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Need help. I've posted this persistent problem here before regarding continuous BLP violations on journalists at /Archive_61#Female_journalists.2C_reporters_BLP_vios.
So now Sardesai's page is currently "hijacked" by one IP editor who insists on putting an incident in his page.
Here's the diff and discussion is at Talk:Rajdeep_Sardesai#New_York_incident.
Most of the time, these editors either relent on seeing the BLP policy or get blocked or stop editing whatever. This one took more steps and has fetched citations, I've pointed out that they may be misrepresented on talk, forget whether this whole mention is relevant or not. Also has discarded my post about the BLP policy and other guidelines saying the usual accusation of me trying to suppress this incident (start on my talk initially) etc and hasn't made any policy/guideline-based argument besides the vague NPOV. Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 18:01, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
Hey guys this fellow redirected Gohila, Uttar Pradesh to Gohila, Ambedkar Nagar. Could someone please double-check that this is a legitimate move consistent with other articles? The user is new. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 16:22, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
A discussion was started here about the page title. While the discussion seemed to 'peter out', only 3 editors (myself included commented) the page was moved again. Any extra opinions welcome. 220 of Borg 10:07, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
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Can we accept Sikh as nationality? Please see this edit which claiming Sikh as a "nation" on behalf of some sources. Thank you – GSS ( talk) 07:45, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
It has coincidentally come to my attention that Chandragupta Maurya is receiving edits by users, by all appearances from India, who repeatedly add (as far as I can tell) fictional pseudo-facts gleaned from the new TV series Chandra Nandni to the article. If the edits persist, semi-protecting the article might become necessary. I have seen misinformation from the show spill to other articles as well. -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 02:16, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
Can somebody with a decent knowledge of template syntax take a look at this? It seems to contain a whole bunch of extraneous material, which I'd remove except I don't want to break anything through ignorance. Vanamonde ( talk) 14:27, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
|horizontal
parameter is passed. But on its own, that still doesn't work, the horizontal mode looks like this on
my sandbox; is this related to the undocumented merge you're talking about? Anyway, if it was useless since the beginning, update the templates doc which talks about this parameter.
Ugog Nizdast (
talk) 10:54, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
A pretty incomprehensible article with badly or unsourced material, most of which seemed irrelevant. I've removed quite a bit (eg "The Zo and the mi are two words but their relation is combination in physical and chemically in nature" although that might have been removed from another edit by the creator of this article). It's still a bit of a trainwreck. Doug Weller talk 10:45, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Doug Weller: Just some questions regarding the content left behind, I've not done any digging as such and these as just from a quick glance. Why should we take anything written on Zomi Nationalism seriously--or the rest of the editor's contribs, if they're all like this? There aren't any third-party sources there right? a redirect to Zomi people and maybe a section on its nationalism there if sources present (oh great, there's a subgroup too called Zou people which makes it even more confusing). Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 13:54, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
Hey guys, anyone heard of MadrasMusings.com? Any thoughts on if it's sufficient or not for referencing? The site says that they're registered with the Indian Registrar of Newspapapers. I don't see any editor information at their contact page. This article, which is linked on their main page attributes an article to a "special corresondent" [ sic], so I'm a little uneasy about it. It's being used as a financial reference at Velayudham. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 17:54, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
Oh, and one more: mathrubhumi.com? Their About page boasts a strong history. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 18:47, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
I wrote a stub for Rifa-e-Aam Club, but I am stuck at 184 words. If anyone can add a hundred or so more, we could WP:DYK it :) -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:05, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
I've managed to stick my head thoroughly into the wonderful world of spamming on various Indian university pages. One site I see used fairly frequently is various domains under careers360.com from both named accounts and IP accounts. Based on the contributions of some accounts, it looks like pure spamming is happening (see P.Kumar1988 ( talk · contribs) for example). Other times it's used by fairly well established editors as a reference. I see it often used for ranking universities. There's a fair amount of advertising on the site. Some of the articles look fairly decent, but others [1] while it looks good just seems to be a summary of the topic designed to get clicks. Any thoughts on how to consider this as a source? Generally reliable? Reliable for some things? LinkSearch returns around 273 links, nearly all universities in India. Is this a useful site for Wikipedia? Appreciate any thoughts/advice. Couldn't find previous discussions on WP:RSN or here, but my searchfu has been weak of late, so easily could have missed something. Ravensfire ( talk) 17:07, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
Persecution of Hindus and Anti-Hinduism currently have huge amounts of content that are redundant to each other. One could even argue for a merger, but if argument for keeping the two pages separate is that deal with ideology and one with incidents, then the content needs to be distinct. Currently, it is not: much the same material is diced up in different ways in the two articles, together with copious quantities of original research. Any assistance in cleaning them up would be much appreciated. Vanamonde ( talk) 05:12, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
This came up at WP:COI. There are a number of articles about small loans to business and companies involved with them. Most of the articles are company PR, and are tagged as ads. One set of companies involved:
Anyone want to look at this area? John Nagle ( talk) 05:03, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
Talk:South Indian diaspora, is this a valid new article or a duplicate? In ictu oculi ( talk) 08:17, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
There is a move discussion going on at Talk:Meitei language. Thanks. Filpro ( talk) 22:02, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
The subject article is an FL nominee since quite a long time for now and hence requesting the community to review and comment at the review. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { Talk / Edits} 09:35, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Hey folks! There seems to be quite a few articles for Indian political parties which are just a sentence or two and have been tagged as orphans for 7 years. I'm having trouble finding much in the way of sources for them. Any chance someone with a bit more experience (and interest) in this kind of thing could take a look? If you could add a ref and maybe even de-orphan some of them, you'd be my hero. Alternatively, if you can't find anything, we may want to consider bringing some to Articles for Deletion (the relevant notability criteria are probably Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)):
Thanks a bunch! Happy editing! Ajpolino ( talk) 04:08, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
A fair point actually. Never thought of it, though I myself added Category:Defunct political parties in India to the See also. Maybe I didnt think that because there won't be any proper ref for that and we would have to compile such a list solely based on that category; but that's just an inconvenience. I support such an addition.
Here are some other issues I've had with it. I have zero experience in lists and did some major decisions with minimal input like Limiting the unrecognised to just the ones with articles and removing the flags and symbols, which were hopefully wise. Another thing which bugs me is that it was reported that INC, NCP and CPI (M?) would lose national status way back after the election results years ago due to their less seats but till now I couldn't find any official indication that it happened, see talk. All India Trinamool Congress got national status recently yet they remain. Maybe I didn't search well enough, I don't know. Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 06:15, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
Would be lovely to have comments from experienced editors at the Featured List nomination page. Thanks. Lourdes 11:29, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi all, may I please impose upon any Hindi-speakers to look at Shahjahanpur Rang Mahotsav and figure out whether or not the article meets WP:GNG per the sources given? They appear to all be in Hindi. The article was created by a sock operator and it looks like it was brought back from a redirect by some suspicious noob. I'm considering putting it up for AfD to make it easier to delete in the future, but only if the dance competition isn't notable. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 22:13, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
A relatively new user has created List of Sikhs in Punjabi Cinema. Leaving behind one entry – Diljit Dosanjh – whole of the list seems to be incorrect. In fact, respective articles of the entries don't have any reliable source regarding their religion, let alone self-identification, which is required in these cases. So, this list constitute BLP violation, as per WP:BLPCAT/ WP:CAT/R. And hence all but one entry should be removed from it. But that will make the list redundant. So, I don't know what to do here. BTW, the same user also seems to have added unsourced religion-related details in various BLPs, e.g. [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], etc. So, his whole contribution needs scrutiny.
PS: The concerned user is topic-banned from Sikh and Punjabi related articles. So, I didn't discuss the issue on his talk page. - NitinMlk ( talk) 19:25, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
Would really appreciate any help here, the article seems like a bit of a mess at the moment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Damien2016 ( talk • contribs) 11:20, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
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People, please remember while editing topics on Alternative medicine to be careful. I've come across multiple articles mainly on such practitioners to be against WP:FRINGE/PS and sometimes even WP:MEDRS. These were like a WP:WALLEDGARDEN. Given our government and media promoting this, it's easy to fall for this. The government even regularly gives AM practitioners the Padma Shri in medicine. There are such people having posts in the medicine and scientific advisory committees. I could go on. While it's for these reasons these people get notable, we draw the line at promoting AM.
It is possible given the lack of previous discussion regarding this, there's has not been any major conflict before; I was surprised by this. There's my old post Wikipedia:Fringe_theories/Noticeboard/Archive_52#Category:Indian_homeopaths for reference. Editors not aware of both those guidelines and focusing on working mainly in this area are still oblivious to this; I daresay they're intentionally doing this. It all boils down to the main articles on Homeopathy and Ayurveda: asserting their efficacy in these bio pages will be contradictory, almost like a WP:POVFORK. If any arguments, they should take it there first.
I first found this at Category:Indian medical doctors which had AM practitioners as a subcat. This was since years. Then I found Category:Indian scientists being populated with them. A range of AM practitioners in Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in medicine were promotional in this way.
I found these were some ways of it being done, along with examples:
Oh great, more work: typing "~Allopath" in search shows a host of articles using it. So main categories to scrutinise are Category:Indian homeopaths and Category:Ayurvedacharyas--there are still some unchecked. I mainly went through the Padma Shree awardees. Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 00:29, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
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I fix misspellings. (It keeps me out of trouble.) So I scan through Special:RecentChanges looking for someone correcting a word, then I look to find all the other misspellings then I go fix those.
So today I see someone fix 'Hydrabad' to ' Hyderabad'. Great. Whoa! 80 times!??!
How is it that a major city can have its name misspelled so many times? Imagine ' Peris' or ' Lundon' in en:Wikipedia dozens of times!
Would your project consider taking on a work item to look for and fix misspelled city names? I wonder how many state names are misspelled, um, like Telangna? I wonder about 'Delli' in Kharampur_Mazar_Sharif, for instance. How about 'Predesh' for 17 hits?
I think it would be a good work project, even if only because as you look for _these_ misspellings it will take you to many articles on India and you can look for _other_ problems at the same time. Sound good? Shenme ( talk) 07:00, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
can any one edit this article
Montazur Rahman Akbar — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.35.168.42 ( talk) 17:28, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
Rearrange this article like director bio — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.35.168.42 ( talk) 19:39, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
A request has been made for the article on Jadunath Singh, an Indian Param Vir Chakra recipient, to be peer reviewed. Interested editors are invited to participate in the review here: Wikipedia:Peer review/Jadunath Singh/archive1. Thank you for your time. Regards, AustralianRupert ( talk) 00:57, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
Hello, this article could use a check from a native Hindi or Urdu speaker please:
The article has been created and repeatedly edited by various sock accounts, so it would be good if another editor could double-check its validity and accuracy (the socking editor added a mix of good faith edits with occasional fabricated details and patent nonsense in various articles, so it's hard to differentiate). GermanJoe ( talk) 13:51, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
I correctd the name in Urdu. -- Soman ( talk) 04:54, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
I have recently posted a request for a new photograph on Wikimedia Commons. I would appreciate it if any members of this project who are located in Bihar would take a look at this request and see if they are able to help. Regards Exemplo347 ( talk) 11:00, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2016_December_22#Chaaval. It could use some input from someone fluent in Hindi/Urdu and who perhaps better understands the context of the word. -- Lemongirl942 ( talk) 05:47, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
Need eyes on this: Dhangar. The usual "everyone from Chandragupta to Shivaji belonged to my caste" cruft. A user is restoring a previous version of the article without addressing any of the issues for which the content was removed. utcursch | talk 15:53, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi all,
I have just deleted this article under the
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Aaryans World School (
talk ·
contribs) for obvious username problems.
That said, should here be an article about this school or purported K-12 school network?
Pete AU aka --
Shirt58 (
talk) 10:29, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi, just created Oinwar dynasty, would appreciate if you guys could look over it and check for any mistakes and add relevant categories. Thanks. Damien2016 ( talk) 10:10, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
I have started an RfC on the talk page of Sati. Please comment on it if the topic is of interest to you. Soham321 ( talk) 04:13, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
Here is a journal article [12] that got cited in Varna (Hinduism). The article appeared in International Research Journal of Social Sciences, which is apparently published by International Science Congress Association (now named, International Science Community Association). Just the abstract gives us a pretty good idea what this paper is about. The paper was written by a Mechanical Engineer, and it was peer-reviewed and published in under 2 months. Funnily, the citations include a paper by somebody called "Wikipedia" written in 1926! -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 19:52, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
The backlog of India-related deletion discussions has become quite long, and AfD discussions could do with more eyes that have experience in this area. Especially those familiar with cultural performers and entertainers, e.g., wp:Articles_for_deletion/Koushani_Mukherjee_(actress), wp:Articles_for_deletion/Kamal Thakur, wp:Articles_for_deletion/Kottakkal Nandakumaran Nair, etc.) Thanks. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 01:58, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
An RfC has been initiated on the talk page of Jawaharlal Nehru. Please vote on it if the topic is of interest to you. Soham321 ( talk) 04:47, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
Can someone have a look at this article (see this section) and help with the content. I see a lot of editors who seem to have some sort of a conflict of interest. This could benefit from inputs by established editors. -- Lemongirl942 ( talk) 05:26, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi, the linked page (rejected at AFC) has various references written in Hindi that I have as yet been unable to get an accurate translation for. Is there an editor in this project/can someone point me in the right direction of someone who can see if any of the references meet WP:MUSIC. Amortias ( T)( C) 17:05, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello, could someone please tell me why exactly we keep the name Puducherry for the union territory article and Pondicherry for the city article? I looked through the RfCs but still don't understand. So people still call the city by the old name, but they have embraced the new name for the union territory? Doesn't make sense to me. — Sunnya343✈ ( háblame • my work) 04:26, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
We had several new article starts that I merged, and are now at BHIM, since that system was announced yesterday. This topic might get a flurry of attention, so help from experts would be appreciated to make sure this new article is integrated into Wikipedia. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 04:37, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi everynoe! I came across this map. Brahamani and Baitarani rivers are interchanged in it. Somebody who can edit images please correct it. Swingoswingo ( talk) 13:24, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna has a malformed article FLC history template, its listed as being a Featured List and also as failing its FLC. Just an FYI. TomStar81 ( Talk) 10:57, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
G'day, a peer review has been requested for the M. P. T. Acharya article. Interested parties are invited to take part at the review page, which can be found here: Wikipedia:Peer review/M. P. T. Acharya/archive1. Thank you for your time. Regards, AustralianRupert ( talk) 00:52, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
Somebody please check this change. I dont believe it because I am studying history currently in details. One of the sources is incorrect as well. Swingoswingo ( talk) 19:30, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Hey all, can someone please look at these changes to see if they were made in a wise fashion. I don't know the subject, so I'm not terribly helpful here. Apart from the grammar issues, I notice some significant changes, like the statement that the subject killed many Tamils and statements like "However, the historians used to write several myths and unreal things about him to depict him as a brave and kind hearted King though he is a coward in reality." One statement was changed from "Folk songs recalling the heroism of the Poligar leaders remain alive in Tamil Nadu to this day" to "Folk songs recalling the selfishness and cowardness of the Poligar leaders remain alive in Tamil Nadu to this day." Seems a pretty big shift, so I'm hoping someone might be able to look at it, please. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 04:54, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
Please see the article's talk page regarding desirable work to be done over the next day or so. Schwede 66 19:20, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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The edits by 103.206.*.* need some cleanup. Preliminary look suggests the usual caste-cruft (XYZ king belonged to my caste) backed by fake references or poor sources.
E.g. - For [13], the source cited is Kammavari Charithra, which appears to be a non- RS caste glorification book.
I recall that some days back a series of Kamma-related sockpuppet accounts were blocked. Don't remember the sockmaster's name, but this could be that guy. utcursch | talk 16:00, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
Dear India experts: I have done my best to find online sources for this article. There are quite a few references that are not linked online. Are some of these to independent reliable sources that could be used to demonstrate notability of the subject?— Anne Delong ( talk) 19:23, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
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I'm concerned that a number of India-related articles are the subject of edits that constitute undue weight, and possible synthesis of published materials. I'm especially concerned about articles on Indian ancient history or prehistory, such as Indus Valley Civilization, and Vedic_period#Origins. See also Indo-Aryan migration theory, Indo-Aryan peoples, as examples of pages which I had to edit to reduce the synthesis or ambiguity. At a time in which there are thousands of journal articles on pretty much any narrow topic, it is very easy to synthesize reliable sources into a rambling, subtly POV-ridden, article. Encyclopedias are beholden to present the consensus view of a topic; they are necessarily conservative and traditional in their descriptions. They are not surveys of recent literature on a topic. I would like people to take a look at Talk:Indus_Valley_Civilisation#.22Too_much_addition.22, and I invite you to present your views. I see this problem as a increasingly bigger WP-wide one. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 12:42, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2017_January_19#Template:Kshatriya_Communities. - Sitush ( talk) 20:54, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi There,
/info/en/?search=Draft:R_Nandakumar
Need help in this article. R Nandakumar is a noted art critic and his works have been cited by prominent authors from across the world. His works have been published in many magazines and academic journals in India and abroad. He has been conferred the Kerala Puraskar Award in the year 2007 by Kerala Lalithakala Akademi and has been the senior fellow of Nehru Memorial Museum & Library. His article is being rejected several times and the editors seem to not understand the value of the awards and contribution made by R Nandakumar. Is there any way I could improve the article?
Thank you.
Tirutirutiru ( talk) 11:59, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
Hey guys, I'd appreciate if a few of you could please add Jallikattu to your watchlists. There's been a recent flare-up of editors who seem to have taken issue with describing this bull riding/wrestling/taming event as "bull embracing", which is a completely bizarre choice of phrasing. Sounds like some kind of hippie love event... I first noticed this a few days ago when this guy changed every instance of "bullfight" to "bullembrace". (This obviously had negative results on URLs, and, well, nobody's come up with a Wikipedia template for BullEmbracing just yet...) This also came up here where another user changed the phrasing of certain words like "grab" to "embrace", and here where "taming" has been changed to "embracing". And, it seems to not be a new concept, as in January of last year, bull-taming/bull-baiting was changed to "bull-vaulting".
My educated guess (as well as my suspicious nature) leads me to believe that in the wake of criticism being levied at this rural sport in the form of animal cruelty accusations, people threatened by the possibility their cultural traditions might disappear, have taken up arms in a censorship/PR campaign. There might be better ways of describing it than "taming"--maybe "wrestling", "riding"--I don't know, but "embracing" is purely asinine and we do not use euphemistic language. Anyway, if some more of you could take a look, I'd appreciate it. You might have better ideas for how to improve it. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 15:58, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
Related to this: 2017 Jallikattu protests has been created recently. I question the neutrality of it at present. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 19:50, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
I also became aware of Bullfighting in Tamil Nadu, which I have redirected to Jallikattu. Please double-check my choice to ensure that it was sound. The article was largely unsourced, seemed mostly like an editorial, was also prone to the BullEmbracing stuff, and seemed like a possible copy-paste job since similar content appeared here at Jallikattu. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 04:35, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
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Hi,
I want to begin an article about Rameshwari Photocopy Service shop copyright case on english wikipedia. Pl. do suggest suitable title for the article and also join in building the article if possible.
some links to begin with.
Mahitgar ( talk) 12:11, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
I am looking for an infobox template support about Template:Infobox India Highcourt Case for article Rameshwari Photocopy Service shop copyright case on the same lines as of Template:Infobox United States District Court Case
Mahitgar ( talk) 13:27, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
{{
Infobox court case}}
for any court case. —
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Spiff 13:34, 22 January 2017 (UTC)The article Bhang has a lot of uncited content from well-meaning novice editors, and could really do with some deletions and some additions of cited material. Can anyone here take a look and make some small improvements? This article also exists in an impressive 20 languages, and gets 366,000 views per year, so it's a pretty high-visibility article and worth improving. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney ( talk) 05:51, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
Background: I am not Indian and do not speak a language that uses an Indic script (unless baybayin counts ). I was editing 2017 pro-Jallikattu protests. On top of expanding the article substantially, I added Tamil script to the lead, much to the chagrin of some editors who were quick to point at WP:NOINDICSCRIPT.
Research: I was very immediately skeptical of that page so I began reading the actual 2012 RfC it is based on, along with MOS:INDIA. First let's look at what DeltaQuad actually said in her closure.
There is ultimately no consensus about which language to use, but I see a fair bit of support in regards to IPA and pronunciation and would think this would help normal readers, so I am going to say that 'Using IPA to clarify pronunciation' is the consensus of this discussion, all other sections do not meet a level of consensus needed to pass.
— DeltaQuad (emphasis added)
No consensus about what language to use? I can see that they meant, with articles about people, because people move! They go overseas! They stop spelling their name in their native script! Their parents potentially each give them a part of their name that has different native scripts! OK, that's fine.
What is not fine is the ridiculous assertion that this RfC applies the way it does. Why, if the script we should be using is obvious, can't we include it? What makes India articles different than China related articles? If it turns out I'm wrong and the consensus in 2012 was to remove the Indic scripts even in obvious cases of which language applies, I hereby move to reopen the discussion as per WP:CCC.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I misunderstand the consensus reached in the RfC and my edit was wrong. SpacemanSpiff, can you kindly explain your revert? Psiĥedelisto ( talk) 12:01, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
Oh, please don't plan on opening a new RfC. At least, not until you actually understand what is going on ... and my guess is that you are many months' of experience away from that. - Sitush ( talk) 12:35, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
Greetings. Following the well-covered suicide of a student at this college, various editors have tried to add AfD tags without proper followup, to blank the page, then to add unsourced material relating to the controversies surrounding this incident. Finally, some editors (especially one with the un- NPOV username of "Helpsavestudents") have added information on the controversies with references, but these now constitute the bulk of the article text. I'd like to ask that the article be examined by someone here who is better than myself at a) content editing in general, and b) evaluating the reliability of Indian sources, with an eye towards making sure that the controversy section meets standards on its own and is given the appropriate weight within the article as a whole. Thank you for your time. -- Finngall talk 16:51, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
There is an AFD currently running for Dagar, which is in this project's purview. Please join in the conversation here. Thank you. Primefac ( talk) 17:27, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
A discussion about Arjuna Award and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award is being held here at Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates#Continuously expanding lists. Please provide your opinion. - Vivvt ( Talk) 18:12, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
I'm not sure whether this is a notable topic but the promotional language ("humongous") is awful. Can this be salvaged? AusLondonder ( talk) 22:12, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi all, I recently came across a few articles on drums used in the Subcontinent, and I think there's redundancy among them. I think there's more than one topic, but a merge or two is probably called for. The affected articles are Tabla, Naqareh, Nakara (drum), and Nagara (drum). Should these all be separate? -- BDD ( talk) 22:14, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
More information at Talk:Telugu_language#New_Telugu_consonant_chart. Thank you for your time and attention. Psiĥedelisto ( talk) 11:39, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Manamadurai#The_Holy_Paanch_peer_.28Anjanamar.29_Five_Shuhadaas_Dargah
First time in life I am hearing this kind of a story:- Some Arab came to south India, there was a war and his dargah was built. Can somebody help with the truthfulness of these claims? Thanks. Swingoswingo ( talk) 08:15, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
I just happened on four villages all named "Akauna" within the state of Bihar, and I wondered how they should be disambiguated. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic_names)#India suggests disambiguation should be by district, which would lead to Akauna, Nalanda, Akauna, Nawada, Akauna, Patna and Akauna, Aurangabad. The last of these already shows a problem: There is another Aurangabad district in Maharashtra, and while I doubt that one also has a village named Akauna, I'd still be unhappy with such an... ambiguous disambiguation. I believe US townships use (if necessary) a disambiguation scheme of "Township, county, state" - wouldn't similarly "Village, district, state" (ie Akauna, Patna, Bihar and so on) be better if a disambiguation below the state level is needed at all? If there's just one village of the name in the state, wouldn't then "Village, state" be better than "Village, district"? After all, disambiguation shouldn't be more specific than necessary, and I see no need to make district, instead of state, the default level of disambiguation. Huon ( talk) 22:42, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
Hey all, there appears to be a bit of an edit-war at Sindhi Hindus and I was hoping some of you regulars could keep an eye on it, please. I'd be appreciative. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 04:09, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
30 January this year is the 69th anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. I have created a page on Herbert Reiner Jr., an American, who played a pivotal role in capturing Gandhi's assassin, Nathuram Godse. Does anyone know if I can nominate it for DYK main page appearance on 30 January 2018, the 70th death anniversary of Gandhi?
Please also read the article and please leave comments on how to improve it at Talk:Herbert Reiner Jr. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 18:44, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
Can anyone knowledgeable about Tamil take a look at these newly-created articles: Neo-Sangam Tamil Works, Potruhil-Perumkaappiyam, Puram Nooru, and Agam Nooru. These read like promotional to me, but I may be wrong. utcursch | talk 22:36, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
I can understand wiki maps always be neutral and respect the territories disputes. So, Some of area of Jammu & Kashmir and other might be disputed and hence shows in the map with different colors. But Jammu & Kashmir and Arunchal Pradesh both states are the integral part of India and there is no dispute at all. Some of international border area might be disputed and discolor from the other map. But How we can show the whole state with different colors. In this map both states are shown with little dark in compare of the other map. Both states has fully Indian administration , conduct elections and all other thing are similar with rest of the nation.
I respect the wiki policy for disputed territories but how can we totally ignore the things just because other nation demanding their control of that particular part of the land.
In my views both states should be shown with the same color as other part of the map is shown except the real disputed area such as Some part of International border of Jammu Kashmir and Arunchal Pradesh. Almost everywhere on wikipediia Indian Maps demonstrate with the same mentioned above.
Please correct me if I am wrong. सुमित सिंह ( talk) 04:13, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
I'm been punting away at correcting obvious typos in Indian place names (e.g. Himachel, pardesh, Predesh, etc.) but I keep coming across names where there are at least two versions, and I can't say which one is correct. I know that spelling across language sounds can vary, but there must be a "known correct" version for the name in English, right? The couple times I've really looked hard I find conflicts, even in government documents.
Probably best illustrated by the simple word 'tehsil' also 'tahsil'. Okay, what are the numbers here at Wikipedia? About 20 to 1 in favour of 'tehsil'. Okay, but is it 'correct'? And in looking I found a recent central government census report where on the very same page it would have both versions, multiple times!
Can you suggest where to go to find the 'correct' names for places and terms? I don't want to use Google Maps as my source of truth... :-) Shenme ( talk) 04:03, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
I've just tagged something for clarification at Badhik. I have considerable doubts that the source will say what we claim it says in our statements - the English-language headline doesn't seem likely give reason to mention what we claim. Can anyone verify, please? - Sitush ( talk) 21:11, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi,
At english wikisource s:en:Portal:Copyright law/Copyright law of India links to source documentation of various Indian copyright laws and amendments are given. We are in need of volunteer support in proof reading and validation of those texts (including even the old Indian copyright laws of 1847 & 1914). While couple of Marathi language wikipedians are working on this but still needs more support to acomplish the task.
Acomplishment of this task will help improved referencing & understanding of Indian copyright aspects, hence this request.
Mahitgar ( talk) 11:36, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
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Is The Early Coorgs actually a notable book? I have a suspicion that the article is basically self-promotion. The book itself was published by NotionPress, a vanity publisher. - Sitush ( talk) 01:35, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
Yikes, there is Long ago in Coorg also. By the same author. - Sitush ( talk) 01:54, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Early Coorgs - both books + the author bio article have been nominated as a bundled AfD. - Sitush ( talk) 13:19, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. That means it attempts to transmit non-specialist knowledge to a worldwide audience. It is not a place for people to demonstrate how much they can tweak a simple sentence of English by demonstrating how much new, specialist, knowledge they have.
Look at the ridiculous lead sentence of Sanskrit. Can anyone tell me where the sentence actually begins? I shall soon be removing the Indic scripts. So, help me Panini. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 01:34, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
I could use some help regarding Talk:Basawon_Singh_(Sinha)#Times_of_India_source and, indeed, that entire article. It has been problematic for years because of issues relating to reliable sourcing. - Sitush ( talk) 13:52, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
Three month statistics for Index of Andhra Pradesh-related articles are here. I'm not sure how meaningful those are, eg: I just stumbled across it after a gap of many years but have looked at it perhaps 10 times in the last week. With incredulity, not utility.
In 2015, there was a procedural close of a deletion discussion (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Index of Andhra Pradesh-related articles) on the grounds that this thing was not a list and that discussion should take place at the relevant project or WP:VPP. The relevant project is presumably this one.
The list, as I still consider it to be, must surely be way out of date - the lead/header says it is up to date as of September 2013, although the history suggests that a lot has been pruned from it since then. I am not even sure how it would be maintained: the deletion discussion mentioned that it was easy to do that so I assume some bot is available. I also note from the deletion discussion and the history that redlinks are seen as A Good Thing, which surely means it is to some degree in fact not an index of our AP-related articles.
Is it really useful? There's a similar index for another state, although I forget which one. - Sitush ( talk) 05:56, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
FYI, take a look in commons:Commons:Photo challenge/2017 - February - Multilingualism. I'm sure there is some nice picture regarding also India that can be proposed, if you have it stored it somewhere. It's a way to think about images that we don't always collect, but can be useful.-- Alexmar983 ( talk) 07:16, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
Category:Indian generals is a real mess with a lot of non-notable generals on this list! Needs cleanup. AshLin ( talk) 15:31, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
A novice editor created Jootha as a draft, and since it wasn't usable as-is I rewrote it as a brief stub. I was unfamiliar with this concept, so I think it's a useful addition to Wikipedia. I'd invite anyone here to help expand it, or link it into other articles on Indian customs, food taboos, etc. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 23:21, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi guys,
Would appreciate if you can look into this issue. The official limits of the Arabian Sea and the Lakshadweep Sea are defined by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) (of which India is a member) and have been in place since 1953. Basically, the coast north of Sadashivgad near Karwar in Karnataka is along the Arabian Sea and the coast to the south of it all the way up to Kanyakumari and back up to the Adams bridge is the Lakshadweep Sea (source for information on limits of the seas is cited in both articles). However, I don't think this is generally known in India, especially as we are never taught about Lakshadweep Sea in school. All we are taught is Arabian Sea is along the West Coast of India and the Bay of Bengal is along the East Coast.
This confusion has led to different information being presented in different articles. For instance, the article on India does not mention Lakshadweep Sea at all. However, the articles for Karnataka and Kerala reflect their coast with the Lakshadweep Sea. Similarly, the article on Kanyakumari states that the popular belief that the place lies at the meeting point of three bodies of water is erroneous, it only touches the Lakshadweep Sea. On the other hand, there are a lot of articles related to districts and taluks in Karnataka and Kerala that mention them being along the Arabian Sea, rather than Lakshadweep Sea.
So I was editing a few articles to change the sea name from Arabian to Lakshadweep to reflect the definitions as per the IHO and made the mistake of not citing the source for the limits of the sea. Obviously, it caused a minor kerfuffle and the changes were reverted. But before editing them back along with the proper source, I'd just like to put the issue on this noticeboard so that we can have some consensus. Would it be agreeable to change Arabian Sea to Lakshadweep Sea for the articles for places, districts etc on the west coast of India south of Sadashivgad? If this subject has been discussed before, please let me know. Ashinpt ( talk) 15:44, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
We've had a lot of well-intentioned but not experienced editors build up bhang, with content that is unfortunately unsourced. Can you help to add citations to the history and legal status of bhang in India? Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney ( talk) 03:49, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
What is the concencus so far on "South Asia" versus "Indian subcontinent"? See Talk:Decline of Buddhism in South Asia#India and Bangladesh; I've just moved that page from "India" to "South Asia." Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 05:51, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Delta Meghwal rape case, concerns with notability and WP:NOTNEWS. D4iNa4 ( talk) 10:18, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
According to the Jammu and Kashmir article, the state's area rank is 13 (or 14). But, according to List_of_states_and_union_territories_of_India_by_area it is the 5th largest by area. Does this have something to do with the area under Indian control? Could someone fix this so that the rank is correct and - if it needs an explanation - that explanation is available as a footnote. Thanks.-- regentspark ( comment) 18:02, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello.There is a nice but incomplete stub here.Please assist in editing it. Riswa talk 06:21, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
Many editors here are already familiar with WP:PUS#Wikipedia mirrors. The books published by Gyan Publishing House and Kalpaz / Isha Books extensively plagiarize Wikipedia.
Since the last clean up, these books have been reintroduced as citations in 500+ articles, resulting in circular references:
Obviously, these need to be cleaned up. And we need to come up with a plan to prevent the re-introduction of these as references (something like MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist or a bot that notifies the users who add these). Suggestions welcome. utcursch | talk 03:18, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
Found another awful author-publisher combo: Renu Saran - Diamond Pocket Books. Used in several Wikipedia articles. utcursch | talk 20:17, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi, i want to add India portal to Category:Populated places in India articles by JarBot and i ask for approval.-- جار الله ( talk) 00:47, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
Two members of the same family (see User talk:M R Madhavan) have been editing Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker in the last few days. Some of it is definitely ok but a lot seems dodgy to me. I am particularly concerned because we have long-running issues with people trying to promote/glorify the Chekavar and often engaging in practices such as original research and downright misrepresentation to achieve their goal. I can't see a lot of the sources in this instance and could do with some help. - Sitush ( talk) 11:49, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
I've noticed a great many articles refer to a person as a "freedom fighter". This term seems very POV. More neutral terms should be used. You can use google to search wikipedia for examples. Most of them come from biography pages for Indians. -- Harizotoh9 ( talk) 21:30, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
I've added a little something about this to Freedom fighter ( here) and the above mentioned list; if something beyond this can be expanded upon maybe a separate article is warranted, but till then redirects and explaining it in terms of the fuller context should suffice.
I do replace that word when I come across it, seems like a straight-forward case of WP:WTW. Admit that the neutral term seemed awkward at first but soon I got used to it. Our arch-rival, EB for instance, though never using it directly, seems to prefer variations of activist (see Nehru or Gandhi) but never seems to use "Freedom fighter". Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 04:41, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
PS The Britannica article on Gandhi written by historical biographer BR Nanda, says, "Mahatma Gandhi, byname of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (born October 2, 1869, Porbandar, India—died January 30, 1948, Delhi), Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India." For Nkrumah: "Kwame Nkrumah, (born Sept. 1909, Nkroful, Gold Coast [now Ghana]—died April 27, 1972, Bucharest, Rom.), Ghanaian nationalist leader who led the Gold Coast’s drive for independence from Britain and presided over its emergence as the new nation of Ghana." For Nehru and Sukarno they use "independence movement." I guess it depends on who is writing. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 04:49, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
If "Freedom Fighter" is a title or status that is betowed upon a person, then that can be mentioned. ie "Such and such was given the title of "Freedom Fighter" in 1985 by the Indian government". -- Harizotoh9 ( talk) 23:24, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
The article, Vat Purnima, was recently developed by using reliable sources, and has been nominated good article review. I would like to see any interested reviewers taking it. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 13:51, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
Wikimedia India is advocating for release of Images from Indian Army & Indian Air force under Commons Acceptable licenses. Please see the discussion on WMIN's domain. Also share this message among your fellow Wikimedians. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 15:48, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
Before anybody groans, don't worry, I'm not raising anything about it. From this comment at User talk:Sunnya343, INDICSCRIPTS being placed under the section "Manual of Style" on the project page at WP:INDIA#Manual of Style misleads. The actual MOS is a link to MOS:INDIA (which is right) and this RFC being incorrectly put there. A way out of this would be retitling that header "Manual of Style" to something else or moving the scripts subsection out of it. Maybe relatively uncontroversial, but I'd like to hear from others before going ahead. Also, technically speaking, hope no redirects to the section or something break. Silly problem is any suggestions though, I can't think of anything proper to put instead. Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 06:30, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
How about "Project guidelines" then? ʙʌsʌwʌʟʌ тʌʟк 01:07, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
Can a politician biography have all of these categories
Or is the second one enough and the other two be removed? Personally I think that the remaining are redundant since the 2nd one covers both the party and the state. In cases where a politician has changed their party, should we remove categories related to his previous parties or can all of them be placed in the article? -- Skr15081997 ( talk) 08:44, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi WP:IN. I've come across a new editor named Anup 1995 who has been adding non-English content to Akola Municipal Corporation. I tried using a Template:welcomeen-en to let them know about this on their user talk page, but it doesn't seemed to have helped. Perhaps there is someone here who can post an easier to understand message in Hindi to explain that content on English Wikipedia should be in English. The source provided for the content seems to be dead, so I was not able to verify it. If the information is accurate and can be sourced, all that probably needs to be done is for it to be translated into English. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 23:08, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
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Hi. Eguvaramagiri was created recently, and my sources turned up very little to nothing in English. Perhaps there is a name for the village in a different language that might turn up more coverage. Does this village have the legal recognition needed for notability under WP:GEOLAND? Thanks, Mz7 ( talk) 15:41, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
This article hasn't been edited since a long time and I am unable to find any sources. I suspect that the information may not be accurate. Inviting interested editors to have a look at Talk:Mohan Pass. -- Lemongirl942 ( talk) 08:41, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
There is a discussion about the accuracy of this map of Punjab at Talk:Punjab (region)#Amritpal Singh Mann.27s map. Please feel free to contribute. utcursch | talk 12:52, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
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Does anyone know if this is a separate caste from Bahti or Bhati? ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 20:54, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
With the surprise appointment of Yogi Adityanath as the CM, it looks like the Indian newspapers have been caught with their pants down. Wikipedia comes to the rescue.
Compare them to the yesterday's version of the article.
They didn't bother looking as far as Gorakhnath Math, which had a better description actually (though with less mud). -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 21:14, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
spiritual "father," Mahant Avaidyanath
Hi all, could a Telugu speaker please double-check this edit. I've reverted it because it was unsourced. The source in the article is in Telugu, so I can't verify whether the previous version or this new version is correct. If it's correct, please feel free to revert my change. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 15:11, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi everyone, as the title says it all, this all about a Wiki Loves initiative for Indian defence services. Indian defence services in the sense, it doesn't not only cover the Indian Armed Forces, but it includes all the law enforcement forces including the state polices, paramilitary forces etc. Clear scope is defined below. The contest as other Wiki Loves initiatives, will be hosted on Commons. The contest will run for two months, and results will be published 75 days from the last day of the contest. I have already gathered another couple of editors to assist me in this. The judges there will be 3–4 of them depending upon their availability and our requirement. Two of them will be for the subjective stream (to judge with the scope) and qualitative stream (to judge with the image fineness parameters). The idea behind this is that there are more than 3000 articles within this scope, so these images will a lot of good to them. Regarding the prizes, we'll make sure to satisfy all the participants. All participants with more 200 valid entries will get a certificate, obviously there will be 1st, 2nd and 3rd places along with consolations. We'll also have judge's pick for each, coordinator's pick etc. For any change regarding the title, scope, rules etc. please discuss it under the discussion sub thread. I'll put all of them within a day. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 16:18, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
@ Krishna Chaitanya Velaga: You shouldn't be writing, "Clear scope is defined below," when it clearly isn't. First finish all the sections, then make a post. This is not a sandbox. Please remove, and then repost when you are ready. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 23:14, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
Please come participate in the split discussion regarding the Daikon article. Thank you. -- Epulum ( talk) 06:42, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi all, districts maps can be added in all articles with new feature, qids for all indian districts are added now in OSM . sample is here -- naveenpf ( talk) 03:07, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
Please come participate in the split discussion regarding the Daikon article. Thank you. -- Epulum ( talk) 06:42, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi all, districts maps can be added in all articles with new feature, qids for all indian districts are added now in OSM . sample is here -- naveenpf ( talk) 03:07, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
Dear fellow contributors, Please help reassess the article Maudgalyayana. I have greatly expanded it. Thanks. -- Farang Rak Tham ( talk) 22:06, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
There is a merger discussion here you may wish to contribute to.-- Obi2canibe ( talk) 08:21, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
An IP tried to change the infobox birth date in the above article but broke it. While wondering what to do I noticed that the article says born 2 October 1938, the old infobox said 9 February 1938, and the IP said 11 February 1938. Also, most of the refs are very dead links. Any suggestions? Perhaps remove the date if there is no source? Johnuniq ( talk) 10:21, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
Healthcare in Hyderabad can be merged to Hyderabad#Healthcare. Does WP:CONTENTFORK apply here?-- Vin09 (talk) 10:49, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
There is a new merger proposal. Please comment at Talk:Ragging#New_merger_proposal Fowler&fowler «Talk» 11:45, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
Would anyone be able to help me find out Bibek Maitra's date of birth? Or even just the year of birth? I assume a knowledge of Hindi, which I lack, would make this easier to find. Thanks. Freikorp ( talk) 10:18, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
I need some help at Mahavira about the issues raised. Would anyone here like to review the article? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 17:08, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
I have nominated West Bengal for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. DrKay ( talk) 16:06, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
47.15.10.143 ( talk · contribs) is rapidly going through articles adding what is probably either Hindi or Bengali spelling to them. However, at Burrabazar this edit] doesn't match the Hindi and Bengali in the article. I'm not sure if the IP is just making their own translations up or? Doug Weller talk 17:53, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
They are okay or at least they sound the same .They are not vastly different.The IP has used the Bengali pronunciation were the "o "sound is more pronounced. WIZRADICAL ( talk) 11:30, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
I would like to see more reviewers at my featured list candidate of List of Param Vir Chakra recipients. It has already gained two supports, including the one from the featured list director. It would be of great help if any one of you step in. You can participate in the discussion at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Param Vir Chakra recipients/archive1. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 02:26, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
I was rummaging in the attic yesterday and found several old pictures of Famines in India. One such picture is File:BengalSpeaksLastPicture.jpg. Could someone translate it into English for me? (For those interested, the other pictures, which don't require translation, may be found in Timeline of major famines in India during British rule, including two others of the Bengal famine of 1943.) Thanks. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 15:00, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
A lot of political articles face disputes primarily because of WP:NPOV. Is there a way to reduce the possibility of disputes, may be by a policy or tag. Examples, see revision histories of Narendra Modi, Tarek Fatah, Arvind Kejriwal, Sonia Gandhi, Yogi Adityanath, etc. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 04:52, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
I was thinking if we should nominate History of India for GA. Anyone here, who would like to contribute to make it a pass? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 04:37, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
@ Titodutta: Hi, Article Bengalis needs thorough development particularly in Religion, Culture, Bengali cuisine, Festivals, Bengali language sections credible sources are required for development. Please come forward help develop this article. Thanks-- Anandmoorti ( talk) 14:35, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
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Need some opinions on Rape in Kashmir conflict. I would describe this content dispute as, that Kashmir conflict refers to "The Kashmir conflict is a territorial conflict primarily between India and Pakistan, having started just after the partition of India in 1947." While whole Rape in Kashmir conflict is India only, and contrary to wider consensus, [18] [19] [20] some editors [21] [22] [23] have resorted to edit war over removing anything about Pakistan, no matter how many reliable sources talks about it. Clearly a case of WP:IDONTLIKEIT. Capitals00 ( talk) 14:09, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
We now have Rao (surname), Rao (title) and (the latest creation) Rao (Telugu honorific). It all seems very messy to me and I am wary of pov pushing, original research etc being used to distinguish these various lists of people. Should I be? - Sitush ( talk) 07:07, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
User:Krishna Chaitanya Velaga told the right thing. Rao is just a part of a name and not any surname, most commonly used by many at the end of their name irrespective of family name.-- Vin09 (talk) 04:06, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for all the input. I am still confused, although I'm leaning towards a merge of the articles. - Sitush ( talk) 10:27, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
I was exploring various pages related to Indian history and found that there is a lot of scope of improvement, particularly about Ancient History of India (2nd-century BC - 5th-century CE) especially about Southern India. Further exploration helped me find images of biographies like Kālidāsa, and unlinked articles in Tamil Wikipedia about Early Chola kings. It is possible that we can source out much more good information if there is proper linking of articles of various languages, especially native languages. I would like to propose a new sub-initiative to link articles in other languages to English wikipedia, specifically related to Indian history. Task would be easier due to presence of categories infoboxes and navboxes across wikis of various languages. Volunteers and their suggestions are invited. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 08:56, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
And I'll also say again that I would be reluctant to see a mass of content brought over from other wikis. The link is ok but incorporating the information without taking a lot of care is likely to place a massive burden on a small number of regulars. Fowlerandfowler's example above is the very tiny tip of a huge, problematic iceberg. - Sitush ( talk) 21:56, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
I realise this may appear to be the wrong project for this but please bear with me. We have Category:Surnames of Nepalese origin but quite a few of the articles contained in it also make claims that the article subject is a name of Indian origin and seem to suggest that the meaning/etymology/whatever is the same. Can it really be both? It strikes me that these names are of Indic origin and any attempt to refine further is pointless. - Sitush ( talk) 14:12, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
The corresponding category is Category:Surnames of Indian origin. Within that we have Category:Indian family names. I could see the latter working for the Nepalese entries, eg: Category:Surnames of Indic origin with subcats Category:Indian family names, Category:Nepalese family names etc.
Yes, this is ultimately something that would have to be worked out at WP:CFD and would need notifications to other projects, such as Nepal, Pakistan, the Surnames bods etc. I'm just testing the water here. I could be way off-base. - Sitush ( talk) 15:09, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi, please take a look at Susta article. Before getting blocked a sock made this edit to claim that it is currently being controlled by the Indian Army. As far as I can see, the source cited in the article doesn't say anything about the current status of administration. It might have had some useful information in this regard earlier but now it has no relevant information. On the other hand List of disputed territories of India article says that it is currently being administered by Nepal, but that is unsourced, see here. Thanks . Ind akash ( talk) 16:58, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
Neighbourhood and suburb are both same? If not which one should be used as a settlement type for merged villages in Indian towns and cities? Also categories.-- Vin09 (talk) 11:26, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Guide/Common mistakes third item states: Adding Indic scripts in lead/infobox: We should not add Indic scripts in WikiProject India articles. See
User:Sitush/Common#Scripts for details.
Not adding script to infoboxes is not mentioned in
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/India-related articles. Should it be added? In my OCD rounds as a
wp:RCP, I often see people adding script to infoboxes. If such a statement was in the "official" policy page would make me feel more comfortable removing it and informing the editors. Would somebody please add it to the policy page? Thank you
Jim1138 (
talk) 19:22, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
There is a discussion on addition of swachch sarvekshan rankings at Talk:Visakhapatnam#Visakhapatnam is not a clean city by any means. Editors can have their opinion on adding or not on an article page.-- Vin09 (talk) 06:42, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
Mario-Puzo-091 ( talk) 07:05, 5 May 2017 (UTC)— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mario-Puzo-091 ( talk • contribs) 07:16, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
Mario-Puzo-091 ( talk) 07:05, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
I am struggling to source Dussehra (film). Has it been released yet? If not then it appear to fail WP:NFF. That article and related biographies - eg: Manish Vatsalya and the now-deleted Pooja Welling - were subject to a lot of promotional socking some time ago. - Sitush ( talk) 09:15, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
I am likely to get out of my depth dealing with various POVs that keep appearing at Reservation in India. I've just reverted two seemingly opposite stances that involved big changes and I've asked them to take it to the talk page. If anyone is interested, I'm going to need help when they do. - Sitush ( talk) 22:00, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
I have reviewed the activity again and asked for some help from WP:RFPP. That just pushes the problem somewhere down the line but it might cause some of the anonymous contributors + newly-registered accounts to use the talk page, as they need to do. - Sitush ( talk) 00:54, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
I would like to ask suggestions for {{ Infobox deity/Wikidata}} and if it can be used on certain test pages. If yes, please suggest test-cases. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 12:25, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
The above article was recently created with a controversial title, on the subject that is very much related to the article Srinagar (Lok Sabha constituency) by-election, 2017 that already existed, and with the content that is well-covered in 2016–17 Kashmir unrest#April 2017. Interested editors may participate in the discussion there, and offer their suggestions. Best regards, Tyler Durden ( talk) 19:16, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
Share your vote on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rape in the Kashmir conflict. Capitals00 ( talk) 06:04, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
A merger has been proposed at Talk:Rape in the Kashmir conflict#Merger proposal. Capitals00 ( talk) 12:31, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
Would someone from WP:INDIA mind taking a look at Ajay Ohri to see if he's really notable for a stand-alone article article per WP:BIO or WP:NAUTHOR? Some of the sources cited are pretty trivial things which are very unlikely to be considered the WP:SIGCOV needed to show notability. I'm asking here because better sources may exist and someone here may know where to find them. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 21:45, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
Is there any real point in categorising politicians by religion? I've recently stumbled across Category:21st-century Indian politicians, which I can live with, but what I find more pointed is the subcategory Category:21st-century Indian politicians by religion.
Do we really need this intersect? There are very few articles in the category but it has the potential to be a WP:BLP minefield if a religion-obsessed contributor should see it and decide to go down the route of categorising all the Muslims or, even more alarmingly, all the Hindus. - Sitush ( talk) 18:03, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
WP:INDICSCRIPT currently states:-
Having re-read
Native languages in lead I can see nothing about the "lead sentence" in that discussion, it was all about the "lead" or the "lead section". Was there subsequent consensus for the "the lead" to be changed to "the lead sentence"? if so, where, when, and why?
Here we have an IP reinstating Indic script in the lead section, because it is not in the lead sentence.
If there was no consensus on adding "sentence", could this please be removed from the explanation of
WP:INDICSCRIPT, and replaced by "lead section", which is defined in
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section as "the section before the table of contents and the first heading", before we get swamped by language-warring editors "
gaming the system" - Thanks -
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talk) 15:18, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
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Need help. I've posted this persistent problem here before regarding continuous BLP violations on journalists at /Archive_61#Female_journalists.2C_reporters_BLP_vios.
So now Sardesai's page is currently "hijacked" by one IP editor who insists on putting an incident in his page.
Here's the diff and discussion is at Talk:Rajdeep_Sardesai#New_York_incident.
Most of the time, these editors either relent on seeing the BLP policy or get blocked or stop editing whatever. This one took more steps and has fetched citations, I've pointed out that they may be misrepresented on talk, forget whether this whole mention is relevant or not. Also has discarded my post about the BLP policy and other guidelines saying the usual accusation of me trying to suppress this incident (start on my talk initially) etc and hasn't made any policy/guideline-based argument besides the vague NPOV. Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 18:01, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
Hey guys this fellow redirected Gohila, Uttar Pradesh to Gohila, Ambedkar Nagar. Could someone please double-check that this is a legitimate move consistent with other articles? The user is new. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 16:22, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
A discussion was started here about the page title. While the discussion seemed to 'peter out', only 3 editors (myself included commented) the page was moved again. Any extra opinions welcome. 220 of Borg 10:07, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
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Can we accept Sikh as nationality? Please see this edit which claiming Sikh as a "nation" on behalf of some sources. Thank you – GSS ( talk) 07:45, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
It has coincidentally come to my attention that Chandragupta Maurya is receiving edits by users, by all appearances from India, who repeatedly add (as far as I can tell) fictional pseudo-facts gleaned from the new TV series Chandra Nandni to the article. If the edits persist, semi-protecting the article might become necessary. I have seen misinformation from the show spill to other articles as well. -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 02:16, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
Can somebody with a decent knowledge of template syntax take a look at this? It seems to contain a whole bunch of extraneous material, which I'd remove except I don't want to break anything through ignorance. Vanamonde ( talk) 14:27, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
|horizontal
parameter is passed. But on its own, that still doesn't work, the horizontal mode looks like this on
my sandbox; is this related to the undocumented merge you're talking about? Anyway, if it was useless since the beginning, update the templates doc which talks about this parameter.
Ugog Nizdast (
talk) 10:54, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
A pretty incomprehensible article with badly or unsourced material, most of which seemed irrelevant. I've removed quite a bit (eg "The Zo and the mi are two words but their relation is combination in physical and chemically in nature" although that might have been removed from another edit by the creator of this article). It's still a bit of a trainwreck. Doug Weller talk 10:45, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Doug Weller: Just some questions regarding the content left behind, I've not done any digging as such and these as just from a quick glance. Why should we take anything written on Zomi Nationalism seriously--or the rest of the editor's contribs, if they're all like this? There aren't any third-party sources there right? a redirect to Zomi people and maybe a section on its nationalism there if sources present (oh great, there's a subgroup too called Zou people which makes it even more confusing). Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 13:54, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
Hey guys, anyone heard of MadrasMusings.com? Any thoughts on if it's sufficient or not for referencing? The site says that they're registered with the Indian Registrar of Newspapapers. I don't see any editor information at their contact page. This article, which is linked on their main page attributes an article to a "special corresondent" [ sic], so I'm a little uneasy about it. It's being used as a financial reference at Velayudham. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 17:54, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
Oh, and one more: mathrubhumi.com? Their About page boasts a strong history. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 18:47, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
I wrote a stub for Rifa-e-Aam Club, but I am stuck at 184 words. If anyone can add a hundred or so more, we could WP:DYK it :) -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:05, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
I've managed to stick my head thoroughly into the wonderful world of spamming on various Indian university pages. One site I see used fairly frequently is various domains under careers360.com from both named accounts and IP accounts. Based on the contributions of some accounts, it looks like pure spamming is happening (see P.Kumar1988 ( talk · contribs) for example). Other times it's used by fairly well established editors as a reference. I see it often used for ranking universities. There's a fair amount of advertising on the site. Some of the articles look fairly decent, but others [1] while it looks good just seems to be a summary of the topic designed to get clicks. Any thoughts on how to consider this as a source? Generally reliable? Reliable for some things? LinkSearch returns around 273 links, nearly all universities in India. Is this a useful site for Wikipedia? Appreciate any thoughts/advice. Couldn't find previous discussions on WP:RSN or here, but my searchfu has been weak of late, so easily could have missed something. Ravensfire ( talk) 17:07, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
Persecution of Hindus and Anti-Hinduism currently have huge amounts of content that are redundant to each other. One could even argue for a merger, but if argument for keeping the two pages separate is that deal with ideology and one with incidents, then the content needs to be distinct. Currently, it is not: much the same material is diced up in different ways in the two articles, together with copious quantities of original research. Any assistance in cleaning them up would be much appreciated. Vanamonde ( talk) 05:12, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
This came up at WP:COI. There are a number of articles about small loans to business and companies involved with them. Most of the articles are company PR, and are tagged as ads. One set of companies involved:
Anyone want to look at this area? John Nagle ( talk) 05:03, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
Talk:South Indian diaspora, is this a valid new article or a duplicate? In ictu oculi ( talk) 08:17, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
There is a move discussion going on at Talk:Meitei language. Thanks. Filpro ( talk) 22:02, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
The subject article is an FL nominee since quite a long time for now and hence requesting the community to review and comment at the review. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { Talk / Edits} 09:35, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Hey folks! There seems to be quite a few articles for Indian political parties which are just a sentence or two and have been tagged as orphans for 7 years. I'm having trouble finding much in the way of sources for them. Any chance someone with a bit more experience (and interest) in this kind of thing could take a look? If you could add a ref and maybe even de-orphan some of them, you'd be my hero. Alternatively, if you can't find anything, we may want to consider bringing some to Articles for Deletion (the relevant notability criteria are probably Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)):
Thanks a bunch! Happy editing! Ajpolino ( talk) 04:08, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
A fair point actually. Never thought of it, though I myself added Category:Defunct political parties in India to the See also. Maybe I didnt think that because there won't be any proper ref for that and we would have to compile such a list solely based on that category; but that's just an inconvenience. I support such an addition.
Here are some other issues I've had with it. I have zero experience in lists and did some major decisions with minimal input like Limiting the unrecognised to just the ones with articles and removing the flags and symbols, which were hopefully wise. Another thing which bugs me is that it was reported that INC, NCP and CPI (M?) would lose national status way back after the election results years ago due to their less seats but till now I couldn't find any official indication that it happened, see talk. All India Trinamool Congress got national status recently yet they remain. Maybe I didn't search well enough, I don't know. Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 06:15, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
Would be lovely to have comments from experienced editors at the Featured List nomination page. Thanks. Lourdes 11:29, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi all, may I please impose upon any Hindi-speakers to look at Shahjahanpur Rang Mahotsav and figure out whether or not the article meets WP:GNG per the sources given? They appear to all be in Hindi. The article was created by a sock operator and it looks like it was brought back from a redirect by some suspicious noob. I'm considering putting it up for AfD to make it easier to delete in the future, but only if the dance competition isn't notable. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 22:13, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
A relatively new user has created List of Sikhs in Punjabi Cinema. Leaving behind one entry – Diljit Dosanjh – whole of the list seems to be incorrect. In fact, respective articles of the entries don't have any reliable source regarding their religion, let alone self-identification, which is required in these cases. So, this list constitute BLP violation, as per WP:BLPCAT/ WP:CAT/R. And hence all but one entry should be removed from it. But that will make the list redundant. So, I don't know what to do here. BTW, the same user also seems to have added unsourced religion-related details in various BLPs, e.g. [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], etc. So, his whole contribution needs scrutiny.
PS: The concerned user is topic-banned from Sikh and Punjabi related articles. So, I didn't discuss the issue on his talk page. - NitinMlk ( talk) 19:25, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
Would really appreciate any help here, the article seems like a bit of a mess at the moment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Damien2016 ( talk • contribs) 11:20, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
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People, please remember while editing topics on Alternative medicine to be careful. I've come across multiple articles mainly on such practitioners to be against WP:FRINGE/PS and sometimes even WP:MEDRS. These were like a WP:WALLEDGARDEN. Given our government and media promoting this, it's easy to fall for this. The government even regularly gives AM practitioners the Padma Shri in medicine. There are such people having posts in the medicine and scientific advisory committees. I could go on. While it's for these reasons these people get notable, we draw the line at promoting AM.
It is possible given the lack of previous discussion regarding this, there's has not been any major conflict before; I was surprised by this. There's my old post Wikipedia:Fringe_theories/Noticeboard/Archive_52#Category:Indian_homeopaths for reference. Editors not aware of both those guidelines and focusing on working mainly in this area are still oblivious to this; I daresay they're intentionally doing this. It all boils down to the main articles on Homeopathy and Ayurveda: asserting their efficacy in these bio pages will be contradictory, almost like a WP:POVFORK. If any arguments, they should take it there first.
I first found this at Category:Indian medical doctors which had AM practitioners as a subcat. This was since years. Then I found Category:Indian scientists being populated with them. A range of AM practitioners in Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in medicine were promotional in this way.
I found these were some ways of it being done, along with examples:
Oh great, more work: typing "~Allopath" in search shows a host of articles using it. So main categories to scrutinise are Category:Indian homeopaths and Category:Ayurvedacharyas--there are still some unchecked. I mainly went through the Padma Shree awardees. Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 00:29, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
About a year and a half ago I started a stub at Cannabis in India, and posted on this noticeboard inviting input from others. A number of folks from this project chipped in to expand the article, and I'm pleased to note that the article has gained 119,387 views in the last 12 months, making it one of the most popular of the "Cannabis in (country)" articles. (PageView analysis link)
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I'm having a problem finding a central location to post this. If there is a better place that will be more noticeable please copy to there.
I fix misspellings. (It keeps me out of trouble.) So I scan through Special:RecentChanges looking for someone correcting a word, then I look to find all the other misspellings then I go fix those.
So today I see someone fix 'Hydrabad' to ' Hyderabad'. Great. Whoa! 80 times!??!
How is it that a major city can have its name misspelled so many times? Imagine ' Peris' or ' Lundon' in en:Wikipedia dozens of times!
Would your project consider taking on a work item to look for and fix misspelled city names? I wonder how many state names are misspelled, um, like Telangna? I wonder about 'Delli' in Kharampur_Mazar_Sharif, for instance. How about 'Predesh' for 17 hits?
I think it would be a good work project, even if only because as you look for _these_ misspellings it will take you to many articles on India and you can look for _other_ problems at the same time. Sound good? Shenme ( talk) 07:00, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
can any one edit this article
Montazur Rahman Akbar — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.35.168.42 ( talk) 17:28, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
Rearrange this article like director bio — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.35.168.42 ( talk) 19:39, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
A request has been made for the article on Jadunath Singh, an Indian Param Vir Chakra recipient, to be peer reviewed. Interested editors are invited to participate in the review here: Wikipedia:Peer review/Jadunath Singh/archive1. Thank you for your time. Regards, AustralianRupert ( talk) 00:57, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
Hello, this article could use a check from a native Hindi or Urdu speaker please:
The article has been created and repeatedly edited by various sock accounts, so it would be good if another editor could double-check its validity and accuracy (the socking editor added a mix of good faith edits with occasional fabricated details and patent nonsense in various articles, so it's hard to differentiate). GermanJoe ( talk) 13:51, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
I correctd the name in Urdu. -- Soman ( talk) 04:54, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
I have recently posted a request for a new photograph on Wikimedia Commons. I would appreciate it if any members of this project who are located in Bihar would take a look at this request and see if they are able to help. Regards Exemplo347 ( talk) 11:00, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2016_December_22#Chaaval. It could use some input from someone fluent in Hindi/Urdu and who perhaps better understands the context of the word. -- Lemongirl942 ( talk) 05:47, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
Need eyes on this: Dhangar. The usual "everyone from Chandragupta to Shivaji belonged to my caste" cruft. A user is restoring a previous version of the article without addressing any of the issues for which the content was removed. utcursch | talk 15:53, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi all,
I have just deleted this article under the
WP:G2 speedy deletion criterion, and blocked
Aaryans World School (
talk ·
contribs) for obvious username problems.
That said, should here be an article about this school or purported K-12 school network?
Pete AU aka --
Shirt58 (
talk) 10:29, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi, just created Oinwar dynasty, would appreciate if you guys could look over it and check for any mistakes and add relevant categories. Thanks. Damien2016 ( talk) 10:10, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
I have started an RfC on the talk page of Sati. Please comment on it if the topic is of interest to you. Soham321 ( talk) 04:13, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
Here is a journal article [12] that got cited in Varna (Hinduism). The article appeared in International Research Journal of Social Sciences, which is apparently published by International Science Congress Association (now named, International Science Community Association). Just the abstract gives us a pretty good idea what this paper is about. The paper was written by a Mechanical Engineer, and it was peer-reviewed and published in under 2 months. Funnily, the citations include a paper by somebody called "Wikipedia" written in 1926! -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 19:52, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
The backlog of India-related deletion discussions has become quite long, and AfD discussions could do with more eyes that have experience in this area. Especially those familiar with cultural performers and entertainers, e.g., wp:Articles_for_deletion/Koushani_Mukherjee_(actress), wp:Articles_for_deletion/Kamal Thakur, wp:Articles_for_deletion/Kottakkal Nandakumaran Nair, etc.) Thanks. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 01:58, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
An RfC has been initiated on the talk page of Jawaharlal Nehru. Please vote on it if the topic is of interest to you. Soham321 ( talk) 04:47, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
Can someone have a look at this article (see this section) and help with the content. I see a lot of editors who seem to have some sort of a conflict of interest. This could benefit from inputs by established editors. -- Lemongirl942 ( talk) 05:26, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi, the linked page (rejected at AFC) has various references written in Hindi that I have as yet been unable to get an accurate translation for. Is there an editor in this project/can someone point me in the right direction of someone who can see if any of the references meet WP:MUSIC. Amortias ( T)( C) 17:05, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello, could someone please tell me why exactly we keep the name Puducherry for the union territory article and Pondicherry for the city article? I looked through the RfCs but still don't understand. So people still call the city by the old name, but they have embraced the new name for the union territory? Doesn't make sense to me. — Sunnya343✈ ( háblame • my work) 04:26, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
We had several new article starts that I merged, and are now at BHIM, since that system was announced yesterday. This topic might get a flurry of attention, so help from experts would be appreciated to make sure this new article is integrated into Wikipedia. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 04:37, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi everynoe! I came across this map. Brahamani and Baitarani rivers are interchanged in it. Somebody who can edit images please correct it. Swingoswingo ( talk) 13:24, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna has a malformed article FLC history template, its listed as being a Featured List and also as failing its FLC. Just an FYI. TomStar81 ( Talk) 10:57, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
G'day, a peer review has been requested for the M. P. T. Acharya article. Interested parties are invited to take part at the review page, which can be found here: Wikipedia:Peer review/M. P. T. Acharya/archive1. Thank you for your time. Regards, AustralianRupert ( talk) 00:52, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
Somebody please check this change. I dont believe it because I am studying history currently in details. One of the sources is incorrect as well. Swingoswingo ( talk) 19:30, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Hey all, can someone please look at these changes to see if they were made in a wise fashion. I don't know the subject, so I'm not terribly helpful here. Apart from the grammar issues, I notice some significant changes, like the statement that the subject killed many Tamils and statements like "However, the historians used to write several myths and unreal things about him to depict him as a brave and kind hearted King though he is a coward in reality." One statement was changed from "Folk songs recalling the heroism of the Poligar leaders remain alive in Tamil Nadu to this day" to "Folk songs recalling the selfishness and cowardness of the Poligar leaders remain alive in Tamil Nadu to this day." Seems a pretty big shift, so I'm hoping someone might be able to look at it, please. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 04:54, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
Please see the article's talk page regarding desirable work to be done over the next day or so. Schwede 66 19:20, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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The edits by 103.206.*.* need some cleanup. Preliminary look suggests the usual caste-cruft (XYZ king belonged to my caste) backed by fake references or poor sources.
E.g. - For [13], the source cited is Kammavari Charithra, which appears to be a non- RS caste glorification book.
I recall that some days back a series of Kamma-related sockpuppet accounts were blocked. Don't remember the sockmaster's name, but this could be that guy. utcursch | talk 16:00, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
Dear India experts: I have done my best to find online sources for this article. There are quite a few references that are not linked online. Are some of these to independent reliable sources that could be used to demonstrate notability of the subject?— Anne Delong ( talk) 19:23, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
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I'm concerned that a number of India-related articles are the subject of edits that constitute undue weight, and possible synthesis of published materials. I'm especially concerned about articles on Indian ancient history or prehistory, such as Indus Valley Civilization, and Vedic_period#Origins. See also Indo-Aryan migration theory, Indo-Aryan peoples, as examples of pages which I had to edit to reduce the synthesis or ambiguity. At a time in which there are thousands of journal articles on pretty much any narrow topic, it is very easy to synthesize reliable sources into a rambling, subtly POV-ridden, article. Encyclopedias are beholden to present the consensus view of a topic; they are necessarily conservative and traditional in their descriptions. They are not surveys of recent literature on a topic. I would like people to take a look at Talk:Indus_Valley_Civilisation#.22Too_much_addition.22, and I invite you to present your views. I see this problem as a increasingly bigger WP-wide one. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 12:42, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2017_January_19#Template:Kshatriya_Communities. - Sitush ( talk) 20:54, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi There,
/info/en/?search=Draft:R_Nandakumar
Need help in this article. R Nandakumar is a noted art critic and his works have been cited by prominent authors from across the world. His works have been published in many magazines and academic journals in India and abroad. He has been conferred the Kerala Puraskar Award in the year 2007 by Kerala Lalithakala Akademi and has been the senior fellow of Nehru Memorial Museum & Library. His article is being rejected several times and the editors seem to not understand the value of the awards and contribution made by R Nandakumar. Is there any way I could improve the article?
Thank you.
Tirutirutiru ( talk) 11:59, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
Hey guys, I'd appreciate if a few of you could please add Jallikattu to your watchlists. There's been a recent flare-up of editors who seem to have taken issue with describing this bull riding/wrestling/taming event as "bull embracing", which is a completely bizarre choice of phrasing. Sounds like some kind of hippie love event... I first noticed this a few days ago when this guy changed every instance of "bullfight" to "bullembrace". (This obviously had negative results on URLs, and, well, nobody's come up with a Wikipedia template for BullEmbracing just yet...) This also came up here where another user changed the phrasing of certain words like "grab" to "embrace", and here where "taming" has been changed to "embracing". And, it seems to not be a new concept, as in January of last year, bull-taming/bull-baiting was changed to "bull-vaulting".
My educated guess (as well as my suspicious nature) leads me to believe that in the wake of criticism being levied at this rural sport in the form of animal cruelty accusations, people threatened by the possibility their cultural traditions might disappear, have taken up arms in a censorship/PR campaign. There might be better ways of describing it than "taming"--maybe "wrestling", "riding"--I don't know, but "embracing" is purely asinine and we do not use euphemistic language. Anyway, if some more of you could take a look, I'd appreciate it. You might have better ideas for how to improve it. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 15:58, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
Related to this: 2017 Jallikattu protests has been created recently. I question the neutrality of it at present. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 19:50, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
I also became aware of Bullfighting in Tamil Nadu, which I have redirected to Jallikattu. Please double-check my choice to ensure that it was sound. The article was largely unsourced, seemed mostly like an editorial, was also prone to the BullEmbracing stuff, and seemed like a possible copy-paste job since similar content appeared here at Jallikattu. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 04:35, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
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Hi,
I want to begin an article about Rameshwari Photocopy Service shop copyright case on english wikipedia. Pl. do suggest suitable title for the article and also join in building the article if possible.
some links to begin with.
Mahitgar ( talk) 12:11, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
I am looking for an infobox template support about Template:Infobox India Highcourt Case for article Rameshwari Photocopy Service shop copyright case on the same lines as of Template:Infobox United States District Court Case
Mahitgar ( talk) 13:27, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
{{
Infobox court case}}
for any court case. —
Spaceman
Spiff 13:34, 22 January 2017 (UTC)The article Bhang has a lot of uncited content from well-meaning novice editors, and could really do with some deletions and some additions of cited material. Can anyone here take a look and make some small improvements? This article also exists in an impressive 20 languages, and gets 366,000 views per year, so it's a pretty high-visibility article and worth improving. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney ( talk) 05:51, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
Background: I am not Indian and do not speak a language that uses an Indic script (unless baybayin counts ). I was editing 2017 pro-Jallikattu protests. On top of expanding the article substantially, I added Tamil script to the lead, much to the chagrin of some editors who were quick to point at WP:NOINDICSCRIPT.
Research: I was very immediately skeptical of that page so I began reading the actual 2012 RfC it is based on, along with MOS:INDIA. First let's look at what DeltaQuad actually said in her closure.
There is ultimately no consensus about which language to use, but I see a fair bit of support in regards to IPA and pronunciation and would think this would help normal readers, so I am going to say that 'Using IPA to clarify pronunciation' is the consensus of this discussion, all other sections do not meet a level of consensus needed to pass.
— DeltaQuad (emphasis added)
No consensus about what language to use? I can see that they meant, with articles about people, because people move! They go overseas! They stop spelling their name in their native script! Their parents potentially each give them a part of their name that has different native scripts! OK, that's fine.
What is not fine is the ridiculous assertion that this RfC applies the way it does. Why, if the script we should be using is obvious, can't we include it? What makes India articles different than China related articles? If it turns out I'm wrong and the consensus in 2012 was to remove the Indic scripts even in obvious cases of which language applies, I hereby move to reopen the discussion as per WP:CCC.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I misunderstand the consensus reached in the RfC and my edit was wrong. SpacemanSpiff, can you kindly explain your revert? Psiĥedelisto ( talk) 12:01, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
Oh, please don't plan on opening a new RfC. At least, not until you actually understand what is going on ... and my guess is that you are many months' of experience away from that. - Sitush ( talk) 12:35, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
Greetings. Following the well-covered suicide of a student at this college, various editors have tried to add AfD tags without proper followup, to blank the page, then to add unsourced material relating to the controversies surrounding this incident. Finally, some editors (especially one with the un- NPOV username of "Helpsavestudents") have added information on the controversies with references, but these now constitute the bulk of the article text. I'd like to ask that the article be examined by someone here who is better than myself at a) content editing in general, and b) evaluating the reliability of Indian sources, with an eye towards making sure that the controversy section meets standards on its own and is given the appropriate weight within the article as a whole. Thank you for your time. -- Finngall talk 16:51, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
There is an AFD currently running for Dagar, which is in this project's purview. Please join in the conversation here. Thank you. Primefac ( talk) 17:27, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
A discussion about Arjuna Award and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award is being held here at Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates#Continuously expanding lists. Please provide your opinion. - Vivvt ( Talk) 18:12, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
I'm not sure whether this is a notable topic but the promotional language ("humongous") is awful. Can this be salvaged? AusLondonder ( talk) 22:12, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi all, I recently came across a few articles on drums used in the Subcontinent, and I think there's redundancy among them. I think there's more than one topic, but a merge or two is probably called for. The affected articles are Tabla, Naqareh, Nakara (drum), and Nagara (drum). Should these all be separate? -- BDD ( talk) 22:14, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
More information at Talk:Telugu_language#New_Telugu_consonant_chart. Thank you for your time and attention. Psiĥedelisto ( talk) 11:39, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Manamadurai#The_Holy_Paanch_peer_.28Anjanamar.29_Five_Shuhadaas_Dargah
First time in life I am hearing this kind of a story:- Some Arab came to south India, there was a war and his dargah was built. Can somebody help with the truthfulness of these claims? Thanks. Swingoswingo ( talk) 08:15, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
I just happened on four villages all named "Akauna" within the state of Bihar, and I wondered how they should be disambiguated. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic_names)#India suggests disambiguation should be by district, which would lead to Akauna, Nalanda, Akauna, Nawada, Akauna, Patna and Akauna, Aurangabad. The last of these already shows a problem: There is another Aurangabad district in Maharashtra, and while I doubt that one also has a village named Akauna, I'd still be unhappy with such an... ambiguous disambiguation. I believe US townships use (if necessary) a disambiguation scheme of "Township, county, state" - wouldn't similarly "Village, district, state" (ie Akauna, Patna, Bihar and so on) be better if a disambiguation below the state level is needed at all? If there's just one village of the name in the state, wouldn't then "Village, state" be better than "Village, district"? After all, disambiguation shouldn't be more specific than necessary, and I see no need to make district, instead of state, the default level of disambiguation. Huon ( talk) 22:42, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
Hey all, there appears to be a bit of an edit-war at Sindhi Hindus and I was hoping some of you regulars could keep an eye on it, please. I'd be appreciative. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 04:09, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
30 January this year is the 69th anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. I have created a page on Herbert Reiner Jr., an American, who played a pivotal role in capturing Gandhi's assassin, Nathuram Godse. Does anyone know if I can nominate it for DYK main page appearance on 30 January 2018, the 70th death anniversary of Gandhi?
Please also read the article and please leave comments on how to improve it at Talk:Herbert Reiner Jr. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 18:44, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
Can anyone knowledgeable about Tamil take a look at these newly-created articles: Neo-Sangam Tamil Works, Potruhil-Perumkaappiyam, Puram Nooru, and Agam Nooru. These read like promotional to me, but I may be wrong. utcursch | talk 22:36, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
I can understand wiki maps always be neutral and respect the territories disputes. So, Some of area of Jammu & Kashmir and other might be disputed and hence shows in the map with different colors. But Jammu & Kashmir and Arunchal Pradesh both states are the integral part of India and there is no dispute at all. Some of international border area might be disputed and discolor from the other map. But How we can show the whole state with different colors. In this map both states are shown with little dark in compare of the other map. Both states has fully Indian administration , conduct elections and all other thing are similar with rest of the nation.
I respect the wiki policy for disputed territories but how can we totally ignore the things just because other nation demanding their control of that particular part of the land.
In my views both states should be shown with the same color as other part of the map is shown except the real disputed area such as Some part of International border of Jammu Kashmir and Arunchal Pradesh. Almost everywhere on wikipediia Indian Maps demonstrate with the same mentioned above.
Please correct me if I am wrong. सुमित सिंह ( talk) 04:13, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
I'm been punting away at correcting obvious typos in Indian place names (e.g. Himachel, pardesh, Predesh, etc.) but I keep coming across names where there are at least two versions, and I can't say which one is correct. I know that spelling across language sounds can vary, but there must be a "known correct" version for the name in English, right? The couple times I've really looked hard I find conflicts, even in government documents.
Probably best illustrated by the simple word 'tehsil' also 'tahsil'. Okay, what are the numbers here at Wikipedia? About 20 to 1 in favour of 'tehsil'. Okay, but is it 'correct'? And in looking I found a recent central government census report where on the very same page it would have both versions, multiple times!
Can you suggest where to go to find the 'correct' names for places and terms? I don't want to use Google Maps as my source of truth... :-) Shenme ( talk) 04:03, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
I've just tagged something for clarification at Badhik. I have considerable doubts that the source will say what we claim it says in our statements - the English-language headline doesn't seem likely give reason to mention what we claim. Can anyone verify, please? - Sitush ( talk) 21:11, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi,
At english wikisource s:en:Portal:Copyright law/Copyright law of India links to source documentation of various Indian copyright laws and amendments are given. We are in need of volunteer support in proof reading and validation of those texts (including even the old Indian copyright laws of 1847 & 1914). While couple of Marathi language wikipedians are working on this but still needs more support to acomplish the task.
Acomplishment of this task will help improved referencing & understanding of Indian copyright aspects, hence this request.
Mahitgar ( talk) 11:36, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
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Is The Early Coorgs actually a notable book? I have a suspicion that the article is basically self-promotion. The book itself was published by NotionPress, a vanity publisher. - Sitush ( talk) 01:35, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
Yikes, there is Long ago in Coorg also. By the same author. - Sitush ( talk) 01:54, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Early Coorgs - both books + the author bio article have been nominated as a bundled AfD. - Sitush ( talk) 13:19, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. That means it attempts to transmit non-specialist knowledge to a worldwide audience. It is not a place for people to demonstrate how much they can tweak a simple sentence of English by demonstrating how much new, specialist, knowledge they have.
Look at the ridiculous lead sentence of Sanskrit. Can anyone tell me where the sentence actually begins? I shall soon be removing the Indic scripts. So, help me Panini. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 01:34, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
I could use some help regarding Talk:Basawon_Singh_(Sinha)#Times_of_India_source and, indeed, that entire article. It has been problematic for years because of issues relating to reliable sourcing. - Sitush ( talk) 13:52, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
Three month statistics for Index of Andhra Pradesh-related articles are here. I'm not sure how meaningful those are, eg: I just stumbled across it after a gap of many years but have looked at it perhaps 10 times in the last week. With incredulity, not utility.
In 2015, there was a procedural close of a deletion discussion (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Index of Andhra Pradesh-related articles) on the grounds that this thing was not a list and that discussion should take place at the relevant project or WP:VPP. The relevant project is presumably this one.
The list, as I still consider it to be, must surely be way out of date - the lead/header says it is up to date as of September 2013, although the history suggests that a lot has been pruned from it since then. I am not even sure how it would be maintained: the deletion discussion mentioned that it was easy to do that so I assume some bot is available. I also note from the deletion discussion and the history that redlinks are seen as A Good Thing, which surely means it is to some degree in fact not an index of our AP-related articles.
Is it really useful? There's a similar index for another state, although I forget which one. - Sitush ( talk) 05:56, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
FYI, take a look in commons:Commons:Photo challenge/2017 - February - Multilingualism. I'm sure there is some nice picture regarding also India that can be proposed, if you have it stored it somewhere. It's a way to think about images that we don't always collect, but can be useful.-- Alexmar983 ( talk) 07:16, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
Category:Indian generals is a real mess with a lot of non-notable generals on this list! Needs cleanup. AshLin ( talk) 15:31, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
A novice editor created Jootha as a draft, and since it wasn't usable as-is I rewrote it as a brief stub. I was unfamiliar with this concept, so I think it's a useful addition to Wikipedia. I'd invite anyone here to help expand it, or link it into other articles on Indian customs, food taboos, etc. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 23:21, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi guys,
Would appreciate if you can look into this issue. The official limits of the Arabian Sea and the Lakshadweep Sea are defined by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) (of which India is a member) and have been in place since 1953. Basically, the coast north of Sadashivgad near Karwar in Karnataka is along the Arabian Sea and the coast to the south of it all the way up to Kanyakumari and back up to the Adams bridge is the Lakshadweep Sea (source for information on limits of the seas is cited in both articles). However, I don't think this is generally known in India, especially as we are never taught about Lakshadweep Sea in school. All we are taught is Arabian Sea is along the West Coast of India and the Bay of Bengal is along the East Coast.
This confusion has led to different information being presented in different articles. For instance, the article on India does not mention Lakshadweep Sea at all. However, the articles for Karnataka and Kerala reflect their coast with the Lakshadweep Sea. Similarly, the article on Kanyakumari states that the popular belief that the place lies at the meeting point of three bodies of water is erroneous, it only touches the Lakshadweep Sea. On the other hand, there are a lot of articles related to districts and taluks in Karnataka and Kerala that mention them being along the Arabian Sea, rather than Lakshadweep Sea.
So I was editing a few articles to change the sea name from Arabian to Lakshadweep to reflect the definitions as per the IHO and made the mistake of not citing the source for the limits of the sea. Obviously, it caused a minor kerfuffle and the changes were reverted. But before editing them back along with the proper source, I'd just like to put the issue on this noticeboard so that we can have some consensus. Would it be agreeable to change Arabian Sea to Lakshadweep Sea for the articles for places, districts etc on the west coast of India south of Sadashivgad? If this subject has been discussed before, please let me know. Ashinpt ( talk) 15:44, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
We've had a lot of well-intentioned but not experienced editors build up bhang, with content that is unfortunately unsourced. Can you help to add citations to the history and legal status of bhang in India? Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney ( talk) 03:49, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
What is the concencus so far on "South Asia" versus "Indian subcontinent"? See Talk:Decline of Buddhism in South Asia#India and Bangladesh; I've just moved that page from "India" to "South Asia." Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 05:51, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Delta Meghwal rape case, concerns with notability and WP:NOTNEWS. D4iNa4 ( talk) 10:18, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
According to the Jammu and Kashmir article, the state's area rank is 13 (or 14). But, according to List_of_states_and_union_territories_of_India_by_area it is the 5th largest by area. Does this have something to do with the area under Indian control? Could someone fix this so that the rank is correct and - if it needs an explanation - that explanation is available as a footnote. Thanks.-- regentspark ( comment) 18:02, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello.There is a nice but incomplete stub here.Please assist in editing it. Riswa talk 06:21, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
Many editors here are already familiar with WP:PUS#Wikipedia mirrors. The books published by Gyan Publishing House and Kalpaz / Isha Books extensively plagiarize Wikipedia.
Since the last clean up, these books have been reintroduced as citations in 500+ articles, resulting in circular references:
Obviously, these need to be cleaned up. And we need to come up with a plan to prevent the re-introduction of these as references (something like MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist or a bot that notifies the users who add these). Suggestions welcome. utcursch | talk 03:18, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
Found another awful author-publisher combo: Renu Saran - Diamond Pocket Books. Used in several Wikipedia articles. utcursch | talk 20:17, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi, i want to add India portal to Category:Populated places in India articles by JarBot and i ask for approval.-- جار الله ( talk) 00:47, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
Two members of the same family (see User talk:M R Madhavan) have been editing Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker in the last few days. Some of it is definitely ok but a lot seems dodgy to me. I am particularly concerned because we have long-running issues with people trying to promote/glorify the Chekavar and often engaging in practices such as original research and downright misrepresentation to achieve their goal. I can't see a lot of the sources in this instance and could do with some help. - Sitush ( talk) 11:49, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
I've noticed a great many articles refer to a person as a "freedom fighter". This term seems very POV. More neutral terms should be used. You can use google to search wikipedia for examples. Most of them come from biography pages for Indians. -- Harizotoh9 ( talk) 21:30, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
I've added a little something about this to Freedom fighter ( here) and the above mentioned list; if something beyond this can be expanded upon maybe a separate article is warranted, but till then redirects and explaining it in terms of the fuller context should suffice.
I do replace that word when I come across it, seems like a straight-forward case of WP:WTW. Admit that the neutral term seemed awkward at first but soon I got used to it. Our arch-rival, EB for instance, though never using it directly, seems to prefer variations of activist (see Nehru or Gandhi) but never seems to use "Freedom fighter". Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 04:41, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
PS The Britannica article on Gandhi written by historical biographer BR Nanda, says, "Mahatma Gandhi, byname of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (born October 2, 1869, Porbandar, India—died January 30, 1948, Delhi), Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India." For Nkrumah: "Kwame Nkrumah, (born Sept. 1909, Nkroful, Gold Coast [now Ghana]—died April 27, 1972, Bucharest, Rom.), Ghanaian nationalist leader who led the Gold Coast’s drive for independence from Britain and presided over its emergence as the new nation of Ghana." For Nehru and Sukarno they use "independence movement." I guess it depends on who is writing. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 04:49, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
If "Freedom Fighter" is a title or status that is betowed upon a person, then that can be mentioned. ie "Such and such was given the title of "Freedom Fighter" in 1985 by the Indian government". -- Harizotoh9 ( talk) 23:24, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
The article, Vat Purnima, was recently developed by using reliable sources, and has been nominated good article review. I would like to see any interested reviewers taking it. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 13:51, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
Wikimedia India is advocating for release of Images from Indian Army & Indian Air force under Commons Acceptable licenses. Please see the discussion on WMIN's domain. Also share this message among your fellow Wikimedians. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 15:48, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
Before anybody groans, don't worry, I'm not raising anything about it. From this comment at User talk:Sunnya343, INDICSCRIPTS being placed under the section "Manual of Style" on the project page at WP:INDIA#Manual of Style misleads. The actual MOS is a link to MOS:INDIA (which is right) and this RFC being incorrectly put there. A way out of this would be retitling that header "Manual of Style" to something else or moving the scripts subsection out of it. Maybe relatively uncontroversial, but I'd like to hear from others before going ahead. Also, technically speaking, hope no redirects to the section or something break. Silly problem is any suggestions though, I can't think of anything proper to put instead. Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 06:30, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
How about "Project guidelines" then? ʙʌsʌwʌʟʌ тʌʟк 01:07, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
Can a politician biography have all of these categories
Or is the second one enough and the other two be removed? Personally I think that the remaining are redundant since the 2nd one covers both the party and the state. In cases where a politician has changed their party, should we remove categories related to his previous parties or can all of them be placed in the article? -- Skr15081997 ( talk) 08:44, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi WP:IN. I've come across a new editor named Anup 1995 who has been adding non-English content to Akola Municipal Corporation. I tried using a Template:welcomeen-en to let them know about this on their user talk page, but it doesn't seemed to have helped. Perhaps there is someone here who can post an easier to understand message in Hindi to explain that content on English Wikipedia should be in English. The source provided for the content seems to be dead, so I was not able to verify it. If the information is accurate and can be sourced, all that probably needs to be done is for it to be translated into English. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 23:08, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
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Hi. Eguvaramagiri was created recently, and my sources turned up very little to nothing in English. Perhaps there is a name for the village in a different language that might turn up more coverage. Does this village have the legal recognition needed for notability under WP:GEOLAND? Thanks, Mz7 ( talk) 15:41, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
This article hasn't been edited since a long time and I am unable to find any sources. I suspect that the information may not be accurate. Inviting interested editors to have a look at Talk:Mohan Pass. -- Lemongirl942 ( talk) 08:41, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
There is a discussion about the accuracy of this map of Punjab at Talk:Punjab (region)#Amritpal Singh Mann.27s map. Please feel free to contribute. utcursch | talk 12:52, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
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Does anyone know if this is a separate caste from Bahti or Bhati? ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 20:54, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
With the surprise appointment of Yogi Adityanath as the CM, it looks like the Indian newspapers have been caught with their pants down. Wikipedia comes to the rescue.
Compare them to the yesterday's version of the article.
They didn't bother looking as far as Gorakhnath Math, which had a better description actually (though with less mud). -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 21:14, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
spiritual "father," Mahant Avaidyanath
Hi all, could a Telugu speaker please double-check this edit. I've reverted it because it was unsourced. The source in the article is in Telugu, so I can't verify whether the previous version or this new version is correct. If it's correct, please feel free to revert my change. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 15:11, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi everyone, as the title says it all, this all about a Wiki Loves initiative for Indian defence services. Indian defence services in the sense, it doesn't not only cover the Indian Armed Forces, but it includes all the law enforcement forces including the state polices, paramilitary forces etc. Clear scope is defined below. The contest as other Wiki Loves initiatives, will be hosted on Commons. The contest will run for two months, and results will be published 75 days from the last day of the contest. I have already gathered another couple of editors to assist me in this. The judges there will be 3–4 of them depending upon their availability and our requirement. Two of them will be for the subjective stream (to judge with the scope) and qualitative stream (to judge with the image fineness parameters). The idea behind this is that there are more than 3000 articles within this scope, so these images will a lot of good to them. Regarding the prizes, we'll make sure to satisfy all the participants. All participants with more 200 valid entries will get a certificate, obviously there will be 1st, 2nd and 3rd places along with consolations. We'll also have judge's pick for each, coordinator's pick etc. For any change regarding the title, scope, rules etc. please discuss it under the discussion sub thread. I'll put all of them within a day. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 16:18, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
@ Krishna Chaitanya Velaga: You shouldn't be writing, "Clear scope is defined below," when it clearly isn't. First finish all the sections, then make a post. This is not a sandbox. Please remove, and then repost when you are ready. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 23:14, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
Please come participate in the split discussion regarding the Daikon article. Thank you. -- Epulum ( talk) 06:42, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi all, districts maps can be added in all articles with new feature, qids for all indian districts are added now in OSM . sample is here -- naveenpf ( talk) 03:07, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
Please come participate in the split discussion regarding the Daikon article. Thank you. -- Epulum ( talk) 06:42, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi all, districts maps can be added in all articles with new feature, qids for all indian districts are added now in OSM . sample is here -- naveenpf ( talk) 03:07, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
Dear fellow contributors, Please help reassess the article Maudgalyayana. I have greatly expanded it. Thanks. -- Farang Rak Tham ( talk) 22:06, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
There is a merger discussion here you may wish to contribute to.-- Obi2canibe ( talk) 08:21, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
An IP tried to change the infobox birth date in the above article but broke it. While wondering what to do I noticed that the article says born 2 October 1938, the old infobox said 9 February 1938, and the IP said 11 February 1938. Also, most of the refs are very dead links. Any suggestions? Perhaps remove the date if there is no source? Johnuniq ( talk) 10:21, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
Healthcare in Hyderabad can be merged to Hyderabad#Healthcare. Does WP:CONTENTFORK apply here?-- Vin09 (talk) 10:49, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
There is a new merger proposal. Please comment at Talk:Ragging#New_merger_proposal Fowler&fowler «Talk» 11:45, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
Would anyone be able to help me find out Bibek Maitra's date of birth? Or even just the year of birth? I assume a knowledge of Hindi, which I lack, would make this easier to find. Thanks. Freikorp ( talk) 10:18, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
I need some help at Mahavira about the issues raised. Would anyone here like to review the article? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 17:08, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
I have nominated West Bengal for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. DrKay ( talk) 16:06, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
47.15.10.143 ( talk · contribs) is rapidly going through articles adding what is probably either Hindi or Bengali spelling to them. However, at Burrabazar this edit] doesn't match the Hindi and Bengali in the article. I'm not sure if the IP is just making their own translations up or? Doug Weller talk 17:53, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
They are okay or at least they sound the same .They are not vastly different.The IP has used the Bengali pronunciation were the "o "sound is more pronounced. WIZRADICAL ( talk) 11:30, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
I would like to see more reviewers at my featured list candidate of List of Param Vir Chakra recipients. It has already gained two supports, including the one from the featured list director. It would be of great help if any one of you step in. You can participate in the discussion at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Param Vir Chakra recipients/archive1. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 02:26, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
I was rummaging in the attic yesterday and found several old pictures of Famines in India. One such picture is File:BengalSpeaksLastPicture.jpg. Could someone translate it into English for me? (For those interested, the other pictures, which don't require translation, may be found in Timeline of major famines in India during British rule, including two others of the Bengal famine of 1943.) Thanks. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 15:00, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
A lot of political articles face disputes primarily because of WP:NPOV. Is there a way to reduce the possibility of disputes, may be by a policy or tag. Examples, see revision histories of Narendra Modi, Tarek Fatah, Arvind Kejriwal, Sonia Gandhi, Yogi Adityanath, etc. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 04:52, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
I was thinking if we should nominate History of India for GA. Anyone here, who would like to contribute to make it a pass? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 04:37, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
@ Titodutta: Hi, Article Bengalis needs thorough development particularly in Religion, Culture, Bengali cuisine, Festivals, Bengali language sections credible sources are required for development. Please come forward help develop this article. Thanks-- Anandmoorti ( talk) 14:35, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
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Need some opinions on Rape in Kashmir conflict. I would describe this content dispute as, that Kashmir conflict refers to "The Kashmir conflict is a territorial conflict primarily between India and Pakistan, having started just after the partition of India in 1947." While whole Rape in Kashmir conflict is India only, and contrary to wider consensus, [18] [19] [20] some editors [21] [22] [23] have resorted to edit war over removing anything about Pakistan, no matter how many reliable sources talks about it. Clearly a case of WP:IDONTLIKEIT. Capitals00 ( talk) 14:09, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
We now have Rao (surname), Rao (title) and (the latest creation) Rao (Telugu honorific). It all seems very messy to me and I am wary of pov pushing, original research etc being used to distinguish these various lists of people. Should I be? - Sitush ( talk) 07:07, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
User:Krishna Chaitanya Velaga told the right thing. Rao is just a part of a name and not any surname, most commonly used by many at the end of their name irrespective of family name.-- Vin09 (talk) 04:06, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for all the input. I am still confused, although I'm leaning towards a merge of the articles. - Sitush ( talk) 10:27, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
I was exploring various pages related to Indian history and found that there is a lot of scope of improvement, particularly about Ancient History of India (2nd-century BC - 5th-century CE) especially about Southern India. Further exploration helped me find images of biographies like Kālidāsa, and unlinked articles in Tamil Wikipedia about Early Chola kings. It is possible that we can source out much more good information if there is proper linking of articles of various languages, especially native languages. I would like to propose a new sub-initiative to link articles in other languages to English wikipedia, specifically related to Indian history. Task would be easier due to presence of categories infoboxes and navboxes across wikis of various languages. Volunteers and their suggestions are invited. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 08:56, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
And I'll also say again that I would be reluctant to see a mass of content brought over from other wikis. The link is ok but incorporating the information without taking a lot of care is likely to place a massive burden on a small number of regulars. Fowlerandfowler's example above is the very tiny tip of a huge, problematic iceberg. - Sitush ( talk) 21:56, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
I realise this may appear to be the wrong project for this but please bear with me. We have Category:Surnames of Nepalese origin but quite a few of the articles contained in it also make claims that the article subject is a name of Indian origin and seem to suggest that the meaning/etymology/whatever is the same. Can it really be both? It strikes me that these names are of Indic origin and any attempt to refine further is pointless. - Sitush ( talk) 14:12, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
The corresponding category is Category:Surnames of Indian origin. Within that we have Category:Indian family names. I could see the latter working for the Nepalese entries, eg: Category:Surnames of Indic origin with subcats Category:Indian family names, Category:Nepalese family names etc.
Yes, this is ultimately something that would have to be worked out at WP:CFD and would need notifications to other projects, such as Nepal, Pakistan, the Surnames bods etc. I'm just testing the water here. I could be way off-base. - Sitush ( talk) 15:09, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi, please take a look at Susta article. Before getting blocked a sock made this edit to claim that it is currently being controlled by the Indian Army. As far as I can see, the source cited in the article doesn't say anything about the current status of administration. It might have had some useful information in this regard earlier but now it has no relevant information. On the other hand List of disputed territories of India article says that it is currently being administered by Nepal, but that is unsourced, see here. Thanks . Ind akash ( talk) 16:58, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
Neighbourhood and suburb are both same? If not which one should be used as a settlement type for merged villages in Indian towns and cities? Also categories.-- Vin09 (talk) 11:26, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Guide/Common mistakes third item states: Adding Indic scripts in lead/infobox: We should not add Indic scripts in WikiProject India articles. See
User:Sitush/Common#Scripts for details.
Not adding script to infoboxes is not mentioned in
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/India-related articles. Should it be added? In my OCD rounds as a
wp:RCP, I often see people adding script to infoboxes. If such a statement was in the "official" policy page would make me feel more comfortable removing it and informing the editors. Would somebody please add it to the policy page? Thank you
Jim1138 (
talk) 19:22, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
There is a discussion on addition of swachch sarvekshan rankings at Talk:Visakhapatnam#Visakhapatnam is not a clean city by any means. Editors can have their opinion on adding or not on an article page.-- Vin09 (talk) 06:42, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
Mario-Puzo-091 ( talk) 07:05, 5 May 2017 (UTC)— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mario-Puzo-091 ( talk • contribs) 07:16, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
Mario-Puzo-091 ( talk) 07:05, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
I am struggling to source Dussehra (film). Has it been released yet? If not then it appear to fail WP:NFF. That article and related biographies - eg: Manish Vatsalya and the now-deleted Pooja Welling - were subject to a lot of promotional socking some time ago. - Sitush ( talk) 09:15, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
I am likely to get out of my depth dealing with various POVs that keep appearing at Reservation in India. I've just reverted two seemingly opposite stances that involved big changes and I've asked them to take it to the talk page. If anyone is interested, I'm going to need help when they do. - Sitush ( talk) 22:00, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
I have reviewed the activity again and asked for some help from WP:RFPP. That just pushes the problem somewhere down the line but it might cause some of the anonymous contributors + newly-registered accounts to use the talk page, as they need to do. - Sitush ( talk) 00:54, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
I would like to ask suggestions for {{ Infobox deity/Wikidata}} and if it can be used on certain test pages. If yes, please suggest test-cases. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 12:25, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
The above article was recently created with a controversial title, on the subject that is very much related to the article Srinagar (Lok Sabha constituency) by-election, 2017 that already existed, and with the content that is well-covered in 2016–17 Kashmir unrest#April 2017. Interested editors may participate in the discussion there, and offer their suggestions. Best regards, Tyler Durden ( talk) 19:16, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
Share your vote on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rape in the Kashmir conflict. Capitals00 ( talk) 06:04, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
A merger has been proposed at Talk:Rape in the Kashmir conflict#Merger proposal. Capitals00 ( talk) 12:31, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
Would someone from WP:INDIA mind taking a look at Ajay Ohri to see if he's really notable for a stand-alone article article per WP:BIO or WP:NAUTHOR? Some of the sources cited are pretty trivial things which are very unlikely to be considered the WP:SIGCOV needed to show notability. I'm asking here because better sources may exist and someone here may know where to find them. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 21:45, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
Is there any real point in categorising politicians by religion? I've recently stumbled across Category:21st-century Indian politicians, which I can live with, but what I find more pointed is the subcategory Category:21st-century Indian politicians by religion.
Do we really need this intersect? There are very few articles in the category but it has the potential to be a WP:BLP minefield if a religion-obsessed contributor should see it and decide to go down the route of categorising all the Muslims or, even more alarmingly, all the Hindus. - Sitush ( talk) 18:03, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
WP:INDICSCRIPT currently states:-
Having re-read
Native languages in lead I can see nothing about the "lead sentence" in that discussion, it was all about the "lead" or the "lead section". Was there subsequent consensus for the "the lead" to be changed to "the lead sentence"? if so, where, when, and why?
Here we have an IP reinstating Indic script in the lead section, because it is not in the lead sentence.
If there was no consensus on adding "sentence", could this please be removed from the explanation of
WP:INDICSCRIPT, and replaced by "lead section", which is defined in
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section as "the section before the table of contents and the first heading", before we get swamped by language-warring editors "
gaming the system" - Thanks -
Arjayay (
talk) 15:18, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
—usernamekiran
(talk) 15:41, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
Request withdrawn