Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics/Archive 18

message: Average awareness level and seriousness about copy right laws is some how missing even amongst Indian wikipedians.Some Indian wikipedian will get caught unaware of his mistake some day and end up in jail.
Please we need to have some good articles in this respect.I have posted one article and is in dire need of support from Indian wikipedians ;please visit Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Fair use
Mahitgar 04:00, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Glad this has been raised. Some amendments to the Act are due soon. See Copyright website. It would be good if those with the interest can go through the amendments and clauses and comment, since this is currently open to public comment. One possible good thing for wikipedians would be to ensure that there is a clause similar to Work of Government in the US. This means that work done by government servants as part of their daily duties (non-sensitive and which can be obtained through the RTI) and funded by taxpayers is copyright free. Currently there is a 50 yr copyright on government work with some minor escape clauses. Shyamal 04:16, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  That's unlikely to happen.  Indian copyright law is based on the philosophy of English copyright law, with its notion of crown copyright for government works, broad copyright protection for works of private authorship, and specific limited exceptions for fair dealing.  This is all very different from US law, with its notion of government works belonging in the public domain, and a broad principle of fair use.  I don't see us convincing the government - not to mention the legal profession - to accept such a radical change of philosophy. -- Arvind 08:58, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks Arvind, for taking interest in the issue. But do weigh in on the same and give the government your feedback via the website  Section 18 Chapter 5 is the one that has the relevant material. And even the Crown copyright is not entirely without criticism.  I hope all of us wikipedians can see some merit in voicing our POV on the GOI site :) Shyamal 06:40, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Indian Copyright laws 

message: I nominated a some "List of famous <caste-name-here>" for deletion, because they were full of unsourced stuff and wrong information, and in my personal opinion, "indiscriminate collection of information". 
After discussion with Bakaman, I realized I should not be really bothered about these lists -- he is right when he says that caste-cruft is usually not looked at unless except the people of that caste. But at the same time, I don't want Wikipedia to become a tool to glorify castes.
The problem is that if you keep lists, you can't stop creation of categories. People will eventually create categories, and if somebody moves them to deletion, the first argument will be: We've got :Category:Indian Americans, so why we should not have :Category:Yadavs, :Category:Mahars, :Category:Gaud Saraswat Brahmins. For example, recently a Wikipedia:Single purpose account (User:Sbei78) was created to carry out this task. Ignoring WP:INN, the argument given was "If xyz list exists, why should not this list exist?". In my very personal opinion, caste-based lists are not like List of Indians, rather they are akin to List of Rednecks, which we should not have (since Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information)
As of now, we do have :Category:Brahmins and :Category:Dalit, but these consist mostly of articles on sub-castes or related topics. But in future, I see biographies being categorized as :Category:Dalits, :Category:Jats, :Category:Deshpandes. If such things are moved to deletions, people will cite existance of other such lists, ignoring WP:INN.
I'd suggest having a formal set of guidelines for this caste-related stuff. Like Bakaman said, lists are a better idea than categories (I am against creation of lists as well, but many already exist).
My ideal set of guidelines would be:
# No caste-based lists -- they are against Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
# The caste-based categories should include only articles on sub-castes/related articles, not people.
# If an article says that "Person xyz belongs to this caste", the source should be provided. Otherwise, the statement should be removed. Also, in case of anti-caste people (such as many nationalists), the article should not begin with: "XYZ was an Indian Bhumihar/Dalit/etc...". Instead, there should be a statement in bio: "XYZ was born in a Bhumihar/Dalit/etc family".
But I know this is wishful thinking, and hardly anybody will agree with it. So, here is another set of proposed guidelines:
#Creation of caste-based lists and categories should be highly discouraged. The :Category:Indian caste system should be maintained by Wikipedia:WikiProject India and any major changes should be discussed. You can't have official sources for most of these lists, as the Government of India documents only SCs/STs/OBCs. Also, inclusion of anti-caste nationlists such as Ramdhari Singh Dinkar and Swami Sahajanand Saraswati lists such as Famous Bhumihars (on the grounds that they were born in Bhumihar families) should be considered wrong.
#If lists are created, they should not consist of any unsourced items. Also the sources should not include sites/groups/forums dedicated to that particular caste (because they list almost every famous personality as theirs).
#The caste categories should consist prefereably of sub-castes and related articles, not people. If a biography article is categorized in such a category, sources should be povided on the article page.
I strongly suggest that we have an official set of guideline for this caste-related stuff, as a part of Wikipedia:WikiProject India. The guidelines can be decided by discussion and voting. utcursch | talk 05:59, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Utcursch's views

message: Your logic sounds good. If there are any lists at the present times, no red links should be permitted, and each person should have a reference proving they are indeed from that community or clan (caste).Bakaman Bakatalk 22:44, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Response to Utcursch

message: The initiative for discussion by Utcursch and Bakasuprman is excellent. By and large, their logic and arguments are also quite sound. However, I disagree on 2 points - (1) Go on case-by-case basis. It is not groundless to create articles, lists and categories based on castes, but there must be good sources and convention to justify it - no WP:OR, nothing that violates WP:RS or WP:POINT. (2) we must not develop a guideline through WikiProject India. This is vital - no group of editors based on nationality, religion, etc. should determine which content is advisable to create or not. I completely understand that our motives will be clean and our restrictions minimal. But we cannot create a guideline that inhibits the creation of new content. We don't, and shouldn't have this power. In addition, it will be a pain to change the guideline in due course of time if mandated by new developments. New crops of editors will look at things a lot differently. 
My advice is, stick to the fundamentals - WP:RS, WP:NOT, WP:NOTABILITY, WP:CITE, WP:NPOV, WP:OR. These provide ample protection against articles that are poorly referenced, inherently biased or intended to prove a WP:POINT. Wikipedia's standards provide excellent protection against content that is questionable. No new criteria or guideline should be created by a smaller group of editors. To deal with fresh cases that may arise from time to time, begin with WP:AGF and work through discussion and consensus-building. No knowledge is unwelcome here. But that which is fake is not knowledge anyway. Rama's arrow 01:41, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments by Rama's Arrow

message: I have found the caste pages troublesome throughout my time at Wikipedia. The desires of vandals and POV-Pushers editing these pages can be summarized as.
:a) to promote and glorify the history of their caste
:b) to denounce and defame members of other castes.
:c) to announce that famous Indian personalities are of their caste.
This often gets out of hand, because enforcement of Wikipolicies cited by Nirav above aren't being adhered to. Basically, what I'm getting at is people love creating these lists and probably won't stop just because we decide over here that we shouldn't let them. So, what is the solution? The creation of categories to divide people amongst castes is something I am opposed to. Firstly, it's very hard to get people to provide sources when working with categories, as one has to end up tracking down addition of categories on many different pages and we end up in a bit of a mess. It also gives undue weight to the caste system, which is diminishing in India. So let's keep it to lists.
Maintaining lists can be hard as well, but we need to be especially strict. We have some pages dedicated to last names associated with a caste (eg. List of Khatri last names), I say we should be strict on these pages to prove that these last names are indeed the caste they are meant to be. There are some sites that can help here, such as Ancestry.com, which can give us the caste for Malhotra, Arya, Basu etc. etc. It would follow logically that people with any of these last names can be placed in the lists for their respective castes.
Now, not all surnames can be researched, in which case one would have to find a reputable source that states that a particular person is indeed of a particular caste. If this source is not provided, then names should be deleted almost instantly. One could easily source sites like Ancestry.com as we are pretty sure of many people's surnames. There's nothing wrong with redlinks as long as the people pass the test of notability. A few restrictions need to be placed on this list, Dalit activists who have converted and renounced their caste are no longer famous Dalits. If one has renounced the caste system and their caste, they cannot be labelled as part of a caste. For the most part, I think many Indians would know their caste (at least a broad caste, such as Brahmin, Kshatriya) and if they have not officially renounced their caste then they can be noted as part of this caste.
Now, note that all these comments are based on the fact that we can't control these lists from appearing. If one can have List of Hindus, List of Catholic American entertainers then people have justifiable incentive to create a List of Nairs. If you guys have a way of keeping these lists out of the war forever (and stopping them from being created on pages, see Khatri#Distinguished Khatris) then that would be ideal, but I don't think that's very easy to do. Nobleeagle  [TALK] [C] 06:56, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Nobleeagle's views

message: *My logic:Category Dalit is a valid one because it is not just about caste, it is about a social condition, that is notable and verfiable. RaveenS 23:13, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: RaveenS views

message: Lets scrap list of brahmins, list of dalits, list of kshatriya because those are way too large. We can think of Iyer, Nair, Bhumihar more as clans or tribes and keep them in the mold of List of Bengali people, List of Tamils, etc. I think caste based categories are atrocious and require way too much policing. If lists are ripe for cruft, cats are ripe for more malicious things like mislabeling that would appear on the article and possible defamation.Bakaman Bakatalk 02:19, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bakasuprman's response to all

message: *I full agree with  Rama's arrow.Let us stick to the fundamentals - WP:RS, WP:NOT, WP:NOTABILITY, WP:CITE, WP:NPOV, WP:OR.Any new criteria or guideline created by a smaller group of editors may not be binding and it would be difficult to advise new editors.Having said that in my view the lists with no red links should be ok for now.Shyamsunder 21:03, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Shyamsunder's views

message: :List of clans of notable people of certain social groups should be retained. A clan has historical significance. The list should not reflect caste bias. If a list says such and such caste is higher or lower be deleted or modified. Normally people of that particular group see a caste list. Others only see when some thing is to be verified. Caste based categories reflect caste bias so should be discouraged. A list already is divided into sections so we need not to increase categories on caste basis. A list should contain entries with inter wiki links. This entry should have some external source verification to be cited. List should not have red entries.burdak 08:39, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: LRBurdak's views

message: I think you have a very good plan, and your proposal seems to make the most sense once we consider WP:BLP and WP:V.Bakaman Bakatalk 23:26, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bakasuprman response to LRBurdak

message: I have placed a move template (with the discussion poll section), in its talk page, to move it back to its original name. As suggested in WP:RM. Thought anyone interested should know. --hydkat 14:03, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: update to all those interested: Hyderabad, India been moved to Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. It was basically the result of a new poll conducted. (the result of the previous one was not move). --hydkat 11:31, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Hyderabad (India)]] has been moved to [[Hyderabad, India]] 

message: There is a on-going discussion about improving collaboration in the India project. As part of the discussion, we are proposing a redesign of the noticeboard page as a portal. This will improve and increase visibility to various activities in the projects. The proposed design page is at Indian Wikipedians' notice board. Please check and comment. Thanks, Ganeshk (talk) 05:41, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed redesign of the notice board 

message: Add your additional comments:
* Since there was no objection to the move, I moved the noticeboard to the new portal design. Please let me know any quesitons or issues. -- Ganeshk (talk) 23:46, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: Pardon me if I sound ignorant.. but the place referred to in Attukal appears to be the same as Attingal. Can someone check? As far as I know, Attukal is the Tamil name for a kitchen implement used for grinding. The Silent Contributor 14:12, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Attukal & Attingal are two different places. AND yes you are pardoned.-Bharatveer 14:25, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Bharatveer is right: they are different places. Btw, Attukallu is a kitchen instrument even in Malayalam.--thunderboltz(Deepu) 14:47, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Attukal is a place in Thiruvananthapuram city, where the famous Attukal temple is located. Attingal, on the other hand, is another place lying on the suburbs of the city(or so, I think). rohith 15:39, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attukal? 

message: Please see this This user has been harrasing and bothering and pushing his POV (escaping 3RR rule as well) Talk:Belgaum, Talk:Belgaum_border_dispute are few of his misdeeds. I request a strict action against Sarvagnya. What furthur steps should be taken?Mahawiki 19:13, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Regarding this matter, I would like it if some admins from here keep an eye on the articles for a while as it is getting too late in Ahmedabad. Also keep an eye on AN too. - Aksi_great (talk) 20:14, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sockpuppets confirmed.what to do next? 

message: It seems the S.I.E.S_High_School article is the target of someone's personal grudge. At least twice has it been vandalised - the person keeps changing the fees information to say that the school is expensive. I am an ex-student of the school and know that the fees are minimal. However that may have changed, but this user - who is known only by his/her IPs (83.219.101.152, 83.219.104.35) - keeps changing the fee information without providing any sort of reason or reference. I request the WikiProject India moderators/admins to look into this. I have posted this notice here, since the school article has been made part of the Indian WikiProject. For the moment I have reverted the vandalism, but something more permanent needs to be done. Thank you. Rohitbd 05:05, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism in [[S.I.E.S_High_School]] article. 

message: Mahawiki is thinking of departure of this bad-faith ridden, impolite, politics-infested, ungoverned world of English wikipedia.Mahawiki has been extremely unhappy at anti-Maharashtra face of wikipedia and pushing of opposition propoganda at sensitive articles like Belgaum border dispute. Kannada users have being using sockpuppets to seek concession of WP:3RR rule, build fake consensus and harrass opposing editors.They moved in groups and hijack the article keeping no option but to break the 3RR rule and get blocked or stay quiet and give in to their vandalism.User:KNM, User:Naveenbm, User:Sarvagnya(which is confirmed) and god know how many sockpuppets of them are the players! Added to that is ignorance and partisan attitude of so-called admins who extremely prejudiced who propogate injustice by defending the likes of users like User:Sarvagnya and his Kannada-emphatic troops.The mosy recent example of this is when User:Arya_Rajya_Maharashtra was blocked for its very likely being a sockpuppetmaster and Sarvagnya was spared even after he being sockupuppetmaster of User:Gnanapiti WAS CONFIRMED.
Mahawiki says :its time to take a graceful exit while my innocence and my point has been proved. Maharashtra or Marathi cannot be defamed by wikipedia and just because some nonsense is written here. Belgaum doesnt go to Karnataka just because Kannadis push their POV at belgaum_border_dispute. There's no point to stay here when shameless trolls roam unapologetically even after serious charge of sockpuppetry is being proven and incapable admins buy his claims of- we used same laptop!, he moved to other city!!. It has been proved umpteenth times that there is a way to make wikipedia work as u want.IF you dont know that you should not work in wikipedia. Seriously I havent understood how wikipedia system works and truth disperses...
Mahawiki signs off- Good-bye and happy trolling!!
Mahawiki 06:45, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I really wonder how mundane would life be without you people. Adios. — Nearly Headless Nick {L} 13:01, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hogbit bartini! also Punha bhetu!-- Ganeshk (talk) 03:27, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hogbit bartini, but only if you're leaving too. ;-) --Xiaopo (Talk) 07:19, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Hogi banni is optimistic to an unreal degree in most such cases, believe you me! Punha Bhetuya is definitely more the trend. ImpuMozhi 01:29, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Farewell,wikipedia. 

message: I ask for input and views on an idea I've had to improve productivity on WP:INCOTW and perhaps the wider WP:IND and other India-related wikiprojects. We're having some trouble attracting participants, especially from the growing numbers of new Indian and India-interested editors. While Ganeshk's outreach initiative is the best way to build a communication network, I have something a bit radical to suggest: 
For INCOTW, we create a list of editors from WP:IND's member list and those interested in INCOTW (being careful not to pick newbies who are not acquainted with WP:IND and teamwork). Then using random draws, we compile a team(s) of 4-5 editors. These editors will be charged with producing 1 FA on a topic that they should decide between themselves. They will have 1 month to do this (1 week is impractical in growing an article, much less FA'ing it) - alternatively, they can have 2 weeks to write a GA - upto them. We can also run such a system collaterally with the regular nom-and-vote system.
The same idea of random draw can be used to select editors to work on specific jobs that need doing, like deletion sorting, maintaining Outreach, running INCOTW, doing the various jobs on Wikipedia:WikiProject India/to do. An editor who is picked is given the responsibility for 2 or 4 weeks (depending on the job). Editors on wikibreaks are not eligible for random selection and those selected may choose to decline the chance, whereupon someone else is selected. 
We can also create a rewards list - barnstars, an "India editors hall of fame," etc. What thoughts? Rama's arrow 15:56, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, this is quite close to WP:PINQ (just realized!), which is frequented by many editors and is quite popular. Rama's arrow 15:57, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nirav, I back your suggestions. The only problem is that writing an FA requires a lot of patience and research which not everyone may have (you seem to be turbocharged in that area). I am willing to help out with Outreach for sure and can distribute the newsletters on a regular basis (reserving the easy job :) -- Lost(talk) 08:05, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Actually I disagree becoz its not appointing 1 person, but 3-4 editors to do the job. Most of the resources are available on the internet. Nevertheless, in appreciation of your point I had included the GA provision. I wouldn't say writing FAs is overrated, but its certainly not difficult for a team of editors. Rama's arrow 21:12, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Plus, its an India-related topic of their own choice. Rama's arrow 21:13, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rotational mechanism? 

message: Hi Indian wikipedians, I think we should also become part of local categories like Category:New Delhi Wikipedians to collaborate more effectively and locally. I am now seeing the (positive) trend of more and more locally relevant articles are being added to wikipedia and (thankfully) such pages have started surviving 'non notability criteria', thus it becomes more important to be part of such categories which can enhance and maintain local information as well (I see city/town wise Viki (Wiki) Clubs emerging out of wikipedia and such effort will help there).
This notice board is fine for topics spanning regions (e.g. 14'th Lok Sabha, Hindi Film Industry, Indian Railways etc) but not for state/city wise information, for such local data its better to use discusssion page of corresponding page (e.g. discussion page of Jhansi) and/or corresponding page(s) category (e.g. Category:Jhansi) and/or corresponding user category (e.g. Category:Jhansi Wikipedians)
Regards, Vjdchauhan 06:27, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: After seeing the recent Maharashtra vs. Karnataka fiasco splashed all over, I have my reservations dividing people further than India. I would prefer instead that we build portals and wikiprojects for states where our interests may lie. That would be a much more constructive way of adding meaningful content. Then even if I belong to Delhi, I can still contribute to Maharashtra and say Bengal. And personally I would rather be categorised as an Indian Wikipedian than a Delhiite Wikipedian -- Lost(talk) 07:08, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Lost makes a point. The marathi-kannada bakwaas is a good reason why not to. I would rather be categorized as a Hindu wikipedian than any of the above, and Indian by descent. Bakaman Bakatalk 16:31, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  One should get carried over by Marathi-Kannada fiasco, being part of local user category or not such things cannot be prevented not will it escalate it, it (local user category) will primarily help in keeping a tab on a set of pages and enhancing it collectiely and networking can also help to do positive things beyond scope of wikipedia. More localization of Wikipedia content and such categories and networking through it (all very positive things) will anyway happen/emerge over time, I was only trying to hasten it by acting as a catalyst :-) . Regards, Vjdchauhan 17:35, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I meant that the MK fiasco is something to keep in mind. Most indian users arent trolls , sockpuppeteers, or spammers. If you take the initiative, I'll support you, as will most Indian users. I will tell you that I dont live in India, and dont really feel the need to say where I am.Bakaman Bakatalk 18:24, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

text: We already have :Category:Mumbai Wikipedians, :Category:Wikipedians in Bangalore etc. Such categories are meaningful only if there are enough users from a particular region. They're mostly useful for meet-ups, rather than collaboration. Creating categories for every city unnecessarily doesn't serve any purpose. Discussions at respective category/talk pages anyway happen on Wikipedia and people who bother about those pages have them on their watchlist. Discussions on :Category:Bangalore, :Category:Jhansi or :Category:Mumbai won't invite much participation. We've some state-wise WikiProjects, but these are mostly inactive. Dropping a note about some dispute or asking for suggestion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Maharashtra hardly evokes any response. On, the other hand, this notice-board serves as a better platform. utcursch | talk 13:22, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Be part of local user categories as well

message: ALL INDIANS AND HUMANS PL. APPEAL TO MR.TERRYJ-HO IN STRONGEST WORD FOR HIS SUCH COMMENTS ON TALK PAGE OF Dmcdevit. Swadhyayee 14:21, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Look, it's becoming clear to me that if anything tarnishes the image of Hinduism or if anything is defended by Hkelkar or Bakasuprman, Terry-J-Ho will seize that opportunity to convey Anti-Hindu views. Nobleeagle  [TALK] [C] 04:05, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If you guys don't mind... I'm changing the heading: the previous one look terrible on my watchlist --hydkat 08:08, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Appeal 

message: An anon made this edit of accuracy I don't know. Could someone a) check that and b) clean/source the article better? I don't know enough about the topic to be at all helpful. JoshuaZ 21:22, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for knowledgable editors 

message: Here is a interesting stat. I created the following table from this page. Listed below are Top 20 projects with highest FAs. India came 3rd. -- Ganeshk (talk) 22:20, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: One should note however that there isn't a WikiProject Great Britain or WikiProject United States on that list. GizzaChat © 08:40, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The list is very misleading as it doesn't capture the effort done by Wikiproject concerned in bringing the articles to FA status. If we take this into account, I think that Military history, India, and Tropical Cyclone Wikiprojects would emerge with top honours. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 12:23, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top 20 projects with highest FAs 

message: I see duplication at Wikipedia:Notice board for India-related topics/It's new and Wikipedia:Notice board for India-related topics/New articles. Merge? -- Lost(talk) 08:23, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would suggest the title be "/New Article" but the layout should follow the other because of its simplicity. The "It's new" is also more actively updated. GizzaChat © 08:38, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

text: They are two different pages. It's new is a section of the India notice board. New articles is the archive page for the it's new section. Items on It's new page must be archived to the New articles page after 1 month. Hope that explains. -- Ganeshk (talk) 20:01, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplication 

message: Hi, there are two historical nonfree maps of India currently needing replacements: :Image:SungaMap.jpg and :Image:MauryanMap.jpg. I'm wondering if some of you talented mapmakers could get to replacing these. Thanks. howcheng  {chat} 22:48, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image replacement request 

message: If you are interested, please place your vote for the best among competing versions of a paragraph on the caste system in Hinduism. Vote at the bottom of the Hinduism discussion page here: []. Thanks! HeBhagawan 13:32, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Vote on caste

message: There is a Wikipedia-wide initiative to make the talk-templates smaller and reduce the clutter on talk pages. I have changed Indian project banner to allow for a parameter, small=yes. It will resize the template and move it to the right. You can see it working on Talk:India. Let me know if you have any questions. -- Ganeshk (talk) 06:09, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ganesh, will this need to bring any change in the way LostBot is tagging articles or do I continue in the same way? -- Lost(talk) 07:02, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No change on your side. You would continue tagging articles just like before. The small parameters is additionally added on talk pages where the clutter is noticed. This can be done manually. -- Ganeshk (talk) 07:06, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK thanks.. -- Lost(talk) 07:11, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project banner change 

message: Do you know what BK and KH stand for in Kangrali (BK) and Kangrali (KH)? Thanks for the help. -- Ganeshk (talk) 02:08, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question for Wikipedians from Karnataka 

message: Chezhiyan has made a great start with the November newsletter. We need more ideas and contributors. Please weigh in here. Lets roll out this issue ASAP!! -- Lost(talk) 06:09, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Newsletter! 

message: Can someone knowledgeable about the subject check the heap of original research at Mudiraju? -- Sundar \talk \contribs 10:33, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mudiraju 

message: is this info correct?--D-Boy 09:50, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Raja Sahasi II]] 

message: I've just attempted this edit. I need to get feedback regarding whether restoring Nichalp's original text is justified. The India article has sadly become cruft- and POV-laden. I fear that a successful FARCing of the article is not far off. Please do comment at Talk:India. Regards, Saravask 06:27, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I endorse it unconditionally. — Nearly Headless Nick {L} 10:30, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rollback to Nichalp's text at [[India]] 

message: A photo on one of the articles on my watchlist, :Image:McChicken India.jpg, has been marked for needing a freely-licensed replacement (it is a copyrighted promo photo). If anyone in India has a hankerin' for a McChicken in the near future, would you mind snapping a photo first? I would gladly owe that person a Wiki-favor. Cheers.  youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 13:27, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo request 

message: Hello all, I have made a proposal for Hindi Wikinews on Wikinews/Start a new edition. If you think, the launch of the project is worth doing, please support. Regards,  Shyam (T/C) 17:28, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Argh, updates hardly ever are made on the ताज़ी घटनाएँ on the Hindi Wikipedia and that project is just barely beginning to get moving. Though it's had great growth in the last couple months, it needs a ton of work in interface translation and streamlining and translating the help documents and even basic templates. It seems to me until that project is really humming along, that a Wikinews edition is just a distraction. But everyone should work on what they like to of course. - Taxman Talk 20:25, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal for Hindi Wikinews 

message: I'll direct everyone's attention to this WP:AN post and note that there are two actresses that share the single name Nargis, one from India and one from Pakistan. To facilitate disambiguation, I suggested that Nargis be renamed to Nargis (Indian Actress), Nargis (Actress) be renamed to Nargis (Pakistani Actress). The original Nargis should redirect to a disambiguation page, due to multiple persons with articles sharing this name. Torinir ( Ding my phone My support calls E-Support Options ) 23:29, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A small modification. The original Nargis article should be the disambiguation page rather than the redirect page. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 04:34, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Point taken. Torinir ( Ding my phone My support calls E-Support Options ) 22:57, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem on [[Nargis]] 

message: (posted on WP:IND) This stub has been proposed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals/2006/November to sort out . STTW (talk) 21:32, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  {{tl|India-scientist-stub}} 

message: I just submitted Portal:Kerala for peer review at Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Peer_review (comments, please!). The articles listed there don't seem to receive much feedback. What's happening? Everyone too busy?--thunderboltz(Deepu) 13:29, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Peer review at [[WP:INDIA]]