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[edit] Barnstar

Thanks ! Tintin 13:22, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Boston, Massachusetts

I am thinking of nominating this article for FA soon, but I need a final look before I proceed. Thanks. Pentawing 21:02, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] CBW RfA

Thank you for taking the time to vote on my RfA. If you have any concerns over my actions please let me know. Thanks CambridgeBayWeather 23:04, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Madhuri Mehta

Hello,

I want to thank you personally for your acting with great decency when you re-attached my grandmother's article on my personal page, instead of deleting it.

Nirav Maurya.

[edit] SC Seal

The image on the extreme left of http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/title1g.gif seems to be a seal. I found textual references about a seal, but no images. --Pamri • Talk 02:52, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Do you mean this? From what I have read, it is choosen by the Chief Justice. So it may even change every year. --Pamri • Talk 14:41, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
One lawyer I talked to today, suggestd using either the image in the URL I pasted above or the image of the Supreme Court below http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/new_s/juris.htm

--Pamri • Talk 18:22, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Renameuser function

Hello,

You wrote on Wikipedia talk:Changing username that the renameuser function was disabled. Do you know where it's possible to have news about it ?

It was discussed in IRC, but the only place on WP is here. User:Nichalp/sg 15:38, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Deepavali

Wish you and family Happy Deepavali.

--219.89.100.228 04:21, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank you. :) User:Nichalp/sg 15:30, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

I wish you a happy Deepavali, too. — Rickyrab | Talk 20:11, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Sorry about the outburst, but Wikipedia is driving me NUTS with those auto-logouts that should NOT be occurring. Somebody oughta DO something about this problem. — Rickyrab | Talk 20:13, 30 October 2005 (UTC) Rickyrab | Talk

Thank you. :) — Rickyrab | Talk 11:23, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Padma awardees

Hi Nichalp, hope you remember abt the discussion I had with you when you created the Category:Padma Bhushan awardees. After your suggestion, I've gone ahead and created the other two categories to complete the set. The categories, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri have been populated with 40+, 65+ and 100+ articles respectively. For most of the articles in the last category, it meant finding and entering the award information and then categorising it. btw, do u prefer Nicholas or is Nichalp ok? --Gurubrahma 18:26, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Great! Both names are fine. User:Nichalp/sg 18:53, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Quick question

Nichalp, a quick question: can any image that is found in a .gov website be uploaded? Thanks. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | WS 00:36, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | WS 21:42, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RfA

Hi Nicholas, Thanks for your lovely comments and your vote. I wasn't prepared for the public character assassination and general nastiness, and would never have agreed to the nomination had I known I'd be up for so much pain and embarrassment. It's turned WP from fun into distress, and has severely, and perhaps permanently, dented my enthusiasm for contributing. It's just not worth it. Cheers and thanks again for your support.Tony 06:52, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rivers of India

Nicholas,
I've done a major rewrite of this page and have subsequently created about a dozen articles related to it. Coments would be appreciated (if you have time). --You know who sends you peer review requests

[edit] Archiving of Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship

You archived several ongoing discussions on Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship that had edits today and yesterday. I realize the page was getting long, but archiving ongoing conversations seems...a bit out of line. I respectfully request you reinstate the conversations that had comments today, and perhaps those with comments dated up to yesterday. --Durin 19:18, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

  • I was referring in general. I've archived the page once myself, but the metric I used was archiving through to the point where a subsection had not been commented on for at least three days. There's scalability problems here; the page by any metric is going to be well beyond 32kb by the time next year. --Durin 11:46, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Necrothesp has set his email.

Just dropping you a note to let you know that Necrothesp has set his email, per your request at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Necrothesp. Cheers!  BD2412 talk 19:45, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Should I be an admin?

I noticed that I had admin powers now, but my RfA only had ~60% support. So did I get promoted by accident?--Shanel 19:53, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Waterfall Gully

I've made changes from the comments you gave, mind having another look and possibly expanding on what you've already said? Cheers, - michaelg 10:57, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

You offered to draw a map for the suburb. Appropriate reference maps are here, here, here and here.
Cheers, - michaelg 12:40, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
here's one for the outline of the suburb and here's one in relation to the city center. This one also might be useful!
Cheers, - michaelg 13:11, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
I'll be thankful for what we get. We're lucky enough to have you offer to do it anyway!
Cheers, - michaelg 13:30, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
I've changed a bit, to make it more accurate but great job!
  1. I've made the green bit the CBD itself
  2. I didn't know your original fonts or anything so please be nice in regards to the changes!
  3. Just hoping you could neaten it up so everything is standard as before.
  4. By the way, what program/s did you use to create this?
  5. Thanks!
Cheers, - michaelg 01:01, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
Delete any of the ones up to my final one, and if your final one is better, delete my final one too. - michaelg | talk 08:36, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
Justa sec, can you link me to your new image first before deleting Adel wgully map.png? Kill the other one. Cheers, - >>michaelg | talk 11:28, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
Hate to be picky, but you've labelled what is Greenhill Road as "Yarrabee Road". Yarrabee is simply a small offshoot of Greenhill Road in the suburb of Greenhill. If you want to correct this, it'd be great. Other than that, big thanks for now supporting! Cheers, - >>michaelg | talk 11:40, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thanks!

Thank you ever so much for promoting me! I know you're quite busy, so I appreciate you taking the time :-) Kirill Lokshin 12:53, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bye

Nicholas,

It was nice to know you a little over the last few months. In my memory, I wonder whether you are willing to promote some changes to the current RfA system, which I (and others) have found traumatic. My suggestions are somewhere on that abusive page. Tony 14:01, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

I do take it personally; looks like you're not prepared to do anything about it. Tony 19:41, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Adminship

Thanks Nick, but not in the immediate future. Tintin 19:06, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

I would. Thanks for asking. --Pamri • Talk 03:54, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
Yes sir..I have finished the formalities. Thanks for trusting and nominating me. --Pamri • Talk 17:06, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Congrats

Thanks for your congrats on my adminship! --Edcolins 20:04, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Template:PD-IndiaGov

User:Eugene van der Pijll claims that the Right to Information Act is only a FOIA-type act, and does not put Indian government publications in the public domain at all. The User has bought up the matter at Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems. Since the template PD-IndiaGov was initially created by you in Wikimedia Commons, I hope that you would look into the matter and resolve the dispute. --Deepak|वार्ता 17:34, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Done posting to the list. Are you subscribed to it? --Pamri • Talk 07:23, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks and wish you the same. If you can't recieve the mails, ping me & I will forward it to you. --Pamri • Talk 07:31, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Editing Talk:Chennai (comment)

Please see the addition suggested on this talk page and opine.

--Dore chakravarty 23:29, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Map of the 17 provinces

Dear Nicholas,

Yes it is true one could make a simpler map. I however personally think it is not that easy to make it better. You'll find many historical maps of the region at this time on the site:

http://www.zum.de/whkmla/histatlas/lowcountries/haxbelgium.html

One of the difficulty you're going to meet is that it is difficult to establish the exact border at an exact time. Those borders were not very stable depending on the alliances and wars with the neighbouring states. It is also difficult to know how to count the 17 provinces. Have a look at the article Seventeen Provinces and its discussion page for details about the controversy.

I think what should appear clearly on the map is the following:

  • The internal borders in order to show that there is no border corresponding to the current Belgo-Netherlandish border
  • A clear different color for the bishopric of Liege which does not belong to the 17 provinces

Vb 08:33, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RFA end-date

Thanks for pointing out the stamping/formatting problem with my RFA end-time. I wasn't 100% sure if it was the 'done thing' for me to fix this, or to wait and see if the nominator would. And nor am I, entirely, about when the exact end-time should be -- practice seems to vary somewhat between nomination time, acceptance time, and listing time (+7d). Anyhoo, done now (and going with the conversative (and I think logical) listing-time interpretation). Alai 00:55, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] your message

Nicholas, I don't feel betrayed by you at all, and I've comprehended the points you made. The problem is that the RfA process does result in personal comments as it is currently framed, and provides no protection for any of the participants. I was just totally unaware that it would be like that, and would never have aggreed to it if I had been. If there's any further need to talk, please use the email facility. Best wishes too. Tony 05:33, 1 November 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Happy Diwali!!

Image:Diwali.jpg
Happy Diwali!

Happy Diwali to you!!--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 08:04, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

No articles to review, but you should check this out:
India-related tasks | Indian noticeboard
v • e • d • h • w
v • e • d • h • w

--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 08:19, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Hi, thanks for you vote on the Canberra FAC. In reponse to your question, I like to let my articles sit around for a month or two to mature before I nominate them, that way I'm satisfied them and then there are no major changes to make when FAC come around. Since you're a bit of a Wiki wiz, I was wondering if you know how to add optional fields to templates. We need to know for Template:Infobox Australian City, help, if you know how, would be appreciated.--nixie 10:27, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

We want to add several optional parameters to Template:Infobox Australian City, including one for government (governemnt arrangements vary widely between Australia cities ) and on for the flag and crest (some cities don't have one). I got some instructions from SEWilco, but I really need to see it in practice to know how to do it myself.--nixie 01:17, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Photos

Hi Nichalp. Photos of an adult shoeshine boy, or boys, would be just as welcome, and would be a great aid in improving the article. Thanks! Proto t c 13:30, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Project Cricket

I'm willing to help with this project as much as possible, but i have looked through the article writing help thing, and i havn't got a chance of writing that confidently. I can help with recording some small videos and taking photos of bowling actions, and cricket grounds around the UK. I also ahve a few videos and images from test matches in England, and possibly one from a Gloucestershire County game. I can get a lot of county pictures during next summer, and also some Internationals, the England ones most likely.

Cheers. cc2003btw

[edit] Image:Des-1-KYM.jpg- copyrights

Images in the web site maintained by a software company has allowed saving emailing etc. If so can the images not be considered as free from copyright laws by Wiki policies? Your opinion please. Another administrator (Thuresson 10:20, 1 November 2005 (UTC))has said that it is not allowed and will be deleted.

Swathi Soft Solutions--Email is not getting connected for me to get clarification from them.

Details of web sites given here for information and check.

http://www.kym.org/tkrish.html

http://www.kym.org/tkvd.html

Above sites developed and maintained by

http://www.softsolutions.co.in/

--Dore chakravarty 21:00, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the wishes

Thanks for your wishes, and it really looks very odd on my part – to say you a happy diwali, after the event is over. However, we wikipedians can always celebrate the festival of light by doing something good here. --Bhadani 14:59, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Syed Mohammed Hadi

I came across the great grand-daughter of the man who scored the first hundred in Ranji trophy User_talk:Tintin1107#Syed_Mohammed_Hadi . I am thrilled ! Tintin 16:20, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RFA

Hi! As you know, your RFA bid did not receive the required level of support and I had to fail it. This does not mean that you cannot be an admin, you can try again some other time and reflect on what went wrong in this RFA. Regards, User:Nichalp/sg 18:54, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for closing the vote and thank you for the advice. You followed established procedures and conventions, of course, and I can have no complaint. Just one minor thing I'm wondering about - did you discount exactly two support votes or did you just not update the counter? :) It's a trivial matter, of course, I'd just like to make sure that the archive is accurate. - Haukur Þorgeirsson 19:12, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks! - Haukur Þorgeirsson 19:20, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Des-1-KYM.jpg

Thanks for reply. Difficult to understand. Please opine for my future references only, on the reply received from publisher, as under. Received reply from relevant WEB publisher as under,

Original Message -----

From: K S Sudhakar To: marc_d@softhome.net ; solutions@swathigroup.com Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 10:47 PM Subject: RE: Copyright-http://www.kym.org/contactus.html

The photographs used in KYM site are taken by the Executive trustee of KYM and he has permitted its usage for KYM website.

sudhakar

Above information with the following data given with the uploading, does it satisfy the requirements of WIKI please?

Photo taken from web site: http://www.kym.org/tkvd.html and maintained by http://www.softsolutions.co.in/ which allows saving and emailing etc. No copy right is mentioned. Hence assumed no copyrights exist.

--Dore chakravarty 21:00, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pseudo-RfC

Nichalp - Firstly how does one vocalise that? "Nee-Chulp"? "Nitch-alp"? Anyway. I've made a note that at the top that the nomination has failed. I've also asked that it be left open until roughly midnight, to allow for any extra input. As it's been very civil, cordial almost, I don't see the harm and I've drawn a lot of valuable input from the process. If, however, you're of the opinion that both no good can come of it and that damage will be done, show it the door. Unless you're looking for me to use the word "withdraw" to make it official? - brenneman(t)(c) 05:48, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi! I've removed your nomination. The problem is the pileon votes which will increase. RFA is the forum to ascertain the suitability of a candidate for adminship. For feedback, an RFC on yourself would be better. Having your nomination go on would be pointless IMHO, and unnecessarily increase the server load. Regards, PS I think the latter pronounciation would be fine. Nichalp is a combination of a few letters of my name, and surname. Regards, User:Nichalp/sg 06:01, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Oh. All right then. I must be honest and say that seems, well, overly officious. I'm aware that an RfC would be the place had I been seeking feedback, but here I was trying to elicit more of what had been forthcoming. As to the "pile on" I'm not sure how that's a problem, as if they had brought points that I could improve that hadn't been touched yet, that would be the point. Finally, server load... that leaves me gobsmacked. You've got a templated sig. I'm not fussed by the removal per se but, well, yeah. Gobsmacked. - brenneman(t)(c) 06:11, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Ok, I promise to listen to you if you promise to listen to my explanation the templated signature, deal?
    brenneman(t)(c) 06:38, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Template talk

This all comes with the caveat that I've not studied up on the mediawiki software at all, but all similar systems have some of the same underlying principles. Also I have no idea (not having done any homework on you) what you level of knowledge is. It's very wiki, because if I say something wrong, someone is sure to correct me!

Ok, when we type http:///en.wikipedia.org/wiki/foo into our browser of choice, three things happen. Ok, a lot more than three things happen, but we only care about three.

  1. The data is located
  2. The data is read
  3. It's processed to the screen

Each of these things take a certain amount of time and cycles. Location is independant of the size of the article, but reading and processing both scale. So location, consisting of scanning the indicies and moving the read head to the correct location of the correct disk, takes 50 server "units" say. Reading the data and processing each take one server unit per kb. This is just made up, but you get the drift.

My RfA page was 400 Kb, for total of 850 server units to display if there is no transclusion.

If there are {{}} on the page, it must perform another step. It goes and gets that page in exactly the same manner that it does a regular one. So a template that is 25 bytes takes 100 server units to display, in addition to whatever else must be displayed on the page.

Thus a page with 50 Kb plain and transcluding a 50 Kb template takes 150 units for the template and 150 for the plain text, 300 total. If the template had been converted into plain text via {{subst:}} it would have only taken 250 server units. That hypothetical fifty extra units is consumed every time someone refreshes (e.g. looks at) a page.

Every time a page with you signature template is refreshed, anywhere. 12658 edits, conservativly 75% have signatures, say only 50% of those on pages with any traffic, that's still a lot of refreshes. Or, if by removing my 400 Kb RfA you stopped it from being refreshed 100 times, you'd have saved 85,000 server units. If your 15 Kb sig was in only 100 places and each were refreshed the same 100 times, that's 800,000 server units or almost ten times the extra load placed on the box as you'd have saved. So that's why I got a bit shirty before, eh?

Of course, it is all much more complicated than that. Dynamic caching, incremental fetch, intelligent partitioning, it's a black art. But the basics are still true.

And what for? Use Preferences -> raw signatures, and never have to listen to guys like me whine again.

Thank you for indulging me!
brenneman(t)(c) 12:04, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Administrator

Just now I saw the list of Adm. and saw your name there indicating from 27 Sep 2004 (UTC).

I really appreciate your knowledge and interest and wish you all the success in your errand.

--Dore chakravarty 06:26, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for hooking me up with the promotion on my RfA! I hope to do good by all who supported me. Thanks for your time! --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 08:04, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Images

Thanks. Done as suggested. Doubtful whether they will spend so much time on this. I may have to forget. I do not want to trouble you more on this taking away your precious time.

Is it worth for me to register under preferences at this age, in my last lap of journey?

--Dore chakravarty 08:33, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Boston, Massachusetts - summary style

I recently ran into problems concerning summary style for the article on FAC (there are some people who believe that the article does not have enough material). I was wondering what is your exact thoughts on the matter since now I am thinking of abandoning the idea of keeping articles close to 35 kB. Pentawing 22:56, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] About India

I have again reverted some of your edits (Minor)

  • Your pronunciation rendering of Bhārat is incorrect. It is not "bhərəth". I have not followed IPA exactly because it gives very clumsy script, but I have rendered the correct pronunciation in easier letters, as you would see in most dictionaries.
  • Your spelling of Hindustan is also incorrect, as well as its pronunciation.
  • I have now reverted Mughal to Islamic, because India was known as Hindustan from times immemorial in Persia and Arabia. It was not the Mughals who first called Hindustan, but it was the Sultans of the Delhi Sultanate period, 1100 AD and later. And one of them, Allauddin Khilji had the largest empire ever in the subcontinent, including all except a very small part of South India too.

My mother tongue is Hindi and I also know enough linguistics. I also stay in Bombay at present, if you have any doubts you are most welcome to message me or see me in person.

I have again made corrections.

  • Your twelvth century was good.
  • I have just corrected IPA for bharat. The first a is long back vowel α: and not ə: . The schwa ə can never be stressed. And the end t is dental, okay, but never aspirated. So I removed the 'h' from it.
  • Hindustan has a short 'u'. The Hindi spelling that I have written is correct. In the pronunciation I have removed the long 'u:' to short one.

Cygnus_hansa 12:21, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Patimokkha or whatever

You appear to have closed the AfD for the Patimokkha thingy, with a result of delete. Why have you not also deleted Essa writting map? — JIP | Talk 18:42, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Graphs

Certainly. I have records on every nom from June 23 forward with votes, edit counts, who made the nomination, time of first edit for the nominee, etc. I can do this on Monday. I'm uncertain of exactly what you're looking for though? --Durin 18:42, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WP:AN

I just went to the Administrators' noticeboard to add it to my watchlist, and I found it was protected. Is this normal? I didn't want to make a mess with my first use of superpowers, so I thought I'd leave it to you. Cheers, Physchim62 (talk) 15:46, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Woot!.....

Jalebi's for your support.
Enlarge
Jalebi's for your support.

Hey..Thanks a ton for nominating and supporting me. That alone brought me a lot of votes and I just about managed to get into the record books. I hope I can keep up your trust. Thanks again. --Pamri • Talk • Reply 16:11, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

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