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[edit] Political history of medieval Karnataka
[edit] Do not revert Infobox South India
This is not an irrelevant parameter... People should also look at largest metropolitan area rather than largest cities... it has its own unique status... so stop reverting edits
[edit] Thanks
Thanks for your support.Dineshkannambadi 11:14, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Sheikh Mohammed
Please see my comments on the Shiekh Mohammed talk page. I'm not sure that I agree with your deletion of the title, but I'd rather resolve this before reverting. Best regards Epeeist smudge 15:46, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] List of most populous cities in India
Thank you for you contributions to the article List of most populous cities in India, which I found very useful. --Savedthat 07:51, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Wikimania in Atlanta!
Hi! I noticed your involvement on U.S. South-related articles, categories and WikiProjects, and I wanted to let you know about a bid we're formulating to get next year's Wikimania held in Atlanta! If you would like to help, be sure to sign your name to the "In Atlanta" section of the Southeast team portion of the bid if you're in town, or to the "Outside Atlanta" section if you still want to help but don't live in the city or the suburbs. If you would like to contribute more, please write on my talk page, the talk page of the bid, or join us at the #wikimania-atlanta IRC chat on freenode.org. Have a great day!
P.S. While this is a template for maximum efficiency, I would appreciate a note on my talk page so I know you got the message, and what you think. This is time-sensitive, so your urgent cooperation is appreciated. :) Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 08:38, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Streets of Old Bangalore
I was planning to propose this article for deletion but since you created this article, I wanted to understand if there was a specific reason for creating this article. This article can very well be written within History of Bangalore -- ¿Amar៛Talk to me/My edits 09:42, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Invite
[edit] South India
Hi... Anna Univ is the world's largest univ in terms of number of students. I don't know the website I saw this.. hence I didn't add. Anyway it's important to have that section in the article right? So I reverted back that last edit of urs... Feel free to comment.. Mugunth(ping me!!!,contribs) 01:24, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
"Many automobile manufacturing units are located in Chennai while several public manufacturing heavy industries are located in Bangalore. " -- This wording should be changed...What do u say? I agree that "many" and "several" industries are there.. But don't u think that wordings are not proper?
Anyway, a great work done on a formerly featured article candidate... Should I say that we've to push this somehow to make it featured? Mugunth(ping me!!!,contribs) 01:27, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] South India
I would like to know the reason behind reverting my edits on article about South India with out any discussion and citations. --yny (talk) 14:47, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
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- I am also in the process of cleaning up the article and to this I added the links and started writing the article, and I don't see any reason my edits are reverted back with out proper discussion. I would like you to revert it to my edition and make changes after having discussion.
--yny (talk) 15:03, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
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- I am impressed by your contribution to WP, but it definitely not fair to revoke all of our contributions without any notice, you can refer to the Discussion page and follow the history of the article to understand the flow of the thought process for this article. I did not see your changes as cleaning up, you have reverted it back to one of the older versions of this article which has been thoroughly discussed and lots of changes have been made. So cleaning up this article needs understanding of the feelings of all the contributers who have vested considerable amount of their time. Everybody is trying to put the facts and enrich and share the knowledge. Gone are days where one editor contributes (rather controls) entire encyclopedia with one dimension, now its the era of distributed knowledge where one should understand and appreciate underlying interest and most of all the truth in the article. I don't seem to violate any of the guide lines, I provided links and started adding stuff, of course it takes time to complete my stuff.
I would strongly recommend you to go through the discussion page and follow the discussion on South India. (FYI: My user ID is "Ynyus75" and my signature is "yny") --yny (talk) 15:32, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
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- Added my remarks in the talk page page
--yny (talk) 18:35, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
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- Yeah, I'm pretty much interested... Actually, we do have a lot of citations. But it's like a list at the bottom rather than inline citations. I've replied to the talk discussions. Please have a look... I've got nearly tired of fighting regional fights by now... Not only on this article, but also North India. We have to improve both these articles... Mugunth(ping me!!!,contribs) 18:32, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] WikiProject Dubai
I noticed that you have contributed to several articles about Dubai. If you are interested, a WikiProject Dubai is currently being proposed here. Feel free to add your name if you would like to participate. Thank you. Leitmanp (talk | contributions) 21:53, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
- Well, thank you for signing up. Hopefully the project will be approved. Many Dubai articles need to be improved, and we will need all the participants we can get. This will ensure the articles about Dubai are on par with the quality of the city itself. If you know anyone else that may be interested in joining, please feel free to invite them. Thanks again. Leitmanp (talk | contributions) 04:05, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] My Edits on South India Page
Would you please let me know who should give me permission to make changes? --yny (talk) 20:13, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your reply, like I said I don't want to reinvent the wheel, moreover I have not made any changes just moved the stuff from the introduction part to relevant sections and added some additional info in some sections. Please go through my changes and then make changes. I thoroughly discourage you to undo things blindly. Thanks --yny (talk) 20:32, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
You don't seem to care for my changes I don't know why you want to have monopoly on this. This is certainly bad. I am withdrawing myself from this. I feel bad for you behavior. --yny (talk) 20:37, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Image:Bret9.jpg
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[edit] INRConvert
Hi! saw the INRConvert template. It's great.--Dwaipayan (talk) 03:21, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Bangalore
Hello AreJay, just wanted you to be cautioned about WP:3RR rule on Bangalore article. I hope talk page discussion will be helpful to sort out the differences. Thanks - KNM Talk 00:29, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] re Bharat Pumps & Compressors (notability tag)
G'day AreJay, I'm just replying to your message on my talk page. I don't think that notability has been established for the article yet. The company might be notable as you say but you need to address that on the article page, The best way to address this concern is to reference published, third-party sources about the subject. You make the point of telling me that the company is owned by the Government of India. Unfortunatly the reference you have given (a Pdf file) is from Department of Public Enterprise. You need a source not from the Government. Is there anything from the mainstream news content over there? Perhaps some online news content you could citeweb into the article? Also please see WP:SOURCES. Sting_au Talk 05:21, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
- I've removed the notability tag now. A couple of the external links you added are good sources. Should really be added as citewebs WP:CITE and utilized in the reference section for best effect. The article will no doubt evolve further over time, so good idea to learn how to use the cite templates on any articles you work on. WP:LAYOUT is another good page to check out. Cheers, Sting_au Talk 23:43, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Conversion templates
AreJay,
I've taken the liberty of removing User:AreJay/Template:INRConvert from the conversion templates category. Hope you don't mind.
Jɪmp 06:20, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizer Corporation
- See User_talk:Anthony_Appleyard#Brahmaputra_Valley_Fertilizer_Corporation. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:37, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks
Re [1], thanks for your involvement. However, this ip has been switching addresses from the bt domain for some time (evading his week long block) for trolling talk page (see User:Ghanadar galpa/ip-vandal and [2][3]. His clear disregard for wikipedia rules and policies indicates that reasoning with him is futile, and a long-term rangeblock might be the best way to deal with him.Ghanadar galpa (talk) 18:19, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
- I have discussed this matter with another admin and we agreed that a semi-protect of the Indophobia article was the best way forward. The anon IP will then be forced to play a positive role in editing Wikipedia or resort to arguing on the talk page. Either way, there is little chance they can cause problems on this particular article. Ignoring trolling is probably the best course of action. Instituting a range block would be disruptive as it appears this anon is using the same internet provider as me (the most popular provider in the UK) and I and many others could end up blocked. I also think that Ghanadar's efforts to engage in constructive discussion should acknowledged. Although I disagree with him, I've found that he has turned a new leaf since his recent block and as such should not be regarded as having ill intentions towards Wikipedia but rather should be given guidance. This is not a simple case of two editors with the same level of wrongdoing. Ghanadar is making an effort, whereas the anon is simply being disruptive.--Conjoiner (talk) 01:52, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] BIASED
Why have you sent me a message about attacking when your indian Ghanadar freind accuses pakistanis of using extremeist sources and stating pakistanis are linked to terror groups i believe your pakistan phobic and i urge neutral moderators who are not indian too see how pakistanis are bullied by indians on wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.158.177.147 (talk) 20:23, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Western Chalukya architecture
Thank you for the support.Dineshkannambadi (talk) 21:36, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
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- Thanks for the barnstar.Dineshkannambadi (talk) 03:26, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Pwc logo.gif
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[edit] Bangalore-Nikkul-3RR-Policy
Hi AreJay,
This is in reference to your sentence (In addition, you violated 3RR today and though I had every right to report you, I didn't.) written to Nikkul in Talk:Bangalore. While Nikkul has apparently involved in the ongoing revert war, strictly speaking per policy, he has not technically violated WP:3RR today. He has made exactly 3 reverts, which is not a violation of the policy. Having said that, consistent revert warring, even if not violating 3RR technically, could result in a block. Anyway, just wanted to let you know that, in order to violate 3RR, one has to revert (undoing the edits of other editor(s) ) at least 4 times (not just 3 times) in a span of 24 hours. Hope that helps. - KNM Talk 22:48, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
- While evaluating the reverts per WP:3RR, consecutive edits/reverts made by an editor is considered as a single revert.
- So, the first two diffs you provided me, 4:03am, 4:06am are effectively a single revert. In other words, if an editor reverts 10 previous edits made to the article, without no one else editing the article in between, then all those 10 edits are considered as 1 revert for 3RR purpose and not 10 reverts. I have seen plenty of 3RR complaints which are rejected because of this misunderstanding of the policy by the complaining editors.
- To summarize, just see the What is a revert? section of the 3RR policy page. That clearly states: "Consecutive reverts by one editor are generally treated as one revert for the purposes of this rule."
- For the same reason, I told above, Nikkul has technically not violated 3RR in last 24 hours. Let me know if you have any questions. :) - KNM Talk 23:42, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Image rotation
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[edit] Article length issues for FA Pakistan
Hi AreJay,
I noticed that you had reviewed and supported the FAC of Pakistan back in 2006. By now, the article has deteriorated greatly due to addition of sections and text. So, I've raised this issue in the article talk page. Can you please take a look and comment? Talk:Pakistan#Article_not_adhering_to_Featured_article_criteria_due_to_huge_additions. Thanks. --Ragib (talk) 07:16, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Wikipedia Bangalore Map.jpg
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[edit] Speedy deletion of Template:Genesis discography
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[edit] DYK nomination
Hi. I've nominated Human rights in Dubai, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created/expanded on February 17, where you can improve it if you see fit. BorgQueen (talk) 14:46, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
- You are welcome. BTW, let me know if you are interested in starting an article on Alexandre Robert, the victim of homosexual rape mentioned in the article. I think he is notable enough to have a separate article. --BorgQueen (talk) 20:09, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Speedy deletion of Template:Browsebarcountryindia
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Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 02:41, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] DYK
Well done Jay, this article was kindly nominated by BorgQueen. Do feel free to self nom in future! Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:30, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[edit] Hoysala
Thanks.Dineshkannambadi (talk) 03:17, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Template:INRConvert
Hi! Your template is very helpful. Could you also make a template for Euro to Dollar conversion? --STTW (talk) 11:05, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Lamcy Plaza image
AreJay, you recently uploaded Image:Dubai Lamcy Plaza.jpg at Wikimedia Commons. I think you might have made a mistake on the date. There you say the image was taken on "3/31/2008." Did you mean 2007? I just wanted to inform you of this. Thank you. Leitmanp (talk | contributions) 21:03, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
- Your welcome. I am always happy to help. Leitmanp (talk | contributions) 21:20, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] UAE Noticeboard
AreJay, I think the noticeboard is a great idea. But, I have a few concerns. Quickly looking at a few noticeboards, I get the impression that the main point is to provide collaboration for topics that have a lot of articles. The United Arab Emirates does not have as many articles, or editors, as other noticeboards have. I am not sure if you know, but a WikiProject UAE was formed around the same time WikiProject Dubai was created. That project might be the best way to address the issues about "inconsistencies/redundancies in UAE related articles." If WP:UAE becomes a success (which as of now does not seem likely), many articles are created, and many more editors join, then the noticeboard might become a good idea. But, if you do create it then I would be glad to help you. Leitmanp (talk | contributions) 20:25, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
- Sorry for the late reply. It does seem like a good idea, and I would also be happy to help out in its creation and maintenance. I have to admit, I originally had the same concerns as Leitmanp relating to the small amount of UAE articles in existance, but then again the Sri Lankan WikiProject has a noticeboard (although there are, at the moment, more Sri Lankan-related articles than there are UAE-related ones). A board may be the best way to raise awareness about what articles need to be created and what articles need improvement, as WP:UAE is progessing rather slowly. Cheers, Rai-me 22:10, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
- Similar apologies from me; I just returned from a stint in Istanbul. I think a noticeboard may be useful, but I have to confess that despite being born in Dubai and having visited it since (in 2004), I am no expert on the subject and would likely not participate much in such a project. Best of luck. siafu (talk) 19:55, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Ernie Toshack
Hi there Jay. I have made a reply to your queries at the FAC. Thanks, Blnguyen (vote in the photo straw poll) 05:15, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Moved
I had moved your comments to under new section Additional comments in Bangalore talk in order to avoid confusion. Thanks. --Tomb of the Unknown Warrior tomb 06:19, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Your recent revert of my edit on Bangalore
Hi! I see that you have reverted an edit I made recently in the lead of Bangalore. I was wondering why, since no reason was given for the revert. I rather prefer discussion than engaging in an edit war, and so, here I am.
The reasons for my edit were:
- The census of India is a better RS than the world gazetteer; also, the internally linked Wikipedia article takes its source from the census of India.
- When we reference a source, such as the World Gazetteer, which lists Bangalore as number three, and then internally reference the List of million-plus cities in India, which lists Bangalore at number six, then there is a disparity which can confuse the reader (as it confused me!)
If necessary, we could mention that according to the 2001 census, Bangalore was the 6th largest by population and is currently, the third-largest, which would also give credence to the enormous growth that Bangalore has seen in recent years.
Please let me know. Or, if you wish, we could also move this discussion to the talk page. Thanks. aJCfreak yAk 07:24, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks. It does not wash away all I had in mind, but it clears the fog. I'm new to the population thingy, btw. I simply hate incorrect info on WP, so when I see it, I'm pretty quick to remove/correct it, as necessary. :) Thanks, again. aJCfreak yAk 17:23, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
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- Since you're offering to be so helpful, I'll bother you with this one - Isn't the census data more reliable? Would it then be okay to restructure the info available at the list of most populous cities in India as according to the population data finder available at [4] ? If you click the city name, then the popup displays the breakdown of city populace for the UA, and then other smaller entities, such as the M Corp. Would that be okay? I find it kinda unworthy of WP for the list article to be relying on sources which existed once upon a time... (No offence, but still...) aJCfreak yAk 18:00, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] KL question
Hi Arejay, Can you please point me to any reference that dates the Kannada "literary tradition" to the Halmidi inscriptions ? I don't have any personal knowledge of the subject, and reading through the quotes in the article and the talk page I didn't locate any source which fits that category. I am asking for your help here, since the KL talk page is busy and my question may get lost there. Abecedare (talk) 15:24, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Indians in UAE
Hello AreJay,
Hope everything is going fine with you. Just wanted to let you know that I have nominated your article (Indians in the United Arab Emirates) for WP:DYK, with the below hook, which am sure would be very interesting for lot of WP readers.
- ...that migrants from India form over 40% of the total population of the country UAE?
Good job on that article. Thanks, - KNM Talk 14:46, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] DYK
--Cirt (talk) 18:33, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[edit] Kannada literature in the Vijayanagara empire
Thanks for the support. This conception (or misconception) that you mentioned perhaps stems from the fact that Telugu literature did see its heyday during the 20 year rule of Krishnadeva Raya (1509-1529). So, non-detail texts on literature of this empire normally focus on Krishnadeva Raya, the greatest king and generalise it. Kannada seemed to have had an upper hand during the rule of Deva Raya II (1425-1450), who in my opinion was not far behind Krishnadeva Raya. However, there is no evidence of either language (Kannada or Telugu) dominating the literary culture during the remaining 200 years of the empires existance. As such, the Kannada textual production had a different responsibility, in that it was much more religious, proselytising and didactic in nature. Telugu, seems to have glowed as a court literature, closely following the Prabhanda style of Sanskrit while Kannada was well into local genres, reaching out to the common man.Dineshkannambadi (talk) 11:27, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Census India
I came across the new site of census while updating Gangtok, and found that the provisional table of population that GR India template uses is now outdated. Unfortunately, I could not dig out any such updated table, which would provide us with the population of cities.
Please see this and comment. As the provisional data is replaced by updated data, somehow we should change that, too. But how? This is very fundamental, and needs to be addressed. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 17:12, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Emirati people
AreJay, I would like to inform you of a discussion concerning an article you created, Emirati people. User:Yolgnu redirected the page to Demographics of the United Arab Emirates. I reverted the change, but now there is a discussion on the talk page about why it should or should not be redirected. Thanks. Leitmanp (talk | contributions) 04:04, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] BOT_issues_with_Bengali_categories_on_TinucherianBot
FYI . Your comments are requested -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 05:59, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] WP:INDIA Tagging with TinucherianBot for WikiProject Karnataka
FYI- Your attention and help is requested -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 05:00, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thank you for marking some of the categories. It will be gr8 if you cud help me with the rest of them -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 09:30, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
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- The Autotagging for WikiProject Karnataka is compelete. Thanks for the help. See Project Talk page for details -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 10:39, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Bangalore 1280x1024.jpg)
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[edit] Hey,Why did you delete my India editings.
They were of value.I was not at all biased U can also Talk with me in my page if u want.RNKROY
--[ ℛaunak ℛoy] Raunak.Web.Officelive.com 09:49, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] India editings suggested.
Hi arejay, thanx for respond.but I want to incude that india won cricket worldcup in 1986 and t20 worldcup in SA,2007.It was also runners up in 2003 wc --({[ ℛαunαk ℛoy ]}) Raunak.Web.Officelive.com 16:56, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Dubai weather infobox discussion
I hope you do not mind, but I put my comments at User talk:AreJay/try2. I also added a comment at Talk:Dubai mentioning the discussion so if people want to, they can participate. Leitmanp (talk | contributions) 05:16, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Speedy deletion of Image:Margham desert.jpg
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[edit] Flickr images
Hi, AreJay - I happened to see your note about the above image. This is an unfortunately all-too-common situation, Flickr is notorious for not keeping track of license changes. Might I recommend uploading your Flickr-sourced images to Commons? They have a license verification scheme (just add the template {{flickrreview}} template to the image and it will be verified by another user). This protects the image from deletion in the event of license change in the future. There is even a bot that will automatically upload the highest-quality image and fill in the details for you, in addition to verifying the license automatically - I highly recommend it. (You'll need a Commons account to use it.) Please drop me a line if you need any help. Kelly hi! 21:16, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Image and media stuff
I looked through your upload log to resolve other possible copyright issues - I'm afraid some other Flickr images had to be deleted because of unfree licenses at Flickr. The following media still needs some attention:
[edit] Listed for deletion
- Image:Muscat_flag.gif
- Image:Pwc_Consulting.jpg
- Image:Bangalore1924_map.jpg
- Image:Bangalore_Historical_Map.jpg
- Image:Flag Karnataka.gif
- Image:Genesis_80s.jpg
[edit] Possibly unfree
- Image:Bangalorepalace2.jpg
- Image:Bangalore_South_Parade.jpg
- Image:KolkatainIndia_2.png
- Image:India_South_India_Locator_Map.svg
[edit] Better sources needed
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[edit] Audio samples
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