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| == accusations == | |||
| What are you accusing me of? | |||
| A troll(or more correctly a sock/meatpuppet) starts destoying the work of 3 descent editors and you accuse me.If you dont like my edits then we should get a neutral admin to deal with this.I was enraged by the comments you made on the Pakistan discussion page.If you don't like my style of editing then,let's ask a neutral party to intervine. | |||
| Blocking every single user you disagree with will only bring more attention to this issue in my opinion.] | |||
| It is incivil of you to accuse me so randomly and without basing your accusations on any evidence.Please see wikipedia ] policy.Comment on my edits not on my ethnicity or personality.] | |||
| == Re:Arbcom == | |||
| We are ready to deal with this.I must ask Fowler and Islescape as witnesses to this.I have evidence not just against you,but the others as well.I feel you made the right decision as this is the only way to resolve this. | |||
| I am leaving now.I must go for lunch.--] | |||
| I have posted my statement.Let's see what you have to throw at us.--] | |||
| == my alleged attack on Muhajirs == | |||
| How can you accuse me of attacking Muhajirs when I AM a Muhajir from my father's side.My father is a Muhajir of Azerbaijani ancestry from his mother's side.Therefor he is of Azerbaijani descent born in what is today india. | |||
| I still stand by my claims that I dislike their mentality of being too conservitive.I once had a Greek tutor who would repeatidly attack his people because he felt they were too arrogant.Does that make him an "anti-Greek". | |||
| If you think my comments were attacking Muhajirs,then atleast you can call me a "self-hating Muhajir" rather than an "anti-Muhajir" which is quite ridiculous and somewhat quite | |||
| laughable :-)--] | |||
| Who said I cared about DaGizza's background? If you're reffering to the comment I made on the history of India talkpage,he asked me to post if I regarded him as Pakistani or not and even posted on my talkpage to make sure I'd see his question on the talkpage. | |||
| As for my comments regarding the Muhajirs,I commented on the typical Muhajir mentality and the recent terrorism commited by the MQM.And I still stand on my claim the aticle is biased which is why I put the NPOV check on it. | |||
| '''It's called commenting on content,not contributers''' | |||
| The reason why we're at arbcom is not because we're disrupting you're agenda.I really don't think we'd be there at this moment if you had not seen Unre4L and I pointing out your abuse of wikipedia as an admin. | |||
| Also stop telling me about "giving around my background".I did that for a reason to rebuff your silly accusions about "attacking Muhajirs".--] | |||
| Really? Then is it a coincidence that the case was opened roughly '''16 minitues''' after my complaint of your conduct and that '''3 users''' (Unre4L,Fowler and I) agree on that factor. | |||
| Tell me does criticising people for being too religious attacking anyone's religion? | |||
| The only "evidence" you seem to have is words by us twisted to suit your alligations. | |||
| I've seen many of the comments you've made to Unre4L and Szhaider as well as Fowler and I find them nowhere close to civility.I really think you should apologise to them.You've apologised to Fowler,but not Unre4L or Szhaider.Now if you'll excuse me there's some articles I'd like to work on.--] | |||
| == Pakistani civilization == | |||
| I wrote the article.Don't chase Unre4L,I wrote it. | |||
| I don't see who it's hurting as it's an important part of our history.--] | |||
| == Regarding reverting edits of Kazi Nazrul Islam Page == | |||
| Dear Rama Arrow, | |||
| Peace and greetings. | |||
| This is Dr. Mohammad Omar Farooq. I am a Nazrul researcher and I maintain the only comprehensive website dedicated to the life and works of Nazrul. Indeed, the resources at the site were extensively used and referred to in putting together the Misplaced Pages article on Nazrul. My own writings on Nazrul have also been included in the reference section of the essay. | |||
| Recently, while going through the Misplaced Pages article, I came across a particular information that is uncorroborated. Indeed, the particular reference given is not even accessible. Based on three leading biographies of Nazrul and additional research (that does not contradict the information provided in these biographies), I edited the part related to Nazrul's illness and treatment and added specific, corroborated information (including about the physicians who examined Nazrul and their diagnosis). It seems all my edits have been reverted by you. | |||
| Since you have contributed so much to this page, obviously you have interest in this article. I am wondering if you can help me understand your reason to revert it. After all, if you care about Nazrul, I am sure you will like to have accurate information about him. Furthermore, as a Misplaced Pages contributor, we all must have interest in improving the pedia through better research and works. | |||
| I would greatly appreciate if you can help me understand your decision to revert my edits. | |||
| I can also be directly contacted at farooqm@globalwebpost.com. | |||
| Best regards. | |||
| ================================== | |||
| Dr. Mohammad Omar Farooq | |||
| Associate Professor of Economics and Finance | |||
| Director, Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies | |||
| Upper Iowa University, USA | |||
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| == ] == | |||
| Hi there, I was wondering under what grounds the article 'Intervol' was deleted by you? It may not have had references as yet but it is a constitution certified member of one of the largest and most well-respected universities in England. The page is useful as it gives readers of the main university of birmingham page more information if they want it. Please could I have a copy of the page so that I can correctly reference it and then re-include it. I would have much preferred some constructive criticism and help rather than a quiet removal. Is your role to simply remove the unreferenced material again and again or to teach people how to correctly assemble pages?<br />Thank you for your time.<br />] 20:59 GMT March 10th | |||
| == sock? == | |||
| Possible sock of {{user|Street Scholar}} is {{user|62.136.205.49}} <b>]]</b> 23:01, 18 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| I think we should use check user to help determine if that is a real sock puppet of ]--] 01:21, 22 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| == ] == | |||
| Hello, | |||
| An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: ]. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, ]. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, ]. | |||
| On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, - ] | <sup>] / ]</sup> 03:03, 20 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| == Atulnischal == | |||
| Hi Nirav, | |||
| Would you please look into malformed archive pages as in ]? I have advised him to move it to ], but since I opposed his article in an ] (and ]) , and also cleaned up some spam links from articles he edited, he seems to consider any of my advices as hostile to him. Also, I found ]'s talk page archives to have the same malformed style (instead of using sub pages, Atul actually copied from Raveen). It would be great if you can let them see it's contrary to ] ... Thanks. --] 06:01, 20 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| ::Thanks both of you for your time] 13:15, 20 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| == conflict of interest == | |||
| Netscott - you have exceeded the ridiculous. What is the point of making accusations against me that don't make an iota's sense? Lemme try this final time to get your reasoning straight: Rama's Arrow made a statement on Bakasuprman's behalf on WP:RFAR/Hkelkar, so BhaiSaab's indef-block must be revoked. 2 + 2 now suddenly = 5? | |||
| Speaking of ], perhaps I could point out, using Netscottlogic, 2 reasons why you shouldn't even post at this discussion: (1) Blnguyen has blocked you twice. Using your logic, you have a COI since Blnguyen initiated this discussion. (2) Being blocked so many times for disruption, you are in the same category of users as BhaiSaab, more interested in wrecking Misplaced Pages. COI. Good day to you, ] 13:38, 20 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| :Rama's Arrow, more evidence of a conflict of interest: You were contacted no less than six times by ] seeking assistance on matters he was editing on. | |||
| ],], ], ], ], ]. ] is more evidence of your conflict of interest. You must be aware that prior to his involvement with Hkelkar, BhaiSaab was generally more productive and contributory. It is nonsense that he is being made to pay for HE's latest disruption and indefinitely blocked when he wasn't the cause of it. As to your arguments that I have a conflict of interest you are wrong. I've not blocked or unblocked anyone. {{User:Netscott/s1.js}} 14:18, 20 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| ::You should not have indefinitely blocked ] relative to this latest disruption that he was not involved with. That was wrong. BhaiSaab was rightly banned for a set duration by ArbCom and granted he did come back as a sockpuppet to edit on articles and had his ban reset three times. Given that Hkelkar was back himself obviously BhaiSaab felt motivated to come back. Hkelkar had his ban reset five times before you finally indef. blocked him. BhaiSaab has had it set three times... hello there is a difference here. Kindly refrain from calling me a troll. As ] I am not a troll. {{User:Netscott/s1.js}} 16:11, 20 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| :::I'm extremely upset that BhaiSaab is being indefinitely blocked now when he's not done further disruption and Blntguyen decided to throw him in with HE as though they were one and the same. Again, that is wrong. Given your support for Bakasuprman and his history of conflict with BhaiSaab there most certainly is an ''appearance'' of impropriety on your part in being the one to indef. block BhaiSaab particularly given that Hkelkar was given 2 more chances before you indef. blocked him. Why don't you in good faith rescind your indef. block of BhaiSaab for now and let the discussion continue? {{User:Netscott/s1.js}} 16:30, 20 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| ::::There is '''extremely evidently''' not a consensus on the discussion that BhaiSaab should be indefinitely blocked. You were hasty in your indef. block of him. Rama's Arrow, you have to admit to this appeance of impropriety in your haste given what I have already explained. Come on, where's the justice here? One guy gets 5 chances and the other guy doesn't? Prior to Hkelkar's entanglement with BhaiSaab he was a productive and contributory editor. Even Timothy who's pushing for HE's banning seemed to acknowledge that when he left (using a sockpuppet) in support of BhaiSaab. {{User:Netscott/s1.js}} 16:45, 20 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| ::::: of no consensus. {{User:Netscott/s1.js}} 17:08, 20 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| ::::::Timothy Usher was smacked for probation, besides him and BhaiSaab were always cozy. They wikistalked and attacked myself and {{user|Dangerous-Boy}} after the notorious ]. Assertions of BhaiSaab "contributions" are laughable, as he spent a month pestering me (and before that Karl Meier and Pecher) until Hkelkar came around and beat him at his own trolling game.<b>]]</b> 16:52, 23 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| == Just un-autoblocked an IP used by a banned editor == | |||
| Hi Nirav, I just un-autoblocked 128.122.253.196, which was autoblocked by you because it was used by BhaiSaab. Hope this is not going to pose a significant problem :) It's an NYU shared IP, so it's holding back quite a few others, I imagine. Cheers, – <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms">] <sup>]</sup></span> 22:29, 21 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| :] is very odd.. I've tangled with an editor using this IP.... hmmmm. {{User:Netscott/s1.js}} 22:35, 21 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| ::Probably one of those IPs that everybody's had a chat with, at some stage or another :) – <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms">] <sup>]</sup></span> 22:46, 21 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| == regarding street scholar == | |||
| Thank you very much for blocking ] for offensive comments but however I have observed that many of street scholar's edits are vandalism trolling pov pushing and or sexist/misogynic remarks and racial attacks i belive that any futher vandalism pov pusing personal attacks trolling sexism and racism should result in a longer block.--] 01:28, 22 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| == conervapedia == | |||
| street scholar also vandalised ] recently. | |||
| --] 01:43, 22 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| == Jordan Mendelson == | |||
| Hi Rama | |||
| I noticed that on March 8th you deleted the article on "Jordan Mendelson". Could you please tell me why? | |||
| Thank you, | |||
| Vavau'u <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (] • ]) 10:36, 22 March 2007 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned --> | |||
| Hi Rama I forgot to sign my name last time, I guess that's why I haven't heard from you. Please send me a message and let me know what was wrong with the entry on Jordan Mendelson. | |||
| Thanks ] 00:45, 24 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| == I'm Back == | |||
| hi, I learnt from Ragib bhai's email that you talked about me in the podcast. Thanks and I am feeling really proud. I couldn't listen to it yet and also was out of touch of wiki for sometime. I will try to concentrate again on wiki and your comments would inspire me. :) ] 16:24, 23 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| == Help with images == | |||
| Hi Rama, | |||
| I found these three pics on the net. | |||
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| One of them is of the old Mysore palace. Another shows the durbar in session after the palace was rebuilt following a fire which burnt down the old palace and the other one is of Henry Irwin, the architect of the new palace. All three, especially the ones of the palace are very rare. I've already uploaded the pic of the old palace because the photograph, is obviously taken in India and is nearly a hundred years old. The other photograph of the durbar in session, even that I am fairly certain is from before 1947. So it should qualify for pd-india. However, I am not sure about that. I tried mailing the website owner but havent got a response yet. As for the one of Henry Irwin, the website says that the photograph was taken in 1915, but not in India, presumably somewhere in England. Does it qualify for pd? What tag do I use for it? Please help. Thanks. ] 09:37, 24 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| :Hi, Nichalp seems to disagree with your view. See his reply on my talk page. Also see my reply on his talk page. And please see . I have started a discussion on the template talk page. Please give your input. Thanks. ] 02:22, 25 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| == 152.216.11.5 block == | |||
| This is a shared IP address of thousands of users. Next time, do a soft-block. <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (]) 14:17, 26 March 2007 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned --> | |||
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| *'''''Misplaced Pages Weekly 15''''': Misplaced Pages Weekly, a informal Wikipedians' program that purports to give "A weekly audio roundup of Misplaced Pages happenings with news, interviews and roundtable discussions" recently interviewed two prominent editors ] and ](). The entire 34 minute interview was entirely about the world of Indian subcontinent wiki-happenings, and was the first episode which was not entirely dominated by discussion of wiki-politics and wiki-bureaucracy, with the host ] praising the efficiency of the project and its proliferation of ] ]. Rama's Arrow cited the team spirit, friendship and respect among project members in discussing its success and FA productivity, as well as discussing subcontinental wiki-conflict. Ragib talked also of his public campaign to raise awareness of the ] in his native ], which has seen a 30-fold increase in article count over the past year. | |||
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| **] regarding the activities of various Indian and Pakistani editors on pages related to ] ] topics, the national status of various pre-] figures, and edit-warring over ]s and WikiProject tags was held and concluded in late February- early March. As a result of this, four Pakistani users, ], ], ] and ] were all banned for one year for disruption via edit-warring and confrontationalism. | |||
| **] regarding a dispute over the article of the ] closed in early March with four users indefinitely banned from the article. | |||
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| == Admin action requested == | |||
| I need an uninvolved admin to look into this : . | |||
| Thanks. --] 22:04, 30 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| ==Yahya01== | |||
| No trouble at all, if he's been causing more disruption, let's make sure the point gets across. ] <small><sup>]</sup></small> 22:12, 30 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| Thanks. I adviced him to avoid this kind of behaviour, but alas he didn't listen.Anyway for how long he has been blocked for.] 03:22, 31 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| Thanks for the information.I will follow your advice.] 03:47, 31 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| == Hello, some help please == | |||
| Hello Rama's Arrow, | |||
| I placed some requests in WP:ANI and WP:Requested Moves. But nothing has been done. Since you frequently edit in India-related articles, I thought I'd ask you to take a look at it. Basically a vandal moved around a bunch of articles; I moved them back (what I could) but one of them is un-movable and requires an admin's help. Also his account seems to be mainly used just for vandalism. My request as WP:ANI is ] and the one at WP:RM is ]. This is the first time I am making a request like this on WP:ANI and WP:RM so I have no idea of the timeline. But requests posted after mine seemed to have been acted on, so that's why I am asking. Thanks! --]<sup><font color="green">]]</font></sup> 23:04, 30 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| :Thank you for your quick reply! I will go ahead and request some help on regarding the content disputes. --]<sup><font color="green">]]</font></sup> 23:28, 30 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
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