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Kathiraveli - Vaharai

Kathiraveli - Vaharai: Are these names of the same town? These two pages should be merged. Chesdovi 10:44, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

I have opened an ArbComm case regarding my block

Please respond here Arsath 04:11, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

NCSLC Sandbox

Raveen, the page looks very good. We can take in the text and templates from the existing page and post it there. Please go ahead and implement it. And yes, we have saved the template :-) Thanks Sudharsansn (talk • contribs) 06:19, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Do take it up from here as and when you find time. Thanks Sudharsansn (talk • contribs) 16:39, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Notable attacks attributed to the LTTE

Hi. For your information, and further to the DRV discussion, I've restored Notable attacks attributed to the LTTE. Proto::type 14:23, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey

Yeah I am here for a long time, seeing the best and worst of WP. I'm just limited in my scope of edits. ­ ॐ Kris (☎ talk | contribs) 20:33, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

WP:FILMS Newsletter

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Elalan / Trincomanb

I want to make it very clear that I am not an advocate for Elalan or Trincomanb's innocence. I had a bit of an issue with the way the checkuser result was presented, but I still trust the checkuser to be correct. In addition, the results of edit comparing, in particular the fact that both users went silent from September 12 to 25, is compelling evidence that they are the same user. As such, an indefinite block for one of the accounts is warranted (the other account can still edit, or in this case, after a week it can). You can present your case at Misplaced Pages:Suspected sock puppets/Trincomanb, and if not successful there, you may take it to WP:RfC and then WP:RfM and/or WP:RfAr. This is the end of the matter for me. _└  / _talk  14:46, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

South Indian Cinema and Music Award

Dear Sudharsansn: I thought we'd need experienced Wikipedians to discuss about the introduction or removal of a new barnstar — The South Indian Cinema and Music Award. Would appreciate very much you taking a look at the discussion and perhaps providing your comment here. Thank you, and best wishes, AppleJuggler 15:42, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Help with your new article

Dear Sudharsansn: Thank you for writing and informing me about the Punch Line article. It is an interesting article indeed and I would like to contribute to it in due time. By the way, I am a Tamil film and music enthusiast (please see participant No. 69 here) and am learning more about it as I go. Good cheers, AppleJuggler 02:08, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Bloody hell man, some of those punch lines that are listed at Punch dialogue really had me laughing! Here's a good one I found through one of the links that you provided: "Amaidhikku Babaji, Adidhadikku Sivaji." — far out!! AppleJuggler 04:05, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

That's an interesting topic. Article needs some images. See if you can find any free-use images of actors mentioned in the article. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 07:12, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi Sudharsansn: I edited some of the translations slightly; if you believe that they are not accurate, feel free to alter them — my grasp of Tamil is far from phenomenal. Cheers, AppleJuggler 09:21, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

No. I'm not a native Tamil speaker. I am a French gypsy (a Manouche). AppleJuggler 09:57, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Hey, I was not sure of the definition of punch dialogue, I added one by vivek, if you think it doesnt belong there, pls delete it. ­ ॐ Kris (☎ talk | contribs) 15:40, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume I, Issue 3 - December 2006

Project News Name change of cities in Karnataka: A straw poll was conducted on the proposal to change the name of cities in Karnataka, per the Nov 1, 2006 decision by the Karnataka government to rename them from the current anglicised forms. The result of the poll was to change the names. As controversial as the decision may be in the real world, the article Bangalore in Misplaced Pages still reflects the old name. You may be interested in knowing why. Dig the archives. New Project Noticeboard (Shortcut:WP:INB): WikiProject India now sports a new colourful centralised noticeboard. An effort to make the noticeboard current and dynamic was mooted a few days back, and Ganeshk came up with the new format. The new noticeboard will strive to be the one-stop shop for all project related information. The shortcut is WP:INB. Members List: The old members list is being phased out to give way for the new members list. New members are requested to add their names to the new members list. As the newsletter grows, further issues of the Project Newsletter will be delivered to those enlisted in the new list. So dash down now, to check if ur name is in there. What's New? Featured Content: Three articles (Chalukya Dynasty (nom), History of Tamil Nadu (nom) and Bengali language (nom)), one list (List of Indian ODI cricketers) and one picture (Prayer flag in the Kurgiakh valley in Zanskar contributed by Moumine (pictured)) were featured from our WikiProject recently. Congratulations to all contributors who helped to develop the above content to represent the best of Misplaced Pages! Need some help? Are you stuck at a point where admin help is needed? There are 22 Indian Administrators in Misplaced Pages at the last count. If you need some help with anything related to WikiProject India, they are just a couple of clicks away! Complete To Do List India-related tasks | Indian noticeboard v • e • d • h • w Requests: People: Bapudeva Sastri, Marimallappa, Ravichandran, Articles: Barak Missile Deal Scandal, Asura (band), Asian Variety Show, Cultural liberalism in India, Energy policy of India, India Export Tax, India Import Tax, Marimallappa High School, More... NPOV: Rajneesh, Khalistan, Ranjit Lal Jetley Hedgewar, Puttanna Kanagal, Indira Gandhi, More... Wikify: Railway stations, Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar, More... Cleanup: caste system, Rampur, Tav-Prasad Savaiye, Shipping Corporation of India, More... Merge: Amber Fort,More... Expand: Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case) 14th Lok Sabha, Adithada, Ali Sardar Jafri, Bandhani work, But Marma Atti, Chikan (embroidery), China Town, Kolkata, Essar Shipping, Fair use, G. N. Naidu, Hinduism in India, Imperial Bank, Inbuan Wrestling, Integral humanism, Iran-India relations, Islam in India, Sunil Mittal More... Stubs: Indian Copyright Act, Anand Math, Andhra Bank, A R Antule, Arjuna award, Army of India, Bahujan Samaj Party, Bombay Dyeing, More... Translate: Marathi Misplaced Pages articles, Hindi Misplaced Pages articles, Sanskrit Misplaced Pages articles, Tamil Misplaced Pages articles Kannada Misplaced Pages articles Collaborate: Notice board, Collaboration of the Week, Category Adoptions To do, Version 1.0 assesment, India Portal, Life in India, India quick links Indian Wikipedians, Indian administrators More... Requested images: Major crops, Convert Image:Standard of the President of India.gif to SVG, Free image of Aarti Chhabria (See: Image:Aarti Chhabria.jpg and its talk page) Other requests: Add maps from WikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found at List of regions in India v • e • d • h • w

Note from Editor's Desk Welcome to the December 2006 edition of our newsletter. Time flies past like matter into the black hole. It is interesting to notice that we are already into the last month for the year of 2006. 2006 saw discussions and development beyond realisation. In the world of Misplaced Pages where quality counts than quantity, we have come a long way. We've made better than 'nothing', to say the least, and even that is an achievement. I take this opportunity to thank everyone including those who have dotted the i's and crossed the t's. As before, we'd like to stress, this is your newsletter, and we want you to be part of it as well. Provide us with news tips. It can be anything related to the project, from discussions to calls for help, and other interesting stuff within our community. If you have received or given any barnstars recently, do let us know. Sponsored content for recruitments within your WikiProject sub-groups are also welcome. We'll be very happy to include them here. Before we sign off, Advance New Year Wishes, everyone. This edition special Assessment Department (Shortcut: WP:IN1): Are you one of those gnomes?? Or do you want to take some time off some brain-frying active editing on Misplaced Pages?? Then Department of Assessment within the WikiProject India will be your forte. The department consists of a group of wikipedians who work on rating the India related articles to check if they are worthy enough to be included in the CD (or print) version of Misplaced Pages. The rating process gains more significance as we try to sort out which articles and which topics need more attention to balance the India related systemic bias within wikipedia. As a thumb rule, anyone can rate any article based on the related criteria, within the Stub/Start/B/A levels. However, ratings for Good Article Status and Featured Article status go through the nomination processes. How to?: The "how to" part of assessment is very simple. Just head on to the talk page of any India related page and you'll find the {{WP India}} template. Simply classify the article based on the content and the criteria mentioned here. You can find the detailed instructions here. If you think it may qualify for GA/FA status, first consider submitting the article for peer review. Signed... Edited by Chez and distributed by Lostintherush

Something you might find Funny

http://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:65.115.137.2, read the comment by our fellow editors, who are so very neutral in their coverage of conflicts. --Sharz 12:04, 11 December 2006 (UTC) I cracked up so hard because of this.--Sharz 12:04, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

An inspiring biography about Vijayakanth, or The Ballad of the 'Captain'

For your reading pleasure. http://vinodg.blogspot.com/2004/10/unforgettable-captain.html AppleJuggler 14:58, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

No, I'm not the author of this blog. I was just trying to learn up more about Vijayakant and this blog was a funny biography of him. AppleJuggler 14:58, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

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Desi

I reverted your edit -- it's not a good idea to start listing languages, as India has dozens of major languages. You may only intend to list a few, but other editors will feel slighted and start listing theirs and soon we have a huge list. It's enough to say languages of India. Zora 20:58, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Tamil

Hey there, I wanted to pitch to you the idea of creating a vast Tamil catergory, to encompass famous Tamil groups, peoples, culture, etc etc. The current Tamil category is woefully non-existant, there are no tags nor is there any pratical links between Tamil related items. I worked with you on some Sri Lanka Conflict articles if you don't remember me, I'd certainly like your ideas on such a project and it's feasability as well as the long-term prospects for a WikiProject. --Sharz 10:48, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume II, Issue 1 - January 2007

Project News Usage of Vernacular scripts: Following extensive description at Misplaced Pages:Village pump (policy) archived here regarding inclusion criteria for vernacular scripts in Indian biographies, Misplaced Pages:Vernacular scripts was set up to formulate usage guidelines. However, discussion appears to have dissipated without a conclusive result. Project tagging:After a brief edit war over the addition of {{WP India}} to ancient archaeological sites now located in Pakistan, a "pre" parameter was introduced to remove the ROI flag from the template for pre-1947 articles, following discussion. After another large discussion on ANI alleging that the automated tagging by Ganeshbot and LostBot was "nationalistic", Ganeshbot was briefly blocked. Currently, the bots are again in action. What is India?:Recently, there have been ongoing discussions here which discuss the stated issue of "India" the historical region is different from the Republic of India. It consisted also of modern Pakistan and Bangladesh, but a search for "India" automatically redirects to the Republic of India. Should there not be a clarification? . This comes in light of clashes on articles such as Panini, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Muhammad Iqbal and Muhammad Ali Jinnah, regarding the status of the individuals. Swastika on Hinduism templates:Recently, an extremely large and at times emotional debate broke out regarding the use of the swastika on Hinduism templates, given its association with Nazism. As a result, {{Hindu Links}} now contains an educational message about the use of the swastika, as discussion on a more permanent resolution continues. Arbitration: Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Hkelkar regarding the activities of various editors on pages related to Indian religion topics closed recently, with Hkelkar, BhaiSaab and TerryJ-Ho all banned for one year. Currently, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Sathya Sai Baba 2 regarding a dispute over the article of the religious teacher is in the voting phase. What's New? Featured and Good Content: Two articles (Indian Standard Time (nom)) and (Hoysala Empire (nom)), were featured from our WikiProject recently, since our last edition. Irfan Pathan, Hinduism, Dinesh Karthik, Lage Raho Munna Bhai were promoted to Good article status. Congratulations to all contributors who helped to develop the above content to represent the best of Misplaced Pages! Need some help? Are you stuck at a point where admin help is needed? There are 21 Indian Administrators in Misplaced Pages at the last count. If you need some help with anything related to WikiProject India, they are just a couple of clicks away! Complete To Do List India-related tasks | Indian noticeboard v • e • d • h • w Requests: Sibichen K Mathew, Dominic Emmanuel, AK Merchant, Counterfeiting of currency notes in India, Akhand Pratap Singh, Asura (band), Asian Variety Show, Cultural liberalism in India, India Export Tax, India Import Tax, More... NPOV: Greater Nepal Rajneesh, Ranjit Lal Jetley Hedgewar, Puttanna Kanagal, Bride burning, Sonia Gandhi More... Wikify: Railway stations, Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar, Silk in the Indian subcontinent, IDBI Bank More... Cleanup: , Rampur, Tav-Prasad Savaiye, Shipping Corporation of India, Velama, Medical college (India), All India Radio, More... Merge: Raghava Rama, Sammar Bahisht, Sathya Sai Baba movement,More... Expand: Prime Minister of India, Krishna district, List of railway stations in India, Swaraj, Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case), Barak Missile Deal Scandal, 14th Lok Sabha, Adithada, Ali Sardar Jafri, Bandhani work, Bhaiband, Chikan (embroidery), China Town, Kolkata, Rahi Masoom Raza, Energy policy of India, Essar Shipping, Fair use, Hinduism in India, Imperial Bank, Inbuan Wrestling, Iran-India relations, Islam in India, Arjuna award, Sunil Mittal, Save Indian Family, Anjana Sukhani, Rajendra K. Pachauri, More... Stubs: Anand Math, A R Antule, Arjuna award, Army of India, Bapudeva Sastri, Bombay Dyeing, Indian Copyright Act, Marimallappa, Mumbai Skywalk, More... Translate: Bhojpuri Misplaced Pages articles, Maithili Misplaced Pages articles, Telugu Misplaced Pages articles, Marathi Misplaced Pages articles, Hindi Misplaced Pages articles, Sanskrit Misplaced Pages articles, Tamil Misplaced Pages articles Kannada Misplaced Pages articles Collaborate: Collaborations of the Month, Notice board, Category Adoptions To do, Version 1.0 assessment, India Portal, Life in India, India quick links Indian Wikipedians, More... Requested images: Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan, Free image of Aarti Chhabria Other requests: Add maps from WikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found at List of regions in India Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template v • e • d • h • w

Note from Editor's Desk Welcome to the January 2007 edition of our newsletter. Time flies past like matter into the black hole. A Happy New Year to all. Congratulations to one of our administrators, Shanel, who was appointed with 98% approval to the office of Steward across the Wikimedia Project. Weekly Collaboration (Shortcut:WP:INCOTW): Collaboration of the Week has fallen from its once high feats. Please drop by and help rejuvenate it. As before, we'd like to stress, this is your newsletter, and we want you to be part of it as well. Provide us with news tips. It can be anything related to the project, from discussions to calls for help, and other interesting stuff within our community. Sponsored content for recruitments within your WikiProject sub-groups are also welcome, including requests for copyediting, photographic work, peer review, etc. We'll be very happy to include them here. Before we sign off, Happy New Year, everyone. This edition special Translation Department: Can you read and write any languages of India? Do you know multiple languages and are looking to keep your skills at a high level or improve them? If so, the Translation Depeartment may be for you! The translation department of the India WikiProject aims to utilize high-quality non-English material related to India for the goals of the project. This includes both translating articles from and to other-language Wikipedias as well as assisting contributors with non-English sources. The department aims to provide services in transliteration, formulating scripts for various languages, as well as translating articles from one language to another and validating sources in other languages to that of the encyclopedia article. If you are looking for a friendly translator here is your go-to point. Currently, we are still seeking representation for Kashmiri, Nepali, Oriya, Sindhi and Tulu, as well as reinforcements in all other languages. Signed... Edited by YellowMonkey and distributed by Lostintherush

Sister projects

I have been waiting for a reply to my last e-mail, but when none came, and when people were nagging me to create what they perceived as a truly neutral project, I went ahead and created Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Sri Lanka Reconciliation. (I thought about writing this by e-mail, but I thought I'll have a better chance for a reply here, when I saw that you have been contributing on Misplaced Pages since. Please feel free to reply to me by e-mail.)

It would be a bitter irony if two projects that state the goals of neutrality and reconciliation should not be able to find together. The whole point of my project is to bridge differences! I don't care under which project the reconciliation is done, as long as it's done.

What can I do to increase the chances for our projects to find together? Maybe you misunderstood my question about the conditions for joining. I was just testing the water. I now realize that it might have helped if I had clarified this when I got no reply from you; it’s only now that I’m rereading our mails that I’m realizing that I may not have been as clear as I thought I was. I’m really sorry about that, particularly because we now don’t have the option of me joining instead  of creating a new project anymore. But I can still lobby for our projects to join.

Of course, I still would love to welcome you on Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Sri Lanka Reconciliation. It is a bit harder now because I need to convince our other member(s) (per our rule that members are admitted by consensus). But because I sincerely want you aboard, I promise that I will do my very best to make your case. And I think it's a very good case. It’s written in our goals to be bipartisan, so we really need somebody from the other party, and who would be a better candidate that someone who created a project for neutrality that ended up representing the side that's less represented among our members? Any detractor would need a damn good reason to reject such a candidate! I truly respect you for creating the project from which we took 3 of our 4 goals.

Now that Raveen is on wikibreak and we have a new issue to discuss (WT:SLR § Terrorist categorisation), we really need you! — Sebastian 18:55, 29 January 2007 (UTC), amended 21:09, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

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Vanakkam

Vanakkam!!! This is me Ravichandar here. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ravichandar84 (talk • contribs) 16:28, 26 February 2007 (UTC).

oh ok fine... never mind... ill do without an image

Sri Lanka Army

Look at what Snowolf has done. --210.235.209.3 08:38, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

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WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume II, Issue 2 - March 2007

Project News Plagiarism by the Times of India: Recently it was noticed that the Times of India, the world's largest distribution daily had systematically plagiarised many of Misplaced Pages's biographies on members of the Indian cricket team among other cricketers on its website, sometimes with errors propagated (details). After discussion and discovery of further plagiarisms in other fields, the issue reached the admin noticeboard archived here. Jimbo's visit to India and the WikiCamp in Chennai: Jimbo recently visited India in late February and early March on wiki work. This included a trip to a WikiCamp in Chennai. The one day conference attracted 300 participants from across India and beyond dealt with issues facing wikis (). It was widely covered by the press, eg The Hindu( ), which cited the efforts of Bhadani (edit count), Sundar (leadership on Tamil Misplaced Pages) and Ganeshk (Creation of Ganeshbot to create articles on Indian towns from census figures). Ganeshk himself travelled from California to attend the conference. 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 Rama's Arrow and Ragib(listen). 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 Witty lama praising the efficiency of the project and its proliferation of featured content. 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 Bengali Misplaced Pages in his native Bangladesh, which has seen a 30-fold increase in article count over the past year. Arbitration: Three cases are either in progress or have recently ended. Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/India-Pakistan regarding the activities of various Indian and Pakistani editors on pages related to Indian subcontinent history topics, the national status of various pre-Partition figures, and edit-warring over Indic scripts and WikiProject tags was held and concluded in late February- early March. As a result of this, four Pakistani users, Siddiqui, Szhaider, Nadirali and Unre4L were all banned for one year for disruption via edit-warring and confrontationalism. Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Sathya Sai Baba 2 regarding a dispute over the article of the religious teacher closed in early March with four users indefinitely banned from the article. Currently, Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_arbitration/Freedom_skies is in the evidence phase. It is concerned with the editing of Freedom_skies, who edits articles on ancient Indian history, primarily civilisation articles such as Indian mathematics and related articles, as well as Buddhism articles such as Pusyamitra Sunga, as well as those pertaining to the propagation of Mahayana Buddhism to China such as Bodhidharma and Zen. What's New? Featured and Good Content: Eight articles: Vijayanagara Empire (nom), Delhi (nom), Pashtun people (nom), Nathu La (nom), Harbhajan Singh (nom), Hoysala architecture (nom), Harbhajan Singh (nom), Technopark, Kerala (nom) and Western Chalukya Empire (nom) were featured from our WikiProject recently, since our last edition. 'Dineshkannambadi has been a phenomenal force in the production of FAs recently, being responsible for three of these eight articles. He has totalled five FAs, all relating to Kannada history. Three portals: Portal:Hinduism (nom), Portal:West Bengal (nom) and Portal:Kerala (nom) were also featured. There were two additional GAs, Murali Kartik and Bhagat Singh. Congratulations to all contributors who helped to develop the above content to represent the best of Misplaced Pages! Need some help? Are you stuck at a point where admin help is needed? There are 21 Indian Administrators in Misplaced Pages at the last count. If you need some help with anything related to WikiProject India, they are just a couple of clicks away! Complete To Do List India-related tasks | Indian noticeboard v • e • d • h • w Requests: Sibichen K Mathew, Dominic Emmanuel, AK Merchant, Counterfeiting of currency notes in India, Akhand Pratap Singh, Asura (band), Asian Variety Show, Cultural liberalism in India, India Export Tax, India Import Tax, More... NPOV: Greater Nepal Rajneesh, Ranjit Lal Jetley Hedgewar, Puttanna Kanagal, Bride burning, Sonia Gandhi More... Wikify: Railway stations, Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar, Silk in the Indian subcontinent, IDBI Bank More... Cleanup: , Rampur, Tav-Prasad Savaiye, Shipping Corporation of India, Velama, Medical college (India), All India Radio, More... Merge: Raghava Rama, Sammar Bahisht, Sathya Sai Baba movement,More... Expand: Prime Minister of India, Krishna district, List of railway stations in India, Swaraj, Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case), Barak Missile Deal Scandal, 14th Lok Sabha, Adithada, Ali Sardar Jafri, Bandhani work, Bhaiband, Chikan (embroidery), China Town, Kolkata, Rahi Masoom Raza, Energy policy of India, Essar Shipping, Fair use, Hinduism in India, Imperial Bank, Inbuan Wrestling, Iran-India relations, Islam in India, Arjuna award, Sunil Mittal, Save Indian Family, Anjana Sukhani, Rajendra K. Pachauri, More... Stubs: Anand Math, A R Antule, Arjuna award, Army of India, Bapudeva Sastri, Bombay Dyeing, Indian Copyright Act, Marimallappa, Mumbai Skywalk, More... Translate: Bhojpuri Misplaced Pages articles, Maithili Misplaced Pages articles, Telugu Misplaced Pages articles, Marathi Misplaced Pages articles, Hindi Misplaced Pages articles, Sanskrit Misplaced Pages articles, Tamil Misplaced Pages articles Kannada Misplaced Pages articles Collaborate: Collaborations of the Month, Notice board, Category Adoptions To do, Version 1.0 assessment, India Portal, Life in India, India quick links Indian Wikipedians, More... Requested images: Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan, Free image of Aarti Chhabria Other requests: Add maps from WikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found at List of regions in India Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template v • e • d • h • w

Note from Editor's Desk Welcome to the March 2007 edition of our newsletter. Congratulations to one of our most respected writers, bureaucrats and administrators, Nichalp, who is now entrusted with the oversight permission. In addition Riana has joined the administrative ranks after a successful RfA. On a sad note, Nobleeagle, who was responsible for the creation of the Punjab WikiProject, and was largely responsible for Indian cricket team, Bhagat Singh and Lage Raho Munna Bhai becoming GAs, as well as working heavily in Indian religious and cricket work, has left the project after having his identity revealed. More generally, certain Indian users have recently been subject to real life harassment by banned users, etc. If this is affecting you in real life, please do not hesitate to contact Wikimedia board members for assistance, or ask a senior Wikipedian to solicit help on your behalf if required. Nishkid64, a prolific contributor and administrator, is currently undergoing surgery to fix a congenital heart defect. You can wish him well here. Weekly Collaboration (Shortcut:WP:INCOTW): Collaboration of the Week has fallen from its once high feats. Please drop by and help rejuvenate it. As before, we'd like to stress, this is your newsletter, and we want you to be part of it as well. Provide us with news tips. It can be anything related to the project, from discussions to calls for help, and other interesting stuff within our community. Sponsored content for recruitments within your WikiProject sub-groups are also welcome, including requests for copyediting, photographic work, peer review, etc. We'll be very happy to include them here. This edition special Translation Department: Can you read and write any languages of India? Do you know multiple languages and are looking to keep your skills at a high level or improve them? If so, the Translation Depeartment may be for you! The translation department of the India WikiProject aims to utilize high-quality non-English material related to India for the goals of the project. This includes both translating articles from and to other-language Wikipedias as well as assisting contributors with non-English sources. The department aims to provide services in transliteration, formulating scripts for various languages, as well as translating articles from one language to another and validating sources in other languages to that of the encyclopedia article. If you are looking for a friendly translator here is your go-to point. Currently, we are still seeking representation for Kashmiri, Nepali, Oriya, Sindhi and Tulu, as well as reinforcements in all other languages. Signed... Edited by YellowMonkey and distributed by Lostintherush

Indian collaboration of the week news

As mentioned in Wikiproject India newsletter of March 2007, the weekly collaboration of the Indian wikiproject has fallen from its once high feats. This message is to request the users to visit the collaboration page and help rejuvenate it.

The present collaboration of the week is Religion in India. Please go through the talk page of the article to see the proposed changes in the article. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 05:06, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

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Hi! This is me ravi here.i want to ask you about the 'vandalism' user box you have in your user page. does it display the standard number 3 or gets incremented each time. I want to implement a similar sort of user box in my userpage. that why :) take care. -Ravichandar84 15:33, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

cyrillic

I noticed you have a full understanding of the cyrillic script (and are indian wow!). Can you provide a transliteration of "Ghazi Mullah" on this here? Thank you.Bakaman 23:51, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

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Personal attcak on you

an IP is making willfullly wrong comments about you to get you blocked, here. Thanks Taprobanus 21:20, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Don't worry about it. I think it was a small mistake. I just removed your name and pointed out to evidence (impersonation of you) Watchdogb 01:47, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Sri Lanka issues

Please see: Discussion move and Specific proposal Your participation and acceptance would be appreciated. — Rlevse • Talk • 23:19, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi there; just a friendly reminder that we really need your input on the proposal being discussed here. Without it, we can't craft a solution which is acceptable to everyone, and without indicating your willingness to go along with a solution, the whole process could fail. Thanks in advance, --Haemo 19:32, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, can you show up there please. Thanks Taprobanus 21:18, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your intervention

Hello, thanks for your intervention. I am talking about this.

As you must have noticed, user Lahiru_k got banned for impersonating me and the fake id was 'snsudharsan'. My id is Sudharsansn and I have made over 1000 edits till now. Thanks for your intervention, please block the fake user:Sumoeagle179 who made those comments as it is merely a one-time 'revenge' for some of the posts in Orkut. Hearty thanks Sudharsansn (talk · contribs) 04:36, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

The IP from New Delhi, India made user:Sumoeagle179 belive, that the impersonator (obvious sock puppet from Sri Lanka) and you are the same. User:Sumoeagle179 corrected his mistake later. No probs. Taprobanus 13:07, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes, the anon deliberately mislead User:Sumoeagle179, who had no idea about the previous SSPTaprobanus 18:18, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

No problem, Sudharsan. I am always looking out for good people :). Again, no problem Watchdogb 18:22, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Are you in GTA ? Taprobanus 18:35, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

GTA Grand Theft Auto - very funny you westerners, GTA means Canada:))) no really it means Greater Toronto Area, we assume that everybody knows that, eh ? Taprobanus 17:34, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

In Remembrance...

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Sarvagnya

The message was addressed to Sarvagnya but he had rmeoved previous conversation and it now looks like I was speaking to you -for some reason it is after your message. Nothing to do with you apologies if you got the wrong end of the stick. Regards ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ 14:30, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

No probs I don't know why it was moved to your section but I didn't do it. Part of the conversation was deleted anyway which made it look evne more out of place. Regards ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ 18:31, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Punch dialogue

I dont remember much about the article but I vaguely remember nominating it because I thought it was utterly unencyclopedic and reeked of fancruft. You can check with an(y) admin who has access to deleted articles to discuss any course of action u may want to pursue. Thanks. And btw, your |rfcu made my day. Thanks again. Sarvagnya 00:08, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

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Vettuva Gounder

The vettuva gounder article was in an extremely pathetic state a few edits ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Vettuva_Gounder&diff=182316566&oldid=182316393 -Ravichandar 14:47, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Gounder

I cleaned up as best I could. Nothing outlandish was left on it. I had started it as a stub many eaons ago so the pro note came to my talk page. Taprobanus (talk) 16:20, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't understand dude, what pro note what article? Link please. ] (] · ]) 18:23, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

RE:

You are welcome. Tiptoety 00:14, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

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Re:IP vandal

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Hi

		Mmm - Milk!
		Long time since I've seen you..

-Ravichandar_{My coffee shop} 17:25, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

I am good. :-) Well, I won't be frequenting Misplaced Pages for the next month or so due to personal reasons. That's why I wrapped it up with 3 DYKs this weekend. Misplaced Pages Tamil civilization discussion page is inactive and there is little collaboration. User:Taprobanus is currently working to get Sri Lankan Tamil people featured. I didn't join the team as I lack the expertise on the subject. But I guess you might be interested. I can only hope that they starting concentrating their energies on articles related to the mainland once they get the article on Sri Lankan Tamils featured. I personally feel that the coverage of Tamil Nadu-related articles is not upto the mark in comparison with, for example, the articles under the Karnataka workgroup. And then, on detailed examination you will observe that we don't have single biography as a FA-article. I feel that we could work on this. How about the article on M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar? 2009 is MKT's centenary year and we could get it featured on the Main Page on his 100th birthday. :-) I started working with Avichi Meiyappa Chettiar, but I couldn't find enough reliable sources. At present, I cannot afford to start upon something which would keep me occupied for long. But I hope that by November I would be free. Once my personal issues are resolved, I am planning to work primarily with Pachaiyappa Mudaliar and Madras Presidency apart from the ones I've already mentioned. I also suggest that we work with Pavalakkodi (1934 film), Ambikapathy and Chintamani. I made this suggestion and requested help but no one seemed interested. I worked with Thyagabhoomi (1939 film), Sabapathy (1941 film), Haridas (1944 film), Nam Iruvar, Chandralekha (1948 film) and Parasakthi (1952 film). But there are very few people who seem to be interested in contributing to such articles. Maybe, we could work upon them if you are interested.. I'll be there whenever I get time. But sadly, I dont' think there exists a semblance of cooperation or coordination. This is one thing which needs to be sorted out. -Ravichandar_{My coffee shop} 08:14, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Very Late Response

Hey Sudharsen, thanks for dropping the note! --Davidkazuhiro (talk) 02:50, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Indus Valley language(s)

What we need is an article on it with all point of view. Google books will yield good sources as well as journal articles.Taprobanus (talk) 02:44, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes, you are right. Even with the existing material, the claims made are perfectly valid. Thanks for your interest in this :-) ] (] · ]) 02:47, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

The Indus Valley Civilization article already lists all reasonable hypotheses:

The language of the IVC has not yet been determined. Proto-Dravidian, Proto-Indo-Iranian,{{cn}} Para-Munda and a "lost phylum" perhaps related or ancestral to the Nihali language have been proposed as the language.

if that leaves anything to be desired, please add the relevant sources. This is an imponderable unknown, and there is only so much that can be said about it. Our only source of information is the substratum in Vedic Sanskrit, which has a full dedicated article already. --dab (𒁳) 10:10, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

List of languages by first written accounts

You are in danger of violating the three-revert rule. Please cease further reverts or you may be blocked from editing. --dab (𒁳) 10:06, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

understand that the article lists languages, not scripts. (something which may suggest itself to you, like, perhaps from reading the article title). your version introduces "undeciphered" under "language name". It should be clear even to a comparatively clouded intellect that an undeciphered script is not actually an attestation of any language. --dab (𒁳) 10:17, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

List of language on first written count

As I mentioned in my citation - do not alter before discussing - since this references are being cycled at the wikipedia reliable resource noticeboard - by wikipedia administrator round boards executives.

your asserts on mathavan is outdaated for which all magnum opus discoveries on Tamil Brahmi has occured in the past 5 years and you are refering a journal published in 2003 by mathavan--218.111.169.17 (talk) 00:17, 17 November 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yogagates (talk • contribs)

I don't know who Mathavan is, however, go read them and find out. ] (] · ]) 00:25, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

SUDHAR - it was Mahadevan, Iravatham (2003) publisher. for your information I submitted almost 10 references to wikipedia authority and officials on wikipedia reliable noticeboard - to my surprise till now almost all have picked and cited on main three to four references - I'll wait till more graded officials to agree and acknowledge these recources as more then reliable. By the way why are you refering to 5 years old publication on your latest alter -: dont you know its outdated and belated. Anyhow wait till the officials cotact the IP owners of some wikipedia activist ! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yogagates (talk • contribs) 01:02, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

I don't understand what you are talking about, it doesn't make any sense. Also, the reference being five years old bears no impact on its truth value. ] (] · ]) 05:42, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

look, it's a nice change to get a Dravidist pov-pusher now and again to contrast all the Sanskritist Hindutva ones, but I am afraid I have to oppose all pov-pushing, no matter where it is coming from. It is painfully obvious you have no case, so please just self-revert and let's discuss something constructive or at least interesting. --dab (𒁳) 21:01, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Sudharsansn, you have no idea what I have done to keep the Hindutvavadi propaganda off Misplaced Pages. If it wasn't for my efforts, Misplaced Pages would today be a Voice of India clone. Ok? So try and cut me some slack. I am perfectly willing to discuss your points at Talk:Indus script, calmly and rationally. We are both linguists, so it may help for you to think of this as an academic presentation (keeping in mind WP:NOR). The present discussion has been about your attempts at pov-pushing at the "list of languages article". If you are willing to drop this, I am perfectly willing to reconsider your behaviour and welcome you as a bona fide editor. --dab (𒁳) 10:19, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Provocation

Ignorant people should not be allowed to provoke people such as u, not in thoughts or words. The best medicine is a well cited fact that vaporizes the mental midget. As a linguists it should not be difficult for you to get academic sources, always rely on them books and journal articles and we will not have not any issues in pedia. Taprobanus (talk) 03:07, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Taprobanus. First, these chaps are jobless and have more time and mafia backing than people like us. Second, as you noticed, it all boils down to bullying, user Srkris simply discredits the evidence against his POV while he uses that EXACT same evidence for his POV. I think this is a system flaw, even with citations or anything, the person with more time and a bigger number of users to back one's pov seems to win. Anyway, let me know if any article requires work. ] (] · ]) 04:58, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Harappan language:)) Taprobanus (talk) 14:54, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

AN/I discussion

I have closed the AN/I discussion. Please read the header and follow the advice. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 00:30, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Please note that he has been blocked for 24 hours for edit-warring. Ncmvocalist (talk) 15:06, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

You have been reported

Misplaced Pages:Wikiquette_alerts#User:Sudharsansn ­ Kris (talk) 08:32, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

I agree. I've blocked you for 12h for incivility William M. Connolley (talk) 10:41, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

To let Srkris repeatedly talk about my profession, 1, 2 and 3 which he inferred from my mention of that in another talk page, and let him bash me is what is actually disgusting. It is nearly pointless to have a system, like Misplaced Pages, to work on the consensus gained by POV mongers, including having a Wikiquette page in which editors like Srkris, with absolutely no regard for anything in WP, report this here. He just wanted to get me blocked because he was blocked a few days earlier and he was involved in an edit war with in the Sanskrit article. ] (] · ]) 23:45, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, but "he started it" is a thin excuse. You are obliged to remain civil. If you are being stalked/harassed, the answer is to report it, not to retaliate. The comments by Srkris you link to are borderline, but look to me to be intended more to irritate you than usefully contribute to wiki. If tehy continue, let me know William M. Connolley (talk) 10:53, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Sanskrit

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. --neon white talk 18:55, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Your recent spamming of pirate a game site

Please be advised that the multitude of links you added to playable versions of games are in violation of the owner's IP and have been reverted. Links to clones and playable versions are not allowed unless hosted by the owner of the IP in question. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 04:17, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

You are mistaken. Nintedo8.com is not affiliated with Nintendo, and clearly states "This page is in no way affiliated or endorsed by Nintendo or Nintendo of America." at the bottom of the page. They, and any parties involved, have no rights to said games, and are trying to get around any legal issues by claiming they only host the emulator and link to the roms (i.e., a link site). --Marty Goldberg (talk) 05:05, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Srkris

Please do not participate in extended conversation with User:Srkris as you are an involved editor and your opinion will be considered partisan. Un-involved editors and administrators will take care of it. Thanks. Docku: What up? 13:32, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

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wash your face - so that!

Wash your eyes and face so that messages will be clearly visible. Don't ask to open a topic for that —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.92.69.209 (talk) 13:12, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Vedda language

I am starting a comprehensive rewrite in here using academic sources that are the latest in the field. Asif Hussein is a journalist who does not know what writes about, and is not a good source to hang our hats on. Anyway please if you find any Journal articles and books in your libarary, feel free to jump in. I will be on it for the next few months Taprobanus (talk) 13:38, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

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 Misplaced Pages, 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. What's New? Three members of the project, Abecedare, Tinu Cherian and SpacemanSpiff received their sysop mops in October-December 2009. Congratulations! Wikipedians in Bangalore have been organising periodic meetups over the past year, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society. The next meetup is scheduled for July 18, 2010. Indian and other Wikipedians from all Wikipedias in various languages are welcome to attend.

Current proposals and discussions Please add Misplaced Pages talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics to your watchlist in order to stay updated with the latest discussions regarding various aspects of the project. A discussion is underway here to reach a consensus regarding the use of Indian number names (lakh, crore etc.) in Misplaced Pages articles. Please participate and add your comments. Join the effort to source and save unreferenced Indian BLPs. Some unintended vandalism is going on at the Assamese Misplaced Pages by the sole active editor. This is a request for Assamese-conversant Wikipedians to help resolve the issue. 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. Watchlist the Articles for Deletions page for India related discussions. Opinions from more Indian Wikipedians are required in many of the discussions. The World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 is at present underway in Coimbatore, and the Tamil Misplaced Pages is actively involved at the event. A detailed report will follow in the next issue. Wikimania 2010 is happening in Poland from July 7-11. Indian Wikipedians attending include Gurubrahma, Shiju Alex, Ravidreams , Santhosh Thottingal, Tinu Cherian, WMF Board member Bishakha Datta and Advisory Board member Achal Prabala. We wish them all the best! More on their experiences in the next issue. If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of 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 (Issue 2 – (July 2010)). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Complete To Do List Complete To Do List India-related tasks | Indian noticeboard v • e • d • h • w Requests: Counterfeiting of currency notes in India, Swami Bhaskaranand Saraswati, Akhand Pratap Singh, Ravindra Gujjula Irrigation in India, Asura (band), Asian Variety Show, Cultural liberalism in India, India Export Tax, India Import Tax, Grand Hyatt Hotel, Mumbai, More... NPOV: Greater Nepal Rajneesh, Ranjit Lal Jetley Hedgewar, Puttanna Kanagal, Bride burning, Sonia Gandhi More... Wikify: Railway stations, Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar, Silk in the Indian subcontinent, IDBI Bank More... Cleanup: articles on castes, Rampur, Tav-Prasad Savaiye, Shipping Corporation of India, Velama, Bangaru Adigalar, Medical college (India), More... Merge: Raghava Rama,Sammar Bahisht,Sathya Sai Baba movement,More... Expand: Prime Minister of India, Krishna district, List of railway stations in India, Swaraj, Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case), Barak Missile Deal Scandal, 14th Lok Sabha, Adithada, Ali Sardar Jafri, Bandhani work, Bhaiband, But Marma Atti, Chikan (embroidery), China Town, Kolkata, Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza, Energy policy of India, Essar Shipping, Fair use, Hinduism in India, Imperial Bank, Inbuan Wrestling, Integral humanism, Iran-India relations, Islam in India, Arjuna award, Sunil Mittal, Save Indian Family, Anjana Sukhani, Rajendra K. Pachauri More... Stubs: Anand Math, Andhra Bank, A R Antule, Arjuna award, Army of India, Bapudeva Sastri, Bombay Dyeing, Indian Copyright Act, Marimallappa, Mumbai Skywalk, More... Translate: Telugu Misplaced Pages articles, Marathi Misplaced Pages articles, Hindi Misplaced Pages articles, Sanskrit Misplaced Pages articles, Tamil Misplaced Pages articles Kannada Misplaced Pages articles Collaborate: Collaborations of the Month, Notice board, Category Adoptions To do, Version 1.0 assesment, India Portal, Life in India, India quick links Indian Wikipedians, More... Requested images: Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan, Free image of Aarti Chhabria Other requests: Add maps from WikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found at List of regions in India Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template v • e • d • h • w Signed... SBC-YPR (Editor) Sodabottle (Editor) Tinu Cherian (Distributor)

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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 Misplaced Pages 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 Complete To Do List India-related tasks | Indian noticeboard v • e • d • h • w Requests: Sibichen K Mathew, Dominic Emmanuel, AK Merchant, Counterfeiting of currency notes in India, Akhand Pratap Singh, Asura (band), Asian Variety Show, Cultural liberalism in India, India Export Tax, India Import Tax, More... NPOV: Greater Nepal Rajneesh, Ranjit Lal Jetley Hedgewar, Puttanna Kanagal, Bride burning, Sonia Gandhi More... Wikify: Railway stations, Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar, Silk in the Indian subcontinent, IDBI Bank More... Cleanup: , Rampur, Tav-Prasad Savaiye, Shipping Corporation of India, Velama, Medical college (India), All India Radio, More... Merge: Raghava Rama, Sammar Bahisht, Sathya Sai Baba movement,More... Expand: Prime Minister of India, Krishna district, List of railway stations in India, Swaraj, Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case), Barak Missile Deal Scandal, 14th Lok Sabha, Adithada, Ali Sardar Jafri, Bandhani work, Bhaiband, Chikan (embroidery), China Town, Kolkata, Rahi Masoom Raza, Energy policy of India, Essar Shipping, Fair use, Hinduism in India, Imperial Bank, Inbuan Wrestling, Iran-India relations, Islam in India, Arjuna award, Sunil Mittal, Save Indian Family, Anjana Sukhani, Rajendra K. Pachauri, More... Stubs: Anand Math, A R Antule, Arjuna award, Army of India, Bapudeva Sastri, Bombay Dyeing, Indian Copyright Act, Marimallappa, Mumbai Skywalk, More... Translate: Bhojpuri Misplaced Pages articles, Maithili Misplaced Pages articles, Telugu Misplaced Pages articles, Marathi Misplaced Pages articles, Hindi Misplaced Pages articles, Sanskrit Misplaced Pages articles, Tamil Misplaced Pages articles Kannada Misplaced Pages articles Collaborate: Collaborations of the Month, Notice board, Category Adoptions To do, Version 1.0 assessment, India Portal, Life in India, India quick links Indian Wikipedians, More... Requested images: Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan, Free image of Aarti Chhabria Other requests: Add maps from WikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found at List of regions in India Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template v • e • d • h • w

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 uploading of Tamil technical words donated by Tamil Virtual University to the Tamil Wiktionary was completed in October. The words were donated by the Government of Tamil Nadu due to lobbying efforts by Tamil Wikipedians during the runup to the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 (WCTC) in June. Nearly 70,000 words were uploaded increasing the word count in Tamil Wiktionary from 1,20,000+ to 1,90,000+. This has brought Tamil to the 10th place (from 17) in the list of largest wiktionaries and has earned it a place in the Wiktionary front page logo. In addition, Tamil Wikipedians set up a stall at the WCTC and introduced Tamil Wiki projects to people from all walks of life. The Hindi Misplaced Pages 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. Malayalam wikimedian Santhosh Thottingal has developed a software (Wiki2CD) for the creation of the Malayalam Misplaced Pages CD, which was launched in 2010. In addition, Santosh, along with fellow Malayalam wikimedian Shiju Alex coordinated a panel discussion at Wikimania 2010 on creation of offline Wiki content.

Community news 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. 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 Misplaced Pages Foundation. Misplaced Pages founder Jimmy Wales had an interaction with Wikipedians followed by a presentation to members of the public at the third Misplaced Pages 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 Misplaced Pages 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 Please add Misplaced Pages talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics to your watchlist in order to stay updated with the latest discussions regarding various aspects of the project. Two current featured articles, 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings and Economy of India have been nominated for reviews here and here respectively. Contribute and help prevent these articles from being delisted! 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. A series of discussions are underway on the neutrality of the Famine in India article. Please comment and help resolve the disputes. Join the Wikimedia India mailing list and the IRC channel for regular updates and discussions. Links to language-specific forums are available here. If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Misplaced Pages: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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Vancouver Misplaced Pages 10th Anniversary Meetup

The Interior cordially invites you to the Vancouver Misplaced Pages 10th Anniversary Meetup! It is being held at Benny's Bagels at 2505 W Broadway. Meetup will start at 6:30pm. Drop by for some Misplaced Pages-style conviviality and free gear! Feel free to forward this invitation to any Wikipedians who might be able to attend, and visit the discussion page to suggest activities. Hope to see you there and have a Happy 2011!