User talk:MRRaja001/Archive 33
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P. V. Narasimha Rao
Hi, it is regarding this edit. Since the source mentions Niyogi Brahmin, I believe we should re-add that. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 12:37, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Fylindfotberserk: He was adopted by Niyogi Brahmins but his parents may not be Niyogis. - MRRaja001 (talk) 12:56, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
- Is he a Brahmin by birth? - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 12:58, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Fylindfotberserk: Yes. His mother is a Deshastha Madhva Brahmin. His father is also Brahmin but don't know the exact subdivision. - MRRaja001 (talk) 14:43, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
- Is that sourced in the article? - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 14:43, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Fylindfotberserk: Which one? are you talking about. His mother's name can be directly identified by her name. Her name is Rukma Bai. Telugu Brahmins won't use Bai in their names. Narasimha Rao knows many languages but he knows Kannada and Marathi from his mother's side. No one recorded his mother's details clearly. Narasimha Rao has translated Hari Narayan Apte’s famous Marathi novel Pan Lakshat Kon Gheto into Telugu. By this, we can analyse how proficient he is in Marathi. - MRRaja001 (talk) 15:50, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
- Source says his mother's name is Rukmabaymma.
His father is also Brahmin but don't know the exact subdivision
→ The source also says he was born "in a middle class Niyogi Brahmin family", then follows with his father's name and mother's name, which supports that "Sitarama Rao" was a Telugu Niyogi Brahmin. I don't see any "adoption part" in the source. Perhaps you can expand that part with sources. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 16:22, 1 May 2022 (UTC)- @Fylindfotberserk: See this page 215 His Father name is Sitarama Rao and Mother name is Rukma Bai. Quote :
His father Mr. Sitarama Rao and mother Mrs. Rukma Bai . With his wife Mrs. Satyamma .
Sadly no one recorded these things clearly. But news channels are clearly saying this in their videos. - MRRaja001 (talk) 16:34, 1 May 2022 (UTC)- Nice. I'll add this ref. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 18:02, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Fylindfotberserk: Sure! Goahead. - MRRaja001 (talk) 19:11, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
- Done - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 19:21, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Fylindfotberserk: Sure! Goahead. - MRRaja001 (talk) 19:11, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
- Nice. I'll add this ref. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 18:02, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Fylindfotberserk: See this page 215 His Father name is Sitarama Rao and Mother name is Rukma Bai. Quote :
- Source says his mother's name is Rukmabaymma.
- @Fylindfotberserk: Which one? are you talking about. His mother's name can be directly identified by her name. Her name is Rukma Bai. Telugu Brahmins won't use Bai in their names. Narasimha Rao knows many languages but he knows Kannada and Marathi from his mother's side. No one recorded his mother's details clearly. Narasimha Rao has translated Hari Narayan Apte’s famous Marathi novel Pan Lakshat Kon Gheto into Telugu. By this, we can analyse how proficient he is in Marathi. - MRRaja001 (talk) 15:50, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
- Is that sourced in the article? - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 14:43, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
Hi, it is regarding this change by the IP. I didn't revert since the sources are contradictory. The Reddy source mentions Laknepalli, but the Britannica mentions Karimnagar, which the news source kind of supports by saying hoe people in the district are 'celebrating'. Can you clarify.verify it. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 17:46, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Fylindfotberserk: I too don't know exactly. I'll find it and let you know with proper sources. - MRRaja001 (talk) 17:58, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
- That would be great. Thanks
. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 18:05, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
- That would be great. Thanks
Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).
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- Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
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- The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
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New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022
Hello MRRaja001,
At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.
Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.
In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 804 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 853 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.
This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.
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- Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.
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- Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
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Arbitration
- Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022
Hello MRRaja001,
- Backlog status
At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000[a] at the end of May.
Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.[b]
In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).
While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).
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Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 11901 articles, as of 06:00, 10 November 2024 (UTC), according to DatBot
There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.
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Thank you for improving articles in July. - I was away, for hiking in the Swiss Alps and a funeral, more on my talk. Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:05, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
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Arbitration
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New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022
Hello MRRaja001,
- Backlog status
After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.
Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.
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- The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.
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- The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
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Arbitration
- An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
- The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.
Miscellaneous
- The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
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Thank you for improving articles in September! Yesterday, we sang old music for two choirs at church, pictured, scroll to the image of the organ of the month of the Diocese of Limburg (my perspective), and if you have time, watch the video about it. And today I wrote an article about music premiered today, Like as the hart. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:08, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
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- Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
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Arbitration
- Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
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- The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.
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The article Manoj Pande (civil servant) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
This civil servant is not notable enough for a wiki page, All the sources related only talk about his appointment as member staff or directors of Railway board positions which don't even have their own wiki pages in the first place, There is no notable info about this person's career or notable works that require a page.
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. >>> Extorc.talk 13:39, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
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Thank you for improving articles in October! - Look for mine: two favourite concerts were on DYK, and too many on RD (three yesterday). -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:18, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you, Gerda Arendt MRRaja001 (talk) 18:30, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2022News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).
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Thank you for improving article quality in December! Best wishes for a joyful season! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:42, 20 December 2022 (UTC) Today, pictured, the soprano of our choral concert of the year. More in the context: User talk:Gerda Arendt#DYK for Talia Or, in case of interest. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:08, 26 December 2022 (UTC) Precious anniversary
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Happy New Year Happy New Year! Hello MRRaja001: Thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia, and have a great New Year! Cheers, LukeEmily (talk) 19:13, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for improving articles in February! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:27, 21 February 2023 (UTC) My story on 24 February is about Artemy Vedel (TFA by Amitchell235), and I made a suggestion for more peace, - what do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:25, 24 February 2023 (UTC) today: two women whose birthday we celebrate today, 99 and 90! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:50, 28 February 2023 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – March 2023News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).
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Kudaldeshkar Gaud BrahminHi, please have a look at these changes. I'm unable to verify the sources. Regards. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 12:54, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
As far as history section is concerned i didn't find any references so far. -MRRaja001 (talk) 21:38, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:45, 22 September 2023 (UTC) Karhade Brahmin - new entryHi, it is regarding this addition by an IP user. Can you source it mate? Thanks. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 16:50, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
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Discussion invitationHello @MRRaja001Based on your edit and knowledge regarding Madhwa deshasthas and Madhwa Gaud Saraswat page I request you to participate in the discussion as I found many anomaly in the page mainly in Gaud saraswat page. Udupa0000 (talk) 04:58, 6 January 2024 (UTC) Excellent contributions@MRRaja001Your contributions towards dwaitha matha is awesome.I came here to create page related to Madhwa Vijaya can you please help me out.I observed few editors are giving perspective that only Shankaracharya believers are Brahmins and those who believe in Archarya madhwa are not Brahmins.So the answer lies in Madhwa Vijaya.Expecting help from you. Deshpande Uttaradi (talk) 05:26, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
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Small confusionYa that was mistake from my end.Uttaradi and dakshinadi matha in which dakshinadi was called Kumbakonam mutt. Editor3131 (talk) 09:42, 17 January 2024 (UTC) January music
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Your knowledge requirement@MRRaja001, Hope you are doing well,In a intense discussion in the article named Gaud saraswat Brahmin page there is a requirement of your expertise.Seems like you are well versed in Madhwa parampara(I have went through your contributions).There we have stuck up with the discussion of existence of smartha GSB mutt in 15th century.Can you give some information regarding their gurushishya parampara of Vaishnava sect as I personally was unknown about this.Did they followed this or set up in 19th century ?As I was referring one source mentioning them following deshasthas mutt in Kumbakonam then set up their mutt with the guidance of Deshatha swami,one source mentions Madhwacharya himself converted them and they are staunch believers of Vaishnav sect.So if you are free do participate in the discussion and give some in-site there.My apologies If I have disturbed you ! Ramarao1234 (talk) 03:38, 30 March 2024 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – April 2024News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).
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