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Categories

Hi, thanks for adding categories to articles. However, please note that categories work in hierarchies. The guideline WP:SUBCAT explains, "articles belonging to such a subcategory should not be placed in the parent category also." So forts in Maharashtra should not also be categorised in Category:Forts in India. - Fayenatic (talk) 08:04, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

I will remove the Forts in India category. Thanks for the info! --Belasd (talk) 08:50, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Anandibai

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DYK for Anandibai

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Exceptional newcomer award: Within a month, you have created two good articles, Panhala fort and Anandibai and improved others related to Maharashtra. For your contributions to wiki, accept this as a token of my appreciation, on behalf of WikiProject India: Maharashtra workgroup. --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 14:57, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

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Typo fix

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Tanaji Malusare

Hi Belasd,

Thanks for bringing it up, most of the stuff deleted is relevant to and mentioned in Battle of Sinhagad - the rest of it simply counts as redundancy imo. --ti 03:09, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

hi again, thanks for checking. to be honest, i never investigated before doing that, it just seemed natural to me to separate the information that way! --ti 19:59, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

India quick links

Also check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Maharashtra. utcursch | talk 02:42, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Shivaji Park

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Mumbai Reverts

Hi!! There is no problem with your internal links actually you did a good job but problem was that. Before your edit and after your editd there was a vandelism so I just reverted all changes to a vandel free version. you can readd the links.--Suyog^{talk to me!} 03:26, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Samuel Stockhausen

Thank you for patrolling this new page.

I realize that what you added was a generic template, but I wonder if you have specific items in mind that need verification that I could work on?

I did cite two fairly recent, and accessible articles that discuss Stockhausen's work. Do you consider these references to be unreliable? How many citations would be adequate?

I will watch this page for a reply.

--AJim (talk) 20:10, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

I found the article interesting(I am a biologist :)) so I went through the references of Samuel Stockhausen. But two of them were in another language. One lead to a Pubmed abstract(Chronological history of occupational medicine) which did not mention him which when I clicked through I could not access the article. The other Pubmed abstract mentioned him in passing.

But a Google search showed that he was notable. I felt that if he was so notable perhaps better references can be added. like a book perhaps? or a direct link to one of the articles (since it is freely available in Pubmed Central). I tend to expect more from medical science related articles esp as this person looks important. I hope this clears things up. I will probably work on the article sometime later too. --Belasd (talk) 20:38, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Found another book ref.--Belasd (talk) 20:41, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I am still learning how to get useful references. I found the first reference in Eisinger's history of colica pictonum, which mentions Stockhausen (p 295) and said that Gockel credited Stockhausen with supplying key evidence to show that the wine disease was lead poisoning. I do not think Stockhausen's book is available in English. I added the two alchemy database links to show that the original Latin books existed. The Gochfeld article is more interested in Ramazzini, but does mention Stockhausen.

I have seen several reviews of the Nriagu book (Lead and Lead Poisoning in Antiquity, Wiley 1983 pp437), including one by Eisinger (Lead in history and history in lead, Nature V 307 p 573 9 Feb 1984), but the book itself seems hard to find. Both reviewers were very negative about the apparent claim by Nriagu in the last chapter that lead poisoning "caused" the fall of the Roman Empire, which probably hurt sales. However, it appears that this book is filled with other fascinating information about the long history of lead.

Please add more references to the article. I too believe that this history is important. It seems clear that the lesson of the dangers of lead have had to be relearned fairly often, and this might help prevent more lapses. --AJim (talk) 21:12, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi

Hey there fellow Wikipedia.
Good to see someone else taking interest in articles relating to India.
Hope you're enjoying Wikipedia.

--Rsrikanth05 (talk) 11:22, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

RBI

Well, you know how the Americans think they're the only ones alive on this planet, so most of the things online, go according to their whims and fancies.
So, I thought, let's be a bit fair.
RBI, redirects to Run Batted In, which as we all know is a baseball term, and baseball is an American sport.
Sometime back, a vote was held to redirect it to the disambig page. Someone said, English is NOT a primary language of India, and hence there should be preference to non-Indian artices.
The Americans voted and made the article redirect to Run Batted In, so I feel, we should all have another vote.
So, please vote, on whether you support or oppose the redirect to RBI (disambiguation) rather than Run batted in.
The earlier debate can be found at Talk:RBI (disambiguation).
The new poll can be found at Talk:RBI
Regards,
--Rsrikanth05 (talk) 07:19, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Chor Bazaar

{{help me}} I am working on Chor Bazaar (an area in Mumbai). However two IP addresses persistently insert external links into the article which lead to a T-shirt company. When I went through the article history it seemed to me that he/she had added external links on 13 occasions (by my count). The T-shirt company has nothing to do with the Mumbai neighbourhood and is not even based in Mumbai. I and other users have warned the IP addresses several times. I want to know if this is sufficient reason to request that his/her IP addresses be blocked? --Belasd (talk) 18:34, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Yep. Go to WP:AIV and follow the directions. //roux   18:37, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! That was very helpful. --Belasd (talk) 18:44, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

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Tensor of a quaternion

Hey thanks for stopping buy the new page about the tensor of a quaternion!

If you feel like doing a little editing feel free, right now it is just some old stuff that we paisted in from other articles.

As to why my talk page has been blanked(vandalized), not really sure, being stalked by some really nasty little trolls I suppose that went in and deleted it, because they don't like it that I am doing research on Hamilton's original conception of a quaternion. (Stuff by User:Hobojaks that he/she put on my user page by mistake. --Belasd (talk) 01:36, 13 March 2009 (UTC))

Laling fort

Hi Belasd, I liked the template, but I want to show the exact location of the forts in the relevant state maps of India. Do you have any suggestions regarding that. ashish 20:33, 12 March 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ash karizmatic (talk • contribs)

I added it too, and its much better now. Thnks for the suggestion. ashish (talk) 22:19, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

hii

hi Bela

added a new article today

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menawali

please help me out with adding categories to the 2 articles that i have written till now :)

the other one is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadhu_tulapur

Thanks

Shishir —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shishirsathe (talk • contribs) 07:28, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

thanks bela..

Was able add categories for my pages :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shishirsathe (talk • contribs) 09:29, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

(moving shishirs comment to the right section --Belasd (talk) 19:17, 13 March 2009 (UTC))

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Advise needed

Hi Belasd, a guy is using Nandurbar district article for promoting his coaching classes. Do you know how to stop these type of advertisements, or the uploading of scrupulous information on neutral articles such as these.
Thanks in advance.
ashish (talk) 15:39, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Ahmednagar Fort

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Maths rating template

When you add the maths rating template to a talk page, please fill in all three parameters class=, importance=, field=. There is already a List of mathematics articles that does not require tagging talk pages, so the only purpose of the talk page tag is for assessment data. — Carl (CBM · talk) 00:07, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Is this about the Tensor of a quaternion article? I came across the article when I was patrolling new pages. I tagged it as I wanted to get some Math expert to look at it as I could not decide whether it was OR, nonsense or something genuine. Anyways, I will keep in mind not to use this template next time. --Belasd (talk) 01:47, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

It is not about the AFD. I was looking through a list of articles that had incomplete tags on their talk pages, and your name appeared. Anyone is welcome to use the maths rating template, but please fill in all three parameters if you do.

By the way, if you would like a math expert to look at an article, please leave a note at WT:WPM, which is heavily watched, and we'll be glad to look at it. — Carl (CBM · talk) 03:00, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

I have made a note of that and will leave a message at WT:WPM in case an expert is required for a new page next time. Thanks for letting me know. --Belasd (talk) 04:25, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Shishir

hi

substantially added and edited this..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraj

my hometown :) history...may interest you... :)

Shishirsathe (talk) 09:12, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Wikimapia

Is it permissible to upload image from wikimapia in any of the article. I wish to show the confluence of some river as shown in wikimapia. Please let me know. Thanks Gunjan (talk) 12:23, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Girangaon

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Please be cautious

Please be cautious before adding WP:MUM to articles. Ashmit Patel doesn't belong to WP:MUM Thankyou, Kensplanet^T_C 10:48, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. But I figured he is famous person from Mumbai therefore he should be tagged with WP:MUM. He is also born in Mumbai. Therefore as Shah Rukh Khan is tagged with Delhi and Preity Zinta with Himachal Pradesh, WP:MUM would be appropriate for Ashmit Patel. Sorry, am I missing something? or if there is something written somewhere about these things, let me know so I read it up. --Belasd (talk) 17:32, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

An Award for you

		The Silver Mumbai Barnstar
		Awarded for your contributions to Mumbai related articles. Keep contributing. Thankyou, KensplanetTC 10:58, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the star. It is just the thing to brighten up a morose Monday morning!--Belasd (talk) 17:33, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

For the Original Barnstar

Thanks for the Barnstar, such appreciation helps! I will keep contributing to and if possible try expanding not only Maharashtra related articles but also other Wikipedia articles. Kesangh (talk) 17:26, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Shivaji

Hi! I've put this article up for review and i would like you to review it. It deserves a better rating than the one it currently has. The article seems to be well structured and covers the entire life of Shivaji. It no more seems to have the problem of NPOV and peacock terms. Kindly go through it. Thanks Kesangh (talk) 14:27, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Ram Narayan peer review

Hi! I'm looking for a peer review for Ram Narayan. I saw you read the article and are from Mumbai, perhaps you want to take a look? And perhaps you know a way to find a free picture to use? Thanks :) Hekerui (talk) 15:30, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Articles related to history of Maratha kingdom

Hey Belasd, don't you think that articles like Yashwantrao Holkar, Madhavrao Peshwa, Mahadji Scindia, Holkar, Sambhaji, Shahaji deserve a better rating than they currently have. Kindly go through these articles and promote these articles if you feel likewise. Thanks Kesangh (talk) 07:23, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Chitradurga Fort

Hi! Belasad,

Thanks for the recognition. Like you, I am also a member of the Mumbai portal and I have contributed several articles in recent months on Mumbai's buildings and heritage road, which you might have noticed. My intention is to cover all well known places in the country, in all states.--Nvvchar (talk) 01:03, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

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Improved

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Purandar

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G'day all, please be advised that throughout April 2018 the Military history Wikiproject is running its annual backlog elimination drive. This will focus on several key areas:

• tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
• adding or improving listed resources on Milhist's task force pages
• updating the open tasks template on Milhist's task force pages
• creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various lists of missing articles.

As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the scope of military history will be considered eligible. This year, the Military history project would like to extend a specific welcome to members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red, and we would like to encourage all participants to consider working on helping to improve our coverage of women in the military. This is not the sole focus of the edit-a-thon, though, and there are aspects that hopefully will appeal to pretty much everyone.

The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 April and runs until 23:59 UTC on 30 April 2018. Those interested in participating can sign up here.

For the Milhist co-ordinators, AustralianRupert and MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:53, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Pant Pratinidhi

Hello Belasd,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Pant Pratinidhi for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

^{Atsme📞📧} 16:19, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open

Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Cheers, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:53, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced

G'day everyone, voting for the 2018 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:35, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced

G'day everyone, voting for the 2018 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:22, 15 September 2018 (UTC) Note: the previous version omitted a link to the election page, therefore you are receiving this follow up message with a link to the election page to correct the previous version. We apologies for any inconvenience that this may have caused.

Have your say!

Hi everyone, just a quick reminder that voting for the WikiProject Military history coordinator election closes soon. You only have a day or so left to have your say about who should make up the coordination team for the next year. If you have already voted, thanks for participating! If you haven't and would like to, vote here before 23:59 UTC on 28 September. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:29, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 201, January 2023

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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open

Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election have opened. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting will commence on 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:04, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

Unblock request

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Belasd (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

I am not sure why I have been blocked. I did not get a notice. I have been on wikipedia for a while. My contributions may have dropped recently but when I feel it is appropriate I made a few edits. Please look into my case. The person who blocked me did not even give me a warning or I would have stopped whatever it is that they found so offensive. Belasd (talk) 04:32, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Decline reason:

The block message suggests the blocking admin, who has access to the checkuser tool, found using it enough evidence to lead him to believe that you are another editor using this account. — Daniel Case (talk) 07:35, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

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If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

In response to your email, since I am not a checkuser I can't look at that data. I suggest you get in touch with Doug Weller who made the block. Daniel Case (talk) 06:11, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Agh. I know I replied but maybe I didn’t save it. I’ve decided that the evidence you are misusing multiple accounts is fairly good but given your few edits I decided to unblock anyway. I unblocked you when you contacted me. By the way, when we find socking we usually just block. No need for warnings. Doug Weller talk 21:37, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you @Daniel Case for the suggestion.

Thank you @Doug Weller for considering my request.

Happy to have my wikipedia account back. Someday I will get back to active editing. I hope. Belasd (talk) 11:45, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Voting for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2023 is now open!

Voting is now open for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2023! The the top editors will be awarded the coveted Gold Wiki . Cast your votes vote here and here respectively. Voting closes at 23:59 on 30 December 2023. On behalf of the coordinators, wishing you the very best for the festive season and the new year. Hawkeye7 (talk · contribs) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:55, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Voting for coordinators is now open!

Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election have opened. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting will commence on 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:40, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Voting for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open!

Voting for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open! A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. Register your vote here by 23:59 UTC on 29 September! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:33, 18 September 2024 (UTC)