The Artemis Fowl WikiProject

Hi. In the last month I have discovered the Artemis Fowl WikiProject and have slowly but surely been making progress. I have, however, noticed that no one else seems to be doing anything. So, it's as simple as this. Respond to this message, or your name gets removed from the participants list and I assume leadership of the WikiProject, because I will actually get something done. You have exactly 1 week, or 7 days, or 168 hours. They all mean the same thing.

However, please know that this is nothing personal against you. This is a generic message sent to every person on the participants list. Thanks for your co-operation. -007bond aka Matthew G aka codingmasters 10:42, 1 June 2007 (UTC)Reply


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Table of contents
House rules
For newcomers, to send me a new message please use the link box which has "Please click here to leave me a new message" on it. Alternatively you can press the " + " sign between the "edit this page" and "history" tabs.
Please be civil in discussions
Please avoid personal attacks
Please create a new section for each new discussion by following the link above
I do not add pages I edit to my watchlist, except those that I have created or heavily edited or those of particular interest to me, so any comments regarding my edits on the rest of the pages should be notified to me on my talk page
Archives
Commendations - all the nice notes I've recieved
Archive 1 - from 29 June 2005 to 21 September 2005
Archive 2 - from 21 September 2005 to 27 November 2005
Archive 3 - from 28 November 2005 to 6 January 2006
Archive 4 - from 7 January 2006 to 14 March 2006
Archive 5 - from 14 March 2006 to 29 April 2006
Archive 6 - from 29 April 2006 to 5 June 2006
Archive 7 - from 5 June 2006 to 4 July 2006
Archive 8 - from 4 July 2006 to 22 July 2006
Archive 9 - from 23 July 2006 to 14 August 2006
Archive 10 - from 14 August 2006 to 6 September 2006
Archive 11 - from 9 September 2006 to 22 October 2006
Archive 12 - from 21 October 2006 to 11 November 2006


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Good luck

Hope your exams are going well. Once you're through, we look forward to you popping up in the Indian namespace all over again. :) =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:53, 15 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

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Cyril Alington

Please could you delete Cyril Alington, then I can move Cyril Argentine Alington to Cyril Alington, as this fits with Wikipedia naming policy. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have created Cyril Alington page in the first place. Flozu 10:18, 25 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

will do, thanks! Flozu 10:39, 25 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

Comparison of Windows and Mac OS X

Hello, While I respect the decisions of an administrator of Wikipedia, I have problems with your decision concerning the deletion of the article Comparison of Windows and Mac OS X. Looking at the deletion talk page, we can see that the users' vote are 6 for deletion and 4 for keep. While Wikipedia is not a democracy, and I have absolutely no problem with that, where things start to bug me is that the 'delete' guys wrote like 250 words each about why it should be deleted, then the 'keep' guys would say like 'No, we should keep it because it might become good'. I would like to understand the rationale of the decision, could you enlighten a soul in sorrow ? :) Dravick 14:08, 25 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/400,000_Faces

Hi, In the 'delete' decision you stated that it fails WP:WEB - could you clarify which part it failed? Thanks. Thedreamdied 21:08, 25 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

Block of User:Qxz

You seem to have blocked Qxz as anon-only account-creation-blocked on their request for leaving. Wouldn't this run the risk of preventing account-creation and anon edits by mistake if Qxz is on a shared IP? --ais523 11:12, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Regarding blocks

I'm not sure how this block is inline with WP:BLOCK. Perhaps you would consider shortining the block, or unblocking just in case the user wishes to come back and make good contributions. v/rNavou banter / contribs 20:28, 26 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

I've removed the block; normal Wikipedia policy is not to block to enforce a wikibreak or departure. Ral315 » 13:39, 27 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

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Bradnt IP block

Hi, he uses... changing IP addresses. They aren't always the same and come from I think a group of IPs in San Antonio. A permanent block will probably get someone else later. Up to you! - Denny 16:46, 28 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

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RfA thanks

Thank you for your Support on my recent nomination for adminship, which passed with a final tally of 89/1/1. I probably owe you a cookie or ten for your help back when I was new here, but I will no doubt come up with some way to weasel out of it. If there's anything I can help with, then you know where to find me. Cheers.

Username blocks

Hi, I see you've been issuing a load of username blocks, most of which look like good calls. I'm a bit puzzled as to what's wrong with Simontinks (talk · contribs) though... Can you help me out? --kingboyk 13:39, 30 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

Your edits to User_talk:76.190.75.31

Hi, Just FYI the subst template you added at this talk page was 'inside' an unended HTML comment. This meant your ~~~~ didn't work, same as for their subsequent block message! Anyway I fixed it and used Template:Unsigned2 to sign your edit. Mark Hurd 15:20, 30 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

I here you blocked my friend communist China! You are a spolied rich nerd. That is very mean to block someone for their views. Please be nicer in the future. Thanks Spread the love --—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Anti Communist China (talkcontribs) 13:37, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you very much for the working mans barnstar, I enjoy fighting vandalism and reporting inappropriate usernames to try to prevent any future vandalism and so all username are suitable per WP:USERNAME. Again, thank you and happy editing! Tellyaddict 17:53, 30 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

My RfA

  • Thanks for the support position. However, I've decided to withdraw my acceptance because of real WP:CIVIL concerns. I will try again later when I've proven to myself and others that my anger will no longer interfere with my abilities as a Wikipedia editor. Thanks again, and I'll see you around here shortly. :) JuJube 04:31, 1 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

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re my block

because of the block, i was unable to respond in my defence. the truth has to be known. let malaysian people decide.62.30.230.62 12:29, 8 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

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Adios amigo!

Hoping you would return back some time. All the best with your real-life. -- Ganeshk (talk) 22:21, 24 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Although I probably didn't know you that well, I wish you the best of luck in your real life.--Ed ¿Cómo estás? 19:46, 1 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Indefinite block

Hello. Why did you block me indefinitely without comment? Thanks. El_C 14:36, 12 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

What, I don't even get a "no comment"? :( I notice that you retired a week ago., so welcome back! :) El_C 14:43, 12 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Apparently it was a joke, but you really shouldn't block people as a joke. Friday (talk) 15:06, 12 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Oh? You know something I don't, Friday? El_C 15:09, 12 June 2007 (UTC)Reply
No, it just thought it could only have been a joke. Or looking further, I suppose it could be a last "parting shot" on an account that's being abandoned anyway. A retirement announcement, a couple weeks of inactivity, and then an unexplained block on a regular... bizarre. Maybe this should be checkuser'd. Friday (talk) 15:14, 12 June 2007 (UTC)Reply
Or just blocked and de-sysop'd for severe pointy-ness.--Isotope23 15:35, 12 June 2007 (UTC)Reply
Only those with IRC access can reach stewards, I presume! Speaking of IRC, I wonder if any of my opponents... Nah, I won't go there! El_C 15:54, 12 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Some weird ass guy who won't leave me alone's message

You will need to account for the block first. El_C 17:55, 13 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Email

For what it's worth, I emailed Shreshth to say "You may want to come by and explain your block" and he replied saying to block his account and remove the sysop bit. I told him he'd have to go through proper channels for that. Friday (talk) 17:58, 13 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

I already placed a note at WP:BN#Shreshth91. El_C 18:00, 13 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

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Re: Image deletion

All 3 restored, sorry. ^demon[omg plz] 14:43, 23 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Sandeep Batra

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Arbitration

Please refer to the Arbitration request here. El_C 20:02, 7 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

As a result of this request for arbitration, and in view of the circumstances, one of the arbitrators has had this account desysopped by a Steward. If and when you return to active editing and if you wish to pursue the matter, please contact the Arbitration Committee. Newyorkbrad 00:52, 8 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Chicken Invaders 2 Xmas.JPG)

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Chicken Invaders 3 Xmas Medals.JPG)

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Chicken Invaders 3 Xmas star map.JPG)

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Chicken Invaders 3 Xmas.JPG)

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Welcome back!

Nearly Headless Nick {C} 14:15, 27 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Fair use rationale for Image:Chicken Invaders 2 Xmas.JPG

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If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free media lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. After Midnight 0001 16:50, 29 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Fair use rationale for Image:Chicken Invaders 3 Xmas Medals.JPG

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Fair use rationale for Image:Chicken Invaders 3 Xmas star map.JPG

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Fair use rationale for Image:Chicken Invaders 3 Xmas.JPG

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If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free media lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. After Midnight 0001 16:51, 29 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Arpita Mukherjee

Another editor has added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Arpita Mukherjee, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the editor doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the article (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia or discuss the relevant issues at its talk page. If you remove the {{prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. BJBot (talk) 22:14, 30 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Hi Shreshth!

I saw you coming back for a brief stint in December 2007. Are you considering returning to Wikipedia? GizzaDiscuss © 22:47, 3 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

Fred Weaver

Another editor has added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Fred Weaver, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the editor doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the article (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia or discuss the relevant issues at its talk page. If you remove the {{prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. BJBot (talk) 01:59, 13 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

AfD nomination of Fred Weaver

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You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 14:15, 20 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

Admin Coaching Re-confirmation

Hello, previously you expressed interest in participating in the Wikipedia:Admin coaching project. We are currently conducting a reconfirmation drive to give coaches the opportunity to update their information and capacity to participate in the project. Please visit Wikipedia:Admin coaching/Status to update your status and move your entry to the Active list. Also, please remember to update your capacity (5th table variable) in the form of a fraction (eg. 2/3 means you are currently coaching 2 students, and could accept 1 more student). Thank you. MBisanz talk 09:32, 24 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

Gurpreet Kaur (Fame Gurukul Contestant)

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Gurpreet Kaur (Fame Gurukul Contestant), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you agree with the deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please add {{db-author}} to the top of Gurpreet Kaur (Fame Gurukul Contestant). B. Wolterding (talk) 13:35, 9 April 2008 (UTC)Reply


Fair use rationale for Image:Bluffmaster 2005 film.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Bluffmaster 2005 film.jpg. You've indicated that the image meets Wikipedia's criteria for non-free content, but there is no explanation of why it meets those criteria. Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. If you have any questions, please post them at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions.

Thank you for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 09:15, 22 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

UofA

UofA is a very neccesary redirect because many people call it that way (University of Arizona) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mexican Sponge (talkcontribs) 22:58, 7 June 2008 (UTC)Reply


WikiProject India Newsletter Volume III, Issue no. 001 - June 2008

Project News
  • Tag & Assess 2008, an assessment drive initiated by the assessment department began on June 7, 2008 and will be running until July 2008. Many Wikipedians have started contributing to this mammoth task. This housekeeping activity will help manage articles in better way. You can also get involved!
  • Bot Assisted Assessment was successfully done using Bot0612 in May 2008. 1744 articles (18.5%) of all India unassessed articles were marked if they had been assessed by some other project.
  • What's Featured and Good?
  • IPL was hot on Wikipedia too!!! During the tournament, the article was among the most frequently edited articles. It is currently the only Indian article in top 100, occupying 58th spot.
  • Do you know of an article that is currently underrated? If so, please nominate the article at the Assessment Department's request for assessment. This will allow our project to get a better idea of the quality of our articles.
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Current events globe On 13 September, 2008, In the news was updated with a news item that involved the article(s) 2008 New Delhi bombings, which you created or substantially updated. If you know of another interesting news item involving a recently created or updated article, then please suggest it on the In the news candidates page.

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Seeing you back on Wikipedia after a long time. How are you doing, and is everyone you know safe? =Nichalp «Talk»= 18:49, 13 September 2008 (UTC)Reply
Good to know people you know are safe. I'm doing fine too. Could you provide me the coordinates of the bombings if possible? I can make a map then. =Nichalp «Talk»= 19:13, 13 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

Happy birthday

Happy birthday Shreshth! =Nichalp «Talk»= 09:58, 14 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

Cactions tool

Hey Shreshth91, hope you're enjoying your break! Just to inform you, I've released a long-overdue upgrade to the cactions tool, which you should be able to see already (Ctrl-F5 if not). The tool should still work just as before, although you no longer need the ctIsAdmin variable; see User:Haza-w/Caction tool for the documentation. If you find any bugs or have any queries or feature requests, please get in touch. Thanks, and enjoy! haz (talk) 19:42, 20 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

AfD nomination of Bartimaeus (Bartimaeus trilogy)

I have nominated Bartimaeus (Bartimaeus trilogy), an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bartimaeus (Bartimaeus trilogy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. TTN (talk) 01:03, 13 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

AfD nomination of Nathaniel (Bartimaeus trilogy)

I have nominated Nathaniel (Bartimaeus trilogy), an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nathaniel (Bartimaeus trilogy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. TTN (talk) 01:03, 13 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

AfD nomination of Magic in the Bartimaeus Trilogy

I have nominated Magic in the Bartimaeus Trilogy, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Magic in the Bartimaeus Trilogy. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. TTN (talk) 01:05, 13 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

The Indian Barnstar of National Merit

The Indian Barnstar of National Merit
Awarded to Shreshth91, one of the most prolific editors and an admin from India. We are proud of you ! And I hope you return to WP soon.... -- Tinu Cherian - 07:08, 5 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

How to use this top Indian Wikipedian list for effective collaboration

Hi, I have added a section 'How to use this list for effective collaboration' on User:Tinucherian/Indians WP page to see if we can put this list to really good use, pl give your thoughts on the same and we can take it further from there. Thanks. Vjdchauhan (talk) 18:46, 6 January 2009 (UTC).Reply

Speedy deletion of Amit Jadhav

A tag has been placed on Amit Jadhav requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. JaGatalk 19:25, 3 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

Admin Coaching

I saw that you were listed in the Coaches for reconfirmation section of the admin coaching status page. Could you please update your status, and if you are still interested, drop me a note on my talk page? Thanks, Genius101Guestbook 22:23, 25 April 2009 (UTC) This message was delivered semi-automatically by AutoWikiBrowser.Reply

My apologies, I see you are not a coach. Sorry, Genius101Guestbook 22:44, 25 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

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Proposed deletion of Amit Jadhav

The article Amit Jadhav has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

reality show contestant with no evidence of notability, fails WP:ENTERTAINER

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the Proposed Deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The Speedy Deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and Articles for Deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Tassedethe (talk) 09:24, 19 September 2009 (UTC)Reply


Happy Birthday

Hey, Shreshth91. Just stopping by to wish you a Happy Birthday from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day!
-- Vatsan34 (talk) 05:54, 14 October 2009 (UTC)Reply

Vatsan34 (talk) 05:54, 14 October 2009 (UTC)Reply

File:Nehru signing Indian Constitution.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, File:Nehru signing Indian Constitution.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Damiens.rf 12:23, 14 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Shreshth91! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 8 of the articles that you created are Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. Please note that all biographies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add reliable, secondary sources to these articles, it would greatly help us with the current 9 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

  1. Manav Gohil - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs· FENS · JSTOR · TWL
  2. Arijit Singh - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs· FENS · JSTOR · TWL
  3. Deepshikha Sharma - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs· FENS · JSTOR · TWL
  4. Mona Bhatt - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs· FENS · JSTOR · TWL
  5. Chhavi Sodhani - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs· FENS · JSTOR · TWL
  6. Anubhav Suman - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs· FENS · JSTOR · TWL
  7. Deepak Singh Meher - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs· FENS · JSTOR · TWL
  8. Dale Stewart - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs· FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 19:41, 2 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of Deepak Singh Meher

The article Deepak Singh Meher has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Doesn't pass WP:ENT or WP:BIO. Two news hits, one briefly mentions him in the context of 14 finalists in a TV show, other is currently a dead link.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. –SpacemanSpiff 03:47, 28 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

Admin Coaching: Reconfirmation

I was looking through the coaches at Wikipedia:Admin_coaching/Status and saw that there are a lot under "reconfirmation".

Could you let me know if you are still interesting in being involved with Admin Coaching, or if you would prefer to have your name removed from the "reconfirmation" list. If you want to be involved, could you please move your entry from "Reconfirmation" to "Active" and indicate how many students you would be willing to have (obviously, if you are actively coaching at the moment, then please indicate this!)

If I do not hear from you within a week, I will assume that you would like to have your name removed from the list of coaches.

Regards, -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 07:28, 19 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Replaceable fair use File:Takht-i-Jahangir crack.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Takht-i-Jahangir crack.jpg. I noticed the description page specifies that the media is being used under a claim of fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this media is not replaceable, please:

  1. Go to the media description page and edit it to add {{di-replaceable fair use disputed}}, without deleting the original replaceable fair use template.
  2. On the image discussion page, write the reason why this image is not replaceable at all.

Alternatively, you can also choose to replace this non-free media by finding freely licensed media of the same subject, requesting that the copyright holder release this (or similar) media under a free license, or by taking a picture of it yourself.

If you have uploaded other non-free media, consider checking that you have specified how these images fully satisfy our non-free content criteria. You can find a list of description pages you have edited by clicking on this link. Note that even if you follow steps 1 and 2 above, non-free media which could be replaced by freely licensed alternatives will be deleted 2 days after this notification (7 days if uploaded before 13 July 2006), per our non-free content policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. --Geniac (talk) 03:46, 27 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

Ditto for File:Takht-i-Jahangir.jpg. --Geniac (talk) 01:13, 1 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

FA Review for Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India

I have nominated Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. --Mkativerata (talk) 20:30, 3 May 2010 (UTC)Reply



WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 1 - (June 2010)

Project News

WP:IND Newsletter is back! It's been nearly a year since the last edition, but we hope to bring out issues on a more regular basis now. The India Wikiproject was set up to increasing coverage of India-related topics on Wikipedia, and over the past few months the focus has been on improving article quality. A number of the project's featured articles underwent featured article reviews over the past year. Of these, Darjeeling and Flag of India survived the review process, while the rest were demoted. During the same period, Gangtok, Harbhajan Singh, Darjeeling and Mysore were featured on the main page respectively on August 20, September 17, November 6 and December 29, 2009. Meanwhile, articles on topics as diverse as Political history of Mysore and Coorg (1565–1760), Marwari horse and Iravan were promoted as featured articles, and respectively appeared on the main page on March 25, May 17 and May 28, 2010. Consequently, the number of FA-class articles under the project's scope dropped from 67 in August 2009 to 63 in June 2010. The number of good articles, however, saw a more than 40% increase, from 91 to 130 during the same period, while the number of featured lists saw a 33% increase from 12 to 16.

Due to the recent policy changes regarding unreferenced Biographies of Living People (BLPs), an effort was started in January 2010 to source all unreferenced BLPs coming under Wikiproject India. 1200 such articles were identified initially and more were added to the list later. Due to the sourcing effort, the number of Indian unreferenced BLPs is down to 565 currently. During February-April 2010, There was a large scale disruption of Kerala related articles by a Thrissur based IP vandal. Editing from a dynamic IP BSNL connection, the vandal changed dates of birth, death and ages of a number of Malayalam and Tamil film actors. Later he added a few international biographies to his list. He also marked some living people like Arvind Swamy as dead. A month long range block was imposed on his IP range two times and each time he came back to vandalise dates once the block expired. Currently the range has been blocked for three months till September 11, 2010.

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  • A discussion is in progress here in order to determine whether non-Western (including Indian) forms of classical music should be referred to by the nomenclature of art music instead of classical music. Please participate and add your comments.
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WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 2 - November 2010

English WikiProject News

After a missed issue, the WP:IND newsletter is back on track to being a regular bimonthly feature. The Indian WikiProject has seen plenty of online and off-line action, both in English as well as other Indian languages, and we now have a bigger, better format that intends to feature content and news from the English as well as other Indian language Wikipedias.

Reaching out to Indians has been the theme of the Indian Wikiproject over the past couple of months, aiming to involve a greater number of Indians in editing both the English and Indian language Wikipedias. To this end, efforts to set up the Indian chapter of Wikimedia have moved into their final stages, and registration of the society is currently pending. An effort is underway to push for "WikiMarathons" at meetups, where attendees will be encouraged to edit the English and/or Indian language Wikipedias. This is intended to popularise Wikipedia editing among the general public. In addition, a bot to post DYK's from the Indian Wikiproject to Twitter was created and launched by User:Logicwiki.


What's New?

Regrettably, the number of Featured Articles has dropped from 63 in June to 58 at the end of October 2010. Several FAs came up for review and were delisted, while Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India was saved. Meanwhile, Chalukya Dynasty appeared on the main page on July 9, 2010. Hearteningly, the number of Good Articles increased from 130 to 136 during the same period, while the number of Featured Lists remained constant at 16.

The source code for the Article Alert Bot is now available and the bot itself is expected to be up and running very shortly. This means that article alerts for the Indian Wikiproject will again be available, enabling editors to easily keep track of developments in respect of reviews, nominations, deletions etc.

The date change vandal mentioned briefly in the previous issue made a reappearance when the range block on his IP range expired in September. Consequently the block was extended till September 2011.

In October there was a heated discussion in the India project noticeboard regarding the copyright status of the Indian party symbols. The discussion was triggered by the deletion of Wiki San Roze's party symbol images by Hammersoft as copyright violations. No resolution was reached, partly because of our inability to explain to Hammersoft how election symbols in India differ from party logos. Comments are requested from anyone with a background in Indian copyright law to clarify this issue.

Complete To Do List
News from Indian-language Wikipedias
  • The Bengali Wikisource, which contains the literary works of many prominent writers of Bengali language including Rabindranath Tagore, has crossed the 5,000 pages milestone. According to List of Wikisource page, Bengali Wikisource is now at rank 21 among 56 Wikisource based on number of content pages.
The Tamil Wikipedia stall at the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 in Coimbatore in June 2010.
Jimmy Wales introduces the Malayalam Wikipedia CD of 500 selected articles during his key note address at Wikimania 2010 at Gdansk.
  • The Hindi Wikipedia and its sister wiki projects migrated to the new vector interface on September 1, 2010. In addition, Hindi is the first (and so far the only) Indian language to be incorporated into the WikiBhasha translation and contribution toolkit developed by Microsoft Research.


Community news
The first meetup in Delhi on 22 September 2010.

Mumbai and Delhi held their first meetups in September, where Wikimedia Board members Barry Newstead and Bishakha Datta met up with Wikipedians and other interested members of the public in these cities. A month later, Hyderabad also held its first meetup.

Arun Ram, Shiju Alex and Barry Newstead releasing the Wikimedia India community newsletter at the nineteenth Bangalore meetup on 24 September 2010.

Wikipedians in Bangalore continued their tradition of meeting up regularly at the Centre for Internet and Society, with the nineteenth meetup in September featuring Barry and Bishaka as attendees, and marking the release of the community newsletter. Along with Delhi and Mumbai, Bangalore is reported to be one of the three cities in contention for the Indian office of the Wikipedia Foundation.

Jimmy Wales speech at the Mumbai Wikipedia Meetup #3 on 31 October 2010. Intro by User:Bishdatta & User:Arunram. (Recorded by User:AshLin.)

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had an interaction with Wikipedians followed by a presentation to members of the public at the third Wikipedia meetup in Mumbai on October 31, 2010.

The first Wikimarathon, where Wikipedians and members of the public were encouraged to contribute to Wikimedia projects onsite, was held simultaneously at the meetups in Bangalore and Chennai on November 14, 2010. Wikipedians in Delhi also held a meetup the same day.

The Malayalam Wikipedia held several academies in different parts of Kerala over the past few months.

Wikimedia Foundation board member Bishakha Datta and Indian Wikipedian Srinivas Gunta co-authored a panel presentation at Wikimania 2010 on the Wikimedia Asia Project.

Current proposals and discussions
  • This interesting discussion on the quality of editing in India-related articles has been underway for on the noticeboard a few days. Feel free to join in and express your opinion.

If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject India. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!

Lastly, 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!

Signed...

SBC-YPR, Sodabottle (Editors)

Tinucherian (Distributor)


This newsletter incorporates content from the WikiMedia India Community Newsletter, September 2010.

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First edit day

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Speedy deletion nomination of Manav Gohil

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Nomination of Manav Gohil for deletion

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WikiProject India Tag & Assess 2012 Contest

Hello friends, we are a number of editors from WikiProject India have got together to assess the many thousands of articles under the stewardship of the project, and we'd love to have you, a fellow member, join us. These articles require assessment, that is, the addition of a WikiProject template to the talk page of an article, assessing it for quality and importance and adding a few extra parameters to it.

As of March 11, 2012, 07:00 UTC, WikiProject India has 95,998 articles under its stewardship. Of these 13,980 articles are completely unassessed (both for class and importance) and another 42,415 articles are unassessed for importance only. Accordingly, a Tag & Assess 2012 drive-cum-contest has begun from March 01, 2012 to last till May 31, 2012.

If you are new to assessment, you can learn the minimum about how to evaluate from Part One of the Assessment Guide. Part Two of the Guide will help you learn to employ the full functionality of the talk page template, should you choose to do so.

You can sign up on the Tag & Assess page. There are a number of awards to be given in recognition of your efforts. Come & join us to take part in this exciting new venture. You'll learn more about India in this way.

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Happy Birthday Shreshth91

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Proposed deletion of Ila Arun

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Nomination of Think (book) for deletion

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FAR for Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India

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Happy Birthday!

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Good article reassessment for Directive Principles

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