Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics/Archive 10

message: Kochi and Hyderabad are disambiguated from identical international city names by the title Kochi, India and Hyderabad, India. I stongly feel that this is reflects the US style of naming non-US cities. I feel that should be Kochi (India) and Hyderabad (India) instead. What do you think? Should this be put into our policy of city names? Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 14:38, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, context is always given in brakets. --hydkat 09:27, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I've fixed Kochi, Hyderabad and Puri according to these naming conventions. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 11:25, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambig city names 

message: 250px|right
Important: please . =Nichalp «Talk»= 16:23, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah,  I know, I'll be cropping it later. Please see the known issues on the image talk page. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 16:33, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Image now live! =Nichalp «Talk»= 06:20, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  India SVG map 

message: Delhi won is this week's Indian Colloboration of the Week with a record, 9 votes.  Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. - Ganeshk (talk) 07:47, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 9 votes, if all those guys contribute, it should be FA in no time. Nobleeagle  (Talk) 07:51, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I too am confident that this would be a FA article soon. The subject content deserves to be a FA as Delhi is a notable city in the world. --Siva1979Talk to me 15:21, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  INCOTW - Delhi 

message: This stub needs more context. Thanks.ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 05:39, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like a candidate for AfD. Tintin (talk) 05:45, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article was founded today, perhaps the writer has some more info to come in but didn't have time or something. Nobleeagle  (Talk) 06:19, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It is a family name. I don't think the family is quite famous enough to get noticed on wikipedia. --  thunderboltza.k.a.Deepu_Joseph |TALK 06:40, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: List of Nair Tharavadus contains links to seven articles. IMO except Paliam (members of which were chief ministers of the kingdom of Kochi), all the rest will fail a notability test. Is there any provision to move these under the article page (like List of Nair Tharavadus/Cheraparambath ) to get around the nn issue ? Tintin (talk) 18:20, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: List of Nair Tharavadus itself is very difficult to verify. And also having broken links for all those entries is like inviting new users to start nn articles. --Raghu 19:05, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Cheraparambath]]

message: This is on AfD. It appears to be a family history of some people.ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 06:54, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article got deleted as a vanity page. Also, the lack of references contributed to the demise of this article. --Siva1979Talk to me 15:25, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Vakayil]] on AfD 

message: Found this while trolling about. I believe it is a redundant noticeboard. --  thunderboltza.k.a.Deepu_Joseph |TALK 11:45, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Proposed for deletion.--May the Force be with you!  Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 12:46, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I second the prod as a redundant page. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 15:12, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A redundant page. Delete it. --Siva1979Talk to me 15:19, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Indian Wikipedians' notice board]] 

message: What do people think of this website/organization. I came across this webpage in 2002 despite not being Hindu or involved in any of the issues which they are involved in and they website seems to have a lot of information. I'm a bit surprised that the deletes appear to have the number.ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 02:57, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Hindu Unity]] on AfD 

message: I'm working my way through the airports and came across this one. I got some information but right now there's not much. If anyone has any information that they could add especially the runway surface and confirm the runway length as I seem to be getting more than one. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 21:09, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Amausi Airport]]

message: Help add input for Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Indic)--Dangerous-Boy 05:09, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:   [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Indic)]] 

message: Can someone help me find out which out of these is the home kit of Churchill Brothers Sports Club, - the red one or the white one? Thanks. Aabha (talk) 19:15, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added the kits there. White one is the home kit and red is away kit. Manjithkaini 17:30, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Churchill Brothers 

message: Hi, anyone know anything about Maj-Gen Ranjit Lal Jetley? He looks slightly notable to me, but is up for deletion because there are no web sources and the article as written sounds like vanity. JackyR 14:21, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: He IS notable as the rank of a Major-General is one of the highest rank in the Indian army. However, if references is added, this article would be kept in Wikipedia. Unfortunately, I too cannot find information about him in the web. --Siva1979Talk to me 15:17, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: He need not be notable despite his rank. (2-star generals may not necessarily be notable). References are needed to ascertain notability. =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:36, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I may mention that the article does not even assert any great achievements. ImpuMozhi 16:50, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quasi-notable Indian on AfD 

message: Both "East India Company" and "Indian" are very high on the list of Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links. Perhaps some of us could step in and correct the disambiguation links there in our spare time. - Aksi_great (talk) 11:17, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not to mention the chaos that Indian Airlines has given everyone by rechristening itself. =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:03, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation pages with links 

message: I have started a peer review for Ahmedabad. Please feel free to add your comments there. - Aksi_great (talk) 14:58, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ahmedabad peer review 

message: I've listed the blank SVG map as a potential Featured picture: Please see: Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Blank map of India. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 06:50, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  FPC - blank India SVG map 

message: Culture of India is this week's Indian Colloboration of the Week.  Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. - Ganeshk (talk) 14:20, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  INCOTW - Culture of India 

message: He left this: neenga konjam moodalam in an edit summary when doing a revert at Ajith. I am wondering what this means?
Also, he keeps on leaving "Revert vandalism" continually each time he changes something he disagrees with, and feels that if doesn't conform with his POV, then it is "vandalism" - see Hindutva (Nobleeagle) and Pakistan (Dwaipayanc), and has also threatened Zora, Ganeshk and myself for trolling and vandalism at Ajith each time we remove POV terms such as "mega-star" "!" and "mega-hit" from the article.ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 03:26, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's tamil and it translates to, "Please shutup!" (approx.). He needs to understand that he does not own the articles. - Ganeshk (talk) 05:34, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Allow me to verify it. It is in Tamil and it means "Shut up". That particular user should be warned about this. --Siva1979Talk to me 05:53, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's dying down now that so many people are helping. I don't get it, he doesn't seem to understand any of our comments. His revert in Hindutva was pure Anti-Hindu POV! Moreover, we were lenient to him on his 3RR Violations and he didn't even get any official admin warning, but he just goes on reporting us to various admins and other authorities. Nobleeagle  (Talk) 08:24, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

text: " Don't talk with knowing what the matter is. cya."  Howz my tamil :-) -- Raghu 16:15, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks =Nichalp «Talk»= 17:00, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Roughly 'talk only about the things that you know'. Tintin (talk) 07:37, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

text: I think we need A) A Tamil trying to keep him peaceful and B) A Muslim trying to tell him to be nice to other religions. He's persistent in reverting Hindutva in order to incorporate his POV. I think we're being extremely nice to him considering he's reporting a different member of our community every second day. Nobleeagle  (Talk) 07:27, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've gently warned him in Tamil. If he doesn't change, we should take a strong action. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 08:13, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would like to point out, as I have to Nobleeagle on his talk page, that Sadaat made some edits to the Hindutva article that were clearly POV, but others that were very legitimate. In such a case, straightforward reversion of the edit will not help to bring him into the mainstream of editing. I suggest you shift his edits to the talk page and discuss them point by point. Hornplease 11:45, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Hi, I think Sundar seems to be a good mentoring candidate. Don't want to force him into anything but he's done a good job so far. I kind of interrupted the process though because Anwar came up to the compromise that he'll be good if all non-Tamils are barred from editing the articles. So I came in to tell him that he can't bar non-Tamils, possibly making him angry again. Nobleeagle  (Talk) 08:30, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I see Sundar's given up...I think he's islamophobicphobic, or has a fear that everyone is islamophobic. He Opposed Rama's Arrow's RFA just because he believes the username implies Islamophobia and support of Hindutva. Nobleeagle  (Talk) 08:09, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Translation please: aaru kodiye nalla sambalam thaan kannu. Thanks. Nobleeagle  (Talk) 09:18, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Literally: "six crores itself is a good salary my dear" - Cheers Parthi 19:55, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:Anwar saadat]] edit summaries. - translation? 

message: Anwar wants to add the words "Hindu leader" before Gandhi's name. I object strongly to this, as in the context of the discussion, it implies that Gandhi was a leader of Hindus only. However, everything I have ever read by and about Gandhi suggests that he saw himself as representing the people of India, both Hindu and Muslim (and Christian and Jain and Buddhist and ...), and that he would not have wanted to be described as a "Hindu leader" in a discussion of Hindu-Muslim tensions. I've reverted once or twice, I won't revert any more. Will other editors please get involved? Zora 02:38, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.  Gandhi shouldn't be a Hindu leader.--Dangerous-Boy 23:13, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Although born a Hindu, there's no evidence that Gandhi was partial towards his own religion. In fact there are numerous cases that show him in a very secular light. I strongly oppose the use of "Hindu leader" as an adjective for him. "Indian leader" sounds more appropriate. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 08:43, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: His assassin is linked to Hindu organizations, so some Hindus even believed that Gandhi was bad for them. Nobleeagle  (Talk) 07:30, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Some even continue to beleive so. As regards Anwar's edits, I would not comment, as it would be a waste of time. --Bhadani 11:49, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anwar Saadat at [[Partition of India]] 

message: I think we need to unify all the Portal:India/Selected articles related pages and procedures. Many of these pages are not sub-pages of Portal:India for e.g. Portal:India Today's selected article/May 2006 (even though Portal:India/Today's selected article is a subpage. Otherwise it will become hopelessly complicated. I would volunteer for the work, but I have no time.--May the Force be with you!  Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 04:46, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This way it looks like it refers to "India Today"'s Selected article. I can volunteer to work on them. Should I start? -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 04:52, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think so. I'll try to help as I'm online right now.--May the Force be with you!  Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 05:38, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Turns out that there was only one. Sorry for the trouble.--May the Force be with you!  Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 05:49, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uniformity required at the Indian portal 

message: Hi, Rajiv_Gandhi_Khel_Ratna is on FLC. Please give it an up or down with comments. --Gurubrahma 11:06, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Before I become inactive - FLC 

message: Someone is planning to replace the current dap with a link to some anime character. Have a look at the discussion on AfD! Hornplease 06:18, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Shikari]] on AfD 

message: Isn't there supposed to be some deadline of articles on WP:PINSAC? Satyajit Ray has been there for 2 months and Fundamental Rights for 1 month.--May the Force be with you!  Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 17:39, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The trouble is that people don't take part in the discussions. Unless the topics are discussed in detail, it is not possible to say for sure whether the articles are suitable or not. The condition for selected picture candidates is even worse. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 18:42, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Indian cricket team has also been there for approximately one month. Nobleeagle  (Talk) 08:01, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time-period on [[WP:PINSAC]] 

message: I think User:Anwar saadat is stalking me. He suddenly entered Rajesh Khanna, Hindutva, Indian cricket team and Major power, articles which he previously had no interests in. But he did not edit or contribute to these articles, just reverted my edits. Is there an official place to report this?? It's annoying to think that your edits aren't going to last 'till tomorrow because some guy is going to revert them all single-handedly. Nobleeagle  (Talk) 07:59, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Have you heard of a RFC for user conduct? Be careful though and read the guidelines on the page. You shouldn't create one unless you are very sure. GizzaChat © 08:12, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I will wait, but I have no idea how he got involved in Indian cricket team and Major power. His comments on the Major power talk page were that of one who is completely uninformed. Nobleeagle  (Talk) 08:17, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Or actually, he's worse than some people that are listed on that page. But the thing is that Sundar made efforts to make him good, so I don't want to ruin his efforts by reporting him with all those other delinquent editors. Nobleeagle  (Talk) 08:37, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stalking me 

message: Sholay won is this week's Indian Colloboration of the Week with a record, 11 votes.  Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. - Ganeshk (talk) 23:25, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  INCOTW - Sholay 

message: I have been trying to make a non-image based India's flag in text format only. I have currently made it to almost near completion but there's an issue. It looks fine in "Preview" but after saving, it distorts. Can anyone fix that. The code for it is given below. You will need to copy it from edit window as "nowiki" or "pre" tags don't display it correctly:
 India is Great       0     
-Ambuj Saxena (talk) 07:26, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  India's flag in Wiki Markup 

message: User:Babub has created :Category:Hindu politicians on 14 May. I feel that this category is too POV and will not add any value to the politician articles. Therefore I have nominated the category for deletion. Please put your comments there. - Aksi_great (talk) 19:55, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I endorse your views. --Bhadani 11:44, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category:Hindu politicians 

message: I don't know if this is notable enough for WP. It seems like a medical student society social event.ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 05:27, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Should be merged into the AIIMS page, imo. --  thunderboltza.k.a.Deepu_Joseph |TALK 05:33, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The content currently present can allow merger. However, if in the future, for the development of AIIMS page (like for going to FA), it will be required to re-create the page to dump the excess (and not so relevant) material. In any case, you should put up a  notice on the page for people to see and discuss. The issue of notability can also be discussed better in the article's talk pages rather than here. Also don't forget to put the notice on AIIMS page. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 05:50, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Furthermore, AIIMS page says: "Pulse the annual festival of AIIMS is biggest inter-medical festival of India if not the whole Asia". If a reliable source can be found for it, its definitely notable. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 05:53, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope, it should not be deleted, neither should be merged. As a matter of fact, the festival is notable enough. Almost all the college students of Delhi, and many students from other parts of India, know about the festival, just like Springfest in IITKGP. There aremany articles in WP that are much less notable than this one. Also, merging would unnecessarily increase the size of AIIMS. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 18:30, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Pulse (The annual festival of AIIMS, New Delhi)]] 

message: Hi all,
Since India has a lot of religions, I feel that adding this info here should be considered relevant. I want to bring to the notice of all that all userboxes in Wikipedia:Userboxes/Religion are up for deletion here. I feel that I should make this more informed as unlike other TfD, where the notice shows in the userbox, nothing shows here. Note that even in case of deletion, the userboxes will be substituted (and not removed). -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 06:46, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mass TfD 

message: Has anyone else noticed that since the text has been justified, all the Unicode Indic text on Firefox Windows is messed up? This is incredibly irritating!  Sukh | ਸੁਖ | Talk 11:22, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it has pretty bad effect. I suggest you change your preferences back to the original setting as nothing much can be done about it. If you are really worried, raise it in Bugzilla. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 13:10, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Text Justification 

message: Anwar saadat has nominated List of Indian districts for FLRC. Please put your comments there. - Aksi_great (talk) 14:58, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Indian districts at FLRC 

message: Hey! Our SVG blank locator map is now a featured picture!!!! Thanks for your support everyone. :) =Nichalp «Talk»= 17:29, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why doesn't the star show up on the image's page. Even the talk page shows it as FPC and not FP. I think the update is still required. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 17:36, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Issue resolved. Featured star added. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 17:44, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Furthermore, I think that now we should start using it extensively in the articles. I believe Nichalp and a few others were working on the locator co-ordiates issue. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 17:42, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

text: (after edit conflict) It is there now. Poor fellow Bcasterline has to make 10 edits to 10 different places for an FP promotion.- Aksi_great (talk) 17:45, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's now the base locator map at Kochi (India) and Madikeri. I hope someone can write a Python script to auto-populate the locator_x and locator_y params for all the cities using online geographical coordinate databases. Saravask 04:51, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured Pic 

message: Prakash, which is currently an almost random hodge-podge, has been PROD'd. Is it worth a proper article, and would anyone like to make it one? JackyR | Talk 00:51, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  PROD for Prakash 

message: What is the translation for 'sachivalaya' (Maharashtra in this case) ? Tintin (talk) 18:09, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. Tintin (talk) 08:20, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation 

message: Can some fix the wikilinks for the translate section to go to the main pages of their respective sections.--Dangerous-Boy 21:22, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  translate 

message: The following articles related to India have bounties on them. Please support wikipedia financially by bringing them to FA status: 
* Akbar  $15.00 USD
* Anekantavada  $15.00 USD
* Buddhism  $10.00 USD
* Kashmiri Pandit  $10.00 USD
* Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan $25.00 USD
* Maulana Abul Kalam Azad $25.00 USD 
* Nyaya  $10.00 USD
* Panini/Ashtadhyayi  $10.00 USD
deeptrivia (talk) 05:28, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bounties on India-related articles

message: There's a discussion going on at Portal talk:India/Selected articles#Confusion over Selected Articles over articles with confusion over "Selected Article" status. I am cross-posting it here as it is unlikely for people to have added the page to their watchlist. Please discuss so that the issue can be resolved. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 07:12, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion over Selected Articles 

message: Someone with knowledge in this might want to have a look at the latest edits. They appear to have POV concerns.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! - review me 04:35, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: They seem somewhat POV and seem to be written by a member or admirer of Hindu Unity. However, in some ways, Hindutva organizations like Hindu Unity have the views that are contained in this article. So I'm not making many changes. Nobleeagle  (Talk) 07:11, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Perhaps, I checked the history after you had reverted some of his edits, so I didn't see the whole story. I'll keep an eye out. Nobleeagle  (Talk) 07:52, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The same user's changing Bajrang Dal to his/her POV. Nobleeagle  (Talk) 08:06, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Hindutva]] 

message: Indian Postal Service is this week's Indian Colloboration of the Week.  Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.  - Ganeshk (talk) 16:00, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  INCOTW - Indian Postal Service 

message: I'm sleepy and tired of this entire article. So could someone please have a look at it and make it better. It survived deletion, so I guess the only option is to improve, I was thinking some prose, but it's so hard to do anything (not even referencing) without debate. Perhaps deletion may have been better, all this article basically does is state the obvious anyway. Nobleeagle  (Talk) 10:42, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[India as an emerging superpower]]