User talk:DaGizza/Archive/27

How to use this top Indian Wikipedian list for effective collaboration

Hi, I have added a section 'How to use this list for effective collaboration' on User:Tinucherian/Indians WP page to see if we can put this list to really good use, pl give your thoughts on the same and we can take it further from there. Thanks. Vjdchauhan (talk) 18:26, 6 January 2009 (UTC).

WP:FILMS Questionnaire

As a member of WikiProject Films, you are invited to take part in the project's first questionnaire. It is intended to gauge your participation and views on the project. At the conclusion of the questionnaire, the project's coordinators will use the gathered feedback to find new ways to improve the project and reach out to potential members. The results of the questionnaire will be published in next month's newsletter. If you know of any editors who have edited film articles in the past, please invite them to take part in the questionnaire. Please stop by and take a few minutes to answer the questions so that we can continue to improve our project. Happy editing!
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Wikipedia:WikiProject_Hinduism/Assessment#Participants

Please bold your name here if you are active and can be approached for an assessment request. --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 05:17, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Link Removed

Hi,

Can you kindly let me know why the link I just submitted has been removed?

Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yasiraq (talk • contribs) 03:22, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

I truely adhere to Spam regulations but my intention is not to promote Spam. If you pay a visit to the site, you will clearly see that it is all relevant to the Wiki page where this link has been added.

I truely believe that Wiki is about sharing quality, genuine content and not a place for spammers and I follow it with true spirit.

However, If you still consider it spam. I won't argue but do give it a second thought.

Regards —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yasiraq (talk • contribs) 03:30, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Jhelum (City)

Hi dear,

Can you please put a semi-protection tag on Jhelum (City) page, i will be thankful to you for this. Brainlara73 (talk) 00:32, 01 April 2009 (UTC)

move required

Hi dear, we require an admins help, please have a look at this: Talk:Jhelum (city).

Brainlara73 (talk) 18:39, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

NowCommons: File:Cricket Bat2.jpg

File:Cricket Bat2.jpg is now available on Wikimedia Commons as Commons:File:Cricket Bat2.jpg. This is a repository of free media that can be used on all Wikimedia wikis. The image will be deleted from Wikipedia, but this doesn't mean it can't be used anymore. You can embed an image uploaded to Commons like you would an image uploaded to Wikipedia, in this case: [[File:Cricket Bat2.jpg]]. Note that this is an automated message to inform you about the move. This bot did not copy the image itself. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 11:08, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 1 – June 2009

Project news Congratulations to the West Bengal workgroup for having their flagship article featured on the Main Page! The Indian states workgroup is also involved in maintaining articles about India's states and union territories. » WikiProject Indian roads was recently started as a new workgroup, to standardize and improve articles related to Indian roads, mainly the National and State Highways. After all, India has the second largest road network in the world. Iravan, the son of Arjuna, is now our 85th good article. How do we know this? Since last year, more processes have been automated, increasing productivity. Article alerts update the project with what's happening to India-related articles, from copyright violations to featured article candidates. To do… During the last few weeks, peer reviews for the recent general election and 2003 Afro-Asian Games (held in Hyderabad) were opened and are waiting for more comments, as are several articles at the peer review department. Sikkim has been nominated for FAR, and Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay has been nominated for FAC. » Currently, 11,087 Indian articles need images. Please improve these pages, especially if you enjoy photography! We look forward to more contributions from you. To get started, go to the noticeboard. »

From the editors… The last newsletter was written a year ago. In June 2008, Indian Premier League was "hot" on Wikipedia, but the article about this year's IPL has attracted 477 editors, or 53% more than the previous year! Even the number of articles in the scope of our project jumped by a whopping 18,500+ articles in an year. The 3.2-year-old India quiz continues to attract old and new Wikipedians, so join in the fun! Wikipedians are organizing a meetup in Bangalore on July 4 or 5. If you are interested, head over to the page and add your name! Topics of discussion include Indian language editions of Wikipedia and Wikimedia India. RegentsPark, one of the prominent members of our project, was promoted to adminship this year. If you'd like to know who are the most avid editors of Wikipedia by number of edits, refer to this list. "While this issue has been resolved, one asks the question – what happens when there is a conflict of opinions? What about a Wikipedia entry on India and Pakistan, or the LTTE and the Tamils? Who can edit? Will the information be true?" writes B. Narasimhan of MiD DAY as deeper implications of the Scientology arbitration case,1 reminding us of the core principles of verifiability and the neutral point of view. This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! — [sd], Ganeshk and Tinu Cherian Project · Portal · Members · Noticeboard · Discussion+

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Sikh Gurdwaras in Australia

Hi, I notice that you are a sikh living in Australia and wonder if you can help me out with this article:

• Gurdwaras in Oceania

If you have free time could you look over the article and check to see if their are any more gurdwaras that can be added? Thanks, Ghoongta (talk) 15:14, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism on my page

Hi Adminstrator

IP address 81.158.129.21 has been vandalising my page.. this is probably a user Khokhar who is removing tags from article Azad Kashmir and constantly been vandalising my page after that since I had placed those tags again on that article. Please help by blocking this user or atleast IP address from editing. Thanks and Regards. Shekhar Tagra —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shekhartagra (talk • contribs) 07:10, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

and please leave a protection tag on my user page --Shekhartagra (talk) 07:13, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi Girik Thanks for your concern

Regards Shekhar --Shekhartagra (talk) 09:20, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Joshua Project data on Khatri page

I agree with your comment on unreliability of Joshua project data. I believe there is some data in census publication from 1910 period, but will take some work to dig out.

"KhatriNYC" whoever he is, is engaged in vandalism. He pretends to be a proud Khatri, but he keeps deleting valid and well referenced information without justification. He seems to be promoting the ideas that imply the Punjabis are Indo-Scythians and are different from Hindus, I have seen Pakistanis and Khalistanis promote that theory.--ISKapoor (talk) 05:48, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

IAST

Thanks for the IAST on Mahamrityunjaya Mantra, that was fast! Perhaps you could help me: I spent some time looking for an automatic Devanagari -> IAST, ie a romanizer from Sanskrit etc. to IAST, but no luck. Do you know of any such tools online or downloadable? There's quite a few in the other direction, where you type latin characters and get Indian script, but I can't find something where I enter "महा मृत्युंजय मंत्र" and get "mahā mṛtyuṃjaya mantra". --Kai Carver (talk) 08:15, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 2 – July 2009

Project news File:India 1947 India Flag 3 and half annas.jpg A number of India-related articles have lost their featured article status, including Sikkim and Mumbai. The article about Gandhi was also demoted for referencing and image quality issues. Since then, Mumbai has been brought back to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Kensplanet and others. Transport in India was promoted to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Rsrikanth05, SBC-YPR and GDibyendu. Several new workgroups have been formed: WikiProjects Railways in India, Education in India and Transport in India. Please join us if you're interested in those topics! To do... The articles that have been selected for our latest collaborations of the month are history of Mumbai, Indian Railways, rail transport in India, Indian general election, 2009 and telecommunications in India. We need your help to improve them! These India-related articles are currently on featured article review: Kerala (FAR), Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (FAR) and rail transport in India (FAR). Would you allow these articles to lose their FA status? Wikipedia Takes Chennai – a scavenger hunt and free-content photography contest – has started in Chennai, along the same lines as Wikipedia Takes The City. We look forward to more contributions from you. To get started, go to the noticeboard. »

From the editors... Wikipedians in Bangalore organised a meetup on 5 July 2009; thanks to Tinu Cherian for hosting the event! Arunram and Tinu Cherian wrote extensively about the meetup, which was also covered by Wikizine, Headlines India and The Wikipedia Signpost. Photos have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Sunil Abraham from the Centre for Internet and Society has offered to help host such events in the future. All in all, the meetup was a great success. Watch out for the next meetup! » Nichalp, an Indian bureaucrat and major contributor to more than 23 India-related featured articles and lists, was desysopped over allegations of paid editing and using sock puppets. An RfC about paid editing was opened as a result of this incident. A prolific editor and administrator, Bhadani is among the top ten Wikipedians by number of edits across the English Wikipedia. Congratulations to Bhadani for also making the most number of edits among Indian Wikipedians! Are you subscribed to wikimediaindia-l to learn about the latest developments of forming the Indian chapter of Wikimedia? Did you know that there are IRC channels for Wikipedians interested in India like you? Check them out at #wikipedia-in connect and #wikimedia-in connect! Wikipedia's India quiz remains a hotspot of the community by continuing to attract old and new Wikipedians. You are invited to join in and have fun! This is your newsletter, and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome – so feel free to join in! Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! — Ncmvocalist, RegentsPark, [sd] and Tinu Cherian Project · Portal · Members · Noticeboard · Discussion+

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Request for Participation in Wikipedia Research

DaGizza,

Your Request for Adminship (RfA) process was reviewed and studied by our research team at Carnegie Mellon University early in our project to gain insights into the process. We reviewed what voters discussed about your case, and what qualifications you brought to the table as a candidate. In total 50 cases were personally read and reviewed, and we based our further research questions in part on your case.

In continuing our research, I would like to personally invite you to participate in a survey we are conducting to get perspective from people who have participate in the RfA process. The survey will only take a few minutes of your time, and will aid furthering our understanding of online communities, and may assist in the development of tools to assist voters in making RfA evaluations. We are NOT attempting to spam anyone with this survey and are doing our best to be considerate and not instrusive in the Wikipedia community. The results of this survey are for academic research and are not used for any profit nor sold to any companies. We will also post our results back to the Wikipedia community.

This survey is part of an ongoing research project by students and faculty at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and headed by Professor Robert Kraut.

Take the survey

Thank you!

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free comment on my talk page.

CMUResearcher (talk) 19:24, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

AfD

Please see: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Loony leftBorock (talk) 08:18, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Budania article for deletion

Hi,

Budania article has been proposed for deletion. Can you go to the link below and Vote.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Budania

Regards,

burdak (talk) 16:46, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Removing Categories

I've noticed that you are removing the category Zoroastrianism from all Zoroastrianism-related articles. What is the point of doing this? warrior4321 02:17, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

rugbyweek.com link removal

Hello I was wondering why you removed the link to rugbyweek.com that I put up but leave links that are longer valid.

For example the Link to Rugbydirt.com. The site is no longer current and has no new material. The main story is from a third party feed that was updated on Jan 11, 2008.

Another example is Erugbynews.com which is no longer a site on its own and is now simply a link to a site called Rugbymag.com.

RugbyinCanada.com does not seem to have been updated since April and offers very little for wikipedia users.

In contrast Rugbyweek.com is a news site that is updated probably hourly and is an enormous resource for those interested in rugby Union. The site has all the latest news with tables, team sheets and results from all current tournaments.

I feel that if you took the time to look at the links the Rugbyweek.com link will be a far greater resource to the wikipedia page than the others which are now outdated or neglected. The web has evolved beyond these outdated resouces.

So, can we put the link back now ? Do you agree ? Do you have any thoughts ?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Regards Lee —Preceding unsigned comment added by RugbyLee (talk • contribs) 14:20, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

English Language Wikipedia

Thank you for reversing my edit, but it appears you are not aware of the English Colloquial language . If the article was written in Punjabi, then my edit would not be relevant. However it is and there is a big difference between Australian, American and the "English" English. language.

80.101.230.196 (talk) 14:40, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

File:18th Birthday.jpg

Hey, DaGizza. Just stopping by to wish you a Happy Birthday from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!-- MisterWiki talk contribs 00:01, 5 December 2009 (UTC)