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Centralized Monitoring System - Indian surveillance programme

Anyone interested in beefing up Centralized Monitoring System? I found that a writer in The Hindu compared it to PRISM. It might be something that will come up in Indian politics.

I also made a request for a Hindi version of this article. Any editors who want to write articles about this in regional languages are welcome to do so. WhisperToMe (talk) 20:24, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

• It's now available in Hindi and Tamil WhisperToMe (talk) 14:00, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

India Project Collaboration of the Month dead?

Is the INCOTM dead? No-one seems to be suggesting anything for the July collaboration. - Sitush (talk) 14:58, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Seriously, that was a lot of nominations by present standards! Let's go with Ladakh if its up above! AshLin (talk) 17:13, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, that will teach me. The page is watchlisted (turquoise blue star is there) but for some reason has not appeared on my watchlist. I should have checked the link directly. I'll take a decent look at it in a few hours, after I've recovered from my puzzlement and embarrassment! - Sitush (talk) 17:38, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

It seems that Tito did some fancy footwork with organisation of the INCOTM nomination page and tripped me up. Anyway, I've now got back on my feet and see that Ladakh has the most support. I wasn't aware that this process was basically a straight vote but that it how it is and so I've updated a couple of pages to indicate that this article is our Collaboration of the Month for July. Thanks to all who gave suggestions and indicated preferences - now let's collaborate! - Sitush (talk) 21:08, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Recent major caste cleanups

I've been tackling a few more caste-cleanup articles as of late. If anyone is interested in the struggle thereof, wants to help refine a few of these or spot-check for accuracy, or watchlist them, your support is always appreciated. Here are a few I've worked on in the last week, often near-total rewrites:

• Twenty four Manai Telugu Chettiars
• Chettiar
• Vishwabrahmin/Viswakarma (this one has a huge spike in pageviews and IP involvement, I suspect an off-site campaign)
• Kahar (including re-directing Kashyap Rajput there)
• Lonia (a once-Untouchable caste that has claimed Rajput and Kshatriya origin)

Again, my intent is not to "denigrate" groups by noting that their lofty origin stories are not credited by anyone but themselves. My intent is instead to show the complexity of these social situations, and their variations over time. And also to prevent the very frequent use of Misplaced Pages as a caste-advancement tool to "re-write" caste history for political and social advantage. MatthewVanitas (talk) 21:48, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Vishwabrahmin has been a problem for years and spikes are common. You may not have noticed that it has existed under various names/POV forks etc. Right now, it is way longer than it would be if it were policy-compliant and it incorporates a lot of the stuff that was removed from other versions. I think that Chettiar might have had a few iterations also. I've had both of these articles watchlisted under prior names but missed the redirects. - Sitush (talk) 21:56, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Overcat in a template

Pallava dynasty in categorised in both Category:Former monarchies of Asia and Category:Former countries in Asia. The monarchies category is a subcategory of the countries one, so we do not need both. Problem is, I can't spot where these two categories are being added to the article - it must be via one of the three templates on the page but I'm useless at template markup and cannot work out which is causing the issue. If someone can, please could they remove Category:Former countries in Asia from it. I realise that this will affect a host of other articles also but an overcat is an overcat on any article. Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 05:13, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Template:Infobox former country is the root cause, but is fully protected, so can't edit. --Redtigerxyz 06:14, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Maybe you can leave the |continent=Asia field empty. It will remove the category. But maybe it will add another general category. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 06:24, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, both. I've queried it at the template talk page using a link to this discussion. - Sitush (talk) 06:25, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Interesting choice of terminology - technically, kingdoms are not countries so the infobox should be "former kingdom" rather than "former country". --regentspark (comment) 11:43, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

I wondered about that, too. I could resolve the immediate problem by changing the infobox but the template would still seem to need some sort of work. - Sitush (talk) 13:29, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Jainism: Peer review

Hello, I have listed the article Jainism for peer review. It is one of the ancient Indian religions. The peer review is at Misplaced Pages:Peer_review/Jainism/archive4. Please do participate in the discussion. Thanks, Rahul Jain (talk) 17:19, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Finding original source for these Madiga caste images?

As so often is the case, I'm finding some good vintage photos of an Indian caste, but the only versions online are unattributed/uncited, and/or have an ugly watermark stamped on them by some person who's done no actual work other than simply scan an old book but still asserts some authority over an item.

In any case, Madiga could really use some images, do any of the images in this link look familiar to anyone, can you guess what book I might seek out that would contain these photos: http://mahadiga-channal.babelred.com/?counter=45 ? MatthewVanitas (talk) 20:23, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Policy regarding article names of Indic origin

This policy makes it clear that name used in more than 75% wider usage of english should be used. But this link is not given in WP:ENGLISH and WP:COMMONNAME. Users like User:The Rahul Jain and User:Ruud Koot misinterpret it as "scientific name used ony in reliable sources" and ignore the words common, wider usage or popular. Please see this Rfc and this discussion. In future someone may insert reliable sources in article Rama which write 'Rama' as 'Rāma' and will move article to IAST name. So policy regarding articles names of Indic origin should be made absolutely clear. neo (talk) 07:21, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Try to avoid IAST, if only because it makes it difficult for people with standard English-language keyboards to search an article for recurrence of a word or term. I made the mistake in one of my creations - Lohara dynasty - and I regret it. - Sitush (talk) 10:04, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Every time I have to copy-paste these IAST alphabets. I think most of the wikipedia readers don't know how to type or pronounce IAST alphabets like ñāīśṇūṃēṣ. Sometime I just see boxes. Assuming that ALL english wikipedia readers have learned IAST language and ALL readers have right browsers to display IAST characters is wrong. BTW, perhaps you didn't notice, it is 'Mokṣa', not 'Moksa' and as I found more results for 'Moksha', so I proposed to change name to 'Moksha'. I think policy is already clear. We just need to include link in WP:ENGLISH. Otherwise users will keep moving pages to IAST spellings. neo (talk) 07:15, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

User:Haripriya63

Does anyone know ways to contact User:Haripriya63? --Tito☸Dutta 00:59, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Chanakya and Chandragupta Maurya public domain images

Chanakya and Chandragupta Maurya are among most important figures in Indian history. It is shame that even after 2000 years after their death we don't have their public domain images for articles. Users keep uploading non-free images and they gets deleted. One user pointed out here that there should be public domain image on net. I did some hard search and found 1915 image of Chanakya here and here. As it is published before 1953, it is in public domain. I request users to verify this, especially to expert User:Dharmadhyaksha. But please make sure that we get public domain images of Chanakya and Chandragupta. They are among most important figures in Indian history. Thanks! neo (talk) 07:41, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

• Is there any original photograph of these two people? (since the answer is surely "no"), all we can collect is artistic depictions. Image published before 1953 does not make it a public domain image. It must be PD in US too. --Tito☸Dutta 07:57, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
• This is published in 1915 as noted by neo. Is this serves purpose? The Legend of Zorro 08:01, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

As per Public domain in the United States, works published before 1923 are in public domain in US. Commons have for work published outside US before 1923. So I think it is in public domain in US too. So far actual looks are concerned, it is impossible. We just give general idea of looks of historic figures. For example, Rama's looks varies in different pics but he is depicted with bow-arrow, dhoti, clean-shaved face, rather medium built body etc. So we can just give general idea of Chanakya's and Chandragupta's looks which are consistent with their biography and Indian culture. neo (talk) 09:19, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

That image is a graphic design work. Does not seem to be the cover of original work. --Tito☸Dutta 09:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

You mean derivative of original work? If we doubt that publisher has plagarized work of someone else, then we can doubt EVERY WORK without any basis. neo (talk) 10:21, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

I think User:Titodutta said that the picture on the website may not be the cover of the original book. Not necessary it is plagarism. The Legend of Zorro 10:41, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

hmm... Titodutta is right. this looks original cover of book of R. Shamasastry. this is bit high res image. And this is same image. If that sitting person is Chandragupta and that person with flag is Kautilya/Chanakya, then we got 2-in-1. Ek teer mein do shikar. neo (talk) 11:13, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Titodutta for uploading Chanakya image. Hope that problem is solved forever. Also pls upload above image. It can be used at least for R. Shamasastry. The whole book is in worldwide public domain as per wikisource. So no copyright problem. My browser is giving me trouble, so I can't upload image. neo (talk) 17:11, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Neo, that img can't be used. The site says book is CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 . "noncommercial" clause is not compatible with wikicommons/wikipedia. Redtigerxyz 17:24, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Sub section

(due to edit box limit) @Redtigerxyz I think government laws supersedes what that site or anyone claims. Still I will ask question at WP:CQ to clear doubts. neo (talk) 17:39, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

No doubt the text is public domain, but not the reprint edition. Book cover is part of new packaging (reprint) so the author of reprint is the author of the image. archive.org book does not say that it is copy of the 1915 first edition. Redtigerxyz 17:46, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

I asked in WP:CQ. If someone modify public domain work then the 'modification' has copyrights of new author. Not sure whether the image is original or from reprint edition. But thanks to Dharmadhyaksha for finding free image of Chandragupta. We got free images of both Chanakya and Chandragupta. And thanks to you, Redtigerxyz, for indirectly forcing me to find free images. :) neo (talk) 15:42, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Template/ Navbox distortion

• Any template or Navbox on the Bankura page is getting distorted. I had removed all the distorted templates. Now I have placed one template – Cities, towns and locations in Bankura district. It has got distorted. Any other template similarly placed will get distorted. Two other templates earlier on the page were: Municipalities and CD Blocks of West Bengal and Bankura district topics. Can someone please help by rectifying the distortion? - Chandan Guha (talk) 12:09, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

 Done §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 15:10, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

• Many thanks for the assistance. - Chandan Guha (talk) 16:19, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Possible vandalism at Bhaag Milkha Bhaag article

I suspect possible vandalism there. User Wraithful has said that "I see this problem across the site on articles pertaining to Indian topics - unwarranted glorification or promotional tone.". Experienced editors may help here. I request them to give their comments. Thanks. --Abhijeet Safai (talk) 16:48, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

For some reason, Abhijeet Safai asked me about this on my talk page - this is my reply:

I'm not sure why you are asking me about this - but I'd start by reading WP:VANDAL. This is a content dispute, and making accusations of vandalism is entirely inappropriate. Looking at the material removed, I'm inclined to agree with Wraithful that it is inappropriate trivia for an unreleased film, and I'm not even sure that an article on the film can be justified at all under Misplaced Pages:Notability (films) guidelines. I suggest that rather than arguing over minor details, you look for evidence from third-party reliable sources that the film is of any significance. AndyTheGrump (talk) 17:31, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

File:Babri rearview.jpg

Has been deleted, anyone here got a photo of the Babri Mosque either before or after demolition? Darkness Shines (talk) 19:42, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Deleted? Admin thought that it can be created? ah? What was the reason? BTW, today I noticed that Rahul Gandhi image is also deleted. Felt very sad. Really. neo (talk) 19:54, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

• Commons:Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Babri_rearview.jpg and Commons:Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Rahul_Gandhi.JPG. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 03:49, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Free India media resources

To search free images related to India, you can use WP:INDFREE. Free images of Rahul Gandhi, Chanakya etc are available there. And you can help to expand the resources page too. --Tito☸Dutta 22:56, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

FilmiTadka.in should also be there. But it has very few images compared to BollywoodHungama. Sometime images of cricketers, politicians etc also prop up on BH if bollywood celebrity has attended that event. I have searched images for EVERY actress in 'Hindi film actresses' category (at that time 432 actresses). If you can't find image in some article of actress, it is because no image was on BH. There is no problem of free images for bollywood articles. But very difficult to find free images for other articles. neo (talk) 05:45, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

• FilmiTadka has been added by Dharmadhakshya. I was discussing with Crisco to contact few sites to allow us to use images. --Tito☸Dutta 06:16, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

• Does anyone know some source for images of Indian politicians, especially from Punjab? --Vigyani_talk 09:31, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

WP:INDICSCRIPT

This is being challenged at Talk:Birbhum district#Including Bengali script in the lead. Any interested parties are invited to contribute. noq (talk) 07:00, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

New article: Mettukulam

Please feel free to improve Mettukulam. Thanks! Northamerica1000 08:21, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Merge proposal at Talk:Keshav Dev Temple

More opinions are welcome. ComfyKem (talk) 20:32, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

2002 Gujarat violence

Article 2002 Gujarat violence is written by wikipedia community over 10 years and user:Darkness Shines calls it Shite. He has created his own version of article here in user space and slowly replacing whole article with his own POV version. Articles on similar incidents of violence like September 11 attacks use media sources. But user is removing reputed media sources and has picked up so-called 'academic sources' to support his POV. The article needs to be corrected to show right facts with NPOV. Thanks. neo (talk) 09:50, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

A stitch in time would have saved nine. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 13:38, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

DS inserted his POV in article, I removed it but this The Rahul Jain dropped in out of blue just to oppose me and inserted again POV of DS. Now the article is protected with massive POV of DS. I have requested RegentsPark to restore earlier NPOV version and then protect article. neo (talk) 15:28, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

New article: Central mahallu jama'ath

Central mahallu jama'ath would benefit from more sources and copy editing. Northamerica1000 02:43, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Now deleted under Misplaced Pages:G11, notwithstanding all Northamerica1000's good work. I wouldn't be willing at present to partially userfy the content at present: see Misplaced Pages:Copying_within_Wikipedia#Userfication, but more than willing to help out otherwise. --Shirt58 (talk) 13:35, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

New article Thuggee and Dacoity Department

I've got just a basic who-what-where-when-why stub worked up, but this article has a lot of room for expansion in critiquing its missions and assumptions, how it effected the British conception of Indian society, etc. I think there are some good academic studies about the role of the group. Offhand I haven't found any good photos, but would ideally like to add some group photo of the employees of the outfit posing together or something. Hope this is of interest to a few editors, MatthewVanitas (talk) 22:13, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

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