Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics/Archive 2

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# Arunram 08:07, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Enlisting support for Indian Collaboration of the week.

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# Arunram 04:29, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Enlisting support for Indian current events.

message: Perhaps your new category structure accommodates this, Arunram, but I've been noticing a number of articles on jatis (like Yadavs, Chettiars, Jats, and everything listed in Demographics of Nepal and Caste) that seem like they should be in a category together. Any objection to such a category? QuartierLatin1968 15:36, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: As you wish. I suppose I was imagining that Jatis would be a sub-category of Caste, so as to avoid that category getting swamped with jati articlesbut I can certainly understand wanting to avoid category proliferation! QuartierLatin1968 17:31, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Category:Jatis]]? 

message: The current COTW is History of science and technology history of science. One of the prominent sections is about Indian contributions. I am wondering if someone here has the expertise to look at the section and correct/expand it. It looks very poorly written and not comprehensive (remember, this is a history of science, not merely Western science), especially considering according to it there have been no contributions in the last millenium.--Dmcdevit 05:26, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: My mistake, the article has since been moved to History of science, where there is absolutely no text in the India section. PS: last week's COTW, the so-called history of music, turened into an almost solely Western music article, with a token section on India, China, and Persia. I hope someone can make sure that doesn't happen again.--Dmcdevit 17:37, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Help for COTW

message: I have just proposed that the Calcutta article be moved to Kolkata. Feel free to add your discussion and/or votes for or against this proposal. — Knowledge Seeker দ (talk) 08:32, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested move: [[Calcutta]] &rarr; [[Kolkata]] 

message: The India article is in danger of losing its FA status. I would call on all editors to take care of the objections raised. See Talk:India; Featured article removal candidates.
What is needed is:
# A good copyedit.
# References to facts and figures
# Non copyright images to replace images of the Taj, history and infosys. Nichalp 18:45, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
:The point about "$EVENT was not mentioned" seems to be somewhat bogus. It's all been covered in History of India anyway. But I'm more concerned about some subjective statements (eg Living in a pluralist, multilingual and multicultural society, Indians are largely tolerant and peaceful). Also, I too was under the distinct impression this was the second fastest growing economy (behind China), but Factbook lists it 16th (admittedly this particular list gives no useful information, but was there some hidden constraint behind that "second fastest" statistic? Growth in real monetary terms as opposed to percentage maybe?). Will edit this later today for references and statistics. -- Brhaspati (talkcontribs) 19:58, 2005 Mar 28 (UTC)
::I have a few pictures I might be able to supply. I think I have one of the Taj Mahal we could use, although it is not as good as the one in the article. What type of pictures do you want for history? I have one on :Image:Mehrangarh Fort.jpg and maybe some others that might work; when I get home I can look through and upload some of them. — Knowledge Seeker দ 20:03, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I just went through most of the article and did minor copyedits. I dont think there needs to be anything added in terms of content to the article. Its fairly comprehensive and its a matter of personel opinion as to what needs to be further  mentioned. I removed the 2nd largest economy from the article and replaced it with one of the fastest growing economies, unless we find some really authoritative ref. about the 2nd largest economy. The things that the article lacks according to new FA is references, which according to the talk page of articles for removal, should first have been noted on the talk page of this article before being nominated for removal. The images with dubious CP can be removed for now, until better images are found. kaal 22:10, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  URGENT --  INDIA Page 

message: and  should be made complementary so that only one is ever needed o a single page. When both are on a page (see Hindustani classical music (and shouldn't that be Classical Hindustani music??) ), it looks way cluttered (though better now that one has clear:both, preventing them from displaying side-by-side). Circeus 15:50, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)
=== Attention: controversy! ===
I've recently put up two articles on rather vexed topics, the Indian Emergency (which is currently the name for Indira's State of Emergency; would people like to move it elsewhere?) and the Mandal Commission. Because these are matters of such controversy, I'd like to encourage as many people as possible to have a look at them and edit them where they see fit. I've tried to strive for balance, but somehow you're never quite as NPOV as you try to be! (In particular, the points of view described in Mandal Commission need attribution; I'll do some sniffing around, but I'd appreciate help.) Thanks! QuartierLatin1968 15:26, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heads up 

message: I've recently put up two articles on rather vexed topics, the Indian Emergency (which is currently the name for Indira's State of Emergency; would people like to move it elsewhere?) and the Mandal Commission. Because these are matters of such controversy, I'd like to encourage as many people as possible to have a look at them and edit them where they see fit. I've tried to strive for balance, but somehow you're never quite as NPOV as you try to be! (In particular, the points of view described in Mandal Commission need attribution; I'll do some sniffing around, but I'd appreciate help.) Thanks! QuartierLatin1968 15:26, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attention: controversy! 

message: If anyone is interested in writing articles on Amber Fort or Jaigarh Fort (both in Amber, India), I have some photographs I could add (I've started posting some at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/India). I don't know enough to write them although I'll try to do some research. — Knowledge Seeker দ 04:38, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested articles 

message: I've worked on the Goa article, I've listed it on Peer Review. What do you think?   == 20:29, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)
:There is an article about the Inquisition in Goa, but I guess that requires some cleanup and NPOV. If possible, can you cleanup that as well since this article could have references to that? Calvinkrishy 05:07, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)
::Thanks for the page. I'll try and include some info, and if I have the time will cleanup the page.  == 20:51, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)
:::I have done some clean-up on the page, but more information could be added (still a stub).--IMpbt 18:24, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Goa