User:Utcursch/about

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1 Me at Wikipedia
- 1.1 Some of my major edits
- 1.2 Deletionism
2 About Me

[edit] Me at Wikipedia

I'm a WikiGnome

I joined Wikipedia on March 26, 2004 and made my 20000th edit on February 4, 2007. I have made major edits on articles related to India, Mumbai, Bollywood, Music, Literature etc. I am a WikiGnome. You will mostly find me doing small maintainance tasks).

I support Gender-neutral language.

[edit] Some of my major edits

This is a partial list of the articles I started or made major contributions to.

Music: Asha Bhosle, Robert Miles, Kishore Kumar, Sarah Jane Cion, Lata Mangeshkar, Bally Sagoo, Amir El-Falaki, Rahul Dev Burman, Mohammed Rafi, Frederic Delarue, Lucky Ali, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Shailendra, Dan Siegel, Uttam Singh, Ging Gang Goolie, Hasrat Jaipuri, Dum Maro Dum, Bhupinder Singh (musician), Anandan Sivamani
Literature: Indian literature, Jnanpith Award, Hindi literature, Marathi literature, Munshi Premchand, Sumitranandan Pant, Jaishankar Prasad, Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar', Mahadevi Varma,Sahir Ludhianvi, Vinda Karandikar, Shiva Samhita
Geography: Bhopal (now split to Bhopal (state)), Mumbai and its suburbs (like Bandra, Matunga, Colaba, Parel, Santacruz, Juhu, Mahim), Template:Mumbai - Suburban Railway,Central, Purandhar, Najibabad, Nagina, Khamgaon, Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary, Ferozeshah, Irulas, Jhumri Tilaiya, Bhojpur, Madhya Pradesh etc.
Politics: Laloo Prasad Yadav, Mamta Banerjee, Dalit Buddhist movement
Others: Hindi, Dialects of Hindi, Indian voting machines, Sholay, Dyscalculia, Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Gherand Samhita, Education in India, Dhyan Chand, Catherine Martin, GCompris, Mother Dairy, Munshi, Baital Pachisi, Henning Holck-Larsen, Everaldo Coelho, Jesus Baza Duenas, Racial groups in India (historical definitions), 2006 Dalit protests in Maharashtra, Mithibai College, Taj-ul-Masajid
Indian people: Cyrus Broacha, Paintal (comedian), Kiran Kumar, Rajendranath Zutshi, Asha Parekh, B. Saroja Devi, Bhagyashree Patwardhan, Aruna Irani, Bindusara, Biraja Sankar Guha, Puthukkody Kottuthody Sankaran Kutty, Anuradha Menon, Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi, Phoolan Devi, Gargi Vachaknavi, Maitreyi, Ghosha

I've made complete re-write and expansion to many articles including:

Women in India (diff)
Women in Pakistan (diff)
Indian caste system (diff), resulting into following split products: History of the Indian caste system, Caste system among South Asian Muslims, Caste system among Indian Christians, Caste-related violence in India, Caste politics in India (actually a new section written by me, which I later decided to develop as an article)
Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad diff
Lal Bahadur Shastri diff

I am a member of the Kindness Campaign and Welcoming Committee. My welcome message.

[edit] Deletionism

I am a moderate deletionist, so redirectionists, mergists, transwikists and esp. inclusionists may find me annoying sometimes. But I am a harmonious editor and prefer to stay away from edit wars.

I believe that not all schools are worth inclusion in an encyclopedia. But, I no longer vote delete for schools.

Most (but not all) of the lists at Wikipedia are also useless - they should be replaced by Categories (unless they have red links that will encourage people to create articles). Unmaintainable lists like List of Indians and List of Hindus are the worst.

I believe that some (again, not all) userboxes (such as User:UBX/pepsi) are a shameless waste of donors' money.

Users who have called me a deletionist troll: User:GRider, User:Dr Zen.

Links: Template:Deletiontools