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Is this Sigra, Varanasi administratively different region or just a locality within Varanasi? Its categorized as Category:Cities and towns in Varanasi district but is described as "downtown area". If its just a locality, it should be redirected to Varanasi as I can't find any non-trivial mentions in RS. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { Talk / Edits} 08:55, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
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AshLin ( talk) 13:44, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello! Indian contributors. I would like to know if Bollywood Hungama (bollywoodhungama.com) is a reliable source ? — Sanskari Hangout 15:21, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
Are these reliable ? — Sanskari Hangout 15:39, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
I am asking for your participation in Talk:Brahma Kumaris#RFC for adding the word "Cult" Supdiop ( T🔹 C) 16:10, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
I was wondering if anyone could help me find sourcing for the article Ikka Singh. I'm finding some news hits that give an assertion of notability, but there's a bit of difficulty with searching because the guy's stage name comes up with a lot of different things (Ikka). I'm just hoping that one of you will be familiar with the guy's work and can help provide names of albums or songs or other things that can make searching easier. I'm using the WP's search engine, but it's still slow going. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 09:26, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
I need some help with the article Sekhauliya. It looks like this is a village and I'm asking the article creator ( Amit V Pandey) if it's recognized by the government, which should make it pass notability guidelines, but I get the strong impression that there's a language barrier here. English does not appear to be his first language and the content is somewhat garbled, so I'd greatly appreciate it if someone who speaks Hindi (which I believe is his native language) could stop in and provide some help. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 06:17, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello! I'm here to request contributions to Timeline of Delhi. Many cities have timeline articles, and we should have some for Indian places as well. Aryamanarora talk, contribs 23:26, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
Is Beerwah, Kashmir a split of Beerwah, Jammu and Kashmir. Or is a bit more dab like Beerwah, subdistrict needed? 220 of Borg
Can somebody who can read Hindi please look at
this (and perhaps other recent edits to
Pramada Charan Banerjee)? In this edit alone, various alternative spellings disappear, and it seems that the name Pramada is given in Devanagari script. (Unfortunately I cannot read Devanagari script at all. My bad.) The new addition is highlighted via (((triplex parentheses))). That the reader is provided with Devanagari script is good -- but why only for this one part of the biographee's name, and is the script really so very intricate? Something looks fishy to me. --
Hoary (
talk) 07:34, 6 October 2015 (UTC) Strikeout
Hoary (
talk) 08:11, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
is a user submitted content site that also mirrors some stuff from hi.wiki etc and then gets added on here as a source. I stumbled across this during a COIN investigation and found that the editing group had created hi/mr articles which were copied over to this site and used as sources in the en articles! — Spaceman Spiff 17:18, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Barwa Barauli and Barwa village seem to be the same topic as Barwa, Bihar,
And all created quite deliberately within a short period by a reputable editor, (ping!) Anupmehra. 220 of Borg 00:55, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi, kindly keep Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Requested articles on your watchlist and help to create articles mentioned there, you can also suggest new articles to create. Those who are interested in biographical articles can have look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Padma. Hundreds of Padma awardees still doesn't have article. Thank you. -- Human3015 TALK 02:34, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
India's blockade of Nepal, 2015-- Zaalim ( talk) 03:16, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
Thanks Jim1138 ( talk) 18:54, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
You can keep 2014–15 India–Pakistan border skirmishes on your watchlist. Factual errors and POV pushing are common problems. -- Human3015 TALK 04:27, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
A merger discussion regarding Mrs Funnybones and Twinkle Khanna is going on here. A detailed discussion is required. Thanks,-- Skr15081997 ( talk) 13:36, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
I am proposing that (i) the reporting of the latest genetics research of Indian populations be limited to the page on Genetics and archaeogenetics of South Asia and that (ii) this page be indefinitely semi-protected. No other page on Indian populations should use primary sources on genetic research.
Rationale: The research into the genetic analysis of Indian populations is moving at a rapid pace and many new results are becoming available. However, the field is fluid, the available literature is mostly primary, and its interpretation and verification is difficult. WP:NOR advises us that Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published secondary sources and, to a lesser extent, on tertiary sources and primary sources. WP:USEPRIMARY further clarifies that In science, data is primary, and the first publication of any idea or experimental result is always a primary source. At present, we have had such primary sources being used in Indo-Aryan peoples, Dravidian peoples, Adivasi and perhaps other pages. Often the same text is copied from one page to another. A number of unregistered users with dynamic IP addresses have been involved in the creation of this content, and they have left no reasonable edit summaries and showed no participation in talk page discussions. Limiting this content to Genetics and archaeogenetics of South Asia will ensure that it will be reviewed by editors knowledgeable about the subject and we do not have questionable claims being propagated throughout Indian population pages. - Kautilya3 ( talk) 19:33, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest 2015 is going to be conducted between 15 - 17 December in Delhi. There is one open slot from Indian English Wikipedians. Please nominate yourself there if you think that you are eligible. I don't think I'll go, if you want me to nominate your name, feel free to ask me.
Page: meta:CIS-A2K/Events/2015/Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest
PS. (As I found it a common question, when I was inviting others for other events): Yes, travel and accommodation will be arranged. -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 10:27, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
Dear India experts: Here's another village draft article that could use some attention. I found some census information and a couple of other references. It seems the Gaighat spelling is more common.— Anne Delong ( talk) 02:57, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
There's currently an AfD discussion for the song Khamoshiyan (song) going on here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Khamoshiyan (song). According to WP:NSONG, a song qualifies as notable if it charts on a qualifying WP:CHART, and the song has charted on a Radio Mirchi chart. Unfortunately no Indian charts are listed on the page, either positively or negatively. When I search Google for Indian music charts, Radio Mirchi Top 20 is one of the first results, which leads me to believe it is considered important (not a perfect metric though). However, I can't seem to find information on whether Radio Mirchi should qualify under WP:CHART. Does anyone know more about it, and whether it's comparable to the American Billboard chart, for example? mikeman67 ( talk) 14:09, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
I had reverted an undiscussed move and suggested taking to RM (assuming that people would be interested in it), it's now been listed at RM and received no comment and relisted again. If you're interested in Category:Lists of colleges affiliated to universities in India, please do comment there, sadly our Education task force is inactive :) — Spaceman Spiff 14:19, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
We now have so many defunct task forces and sub projects that the problems outweigh the benefits, especially when new editors are interested in something and go to a dead talk page. I think we need to do the following:
{{
WP India}}
to reflect the list of consolidated projects and task forcesThoughts? — Spaceman Spiff 07:56, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
Starting from the first Wikipedia:WikiProject Andaman and Nicobar Islands, it doesn't have any talk discussion beyond the normal notifications. Members is two. Most of the pages are redlinks. The page doesn't seem to be developed beyond its draft stage. Shall I mark ones like these as fully inactive? ‑ Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 18:38, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
I've checked the first ten now and all seem to have to same level of inactivity as the Wikipedia:WikiProject Andaman and Nicobar Islands I mentioned above. One already has its talk redirected here. Should I do the same for the rest which come up? Shall I add "|inactive" to their main page? ‑ Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 14:11, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
Appreciate any inputs at Talk:Dada Lekhraj#Birth_year. utcursch | talk 15:42, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi there. I have been copyediting Zahirabad and an ip keeps changing the spelling to Zaheerabad throughout the article. Does the title of the article need to be changed? Regards, Myrtle Myrtlegroggins ( talk) 14:01, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
I've created a new article on the organisation, Centre for Equality and Inclusion.
Centre for Equality and Inclusion is a non-governmental organisation based in India that works towards female empowerment and women's rights.
If you'd like to help with research or to improve the article's quality, source suggestions would be appreciated, at Talk:Centre for Equality and Inclusion.
Thank you,
— Cirt ( talk) 14:50, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
Can anyone help with wp:RS to confirm whether Sundarpur, Jiwachhghat and Sundarpur, Darbhanga, Bihar are one place or two, and to provide text to distinguish them if they are different? Both artices say "... is a village ... in Darbhanga district " but an editor says that one is an urban area and is therefore different from the other (unclear which). One has a source, one has coordinates. Pam D 17:50, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
The article Picnic (1966 film) is nominated for deletion here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Picnic (1966 film). Editors are invited to comment and determine if there is significant coverage in multiple reliable sources that can show whether or not the film is notable enough for its own article on Wikipedia. Thanks, Erik ( talk | contrib) ( ping me) 18:11, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Can anyone have a look at the article South West India? Sure the term can be found in several books, but most of them use it to cover Coastal South West India and neighbouring areas. On the other hand, the article South West India states that the term covers all the South Indian states + Maharashtra + Goa. utcursch | talk 00:16, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
Presently I am supporting relatively new article Ceremonial pole. I came across a little info about 'Sirimanu' at Sirimanothsavam#Procession & reffs seems to be available at google books too. I am bit confused if it is celebrated in Tamilnadu or Andhra or in both the states.
I suppose some one from south Indian background can do a better justice by including improving 'Sirimanu' related information along with references in article Sirimanothsavam#Procession and also in umbrella article Ceremonial pole.
Thanks and rgds.
Mahitgar ( talk) 07:07, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
Can any one check Rajiv Internet Village page. Only one newspaper article as reference.-- Vin09 ( talk) 12:36, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
I am trying to communicate with a new user, User:Dear sri sri 1008 pujya Dada pamma ram ji, who is writing in what I suspect to be one of the Indic languages. Could anyone here communicate with them, and give them a steer to how they might best contribute to Wikipedia? -- The Anome ( talk) 19:34, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
This has probably been discussed before on this page, but not concluded in any way. Oct 14 and May 15 discussions. But there hasn't been much improvement in school-related lists of India. I hence propose the following:
Feel free to add more or suggest changes. If need be, we can later take this to RfC after good discussion has happened. I would also request vast number of editors to help in this mess-cleaning. I remember that tag-and-access was a very successful drive our group took few years back which also inspired other groups to follow our footprints. Let's encourage them as well with our Swachh Bharat-articles Abhiyan. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { Talk / Edits} 06:31, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
Palak Muchhal, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { Talk / Edits} 09:53, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
The 1955 Bollywood film Ha Ha Hee Hee Ho Ho is nominated for deletion here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ha Ha Hee Hee Ho Ho. Editors are invited to comment to determine if the film meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines or not. Thanks, Erik ( talk | contrib) ( ping me) 15:55, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
So what does one do about stuff like this? I assume it is a real TV series (plenty of episodes on Dailymotion) but nothing on the page is verifiable. The list of writers, for example, has grown over the years and looks dubious. Perhaps remove everything except "was an Imagine TV series"? -- regentspark ( comment) 22:49, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
Self-declared deletionist User:KDS4444 seems to be having a field day nominating older Indian films at Afd. One such recent Afd is Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adil-E-Jahangir, a 1956-released directorial effort by G. P. Sippy, which is pretty much a textbook case of what we're not going to find online references for, per WP:IKI. I couldn't find much using the online search tools at WP:INDAFD, to be sure. Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 18:39, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi wikipedians in Chennai ! Is anyone able to snap a photo of the Y R Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education please?
I would like to post it in the page of Suniti Solomon, the HIV researcher and activist who died this year.- I cannot find a free file for her portrait. please ping me if you reply ! thank you. -- Wuerzele ( talk) 09:44, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Need some editors opinion/comment on this content dispute. D4iNa4 ( talk) 17:51, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
Panamattom is a small village in Kerala with ~10K+ population and turns out that we have plenty usourced articles of Hindu temples in this village. I searched online and found no mentions of these in any WP:RS. Can someone with knowledge of regional languages try out and see if they are notable enough to stay?
Kavummuri Temple, Panamattom seems to have been PRODed and deleted in January 2013. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { Talk / Edits} 06:39, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello all, I have added a peer review request on Haryana. It would be great if you can help me in this. Thanks -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 04:44, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Can anyone check for references Guttikonda_Bilam.-- Vin09 ( talk) 05:44, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I have nominated the Indian National Army article for FA. From recent experience with India House, the FAC stagnated after a while therefore I am posting a notice here for interested editors, your help and comments would be much appreciated to get this important article to FA status (even if this current nomination fails). Note I must declare, I am the major contributor to this article, so I must clarify this is not a canvassing attempt. Opinions and contributions sought rueben_lys ( talk · contribs) 13:05, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Can someone help out on Talk:Gauthameswarar Temple, Kumbakonam, please? Sam Sailor Talk! 08:10, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Done someone answered. ‑ Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 15:14, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Comments needed for Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greater Rayalaseema.-- Vin09 ( talk) 18:18, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
Currently at CIS-A2K, we are working on a handbook called "Indic Wikipedia Policies and Guidelines Handbook" where we are discussing a number of things such as: Creating new policies, Modifying existing ones; and to explain these we had to discuss Village Pump, Consensus etc. The book is in English, but we hope to translate and print the book in a few Indian languages.
Now,
a) We are eager to add your frequently asked questions on policies and guidelines, and discuss the difficulties you are facing to manage, enforce or deal with any policy on your Wikipedia.
For this reason, we are inviting you to ask questions or discuss things related to your Wikipedia's (WP:IND) policies and guidelines.
Selected questions or discussions will be published in our handbook and askers/participants will be given credits in the book.
and/or
b) We are also inviting you to preview the handbook and give your feedback to improve it.
Please fill this form if you want to join the survey. -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 10:38, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
Rudravaram disambiguation page has many pages linked. Krishna district itself has many villages, so for those pages mandal needs to be mentioned or mandal and district both?-- Vin09 ( talk) 08:38, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Dear India experts: This old draft will soon be deleted as stale under db-g13. It would need a lot of work, and I have no idea if this is a notable subject or not. If yes, perhaps someone here can improve it. If not, just don't edit it and it will be deleted soon.— Anne Delong ( talk) 11:11, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
This article has long been subject to a series of SPAs determined to restore puffery and delete any negative material, no matter how well sourced. I have just reverted the ministrations of two more [4], [5], but haven't got the time to keep the article on close watch. Voceditenore ( talk) 12:22, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
Dear India experts: This old draft will soon be deleted as stale. Is this a notable topic? It needs some reliable sources, but if this is a Hindi news source, the sources may not be in English.— Anne Delong ( talk) 01:38, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Chandra dynasty to be moved to Candra_dynasty. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 05:44, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
Anyone willing to work on Draft:Kolletikota? Best, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 21:20, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
As per Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Icons#Avoid_ flag_icons_in_infoboxes it says flag icons should be avoided. But in the last para, it says Human geographic articles – for example settlements and administrative subdivisions – may have flags of the country and first-level administrative subdivision in infoboxes. So, for villages, towns and cities can we have FLAG ICONS or not?-- Vin09 ( talk) 13:13, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
There is a dispute ongoing at the
Brahma page. A user has added material to the intro that belongs in the article body (where it is already mentioned) in this edit
here. All attempts to persuade the editor to allow an edit has failed and there are the stirrings of an edit war. In accordance with wiki policy, it is important that any article's introductory paragraph give only a general overview of a topic and not selectively present viewpoints of specific schools or sects as this gives undue weight to those views. The debate and sources can be seen on the talk page
Talk:Brahma#Disagree_with_last_edit here.
The misplaced phrase in question is: "...is a Hindu deity who functions as a 'secondary creator' as described in the Mahabharata and Puranas. Born from a lotus emerging from the navel of Vishnu, Brahma creates all the forms in the universe, but not the primordial universe itself. Thus in most Puranic texts, Brahma's creative activity depends on the presence and power of a higher god." The information is accurate, but not appropriate for the intro without including the older story of
Hiranyagarbha that is used in Vedanta, Vaisheshika, Samkhya, certain Mahayana groups and other schools that don't necessarily use Vaishnav Puranas. Since including all the different stories in the intro would be unrealistic and lower readability, it is my belief this edit should be undone to the previous version which is more neutral and comprehensive. Any second opinions would be greatly appreciated.
Iṣṭa Devatā (
talk) 06:52, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Done resolved.
Iṣṭa Devatā (
talk) 06:19, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
Was Detective Conan ever aired in English on Indian television? Was the manga ever published in English in India?
I ask because the series currently has the title Case Closed (The series title in the USA, Canada, and UK). I found that the series is published in English as Detective Conan in Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Brunei, Thailand, and Indonesia. If I find it is also published as "Detective Conan" in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives, etc. I will do a requested move.
Thanks, WhisperToMe ( talk) 14:58, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
Category:Hindu movements and organizations has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page.
Hey all, I need some second opinions on this and this is the first place I'm checking in. Long story short, an article for Huccha Venkat was created and deleted several times before it was drafted to Draft:Huccha Venkat. The guy does appear to have received a lot of coverage, but I'm somewhat worried about this from a WP:BLP issue since he's pretty much known for controversy and his lawyer has stated that he's mentally ill. Offhand his appearance on BB and the film should be enough to pass notability guidelines, but I know that this will likely be quickly nominated or at least targeted for deletion if this gets approved to the mainspace.
Since I'm posting this at two different boards, this might be best handled on the draft's talk page or at WP:BLP/N, where I'm going to post next. I just wanted to give you guys a head's up since this is India related and as such, there's going to be the normal troubles with sources coming up in a general search. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 12:11, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
The subject article seems to be catching a lot of COI editors. Previously when Manojche was caught he has stopped editing the article. But now Nexent has come and there are other IPs and SPAs like Writernmore too. Can people please watch this? A new article Vu Technologies Pvt. Ltd. has also been recently created which I have now PRODed. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { Talk / Edits} 09:28, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
I don't know where to start. What happened to this? The article lacks almost everything a standard
Wikipedia:WikiProject Big Brother must have. How blatantly different this article looks from
its predecessor is uncanny. From the looks of it the season has been airing for 42 days(judging by the latest eviction) and there is absolutely no sign of how we got there. What is the reason for this? I see the page has been protected for appropriate purpose but the page editors only appear to update eviction outcome in the sidebar.
List of sections missing(in order of appearance):
1. Weekly summary
Mentioned in the project
here. This doesn't seem any different from the episode list for
Satyamev Jayate for which a separate page has been resurrected to quote the events of each episode. Then why are the summaries not present in
Bigg Boss 9 from scratch?
2. Nominations table
Under
this part of the project it clearly states that a Big Brother article must contain a nomination history in all incidents where votes have been cast which lead to evictions of housemates.
3. Lack of references.
The article has an acute shortage of sources. This shouldn't really be a problem for anyone who knows how to use Google.
I want to nominate this article along with others, on which I'm working on, for improvement or at the very least convince someone from here to initiate the process.
--
WeirdWaffle (
talk) 00:33, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
There is a request for moving 2015 Nepal fuel crisis to Indian Economic Blockade on Nepal at Talk:2015 Nepal fuel crisis#Requested_move_21_November_2015. utcursch | talk 22:53, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
I don't know enough on copyrights but wouldn't File:Rajasthan emblem.png fall under Indian public domain based on its publication date? If so, I think the logo could be used in the template for Rajasthan. If not, it actually needs a proper fair use rationale. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 07:34, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
Earlier, we announced in the mailing lists informing you all about the
2015 Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest that is going to be held between 15 and 17 December at National Law University, Delhi. 10 Wikimedians from various Indian language Wikimedia communities and Indian English Wikipedia/Wikimedia community will be selected to attend this event where the event is aimed at helping them to work on various policy level works for their respective communities.
From your community we have got 2 nominations where we want you all to select only one participant by endorsing against the usernames below. Please edit the subsections below and endorse the applicant you think should be representing your community in the event. We also encourage more applicants, especially more female applicants, to apply and share their application with other fellow Wikimedians in your language community for endorsements. Though we understand it is quite difficult to assess one’s contribution on the basis of endorsements only, it is impossible on our end to select one from your community as a representative without your consent.
Last date of nomination/endorsement is: 15 November 2015, 23:59 (IST) -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 10:03, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
Srravya ( talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
Tamil Nadu has suffered from complete outage for the last ten days due to heavy rainfall, cyclones and resulting floods. Chennai, in particular, faced lack of electricity for the last one week. With no access to a computer and internet, I was unable to work on the endorsement for the nomination. I kindly request for additional time to gather endorsements. Regards, Srravya ( talk) 12:21, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
Jim Carter ( talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
Thanks for getting involved. Based on your discussion and endorsements both of the editors above have been selected . -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 05:25, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
Several new single-purpose accounts and IPs are edit-warring at the newly created BLP Prashant Kishor, restoring a poorly written, formatted and sourced version that is chock full of the users' personal opinion.
Could an admin please take a look at this and maybe put some sort of lock on the article for a short period?— indopug ( talk) 16:41, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
Little cleanup needed at Vaddi page, also please check the licenses of images.-- Vin09 ( talk) 10:14, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
Your comments on
Draft:Karnabharam by Bhasa are welcomed. Please use
Preferences →
Gadgets → Yet Another AFC Helper Script, or use {{
afc comment|your comment here}}
directly in the draft.
Sam Sailor
Talk! 13:02, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
Like Wikipedia:WikiProject Hyderabad, needs page for Wikipedia:WikiProject Visakhapatnam.-- Vin09 ( talk) 07:30, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
Please comment here:
/info/en/?search=Talk:Bangalore#Requested_move_29_November_2015
-- The Avengers 05:10, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, It seems there is a lot of confusion about these films. I renamed and moved images which were wrongly described from the 1935 to the 1936 version. The legend mentions Saigal, so they are from the Hindi version, not the Bengali version. Now I am trying to upload a copy of the movie from YouTube (or another source), but there is also a lot of confusion there. File:Devdas 1936.webm is described as the Bengali version on YouTube, although it is in Hindi. The beginning is different than this one (Dailymotion). Any idea? Regards, Yann ( talk) 21:12, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello all,
According to
"about" page and other third-party desciptions, this is a search engine for Indian legislation and case law.
A
large number (but definitely not lakhs, our shibboleth number
) - of articles link to it in some form.
Is Indian Kanoon a reliable source for Indian legislation and case law?
--
Shirt58 (
talk) 10:43, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
We have over 75 articles listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/India and over 2/3rd of these have been relisted at least once. The count had almost reached century in last 2-3 weeks. Hence requesting regular editors to participate in AfDs and reduce the backlog and help admins take decisions on them. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { Talk / Edits} 05:09, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
Can comment at Talk:Eluru#UA.-- Vin09 ( talk) 07:32, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello India experts. Here's one more old draft that will soon be deleted as stale unless someone takes an interest in it.— Anne Delong ( talk) 04:59, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
User Annoy Chakraborty has inserted a link to Railyatri.in onto various Railway station pages. I've left a warning, and a COI notice after I found a person of the same username on the Railyatri.in Blog. I'm cleaning this mess up now. Request others to keep their eyes out. -- Rsrikanth05 ( talk) 09:01, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
I've been watching these pages for a long time. One thing I noticed here is that WP:BLP violations happen quite frequently to pages concerning public figures like journalists, reporters, news anchors especially if the person concerned is a woman; they usually become soft targets for right wingers and other chaps. With people trying to add stuff like this, this or this, I strongly recommend editors to watch these pages as quite often, handling them alone becomes quite burdensome.
I'll look for more in Category:Indian television journalists and Category:Indian women journalists. ‑ Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 05:10, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
This is a huge part of Wikipedia. Like elsewhere, editors working in this area use a skill set that helps them with the challenges of POV editing, copyvios, and much, much more. Well, these are considerations when evaluating candidates at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship.
So, please consider taking a look at and watchlisting this page:
You could be very helpful in evaluating potential candidates, and maybe even find out if you would be a suitable RfA candidate.
Best wishes,
Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 00:30, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I seem to be having some trouble communicating with Sumanjha1991. He contributed an article on a painter from India, but it was a copyvio. I tried to explain what was wrong with it and clean it up, and he replaced it with a copyvio from a different website, so it has now been speedied (as a copyvio). He also uploaded several pictures of the painter and her work to Commons, which he tagged as his own work but which are obviously scans from newspapers. I've nominated them for deletion as copyvios there too. I've tried communicating with him using his talk page, but he doesn't respond. He seems to have made some effort to fix the tagging of the images on Commons, but it hasn't worked. I'm wondering if he has difficulty understanding English, and if someone could try talking to him in either Hindi or Urdu, to explain why the article was deleted, why the pictures are in danger, figure out where the pictures came from and if they are acceptable for Commons or not, and let him know I'm willing to help him re-write the article, but it can't be a copy-paste from elsewhere on the internet? Thanks. ~ ONUnicorn( Talk| Contribs) problem solving 15:31, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
Can someone point out a followup report about what happened after the Detention of Ayub Ali Khan and Mohammed Jaweed Azmath? There is an unlimited amount of news about them from 2001, but I couldn't find any source recent enough to say what happened with their passport case. One awkward aspect of this is that per WP:BLP I am retaining the name "Ayub Ali Khan", though the latest source I found alleges that he had a different name and had faked his passport to get a visa. Wnt ( talk) 23:02, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
Someone created Indian Ocean Island. I've initiated a discussion about merging it with the existing article on North Sentinel Island. —Largo Plazo ( talk) 21:57, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Dear Indian Editor, an article nominated by me for deletion is pending for participation at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amit Agarwal. Your attention will be appreciated. Cheers! — Sanskari Hangout 14:16, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
Can anyone help me get the message through to Ravindra kumar Arkavanshi ( talk · contribs)? I've no idea where they are getting their (English language) info from in the Arakh article but posts such as this and the lack of responses on their talk page make me think that they may be copy/pasting from somewhere and in fact do not speak English. Thanks. - Sitush ( talk) 15:19, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
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Whether it should be XYZ Municipal Corporation or XYZ municipal corporation?-- Vin09 ( talk) 06:02, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
Someone needs to vet Special:Contributions/Krantmlverma. Although he was blocked in 2012, many of his contributions remain live. There are several instances of historical revisionism in his contributions revolving around Indian independence movement, on both English Wikipedia and Hindi Wikipedia (where he remains unblocked). He has authored some books in Hindi, which are also full of these made-up "facts". Since Wikipedia is mirrored and read widely, he had been using the site to grant these hoaxes some kind of authenticity.
One hoax that I discovered today: Bismil in Turkey is named after Ram Prasad Bismil. This is a hoax created by Krantmlverma, and added to the article with "references" that don't actually support the assertion. But it remained live on Wikipedia since 2011, and now appears on several blogs, forum posts and other sources based on Wikipedia. I've removed it from both English and Hindi Wikipedias.
I'll randomly check the user's other additions, but considering that he has made nearly 2500 edits, any help would be appreciated. utcursch | talk 06:01, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
Can anyone look at Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham article for improvement?-- Vin09 ( talk) 07:18, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
Dear India experts: Here's a draft about a village. It could use some improvement, especially in the way of reliable sources. Can anyone help?— Anne Delong ( talk) 13:41, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi! I have an editor, @ Palashvai: that has been making various edits that don't really appear to make a whole lot of sense, like this one and someone brought their edits up to ANI. Their name suggests that they're likely from India, so it's possible that they predominantly speak Hindi. Can one of you go and see if this is just a case of a language barrier and if so, see if you can help them out any in what they're looking for? I've pinged them here so they can be aware of this WikiProject. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 06:06, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
The article sees a lot of promotional stuff from users and IPs. Few Users have been blocked after
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cyberhawk 5/Archive. Need help on cleaning up all the hagiography. Thanks to @
Shrikanthv: who is doing some cleaning.
Also, I noticed that we had promotional issues at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vu Digital (2nd nomination). Am not sure if they are same, but Saraf also runs a business named "Vu" in USA. Pinging AfD nominator @
DGG: to check if these are all related. §§
Dharmadhyaksha§§ {
Talk /
Edits} 11:03, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
There's a lot of comments by new/possibly involved editors at this discussion, so more eyes would be much appreciated. I am not looking for somebody to counter the arguments that have been presented thus far, but for policy-based arguments, none of which have been offered yet. Vanamonde93 ( talk) 07:30, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
An editor has inserted images into three articles about Indian places, where the image consists of foreign language text (I'm guessing Hindi). The captions say something about "corruption". I'm concerned that there could be WP:POV or even WP:BLP issues involved. Unfortunately I can't read the language, and since they are images, I can't put the text through a translation program either. If someone with relevant language skills could take a look at the articles on Kolthur, Manikonda, and Shamirpet, that would be much appreciated. Thanks. -- RL0919 ( talk) 00:35, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lidhar could use some input. It has been relisted but still has no comments and is at the end of the relisting period. - Sitush ( talk) 12:19, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
Does anyone have the ability to bring some sense of order to Daiva Dasakam ? I'm not good on religious texts. - Sitush ( talk) 13:17, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
NB: I think it may be copy/pasted in part from this. - Sitush ( talk) 13:19, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
This Featured Article on Indian history will appear on the Main Page soon. It mostly follows the lead section; how does it look? - Dank ( push to talk) 01:51, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
See Talk:Shahnawaz Choudhary#Listing state-level party-organization offices in the infobox. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidwr ( talk • contribs) 04:14, 4 November 2015
When using the the India template, currently we have support for adding names of states, which corresponds to articles related to that state, and acts as a subproject. For example, for any page related to Rajasthan, i add {:{WikiProject India|rajasthan=yes}:} in the talk page. In this manner, all articles written for Wikiproject Rajasthan automatically adds up to WikiProject India.
I suggest to add support for third level support for cities, which would correspond to dedicated projects for those cities as well. So to mark any Udaipur related article, i would add {:{WikiProject India|rajasthan=yes|Udaipur=yes}:} which would mean this article is under project Udaipur, which is under project Rajasthan, which in turn is under project India.
This will create a hierarchy for all articles, while saving efforts for managing different city level project as we currently have. This will also allow us to add as many city level projects without need for dedicated team for managing each city level projects. - — Preceding
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Hey guys, I have a seriously huge favor to ask. Recently I came across an article that I ended up deleting as an article created by an editor evading a block/ban. A look at his article creation history shows that he'd made over 900 pages during his time on here. Many of these are film related and some appear to be potentially noteworthy, so I don't want to just mass delete articles that could potentially be of use. The editor in question is Rajeshbieee.
Would any of you be willing to go through the articles and QC them? If they're not notable then all I'd need is for the article to be tagged as a WP:G5. I'm aware that this will be a massive undertaking that will probably take weeks at minimum to go through unless we do a mass deletion, but I think that it'd be best for Wikipedia if we did this. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 11:07, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
I would like to invite members of this project to provide their comments on requested page move. Tiggerjay ( talk) 22:05, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Kohli has been recently passed as GA by a sock user Numerounovedant ( talk · contribs · count) and also happens to be nominated by new-ish editor Dee03 ( talk · contribs · count). Am no expert in cricket and also lack fundamental knowledge of the sport. (Yeah yeah its fine! Not every Indian has to love cricket.) So requesting editors to check if the article is suitable for the GA tag. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { Talk / Edits} 06:42, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
The sixth reference at Vindhyan Ecology and Natural History Foundation shows a strange CS1 error, apparently because the character "त् " which occurs in the reference's title is considered to contain something invisible that shouldn't be there. Help by someone more experienced with Indic scripts would be appreciated. Huon ( talk) 04:02, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
Please would experienced editors take this draft on? The submitting editor has placed a plea for help at the AFC Helpdesk and I think the draft is likely to have merit. They have stated a very large unfamiliarity with English and need proactive help, please. Fiddle Faddle 15:36, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
This 2012 GA has deteriorated and is being GARed. Pinging earlier GA involved editors @ Tamravidhir, Titodutta, and Thine Antique Pen: §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { Talk / Edits} 04:21, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
See Draft:Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta. Thank you, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 23:34, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
I just created the article for Thanichalla Njan and while it got some coverage of its filming process and some major awards, there are no reviews out there that I can find. Can one of you take a look to see what you can find? It was filmed in Malayalam, if that helps any. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 10:31, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
A new series of articles has been started as a solo effort. If it's to be carried through and maintained it'll need significant input from the members of this project. Please join the discussion. Bazj ( talk) 12:43, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
the question is whether the list is better presented for the whole world or divided by country-- Hm that's an interesting point. -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 17:10, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
I came across this one editor via the speedy deletion stuff and it took me a while, but it looks like they're trying to create season and character pages for the series Ssshhhh...Koi Hai. I've left a message asking them not to create any articles in the mainspace since they're either incomplete, lack context, and/or are redundant to the main series pages, and to try making them in their userspace first. They seem pretty eager and I think that they mean well, but need some guidance. I can help to a degree, but some of the stuff will require someone that's passing familiar with the series, like the list pages. There's a reasonable justification for season pages if the coverage is there, given that it's an anthology series, but I'm not pulling up a huge-huge amount of sourcing and this would take a lot of time, which I don't entirely have at the moment, so I'm posting here. The editor in question is Villayat1990 and like I said, they seem to be eager and editing in good faith. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 10:24, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
@ Titodutta, Rsrikanth05, and Human3015: Dwaraka Bus station Complex, List of busiest railway stations in Andhra Pradesh, Eluru New Bus station, NTR bus station articles needs notability check.-- Vin09 (talk) 03:40, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
@ Vin09:, Aah, yes, I realise my folly when I was moving the page. I left the B in uppercase. Dwarka bus station would be appropriate. -- Rsrikanth05 ( talk) 16:50, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
Can anyone improve
Vallal T.N. Sabapathy Mudaliar? It relies entirely on a caste association website at the moment. I'm not sure whether the chap is really notable outside of that association, which he founded. He was apparently a mayor vice-chairman of a council for some years but that doesn't usually mean much for GNG unless the office was mayor for a major city.
If it is worth keeping, I'm pretty sure that the article needs to be moved because Vallal is apparently an honorific, although not one I can recall seeing before. - Sitush ( talk) 14:44, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
Input requested, please. - Sitush ( talk) 07:45, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
Fresh eyes needed due the influx of Pongal related activity from POV warriors. Any help appreciated. 122.174.34.100 ( talk) 06:39, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
A request to move the film article Fly Away Solo to Masaan, has been initiated here. You are welcome to contribute to the discussion.— indopug ( talk) 07:35, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
There is an interesting new article on Karinkallathani, which should now be reviewed and improved, please. -- NearEMPTiness ( talk) 20:49, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha and Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha. Are they smiilar articles?-- Vin09 (talk) 13:19, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
Another hot button issue that requires experienced eyes from this board. Should the text of the suicide note be included in the article? especially when the TOI source mentions "following is the suicide note allegedly written by Rohith." 106.51.28.153 ( talk) 11:57, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
Move discussion underway, again. In ictu oculi ( talk) 14:38, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
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One of the premier Indologists in the world is having the article about him being discussed for deletion.
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Many pages about Gotras are unsourced and very short. If the subject is notable, please create sourced and informative pages. Xx236 ( talk) 13:19, 21 January 2016 (UTC) Karwal Xx236 ( talk) 13:58, 26 January 2016 (UTC) Aujla - one of the shortest pages in this WIkipedia. Xx236 ( talk) 14:15, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
This article has recently become a hotbed for edit warring and I feel a lot of PoV has crept in. I am having trouble eliciting much contriubtion either in the talk page (Fowler&fowler being the only editor who has responded, once or twice) but many editors reverting. I might have blinkers on, would appreciate contributions or opinion of other editors. rueben_lys ( talk · contribs) 19:01, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi all, can anyone tell me what the "Award rank" parameter in Template:Infobox Indian Awards actually represents? the next highest/lowest award or the Precedence Of Medals? [12] [13] The Masked Man of Mega Might ( talk) 18:46, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
I was wondering if anyone could take a look for Hindi language sources for Raj Comics. The line is predominantly published in Hindi, so it stands to reason that most of the coverage wouldn't be in English. It looks like it should be notable, so I'm not worried about that, mostly it's just that the article needs some confirmation here and there. The original state of the article was fairly bad, as it had some fanboy tones, no true sourcing, and also had content that was undated and was very likely out of date. If anyone else can find something to add to the article to improve it, that'd be awesome. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 10:10, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
In the 2010s, one Abhay Dube launched a company called "The Bombay Talkies Limited". He claims that this is a continuation of the historic Bombay Talkies. He also claims that his grandfather Raj Narayan Dube was one of the founders of the original Bombay Talkies along with Himanshu Rai and Devika Rani. Since then, several press-release like newspaper stories have appeared talking about this "revival of Bombay Talkies" and how Raj Narayan Dube was a "pillar" of Indian cinema.
This article from 2013 mentions that "the idea to revive the production house took shape three years ago" i.e. in 2010. That year, the name "Raj Narayan Dube" was added to the Bombay Talkies article on Wikipedia, by an anon, without any source. In 2015, a new article on Raj Narayan Dube was created. Recently, the article Bombay Talkies was re-written using these sources, by BT0912 ( talk · contribs), who claims to the Digital Head of the new company. Also,
MelAntipam ( talk · contribs) has raised some concerns at Talk:Bombay Talkies, which caught my eye. I tried searching for this name and its variations: Raj Narayan / RN Dubey / Rajnarayan Dubey(y). But I cannot find any mention of this guy in even a single source before 2010, which is surprising if he was indeed, one of the founders of a famous studio like Bombay Talkies. There is only one book ( Spot Girl, 2014) which mentions Raj Narayan Dube and Bombay Talkies - it's not a scholarly work, and is obviously based on information from the Wikipedia article or other articles that sprung after the "revival" press release in 2013.
Can anyone else find a pre-2010 source about this Dube-Bombay Talkies link? Any comments are appreciated at Talk:Bombay_Talkies#Errors_in_the_current_version. utcursch | talk 19:46, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi all, can anyone tell me what the "Award rank" parameter in Template:Infobox Indian Awards actually represents? the next highest/lowest award or the Precedence Of Medals? [15] [16] The Masked Man of Mega Might ( talk) 18:46, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
I was wondering if anyone could take a look for Hindi language sources for Raj Comics. The line is predominantly published in Hindi, so it stands to reason that most of the coverage wouldn't be in English. It looks like it should be notable, so I'm not worried about that, mostly it's just that the article needs some confirmation here and there. The original state of the article was fairly bad, as it had some fanboy tones, no true sourcing, and also had content that was undated and was very likely out of date. If anyone else can find something to add to the article to improve it, that'd be awesome. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 10:10, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
In the 2010s, one Abhay Dube launched a company called "The Bombay Talkies Limited". He claims that this is a continuation of the historic Bombay Talkies. He also claims that his grandfather Raj Narayan Dube was one of the founders of the original Bombay Talkies along with Himanshu Rai and Devika Rani. Since then, several press-release like newspaper stories have appeared talking about this "revival of Bombay Talkies" and how Raj Narayan Dube was a "pillar" of Indian cinema.
This article from 2013 mentions that "the idea to revive the production house took shape three years ago" i.e. in 2010. That year, the name "Raj Narayan Dube" was added to the Bombay Talkies article on Wikipedia, by an anon, without any source. In 2015, a new article on Raj Narayan Dube was created. Recently, the article Bombay Talkies was re-written using these sources, by BT0912 ( talk · contribs), who claims to the Digital Head of the new company. Also,
MelAntipam ( talk · contribs) has raised some concerns at Talk:Bombay Talkies, which caught my eye. I tried searching for this name and its variations: Raj Narayan / RN Dubey / Rajnarayan Dubey(y). But I cannot find any mention of this guy in even a single source before 2010, which is surprising if he was indeed, one of the founders of a famous studio like Bombay Talkies. There is only one book ( Spot Girl, 2014) which mentions Raj Narayan Dube and Bombay Talkies - it's not a scholarly work, and is obviously based on information from the Wikipedia article or other articles that sprung after the "revival" press release in 2013.
Can anyone else find a pre-2010 source about this Dube-Bombay Talkies link? Any comments are appreciated at Talk:Bombay_Talkies#Errors_in_the_current_version. utcursch | talk 19:46, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
Are Dandaka and Dandakaranya both same pages.-- Vin09 (talk) 04:39, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi, One source says it is Varanasi, another Calcutta. Who is right? Thanks for your help, Yann ( talk) 16:25, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
Although released under the title ‘Panorama of Calcutta’, the film actually represents Varanasi, which is 400 miles further up the Ganges. Cinema Vision India suggested in 1980 that the film should have been titled ‘Panorama of Benares’ – as it shows the Benares Ghats – and the listing within the Warwick catalogue avoids specific geographical references (Cinema Vision India, 1980, 104). Warwick’s decision to specify the location as Calcutta may indicate a desire to reference places familiar to British audiences, and to uniformly present these disparate places and images within India – and the East – under broader terms (eg. India and Calcutta), which, in turn, helped audiences to understand and imagine a controlled Indian space.The Masked Man of Mega Might ( talk) 16:31, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
Hello hardworking editors! I am working on the Heart article with some other editors and we have reached a loggerheads in the "Society and culture" section with some of the sourcing. I'd be very grateful if a knowledgable editor could expand this brief sentence about the history of the heart in Sanskrit, and if an editor knowledgable in Ayuvedic medicine could expand it with 1-2 sentences regarding its importance:
The Sanskrit word for heart, hRd (हृद्), dates at least as far back as the Rigveda and is a cognate of the word for heart in Greek, Latin, and English. The same word is used to mean "mind" or "soul" depending on the context.
Hoping to hear from you soon, -- Tom (LT) ( talk) 03:24, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
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help) If you click on the title, you will reach page 71; if you are unable to, let me know and I'll copy the relevant text here.
Fowler&fowler
«Talk» 12:10, 5 February 2016 (UTC)Thanks so much for your help. I have put this in the article. I have changed the etymological reference to "may" and left it in, because I think it's an interesting afternote:
The Sanskrit word for heart is hṛd or hṛdaya, found in the oldest surviving Sanskrit text, the Rigveda. In Sanskirt, it may mean both the anatomical object and "mind" or "soul", representing the seat of emotion. Hrd may be a cognate of the word for heart in Greek, Latin, and English. [1] [2]
Thanks very much for your help! -- Tom (LT) ( talk) 21:03, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
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Are these links on may websites proper (official)? On many district pages with population clock.-- Vin09 (talk) 06:28, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
I have nominated the above article to appear on the Main Page as Recent Death. Please voice your opinions at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates#RD: Nida Fazli. Thanks, -- Skr15081997 ( talk) 08:56, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
User:Just a guy from the KP is on a rapid run of typos of changing the units across many pages. See his/her contributions. Am unsure of whether it is right or wrong. Someone relevant to this shall address this. -- βα£α( ᶀᶅᶖᵵᵶ) 10:24, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
The new page Mhasavad jalgaon, as created, is an abvious copy of text from another WP page. A search for "with rich black soil and uses advanced irrigation " originally resulted in hits on 6 article pages, a user page and a user sandbox. [19] I have now queried 2 users about their use of this exact phrase, so 2 more hits now. Khadakdeola seem likely to have been the 'source' as that page is mentioned on pages that are not about that village ie. Sonale.
Any idea what might be going on here? The pages involved seem to have been created by different new editors up to a year ago. 220 of Borg 13:42, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
Are Chittur and Chittur (village) same articles?-- Vin09 (talk) 17:05, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
Most of them are adding like Nearby airports are xxxx to the village. I think it looks like wiki voyage. Is it really necessary to add Airports in transport section for even smaller villages of an article? I say if the airport exists for a city or town, it can be added in that page and also in the particular village which lies on the outskirts of it. But can we add in all the village pages which lies in that district? Need opinions. Also, please propose a standard on transport section.-- Vin09 (talk) 12:05, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I recently tried to edit Mathur Vaishya and re-add the information back to the page which was earlier there. The information was based on the primary citations. Indian castes do not have much online content out there. Also this field faces language barrier. Please advise whether primary citation can be used in this case or not? I've also raised this issue over Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Is primary source not acceptable for Indian caste? and believe participation from Indian community is needed here. Mr RD 19:46, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
List of State Highways in Andhra Pradesh or List of state highways in Andhra Pradesh. Which one is correct? Consider List of National Highways in India by State.-- Vin09 (talk) 08:24, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
BLP on Dr. U. Bapputty Haji has mentioned Darul Huda Islamic University which doesn't exist. It is a diploma mill and the organization is not approved by the University Grants Commission, Newdelhi. -- Prof TPMS ( talk) 14:41, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
This article seems to be woefully inadequate: Jat reservation agitation. Is there another article on this topic? utcursch | talk 16:01, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi all,
I note that there are only
two google hits for this exact name. Should it be redirected or merged to some other article?
Pete AU aka --
Shirt58 (
talk) 10:25, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
Could someone here take a look at this article. An IP using a proxy server has added a lot of information to the article which may or may not be true, but oddly also added citation needed tags after what they had written [21]. They've done what is quite clearly vandalism to other articles with false edit summaries, e.g. [22] Voceditenore ( talk) 17:54, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
A few months ago, we started a discussion on starting a few initiatives. After that I talked to a few Indic Wikipedians. Very recently User:Vin09, User:Ms Sarah Welch and I resumed brainstorming, and also copied some portion from the Meta-Wiki page to this page.
Here are a few proposals which should improve a few things of this WikiProject.
A few plans for next 1 month or so | ||
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# | Planned initiative | Details |
1 | Starting "WikiProject India noticeboard star of the month | A barnstar/recognition for the best participant(s) here. It'll encourage more participation |
2 | Starting regular nomination of Indic English Wikipedians to WP:PRECIOUS, Editor of the week etc | There are multiple special recognitions here such as Wikipedian of the week, precious etc. Nominating best Indic editors there on regular basis. |
3 | Highlighting on Wikipedia social media channels | Attempt to highlight some of the best Indic En WP works on Wikipedia social channels |
4 | Edit-a-thon | Topic, dates unplanned |
Please let us know your feedback. Also feel free to suggest new initiatives (but let's not plan something very big right now, IMO). -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 23:07, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
before that the participating/contributing users shall oblige to the fundamentals of wikipedia-- before what and which users? Are you talking about the edit-a-thon or general Indic WP editors? -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 06:15, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
-- Tito Dutta ( talk) 01:51, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
We have planned to restart our " Collaboration of the month". Someone please go ahead and start the page: Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Collaborations of the month/Nominations/2016 February, the page will follow Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Collaborations of the month/Nominations/2015 February structure. In my opinion, we can keep discussion open from 1 to 7 March and then we can start working. -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 05:39, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
This would be a very helpful resource for all of us. They provide access to Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu and Tamil resources ( link). Yesterday, I requested at WP:TWL for this resource. Astinson (WMF) said that it would be good if someone from India lead the relationship. I don't have much experience in this field. Would someone volunteer to lead the talk? -- Skr15081997 ( talk) 09:09, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
@ Skr15081997: Do you want BL to donate physical/individual library memberships to editors in India or are you looking for access to their e-resources/databases through TWL? The databases they offer are Ebrary, PressReader (the excel file you linked) and Academic OneFile (already available at WP:Gale). All partnerships have to be made with the individual publishers of these databases and unfortunately cannot be procured from the British Library for Wikipedia use. The Masked Man of Mega Might ( talk) 12:53, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
@ Skr15081997, Tito: The library provides an online membership for an annual fee of 1100 rupees. Array of films, books on British Council e-library. Apply though the WMIN scholarship perhaps? The Masked Man of Mega Might ( talk) 14:59, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
Requesting mediation at Talk:Jat reservation agitation. Two SPAs are repeatedly removing sourced content, and inserting unsourced / OR content. utcursch | talk 17:48, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
Hey all, what does the abbreviation "Pt." mean in the context of "Pt. Mallikarjun Mansur" and similar? Pandit? Is it an honorific? I'm trying to figure out whether I should remove it or not at Hubli-Dharwad. Many thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 16:41, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello,
We are happy to inform you that WikiProject Indian Collaborations of the month is going to be restarted this month and we want your active support here.
-- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 07:19, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello! Comments are requested at Talk:T. K. Chand about whether or not {{ notability}} and {{ refimprove}} templates should remain at T. K. Chand. Thank you. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 16:15, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
Asian Highway 45A. Does this exists?-- Vin09 (talk) 11:27, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
As per WP:Gallery, can we use galleries in the page? Also, there are large educational institutions mentioned in the lead which can be shifted to education section. Also a gallery section on Kovalam page.-- Vin09 (talk) 06:15, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
Also, Wikipedia:Points to note while debating in WikiProject India related AFDs is related to AfD and not to content I guess.-- Vin09 (talk) 06:35, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
If you believe the subjects are notable, please write the articles. If not - a list of Jat clans may be enough. Xx236 ( talk) 08:15, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
Few months ago, I had raised a request for a dedicated Wikproject for the Indian City Udaipur. And since then, there have been many activities and updates around this topic, both online as well as on-ground. Udaipur has been organizing a series of events, like World Music Festival, Shilpgram2015, Udaipur Lake Festival, and several other globally recognized events. Besides, there are several other ongoing development under the Smart Cities Mission where Udaipur got selected. We are trying to put all these important aspects of information on Wikipedia, and again feel need for a dedicated project for Udaipur. Having such a project would also help us identify the progress made in terms of statistics provided by the Wikipedia supported tools (like tools.wmflabs.org). So would like to revive the request to officially have a Wikipedia:WikiProject Udaipur. Vishal0soni ( talk) 10:07, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
There seems to be some kind of consensus that prohibits Indic scripts being included in the opening sentence of articles regardless of the context - be them country articles, historical articles, biographical articles, articles about movies and so on - and this consensus appears to have been reached by 2 or 3 people, if not more.
One of the users justified the removal of Indic scripts (from movie articles) by saying that it would cause 'confusion' because people wouldn't know whether they should add Hindi, Urdu, or some other Indian regional language.
However, most of these movies are from the Hindi film industry (colloquially known as 'Bollywood'), are made in Hindi, and are made in a country where Hindi in the Devanagari script is the official language along with English. It does make complete sense to include their Hindi - or should I say, official names. I see no 'confusion' here whatsoever given that Urdu is not an official language of India. Any person who has watched a Hindi movie would know that at the beginning of every movie a अ/U certification is normally displayed - with the name of the movie officially listed in solely Hindi and Hindi alone (link: http://dooleyonline.typepad.com/.a/6a00e551a4e0f3883301a3fbbc9f2e970b-pi). Articles about Russian and Chinese films have their native and official scripts clearly listed in the lead sentences, and the reason for the removal of Indic scripts in Indian articles seems really dubious and unnecessary. I would like to understand more about the removal of Indic scripts because the reasoning that it might be 'confusing' does not really make much sense at all.
Furthermore, it gets even more dubious when it comes to the issue of biographical articles. This could cause conflict - for example, if the person listed in the biographical article wanted their native name to be listed, but an unknown editor disagreed, who would be right here? It wouldn't count as someone writing information about themselves, which is prohibited by Wikipedia's policies on biographies of living persons. They would merely be adding their native name - a mere transcription. Would it be removed? Also, are these standards limited to biographical articles of Indians from India, or biographical articles of prominent members of the diaspora? It is far from being enforced universally. Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have their native names listed in the lead sentences of their biographical articles, yet Narendra Modi does not.
I think this issue should be discussed more as there are far too many holes in it. Tiger7253 ( talk) 11:44, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
Disagree for the proposal to use indic scripts.-- Vin09 (talk) 16:45, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
You don't get it so I'll try to make it simple. India is not Russia, there are many candidate scripts and many languages. It is not always clear which script to use. There is little (or no) benefit for English readers in seeing one or more native scripts. So we don't use them across the board. -- regentspark ( comment) 17:05, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
Comment – One effect of not including Indian scripts is that it weakens the status of these languages and these scripts, and this alone should be an argument for not following this policy. Imc ( talk) 21:13, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
In reading the above discussion on use of Indic scripts, and in previous discussions of this topic, I am reminded of Macaulay's arrogant and dismissive statement two centuries ago that a single shelf of a good European library is worth the whole native literature of India. I imagine most of the editors here are Indian or of Indian origin like myself. But is this attitude present among us, and affecting Wikipedia? Imc ( talk) 21:13, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
This issue has been discussed to death by experienced contributors to the topic area every time someone with very little experience turns up. It becomes tedious and it would only be less so if the relatively new contributors actually produced some new argument. They don't, unless my memory is defective. The arguments against going down this road may well be beyond the comprehension of the newcomers but it doesn't make them any less valid and, sorry, there are times when experience really does count. Dammit, India is in a state of almost permanent reconstruction simply because of linguistic assertions regarding territory etc (Telegana being I think the last officially sanctioned division). We do not need to import, encourage or otherwise enable the potential problems of these disputes to an English language encyclopaedia - we have specific articles which deal with them. - Sitush ( talk) 02:22, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
Well, I guess I'm yet another new contributor to turn up (I hadn't had the chance to read through all the relevant discussions so far), but I'm not really up for starting a polemic, nor do I want to detract from what seems to me like the main argument against Indic scripts, summed up by utcursch above. I'm just noting a few points. If they've been discussed before – fine, I'll get to the old discussions at some stage.
One of the major arguments against the use of Indic scripts is that there are many cases where deciding on a single script to use is tricky. First, this is not limited to India-related articles, I'm used to seeing article leads that list two, three or more native names in the first sentence (example: Thrace or Shopska salata). I don't know how this practice is received in the other wikipedia projects or whether criticism isn't levied against it but the practice is common enough. I have no issue with clutter in the first sentence: it's irrelevant for me because the only place where this space matters is inside the navigation popups, but they skip any templates and given that a name in an Indic script is most likely to be found within a lang template, it isn't getting displayed.
Now, even assuming we don't want to clutter the lead and chose to have only one representation of the name, then of course there'll be plenty of room for controversy and it's sensible to want to avoid it. But we aren't really avoiding it by ditching the scripts and using IPA. Of course, IPA symbols are less ridden with identity value and they wouldn't attract as much of the chauvinistic edit-warring that native scripts do (but that's mixed blessing, I'll explain that later). But in all but but the most trivial cases, by opting for IPA we aren't really saving ourselves the difficult choices we would have with scripts. After all, IPA gives the pronunciation in one given language and a decision has to be made which language this is going to be. We'll still have to decide between Panjabi [síŋɡ] and Urdu [siŋɡʱ], or between Bengali [rɔbindrɔ] and Hindi [rəvindrə]. Using transliteration, instead of native script or pronunciation could be a way out as the transliteration of a name is more likely to be uniform across some languages and scripts, but that's not universal and there're many problem cases. Besides, my experience is that transliterated names are much harder to maintain than versions in native scripts and errors tend to stay longer: almost every contributor from India will be competent in the scripts relevant to the pages they're editing whereas there's usually only a handful of editors with the scholarly or foreign-language background to spot errors in transliterations.
Personally I find Indic scripts tremendously useful. They help me figure out what's what when editing dab and anthroponymy pages, they often provide linguistic and etymological information that I find interesting (if trivial), but more importantly they help when searching for more information online. I know enough Hindi to be able to browse google results when I paste the native name but I don't know enough to be able to figure out how that is going to spelt given the IPA or the anglicisation. Of course, interiwiki links are helpful but more often than not there haven't been any.
As for keeping the native scripts or transliterations in the infobox and out of the lead: for me personally it doesn't matter where this information is, as long as it's prominent enough: the top of the infobox is just as good as the lead. But I see two potential issues here: the general practice on wikipedia seems to be in favour of putting them in parentheses in the first sentence of the lead and that's where readers (me included) are used to seeing it. Second, and more important, the infobox provides only a partial solution: not all articles have infoboxes, not all infoboxes have the relevant field, and of those that do, not many allow even the most basic flexibility (of specifying which language this is or giving more than one script) that we have with free text.
Well, this is my two pence. If this ever gets to another RfC I'll try to articulate my thoughts better. Uanfala ( talk) 01:30, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi, can I interest anybody in participating in April? Up to £200 in Amazon vouchers and books up for grabs. If it is a success I'm considering proposing one for India based on the same model, and we could have prizes for tackling Indian cinema/geography articles etc. The more successful it is, more chance other contests like one for India will be approved! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:28, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
There is a dispute submitted at Dispute Resolution Noticeboard, titled "Talk:Tamils#Are Tamils a stateless nation or only Sri Lankan Tamils?" Somehow I got sucked into this even though I know very little about stateless nations myself. Can interested people participate? - Kautilya3 ( talk) 14:07, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
Someone has proposed that the Unique Identification Authority of India should be split into two articles: one for Unique Identification Authority of India, the controlling body and one for Aadhaar the ID number. Please comment. - Kenfyre ( talk) 17:53, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
I request someone to create wikiproject for these places as they fall under the capital region of Andhra Pradesh state and some has many pages under its category.-- Imahesh3847 ( talk) 14:39, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
Editor who nominated the article for GA has not been active since long. I have made primary comments at
Talk:Lucknow/GA3 and noted that further more would come after these are resolved. The pending work is huge and the article has a long history of failures and thereby long notes of to-do as well. Not an easy task for someone not really interested but I still thought of droping a note here. Anyone interested can take up the task and let me know of the status.
Also noticed that the nominator himself has nominated the article multiple times and has been editing articles related to Lucknow. The defunct and unnecessary
Wikipedia:WikiProject Lucknow also seems to be their brainchild. §§
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There's a discussion over at CfD on Category:South Asian cricketers who have acted in movies. Although the name needs changing, I and another editor suspect that cricketer-actors are enough of a "thing" that the category shouldn't be deleted outright as most other contributors to that discussion think. It would probably need an article on the subject to save the category though - anyone fancy it? Le Deluge ( talk) 13:25, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello, most probably you have noticed that
Environment of India has been selected as the article of the month. In March we'll collaboratively attempt to improve article. Please spend some time and help to improve this article. Regards.--
Tito Dutta (
talk) 17:36, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
Is the proposed naming at Talk:National Highway 26 (India) improper, need more views. If it is then, we need to move all other pages to proper naming.-- Vin09 (talk) 06:07, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
This page is written like an advt for Adlabs Imagica need help to wikify it. I seek partners to do so, please ping me on my talk page or here. Yogesh Khandke ( talk) 07:02, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
I seek partners to rebuild the page. Yogesh Khandke ( talk) 08:12, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
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Is this Sigra, Varanasi administratively different region or just a locality within Varanasi? Its categorized as Category:Cities and towns in Varanasi district but is described as "downtown area". If its just a locality, it should be redirected to Varanasi as I can't find any non-trivial mentions in RS. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { Talk / Edits} 08:55, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
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AshLin ( talk) 13:44, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello! Indian contributors. I would like to know if Bollywood Hungama (bollywoodhungama.com) is a reliable source ? — Sanskari Hangout 15:21, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
Are these reliable ? — Sanskari Hangout 15:39, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
I am asking for your participation in Talk:Brahma Kumaris#RFC for adding the word "Cult" Supdiop ( T🔹 C) 16:10, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
I was wondering if anyone could help me find sourcing for the article Ikka Singh. I'm finding some news hits that give an assertion of notability, but there's a bit of difficulty with searching because the guy's stage name comes up with a lot of different things (Ikka). I'm just hoping that one of you will be familiar with the guy's work and can help provide names of albums or songs or other things that can make searching easier. I'm using the WP's search engine, but it's still slow going. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 09:26, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
I need some help with the article Sekhauliya. It looks like this is a village and I'm asking the article creator ( Amit V Pandey) if it's recognized by the government, which should make it pass notability guidelines, but I get the strong impression that there's a language barrier here. English does not appear to be his first language and the content is somewhat garbled, so I'd greatly appreciate it if someone who speaks Hindi (which I believe is his native language) could stop in and provide some help. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 06:17, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello! I'm here to request contributions to Timeline of Delhi. Many cities have timeline articles, and we should have some for Indian places as well. Aryamanarora talk, contribs 23:26, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
Is Beerwah, Kashmir a split of Beerwah, Jammu and Kashmir. Or is a bit more dab like Beerwah, subdistrict needed? 220 of Borg
Can somebody who can read Hindi please look at
this (and perhaps other recent edits to
Pramada Charan Banerjee)? In this edit alone, various alternative spellings disappear, and it seems that the name Pramada is given in Devanagari script. (Unfortunately I cannot read Devanagari script at all. My bad.) The new addition is highlighted via (((triplex parentheses))). That the reader is provided with Devanagari script is good -- but why only for this one part of the biographee's name, and is the script really so very intricate? Something looks fishy to me. --
Hoary (
talk) 07:34, 6 October 2015 (UTC) Strikeout
Hoary (
talk) 08:11, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
is a user submitted content site that also mirrors some stuff from hi.wiki etc and then gets added on here as a source. I stumbled across this during a COIN investigation and found that the editing group had created hi/mr articles which were copied over to this site and used as sources in the en articles! — Spaceman Spiff 17:18, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Barwa Barauli and Barwa village seem to be the same topic as Barwa, Bihar,
And all created quite deliberately within a short period by a reputable editor, (ping!) Anupmehra. 220 of Borg 00:55, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi, kindly keep Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Requested articles on your watchlist and help to create articles mentioned there, you can also suggest new articles to create. Those who are interested in biographical articles can have look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Padma. Hundreds of Padma awardees still doesn't have article. Thank you. -- Human3015 TALK 02:34, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
India's blockade of Nepal, 2015-- Zaalim ( talk) 03:16, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
Thanks Jim1138 ( talk) 18:54, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
You can keep 2014–15 India–Pakistan border skirmishes on your watchlist. Factual errors and POV pushing are common problems. -- Human3015 TALK 04:27, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
A merger discussion regarding Mrs Funnybones and Twinkle Khanna is going on here. A detailed discussion is required. Thanks,-- Skr15081997 ( talk) 13:36, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
I am proposing that (i) the reporting of the latest genetics research of Indian populations be limited to the page on Genetics and archaeogenetics of South Asia and that (ii) this page be indefinitely semi-protected. No other page on Indian populations should use primary sources on genetic research.
Rationale: The research into the genetic analysis of Indian populations is moving at a rapid pace and many new results are becoming available. However, the field is fluid, the available literature is mostly primary, and its interpretation and verification is difficult. WP:NOR advises us that Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published secondary sources and, to a lesser extent, on tertiary sources and primary sources. WP:USEPRIMARY further clarifies that In science, data is primary, and the first publication of any idea or experimental result is always a primary source. At present, we have had such primary sources being used in Indo-Aryan peoples, Dravidian peoples, Adivasi and perhaps other pages. Often the same text is copied from one page to another. A number of unregistered users with dynamic IP addresses have been involved in the creation of this content, and they have left no reasonable edit summaries and showed no participation in talk page discussions. Limiting this content to Genetics and archaeogenetics of South Asia will ensure that it will be reviewed by editors knowledgeable about the subject and we do not have questionable claims being propagated throughout Indian population pages. - Kautilya3 ( talk) 19:33, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest 2015 is going to be conducted between 15 - 17 December in Delhi. There is one open slot from Indian English Wikipedians. Please nominate yourself there if you think that you are eligible. I don't think I'll go, if you want me to nominate your name, feel free to ask me.
Page: meta:CIS-A2K/Events/2015/Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest
PS. (As I found it a common question, when I was inviting others for other events): Yes, travel and accommodation will be arranged. -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 10:27, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
Dear India experts: Here's another village draft article that could use some attention. I found some census information and a couple of other references. It seems the Gaighat spelling is more common.— Anne Delong ( talk) 02:57, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
There's currently an AfD discussion for the song Khamoshiyan (song) going on here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Khamoshiyan (song). According to WP:NSONG, a song qualifies as notable if it charts on a qualifying WP:CHART, and the song has charted on a Radio Mirchi chart. Unfortunately no Indian charts are listed on the page, either positively or negatively. When I search Google for Indian music charts, Radio Mirchi Top 20 is one of the first results, which leads me to believe it is considered important (not a perfect metric though). However, I can't seem to find information on whether Radio Mirchi should qualify under WP:CHART. Does anyone know more about it, and whether it's comparable to the American Billboard chart, for example? mikeman67 ( talk) 14:09, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
I had reverted an undiscussed move and suggested taking to RM (assuming that people would be interested in it), it's now been listed at RM and received no comment and relisted again. If you're interested in Category:Lists of colleges affiliated to universities in India, please do comment there, sadly our Education task force is inactive :) — Spaceman Spiff 14:19, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
We now have so many defunct task forces and sub projects that the problems outweigh the benefits, especially when new editors are interested in something and go to a dead talk page. I think we need to do the following:
{{
WP India}}
to reflect the list of consolidated projects and task forcesThoughts? — Spaceman Spiff 07:56, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
Starting from the first Wikipedia:WikiProject Andaman and Nicobar Islands, it doesn't have any talk discussion beyond the normal notifications. Members is two. Most of the pages are redlinks. The page doesn't seem to be developed beyond its draft stage. Shall I mark ones like these as fully inactive? ‑ Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 18:38, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
I've checked the first ten now and all seem to have to same level of inactivity as the Wikipedia:WikiProject Andaman and Nicobar Islands I mentioned above. One already has its talk redirected here. Should I do the same for the rest which come up? Shall I add "|inactive" to their main page? ‑ Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 14:11, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
Appreciate any inputs at Talk:Dada Lekhraj#Birth_year. utcursch | talk 15:42, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi there. I have been copyediting Zahirabad and an ip keeps changing the spelling to Zaheerabad throughout the article. Does the title of the article need to be changed? Regards, Myrtle Myrtlegroggins ( talk) 14:01, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
I've created a new article on the organisation, Centre for Equality and Inclusion.
Centre for Equality and Inclusion is a non-governmental organisation based in India that works towards female empowerment and women's rights.
If you'd like to help with research or to improve the article's quality, source suggestions would be appreciated, at Talk:Centre for Equality and Inclusion.
Thank you,
— Cirt ( talk) 14:50, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
Can anyone help with wp:RS to confirm whether Sundarpur, Jiwachhghat and Sundarpur, Darbhanga, Bihar are one place or two, and to provide text to distinguish them if they are different? Both artices say "... is a village ... in Darbhanga district " but an editor says that one is an urban area and is therefore different from the other (unclear which). One has a source, one has coordinates. Pam D 17:50, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
The article Picnic (1966 film) is nominated for deletion here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Picnic (1966 film). Editors are invited to comment and determine if there is significant coverage in multiple reliable sources that can show whether or not the film is notable enough for its own article on Wikipedia. Thanks, Erik ( talk | contrib) ( ping me) 18:11, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Can anyone have a look at the article South West India? Sure the term can be found in several books, but most of them use it to cover Coastal South West India and neighbouring areas. On the other hand, the article South West India states that the term covers all the South Indian states + Maharashtra + Goa. utcursch | talk 00:16, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
Presently I am supporting relatively new article Ceremonial pole. I came across a little info about 'Sirimanu' at Sirimanothsavam#Procession & reffs seems to be available at google books too. I am bit confused if it is celebrated in Tamilnadu or Andhra or in both the states.
I suppose some one from south Indian background can do a better justice by including improving 'Sirimanu' related information along with references in article Sirimanothsavam#Procession and also in umbrella article Ceremonial pole.
Thanks and rgds.
Mahitgar ( talk) 07:07, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
Can any one check Rajiv Internet Village page. Only one newspaper article as reference.-- Vin09 ( talk) 12:36, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
I am trying to communicate with a new user, User:Dear sri sri 1008 pujya Dada pamma ram ji, who is writing in what I suspect to be one of the Indic languages. Could anyone here communicate with them, and give them a steer to how they might best contribute to Wikipedia? -- The Anome ( talk) 19:34, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
This has probably been discussed before on this page, but not concluded in any way. Oct 14 and May 15 discussions. But there hasn't been much improvement in school-related lists of India. I hence propose the following:
Feel free to add more or suggest changes. If need be, we can later take this to RfC after good discussion has happened. I would also request vast number of editors to help in this mess-cleaning. I remember that tag-and-access was a very successful drive our group took few years back which also inspired other groups to follow our footprints. Let's encourage them as well with our Swachh Bharat-articles Abhiyan. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { Talk / Edits} 06:31, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
Palak Muchhal, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { Talk / Edits} 09:53, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
The 1955 Bollywood film Ha Ha Hee Hee Ho Ho is nominated for deletion here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ha Ha Hee Hee Ho Ho. Editors are invited to comment to determine if the film meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines or not. Thanks, Erik ( talk | contrib) ( ping me) 15:55, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
So what does one do about stuff like this? I assume it is a real TV series (plenty of episodes on Dailymotion) but nothing on the page is verifiable. The list of writers, for example, has grown over the years and looks dubious. Perhaps remove everything except "was an Imagine TV series"? -- regentspark ( comment) 22:49, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
Self-declared deletionist User:KDS4444 seems to be having a field day nominating older Indian films at Afd. One such recent Afd is Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adil-E-Jahangir, a 1956-released directorial effort by G. P. Sippy, which is pretty much a textbook case of what we're not going to find online references for, per WP:IKI. I couldn't find much using the online search tools at WP:INDAFD, to be sure. Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 18:39, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi wikipedians in Chennai ! Is anyone able to snap a photo of the Y R Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education please?
I would like to post it in the page of Suniti Solomon, the HIV researcher and activist who died this year.- I cannot find a free file for her portrait. please ping me if you reply ! thank you. -- Wuerzele ( talk) 09:44, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Need some editors opinion/comment on this content dispute. D4iNa4 ( talk) 17:51, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
Panamattom is a small village in Kerala with ~10K+ population and turns out that we have plenty usourced articles of Hindu temples in this village. I searched online and found no mentions of these in any WP:RS. Can someone with knowledge of regional languages try out and see if they are notable enough to stay?
Kavummuri Temple, Panamattom seems to have been PRODed and deleted in January 2013. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { Talk / Edits} 06:39, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello all, I have added a peer review request on Haryana. It would be great if you can help me in this. Thanks -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 04:44, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Can anyone check for references Guttikonda_Bilam.-- Vin09 ( talk) 05:44, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I have nominated the Indian National Army article for FA. From recent experience with India House, the FAC stagnated after a while therefore I am posting a notice here for interested editors, your help and comments would be much appreciated to get this important article to FA status (even if this current nomination fails). Note I must declare, I am the major contributor to this article, so I must clarify this is not a canvassing attempt. Opinions and contributions sought rueben_lys ( talk · contribs) 13:05, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Can someone help out on Talk:Gauthameswarar Temple, Kumbakonam, please? Sam Sailor Talk! 08:10, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Done someone answered. ‑ Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 15:14, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Comments needed for Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greater Rayalaseema.-- Vin09 ( talk) 18:18, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
Currently at CIS-A2K, we are working on a handbook called "Indic Wikipedia Policies and Guidelines Handbook" where we are discussing a number of things such as: Creating new policies, Modifying existing ones; and to explain these we had to discuss Village Pump, Consensus etc. The book is in English, but we hope to translate and print the book in a few Indian languages.
Now,
a) We are eager to add your frequently asked questions on policies and guidelines, and discuss the difficulties you are facing to manage, enforce or deal with any policy on your Wikipedia.
For this reason, we are inviting you to ask questions or discuss things related to your Wikipedia's (WP:IND) policies and guidelines.
Selected questions or discussions will be published in our handbook and askers/participants will be given credits in the book.
and/or
b) We are also inviting you to preview the handbook and give your feedback to improve it.
Please fill this form if you want to join the survey. -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 10:38, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
Rudravaram disambiguation page has many pages linked. Krishna district itself has many villages, so for those pages mandal needs to be mentioned or mandal and district both?-- Vin09 ( talk) 08:38, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Dear India experts: This old draft will soon be deleted as stale under db-g13. It would need a lot of work, and I have no idea if this is a notable subject or not. If yes, perhaps someone here can improve it. If not, just don't edit it and it will be deleted soon.— Anne Delong ( talk) 11:11, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
This article has long been subject to a series of SPAs determined to restore puffery and delete any negative material, no matter how well sourced. I have just reverted the ministrations of two more [4], [5], but haven't got the time to keep the article on close watch. Voceditenore ( talk) 12:22, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
Dear India experts: This old draft will soon be deleted as stale. Is this a notable topic? It needs some reliable sources, but if this is a Hindi news source, the sources may not be in English.— Anne Delong ( talk) 01:38, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Chandra dynasty to be moved to Candra_dynasty. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 05:44, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
Anyone willing to work on Draft:Kolletikota? Best, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 21:20, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
As per Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Icons#Avoid_ flag_icons_in_infoboxes it says flag icons should be avoided. But in the last para, it says Human geographic articles – for example settlements and administrative subdivisions – may have flags of the country and first-level administrative subdivision in infoboxes. So, for villages, towns and cities can we have FLAG ICONS or not?-- Vin09 ( talk) 13:13, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
There is a dispute ongoing at the
Brahma page. A user has added material to the intro that belongs in the article body (where it is already mentioned) in this edit
here. All attempts to persuade the editor to allow an edit has failed and there are the stirrings of an edit war. In accordance with wiki policy, it is important that any article's introductory paragraph give only a general overview of a topic and not selectively present viewpoints of specific schools or sects as this gives undue weight to those views. The debate and sources can be seen on the talk page
Talk:Brahma#Disagree_with_last_edit here.
The misplaced phrase in question is: "...is a Hindu deity who functions as a 'secondary creator' as described in the Mahabharata and Puranas. Born from a lotus emerging from the navel of Vishnu, Brahma creates all the forms in the universe, but not the primordial universe itself. Thus in most Puranic texts, Brahma's creative activity depends on the presence and power of a higher god." The information is accurate, but not appropriate for the intro without including the older story of
Hiranyagarbha that is used in Vedanta, Vaisheshika, Samkhya, certain Mahayana groups and other schools that don't necessarily use Vaishnav Puranas. Since including all the different stories in the intro would be unrealistic and lower readability, it is my belief this edit should be undone to the previous version which is more neutral and comprehensive. Any second opinions would be greatly appreciated.
Iṣṭa Devatā (
talk) 06:52, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Done resolved.
Iṣṭa Devatā (
talk) 06:19, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
Was Detective Conan ever aired in English on Indian television? Was the manga ever published in English in India?
I ask because the series currently has the title Case Closed (The series title in the USA, Canada, and UK). I found that the series is published in English as Detective Conan in Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Brunei, Thailand, and Indonesia. If I find it is also published as "Detective Conan" in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives, etc. I will do a requested move.
Thanks, WhisperToMe ( talk) 14:58, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
Category:Hindu movements and organizations has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page.
Hey all, I need some second opinions on this and this is the first place I'm checking in. Long story short, an article for Huccha Venkat was created and deleted several times before it was drafted to Draft:Huccha Venkat. The guy does appear to have received a lot of coverage, but I'm somewhat worried about this from a WP:BLP issue since he's pretty much known for controversy and his lawyer has stated that he's mentally ill. Offhand his appearance on BB and the film should be enough to pass notability guidelines, but I know that this will likely be quickly nominated or at least targeted for deletion if this gets approved to the mainspace.
Since I'm posting this at two different boards, this might be best handled on the draft's talk page or at WP:BLP/N, where I'm going to post next. I just wanted to give you guys a head's up since this is India related and as such, there's going to be the normal troubles with sources coming up in a general search. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 12:11, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
The subject article seems to be catching a lot of COI editors. Previously when Manojche was caught he has stopped editing the article. But now Nexent has come and there are other IPs and SPAs like Writernmore too. Can people please watch this? A new article Vu Technologies Pvt. Ltd. has also been recently created which I have now PRODed. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { Talk / Edits} 09:28, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
I don't know where to start. What happened to this? The article lacks almost everything a standard
Wikipedia:WikiProject Big Brother must have. How blatantly different this article looks from
its predecessor is uncanny. From the looks of it the season has been airing for 42 days(judging by the latest eviction) and there is absolutely no sign of how we got there. What is the reason for this? I see the page has been protected for appropriate purpose but the page editors only appear to update eviction outcome in the sidebar.
List of sections missing(in order of appearance):
1. Weekly summary
Mentioned in the project
here. This doesn't seem any different from the episode list for
Satyamev Jayate for which a separate page has been resurrected to quote the events of each episode. Then why are the summaries not present in
Bigg Boss 9 from scratch?
2. Nominations table
Under
this part of the project it clearly states that a Big Brother article must contain a nomination history in all incidents where votes have been cast which lead to evictions of housemates.
3. Lack of references.
The article has an acute shortage of sources. This shouldn't really be a problem for anyone who knows how to use Google.
I want to nominate this article along with others, on which I'm working on, for improvement or at the very least convince someone from here to initiate the process.
--
WeirdWaffle (
talk) 00:33, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
There is a request for moving 2015 Nepal fuel crisis to Indian Economic Blockade on Nepal at Talk:2015 Nepal fuel crisis#Requested_move_21_November_2015. utcursch | talk 22:53, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
I don't know enough on copyrights but wouldn't File:Rajasthan emblem.png fall under Indian public domain based on its publication date? If so, I think the logo could be used in the template for Rajasthan. If not, it actually needs a proper fair use rationale. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 07:34, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
Earlier, we announced in the mailing lists informing you all about the
2015 Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest that is going to be held between 15 and 17 December at National Law University, Delhi. 10 Wikimedians from various Indian language Wikimedia communities and Indian English Wikipedia/Wikimedia community will be selected to attend this event where the event is aimed at helping them to work on various policy level works for their respective communities.
From your community we have got 2 nominations where we want you all to select only one participant by endorsing against the usernames below. Please edit the subsections below and endorse the applicant you think should be representing your community in the event. We also encourage more applicants, especially more female applicants, to apply and share their application with other fellow Wikimedians in your language community for endorsements. Though we understand it is quite difficult to assess one’s contribution on the basis of endorsements only, it is impossible on our end to select one from your community as a representative without your consent.
Last date of nomination/endorsement is: 15 November 2015, 23:59 (IST) -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 10:03, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
Srravya ( talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
Tamil Nadu has suffered from complete outage for the last ten days due to heavy rainfall, cyclones and resulting floods. Chennai, in particular, faced lack of electricity for the last one week. With no access to a computer and internet, I was unable to work on the endorsement for the nomination. I kindly request for additional time to gather endorsements. Regards, Srravya ( talk) 12:21, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
Jim Carter ( talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
Thanks for getting involved. Based on your discussion and endorsements both of the editors above have been selected . -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 05:25, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
Several new single-purpose accounts and IPs are edit-warring at the newly created BLP Prashant Kishor, restoring a poorly written, formatted and sourced version that is chock full of the users' personal opinion.
Could an admin please take a look at this and maybe put some sort of lock on the article for a short period?— indopug ( talk) 16:41, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
Little cleanup needed at Vaddi page, also please check the licenses of images.-- Vin09 ( talk) 10:14, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
Your comments on
Draft:Karnabharam by Bhasa are welcomed. Please use
Preferences →
Gadgets → Yet Another AFC Helper Script, or use {{
afc comment|your comment here}}
directly in the draft.
Sam Sailor
Talk! 13:02, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
Like Wikipedia:WikiProject Hyderabad, needs page for Wikipedia:WikiProject Visakhapatnam.-- Vin09 ( talk) 07:30, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
Please comment here:
/info/en/?search=Talk:Bangalore#Requested_move_29_November_2015
-- The Avengers 05:10, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, It seems there is a lot of confusion about these films. I renamed and moved images which were wrongly described from the 1935 to the 1936 version. The legend mentions Saigal, so they are from the Hindi version, not the Bengali version. Now I am trying to upload a copy of the movie from YouTube (or another source), but there is also a lot of confusion there. File:Devdas 1936.webm is described as the Bengali version on YouTube, although it is in Hindi. The beginning is different than this one (Dailymotion). Any idea? Regards, Yann ( talk) 21:12, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello all,
According to
"about" page and other third-party desciptions, this is a search engine for Indian legislation and case law.
A
large number (but definitely not lakhs, our shibboleth number
) - of articles link to it in some form.
Is Indian Kanoon a reliable source for Indian legislation and case law?
--
Shirt58 (
talk) 10:43, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
We have over 75 articles listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/India and over 2/3rd of these have been relisted at least once. The count had almost reached century in last 2-3 weeks. Hence requesting regular editors to participate in AfDs and reduce the backlog and help admins take decisions on them. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { Talk / Edits} 05:09, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
Can comment at Talk:Eluru#UA.-- Vin09 ( talk) 07:32, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello India experts. Here's one more old draft that will soon be deleted as stale unless someone takes an interest in it.— Anne Delong ( talk) 04:59, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
User Annoy Chakraborty has inserted a link to Railyatri.in onto various Railway station pages. I've left a warning, and a COI notice after I found a person of the same username on the Railyatri.in Blog. I'm cleaning this mess up now. Request others to keep their eyes out. -- Rsrikanth05 ( talk) 09:01, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
I've been watching these pages for a long time. One thing I noticed here is that WP:BLP violations happen quite frequently to pages concerning public figures like journalists, reporters, news anchors especially if the person concerned is a woman; they usually become soft targets for right wingers and other chaps. With people trying to add stuff like this, this or this, I strongly recommend editors to watch these pages as quite often, handling them alone becomes quite burdensome.
I'll look for more in Category:Indian television journalists and Category:Indian women journalists. ‑ Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 05:10, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
This is a huge part of Wikipedia. Like elsewhere, editors working in this area use a skill set that helps them with the challenges of POV editing, copyvios, and much, much more. Well, these are considerations when evaluating candidates at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship.
So, please consider taking a look at and watchlisting this page:
You could be very helpful in evaluating potential candidates, and maybe even find out if you would be a suitable RfA candidate.
Best wishes,
Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 00:30, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I seem to be having some trouble communicating with Sumanjha1991. He contributed an article on a painter from India, but it was a copyvio. I tried to explain what was wrong with it and clean it up, and he replaced it with a copyvio from a different website, so it has now been speedied (as a copyvio). He also uploaded several pictures of the painter and her work to Commons, which he tagged as his own work but which are obviously scans from newspapers. I've nominated them for deletion as copyvios there too. I've tried communicating with him using his talk page, but he doesn't respond. He seems to have made some effort to fix the tagging of the images on Commons, but it hasn't worked. I'm wondering if he has difficulty understanding English, and if someone could try talking to him in either Hindi or Urdu, to explain why the article was deleted, why the pictures are in danger, figure out where the pictures came from and if they are acceptable for Commons or not, and let him know I'm willing to help him re-write the article, but it can't be a copy-paste from elsewhere on the internet? Thanks. ~ ONUnicorn( Talk| Contribs) problem solving 15:31, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
Can someone point out a followup report about what happened after the Detention of Ayub Ali Khan and Mohammed Jaweed Azmath? There is an unlimited amount of news about them from 2001, but I couldn't find any source recent enough to say what happened with their passport case. One awkward aspect of this is that per WP:BLP I am retaining the name "Ayub Ali Khan", though the latest source I found alleges that he had a different name and had faked his passport to get a visa. Wnt ( talk) 23:02, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
Someone created Indian Ocean Island. I've initiated a discussion about merging it with the existing article on North Sentinel Island. —Largo Plazo ( talk) 21:57, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Dear Indian Editor, an article nominated by me for deletion is pending for participation at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amit Agarwal. Your attention will be appreciated. Cheers! — Sanskari Hangout 14:16, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
Can anyone help me get the message through to Ravindra kumar Arkavanshi ( talk · contribs)? I've no idea where they are getting their (English language) info from in the Arakh article but posts such as this and the lack of responses on their talk page make me think that they may be copy/pasting from somewhere and in fact do not speak English. Thanks. - Sitush ( talk) 15:19, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
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If you want to participate in this event, you may apply for a scholarship. Please apply
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Don't be shy to write about the works you have done on Wikipedia. Write in details.
This year, I am a Wikimania scholarship ambassador. Feel free to ping me if you have any question. Good wishes (Tagging a few editors, sorry if this notification disturbs you:
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Tito Dutta (
talk) 15:55, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
Whether it should be XYZ Municipal Corporation or XYZ municipal corporation?-- Vin09 ( talk) 06:02, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
Someone needs to vet Special:Contributions/Krantmlverma. Although he was blocked in 2012, many of his contributions remain live. There are several instances of historical revisionism in his contributions revolving around Indian independence movement, on both English Wikipedia and Hindi Wikipedia (where he remains unblocked). He has authored some books in Hindi, which are also full of these made-up "facts". Since Wikipedia is mirrored and read widely, he had been using the site to grant these hoaxes some kind of authenticity.
One hoax that I discovered today: Bismil in Turkey is named after Ram Prasad Bismil. This is a hoax created by Krantmlverma, and added to the article with "references" that don't actually support the assertion. But it remained live on Wikipedia since 2011, and now appears on several blogs, forum posts and other sources based on Wikipedia. I've removed it from both English and Hindi Wikipedias.
I'll randomly check the user's other additions, but considering that he has made nearly 2500 edits, any help would be appreciated. utcursch | talk 06:01, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
Can anyone look at Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham article for improvement?-- Vin09 ( talk) 07:18, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
Dear India experts: Here's a draft about a village. It could use some improvement, especially in the way of reliable sources. Can anyone help?— Anne Delong ( talk) 13:41, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi! I have an editor, @ Palashvai: that has been making various edits that don't really appear to make a whole lot of sense, like this one and someone brought their edits up to ANI. Their name suggests that they're likely from India, so it's possible that they predominantly speak Hindi. Can one of you go and see if this is just a case of a language barrier and if so, see if you can help them out any in what they're looking for? I've pinged them here so they can be aware of this WikiProject. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 06:06, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
The article sees a lot of promotional stuff from users and IPs. Few Users have been blocked after
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cyberhawk 5/Archive. Need help on cleaning up all the hagiography. Thanks to @
Shrikanthv: who is doing some cleaning.
Also, I noticed that we had promotional issues at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vu Digital (2nd nomination). Am not sure if they are same, but Saraf also runs a business named "Vu" in USA. Pinging AfD nominator @
DGG: to check if these are all related. §§
Dharmadhyaksha§§ {
Talk /
Edits} 11:03, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
There's a lot of comments by new/possibly involved editors at this discussion, so more eyes would be much appreciated. I am not looking for somebody to counter the arguments that have been presented thus far, but for policy-based arguments, none of which have been offered yet. Vanamonde93 ( talk) 07:30, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
An editor has inserted images into three articles about Indian places, where the image consists of foreign language text (I'm guessing Hindi). The captions say something about "corruption". I'm concerned that there could be WP:POV or even WP:BLP issues involved. Unfortunately I can't read the language, and since they are images, I can't put the text through a translation program either. If someone with relevant language skills could take a look at the articles on Kolthur, Manikonda, and Shamirpet, that would be much appreciated. Thanks. -- RL0919 ( talk) 00:35, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lidhar could use some input. It has been relisted but still has no comments and is at the end of the relisting period. - Sitush ( talk) 12:19, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
Does anyone have the ability to bring some sense of order to Daiva Dasakam ? I'm not good on religious texts. - Sitush ( talk) 13:17, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
NB: I think it may be copy/pasted in part from this. - Sitush ( talk) 13:19, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
This Featured Article on Indian history will appear on the Main Page soon. It mostly follows the lead section; how does it look? - Dank ( push to talk) 01:51, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
See Talk:Shahnawaz Choudhary#Listing state-level party-organization offices in the infobox. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidwr ( talk • contribs) 04:14, 4 November 2015
When using the the India template, currently we have support for adding names of states, which corresponds to articles related to that state, and acts as a subproject. For example, for any page related to Rajasthan, i add {:{WikiProject India|rajasthan=yes}:} in the talk page. In this manner, all articles written for Wikiproject Rajasthan automatically adds up to WikiProject India.
I suggest to add support for third level support for cities, which would correspond to dedicated projects for those cities as well. So to mark any Udaipur related article, i would add {:{WikiProject India|rajasthan=yes|Udaipur=yes}:} which would mean this article is under project Udaipur, which is under project Rajasthan, which in turn is under project India.
This will create a hierarchy for all articles, while saving efforts for managing different city level project as we currently have. This will also allow us to add as many city level projects without need for dedicated team for managing each city level projects. - — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Vishal0soni (
talk •
contribs)
Hey guys, I have a seriously huge favor to ask. Recently I came across an article that I ended up deleting as an article created by an editor evading a block/ban. A look at his article creation history shows that he'd made over 900 pages during his time on here. Many of these are film related and some appear to be potentially noteworthy, so I don't want to just mass delete articles that could potentially be of use. The editor in question is Rajeshbieee.
Would any of you be willing to go through the articles and QC them? If they're not notable then all I'd need is for the article to be tagged as a WP:G5. I'm aware that this will be a massive undertaking that will probably take weeks at minimum to go through unless we do a mass deletion, but I think that it'd be best for Wikipedia if we did this. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 11:07, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
I would like to invite members of this project to provide their comments on requested page move. Tiggerjay ( talk) 22:05, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Kohli has been recently passed as GA by a sock user Numerounovedant ( talk · contribs · count) and also happens to be nominated by new-ish editor Dee03 ( talk · contribs · count). Am no expert in cricket and also lack fundamental knowledge of the sport. (Yeah yeah its fine! Not every Indian has to love cricket.) So requesting editors to check if the article is suitable for the GA tag. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { Talk / Edits} 06:42, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
The sixth reference at Vindhyan Ecology and Natural History Foundation shows a strange CS1 error, apparently because the character "त् " which occurs in the reference's title is considered to contain something invisible that shouldn't be there. Help by someone more experienced with Indic scripts would be appreciated. Huon ( talk) 04:02, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
Please would experienced editors take this draft on? The submitting editor has placed a plea for help at the AFC Helpdesk and I think the draft is likely to have merit. They have stated a very large unfamiliarity with English and need proactive help, please. Fiddle Faddle 15:36, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
This 2012 GA has deteriorated and is being GARed. Pinging earlier GA involved editors @ Tamravidhir, Titodutta, and Thine Antique Pen: §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { Talk / Edits} 04:21, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
See Draft:Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta. Thank you, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 23:34, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
I just created the article for Thanichalla Njan and while it got some coverage of its filming process and some major awards, there are no reviews out there that I can find. Can one of you take a look to see what you can find? It was filmed in Malayalam, if that helps any. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 10:31, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
A new series of articles has been started as a solo effort. If it's to be carried through and maintained it'll need significant input from the members of this project. Please join the discussion. Bazj ( talk) 12:43, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
the question is whether the list is better presented for the whole world or divided by country-- Hm that's an interesting point. -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 17:10, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
I came across this one editor via the speedy deletion stuff and it took me a while, but it looks like they're trying to create season and character pages for the series Ssshhhh...Koi Hai. I've left a message asking them not to create any articles in the mainspace since they're either incomplete, lack context, and/or are redundant to the main series pages, and to try making them in their userspace first. They seem pretty eager and I think that they mean well, but need some guidance. I can help to a degree, but some of the stuff will require someone that's passing familiar with the series, like the list pages. There's a reasonable justification for season pages if the coverage is there, given that it's an anthology series, but I'm not pulling up a huge-huge amount of sourcing and this would take a lot of time, which I don't entirely have at the moment, so I'm posting here. The editor in question is Villayat1990 and like I said, they seem to be eager and editing in good faith. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 10:24, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
@ Titodutta, Rsrikanth05, and Human3015: Dwaraka Bus station Complex, List of busiest railway stations in Andhra Pradesh, Eluru New Bus station, NTR bus station articles needs notability check.-- Vin09 (talk) 03:40, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
@ Vin09:, Aah, yes, I realise my folly when I was moving the page. I left the B in uppercase. Dwarka bus station would be appropriate. -- Rsrikanth05 ( talk) 16:50, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
Can anyone improve
Vallal T.N. Sabapathy Mudaliar? It relies entirely on a caste association website at the moment. I'm not sure whether the chap is really notable outside of that association, which he founded. He was apparently a mayor vice-chairman of a council for some years but that doesn't usually mean much for GNG unless the office was mayor for a major city.
If it is worth keeping, I'm pretty sure that the article needs to be moved because Vallal is apparently an honorific, although not one I can recall seeing before. - Sitush ( talk) 14:44, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
Input requested, please. - Sitush ( talk) 07:45, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
Fresh eyes needed due the influx of Pongal related activity from POV warriors. Any help appreciated. 122.174.34.100 ( talk) 06:39, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
A request to move the film article Fly Away Solo to Masaan, has been initiated here. You are welcome to contribute to the discussion.— indopug ( talk) 07:35, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
There is an interesting new article on Karinkallathani, which should now be reviewed and improved, please. -- NearEMPTiness ( talk) 20:49, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha and Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha. Are they smiilar articles?-- Vin09 (talk) 13:19, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
Another hot button issue that requires experienced eyes from this board. Should the text of the suicide note be included in the article? especially when the TOI source mentions "following is the suicide note allegedly written by Rohith." 106.51.28.153 ( talk) 11:57, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
Move discussion underway, again. In ictu oculi ( talk) 14:38, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
Hello,
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One of the premier Indologists in the world is having the article about him being discussed for deletion.
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Many pages about Gotras are unsourced and very short. If the subject is notable, please create sourced and informative pages. Xx236 ( talk) 13:19, 21 January 2016 (UTC) Karwal Xx236 ( talk) 13:58, 26 January 2016 (UTC) Aujla - one of the shortest pages in this WIkipedia. Xx236 ( talk) 14:15, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
This article has recently become a hotbed for edit warring and I feel a lot of PoV has crept in. I am having trouble eliciting much contriubtion either in the talk page (Fowler&fowler being the only editor who has responded, once or twice) but many editors reverting. I might have blinkers on, would appreciate contributions or opinion of other editors. rueben_lys ( talk · contribs) 19:01, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi all, can anyone tell me what the "Award rank" parameter in Template:Infobox Indian Awards actually represents? the next highest/lowest award or the Precedence Of Medals? [12] [13] The Masked Man of Mega Might ( talk) 18:46, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
I was wondering if anyone could take a look for Hindi language sources for Raj Comics. The line is predominantly published in Hindi, so it stands to reason that most of the coverage wouldn't be in English. It looks like it should be notable, so I'm not worried about that, mostly it's just that the article needs some confirmation here and there. The original state of the article was fairly bad, as it had some fanboy tones, no true sourcing, and also had content that was undated and was very likely out of date. If anyone else can find something to add to the article to improve it, that'd be awesome. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 10:10, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
In the 2010s, one Abhay Dube launched a company called "The Bombay Talkies Limited". He claims that this is a continuation of the historic Bombay Talkies. He also claims that his grandfather Raj Narayan Dube was one of the founders of the original Bombay Talkies along with Himanshu Rai and Devika Rani. Since then, several press-release like newspaper stories have appeared talking about this "revival of Bombay Talkies" and how Raj Narayan Dube was a "pillar" of Indian cinema.
This article from 2013 mentions that "the idea to revive the production house took shape three years ago" i.e. in 2010. That year, the name "Raj Narayan Dube" was added to the Bombay Talkies article on Wikipedia, by an anon, without any source. In 2015, a new article on Raj Narayan Dube was created. Recently, the article Bombay Talkies was re-written using these sources, by BT0912 ( talk · contribs), who claims to the Digital Head of the new company. Also,
MelAntipam ( talk · contribs) has raised some concerns at Talk:Bombay Talkies, which caught my eye. I tried searching for this name and its variations: Raj Narayan / RN Dubey / Rajnarayan Dubey(y). But I cannot find any mention of this guy in even a single source before 2010, which is surprising if he was indeed, one of the founders of a famous studio like Bombay Talkies. There is only one book ( Spot Girl, 2014) which mentions Raj Narayan Dube and Bombay Talkies - it's not a scholarly work, and is obviously based on information from the Wikipedia article or other articles that sprung after the "revival" press release in 2013.
Can anyone else find a pre-2010 source about this Dube-Bombay Talkies link? Any comments are appreciated at Talk:Bombay_Talkies#Errors_in_the_current_version. utcursch | talk 19:46, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi all, can anyone tell me what the "Award rank" parameter in Template:Infobox Indian Awards actually represents? the next highest/lowest award or the Precedence Of Medals? [15] [16] The Masked Man of Mega Might ( talk) 18:46, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
I was wondering if anyone could take a look for Hindi language sources for Raj Comics. The line is predominantly published in Hindi, so it stands to reason that most of the coverage wouldn't be in English. It looks like it should be notable, so I'm not worried about that, mostly it's just that the article needs some confirmation here and there. The original state of the article was fairly bad, as it had some fanboy tones, no true sourcing, and also had content that was undated and was very likely out of date. If anyone else can find something to add to the article to improve it, that'd be awesome. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 10:10, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
In the 2010s, one Abhay Dube launched a company called "The Bombay Talkies Limited". He claims that this is a continuation of the historic Bombay Talkies. He also claims that his grandfather Raj Narayan Dube was one of the founders of the original Bombay Talkies along with Himanshu Rai and Devika Rani. Since then, several press-release like newspaper stories have appeared talking about this "revival of Bombay Talkies" and how Raj Narayan Dube was a "pillar" of Indian cinema.
This article from 2013 mentions that "the idea to revive the production house took shape three years ago" i.e. in 2010. That year, the name "Raj Narayan Dube" was added to the Bombay Talkies article on Wikipedia, by an anon, without any source. In 2015, a new article on Raj Narayan Dube was created. Recently, the article Bombay Talkies was re-written using these sources, by BT0912 ( talk · contribs), who claims to the Digital Head of the new company. Also,
MelAntipam ( talk · contribs) has raised some concerns at Talk:Bombay Talkies, which caught my eye. I tried searching for this name and its variations: Raj Narayan / RN Dubey / Rajnarayan Dubey(y). But I cannot find any mention of this guy in even a single source before 2010, which is surprising if he was indeed, one of the founders of a famous studio like Bombay Talkies. There is only one book ( Spot Girl, 2014) which mentions Raj Narayan Dube and Bombay Talkies - it's not a scholarly work, and is obviously based on information from the Wikipedia article or other articles that sprung after the "revival" press release in 2013.
Can anyone else find a pre-2010 source about this Dube-Bombay Talkies link? Any comments are appreciated at Talk:Bombay_Talkies#Errors_in_the_current_version. utcursch | talk 19:46, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
Are Dandaka and Dandakaranya both same pages.-- Vin09 (talk) 04:39, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi, One source says it is Varanasi, another Calcutta. Who is right? Thanks for your help, Yann ( talk) 16:25, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
Although released under the title ‘Panorama of Calcutta’, the film actually represents Varanasi, which is 400 miles further up the Ganges. Cinema Vision India suggested in 1980 that the film should have been titled ‘Panorama of Benares’ – as it shows the Benares Ghats – and the listing within the Warwick catalogue avoids specific geographical references (Cinema Vision India, 1980, 104). Warwick’s decision to specify the location as Calcutta may indicate a desire to reference places familiar to British audiences, and to uniformly present these disparate places and images within India – and the East – under broader terms (eg. India and Calcutta), which, in turn, helped audiences to understand and imagine a controlled Indian space.The Masked Man of Mega Might ( talk) 16:31, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
Hello hardworking editors! I am working on the Heart article with some other editors and we have reached a loggerheads in the "Society and culture" section with some of the sourcing. I'd be very grateful if a knowledgable editor could expand this brief sentence about the history of the heart in Sanskrit, and if an editor knowledgable in Ayuvedic medicine could expand it with 1-2 sentences regarding its importance:
The Sanskrit word for heart, hRd (हृद्), dates at least as far back as the Rigveda and is a cognate of the word for heart in Greek, Latin, and English. The same word is used to mean "mind" or "soul" depending on the context.
Hoping to hear from you soon, -- Tom (LT) ( talk) 03:24, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
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«Talk» 12:10, 5 February 2016 (UTC)Thanks so much for your help. I have put this in the article. I have changed the etymological reference to "may" and left it in, because I think it's an interesting afternote:
The Sanskrit word for heart is hṛd or hṛdaya, found in the oldest surviving Sanskrit text, the Rigveda. In Sanskirt, it may mean both the anatomical object and "mind" or "soul", representing the seat of emotion. Hrd may be a cognate of the word for heart in Greek, Latin, and English. [1] [2]
Thanks very much for your help! -- Tom (LT) ( talk) 21:03, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
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Are these links on may websites proper (official)? On many district pages with population clock.-- Vin09 (talk) 06:28, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
I have nominated the above article to appear on the Main Page as Recent Death. Please voice your opinions at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates#RD: Nida Fazli. Thanks, -- Skr15081997 ( talk) 08:56, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
User:Just a guy from the KP is on a rapid run of typos of changing the units across many pages. See his/her contributions. Am unsure of whether it is right or wrong. Someone relevant to this shall address this. -- βα£α( ᶀᶅᶖᵵᵶ) 10:24, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
The new page Mhasavad jalgaon, as created, is an abvious copy of text from another WP page. A search for "with rich black soil and uses advanced irrigation " originally resulted in hits on 6 article pages, a user page and a user sandbox. [19] I have now queried 2 users about their use of this exact phrase, so 2 more hits now. Khadakdeola seem likely to have been the 'source' as that page is mentioned on pages that are not about that village ie. Sonale.
Any idea what might be going on here? The pages involved seem to have been created by different new editors up to a year ago. 220 of Borg 13:42, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
Are Chittur and Chittur (village) same articles?-- Vin09 (talk) 17:05, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
Most of them are adding like Nearby airports are xxxx to the village. I think it looks like wiki voyage. Is it really necessary to add Airports in transport section for even smaller villages of an article? I say if the airport exists for a city or town, it can be added in that page and also in the particular village which lies on the outskirts of it. But can we add in all the village pages which lies in that district? Need opinions. Also, please propose a standard on transport section.-- Vin09 (talk) 12:05, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I recently tried to edit Mathur Vaishya and re-add the information back to the page which was earlier there. The information was based on the primary citations. Indian castes do not have much online content out there. Also this field faces language barrier. Please advise whether primary citation can be used in this case or not? I've also raised this issue over Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Is primary source not acceptable for Indian caste? and believe participation from Indian community is needed here. Mr RD 19:46, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
List of State Highways in Andhra Pradesh or List of state highways in Andhra Pradesh. Which one is correct? Consider List of National Highways in India by State.-- Vin09 (talk) 08:24, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
BLP on Dr. U. Bapputty Haji has mentioned Darul Huda Islamic University which doesn't exist. It is a diploma mill and the organization is not approved by the University Grants Commission, Newdelhi. -- Prof TPMS ( talk) 14:41, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
This article seems to be woefully inadequate: Jat reservation agitation. Is there another article on this topic? utcursch | talk 16:01, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi all,
I note that there are only
two google hits for this exact name. Should it be redirected or merged to some other article?
Pete AU aka --
Shirt58 (
talk) 10:25, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
Could someone here take a look at this article. An IP using a proxy server has added a lot of information to the article which may or may not be true, but oddly also added citation needed tags after what they had written [21]. They've done what is quite clearly vandalism to other articles with false edit summaries, e.g. [22] Voceditenore ( talk) 17:54, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
A few months ago, we started a discussion on starting a few initiatives. After that I talked to a few Indic Wikipedians. Very recently User:Vin09, User:Ms Sarah Welch and I resumed brainstorming, and also copied some portion from the Meta-Wiki page to this page.
Here are a few proposals which should improve a few things of this WikiProject.
A few plans for next 1 month or so | ||
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# | Planned initiative | Details |
1 | Starting "WikiProject India noticeboard star of the month | A barnstar/recognition for the best participant(s) here. It'll encourage more participation |
2 | Starting regular nomination of Indic English Wikipedians to WP:PRECIOUS, Editor of the week etc | There are multiple special recognitions here such as Wikipedian of the week, precious etc. Nominating best Indic editors there on regular basis. |
3 | Highlighting on Wikipedia social media channels | Attempt to highlight some of the best Indic En WP works on Wikipedia social channels |
4 | Edit-a-thon | Topic, dates unplanned |
Please let us know your feedback. Also feel free to suggest new initiatives (but let's not plan something very big right now, IMO). -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 23:07, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
before that the participating/contributing users shall oblige to the fundamentals of wikipedia-- before what and which users? Are you talking about the edit-a-thon or general Indic WP editors? -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 06:15, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
-- Tito Dutta ( talk) 01:51, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
We have planned to restart our " Collaboration of the month". Someone please go ahead and start the page: Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Collaborations of the month/Nominations/2016 February, the page will follow Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Collaborations of the month/Nominations/2015 February structure. In my opinion, we can keep discussion open from 1 to 7 March and then we can start working. -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 05:39, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
This would be a very helpful resource for all of us. They provide access to Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu and Tamil resources ( link). Yesterday, I requested at WP:TWL for this resource. Astinson (WMF) said that it would be good if someone from India lead the relationship. I don't have much experience in this field. Would someone volunteer to lead the talk? -- Skr15081997 ( talk) 09:09, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
@ Skr15081997: Do you want BL to donate physical/individual library memberships to editors in India or are you looking for access to their e-resources/databases through TWL? The databases they offer are Ebrary, PressReader (the excel file you linked) and Academic OneFile (already available at WP:Gale). All partnerships have to be made with the individual publishers of these databases and unfortunately cannot be procured from the British Library for Wikipedia use. The Masked Man of Mega Might ( talk) 12:53, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
@ Skr15081997, Tito: The library provides an online membership for an annual fee of 1100 rupees. Array of films, books on British Council e-library. Apply though the WMIN scholarship perhaps? The Masked Man of Mega Might ( talk) 14:59, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
Requesting mediation at Talk:Jat reservation agitation. Two SPAs are repeatedly removing sourced content, and inserting unsourced / OR content. utcursch | talk 17:48, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
Hey all, what does the abbreviation "Pt." mean in the context of "Pt. Mallikarjun Mansur" and similar? Pandit? Is it an honorific? I'm trying to figure out whether I should remove it or not at Hubli-Dharwad. Many thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 16:41, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello,
We are happy to inform you that WikiProject Indian Collaborations of the month is going to be restarted this month and we want your active support here.
-- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 07:19, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello! Comments are requested at Talk:T. K. Chand about whether or not {{ notability}} and {{ refimprove}} templates should remain at T. K. Chand. Thank you. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 16:15, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
Asian Highway 45A. Does this exists?-- Vin09 (talk) 11:27, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
As per WP:Gallery, can we use galleries in the page? Also, there are large educational institutions mentioned in the lead which can be shifted to education section. Also a gallery section on Kovalam page.-- Vin09 (talk) 06:15, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
Also, Wikipedia:Points to note while debating in WikiProject India related AFDs is related to AfD and not to content I guess.-- Vin09 (talk) 06:35, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
If you believe the subjects are notable, please write the articles. If not - a list of Jat clans may be enough. Xx236 ( talk) 08:15, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
Few months ago, I had raised a request for a dedicated Wikproject for the Indian City Udaipur. And since then, there have been many activities and updates around this topic, both online as well as on-ground. Udaipur has been organizing a series of events, like World Music Festival, Shilpgram2015, Udaipur Lake Festival, and several other globally recognized events. Besides, there are several other ongoing development under the Smart Cities Mission where Udaipur got selected. We are trying to put all these important aspects of information on Wikipedia, and again feel need for a dedicated project for Udaipur. Having such a project would also help us identify the progress made in terms of statistics provided by the Wikipedia supported tools (like tools.wmflabs.org). So would like to revive the request to officially have a Wikipedia:WikiProject Udaipur. Vishal0soni ( talk) 10:07, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
There seems to be some kind of consensus that prohibits Indic scripts being included in the opening sentence of articles regardless of the context - be them country articles, historical articles, biographical articles, articles about movies and so on - and this consensus appears to have been reached by 2 or 3 people, if not more.
One of the users justified the removal of Indic scripts (from movie articles) by saying that it would cause 'confusion' because people wouldn't know whether they should add Hindi, Urdu, or some other Indian regional language.
However, most of these movies are from the Hindi film industry (colloquially known as 'Bollywood'), are made in Hindi, and are made in a country where Hindi in the Devanagari script is the official language along with English. It does make complete sense to include their Hindi - or should I say, official names. I see no 'confusion' here whatsoever given that Urdu is not an official language of India. Any person who has watched a Hindi movie would know that at the beginning of every movie a अ/U certification is normally displayed - with the name of the movie officially listed in solely Hindi and Hindi alone (link: http://dooleyonline.typepad.com/.a/6a00e551a4e0f3883301a3fbbc9f2e970b-pi). Articles about Russian and Chinese films have their native and official scripts clearly listed in the lead sentences, and the reason for the removal of Indic scripts in Indian articles seems really dubious and unnecessary. I would like to understand more about the removal of Indic scripts because the reasoning that it might be 'confusing' does not really make much sense at all.
Furthermore, it gets even more dubious when it comes to the issue of biographical articles. This could cause conflict - for example, if the person listed in the biographical article wanted their native name to be listed, but an unknown editor disagreed, who would be right here? It wouldn't count as someone writing information about themselves, which is prohibited by Wikipedia's policies on biographies of living persons. They would merely be adding their native name - a mere transcription. Would it be removed? Also, are these standards limited to biographical articles of Indians from India, or biographical articles of prominent members of the diaspora? It is far from being enforced universally. Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have their native names listed in the lead sentences of their biographical articles, yet Narendra Modi does not.
I think this issue should be discussed more as there are far too many holes in it. Tiger7253 ( talk) 11:44, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
Disagree for the proposal to use indic scripts.-- Vin09 (talk) 16:45, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
You don't get it so I'll try to make it simple. India is not Russia, there are many candidate scripts and many languages. It is not always clear which script to use. There is little (or no) benefit for English readers in seeing one or more native scripts. So we don't use them across the board. -- regentspark ( comment) 17:05, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
Comment – One effect of not including Indian scripts is that it weakens the status of these languages and these scripts, and this alone should be an argument for not following this policy. Imc ( talk) 21:13, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
In reading the above discussion on use of Indic scripts, and in previous discussions of this topic, I am reminded of Macaulay's arrogant and dismissive statement two centuries ago that a single shelf of a good European library is worth the whole native literature of India. I imagine most of the editors here are Indian or of Indian origin like myself. But is this attitude present among us, and affecting Wikipedia? Imc ( talk) 21:13, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
This issue has been discussed to death by experienced contributors to the topic area every time someone with very little experience turns up. It becomes tedious and it would only be less so if the relatively new contributors actually produced some new argument. They don't, unless my memory is defective. The arguments against going down this road may well be beyond the comprehension of the newcomers but it doesn't make them any less valid and, sorry, there are times when experience really does count. Dammit, India is in a state of almost permanent reconstruction simply because of linguistic assertions regarding territory etc (Telegana being I think the last officially sanctioned division). We do not need to import, encourage or otherwise enable the potential problems of these disputes to an English language encyclopaedia - we have specific articles which deal with them. - Sitush ( talk) 02:22, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
Well, I guess I'm yet another new contributor to turn up (I hadn't had the chance to read through all the relevant discussions so far), but I'm not really up for starting a polemic, nor do I want to detract from what seems to me like the main argument against Indic scripts, summed up by utcursch above. I'm just noting a few points. If they've been discussed before – fine, I'll get to the old discussions at some stage.
One of the major arguments against the use of Indic scripts is that there are many cases where deciding on a single script to use is tricky. First, this is not limited to India-related articles, I'm used to seeing article leads that list two, three or more native names in the first sentence (example: Thrace or Shopska salata). I don't know how this practice is received in the other wikipedia projects or whether criticism isn't levied against it but the practice is common enough. I have no issue with clutter in the first sentence: it's irrelevant for me because the only place where this space matters is inside the navigation popups, but they skip any templates and given that a name in an Indic script is most likely to be found within a lang template, it isn't getting displayed.
Now, even assuming we don't want to clutter the lead and chose to have only one representation of the name, then of course there'll be plenty of room for controversy and it's sensible to want to avoid it. But we aren't really avoiding it by ditching the scripts and using IPA. Of course, IPA symbols are less ridden with identity value and they wouldn't attract as much of the chauvinistic edit-warring that native scripts do (but that's mixed blessing, I'll explain that later). But in all but but the most trivial cases, by opting for IPA we aren't really saving ourselves the difficult choices we would have with scripts. After all, IPA gives the pronunciation in one given language and a decision has to be made which language this is going to be. We'll still have to decide between Panjabi [síŋɡ] and Urdu [siŋɡʱ], or between Bengali [rɔbindrɔ] and Hindi [rəvindrə]. Using transliteration, instead of native script or pronunciation could be a way out as the transliteration of a name is more likely to be uniform across some languages and scripts, but that's not universal and there're many problem cases. Besides, my experience is that transliterated names are much harder to maintain than versions in native scripts and errors tend to stay longer: almost every contributor from India will be competent in the scripts relevant to the pages they're editing whereas there's usually only a handful of editors with the scholarly or foreign-language background to spot errors in transliterations.
Personally I find Indic scripts tremendously useful. They help me figure out what's what when editing dab and anthroponymy pages, they often provide linguistic and etymological information that I find interesting (if trivial), but more importantly they help when searching for more information online. I know enough Hindi to be able to browse google results when I paste the native name but I don't know enough to be able to figure out how that is going to spelt given the IPA or the anglicisation. Of course, interiwiki links are helpful but more often than not there haven't been any.
As for keeping the native scripts or transliterations in the infobox and out of the lead: for me personally it doesn't matter where this information is, as long as it's prominent enough: the top of the infobox is just as good as the lead. But I see two potential issues here: the general practice on wikipedia seems to be in favour of putting them in parentheses in the first sentence of the lead and that's where readers (me included) are used to seeing it. Second, and more important, the infobox provides only a partial solution: not all articles have infoboxes, not all infoboxes have the relevant field, and of those that do, not many allow even the most basic flexibility (of specifying which language this is or giving more than one script) that we have with free text.
Well, this is my two pence. If this ever gets to another RfC I'll try to articulate my thoughts better. Uanfala ( talk) 01:30, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi, can I interest anybody in participating in April? Up to £200 in Amazon vouchers and books up for grabs. If it is a success I'm considering proposing one for India based on the same model, and we could have prizes for tackling Indian cinema/geography articles etc. The more successful it is, more chance other contests like one for India will be approved! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:28, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
There is a dispute submitted at Dispute Resolution Noticeboard, titled "Talk:Tamils#Are Tamils a stateless nation or only Sri Lankan Tamils?" Somehow I got sucked into this even though I know very little about stateless nations myself. Can interested people participate? - Kautilya3 ( talk) 14:07, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
Someone has proposed that the Unique Identification Authority of India should be split into two articles: one for Unique Identification Authority of India, the controlling body and one for Aadhaar the ID number. Please comment. - Kenfyre ( talk) 17:53, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
I request someone to create wikiproject for these places as they fall under the capital region of Andhra Pradesh state and some has many pages under its category.-- Imahesh3847 ( talk) 14:39, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
Editor who nominated the article for GA has not been active since long. I have made primary comments at
Talk:Lucknow/GA3 and noted that further more would come after these are resolved. The pending work is huge and the article has a long history of failures and thereby long notes of to-do as well. Not an easy task for someone not really interested but I still thought of droping a note here. Anyone interested can take up the task and let me know of the status.
Also noticed that the nominator himself has nominated the article multiple times and has been editing articles related to Lucknow. The defunct and unnecessary
Wikipedia:WikiProject Lucknow also seems to be their brainchild. §§
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There's a discussion over at CfD on Category:South Asian cricketers who have acted in movies. Although the name needs changing, I and another editor suspect that cricketer-actors are enough of a "thing" that the category shouldn't be deleted outright as most other contributors to that discussion think. It would probably need an article on the subject to save the category though - anyone fancy it? Le Deluge ( talk) 13:25, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello, most probably you have noticed that
Environment of India has been selected as the article of the month. In March we'll collaboratively attempt to improve article. Please spend some time and help to improve this article. Regards.--
Tito Dutta (
talk) 17:36, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
Is the proposed naming at Talk:National Highway 26 (India) improper, need more views. If it is then, we need to move all other pages to proper naming.-- Vin09 (talk) 06:07, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
This page is written like an advt for Adlabs Imagica need help to wikify it. I seek partners to do so, please ping me on my talk page or here. Yogesh Khandke ( talk) 07:02, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
I seek partners to rebuild the page. Yogesh Khandke ( talk) 08:12, 21 March 2016 (UTC)