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Going through an article Amara Ram (Born 1955), I found a similarly named article Amra Ram. Both are politicians from Rajasthan. The title for the article Amara Ram (Born 1955) isn't what we would normally use here on Wikipedia. Could you please weigh in your opinions on renaming the articles and whether a disambiguation page is required. Thanks. MT Train Discuss 17:15, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
I would like to propose to merge and redirect all the articles on the characters of Mahabharata for which there's not enough content to Characters in the Mahabharata to comply with notability requirements. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 17:20, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
Greetings everyone, recently I have proposed List of National Defence Academy alumni as a Featured list candidate. It has already gained two supports, more hands needed. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 02:53, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
The history of National Herald (India) suggests that two different groups claim to be the 'real' National Herald, and there is an edit war going on between two representatives from these groups. Can someone knowledgeable about the topic take a look? utcursch | talk 16:34, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
Dear fellow Wikipedians, In response to repeated discussions about policies and whether they hold for articles on Buddhism, I have drafted a policy proposal to include into the Manual of Style for Wikipedia articles about Buddhism. The proposal does not actually include much new policy, but rather attempts to apply policy to articles on Buddhism in an understandable way, similar to MOS:ISLAM. Content is based on discussions held on Buddhist articles, as listed on the talk page. Comments are welcome.-- Farang Rak Tham ( talk) 08:29, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
On behalf of Wikimedia India, I hereby announce the Featured Wikimedian for November 2017.
Balaji Jagadesh is one of the top contributors from the Tamil Wikimedia community. Though he started contributing since 2009, he was quite active after his participation in WikiConference India 2011. Initially he started contributing to Tamil Wikipedia, but was later attracted towards Tamil Wikisource, Tamil Wikitionary, and Wikidata. His global contributions count to whooping 2,50,000 edits. He is an admin on Tamil Wikitionary.
After his interaction with Mr. Loganathan ( User:Info-farmer), Balaji was very much motivated to contribute to Wikimedia projects. He says, "When I was editing in Tamil Wikipedia, I used to translate science articles from English to Tamil. But faced problem in finding equivalent Tamil words. The English to Tamil dictionaries were inadequate. Hence I felt the need to work in the Tamil Wikitionary. After a while there was a collaboration with Tamil Wikisource and Tamil Nadu Government through Tamil Virtual University through 2000 CC0 books were uploaded".
As an active contributor to Wikidata, he says that the vision of Wikimedia movement is, "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge", but with Wikidata we can make it, "Imagine a world in which every single human being and every single machine can freely share in the sum of all knowledge". Apart from regular contributions, he also created templates to Tamil Wikimedia projects, and also maintains Tamil Wikisource's official Twitter handle.
Balaji hails from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, and is a post-graduate is Physics. He currently works as a Senior Geophysicist in Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC).
Any editor can propose a fellow to be a Featured Wikimedia at: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Nominations
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Disappointed in the Indian turn out for this contest so far, particularly from those editors here I've spent a lot of time helping over the years. C'mon people do Indian women proud and join in with some new articles!♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:57, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
Hello! I intend to create an article named "Kabir God", since there are millions of people in India who believe him to be God and they have enough evidence to prove their points.
Though an article already exist on the subject with the name "Kabir", but that proves him a saint only. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saint Rampal Ji ( talk • contribs) 18:17, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
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10:38, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
It looks like the article on Tipu Sultan has been whitewashed to make Tipu look like a hero. Can we at least have a link to persecution of Hindus by Tipu Sultan in that article (I could not do it myself due to it being protected)? Please also mention the protests by Hindus to the celebration of the Tippu Jayanthi by the Congress Government of Karnataka on 10th November, 2017 citing appropriate references. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.186.192.2 ( talk) 18:50, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
Can anyone mediate at Dhan Singh Gurjar? Caste warrior at work. utcursch | talk 05:28, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
Most of this article is detailing what the Mahabharata says about the war. It's like giving a long summary of a book. Any suggestions as to how to trim it? Doug Weller talk 18:53, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
An editor, JudeBob123, is insisting that Tamil is an official language of India in List of languages by the number of countries in which they are recognized as an official language. Is this assertion correct or not? The editor has not provided any evidence that it is an official language of the country of India, apart from claiming that it is the official language of individual states like Tamil Nadu. Hzh ( talk) 17:38, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
needs some attention. I just removed a large amount of POV content in lieu of G11. Suspect they are notable, and finding sources on India related subjects is not always easy. -- Dlohcierekim ( talk) 07:59, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi all, I have initiated a move request here. Do comment - sarvajna ( talk) 17:54, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
Template:Hindu calendar, Template:Bengali calendar, and Template:Nepali calendar have the same 12 months represented in three different templates. Most of the articles are the same, and when they are not, they still talk about the same months.
I believe the months should be merged. Vaisakha, Baishakh and Boishakh are largely different ways to spell the topic. According to WP:MERGEREASON, they should be merged. The templates should be merged as well. May be we call it the "Subcontinental calendar" or something (my personal preference would be "Indian calendar", though judging by the Bangladeshi and Nepali sentiment here, Indian may not be preferred identity for their calendar).
Can you people take a look at the scenario? Aditya( talk • contribs) 03:22, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
Hello, it gives us great pleasure to inform that the Train-the-Trainer (TTT) 2018 programme organised by CIS-A2K is going to be held from 26–28 January 2018.
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On behalf of Titodutta. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 11:11, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
I've set this up - please add anyone who is missing & has an article. Johnbod ( talk) 05:11, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
Greetings, on behalf of Wikimedia India, I, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga introduce you to the Featured Wikimedian of the Month for December 2017, Hrishikes Sen.
Hrishikes Sen is one of the most active contributors from the Bengali community. Though he started editing English and Bengali Wikipedia in 2007, he had to take a long break due to professional constraints. Later he started working on Bengali Wikisource from 2012, and ever since, he has been an active contributor, and expanded to English Wikisource as well. With more than 45,000 global edits, he is an admin on English Wikisource.
As a child, Hrishikes always found reading books as a fascinating task. He says that he finds reference books as interesting as mystery novels. That interest, over years motivated him to contribute to Wikisource. The journey and motivation behind his contributions to Wikisource can be read from a post on WMF's blog, Why I contribute to Wikisource?. He says that till date he's been only active online, but he plans to do outreach in the coming future. He hopes that attending the 10th Anniversary Celebratory Workshop of Bengali Wikisource in Kolkata on 10 December may be a harbinger to his future offline activities.
Hrishikes believes that Wikisource will one day emerge as of the top digital libraries in the world, and says that as a store-house for primary and secondary source materials for Wikipedia, the importance of Wikisource is steadily becoming invaluable. Much of his time, Hrishikes spends working around Indian works, with a special focus on the works of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Jagadish Chandra Bose, and Rabindranath Tagore. Apart from being a proofreader, he uploaded more than 750 books spreading over five languages to Wikimedia Commons.
Hrishikes hails from Kolkata, but is presently based in Lucknow. By profession, he is a doctor serving in paramilitary forces. To his Bengali friends, he welcomes them to contribute to Bengali Wikisource which has more than 676,000 that have completed Optical Character Recognition and are waiting to be proofread.
Nomination can be made at: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Nominations
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A requested move discussion has been initiated for Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay to be moved to Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 13:59, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi all, can anyone familiar with Malayalam please take a quick look at this Manorama Online article. Someone has twice posted this at List of highest-grossing Indian films as a reference for Ramaleela's gross. I'm trying to determine whether or not the ₹55 crore financial figure came from the film's producers (problematic as that constitutes WP:PRIMARY and we know how producers lie about finances) or if it's clear that Manorama is independently confirming the 55 crore accomplishment. I'm skeptical because the image at the top has appeared in a number of articles that have attributed the gross to the producer. Much obliged, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 07:07, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
Need some feedback here. There is a dab page for Akshay Kumar (disambiguation) with primary topic being the actor. Is this necessary ? Because there is no ambiguity, all other 4 entries are uniquely identifiable names - Akshay Kumar Datta, Akshay Kumar Boral, Akshay Kumar Maitreya, and Akshay Kumar Sen. I don't think there will be trouble for readers finding the AK they are searching for. I reckon this should be deleted. Let There Be Sunshine ( talk) 09:46, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.
A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_India
Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.— Rod talk 12:36, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
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We've got a new editor, Siddhant2709 that has a self-declared COI on this article (see their edit summary on first edit to that article). I've left a somewhat pointed message on their talk page on the basis of their edit summary claiming it as an official page. If folks wouldn't mind, some extra eyes and help guiding a new editor with a COI would be appreciated. Ravensfire ( talk) 05:44, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
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Badas (K.H.) and Badas (India) look to be the same village. — Dispenser 19:22, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
@ Dispenser, Uanfala, and Failosopher: After reading this thread, I created two more articles: Sayala, Palam, and Sayala, Parbhani. —usernamekiran (talk) 09:01, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
Couple of editors have no intelligible argument and they are misrepresenting Caste system in India as basis of racial discrimination on Racism though none of the sources support it. Discussion is on Talk:Racism#Contemporary. Raymond3023 ( talk) 14:05, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
Are these edits appropriate? I've given the editor, Gauravsaral ( talk · contribs) a DS notice and a warning at User talk:Gauravsaral#Why are you adding "extremist and miliant" to Islamic groups and removing it from Indian groups. Doug Weller talk 17:49, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
I have just made required changes to the topic Tipu Sultan, which if you go back in the history you can see how much biased it was. complete outcome of wars were changed/ distorted. Selective points were added to topic. I have just tried to make it neutral instead of white washing an article. Gaurav Saral talk 17:55, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
Query: Is this inappropriate to write in Wikipedia ? "Really sad to see such hate mongers like Regentspark as Wikipedia trying to rewrite history in Wikipedia " — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gauravsaral ( talk • contribs) 14:16, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
This request is to bring into notice of possible vandalism by a few Wikipedia Admins in Bajrang Dal page. Some users are repeatedly adding objectionable edits in the lead of article. As it can be seen that adding objectionable content is lead is not something recommended from here here. can some sane admin please help to keep the article with in standards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gauravsaral ( talk • contribs) 18:07, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Please see this Not only user Winged_Blades_of_Godric is making personal remarks but also targeting and reverting all my edits with same message that discuss in talk, instead of raising the same issue himself — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gauravsaral ( talk • contribs) 18:14, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
The Discovery Channel's "What on Earth" has a broadcast coming that people are trying to use to prove that Adam's Bridge was built by Rama. [10] [11] This is going to be a big deal for Hindu nationalists. [12] I can't find much on "What on earth" except this. Doug Weller talk 14:24, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
A friend of mine told me that Pushkar is considered a holy city, and as such no meat is allowed in the city, and even fish and eggs are hard to come by. On the other hand I saw that there is an annual camel/cattle fair in the city. These to things seems like a contradiction in my Western eyes. Can somebody please explain this? Perhaps there is a difference between live animals and meat for consumption? Debresser ( talk) 16:17, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
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Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Talk:KIIT University#Requested move 7 December 2017, regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, Sky Warrior 17:41, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
This redirect discussion does not seem to have much attention from Indian Wikipedians, but there seems to be an attempt to define "Deccan" as the whole of South India. Johnbod ( talk) 04:47, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi, an article Zila Aurangabad has been newly created by a user. There already exist articles on Aurangabad district, Bihar and Aurangabad, Bihar. As zilla translates to district, do you think this new article is a duplication? The lack of coordinates is the reason I haven't been able to determine. MT Train Discuss 10:43, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
Hello. This article, National Maritime Foundation, needs major cleanup. Wikipedia and official website are used as sources, but Wikipedia is not a reliable source, and official website is a primary source. George Ho ( talk) 10:46, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
Possible copyright issues are reported at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2017 December 18. Also, the whole article is covered up with the whole template. George Ho ( talk) 12:00, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
Greeting, on behalf of Wikimedia India, I, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga from the Executive Committee, introduce you to the Featured Wikimedian of the Month for September 2017, Swapnil Karambelkar.
Swapnil Karambelkar is one of the most active Wikimedians from the Hindi community. Swapnil hails from Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, and by profession a Mechanical Engineering, who runs his own firm based on factory automation and education. Swapnil joined Wikipedia in August 2016, through "Wiki Loves Monuments". He initially started off with uploading images to Commons and then moved onto Hindi Wikipedia, contributing to culture and military topics. He also contributes to Hindi Wikibooks and Wikiversity. Soon after, he got extensively involved in various outreach activities. He co-organized "Hindi Wiki Conference" in January 2017, at Bhopal. He delivered various lectures on Wikimedia movement in various institutions like Atal Bihari Hindi University, Sanskrit Sansthanam and NIT Bhopal. Along with Suyash Dwivedi, Swapnil co-organized the first ever regular GLAM project in India at National Museum of Natural Heritage, Bhopal. Swapnil is an account creator on Hindi Wikipedia and is an admin on the beta version on Wikiversity. Swapnil has been instrumental in establishing the first Indic language version of Wikiversity, the Hindi Wikiversity. As asked regarding his motivation to contribute to the Wikimedia movement, Swapnil says, "It is the realization that though there is abundance of knowledge around us, but it is yet untapped and not documented".
Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 02:00, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
Recently came across an edit war on Mariam-uz-Zamani, mostly a dispute about sourcing, what assertions to include, and whether there is "fan bias" ( WP:NPOV). There are numerous disputed aspects to sort out and some outside insight and oversight on the article would be helpful, particularly at Talk:Mariam-uz-Zamani/Archive 1#Recent edit dispute. Dl2000 ( talk) 02:58, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
Need some input from editors on Talk:Intersex rights in India#Redirect. Orientls ( talk) 07:22, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
Can someone take a look at Kheer (Bengali sweets) to know if it's just another variation of kheer or khoa. A redirect or merge looks very much possible. MT Train Discuss 13:06, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi all, has anybody ever heard of the Garv Awards? Someone added a slew of award nominations for a TV show here, but I don't see anything at Google News that would indicate anybody cares about this award. Further, the source used was this, which is a Weebly.com website, i.e. a free web hosting service. Seems very sketchy that a reputable awards site wouldn't spring for the nominal cost of a registered domain. Thanks. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 04:01, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
There were some huge changes made at the Vellalar article in December. I reverted them and opened a discussion at the article talk page precisely because they appeared to be so dramatic. I had hoped for further input but, aside from Xenani, none has been forthcoming. Xenani has just reinstated their changes and I've reverted them again. I was away from Wikipedia for most of the intervening period but this really could do with some extra eyes so that some consensus can be derived. - Sitush ( talk) 17:41, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
The problem with the article is that it claims the Velir as ancestors of the Vellalar which is even mentioned in that source as doubtful. In turn is much of the rest of the article only talking about the Velirs and not about the Vellalars. It has been mentioned ample of times in the talk page also. I think the Velir related content should be removed and replaced with only Vellalar related content. As Sitush mentioned, there need to be some extra eyes to this article to have some consensus on the article. Xenani ( talk) 12:51, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi there, comments requested at Talk:Vijay (actor)#Remove "Chandrasekhar". A number of sources have indicated Vijay's birth name as either Chandrasekhar Joseph Vijay, Joseph Vijay or C. Joseph Vijay. The question is how to present this information, or whether we should not present this information. Thank you, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 16:03, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
A few more editors are needed to complete the A-Class review for Param Vir Chakra; please stop by and help review the article! Thanks! AustralianRupert ( talk) 12:03, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I just wanted to bring attention to a set of IPs who are linking every mention of an article's title on an article, for example on this edit. I'm trying to fix as many as I can, but with Baruipur, the IP is actively working on it and undoes any de-linking. I have left messages on the IP's talk page about it, but I believe they have gone unread.
Thanks, Abce2 ( talk) 06:45, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
The article Aiflc has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
No valid references, non- notable, and unverifiable. See Talk:Aiflc.
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Please make a new article for India's first AC local train services, the Mumbai AC local. Or the information can be clubbed into Mumbai Suburban Railway. -- ✝iѵɛɳ२२४० †ลℓк †๏ мэ 05:24, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
An anonymous editor has been regularly over-linking the above articles and making some minor unreferenced changes in Jaynagar I and Jaynagar II articles. I would request an editor, preferably an administrator, to visit the pages and see if it is in order, and take action as he deems fit. Cheers. - Chandan Guha ( talk) 01:54, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
Happy new year! As you may remember, I've been building a tool to help WikiProjects identify and recruit new editors to join and contribute. See my previous post. I’ve been working it on in the past several months, and collaborated with some WikiProject organizers to make it better. We also wrote a Signpost article to introduce it to the entire Wikipedia community.
Right now, we are ready to make it available to more WikiProjects that need it. If you are interested in trying out our tool, feel free to sign up. Bobo.03 ( talk) 19:15, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
Please comment at: Talk:Karam Singh#Removal of citation section "Military Medal". --Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 14:07, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
I had a student from a previous semester create a sandbox article ( User:Hardent/sandbox), but I'm concerned that it may be seen as duplicating content in India in World War II and Indian Army during World War I. I didn't know if anyone here could use this somewhere or not. Shalor (Wiki Ed) ( talk) 21:15, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
Draft:Shishu_Pal_Singh_"Shishu" Hello this draft of this Indian poet has been continually rejected at AFC and I would like to see it get passed, but it appears most of the sources are offline and in a language I don't speak. Is there any experienced editors or people who can find sources about Shishu that could help improve this draft so it can go to mainspace? Egaoblai ( talk) 19:14, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
Is https://listbodolist.wordpress.com/ reliable? Xx236 ( talk) 09:09, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
There is a merger proposal discussion taking place at Talk:Matru-Pitru Pujan Diwas#Merger proposal which is currently being overrun by a suspiciously large number of new editors who have signed up just to oppose the merger. It would be good to get the opinions of long-standing Wikipedia editors on this debate. Richard3120 ( talk) 20:22, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
Category:20th-century Indian women politicians and Category:21st-century Indian women politicians, which are within the scope of this WikiProject, have been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 02:43, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
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It is being planned to organize Wikigraphists Bootcamp in India, please fill out the survey form to help the organizers. Your responses will help organizers understand what level of demand there is for the event (how many people in your community think it is important that the event happens). At the end of the day, the participants will turn out to have knowledge to create drawings, illustrations, diagrams, maps, graphs, bar charts etc. and get to know to how to tune the images to meet the QI and FP criteria. For more information and link to survey form, please visit Talk:Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India). MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 12:43, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
Any thoughts on this article: List of Indian warriors? A vague list of that includes a wide range of people from ancient rulers (not necessarily "warriors") to modern soldiers, made worse by anachronistic caste/language-based categorization. No similar articles exist for other countries: instead, we've got Category:Lists of military personnel by country (including Category:Lists of Indian military personnel) and Category:Lists of monarchs (including Category:Lists of Indian monarchs). Is someone willing to clean it up or is deletion a better option? utcursch | talk 22:59, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
Hey all, I know that caste requires self-identification, but I'm having trouble finding the guideline where that is codified. Any tips? Also, is there a central location for these sorts of things, like a FAQ for India-related topics? Ex:
Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 04:48, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
I've been talking with Vishal Rathi on their own page regarding a wrestler. Apparently, "Krishan Kumar Rathee from Bharproda, Haryana popularly known by Hind Kesari Krishan Phalawan. He was winner in Olympic Trials, he claimed the title of Bharat Kesari 1986, Rutam-e-Hind, Jawahar Kesari, 3 times National Champion, 3 Times Army Service Champion".
I've tried searching on both of the names given and on various spellings of Rathee but I am not seeing much out there other than a few YouTube things. Vishal Rathi tells me that there is some newspaper coverage (they have clippings) so I'm wondering if this is another of those instances where Google isn't particularly good at mining Indian news sources etc. Can anyone help? The awards suggest to me that he may be notable enough for a biographical article. - Sitush ( talk) 18:06, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
Apparently, he is mentioned in this article (Hindi). - Sitush ( talk) 19:54, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
I don't know how is it a problem to add a wrestler's name in one page although he is mentioned in other pages in wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vishal Rathi ( talk • contribs) 16:40, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
Just brought this here, I wasn't sure, but many someone might want to restore it. Govvy ( talk) 01:00, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
Do you think this article is of any importance? Polls are conducted by numerous outlets, this one by BBC is no special to stand out among them. The method of polling itself is limited to a small percentage of actual Bengalis, and we're talking about a media that does not have much foothold in South Asia where most of the ethnic Bengalis reside. MT Train Discuss 14:41, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
Draft:Last Names of Telugus has been half a year ago by Srinivasulua, an editor who has not edited since. It automatically came up for speedy deletion now, but I think it has potential. I at least found the introducing paragraphs an interesting read. To give it a chance, I changed the deletion status to simple WP:PROD. — Sebastian 09:34, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
Can anyone provide translations of the sources at Baghel Samaj, which I think are in Hindi? I am a little concerned that the subject may not be notable, especially since the article about the caste itself has been deleted. - Sitush ( talk) 10:03, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
See [16] and my comments at Talk:Indus Valley Civilisation and the changes made to Sarasvati River prior to my revert. [17] I love the "cautioN" "Any constructive criticism must be recorded in a separate paragraph, exclude the opinion pieces from the newspapers, criticism of scientific work must be based on the scholarly peer-reviewed sources literature only". Followed by the use of newspaper sources. Some of the IP's edits are hopefully ok, but clearly some are not. I also note " Of 1,022 sites discovered so far, 616 are in India (along Ghaggar-Hakra river) and 406 are in Pakistan (along Indus river), hence it is obviously objectionable to name it Indus Valley Civilization". Doug Weller talk 19:11, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
Greetings,
As it has already been notified about Wikigraphists Bootcamp in India, for training related to creation drawings, illustrations, diagrams, maps, graphs, bar charts etc. and to tune the images to meet the QI and FP criteria, please fill the survey form linked from Talk:Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India). It'll help the organizers to assess the needs of the community, and plan accordingly. Please ignore if already done. Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 03:03, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi All,
There's been some confusion over
Kalki Koechlin's nationality, with persistent edits on the issue. There are sources that say she holds a French passport, the first in an
Ouest Magazine. Upon clicking the next image in it, one can find the date of the edition to be around mid-2016. A similar article has been published by the same correspondent at
https://mediaindia.eu/dossier/kalki-koechlin/ around the same time. There are also Indian sources in which she has quoted of holding an Indian citizenship. These include
India Today and
The Hindu. A discussion took place at
Numerounovedant's
talk page, which also involved myself and
Kailash29792. With all the sources we were able to find on the web, we weren't able to come to a conclusion. Help from other editors in taking a decision and availability of new sources supporting her nationality would be appreciated. Thanks,
MT Train
Discuss 05:20, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
Vishnudasa108 ( talk · contribs) is adding huge chunks of quotes to articles. See for instance this addition of a huge chunk of quotes and translations and use of ISKCON as a source. [18] And I'm not sure which source he used, but he copied in a chucnk of this lecture into A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. I've reverted him at one article. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 09:52, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
Are Tamil and Kannada considered to be Indic scripts? If they are, then perhaps someone from this WP:INDIA can try explaining to WP:NOINDICSCRIPT to Sivagopalakrishnan, who keeps adding both to the Mahalakshmi (Kannada actress). At the same, time it might be a good idea for someone to assess the article for Wikipedia notability per WP:BIO and WP:ACTOR since it's essentially a filmography sourced mainly to primary sources and some other questionable ones. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 10:48, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
I've opened a discussion concerning a new template at Template talk:Indic script lede. It was created by Samee in December 2017. - Sitush ( talk) 18:22, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
Can anyone find any reliable sources for the existence of Ukrid, supposedly a village in Jharkhand? I have trawled through various census websites/data without success and Google just seems to produce mirrors and unreliable aggregator sites. AS I see it, if the census doesn't mention the place then it probably exists only as a local name for an area that is actually a part of something else. This map might be relevant but it is useless as a source. - Sitush ( talk) 12:29, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
According to the first sentence of this, the Brahmins are historically the oldest community in India. I have said before that I have severe doubts about a lot of theses etc hosted at shodhganga - surely this claim, upon which the thesis does not appear to equivocate, is an example of why we should have doubts? I don't care if it was awarded a PhD or whatever, it is clearly far too sweeping (and probably actually incorrect) as a statement. Or am I wrong?
I know PhD these are acceptable as reliable sources but I've been seeing a fair few dubious ones and wonder if we need to take more care in applying that acceptance when it comes to Indian history/religion/society articles. - Sitush ( talk) 11:32, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
The thesis in question is apparently this one, from Jawaharlal Nehru University, no less, done in 2014. Given the pedigree, I reread the passage in Chapter 2. I think all it means is that, of all the caste groups currently existing, Brahmins are the oldest, which is still dubious but not far off the mark. Probably the author was trying to avoid the term "caste" but he/she couldn't still resist using it a few lines down in the passage. -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 15:31, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
The outcome of the discussion here may have a significant impact on articles of interest to this project. - Sitush ( talk) 21:58, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi all; Just a quick note to draw your attention to this; I'd appreciate if someone with more knowledge of Education and Law in India could take a look at it and decide if it's worth including in the article! (Please use "{{reply to}}" to get my attention) -- Cheers, Alfie. ( Say Hi!) 14:41, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
Could someone check out the maps on South Sikkim district as they appear inconsistent. {South Sikkim image map}} shows Namchi in the north and Ravong in the south. The table below shows them the other way round. Thanks Mccapra ( talk) 06:56, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
I am sorting out village articles for Solapur district, Maharashtra, per the 2011 official census report. On p. 114 of that report there are separate lines for Wangi - 1 (NV), Wangi - 2 (NV), Wangi - 3 (NV), and Wangi - 4 (NV). All of them are more or less the same size in terms of area, at just under 5,000 hectares (12,000 acres) each. I am unsure how to treat this - it looks rather odd to me and, if combined, would be a very large "village". Can anyone explain what is going on? Thanks. - Sitush ( talk) 11:27, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
Singh, R. B. (1964). History of the Chāhamānas (pub: N. Kishore) is used extensively at the Chauhan article, which has been a problematic place for years. I am struggling to determine whether or not it is a reliable source. Does anyone have an opinion? Can anyone work out whether or not it has been cited by other people? - Sitush ( talk) 13:28, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2018_January_31#Thathal has now been twice relisted and is stalemated between myself and Uanfala, perhaps because of the commonly experienced issue of people that frequent such noticeboards not being sufficiently confident or au fait to delve into things relating to caste etc. It could do with some comments. - Sitush ( talk) 00:56, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
Greetings! I have recently listed a requested move discussion at Talk:List of Korean Nobel laureates#Requested move 31 January 2018, regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, ―― Phoenix7777 ( talk) 07:01, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
The Indian article " List of Indian Nobel laureates" is the same situation. A user removed all laureates other than Indian citizen.―― Phoenix7777 ( talk) 07:01, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
Is there really any point in keeping Index of Andhra Pradesh-related articles? There was a procedural close at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Index of Andhra Pradesh-related articles which suggested that any discussion re: deletion should occur here or at Village Pump. - Sitush ( talk) 00:13, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
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For those who may be unaware, news is going round that Bhadani ( talk · contribs), a long-standing contributor to this project, has died. Noted by Xaosflux at WP:AN. - Sitush ( talk) 15:15, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
based on recent edits at WikiProject:China, I have noticed Indian state maps we have do not show sea or land borders. Should we fix or not fix? — Preceding unsigned comment added by C1MM ( talk • contribs) 04:31, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
I know that the wiki policy for Indic scripts is generally prohibition in lead sentences & infoboxes, and I'm sorry this opens up more tensions [ [19]] [ [20]]. But I think there should be a change in policy. It's disappointing to never see native scripts in India-related articles but always see native scripts elsewhere, even in places where they are no longer widely used and the scripts in questions have much more worse support than Indic scripts. I realize there are arguments both for and against the usage of native scripts, but it feels like India is being held to a separate standard. I only wish for policy to be consistent and for India to be treated the same as every other place in the world, even if that means that all non-Latin scripts are banned in all cases.
I'll come right out and say that I don't have a solution for the problem as a whole, for articles on people and items that can have connections to many regions and languages. However, for location-related articles, I propose that we display the scripts/languages that is official in the state/union territory relevant.
So the Bengaluru page would have only Kannada, and no other Indian language, and the Telangana page would have Telugu and Urdu. Arunachal Pradesh would have no special language because English is the sole official language in the state, despite the popularity of Hindi as a lingua franca. India itself would have the language explicitly named as Hindi and in Devanagari script, because Hindi in Devanagari script is defined as one of its two official languages as per the Constitution. This is to provide a objective basis on which to decide which languages to include. We can bicker about which languages are connected to whatever content, but you can't argue whether or not a language is official or not. It either is or it isn't. (To avoid using too many languages, we would not include [ "additional official languages"] and stick to the primary official languages).
For the vast majority of states, there is only one official non-English language.
Mizoram,
Telangana, and
TripuraCite error: There are <ref>
tags on this page without content in them (see the
help page). have 2 such official languages. Mizoram and Tripura would probably not pose any problem, because of the unlikeliness of translations into
Mizo and
Kokborok being added, at least for the moment - these languages do not even have their own wikipedia editions, although Mizo has a [
language test]. The same goes for
Manipuri/Meithei, the official language of
Manipur.
There can of course be special cases, where a location is particularly significant for or is populated with a certain linguistic group, but this would be the rule and everything else would be an exception.
This is consistent with what appears to be wiki policy elsewhere - Afghanistan shows only the two official languages, Pashto and Dari, and not Uzbek or Turkmen, despite them being significant languages in the country; Indonesia has only the official Indonesian name, despite the unofficial Javanese actually having more native speakers in the country; Ethiopia has only the Amharic name because it is the working language for the government despite Oromo having more native speakers; etc.).
Again, I very much wish to avoid the kind of edit wars and arguments that have been seen in the past, but I also want India to be treated on the same basis as the rest of the world.
If this isn't the best place to post this, I'd greatly appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction. I'm really only a casual editor, despite what you might think from this post. Last edited by: ( talk) 00:04, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
In response to the first post here, I've tried before to say why I think India is being held to a separate standard, but it is difficult to be diplomatic about it. I've previously alluded to " Macaulay's children". I'm going to be more blunt about it now and say that the use of Indian languages makes many editors who concentrate on India uncomfortable in some way and they are only too glad to have found a way to forget about it. It may be useful to read Macaulayism and this article. It would be good to have a wider discussion, though probably not here, about how this departure from Wikipedia's wider values affects the value and the integrity of the English content that is affected by it, and how it affects the content and status of the other wikipedia's in the other languages of India. Imc ( talk) 20:15, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
This website has been used as a source in quite a few articles related to Indian politics. Further research shows that its a consultancy service offering to do door-to-door surveys, political campaign and social media management for candidates. I have requested blacklisting at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist but they have requested that this should be discussed first. -- Skr15081997 ( talk) 11:21, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
@ Skr15081997:-Blacklisting the url is an extreme measure when links to the website are inserted by a spammer as click-bait. Most of the URLs seem to be a case of genuine (AGF) citation rather than balant self promotion of the website.(Same goes for the other website).That being said I am not encouraging their usage as they are not reliable and it looks as if they mirror data from other reliable websites( and thus may not be upto date) — F R ™ 10:48, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
Relevant RfC going on at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#RfC_on_use_of_"crore". Languorrises ( talk) 22:51, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
The article about Sam Manekshaw, India's first field marshal, is at featured article candidacy. Please put comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Sam Manekshaw/archive1. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 12:50, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
I'm trying to verify that the major source for Draft:Vasantrao Ghatge – the recently published book वसंतवैभव - वसंतराव घाटगे जीवन आणि वारसा – actually exists. Apparently, the only thing we've got is an announcement in a local newspaper about the book's publication:
Could someone double-check that there is such an announcement on the linked page of this newspaper? Thanks! – Uanfala (talk) 19:02, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
Talk:Roti#RfC about the origin of the roti. — MapSGV ( talk) 02:49, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello, the series of articles including Mahamastakabhisheka, Gommateshwara statue, Shravanabelagola, Bahubali, etc. relate to the current event being held in the state of Karnataka. It is gaining large traffic and needs a lot of work in sourcing copy-editing and tone-rationalisation. Please have a look if you are interested. Thanks -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 13:33, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Another editor created Jyothi High School for a high school in Ajekar, Karnataka, India. There are other schools with the same name in different cities. I cannot find a reference in a reliable source to establish that the school in Ajekar exists. Google Maps lists the school and indicates that it is located next to a convent, but does not include a telephone number or website. If you can add a reference to the article, or alternatively if you can prove that the school does not exist, please do so. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 04:04, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
Has anyone come across Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies before? Any thoughts regarding general reliability etc? - Sitush ( talk) 14:29, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
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Does List of General Caste in Sikhism have any potential for development? - Sitush ( talk) 13:38, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
There is some content in the Castes sub-section of the Sikh article that may be of use. Is 'General Caste' a well-defined term? I'm struggling to figure out the scope or purpose of the list. Regards, Cesdeva ( talk) 16:37, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Decan.reporter ( talk · contribs) has been adding information about "RoquiSantan" (presumably politician Roque Santana Fernandes) to several articles, claiming that he was a "Prince of Goa" and a direct descendant of the Kadambas of Goa. The references cited by the user included mailing list messages, YouTube videos, personal sources from Dharwad University and other such sources. I've removed a lot of such poorly-sourced information from the articles Kadambas of Goa, Velim, Goa, Goa Opinion Poll, History of Goa, Margao, Goa liberation movement etc.
Recently, Decan.reporter has added the phrase "RoquiSantan, a Prince of Goa" to multiple articles [21] [22] [23] [24], citing File:Gomantak Times, Friday March 16 2012.jpg as a source. This is a Gomantak Times article, which includes a sentence, "The next day Mr. Nehru send his close friend Mr.Gopal Handoo to Velim to meet this Prince of Goa."
However, the newspaper article doesn't contain any further detail about the "Prince of Goa" aspect. As far as I know, neither the Portuguese nor the Indian government recognized any "Prince of Goa". I can't find any reliable source that talk about Roque Santana being (or even claiming to be) a descendant of the Kadambas. Also, a couple of local newspaper reports call Santana "Father of Goan Democracy", but I'm unable to find this epithet in any scholarly books or national newspapers.
Does anyone have more information about the legitimacy of "Prince of Goa" and "Father of Goan Democracy" claims? utcursch | talk 18:26, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
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refer to Velliapura 'Velliapura Viragal' the 12th century battle the 1345 killing of kadamba king his Queen moves to Veliapura she is cremated by her nephew jayasha the family has been living there for centuries his great grand father Leao ( meaning Lion in Portuguese) who owned a timber yard in Haliyal, which was confiscated by Madras Governor George Harris in 1845. his grand father Nic'leao was awarded a Portuguese title as village Sherif RoquiSantna is the family member a prince, freedom fighter, father of Goan Democracy and later law maker His Son is Sanjaya deva named by Kadamba Coterie in 2007. he was NSUI Goa Student leader. He (RS) died in 2007, may his soul rest in peace 104.207.219.62 ( talk) 18:51, 26 February 2018 (UTC) 104.207.219.62 ( talk) 19:05, 26 February 2018 (UTC) |
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The banner teach him English...lol 104.207.219.78 ( talk) 00:36, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
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Hi, I have been working on recommending new members for your project for a while, and have sent some lists to Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga who was willing to help invite those recommended editors. I wonder if you mind me sending invitations directly for WikiProject India on your behalf to save time and efforts of yours? Thank you! Bobo.03 ( talk) 17:18, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
While working on Shivaji, I noted I was having a really hard time finding any facts whatsoever about the Battle of Umberkhind, so I figured I'd check the main article. It has no footnotes whatsoever, and of the one claimed source that is in English, I searched it on GoogleBooks and I'm finding no mention of this battle.
Do sources exist in English perhaps under a different name or rendering? All I'm finding on GoogleBooks is shady and recent Indian books clearly copied from Wikipedia itself.
For speakers of Hindi or Marathi, could you glance at GoogleBooks to see if there is any mention of this battle in scholarly works? I don't want to be English-centric and say the battle doesn't exist just because I can't find English sources, but the Maratha Empire is pretty well covered by English-speaking academics (British and Indian), so I find it suspicious that I can't find anything about this battle that's not just blogs and cruft.
If we can't find proper sourcing, should we not just AFD the entire article until such point as someone can source a proper stub at least? MatthewVanitas ( talk) 06:44, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
I am aman goyal ( talk · contribs), who has a history of disruptive editing, has removed the redirect of the mentioned article with an edit summary 'redesigning'. A few more editors went on to remove maintenance tags and categories. The article still reads like a fan page than an encyclopedia, and I feel it will read the same despite the 'redesigning'. Any thoughts, or does the redirect need to be restored? Thanks, MT Train Talk 11:11, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
I am aman goyal ( talk) 12:19, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
Someone has provided a link to a potential source in the discussion at Talk:Velir#Reverting_edit_by_Sitush but neither myself nor Utcursch can access the thing. Can anyone else? - Sitush ( talk) 12:37, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
The article Sambhaji for at least four years now has had a constant stream of editors looking to change the phrase Sambhaji's behaviour, including alleged irresponsibility and addiction to sensual pleasures led Shivaji to imprison his son at Panhala fort in 1678 to curb his behaviour.
If you have suggestions on how best to phrase and cite the description of Sambhaji's imprisonment, which is evidently a hotly-contested issue, please post your thoughts (and sourcing) at: Talk:Sambhaji#How_best_to_cover_Sambhaji's_confinement_at_Panhala?. Thanks! MatthewVanitas ( talk) 21:14, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
Can anyone please mine some sources on the subject (The government report on Stephen Court Fire) of this [ url] especially the hindu article linked to in the article — Frc Rdl 02:57, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
Is Haryana ready for GA nomination? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 08:16, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello, way back in 2011 I first came to the article Shivaji, and it was in terrible shape so I did an initial major cleanup. Now years later, it has declined only slightly, but I've decided to try to push it to an even higher state and submit it for Good Article status.
In my initial 2011–2012 cleanup I did a full copyedit, removed numerous cites to non-RSs (a children's novel and a television serial), and addressed the POV promotion of Shivaji by partisans. Now in 2018, I'm going through the entire article in great deal, making sure that every single statement is sourced, and the source is a serious and valid one and not just whatever pops up on GoogleBooks. A key effort also is finding what's missing from the article, as steadily I find examples which partisans think reflect negatively on their hero and glossed over, such as the degree to which he was a vassal of neighboring Muslim states, possibly unethical warfare, and the grand controversy of Shivaji's qualifications for coronation.
If anyone is interested in helping out, I'd welcome your input if you believe you have the above-average Wikipedia skills to prepare an article for Good Article review. If you are not sure and don't want to get involved directly, your observations and suggestions would be welcome on the Talk page. Thanks! MatthewVanitas ( talk) 01:33, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, following article title and MOS:HEADCAPS, which of these is correct: Tamil Inscriptions of Bangalore or Tamil inscriptions of Bangalore? -- Titodutta ( contact) 01:59, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello. I was wondering if there are any easy to use reliable sources for really small towns/villages. Not only for census, but if it can be at least verfied per WP:V, that would be great. I have a few articles on my watchlist which currently are unreferenced. —usernamekiran (talk) 06:58, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
Works by the Government of India were all rights reserved. But GOI introduced National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy in 2012 followed by Government Open Data License - India in 2017. So "all shareable non-sensitive data available either in digital or analog forms but generated using public funds by various agencies of the Government of India" are now free to use. I created a license tag in Commons. It looks like Template:PD-USGov except that it is an "attribution" license. There are so many images by the Government of India are already used here under fair use. I think it is time to replace them with reusable files. J e e 02:13, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
Some recent change to the
Template:WikiProject India banner and/or its usage has caused it to start populating dozen of new categories. (I think it is related to the field=
parameter, but I have not checked.)
To remove them from the cleanup list at Special:WantedCategories, I have created temporary category pages, and grouped them under Category:WikiProject India articles new assessment categories.
If WikiProject India members want to retain these categories, please replace each temporary category page with a properly-set-up category page. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 06:08, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
I have initiated a merger proposal at Tamil cinema and your comments would be helpful in reaching a consensus. Thanks, MT Train Talk 06:58, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
A page-move discussion has just been relisted at Talk:Rajahmundry#Requested move 18 March 2018, and your input would be much appreciated. Please come and help with your opinion and rationale about whether or not this article should be renamed. Thank you very much in advance! Sagavaj ( talk) 22:25, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
A page-move discussion has just been relisted at Talk:East Bengali refugees#Requested move 10 March 2018, and your input would be much appreciated. Please come and help with your opinion and rationale about whether or not this article should be renamed. Thank you very much in advance! Paine Ellsworth put'r there 19:47, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
Would some members from WP:INDIA mind watching K. M. Cherian (doctor) for a bit? The article was recently prod deleted, but then subsequently restored per this deprod request. I've been trying to find better sources and improve the article, but an WP:SPA Nirmal Sam keeps showing up and damaging the formatting, etc. and adding unsourced content. The SPA is a new editor and I believe they are acting in good faith; they just lack familiarity with the MOS and some of the basic policies and guidelines. Anyway, I've tried engaging them on their user talk, but so far have not gotten any response. I'm not sure how to get the SPA's attention (maybe there's an English comprehension issue?), but perhaps someone else might have better luck. If Nirmal Sam, however, keeps on doing what they have been doing, then the only option is going to be to ask an administrator to intervene. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 04:56, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
Can someone please take a look at this biography on an academician having just one source. The editor has added every single publication, research, award and appointment, making it read like a resume. I've tried finding sources, but they are very few, while other people with the same name also exist. I'm just not sure if and how much to trim, or if the person itself is notable or not. Thanks, MT Train Talk 08:28, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
I'm getting closer to launching the GA review for Shivaji ( 49th most popular page in this project with almost 11k views/day). Once I get that GA done, can anyone suggest another historical figure who is immensely popular, but their article is in terrible shape and needs to be carefully worked over? Thanks! MatthewVanitas ( talk) 01:14, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
In 2017 – 2018, the Wikimedia Foundation and Google working in close coordination with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Wikimedia India Chapter (WMIN) and user groups from India, are piloting a program encouraging Wikipedia communities to create locally relevant and high-quality content in Indian languages. This program will (a) support active and experienced Wikipedia editors through the donation of laptops and stipends for internet access and (b) sponsor a language-based contest that aims to address existing Wikipedia content gaps.
Phase (a) has been completed, during which many active contributors were awarded laptops and internet stipends. Phase (b) will be a contest in which editors will come together and develop a writing contest focused on content gaps. Each month three individual prizes will be awarded to each community based on their contribution for the month. The prizes worth 3,000 INR, 2000 INR, and 1,000 INR, will be awarded to the top contributors for each month. The contest started at March 1, 2018, 0:00, and will end at May 31, 2018, 23:59 (IST). Useful links are as follows:
Looking forward your participation, all the best. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 22:17, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
A school article has been created Venkatagiri Raja High School. A lot of work is needed. I feel we can delete unsourced content after "History" section. Kindly share your opinion. -- Titodutta ( talk) 20:53, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
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Could someone who is familiar with the politics of Uttar Pradesh please take a look at the article on Kamlakar Singh (born 21 June 1967), popularly known as Lambardar? There are several claims in the article that are not supported by references. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 18:42, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
Indians, born before 1947: is it correct to state their citizenship was British Raj? We have seen changes on Wikipedia, and a large number of recent changes on Wikidata. Here we have a more active community, thanks in advance. -- Titodutta ( talk) 08:28, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
A relevant discussion for converting {{ Infobox writer}} into a wrapper of this template has been initiated at Template talk:Infobox writer#convert_to_wrapper. Your comments will be appreciated. Capankajsmilyo ( talk) 04:52, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
This is a huge article and is a mix of a hagiography and a fan site. It needs serious attention but after reading through a fair bit I'm not even sure how to approach it, I've left a similar note on the talk page where I hope anyone interested can discuss and cull/clean up. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 11:51, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Village_pump (proposals)#RfC: Ending the system of portals. - Sitush ( talk) 16:35, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi all, could use some guidance re: these edits, where an editor changed all of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh's Singhs to Ram Rahims. Any thoughts? Would this be appropriate? Indian name rules are not my speciality. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 14:38, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
There are a couple of open threads at WT:NCIN that require resolution, one added by me today and another that has had no response since last year. - Sitush ( talk) 06:09, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
Asaram Bapu looks to be in need of clean up by people who actually know what they're doing, if anyone is prepared to take a look. - Sitush ( talk) 06:12, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello, we have Tag & Assess portal. We last worked on it 2014. The Assessment bar, most probably, was not working at that time. I am not fully sure about the current status of it, or if any other alternative (not AWB) that makes life easier. Ideas? Once again there are too many unassessed India articles? Ideas and suggestions please. Pinging User:AshLin, who was really active in the drive. -- Titodutta ( talk) 07:06, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
I run across a lot of India and SE Asia articles while reviewing new page creations. Many are very short just naming a village or place without context of even what country it may be in. Are there any resources to look up such places? I know of India 2011 census data, Indian village directory and * AreaProfiler - India.
Another issue I have is assessing Indian biographies. It is my understanding that many of the Indian newspapers do 'articles for hire'. Can anyone here give an informal assessment of which of the major papers may be particularly bad about this or if there is a way to distinguish purchased publicity from genuine journalism in those papers? I have also noticed that many articles, even on easily notable individuals are written using extremely grandiose wording and flamboyant style. (I see this to an extent in articles from the entire region. ) I find this makes me immediately assume lack of notability since that type of writing nearly always is an attempt to puff up a non-notable person when encountered in Western biographies. I think this may be a cultural difference. Are there differences in what is considered appropriate or is my perception a combination of a biased sample set and a bit of unconscious racism on my part? Does anyone here have any insights which would help me recalibrate my expectations so I am less likely to misjudge articles?
Finally, can anyone recommend some good resources for to get a grounding in the politics of caste and ethnicity. I know enough to understand it is a minefield and I have some of the basics from Wikipedia articles but I would vastly prefer some solid works by cultural anthropologists and historians.
This is a part of the world with which I am completely unfamiliar with but we have many editors writing lots of articles about the region. Any help you can provide to help me orient myself and get an idea of where the pitfalls lay is much appreciated. Thank you. Jbh Talk 15:50, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Greetings,
#1Lib1Ref is happening again in May!
It is an annual campaign where librarians add references to improve Wikipedia, is coming back again this year, running from May 15th to June 5th, 2018. It is being run for the second time from this year because we heard from you a desire to run it again out of excitement. Librarians, community members, and affiliates are encouraged to make 1Lib1Ref [their own]. So whether we call this 1Lib1Ref May, 1Lib1Ref for the Southern Hemisphere, or 1Lib1Ref Strikes Back, the point is the excitement is building again, and we'd like you to be a part of it.
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"Imagine a World where Every Librarian Added One More Reference to Wikipedia" Wikipedia is a first stop for researchers. Let's make it better! Your goal today is to add one reference to Wikipedia! Any citation to a reliable source is a benefit to Wikipedia readers worldwide.
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11:53, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
Moyna is a village. There are two other pages - Moyna (community development block) and Moyna (Vidhan Sabha constituency). Master Of Ninja moved the Moyna page to Moyna (village) and made the base Moyna page a disambiguation page. I moved the disambiguation page to one with a suffix and wanted to use the base Moyna page for the village. I could not move it back and so moved it to Moyna, Purba Medinipur. Thereafter, ToThAc, moved the Moyna disambiguation page to the base page. I have requested for Moyna, Purba Medinipur to be moved to the base page, and ToThAc is opposing it. Now, Moyna is a small place and it does not matter whether it is a base page or one with a suffix, but the principle is important. ToThAc is brash about it, see this. I am only worried that this could lead to the movement of a large number of other pages indiscriminately. I request wider participation in the decision making on the talk page of the article. - Chandan Guha ( talk) 01:50, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
New-user Alikat101 introduced an uncited paragraph to the top of the Kashmir section of the Self-determination article, in the process introducing some typos into the document. I fixed the typos, but I suspect there may be some NPOV issues with the added paragraph. I left it in and tagged it as it seemed to have some awareness of the history, and I'm not qualified to judge. Could someone more knowledgeable please take a look? This is the text he added:
Ever since Pakistan and India’s inception in 1947 the legal state of Jammu and Kashmir, the land between India and Pakistan, has been contested as Britain was resigning from their rule over this land. Maharaja Hari Singh, the ruler residing over Kashmir at the time accession, signed the Instrument of Accession Act on October 26th 1947 as his territory was being attacked by Pakistani tribesmen. The passing of this Act allowed Jammu and Kashmir to accede to India on legal terms. When this Act was taken to Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy of British India, he agreed to it and stated that a referendum needed to be held by the citizens in India, Pakistan, and Kashmir so that they could vote as to where Kashmir should accede to. This referendum that Mountbatten called for never took place and framed one of the legal disputes for Kashmir. In 1948 the Untied Nation intervened and ordered a plebiscite to be taken in order to hear the voices of the Kashmiris if they would like to accede to Pakistan or India. This plebiscite left out the right for Kashmiris to have the right of self determination and become an autonomous state. To this date the Kashmiris have been faced with numerous human rights violations committed by both India and Pakistan and have yet to gain complete autonomy which they have been seeking through self-determination.
GretLomborg ( talk) 18:24, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
Can anyone look at Rohila (Hindu), which is supposedly a Hindu ethnic group distinct from the Muslim Rohillas? The article has several citations, but most of them either do not mention the term "Rohila", are unreliable sources (e.g. a a Google search page), or both (e.g. James Tod).
The only citation in the article that actually mentions the term "Rohila" is a chapter on the Runwala caste in People of India. This source mentions the term "Rohila" twice, but does not assert that they are/were a Hindu ethnic group:
Last month, the creator moved the article Runwala to " Rohilla Rajputs" and " Rohila Tank Kshatriya", and I undid those moves as none of the reliable sources mention these terms (see Talk:Runwala#Recent edits). So, now the user has created this new article. I tagged several citations in the article for failing WP:V standards, but the creator alleges that I may be biased towards this particular 'ethnic group'. So, a third-party opinion would be welcome. utcursch | talk 14:21, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
I urge, make the page eclectic. It becomes more important and responsible task since we have another ethnic group of different religion but coincidentally same namesake, highly famous in history. I've also asked to the former's website http://www.rohillataank.com to help the article and waiting for some volunteer.hey_pal (Friend.hey)( talk) 17:00, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
Does this poster File:Two (short film, 1964) title card.JPG come under {{ PD-text}}? Please share your opinion. -- Titodutta ( talk) 18:50, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
In the carving shown here, from the Ivory carved tusk depicting Buddha life stories, one of the figures represents Venerable Moggallana (Maudgalyayana)? I need to know this for a DYK review, which also includes the image. Thanks!-- Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 16:16, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Much of the news sources regarding the subject is around 2013 and 2014, and almost none in the recent years. While there were plans to create such a suburban area in 2013 [1] [2], the idea appears to have been scrapped in 2014. [3] [4] Though the article mentions it as an unofficial metropolitan area, can someone please confirm if the term is still used. Thanks, MT Train Talk 12:14, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
References
lot of local sayings , bard adage documents , Medieval writing work , Britishers writing works , Government Gazetteers of British period etc are found in India which reflect the lifestyle , Historical events , Ancestry of Royal Families , Happenings . These sources must be based on actual facts or may have some additions . If we are believing ancient Sanskrit inscription and scriptures , then we have to consider above said old sources as a references of History . Recent works are also based on old findings . I have an example on this matter which is making conflict . One of Admin is not accepting the old sources.
Variant name of any dynasty should be allowed to add which is known to public since long period ie. about 600 years . Corrupt form of Sanskrit words should also be added .
For example : As per Sanskrit inscriptions, scriptures , King Bhoja was said to be of Pramar or Parmar dynasty . But Since 600 years , in Hindi or local languages it became Panwar, Ponwar or Powar etc as per medieval documents by Abu Fazal / Firista , bard adage documents , Britisher writings , Gazetteer , Local sayings . This fact should be displayed on wikipedia . Without which , information seems to be incomplete . I have tried to add variant name of Dynasty but it is being reverted . I think there should not be any issue if variant name of dynasty is added to page . Variant name is also stated in references given with original reference of Page Bhoja or Paramara Dynasty . So what is the issue if alternative word Ponwar or Panwar is added with Paramara Dynasty.
Please suggest . G9H ( talk) 09:16, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi all,
There are obviously many people of this name.
As you can see from the
article history, any number of edits are not about this
Uttar Pradesh politician.
I think a page move would appear to be at least an interim remedy.
What do you think about this? Pete AU aka -- Shirt58 ( talk) 11:52, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi all - I created a biographical article on Sonali Kulkarni and observed that the content was deleted by a user with the name User:Terminattor with the note that she doesn't want her name to be on Wikipedia pages. I reached out to Tito Dutta and he was able to help restore the content. We see that the content has been deleted again. The article met the notability criteria and the information available online is significant. How should I handle the situation? Any thoughts or guidance? -- Parul Thakur ( talk) 12:13, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
Indu Malhotra article needs serious editing. Given that her elevation as Supreme Court judge is in news, the page must be getting a lot of hits. However, there is scope for lot of improvement. Any help will be much appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anom1987 ( talk • contribs) 04:31, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
I just relisted a requested page move on the Swaminarayan Temple, Ahmedabad article's talk page. Please come and add your opinion and rationale to help resolve this issue. Thank you very much! Paine Ellsworth put'r there 10:11, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
The Caravan (27 april 2018), Indus Valley people did not have genetic contribution from the steppes: Head of Ancient DNA Lab testing Rakhigarhi samples:
“It will show that there is no steppe contribution to the Indus Valley DNA,” Rai said. “The Indus Valley people were indigenous, but in the sense that their DNA had contributions from near eastern Iranian farmers mixed with the Indian hunter-gatherer DNA, that is still reflected in the DNA of the people of the Andaman islands.”
Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 07:20, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
MTNL Perfect Health Mela has quite a lot of issues that need cleanup, including sourcing and POV. I'm short of time presently and if someone could take care of this, it would be great. Thanks, MT Train Talk 10:19, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
It would be useful if an India expert could look at this article. The references are all formatted as {{ sfnp}} although only one has a corresponding bibliographic source. I wonder if the text and refs has been copied from elsewhere. Pam D 22:55, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
And there are similar problems at Battle of Pindi Bhattian. Pam D 05:43, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
I have recently revised and developed the Bagdah page, as well as other pages, with fully referenced text. ImSonyR9 had placed some unreferenced material on the page. I removed the material from the page with a note on his page to add only verifiable information in Wikipedia. In response he has placed these on my talk page - Why had you removed my edits.? and Further don't remove my inputs about Bagdah . I shall be grateful for an admin handling the situation. - Chandan Guha ( talk) 10:40, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
Can anyone knowledgeable about Telugu entertainment industry take a look at Hari Teja? There seem to be some incorrect information in the Filmography section. E.g. "RADJH" (which links to Ashok Kumar (film)), Vetagadu (which was released before the actress was born), Babu (also released before her birth) etc. A set of IP addresses seem to have inserted misinformation mentioning Rajesh Anandan (I removed quite a bit of misinformation from that article). utcursch | talk 14:15, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi friends, I'm curious how you would interpret these edits [28] [29] [30] [31] where the editor adds Urdu as a primary language to TV series that are made in India.
Might this be a subtle form of Indian/Pakistani ethnic-warring? I don't want to jump to any conclusions. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 13:52, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
Can someone please confirm if Baba Sangat Singh and Sangat Singh Minhas are the same people? Thanks, MT Train Talk 05:11, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi all, an IP editor at Bajrangi Bhaijaan has repeatedly changed Azad Kashmir to Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. [32] [33] [34] with the most recent justification "Do I have to take a legal discourse? I repeatedly keep correcting that Azad Kashmir is not an Indian term. For Indians, it is Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. And this is an Indian film. Please don't distort facts." This is something that's happened numerous times over many months (probably not the same guy). Any preference here? Pakistan Occupied Kashmir redirects to Azad Kashmir, so we're ultimately sending readers to an article that is not consistent with the phrasing we're using in the film article. But I can understand that in the context of an Indian film the region might be called Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. Input is appreciated, thanks. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 14:54, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
At the article
Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, 2018, one user had added an opinion poll from Graphnile. On further checking I found that this poll hasn't received any coverage and the body conducting the survey isn't reliable either. So I removed the polls with the links pointing to Graphnile's website. However, my edit was
reverted by an IP 14.140.217.4 with the following summary The person who deleted the content is ignorant about the Electoral Analytics or have some political motives.
I don't think this survey is reliable enough and this is spamming. Should we list such polls on current election articles? --
Skr15081997 (
talk) 10:27, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
There has been a lot of caste pov-pushing at articles such as Vasireddy Venkatadri Nayudu. That particular one claims that he was the first Indian ruler to rebel against the British but my request last year on the talk page for translations of the sources etc has come to nothing. Is that claim really likely to be correct? What about Tipu Sultan, for example? I am sure I have seen claims that are earlier, perhaps relating to what is now TN or Kerala. - Sitush ( talk) 15:44, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
Editor activity is increasing in the portal namespace. If you are interested in shaping the future of the portal system, be sure to check out developments at WikiProject Portals and get involved in restarting our portal workgroup ( WikiProject Indian portals). I know some of us would have hammered on a 'portal delete button' like a woodpecker but it's clear now that portals are sticking around, so let's get these things automated and looking less like a 1990's internet zeitgeist. Kind regards, Cesdeva (talk) 14:24, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
Deshastha Brahmin, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Sitush ( talk) 07:44, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
Please be aware that a French-speaking editor with little or no knowledge of English has been using WP:MACHINETRANSLATION to drop massive amounts of text into articles, causing disruption and making work for other editors to clean it up. Please see the following discussions regarding Indian painting, where his edits have since been rolled back:
I now see that Andershus also previously created the article Indian Tribal Painting ( sic; with incorrect capitalization) using Machine translation from fr:Peinture tribale en Inde. See:
This article should be deleted in my opinion, and restarted from scratch, either as a brand new article with English references, or else as a translation by competent bilingual editors. Please watch out for and monitor any additions by this editor to India-related topics. Cordially, Mathglot ( talk) 11:11, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
There is an ongoing discussion on Wikimedia Commons about usage of images from Press Information Bureau under the licence tag, GODL-India. This discussion will have great effect on coverage of images related to India, as the scope and the applicable limits of the tag is being discussed for all websites of Government of India, including its sub-departments, agencies, ministries etc. Kindly follow the discussion, and voice your opinion. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 17:40, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
A discussion has been opened on Meta-Wiki to discuss about the selection criteria for users to attend the Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India). Kindly give your opinion at m:Talk:Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018_India)#Ideal participation. Your responses will help the organizers and the scholarships team to select right participants for the workshop. The discussion will be open until the end of 25 May 2018. --Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 11:25, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
Just a note. Thankfully, this RfC has closed with the outcome that we should not state Ethnicity in infoboxes. I say thankfully because it is an absolute minefield for Indian biographies. We recently also had an RfC that determined we should not state religion in biographical infoboxes. (But see my further note below).
Perhaps one day the community will sort of the problems related to the nationality and citizenship fields! In the interval, feel free to remove ethnicity and religion from the things because as far as I can tell there has been no bot doing the job or, if there is one, it hasn't touched much in the India sphere yet. - Sitush ( talk) 15:23, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
The Kartographer extension is now available on English Wikipedia. See User:Naveenpf/sandbox for India-related test cases. utcursch | talk 17:37, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
Pentapadu mandal ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Should "mandal" be capitalized? Googling, it appears that "mandal" and "Mandal" are used interchangeably, sometimes on the same page. Someone(s) has gone through Pentapadu mandal and capped mandal. Should the article be moved or Mandal decapped? Cheers Jim1138 ( talk) 05:16, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
Can anyone sort out the mess at Samajwadi Janata Dal? As it stands, it is a WP:CRYSTAL type of situation. - Sitush ( talk) 13:20, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
Can anyone take a look at Special:Contributions/66.183.50.236? The anon is mass-replacing historical flags with File:Punjab flag.svg in the battles involving the Sikhs (not necessarily the Sikh Empire). The article Nishan Sahib suggests that this flag was not in use at the time of these battles. utcursch | talk 17:47, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
Is Draft:Radhika Vemula independently notable, apart from Suicide of Rohith Vemula? Calliopejen1 ( talk) 00:36, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
Are we in Dalit History Month again? We get a lot of this sort of stuff at that time of year and it is a nightmare to police because it is almost all about activism and nothing about encyclopaedic content. - Sitush ( talk) 07:47, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Template talk:Hindu politics#Rename this to Hindutva politics?, regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, DBig Xray 09:52, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
What thoughts do people have about this journal? I've never seen it before today, nor seen it cited. - Sitush ( talk) 18:50, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
Requesting eyeballs on this BLP Hrishikesh Kanitkar, which has been in the news [35] [36] [37] for multiple instances of vandalism and misinformation. — Nearly Headless Nick {c} 18:14, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
Pending changes protection should not be used as a preemptive measure against violations that have not yet occurred.Additionally, I don't see any evidence of long-term-vandalism other than garden-variety-nonsense.Please undo your protection. ~ Winged Blades Godric 18:41, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
I've currently opened a peer review for Indian National Congress . I think the article meets the GA criteria and I'm thinking about nominating it as a GA candidate. It would be helpful if other editors could comment on the article and/or offer suggestions, etc. Thanks. Akhiljaxxn ( talk) 07:17, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
I've reviewed what looks like a promising new article, Draft:Nehru and Indian Economy. I'm not an expert on Indian topics, so I'm requesting subject matter experts also take a look at it. -- RoySmith (talk) 21:16, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
List of diplomatic visits to India was nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of diplomatic visits to the United States. Would editors be able to find sources about the subject? Thanks, Cunard ( talk) 07:18, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
I am having difficulty finding references from reliable sources about Punam Suri, although this might be because I am limited to English-language sources. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 12:09, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
Could I get eyes on this new article? Articles about very old history sourced to paper sources always put me on the alert for nonsense/making things up. It seems unlikely that this is the case here, but you never know.... Thanks, Calliopejen1 ( talk) 00:58, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
I added a {{context}} tag to the article, Kirata Kingdom, and I started a section on the article’s Talk page: Talk:Kirata Kingdom#Context - Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) 03:56, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India) to be tentatively held in the last weekend of September 2018. This is going to be a three-day training workshop to equip the participants with the skills to create illustrations and digital drawings in SVG format, using software like Inkscape.
Minimum eligibility criteria to participate is as below:
Please apply at the following link before 16th June 2018: Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India) Scholarships.
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 11:12, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
Could some knowlegable wikiperson look at article Baru Sahib, it's pretty rubbish IMO. TKS-- 92.1.72.100 ( talk) 09:21, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
Several scholarly books on Tamil-related topics use a particular transliterate scheme (like IAST for Sanskrit-related topics). For example, " Sangam" is written as "Caṅkam", Pandya is written as "Pāṇṭiya", Chola is written as Cо̄ḷa, "Chera" is written as "Cēra" etc.
I may be wrong, but I think this is the transliteration scheme used in the Tamil Lexicon. Does this transliteration scheme have a name? Is there a Wikipedia article about it? utcursch | talk 15:39, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
There is a Page move discussion going on for Rajneesh. Would anyone be interested in participating? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Rajneesh#Requested_move_11_June_2018 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Accesscrawl ( talk • contribs) 15:51, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
The idols in the temples in Pakistan and the ponds outside those temples that are considered necessary for a holy dip are drying up. A source that can be used for that can be seen at https://indianexpress.com/article/pakistan/absence-of-lord-ram-hanuman-statues-in-katas-raj-temple-irks-pakistan-supreme-court-4979705/ I am unable to add it to any article as they are page protected. I therefore request some body here to do the needful! Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yagnik2 ( talk • contribs) 19:27, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
Discussion of a proposed consolidated Weapons of power in Hindu epics article is at Talk:Kurukshetra War#New article proposed - "Weapons of power in Hindu epics". -- Bejnar ( talk) 14:45, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
It was pointed out in the discussion that Simple English Wikipedia is most popular (comparatively) in India. Input from Indian editors on the future of SEW and potential merge here would be much appreciated. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:35, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Wikimedia Commons now uses GODL-India for all images produced by the Indian gouvernment, and therefore accepts any content available under this license. Consequently all images of money (banknotes and coins) are also accepted (the pictures themselves need to be under a free license). So all files on the English Wikipedia under GODL-India could be transferred to Commons. All files previously deleted are being undeleted. Some help for categories for c:Category:Coins of India and c:Category:Banknotes of India would be welcome. Regards, Yann ( talk) 00:15, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
Hi guys, any one interested in contributing to Bachelor Girls & Martyrs of Marriage Accesscrawl ( talk) 03:08, 5 July 2018 (UTC)
I’ve run across two articles that may cover the same thing: Foreign Contribution (regulation) Act, 2010 and Foreign Contribution Regulation Act. If this is the same law, then the articles should be merged. Since I can’t even tell for sure if they’re the same subject, I’d be pretty useless myself; thus, I bring the potential task here. Any takers? — Gorthian ( talk) 05:49, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
Maps showing the borders of India, Pakistan, and China are a controversial topic, with each claiming some territory not held by it. It strikes me that the appropriate maps for Wikipedia to use are the international ones, showing disputed territories as such; and indeed our article on India [38] (and the one on Pakistan [39]) do just that. A number of other articles, however, depict the entire territory claimed by India as being a part of India; see this image used in the featured list List of chief ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party, or this one, used in the featured list List of Presidents of India. Unfortunately making maps isn't a skill everyone has; I certainly do not. Therefore, our options seem to be to a) remove the maps and hope someone recreates them with the appropriate boundaries, or b) do nothing. Since either decision has the potential for controversy, I would like to see some discussion on the topic. Vanamonde ( talk) 12:03, 5 July 2018 (UTC)
Hello, |
More eyes at this article would be welcome. The article's subject is involved in some recent/current court cases and controversies, and it seems that SPAs (both supporters and detractors) are attempting to spin the article based on often self-published and poor quality sources. Abecedare ( talk) 23:09, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
Hello. I recently draftified three articles by two editors ( Draft:Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, 2019, Draft:Indian general election, 2019 (Bihar), and Draft:Indian general election, 2019 (Chhattisgarh)). But there are few more similar articles in the mainspace. Should the articles in such state be kept in the mainspace? or should they be moved to draft-space? What kind of work they would need if for getting in to the mainspace? Any suggestions regarding the issue are welcome. —usernamekiran (talk) 05:59, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
Hello.@ Usernamekiran: & @ Vanamonde93: This articles should not be discuss here,because Every Year in Wikipedia lots of articles created year by year & state by state.these article should not be moved into draft,these are Mainspace articles. Less than 1 year is Left For important Indian election so I these articles should not be moved into draft,( Mr.Mani Raj Paul ( talk) 07:16, 22 July 2018 (UTC))
@ Vanamonde93: I'm am a creator of these articles Draft:Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, 2019 & Draft:Indian general election, 2019 (Chhattisgarh) as you know Brother.After 4-5 months these articles Converted into Mainspace articles we everyone know that these are are the STATE Representation of Indian general election, 2019,So I want these articles should be moved into the Mainspace Today.( Mr.Mani Raj Paul ( talk) 07:33, 22 July 2018 (UTC))
@ Vanamonde93: I know information is not available all the things are TBA or TBD in these articles but also in Indian general election, 2019 not much information is available.but my brother that articles not be moved into Draft,so can I revert my these articles into Mainspace????( Mr.Mani Raj Paul ( talk) 07:50, 22 July 2018 (UTC))
in 2014 also seperates article were made like Indian general election, 2014 (Bihar) ( Mr.Mani Raj Paul ( talk) 08:03, 22 July 2018 (UTC))
that is similar to my opinion. I am not against creating the individual articles for each state. But only one line, and a table of TBA/TBD is useless. All these articles should be created after they can have enough content. —usernamekiran (talk) 20:03, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
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Going through an article Amara Ram (Born 1955), I found a similarly named article Amra Ram. Both are politicians from Rajasthan. The title for the article Amara Ram (Born 1955) isn't what we would normally use here on Wikipedia. Could you please weigh in your opinions on renaming the articles and whether a disambiguation page is required. Thanks. MT Train Discuss 17:15, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
I would like to propose to merge and redirect all the articles on the characters of Mahabharata for which there's not enough content to Characters in the Mahabharata to comply with notability requirements. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 17:20, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
Greetings everyone, recently I have proposed List of National Defence Academy alumni as a Featured list candidate. It has already gained two supports, more hands needed. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 02:53, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
The history of National Herald (India) suggests that two different groups claim to be the 'real' National Herald, and there is an edit war going on between two representatives from these groups. Can someone knowledgeable about the topic take a look? utcursch | talk 16:34, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
Dear fellow Wikipedians, In response to repeated discussions about policies and whether they hold for articles on Buddhism, I have drafted a policy proposal to include into the Manual of Style for Wikipedia articles about Buddhism. The proposal does not actually include much new policy, but rather attempts to apply policy to articles on Buddhism in an understandable way, similar to MOS:ISLAM. Content is based on discussions held on Buddhist articles, as listed on the talk page. Comments are welcome.-- Farang Rak Tham ( talk) 08:29, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
On behalf of Wikimedia India, I hereby announce the Featured Wikimedian for November 2017.
Balaji Jagadesh is one of the top contributors from the Tamil Wikimedia community. Though he started contributing since 2009, he was quite active after his participation in WikiConference India 2011. Initially he started contributing to Tamil Wikipedia, but was later attracted towards Tamil Wikisource, Tamil Wikitionary, and Wikidata. His global contributions count to whooping 2,50,000 edits. He is an admin on Tamil Wikitionary.
After his interaction with Mr. Loganathan ( User:Info-farmer), Balaji was very much motivated to contribute to Wikimedia projects. He says, "When I was editing in Tamil Wikipedia, I used to translate science articles from English to Tamil. But faced problem in finding equivalent Tamil words. The English to Tamil dictionaries were inadequate. Hence I felt the need to work in the Tamil Wikitionary. After a while there was a collaboration with Tamil Wikisource and Tamil Nadu Government through Tamil Virtual University through 2000 CC0 books were uploaded".
As an active contributor to Wikidata, he says that the vision of Wikimedia movement is, "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge", but with Wikidata we can make it, "Imagine a world in which every single human being and every single machine can freely share in the sum of all knowledge". Apart from regular contributions, he also created templates to Tamil Wikimedia projects, and also maintains Tamil Wikisource's official Twitter handle.
Balaji hails from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, and is a post-graduate is Physics. He currently works as a Senior Geophysicist in Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC).
Any editor can propose a fellow to be a Featured Wikimedia at: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Nominations
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Disappointed in the Indian turn out for this contest so far, particularly from those editors here I've spent a lot of time helping over the years. C'mon people do Indian women proud and join in with some new articles!♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:57, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
Hello! I intend to create an article named "Kabir God", since there are millions of people in India who believe him to be God and they have enough evidence to prove their points.
Though an article already exist on the subject with the name "Kabir", but that proves him a saint only. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saint Rampal Ji ( talk • contribs) 18:17, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
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It looks like the article on Tipu Sultan has been whitewashed to make Tipu look like a hero. Can we at least have a link to persecution of Hindus by Tipu Sultan in that article (I could not do it myself due to it being protected)? Please also mention the protests by Hindus to the celebration of the Tippu Jayanthi by the Congress Government of Karnataka on 10th November, 2017 citing appropriate references. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.186.192.2 ( talk) 18:50, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
Can anyone mediate at Dhan Singh Gurjar? Caste warrior at work. utcursch | talk 05:28, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
Most of this article is detailing what the Mahabharata says about the war. It's like giving a long summary of a book. Any suggestions as to how to trim it? Doug Weller talk 18:53, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
An editor, JudeBob123, is insisting that Tamil is an official language of India in List of languages by the number of countries in which they are recognized as an official language. Is this assertion correct or not? The editor has not provided any evidence that it is an official language of the country of India, apart from claiming that it is the official language of individual states like Tamil Nadu. Hzh ( talk) 17:38, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
needs some attention. I just removed a large amount of POV content in lieu of G11. Suspect they are notable, and finding sources on India related subjects is not always easy. -- Dlohcierekim ( talk) 07:59, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi all, I have initiated a move request here. Do comment - sarvajna ( talk) 17:54, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
Template:Hindu calendar, Template:Bengali calendar, and Template:Nepali calendar have the same 12 months represented in three different templates. Most of the articles are the same, and when they are not, they still talk about the same months.
I believe the months should be merged. Vaisakha, Baishakh and Boishakh are largely different ways to spell the topic. According to WP:MERGEREASON, they should be merged. The templates should be merged as well. May be we call it the "Subcontinental calendar" or something (my personal preference would be "Indian calendar", though judging by the Bangladeshi and Nepali sentiment here, Indian may not be preferred identity for their calendar).
Can you people take a look at the scenario? Aditya( talk • contribs) 03:22, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
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Greetings, on behalf of Wikimedia India, I, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga introduce you to the Featured Wikimedian of the Month for December 2017, Hrishikes Sen.
Hrishikes Sen is one of the most active contributors from the Bengali community. Though he started editing English and Bengali Wikipedia in 2007, he had to take a long break due to professional constraints. Later he started working on Bengali Wikisource from 2012, and ever since, he has been an active contributor, and expanded to English Wikisource as well. With more than 45,000 global edits, he is an admin on English Wikisource.
As a child, Hrishikes always found reading books as a fascinating task. He says that he finds reference books as interesting as mystery novels. That interest, over years motivated him to contribute to Wikisource. The journey and motivation behind his contributions to Wikisource can be read from a post on WMF's blog, Why I contribute to Wikisource?. He says that till date he's been only active online, but he plans to do outreach in the coming future. He hopes that attending the 10th Anniversary Celebratory Workshop of Bengali Wikisource in Kolkata on 10 December may be a harbinger to his future offline activities.
Hrishikes believes that Wikisource will one day emerge as of the top digital libraries in the world, and says that as a store-house for primary and secondary source materials for Wikipedia, the importance of Wikisource is steadily becoming invaluable. Much of his time, Hrishikes spends working around Indian works, with a special focus on the works of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Jagadish Chandra Bose, and Rabindranath Tagore. Apart from being a proofreader, he uploaded more than 750 books spreading over five languages to Wikimedia Commons.
Hrishikes hails from Kolkata, but is presently based in Lucknow. By profession, he is a doctor serving in paramilitary forces. To his Bengali friends, he welcomes them to contribute to Bengali Wikisource which has more than 676,000 that have completed Optical Character Recognition and are waiting to be proofread.
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Hi all, can anyone familiar with Malayalam please take a quick look at this Manorama Online article. Someone has twice posted this at List of highest-grossing Indian films as a reference for Ramaleela's gross. I'm trying to determine whether or not the ₹55 crore financial figure came from the film's producers (problematic as that constitutes WP:PRIMARY and we know how producers lie about finances) or if it's clear that Manorama is independently confirming the 55 crore accomplishment. I'm skeptical because the image at the top has appeared in a number of articles that have attributed the gross to the producer. Much obliged, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 07:07, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
Need some feedback here. There is a dab page for Akshay Kumar (disambiguation) with primary topic being the actor. Is this necessary ? Because there is no ambiguity, all other 4 entries are uniquely identifiable names - Akshay Kumar Datta, Akshay Kumar Boral, Akshay Kumar Maitreya, and Akshay Kumar Sen. I don't think there will be trouble for readers finding the AK they are searching for. I reckon this should be deleted. Let There Be Sunshine ( talk) 09:46, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
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We've got a new editor, Siddhant2709 that has a self-declared COI on this article (see their edit summary on first edit to that article). I've left a somewhat pointed message on their talk page on the basis of their edit summary claiming it as an official page. If folks wouldn't mind, some extra eyes and help guiding a new editor with a COI would be appreciated. Ravensfire ( talk) 05:44, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
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Badas (K.H.) and Badas (India) look to be the same village. — Dispenser 19:22, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
@ Dispenser, Uanfala, and Failosopher: After reading this thread, I created two more articles: Sayala, Palam, and Sayala, Parbhani. —usernamekiran (talk) 09:01, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
Couple of editors have no intelligible argument and they are misrepresenting Caste system in India as basis of racial discrimination on Racism though none of the sources support it. Discussion is on Talk:Racism#Contemporary. Raymond3023 ( talk) 14:05, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
Are these edits appropriate? I've given the editor, Gauravsaral ( talk · contribs) a DS notice and a warning at User talk:Gauravsaral#Why are you adding "extremist and miliant" to Islamic groups and removing it from Indian groups. Doug Weller talk 17:49, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
I have just made required changes to the topic Tipu Sultan, which if you go back in the history you can see how much biased it was. complete outcome of wars were changed/ distorted. Selective points were added to topic. I have just tried to make it neutral instead of white washing an article. Gaurav Saral talk 17:55, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
Query: Is this inappropriate to write in Wikipedia ? "Really sad to see such hate mongers like Regentspark as Wikipedia trying to rewrite history in Wikipedia " — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gauravsaral ( talk • contribs) 14:16, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
This request is to bring into notice of possible vandalism by a few Wikipedia Admins in Bajrang Dal page. Some users are repeatedly adding objectionable edits in the lead of article. As it can be seen that adding objectionable content is lead is not something recommended from here here. can some sane admin please help to keep the article with in standards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gauravsaral ( talk • contribs) 18:07, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Please see this Not only user Winged_Blades_of_Godric is making personal remarks but also targeting and reverting all my edits with same message that discuss in talk, instead of raising the same issue himself — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gauravsaral ( talk • contribs) 18:14, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
The Discovery Channel's "What on Earth" has a broadcast coming that people are trying to use to prove that Adam's Bridge was built by Rama. [10] [11] This is going to be a big deal for Hindu nationalists. [12] I can't find much on "What on earth" except this. Doug Weller talk 14:24, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
A friend of mine told me that Pushkar is considered a holy city, and as such no meat is allowed in the city, and even fish and eggs are hard to come by. On the other hand I saw that there is an annual camel/cattle fair in the city. These to things seems like a contradiction in my Western eyes. Can somebody please explain this? Perhaps there is a difference between live animals and meat for consumption? Debresser ( talk) 16:17, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
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Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Talk:KIIT University#Requested move 7 December 2017, regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, Sky Warrior 17:41, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
This redirect discussion does not seem to have much attention from Indian Wikipedians, but there seems to be an attempt to define "Deccan" as the whole of South India. Johnbod ( talk) 04:47, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi, an article Zila Aurangabad has been newly created by a user. There already exist articles on Aurangabad district, Bihar and Aurangabad, Bihar. As zilla translates to district, do you think this new article is a duplication? The lack of coordinates is the reason I haven't been able to determine. MT Train Discuss 10:43, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
Hello. This article, National Maritime Foundation, needs major cleanup. Wikipedia and official website are used as sources, but Wikipedia is not a reliable source, and official website is a primary source. George Ho ( talk) 10:46, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
Possible copyright issues are reported at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2017 December 18. Also, the whole article is covered up with the whole template. George Ho ( talk) 12:00, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
Greeting, on behalf of Wikimedia India, I, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga from the Executive Committee, introduce you to the Featured Wikimedian of the Month for September 2017, Swapnil Karambelkar.
Swapnil Karambelkar is one of the most active Wikimedians from the Hindi community. Swapnil hails from Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, and by profession a Mechanical Engineering, who runs his own firm based on factory automation and education. Swapnil joined Wikipedia in August 2016, through "Wiki Loves Monuments". He initially started off with uploading images to Commons and then moved onto Hindi Wikipedia, contributing to culture and military topics. He also contributes to Hindi Wikibooks and Wikiversity. Soon after, he got extensively involved in various outreach activities. He co-organized "Hindi Wiki Conference" in January 2017, at Bhopal. He delivered various lectures on Wikimedia movement in various institutions like Atal Bihari Hindi University, Sanskrit Sansthanam and NIT Bhopal. Along with Suyash Dwivedi, Swapnil co-organized the first ever regular GLAM project in India at National Museum of Natural Heritage, Bhopal. Swapnil is an account creator on Hindi Wikipedia and is an admin on the beta version on Wikiversity. Swapnil has been instrumental in establishing the first Indic language version of Wikiversity, the Hindi Wikiversity. As asked regarding his motivation to contribute to the Wikimedia movement, Swapnil says, "It is the realization that though there is abundance of knowledge around us, but it is yet untapped and not documented".
Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 02:00, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
Recently came across an edit war on Mariam-uz-Zamani, mostly a dispute about sourcing, what assertions to include, and whether there is "fan bias" ( WP:NPOV). There are numerous disputed aspects to sort out and some outside insight and oversight on the article would be helpful, particularly at Talk:Mariam-uz-Zamani/Archive 1#Recent edit dispute. Dl2000 ( talk) 02:58, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
Need some input from editors on Talk:Intersex rights in India#Redirect. Orientls ( talk) 07:22, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
Can someone take a look at Kheer (Bengali sweets) to know if it's just another variation of kheer or khoa. A redirect or merge looks very much possible. MT Train Discuss 13:06, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi all, has anybody ever heard of the Garv Awards? Someone added a slew of award nominations for a TV show here, but I don't see anything at Google News that would indicate anybody cares about this award. Further, the source used was this, which is a Weebly.com website, i.e. a free web hosting service. Seems very sketchy that a reputable awards site wouldn't spring for the nominal cost of a registered domain. Thanks. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 04:01, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
There were some huge changes made at the Vellalar article in December. I reverted them and opened a discussion at the article talk page precisely because they appeared to be so dramatic. I had hoped for further input but, aside from Xenani, none has been forthcoming. Xenani has just reinstated their changes and I've reverted them again. I was away from Wikipedia for most of the intervening period but this really could do with some extra eyes so that some consensus can be derived. - Sitush ( talk) 17:41, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
The problem with the article is that it claims the Velir as ancestors of the Vellalar which is even mentioned in that source as doubtful. In turn is much of the rest of the article only talking about the Velirs and not about the Vellalars. It has been mentioned ample of times in the talk page also. I think the Velir related content should be removed and replaced with only Vellalar related content. As Sitush mentioned, there need to be some extra eyes to this article to have some consensus on the article. Xenani ( talk) 12:51, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi there, comments requested at Talk:Vijay (actor)#Remove "Chandrasekhar". A number of sources have indicated Vijay's birth name as either Chandrasekhar Joseph Vijay, Joseph Vijay or C. Joseph Vijay. The question is how to present this information, or whether we should not present this information. Thank you, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 16:03, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
A few more editors are needed to complete the A-Class review for Param Vir Chakra; please stop by and help review the article! Thanks! AustralianRupert ( talk) 12:03, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I just wanted to bring attention to a set of IPs who are linking every mention of an article's title on an article, for example on this edit. I'm trying to fix as many as I can, but with Baruipur, the IP is actively working on it and undoes any de-linking. I have left messages on the IP's talk page about it, but I believe they have gone unread.
Thanks, Abce2 ( talk) 06:45, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
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Please make a new article for India's first AC local train services, the Mumbai AC local. Or the information can be clubbed into Mumbai Suburban Railway. -- ✝iѵɛɳ२२४० †ลℓк †๏ мэ 05:24, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
An anonymous editor has been regularly over-linking the above articles and making some minor unreferenced changes in Jaynagar I and Jaynagar II articles. I would request an editor, preferably an administrator, to visit the pages and see if it is in order, and take action as he deems fit. Cheers. - Chandan Guha ( talk) 01:54, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
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Please comment at: Talk:Karam Singh#Removal of citation section "Military Medal". --Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 14:07, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
I had a student from a previous semester create a sandbox article ( User:Hardent/sandbox), but I'm concerned that it may be seen as duplicating content in India in World War II and Indian Army during World War I. I didn't know if anyone here could use this somewhere or not. Shalor (Wiki Ed) ( talk) 21:15, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
Draft:Shishu_Pal_Singh_"Shishu" Hello this draft of this Indian poet has been continually rejected at AFC and I would like to see it get passed, but it appears most of the sources are offline and in a language I don't speak. Is there any experienced editors or people who can find sources about Shishu that could help improve this draft so it can go to mainspace? Egaoblai ( talk) 19:14, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
Is https://listbodolist.wordpress.com/ reliable? Xx236 ( talk) 09:09, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
There is a merger proposal discussion taking place at Talk:Matru-Pitru Pujan Diwas#Merger proposal which is currently being overrun by a suspiciously large number of new editors who have signed up just to oppose the merger. It would be good to get the opinions of long-standing Wikipedia editors on this debate. Richard3120 ( talk) 20:22, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
Category:20th-century Indian women politicians and Category:21st-century Indian women politicians, which are within the scope of this WikiProject, have been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 02:43, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
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It is being planned to organize Wikigraphists Bootcamp in India, please fill out the survey form to help the organizers. Your responses will help organizers understand what level of demand there is for the event (how many people in your community think it is important that the event happens). At the end of the day, the participants will turn out to have knowledge to create drawings, illustrations, diagrams, maps, graphs, bar charts etc. and get to know to how to tune the images to meet the QI and FP criteria. For more information and link to survey form, please visit Talk:Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India). MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 12:43, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
Any thoughts on this article: List of Indian warriors? A vague list of that includes a wide range of people from ancient rulers (not necessarily "warriors") to modern soldiers, made worse by anachronistic caste/language-based categorization. No similar articles exist for other countries: instead, we've got Category:Lists of military personnel by country (including Category:Lists of Indian military personnel) and Category:Lists of monarchs (including Category:Lists of Indian monarchs). Is someone willing to clean it up or is deletion a better option? utcursch | talk 22:59, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
Hey all, I know that caste requires self-identification, but I'm having trouble finding the guideline where that is codified. Any tips? Also, is there a central location for these sorts of things, like a FAQ for India-related topics? Ex:
Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 04:48, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
I've been talking with Vishal Rathi on their own page regarding a wrestler. Apparently, "Krishan Kumar Rathee from Bharproda, Haryana popularly known by Hind Kesari Krishan Phalawan. He was winner in Olympic Trials, he claimed the title of Bharat Kesari 1986, Rutam-e-Hind, Jawahar Kesari, 3 times National Champion, 3 Times Army Service Champion".
I've tried searching on both of the names given and on various spellings of Rathee but I am not seeing much out there other than a few YouTube things. Vishal Rathi tells me that there is some newspaper coverage (they have clippings) so I'm wondering if this is another of those instances where Google isn't particularly good at mining Indian news sources etc. Can anyone help? The awards suggest to me that he may be notable enough for a biographical article. - Sitush ( talk) 18:06, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
Apparently, he is mentioned in this article (Hindi). - Sitush ( talk) 19:54, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
I don't know how is it a problem to add a wrestler's name in one page although he is mentioned in other pages in wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vishal Rathi ( talk • contribs) 16:40, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
Just brought this here, I wasn't sure, but many someone might want to restore it. Govvy ( talk) 01:00, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
Do you think this article is of any importance? Polls are conducted by numerous outlets, this one by BBC is no special to stand out among them. The method of polling itself is limited to a small percentage of actual Bengalis, and we're talking about a media that does not have much foothold in South Asia where most of the ethnic Bengalis reside. MT Train Discuss 14:41, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
Draft:Last Names of Telugus has been half a year ago by Srinivasulua, an editor who has not edited since. It automatically came up for speedy deletion now, but I think it has potential. I at least found the introducing paragraphs an interesting read. To give it a chance, I changed the deletion status to simple WP:PROD. — Sebastian 09:34, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
Can anyone provide translations of the sources at Baghel Samaj, which I think are in Hindi? I am a little concerned that the subject may not be notable, especially since the article about the caste itself has been deleted. - Sitush ( talk) 10:03, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
See [16] and my comments at Talk:Indus Valley Civilisation and the changes made to Sarasvati River prior to my revert. [17] I love the "cautioN" "Any constructive criticism must be recorded in a separate paragraph, exclude the opinion pieces from the newspapers, criticism of scientific work must be based on the scholarly peer-reviewed sources literature only". Followed by the use of newspaper sources. Some of the IP's edits are hopefully ok, but clearly some are not. I also note " Of 1,022 sites discovered so far, 616 are in India (along Ghaggar-Hakra river) and 406 are in Pakistan (along Indus river), hence it is obviously objectionable to name it Indus Valley Civilization". Doug Weller talk 19:11, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
Greetings,
As it has already been notified about Wikigraphists Bootcamp in India, for training related to creation drawings, illustrations, diagrams, maps, graphs, bar charts etc. and to tune the images to meet the QI and FP criteria, please fill the survey form linked from Talk:Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India). It'll help the organizers to assess the needs of the community, and plan accordingly. Please ignore if already done. Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 03:03, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi All,
There's been some confusion over
Kalki Koechlin's nationality, with persistent edits on the issue. There are sources that say she holds a French passport, the first in an
Ouest Magazine. Upon clicking the next image in it, one can find the date of the edition to be around mid-2016. A similar article has been published by the same correspondent at
https://mediaindia.eu/dossier/kalki-koechlin/ around the same time. There are also Indian sources in which she has quoted of holding an Indian citizenship. These include
India Today and
The Hindu. A discussion took place at
Numerounovedant's
talk page, which also involved myself and
Kailash29792. With all the sources we were able to find on the web, we weren't able to come to a conclusion. Help from other editors in taking a decision and availability of new sources supporting her nationality would be appreciated. Thanks,
MT Train
Discuss 05:20, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
Vishnudasa108 ( talk · contribs) is adding huge chunks of quotes to articles. See for instance this addition of a huge chunk of quotes and translations and use of ISKCON as a source. [18] And I'm not sure which source he used, but he copied in a chucnk of this lecture into A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. I've reverted him at one article. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 09:52, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
Are Tamil and Kannada considered to be Indic scripts? If they are, then perhaps someone from this WP:INDIA can try explaining to WP:NOINDICSCRIPT to Sivagopalakrishnan, who keeps adding both to the Mahalakshmi (Kannada actress). At the same, time it might be a good idea for someone to assess the article for Wikipedia notability per WP:BIO and WP:ACTOR since it's essentially a filmography sourced mainly to primary sources and some other questionable ones. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 10:48, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
I've opened a discussion concerning a new template at Template talk:Indic script lede. It was created by Samee in December 2017. - Sitush ( talk) 18:22, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
Can anyone find any reliable sources for the existence of Ukrid, supposedly a village in Jharkhand? I have trawled through various census websites/data without success and Google just seems to produce mirrors and unreliable aggregator sites. AS I see it, if the census doesn't mention the place then it probably exists only as a local name for an area that is actually a part of something else. This map might be relevant but it is useless as a source. - Sitush ( talk) 12:29, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
According to the first sentence of this, the Brahmins are historically the oldest community in India. I have said before that I have severe doubts about a lot of theses etc hosted at shodhganga - surely this claim, upon which the thesis does not appear to equivocate, is an example of why we should have doubts? I don't care if it was awarded a PhD or whatever, it is clearly far too sweeping (and probably actually incorrect) as a statement. Or am I wrong?
I know PhD these are acceptable as reliable sources but I've been seeing a fair few dubious ones and wonder if we need to take more care in applying that acceptance when it comes to Indian history/religion/society articles. - Sitush ( talk) 11:32, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
The thesis in question is apparently this one, from Jawaharlal Nehru University, no less, done in 2014. Given the pedigree, I reread the passage in Chapter 2. I think all it means is that, of all the caste groups currently existing, Brahmins are the oldest, which is still dubious but not far off the mark. Probably the author was trying to avoid the term "caste" but he/she couldn't still resist using it a few lines down in the passage. -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 15:31, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
The outcome of the discussion here may have a significant impact on articles of interest to this project. - Sitush ( talk) 21:58, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi all; Just a quick note to draw your attention to this; I'd appreciate if someone with more knowledge of Education and Law in India could take a look at it and decide if it's worth including in the article! (Please use "{{reply to}}" to get my attention) -- Cheers, Alfie. ( Say Hi!) 14:41, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
Could someone check out the maps on South Sikkim district as they appear inconsistent. {South Sikkim image map}} shows Namchi in the north and Ravong in the south. The table below shows them the other way round. Thanks Mccapra ( talk) 06:56, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
I am sorting out village articles for Solapur district, Maharashtra, per the 2011 official census report. On p. 114 of that report there are separate lines for Wangi - 1 (NV), Wangi - 2 (NV), Wangi - 3 (NV), and Wangi - 4 (NV). All of them are more or less the same size in terms of area, at just under 5,000 hectares (12,000 acres) each. I am unsure how to treat this - it looks rather odd to me and, if combined, would be a very large "village". Can anyone explain what is going on? Thanks. - Sitush ( talk) 11:27, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
Singh, R. B. (1964). History of the Chāhamānas (pub: N. Kishore) is used extensively at the Chauhan article, which has been a problematic place for years. I am struggling to determine whether or not it is a reliable source. Does anyone have an opinion? Can anyone work out whether or not it has been cited by other people? - Sitush ( talk) 13:28, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2018_January_31#Thathal has now been twice relisted and is stalemated between myself and Uanfala, perhaps because of the commonly experienced issue of people that frequent such noticeboards not being sufficiently confident or au fait to delve into things relating to caste etc. It could do with some comments. - Sitush ( talk) 00:56, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
Greetings! I have recently listed a requested move discussion at Talk:List of Korean Nobel laureates#Requested move 31 January 2018, regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, ―― Phoenix7777 ( talk) 07:01, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
The Indian article " List of Indian Nobel laureates" is the same situation. A user removed all laureates other than Indian citizen.―― Phoenix7777 ( talk) 07:01, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
Is there really any point in keeping Index of Andhra Pradesh-related articles? There was a procedural close at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Index of Andhra Pradesh-related articles which suggested that any discussion re: deletion should occur here or at Village Pump. - Sitush ( talk) 00:13, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
In 2017 - 2018, the Wikimedia Foundation and Google working in close coordination with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Wikimedia India chapter (WMIN) and user groups will pilot a program encouraging Wikipedia communities to create locally relevant and high-quality content in Indian languages. This program (Code name: Project Tiger) will:
The objective of the program is to provide laptops and internet stipends for existing editors who need support to contribute more actively. 50 basic model Acer Chromebooks and Internet stipends for 100 contributors are available for distribution. Provided resources are the sole property of the beneficiaries and should be used for the betterment of the movement.
If you're an active Wikimedian, and interested to receive support from this project, please apply. It will take around 10 minutes of your time, and will ask descriptive questions about your contribution to Indic Wikimedia projects.
Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 08:11, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
For those who may be unaware, news is going round that Bhadani ( talk · contribs), a long-standing contributor to this project, has died. Noted by Xaosflux at WP:AN. - Sitush ( talk) 15:15, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
based on recent edits at WikiProject:China, I have noticed Indian state maps we have do not show sea or land borders. Should we fix or not fix? — Preceding unsigned comment added by C1MM ( talk • contribs) 04:31, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
I know that the wiki policy for Indic scripts is generally prohibition in lead sentences & infoboxes, and I'm sorry this opens up more tensions [ [19]] [ [20]]. But I think there should be a change in policy. It's disappointing to never see native scripts in India-related articles but always see native scripts elsewhere, even in places where they are no longer widely used and the scripts in questions have much more worse support than Indic scripts. I realize there are arguments both for and against the usage of native scripts, but it feels like India is being held to a separate standard. I only wish for policy to be consistent and for India to be treated the same as every other place in the world, even if that means that all non-Latin scripts are banned in all cases.
I'll come right out and say that I don't have a solution for the problem as a whole, for articles on people and items that can have connections to many regions and languages. However, for location-related articles, I propose that we display the scripts/languages that is official in the state/union territory relevant.
So the Bengaluru page would have only Kannada, and no other Indian language, and the Telangana page would have Telugu and Urdu. Arunachal Pradesh would have no special language because English is the sole official language in the state, despite the popularity of Hindi as a lingua franca. India itself would have the language explicitly named as Hindi and in Devanagari script, because Hindi in Devanagari script is defined as one of its two official languages as per the Constitution. This is to provide a objective basis on which to decide which languages to include. We can bicker about which languages are connected to whatever content, but you can't argue whether or not a language is official or not. It either is or it isn't. (To avoid using too many languages, we would not include [ "additional official languages"] and stick to the primary official languages).
For the vast majority of states, there is only one official non-English language.
Mizoram,
Telangana, and
TripuraCite error: There are <ref>
tags on this page without content in them (see the
help page). have 2 such official languages. Mizoram and Tripura would probably not pose any problem, because of the unlikeliness of translations into
Mizo and
Kokborok being added, at least for the moment - these languages do not even have their own wikipedia editions, although Mizo has a [
language test]. The same goes for
Manipuri/Meithei, the official language of
Manipur.
There can of course be special cases, where a location is particularly significant for or is populated with a certain linguistic group, but this would be the rule and everything else would be an exception.
This is consistent with what appears to be wiki policy elsewhere - Afghanistan shows only the two official languages, Pashto and Dari, and not Uzbek or Turkmen, despite them being significant languages in the country; Indonesia has only the official Indonesian name, despite the unofficial Javanese actually having more native speakers in the country; Ethiopia has only the Amharic name because it is the working language for the government despite Oromo having more native speakers; etc.).
Again, I very much wish to avoid the kind of edit wars and arguments that have been seen in the past, but I also want India to be treated on the same basis as the rest of the world.
If this isn't the best place to post this, I'd greatly appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction. I'm really only a casual editor, despite what you might think from this post. Last edited by: ( talk) 00:04, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
In response to the first post here, I've tried before to say why I think India is being held to a separate standard, but it is difficult to be diplomatic about it. I've previously alluded to " Macaulay's children". I'm going to be more blunt about it now and say that the use of Indian languages makes many editors who concentrate on India uncomfortable in some way and they are only too glad to have found a way to forget about it. It may be useful to read Macaulayism and this article. It would be good to have a wider discussion, though probably not here, about how this departure from Wikipedia's wider values affects the value and the integrity of the English content that is affected by it, and how it affects the content and status of the other wikipedia's in the other languages of India. Imc ( talk) 20:15, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
This website has been used as a source in quite a few articles related to Indian politics. Further research shows that its a consultancy service offering to do door-to-door surveys, political campaign and social media management for candidates. I have requested blacklisting at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist but they have requested that this should be discussed first. -- Skr15081997 ( talk) 11:21, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
@ Skr15081997:-Blacklisting the url is an extreme measure when links to the website are inserted by a spammer as click-bait. Most of the URLs seem to be a case of genuine (AGF) citation rather than balant self promotion of the website.(Same goes for the other website).That being said I am not encouraging their usage as they are not reliable and it looks as if they mirror data from other reliable websites( and thus may not be upto date) — F R ™ 10:48, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
Relevant RfC going on at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#RfC_on_use_of_"crore". Languorrises ( talk) 22:51, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
The article about Sam Manekshaw, India's first field marshal, is at featured article candidacy. Please put comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Sam Manekshaw/archive1. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 12:50, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
I'm trying to verify that the major source for Draft:Vasantrao Ghatge – the recently published book वसंतवैभव - वसंतराव घाटगे जीवन आणि वारसा – actually exists. Apparently, the only thing we've got is an announcement in a local newspaper about the book's publication:
Could someone double-check that there is such an announcement on the linked page of this newspaper? Thanks! – Uanfala (talk) 19:02, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
Talk:Roti#RfC about the origin of the roti. — MapSGV ( talk) 02:49, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello, the series of articles including Mahamastakabhisheka, Gommateshwara statue, Shravanabelagola, Bahubali, etc. relate to the current event being held in the state of Karnataka. It is gaining large traffic and needs a lot of work in sourcing copy-editing and tone-rationalisation. Please have a look if you are interested. Thanks -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 13:33, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Another editor created Jyothi High School for a high school in Ajekar, Karnataka, India. There are other schools with the same name in different cities. I cannot find a reference in a reliable source to establish that the school in Ajekar exists. Google Maps lists the school and indicates that it is located next to a convent, but does not include a telephone number or website. If you can add a reference to the article, or alternatively if you can prove that the school does not exist, please do so. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 04:04, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
Has anyone come across Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies before? Any thoughts regarding general reliability etc? - Sitush ( talk) 14:29, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello,
We are happy to inform you that a national level Wikidata editing campaign "IMLD-ODD 2018 Wikidata India Edit-a-thon" on content related to India is being organized from from 21 February 2018 to 3 March 2018. This edit-a-thon marks International Mother Language Day and Open Data Day.
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Does List of General Caste in Sikhism have any potential for development? - Sitush ( talk) 13:38, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
There is some content in the Castes sub-section of the Sikh article that may be of use. Is 'General Caste' a well-defined term? I'm struggling to figure out the scope or purpose of the list. Regards, Cesdeva ( talk) 16:37, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Decan.reporter ( talk · contribs) has been adding information about "RoquiSantan" (presumably politician Roque Santana Fernandes) to several articles, claiming that he was a "Prince of Goa" and a direct descendant of the Kadambas of Goa. The references cited by the user included mailing list messages, YouTube videos, personal sources from Dharwad University and other such sources. I've removed a lot of such poorly-sourced information from the articles Kadambas of Goa, Velim, Goa, Goa Opinion Poll, History of Goa, Margao, Goa liberation movement etc.
Recently, Decan.reporter has added the phrase "RoquiSantan, a Prince of Goa" to multiple articles [21] [22] [23] [24], citing File:Gomantak Times, Friday March 16 2012.jpg as a source. This is a Gomantak Times article, which includes a sentence, "The next day Mr. Nehru send his close friend Mr.Gopal Handoo to Velim to meet this Prince of Goa."
However, the newspaper article doesn't contain any further detail about the "Prince of Goa" aspect. As far as I know, neither the Portuguese nor the Indian government recognized any "Prince of Goa". I can't find any reliable source that talk about Roque Santana being (or even claiming to be) a descendant of the Kadambas. Also, a couple of local newspaper reports call Santana "Father of Goan Democracy", but I'm unable to find this epithet in any scholarly books or national newspapers.
Does anyone have more information about the legitimacy of "Prince of Goa" and "Father of Goan Democracy" claims? utcursch | talk 18:26, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
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refer to Velliapura 'Velliapura Viragal' the 12th century battle the 1345 killing of kadamba king his Queen moves to Veliapura she is cremated by her nephew jayasha the family has been living there for centuries his great grand father Leao ( meaning Lion in Portuguese) who owned a timber yard in Haliyal, which was confiscated by Madras Governor George Harris in 1845. his grand father Nic'leao was awarded a Portuguese title as village Sherif RoquiSantna is the family member a prince, freedom fighter, father of Goan Democracy and later law maker His Son is Sanjaya deva named by Kadamba Coterie in 2007. he was NSUI Goa Student leader. He (RS) died in 2007, may his soul rest in peace 104.207.219.62 ( talk) 18:51, 26 February 2018 (UTC) 104.207.219.62 ( talk) 19:05, 26 February 2018 (UTC) |
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The banner teach him English...lol 104.207.219.78 ( talk) 00:36, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
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Hi, I have been working on recommending new members for your project for a while, and have sent some lists to Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga who was willing to help invite those recommended editors. I wonder if you mind me sending invitations directly for WikiProject India on your behalf to save time and efforts of yours? Thank you! Bobo.03 ( talk) 17:18, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
While working on Shivaji, I noted I was having a really hard time finding any facts whatsoever about the Battle of Umberkhind, so I figured I'd check the main article. It has no footnotes whatsoever, and of the one claimed source that is in English, I searched it on GoogleBooks and I'm finding no mention of this battle.
Do sources exist in English perhaps under a different name or rendering? All I'm finding on GoogleBooks is shady and recent Indian books clearly copied from Wikipedia itself.
For speakers of Hindi or Marathi, could you glance at GoogleBooks to see if there is any mention of this battle in scholarly works? I don't want to be English-centric and say the battle doesn't exist just because I can't find English sources, but the Maratha Empire is pretty well covered by English-speaking academics (British and Indian), so I find it suspicious that I can't find anything about this battle that's not just blogs and cruft.
If we can't find proper sourcing, should we not just AFD the entire article until such point as someone can source a proper stub at least? MatthewVanitas ( talk) 06:44, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
I am aman goyal ( talk · contribs), who has a history of disruptive editing, has removed the redirect of the mentioned article with an edit summary 'redesigning'. A few more editors went on to remove maintenance tags and categories. The article still reads like a fan page than an encyclopedia, and I feel it will read the same despite the 'redesigning'. Any thoughts, or does the redirect need to be restored? Thanks, MT Train Talk 11:11, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
I am aman goyal ( talk) 12:19, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
Someone has provided a link to a potential source in the discussion at Talk:Velir#Reverting_edit_by_Sitush but neither myself nor Utcursch can access the thing. Can anyone else? - Sitush ( talk) 12:37, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
The article Sambhaji for at least four years now has had a constant stream of editors looking to change the phrase Sambhaji's behaviour, including alleged irresponsibility and addiction to sensual pleasures led Shivaji to imprison his son at Panhala fort in 1678 to curb his behaviour.
If you have suggestions on how best to phrase and cite the description of Sambhaji's imprisonment, which is evidently a hotly-contested issue, please post your thoughts (and sourcing) at: Talk:Sambhaji#How_best_to_cover_Sambhaji's_confinement_at_Panhala?. Thanks! MatthewVanitas ( talk) 21:14, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
Can anyone please mine some sources on the subject (The government report on Stephen Court Fire) of this [ url] especially the hindu article linked to in the article — Frc Rdl 02:57, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
Is Haryana ready for GA nomination? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 08:16, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello, way back in 2011 I first came to the article Shivaji, and it was in terrible shape so I did an initial major cleanup. Now years later, it has declined only slightly, but I've decided to try to push it to an even higher state and submit it for Good Article status.
In my initial 2011–2012 cleanup I did a full copyedit, removed numerous cites to non-RSs (a children's novel and a television serial), and addressed the POV promotion of Shivaji by partisans. Now in 2018, I'm going through the entire article in great deal, making sure that every single statement is sourced, and the source is a serious and valid one and not just whatever pops up on GoogleBooks. A key effort also is finding what's missing from the article, as steadily I find examples which partisans think reflect negatively on their hero and glossed over, such as the degree to which he was a vassal of neighboring Muslim states, possibly unethical warfare, and the grand controversy of Shivaji's qualifications for coronation.
If anyone is interested in helping out, I'd welcome your input if you believe you have the above-average Wikipedia skills to prepare an article for Good Article review. If you are not sure and don't want to get involved directly, your observations and suggestions would be welcome on the Talk page. Thanks! MatthewVanitas ( talk) 01:33, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, following article title and MOS:HEADCAPS, which of these is correct: Tamil Inscriptions of Bangalore or Tamil inscriptions of Bangalore? -- Titodutta ( contact) 01:59, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello. I was wondering if there are any easy to use reliable sources for really small towns/villages. Not only for census, but if it can be at least verfied per WP:V, that would be great. I have a few articles on my watchlist which currently are unreferenced. —usernamekiran (talk) 06:58, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
Works by the Government of India were all rights reserved. But GOI introduced National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy in 2012 followed by Government Open Data License - India in 2017. So "all shareable non-sensitive data available either in digital or analog forms but generated using public funds by various agencies of the Government of India" are now free to use. I created a license tag in Commons. It looks like Template:PD-USGov except that it is an "attribution" license. There are so many images by the Government of India are already used here under fair use. I think it is time to replace them with reusable files. J e e 02:13, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
Some recent change to the
Template:WikiProject India banner and/or its usage has caused it to start populating dozen of new categories. (I think it is related to the field=
parameter, but I have not checked.)
To remove them from the cleanup list at Special:WantedCategories, I have created temporary category pages, and grouped them under Category:WikiProject India articles new assessment categories.
If WikiProject India members want to retain these categories, please replace each temporary category page with a properly-set-up category page. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 06:08, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
I have initiated a merger proposal at Tamil cinema and your comments would be helpful in reaching a consensus. Thanks, MT Train Talk 06:58, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
A page-move discussion has just been relisted at Talk:Rajahmundry#Requested move 18 March 2018, and your input would be much appreciated. Please come and help with your opinion and rationale about whether or not this article should be renamed. Thank you very much in advance! Sagavaj ( talk) 22:25, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
A page-move discussion has just been relisted at Talk:East Bengali refugees#Requested move 10 March 2018, and your input would be much appreciated. Please come and help with your opinion and rationale about whether or not this article should be renamed. Thank you very much in advance! Paine Ellsworth put'r there 19:47, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
Would some members from WP:INDIA mind watching K. M. Cherian (doctor) for a bit? The article was recently prod deleted, but then subsequently restored per this deprod request. I've been trying to find better sources and improve the article, but an WP:SPA Nirmal Sam keeps showing up and damaging the formatting, etc. and adding unsourced content. The SPA is a new editor and I believe they are acting in good faith; they just lack familiarity with the MOS and some of the basic policies and guidelines. Anyway, I've tried engaging them on their user talk, but so far have not gotten any response. I'm not sure how to get the SPA's attention (maybe there's an English comprehension issue?), but perhaps someone else might have better luck. If Nirmal Sam, however, keeps on doing what they have been doing, then the only option is going to be to ask an administrator to intervene. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 04:56, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
Can someone please take a look at this biography on an academician having just one source. The editor has added every single publication, research, award and appointment, making it read like a resume. I've tried finding sources, but they are very few, while other people with the same name also exist. I'm just not sure if and how much to trim, or if the person itself is notable or not. Thanks, MT Train Talk 08:28, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
I'm getting closer to launching the GA review for Shivaji ( 49th most popular page in this project with almost 11k views/day). Once I get that GA done, can anyone suggest another historical figure who is immensely popular, but their article is in terrible shape and needs to be carefully worked over? Thanks! MatthewVanitas ( talk) 01:14, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
In 2017 – 2018, the Wikimedia Foundation and Google working in close coordination with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Wikimedia India Chapter (WMIN) and user groups from India, are piloting a program encouraging Wikipedia communities to create locally relevant and high-quality content in Indian languages. This program will (a) support active and experienced Wikipedia editors through the donation of laptops and stipends for internet access and (b) sponsor a language-based contest that aims to address existing Wikipedia content gaps.
Phase (a) has been completed, during which many active contributors were awarded laptops and internet stipends. Phase (b) will be a contest in which editors will come together and develop a writing contest focused on content gaps. Each month three individual prizes will be awarded to each community based on their contribution for the month. The prizes worth 3,000 INR, 2000 INR, and 1,000 INR, will be awarded to the top contributors for each month. The contest started at March 1, 2018, 0:00, and will end at May 31, 2018, 23:59 (IST). Useful links are as follows:
Looking forward your participation, all the best. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 22:17, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
A school article has been created Venkatagiri Raja High School. A lot of work is needed. I feel we can delete unsourced content after "History" section. Kindly share your opinion. -- Titodutta ( talk) 20:53, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
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Could someone who is familiar with the politics of Uttar Pradesh please take a look at the article on Kamlakar Singh (born 21 June 1967), popularly known as Lambardar? There are several claims in the article that are not supported by references. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 18:42, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
Indians, born before 1947: is it correct to state their citizenship was British Raj? We have seen changes on Wikipedia, and a large number of recent changes on Wikidata. Here we have a more active community, thanks in advance. -- Titodutta ( talk) 08:28, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
A relevant discussion for converting {{ Infobox writer}} into a wrapper of this template has been initiated at Template talk:Infobox writer#convert_to_wrapper. Your comments will be appreciated. Capankajsmilyo ( talk) 04:52, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
This is a huge article and is a mix of a hagiography and a fan site. It needs serious attention but after reading through a fair bit I'm not even sure how to approach it, I've left a similar note on the talk page where I hope anyone interested can discuss and cull/clean up. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 11:51, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Village_pump (proposals)#RfC: Ending the system of portals. - Sitush ( talk) 16:35, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi all, could use some guidance re: these edits, where an editor changed all of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh's Singhs to Ram Rahims. Any thoughts? Would this be appropriate? Indian name rules are not my speciality. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 14:38, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
There are a couple of open threads at WT:NCIN that require resolution, one added by me today and another that has had no response since last year. - Sitush ( talk) 06:09, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
Asaram Bapu looks to be in need of clean up by people who actually know what they're doing, if anyone is prepared to take a look. - Sitush ( talk) 06:12, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello, we have Tag & Assess portal. We last worked on it 2014. The Assessment bar, most probably, was not working at that time. I am not fully sure about the current status of it, or if any other alternative (not AWB) that makes life easier. Ideas? Once again there are too many unassessed India articles? Ideas and suggestions please. Pinging User:AshLin, who was really active in the drive. -- Titodutta ( talk) 07:06, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
I run across a lot of India and SE Asia articles while reviewing new page creations. Many are very short just naming a village or place without context of even what country it may be in. Are there any resources to look up such places? I know of India 2011 census data, Indian village directory and * AreaProfiler - India.
Another issue I have is assessing Indian biographies. It is my understanding that many of the Indian newspapers do 'articles for hire'. Can anyone here give an informal assessment of which of the major papers may be particularly bad about this or if there is a way to distinguish purchased publicity from genuine journalism in those papers? I have also noticed that many articles, even on easily notable individuals are written using extremely grandiose wording and flamboyant style. (I see this to an extent in articles from the entire region. ) I find this makes me immediately assume lack of notability since that type of writing nearly always is an attempt to puff up a non-notable person when encountered in Western biographies. I think this may be a cultural difference. Are there differences in what is considered appropriate or is my perception a combination of a biased sample set and a bit of unconscious racism on my part? Does anyone here have any insights which would help me recalibrate my expectations so I am less likely to misjudge articles?
Finally, can anyone recommend some good resources for to get a grounding in the politics of caste and ethnicity. I know enough to understand it is a minefield and I have some of the basics from Wikipedia articles but I would vastly prefer some solid works by cultural anthropologists and historians.
This is a part of the world with which I am completely unfamiliar with but we have many editors writing lots of articles about the region. Any help you can provide to help me orient myself and get an idea of where the pitfalls lay is much appreciated. Thank you. Jbh Talk 15:50, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Greetings,
#1Lib1Ref is happening again in May!
It is an annual campaign where librarians add references to improve Wikipedia, is coming back again this year, running from May 15th to June 5th, 2018. It is being run for the second time from this year because we heard from you a desire to run it again out of excitement. Librarians, community members, and affiliates are encouraged to make 1Lib1Ref [their own]. So whether we call this 1Lib1Ref May, 1Lib1Ref for the Southern Hemisphere, or 1Lib1Ref Strikes Back, the point is the excitement is building again, and we'd like you to be a part of it.
If you would like host a session at a local library, here are some materials for you:
"Imagine a World where Every Librarian Added One More Reference to Wikipedia" Wikipedia is a first stop for researchers. Let's make it better! Your goal today is to add one reference to Wikipedia! Any citation to a reliable source is a benefit to Wikipedia readers worldwide.
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Moyna is a village. There are two other pages - Moyna (community development block) and Moyna (Vidhan Sabha constituency). Master Of Ninja moved the Moyna page to Moyna (village) and made the base Moyna page a disambiguation page. I moved the disambiguation page to one with a suffix and wanted to use the base Moyna page for the village. I could not move it back and so moved it to Moyna, Purba Medinipur. Thereafter, ToThAc, moved the Moyna disambiguation page to the base page. I have requested for Moyna, Purba Medinipur to be moved to the base page, and ToThAc is opposing it. Now, Moyna is a small place and it does not matter whether it is a base page or one with a suffix, but the principle is important. ToThAc is brash about it, see this. I am only worried that this could lead to the movement of a large number of other pages indiscriminately. I request wider participation in the decision making on the talk page of the article. - Chandan Guha ( talk) 01:50, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
New-user Alikat101 introduced an uncited paragraph to the top of the Kashmir section of the Self-determination article, in the process introducing some typos into the document. I fixed the typos, but I suspect there may be some NPOV issues with the added paragraph. I left it in and tagged it as it seemed to have some awareness of the history, and I'm not qualified to judge. Could someone more knowledgeable please take a look? This is the text he added:
Ever since Pakistan and India’s inception in 1947 the legal state of Jammu and Kashmir, the land between India and Pakistan, has been contested as Britain was resigning from their rule over this land. Maharaja Hari Singh, the ruler residing over Kashmir at the time accession, signed the Instrument of Accession Act on October 26th 1947 as his territory was being attacked by Pakistani tribesmen. The passing of this Act allowed Jammu and Kashmir to accede to India on legal terms. When this Act was taken to Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy of British India, he agreed to it and stated that a referendum needed to be held by the citizens in India, Pakistan, and Kashmir so that they could vote as to where Kashmir should accede to. This referendum that Mountbatten called for never took place and framed one of the legal disputes for Kashmir. In 1948 the Untied Nation intervened and ordered a plebiscite to be taken in order to hear the voices of the Kashmiris if they would like to accede to Pakistan or India. This plebiscite left out the right for Kashmiris to have the right of self determination and become an autonomous state. To this date the Kashmiris have been faced with numerous human rights violations committed by both India and Pakistan and have yet to gain complete autonomy which they have been seeking through self-determination.
GretLomborg ( talk) 18:24, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
Can anyone look at Rohila (Hindu), which is supposedly a Hindu ethnic group distinct from the Muslim Rohillas? The article has several citations, but most of them either do not mention the term "Rohila", are unreliable sources (e.g. a a Google search page), or both (e.g. James Tod).
The only citation in the article that actually mentions the term "Rohila" is a chapter on the Runwala caste in People of India. This source mentions the term "Rohila" twice, but does not assert that they are/were a Hindu ethnic group:
Last month, the creator moved the article Runwala to " Rohilla Rajputs" and " Rohila Tank Kshatriya", and I undid those moves as none of the reliable sources mention these terms (see Talk:Runwala#Recent edits). So, now the user has created this new article. I tagged several citations in the article for failing WP:V standards, but the creator alleges that I may be biased towards this particular 'ethnic group'. So, a third-party opinion would be welcome. utcursch | talk 14:21, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
I urge, make the page eclectic. It becomes more important and responsible task since we have another ethnic group of different religion but coincidentally same namesake, highly famous in history. I've also asked to the former's website http://www.rohillataank.com to help the article and waiting for some volunteer.hey_pal (Friend.hey)( talk) 17:00, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
Does this poster File:Two (short film, 1964) title card.JPG come under {{ PD-text}}? Please share your opinion. -- Titodutta ( talk) 18:50, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
In the carving shown here, from the Ivory carved tusk depicting Buddha life stories, one of the figures represents Venerable Moggallana (Maudgalyayana)? I need to know this for a DYK review, which also includes the image. Thanks!-- Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 16:16, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Much of the news sources regarding the subject is around 2013 and 2014, and almost none in the recent years. While there were plans to create such a suburban area in 2013 [1] [2], the idea appears to have been scrapped in 2014. [3] [4] Though the article mentions it as an unofficial metropolitan area, can someone please confirm if the term is still used. Thanks, MT Train Talk 12:14, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
References
lot of local sayings , bard adage documents , Medieval writing work , Britishers writing works , Government Gazetteers of British period etc are found in India which reflect the lifestyle , Historical events , Ancestry of Royal Families , Happenings . These sources must be based on actual facts or may have some additions . If we are believing ancient Sanskrit inscription and scriptures , then we have to consider above said old sources as a references of History . Recent works are also based on old findings . I have an example on this matter which is making conflict . One of Admin is not accepting the old sources.
Variant name of any dynasty should be allowed to add which is known to public since long period ie. about 600 years . Corrupt form of Sanskrit words should also be added .
For example : As per Sanskrit inscriptions, scriptures , King Bhoja was said to be of Pramar or Parmar dynasty . But Since 600 years , in Hindi or local languages it became Panwar, Ponwar or Powar etc as per medieval documents by Abu Fazal / Firista , bard adage documents , Britisher writings , Gazetteer , Local sayings . This fact should be displayed on wikipedia . Without which , information seems to be incomplete . I have tried to add variant name of Dynasty but it is being reverted . I think there should not be any issue if variant name of dynasty is added to page . Variant name is also stated in references given with original reference of Page Bhoja or Paramara Dynasty . So what is the issue if alternative word Ponwar or Panwar is added with Paramara Dynasty.
Please suggest . G9H ( talk) 09:16, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi all,
There are obviously many people of this name.
As you can see from the
article history, any number of edits are not about this
Uttar Pradesh politician.
I think a page move would appear to be at least an interim remedy.
What do you think about this? Pete AU aka -- Shirt58 ( talk) 11:52, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi all - I created a biographical article on Sonali Kulkarni and observed that the content was deleted by a user with the name User:Terminattor with the note that she doesn't want her name to be on Wikipedia pages. I reached out to Tito Dutta and he was able to help restore the content. We see that the content has been deleted again. The article met the notability criteria and the information available online is significant. How should I handle the situation? Any thoughts or guidance? -- Parul Thakur ( talk) 12:13, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
Indu Malhotra article needs serious editing. Given that her elevation as Supreme Court judge is in news, the page must be getting a lot of hits. However, there is scope for lot of improvement. Any help will be much appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anom1987 ( talk • contribs) 04:31, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
I just relisted a requested page move on the Swaminarayan Temple, Ahmedabad article's talk page. Please come and add your opinion and rationale to help resolve this issue. Thank you very much! Paine Ellsworth put'r there 10:11, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
The Caravan (27 april 2018), Indus Valley people did not have genetic contribution from the steppes: Head of Ancient DNA Lab testing Rakhigarhi samples:
“It will show that there is no steppe contribution to the Indus Valley DNA,” Rai said. “The Indus Valley people were indigenous, but in the sense that their DNA had contributions from near eastern Iranian farmers mixed with the Indian hunter-gatherer DNA, that is still reflected in the DNA of the people of the Andaman islands.”
Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 07:20, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
MTNL Perfect Health Mela has quite a lot of issues that need cleanup, including sourcing and POV. I'm short of time presently and if someone could take care of this, it would be great. Thanks, MT Train Talk 10:19, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
It would be useful if an India expert could look at this article. The references are all formatted as {{ sfnp}} although only one has a corresponding bibliographic source. I wonder if the text and refs has been copied from elsewhere. Pam D 22:55, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
And there are similar problems at Battle of Pindi Bhattian. Pam D 05:43, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
I have recently revised and developed the Bagdah page, as well as other pages, with fully referenced text. ImSonyR9 had placed some unreferenced material on the page. I removed the material from the page with a note on his page to add only verifiable information in Wikipedia. In response he has placed these on my talk page - Why had you removed my edits.? and Further don't remove my inputs about Bagdah . I shall be grateful for an admin handling the situation. - Chandan Guha ( talk) 10:40, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
Can anyone knowledgeable about Telugu entertainment industry take a look at Hari Teja? There seem to be some incorrect information in the Filmography section. E.g. "RADJH" (which links to Ashok Kumar (film)), Vetagadu (which was released before the actress was born), Babu (also released before her birth) etc. A set of IP addresses seem to have inserted misinformation mentioning Rajesh Anandan (I removed quite a bit of misinformation from that article). utcursch | talk 14:15, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi friends, I'm curious how you would interpret these edits [28] [29] [30] [31] where the editor adds Urdu as a primary language to TV series that are made in India.
Might this be a subtle form of Indian/Pakistani ethnic-warring? I don't want to jump to any conclusions. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 13:52, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
Can someone please confirm if Baba Sangat Singh and Sangat Singh Minhas are the same people? Thanks, MT Train Talk 05:11, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi all, an IP editor at Bajrangi Bhaijaan has repeatedly changed Azad Kashmir to Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. [32] [33] [34] with the most recent justification "Do I have to take a legal discourse? I repeatedly keep correcting that Azad Kashmir is not an Indian term. For Indians, it is Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. And this is an Indian film. Please don't distort facts." This is something that's happened numerous times over many months (probably not the same guy). Any preference here? Pakistan Occupied Kashmir redirects to Azad Kashmir, so we're ultimately sending readers to an article that is not consistent with the phrasing we're using in the film article. But I can understand that in the context of an Indian film the region might be called Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. Input is appreciated, thanks. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 14:54, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
At the article
Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, 2018, one user had added an opinion poll from Graphnile. On further checking I found that this poll hasn't received any coverage and the body conducting the survey isn't reliable either. So I removed the polls with the links pointing to Graphnile's website. However, my edit was
reverted by an IP 14.140.217.4 with the following summary The person who deleted the content is ignorant about the Electoral Analytics or have some political motives.
I don't think this survey is reliable enough and this is spamming. Should we list such polls on current election articles? --
Skr15081997 (
talk) 10:27, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
There has been a lot of caste pov-pushing at articles such as Vasireddy Venkatadri Nayudu. That particular one claims that he was the first Indian ruler to rebel against the British but my request last year on the talk page for translations of the sources etc has come to nothing. Is that claim really likely to be correct? What about Tipu Sultan, for example? I am sure I have seen claims that are earlier, perhaps relating to what is now TN or Kerala. - Sitush ( talk) 15:44, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
Editor activity is increasing in the portal namespace. If you are interested in shaping the future of the portal system, be sure to check out developments at WikiProject Portals and get involved in restarting our portal workgroup ( WikiProject Indian portals). I know some of us would have hammered on a 'portal delete button' like a woodpecker but it's clear now that portals are sticking around, so let's get these things automated and looking less like a 1990's internet zeitgeist. Kind regards, Cesdeva (talk) 14:24, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
Deshastha Brahmin, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Sitush ( talk) 07:44, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
Please be aware that a French-speaking editor with little or no knowledge of English has been using WP:MACHINETRANSLATION to drop massive amounts of text into articles, causing disruption and making work for other editors to clean it up. Please see the following discussions regarding Indian painting, where his edits have since been rolled back:
I now see that Andershus also previously created the article Indian Tribal Painting ( sic; with incorrect capitalization) using Machine translation from fr:Peinture tribale en Inde. See:
This article should be deleted in my opinion, and restarted from scratch, either as a brand new article with English references, or else as a translation by competent bilingual editors. Please watch out for and monitor any additions by this editor to India-related topics. Cordially, Mathglot ( talk) 11:11, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
There is an ongoing discussion on Wikimedia Commons about usage of images from Press Information Bureau under the licence tag, GODL-India. This discussion will have great effect on coverage of images related to India, as the scope and the applicable limits of the tag is being discussed for all websites of Government of India, including its sub-departments, agencies, ministries etc. Kindly follow the discussion, and voice your opinion. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 17:40, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
A discussion has been opened on Meta-Wiki to discuss about the selection criteria for users to attend the Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India). Kindly give your opinion at m:Talk:Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018_India)#Ideal participation. Your responses will help the organizers and the scholarships team to select right participants for the workshop. The discussion will be open until the end of 25 May 2018. --Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 11:25, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
Just a note. Thankfully, this RfC has closed with the outcome that we should not state Ethnicity in infoboxes. I say thankfully because it is an absolute minefield for Indian biographies. We recently also had an RfC that determined we should not state religion in biographical infoboxes. (But see my further note below).
Perhaps one day the community will sort of the problems related to the nationality and citizenship fields! In the interval, feel free to remove ethnicity and religion from the things because as far as I can tell there has been no bot doing the job or, if there is one, it hasn't touched much in the India sphere yet. - Sitush ( talk) 15:23, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
The Kartographer extension is now available on English Wikipedia. See User:Naveenpf/sandbox for India-related test cases. utcursch | talk 17:37, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
Pentapadu mandal ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Should "mandal" be capitalized? Googling, it appears that "mandal" and "Mandal" are used interchangeably, sometimes on the same page. Someone(s) has gone through Pentapadu mandal and capped mandal. Should the article be moved or Mandal decapped? Cheers Jim1138 ( talk) 05:16, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
Can anyone sort out the mess at Samajwadi Janata Dal? As it stands, it is a WP:CRYSTAL type of situation. - Sitush ( talk) 13:20, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
Can anyone take a look at Special:Contributions/66.183.50.236? The anon is mass-replacing historical flags with File:Punjab flag.svg in the battles involving the Sikhs (not necessarily the Sikh Empire). The article Nishan Sahib suggests that this flag was not in use at the time of these battles. utcursch | talk 17:47, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
Is Draft:Radhika Vemula independently notable, apart from Suicide of Rohith Vemula? Calliopejen1 ( talk) 00:36, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
Are we in Dalit History Month again? We get a lot of this sort of stuff at that time of year and it is a nightmare to police because it is almost all about activism and nothing about encyclopaedic content. - Sitush ( talk) 07:47, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Template talk:Hindu politics#Rename this to Hindutva politics?, regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, DBig Xray 09:52, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
What thoughts do people have about this journal? I've never seen it before today, nor seen it cited. - Sitush ( talk) 18:50, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
Requesting eyeballs on this BLP Hrishikesh Kanitkar, which has been in the news [35] [36] [37] for multiple instances of vandalism and misinformation. — Nearly Headless Nick {c} 18:14, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
Pending changes protection should not be used as a preemptive measure against violations that have not yet occurred.Additionally, I don't see any evidence of long-term-vandalism other than garden-variety-nonsense.Please undo your protection. ~ Winged Blades Godric 18:41, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
I've currently opened a peer review for Indian National Congress . I think the article meets the GA criteria and I'm thinking about nominating it as a GA candidate. It would be helpful if other editors could comment on the article and/or offer suggestions, etc. Thanks. Akhiljaxxn ( talk) 07:17, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
I've reviewed what looks like a promising new article, Draft:Nehru and Indian Economy. I'm not an expert on Indian topics, so I'm requesting subject matter experts also take a look at it. -- RoySmith (talk) 21:16, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
List of diplomatic visits to India was nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of diplomatic visits to the United States. Would editors be able to find sources about the subject? Thanks, Cunard ( talk) 07:18, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
I am having difficulty finding references from reliable sources about Punam Suri, although this might be because I am limited to English-language sources. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 12:09, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
Could I get eyes on this new article? Articles about very old history sourced to paper sources always put me on the alert for nonsense/making things up. It seems unlikely that this is the case here, but you never know.... Thanks, Calliopejen1 ( talk) 00:58, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
I added a {{context}} tag to the article, Kirata Kingdom, and I started a section on the article’s Talk page: Talk:Kirata Kingdom#Context - Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) 03:56, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India) to be tentatively held in the last weekend of September 2018. This is going to be a three-day training workshop to equip the participants with the skills to create illustrations and digital drawings in SVG format, using software like Inkscape.
Minimum eligibility criteria to participate is as below:
Please apply at the following link before 16th June 2018: Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India) Scholarships.
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 11:12, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
Could some knowlegable wikiperson look at article Baru Sahib, it's pretty rubbish IMO. TKS-- 92.1.72.100 ( talk) 09:21, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
Several scholarly books on Tamil-related topics use a particular transliterate scheme (like IAST for Sanskrit-related topics). For example, " Sangam" is written as "Caṅkam", Pandya is written as "Pāṇṭiya", Chola is written as Cо̄ḷa, "Chera" is written as "Cēra" etc.
I may be wrong, but I think this is the transliteration scheme used in the Tamil Lexicon. Does this transliteration scheme have a name? Is there a Wikipedia article about it? utcursch | talk 15:39, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
There is a Page move discussion going on for Rajneesh. Would anyone be interested in participating? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Rajneesh#Requested_move_11_June_2018 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Accesscrawl ( talk • contribs) 15:51, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
The idols in the temples in Pakistan and the ponds outside those temples that are considered necessary for a holy dip are drying up. A source that can be used for that can be seen at https://indianexpress.com/article/pakistan/absence-of-lord-ram-hanuman-statues-in-katas-raj-temple-irks-pakistan-supreme-court-4979705/ I am unable to add it to any article as they are page protected. I therefore request some body here to do the needful! Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yagnik2 ( talk • contribs) 19:27, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
Discussion of a proposed consolidated Weapons of power in Hindu epics article is at Talk:Kurukshetra War#New article proposed - "Weapons of power in Hindu epics". -- Bejnar ( talk) 14:45, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
It was pointed out in the discussion that Simple English Wikipedia is most popular (comparatively) in India. Input from Indian editors on the future of SEW and potential merge here would be much appreciated. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:35, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Wikimedia Commons now uses GODL-India for all images produced by the Indian gouvernment, and therefore accepts any content available under this license. Consequently all images of money (banknotes and coins) are also accepted (the pictures themselves need to be under a free license). So all files on the English Wikipedia under GODL-India could be transferred to Commons. All files previously deleted are being undeleted. Some help for categories for c:Category:Coins of India and c:Category:Banknotes of India would be welcome. Regards, Yann ( talk) 00:15, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
Hi guys, any one interested in contributing to Bachelor Girls & Martyrs of Marriage Accesscrawl ( talk) 03:08, 5 July 2018 (UTC)
I’ve run across two articles that may cover the same thing: Foreign Contribution (regulation) Act, 2010 and Foreign Contribution Regulation Act. If this is the same law, then the articles should be merged. Since I can’t even tell for sure if they’re the same subject, I’d be pretty useless myself; thus, I bring the potential task here. Any takers? — Gorthian ( talk) 05:49, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
Maps showing the borders of India, Pakistan, and China are a controversial topic, with each claiming some territory not held by it. It strikes me that the appropriate maps for Wikipedia to use are the international ones, showing disputed territories as such; and indeed our article on India [38] (and the one on Pakistan [39]) do just that. A number of other articles, however, depict the entire territory claimed by India as being a part of India; see this image used in the featured list List of chief ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party, or this one, used in the featured list List of Presidents of India. Unfortunately making maps isn't a skill everyone has; I certainly do not. Therefore, our options seem to be to a) remove the maps and hope someone recreates them with the appropriate boundaries, or b) do nothing. Since either decision has the potential for controversy, I would like to see some discussion on the topic. Vanamonde ( talk) 12:03, 5 July 2018 (UTC)
Hello, |
More eyes at this article would be welcome. The article's subject is involved in some recent/current court cases and controversies, and it seems that SPAs (both supporters and detractors) are attempting to spin the article based on often self-published and poor quality sources. Abecedare ( talk) 23:09, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
Hello. I recently draftified three articles by two editors ( Draft:Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, 2019, Draft:Indian general election, 2019 (Bihar), and Draft:Indian general election, 2019 (Chhattisgarh)). But there are few more similar articles in the mainspace. Should the articles in such state be kept in the mainspace? or should they be moved to draft-space? What kind of work they would need if for getting in to the mainspace? Any suggestions regarding the issue are welcome. —usernamekiran (talk) 05:59, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
Hello.@ Usernamekiran: & @ Vanamonde93: This articles should not be discuss here,because Every Year in Wikipedia lots of articles created year by year & state by state.these article should not be moved into draft,these are Mainspace articles. Less than 1 year is Left For important Indian election so I these articles should not be moved into draft,( Mr.Mani Raj Paul ( talk) 07:16, 22 July 2018 (UTC))
@ Vanamonde93: I'm am a creator of these articles Draft:Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, 2019 & Draft:Indian general election, 2019 (Chhattisgarh) as you know Brother.After 4-5 months these articles Converted into Mainspace articles we everyone know that these are are the STATE Representation of Indian general election, 2019,So I want these articles should be moved into the Mainspace Today.( Mr.Mani Raj Paul ( talk) 07:33, 22 July 2018 (UTC))
@ Vanamonde93: I know information is not available all the things are TBA or TBD in these articles but also in Indian general election, 2019 not much information is available.but my brother that articles not be moved into Draft,so can I revert my these articles into Mainspace????( Mr.Mani Raj Paul ( talk) 07:50, 22 July 2018 (UTC))
in 2014 also seperates article were made like Indian general election, 2014 (Bihar) ( Mr.Mani Raj Paul ( talk) 08:03, 22 July 2018 (UTC))
that is similar to my opinion. I am not against creating the individual articles for each state. But only one line, and a table of TBA/TBD is useless. All these articles should be created after they can have enough content. —usernamekiran (talk) 20:03, 23 July 2018 (UTC)