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I'm trying to help Mihir_nanthur ( talk · contribs) find a source to verify their claim of a Maina Gawankar who apparently was, in Mihir's words, "A lady who spent 22 years on bed and 1 amongst the first few women criminal lawyers of maharashtra." With some help from the WP:Teahouse another reference to (potentially) the same person was found on Samyukta_Maharashtra_Samiti.
Some quick internet searches didn't find much, but I don't have any context or ability to read Hindi, so I may be missing something. Spurrious Correlation 07:13, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
Is it possible from the archives you could retrieve something. Was a leading lady for the Maharashtra Samyukta Morcha. The movement established for the indenpence of Maharashtra as a state. Was handicapped sitting on the streets of Delhi during the cold winters. Mihir nanthur ( talk) 07:17, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
I seem to recall that WikiProject India had some custom searches, scripts or something, because Google is poor at indexing Indian topics. Are these still about? -- Malcolmxl5 ( talk) 00:08, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
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Is there any reason why this unsourced article should not be stubified? - Roxy the inedible dog . wooF 18:23, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
The boys' wing is split up into 4 houses and the girls' wing into 2. Competitions are held on the basis of these houses, and points are awarded to the champion and runner-up houses. At the end of the year the house with the most points is awarded the Overall Championship. Classes and other academic activities are held in the aptly named Academic Building, which is equipped with multimedia classrooms, ballrooms, physics, chemistry and biology labs and offices for teachers, the vice-principle and other support staff. "
Pijushghosh1 has moved Jangipur, West Bengal, a town page, to Jangipur Municipality. I think it is a wrong page move and needs to be reverted. I request someone to please take necessary action. He also created a page Jangipur district, which I have made Jangipur police district as per references. - Chandan Guha ( talk) 00:19, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
Done @ Chandan Guha: Should be resolved now Zindor ( talk) 19:06, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
Please participate in Talk:2020_Delhi_riots#Hail_Lord_Rama_is_biased_translation_for_Jai_shree_Ram. Eatcha 11:13, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
This draft is pretty badly sourced, but I'm guessing it is largely accurate, and it's on an encyclopedic topic. Should it be approved to mainspace for further development? Or left for eventual WP:G13 deletion in draftspace? Or does anyone want to adopt it? Thanks, Calliopejen1 ( talk) 22:08, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
A couple of editors have made large scale changes to this article [1]. In particular, the tone of the lead is quite different. Could be fine but FYI. -- RegentsPark ( comment) 01:15, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
From 1 October to 31 December, Women in Red is running a virtual contest on Asian women. In November, this will coincide with Wikipedia Asian Month. We look forward to strong participation from all those interested in improving coverage of Indian women.-- Ipigott ( talk) 16:05, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
Can someone who knows Bengali see if this is a hoax? It looks pretty fishy to me, but would be super interesting if true. I found one English-language ref that looks reliable— [2]—but otherwise pretty much nothing. AleatoryPonderings ( talk) 04:36, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
I find it surprising that this article has had those ugly maintenance tags on it for nearly a decade. It is one of the best newspapers in India (I would say it's the best – doesn't publish press releases like The Hindu). But all my attempts to find sources are failing due to the generic nature of the term; there a ton of results citing IE, but nothing about IE itself.
Is anyone else able to find sources? – SD0001 ( talk) 17:06, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
Thanks TryKid and Bluerasberry. Looking at those sources, I couldn't add much to Indian Express itself, though I ended up adding bits to related articles like Media of India. That one from EPW looks interesting, but only if I knew the background.
I am wondering whether this piece can be considered reliable? The founding editor of the site has a book on the topic published by the Oxford University Press, so looks credible to me. Just wanted to double-check. – SD0001 ( talk) 05:41, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
I've been working on the 2020 Assam gas and oil leak page, and was wondering if a more experienced editor could take a look and let me know how to improve it. I could also use some help with sourcing images for the article. Thanks! -- Naushervan ( talk) 06:58, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
The tone of the article Pasi (caste) is not neutral and sound biased whereas the use of the word like untouchable and emphasising Dalit and pig-rearers on the basis old unverified testimony is questionable which is offensive and obliterates as per the law of the land which was questioned same by the High court of Mumbai. I've added Dalit word is offensive and obliterates section for the discussion your feedback will help the article to improve. — Sanskari Hangout 08:31, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
My concern is Rajput related pages. Ex List of battles of Rajasthan..The citation style used by editors on these pages are different. Usually i see the book etc present in the list of bibliography in article where this type of citation are used. But i am witnessing a heavy use of these incomplete (half) citations which leaves no way to verify the content. Ironically these topics are covered in some of the good books by genuine publishers but editors to the Rajput related pages are not using it and this becomes a pretext to write some WP:POV pushing stuffs in a bid for glorification. Ex see talk page of Amar Singh I which i recently edited. The version before my edit was heavily unsourced and written like a fan page. But I used "Abraham Eraly: Emperor of the peacock throne by Penguin publishers" which is a very high quality source and going through its relevant pages i found that situation portrayed in article was just a opposite to what Mughals inflicted on Mewar. How to deal with these type of citation which gives no information about book etc from where the stuff is taken? Tagging some of the pupils whom i found knowledgable in this area. Alivardi NitinMlk and Jonathansammy Heba Aisha ( talk) 22:24, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
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And the article declares victory of Rajputs with unclear sources and describes that Mughal princes fled. Heba Aisha ( talk) 22:39, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
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Only half name of writer is written and there is no bibliography nor any extra info to find the book ?? Heba Aisha ( talk) 22:48, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
A complex RfC is going on, after a long bout of edit war. Uninvolved editors needed at the discussion. Aditya( talk • contribs) 06:39, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
Is the journalist and novelist Draft:Richa Lakhera a "of course" category when it comes to notability, is she in the "hmm, maybe" category, or the "who is she? Definitely not notable" category? My hunch is she's in the middle group. If she's in the first group I'm included to accept the draft remove the "promotional" stuff. If she's in the middle group I'm going to leave that work up to the submitter. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 23:13, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
To the members of WikiProject India, I would primarily like to address a report concerning the quantity of articles for which copy editing among articles concerning India remains necessary; following inspection of the list of all articles requiring copy editing, as posted via the Wikipedia Guild of Copy Editors, I present the following report to the WikiProject as an external party:
A massive quantity of articles necessitating copy editing primarily remain classified as articles related to the subject of India, within a geographical, cultural, cinematic, governmental or economic manner; a cursory search for the word "India" within the text of the summaries of the aforementioned articles produces approximately 94 articles necessitating copy editing. This massive quantity, when taken from a total of, as I write this report, 355 articles, remains an extremely concerning issue. The fact that approximately 26.4% of articles necessitating the performance of copy editing remain concerning India primarily remains a circumstance which produces, within my opinion, the conclusion that the appropriate WikiProject must remain involved. I shall present a series of recommendations below concerning this situation:
Within my opinion, the enactment of the aforementioned proposals would serve to eliminate the quantity of articles which require copy editing and concern India; the facilitation of this would remain a great boon for the WikiProject. The provided suggestions remain my recommendations to the project; thank you. SurenGrig07 ( talk) 01:30, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello! Editors are requested to kindly share their views at Talk:Rajput#About the sources in section — Rajput lifestyle. There have been some editing to article Rajput and I have opened a section at its talk page regarding the sources added. One source is a retired Indian defense personnel and a search at the google scholar for citation index of the second source is not showing any number/hits. Thanks, Мастер Шторм ( talk) 06:56, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello! Several of Indian and Pakistani serving and retired defense personnel also writes books on the topics like the Indian and Pakistani castes. Please note that such officers, though they have an education degree in history, should not be considered as WP:RS/ WP:HISTRS for contentious and debatable topics like the castes of India and Pakistan. We need the books/articles from scholar academics who have/had done research for significant time on such subjects and published their work in reputed scholarly publications. Recently, I removed the books by 2 such authors, one from the Gurjar article [3] (Saikat K. Bose's an officer from the Indian Army) and another one (Mukund S. Naravane's a retired officer from the Indian Air Force) from Rajput [4] and Rajputization [5] article.
In future also, I think that I shall keep on removing such sources and replace them (wherever possible) with superior scholarly academic sources (books published in reputed scholarly publications and from scholar academics who are/were working for some significant time at academic positions at notable academic institutions/universities).
I humbly request the views of more experienced editors on this matter, as this section may be used for future reference regarding this matter. Thanks,
Мастер Шторм (
talk) 05:03, 3 October 2020 (UTC) (added a few words)
Мастер Шторм (
talk) 08:14, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
I have started a discussion at Talk:Indian Forest Service#Use of the "IFS" and "IFoS" initialisms in an attempt to reach consensus on the usage of the initialisms "IFS" and "IFoS", which are regularly contested. Your contributions on that talk page would be appreciated! ninety: one 23:47, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
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So folks, does anyone have any ideas? Zindor ( talk) 21:03, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Encyclopædius makes a great point about maintaining 700,000 articles. I've seen village articles turned into community noticeboards, family messageboards, railway and bus timetables, pages about local villager ancestry. That's just the innocent stuff.
If we made a discrimination, and only included villages above a certain population, we would reduce the article numbers massively and increase the likelihood of finding usable content. I'll scout around and see if I can come up with a rough baseline figure.
This raises thoughts on sustainability. Automation, and perhaps even machine-learning (Cluebot NG?), are playing an ever greater role in maintaining Wikipedia.
I tried to run an assessment drive a few months ago, it wasn't successful and we all ran out of motivation fairly soon. I think that's what happens when using slow old school methods in today's world.
There was an assessment bar knocking around in 2014, i know I couldn't get it working back then, and there was talk a couple of years ago about getting it fixed but I'm not sure what became of that.
From a sustainability perspective, i feel it's important that we conciously strive to use automation where we can, and we should look at our rate of expansion and see if there's anything we can do to bolster ourselves for future growth.
Is there a bot for at least assessing stub and start class articles, and if so can we let it loose on our backlog?
A question is begging here, what's the point in assessing and tagging if we don't capitalise on it with action?
Drives and editathons have worked in the past, but has anyone else noticed that the amount of collaborative editing has nose-dived over the past 10 years. What happened to the sparkle and excitement?
The WMF could lend a hand with incentivisng editing. I know that at grassroots level in India, there have been instances where laptops have been given to budding editors.
While I'm not suggesting we should get laptops (although my screen is hanging off and the WiFi antenna is broken), rewarding our contributions with access to online developer courses and other training could be highly beneficial. Zindor ( talk) 13:50, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
Thanks Zindor. Yes exactly that, "beautiful village", lists of "famous" locals", bus tables etc. I think it was 639,000 villages or something like that. If the articles are going to be started eventually I support a bot to create them if there are created as close to start class as possible. But we need something to protect articles from local spammers some type of bot which picks up on words like "famous" and "beautiful" would be a start.† Encyclopædius 13:56, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
Could some members of WP:INDIA take a look at Anand Jacob Verghese and assess it? Based on User talk:Elizabeth Verghese#Conflict of interest editing and all of the IPs and SPAs which have edited the article over the years, there might be some COI/PAID editing that needs to be cleaned up. There are some other issues as well, but it's not clear at least to me whether this person meets WP:PROF or WP:BIO. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 08:25, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
Does the intro/lede of Rejaul Karim Laskar require some sorting? DTM ( talk) 15:37, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
There is an ongoing discussion about whether Pappu should mention that the term is widely applied to Rahul Gandhi. More input would be useful!— Neil Shah-Quinn ( talk) 06:48, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi - just a quick note that Taxmann is now available for access via The Wikipedia Library. They're making their case laws database available for use in research for Wikipedia articles. Let me know if you have any questions. Samwalton9 (WMF) ( talk) 12:51, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
Could some members of WP:INDIA please take a look at P. J. Joseph? This is the article in the worst condition that I ever found on Wikipedia, and while I did my best to make the lead comprehensible (and even then there's a lot of room to improvement), I don't know what to do with the rest of the article. I don't know the basics of Indian politics to make a comprehensible text out of those random strings of text. Thank you. RetiredDuke ( talk) 12:25, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello everyone, I am specifically concerned that a few notable Indian startups write articles in a "promotional manner" and the page gets deleted. It's important to have unbiased, factual content for easy study of the company/brand/person. I have recently created Urban_Company and would appreciate it if someone could review the same. Amishah78 ( talk) 16:50, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
Please see: Talk:Middle Tamil#Sharp contradiction between Middle Tamil and Old Malayalam articles. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 23:38, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
( Link to original discussion) ( Link to Wikispecies discussion)
Hello from Wikispecies again! Last time we asked only about the order of the names for this person (which of course was answered as "Viswajyothi Keezhpattillam"), but what I want to know is which name should she be indexed by? I've seen that in scientific publications where she is an author, her names are typically given as "Keezhpattillam Viswajyothi", and in citations of those publications her name is given as "Viswajyothi, K." (note: there was one article on ZooKeys that did the opposite, however; I suspect this was a mistake). Is it possible that this is how her name is meant to be cited, and her name was flipped around for convenience?
Apologies for not asking sooner, I've been busy with other things but this indexing problem has been at the back of my mind. Monster Iestyn ( talk) 01:04, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
Is anyone familiar with the Pahari people of Kashmir? Informed input will be very welcome at Talk:Pahari Speaking People#Article scope. – Uanfala (talk) 16:49, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
I have nominated Climate of India for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 17:41, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
This is a new article about a young entrepreneur from Mumbai. The references seem a bit duplicative and I'm not sure how reliable or independent they are. Because of that, I can't make a good determination of notability so I don't know whether to tag it with {{ notability}} and send it to WP:Articles for deletion, move it to Draft:Hetvi Karia (if the criteria in WP:NPPDRAFT fit), or leave it where it is and copy-edit it and try to bring it up to 1500 words of prose so it can be nominated for an appearance in the WP:Did you know? section of Main page.
Courtesy ping to the author, Xsurajrajvardhamx. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 23:06, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
There is a noticeboard discussion on the reliability of Rajasthan Patrika. If you are interested, please participate at WP:RSN § Rajasthan Patrika. — Newslinger talk 08:02, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
There is an editing dispute occurring in the article and at the related talk page. I was asked to do something (apparently because I patrolled the article) but I know virtually nothing about the topic. If someone could have a look this could be much appreciated. Thanks.-- Ymblanter ( talk) 17:30, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
There is a requested move at Talk:Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad that would benefit from your input. Please come and help! P.I. Ellsworth ed. put'r there 22:59, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
I'm on the verge of accepting draft:Karikku based on the sources (the draft does need some cleanup, that can be done post-acceptance).
BUT I'm not familiar enough with the quality of sources to know if they are truly reliable and independent enough to "count."
Can someone familiar with the online Indian newspapers do a quick check of the sources for me?
Also, if you happen to know that this group is flat-out-no-questions-asked notable or for that matter not notable, please let me know. If you are an AFC reviewer please go ahead and accept or reject it if you know for sure it's "notable" or "not notable."
Courtesy ping to the primary author, Atlantis77177, so he knows about this conversation. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 17:54, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
I am adding above a few references that appeared in Malayala Manorama and Mathrubhumi, two of the most circulated dailies in Kerala as well as The Hindu, one of the most respected dailies in India; these references, I believe, support the argument that the channel is notable.-- jojo@nthony ( talk) 07:39, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
There is some recent sock-puppetry going on at Gurdan Saini. I partially-reverted a non-logged-in-editor's restoration of material I previously removed due to sock-puppetry.
If the edits by the socks are "good" edits, that is, if they are accurate and well-sourced, established editors are encouraged to restore the content. If they are accurate and not well-sourced, as might be the case with my most recent reversion of a non-sourced edit, established editors are encouraged to find sources and restore.
Established editors interested in this topic are encouraged to add it to their watchlist. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 14:00, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
ANI, Yahoo News, News18, Patrika, News Nation, Amar Ujala, Aaj Tak, TV9 Bharatvarsh, Dainik Jagran and Zee News. [14] -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 23:46, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
Requesting help again with improving 2020 Assam gas and oil leak, especially with finding appropriate pictures for the article. I'm trying to get it to GA status, and would appreciate any inputs. Thanks. Naushervan ( talk) 10:27, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I'm Sumit banaphar. Recently I have been trying to make changes in Udal of Mahoba by participate on the talk page , so i want to ask did Aalha Khand consider reliable source for making changes.
Book:- Aalha Khand [15]
Author:- Dr. Asha Gupt (Dr. Asha Gupt is Doctor of literature in Hindi language in Bhagalpur Hindi University )
Publisher:- Vani Prakashan
Page number:-;19
The article Udal of Mahoba currently includes the text
They were of mixed Ahir and Rajput descent and belonged to the Banaphar clan.
And I want to change it to
"They were of Rajput descent and belonged to the Banaphar clan of Rajputs"
Sumit banaphar ( talk) 08:29, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
There is a content dispute going on at this article at the moment. I would be grateful if someone with better knowledge of the issues involved can have a look at this and see if they can work out what should be there. noq ( talk) 11:35, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
There is an ongoing discussion on the reliable sources noticeboard regarding Republic TV. If you are interested, please participate at WP:RSN § Republic TV. Tayi Arajakate Talk 16:44, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi there, I have added a significant amount of new information to the Brahmin Gotras article and have linked it to the India Wikiproject. I am kindly requesting a reassessment of my article. Thanking everyone in advanced. TheHumanEncyclopaedia ( talk) 14:06, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
Please visit [16] to join the discussion on the reliability of Republic TV. I have already suggested that it is politically unreliable, but an argument continues for the reliability in non-political matters. Please oin the discussion with your valuable comments. Thank you.-- Atlantis77177 ( talk) 05:20, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
Happy Diwali to all editors!
The Template:Indian Air Force bases lists Advanced Landing Grounds (ALGs) as if they are air bases. Is this correct? My impression has been that ALGs are mainly meant for transportation of troops. That is far cry from being an "air base". -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 11:59, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
A brilliant article in the Washington Post on how the western media would have covered the American election, had it been some other country.
The United States, the former British colony already rocked this year by ethnic conflict and mass protests over extrajudicial killings by police, may finally have a new leader after weeks of political turmoil following a disputed presidential election....
I suppose this gives us a grammar to parse the western media reports the next time we have to use them for covering Indian events. -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 00:01, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
I have found that regions of India, excluding East India, Northeast India and South India, are loosely defined, and it depends on whom you ask or follow. Wikimedia Commons use Zonal Councils as regions, while Wikipedia mimics it with including Uttarakhand and UP into North India. Wikipedia's definitions of Indian regions are nothing more than a original research. Any thoughts? -- Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 12:47, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
A dicussion is going about the reliability of Republic TV in non-political matters. Please click here to join the discussion. Thank you-- Atlantis77177 ( talk) 16:57, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
I try to avoid bringing these trivial issues to this noticeboard, because I know that a lot of you prefer working on loftier matters, but it's difficult for me to get attention drawn to articles about Indian entertainment subjects through other means.
A number of outlets have asserted that Google has bestowed actress Rashmika Mandanna with the title "National Crush of India 2020", which some editors have added several times to the article. There is a discussion open at Talk:Rashmika Mandanna. Thanks. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 20:47, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
Does anyone request for comment about WP:INDICSCRIPTS were both used in Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi articles? which had been restricted for India-related topics since 2017. -- 122.2.10.69 ( talk) 05:44, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
One reason why Indian scripts are avoided is because often there are too many different languages with their own native script, each of which can be original names for a topic. Additionally, there are too often problems with verifiability of the accuracy of the non-English spelling. A third reason is frequent disagreements over which native scripts to include; this led to a resolution to avoid all of them.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It is not the CIA Factbook or the Manorama Yearbook, directing our attention chiefly to the latest information. Please do pay attention to WP's encyclopedic content. See: Talk:British_India#How_does_10_supports_by_editors_who_know_nothing_about_Indian_history_and_five_opposes_by_editors_who_do_become_a_consensus_to_move? Fowler&fowler «Talk» 14:31, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
Anyone have any thoughts on whether the correct article title for the ZEE5 network should be at ZEE5 or Zee5? Per WP:TITLETM it should maybe be Zee5, but a very half-assed search at Google News for "Zee5" -site:zee5.com tended to yield a slightly higher usage (maybe 20 to 13 over 5 pages) for the ZEE5 uppercase corporate branding. However, a lot of those hits came from one source, GQ India, so I'm still not 100% convinced. Thoughts? Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 18:02, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi! The disambiguation page Koli language currently ranks first on Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links#November 2020, with 13 unintended links to it. Apparently, Koli can refer to three different but very closely related languages spoken in India and Pakistan, which makes it very difficult to find out which one is being referred to. It would be greatly appreciated if someone with knowledge about these languages could take a look at this! The same goes for Indian medicine, which is second on the list. Lennart97 ( talk) 23:07, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
There are two proposals that would affect eligibility to be listed in FTWZ#List of Free Trade Zones being discussed at Talk:FTWZ#"List of Free Trade Zones" proposed new requirements. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 14:46, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
In order to fortify our consensus from vandals, I have created {{ Infobox Kashmir territory}} as a generic infobox template for administering territories of Kashmir. It is just a wrapper of {{ Infobox settlement}} with following changes:
@ Kautilya3 and Fowler&fowler: I have fixed the issues with the template raised by you. See User:Soumya-8974/sandbox for my proposed infobox of AJK. I shall create a doc page with enough time. Always remember that revert only when necessary. Continiously reverting changes in Kashmir-related articles by editors make Wikipedia editing unpleasent. Be kind. -- Soumya-8974 (he) talk contribs subpages 14:08, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
Is it desirable to catalogue a long list of non-notable (without articles) educational institutes like in city/town/village articles like this based on sources like these or the institute's own website?- Fylindfotberserk ( talk) 08:50, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
There is a policy somewhere that says that all "degree-granting institutions" are taken to be notable. It is not clear to me whether affiliated colleges would qualify, but I think that in rural areas even affiliated colleges can be a big deal. But schools should not be listed unless especially notable. -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 17:46, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
New editor Karnisenabharat ( talk · contribs) may need a Wiki-welcome. He may also need help with English help understanding what the English Wikipedia is for and what it is not for.
As best I can tell from his edit history, user page, and current mostly-blanked user talk page, he may think that Wikipedia is like social media or a web site. I don't read the language he is using, but Google translate was somewhat helpful. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 16:44, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
I have nominated Karnataka for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. RetiredDuke ( talk) 12:23, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Puducherry taluk. Soumya-8974 (he) talk contribs subpages 14:00, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Ladakh. Soumya-8974 (he) talk contribs subpages 18:29, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Kashmir#Infobox Kashmir territory, which is about an article that is within the scope of this WikiProject. Soumya-8974 (he) talk contribs subpages 13:07, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Khes. This article and its primary author could use some help. The topic appears at least marginally encyclopedic, but the main editor (not a native English speaker) seems to have trouble understanding the core content policies, parsing the exact meaning of the sources and citing them accurately (may have even contradicted them in a few places). As I've suggested on the talk page, there are probably non-English sources that are good for this (perhaps already listed in non-English articles at South Asian-languages Wikipedias that haven't been linked to this article yet). I already did a cleanup pass on the page, last night, to make it more comprehensible, but there are sourcing issues I can't really deal with. I'll notify WT:PAKISTAN, too, since this topic is kind of a pan-Punjab thing. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 00:57, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
There is a discussion on the talk page about a disputed sentence. Is it possible for members of this project to make a comment there? Aditya( ✉ • ⚒) 03:05, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi all, I know that this is a long-shot, but can anyone please help me to understand these three edits [17] [18] [19] where Nandha Kumar becomes "Rose.Nandha Kumar"? I understand that in one of the edit summaries, the user wrote "his name is rose. nandha kumar see the serial", but I'm perplexed as to: 1) What Rose is short for, and why we would use a full stop. If someone is named Rosemary, but goes by Rose, the latter is what we'd typically write. We typically only use a period if it's something unpronounceable or odd like "Geo." for "George" or "Thos." for Thomas or "Md." for "Muhammed". 2) Why this person has on three occasions made it "Rose.Nandha" as if somehow in English we ever use a full-stop in the middle of something without a space. Am I overthinking this? Is this a unique cultural twist that I am suddenly becoming aware of? Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 17:07, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
Hello. Can someone familiar with Armed Forces Flag Day help with improving the referencing in this wikiarticle, please? A link to this wikipage is scheduled to appear in the On This Day section on MainPage tomorrow (UTC). It was already pointed out at WP:ERRORS that "around half of it is unreferenced". Please help. Thanks in advance. -- PFHLai ( talk) 17:14, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
Hello, |
Is it possible for this article to be increased from stub status? /info/en/?search=Chhena — Preceding unsigned comment added by Platypusrock ( talk • contribs) 02:41, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi members, I have expanded the article Mahadevi Varma with the help of hi:महादेवी वर्मा and have nominated it for WP:GAN. Thank you. — Amkgp 💬 04:41, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
This is not a formal renaming discussion or an official move request. I just wanted some opinions related to Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, 2020 and how the common name of the article is undoubtedly "Love Jihad Law" and a renaming could be considered seriously?
DTM ( talk) 14:23, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
Comment: While Love Jihad Law might be a popular pseudonym for the ordinance, i strongly Disagree that the article be renamed for the same, reasons being:-
I think, it's better to leave the article dealing with the ordinance as it is, renaming it may also be a violation of WP:NPOV and there's really no need for something like this when love jihad has it's own article. Cheers! AnM2002 ( talk) 16:30, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
I heard that WP:WikiProject Indian maps is inactive, and I have decided to categorise it under "inactive workgroups". But should we list inactive workgroups separately? -- Soumya-8974 (he) talk contribs subpages 13:54, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
In Wikipedia, "Kashmiri people" has two definitions:
However, the article Kashmiris deal with the first definition and neglect the other, while its main category Category:Kashmiri people does the opposite. We should be consistent in this case. -- Soumya-8974 (he) talk contribs subpages 14:07, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Devadasi § RfC: Should article reference reports of sexual exploitation and prostitution in the modern day. Ujwal.Xankill3r ( talk) 07:20, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
Would someone please check this article on Mumbai Mirror, which has I believe has been expanded recently with an opinionated point of view. I tried editing it out but was constantly reverted. Would someone mind reviewing it. I am pinging few active members to look into it @Kautilya3 @Soumya-8974 ——- defcon5 ( talk) 05:12, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
I want to create some Indian maps in Bengali, and I have a question regarding this and other Indian languages. I use NPOV maps in English Wikipedia as much as possible, but should I use Indian POV maps or NPOV maps in Indian-language Wikipedias? If we use NPOV maps there, we will be hearing complains from Indians for not including the entire Kashmir region in India à la File:2019 Political Map of India.jpg. -- Soumya-8974 (he) talk contribs subpages 09:13, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
This page is a one-sentence stub with no links to other articles. It certainly seems to be related to Hindu mythology, but other than that, it's very unclear what this is about. It doesn't help that 'Agnidhara' doesn't seem to be the name of a person or deity, or that the only Google hit for 'Srinavagan range' is this article itself - is this article even legitimate? Could someone take a look at it? Lennart97 ( talk) 00:24, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi! I was wondering if anyone fluent in Punjabi would be willing to reach out to Gurmeet singh bai. They posted an article entirely in Punjabi to AfC, User:Gurmeet singh bai/sandbox. The translated version of the draft (which looks to be about a politician), along with this edit, gives off the impression that they really do want to help but may need additional assistance or if there is too steep of a language barrier, to be pointed in the direction of the Punjabi Wikipedia. (Linking since I did tag them here.) I just wanted to make sure that someone reaches out since if they are interested in editing the Punjabi Wikipedia, there's a lot there that they could do. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (。◕‿◕。) 11:48, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
Is the information I have contributed to the Freedom of the press in India all right. I don't trust HalfdanRagnarsson at all any more because he is deliberately deceiving me. Immortal Lion ( talk) 18:44, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
Comment:After going through the edits and corresponding 'edit summaries' made by Immortal Lion, I think the editor should go through the Wikipedia policies as @ HalfdanRagnarsson: suggested before making such ambiguous additions. You seem to have a particular POV on the subject and thus, should build consensus before making edits.Cheers! AnM2002 ( talk) 09:47, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
Category:Administrative divisions of India by state or state or union territory has been nominated for renaming to Category:Subdivisions of India by state or union territory. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies 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. Place Clichy ( talk) 17:45, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
Category:Administrative divisions of India by city has been nominated for renaming to Category:Subdivisions of cities in India. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies 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. Place Clichy ( talk) 17:45, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
It doesn't seem like anybody can be bothered to save content anymore but India is going to lose thousands upon thousands of articles like this!!† Encyclopædius 13:45, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
40 in one day, that's 14,600 if done for a year, I said "going to lose thousands" if he consistently keeps it up. I can see why kolma wants to nuke them all, but the problem is most older Indian films have poor coverage online.† Encyclopædius 12:07, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
Please opine about which of the versions between A and B are better at Talk:Torwali_people#Issues.
Also, I and Uanfala have allegations about dubious use of sources and I would like to know whether I (and he) are correct or wrong. TrangaBellam ( talk) 16:18, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
Somebody cited this news article today: India orders Wikipedia to delete map that shows Aksai Chin in China.
I don't know the precise details, but the offending maps seem to be in c:Category:Bilateral maps of India. The parallel c:Category:Bilateral maps of China and c:Category:Bilateral maps of Pakistan also have similar problems. There are no dotted lines around disputed regions, basically.
Can somebody get in touch with Wikimedia to find out what their plan is for fixing them? -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 09:31, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
{{Infobox bilateral relations|Indo-Bhutanese|India|Bhutan}}
using {{
Infobox bilateral relations}}.
Talk:Bhutan–India relations has some excited commentary including a link to a Twitter page which I haven't looked at, see "coordinated from off-wiki". Why would Wikimedia have a plan to fix maps? Given sufficient reason, the WMF might delete maps, at least temporarily, but I don't imagine they would "fix" them.
Johnuniq (
talk) 09:59, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
The map should have been replaced by a more acceptable alternative (already suggested in the talk page discussion) the map attached there has been used on many articles previously and would have solved the issue being discussed. AnM2002 ( talk) 10:12, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
I concur with what @ Aghore: has said. Making this GoI Vs Wikipedia/Freedom of expression etc isn't going to help. AnM2002 ( talk) 10:15, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
This [20] is the map which was suggested during the talk page discussion. I am of the opinion that this map might be acceptable to all parties involved. AnM2002 ( talk) 10:22, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
@ Aghore: please refer to what Jimbo Wales has said on the talk page discussion. Don't know why accepting an error is so hard for you. This is not how wiki works. The map itself is clear violation of NPOV please go through it carefully no hurry! AnM2002 ( talk) 11:57, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
I have also reacted to the map of India on the India talk page and invited comments over there. Aghore ( talk) 12:50, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
Some people seem to believe this issue is supposed to be resolved on this page, and this discussion doesn't appear to be heading towards a sufficiently explicit resolution. I offer the following proposal, primarily for the purpose of providing clarity to less experienced editors.
In other words there is nothing to do unless and until someone supplies a better map.
Like Western Sahara, I like to show Kashmir separately from other countries in world map, with showing the entireity of it as part of India with a slighty different colour (hence marking Kashmir a disputed territory). Any thoughts? -- Soumya-8974 (he) talk contribs subpages 10:21, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
Courtesy link: User:SenatorLEVI/Aipan Art Hello! I'm working on a user space draft for Aipan Art. If anyone could help add information as well as images to this draft to improve it, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your consideration. SenatorLEVI ( talk) 11:37, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
Should we change "Region administered by Foo as a Bar" to " Disputed territory administered by Foo as a Bar" in Kashmir-related articles? This change would make articles consistent with other disputed territories like Taiwan Province, People's Republic of China and Western Sahara. -- Soumya-8974 (he) talk contribs subpages 17:42, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Bania_(caste)#Image. Thanks you. TrangaBellam ( talk) 12:45, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
Can someone please check the articles Kothaimangalam Wetlands and Kongur wetland, both created by the same editor? I'm pretty sure that the first should be spelled Kothamangalam like the town, but even then, I can't find hits for "Kothamangalam Wetlands" or "Kongur wetland" on Google. I can't find any reliable source to add to the articles, but it's possibly due to the language barrier. Thanks. RetiredDuke ( talk) 21:04, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 December 30#National Highway 45C (India)(old numbering) that would benefit from the the input from one or more editors familiar with the subject area. Thryduulf ( talk) 14:38, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
Manasbose ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Manas bose is an interesting user with double standards. He is removing the controversy related reliably sourced information on Dilip Ghosh (politician) diff while adding similar kind of stuff on Mamata Banerjee diff diff ? The edit reeks of political bias, to me. They are clearly double standards for the 2 leaders of rival political parties? He has been edit warring and has now summoned a gang of editors to support him in his edit war and bowdlerize the reliably sourced content. Please see the discussion.
I also believe his other contributions need to be verified for more such political bias. -- Walrus Ji ( talk) 14:22, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Paramashiva#Requested move 31 December 2020. This seems a neutral page to notify to "get more eyeballs", as both of the involved subjects are Indian. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 01:44, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
Would someone from this WikiProject mind looking at Maridhas and assessing it for notability? The article was created directly in the mainspace and needs quite a bit of clean up. It also seems to have undergone quite a bit of WP:REVDELs due to WP:COPYVIOs. If the subject is considered to be WP:TOOSOON at the moment to support a stand-alone article perhaps WP:DRAFTIFY would be an option instead of deletion. I came across the article while trying to figure out WP:THQ#Question about photo and it's possible that their may be some WP:COI editing going on as well. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 07:19, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir § Part of the Kashmir conflict?. Soumya-8974 (he) talk contribs subpages 17:06, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
The AfD list has been spammed with Telugu movie list and in the melee, this Kapurthala king's article was deleted. What a shame. I was able to get it relisted a third time. Please see the discussion. Walrus Ji ( talk) 17:25, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
After a year or so of comparative calm, the BLP Nithyananda has been re-invaded both by haters and by devotees. This week, it's mostly followers clearly working in concert to whitewash, last week or so it was mostly detractors trying to dwell on allegations. This article needs more experienced, neutral editorial eyes and brains on it. The WP:SPA tides are not relenting. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 19:18, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
Help expand this article. -- Friendly Eagle ( talk) 17:15, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
It results in the page landing in Category:Pages where expansion depth is exceeded.
You can see this in this old revision of Talk:Tilak Maidan Stadium, which was partiallyh reverted with the next edit. The call to {{ WikiProject India}} looks like this:
{{WikiProject India |class=Stub |importance=Low |goa=yes |field=sports }}
Even without the "shell" it has a template expansion depth of 40, which is the limit, as shown in the source-code view of the "old revision" link above. Search for Highest expansion depth: to find the parser profiling data. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 15:30, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I'm working on pages about Guyana and I'm thinking the Indo-Guyanese article needs a lot of help, and although I've read plenty of sources on the subject I feel like it needs a more nuanced knowledge about Indian culture (and help from people who work on articles about culture groups). The lede starts pretty strong, but then the content starts looking more and more shabby. Some of my concerns are:
Some sections might need TNT and a fresh start with solid sources, but I still need a little support to get the terms and understanding correct. Advice appreciated! Cheers, Estheim ( talk) 01:28, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
I have deProded this article and done my best to improve it, but it could really do with expert attention if anyone has the wherewithal. Thanks. Tacyarg ( talk) 01:42, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Hey all, sorry to ask, I know that self-identification is required when we add information about caste to living people, but what about dead people? There has been a recent back-and-forth at Auto Shankar, and I'm trying to get clarity before I chime in. I have a feeling that some of the back-and-forth may involve people who don't want a gangster associated with their caste, so if anyone has any ideas for how to manage that, please join the carnival at Auto Shankar. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 16:05, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
I don't think it should be a problem to add caste as long as there is a verifiable source backing the claim. Some people may even find it offensive to see a criminal sharing their nationality but I see nationalities being mentioned on bio of dozens of criminals. I don't see why caste has to be treated any differently just because few caste fanatics make ruckus over the caste of a criminal. Ihaveabandonedmychild ( talk) 17:22, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
The page, though being a source of Geography of Kashmir Valley cannot omit the underlying Geopolitics of the vale in accord to Kashmir Conflict. The mentioning of Kashmir Conflict on this page has also been issued in public interest.Similarly, as mentioned in the 'infox' for example : " Union territory of India". The above references for either 'Kashmir Conflict' or 'Union territory of India' can't be overlooked. Musadiq Mushtaq ( talk) 00:20, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Chennai Metropolitan Bus Routes. Walrus Ji ( talk) 08:53, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
Taj Mahal, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. DTM ( talk) 12:29, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard § RfC: Asian News International (ANI). Walrus Ji ( talk) 14:36, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
Has anybody seen this? "Sidharth Shukla wins Times Men of the Year" award.
Am I overreacting, or does this look to anybody else like Times of India has knocked-off Time magazine's Time's Man of the Year award? I'm not saying that nobody else has men or women-of-the-year awards, but this one is literally called "Times Men of the Year Award". Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 14:09, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
Can someone fill in the copyright details for https://commons.wikimedia.org/?title=File%3AKadam_Kadam_Badhaye_Ja.ogg It has been listed for deletion and it is an important file given that it is the Quick march of the Indian Army. 180.151.23.104 ( talk) 08:55, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
I just found it on web. I don't think this file have any copyright as it was played by maratha light infantry regiment band and someone recorded it. Please delete the file if you found otherwise. Soap Boy 1 ( talk) 05:57, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
There is a noticeboard discussion on the reliability of A Social History of India by S. N. Sadasivan, published by APH Publishing. If you are interested, please participate at WP:RSN § Can we ban this highly questionable source? — Newslinger talk 12:05, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
Hello. Requesting thoughts on proposed merger of Balahi (caste) to Balai. Thanks, Мастер Шторм ( talk) 11:00, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats
The WMF is running a consultation on the selection method and quotas etc relating to community seats on the board. The en-wiki community risks losing due-representation, especially in the context of the WMF trying to line Jimbo up for an early departure. I came across this by chance at WP:VPW. As this has the potential to affect all of us I thought it would be worth sharing with you, my fellow WikiProject India members. Kind regards, Zindor ( talk) 11:17, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Recently Democratic backsliding was added to the lead section of his article. Ever since, "#Wikipedia" has been trending on Twitter in India. Multiple verified Twitter profiles have tweeted that this was done w/o discussion and that it was done at a 'controlled' level i.e Wikipedia is 'involved.' Since it was done via discussion (pretty small imho), I would propose adding an Edit Notice that clearly links to the discussion. -- 180.151.13.151 ( talk) 23:42, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I came across
Nayak (caste), an unsourced article containing only a single line of text: The Nayak are a Hindu caste found in India.
Does this caste actually exist? I'm getting the impression that it doesn't, and that maybe it's been confused with
Nayak (title), a historic title and modern-day surname used by various castes. But I'm not sure about this and would appreciate some input from anyone who is, unlike myself, at all familiar with the topic of Indian castes and surnames.
Lennart97 (
talk) 15:38, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
It should be noted that quite a large number of articles link to this article. However, the majority links to the redirect Muslim Nayak. If the Nayak are indeed a Hindu caste, as the article states, then that obviously can't be right. Lennart97 ( talk) 01:15, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
I have started a merge discussion related to the Union Budgets of India. I intend to merge all the independent budgets into one single article Union budget of India. Please comment. DTM ( talk) 16:41, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
Regarding Jyotirlinga article. There are two Vaidyanath/Baidyanath dham jyotirlingas and depending on verses, they are either in Deoghar, Jharkhand or Parli, Maharashtra. The article is being subjected to edit wars because of that [23] [24] [25]. I had opened a discussion at Talk:Jyotirlinga but utcursch advised be to post it here. Any help? - Fylindfotberserk ( talk) 09:56, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi all,
I noticed this while looking at 20th Indian Television Academy Awards - page may already deleted by the time you read this.
This article was created back in 2015.
As an WP:ADMIN I can see that these articles have never been created:
And so on.
Maybe they should be created?
WP:AGF as always.
Your thoughts about this?
Pete AU aka -- Shirt58 ( talk) 11:26, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
Hello. Requesting comments for Talk:Bhat Sikhs#Requested move 8 February 2021. Thanks, Мастер Шторм ( talk) 11:31, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
I've started a discussion about the validity of this article over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#Mughal-Sikh Wars. It's obviously also within the scope of this project, so please feel welcome to provide input. Lennart97 ( talk) 15:08, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
Please participate at [ [26]]. TrangaBellam ( talk) 10:20, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
I've been trying to update the page with details of litigation/licensing issues/FSSAI investigations and so on, but my edits have been reverted on the grounds that they are a) "too long", b) "seem suspicious" and c) violate BLP (which I did not realise applied to corporate persons). Would appreciate some input from more experienced editors. -- Naushervan ( talk) 17:47, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
Can anyone take a look at List of cities in India by area? A bunch of anon edits seem to have made the article inaccurate. utcursch | talk 18:19, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
Hello, An discussion is going on to derive consensus for an issue going on with Kashmir related articles. You are invited to give your opinion on whether the BLP subject should be referred as “Kashmiri” or as “Indian”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Masrat_Zahra Jammumylove Talk to me or CHECK MY RECENT WORK 08:52, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
Please participate at Talk:Destruction_of_Kashmiri_Shias#Merger_proposal. TrangaBellam ( talk) 18:57, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
Even after a number of threads on this noticeboard alone, [27] [28] it appears that the issue with genetics research hasn't been resolved.
Just recently, I removed a section on Peopling of India, regarding the claims about ancestry of the population of Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC). None of that content appeared on the article about IVC itself and I found that attempts were made to add these researches there, but they were unanimously rejected on the talk page on Talk:Indus_Valley_Civilisation/Archive_5#Narasimhan et al. (2018) as unreliable for the article. I linked this all in my edit summary but my edit was reverted with a rather baseless explanation.
I wanted to revert or discuss, but then I saw that the entire article is flooded with similar quality of researches, contrary to the version some years ago.
I would really like to know if we should rely on these WP:RECENT researches for challenging the years of peer-reviewed and widely accepted researches and how we should proceed. Abhishek0831996 ( talk) 11:11, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
What I had proposed originally is that Peopling of India is one of the places where genetic research is explicitly permitted, because that is indeed the specialist topic that deals with the subject. On the other hand, genetic research should not be used in sociological topics dealing with castes, communities and ethnic groups, unless sociologists have validated them. -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 14:38, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
Recent genetic evidence from archaeological sources has pointed to a mixture of populations in northern India at that time, with people of Iranian and Central Asian origin. Historians see this as evidence of migrations into India, but the idea is anathema to the Hindutva construction of early history.
I am late to this but, for what it is worth, my opinion remains as it was in past discussions here and elsewhere, ie: we do not and should not do it. Nothing has changed in recent years and I rather suspect that I will be dead before they do! - Sitush ( talk) 16:31, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
@ Victuallers: @ Aman.kumar.goel: @ Padavalamkuttanpilla: It's been 2 weeks, since I request to be made to Rashtriya Ispat Nigam ,but no one cares. Am I doing anything wrong to request edit? Rizosome ( talk) 04:49, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
@ Victuallers: please add cabinet approved privatization of RINL in the article. I mentioned source here Rizosome ( talk) 17:39, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
@ Victuallers: I edited now. But I still believe source 1 and source 2 need add to reference links. Rizosome ( talk) 02:49, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
@ Eagleash: I keep that in mind.
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects and categories § Redirect request: Indian Whatsapp University, Modi's Media, Modi media, Modia, Lapdog media, Bikau media , Dalal media and Bharkau media!. 122.179.55.205 ( talk) 14:50, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
There is a discussion going on here about the content of the page Samboora, Jammu and Kashmir. You are invited to join the discussion and share your respective thoughts. Thank you! – Kammill ⟨ talk⟩ 18:05, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
Greetings,
This neo South Asian slang meme Draft:Pawri Ho Rahi Hai is more likely than not to remain in vogue in foreseeable future. And more than enough sources are available. Any one who finds topic interesting enough, pl. help out in expanding the article proactively. (Sincerely I do have lot many topics already on my hand so I need some proactive support who can take this article topic as independent article ahead)
Thanks and regards
Bookku ( talk) 09:04, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Today a speech by Moitra was added by an IP here and was restored by Loopzinc (probably same user) [33]. I find the content (speech) unnecessary and WP:UNDUE, contravening WP:NOT -
On 8th February 2021, Mahua Moitra stated in the parliament "The sacred cow that was the judiciary is no longer sacred, It stopped being sacred the day a sitting chief justice of this country was accused of sexual harassment, precided over his own trial, cleared himself and then proceeded to accept the nomination to the upper house wihtin three months of retirement, replete with Z+ security cover"
It is just a speech given in the parliament that serves nothing to the career section of the article. We do not WP:CATALOGUE speeches given by parliamentarians, otherwise we would have unending lists of speeches in all these articles. The FA and GA status articles like William Henry Harrison, Harry S. Truman, Narendra Modi, do not have these kind of speeches in the articles. The only reason a speech like that would be useful if it was coupled to some bills, new laws or some major controversy the article subject is a part of. For example here, it is relevant since the comment triggered a controversy and was part of a larger event. We had a discussion at Talk:Mahua Moitra, but thought it would be better to get more opinions on this here. - Fylindfotberserk ( talk) 19:05, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
On the article talk page I have given reference to number of reliable sources and hence the issue of not having RS is null and void. "In any case, a page on Mahua Moitra should summarise RS say about her, not what she said about other people." - I would like to disagree here, for a politician or for any public representative, their opinion and political position are very important to their personality. Taking the example given by User talk:Tayi Arajakate, of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, her wiki page specifically list her political positions. The particular excerpt from the speech of Mahua Moitra is her opinion on the judiciary based of fact which are already in public domain. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Loopzinc ( talk • contribs) 10:27, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
Greetings,
Your valuable comments on notability are requested at Draft talk:Pawri Ho Rahi Hai#RfC: Is this topic notable or not ?
Thanks and warm regards
Bookku ( talk) 08:54, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
The article consists of information that have been added per WP:ORIGINAL, which is against Wikipedia's policies. It uses International Research Journal of Social Sciences as reference is a WP:PREDATORY source. Also, it enlists Yohanan Friedmann, "Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi", Chapter 5(3), p. 74, PhD Thesis which is not a WP:RS. The content looks very much WP:DUBIOUS, so I listed it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Genocide of Kashmiri Shias. I am requesting for inputs and a discussion on this subject. Thank you — Amkgp 💬 11:15, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
Time for senior editors to have a look at the page and remove the tags. It has been improved a lot, thanks to a long discussion in the Talk page. Dr. Hamza Ebrahim ( talk) 09:11, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Indian inventor. Question of notability and sourcing. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 15:34, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Hey all, I need a little edification: If an actor joins a political party like the BLP, what exactly does this mean? Does this mean that they are now a politician who will be running for office, or just that they are allying themselves with a certain political ideology? In western nations like the UK and the US, if someone joins a political party, it is largely just suggestive that they will vote a certain way about various matters and often the only formality is ticking the appropriate box on the registration sheet. The background of my question has to do with this edit, where we're bothering to note that Srabanti Chatterjee has joined the BJP, yet there's no context in the article suggestive of any political ambitions or running for office. So I'm trying to figure out if this fact is relevant or not, and if I just lack some fundamental understanding of what "joining the BLP" means. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 19:41, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Please give your feedback for the edit proposed on the main India article at Talk:India#Society_section_statement_on_caste.
Ujwal.Xankill3r ( talk) 16:51, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
The list in List of Himalayan peaks and passes has seen a fair number of edits by IPs, each typically substituting "India" with "Pakistan", "China" with "India", and so on. You all know the familiar picture. This has been going on for a long time, so the quality of the information in this article is now unreliable. Anyone interested in having a look? If it's all sorted out, then we can ask for permanent protection to prevent this sort of thing happening going forward. – Uanfala (talk) 23:06, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi all.
Please join the discussion at the talk page of the article about India's Parliament House. A commonly-repeated claim is that the design of the structure was inspired by the Chausath Yogini Temple at Morena, the WP article of which is a GA. This claim has appeared as a DYK. However, I have raised some concerns about the sourcing and reliability of this claim. It would be nice to have more voices discussing the issue.
Thanks in advance and kind regards, Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI converse | fings wot i hav dun 07:42, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
This is kind of a followup question to two previous discussions at this noticebord, but I realise this problem is not at all a unique case so it may be more useful to know generally. I also hope this is the last time I ask about this subject for a while, because it's been getting to my head lately.
So basically, I want to be absolutely sure about this: should South Indian authors of articles actually be indexed/cited by their given names? I've learned recently that South Indians generally do not have surnames but have their village and/or father's given name in front of their own given name instead. For instance, I also noticed that on the ResearchGate profile of the author I talked about last time I was here, some of the articles she co-authored gives her name as "K. Viswajyothi" (e.g. here). This seems to be consistent with what I noticed previously where the author tends to be given as "Keezhpattillam Viswajyothi", with the intention that she be cited as "[...] Viswajyothi, K. [...] year. title". I notice this to be similar to "K. D. Prathapan", an Indian entomologist who is almost always given as that name even outside of scientific journals (such as in several recent news articles and legal court documents available online). Additionally, both Prathapan and Viswajyothi have at some point at least been affiliated with Kerala Agricultural University, which I am now aware is located in South India, so it sounds more and more likely to me that both these scientists/authors are both from South India themselves.
Googling around, I have found several articles on the subject:
The authors of both articles talk about how they have been frustrated by publishers simply because they do not have a surname, and they have to substitute it with their father's name instead which itself causes confusion.
Meanwhile, does this insight change the answer for the original question at all: is Viswajyothi's name actually supposed to be written as K. (or Keezhpattillam) Viswajyothi rather than the other way round, despite Viswajyothi being probably her given name? I note that last time someone here referred to her FaceBook profile to back up the idea that it's the other way round, however so I recall FaceBook may be just as guilty as the publishers quoted in the above two articles forcing South Indians to give a "surname" when they in fact do not have one. So FaceBook cannot be a reliable source for names of South Indians let alone name order, unless the website has recently changed its attitude towards making everyone have to give a "first name" and "last name" on signing up?
Monster Iestyn ( talk) 18:42, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
{{
Indian name}}
for this purpose, see the usage at
Murali Vijay. It was also there on
J. Jayalalithaa but was removed, I've restored it. —
Spaceman
Spiff 16:13, 28 February 2021 (UTC)first=
parameter blank for South Indian authors and enter the full name in the last=
parameter instead, in the reference templates. At least that's how I remember it - I had to do it for some Bhutanese sources. In their naming system there is no given name/family name distinction, and the entire name is the person's given name, like
Dawa Dem.
Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI
converse |
fings wot i hav dun 07:35, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
An article that been involved with ( Rayan) has content that is proposed to be removed and moved to another article ( Rayan (disambiguation)). If you are interested, please visit the discussion. Thank you. Cnilep ( talk) 07:14, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I'm surprised that in the article Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on politics, there's not a single mention of India. We Know former president Pranab Mukherjee, Minister of State Suresh Angadi and many other politicians died due to Covid while Home Minister Amit Shah contracted the virus. Not to mention a number of MPs, MLAs and other politicians. Help me make a list of politicians who contracted or died of the virus. Thank you. -- Manasbose ( talk | edits) 07:04, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Godi media § Bhakts. 122.172.188.47 ( talk) 14:16, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
You are invited to discussion at Talk:Naveenpur#Name. It is about the name of the article. – Kammill ⟨ talk⟩ 14:50, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Narendra Modi § New sections. 122.179.38.46 ( talk) 15:09, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi everyone. Hope you all are well. If anyone you have some time then please give your input at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of international cricket five-wicket hauls on Irish cricket grounds. Thanks. Störm (talk) 17:10, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
As the Person Dr. G.N. Saibaba is proved guilty by the sessions court on count for their maoist link and granted life imprisonment by Session Court in Maharashtra [34]. He is been charged and convicted under section 13, 18, 20 , 38 and 39 of the UAPA Act. As Such, it seems that the naxalite reference can be added to the article. The article where the judgement done by judge at the sessions court specifically mentions the accused belong to CPI(Maoist) as well as RDF [35]. Please guide whether it;s appropriate to add the word "naxalite" in the introduction. Pranhita ( talk) 17:46, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
...aiding and abetting Naxal activitieswhich, in my personal opinion, cannot be claimed as an equivalent. Vikram Vincent 18:07, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
I think it is just not knowing what source is reliable and what is not. I came across WP:RSP while reading some conversation. It is possible to use TOI if you are not making a critical claim but definitely not a claim that might potentially violate BLP. I'm sure there will be other RS that support the claims and that content can be salvaged using the alternate sources. Vikram Vincent 12:57, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
Quick question: please have a look at this edit. The author of that quote is a senior advocate in the Supreme Court, with the quote following WP:QUOTE to support the criticism of a controversial topic. Would the arguments here be reasonable? Thanks! Vikram Vincent 19:51, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
Udham Singh's article has been disrupted for a long time, but the disruption has increased manyfold since the announcement of his biographical film: Sardar Udham Singh. So the page needs to be at least semi-protected. The disruptive caste-warriors are trying all sort of tricks to appropriate him, e.g. a newbie ( Parvinder Pathi) added a ref to support his Koli ancestry, but the source seems to be nonexistent, let alone being a scholarly one. And now an IP hopper is edit-warring over it, e.g. see here and here. As far as I remember, most scholars mention that he was a Kamboj, but the discussion is only possible if the disruption by the newbies can be stopped. - NitinMlk ( talk) 20:03, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
HI! I'm bringing this here for a wider discussion among the India community. BrownHairedGirl is removing all categories related to India, like this. I started a discussion on the editor talk page and then nominated one category for deletion. I have closed the article and talk page discussions and retaining the CFD and this one. What problems do i perceive? 1. An ordinary reader will look for country/state/district by default since these are commonly used categories. 2. By replacing the India/Karnataka with "Mysore State" categories, though hyper accurate, causes problems for normal searching. I would suggest retaining the existing categories while adding any new more accurate ones. What do others think? Vikram Vincent 15:03, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
removing all categories related to India. That is simply false.
retaining the existing categories while adding any new more accurate onesis straightforward breach of WP:SUBCAT: we don't keep a page in both a category and its parent, except in a few specific categories which don't apply here. Breaching WP:SUBCAT increases maintenance loads, makes categories harder to navigate, and causes category clutter on articles.
replacing the India/Karnataka with "Mysore State" categories, though hyper accurate, causes problems for normal searchingis another false assertion, based on Vikram's lack of understanding.
arbitrary; is a routine and systematic process of subcategorisation. And categories are not tags.
BrownHairedGirl, your aggressive approach started when you ignored
WP:BRD and reverted me
here. I already mentioned
here that I opened those multiple discussions by mistake. Trying to blame me for your aggressive attitude is misplaced and bad for your health more than mine cause I use humour. When upset, remember what
Yoda said, Wikipedia is no place for humour. Everything is very serious here and we are all terrifically important.
Best!
Vikram Vincent 18:54, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
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Hello. Requesting comments at Talk:Bhat#Requested move 20 March 2021. The article title should be changed per policy — WP: COMMONNAME/WP:UCRN. Thanks, Мастер Шторм ( talk) 14:34, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
Hello Wikipedians, I recently came across some village related articles like Akura, Jammu and Kashmir, Nowgam, Anantnag, Rohu, Jammu and Kashmir and many more. What I noticed was the article are not named similarly. Some of them have district at there end and some of them are followed by State/Union territory name. Let us discuss about it, so that all articles have a consistent name. I suggest we should name these articles as Village name followed by district eg. Lalchowk, Srinagar and Lalchowk, Anantnag keeping in view that there can be villages with same names in two different districts. A classical example is Lalchowk in Srinagar, Kashmir and Lalchowk in Anantnag, Kashmir. Iflaq (talk) 14:23, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
I do work on /contribute to many Women's rights related articles, including Sexual violence in India, Draft:Sexual politics in south Asia,
There was some gruesome historic incidence of mass public molestation and sexual violence seems to have happened in a failed " Ashok Kumar night" entertainment programme @ Rabindra Sarobar Stadium Kolkata Jan / Feb 1968. For which online details are scant.
I came across one mention in a Assamese socialist MP Hem Barua speech @ Lok Sabha debates, there seems to be some ref in Jyoti Basu's authorized biography too , which I already requested @ Resource Request forum but that is unlikely to provide non communist version. Hence I am looking for refs from 1968 West Bengal and national news paper archives may be Anandabazar Patrika archives? Can some one help ?
Bookku ( talk) 03:08, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
Shakuntala Vasishta was the first woman gazetted police officer of India and it's a shame that we don't have an article on her! I'd like to write one but can't find any sources for the research and citations. Can this WikiProject help me with that?-- Deepak G Goswami ( talk) 17:43, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
There's a new editor or possibly an SPA adding quite a bit of stuff to Department of Science and Technology (India). Some of the edits are reasonable, but there's also quite a bit of unsourced material, and I'm seeing a casual approach to copyright (I'm fairly certain that the DST logo is not the editor's own work). It'd be good to get some attention from people more familiar with the Indian system over there. Russ Woodroofe ( talk) 18:08, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
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Hey - would someone mind double-checking my revert [38] on Magadha. It looked like a rather large edit that mostly unsourced and POV in places, hence my revert. Would appreciate it! Ravensfire ( talk) 17:32, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
From Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund's now classic History of India, 6th edition, 2016, Kindle Edition:
At this stage Pakistan made a very provocative move. It tested a rocket named ‘Ghauri’ after Muhammad von Ghor who had once raided northern India. Actually this rocket was made in North Korea and had only been re-baptised in Pakistan.
Fowler&fowler «Talk» 15:07, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
Please participate in the move discussion on the talk page of the article Digvijaysinhji Jhala. Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI converse | fings wot i hav dun 02:44, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
More views are sought in Talk:Meṣa for the move from Meṣa to Mesha (month). Thanks in advance. Crashed greek ( talk) 08:46, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
Could anybody take a look over there and find sources (I don't know if they'd be in English language publications) for this information? There's just so many different people who keep changing numbers, I don't know whether its genuine information, premature and incorrect reports, or mundane number vandalism. Cheers, RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 18:48, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
The history of Kurnool Airport in brief:
Based on this what is the year of establishment? The current category tagged in the article is 2018, which seems wrong.
- Srihari Thalla ( talk) 17:52, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
Hello! A case at CCI just wrapped up that concerned India. The project may want to assess how much was removed and if any articles were of high interest; I don't believe many were rated of high importance but it won't hurt to check. There were about 60~ articles total in the CCI, found here. Sennecaster ( What now?) 01:04, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
The article Bharat Broadband Network has an infobox of Template:Politics of India. I don't think this article falls under this category despite being initiated by the government. I propose to remove the template. I've posted on it's talk page, link -- Srihari Thalla ( talk) 08:28, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
Hay guys, The article Khetsingh Khangar needs attentions from someone who has full knowledge on Gujarat history or who's really good at Tamil Hindi. Thank you. VocalIndia ( talk) 12:07, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
Those of you who remember Aditya Kabir, especially those who had helped edit his first Featured Article Shahbag in 2007, will be saddened to know that he passed away a few months ago.
After Shahbag, I interacted with him only intermittently, but it was usually on POV-ridden pages, where I found him to be a timely breath of fresh air. And I was pleasantly surprised last August to have received a barnstar from him which grossly overrated my abilities or contributions.
A few minutes ago, soon after complaining to my wife that my memory was no longer what it used to be, a poem of R. L. Stevenson's popped into my head. It is from A Child's Garden of Verses, given as a birthday present long ago. Here are its last three stanzas:
From "Keepsake Mill"
Years may go by, and the wheel in the river
Wheel as it wheels for us, children, to-day,
Wheel and keep roaring and foaming for ever
Long after all the boys are away.
Home from the Indies, and home from the ocean,
Heroes and soldiers we all shall come home;
Still we shall find the old mill-wheel in motion
Turning and churning that river to foam.
You with the bean that I gave when we quarrelled,
I with your marble of Saturday last,
Honoured and old and all gaily apparelled,
Here we shall meet and remember the past.
On a less downbeat note, those who remember Nichalp, Wikipedia admin and arbitrator, and the force behind the early FA-drives of South Asia-related pages, will be pleased to know that his picture on the Gupta era Brahmi script has appeared in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. It is in their short article on the " Brahmi writing system." The credit for the picture has been given to him, and not just generically to WP, as is so often done. Dwaipayanc, Ragib, Tony1, Armanaziz, SandyGeorgia, RegentsPark, SpacemanSpiff, Doug Weller, PBS. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 13:43, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
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I'm trying to help Mihir_nanthur ( talk · contribs) find a source to verify their claim of a Maina Gawankar who apparently was, in Mihir's words, "A lady who spent 22 years on bed and 1 amongst the first few women criminal lawyers of maharashtra." With some help from the WP:Teahouse another reference to (potentially) the same person was found on Samyukta_Maharashtra_Samiti.
Some quick internet searches didn't find much, but I don't have any context or ability to read Hindi, so I may be missing something. Spurrious Correlation 07:13, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
Is it possible from the archives you could retrieve something. Was a leading lady for the Maharashtra Samyukta Morcha. The movement established for the indenpence of Maharashtra as a state. Was handicapped sitting on the streets of Delhi during the cold winters. Mihir nanthur ( talk) 07:17, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
I seem to recall that WikiProject India had some custom searches, scripts or something, because Google is poor at indexing Indian topics. Are these still about? -- Malcolmxl5 ( talk) 00:08, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
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Is there any reason why this unsourced article should not be stubified? - Roxy the inedible dog . wooF 18:23, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
The boys' wing is split up into 4 houses and the girls' wing into 2. Competitions are held on the basis of these houses, and points are awarded to the champion and runner-up houses. At the end of the year the house with the most points is awarded the Overall Championship. Classes and other academic activities are held in the aptly named Academic Building, which is equipped with multimedia classrooms, ballrooms, physics, chemistry and biology labs and offices for teachers, the vice-principle and other support staff. "
Pijushghosh1 has moved Jangipur, West Bengal, a town page, to Jangipur Municipality. I think it is a wrong page move and needs to be reverted. I request someone to please take necessary action. He also created a page Jangipur district, which I have made Jangipur police district as per references. - Chandan Guha ( talk) 00:19, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
Done @ Chandan Guha: Should be resolved now Zindor ( talk) 19:06, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
Please participate in Talk:2020_Delhi_riots#Hail_Lord_Rama_is_biased_translation_for_Jai_shree_Ram. Eatcha 11:13, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
This draft is pretty badly sourced, but I'm guessing it is largely accurate, and it's on an encyclopedic topic. Should it be approved to mainspace for further development? Or left for eventual WP:G13 deletion in draftspace? Or does anyone want to adopt it? Thanks, Calliopejen1 ( talk) 22:08, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
A couple of editors have made large scale changes to this article [1]. In particular, the tone of the lead is quite different. Could be fine but FYI. -- RegentsPark ( comment) 01:15, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
From 1 October to 31 December, Women in Red is running a virtual contest on Asian women. In November, this will coincide with Wikipedia Asian Month. We look forward to strong participation from all those interested in improving coverage of Indian women.-- Ipigott ( talk) 16:05, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
Can someone who knows Bengali see if this is a hoax? It looks pretty fishy to me, but would be super interesting if true. I found one English-language ref that looks reliable— [2]—but otherwise pretty much nothing. AleatoryPonderings ( talk) 04:36, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
I find it surprising that this article has had those ugly maintenance tags on it for nearly a decade. It is one of the best newspapers in India (I would say it's the best – doesn't publish press releases like The Hindu). But all my attempts to find sources are failing due to the generic nature of the term; there a ton of results citing IE, but nothing about IE itself.
Is anyone else able to find sources? – SD0001 ( talk) 17:06, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
Thanks TryKid and Bluerasberry. Looking at those sources, I couldn't add much to Indian Express itself, though I ended up adding bits to related articles like Media of India. That one from EPW looks interesting, but only if I knew the background.
I am wondering whether this piece can be considered reliable? The founding editor of the site has a book on the topic published by the Oxford University Press, so looks credible to me. Just wanted to double-check. – SD0001 ( talk) 05:41, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
I've been working on the 2020 Assam gas and oil leak page, and was wondering if a more experienced editor could take a look and let me know how to improve it. I could also use some help with sourcing images for the article. Thanks! -- Naushervan ( talk) 06:58, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
The tone of the article Pasi (caste) is not neutral and sound biased whereas the use of the word like untouchable and emphasising Dalit and pig-rearers on the basis old unverified testimony is questionable which is offensive and obliterates as per the law of the land which was questioned same by the High court of Mumbai. I've added Dalit word is offensive and obliterates section for the discussion your feedback will help the article to improve. — Sanskari Hangout 08:31, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
My concern is Rajput related pages. Ex List of battles of Rajasthan..The citation style used by editors on these pages are different. Usually i see the book etc present in the list of bibliography in article where this type of citation are used. But i am witnessing a heavy use of these incomplete (half) citations which leaves no way to verify the content. Ironically these topics are covered in some of the good books by genuine publishers but editors to the Rajput related pages are not using it and this becomes a pretext to write some WP:POV pushing stuffs in a bid for glorification. Ex see talk page of Amar Singh I which i recently edited. The version before my edit was heavily unsourced and written like a fan page. But I used "Abraham Eraly: Emperor of the peacock throne by Penguin publishers" which is a very high quality source and going through its relevant pages i found that situation portrayed in article was just a opposite to what Mughals inflicted on Mewar. How to deal with these type of citation which gives no information about book etc from where the stuff is taken? Tagging some of the pupils whom i found knowledgable in this area. Alivardi NitinMlk and Jonathansammy Heba Aisha ( talk) 22:24, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
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Only half name of writer is written and there is no bibliography nor any extra info to find the book ?? Heba Aisha ( talk) 22:48, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
A complex RfC is going on, after a long bout of edit war. Uninvolved editors needed at the discussion. Aditya( talk • contribs) 06:39, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
Is the journalist and novelist Draft:Richa Lakhera a "of course" category when it comes to notability, is she in the "hmm, maybe" category, or the "who is she? Definitely not notable" category? My hunch is she's in the middle group. If she's in the first group I'm included to accept the draft remove the "promotional" stuff. If she's in the middle group I'm going to leave that work up to the submitter. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 23:13, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
To the members of WikiProject India, I would primarily like to address a report concerning the quantity of articles for which copy editing among articles concerning India remains necessary; following inspection of the list of all articles requiring copy editing, as posted via the Wikipedia Guild of Copy Editors, I present the following report to the WikiProject as an external party:
A massive quantity of articles necessitating copy editing primarily remain classified as articles related to the subject of India, within a geographical, cultural, cinematic, governmental or economic manner; a cursory search for the word "India" within the text of the summaries of the aforementioned articles produces approximately 94 articles necessitating copy editing. This massive quantity, when taken from a total of, as I write this report, 355 articles, remains an extremely concerning issue. The fact that approximately 26.4% of articles necessitating the performance of copy editing remain concerning India primarily remains a circumstance which produces, within my opinion, the conclusion that the appropriate WikiProject must remain involved. I shall present a series of recommendations below concerning this situation:
Within my opinion, the enactment of the aforementioned proposals would serve to eliminate the quantity of articles which require copy editing and concern India; the facilitation of this would remain a great boon for the WikiProject. The provided suggestions remain my recommendations to the project; thank you. SurenGrig07 ( talk) 01:30, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello! Editors are requested to kindly share their views at Talk:Rajput#About the sources in section — Rajput lifestyle. There have been some editing to article Rajput and I have opened a section at its talk page regarding the sources added. One source is a retired Indian defense personnel and a search at the google scholar for citation index of the second source is not showing any number/hits. Thanks, Мастер Шторм ( talk) 06:56, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello! Several of Indian and Pakistani serving and retired defense personnel also writes books on the topics like the Indian and Pakistani castes. Please note that such officers, though they have an education degree in history, should not be considered as WP:RS/ WP:HISTRS for contentious and debatable topics like the castes of India and Pakistan. We need the books/articles from scholar academics who have/had done research for significant time on such subjects and published their work in reputed scholarly publications. Recently, I removed the books by 2 such authors, one from the Gurjar article [3] (Saikat K. Bose's an officer from the Indian Army) and another one (Mukund S. Naravane's a retired officer from the Indian Air Force) from Rajput [4] and Rajputization [5] article.
In future also, I think that I shall keep on removing such sources and replace them (wherever possible) with superior scholarly academic sources (books published in reputed scholarly publications and from scholar academics who are/were working for some significant time at academic positions at notable academic institutions/universities).
I humbly request the views of more experienced editors on this matter, as this section may be used for future reference regarding this matter. Thanks,
Мастер Шторм (
talk) 05:03, 3 October 2020 (UTC) (added a few words)
Мастер Шторм (
talk) 08:14, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
I have started a discussion at Talk:Indian Forest Service#Use of the "IFS" and "IFoS" initialisms in an attempt to reach consensus on the usage of the initialisms "IFS" and "IFoS", which are regularly contested. Your contributions on that talk page would be appreciated! ninety: one 23:47, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
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MPourzaki (WMF) ( talk) 16:05, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
So folks, does anyone have any ideas? Zindor ( talk) 21:03, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Encyclopædius makes a great point about maintaining 700,000 articles. I've seen village articles turned into community noticeboards, family messageboards, railway and bus timetables, pages about local villager ancestry. That's just the innocent stuff.
If we made a discrimination, and only included villages above a certain population, we would reduce the article numbers massively and increase the likelihood of finding usable content. I'll scout around and see if I can come up with a rough baseline figure.
This raises thoughts on sustainability. Automation, and perhaps even machine-learning (Cluebot NG?), are playing an ever greater role in maintaining Wikipedia.
I tried to run an assessment drive a few months ago, it wasn't successful and we all ran out of motivation fairly soon. I think that's what happens when using slow old school methods in today's world.
There was an assessment bar knocking around in 2014, i know I couldn't get it working back then, and there was talk a couple of years ago about getting it fixed but I'm not sure what became of that.
From a sustainability perspective, i feel it's important that we conciously strive to use automation where we can, and we should look at our rate of expansion and see if there's anything we can do to bolster ourselves for future growth.
Is there a bot for at least assessing stub and start class articles, and if so can we let it loose on our backlog?
A question is begging here, what's the point in assessing and tagging if we don't capitalise on it with action?
Drives and editathons have worked in the past, but has anyone else noticed that the amount of collaborative editing has nose-dived over the past 10 years. What happened to the sparkle and excitement?
The WMF could lend a hand with incentivisng editing. I know that at grassroots level in India, there have been instances where laptops have been given to budding editors.
While I'm not suggesting we should get laptops (although my screen is hanging off and the WiFi antenna is broken), rewarding our contributions with access to online developer courses and other training could be highly beneficial. Zindor ( talk) 13:50, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
Thanks Zindor. Yes exactly that, "beautiful village", lists of "famous" locals", bus tables etc. I think it was 639,000 villages or something like that. If the articles are going to be started eventually I support a bot to create them if there are created as close to start class as possible. But we need something to protect articles from local spammers some type of bot which picks up on words like "famous" and "beautiful" would be a start.† Encyclopædius 13:56, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
Could some members of WP:INDIA take a look at Anand Jacob Verghese and assess it? Based on User talk:Elizabeth Verghese#Conflict of interest editing and all of the IPs and SPAs which have edited the article over the years, there might be some COI/PAID editing that needs to be cleaned up. There are some other issues as well, but it's not clear at least to me whether this person meets WP:PROF or WP:BIO. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 08:25, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
Does the intro/lede of Rejaul Karim Laskar require some sorting? DTM ( talk) 15:37, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
There is an ongoing discussion about whether Pappu should mention that the term is widely applied to Rahul Gandhi. More input would be useful!— Neil Shah-Quinn ( talk) 06:48, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi - just a quick note that Taxmann is now available for access via The Wikipedia Library. They're making their case laws database available for use in research for Wikipedia articles. Let me know if you have any questions. Samwalton9 (WMF) ( talk) 12:51, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
Could some members of WP:INDIA please take a look at P. J. Joseph? This is the article in the worst condition that I ever found on Wikipedia, and while I did my best to make the lead comprehensible (and even then there's a lot of room to improvement), I don't know what to do with the rest of the article. I don't know the basics of Indian politics to make a comprehensible text out of those random strings of text. Thank you. RetiredDuke ( talk) 12:25, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello everyone, I am specifically concerned that a few notable Indian startups write articles in a "promotional manner" and the page gets deleted. It's important to have unbiased, factual content for easy study of the company/brand/person. I have recently created Urban_Company and would appreciate it if someone could review the same. Amishah78 ( talk) 16:50, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
Please see: Talk:Middle Tamil#Sharp contradiction between Middle Tamil and Old Malayalam articles. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 23:38, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
( Link to original discussion) ( Link to Wikispecies discussion)
Hello from Wikispecies again! Last time we asked only about the order of the names for this person (which of course was answered as "Viswajyothi Keezhpattillam"), but what I want to know is which name should she be indexed by? I've seen that in scientific publications where she is an author, her names are typically given as "Keezhpattillam Viswajyothi", and in citations of those publications her name is given as "Viswajyothi, K." (note: there was one article on ZooKeys that did the opposite, however; I suspect this was a mistake). Is it possible that this is how her name is meant to be cited, and her name was flipped around for convenience?
Apologies for not asking sooner, I've been busy with other things but this indexing problem has been at the back of my mind. Monster Iestyn ( talk) 01:04, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
Is anyone familiar with the Pahari people of Kashmir? Informed input will be very welcome at Talk:Pahari Speaking People#Article scope. – Uanfala (talk) 16:49, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
I have nominated Climate of India for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 17:41, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
This is a new article about a young entrepreneur from Mumbai. The references seem a bit duplicative and I'm not sure how reliable or independent they are. Because of that, I can't make a good determination of notability so I don't know whether to tag it with {{ notability}} and send it to WP:Articles for deletion, move it to Draft:Hetvi Karia (if the criteria in WP:NPPDRAFT fit), or leave it where it is and copy-edit it and try to bring it up to 1500 words of prose so it can be nominated for an appearance in the WP:Did you know? section of Main page.
Courtesy ping to the author, Xsurajrajvardhamx. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 23:06, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
There is a noticeboard discussion on the reliability of Rajasthan Patrika. If you are interested, please participate at WP:RSN § Rajasthan Patrika. — Newslinger talk 08:02, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
There is an editing dispute occurring in the article and at the related talk page. I was asked to do something (apparently because I patrolled the article) but I know virtually nothing about the topic. If someone could have a look this could be much appreciated. Thanks.-- Ymblanter ( talk) 17:30, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
There is a requested move at Talk:Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad that would benefit from your input. Please come and help! P.I. Ellsworth ed. put'r there 22:59, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
I'm on the verge of accepting draft:Karikku based on the sources (the draft does need some cleanup, that can be done post-acceptance).
BUT I'm not familiar enough with the quality of sources to know if they are truly reliable and independent enough to "count."
Can someone familiar with the online Indian newspapers do a quick check of the sources for me?
Also, if you happen to know that this group is flat-out-no-questions-asked notable or for that matter not notable, please let me know. If you are an AFC reviewer please go ahead and accept or reject it if you know for sure it's "notable" or "not notable."
Courtesy ping to the primary author, Atlantis77177, so he knows about this conversation. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 17:54, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
I am adding above a few references that appeared in Malayala Manorama and Mathrubhumi, two of the most circulated dailies in Kerala as well as The Hindu, one of the most respected dailies in India; these references, I believe, support the argument that the channel is notable.-- jojo@nthony ( talk) 07:39, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
There is some recent sock-puppetry going on at Gurdan Saini. I partially-reverted a non-logged-in-editor's restoration of material I previously removed due to sock-puppetry.
If the edits by the socks are "good" edits, that is, if they are accurate and well-sourced, established editors are encouraged to restore the content. If they are accurate and not well-sourced, as might be the case with my most recent reversion of a non-sourced edit, established editors are encouraged to find sources and restore.
Established editors interested in this topic are encouraged to add it to their watchlist. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 14:00, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
ANI, Yahoo News, News18, Patrika, News Nation, Amar Ujala, Aaj Tak, TV9 Bharatvarsh, Dainik Jagran and Zee News. [14] -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 23:46, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
Requesting help again with improving 2020 Assam gas and oil leak, especially with finding appropriate pictures for the article. I'm trying to get it to GA status, and would appreciate any inputs. Thanks. Naushervan ( talk) 10:27, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I'm Sumit banaphar. Recently I have been trying to make changes in Udal of Mahoba by participate on the talk page , so i want to ask did Aalha Khand consider reliable source for making changes.
Book:- Aalha Khand [15]
Author:- Dr. Asha Gupt (Dr. Asha Gupt is Doctor of literature in Hindi language in Bhagalpur Hindi University )
Publisher:- Vani Prakashan
Page number:-;19
The article Udal of Mahoba currently includes the text
They were of mixed Ahir and Rajput descent and belonged to the Banaphar clan.
And I want to change it to
"They were of Rajput descent and belonged to the Banaphar clan of Rajputs"
Sumit banaphar ( talk) 08:29, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
There is a content dispute going on at this article at the moment. I would be grateful if someone with better knowledge of the issues involved can have a look at this and see if they can work out what should be there. noq ( talk) 11:35, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
There is an ongoing discussion on the reliable sources noticeboard regarding Republic TV. If you are interested, please participate at WP:RSN § Republic TV. Tayi Arajakate Talk 16:44, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi there, I have added a significant amount of new information to the Brahmin Gotras article and have linked it to the India Wikiproject. I am kindly requesting a reassessment of my article. Thanking everyone in advanced. TheHumanEncyclopaedia ( talk) 14:06, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
Please visit [16] to join the discussion on the reliability of Republic TV. I have already suggested that it is politically unreliable, but an argument continues for the reliability in non-political matters. Please oin the discussion with your valuable comments. Thank you.-- Atlantis77177 ( talk) 05:20, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
Happy Diwali to all editors!
The Template:Indian Air Force bases lists Advanced Landing Grounds (ALGs) as if they are air bases. Is this correct? My impression has been that ALGs are mainly meant for transportation of troops. That is far cry from being an "air base". -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 11:59, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
A brilliant article in the Washington Post on how the western media would have covered the American election, had it been some other country.
The United States, the former British colony already rocked this year by ethnic conflict and mass protests over extrajudicial killings by police, may finally have a new leader after weeks of political turmoil following a disputed presidential election....
I suppose this gives us a grammar to parse the western media reports the next time we have to use them for covering Indian events. -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 00:01, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
I have found that regions of India, excluding East India, Northeast India and South India, are loosely defined, and it depends on whom you ask or follow. Wikimedia Commons use Zonal Councils as regions, while Wikipedia mimics it with including Uttarakhand and UP into North India. Wikipedia's definitions of Indian regions are nothing more than a original research. Any thoughts? -- Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 12:47, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
A dicussion is going about the reliability of Republic TV in non-political matters. Please click here to join the discussion. Thank you-- Atlantis77177 ( talk) 16:57, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
I try to avoid bringing these trivial issues to this noticeboard, because I know that a lot of you prefer working on loftier matters, but it's difficult for me to get attention drawn to articles about Indian entertainment subjects through other means.
A number of outlets have asserted that Google has bestowed actress Rashmika Mandanna with the title "National Crush of India 2020", which some editors have added several times to the article. There is a discussion open at Talk:Rashmika Mandanna. Thanks. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 20:47, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
Does anyone request for comment about WP:INDICSCRIPTS were both used in Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi articles? which had been restricted for India-related topics since 2017. -- 122.2.10.69 ( talk) 05:44, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
One reason why Indian scripts are avoided is because often there are too many different languages with their own native script, each of which can be original names for a topic. Additionally, there are too often problems with verifiability of the accuracy of the non-English spelling. A third reason is frequent disagreements over which native scripts to include; this led to a resolution to avoid all of them.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It is not the CIA Factbook or the Manorama Yearbook, directing our attention chiefly to the latest information. Please do pay attention to WP's encyclopedic content. See: Talk:British_India#How_does_10_supports_by_editors_who_know_nothing_about_Indian_history_and_five_opposes_by_editors_who_do_become_a_consensus_to_move? Fowler&fowler «Talk» 14:31, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
Anyone have any thoughts on whether the correct article title for the ZEE5 network should be at ZEE5 or Zee5? Per WP:TITLETM it should maybe be Zee5, but a very half-assed search at Google News for "Zee5" -site:zee5.com tended to yield a slightly higher usage (maybe 20 to 13 over 5 pages) for the ZEE5 uppercase corporate branding. However, a lot of those hits came from one source, GQ India, so I'm still not 100% convinced. Thoughts? Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 18:02, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi! The disambiguation page Koli language currently ranks first on Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links#November 2020, with 13 unintended links to it. Apparently, Koli can refer to three different but very closely related languages spoken in India and Pakistan, which makes it very difficult to find out which one is being referred to. It would be greatly appreciated if someone with knowledge about these languages could take a look at this! The same goes for Indian medicine, which is second on the list. Lennart97 ( talk) 23:07, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
There are two proposals that would affect eligibility to be listed in FTWZ#List of Free Trade Zones being discussed at Talk:FTWZ#"List of Free Trade Zones" proposed new requirements. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 14:46, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
In order to fortify our consensus from vandals, I have created {{ Infobox Kashmir territory}} as a generic infobox template for administering territories of Kashmir. It is just a wrapper of {{ Infobox settlement}} with following changes:
@ Kautilya3 and Fowler&fowler: I have fixed the issues with the template raised by you. See User:Soumya-8974/sandbox for my proposed infobox of AJK. I shall create a doc page with enough time. Always remember that revert only when necessary. Continiously reverting changes in Kashmir-related articles by editors make Wikipedia editing unpleasent. Be kind. -- Soumya-8974 (he) talk contribs subpages 14:08, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
Is it desirable to catalogue a long list of non-notable (without articles) educational institutes like in city/town/village articles like this based on sources like these or the institute's own website?- Fylindfotberserk ( talk) 08:50, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
There is a policy somewhere that says that all "degree-granting institutions" are taken to be notable. It is not clear to me whether affiliated colleges would qualify, but I think that in rural areas even affiliated colleges can be a big deal. But schools should not be listed unless especially notable. -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 17:46, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
New editor Karnisenabharat ( talk · contribs) may need a Wiki-welcome. He may also need help with English help understanding what the English Wikipedia is for and what it is not for.
As best I can tell from his edit history, user page, and current mostly-blanked user talk page, he may think that Wikipedia is like social media or a web site. I don't read the language he is using, but Google translate was somewhat helpful. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 16:44, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
I have nominated Karnataka for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. RetiredDuke ( talk) 12:23, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Puducherry taluk. Soumya-8974 (he) talk contribs subpages 14:00, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Ladakh. Soumya-8974 (he) talk contribs subpages 18:29, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Kashmir#Infobox Kashmir territory, which is about an article that is within the scope of this WikiProject. Soumya-8974 (he) talk contribs subpages 13:07, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Khes. This article and its primary author could use some help. The topic appears at least marginally encyclopedic, but the main editor (not a native English speaker) seems to have trouble understanding the core content policies, parsing the exact meaning of the sources and citing them accurately (may have even contradicted them in a few places). As I've suggested on the talk page, there are probably non-English sources that are good for this (perhaps already listed in non-English articles at South Asian-languages Wikipedias that haven't been linked to this article yet). I already did a cleanup pass on the page, last night, to make it more comprehensible, but there are sourcing issues I can't really deal with. I'll notify WT:PAKISTAN, too, since this topic is kind of a pan-Punjab thing. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 00:57, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
There is a discussion on the talk page about a disputed sentence. Is it possible for members of this project to make a comment there? Aditya( ✉ • ⚒) 03:05, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi all, I know that this is a long-shot, but can anyone please help me to understand these three edits [17] [18] [19] where Nandha Kumar becomes "Rose.Nandha Kumar"? I understand that in one of the edit summaries, the user wrote "his name is rose. nandha kumar see the serial", but I'm perplexed as to: 1) What Rose is short for, and why we would use a full stop. If someone is named Rosemary, but goes by Rose, the latter is what we'd typically write. We typically only use a period if it's something unpronounceable or odd like "Geo." for "George" or "Thos." for Thomas or "Md." for "Muhammed". 2) Why this person has on three occasions made it "Rose.Nandha" as if somehow in English we ever use a full-stop in the middle of something without a space. Am I overthinking this? Is this a unique cultural twist that I am suddenly becoming aware of? Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 17:07, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
Hello. Can someone familiar with Armed Forces Flag Day help with improving the referencing in this wikiarticle, please? A link to this wikipage is scheduled to appear in the On This Day section on MainPage tomorrow (UTC). It was already pointed out at WP:ERRORS that "around half of it is unreferenced". Please help. Thanks in advance. -- PFHLai ( talk) 17:14, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
Hello, |
Is it possible for this article to be increased from stub status? /info/en/?search=Chhena — Preceding unsigned comment added by Platypusrock ( talk • contribs) 02:41, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi members, I have expanded the article Mahadevi Varma with the help of hi:महादेवी वर्मा and have nominated it for WP:GAN. Thank you. — Amkgp 💬 04:41, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
This is not a formal renaming discussion or an official move request. I just wanted some opinions related to Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, 2020 and how the common name of the article is undoubtedly "Love Jihad Law" and a renaming could be considered seriously?
DTM ( talk) 14:23, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
Comment: While Love Jihad Law might be a popular pseudonym for the ordinance, i strongly Disagree that the article be renamed for the same, reasons being:-
I think, it's better to leave the article dealing with the ordinance as it is, renaming it may also be a violation of WP:NPOV and there's really no need for something like this when love jihad has it's own article. Cheers! AnM2002 ( talk) 16:30, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
I heard that WP:WikiProject Indian maps is inactive, and I have decided to categorise it under "inactive workgroups". But should we list inactive workgroups separately? -- Soumya-8974 (he) talk contribs subpages 13:54, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
In Wikipedia, "Kashmiri people" has two definitions:
However, the article Kashmiris deal with the first definition and neglect the other, while its main category Category:Kashmiri people does the opposite. We should be consistent in this case. -- Soumya-8974 (he) talk contribs subpages 14:07, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Devadasi § RfC: Should article reference reports of sexual exploitation and prostitution in the modern day. Ujwal.Xankill3r ( talk) 07:20, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
Would someone please check this article on Mumbai Mirror, which has I believe has been expanded recently with an opinionated point of view. I tried editing it out but was constantly reverted. Would someone mind reviewing it. I am pinging few active members to look into it @Kautilya3 @Soumya-8974 ——- defcon5 ( talk) 05:12, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
I want to create some Indian maps in Bengali, and I have a question regarding this and other Indian languages. I use NPOV maps in English Wikipedia as much as possible, but should I use Indian POV maps or NPOV maps in Indian-language Wikipedias? If we use NPOV maps there, we will be hearing complains from Indians for not including the entire Kashmir region in India à la File:2019 Political Map of India.jpg. -- Soumya-8974 (he) talk contribs subpages 09:13, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
This page is a one-sentence stub with no links to other articles. It certainly seems to be related to Hindu mythology, but other than that, it's very unclear what this is about. It doesn't help that 'Agnidhara' doesn't seem to be the name of a person or deity, or that the only Google hit for 'Srinavagan range' is this article itself - is this article even legitimate? Could someone take a look at it? Lennart97 ( talk) 00:24, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi! I was wondering if anyone fluent in Punjabi would be willing to reach out to Gurmeet singh bai. They posted an article entirely in Punjabi to AfC, User:Gurmeet singh bai/sandbox. The translated version of the draft (which looks to be about a politician), along with this edit, gives off the impression that they really do want to help but may need additional assistance or if there is too steep of a language barrier, to be pointed in the direction of the Punjabi Wikipedia. (Linking since I did tag them here.) I just wanted to make sure that someone reaches out since if they are interested in editing the Punjabi Wikipedia, there's a lot there that they could do. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (。◕‿◕。) 11:48, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
Is the information I have contributed to the Freedom of the press in India all right. I don't trust HalfdanRagnarsson at all any more because he is deliberately deceiving me. Immortal Lion ( talk) 18:44, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
Comment:After going through the edits and corresponding 'edit summaries' made by Immortal Lion, I think the editor should go through the Wikipedia policies as @ HalfdanRagnarsson: suggested before making such ambiguous additions. You seem to have a particular POV on the subject and thus, should build consensus before making edits.Cheers! AnM2002 ( talk) 09:47, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
Category:Administrative divisions of India by state or state or union territory has been nominated for renaming to Category:Subdivisions of India by state or union territory. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies 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. Place Clichy ( talk) 17:45, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
Category:Administrative divisions of India by city has been nominated for renaming to Category:Subdivisions of cities in India. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies 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. Place Clichy ( talk) 17:45, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
It doesn't seem like anybody can be bothered to save content anymore but India is going to lose thousands upon thousands of articles like this!!† Encyclopædius 13:45, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
40 in one day, that's 14,600 if done for a year, I said "going to lose thousands" if he consistently keeps it up. I can see why kolma wants to nuke them all, but the problem is most older Indian films have poor coverage online.† Encyclopædius 12:07, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
Please opine about which of the versions between A and B are better at Talk:Torwali_people#Issues.
Also, I and Uanfala have allegations about dubious use of sources and I would like to know whether I (and he) are correct or wrong. TrangaBellam ( talk) 16:18, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
Somebody cited this news article today: India orders Wikipedia to delete map that shows Aksai Chin in China.
I don't know the precise details, but the offending maps seem to be in c:Category:Bilateral maps of India. The parallel c:Category:Bilateral maps of China and c:Category:Bilateral maps of Pakistan also have similar problems. There are no dotted lines around disputed regions, basically.
Can somebody get in touch with Wikimedia to find out what their plan is for fixing them? -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 09:31, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
{{Infobox bilateral relations|Indo-Bhutanese|India|Bhutan}}
using {{
Infobox bilateral relations}}.
Talk:Bhutan–India relations has some excited commentary including a link to a Twitter page which I haven't looked at, see "coordinated from off-wiki". Why would Wikimedia have a plan to fix maps? Given sufficient reason, the WMF might delete maps, at least temporarily, but I don't imagine they would "fix" them.
Johnuniq (
talk) 09:59, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
The map should have been replaced by a more acceptable alternative (already suggested in the talk page discussion) the map attached there has been used on many articles previously and would have solved the issue being discussed. AnM2002 ( talk) 10:12, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
I concur with what @ Aghore: has said. Making this GoI Vs Wikipedia/Freedom of expression etc isn't going to help. AnM2002 ( talk) 10:15, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
This [20] is the map which was suggested during the talk page discussion. I am of the opinion that this map might be acceptable to all parties involved. AnM2002 ( talk) 10:22, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
@ Aghore: please refer to what Jimbo Wales has said on the talk page discussion. Don't know why accepting an error is so hard for you. This is not how wiki works. The map itself is clear violation of NPOV please go through it carefully no hurry! AnM2002 ( talk) 11:57, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
I have also reacted to the map of India on the India talk page and invited comments over there. Aghore ( talk) 12:50, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
Some people seem to believe this issue is supposed to be resolved on this page, and this discussion doesn't appear to be heading towards a sufficiently explicit resolution. I offer the following proposal, primarily for the purpose of providing clarity to less experienced editors.
In other words there is nothing to do unless and until someone supplies a better map.
Like Western Sahara, I like to show Kashmir separately from other countries in world map, with showing the entireity of it as part of India with a slighty different colour (hence marking Kashmir a disputed territory). Any thoughts? -- Soumya-8974 (he) talk contribs subpages 10:21, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
Courtesy link: User:SenatorLEVI/Aipan Art Hello! I'm working on a user space draft for Aipan Art. If anyone could help add information as well as images to this draft to improve it, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your consideration. SenatorLEVI ( talk) 11:37, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
Should we change "Region administered by Foo as a Bar" to " Disputed territory administered by Foo as a Bar" in Kashmir-related articles? This change would make articles consistent with other disputed territories like Taiwan Province, People's Republic of China and Western Sahara. -- Soumya-8974 (he) talk contribs subpages 17:42, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Bania_(caste)#Image. Thanks you. TrangaBellam ( talk) 12:45, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
Can someone please check the articles Kothaimangalam Wetlands and Kongur wetland, both created by the same editor? I'm pretty sure that the first should be spelled Kothamangalam like the town, but even then, I can't find hits for "Kothamangalam Wetlands" or "Kongur wetland" on Google. I can't find any reliable source to add to the articles, but it's possibly due to the language barrier. Thanks. RetiredDuke ( talk) 21:04, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 December 30#National Highway 45C (India)(old numbering) that would benefit from the the input from one or more editors familiar with the subject area. Thryduulf ( talk) 14:38, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
Manasbose ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Manas bose is an interesting user with double standards. He is removing the controversy related reliably sourced information on Dilip Ghosh (politician) diff while adding similar kind of stuff on Mamata Banerjee diff diff ? The edit reeks of political bias, to me. They are clearly double standards for the 2 leaders of rival political parties? He has been edit warring and has now summoned a gang of editors to support him in his edit war and bowdlerize the reliably sourced content. Please see the discussion.
I also believe his other contributions need to be verified for more such political bias. -- Walrus Ji ( talk) 14:22, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Paramashiva#Requested move 31 December 2020. This seems a neutral page to notify to "get more eyeballs", as both of the involved subjects are Indian. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 01:44, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
Would someone from this WikiProject mind looking at Maridhas and assessing it for notability? The article was created directly in the mainspace and needs quite a bit of clean up. It also seems to have undergone quite a bit of WP:REVDELs due to WP:COPYVIOs. If the subject is considered to be WP:TOOSOON at the moment to support a stand-alone article perhaps WP:DRAFTIFY would be an option instead of deletion. I came across the article while trying to figure out WP:THQ#Question about photo and it's possible that their may be some WP:COI editing going on as well. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 07:19, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir § Part of the Kashmir conflict?. Soumya-8974 (he) talk contribs subpages 17:06, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
The AfD list has been spammed with Telugu movie list and in the melee, this Kapurthala king's article was deleted. What a shame. I was able to get it relisted a third time. Please see the discussion. Walrus Ji ( talk) 17:25, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
After a year or so of comparative calm, the BLP Nithyananda has been re-invaded both by haters and by devotees. This week, it's mostly followers clearly working in concert to whitewash, last week or so it was mostly detractors trying to dwell on allegations. This article needs more experienced, neutral editorial eyes and brains on it. The WP:SPA tides are not relenting. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 19:18, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
Help expand this article. -- Friendly Eagle ( talk) 17:15, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
It results in the page landing in Category:Pages where expansion depth is exceeded.
You can see this in this old revision of Talk:Tilak Maidan Stadium, which was partiallyh reverted with the next edit. The call to {{ WikiProject India}} looks like this:
{{WikiProject India |class=Stub |importance=Low |goa=yes |field=sports }}
Even without the "shell" it has a template expansion depth of 40, which is the limit, as shown in the source-code view of the "old revision" link above. Search for Highest expansion depth: to find the parser profiling data. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 15:30, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I'm working on pages about Guyana and I'm thinking the Indo-Guyanese article needs a lot of help, and although I've read plenty of sources on the subject I feel like it needs a more nuanced knowledge about Indian culture (and help from people who work on articles about culture groups). The lede starts pretty strong, but then the content starts looking more and more shabby. Some of my concerns are:
Some sections might need TNT and a fresh start with solid sources, but I still need a little support to get the terms and understanding correct. Advice appreciated! Cheers, Estheim ( talk) 01:28, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
I have deProded this article and done my best to improve it, but it could really do with expert attention if anyone has the wherewithal. Thanks. Tacyarg ( talk) 01:42, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Hey all, sorry to ask, I know that self-identification is required when we add information about caste to living people, but what about dead people? There has been a recent back-and-forth at Auto Shankar, and I'm trying to get clarity before I chime in. I have a feeling that some of the back-and-forth may involve people who don't want a gangster associated with their caste, so if anyone has any ideas for how to manage that, please join the carnival at Auto Shankar. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 16:05, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
I don't think it should be a problem to add caste as long as there is a verifiable source backing the claim. Some people may even find it offensive to see a criminal sharing their nationality but I see nationalities being mentioned on bio of dozens of criminals. I don't see why caste has to be treated any differently just because few caste fanatics make ruckus over the caste of a criminal. Ihaveabandonedmychild ( talk) 17:22, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
The page, though being a source of Geography of Kashmir Valley cannot omit the underlying Geopolitics of the vale in accord to Kashmir Conflict. The mentioning of Kashmir Conflict on this page has also been issued in public interest.Similarly, as mentioned in the 'infox' for example : " Union territory of India". The above references for either 'Kashmir Conflict' or 'Union territory of India' can't be overlooked. Musadiq Mushtaq ( talk) 00:20, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Chennai Metropolitan Bus Routes. Walrus Ji ( talk) 08:53, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
Taj Mahal, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. DTM ( talk) 12:29, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard § RfC: Asian News International (ANI). Walrus Ji ( talk) 14:36, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
Has anybody seen this? "Sidharth Shukla wins Times Men of the Year" award.
Am I overreacting, or does this look to anybody else like Times of India has knocked-off Time magazine's Time's Man of the Year award? I'm not saying that nobody else has men or women-of-the-year awards, but this one is literally called "Times Men of the Year Award". Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 14:09, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
Can someone fill in the copyright details for https://commons.wikimedia.org/?title=File%3AKadam_Kadam_Badhaye_Ja.ogg It has been listed for deletion and it is an important file given that it is the Quick march of the Indian Army. 180.151.23.104 ( talk) 08:55, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
I just found it on web. I don't think this file have any copyright as it was played by maratha light infantry regiment band and someone recorded it. Please delete the file if you found otherwise. Soap Boy 1 ( talk) 05:57, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
There is a noticeboard discussion on the reliability of A Social History of India by S. N. Sadasivan, published by APH Publishing. If you are interested, please participate at WP:RSN § Can we ban this highly questionable source? — Newslinger talk 12:05, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
Hello. Requesting thoughts on proposed merger of Balahi (caste) to Balai. Thanks, Мастер Шторм ( talk) 11:00, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats
The WMF is running a consultation on the selection method and quotas etc relating to community seats on the board. The en-wiki community risks losing due-representation, especially in the context of the WMF trying to line Jimbo up for an early departure. I came across this by chance at WP:VPW. As this has the potential to affect all of us I thought it would be worth sharing with you, my fellow WikiProject India members. Kind regards, Zindor ( talk) 11:17, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Recently Democratic backsliding was added to the lead section of his article. Ever since, "#Wikipedia" has been trending on Twitter in India. Multiple verified Twitter profiles have tweeted that this was done w/o discussion and that it was done at a 'controlled' level i.e Wikipedia is 'involved.' Since it was done via discussion (pretty small imho), I would propose adding an Edit Notice that clearly links to the discussion. -- 180.151.13.151 ( talk) 23:42, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I came across
Nayak (caste), an unsourced article containing only a single line of text: The Nayak are a Hindu caste found in India.
Does this caste actually exist? I'm getting the impression that it doesn't, and that maybe it's been confused with
Nayak (title), a historic title and modern-day surname used by various castes. But I'm not sure about this and would appreciate some input from anyone who is, unlike myself, at all familiar with the topic of Indian castes and surnames.
Lennart97 (
talk) 15:38, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
It should be noted that quite a large number of articles link to this article. However, the majority links to the redirect Muslim Nayak. If the Nayak are indeed a Hindu caste, as the article states, then that obviously can't be right. Lennart97 ( talk) 01:15, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
I have started a merge discussion related to the Union Budgets of India. I intend to merge all the independent budgets into one single article Union budget of India. Please comment. DTM ( talk) 16:41, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
Regarding Jyotirlinga article. There are two Vaidyanath/Baidyanath dham jyotirlingas and depending on verses, they are either in Deoghar, Jharkhand or Parli, Maharashtra. The article is being subjected to edit wars because of that [23] [24] [25]. I had opened a discussion at Talk:Jyotirlinga but utcursch advised be to post it here. Any help? - Fylindfotberserk ( talk) 09:56, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi all,
I noticed this while looking at 20th Indian Television Academy Awards - page may already deleted by the time you read this.
This article was created back in 2015.
As an WP:ADMIN I can see that these articles have never been created:
And so on.
Maybe they should be created?
WP:AGF as always.
Your thoughts about this?
Pete AU aka -- Shirt58 ( talk) 11:26, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
Hello. Requesting comments for Talk:Bhat Sikhs#Requested move 8 February 2021. Thanks, Мастер Шторм ( talk) 11:31, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
I've started a discussion about the validity of this article over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#Mughal-Sikh Wars. It's obviously also within the scope of this project, so please feel welcome to provide input. Lennart97 ( talk) 15:08, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
Please participate at [ [26]]. TrangaBellam ( talk) 10:20, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
I've been trying to update the page with details of litigation/licensing issues/FSSAI investigations and so on, but my edits have been reverted on the grounds that they are a) "too long", b) "seem suspicious" and c) violate BLP (which I did not realise applied to corporate persons). Would appreciate some input from more experienced editors. -- Naushervan ( talk) 17:47, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
Can anyone take a look at List of cities in India by area? A bunch of anon edits seem to have made the article inaccurate. utcursch | talk 18:19, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
Hello, An discussion is going on to derive consensus for an issue going on with Kashmir related articles. You are invited to give your opinion on whether the BLP subject should be referred as “Kashmiri” or as “Indian”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Masrat_Zahra Jammumylove Talk to me or CHECK MY RECENT WORK 08:52, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
Please participate at Talk:Destruction_of_Kashmiri_Shias#Merger_proposal. TrangaBellam ( talk) 18:57, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
Even after a number of threads on this noticeboard alone, [27] [28] it appears that the issue with genetics research hasn't been resolved.
Just recently, I removed a section on Peopling of India, regarding the claims about ancestry of the population of Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC). None of that content appeared on the article about IVC itself and I found that attempts were made to add these researches there, but they were unanimously rejected on the talk page on Talk:Indus_Valley_Civilisation/Archive_5#Narasimhan et al. (2018) as unreliable for the article. I linked this all in my edit summary but my edit was reverted with a rather baseless explanation.
I wanted to revert or discuss, but then I saw that the entire article is flooded with similar quality of researches, contrary to the version some years ago.
I would really like to know if we should rely on these WP:RECENT researches for challenging the years of peer-reviewed and widely accepted researches and how we should proceed. Abhishek0831996 ( talk) 11:11, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
What I had proposed originally is that Peopling of India is one of the places where genetic research is explicitly permitted, because that is indeed the specialist topic that deals with the subject. On the other hand, genetic research should not be used in sociological topics dealing with castes, communities and ethnic groups, unless sociologists have validated them. -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 14:38, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
Recent genetic evidence from archaeological sources has pointed to a mixture of populations in northern India at that time, with people of Iranian and Central Asian origin. Historians see this as evidence of migrations into India, but the idea is anathema to the Hindutva construction of early history.
I am late to this but, for what it is worth, my opinion remains as it was in past discussions here and elsewhere, ie: we do not and should not do it. Nothing has changed in recent years and I rather suspect that I will be dead before they do! - Sitush ( talk) 16:31, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
@ Victuallers: @ Aman.kumar.goel: @ Padavalamkuttanpilla: It's been 2 weeks, since I request to be made to Rashtriya Ispat Nigam ,but no one cares. Am I doing anything wrong to request edit? Rizosome ( talk) 04:49, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
@ Victuallers: please add cabinet approved privatization of RINL in the article. I mentioned source here Rizosome ( talk) 17:39, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
@ Victuallers: I edited now. But I still believe source 1 and source 2 need add to reference links. Rizosome ( talk) 02:49, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
@ Eagleash: I keep that in mind.
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects and categories § Redirect request: Indian Whatsapp University, Modi's Media, Modi media, Modia, Lapdog media, Bikau media , Dalal media and Bharkau media!. 122.179.55.205 ( talk) 14:50, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
There is a discussion going on here about the content of the page Samboora, Jammu and Kashmir. You are invited to join the discussion and share your respective thoughts. Thank you! – Kammill ⟨ talk⟩ 18:05, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
Greetings,
This neo South Asian slang meme Draft:Pawri Ho Rahi Hai is more likely than not to remain in vogue in foreseeable future. And more than enough sources are available. Any one who finds topic interesting enough, pl. help out in expanding the article proactively. (Sincerely I do have lot many topics already on my hand so I need some proactive support who can take this article topic as independent article ahead)
Thanks and regards
Bookku ( talk) 09:04, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Today a speech by Moitra was added by an IP here and was restored by Loopzinc (probably same user) [33]. I find the content (speech) unnecessary and WP:UNDUE, contravening WP:NOT -
On 8th February 2021, Mahua Moitra stated in the parliament "The sacred cow that was the judiciary is no longer sacred, It stopped being sacred the day a sitting chief justice of this country was accused of sexual harassment, precided over his own trial, cleared himself and then proceeded to accept the nomination to the upper house wihtin three months of retirement, replete with Z+ security cover"
It is just a speech given in the parliament that serves nothing to the career section of the article. We do not WP:CATALOGUE speeches given by parliamentarians, otherwise we would have unending lists of speeches in all these articles. The FA and GA status articles like William Henry Harrison, Harry S. Truman, Narendra Modi, do not have these kind of speeches in the articles. The only reason a speech like that would be useful if it was coupled to some bills, new laws or some major controversy the article subject is a part of. For example here, it is relevant since the comment triggered a controversy and was part of a larger event. We had a discussion at Talk:Mahua Moitra, but thought it would be better to get more opinions on this here. - Fylindfotberserk ( talk) 19:05, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
On the article talk page I have given reference to number of reliable sources and hence the issue of not having RS is null and void. "In any case, a page on Mahua Moitra should summarise RS say about her, not what she said about other people." - I would like to disagree here, for a politician or for any public representative, their opinion and political position are very important to their personality. Taking the example given by User talk:Tayi Arajakate, of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, her wiki page specifically list her political positions. The particular excerpt from the speech of Mahua Moitra is her opinion on the judiciary based of fact which are already in public domain. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Loopzinc ( talk • contribs) 10:27, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
Greetings,
Your valuable comments on notability are requested at Draft talk:Pawri Ho Rahi Hai#RfC: Is this topic notable or not ?
Thanks and warm regards
Bookku ( talk) 08:54, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
The article consists of information that have been added per WP:ORIGINAL, which is against Wikipedia's policies. It uses International Research Journal of Social Sciences as reference is a WP:PREDATORY source. Also, it enlists Yohanan Friedmann, "Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi", Chapter 5(3), p. 74, PhD Thesis which is not a WP:RS. The content looks very much WP:DUBIOUS, so I listed it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Genocide of Kashmiri Shias. I am requesting for inputs and a discussion on this subject. Thank you — Amkgp 💬 11:15, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
Time for senior editors to have a look at the page and remove the tags. It has been improved a lot, thanks to a long discussion in the Talk page. Dr. Hamza Ebrahim ( talk) 09:11, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Indian inventor. Question of notability and sourcing. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 15:34, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Hey all, I need a little edification: If an actor joins a political party like the BLP, what exactly does this mean? Does this mean that they are now a politician who will be running for office, or just that they are allying themselves with a certain political ideology? In western nations like the UK and the US, if someone joins a political party, it is largely just suggestive that they will vote a certain way about various matters and often the only formality is ticking the appropriate box on the registration sheet. The background of my question has to do with this edit, where we're bothering to note that Srabanti Chatterjee has joined the BJP, yet there's no context in the article suggestive of any political ambitions or running for office. So I'm trying to figure out if this fact is relevant or not, and if I just lack some fundamental understanding of what "joining the BLP" means. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 19:41, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Please give your feedback for the edit proposed on the main India article at Talk:India#Society_section_statement_on_caste.
Ujwal.Xankill3r ( talk) 16:51, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
The list in List of Himalayan peaks and passes has seen a fair number of edits by IPs, each typically substituting "India" with "Pakistan", "China" with "India", and so on. You all know the familiar picture. This has been going on for a long time, so the quality of the information in this article is now unreliable. Anyone interested in having a look? If it's all sorted out, then we can ask for permanent protection to prevent this sort of thing happening going forward. – Uanfala (talk) 23:06, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi all.
Please join the discussion at the talk page of the article about India's Parliament House. A commonly-repeated claim is that the design of the structure was inspired by the Chausath Yogini Temple at Morena, the WP article of which is a GA. This claim has appeared as a DYK. However, I have raised some concerns about the sourcing and reliability of this claim. It would be nice to have more voices discussing the issue.
Thanks in advance and kind regards, Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI converse | fings wot i hav dun 07:42, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
This is kind of a followup question to two previous discussions at this noticebord, but I realise this problem is not at all a unique case so it may be more useful to know generally. I also hope this is the last time I ask about this subject for a while, because it's been getting to my head lately.
So basically, I want to be absolutely sure about this: should South Indian authors of articles actually be indexed/cited by their given names? I've learned recently that South Indians generally do not have surnames but have their village and/or father's given name in front of their own given name instead. For instance, I also noticed that on the ResearchGate profile of the author I talked about last time I was here, some of the articles she co-authored gives her name as "K. Viswajyothi" (e.g. here). This seems to be consistent with what I noticed previously where the author tends to be given as "Keezhpattillam Viswajyothi", with the intention that she be cited as "[...] Viswajyothi, K. [...] year. title". I notice this to be similar to "K. D. Prathapan", an Indian entomologist who is almost always given as that name even outside of scientific journals (such as in several recent news articles and legal court documents available online). Additionally, both Prathapan and Viswajyothi have at some point at least been affiliated with Kerala Agricultural University, which I am now aware is located in South India, so it sounds more and more likely to me that both these scientists/authors are both from South India themselves.
Googling around, I have found several articles on the subject:
The authors of both articles talk about how they have been frustrated by publishers simply because they do not have a surname, and they have to substitute it with their father's name instead which itself causes confusion.
Meanwhile, does this insight change the answer for the original question at all: is Viswajyothi's name actually supposed to be written as K. (or Keezhpattillam) Viswajyothi rather than the other way round, despite Viswajyothi being probably her given name? I note that last time someone here referred to her FaceBook profile to back up the idea that it's the other way round, however so I recall FaceBook may be just as guilty as the publishers quoted in the above two articles forcing South Indians to give a "surname" when they in fact do not have one. So FaceBook cannot be a reliable source for names of South Indians let alone name order, unless the website has recently changed its attitude towards making everyone have to give a "first name" and "last name" on signing up?
Monster Iestyn ( talk) 18:42, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
{{
Indian name}}
for this purpose, see the usage at
Murali Vijay. It was also there on
J. Jayalalithaa but was removed, I've restored it. —
Spaceman
Spiff 16:13, 28 February 2021 (UTC)first=
parameter blank for South Indian authors and enter the full name in the last=
parameter instead, in the reference templates. At least that's how I remember it - I had to do it for some Bhutanese sources. In their naming system there is no given name/family name distinction, and the entire name is the person's given name, like
Dawa Dem.
Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI
converse |
fings wot i hav dun 07:35, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
An article that been involved with ( Rayan) has content that is proposed to be removed and moved to another article ( Rayan (disambiguation)). If you are interested, please visit the discussion. Thank you. Cnilep ( talk) 07:14, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I'm surprised that in the article Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on politics, there's not a single mention of India. We Know former president Pranab Mukherjee, Minister of State Suresh Angadi and many other politicians died due to Covid while Home Minister Amit Shah contracted the virus. Not to mention a number of MPs, MLAs and other politicians. Help me make a list of politicians who contracted or died of the virus. Thank you. -- Manasbose ( talk | edits) 07:04, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Godi media § Bhakts. 122.172.188.47 ( talk) 14:16, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
You are invited to discussion at Talk:Naveenpur#Name. It is about the name of the article. – Kammill ⟨ talk⟩ 14:50, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Narendra Modi § New sections. 122.179.38.46 ( talk) 15:09, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi everyone. Hope you all are well. If anyone you have some time then please give your input at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of international cricket five-wicket hauls on Irish cricket grounds. Thanks. Störm (talk) 17:10, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
As the Person Dr. G.N. Saibaba is proved guilty by the sessions court on count for their maoist link and granted life imprisonment by Session Court in Maharashtra [34]. He is been charged and convicted under section 13, 18, 20 , 38 and 39 of the UAPA Act. As Such, it seems that the naxalite reference can be added to the article. The article where the judgement done by judge at the sessions court specifically mentions the accused belong to CPI(Maoist) as well as RDF [35]. Please guide whether it;s appropriate to add the word "naxalite" in the introduction. Pranhita ( talk) 17:46, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
...aiding and abetting Naxal activitieswhich, in my personal opinion, cannot be claimed as an equivalent. Vikram Vincent 18:07, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
I think it is just not knowing what source is reliable and what is not. I came across WP:RSP while reading some conversation. It is possible to use TOI if you are not making a critical claim but definitely not a claim that might potentially violate BLP. I'm sure there will be other RS that support the claims and that content can be salvaged using the alternate sources. Vikram Vincent 12:57, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
Quick question: please have a look at this edit. The author of that quote is a senior advocate in the Supreme Court, with the quote following WP:QUOTE to support the criticism of a controversial topic. Would the arguments here be reasonable? Thanks! Vikram Vincent 19:51, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
Udham Singh's article has been disrupted for a long time, but the disruption has increased manyfold since the announcement of his biographical film: Sardar Udham Singh. So the page needs to be at least semi-protected. The disruptive caste-warriors are trying all sort of tricks to appropriate him, e.g. a newbie ( Parvinder Pathi) added a ref to support his Koli ancestry, but the source seems to be nonexistent, let alone being a scholarly one. And now an IP hopper is edit-warring over it, e.g. see here and here. As far as I remember, most scholars mention that he was a Kamboj, but the discussion is only possible if the disruption by the newbies can be stopped. - NitinMlk ( talk) 20:03, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
HI! I'm bringing this here for a wider discussion among the India community. BrownHairedGirl is removing all categories related to India, like this. I started a discussion on the editor talk page and then nominated one category for deletion. I have closed the article and talk page discussions and retaining the CFD and this one. What problems do i perceive? 1. An ordinary reader will look for country/state/district by default since these are commonly used categories. 2. By replacing the India/Karnataka with "Mysore State" categories, though hyper accurate, causes problems for normal searching. I would suggest retaining the existing categories while adding any new more accurate ones. What do others think? Vikram Vincent 15:03, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
removing all categories related to India. That is simply false.
retaining the existing categories while adding any new more accurate onesis straightforward breach of WP:SUBCAT: we don't keep a page in both a category and its parent, except in a few specific categories which don't apply here. Breaching WP:SUBCAT increases maintenance loads, makes categories harder to navigate, and causes category clutter on articles.
replacing the India/Karnataka with "Mysore State" categories, though hyper accurate, causes problems for normal searchingis another false assertion, based on Vikram's lack of understanding.
arbitrary; is a routine and systematic process of subcategorisation. And categories are not tags.
BrownHairedGirl, your aggressive approach started when you ignored
WP:BRD and reverted me
here. I already mentioned
here that I opened those multiple discussions by mistake. Trying to blame me for your aggressive attitude is misplaced and bad for your health more than mine cause I use humour. When upset, remember what
Yoda said, Wikipedia is no place for humour. Everything is very serious here and we are all terrifically important.
Best!
Vikram Vincent 18:54, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
You are invited to join WikiProject India/Collaborations of the month initiative. This initiative will help to promote many articles to the good and featured status, but to do so we need your help! If you are willing, please add your name in the participants page and you will receive newsletters when it will start again. Thank you! Kammill ⟨ talk⟩ 15:42, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
Hello. Requesting comments at Talk:Bhat#Requested move 20 March 2021. The article title should be changed per policy — WP: COMMONNAME/WP:UCRN. Thanks, Мастер Шторм ( talk) 14:34, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
Hello Wikipedians, I recently came across some village related articles like Akura, Jammu and Kashmir, Nowgam, Anantnag, Rohu, Jammu and Kashmir and many more. What I noticed was the article are not named similarly. Some of them have district at there end and some of them are followed by State/Union territory name. Let us discuss about it, so that all articles have a consistent name. I suggest we should name these articles as Village name followed by district eg. Lalchowk, Srinagar and Lalchowk, Anantnag keeping in view that there can be villages with same names in two different districts. A classical example is Lalchowk in Srinagar, Kashmir and Lalchowk in Anantnag, Kashmir. Iflaq (talk) 14:23, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
I do work on /contribute to many Women's rights related articles, including Sexual violence in India, Draft:Sexual politics in south Asia,
There was some gruesome historic incidence of mass public molestation and sexual violence seems to have happened in a failed " Ashok Kumar night" entertainment programme @ Rabindra Sarobar Stadium Kolkata Jan / Feb 1968. For which online details are scant.
I came across one mention in a Assamese socialist MP Hem Barua speech @ Lok Sabha debates, there seems to be some ref in Jyoti Basu's authorized biography too , which I already requested @ Resource Request forum but that is unlikely to provide non communist version. Hence I am looking for refs from 1968 West Bengal and national news paper archives may be Anandabazar Patrika archives? Can some one help ?
Bookku ( talk) 03:08, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
Shakuntala Vasishta was the first woman gazetted police officer of India and it's a shame that we don't have an article on her! I'd like to write one but can't find any sources for the research and citations. Can this WikiProject help me with that?-- Deepak G Goswami ( talk) 17:43, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
There's a new editor or possibly an SPA adding quite a bit of stuff to Department of Science and Technology (India). Some of the edits are reasonable, but there's also quite a bit of unsourced material, and I'm seeing a casual approach to copyright (I'm fairly certain that the DST logo is not the editor's own work). It'd be good to get some attention from people more familiar with the Indian system over there. Russ Woodroofe ( talk) 18:08, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
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Hey - would someone mind double-checking my revert [38] on Magadha. It looked like a rather large edit that mostly unsourced and POV in places, hence my revert. Would appreciate it! Ravensfire ( talk) 17:32, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
From Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund's now classic History of India, 6th edition, 2016, Kindle Edition:
At this stage Pakistan made a very provocative move. It tested a rocket named ‘Ghauri’ after Muhammad von Ghor who had once raided northern India. Actually this rocket was made in North Korea and had only been re-baptised in Pakistan.
Fowler&fowler «Talk» 15:07, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
Please participate in the move discussion on the talk page of the article Digvijaysinhji Jhala. Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI converse | fings wot i hav dun 02:44, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
More views are sought in Talk:Meṣa for the move from Meṣa to Mesha (month). Thanks in advance. Crashed greek ( talk) 08:46, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
Could anybody take a look over there and find sources (I don't know if they'd be in English language publications) for this information? There's just so many different people who keep changing numbers, I don't know whether its genuine information, premature and incorrect reports, or mundane number vandalism. Cheers, RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 18:48, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
The history of Kurnool Airport in brief:
Based on this what is the year of establishment? The current category tagged in the article is 2018, which seems wrong.
- Srihari Thalla ( talk) 17:52, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
Hello! A case at CCI just wrapped up that concerned India. The project may want to assess how much was removed and if any articles were of high interest; I don't believe many were rated of high importance but it won't hurt to check. There were about 60~ articles total in the CCI, found here. Sennecaster ( What now?) 01:04, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
The article Bharat Broadband Network has an infobox of Template:Politics of India. I don't think this article falls under this category despite being initiated by the government. I propose to remove the template. I've posted on it's talk page, link -- Srihari Thalla ( talk) 08:28, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
Hay guys, The article Khetsingh Khangar needs attentions from someone who has full knowledge on Gujarat history or who's really good at Tamil Hindi. Thank you. VocalIndia ( talk) 12:07, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
Those of you who remember Aditya Kabir, especially those who had helped edit his first Featured Article Shahbag in 2007, will be saddened to know that he passed away a few months ago.
After Shahbag, I interacted with him only intermittently, but it was usually on POV-ridden pages, where I found him to be a timely breath of fresh air. And I was pleasantly surprised last August to have received a barnstar from him which grossly overrated my abilities or contributions.
A few minutes ago, soon after complaining to my wife that my memory was no longer what it used to be, a poem of R. L. Stevenson's popped into my head. It is from A Child's Garden of Verses, given as a birthday present long ago. Here are its last three stanzas:
From "Keepsake Mill"
Years may go by, and the wheel in the river
Wheel as it wheels for us, children, to-day,
Wheel and keep roaring and foaming for ever
Long after all the boys are away.
Home from the Indies, and home from the ocean,
Heroes and soldiers we all shall come home;
Still we shall find the old mill-wheel in motion
Turning and churning that river to foam.
You with the bean that I gave when we quarrelled,
I with your marble of Saturday last,
Honoured and old and all gaily apparelled,
Here we shall meet and remember the past.
On a less downbeat note, those who remember Nichalp, Wikipedia admin and arbitrator, and the force behind the early FA-drives of South Asia-related pages, will be pleased to know that his picture on the Gupta era Brahmi script has appeared in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. It is in their short article on the " Brahmi writing system." The credit for the picture has been given to him, and not just generically to WP, as is so often done. Dwaipayanc, Ragib, Tony1, Armanaziz, SandyGeorgia, RegentsPark, SpacemanSpiff, Doug Weller, PBS. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 13:43, 27 March 2021 (UTC)