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WP Bangalore Meetup

Following the Mailing list discussion that we had, here's a call for an informal meetup of Bangalore Wikipedians soon. Please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore3 -- Tinu Cherian - 10:19, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 1 – June 2009

Project news
Congratulations to the West Bengal workgroup for having their flagship article featured on the Main Page! The Indian states workgroup is also involved in maintaining articles about India's states and union territories. »

WikiProject Indian roads was recently started as a new workgroup, to standardize and improve articles related to Indian roads, mainly the National and State Highways. After all, India has the second largest road network in the world.

Iravan, the son of Arjuna, is now our 85th good article. How do we know this? Since last year, more processes have been automated, increasing productivity. Article alerts update the project with what's happening to India-related articles, from copyright violations to featured article candidates.

To do…
During the last few weeks, peer reviews for the recent general election and 2003 Afro-Asian Games (held in Hyderabad) were opened and are waiting for more comments, as are several articles at the peer review department. Sikkim has been nominated for FAR, and Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay has been nominated for FAC. »

Currently, 11,091 Indian articles need images. Please improve these pages, especially if you enjoy photography! We look forward to more contributions from you. To get started, go to the noticeboard. »

From the editors…
The last newsletter was written a year ago. In June 2008, Indian Premier League was "hot" on Wikipedia, but the article about this year's IPL has attracted 477 editors, or 53% more than the previous year! Even the number of articles in the scope of our project jumped by a whopping 18,500+ articles in an year. The 3.2-year-old India quiz continues to attract old and new Wikipedians, so join in the fun!

Wikipedians are organizing a meetup in Bangalore on July 4 or 5. If you are interested, head over to the page and add your name! Topics of discussion include Indian language editions of Wikipedia and Wikimedia India.

RegentsPark, one of the prominent members of our project, was promoted to adminship this year. If you'd like to know who are the most avid editors of Wikipedia by number of edits, refer to this list.

"While this issue has been resolved, one asks the question – what happens when there is a conflict of opinions? What about a Wikipedia entry on India and Pakistan, or the LTTE and the Tamils? Who can edit? Will the information be true?" writes B. Narasimhan of MiD DAY as deeper implications of the Scientology arbitration case,1 reminding us of the core principles of verifiability and the neutral point of view.

This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!

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Liability (financial accounting)

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WikMeetup Bangalore 3

WikMeetup Bangalore is scheduled for Sunday, 5 July, 2009 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM. Please ping me if you require any more information. Hoping to meet you on the meetup day. Take care -- Tinu Cherian - 09:19, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

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DYK for Gangavaram Port

Updated DYK query On July 16, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gangavaram Port, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 2 – July 2009

Project news
A number of India-related articles have lost their featured article status, including Sikkim and Mumbai. The article about Gandhi was also demoted for referencing and image quality issues. Since then, Mumbai has been brought back to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Kensplanet and others.

Transport in India was promoted to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Rsrikanth05, SBC-YPR and GDibyendu.

Several new workgroups have been formed: WikiProjects Railways in India, Education in India and Transport in India. Please join us if you're interested in those topics!

To do...
The articles that have been selected for our latest collaborations of the month are history of Mumbai, Indian Railways, rail transport in India, Indian general election, 2009 and telecommunications in India. We need your help to improve them!

These India-related articles are currently on featured article review: Kerala (FAR), Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (FAR) and rail transport in India (FAR). Would you allow these articles to lose their FA status?

Wikipedia Takes Chennai – a scavenger hunt and free-content photography contest – has started in Chennai, along the same lines as Wikipedia Takes The City.

We look forward to more contributions from you. To get started, go to the noticeboard. »

From the editors...
Wikipedians in Bangalore organised a meetup on 5 July 2009; thanks to Tinu Cherian for hosting the event! Arunram and Tinu Cherian wrote extensively about the meetup, which was also covered by Wikizine, Headlines India and The Wikipedia Signpost. Photos have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Sunil Abraham from the Centre for Internet and Society has offered to help host such events in the future. All in all, the meetup was a great success. Watch out for the next meetup! »

Nichalp, an Indian bureaucrat and major contributor to more than 23 India-related featured articles and lists, was desysopped over allegations of paid editing and using sock puppets. An RfC about paid editing was opened as a result of this incident.

A prolific editor and administrator, Bhadani is among the top ten Wikipedians by number of edits across the English Wikipedia. Congratulations to Bhadani for also making the most number of edits among Indian Wikipedians!

Are you subscribed to wikimediaindia-l to learn about the latest developments of forming the Indian chapter of Wikimedia? Did you know that there are IRC channels for Wikipedians interested in India like you? Check them out at #wikipedia-in connect and #wikimedia-in connect!

Wikipedia's India quiz remains a hotspot of the community by continuing to attract old and new Wikipedians. You are invited to join in and have fun!

This is your newsletter, and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome – so feel free to join in! Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!

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Request for assistance with COI edit request

Hi Utcursch,

A couple of years ago you helped me make some valuable changes to the BKWSU article. I used to edit the article myself but since I joined Wikipedia I have sensed that the tide has turned against any editor with COI from editing an NRM article. So after a year or so break I have returned but I am exclusively using the {{Request edit}} tag to request edits.

I have so far had no response to my request on the article talk page and I suspect it may be because the edit I am proposing is potentially controversial.

I am approaching you because I know that you have experience and expertise in this area and access to many of the references used in the article.

The editor who edit-warred with you last time has now been indef blocked for massive socking, trolling and disruption in a later incarnation so you should find the atmosphere a little more welcoming than last time.

I would appreciate any comments you have on my proposed edit. At the very least I would appreciate if the article can be tagged to indicate the issues with it that I have documented so far in my recent article analysis here and here.

Thanks & regards Bksimonb (talk) 12:12, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Hi, currently I'm a little busy in real life -- I'd take a look at this as soon as I get time. Meanwhile, you can try gathering other editors' opinions. utcursch | talk 14:28, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for responding. I appreciate that you may be busy. I have raised an RFC to gather opinions. Regards Bksimonb (talk) 14:55, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

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Hi..

Utcursch, User:abutorsam007 has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Thanks :-) utcursch | talk 09:39, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Sardarji Jokes

Dear Utcursch, I need your help on the page of Sardarji Jokes. A person called "Sikh History" insists on adding some irrelevant lines, and on my deletions has issued warnings to me for 'Censorship'. As a newbie to Wiki, I dont really understand these warning et.al.

A stray remark by some Bihari gentleman that Bihari jokes have become more prevalant than Sikh jokes has becomee a definitive statement on the issue; and is being portrayed as a FINAL judgement on it; that Bihari Jokes "Are Greater than" Sardarji Jokes.

As an experienced editor, I hope you can join issues and help me in keeping that article more relevant. 

Kulveer (talk) 06:57, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Discussion and poll on reviewer usergroup criteria

You may be interested in a discussion and poll I've started to decide the criteria that will be used for promoting users to the reviewer group at Wikipedia talk:Reviewers#New discussion and poll: reviewer criteria - please put your comments there. AndrewRT(Talk) 17:56, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

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Utcursch, Abutorsam007 (talk) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Thank you, Abu! utcursch | talk 19:06, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Review request

Can you take a look at this ? I don't know too many editors who are knowledgeable in the area. Regards. Abecedare (talk) 03:02, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Notice: Clan O'Dea (Ua Deághaidh).

I propose to move the Clan O'Dea page from Clan Ua Déaghaidh (misspelt in that form) in order to retitle it in the more relevant, modern English form of the name (O'Dea) used overwhelmingly in Ireland and, in addition, to correct the spelling of the name: it is misspelled without fail throughout the article in its present form. I can supply, if requested, a copy (photograph) of the relevant entry about O'Dea/Ó Deághaidh in the best-known reference title about Irish family names, The Surnames of Ireland by MacLysaght.

Please refer to the article Talk page for my explanation and justification. I am notifying you as a courtesy since you created the page and I would appreciate your stated support in the article's Talk page for the move, the retitling, and the corrections of the spellings. Thank you for creating the page and for weighing my proposal.

(Are Utcursch and Deaghaidhcjjd the same person? The links to the O'Dea article author are confusing and seem to suggest that one person is using two Wikipedia identities.) odea (talk) 09:59, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm not same as Deaghaidhcjjd! utcursch | talk 12:49, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
Excuse me, please disregard my notice. 174.16.18.181 (talk) 19:40, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Just wanted to say...

...happy birthday =) Hope you had a good one SuperHamster Talk Contribs 02:34, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much! utcursch | talk 10:04, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

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Duronto Pages

The page which you have created:Duronto, had also been created(unknowingly) by me as Duronto Express on the same subject.So, it is better to merge those two pages as Duronto Express.--Sharadbob (talk) 07:11, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Done. utcursch | talk 17:56, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

OTRS

Hey hello. I need ur help, can u instruct me as how to get OTRS for any image we upload.. I am so darn confused... Thanks in advance dear... Oniongas (talk) 10:49, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

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University of Calcutta departments

In 2006 you commented at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Department of Law Calcutta University I have opened new AfDs on it and a related article at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Department of Law, University of Calcutta and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Department of Applied Physics, University of Calcutta and you may want to comment. DGG ( talk ) 21:17, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Ahmad Rushdi

Hey Utcursch, I saw your edit summary and you are right. Now--how about you, as an administrator, getting back to writing content, specifically this article? (Your last DYK was in July!) Your expertise would be much appreciated. I am sure, for instance, that some of the praise heaped upon the subject by probably just one editor working with different IPs can be verified--but from where I am sitting, I cannot find the sources, and if you look through the article history you'll see that I have done my best to find reliable sources to verify statements in the article. The guy obviously was important and has been in lots of productions, so there should be some (more) material there. Finding such material would improve the article and might also take some wind out of the sails of the fans who keep adding unverified praise. Thanks in advance for your help. Drmies (talk) 19:49, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Hello, Utcursch. You have new messages at Drmies's talk page.
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Maitê Proença

Hi Utcursch; Could you protect the talk page as well? Thanks, JNW (talk) 14:28, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

As of now, there doesn't seem to be much vandalism on the talk page. In case of severe vandalism, you can drop a note on WP:RfPP. utcursch | talk 14:31, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

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Just checking ...

.. whether you are in Bangalore for the next WikiMeetup WP:MBL7 -- Tinu Cherian - 06:31, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

No, on Diwali vacation! utcursch | talk 10:56, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

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