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Re:Happy New Year!

Wishing you a very “Happy NEW YEAR“ filled with lots of good editing, prosperity and happiness---zeeyanketu ^{talk to me} 19:05, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much Forgot to put name 19:06, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Happy New Year 2013

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Re: Happy New Year 2013

Thank you so much. Wish you a very, very happy and prosperous New Year too. :) --smarojit ^{(buzz me)} 06:25, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year!

Wishes For A Happy, Joyous And Prosperous New Year!
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Teahouse talkback: you've got messages!

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A Great User ✉ ✉ 04:11, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Who did you piss off?

Hi! I reported your talk page vandal to AIV. We'll have to see what comes of it. But since the only edits your vandal has made are his vandalism to your page, I gotta wonder who really is pissed off at you? BTW, you are a real Wikipedian now, without a doubt. Once you've done enough to get someone to screw up your talk or user page, you have definitely arrived. Gtwfan52 (talk) 06:04, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

One IP hopper is persistenly adding the anal bleaching image to my talk page. So I requested to blacklist the image. Forgot to put name 06:22, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Some people just need to find new hobbies, I guess. It has happened more than twice? That WAS a troubling image. I may have trouble sleeping tonite. lol Gtwfan52 (talk) 06:26, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Just passing through--I thought it was a lovely little butthole. Anyway, that IP is blocked by another admin. If it happens again, just report it--if it gets out of hand, well, that would suck. Happy days, Drmies (talk) 06:29, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

WP:User page

You might want to consider putting something there. It will get the red out of your edit histories. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 13:40, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

January 2013

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I Guess I'm Floating inquiry

How are references from New York Times, BBC, Wired Magazine, NY Daily News, Boston Phoenix, and Techcrunch not reliable enough? Please explain. The BBC literally wrote an article about the website and one of its concerts. NY Daily News commended the site, author called it his "personal favorite". Techcrunch called it a "tastemaker". Wired Magazine wrote an article about the blog starting a record label. How are these not reliable sources?

There's still a relatively large amount of objective reference material from several well known sources, including perhaps the most important, well known source of all: The New York Times.

If this isn't enough to demonstrate the site's notability, please explain why.

Tikitakiwiki (talk) 06:11, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Please don't cite sources which are related to the subject. See ref no 10. And please see Gtwfan52's declining rationale too. Thanks! Forgot to put name 08:51, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Thanks for making Uttarakhand a GA. Ayanosh (talk) 05:55, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you! Forgot to put name 08:41, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Rollback rights

I have approved you for rollback. Just remember to warn users who vandalise or similar. You didn't warn the editor for this one. You can use the {{uw-delete1}} up to {{uw-delete4}} templates (remembering to substitute them so your message to them would appear like this:
{{subst:uw-delete1|List of police television dramas}} ~~~~
Alternatively you can use the twinkle warn-user feature. The "delete" templates are in the second drop down box. Kind regards, James086^Talk 20:19, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Chess960

This text edit, which you did not revert, is consistent with "retains more of the character of", which you did revert.

"Bad wording" (your edit summary) is a bit of a condemnation. The sentence either had correct content, or incorrect content. (There was nothing grammatically wrong with it.) Since your revert changed the content, you must have thought the content was incorrect. There was probably a reason the editor inserted word "helps". (I'm not sure if I agree with insertion of word "helps", but I can somewhat see the editor has a point: I think he/she did not like to imply that 100 percent of character of standard chess is retained in Chess960, which is true, actually.) But this is such a fine point ... IMO I don't think it matters too much. (But the other editor did, or, he/she wouldn't have made the change.) Ihardlythinkso (talk) 05:43, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

I thought the restrictions on the randomization retain 100% of the character of standard chess. That's why I gave the ES "bad wording". However it's mentioned what restrictions are applied on the randomization of Chess960; so obviously it's understood that 100% of character of standard chess is not retained and there is no need of mentioning this twice. Forgot to put name 06:16, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Just so I'm understanding, you took out "more of" because, thinking it was 100 percent, you felt "more of" was incorrect content? But now you've changed your mind (you think it is correct content, but, just unnecessary)? (Just trying to confirm my understanding what you're saying. I think I probably agree with you, if I'm understanding you correctly.) Ihardlythinkso (talk) 06:32, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Yes, you're understanding me correctly. Forgot to put name 06:58, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

We agree then. (The other editor, who added "helps [retain]", might not though.) Ok, Ihardlythinkso (talk) 07:06, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Date format templates/categories

Please don't place the {{Use mdy dates}} template or the Category:Use mdy dates from January 2013 category on articles on Indian subjects, as you did at Balaji Telefilms, Arjun (TV series), and possibly other articles. India uses DD-MM-YYYY, and according to our Manual of Style where an article's subject has strong ties to a particular English-speaking nation, the article should use that nation's variety of English and that nation's date format. —Psychonaut (talk) 11:49, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

But the articles in which I placed mdy templates/categories are in MONTHNAME/DD/YYYY format. What to do now? Forgot to put name 11:54, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

The template/category is used for the benefit of bots which make automated changes to the articles. Just remove any "Use mdy dates" templates and categories from the articles you've added them to, and optionally replace them with the {{Use dmy dates}} template. (The template automatically adds the category, so there's no need to add the category manually.) Don't worry about any existing dates in the wrong format in the article; they'll probably get corrected eventually. —Psychonaut (talk) 12:01, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Dear my friend!

Hey, Forgot to put name (did I get it right?) I am Tamravidhir. I will end up crying! I am back to Wiki near;y after 1 and a half months due to my exams and I have a lot a lot lot loads of work to do here. Please have patience and don't revert my edits I am modifying it after reverting it to the older version. I was gonna save it when there was an edit conflict and I saw your's edit. Please have patience and let me finish. Then you do whatever you want to and i will heed to your advice. Please agree with me! If you want ypu can put an "under construction" tag there but please wait. If you want to reply I may like if you do so on my talk page. Thank you. (I will be eagerly waiting for a reply) --Tamravidhir (২০১২) 14:49, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

OK. If you want to clean the article after reverting to old version then I will not interrupt. Forgot to put name 14:56, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

N.A

Your edit sum here is wrong. "N.A" does not mean "Not available". "NA" or "n/a" mean "not applicable". "Not available" and "not applicable" mean different things. And probably neither is appropriate for that table. Plus, I've never seen a table entry like you made, in any table, in any WP article before. (Have you?) Ihardlythinkso (talk) 20:02, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

N/A means not available too. Please see the definition in Wiktionary. Yes I accept that I have never seen that before. Thanks! Forgot to put name 04:20, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I see that. (I was checking The American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition, where there's only the one definition, and not the Wiktionary. The fact there are so many defs for it at the Wiktionary (6!), makes the abbreviation that much more ambiguous -- which amounts to add'l reason not to use it in the table!) Ok, Ihardlythinkso (talk) 05:35, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

What's with you?? Are you being intentionally dense? "Yes I accept that I have neveer seen that before. Thanks!" Your ambiguous abbreviation, isn't even consistent with any of the abbreviation forms at the Wiktionary. The abbreviation is ambiguous in the table. Are you trying to improve the article by adding unnecessary, ambiguous, unprecedented, and incorrect abbreviation? How does that make any sense? Why don't you find something better to do?? What you're doing is baiting and close to vandalism. You've already expressed distain for WP:BRD. Do you enjoy pissing other editors off?? Ihardlythinkso (talk) 07:02, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

A cheeseburger for you!

Thank you for reverting the vandalism on my user page. Jesant13 (talk) 18:23, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the award! Forgot to put name 18:30, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Jason Dunn Page

Hello. I am sending you this message in regards to your review of the Jason Dunn page I recently created. First off I would like to thank you for reviewing it. Now please note that I am new to creating and editing Wikipedia pages. I would like to know what you mean for me to do to change or edit the page. If you could let me know as soon as possible it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. --Drg1firedraco (talk) 03:06, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Please replace some of the sources with reliable, published sources. There are many sources which are not reliable: ref no 3: that's a blog, Jesusfreakhideout (that's not very much reliable as per WP:RS.), Lyricsfreak (this too is not much reliable). Please see WP:RS too. Replace such sources with reliable, published sources: e.g a newspaper, magazines, etc. Make sure that you article doesn't violate the policy on biographies of living persons. Then also go through WP:MUSIC and make sure that your subject passes these criteria. Thank you for your submission! Forgot to put name 03:18, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Good change

IMO that was a good editorial change. ("to rely instead on their talent ..." → "to rely on their talent ...".) But not because word "instead" caused confusion, rather because the word was unnecessary/implied. Ok, Ihardlythinkso (talk) 21:52, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Fancruft

{{Help}} What is fancruft? I didn't understand WP:FAN properly. Please answer my question. Thank you. — Forgot to put name (talk) 17:37, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Fancruft is basically information that is added by fans of something, which is also only useful to other fans. For example, a description of a plot of a game would not be fancruft, but a walkthrough or level guide would be. Likewise, a list of tour dates may be encyclopedic, but anything more than a simple list would likely be fancruft. gwickwire^talk_edits 21:13, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the help! — Forgot to put name (talk) 09:35, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Get 'em! ToastyMallows (talk) 17:50, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much! — Forgot to put name (talk) 18:47, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Userfying

When you userfy something, don't forget to take any CSD or prod tags off... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peridon (talk • contribs) 18:51, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Ok, thank you! — Forgot to put name (talk) 18:56, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Your removal of a category at User:Lord Roem

Hello Forgot. Please undo this change. See WP:Requests for adminship/Lord Roem 2. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 19:06, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

I removed the category because Lord Roem has added the administrator icon to the userpage and the icon fills the category Category:Wikipedia administrators. — Forgot to put name (talk) 19:10, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. EdJohnston (talk) 03:07, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Barfi!

Hi, can you help me to expand Barfi!'s article by adding reliable sources? Please expand the Marketing section. ( see Kahaani#Marketing for more information) ----Plea$ant 1623 ✉ 15:00, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

I will try. — Forgot to put name (talk) 15:22, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the barnstar. Torreslfchero (talk) 19:05, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Chess.com

Hi, we both worked together on the AFD for Chess.com. I have seen on chess.com where the users there may be organizing to raid/vandalize Wikipedia in retaliation. Would you mind keeping an eye out, along with me, for un-authorized re-creation of the "Chess.com" article, or other unfriendly acts of disruption by Chess.com members? Thanks, OGBranniff (talk) 19:16, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

OK, I will keep an eye for the recreation of Chess.com article. They have not recreated the article. If they recreate it, we can request create-protection. — Forgot to put name (talk) 05:39, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

In the mean time, we have an IP, presumably one of the "Chess.commers" that posted this DRV: Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2013_February_9#Chess.com if you want to check it out. Hope you are enjoying your weekend. OGBranniff (talk) 17:53, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

The Chess Variant Pages

In this edit you removed content with source ChessVariants.com and left edit summary "removed claims of non-notable website [...]".

1. You won't find a more athoritative source in the world regarding chess variants than Pritchard.
2. Here is what Pritchard wrote about ChessVariants.com in Popular Chess Variants (2000), p. 142:

   The Chess Variant Pages conducted by Hans Bodlaender is the most wide-ranging and authoritative web site on chess variants. A huge compilation of games, with rules, are listed alphabetically and on average an item a day is added to the site. There is much interesting material including a steady flow of new games, analysis and regular competitions. And just in case you still believe that chess variants only appeal to a small minority, roughly 150,000 'hits' a month are recorded.

Ihardlythinkso (talk) 19:16, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Also, please consider, the logical implication of the edit summary you used when removing the content: "removed claims of non-notable website [...]". That summary suggests you are thinking the source for the content claim, needs to be notable. But it doesn't. (There is no such requirement at Wikipedia. Sources, secondary or tertiary, are required to be "reliable" and "verifiable", but it isn't required or even suggested that they also be "notable". Think of the impossible burden that would result, if sources had to be demonstrably notable ... No one would be able to quote any source without being able to provide independent, reliable and verifiable sources on the source itself, in support of the first source's notability. If that were policy, then the burden on editors would be impossibly high. [Plus, what about the sources giving proof of the first source's notability? Would they need to be notable as well? That would lead to a logical loop and contradiction ... Any source given to demonstrate notability of another source, would also need sources demonstrating notability, and so on down the chain, until original sources were finally arrived at, which had no sources supporting their notability.])

Ihardlythinkso (talk) 04:27, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

FYI, The Chess Variant Pages is even quoted in the lede at article Shogi. Ihardlythinkso (talk) 12:57, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

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Dear Wiki,

My article is currently in the queue for submission however a message for me to add citations has arisen prior to this please can you assist me to find matching citations for my article? I have attempted finding some myself however would be grateful for your assistance with this as id like to overcome the issue and resubmit my article.

Can you have a look over my article again and see what you think I have edited it to make it more factual rather then biography isit ok now?

My wiki name is amellondon,

Look forward to hearing from you.--Amellondon (talk) 16:32, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Article Feedback Tool update

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Ashok Sundari

Hello there. I'm here to discuss about the article Ashok Sundari. As you might know this character was portrayed in that tv series Devon Ke Dev...Mahadev. From there some people thought she really was Shiva's daughter. Actually she didn't exist in Hindu mythology at all. Work2Win added some sources recently to it. However they all were either opinions or unreliable. Also none of them were academic sources. Also the article was proposed for deletion and the result was delete. You too voted to delete it. But even after a year it hasn't been deleted why? MythoEditor (talk) 06:18, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Articles for creation March 2014 Backlog Elimination Drive

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Repost of Keymon Ache

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Asian 10,000 Challenge invite

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Re-initiating INCOTM

It's been almost an year since "Indian collaboration of the month" was active. Firstly we need to restart this as soon as possible for development of India-related articles to greater heights. The members page was blanked, where many of them are inactive. This mass message is to all the members of WikiProject India, about this and interested editors interested will sign up. After this message gets delivered, we'll wait for 7 days before we start a discussion under a thread on the collaboration's talk page, among the members. The discussion will include what to clean-up of sub-pages, a new set of guidelines for smooth and uninterrupted functioning of the collaboration etc. Please keep all the discussions under this thread only, so that it will easier for future reference. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:19, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

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Wiki Loves Indian defence services

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May 2017

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June 2017

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Women in Red World Contest

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Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India)

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It is being planned to organize Wikigraphists Bootcamp in India, please fill out the survey form to help the organizers. Your responses will help organizers understand what level of demand there is for the event (how many people in your community think it is important that the event happens). At the end of the day, the participants will turn out to have knowledge to create drawings, illustrations, diagrams, maps, graphs, bar charts etc. and get to know to how to tune the images to meet the QI and FP criteria. For more information and link to survey form, please visit Talk:Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:46, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

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In 2017 - 2018, the Wikimedia Foundation and Google working in close coordination with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Wikimedia India chapter (WMIN) and user groups will pilot a program encouraging Wikipedia communities to create locally relevant and high-quality content in Indian languages. This program (Code name: Project Tiger) will:

(a) Support active and experienced Wikipedia editors through the donation of laptops and stipends for internet access and

(b) Sponsor a language-based contest that aims to address existing Wikipedia content gaps.

The objective of the program is to provide laptops and internet stipends for existing editors who need support to contribute more actively. 50 basic model Acer Chromebooks and Internet stipends for 100 contributors are available for distribution. Provided resources are the sole property of the beneficiaries and should be used for the betterment of the movement.

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Project Tiger Writing Contest

In 2017 – 2018, the Wikimedia Foundation and Google working in close coordination with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Wikimedia India Chapter (WMIN) and user groups from India, are piloting a program encouraging Wikipedia communities to create locally relevant and high-quality content in Indian languages. This program will (a) support active and experienced Wikipedia editors through the donation of laptops and stipends for internet access and (b) sponsor a language-based contest that aims to address existing Wikipedia content gaps.

Phase (a) has been completed, during which active contributors were awarded laptops and internet stipends. Phase (b) will be a contest in which editors will come together and develop a writing contest focused on content gaps. Each month three individual prizes will be awarded to each community based on their contribution for the month. The prizes worth 3,000 INR, 2000 INR, and 1,000 INR, will be awarded to the top contributors for each month. The contest started at March 1, 2018, 0:00, and will end at May 31, 2018, 23:59 (IST). Useful links are as follows:

• Sign up at: Wikipedia:Project Tiger Writing Contest/Participants
• List of the articles can be referred at: Wikipedia:Project Tiger Writing Contest/Topics
• Submit/report your articles/contributions at: https://tools.wmflabs.org/fountain/editathons/project-tiger-2018-en
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WikiProject India 10,000 Challenge

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