User talk:Nichalp/Archive38

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[edit] delisting

India-locator-map-blank is being considered for delistingJoniscool98 02:01, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] shhhh...

It's a good thing that RfA wasn't close or something, since it looks like you closed it a half hour early. <fake GASP> ;) NoSeptember 15:00, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Yup, I know :). I've closed RFAs 5 hrs earlier in the past without a fuss. =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:03, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

So we have a rouge bureaucrat on our hands. NoSeptember 15:05, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

 :) =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:20, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Awesome

I award Nick this barnstar for being one of the best and nicest persons on WIkipedia, and also one of the greatest contributors!
May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 16:27, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome for the userpage award nom. I noticed I've never given you a barnstar, so here goes:

[edit] The Compartment description

Firstly I am a fan of Indian Railways.

I think we need a section/page on Types of coaches used in passenger trains, what I added was a starting point and expected more informed people like you to take it up instead of bringing it down.

Also I added few unfilled sections like 'Modernization' and few subsections like 'Passenger safety', 'Station cleanliness', 'Coach cleanliness'.

I would request you to fill such sections (may be start a new page) and put this info on Wikipedia for others to read.

I wish Wikipedia to become one stop source for most the info thus we IR page should have info on upcoming projects (e.g. new freight corridor) /special trains (Garib Rath, tourist trains etc) shortfalls /pitfalls, info calculation rules of FINE imposition (why not as this is faced by several railway passengers) etc etc.

I sincerely believe that in future sites like this will be used by respective authorities (here IR authorities) as well to understand end user in better ways and serve them better and frankly design of IR coaches desires a lot of improvement/customization, platform/coach cleanliness is again a big concern area. So pls help in putting more information.

User:Vjdchauhan 11:16, 24 Jul 2006 (IST)

[edit] map

Nichalp, please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject India Maps, thanks -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 07:14, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FA drives

Yo - I urge your participation and welcome your advice for the FA drives of Maulana Azad and the History of Mumbai. Please do make some time for these! This Fire Burns Always 05:17, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hi

Long time no see :) Is there still an edit limit on username changes - I can't seem to see one on the changing user name page. Thanks. --Peta 11:23, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Thank you so much for voting in my recent RFA. It passed on the relatively narrow vote of 38/8/8. It was also one of the least-participated-in RFA nominations in several months, so pat yourself on the back, and join the party on your left, but first, take your cookie! NOTE: I can't code HTML to save my life. I copied this from Misza13. I guess I should write him a thank you note as well. Cookies sold separately. Batteries not included. Offer not valid with other coupons. May contain peanuts or chicken. Keep out of the reach of small children, may present a choking hazard to children under the age of 3. Do not take with alcohol. This notice has a dark background and therefore may be eaten by a grue at any time. The receiver of this message, hereafter referred to as "Pudding Head" relinquishes all rights and abilities to file a lawsuit or any other litigious activities. RyanGerbil10, Jimbo Wales, and the states of Georgia, North Dakota and Wisconsin are not liable for any lost or stolen items or damage from errant shopping carts.

Thank you so much! RyanGerbil10(The people rejoice!) 03:57, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help with translations

I'm currently working on a script intended to create short articles on political parties on a variety of wikipedias simultaneously. However, in order for the technique to work I need help with translations to various languages. If you know any of the languages listed at User:Soman/Lang-Help , then please help by filling in the blanks. For example I need help with several Indian languages, including Hindi. Thanks, --Soman 12:45, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Nice idea. I'm currently busy, so won't be able to help for a week or so. --Nichalp 13:36, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] hi thr

hey boss!!!! may i plz know if u have bben a student of st aloysius' school, kanpur, sumtime???

ask this so as i saw school's foto in ur account!!!

wud like yo know,u if at all u belong to SAS n also if u donn mind!!!!

thnx n rgds, rajat beriwal 09898899256

rajatberiwal@gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.77.201.73 (talk • contribs) of 30.07.06

Hello Nichalp. I am sure that you are doing very fine. --Bhadani 15:01, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Er.. No, I'm not. I've only clicked the photo when I was in Kanpur in 99 as I knew someone who had taught in that school. 140.247.214.190 13:24, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Economy of India

The article Economy of India is up for a Featured article review. Please take a look at the discussion and help us maintain the quality of this featured article. Joelito (talk) 15:23, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

It would be appreciated if you could make some time to vote on the Economy of India FARC. Thanks. Joelito (talk) 16:17, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hi, don't see you much!

Hi! We do not see you around much now-a-days. Two articles from Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cities are in FAC. Ahmedabad and Darjeeling. I have modified the project page accordingly to have a section on articles currently in FAC (more city articles are to be in FAC shortly, including Kochi). You may find some striking similarity between Darjeeling and Kalimpong!! (direct copying from the latter in certain instances). Anyway, hope you are well and kicking. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 19:06, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Geo-coord question

Can you please help answer this Dwaipayan's question. Thanks, Ganeshk (talk) 15:48, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] to delete

Nichalp, can you please delete Image:India-locator-test.svg. was used for testing, thanks ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 09:17, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Nichalp's otherwise occupied, but I deleted it per your request. Thanks - Taxman ^Talk 12:54, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rename requests

What's the formal procedure for requesting a rename from a WP bureaucrat -- does "contact" mean we email them, or post to their talk page? As always, apologies if this is a dumb question... Raymond Arritt 22:20, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

You'd need to post a request at WP:CHU while logged in. Regards, --Nichalp 13:34, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WIkipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award

Greetings, Nichalp. The judges would like to announce that the winner for the Esperanza User Page Contest has been chosen. Congratulations to Kylu for winning the contest. The winning entry can be found here.

If you'd like to participate in the contest again, check by the contest page in a few days and sign up. See you around. May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|)

[edit] BBC News Peer review

Hopefully you will remember the Peer review of the BBC News article that you participated in and gave your thoughts on in November last year. I was wondering if you would be willing to now take another look at the article together with your suggestions to see how the article performs now. The original Peer review can be found here. Thanks a lot! Wikiwoohoo 14:51, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Not a problem. Thanks for your suggestions from the last review however! Wikiwoohoo 16:39, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How are you?

how are you Nicholas. We haven't seen you since 26/7. Are you ok? Blnguyen | rant-line 03:57, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Good to here. I was wondering where you had been. Have a nice and safe trip back to Mumbai. Regards, Blnguyen | rant-line 04:32, 8 August 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Orphan image delete (Image:EBLOGO.jpg)

Hi! Please delete this image as this has been replaced by an updated version of the East Bengal Club's logo as per this request. --Victor 17:59, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Deleted =Nichalp «Talk»= 19:24, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] naming conventions

Hi Nick. You might like to rejoin the conversation about Indian place names, or join the new discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (city names)#New_.22General_rules.22. I appear to have stumbled into a long-standing dispute between yourself and User:Tobias Conradi. --Scott Davis ^Talk 02:21, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Economy of India

Hi

I've nearly finished copy-editing it in FAR. Boy, did it need it. But there are unaddressed inline queries, and economic input, maintenance required.

Do you know anyone who's good at that? They want to know whether it should be FARCed.

Tony 10:29, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Nick. Tony 02:02, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: New England

Thanks for your comments on the FAC page. I'll look into all of them and see what I can do. --AaronS 19:27, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] IST

Hello Nichalp. I have reviewed IST. Please check out the PR. This was my first attempt peer-reviewing an article. - Aksi_great (talk - review me) 18:39, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Look what I came across today (thought old archives would be an interesting read) - "may this once lively weave of rebounding verbiage be archived, left for some supremely bored wiki-progeny to mull over in distant years, wondering at how such fierce argument could possibly fizzle so quickly into shaant samaapt". How true! It is now 2006. Maybe my arrivial on wikipedia was foreseen (supremely bored wiki-progeny.. ha ha). - Aksi_great (talk - review me) 19:43, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Apple II series review

Hello, I see you have peer reviewed articles now and then. I would most appreciate it if you could take a look a Apple II series, please leave comments at Wikipedia:Peer review/Apple II series/archive1. Thanks! — Wackymacs 20:20, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Will look at it on Tuesday =Nichalp «Talk»= 19:01, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image for IST

Hello. I was thinking about possible images for the article. I found this one. This photo was taken by me when I had visited England. There is a line at Greenwich Prime Meridian. [1]. On both the sides of the line, co-ordinates of major cities in the world are mentioned. This is the close-up of the part of the line mentioning Mumbai's co-ordinates. It may help in the article. - Aksi_great (talk - review me) 05:42, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

The cropped image really looks nice. That was the fastest expansion->PR->FAC I have ever seen. Great work. I was expecting Ahmedabad to be made FA today, but was disappointed. Guess I will have to wait for a few more days. It has been 2 weeks since I submitted it. IST makes it the 4th Indian article at FAC at the moment. There are a lot of good Indian articles at PR too. They are waiting for your comments. Also, I just scanned that image in case you couldn't add anything else. Do you have any suggestions for the image. If not then you can go ahead and delete it. I don't mind. I have it on my comp and will upload it later if required. - Aksi_great (talk - review me) 19:11, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2 embedded comments

Have some problems with 2 embedded comments in darjeeling. First one is in the sentence desceribing the Darjeeling disaster. You've asked "resulting in"? Do you mean future impact of the devastations of the eartquake? If you mean immediate effect of the quake, that has been described (which is quite obvious!)

The second embedded comment (another "resulting in?") is more troublesome! What was the effect of revolutionaries attempting to kill the governor. In fact, no reference could be found stating any particular steps the govt took folloeing the assassination attempt. The sentence was used to exemplify the singlemost mentionable factoid of the independence movenment in the town, However, after receiving your comment, it seems the fact is rather unimportant in the history of the city. We can remove the fact, unless you tell to do something else. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 18:26, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adv_sreekumar (talk • contribs • count)

Hello Nichalp. Can you have a look at this user's contribs please? He seems to be signing himself as some kind of court/legal official of Kochi and is making some pointed comments to certain users, alleging political motives. Is that permissible? Thanks, Blnguyen | rant-line 05:49, 14 August 2006 (UTC).

I blocked him for 24 hours for making legal treats, making personal attacks, and vandalising. --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 15:01, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Biggest city debate again

Hello Nichalp! I hope you remember the "biggest city in Kerala" debate from last March. Well, hell has been let loose again, with a new user Alniko (talk · contribs) frantically reverting all mention of Trivandrum as the biggest city in Kerala (see histories of Kochi, Kerala and Trivandrum). There are a slew of personal attacks aimed at other users on his talk page, and in edit summaries. Could you please take a look? TIA -- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK}04:54, 15 August 2006 (UTC) PS: Congrats on being featured on the front page!!!

[edit] India map on main page

Congrats. - Aksi_great (talk - review me) 09:47, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for block

Hi! Thanks for recently renaming the ASDamick account to Preost. On Wikipedia:Changing username, it recommends that if I'd like to prevent impersonation, I recreate the old account name and request of an administrator that it be blocked. So, would you mind blocking ASDamick? I'm signing this both with the account I'd like blocked, as well as with the new account name, so you can be sure that it's me. ASDamick 15:43, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Ditto! —Preost ^{talk contribs} 15:44, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bpazolli

I think this guy is trying to hassle snottygobble the admin - just in case youve kept him on your watchlist i think hes up to something.SatuSuro 14:47, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your recent edit on the Mumbai page

You recently made an edit on the Mumbai section, that edited out (removed) a link to our site - http://mumbai.burrp.com. We are a local startup that has listings of thousands of restaurants, bars, clubs and cafes in Mumbai. We have a very active community of people, who regularly contribute their reviews to the site.

We thought it would be useful to have a link to our site, as people can find eateries and hangouts rated and reviewed by the locals.

We encourage you to visit our site and check out its utility yourself. The url is http://mumbai.burrp.com/

Thanks, Anand Jain Burrp! India

The external links section is meant to be a resource for sites which contain useful encyclopedic content on the history, geography, economy and culture of the city. Blogs, forums, portals etc are strongly discouraged. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 07:42, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Time zone

Hi Nichalp, to the best of my knowledge, the East Pakistan was in GMT+6.00 hours time zone. Thanks. --Ragib 00:38, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] IST

Hi Nichalp,

Hope you have seen my contribs to the IST article. Please see whether any awkward phrases have been introduced in the edits made by me. Incidently, this is the smallest article I have ever supported in the FAC. For things like standards, there aren't much changes and news, so only things that needs to be discussed is history and controversies, which this article did. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 10:35, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

But why was IST removed from FAC so soon??? It should have been there for a longer time. Please consider re-starting the FAC.--Dwaipayan (talk) 18:47, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2006 Mumbai "Sweet" Seawater Incident

Hi Nichalp,

Do you think there is any correlation/causation between 2006 Mumbai "Sweet" Seawater Incident and Mithi River (sweet river), which ends very close to the Mahim Creek? — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 09:14, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Nichalp, you mentioned something on Dhobi Talao on Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Science. When I went to the article however I didn't find anything. Can you add the details in the article. You said you have a pic too, can you upload that to the article as well. Jay 23:06, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

I noticed that on the featured pictures discussion section, your signature screenname was of a light blue color and also displayed a link for your talk page. Can you please tell me how to enable these features into one's signature? I tried experimenting with several codes within the "My Preferences" username entry, but the codes do not actually convert the name into such colors. Thank you. Matt (mcshadypl) 20:07, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:India-states-map-blank.png listed for deletion

Sure please delete. =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:00, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nepal

Hi Nichalp! The Nepal article is in dire need of attention. In its present condition, the article falls short of the standards required for a featured article. The lead section of the article consists of just one line, while it should aptly contain two-three paragraphs per WP:LEAD. The factual accuray of the article too has been questioned, and hasnt been addressed as of yet. Certain sections have also been tagged for cleanup. The article also lacks a proper referencing standard. Since you were actively involved in this article, could you devote some time to it now, or it might soon land up in FARC. Thanks!-- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK}06:52, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

BTW, could you also take a look at Kochi? I'd like to put it up for FAC soon. -- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK}08:49, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome!

[edit] Help needed

Hi Nichalp,

A minor help request. In the talk page of the IIT article, it is pointed out that the data source for the pie chart is out-dated. New data is also provided. Can you please update the pie-chart image according to the latest data. I tried it on inkscape, but couldn't get how to go about it.

Also, whenever you have time, can you please review IIT Kharagpur article, specifically with regards to duplicated data and missing (required) info. I had to add a lot of info to the article from the IIT article itself because everything is common. I was wondering if some of it can be omitted with just a see also link. Thanks,— Ambuj Saxena (talk) 15:20, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AfD

Hi: I put Mahesh Pathak up for deletion just now, and only then discovered, a little to my surprise, that you had created the article some time ago. If I had realised I would have asked you first if there was any particular claim to notability there. Anyway, its on AfD now. Hornplease 05:19, 25 August 2006 (UTC)