Hey Gurubrahma, as usual, thanks for the compliments and have a great New Year. I was pretty disappointed, no one had written anything on it, so created the article & updated ITN with it. I thought I may get flamed in the morning for not protecting the image in my haste, but thankfully someone else had done it for me. Also, see this. I guess, most of the Indian admins are busy right now. Even I will be getting busy from January and dunno when I will be doing regular edits. --Pamri • Talk08:17, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, I just read it through and I realize I did keep some of the elements on the page, but I'd rather we work together to keep the content with a crafty rewording than just have it deleted. PRueda29 / Ptalk29 / Pcontribs2908:59, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I'm going to ask User:Solipsist to organise a picture of the day for the 1st of January so that if neither of us can get to a computer then the section won't need to be tended to.--nixie10:51, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, I wish you and your family a prosperous and happy New Year 2006! We shall surely remain actively involved in the Project Wikipedia. And, I had told you in Deptember that "our association shall grow", and it has grown and shall continue to grow. --Bhadani17:14, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Dear G, Happy new year to you too! Its a pleasure to be the first in 2006 to drop you a line :-) Wish you a great joyful year ahead. Cheers & Happy editing! --ΜιĿːtalk07:47, 1 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Gurubrahma - thanks for your compliments. I understand I need to do a lot of work on Indian nationalism. The work I did previously is not good to standards, so I'm gonna re-write a lot of the article. I was just trying to start off the article previously, but now I will mould it better.
I've realized that Wikipedia rightly demands well-documented sources for any detail that most of us already know as fact and reality. This didn't sink in till last month, and I realize how right this demand is, even when it comes to a very basic fact. Also, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a journal or magazine - something that I thought I knew.
May God bless you and your family in this new year. I'm presently doing improvement work, but everything is changing with me as of right now.
Happy New Year! Have been away as usual but spotted strange activity at aladin so do go and look. There have been small moves to ethnically cleanse the page of references to the subject's asian origins (he is basically of Indian ancestry) and now a strange move to delete while we are presumably sleeping off the revelries. I have let Zora and Pamri know too - go look at their discussion pages. The delete move seems unjustifiable - which is suspicious. I have a very high regard for the article content although have just gingerly appeared on the talk pages with my Indian flag. Autumnleaf02:15, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I have noticed that the Did-you-know section has disappeared from the Main Page and has not been updated since Dec. 30, 2005. May I ask, what is the problem? Jan.Kamenicek08:41, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
History of India is such, that there is a possibility of a Telugu person to be not related to current day andhra pradesh at all. e.g. Nayagas of Tamil Nadu, who have Telugu Origin. So the language link is right. Also it makes sense, because it unites Andhra/Rayalseema/Telangana... by one language Chirags22:36, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Namaskar dear, and there is no delay – I also wish you again, this time for Pongal. Have a nice time. I would also request you to suggest some topics which may become India COTW. --Bhadani13:13, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for wishing me, and thanks for reminding me about the archive. I'm starting the New Year off (a little late) with a clean page, due to you. Zora17:52, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hello again. Well - take a look at aladin as I think it is 'us' who should be contributing more to the page - Zora, Pamri and Ragib are there already. Autumnleaf23:50, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Since he was Indian, I thought you would not have trouble with spelling his name is Devanagri. There is a precedent for some other Indian famous physicists who were not native hindi speakers to have names in Devanagri. What do you think ? Manik Raina04:50, 4 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the kind words, Gurubrahma... You were quite a help when I started here. I know you are busy elsewhere (I too would be, shortly), but hope to see you more around :-)
PS: I surely would have uploaded the image file by updating yours (saves a lot of changes at times), as I get your point but this one is .svg so had to do it as separate... --ΜιĿːtalk10:57, 4 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Happy New Year. Thanks for fixing the template thing wrt to POTD, I wasn't sure where to do that. The template could probably do with another update in 6 hours if you're still around, there is a little bit of a backlog. --nixie10:55, 4 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your explanation. Everybody needs a holiday from time to time and I hope you enjoyed it. The problem was that the section disapeared just at the end of the year and I was afraid that it was cancelled :-))
One more thing: I have noticed that the information about the next refreshment still reports the 2005 year. (Earliest time for next refreshment is January 4, 2005 23:55 Wikipedia time (UTC)).
Wiki db takes some time refreshing the category with the articles linked it. When I created the category it was empty. After some time it showed three articles. Slowly but surely all articles will there. Give it a couple of hours. I had removed the second line in line with the city and district templates. The box looks too big with that second line. The viewer would click the project link anyways. - Ganeshk18:05, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I think I might be wrong with regard to the category refresh. Read this page. It says we need to do a null edit on all articles to make them come up on the category. - Ganeshk20:09, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! I'm a categorization fiend and I thought the Mahatma certainly deserved his own...also, there seemed to be lots of articles in Indian diplomats (hope the category wasn't redundant with Indian politicians)....and, there seemed to be plenty of Indian military figures, although I wasn't sure what the best way to categorize them would be. I think the Indian Army certainly warrants its own, if you have any suggestions let me know and I'll work on it. Also, if Gandhi decendants should be put into a subcategory, let me know. I will now close with the only Sanskrit word I know (and I'm not even sure if it's Sanskrit, but it's a nice word)- Namaste. Paul20:29, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
hi, stumbled on your query on the talk page of V Shanta, did a bit of search and found answer to your query, you had palced there in September 2005. --Bhadani08:51, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
hi.i had changed the wallpaper because it made indian films seem old
and boring.Dhoom seems a good and a newer movie and reflects indian youth in a better way.But you are a system administrator .So if u dont want to listen to my suggestion,its ok. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rohit bhoj (talk • contribs)
Puthuvalsarashamsakal to you too ! I hope Gandhi is not a big issue because there should many people watching over it. Re. Raju, I would like to postpone working on it till February. I won't be back in India till then and without books it is difficult to make it something more than a writeup of the scorecards. TintinTalk16:25, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, can you elaborate who decided to ban fairuse images from WP:DYK? Because of that, we seem to have a dearth of images eligible for the main page. --Ghirla | talk13:42, 8 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
OK I see. Despite my advanced count edit, I'm not an admin and I don't want to be one, as clearly stated on my user page. To quote User:Wetmen, who I always look up to, my experience with administrators - in their capacity of administrators - has been routinely unpleasant. This statement in no way concerns the owner of this page, whose first month of adminship has been examplary. --Ghirla | talk08:26, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Gurubrahma - I request your help in elevating this article to FA status (I've started the peer review with user:Deeptrivia's help). Further, if you can help in procuring a main map of British India, it would be greatly appreciated, coz I don't know how to obtain copyright permission. I've also asked for Bhadani and Deepak Gupta's help.
Dear Gurubrahma, Thanks a lot. I am new to the wikipedia. I intend contributing in whatever way I can. I would also like to help in fund raising. Thanks again. --ganesh • Talk
OK, I think I've addressed Eacinva's other copyright concerns, which don't seem in these cases to have been justified. By the way, I'll tell you I always put mprotected on the same time as protecting out of fear I'll forget about it and leave an accidental trail of overprotected images; with mprotected on, at least everything's kept in account.--Pharos04:44, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Gurubrahma, thanks a million! Your comments were very thorough and insightful. And may I have the pleasure of announcing that I agree with every single point you made! Hehehehehe...The map issue is resolved as I got copyright from a website, and Miljoshi added the 1922 map to Wikipedia's database.
Four questions - (1) I understand that the lead is the key section here. I've re-written it many times to form a better introduction - can you write a few lines to give me an example of what you want me to change? I've provided a chronological ref and links to the freedom struggle, and discussed the contents of the article. I summarized Patel's diplomacy as well as the use of force.
(2) I've created some in-line citations, and included data on the reference books from amazon, but most of the stuff cannot be in-cited coz its coming mostly from Gandhi's book and the others.
(3) I cannot obtain publication details for three books that I cite, primarily becoz it is Rajmohan Gandhi who uses those sources thru his book, and I can't find those details in Amazon or the web. Is it ok to just leave-it-be, or should they be striken?
(4) Please think about the section "Game of Chess". What needs to be added/changed/rmv? Please discuss your thoughts a bit more, coz I don't want to carry a potential problem into the FA nomination.
I trouble you by asking these questions becoz you gave me and the others some very good and detailed insight. I've incorporated almost every point you made.
Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article L. V. Prasad, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
I have another query now. Quite often, I replace a stub with a wholly new article, which retains very little (if anything) from the previous version, e.g, like this, this, or this. I understand that technically such expansions are not qualified as new articles; but would they be eligible for WP:DYK? --Ghirla | talk00:21, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Terribly sorry for any ruckus I may have caused. The instructions regarding DYK were rather confusing to me, and it appeared as if the process guidelines were not very strict. I meant no harm. Again, sorry. —Nightstallion(?)09:30, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, and regarding the fact that the article had not been started in the past five days: That was because it had been sitting in my sandbox for the last two weeks or so, and so I figured it still counted as a new article since it had only recently been moved into articlespace. —Nightstallion(?)09:32, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. I was the guy who nominated the article for DYK, and I'm very interested in the history of its nomination, editing, and actions of different users over it. Particularly, you left this message on one of the talk pages. Could I have your extended admin evaluation on whether WP rules and ethics have been broken during the process? Thanks in advance, Ukrained11:01, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Apart from what I had mentioned in the message you cited above and this message, I have nothing more to say. It is a minor issue, guess it is resolved now. I would prefer that people who suggest DYK entries do it asap (ideally on the date of creation of article - and follow UTC time for that listing ;)) - btw, it was heartening to see so many editors interested in that article. I kinda like ur username, it reminds me of Bangalored. --Gurubrahma14:12, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. And I invented my username myself, not knowing of Bangalored. It has nothing to do with problems of my life. However, the issue is rather interesting :), thanks for hinting. Wishes, Ukrained20:59, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, the template looks good, but it will create another 4 edits in the updating process. Substituting the talk page message with the user message might be a good way to go since many pages are collaborations anyway.--nixie11:54, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Gurubrahma - I have a fresh problem/question regarding the "Conflicting Agendas" section in Political integration of India. I'm afraid that once nominated for FA, this section will possibly provoke Pakistani editors. While some might simply demand to insert the views of Pakistani historians to equate R. Gandhi's postulations, a worse-case scenario is that it will be vandalized or disputed. Also, it does seem to capitalize on Patel's attitudes, which while as Minister of States is center to the article, it is not exactly balanced.
I'm asking for your advice here becoz I'm afraid enough not to raise this question on the peer review page, which is displayed openly. Please be frank about your thoughts regarding this section. I'm not raising this doubts just becoz I want this article to win FA status, but becoz I fear a serious problem arising which will kill the integrity of the work. According to your advice, I/we can make the necessary corrections (i.e., addition of views of reputed Pakistani historians...).
Hi Gurubrahma - I understand that you're still justified in keeping an eye at the back of your head regards to me (dats cool...I mean it), but I deeply appreciate your much-needed help on the Political integration of India and other work.
In my explanation a month ago, I'd told you that I'd been going thru a tough patch when I clashed with you. Everything happens for a reason, as the lessons from that episode have helped me on some important personal issues, and saved my prospects for 2006. I'm amazed how much net interactions seriously helped me.
Hello. The first copyvio I have ever reported was yesterday's Lee Redmond and Image:Wiki_leeredmond.JPG. Would it be possible for you to give me feedback on how I handled the process? I see that the user who wrote the article removed the copyvio notices I put on his talk page ... Thanks! --Kralizec!18:24, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your feedback! Looking at other articles written by Swollib, Les Stewartmight be a copyvio from [1], but I am not sure how strict the rules are. Here are some examples:
Wiki - Les Stewart of Mudjimba Beach, Queensland Australia has typed the numbers one to one million manually in words on 19,990 quarto sheets.
Guinness - Les Stewart, of Mudjimba Beach, Queensland, Australia, spent 16 years typing the numbers 1 to 1,000,000 on 19,990 sheets of paper.
Wiki - He exhaused seven typewriters and approximately 1,000 ink ribbons.
Guinness - By the time Les finally typed "one million" he had exhausted seven typewriters, 1,000 ink ribbons, and almost 20,000 sheets of paper.
Thanks for noticing. I'm still catching up. I hear the conference was great -- I dunno, I spent the whole time at the main desk, giving directions, watching luggage, and doing a lot of sitting and reading. However I did get to interact with a number of the conference participants and a job MAY come out of it.
Yes, the POV warriors came out of their holes and scuttled articles. Not so bad in the Islam and Indian cinema related articles, but horribly horribly bad in the Khuzestan related articles. I'm going to have to learn not to care, I guess, because if I'm copyediting full time, I won't be spending as much time on WP. Zora18:27, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. I apologise it was foolish of me to do this. My edits were with good intentions. Thanks Swollib 00:32, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
You can delete the pages if you wish. Lee Redmond and Les Stewart are copyvios. Swollib00:36, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there, thanks for everything. Just so you know, I am just a kid, a don't really know much about copyright laws and all that mumbojumbo but when I did write the articles I did try to change the words around so it wouldn't be exactly copied, obviously I didn't do that enough. It was foolish of me to copy the pictures. Please tell me though, is it acceptable to get some non-fiction books from my local library and completely rewrite what is in them? Would I be able to statistics/numbers/facts from the book or is that a copyvio as well? Also, I'm a bit confused on how pictures like the one currently on the main page of Ayman al-Zawahiri aren't copyright violations? Where did they get the pictures from? Surely they some editor didn't take the photo himself. Swollib00:49, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
