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Ω Anonymous anonymous Ψ: ''Have A Nice Day'' 12:47, 13 April 2006 (UTC)


Contents

Re: Need Help with changing the name of the article

Hi! There are several other Lawrence school articles. I'm not sure whether you can change the name of an article but you can Move the article. Can you create a link to the article you have written? (Reply at my talk page) Ω Anonymous anonymous Ψ: ''Have A Nice Day'' 16:52, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

I just asked Commander Keane, you can move articles. Can you create a link to the article you have written? (Reply at my talk page) Ω Anonymous anonymous Ψ: ''Have A Nice Day'' 17:03, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Problem Solved

I have renamed your article to Lawrence School, Lovedale. I have also created a Disambiguation Page for all Lawrence schools.

Ω Anonymous anonymous Ψ: ''Have A Nice Day'' 17:33, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Hello!

Belated Happy Easter To You! Sorry for the late greeting! Ω Anonymous anonymous Ψ: ''Have A Nice Day'' 00:12, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
Belated Happy Easter To You! Sorry for the late greeting! Ω Anonymous anonymous Ψ: ''Have A Nice Day'' 00:12, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Hello Mary Jane, wishing u the same --ramit 14:28, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

superthanks

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Hi Ramitbhai - I'm very sorry to have disappointed your expectation in me, but it had become impossible for me to compromise my principles. I don't covet adminship at all, so it wasn't a difficult decision - I simply cannot accept misrepresentation and nonsense. However, I cannot tell you how greatly joyous I feel at the enthusiastic, wonderful support you expressed for me. I don't know how hard it will be to understand that your supports means extremely a lot to me. I thank you from my heart, and please let me know if I can ever be assistance or help in anything. Rama's Arrow 21:15, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Kalpa

done: Kalpa (Vedanga) --Dangerous-Boy 06:15, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism reporting

Hi,

Saw that you reported vandalism of Mahatma Gandhi on Nichalp's page. Its a good sign that you are trying to do your bit by reporting vandalisms. However, it is possible that the admin you are trying to contact may be offline. For quick actions, its preferable to use WP:AIV (for blocking vandals) and WP:RPP (for requesting page protection). Cheers -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 18:17, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

I've semi protected the page. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 13:16, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Nathuram Godse

An anon user has removed all references to Godse's caste affiliation (Chitvan Brahmin) and just described him as a Hindu. I dunno whether to let that stand or not. On the one hand, caste labels are medieval and applying them here may be a slur on his caste. On the other hand, being a Brahmin, especially in South India, says a lot about a person (alas) Brahmins are over-represented in the professions, the intelligentsia, etc. What do you think? Should I ask on the India project page? Zora 22:54, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi Zora, I did a quick check on some websites including www.nathuramgodse.com. He was definitely a Chitpavan Brahmin and considering the timeline of the incidents, I think it should be mentioned in the article. However I could not find any reference about the second statement regarding attacks on his community... ramit 05:34, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Manali Article

Hi Ramit! (I hope I have got your name right) I am a Himachal enthusiast and in that capacity, I have keen interest on all Himachal related articles. I have been to Manali several times and to most other places in Himachal. I wish to improve the article into a full blown Wiki Quality article. I am planning to visit Manali very soon and when I do that, I will take a few pictures exclusively for this article. So I would request you to keep watching this article. I will write to you if I need any help. Regards...RMehra 04:54, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Removing Vandalism

Hi! Ramit, what is the quickest way to removing vandalism and to go back to a previous version? RMehra 06:01, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Found the answer. Thanks ! RMehra 06:13, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Lostintherush! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. AmiDaniel (talk) 06:48, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Daniel Lost 08:18, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to the Kindness Campaign!

Just my way of saying thanks to newcomers to the Kindness Campaign... a delicious home-baked chocolate chip cookie! Yum. :D  ♥ Kylu  (talk • contribs • email • logs • count)

Award

Thank you very much sir !!! :-)

"My pleasure to award you this. Hope to see many more useful edits in the future.. Lost 12:44, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:RMehra"....My pleasure too. It is always a pleasure to associate with wise people for noble endeavours. RMehra 14:07, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Vandal

Hi Ramit, not only have many administrators tried reasoning with him, but there is an arbitration committee decision totally against him, and beyond this, there is no recourse in Wikipedia. Twenty archives of the talk:Rajput page bear witness to the pointlessness of engaging with him. Note that my involvement in the affair came late in the day; his main fight was with Bachmann, who had tried ....... to reason with him!! He has in the past single-handedly worn down a dozen good-faith editors. He is a quintessential troll, some 50 of whose accounts have been banned. Note further that my "reverts" are only an undoing of his senseless, pointless vandalising of my edits. Please consider helping to revert his actions, but take my advise and give up all idea of reasoning with him. Regards, ImpuMozhi 15:36, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Here it is -- you can follow and read the links and various talk-pages also, if you really are interested enough in all this. Here is my statement, made belatedly since I was on break for over a month. ImpuMozhi 16:34, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

ReOmar Abdullah

You: Bhadaniji, user:70.78.86.89 keeps adding his pov to the above page. I have left messages on his talk page as well as Omar Abdullah's talk page and reverted his edits twice. He explained his rationale to which I replied. Now I dont want to approach 3RR, so what is best way out... Pls guide. -- Lost 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Me: I have left a message on that page: please co-operate. --Bhadani 16:44, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

In case, you are sure of your point, please revert. --Bhadani 16:46, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Re
Sharing the same school:

You are most welcome. However, I could not understand the point about "sharing the same school". Did We share the same school, or you and Omar Abdullah share the same school. --Bhadani 16:57, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Great! I had gussed that you are from Lawrence School, Sanawar, but I am not from Lovedale. --Bhadani 17:02, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
There are yahoo groups of Lovedale students - you may find some of them may be surely wikipedians. You may thus build up a project. --Bhadani 17:11, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Yes, and you did a great job! I am sure that you shall continue with the same spirit. --Bhadani 17:54, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Deletion

Hi Ramit, just place the {{PROD}} template on the page and that should do the job. I agree with you, WP is NOT a dictionary, whether of English or any other language. Regards, ImpuMozhi 17:40, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Hullo

My reasons for reverts on rajput related pages is wrong categorization. On MG the issue is usage of copy vio images. Hope that helps. Tatra 08:50, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

My gaffe in removing the cats on raja sansar chand page. Regarding Hindu website: Since they sell images for profit they cannot be used. If one can find the newspaper which was published 60 years ago and scan that image that would be usable but not the ones that were put here on WP. Tatra 10:28, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
It is wrong to assume they are not selling low res versions. Since they are in the business of selling images they have to provide a small enough image to entice potential buyers. No where it is written on there website that these small images can be used without there license. I read the link you provided. This small image argument is just not correct. Tatra 10:48, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism on Hinduism

Ugh! I was trying to rv vandalism on Hinduism, but reverted to the wrong rev by mistake -- reproducing the spam, instead of deleting it. Sorry about that. -- Anirvan 10:46, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Hello, Lostintherush/Archive 1, and thank you for the supportive vote on my recent RfA! With a final vote of 84/1/4, I have now been entrusted with the mop, bucket and keys. I will be slowly acclimating myself to my new tools over the next months, but welcome any and all feedback and suggestions on how I might be able to use them to help the project. Thanks again! Kukini 05:09, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

re:Political party stub template

Is there any stub template for political parties of India? The one I found for politicians of India, I put in the main page -- Lost 11:26, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

It's {{India-party-stub}}. - Ganeshk (talk) 15:32, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Indic text

your spellings of Sindu and Hindu and other words (in the article for Hinduism) in the indic script are missrepresented. PLease correct them yourself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.143.224.179 (talk • contribs)

Rajiv

Prod-ding it is correct. Alternately, it could be improved to make it a disambiguation page like Thomasina, for example. Notable people I can think of offhand are Rajiv Gandhi, Rajiv Bajaj and Rajeev Malhotra (potential replacement for Rakesh Sharma's space journey). --Gurubrahma 15:28, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Lost!

 Dear Lostintherush/Archive 1, thanks so much for your support during my recent successful request for adminship. I really appreciate it, especially from an exceptional newcomer like yourself. Keep up the great contributions! Let me know if you need any administrative support; just leave me a message on my talk page or send me an e-mail if it's urgent. Take care man -- Samir धर्म 05:05, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar of National Merit - India

Thanks a lot Evan... -- Lost 17:01, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

I also congratualte you on your early recognition. Yes, I worked hard and only Evan could understand my internal feelings. I am thnakful to him. --Bhadani 17:38, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I shall continue to work hard, but I reserve the right to disappoint you. Image:Wink.gif --Bhadani 17:41, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
I also feel happy to find that after me, Evan also recognized your talents. I am sure that you shall continue to excel. I am seriously searching for more pages tovandalize. Please help me! Image:Tongue.png --Bhadani 17:59, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Request for help - Lawrence School Sanawar

Hello, Lost in the rush - there is something wrong with the infobox of your school - Lawrence School, Sanawar. The motto appears next to the Sanawar Logo. I tied fixing if but somehow thhis problem turned out to be a little more resilient than the time on my hands. Can you please help me by fixing it ? Jordy 20:23, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

  • Triedout the threadbare template in the Sandbox, there seems to be something wrong with the template per se. Thought I would let you know. Jordy 20:29, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Hello Lost, thanks a lot for your appreciation. With your help, I wil try to improve the article on your alma mater and then hopefully we can remove Clean up tag. Jordy 16:53, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

really bored and you can ask a question

hi lost, i'm very idle now and itching to answer a question now and since Deepu might be busy and he's not posted the next question for more than 24 hours, you get to ask the question again as per the quiz rules. If you can ask now I'll try to figure out the answer since I may be busy with world cup later on. :-) --Idleguy 10:24, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Hey Lost Thanks a lot for your appreciation and the Orders, Decorations, and Medals Contributor Barnstar. Hopefully I will able to keep making such contributions to Wikipedia in the future. Jordy 19:34, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

INCOTW - Independence Day (India)

You voted for Independence Day (India), this week's Indian Colloboration of the Week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. - Ganeshk (talk) 06:27, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Added Template

Hello Lost, I have created and added a template for the Lawrence Schools on all the 3 web pages. Please do have a look. I have also resized the image in the Lawrence School, Lovedale article. Jordy 10:31, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging for Image:Auckland House on Elysium Hill.jpg

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Some for you

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Mango

Wish you a lot of mangoes. You want more so you corrected the spelling. [1] --Bhadani 13:04, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

In case you want them unripe: Image:MANGO252.JPG. --Bhadani 13:05, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Help needed

Please see my sandbox. For some funny reason, the wikilink that I type is not showing up. I wonder what I am doing wrong. -- Lost 08:34, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok. I fixed up your thingy. You can check this diff to know what I did. If you need any more help, don't hesitate to ask. Regards, --Nearly Headless Nick 08:37, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

PINQ

Check out my latest answer if you're still online. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 14:35, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Welcome message

Dear Lost! Thank you very much for your welcome message. Actually I have been visiting Wikipedia for over a year now...and I have been making minor edits anonymously. As for the Hindi article, I have been watching the Hindi article for some time. If you see the edit history, most anonymous edits are indeed acts of vandalism (example: "shut up") or of blanking previous bonafide edits (example: section on official status). I have reverted to a previous "sane" version, which I chose carefully and thought was reasonably NPOV. The only reason I signed up this time was because I thought it would be rude to make a revert anonymously. As far as the bonafide edits that have been lost due to the revert...I have already left a message on the talk page conveying that I would gradually restore all those edits. Hope you would understand. AnwarA 06:06, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi Lost! Sorry for the confusion on the edit issue. I access Internet from an office library terminal and looks like somebody else who had been previously logged into wikipedia left the "remember me" option checked. I therefor inadvertantly made edits under another name. I am however responsible for the edits to the Hindi page as well as the talk page of the article, which unfortunately got tagged under another user's name. Hope that clarifies... will also leave a message on the other user's talk page. AnwarA 08:19, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

contents Box

when we create any articles with many sub headings then generally at top there is a box containing headings of the contents of that article, on the top of that 'contents(hide)' is written.In my artciles it is not there,should i use some statements with syntax for that. e.g Geography of Uttar Pradesh ,and all other articles which i ve creted Thanx for bothering

I ve seen that article and done all things which were required. you can see it again if u wanna. Thankyou for your kind help. Joynjoy 08:11, 28 June 2006 (UTC) Joynjoy 05:44, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

For your help ref. my Cinema of India query. --Sshankar 11:16, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Greetings from the Rat

Lost , You are Indian. Let me draw your attention to this link. Please read this and then judge who is right.

Sirohi D 12:34, 2 July 2006 (UTC)


Hi, check your mail please. Scabbers the Rat 11:15, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

I've no idea and I can only affirm that neither of those accounts are mine. I'm certainly glad for any help that I get to counter the vandalism. Wanna join in? ImpuMozhi 13:45, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi Ramit, I'm glad to hear you received the mail from Scabbers. So did I, which is how I now know who it is. I have no idea who Muhammad Islami is, and I wish he had chosen a different user-name. I certainly would not have picked that name, if I had made a sock. Believe me, I have not created a sock for any purpose, and also I have NOTHING against Rajputs. Pick any Rajput page that I have worked on and read it, tell me if you see hatred for Rajputs there. On the contrary, I read "Annals and antiquities of the Rajputana state" by James Tod and grew to greatly admire the Rajputs, their values and way of life -- I acquired some knowledge of all that, it is important to getting a grip on Indian history! I also have no hatred for Hinduism; believe it or not, I am a devout, practising Hindu whose understanding of Hinduism permits him to keep the occasional Novina. I bet I am a better Hindu than tha Troll, whose religion is nothing more than the hatred of "other" people -- Muslims, Christians, Europeans. Can SS/DPS tell you the difference between the three sects of Vedanta or recite verbatim the Vishnu Sahasranamam? I can. Look at my contribution to Hinduism-related pages: I wrote ENTIRELY the Dakshayani and Arjuna and Alamelu pages and many others also. These three pages are almost 100% mine in content (including what I wrote as an anon). I am telling you all this since you have shown some interest in the matter. Please do not misjudge my actions on Wikipedia. Also, check your e-mail again. Regards, ImpuMozhi 14:33, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

In Bangalore

I'm in Bangalore and work without any bosses or subordinates. So, very thin chance that we'd have run into each other. Where do you work? --Gurubrahma 13:11, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Good to see you working out at the Help Desk. Keep up the good work. --Nearly Headless Nick 13:37, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: trains template

I'm working from the list at Category:Unassessed rail transport articles today. I open about ten articles in separate Firefox tabs and assess each article. After I finish the assessments, I close those tabs and reload the category page by hitting F5. On the two where I removed {{TrainsWikiProject}} from the talk page, if the station info is split out into their own articles, then those would be project-maintained pages, but an article about the city is not. For example, on the article about Madison, Wisconsin, there's a couple paragraphs about rail transportation in the city, mostly discussing the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad; since the Madison article is about the city and not the railroad, the project template is on the railroad article and not the city article. Right now I'm going through the various YEAR in rail transport pages. Slambo (Speak) 17:35, 30 June 2006 (UTC)


Thank You

Hi, your welcome means a lot to me so thanks. With regards to the Khalistan page there are anons and one new wiki member deleting cited sources, I am protecting the cited scholarly/academic sources. As a Englishman who has nothing to do with Sikhism and no interest- I'm am neutral. However, I do take objection to anons and others deleting academic and other cited sources-Qiuip —Preceding unsigned comment added by Qiuip (talk • contribs)

Reply

Hi lost, my point is this, a fundamental point of a advanced civilization, you cannot have just anyone removing cited source (third party at that). As a scientist doesn't matter how much I known- I have to provide prove and cited sources to backup my arguments. I don't CARE whether he's lived in Punjab for a 1000 years or how patriotic he is, all I care about is the truth. You cannot removed cited third party sources- it is completely unethical. If you feel strongly against a cited sources produce your own cited (neutral third party sources) to challenge them and then the viewer can come to their own conclusion. Lost, I appreciate your commitment to wikepedia. If people come wikipedia, then they must come unbiased and leave their patriotism at the door of Wikipedia and bring with them neutral third part sources to challenge what they believe to false because of logic and evidence NOT because they don't like what they are reading. If we took that mindset then humanity would still be back in the stone age. If we don't protect Wikipedia from these forces wikipedia will become useless and a waste of time.

Faithfully your - Thomas

Welcome

Hello, nice seeing you. For welcoming "IP" you should use within brackets {{}} subst:anon and for user with registered name you may use likewise subst:welcome - subst:welcome as well as subst:anon should be placed within {{}} - once you preview and save = these shall be extracted. Happy welcoming! --Bhadani 07:53, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Bhadani has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk pages. Happy editing!

--Bhadani 07:59, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Once again I have come to you: they shall look like as follows:

--Bhadani 09:19, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Special:Newpages

Special:Newpages - this shall "land" you on the newpages, and you may find several "new" things there. Please be careful - oh, no, no, please be bold, I was just joking Image:Tongue.png. --Bhadani 09:35, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Exceptional Newcomer

Congratulations! You are one of the exceptional newcomers. Let us continue to build Better than the Best. I find that the stub Lawrence School, Sanawar which I created long back on 31st July, 2005 has now grown with the help of editros like you. Great work! Please continue the good work. --Bhadani 09:58, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Re:your response to above - yes, it is the beginning. Please continue with the Project on a long-term basis, and contribute positively. You shall have many awards. All the best! --Bhadani 13:28, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Khalistan Article

Hi Lost. I appreciate your concern and I wish to assure you that I am well aware of the wikipedia 3RR policy. However, I am deeply disturbed by the state of the article Khalistan. If you have a look at the edits I have done, you would realise that I have been attempting to clean up the article of statements that do not just amount to a higly biased POV, but are tantamount to treason if an Indian were responsible for these. In general, and while this may not be of concern to the wikipedia community, I am extremely frustrated by Indians engaging in India bashing. You may have noticed most of my earlier edits were mainly for reverting vandalism on other India related pages.

As for my friend Qiuit's edits, I wish to say that if he is an Eglishman as he claims, then he in any case has no understanding of what the people of Punjab, including in particular Sikhs, went through. As for scholarly/academic articles, I have come through a thousand articles that malign the role of Indian government and the Indian armed forces, and in the process completely ignoring the atrocities that the terrorists committed in Punjab. I have also come across an equal number so called scholarly articles which advocate that the massacre of Sikhs in Delhi and of Muslims in Gujarat was totally justified. I have also come across articles by the "western" scholars ofcourse, that claim that the Jalianwala Bagh massacre was an act of Heroism and a similar Englishman had earlier vandalized the Shaheed Udham Singh article and called him a terrorist.

I have spent more than 30 years in Punjab, and I have enough material to fill this article with real NPOV stuff, unless some users with absolutely no knowledge of the subject start removing these edits as vandalism. Hope you would understand.

Many thanks for your attention. AnwarA 19:15, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for showing confidence and good faith in me.Holywarrior 12:00, 1 July 2006 (UTC)


Reply

At the very least use wikipedia code of ethics and procedure before making changes. One anon has change article because he think it's TO BIG. What kind of unlogical reason is that to removed cited third party sources. Thomas

Reply

Look if AnwarA wants to make changes i'm fine with that, he seems a good guy, but it must be throught wikipedia rules and codes of ethics.