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Podar College

Thanks for making it better. There are some policies about seat reservations for admission in every colleges. The criteria includes regular seats, reserved for MLA, Foreign Students, Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribes etc. (Npindia 13:27, 16 January 2006 (UTC))

I visited the link that you asked. I liked the format of Sydenham College. It is much better organized than others. (Npindia 14:09, 16 January 2006 (UTC))

Dennis Lillee Overs

Thanks for pointing that out Tintin. I completely forgot about 8 ball overs. Just a thought though, wouldn't it be more effective to show the number of balls bowled instead of the overs, given that the Cricinfo source also displays balls not overs?

Happy New Year!!!!

Hi Tintin, Wish you an exciting, fun, prosperous and safe New Year 2005!! =Nichalp «Talk»= 07:39, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Wish you a very Happy New Year, Dear Tintin! Keep up the good work... Cheers! :-) --ΜιĿːtalk 07:57, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

DHARSANA SATYAGRAHA

Much of the source is from the movie and some from tushar gandhi's website mahatma.org. After watching the movie gandhi... i have come up with another article Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi any thoughts....--Aravind Parvatikar 13:37, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Dave Nourse

I've changed "innings" to "match" for the 55 Nourse made at the age of 50-odd. The date of birth is less certain. Wisden puts it at 26 Jan 1878 and has done so both now and in the editions that were published at the time Nourse was alive. Wisden tends to change these things if it is convinced it's got them wrong, so I suspect it hasn't yet been convinced. Do we know of any evidence to support either the 1878 or 1879 dates? Johnlp 13:50, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I'll maybe change the text to indicate that there is some debate on this point. Johnlp 15:21, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: Linking years

Thanks for letting me know about the poll, Tintin. Not that I think it's going to reach any consensus, but I've had my say. Stephen Turner (Talk) 19:30, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Ravi Achan

Yes, I would be. The Paliam family tree is rather large, so he would end up being one of my uncles (a very generous use of the term) although I cannot say exactly how I am related to him. --Vivin Paliath (<font color="green">&#3381;&#3391;&#3381;&#3391;&#3368;&#3405; &#3370;&#3390;&#3378;&#3391;&#3375;&#3364;&#3405;</font>) 19:49, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

I'll try and find out from my mom about him. She's pretty good about knowing who's related to whom. --Vivin Paliath (<font color="green">&#3381;&#3391;&#3381;&#3391;&#3368;&#3405; &#3370;&#3390;&#3378;&#3391;&#3375;&#3364;&#3405;</font>) 20:09, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Nathuram Godse article

Thanks for your comments on the article. You seem to know more about it than I do ... please go ahead and make such edits as you deem necessary, and then we'll argue about it later. I can't promise to agree with everything you do, but I have a feeling that we can work together. Zora 20:27, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Donation

Tintin, are you donating to Wikimedia? since Misplaced Pages is the love of your life, you should contribute to the costs of it. 203.3.197.249 00:17, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Moving of "Rohan Jayasekera"

The reason I moved it is that there *is* another Rohan Jayasekera in Misplaced Pages, namely "Rohan Jayasekera (writer)", who in recent years has in fact been better known than Rohan Jayasekera (cricketer).

I am neither the writer nor the cricketer; although I'm far less well known than either of them, I'm the only Rohan Jayasekera who updates Misplaced Pages!

My next step will be to turn "Rohan Jayasekera" from a redirect page to a disambiguation page.

BTW your nick may indicate that you're a fan of the Tintin books by Hergé. If so, you may be interested to know that the shark-shaped submarine has now been built in real life (do a web search for "cousteau" and "submarine").

Rohan Jayasekera 17:35, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Re:Cricket

Close. His cousin. Hinakana 23:20, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Puthuvathsarashamsakal

Sorry was very very busy with work. There is life only during weekends :( The IIPM war seems to have been ended and I suddenly found myself jobless. Wishing you a very very happy new year. (BTW Are you in US).PeaSea 02:13, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

I am in Houston. Guess you are in California. PeaSea 03:42, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Belated Puthuvathsarashamsakal and Prosperous Pongal in advance

Hi, Mahatma Gandhi has been on my watchlist for a long time and I've seen you fighting vandals there a lot these days. Your edit summary was also quiet telling. Drop me a note if you believe that the vandalism has increased in the recent past, so that I can semi-protect it for some 3-4 days. btw, noticed that Venkatapathy Raju is already available - one concern though; while it is not a copyvio from the player page at cricinfo.com website in letter, it seems to be a copyvio in spirit. You may want to have a look and improve it when you are free. --Gurubrahma 07:36, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

De-linking of shot heard 'round the world

I noticed that you de-linked shot heard 'round the world in the Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball). That link was to an article about the start of the American Revolutionary War that was the inspiration of the popular name for Bobby Thomson's famous home run. If was not a self-reference. --rogerd 17:54, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Cricket umpires

Thanks for further tidying up the entries on Australian umpires. I don't understand your question on Bill Smyth - I have linked his entry to the town of Maryborough (only half an hour's drive from my home) where he was born (as was Gary Watts the former Victorian - and almost Australian - batsman). MulgaBill 21:57, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

You wrote "If you look at the Cricketarchive or Cricinfo page, they have spelt the name of the place 'May..' instead of 'Mary..'. But it is quite possible that they have erred (which is not that rare)." I can assure you they have erred! MulgaBill 22:27, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

You wrote: "Cricketarchive site is down again. Wonder what is happening there." I've only recently discovered this site, which looks terrific, but I'm finding it very frustrating to use to add info on cricket umpires as it's often offline. Does this happen often? MulgaBill 23:12, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

You're slipping, Tintin! You didn't pick up my "one matches" grammatical error in Copeland's ODI record! I hope I've got it right now. MulgaBill 03:21, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Suggest away! (Of course, I reserve the right to ignore it) MulgaBill 03:44, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Good suggestion to include controversial issues! It's one of those things that I mean to include (a) as I remember to follow them up, (b) I have an authoritative reference, and (c) as I have time and energy. For better or worse I have tended to concentrate on the umpire's first and last games, so have probably missed many important points in between - these will be matters for other contributors to include. Of course, there wouldn't be controversies if players didn't make them so! I'll get onto the entry for Rex Whitehead (who began his Melbourne District umpiring career in the same year as myself) in the next few days, so hold your breath and check that I maintain a NPOV). MulgaBill 04:14, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing the Johnson typo - cutting and pasting has its hazards! MulgaBill 05:04, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Shankara Netralaya

Hi, I saw your message just now. I feel that the hospital cum educational institution is notable, at least locally. -- Sundar 07:34, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Sheep vote

I actually counted 7 deletes, 3 keeps and a weak keep. I therefore read the debate as having reached a rough consensus to delete as per Misplaced Pages:Deletion guidelines for administrators. Steve block talk 13:46, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

I apologise if this was the incorrect thing to do. Steve block talk 13:47, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

On the contrary, the reason I am worrying perhaps more than is necessary is that I'm a firm believer in learning as much as possible from one's mistakes, perceived or actual. Please be assured your points have been taken on board as constructive rather than offensive. I have amended the page to provide a more detailed explanation, and will endeavour to do so whenever I close anything not of clear consensus. Steve block talk 11:37, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Sangam

I agree that the Sangam article needs improvement. Will try to do something when I find some time. -- Sundar 04:47, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

piRantha naaL aashamsagal

Are you truly 77? It's amazing to see your spirit and energy. :-) Wish you many more happy returns of the day! -- Sundar 04:55, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

ROTFL. Good to have such faux pas once in a while. Convey my wishes to Tintin. :p -- Sundar 05:05, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Northwestern South Asia

Oh yeah..it's all over the place! deeptrivia (talk) 13:48, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Udham Singh

Hi, Tintin1107. I just reverted your removal of Category:Indian murderers from the Udham Singh article. That article first came to my attention when another editor told me it was a NPOV minefield and needed to be merged with another article. I merged the two and cleaned up, but it's important to note that I had no prior knowledge of the man before I started editing the article, and I have no stake whatsoever in any potential controversy surrounding the man. However, it seems that the fact that Singh assassinated someone is not in dispute. If this is correct, then the category Category:Indian murderers would seem to fit. "Assassin" is, after all, defined as "One who murders by surprise attack, especially one who carries out a plot to kill a prominent person." Again, I have no stake in this, and I'm not trying to paint a freedom fighter as a murdererer, but this seems clear cut. — BrianSmithson 20:16, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

While assassins and murders are both killers, I think we use it different contexts. Going by the wikipedia definition, assassination has come to mean the killing of an important person. An assassin — one who carries out the assassination — is usually ideologically- or politically-motivated reasons., whereas murder is the killing of an ordinary person without any serious motive. I changed it because 'assassin' seems to fit here but not 'murderer'.

Anyway, I will wait until we agree on this before attempting a revert. I am more concerned at the moment about the validity of the article Deepak Kamboj which seems to be an exact copy of Udham Singh. Tintin Talk 20:41, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

PS : Note that the category 'assassin' was already there. I removed only 'Indian murderers' Tintin Talk 21:14, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

(I moved your comments back here to avoid fragmentating the discussion.) I see your point. In light of the fact that Category:Assassins is already there, I have no problem with axing Category:Indian murderers. He should eventually be sorted into Category:Indian assassins instead, but it's probably of no use to create that category for one guy (and my knowledge of assassinations by Indians is woefully lacking, so I wouldn't know who else would belong there). As for Deepak Kamboj, it does indeed look like someone just cut and pasted the text from Udham Singh (prior to my most recent removal of non-pertinent and POV information). Is that an alias? If so, we should just turn it into a redirect. — BrianSmithson 21:19, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Typo fix

Thanks, Tintin! FrostHeaves 01:32, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Ya I am from cw. How do you know dude.

Yep. Hakon aka Samuel Vimes from Norway! :)Talk

Peer review

Thanks for the critique on the talk page — I've inserted the clarifications you requested. But I think you misunderstood my comments on the peer review — I (almost) always do peer reviews before I submit articles for FAC. This is what I did for History of saffron, Saffron, Rabindranath Tagore, and others. I said that "I don't have time" not because I didn't want to do a PR, but instead that I didn't want to do it now. But since you submitted it now, we'll see how it goes. Thanks. Saravask 23:29, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

No, we shouldn't withdraw. After the work we put into Kerala today, I think we're ready for PR now. Saravask 23:33, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

No problemo

As I said on the project page, no one would know that I'm old if I hadn't said so. I'm doing it for strategic reasons, angling for that extra respect! Zora 22:34, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Bios

Oh good - they deserve it. -- ALoan (Talk) 15:41, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: 200 seasons

200 Seasons of Australian Cricket - Articles in the form of "newspaper clippings" about Australian cricket from 1877–1997 - Why is it 200 seasons ? Tintin Talk 13:49, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Haha yeh I thought the same thing myself... I only flipped through it and the first year mentioned was 1877, but later on it starts again at 1804. They are still a few years off though - the fact the book was sponsored by Ansett may explain a few things ;-) AlbinoMonkey 13:58, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

FAC

Hi Tintin, I wanted to let you know that an article I've worked a lot on recently, the Political integration of India is now FAC. I hope you will have some time to consider the work and give it an up or down vote. Please don't consider this soliciting - I'm requesting your participation. Thanks! Rama's Arrow 04:35, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Image license

I saw your message on Gurubrahma's talk page. I add a license header to your image. You can add the license by clicking Edit page and adding one of the copyright tags. - Ganeshk (talk) 16:44, 24 January 2006 (UTC)