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Copyright concerns: Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Hi. I'm sorry to say that there seem to be copyright concerns with this article. On 25 March 2010, this article was tagged for copyright concerns, though no source was identified. Investigation suggests that most of the lead is copied verbatim from the official website. A good bit of the other material seems to be duplicated in this February 2009 document [1]. The copyright status of this material needs to be clarified, I'm afraid before we are able to publish it on Wikipedia. If the content is imported, we will need to verify licensing. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials if you are the copyright owner, or Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission if you are not.

I have removed some extensive quotations in accordance with non-free content policy and guideline. I'm afraid we are only to use brief quotations unless licensing for this material is also verified.

Please provide any input you have at the article's talk page. The article has been blanked during the investigation and will be revisited after about a week. If you have any questions, you are welcome to come by my talk page, and I will be keeping an eye on the article's talk page as well so I can address them there. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 22:49, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm afraid that your edit summary here, "Whole Article Rewritten and the copyright violations have been resolved", was mistaken, as a comparison of the untagged article with your rewrite shows many sections of text were precisely the same ([2]), and a good bit of it seems to have been in violation of our copyright policies. Duplicated content has now been removed. Please be careful with copyright policies and processes; the purpose of the template that you removed was to ensure that Wikipedia did not violate copyright law pending an actual rewrite of this material, which is why the template on the article very clearly indicated it was only to be removed by an administrator or OTRS agent. With your out of process removal of that tag without addressing the concerns, I'm afraid you put the project back into violation.

You also seem to have removed all prior content from the article's talk page. This has been restored. While users are permitted to remove content from their own talk pages, article talk pages operate under different practices, as these conversations are retained for archival purposes. Only in a few specific situations should you remove the comments of others from talk pages. See WP:TPOC. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:24, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Your recent addition to Institute of Chartered Accountants of India has been removed, as it appears to have restored to the article material from this site to Wikipedia. As the talk page of the article advises, for legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. If you are the copyright holder of this material, you will need to verify permission to reuse it in accordance with Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not, but feel that you can obtain permission from the copyright holder, please see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:49, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

While sometimes sources do copy from Wikipedia, unfortunately there's little doubt that substantial content has been placed in this article from previously published sources, as noted above. Can you verify the age of the website in question, so that the preexistence of the material in the article can be established? --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:18, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

It does not seem that google's web cache definitively indicates the date of origin of material, though I will ask more information from somebody more experienced with it. I did a test run on a phrase from a Wikipedia article and came up with the following results: [3]. The google cache it offers is March 27 2010, but that phrase has been in that article since at least 2004 (see [4]).

I will look for evidence of natural evolution within the article, but, again, the problem here is that content has been copied from previously published sources. For example, material you placed in the article in this edit of July 2009 duplicated previously published content in this source, which is dated to January 2009. This also seems to have been copied by you in June of 2009. Text you added here also seems to have copied directly or very closely. Compare the text you placed:

The Main Functions of ICAI are prescribing qualifications for Membership, holding examinations, arranging practical training for candidates, enrollment of members, publication and maintenance of register of qualified Members, carrying on activities for development of profession and maintenance of status and standard in the profession. The ICAI conducts research and brings out handbooks and publications/monologues in the direct interest of the members.It explores the oppurtunities for the employment of its members.

With content from the official site, here:

The main functions of the Institute of the Chartered Accountants of India are prescribing qualifications for membership, holding examination and arranging practical training of candidates, enrollment of members, publication and maintenance of register of members qualified to practice the profession, carrying on activities for development of the profession and regulation and maintenance of status and standard of professional qualification of the members.

and here:

The ICAI conducts research and brings out handbooks and publications/monologues on the subject of direct interest to the profession. It explores the opportunities for employment of its members.

Under the circumstances, we need to exercise great care before concluding that the content was copied from us. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:18, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Hello SivaneshR. Moonriddengirl asked me to take a look at the situation and offer my opinion. Having hunted around for an older version of the website containing the text you believe is a reverse-infringement, I've had no success. Given the issues with the article having had text added in violation of copyright, I agree with M that we need to be extra careful here. I realise it must be a little frustrating, but I think the best course of action is to omit the material (or completely rewrite it) unless we can prove that our text predates theirs. The Google cache does not do this, unfortunately, as the date of the cache is not the first instance of the page, but merely when Google's bots got to that page - which could be years after its creation. To be certain that we have cleaned the article and are now complying with copyright law, I too feel we need to err on the side of caution. Best, – Toon 14:33, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Audit and Assurance Standards issued by ICAI

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July 2010

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-- R.Sivanesh ^(Talk) 19:07, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Respect and honour

Hi again! I disagree with this edit of yours -- those statements are not written in an appropriate tone for an encyclopedia, unless you can provide citations. - Fayenatic (talk) 16:51, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Dear Fayenatic, may be I was wrong in my tone, but that unregistered users actions to added citation needed temlates was nothing more than vandalism. Just because I added citation needed templates in Institute of Cost and Works accountants of India, he has added citation needed templates for undisputed facts known by all. R.Sivanesh ✆ 02:43, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

The CN templates may have been motivated by petty retaliation, but they are justifiable; there is a case to answer. These claims are clearly being disputed now in 2010. Perhaps they were undisputed in 1949, but they are not "known to all" e.g. people outside India. Please find a citation; otherwise those sentences will have to be rewritten. - Fayenatic (talk) 12:35, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Cool down

Hi Sivanesh, I'm sorry to say that every part of this reversion of yours was technically incorrect, so your allegation of vandalism was misplaced. So was this; please see WP:AGF and WP:NEWCOMER. May I respectfully suggest you take short break from Wikipedia and come back when you can be a bit more objective? - Fayenatic (talk) 20:52, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

I unit the the revision only to remove the reference list template standing right in the middle of the article and nothing else. R.Sivanesh ✆ 05:08, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Maybe that was all you intended, but you reinstated a circular link and other errors against the WP:Manual of Style. Perhaps you should have just edited out that reference list instead of undoing the other corrections and making allegations. - Fayenatic (talk) 08:11, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Indian Rupee

True, I dont have the unicode updated. I dont think it is advisable to change the ₹ template to the unicode because not every one will have updated their unicode. --JovianEye (talk) 02:29, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. I will undo your edit for the time being because other users without the updated unicode (that includes me) cannot make sense of the article. Thanks! --JovianEye (talk) 02:40, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Indian rupee sign

Hi!

It appears that we both simultaneously contributed to the article on new rupee sign. I have tried to add an image of a cheque by IDBI Bank with the new rupee sign. Can you help me with proper placement of the same? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Umang.joshi (talk • contribs) 08:58, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Joshi the image added by you has been now place properly R.Sivanesh ✆ 09:47, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

ICAI emblem

Thanks for adding the emblem on the ICAI page - it looks good. Did you manage to get the copyright clearance on the emblem ? Hope it is not removed again. WikiCpa (talk) 07:56, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

ICAI edits

Would you consider removing this detail under "Disciplinary Process" and replacing with perhaps a reference link ? "The Disciplinary Directorate is headed by an officer designated as Director (Discipline). On receipt of any information or complaint that a member has allegedly engaged in any misconduct, the Director (Discipline) shall arrive at a prima facie opinion whether or not there is any misconduct. If the Director (Discipline) is of the opinion that the misconduct is covered by the items listed in the first schedule of the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949, he shall refer the case to the Board of Discipline. If he is of the Opinion that the case is covered by the Second Schedule or both schedules of the CA Act, he will refer the case to the Disciplinary Committee.If the Board of Discipline finds a member guilty of professional or other misconduct, it may at its discretion reprimand the member, remove the name of the member from the register of members for upto three months or impose a fine up to Indian Rupee ₹1,00,000/-. If Disciplinary Committee finds a member guilty of professional or other misconduct, it may at its discretion the reprimand the member, remove the name of the member from the register of members permanently or impose a fine up to Indian Rupee ₹5,00,000/-." Originally I had thought of including such information as well but the action taken by the Disciplinary committee varies a lot so I think for the purpose of the encyclopedia it is enough if we can reference the process rather than detail it - it is important for outsiders to know that there "is" a process and not so much the details of it.WikiCpa (talk) 06:10, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't have any time to offer for a peer review. Good luck with the article! Scartol • Tok 11:27, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

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But without that how do you expect that an user to understand the implementation of the template. It's used only in the example and not in the main template. R.Sivanesh ✆ 15:09, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

• You don't have to use a non-free image to demonstrate how an image can be called from the template. Use File:Example.jpg instead. --Hammersoft (talk) 15:14, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Can you please do that for me? R.Sivanesh ✆ 15:22, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

• No. Not to be rude, but I have no interest in the subject. --Hammersoft (talk) 15:24, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

GA review: Ministry of Justice

A GA can't fail because of length. Length is not part of the GA criteria, therefore your point IS invalid. So sorry, you can't downgrad the GA. --TIAYN (talk) 23:00, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Primary references issue in ICAI page

But i thought that ICAI website is a credible source of information about itself as it is a body set up by the parliament. So whats the problem in an encyclopedia referring to it. so that the people can access the required details from www.icai.org from wiki itself. if what I did is against the Wikipedia policy i am sorry and i wont repeat it. :-) --Vi1618 (talk) 07:43, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

okk.. now i get your point.. thank you... i will try to find more third party sources..--Vi1618 (talk) 10:02, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Change in Nomenclature of PE-II/PCC/IPCC Examinations

The Council of ICAI decided to change the nomenclature of PE-II/PCC/IPCC examinations to Intermediate examination.[[5]]. So this article has to be updated to reflect this change. I am not sure how to do that..So somebody pls help. --Vi1618 (talk) 02:19, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Which article needs to be changed? And why are you posting this request on another user's talk page instead of your own? Banaticus (talk) 13:37, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Dear Banaticus, Dont worry, this user is new to wiki. He had already posted the same on the articles talk page also. The relevant article is Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. The user had discussed with me regarding this article thats why he has posted here. I have replied to this in the articles talk page. R.Sivanesh ✆ 13:45, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா

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நன்றி சோடாபாட்டில் அவர்களே! நான் தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியாவில் முன்பே பணியாற்றியுள்ளேன். என்னால் முடிந்த மொழிபெயர்ப்புகளை செய்து வருகிறேன். R.Sivanesh ✆ 20:10, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

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TN Legislative council

Hi sivanesh,

I see you have tagged the legislative concil with confusing, cleanup and update tags. Can you list the specific issues in the talk page , so that we can work on it. I agree with the update part (that too has been taken care of to some extent by you now), but for me it looks the article is clear and meets wikipedia's standards. If you can list the issues, we can discuss and work to rectify them.--Sodabottle (talk) 18:27, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Infobox accounting body

Thanks. It is straightforward enough to do little thumbnail descriptions of these organizations, where they came from and what they do, which I think is useful. Not sure if I will keep it up though. Question: is there a way to specify image size? See Institute of Chartered Accountants of Guyana. The logo image is 100px wide, looks blurry blown up to 200px. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:34, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

The image size can be tinkered with the optional parameter "size". I hid the parameter from the standard syntax since I thought it would be nice have all the articles with uniform image size. But since it looks very blurred in that particular article, I have added that parameter in that article alone. Now look at the ICAG article. -- R.Sivanesh ^{✆ ©} 14:15, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

That looks a lot better. To me, the infobox width should be uniform, but the image size does not have to be. I would impose a maximum on the size value so it is forced-fitted to the infobox width, but allow for narrower images for cases like this. Aymatth2 (talk) 14:21, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Good work

	Raja Raja Chola Award for improving Institute of Chartered Accountants of India‎
	Your dedication to improving this article is impressive. Keep up the good work. Zuggernaut (talk) 15:17, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much Zuggernaut!-- R.Sivanesh ^{✆ ©} 15:33, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

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Thanks for the Tamil help! MatthewVanitas (talk) 18:35, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

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Could you please be more careful when reverting edits?

Hi. You've recently reverted my earlier edit to Parliament of India. My edit simply copied over to the infobox the change made by "Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington" to the Hindi text in the lede. Either:

• his (?) edit was correct, in which case my edit was also correct; or
• his edit was incorrect, in which case you should have reverted both mine and his edits to the last version by "Rancho007".

Your careless revert has left us with Hindi text in the infobox that is different from that in the body of the article! I'm assuming you can speak/read Hindi (which I can't), so please sort this out one way or the other. And please be more careful when reverting next time! Thanks, Andrew Gwilliam (talk) 17:15, 10 December 2011 (UTC).

Scripts and RfC

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Who r u

It seems that u are a jealous person and u r jealous of ICSI n company secretaries, keep out ur nose from the page of ICSI — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cososara (talk • contribs) 17:56, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988

Thank you for all your contributions to wikipedia. Just an additional thought: Pls have a look at wiki page for Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and see if you can update it with any missing info, if possible. You may take a look at USA Patriot Act as a sample. Onkar 09:46, 1 May 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Onkarr (talk • contribs)

Can you update the IFAC logo to the new one? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.151.197.2 (talk) 18:46, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

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