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Why did you think that Hussain Sagar wasn't a structure? It's a "man-built" lake. So I figured it belonged in Category:Buildings and structures of India --Girish 03:37, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Seeking you support

I am seeking your support and participation for starting the "Indian Collboration of the Week". Please enlist your support on the page Wikipedia_talk:Indian_wikipedians'_notice_board if you would like to support. Please reply on my page. Thanks Arunram 08:23, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] North American Area Codes

I approve of what you have done to [[Category:Area codes]]. I had done a little tidying there and you have continued the good work.

Do you think that List of North American area codes and List of California area codes should move to 'Level 0' of [[Category:North American Area Codes]]?

I am currently fuming at the way the Americans have created lots of articles Area code xxx. As if the rest of the world did not have area codes (and as if there were no area codes for purposes other than telephony). Even though you and I (I suspect you are Indian) would both tend to call them STD codes.
But I am inclined to let that pass - I have no intention of creating 800 or so articles about UK area codes.

If you reply, please do so on my talk page - top, bottom, middle as you wish. I have your page on my watch list but it's not so easy to see that what you were donig - unless of course you put something like 'for RHaworth' in the Edit summary. -- RHaworth 00:20, 2005 Jan 13 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Named passenger trains vs. Category:Amtrak passenger trains

Hi. I noticed you've recategorized the articles that include Amtrak train details into Category:Amtrak passenger trains. The only potential problem is that many of Amtrak's train names were used long before Amtrak existed (i.e. California Zephyr and Empire Builder). The information on the historic trains doesn't necessarily belong in a category devoted entirely to Amtrak operations. Do you propose splitting these articles into articles for each of the historic periods (i.e. Empire Builder (Great Northern) and Empire Builder (Amtrak))? What about trains that operated jointly over several railroads like the California Zephyr (which was a joint venture of the Western Pacific Railroad, Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad)? Or, do we create categories for every railroad's passenger trains like Category:Western Pacific Railroad passenger trains and Category:Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad passenger trains and then use multiple categories for articles like these two?

Your thoughts? slambo 18:51, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)

If that's the case, I would go for renaming the Amtrak passenger trains to United States Named Passenger Trains. Alren 21:03, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
But then what about the trains that cross the Canadian border, like Maple Leaf? It travels between New York, NY and Toronto, ON. Shall we do Category:Named passenger trains of the United States and Category:Named passenger trains of Canada? Frankly, this solution is more appealing to me as we're already doing something similar with Category:Railway companies of the United States and Category:Railway companies of Canada. slambo 21:38, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Mumbai Station Templates: Double Categorization Problem

[edit] Mumbai Stations Western Railway Template

  • Thanks for creating the wonderful Mumbai Suburban Railway template. It's great! I have removed the "{{{1}}} is a suburb of Mumbai" because many stations aren't suburbs (for eg. Churchgate). utcursch 11:19, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Mumbai Station templates

[edit] Copyright question

Alren - I saw your copyright question on the administrators talk page. Jamesday and I wrote the Wikipedia copyright FAQ, where we answered many of the most of the common copyright-related questions (including yours) in plain, simple english. See Wikipedia:Copyright FAQ. →Raul654 10:13, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Newtn5.gif

I suppose that's a copyright violation that must be removed. See User talk:Karooran#Image:Newtn5.gif. -- Paddu 19:02, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] Indian wikipedians' notice board

You might wish to join Wikipedia:Indian wikipedians' notice board. utcursch 10:59, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for adding me; I wouldn't have known about it otherwise.

Best,

Tom Radulovich 05:24, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Template

You Mumbai stations template is wonderful! However I have spotted a small mistake. The name of the station is Khar Road not Khar. Please correct the templates. Nichalp 20:00, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] University of Calcutta

You may be interested in the makeover to this page. Brookie 07:32, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome back

Welcome back to wikipedia.  =Nichalp (Talk)= 18:48, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your warm welcome. It was a while since I did something on wikipedia. I have a few moments to spare lately so back here ... Alren 29 June 2005 20:22 (UTC)

[edit] Vengsarkar

May I point out a minor error that DBV did not score four fifties in 1987 - that was Sidhu. Tintin 6 July 2005 17:16 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for keeping the work of Indian current events going. --Just my 2 cents -- Hemanshu 7 July 2005 20:43 (UTC)

No probs. It's fun for a while. Alren 8 July 2005 19:44 (UTC)

[edit] India current events

Thanks for reviving the India current events. I have revived the Indian collaboration and India Portal. Could you handle a related task? Could you add the week's biggest news story to Template:Wikiportal:India/news, which shows up on the India portal? Thanks. User:Nichalp/sg 06:40, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Voting

This is with regard to Subash Chandra Bose. I've set up a straw poll on the talk page. Please vote! Also, please remove biographical entries from the categor:History of India. It seems that he is against having people in it. I too am not in favour of people under the main cat. Thanks. User:Nichalp/sg 08:14, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

Good! I voted and expressed my opinion too Alren (talk • contribs) 22:09, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] CfD of Category:Indian current events

I saw your comment on Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 July 13 regarding the deletion of the category. I replied there, but basically, you'll need to post this at WP:VFU. --Kbdank71 14:24, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] massive floods in Mumbai

Why not page on massive floods in Mumbai? pradeepsomani


[edit] Kashid- quiet beach on the Konkan Belt at 30 kms from Alibaug and 135 kms from Mumbai

KashidThis Indian location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.pradeepsomani \talk \contribs

[edit] Belated thanks

For reverting the vandalism to my userpage back on August 12. I've only just looked at the page history :-) Dan100 (Talk) 10:25, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Radio Mirchi

Image:WikiThanks.png Thank you for your contribution at Radio Mirchi.
Please keep it up!!!- P R A D E E P Somani (talk)
Feel free to send me e-mail. have a look at Indian subcontinent earthquakes list

[edit] WikiProject Hinduism

Hi Alren, a WikiProject on Hinduism has been set up since the last time you were very active. You may wish to join. Thanks DaGizza Chat 00:22, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category

Happy New Year to you too. I'm not really active these days, though I do make a few edits daily. But since most of us old time regulars are caught up in real life, things have been allowed to gather moss. Let's hope someone can clean this up. You used to do an excellent job categorising India-related articles. =Nichalp «Talk»= 16:26, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greetings

Greetings on India’s 57th Republic Day. --Bhadani 08:07, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greetings

Holi greetings. --Bhadani 07:38, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Hi. Thanks a lot fot the compliment. It means a lot to me. Please tell me if you find anything lacking in the article. Hopefully next month would be FA time for Ahmedabad. - Aksi_great (talk) 05:01, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gujarati people

Hi, there. I see that you have contributed to a large number of articles on Gujarat. Though I am not a Gujarati by birth, I have been born and brought up in Vadodara. So Gujarat occupies a special place in my heart.

I had tried editing the Gujarati people page several times. But each time, my edits were reverted.

I also think that the page needs a lot more content than it has at the moment.

I would earnestly request you to do something about this page. Regards. Rajatjghai 20:51, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Project Gujarat

Hi. I noticed your comment on the talk page of Ahmedabad. Are you interested in helping me out with the Gujarat wikiproject and portal. The portal is well developed, but the project is still in it's initial stages. As there seem to be many Gujaratis here, we could do a good job of organising our efforts. Regards, - Aksi_great (talk) 14:39, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

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