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[edit] Request

Namaskar! Can you please do the devanagari characters of Saguna brahman when you have time? Thank you. - Image:ExcaliburSword.jpgSentinel 22:25, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

Hello! You look like someone who might be interested in joining the India WikiProject and so I thought I'd drop you a line and invite you! We'd love to have you help us :-) Ganeshk (talk) 03:57, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Oh yes, I would love to help and improve India related articles in whatever way I can. Thank you for the invitation :-) -srini 04:07, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
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Hi, and welcome to the India WikiProject! We're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of India.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask another fellow member, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! Ganeshk (talk) 04:15, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] India-related links

Hello Srini, Some India-related links for you. I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have.

Links for Wikipedians interested in India content

Newcomers: Welcome kit | Register: Indian Wikipedians | Network: Noticeboard | Discussionboard Browse: India | Open tasks | Deletions
Contribute content: Collaboration Dashboard - India WikiProject - Wikiportal India - Indian current events - Category adoptions

 


- Ganeshk (talk) 04:22, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your concern

Hello! While it's true that you can't create articles out of thin air, nor can you cut and paste directly from other sources. That's why it was cut and quickly. However, the new version looks great. - Lucky 6.9 07:36, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

  • Gotta start somewhere. :)) I had lots of stuff cut, chopped, diced and sliced when I first started. You're already getting the hang of it by the looks of the new version of your article! Very late on my side of the planet, so I'll say good night. Feel free to drop by my talk page or e-mail if you have any questions or concerns. Here to help you. - Lucky 6.9 08:12, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ganeshbot articles

Srini, Thanks for helping out with the bot merge work. I checked your last merge. Looks great. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 04:07, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Great! You can adopt the Uttarachal state if you want. Not sure whether you are using category starting with U, so linked it for you. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 04:18, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Oh yes, I will do so now. ~ srini 04:26, 21 October 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Thanks!

Thank you so much for your contribution to the Ixora article! The pictures are so lovely. The article was needing some pizzazz! :) Ink Pudding 04:10, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

^_^ srini 14:38, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dehradun

Currenly we are using 2001 census data across all cities. When they publish the next census information, we can change to the new data. I think 1,025,680 is district level population. 447,808 in the bot sandbox is the correct value for the city. -- Ganeshk (talk) 16:55, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

And great job completing Uttaranchal state. Just curious, how did you find the Not created page since I had not written you about it. Looking forward to your adoption of another state. :) Thanks, Ganeshk (talk)

[edit] Mariamman temple

I was intending to discuss the generic featurs of a mariamman temple in that article. That includes "Thee midhi", "Thee Chatti", "Samiyattam", the importance of yantras, and the importance of various other features of a Mariamman temple as distinguished from a traditional Hindu temple. So, I would like to revert to the previous version.

Balajiviswanathan 18:34, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Samayapuram article

I'm currently working on the rewriting. All these projects are under construction.

Balajiviswanathan 03:58, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

See the current Samayapuram article. I've cleaned up most of the stuff, and added the citations.

[edit] WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 2 - November 2006

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[edit] vivekananda at wikisource..

thanks :), currently i have a program which will auto create the wiki files with the headers/footers, by parsing the html files i have I am working on auto page creation...once this is done the book will get over very soon :) in a matter of days, the problem with www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info is that web spiders cannot index it (check the meta info of the html pages) and it has been obfuscated in such a way that the web browser need javascript and u cannot copy the contents... I think adding the book to wikisource will solve all these problems .. Hopefully I can complete the book within 1-2 months, every weekend I am adding whatever I can... --vineeth 06:46, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for adding the sanskrit equivalent text, well... belive it or not, I wanted someone to start doing this and you started it

. Thanks a lot. Still around 8% of the text needs to be completed, and I feel it will be done in another 1 month or so, I have a tool which will format and add the text automatically, you need not take the pain of manually adding them , meanwhile pls continue adding the sanskrit text. Thanks again. --vineeth 18:10, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Another thing, pls be careful while removing the br tags, because in poems they are required. --vineeth 18:12, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Badrinathpuri

I'm not exactly sure whether Badrinath and Badrinathpuri are exactly the same. In the census statistics only one of them is there, and after googling I found out that they both are in that tiny Chamoli district and then they both are never written separately in any of the articles. So, I believe that some authors use Badrinath and others use Badrinathpuri to refer to the same thing. I put the merge request, so that someone more knowledgable about Uttaranchal could see it and verify whether my assertion is correct. If they are the same, they have to be merged, else there has to be dissambiguation page so that it confuses no more people. Balajiviswanathan 18:34, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Voting for Tirupathy as a colloboration

Hi Srini, can you join me in nominating Tirupathy Venkateshwara Temple for the colloboration of the week. It is a shame that such an important article is still not near the FA-category.

[here] Balajiviswanathan 07:39, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

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

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[edit] Thanks for the swami vivekananda picture

hi, Thanks for uploading the chicago pic of swami vivekananda, I wanted to do this for a long time...but kept of forgetting, thanks a lot! I feel this picture is better. --vineeth 07:25, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

No problem : ) -srini 04:33, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume II, Issue 1 - January 2007

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[edit] i was scrolling through recent flickr uploads

And i was just about to upload this to the commons, until I checked the article page here to see if there was a photo already. Nice pic. =) — coelacan talk — 07:35, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, it's a nice pic :-) I make it a point to upload my images to commons whenever something similar is not there already. Thanks for checking, just in case I forget... --srini 10:43, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] wikicamp in chennai

srini, will u be able to take part in the chennai wiki camp and speak as a tamil wikipedia user? if u fee u r not in touch with the happenings there in ta wiki, we will help u by preparing a formal statement release from ta wiki for the event. unfortunately none of the current active contributors are not there in chennai. please reply in my ta wiki user page--Ravishankar 22:23, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume II, Issue 2 - March 2007

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