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Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed that you moved The Parachute Regiment to The Parachute Regiment (British Army) and created a disambiguation page. You may not be aware of guidelines at WP:MILHIST that suggest a different paranthetical disambiguator. As you can see here, the guideline suggest using only the name of the country of service (in this case, United Kingdom) rather than the particular branch of the armed forces. The particular branch in generally only used if there are multiple similarly named units within the armed forces of a single country. Rather than procede without explaining myself, I propose moving the article to The Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom). Also, the article for the unit of the Indian army should probably exist at The Parachute Regiment (India), rather than at The Parachute Regiment (Indian Army). As you can see, the country disambiguator is currently a redirect, rather than the actual location of the article. I also raised this question on the MILHIST talk page, you can leave a comment there if you'd like, or you can reply on my talk page. Carom 01:11, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
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A tag has been placed on The Bihar Regiment, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because it is an very article only am infobox to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. If you plan to provide more material to the article, I advise you to do so immediately, and also put a note on Talk:The Bihar Regiment. An administrator should check for such edits before deleting the article. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Please read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 1 under Articles. Please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources which verify their content. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and then immediately add such material. Natl1 16:44, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
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HAPPY DIWALI
[edit]HAPPY DIWALI, RAKESHSHARMA!Raja1020 (talk) 18:05, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
Invite to WikiConference India 2011
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Merger discussion for 4th Bombay Grenadiers
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