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A bowl of strawberries for you!

Hi Mahensingha. We are engaged in building a free, web based, high quality encyclopedia and it is good to see more and more people take an interest in the same. I always say that the particular areas in which you are taking interest are suffering from a lack of attention and many more participants are needed. Cheers. MW ℳ 15:36, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

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Respected Sir, a Very Big thanks for the help and support. Regards mahensingha 18:15, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Bhati

I know that you had put a GOCEinuse template at Bhati but it was pointless, mainly because the huge recent additions were mostly unsourced and the few citations that were added are known not to be reliable. For that reason, I just reverted the entire thing. - Sitush (talk) 17:02, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

-- It's ok Sir, Actually , for the same reason I realized that a lot of work is required to be done. Thanx.--Mahensingha 17:14, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

No problem. Sometimes it pays to check the recent history before jumping into an article - it is quite common for people contributing to caste articles to dump huge amounts of poor content very quickly and often it is just a reinstatement of stuff that had already been deleted or is a copy/paste from some caste-affiliated website. - Sitush (talk) 17:34, 29 August 2014 (UTC)


Sir,thanks for your excellent edits so far... John811jd (talk) 09:25, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Article Nai (caste)

Why do you delete My article of nais and sikhism. the facts I wrote about are absolutely true and I gave references. i am sikh nai of punjab Punjabi 1407 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Punjabi 1407 (talk • contribs) 17:44, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Please go through wiki policies as WP:RS and WP:OR. Contents on wiki needs to fulfil standards as per wiki policies. It does not matter who you are by caste/Place because wiki articles are public pages and definitely not the user's personal pages. Please explore more resources and enrich the article with most reliable information citing references as per WP:RS. Please do write at proper places on user's talk pages and maintain aestheticism of pages. Good Luck for future editing. Thanks and regards.--Mahi 18:28, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

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Draft:Anvaya

I have sectioned this article, the subject is now more clear. I do not think renaming is needed; if at all essentially needed then do suggest. Thanks.Aditya soni (talk) 13:39, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

Mahensingha Sahib, I have seen your comments. I have requested for renaming this article as - Anvaya (Indian logic). Thanks. Regards.Aditya soni (talk) 03:27, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Christopher Tsai

Thanks for reviewing the article I wrote. I have looked at the article again and I do not seem to understand what needs to be done. Can you assist me by giving me an example? I want to make sure that the article is written properly, but I am unsure of what needs to be done. Your help would be greatly appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stevieandpierre (talk • contribs) 21:17, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Independent sources on Bob Littlefield page

Thanks for your comment. All citations have been redirected to independent sources.JohnDWashington (talk) 11:57, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Source of contents from Valentin Musin-Pushkin Article

Hello, the content is my personal translation of the original Russian article on Wikipedia, which is more or less a transcription of an article from a Russian history book from the 1850's (and therefore in the public domain). I hope that answers your question. 69.115.250.64 (talk) 08:42, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

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Bob Adams (electrical engineer)

Hello! Thanks so much for reviewing and approving Bob Adams (electrical engineer). Would you be up for adding links to the page to the Robert Adams disambiguation page and Analog Devices? (Bob is already mentioned in the second article, he just needs his name linked.) I'm asking you rather than doing it myself because I have a COI. I would really appreciate any help! Mary Gaulke (talk) 15:07, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

MfD nomination from article User:सुमित सिंह

User:Mahensingha article User:सुमित सिंह is just a User profile. It is not a autobiographical article that published to selfprompt. Several User page exit on wikipedia, User:सुमित सिंह is just like them. I have added about myself but that is only the part of my user profile information. I would appreciate if this MfD nomination from article User:सुमित सिंहarticle consider in this manner. Thank You and please remove MfD nomination from article User:सुमित सिंह

Please go through the wiki policies regarding user pages.-- Mahensingha Talk 11:44, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for reviewing RJ Aditi.

Hello Mahensingha,

Thank you very much for reviewing and commenting on my article RJ Aditi. It helped me a lot for learning more about Wikipedia. I've removed the unnecessary social media references and I've added more reliable citation on the article. If you find time, can you please check it and let me know, If I'm required to do any more improvements on the article?

Thanks a lot. --Pruthv (talk) 11:44, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Please understand

in the country of various religions and caste syestem,do you want to see your children growing up seeing these articles stating about the categories of defined communities?I belong to this category and I dont want to see it like this on wikipedia.....this is just another message to you from a student of IIM and NIT (without reservation system)and I am sorry I dont want to see this kind of portrayal of my community on the world wide famous page like wikipediaNecromancer27 (talk) 14:12, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Sorry dear, we dont think on the cast or religion. Wikipedia builds fact based articles and these facts shall be duly supported by the sources and i am not the source maker. Please find the reliable sources to support what you want to say and politely represent your views on the articles talk page. Aggressive editing is not supported by the policies. Please acquaint yourself with the policies and procedures. Please go through WP:RS, WP:OR and WP:RS.

Wikipedia:Your first article and Help:Editing will help to begin with.

colloborateNecromancer27 (talk) 14:15, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

I am editing it for the greater good.being a utilitarian is the best thing one can do.I am editing it again.Please collaborate

Don't indulge yourself in this trouble,as you have already crossed the maximum reverts limit. your every activity is watched by many wikipedians, I suggest you to practice editing using your sandbox page. Also make yourself familier with wikipedia editing policies. I am really very sorry to say, wiki is not the place to promote interests of your or anybody's caste.It projects facts and neutral point of view.-- Mahensingha (Talk) "Thanx n Regards" 21:39, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks for guidance and making me aware of the trends in vogue. I took a note of it and ensure its applicability. Thanks.-- Mahensingha (Talk) "Thanx n Regards" 19:58, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

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Your AFD Decline at User:Samira Koppikar

I have no opinion on whether the article should pass but using a decline comment of

"This submission seems to be a test edit and not an article worthy of an encyclopedia. Please use the sandbox for any tests in the future. Thank you."

Is rude and inappropriate for an article attempt such as what is there. There is no indication of what is wrong or how to improve the article. I will assume you clicked a wrong button or something. Please strike the comment and re-review the article and provide useful input or resubmit the draft for another reviewer. Thank you for your attention to this matter. JBH (talk) 18:43, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Dear, I am really sorry, if it hurt you. My intention is never so. The line you mentioned objectionable is just a wikipedia standard comment which I selected. Don't mean it deep. If I am able to do so and if you think so, I am ready to help you in forming a qualifying article. Please don't feel so bad and pass a negative comment.-- Mahensingha (Talk) "Thanx n Regards" 18:51, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
I further add that it was not a simple click of buttons, if fact the article contains duplicacy of contents and is fully unformatted. In this case the given standard wikipedia comment only becomes due, but if you agree, I myself will work upon the article, if there are sources to support the subject, but please dont blame me and dont feel bad. Thanks-- Mahensingha (Talk) "Thanx n Regards" 19:00, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
I am not the creator. I only have the page on my watch list because it I CSDed it in its original form. You are obviously talking about a different article. The one above which is now at Draft:Samira Koppikar Is full formatted has some sourcing, infobox, picture sections etc. Possibly in your speed you confused the articles you were declining? JBH (talk) 19:05, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
After your comment I looked back and think I have not mistaken. Still, I can assure that whatever I can do, I will do. I am not here to stop the articles to be published. I am even ready to work on it. But finding the sources and making it to the level of standard, I need time and hope you will not mind to allow me the minimum needed time span.-- Mahensingha (Talk) "Thanx n Regards" 19:11, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for taking another look. It was just if I can not figure out your objection there is no way a new user can. I have seen much worse articles here and content aside it looks just like any other article on a minor signer. By no stretch of the imagination is it a "test edit" it is a reasonable attempt to write an article. It might not pass for other reasons but not because it is a "test" Thank you for your understanding. Cheers. JBH (talk) 19:20, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Dear, I did not explained in detail just for the reason that I have checked the Talk page of the article and if I am not wrong, It was you only who suggested the ways and means to the creator which are not followed. Clearly, telling none of the reviewer can pass the article in this form. If so then you should have also not commented on the tech problems. But, lastly and finally, I said we will look for the possibilities and if there are reliable sources supporting the notability of the subject then I dont think that there may be any problem. And I ask for an helping hand from JBH thinking that my friend will help me. Is that O.K. -- Mahensingha (Talk) "Thanx n Regards" 19:31, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
I have removed the doubling of text, redlink categories, promotional web links. I have turned two External links into references which support notability (Song charted on national chart). If I were NPPing this I would tag it with 'Clean up' and 'More sources BLP' I do not know what AFC criteria are though. Cheers. JBH (talk) 19:59, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Oh... and with 'Connected contributor' definitly connected contributor. Cheers. JBH (talk) 20:07, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Could you suggest me how to proceed with this? What was the error in that article? Samira — Preceding unsigned comment added by Samira Koppikar (talk • contribs) 03:49, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Mahensingha, nice work helping the creator out with refs. Thank you. Cheers. JBH (talk) 14:51, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

03:25:58, 4 March 2015 review of submission by Ripcurlkim


Hi there, would like to check how I can further support this article with reliable sources? Do you mean more press articles? Is there any other way apart from press mentions?

Ripcurlkim (talk) 03:25, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Please read and follow Reliable sources, Help:Referencing for beginners and Citing sources. Also note the article shall be informative only, by no means it should be for promotion of person or organisation. Bare minimum information from reliable sources be added before submission. Additions are possible even after that, when ever you get more such sources of information. Good Luck.-- Mahensingha (Talk) "Thanx n Regards" 15:14, 4 March 2015 (UTC)


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Draft:Sadyk Sher-Niyaz

Hi! Thank you for your edit to the Sadyk Sher-Niyaz page. Can you make any other suggestions or please help me to get the page approved for submission? Thanks very much =] Sineraji (talk) 08:05, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Add only information from Relaible sources, cite all the contents. Frequent portrayal of a person significantly in leading and known news sorces, journals or Books adds to prove notability of the subject. As far as possible go for Independent sources. Good Luck.-- Mahensingha (Talk) "Thanx n Regards" 08:59, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the greets. Thought you should know your template is not closed properly which causes issues with subsequent posts. [1] --NeilN talk to me 13:52, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, It was for today only. I will be extra cautious in future posts.-- Mahensingha (Talk) "Thanx n Regards" 18:30, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Greeting reciprocated

Your Holi greetings are reciprocated -


बुरा न मानो होली है

रंगों के संग, मस्ती की टोली है

बुरा न मानो होली है

उम्मीदों की मिठाई है

खुशियों संग मिलाई है

उल्लास में डूबे है सभी

मस्ती हर दिल पर छाई है

कोई नीला है, कोई है हरा

चारो तरफ इन्द्रधनुष सा रंग भरा

खुश हम भी है, हर्ष की बात है

अपनों के संग हर होली खास है


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धन्यवाद। -- Mahensingha (Talk) "Thanx n Regards" 12:28, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

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20:21:11, 22 March 2015 review of submission by Esercar


Hello Mahensingha, It looks like you declined the latest edited version of my article. In the information box it says "This appears to be a duplicate of another submission which is also waiting to be reviewed. To save time we will consider the other submission and not this one". But I cannot seem to find in my Sandbox namely "the other submission" (correctly edited one) as the article waiting to be reviewed. Is this process still continuing or am I supposed to do anything else. I am sorry, I am not experienced in this process, I will appreciate if you can help. Thank you.


Esercar (talk) 20:21, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Its OK, if there is no duplicate article presently but seeing the draft I suggest that It needs to be supported with third party independent sources. Specially recommended to make the article notable, please try to find few more resources covering "Somehowjazz". Apart from professional and promotional websites, give due priority to news, journals, books proving the article concept to be notable. Thanks. Wish you happy editing.-- Mahensingha (Talk) "Thanx n Regards" 10:25, 23 March 2015 (UTC)


Speedy deletion declined: Ashish Kashyap

Hello Mahensingha. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Ashish Kashyap, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The article makes a credible assertion of importance or significance, sufficient to pass A7. Thank you. §FreeRangeFrogcroak 07:57, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Its fine. I respect your expert view and thanks for clarification.-- Mahensingha (Talk) "Thanx n Regards" 18:33, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

36 royal races

Best not to categorise communities with Category:36 royal races because there is no agreement on who the 36 may be. It just causes a shed-load of problems. - Sitush (talk) 19:58, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

All right, Thanks for the guidance. Stopping. -- Mahensingha (Talk) "Thanx n Regards" 20:02, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
No problem, and thanks. You might want to revert what you've done so far. I'm also not sure why you have been adding Category:Tanwar, which doesn't even exist. Were you intending to create it? - Sitush (talk) 20:07, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
Actually, I was going through the category list and I found that they are not 36 then I opened the main articles consisting of various tribes/ castes listed there and thought of including them. It is not the categories but the articles I added as 36 royal races is the group of castes. there is an article Tanwar, a Rajput caste. What do you suggest shall I revert all the changes or leave it like this because I proceeded exactly according to the contents of the article 36 royal races .-- Mahensingha (Talk) "Thanx n Regards" 20:23, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
That article is itself disputed and the information it shows is not consistent. In an ideal world, I'd have the category deleted or at least renamed - Category:Purported member clans of the 36 royal races or something like that. I'd need to do a fair amount of digging around before proposing that, though. For now, I think it would be best to revert your additions because I'm pretty sure they were removed originally because of the amount of hassle they were causing on those specific articles. - Sitush (talk) 20:53, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
All right, reverting. Actually I was not aware of the past history. -- Mahensingha (Talk) "Thanx n Regards" 11:57, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

kushwaha and kushwah history

kushwaha and kushwah history is one and same. both are descendents of suryavanshi clan. both origin is same. its just that economically stronger discriminated from the weaker paesants section and started themselves as kushvah. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.39.33.163 (talk) 11:28, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Please support your theory with sources. For me I know the fact that many Kachhis after becoming prosperous fabricated a golden age story to move upward in social hierarchy from Shudra to a Kshatriya and finally failed to do so. This phenomenon is popularly termed as "Sanskritization" in anthropology. Indian societies are recognised with marriage relations. There is no and was no relation in the two communities. Right from British colonial period to till date sources proves it. -- Mahensingha (Talk) "Thanx n Regards" 13:14, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Nick Number (talk) 14:34, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

The contents directly drawn from news articles were given under Quote Tags. Originally the article was submitted by someone else, I edited and sourced it and the quotation tag added where necessary. Anyway, the article has now been deleted. Still thanks for your advice.-- Mahensingha (Talk) "Thanx n Regards" 15:22, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

Regarding your signature

As a non-native/lower-level user of English, I wish to inform you that "thanx", as well as using only one letter like 'n' for a word, is regarded as stupid or something a child would do. The purpose of this message is to inform you of this in case you did not know - perhaps Indian users do things like this and it's seen as normal, okay, or creative. In English, people get banned from message boards for refusing to actually use English (here using the phrase "use English" or "speak English" to refer to idiots who are refusing to type properly on purpose because they are idiots). There is no rule on Wikipedia that I am aware of which says you cannot use something like this in your signature. However, due to the nature of Wikipedia, it is likely that no user at all would respect you if you were to use similar words in a sentence on a message board or in a blog or new article comment that they are reading. Again the purpose of this page is to inform you in case you literally did not know. Have a good day.                     ~Rayvn  22:00, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

I suggest you ignore the above - it is not only offensive, but just plain wrong, in that nobody with any sense is going to object to your signature. And written by a contributor ho's own signature fails to comply with the Wikipedia:Signatures guideline, in that it contains no link to either a user page, user talk page, or contributions page. You are of course free to form your own opinions on idiocy... AndyTheGrump (talk) 05:50, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
Thank a lot, AndyTheGrump for your kind suggestion. I also thank User:RayvnEQ for the suggestion. I appreciate your creativity you used in fabricating your signature, but I do not appreciate the way you suggested me using the words like non-native user of English, Indian user, idiots etc. You could have suggested me better without these words. One shall follow the Policies and rules before suggesting others. However, I would certainly change my signature just because I don't want any one to feel bad due to it.-- Mahensingha (Talk) "Thanx n Regards" 07:37, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
How is it now.--MahenSingha (Talk) 08:02, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
It is fine (the link to your user page works), though there was nothing wrong with your earlier one. AndyTheGrump (talk) 15:23, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
I am really thankful to you Andy for your advice and support.--MahenSingha (Talk) 17:09, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
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