User talk:DaGizza

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[edit] User talk:Hkelkar

Is he on some admin-wiki break?--D-Boy 05:46, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thedrunkendiale

I am wondering of this site could be considered an internet phenomena or not. I know it is rather popular and extremely humorous. It features a guy who holds a weekly contest offering $100 via PayPal to the individual who leaves him he best Drunk dialing message on his voicemail.

I did not add this site to this article yet for fear that people would think I am self-promoting. I have no affiliation with the site and can’t find any direct marketing used to purchase products. I just think it is very funny and well known around my area.

I look forward to some objective input before I add, or do not add this site to the list. Take a look for yourself, you be the judge…

Wikipedia is not an advertising service. Promotional articles about yourself, your friends, your company or products; or articles written as part of a marketing or promotional campaign, may be deleted in accordance with our deletion policies. For more information, see Wikipedia:Spam. (Would this apply?)

http://removedspamlink

Thanks, 69.167.102.181

P.S. I posted the same message on User_talk:Wavy_G for more opinions. Look forward to hearing from you...

[edit] Wikipedia:Vernacular scripts

just incase you are interested in the discussion. No one else is really giving input.--D-Boy 03:19, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume I, Issue 3 - December 2006

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[edit] Hindu

Hi, DaGizza

I was wondering whether you or other editors can replace the image (i.e., Khajuraho at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu#Religion_for_the_common_Hindu with a non-sexual image? It gives the wrong impression about the article, religion for the common Hindu.

Thanks, Raj2004 14:45, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My answers

Hey DaGizza. I'm in the process of answering the questions on my page as you may now see, and hope to wrap things up this morning over the next few hours as time permits. I just wanted to let you know that I have every intention of answering them as soon as possible. Thanks, Can't sleep, clown will eat me 09:25, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Hello DaGizza,

I just wanted to thank you for wishing me a happy admin day :-) Cheers! --May the Force be with you! Shr e shth91 13:20, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:ToTheTeet

I noticed this on User talk:ToTheTeet. [1].

Please see:

This has been going on for almost two weeks. Let me know you have any further questions. --Aude (talk) 20:31, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Birthday dude!

Hungry? Here's a little snack for you on your birthday, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day, DaGizza!

Hello there! I'm proud to wish you a happy birthday! Make this day last, and live it out to the fullest! ¡Adiós amigo! K yo cat^{¿Qué tal?♥meow!} 00:06, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday DaGizza! | AndonicO ^{Talk | Sign Here} 10:28, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

I wish you a Happy Birthday! I hope you have a magnificent day! You are a year older now, enjoy it! | AndonicO ^{Talk | Sign Here} 10:28, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Save me a piece! Congratulations once more from AndonicO!

Geogre just lucky I guess." (From [[George of the Jungle) :-) | AndonicO ^{Talk | Sign Here} 11:46, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday! – Heave n's Wrath ^Talk 06:14, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Toast

Happy birthday Gizza. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:26, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Birthday Committee, myself, and B e a rly 541 wish you a very happy birthday! Enjoy your special day. Hooray! --Randfan _{please talk talk to me!}

This guy is your personal B-day red panda! Congrats for being one year older and staying with Wikipedia this long. Much too many people create new accounts, do a few minor edits, and just quit. Happy B-day! Randfan 20:43, 16 November 2006 (UTC) _{so how does it feel? :)}

Happy b-day! Cheers! :) —Rand fan!!

[edit] Amazing

I did not know that Buddhism's history in it's original land now redirects to it's decline!

One more thing, the decline article is so poorly sourced that most of it will have to go, all that will be left will roughly equal a section. We can have Buddha's birth, Ashoka, Ashoka's messengers and other Sharamanas taking Buddhism to China, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Siam etc. the decline, revival and the works in the new section. Condensing the decline part will not be a problem.

I think we should rename and shift content. I will need a couple of days to come up with a history of Buddhism in India article since I'm busy till tommorow. I will experiment in my sandbox, please feel free to use it.

Freedom skies 08:13, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday. A drink?

Freedom skies 08:25, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hinduism Barnstar

Hindu Barnstar#2
Project Hinduism

Hi DaGizza,

I came across Srkris and your proposal for a Hinduism Barnstar, and think it's a great idea. Because of the feedback there, I put together another version for people to consider. Here it is for you to look at, and Happy Birthday! ॐ Priyanath 16:03, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy B'day mate!

Aye Girik,

Happy B'day! Its been a long time since i've talked to you! How have you been?

अमेय आर्यन DaBrood^© 16:48, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Birthday To You !!!!

Esperanzian New Rock Star wishes you a very Happy Birthday!!

A very Happy Birthday to you, bro ! Keep Rockin' all the way ! --N R S | ^T/_M\^B 17:58, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Wish you a very happy birthday. Have a blast!! - Aksi_great (talk) 17:58, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Happy b-day buddy! Cheers. — Seadog (Talk) 19:49, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Have a wonderful birthday. -- ßott e siηi ^(talk) 22:29, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Happy birthday!!! Hope you had a wonderful day -- Samir धर्म 06:34, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy birthday!

Thanks for the greetings. Wish you a belated happy birthday too. :) =Nichalp «Talk»= 13:30, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your input is requested

Your input would be appreciated at this Request for Comments. Kelly Martin (talk) 17:02, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, DaGizza! Wishing you a very happy birthday and an awesome upcoming year, from the Birthday Committee and myself! Don't forget to save us all a piece of cake! --lov e laughterlife♥^talk? 08:25, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Another version for the Hindu Barnstar

Hindu star#3
Project Hinduism

Hi DaGizza, Here's another idea for the Hindu Barnstar Proposal. I don't know when this has to be decided, but I'm willing to tweak it next week if someone wants to propose something different. ॐ Priyanath 05:39, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] One article

The birth of Siddhartha gautama, his travels, the Sangha, emperor Ashoka, Bodhidharma, Bodhiruci, Buddhabhadra (Batuo), Yogacara in Gandhara, Thousands of Indian monks in China for translation of Buddhist works, Shramanas taking Buddhism's message to foreign lands, Indian influence on East Asain culture (Sun Wukong and Guan Yin, which were influenced by Hanumana and Avalokiteshvara respectively and Pagodas influenced by Buddhist Stupas), the non-conversion principles of Hinduism in hindu kingdoms abroad which lead to ready acceptance of Buddhism by the natives who took to Indian culture but could not convert to it's religion, the invasions, decline, Ambedekar's version and the works need to be put in chronologically and with proper sources.

The articles in their present form are very oddly written and very poorly sourced. This is in addition to them claiming to address a topic and addressing only one aspect of it while not even mentioning the others. The articles also are based on hearsay. This seems very odd, some of the editors involved in this are experienced Wikipedians who could at least contribute to links, language and grammer.

I'll get to unifying the articles and seeing to it that they remain unified in a few hours. Surprisingly enough, both History and this article were created by Nat Krause. I'm surprised, I have talked to him before and I could only see genuine compassion in what he did.

Freedom skies 08:32, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A very Happy Birthday to you!

Hey Girik, been a long time! Happy Birthday! Enjoy! --May the Force be with you! Shr e shth91 09:30, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thank you DaGizza for your opinion...Yes I have always known that earning Featured articles is much, much better than having 50,000 edits. I was up late last night working on it and kind of hurried at the end. Cheers and once again I hope you hade a great b-day in the down under! — Seadog 13:19, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Footy Club

Hi, I am trying to introduce a club for rugby league supporters that will be more than just a wikiproject and help to encourage rugby league participation and article improvement. I have written down some of my thoughts about what wikileaguies should attempt to do and would be interested if you, like other rugby league supporters, would be willing to be involved on some level. [2], leave signage and thoughts on the talk page if you are interested. Cheers. --Rugby 666 08:21, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] for wp sikh editors

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Proposals/2006/December#.7B.7BSikh-bio-stub.7D.7D.2C_Category:Sikh_religious_figures The stub people wanted input from WP Sikh editors. While you're at it please check out {{User WikiProject Sikhism}} as well.Baka man 04:57, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Hkelkar

This case is now closed and the results have been posted above.

BhaiSaab (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log) is banned for one year.
Hkelkar (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log) editing under any name or anonymous ip is banned from Wikipedia for one year.
TerryJ-Ho (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log) is banned for a year for personal attacks, disruptive comments, edit-warring and incivility.
BhaiSaab is placed on probation for an indefinite period. He may be banned from any article or set of articles which he disrupts. All bans to be logged at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Hkelkar#Log_of_blocks_and_bans.
Hkelkar and socks is placed on probation for an indefinite period. He may be banned from any article or set of articles which he disrupts. All bans to be logged at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Hkelkar#Log_of_blocks_and_bans.
TerryJ-Ho is placed on probation for an indefinite period. He may be banned from any article or set of articles which he disrupts. All bans to be logged at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Hkelkar#Log_of_blocks_and_bans.

For the Arbitration committee, Cowman109^Talk 06:04, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Faith Freedom International

What do you want rewritten? What is the problem? — coelacan talk — 08:12, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History of Buddhism in India

Kindly take a look. I created the article in a hurry and much more needs to be added in , mythological and architectural influences in particular, which I will add in a bit. If you could possibly check the article and make corrections (in language in particular, my tone is not enclyclopedic) I'd appreciate it a great deal.

I'll work on a complete rewrite of the "Decline" article (found a lot of sources) ASAP. Given the amount of information available on the decline article, I'm having second thoughts about unifying it.

 Freedom skies 10:53, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Hinduism Award

Hi DaGizza, I fixed the version #4 of the WikiProject Hinduism Award that some people couldn't see. I don't know what the next step is to getting an award 'approved', or whether there is voting on a specific version. Or is this just an informal process? I'm also happy to modify any of the proposals if there's a strong consensus for that. ॐ Priyanath 00:24, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I notice that Srkris is going to be away for a while - this can probably wait until he returns and can give some feedback, since the first version was his. ॐ Priyanath 01:13, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Indian cricket team

OK, I'll probably be more active in a week or two and then we can finish up the FA drive for ICT. The thing about controversies in Wikipedia is that you can't just simply leave them and edit other pages once you're embroiled in them, because that means you allow a possibly biased editor to mislead the world. Nobleeagle ^{[TALK] [C]} 04:35, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks DaGizza.

Thanks DaGizza. The Barnstar has gone to right place. When you will stop adding fuel to fire, you will earn a Barnstar from me. Take it lightly. swadhyayee 04:46, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Revert of Aupmanyav's edit

Dear Friend, You reverted my edit. Where should I look for reasons for your reverting my edit? Did I mention something wrong? Aupmanyav 04:52, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

'Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism all share some traits in common with Hinduism (which is sometimes specifically called Orthodox Hinduism when contrasted with its associated, but non-Vedic faiths)' This is what is on the page, I realize the problem, and I only wanted to avoid acrimonious debates later as has happened in the past. The inference of the line is that buddhism, jainism, and sikhism are somehow new non-vedic strains of Hinduism as contrasted with the orthodox vedic hinduism. I think this representation would be more offensive to these people. When I mentioned 'Hindus do not consider buddhism, jainism, and sikhism (which originated in India) as different from them, though the adherents of these faiths may differ in this respect.', it was meant to show that the buddhists, jains, and sikhs, do not agree with the hindu view and do not consider their religions as part of hinduism, whatever the hindus may think. But I will accept the old representation, if people think that it is less problematic. I have however, always maintained that there is no need to mention non-hindu religions or sects, or their usage terms (like salvation or icons) on the hinduism page. [[Us er:Aupmanyav|Aupmanyav]] 06:37, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] reply

I cant read tamil, but i know the nagari alphabet.Baka man 23:02, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] redundancy exercises

Excellent idea; I'll do this when I can manage to find time. My plan is to create a series of "advanced" exercises that have a number of less-densely occurring problems, but you're right, one or two here would be good. Tony 00:13, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:your question

Hi thankyou for messaging.I will read your question possibly tommorrow on the History of India talk page.I will answer it as soon as possible.RegardsNadirali 06:04, 12 December 2006 (UTC)Nadirali

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