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WP India Template

Hi Ganesh,

I'm here with a request reg the WP India template. Could you please make this following change??

In the image needed section, the current display info is

An editor has requested that an image be added to this article. 
Once the requested image is added, remove the image-needed parameter.

Could you please de-personalise and change it as

An image is requested for this article as its inclusion will substantially 
increase the significance of the article. Please remove the ''image-needed'' 
parameter once the image is added.

Thank you. Cheers. -- Chez 01:24, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Request to unprotect

May u please unprotect this page S. Jithesh and allow to recreate the article with more references and sources...? Nileena joseph  17:26, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

It feels good to be back. Trying to stay away from wikipedia even for a week proved to be a very difficult task. - Aksi_great (talk) 18:32, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Requesting help for Marathi Language Misplaced Pages in Bot writing and usage

Dear Ganeshk, Here at Marathi Language Misplaced Pages want to use bots for spell check and correction of Devanagari Letters used in Marathi words; for example we want to replace 'ई.स.' from all article because gramaticaly it is wrong , we want to replace the same with correct version 'इ.स.' Another example is we want to replace wrong spell आणी with correct one आणि.

We will apreciate any help coming in, in this regard.Our relevant page for Bots in Marathi wikipedia is सांगकाम्या, Vilaage Pump discussion page is atविकिपीडिआ:चावडी/प्रगती and Misplaced Pages Embassy is at आंतरविकि दूतावास

Regards Mahitgar 08:38, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: Checkuser

Thanks for the note, Ganesh. The checkuser is framed solely on bad faith assumptions, as is so obvious. She has listed almost all the users in WP:KERALA over there. :P --thunderboltz 08:54, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

re: Image copyrights

With the obligatory IANAL disclaimer, let me say that I agree with your explanation. :-) -- Sundar 09:08, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Indian politician images

I would like to understand your rationale behind tagging all Indian politician photos with {{Replaceable fair use}}. Much hard work has gone into uploading those photos. When a replaceable image is found, the fair-use image can be deleted and new image used. But deleting all the images makes no sense to me. These are photos owned by the government of India. They should rightfully release all the photos like the U.S. government does. I honestly don't believe using them as fair-use is a violation of Misplaced Pages image policy. Can you please revert your edits and have a discussion first? -- Ganeshk (talk) 17:22, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

They are indeed a violation of Misplaced Pages image policy, at least for any politician who is still alive. Please see WP:FUC. We are not permitted to use copyrighted non-freely-licensed images to depict living people. --Yamla 17:26, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Yamla. Let me check the relavant policy. I have still asked guidance at ANI per below. -- Ganeshk (talk) 17:34, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

I went through WP:FUC. I could not find the specific sentence about living people. Could you please quote the relavant sentence? Thanks, Ganeshk (talk) 17:43, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

The very fisrt criteria states: "No free equivalent is available or could be created...". If, for some of those people, it is impossible to create a free image, the unfree image is not in violation of this criteria. You may want to check Misplaced Pages:Fair use for a explanation of the policy. Specially, item #8 of Misplaced Pages:Fair use#Counterexamples. Best regards, --Abu Badali 17:49, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

You should be aware of this request on ANI. -- Ganeshk (talk) 17:34, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

It is sad to see you continuing to tag fair-use photos for deletion without proper discussion. and for examples. -- Ganeshk (talk) 17:49, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

For a lot of discussion on the matter see Wikipedia_talk:Fair use. For a very similar case see Wikipedia_talk:Fair_use/Fair_use_images_of_Canadian_politicians. Let me know if you need any further help. Best regards, --Abu Badali 17:55, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

If you follow #1 strictly, there would no reason to allow for uploads on Misplaced Pages. Images add value to articles. It is not always feasible to find free-images all the time. What do you expect from #8? Do you want the politician to be dancing? -- Ganeshk (talk) 17:52, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

You may want to express your views on dancing politicians in Wikipedia_talk:Fair use, instead of my talk page. --Abu Badali 17:55, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry

Looks like an apology is in order. I jumped to the conclusion you were taking the deletion decisions unialterally. I went through all the links you kindly provided. I guess if Jimbo feels this way (as I had read), that's the way to go. :) Again appreciate your help. Now I have go back to learning the fairuse policy once again. -- Ganeshk (talk) 23:10, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

No harm done! :) --Abu Badali 00:41, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

CHU

Thanks. Ridiculous really. Tintin (talk) 02:36, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

One doubt

Always respect bigbrothers. Admit their nonsenses and ignorance. No need of valuable contributions. Is it the Major policy of wikipedia..? The word editor is very big to me since I'm a print media journalist. But here the greatness of that word has been pathetically lost ... Here often wins cocus,groupism and conspiracy...? Knowledge fails..!  Nileena joseph  15:23, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

thanks!

Hi - many thanks for your support. If you ever need an extra hand (or desire to be blocked...) let this brother janitor know. Cheers! Rama's arrow 03:01, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Because people often complain that RfA thank-you messages are impersonal, I thought I'd give you the opportunity to create your own. -- tariqabjotu 03:39, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

INCOTW

Hi. Do you want me to manage INCOTW, or do you want to continue updating? The Indian politician images thing surprised me just now. There is an Australian politician template somewhere too. I'll have to check if those images are meeting the same fate. - Aksi_great (talk) 16:25, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi Ganesh!

Hi Ganesh, thanks for your message. I hope to be active in a couple of months or so. Good to see you working twice the load of others, through Ganeshk and Ganeshbot. Glad that I could nom you for admin; the guilt of my absence is lessened by it. --Gurubrahma 19:01, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Ilaiyaraaja -- Photograph

Hi there. Thanks for the attention given to the Ilaiyaraaja page. It requires plenty of work, and your effort in improving the photographs contained in this article is appreciated. It would be helpful if you could also contribute a suitable photograph to replace the one that you have scheduled for deletion. Sometimes, it's easy to propose a deletion, but it is more valuable if one can also propose an addition. Thank you once again, and hope you can continue to contribute to the improvement of this article. AppleJuggler 07:24, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Impersonation of my Wiki profile

Hi Ganesh, the impersonator who was trying to vandalize my pages has been blocked. Sudharsansn (talk • contribs) 07:36, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Ilaiyaraaja -- GA or A?

Dear Ganesh,

Thank you for the work you've done on the above article. I like how you made many boxes on its Discussion page small, and so rendering the To-do List more prominent. I have a question though: this article was only yesterday ranked by User:Lostintherush as an A-class article under WikiProject India, but that has now been suddenly altered. Would you know what happened please? Cheers. AppleJuggler 00:21, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

I received your explanation with regard to the GA/A matter. Thank you very much for that, have a nice day :) AppleJuggler 00:24, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Your barnstar for me

Wow... thank you!!! (*.^) AppleJuggler 00:36, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Some of my enemies are doing nasty things on my userpage. Thanks for reverting the edits of User:Joshigeorge. The user User:Joshigeorge must be blocked from further editing. Yesterday I had created a page for Thomas Jacob -Kerala Press Academy Chairman and assistant editor of Malayala Manorama. Somebody has deleted it without any reason...? I'm suffering much humiliation from wikipedia. I'm not a part of any cocus or groups. I stand for truth and justice. I'm not a computer professional. Just a postgraduate in Malayalam Literature..! Nileena joseph  03:21, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

hindu templates

The hindu leader infobox works fine now. Thanks. By the way, I tried putting in a link to the noticeboard on WP Hinduism template and it wasn't showing up.--D-Boy 17:17, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again!--D-Boy 17:26, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Languages of India

Dear Friend,

Languages of India are NOT too trivial to be ignored.Heck, you can´t ignore it for the sake of being concise. Try to understand and respect sentiments of Indian people. India is NOT Hindi, it is a multi-lingual, multi-religious tolerant democracy. Food for thought : Remember the Anti-Hindi protests of 1965. Already India is being publicized as "Land of Hindi" by Hindi Fanatics, please don´t feed such stereotypes. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by GovindaR (talk • contribs) .

Tirupathi picture

(moved message to Image talk:Tirupathi.jpg)

Plugin

Hi Ganesh, any news from Kingboy on the plugin? -- Lost 02:02, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Good idea. Will start off tonight with the generic template -- Lost 04:52, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry.

Sorry, I could not find who removed the link. This I had placed in the hope that this might help the editors working on India related article. swadhyayee 03:24, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Does Misplaced Pages has a 'tab key' function?

Dear Ganesh, I was just wondering if you know whether in Misplaced Pages you can put spaces between words like how you can do it with the tab key on MS Word. For example:

• Apple Ball Cat
• Dog Elephant Fish

I used the space bar to separate the words above but it doesn't have any effect. Do you know if the Misplaced Pages allows tabbing? Thanks. AppleJuggler 11:21, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

You can do in the following two ways. Edit this section and see the code. -- Ganeshk (talk) 06:42, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Dear Ganesh, I received your examples on how to do the above and the link to the help page on Tables. I was thinking of tabulating the film albums listed on the discography section of the Ilaiyaraja page (currently they seem messy). Will do that when I have free time! It's quite hard doing it all on my own and I appreciate these assistances that you and others have provided. Romba nandri. AppleJuggler 07:11, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Testing

Using &nbsp

• Apple    Ball    Cat
• Dog    Elephant    Fish

Using Table

User:Knbh

Hello, Ganesh, there has been a problem with User:Knbh. Have a look:

• There are references that confirm AB's appearances in those movies.
• I checked the Official Site; Salman Khan plays Rahul.
• Movie doesn't exist. Repeated removal of deletion tag.
• Blanking.
• Blanking.

Talked to User on his disuscussion page - no reaction. Best regards, --Plumcouch 19:02, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

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