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Am not sure if you had these links with you under your previous user name, so am inserting them here - just saw your query on INWNB and I feel that, keeping in with the times, we should outsource it to adept people ;) --Gurubrahma 13:15, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a lot Gurubrahma Lost 13:29, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Help needed

I just moved the exceptional newcomer award to my userpage. But now the next section starts beside the image and not under it. How do I make it go under the image. --Lost 11:29, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi, simply insert <br style="clear:both" /> after the image code and you should get the results you want. Cheers, Tangotango 11:32, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Polish topic

Hello, maybe you don't know, where is Poland, but could I ask you for translation to Hindi this article: Chrząchów? I want top show a tragic history of place my parents' origin. For pay for it, I can translate something small for you, from English to Polish, f.e. about India; history, politic, geography... Bocianski 06:33, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

(Re from his page): Hello, Hindi is my native language although I have not been very active on Hindi wikipedia. But I will surely work on translating this article in Hindi and let you know once its done. -- Lost 06:49, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Reply from Anwar

Hi Lost! I have just been blocked and I am quite relieved, because I have a pretext for not editing. You know...I have been making small changes to wikipedia for over a year. My interest areas are India, all the Indian religions, including Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism. Personally though, I do not follow any religion. The talk pages of most of these articles are full of hate spam and therefore I was dissuaded from signing up. I was too scared to get involved into heated arguments, initiated mostly by fundamentalists. It just spoils the fun of visiting wikipedia, which is otherwise my favourite place to spend time. Only recently I decided to sign up...thought that having a talk page would help in a higher degree of collaboration with other wiki colleagues. But here I am getting involved in an argument. It is very upsetting. It was my bad luck that by accident I stumbled upon the Khalistan article and was too upset by the state of the article. I have no allegiance or contempt towards any community but I do have a lot of contempt for people who burn other people's houses to warm their hands. The problem in Punjab was solely attributable to such persons who encouraged other people to kill innocent civilians. All this while these people were themselves away from India in their comfortable homes in Europe, U.S. and Canada. Jagjit Singh Chauhan is one such example. Ripudaman Singh Malik is another. In those days, India did not matter in the International arena and most developed nations did their best to destablize India. In the process many innocent Indians have paid with their lives and those of their loved ones, some of who were the sole bread earners of the family. I can quote three times more sources than there already are in the article...just that I do not have the time right now. By the way, look at the quoted sources and you would realize the quality of the citations.

As for the Khalistan article, please note that before I started editing, it seemed as if the article is straight from the website of the Khalistan Liberation Force. All my edits are in good faith and I will continue reverting POV stuff once the block is lifted.

Till then thanks and have a nice day.

AnwarA 19:25, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

(my reply from his talk page) Hi Anwar, I am sorry that I could not reply earlier. I was busy editing another article and also in the real world. First of all, I am very relieved to see that you are back on wikipedia despite a block and didnt take it to heart.

I have read the Khalistan article myself quite some time back and also read the lengthy discussions on the talk page. I took a conscious decision to stay away from not only this but a few other contentious articles where I thought I would be adding too much of my own POV as I do have some strong opinions but little factual knowledge of the subject.

To see you and Thomas gave me lots of hope that two neutral parties may bring the article to a nice NPOV version. It was unfortunate that both of you got blocked for an article which you had good intentions for.

I do believe that your edits were in good faith and also that our friend Thomas was trying to maintain the citations as a neutral third party.

In a ligher vain, while recalling the debate, it did strike me as interesting that here we were, belonging to three different religions, hotly debating a topic which may be closer to a fourth religion!!

Please let me know if I can be of help on anything. I will try my best to help. -- Lost 17:50, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Eh, va te faire foutre

Notez s'il vous plait que c'est addresse IP est d'une service qui assigne des addresse IP statiques pour ces membres habitant dans le meme quartier. Pardonnez-moi si tu peux pas le lire. C'est pas moi qui a fait la vandalisme. Comprends-le. --219.91.152.10 17:27, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Can somebody please translate the above to english for me. I am very poor with languages :( -- Lost 17:30, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

He says that the IP address he is using is shared among several people in his area, and that it wasn't him who was doing the vandalism, and apologizes if you can't understand French. :) -Dawson 17:36, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Note: Try Googles translation tools they are not perfect, but they can give you an Idea about what the person is speaking about... :) Eagle talk 17:47, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Eagle. This is what Google gave me: Note if it plait you that it is address IP is of a service which assigns address IP statics for these members living in the same district. Forgive me if you cannot read it. It is not me which made vandalism. Include/understand it. Good enough, I guess :) -- Lost 17:51, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Reply from Rajat

Sure. Count me in. --Rajat Bhargav 06:07, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi!

Hi! Lost. Thanks for your message...and yes I am back. The block actually helped me take a break. I am sure it was very much within the wikipedia policy and I respect that. I have seen a lot of essays in the garb of articles on wikipedia that are used by fundametalists to advance thier nefarious motives. This just strenghtened my resolve to rid false anti-India propoganda. For me, religion is higher that community, country is higher than all religions, truth is higher than everything else. I have plenty of material on Punjab. Infact I do not need any source to write this article. Yet I am actively hunting for sources to provide neutral citations. I have already done some work on the Khalistan article since morning. You will see that the article will gradually take a pretty reasonable shape soon. Inshah-ALLAH.

And yes you can help...by NOT staying away from contentious articles, especially on India. You and I have an obligation to help, and if we do not intervene, truth will remain obscured. :-)

Thank you very much for your continued support. Jai Hind. AnwarA 18:41, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

(My reply copied from his talk page)::Don't worry. I have no intention of staying away from contentious articles if I have knowledge on the subject. Especially if I see blatant vandalism on such articles, I revert it very quickly. If it's POV, I usually take my time and try to be more thorough before jumping in. After all, as one of my good friends says - We are here to make Misplaced Pages:Better than the Best -- Lost 18:52, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Dear Friend. I have absolutely full confidence in you. Thanks to people like you, wikipedia is already better than the best I guess; that is the reason so many of us are here in the first place. You have my full support in this noble endeavour. Please do not hesitate to write to me if you if you think I can of any help. AnwarA 04:20, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Copied from his talk page:Hi there my friend. I see you have made some contributions to the above topic and its talk page today. Hope you saw my inputs on the talk page as well. I have mentioned that I would not like to give any further inputs on that page but in case you would like me to do some research through google on neutral sources, I will definitely offer my services. I would like to see the article more neutrally written including both the Indian side's as well as the other side's arguments. Hope u can make it neutral -- Lost 16:47, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your support in my RfA!

Thanks for voting! Hello Ramitmahajan, and thanks for your support in my recent RfA. I'm pleased to announce that it passed with a final tally of (96/0/0). I was overwhelmed by all of the nice comments and votes of confidence from everyone. Thanks again, and see you around! OhNoitsJamie 22:24, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the award

Lostintherush, thank you very much for "The Barnstar of Life" award. It is greatly appreciated. Thank you again for your thoughtfulness. -Ahmed27 06:15, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

States

You can check the respective state-level categories to see the list that you want. For example Category:Cities and towns in Maharashtra. Look for sandbox articles that start with character 'U'. Once the merge and uncat is done, they will gone from the categories. Hope that explains. Thanks for the working on the list. I am going on a wikibreak. Please send me e-mail if you have any questions. - Ganeshk (talk) 08:23, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

For new towns, Please copy and paste into the new article rather than a move. Thanks, Ganeshk (talk) 15:37, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Reply from Anwar Ahmed

Dear Friend! First of all, I wish to admire your civility. My hats off to you! I am extremely upset by the offensive comments against you on the Khalistan talk page. I somehow feel responsible for that. I wish to offer my most humble apologies, though I haven't been spared either :-). I will continue seeking your help whenever need it, and your contributions will continue to be valued. AnwarA 03:57, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

DYK

On July 7, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mashobra, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• Great article! I look forward to many more DYK's from you! -- Samir धर्म 07:23, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Congrats Lost. See my comments and info at Talk:Mashobra. -- Sundar 07:31, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Hey thanks guys. Especially Sundar and Nichalp with all the help... -- Lost 07:38, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Congrats from me too. -- thunderboltz10:00, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!!

Apologies my friend for replying so late. Thank you soo much for appreciating my work! --Incman|वार्ता 15:15, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Hi Lost, Have seen you around quite a bit on WP:PINQ but never got the chance to talk. So just dropped by to say hi. I noticed that you are quite active on WP:HD and must say I'm highly impressed by your efforts there. Do you have access to IRC? If yes then why don't you join #wikipedia-bootcamp? Its a nice place to be with helpmebot and Tangobot giving real-time updates of users requesting help and new topics added to WP:HD & WP:NUH. Hope you can join the fun there. Also congrats on the above DYK! Cheers --Srikeit 17:42, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Well if you use Mozilla Firefox, chatzilla is the best option as it is the best client IMO. You can follow the instructions here for setting up your connection. I think your best chance is through Xchat or Chatzilla. If you encounter any problems, please do contact me. Cheers --Srikeit 19:17, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Locator map accuracy

The towns on the border are kind of tricky. The dot is too big and the map is not 100% accurate. It just helps locate the general area. The locator needs the exact left, right, top and bottom and coordinates for it to be 100%. I just guessed those numbers. Nichalp and Deeptrivia mentioned this before. If you happen to know to exact the numbers, I can update them. BTW, great job with HP towns. - Ganeshk (talk) 18:27, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

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