User talk:Vimalkalyan

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[edit] ESPN Best Test Team template

Hi. It's very good to see someone new taking an interest in cricket. There's a fairly lively Cricket Project within Wikipedia (see WP:CRIC) which you would be very welcome to join. You'll find there are plenty of places where you can make a real impact. One of the continuing discussions on the project talk page has been about the number of templates that have been appearing on the article pages for prominent cricketers, and I have raised the ESPN Best Test Team template there to see what the consensus is on whether it should remain or not. Please go there and have your say. And I hope you'll find other things there that you'll want to contribute to. Johnlp 20:04, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Harbhajan Singh

Hello Kalyan. Thanks for your work on the Harbhajan page. IT is currently nominated to be a featured article at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Harbhajan Singh. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 22:51, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ikshvaku dynasty

Hi Vimalkalyan! I have not been able to find information on this dynasty, so if you want to take over the article and improve it, that's great. I'm mostly working on articles like Hoysala architecture, Vijayanagara Empire, and am now working on Western Chalukyas and various sub articles for these, so I pushed this article aside in my mind. I couldn't find good sourcing on this dynasty so I neglected it. I don't know much about this area of Indian history anyway. It is fine with me if you can make it a better article. Good luck with it! Sincerely, --Mattisse 13:26, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chandu Borde

Can you please confirm the years of his first term as the selector. I think he was one of those who selected the team for the 1983 WC. Tintin 12:37, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Good work creating articles like Indian national cricket selectors Tintin 12:39, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll also look for sources. Tintin 12:47, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK nom on Kapil Dev as Indian National Cricket Coach

Hello,

Thanks for creating article on Kapil Dev as Indian National Cricket Coach. Just for your information, I have nominated a DYK on this article, by having the following hook.

Thanks, - KNM Talk 03:24, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Also, a public domain or free image of Kapil Dev would be great , especially if it is of the interview. Thanks. - KNM Talk 03:25, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Hello Kalyan. I have done some cleanup on the article [1] so that it conforms with the Neutrality policy so that it can be displayed on the front page. You have made many good contributions, and it looks as though you want to stay here. That's great! I have to point out a few things about your style that you need to change - because you indicated on the featured article candidacies of Harbhajan and Gilchrist that you wanted to model some Indian bios on these articles and perhaps get them to featured article status

  • Always use capital T in "Test", and if you are referring to a certain Test, also use caps - "First Test", "Second Test"
  • In accordance with the Wiki manual of style, I unlinked your headings in the sections so that they are no longer blue. I also changed many things like "Coach", "Cricket", "National", "Runs" and "Innings" to lowercase as they are not proper nouns, unless it is the name of an organisation like Bharatiya Janata Party, Board of Control for Cricket in India etc.
  • I unlinked many things. The first time you mention Sachin Tendulkar etc, write out his full name, and afterwards you refer to him as Tendulkar, without using his first name and not repeatedly linking it. Some players are known by first name, eg, Yuvraj, Harbhajan, Zaheer, Kapil, so in those cases, refer to them by first name, after the first mention, without linking.
  • I removed the use of "Azhar" as it is a nickname and in an encyclopedia we must use his proper names; I also removed informal language like "bookies" and "down under" as they are not approparite for an encyclopedia.
  • I removed statements like "India's second innings made the coach proud" and "To say that the cricket fraternity was shocked that a highly-regarded leader like Hansie Cronje was involved in match-fixing, is an understatement" and "is forever etched in the memory of people" and "With the travails of the season, it was no surprise that" and "India's prodigal son had come through his ordeal unscathed" because they appear to not be in accordance with policies like WP:WEASEL, WP:PEACOCK and because commentary and editorialising is not supposed to be used in articles.
  • I also removed excessively strong adjectives and hyperbole like "rocked", "crashed",

Please don't take this as an insult - you have made many good contributions of information to Wikipedia - When I started, I also made artiles which did not conform to Wikipedia policies. It is just that it is good to get into good habits, so that you do not have to fix up the articles in the long run. It took me about 30 hours to clean up Ian Thorpe for FA because I did not read the manual of style before I wrote it. Keep up the excellent work, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:00, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On April 5, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Kapil Dev as Indian National Cricket Coach, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Well done, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:36, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Karam Singh

Karam Singh has been listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2007 March 14/Articles as a possible copyright problem. Could you have a look at the discussion there and comment? As I understand it, the Right to Information Act does not put the contents on government websites into the public domain like the the US. Thanks in advance, Angus McLellan (Talk) 14:55, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I am sorry! Silly man that I am, I didn't check the dates. I see that this is a new article created just the other day. I apologise for the confusion. Still, comparing our article and the http://indianarmy.nic.in/ one, they are rather similar. In fact, a number of sentences are identical. I appreciate that paraphrasing things is not easy, and that memorable phrases can be copied without even realising it. However, it does seem that the Karam Singh article needs to be rewritten somewhat so that it is not so similar to the Indian Army one. If you'd like me to try it, please let me know. Very best wishes, Angus McLellan (Talk) 15:24, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
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