don't really bring up all of the Indian sources that could potentially be out there. I'd greatly appreciate whatever help you guys can provide. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 03:33, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
-- Redtigerxyz Talk 04:49, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
Admin-involvement needed for this new user: four edits, three warnings. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 02:19, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Journal of Bengali Studies where I wrote "On a side issue, I note that the organisation that publishes the journal is going to create more [17] and that its founder is the creator of the article. That might be all fine and dandy, except that they actually have an agenda. [18] "We are trying to promote Bengali history on wikipedia by authoring articles." Great. "We are working on the Jayadeva birth controversy, in order to dispel doubts about the birthplace of Jayadeva, the poet of Gitgobindo." Terrible and takes us back to this AfD. The birthplace of Jayadeva is heavily disputed, see [Jayadeva birth controversy]]. But here we have an 'academic journal' run by people who are dedicated to dispel doubts - that is to argue that he was born in Bengali and I would guess to use their journals as sources to push this position. Please read all of [19] as it appears this organisation hopes to have an impact on a number of our articles." This is basically an alert - anyone can edit Wikipedia, but if people with an agenda create a journal and write articles for it, then using them to edit.... Dougweller ( talk) 15:03, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi. An editor keeps blanking this http://cityairnews.com/content/jalandhar%E2%80%99s-surbhi-jyoti-makes-her-hindi-television-debut-zee-tv%E2%80%99s-qabool-hai actress see Talk:Surbhi Jyoti, refuses to use a normal delete tag or go via AFD. Can someone else check and see if this is appropriate for this actress, thanks. In ictu oculi ( talk) 16:35, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
Can someone tell me where I can find sub-division level/block level data of 2011 Census? Most of the Wikipedia articles have 2001 data, but 2011 information is missing. Amartyabag TALK2ME 05:17, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
@ Armbrust, Dougweller, and The Bushranger: as you particpated in Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Cskumaar/Maruthuvar community you may have an interest in these discussions as well. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 21:22, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
See User:Hiseminency/sandbox which is I think a copy of [21] - so maybe copyvio. But we also have Dayemi Complex Bangladesh which is a real article in desperate need of work (and is part bio which it shouldn't be). And User:Wmaiirfb which is even worse. Who actually is Hazrat Sheikh Shah Sufi Mohammad Nurul Alam? Dougweller ( talk) 14:25, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
Interested editors may wish to peruse Boraj Tanwaran ( 3 deletions) aka Boraj Tawaran (one deletion). The creator Boraj Tanwaran ( talk · contribs) has recreated despite an AfD ( Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Boraj Tanwaran) that resulted in deletion. Editor doesn't seem malicious, just misguided and very eager to having a page about their village on WP. I have tried to advise them but editor doesn't listen, or doesn't understand. - 220 of Borg 20:44, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
Draft:Dr. Arawind (Arvind) Thatte. FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 21:16, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
There is a dispute about the depth of content at Rama. Please help by giving your opinions on the same. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 16:47, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
Seems to be edit warring over who won here, spilling over to [22] at Maratha Empire. Dougweller ( talk) 10:59, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Talk:Guntur district#Proposed merger to merge Guntur Coast with Guntur district#Geography. Input would be appreciated. ミーラー強斗武 ( StG88ぬ会話) 18:45, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
Please provide your expertise on the issue "Narendra Modi (2002 Gujarat riots)" in the Biography of Living Persons Noticeboard. In my opinion, the article on 2002 Gujarat riots seriously misrepresents the views a couple of US Congressmen as the views of National Human Rights Commission and the US State Department. If you need more details please ask. Uday Reddy ( talk) 16:50, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I came across one video clip for ULS help for Telugu language wikipedia as shown below. The clip is usefull but it does not show how to access help page. We will apreciate if some one helps us with simmiller clip for Marathi language.
Thanks & Regards Mahitgar ( talk) 15:16, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
The category Category:Leaders of All India Muslim League is being considered for renaming to Category:All India Muslim League members. The discussion is ongoing here. An editor expressed concern that regular participants of related topics might not be aware of it and hence this note here. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { T/ C} 04:30, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
This is a huge list of Indian biographies that possibly should have their own article on Wikipedia. The text is in public domain.-- Skr15081997 ( talk) 09:01, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Please note that Sachin Tendulkar had been nominated for GA (fourth time) and is currently under review. Due to the unavailability of the nominator, requesting anybody interested in getting it passed as a good article to respond in the review here. Otherwise, the reviewer will have to fail it within a week. Sincerely, Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 13:03, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi. I was wondering if a Wikiproject India team member could have a look at Katariya. An editor has repeated a change to the location of this town. Thanks. -- Whpq ( talk) 17:12, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi, All these articles mentioned a wrong information that Khariboli originated out of Hindustani, while in reality Hindustani evolved from Khariboli(a dialect of Western Hindi). Can anyone help to get that information changed.
Ashok4himself ( talk) 19:01, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
The coordinates to the above temple seems to be wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kishorehere ( talk • contribs) 18:24, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Kosala is actually an ancient land somewhere in Northern India. But the pages attached to those categories are not related to that ancient kingdom. Few people claims that there region was in Kosala and they keep adding categories like Category:People from Kosala, Category:Geography of Kosala, Category:Economy of Kosala etc. But all these articles, categorized under above mentioned Categories, are actually related to Present Day Odisha. So delete those categories and add respective Odisha related Categories to the articles. After all Wikipedia is an encyclopedia not Separatists' Documentation.-- Shiti ( talk) 06:48, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
I recently requested an edit for {{
WikiProject India}} to include the |telangana=
parameters shown on
WP:WikiProject Telangana. I posted at
Template talk:WikiProject India and
WT:WikiProject Telangana, but apparently lost the note I wrote for this page. Sorry to leave you guys out. Your thoughts are appreciated.
—PC
-XT
+ 08:50, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
I would like to draw attention of Indian editors and admins towards the article HDVSL, I believe this article is truly useful but need to do a lot of work in order to expend and improve it. CutestPenguin { talk • contribs} 14:57, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
Pleas add information about this country to this articles-- Kaiyr ( talk) 13:20, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Admin-intervention would be welcome. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 09:50, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello friends, here again after quite sometime. Need some help here. I'm not sure if the subject meets GNG. And on the other hand the author has some serious WP:COI issues. Thanks, Jim Carter (from public cyber) 10:57, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
Can someone familiar with the language have a look at this? The article follows the source but another editor (who I assume is fluent in the language) says it means something else. I suppose the source could be wrong or contains a sloppy translation. -- NeilN talk to me 16:56, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
Dear India experts: Is this old AfC submission about a real village? Should it be kept and improved instead of being deleted as a stale draft? — Anne Delong ( talk) 13:46, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
Dear India experts: Here is another of those old abandoned AfC submissions that will soon be deleted as a stale draft unless someone decides to work on it. I have a poor understanding of this topic, so I am reporting it here. — Anne Delong ( talk) 01:46, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi All! I posted this at
Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) few days back but have no reply. I guess people over there aren't much into non-sense stuff like this.
Hence reposting it here....
Various festivals, like the
Category:Hindu festivals,
Category:Islamic festivals and many others follow the calendars of their respective religions. Most calendars being lunar, there is no fixed date of Gregorian calendar to observe a given festival. Hence, the infobox of these articles includes few recent dates; e.g. see
Eid al-Fitr where 2013-16 dates are seen. These dates would vanish after a few years and would be replaced with the then recent ones. Now my question is; is this historic data worth keeping somewhere or is it trivial enough to let go? If not in Wikipedia, is there any other project which would store this database; maybe Wikidata? Basically if and when expanded it would be a comparison of various calendars. §§
Dharmadhyaksha§§ {
T/
C} 06:37, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
FYI. Methinks you can go ahead with this.-- regentspark ( comment) 15:53, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
This subject has been frequently vandalised lately. After ClueBot had rung the bell ten times over the last 24 hrs or so, I went in and semi-protected Kishore Kumar and List of songs recorded by Kishore Kumar. I'm not qualified to say what's a good and bad contribution from among the recent activity - I trust that you guys can and will take care of this much more efficiently. Thanks. Samsara ( FA • FP) 12:58, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
There is a discussion in talk:Online journalism in India about an article you may have interest in. The topic is Removal of mention of Amit Agarwal I.e. should this material be restored? Thank you Jim1138 ( talk) 19:30, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2014_August_5#Dhanada_Kanta_Mishra. An AfD for a non-notable unsuccessful election candidate ended up with the article being redirected to the constituency, despite WP:NPOL. - Sitush ( talk) 18:33, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Himayatnagar, Telangana is similar to Himayatnagar, Hyderabad. Are these the same place? Is one supposed to be about the Vidhan Sabha constituency, as linked from Narayanguda? Should these be merged, as proposed by a template in 2011? If not, any advice in disambiguating the link on Asif Nagar or Narayanguda? —PC -XT + 22:03, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi all! Am not getting any satisfactory answers in this move request and hence thought of pointing it here. Could you please opine at the Talk:National_Film_Awards_(India)#Requested_moves_2? §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { T/ C} 12:18, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
Contributors to this WikiProject are invited to comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Film#Rupesh Paul (Productions Limited). Cnilep ( talk) 01:45, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
File:ParthasarathyTemple EasternThoranaEntrance BeachRoad.jpg Can you please read the captions in the central part below each of those figures.-- Redtigerxyz Talk 06:04, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
That's what the board outside most temples say. -- Rsrikanth05 ( talk) 20:40, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
This recent and remarkable AfD drew my attention again to this userpage/contributor and his contribution list. The bulkiest single augmentation I noticed was this one, to the article Sir Pramada Charan Banerjee. I was not so surprised to find that this was a copy-and-paste job, and dutifully reverted it. The result, with several numbered "footprints" (really), looked odd, so I did some tidying.
The "Sir" in Sir PCB seems to the institutionalized British honorific, and for that reason (as well perhaps as others) the article is mistitled. The man was often simply "P C" but often not; and, it seems, often "Pramada" often "Pramoda", often "Banerjee" often "Banerji". I'm ignorant of Indian nomenclature; which do you more knowledgable people think is the best option among the possible titles for the article? (Of course redirects can take care of the rest.) -- Hoary ( talk) 08:09, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
Editors might want to add this to their watchlist, maybe even expand it, eg [31]. Ditto Dinanath Batra who is trying to get rid of the teaching of foreign languages and the use of Urdu and English words in Hindi textbooks. [32] Dougweller ( talk) 16:08, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
Earlier this month User:Davidwr mentioned several draft articles [33]. Today I found a discussion at User talk:Sitush#User:Nayar Caste initiated by Anna Frodesiak which I followed up. Deleted that page as it was a copy of http://nayeebrahmins.hpage.com/ which I also found in other drafts and I suspecth might have something to do with these drafts. Earlier we had Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Brahmin nayee a page which was created as an article in March by User:Brahmin nayee. Still existing is User:NAYEE BRAHMINS/sandbox created in April by User:NAYEE BRAHMINS whose Draft:NAYEE BRAHMINS I've deleted today as also copyvio from the same site. We have User:Niyoginayeebramhana with Draft:Niyoginayeebrahmins. That was created last December. User:Nayar, Nayer caste created a page on the 21st this month which is now deleted as copyvio from the same site. We also have User:Vaidyanayeebrahmin which is another draft which I think has a bit of copyvio from [34] still. I hope some of this makes sense. This could be one editor but it is just as likely to be multiple editors who think they are creating articles. Dougweller ( talk) 14:06, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
Is the above newspaper a reliable one?-- Skr15081997 ( talk) 13:46, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
New user Zachary5050 ( talk · contribs) has requested help with two articles, Bidhu Bhusan Das and Prabhat Nalini Das. It seems that these are indeed notable people, but on-line coverage is limited. Print sources such as newspapers would of course be acceptable. Any assistance with locating sources would be welcome. JohnCD ( talk) 21:56, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2014_August_5#Dhanada_Kanta_Mishra. - Sitush ( talk) 09:57, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello to all,
I have been creating several articles almost all of which are related to indian railways. I have come across two main problems.
Part One of which is WP:OR which has been the result of me simply photographing the train & noting down the details such as coach composition, although the newly launched trains have some sort of coach data available on the internet.
Part Two - There is no way to get any details of the locomotives used with it going to WP:OR.
Can any one come up with a solution??
Superfast1111 ( talk) 17:16, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
I know that there are some gurus who have said that varna is not inherited and that people have for centuries been misreading the shlokas etc. Does anyone know of a source that actually discusses this contention? Does anyone know the extent to which it is or is not a mainstream view? - Sitush ( talk) 15:07, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan's Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1 discusses the issue of caste through the ages. I jotted down some page numbers:
-- Uday Reddy ( talk) 10:57, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
While stub-sorting I've found Mujauna, Samastipur (totally unsourced), a village in Bihar. I then found that there are articles Mujauna and Mujauna, Bihar, which have identical coordinates but different population statistics. In both cases the only reference is a generic link to the Indian census.
But while looking into this I also find that Samastipur seems to be largely about Samastipur district (both have the same population), rather than about the town which is the hq of the district.
I'm sure someone more familiar with Bihar can sort this all out. Good luck. Pam D 17:06, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for sorting out the many Mujuanas, but Samastipur remains a muddle. Pam D 23:24, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
There is lot of text on this page in sections after the lead, which is reproduced from the source text. Shouldn't these kind of text belong to wikibooks etc ? --Vigyani talk ਯੋਗਦਾਨ 12:43, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
Please add variant word of you languages in this list.-- Kaiyr ( talk) 08:43, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
There are speculations in the Indian media that on the occasion of independence day, the award should be declared. I request fellow editors to keep watch on the article for any vandalism. - Vivvt ( Talk) 02:22, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
Dear India experts: Here's one more abandoned AfC submission about a village. Would anyone like to improve it? — Anne Delong ( talk) 21:59, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
There is currently a superficially symmetrical debate going on at Akhil Bharatiya Itihas Sankalan Yojana between myself and three other editors, namely AmritasyaPutra/Jyoti.mickey, Uday Reddy, and sarvajna. The debate concerns whether the organisation's mission statement, as on its website, can be used in Wikipedia's voice sans attribution. More eyes would be welcome. Vanamonde93 ( talk) 10:33, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
All involved editors have been pinged: ORN link -- AmritasyaPutra✍ 16:01, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Dear Indian Wikipedians, If anybody know further about this Indian State of Nagaland's related draft, please contribute! Prateek Malviya• ✉• ✎ 03:12, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
Need a mediator at Biryani. Mintoo44 ( talk · contribs) has been removing books published by HarperCollins, Oxford University Press, University of California Press etc. calling them "cult books with no Authentic research", and replacing them with spicingyourlife.blogspot.de while adding content that is not supported even by that blog. [39]. utcursch | talk 17:08, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
I have proposed Dhupguri subdivision in West Bengal for deletion. Comments are welcome on the talk page. - Chandan Guha ( talk) 23:07, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
Just found an IP editing this and reverted him as he'd removed Brahmins from the 4 castes mentioned in the article. However, some of it is copy and paste from Andhra Pradesh (India). Backward Classes Commission, K. N. Anantaraman [40] - I don't know if that is copyright free or not. Dougweller ( talk) 16:26, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
Does anyone know where one may obtain the final accident report of the Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision in 1996? It was the third deadliest plane crash incident in the history of the world.
Thanks WhisperToMe ( talk) 19:01, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
FYI information and comment. Some funny editing going on at North Bengal(NB). 'New' editor Mohan Bose ( talk · contribs) twice deleted most content from NB. This was done without any explanation and repeated after reversion by other editors, including me. See here .
The NB page was left with only 2 links, to North Bengal, India, and to North Bengal, Bangladesh, both of which Bose also created, and appear to be simply cut and pasted from Nth Bengal.
I don't know if there is any reasonable rationale for this, as the editor has used no edit summaries, and ignored all talkpage messages.
Currently all three pages exist, so if there is no need for the two new 'daughter' pages, perhaps they should simply be deleted, leaving Nth. Bengal. If the new pages are kept, then a cut and paste repair of the edit histories needs to be done, to maintain attribution.
The editor also made unexplained/unsourced edits to Jalpaiguri, which has a history of sockpuppetry. AGF, I have only a suspicion at the moment but WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Sayan Basu/Archive may be related.-- 220 of Borg 04:12, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
I was wondering if anyone could look to see if there are any foreign language sources for the group Sabri brothers India, as their article is currently up for deletion. I didn't find anything that'd be usable as far as English language sources go, so I'm kind of doubtful about there being enough coverage in other languages to merit a keep. (Usually there'd be *something* out there.) I'd also like to ask if anyone can help either of the editors involved with the article out as far as notability and whatnot goes. They appear to be new users and I can't entirely tell if they're COI editors or just very excited about whatever they're writing about, but either way some help would be appreciated from people who are experienced with India-related subjects and are fluent in Hindi. (I say fluent as there is the possibility for FLS and they'd need someone who could help them weed through them effectively, as opposed to me running them through Google Translate or Google in general.) Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 11:57, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
Dear India experts: Is this old AfC submission about a notable person? Should the article be kept and improved? — Anne Delong ( talk) 22:45, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Namaskar! members at WikiProject India. I am thinking to improve the Welcome-India template with Indian style or you can say Indian touch. Interested editors can give their feedback below. Thank you! CutestPenguin discuss 13:38, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
@ Dharmadhyaksha: Even I use TW to welcome users but now I started using Welcome-India template. Well, I will try to enhance the template without violating any wiki policy or promoting any language. Thanks! CutestPenguin Hangout 11:05, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Dear India experts: The page Gautam Chatterjee redirects to Gautam Chattopadhyay. However, the word "Chatterjee" doesn't appear in that article. Are these really the same person? The draft appears to have different information. If these are two different men, then the redirect will need to be deleted before the draft can be accepted. — Anne Delong ( talk) 23:28, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
Chattopadhyay & Chatterjee are same or you can say alternative of Chatterjee. @ Anne Delong: It is alright to keep if the reference talk of any one of these. CutestPenguin Hangout 11:15, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
The Lok Sabha constituencies are considered article or list? A majority of them are list in format but assessed as articles.-- Skr15081997 ( talk) 11:16, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Dear India experts: Here's another village submission. It appears to be a real place. Shall it be accepted? — Anne Delong ( talk) 01:52, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
I have become aware that in India it is normal practice to format numbers as shown here:
Is there a MOS section on this, or is
@
220 of Borg and
Dharmadhyaksha:, I've checked and we should not use the Indian comma delimitation despite
MOS:TIES. See Group digits in Western thousands-based style (e.g., 30,000,000; not 3,00,00,000)
at
WP:NUMERAL, which also gives advice regarding the use of
crore etc. If there is some India-specific style guide that says otherwise, I think we need to fix it. -
Sitush (
talk) 10:43, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
Members at Wikiproject India are requested and welcome to improve the article Women in Law and Litigation. Thank you! CutestPenguin Hangout 16:37, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
While working on the unreferenced articles backlog (it's really long!) I stumbled across the article Deva Soye, which is about a purported tradition where starting "auspicious works" are prohibited from August to November. I cannot find any references on this tradition, and the original author has not edited for a year. My question to all the India experts out there is, have any of you heard of Deva Soye? Altamel ( talk) 04:12, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
Once again, more scrutiny would be welcome here. I posted here previously, and the input was useful, but apparently insufficient to end the debate. If this fails, DRN would seem to be the only option. Vanamonde93 ( talk) 06:39, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
I moved Ibrahimpatnam, Krishna to Ibrahimpatnam, Krishna district, as I thought Krishna is a river name and also confuses it with the district Krishna district. Can you guide me on naming convention of Indian villages/towns with same name and different villages in different districts. I moved some more pages in the same way because like <village name, Guntur> -> <village, Guntur district> as Guntur is a disambiguate page and it may refer to city. But the village is in district. Any help?-- Vin09 ( talk) 09:50, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
The disruptive editing at Jalpaiguri mentioned above at 'North Bengal' has started again. See [42] 220 of Borg 14:09, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
The editor in question has been temporarily blocked for a week [43] and the page fully protected. [44]
This is the 7th time this page has been protected this year, but never before. Any ideas what has triggered this? Political turmoil perhaps? -- 220 of Borg 01:26, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
I have begun a discussion on the article's talk page about edits. Edits should be discussed there and consensus established before being made. The editor or editors who are making edits that violate WP:V and WP:MOS are:
Ground Zero | t 10:04, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi. Just had a request via #en-wikipedia-help for a biography of Daying Ering, of the "Ering Commission', the North East Frontier Agency, and the Daying Ering Wildlife Sanctuary (there are also a number of schools named after him). He seems to be quite notable, but also looks like a biography to do him justice would need access to offline book sources. I'm trying to get the helpee to request the article at WP:RA, but he's rather confused about Wikipedia so I don't know if it will happen. Either way, I just though I'd mention the request here as well. Revent talk 10:19, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
We have various articles that currently use the spelling Firozpur in their titles. Examples are Firozpur, Firozpur district and Firozpur Road. Those articles seem to say that the official spelling is Ferozpur and there has recently been a query regarding which of these spellings best meets the requirements of WP:COMMONNAME.
Since they are a few articles involved, I think it better to have a centralised discussion here. I'm going to leave notes on the talk pages of the three linked articles above, directing people to this discussion. If anyone knows of any other affected articles then please could they do the same. Thanks. - Sitush ( talk) 10:53, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
Indian Railways uses Firozpur. [49]-- regentspark ( comment) 18:09, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
There has been long term disruption on Aadhaar, as well as many other related articles like Voter ID (India), and more. Some of them like List of Indian states by Aadhaar generation were turned into redirect.(to Unique Identification Authority of India) I just made Aadhaar-enabled payment system a redirect too.
On these articles as well as some other related articles, [50] Ravishyam Bangalore has added massive amount of seditious, POV and promo content.
Although I have cleaned up a lot compared to 179,000 bytes of unnecessary expansion, but Aadhaar also remained a redirect until the user has returned. OccultZone ( Talk • Contributions • Log) 15:50, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
This user Abinkose has been pushing Tamil Nationalist POV to articles like Malayalam. The user's activity so much resembles that of the notorious sockpuppet Kalarimaster. Pls see Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Kalarimaster. Can any admin around here please check and do the needful. Snowcream ( talk) 14:46, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
Anybody interested in Telugu politics may wish to take a look at this. Vanamonde93 ( talk) 20:14, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
Are Kuruvattor (tor) (created 25 August 2014) and Kuruvattoor (toor) (also 25 August) possibly the same place?-- 220 of Borg 00:20, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
As there haven't been any comments about this, and it appears that all 3 pages are about the same place, I have redirected the two 'forks' back to the parent Kuruvattur article, incorporating some useful additions [52] from Kuruvattoor. -- 220 of Borg 21:11, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
Vickysingh007bond ( talk · contribs) has created a slew of pages (≈16) with the above title format. The most recent is likely to be List of village in Sahdei Buzurg block vaishali district. I can't see if these have any real use, just bringing it to the attention of editors more knowledgeable about Indian issues than me.-- 220 of Borg 04:39, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
I hope this is the right place. If not, apologies. Publicising request to move: Operation Polo to Indian integration of Hyderabad. See Talk:Operation_Polo#Requested_move_2. Any suggestions for other places to publicize this are also welcome. Kingsindian ( talk) 21:25, 13 September 2014 (UTC)