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Political deletes and reverts

Currently |Ism schism and | Wikidas (sockpuppets?) are removing any reference to purebhakti and Sri Narayana Maharaja on a matter of personal political vendenta against me and Him. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nabadwip&curid=5803025&diff=229097495&oldid=228226599 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bhaktivinoda_Thakur&curid=1931074&diff=229097413&oldid=228227088 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gaura-purnima&curid=16717807&diff=229097328&oldid=228227263 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gaudiya_Vaishnavism&curid=1064157&action=history Can you help?Syama (talk) 05:32, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Hello Shruti14, just an FYI, the "pure bhakti" mentioned above is www.purebhakti.com - this is what is specifically being removed, as it is not a notable website. If by mistake, this really is a reliable source, then I will correct my edits, but I believe this website to be no different than any other personal website. I believe that it is not a reliable source to be used in general articles on religion, such as [1] where Syamadas linked a advertisement for selling books. Thanks. Ism schism (talk) 12:44, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

One I did not link to a page SELLING books but to a page where you can download the book for free. Secondly if purebhakti.com is not "notable" than neither is |ISKCON.com and all links to it should be removed.Syama (talk) 15:21, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Hello Shruti, I think we all know that Wikipedia is often used by different types of spam boots or people who add rather not very notable weblinks with idea of advertisement or promotion. I suggest that this particular website is of this kind, since even the name of it is POV as far as I am concern. But I welcome Shruti with her impartial glance on this issue. Note that i do not have any conflict with this particular editor, I just do not think that this particular site is a reliable source of information or not a promotional site. Thanks and apology for invading your space. Wikidās ॐ 16:19, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
I have explained on Syama's talk page why the particular pages used from the purebhakti website were not the best choices as reliable sources. I hope my explanation was clear and accurate. --Shruti14 t c s 03:04, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

No, problemo! I'm great, thanks. =) --TheLeftorium «talk» 22:30, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

FYI

Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 August 4#Category:People who have been considered avatars ·:· Will Beback ·:· 21:50, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Gods, devas, deities, avatars, manifestations of Krishna

(did I forget one?) Your effort to come up with a solution that will work is appreciated. best, priyanath talk 15:21, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Unfortunately I wasn't intending to create a category that would be so difficult to reach a consensus on :( --Shruti14 t c s 15:35, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
I know. That's why I appreciated your willingness to at least try. It has helped to start a discussion that will probably bear fruit in the end. priyanath talk 15:42, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

oops...

Sorry I overwrote your signature at the avatar cfd. Your sig was longer than most I've encountered. Thanks for your helpful comments -- hope you don't mind I disagree...--Nemonoman (talk) 15:44, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

No problem, my fault for having such a long sig :) As for the CfD, I'm open to your suggestion, it's just that I'm unsure (debating with myself, actually) if it's the best one. --Shruti14 t c s 15:50, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Why it's a discussion...--Nemonoman (talk) 19:35, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Girl Scouting and Girl Guiding

Hi Shruti! I'm glad to see that you're interested in Girl Scouting and dropped by the Scouting Wikiproject a few weeks ago. I coordinate a sub-group of this wikiproject, the Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting Task Force. We are a group of people who have an interest in getting more information about Girl Scouting and Girl Guiding on Wikipedia and encouraging equal participation of male and female editors. We'd be pleased to have you join us! Kingbird (talk) 04:48, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll definitely join. --Shruti14 talksign 23:45, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

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Hi Shruti, my name is Shruti. Hey I honestly dont know anything about this can you explain me. Thank you very much —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.68.230.253 (talk) 21:39, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi Shruti, nice to know someone who shares my name :) The welcome message should have some links that will help you get started. I highly recommend that you create an account (just click on the link at the top right) so that other editors can see your work and communicate with you more effectively. It's really simple and takes little time. If you have any questions, you can ask me or any other editor on their talk page, and we'll be happy to help. Good luck! --Shruti14 talksign 00:47, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Around the World, update...

We've been hard at work behind the scenes. We can't seem to get the trophy right, but we'll get there. And the set of pages need one more section completed before they can be moved to article space...

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Hi Shruti, I see that you've signed up for the 1.0 review team. We need your help right now, because we had around 70 nominations last week! As you probably know, Version 0.7 is coming out soon, mainly based on the bot selection. This relieves us of the burden of manually assessing 30,000 articles, but we need the manual system to catch the articles that might "fall through the cracks" - such as a couple of missing provinces needed to complete a set. If you're no longer interested in reviewing, please can you remove your name from the list of reviewers?

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Workgroup Swaminarayan

This is to inform you that this workgroup has been fored at : WP: Swaminarayan. Around The Globeसत्यमेव जयते 14:22, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

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Remember "Around the World"?

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We've gone live

This project needed a shot in the arm. Also, its draft pages have been littering Wikipedia's categories for months. The time seemed right to move all the country outline drafts to article space.

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WHAT???

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WHAT???

Yes, we've gone live.  :)

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There has been growing pressure on me to write up the administrative pages for outlines - their instructions, guidelines, etc. Therefore, I'm now in the process of composing these. Fortunately, it is mostly a matter of gathering material from messages I've written to you guys over the past year. Still, this is taking up most of my time, and I will be buried in these for the foreseeable future.

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Hi Shruti,

I am Dr. Dinesh J. Karia, working with the Department of Mathematics, Sardar Patel University as a Reader in Mathematics. In some leisure time, I do contribute to Wikipedia. Today while adding hee missing information in the infobox of Narendra Modi (For example, He is the 14th Chief Minister of Gujarat, his term_start, etc.), I browsed through wikipedia for getting myself acquainted how to edit infoboxes for example, I visited [page] and [[2]]. Then I edited the above mentioned one. But the result is not formated properly. Could you please help? Dineshjk (talk) 12:25, 8 March 2009 (UTC)


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Thanks

Dear Shruti, Thanks for your message. I could solve the problem after putting the }}helpme{{ on my talk page. Well, I am slowly learning advanced editing tools and may need the help of experts like you. I am sure I can bank upon people like you. At present, I want to include the link to my talk page and sign links as a part of my signature. Could you please help how should I do that? Thanks in advance.

BTW as a link to the above word message I typed [[User_talk:Dineshjk#Infobox|message]] but it takes to my talk page but not to the position where you have typed your message on my page. Have I made any mistake in the syntax of link?

Dineshjk (talk) 05:07, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

The Wikipedia SignpostWikipedia Signpost: 6 April 2009

Delievered by SoxBot II (talk) at 19:43, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

The Wikipedia SignpostWikipedia Signpost: 13 April 2009

Delievered by SoxBot II (talk) at 16:54, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

New image project

Hi. This little form letter is just a courtesy notice to let you know that a proposal to merge the projects Wikipedia:WikiProject Free images, Wikipedia:WikiProject Fair use, Wikipedia:WikiProject Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia:WikiProject Illustration into the newly formed Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media has met with general support at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Files. Since you're on the rosters of membership in at least one of those projects, I thought you might be interested. Conversation about redirecting those projects is located here. Please participate in that discussion if you have any interest, and if you still have interest in achieving the goals of the original project, we'd love to have you join in. If you aren't interested in either the conversation or the project, please pardon the interruption. :) Thanks. Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:02, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

The Wikipedia SignpostWikipedia Signpost: 27 April 2009

Delivered by SoxBot II (talk) at 04:49, 29 April 2009 (UTC)