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[edit] Western Chalukyas

Hi. Need some clarification. I did not understand this in the FAC page. "Imperial eq to metric would be useful ".ThanksDineshkannambadi 00:16, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

I had made a mistake. The units were not grams but grains. I will look around and see how they relate to grams/ounce units. Dineshkannambadi 00:48, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
added link to grains (measure)Dineshkannambadi 00:54, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi Nichalp. I am proposing a name change from Western Chalukyas to Western Chalukya Empire as it gives the reader a better idea what the article is about. The term dynasty has already been used for the earliest kingdom of same family, the Badami Chalukyas. What do you think?

Dineshkannambadi 13:31, 24 March 2007 (UTC) Hope you can help. I did a move to Western Chalukya Empire. The history and discussion page also moved by not the FAC discussion and the Peer review nomination I think. How do I get around this problem?Dineshkannambadi 14:56, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Extremes

Please see Climate_of_Minnesota#Minnesota_weather_extremes. Do you know where similar data can be found for India? I already tried many Google searches, the IMD page, and the local library. Thanks. Saravask 00:55, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I meant to ask only about India-wide extremes of snowfall and barometric pressures. National temperature extremes are already there (Climate_of_India#Extremes). Saravask 20:40, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rename

May you change my account name to User:Putnik? I use that name at ru-wiki (ru:User:Putnik), Meta (m:User:Putnik) and some other Wikipedia participations. But some user was registered this name for only one vote. Kintup 02:17, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Alison RfA

Hi Nichalp, You invalidate this vote in Alison's RfA However, JCraw indicated to "put me down for Support instead." Would you mind if I refactored JCraw's reasoning to a Support vote? -- Jreferee 04:24, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

I just noticed that the vote is scheduled to end 04:27, 21 March 2007 - three minutes after my 04:24, 21 March 2007 post to you. Uh-oh, I feel like I'm in a tight spot. -- Jreferee 04:34, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] hi

Bold textHALO....TO ALL EDITORS of 'MUMBAI' article in WIKIPEDIA... Our MUMBAI is the FINANCIAL capital of the emerging superopwer,INDIA....

But we are not showing it off with PICTURES...Just look the 'KARACHI' article in WIKIPEDIA...They are SHOWING OFF Karachi with GREAT PICTURES,creating a firstworld city image...

What is KARACHI compared to BOMBAY??? Nothing...ABSOLUTE ZERO!!! But the Image they create throough PICTURES in WIKIPEDIA is that KARACHI is a GREAT Asian city...And what do we create,a BAD of our BOMBAY,by posting LESS images,that too UNIMPRESSIVE and BAD Images... Pakistanis POST good iamges of KARACHI??? IS THIS WHAT WE HAVE TO DO TO OUR MUMBAI??? SPOIL the INTERNATIONAL IMAGE of INDIA and MUMBAI???? COME ON!!!!.....POST GOOD IMAGES and remove the bad ones....DO NOT remove the GOOD ones...

  1. This is an encylopedia, not an image gallery. Images galleries are to be placed on commons:
  2. Images have to be free to be used in an article.
  3. Images need to accompany the text alongside. Karachi has a lot of pictures that have no relavent to the text alongside.
  4. Could you do something about replacing the images with better quality, pertinent ones?

Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 14:53, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bombay vs Mumbai

Any precedence about say Peking vs Beijing, that events related to a time when the city was called Peking are today referred to as the "Beijing event". Or examples in Ceylon vs Sri Lanka. Haphar 15:35, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Goamap.png

Hi. Can you please provide the source of Image:Goamap.png? I'd like to make a modified version. BernardM 18:49, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

I meant the modified version you made. I'd like to translate exactly the one you put on WP. Don't you have a Gimp .xcf file or something like that? Thanks. BernardM 08:03, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Can you give me the nude map then? (without any name) Just keep orientation and scale (but without the numbers). Btw you have a done a great job making this map from the original. BernardM 07:41, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Page move

...Since you have changed my username, i would need help redirecting following pages (I'm having a difficultly redirecting them because they require administrative access):

User:Meteoroid/monobook.css → User:Z.E.R.O./monobook.css
User:Meteoroid/monobook.js → User:Z.E.R.O./monobook.js
User:Meteoroid/myskin.css → User:Z.E.R.O./myskin.css
User:Meteoroid/AzaToth.js → User:Z.E.R.O./AzaToth.js
User:Meteoroid/Essjay.js → User:Z.E.R.O./Essjay.js
User:Meteoroid/Shadow1.js → User:Z.E.R.O./Shadow1.js
User:Meteoroid/statuschanger.js → User:Z.E.R.O./statuschanger.js
User talk:Meteoroid → User talk:Z.E.R.O.

zero » 13:00, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

It looks to me that you already have those pages in your userspace. Would you like the old ones deleted? =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:53, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
No. I do not want these subpages deleted; however, you may repair cut and paste moves and retain edit history from the following pages. zero » 23:46, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mother Teresa

Thank you for your suggestions for the article. I will be acting upon them in the next few days. Majoreditor 18:13, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] crispus attucks

As anger escalated, a churchbell was struck (as it would in case of fire or other emergency), drawing people out of their homes. The British soldiers of the Twenty-ninth Regiment were called to duty in response. Townspeople began hurling snowballs and debris at the soldiers. A group of men led by Attucks approached the vicinity of the government building (now known as the Old State House) with clubs in hand.

Violence soon erupted and a soldier was struck with a thrown piece of wood. Some accounts named Attucks as the person responsible. Others witnesses stated that Attucks was "leaning upon a stick" when the soldiers opened fire.

Three Americans were killed and two were mortally wounded. Court documents state that Attucks was the first one killed and that he took two bullets in the chest. Attucks’ body was carried to Faneuil Hall where it lay in state until March 8 when he and the other victims were buried together.

Based on the premise of self-defense, John Adams successfully defended the British soldiers against a charge of murder. Two of the soldiers were found guilty of manslaughter. In his arguments, Adams called the crowd:

"a motley rabble of saucy boys, negros and molattoes, Irish teagues and outlandish jack tarrs"

Although Adams was considered a progressive thinker in his day, his negative characterization of the crowd based upon the ethnicity of some of its members seems odious and bigoted by modern standards.



Samuel Adams, a cousin of John Adams who held civil disobedience in higher regard, gave the event the name of the Boston Massacre two years later and helped assure that it would not be forgotten. Boston artist Henry Pelham (half-brother of the celebrated portrait painter John Singleton Copley) created an image of the event. Paul Revere made a copy of the image from which prints were made and distributed. Some copies of the print show a man with two chest wounds and dark face who is assumed to be Crispus Attucks. Other copies of the print show no difference in the skin tone of the victims.

The five who were killed were buried as heroes in the Granary Burying Ground. Law and custom of the period prohibited the burial of black people and white people together, which suggests that Attucks was considered mulatto rather than black

[edit] Help with images

Hi Nichalp,

Can you help me here. I just posted on Rama's talk and then noticed that you were active. So just hoping that I might get a quicker response. Thanks. Sarvagnya 09:40, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi Nichalp, saw your note on my page. And now, I'm confused. Some time back I had pinged RA about one of the |images he'd uploaded. And from his responses(I'll dig them out if you want) I was led to believe that...
  • If a photograph was first taken more than 60 years ago in India, then it would qualify for pd-india.

Now you say that, not only should the photograph have been taken more than 60 years ago, it also has to have been published more than 60 years ago. Is that right? If so, then I believe loads and loads of photographs might be suspect including the Godse one uploaded by Rama. Because, while it is not difficult to deduce that the photograph was taken more than 60 years ago, how are we to verify that it was also published more than 60 years ago? Especially since, there more than one source may have published the same photograph. That photo Rama has uploaded, for instance, has also been published in Dominique Lapierre's book "Freedom at midnight".

I hope you're getting my drift. Please help. Thanks. Sarvagnya 02:04, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

In the light of you disagreeing with Rama on the images, I've started a discussion on the template talk page. Please provide your inputs there. Thanks. Sarvagnya 02:23, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you!

Just wanted to say 'thanks!!!' for changing my nickname, and so quickly as well. Much appreciated!!


MJCwiki

[edit] Kaziranga National Park is in PR

Kaziranga National Park, an Indian national park and an UNESCO World Heritage Site was selected as Collaboration of the Month (February 2007) on WIkiProject Protected areas of India and had undergone huge expansion. Now wanting review from expert editors to take this article to the FA level or atleast GA level. Please leave your comments at its peer review page. Amartyabag TALK2ME 12:00, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the review. Done some of the edis and suggested. Give more suggestion. Required help in summarising the Conservation part and copy editing. Amartyabag TALK2ME 03:03, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks again. Can I put this article in the section 'On FA path in WP:INB. Amartyabag TALK2ME 06:58, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Done with geology part and created other related articles. Pls. add ur comments before I put it in League of Copyeditors.Amartyabag TALK2ME 06:28, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: You're a sysop!

Yes, but these buttons are not shiny as promised. I would like a refund or suitable replacement. Thanks! --Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 12:22, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Betacommand

Are you aware that there was no community approval for the 60 day reapplication, as that was Betacommand's suggestion? The unanimous opinion of the three commenting BAG members was that it should be September 1, 2007. I won't argue any more, but perhaps you could explain your reasoning behind this? -- RM 15:00, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time to explain your reasoning. It adequately explains things and I don't have any problem with it. -- RM 16:45, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/SGGH

Hey. Just letting you know that you closed this about 5 hours or so early. It's generally considered proper to let it go that full week. I mean, it was gonna pass anyway, we all know that, I figured as a bcrat you would've known that though. This might be no more than nitpicking, but it's just for future reference, I guess.--Wizardman 18:08, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] note

As a regular contributor to WP:DSI, I was hoping you could weigh in on the category discussions going on related to the page. There are in fact quite a few, and are somewhat stagnant at the moment.Bakaman 18:37, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

I echo most of those concerns, so have nothing much to add. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 13:53, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help needed

Hi Nichalp. Please advice whether this image I just uploaded is in terms with wikipedia policies or not. I took example from this image of Sharukh Khan.Gnanapiti 02:19, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot Nichalp. Regarding the confirmation email you had asked about this image, I'll send it soon Gnanapiti 18:26, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RE:Sockpuppet Blame Game

I'm a little unsure about those users, but let the issue cool down, and I'll remove those templates pointing to your name over the weekend. Please do remind me. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 13:56, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi, it has been over a couple of weeks since you have notified me that you will remove my name that was slapped onto a few sockpuppet name plates without a usercheck. Wiki Raja 10:48, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi Nichalp. The result of the RfCU is out. I have warned Wiki Raja not to ever violate WP:SOCK again. - Aksi_great (talk) 11:46, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Hey, I have not seen any request filed on RFCU. Also, just because those other users come from the same campus does not mean that it is me. Wiki Raja 15:25, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
True, they might not be sock puppets, but meat puppets. =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:50, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello?? You guys are just going off some assumptions. I am not connected with those accounts. Wiki Raja 19:23, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cheers

Cheers for the username change, all the best regards, --Gherkin30 14:51, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Page move

...Since you have changed my username, i would need help redirecting following pages (I'm having a difficultly redirecting them because they require administrative access):

User:Meteoroid/monobook.css → User:Z.E.R.O./monobook.css
User:Meteoroid/monobook.js → User:Z.E.R.O./monobook.js
User:Meteoroid/myskin.css → User:Z.E.R.O./myskin.css
User:Meteoroid/AzaToth.js → User:Z.E.R.O./AzaToth.js
User:Meteoroid/Essjay.js → User:Z.E.R.O./Essjay.js
User:Meteoroid/Shadow1.js → User:Z.E.R.O./Shadow1.js

zero » 13:00, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

It looks to me that you already have those pages in your userspace. Would you like the old ones deleted? =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:53, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
No. I do not want these subpages deleted; however, you may repair cut and paste moves and retain edit history from the following pages. zero » 23:46, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
I still don't get what you want me to do. I have moved all those pages for you, and they retain the old history. =Nichalp «Talk»= 13:58, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Actually, you may delete the old subpages. — zero » 19:57, 25 March 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Help needed, again

Hi Nichalp. I uploaded this image under fair use and added that image to Aishwarya Rai article. After that User:Plumcouch rightly pointed out that fair use images can't be used in actor's templates. For me it gets pretty confusing here. Because I've seen lot of articles using fair use images in templates such as one in Shahrukh Khan and Sushmita Sen. Can you please suggest regarding the issue? As of now, the image has been removed from Aishwarya Rai. I would appreciate your inputs. Thanks, Gnanapiti 23:45, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Name Change

Hey Nichalp! I noticed you are active on the name change page, and I was wondering about tweaking my name. I registered my name as evilclown93, no cap. I prefer it to be Evilclown93. The only place that show up is my edit count page, which kind of annoys me. Do you think I should change, or forget it? I'm just asking for advice. Thanks! The Evil Clown my contributions 23:00, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I know, that, but this bugs me: [1] The Evil Clown my contributions 18:53, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
In a way it is a trivial thing, but that is something that really bugs me. Thanks! The Evil Clown my contributions 19:01, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] City weather charts

Hi. Could you take a look at these Chennai and Mumbai charts? I can't figure out what those black objects are, and the titles ("Chennai" and "Mumbai") are not displaying. Thanks. Saravask 04:05, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:kaziranga again

I saw u started the page on geology of India and perhaps can have some good references on geology on India. Can you get some book on Kaziranga and Geology of India and add some details. I urgently need some data on Geology part, which I am not getting after searching for long on the net. If u get some good links on Geology of Assam or India let me know.Amartyabag TALK2ME 13:06, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/BackupHDDVD

The concerns you expressed regarding the BackupHDDVD nomination have been addressed. Would you mind re-examining the article to determine whether there are any further problems you can see? Noclip 18:55, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help

Hi, I have created a stub for pune city {{Pune-geo-stub}} without first proposing it, eventually I did propose it and now I am struggling to defend it as it is marked for deletion. Please visit Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Log/2007/March/30 and help me out, If you think you should.

spacejuncky 05:27, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume II, Issue 2 - March 2007

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  • Jimbo's visit to India and the WikiCamp in Chennai: Jimbo recently visited India in late February and early March on wiki work. This included a trip to a WikiCamp in Chennai. The one day conference attracted 300 participants from across India and beyond dealt with issues facing wikis ([2]). It was widely covered by the press, eg The Hindu( [3]), which cited the efforts of Bhadani (edit count), Sundar (leadership on Tamil Wikipedia) and Ganeshk (Creation of Ganeshbot to create articles on Indian towns from census figures). Ganeshk himself travelled from California to attend the conference.
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[edit] Historical maps

Hi Nik, Id like you to post your thoughts here on a standard format for historical maps of India. Thanks -- PlaneMad|YakYak 17:24, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
I User:PlaneMad award this barnstar to Nichalp, for this wonderful piece of work and many others that are too numerous to list. And especially for inspiring and guiding me to dip my fingers into vector mapmaking PlaneMad|YakYak 17:35, 30 March 2007 (UTC)


[edit] username change request

Hi Nichalp, since you're one of the bureaucrats, I wanted to just remind you about my request to have my username changed from User:Wikipedier to User:U.S.A.U.S.A.U.S.A. that I have filed out there.(Whan I made an effort to report an inappropriete username, an administrator said that my username was more of a violation than the vandal I was reporting). I now know that it's in violation for being a Wikipedia term. Certainly, however, not a malicious username, and I think that's why I think I should have the chance of changing it. If this username is not appropriete, could you please let me know? I chose it because I'm proud to be an american! Overall since when I came to Wikipedia in late November of 2006, and now, I hope that I've been improving this encyclopedia, and wish to continue on that with a new usermane.--Wikipedier (talk • contribs) 01:19, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

  • "an administrator said that my username was more of a violation than the vandal I was reporting" - actually, I didn't say that at all. It's borderline & chances are, it'll be picked up on again. I've no doubt, however, that you chose it in good faith - Alison☺ 11:33, 31 March 2007 (UTC)


I've added the request at the bottom and removed my old one. Is that the only reason the request was Denclined,(Declinded for the time being until I follow those instructions), or was that new username decline as well?--Wikipedier (talk • contribs) 14:45, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you!--U.S.A.U.S.A.U.S.A. (talk • contribs) 16:51, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

I was half expecting a ticking off. We(those providing assistance)'ll be more careful checking when the requested accounts were created in future. And as to the edits thing- Dan made it clear he wanted to do things on a case-by-case basis and has previously performed usurpations on accounts with single very old edits that had no GDFL consequences. So I asked him about that one expecting he'd be the one to perform the request... Guess it prob should be sorted rather than relying on individual crat discretion. Thanks again for the barnstar :-). WjBscribe 07:26, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Earle Martin RfA closed?

Why did you close Earle Martin's RfA? I was under the impression it was supposed to run until April 3, and I would have expected to see a reason indicated in the edit summary. Rl 07:27, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:

Hi! Nichalp,

I created the image of Ganga Devi from an already exsisting picture of Deity Ganga. I redrew the image.The earlier image on Wikipedia was more like a pictoral depiction from a folklore,so I thought this image would prove better.

Wizzywiz.

[edit] Urgent Help needed!

Hi,

Please see this [4]. Can you please look into it? Jisha (Talk) 09:51, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you!! :) Jisha (Talk) 12:01, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Earle Martin's complaint about you on RfA

I thought you'd like to know that User:Earle Martin is publicly complaining about your early closing of his RfA on the crat noticeboard, Wikipedia:Bureaucrats'_noticeboard#Unfair_early_closing_of_my_RfA. --Golbez 10:31, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

I should probably have noted that here. However, I prefer to deal with this "out in the open" on the noticeboard. -- Earle Martin [t/c] 10:34, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

No problems. Thanks for the heads up Golbez. =Nichalp «Talk»= 12:51, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Maybe I should do a CrazyRussian. What say you? — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 14:31, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] usurpation question

Hi, thanks for transferring my account from User:Tachikoma to User:Kyoko. I have a question. Is there any way to get it so that it doesn't say "User:Kyoko (usurped)" as seen here? I find it less than aesthetically pleasing. I've tried covering it over, as seen here. I'm asking because I don't recall seeing other renamed users with the (usurped) title.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate your work. I just wonder if there is something that I'm supposed to do that I haven't. Thanks for your time. --Kyoko 16:01, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Is that what's called a double redirect? I know that this whole thing was a trivial matter to bring up, but thanks for fixing this, it looks much better now! --Kyoko 16:30, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the explanation. --Kyoko 16:39, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Imagery

The image use policy refers to png being better than gif as: png is a better format and allows a greater compression. commons:Image:Hurricane profile graphic.gif and commons:Image:Hurricane profile graphic.png are identical in terms of content, but the superior compression of png means the png is considerably smaller. However, as the png is a straight conversion of the gif the other technical benefits of the superior format do not apply. This means that the content of the png is not superior in anyway.

This is why requesting gifs are replaced with pngs is specious. If a new image is uploaded; png should be used in preference to gif. However, the net result of the upload of a pngised gif image in addition to the original gif is zero in terms of content and is strictly negative in terms of file space as even if one is "deleted" the server still has both of them using up HD space. Furthermore, in some cases the gif may not necessarily be deleted due to licensing concerns. Therefore, IMO this just uses up a bit of server space for no reason. Encourage vectorisation of gifs and pngs but don't encourage pngisation of gifs ;)

Oh and on the topic of svgs a few miscellaneous comments/tips. There is no reason for the en language version to be on WP, it should be on Commons (who knows what other english projects may want it for a start). Also, when uploading a svg created in Inkscape you may want to consider using a plain svg as opposed to Inkscape svg. See Commons:Category:Created with Inkscape for some reasons: it strips out unecessary data and removes some of your personal information (like your Windows Username).--Nilfanion (talk) 17:15, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Newsletter

Hi Nichalp, done — Lost(talk) 18:29, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Usurpation

I don't know where you "heard" I was in favor of this. I have carried out, I believe, one such request, when the target username had a single vandalous and immediately-reverted edit several years ago; this seems like an obvious exception to me. There is no reason we should be obliged to operate according to carefully-delineated rules; these complicate what is otherwise a very simple procedure. You and I have been chosen for our position because the community trusts our judgment, and it makes little sense to construct a process in which that judgment becomes unnecessary. When you fulfill a request, use your judgment; when I do so, I will use mine. If a problem arises with an action I have taken, I will handle it. — Dan | talk 19:04, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Peer review/Shahbag/archive2

I have just put the article to peer review. Would you care to take a look? Aditya Kabir 20:29, 31 March 2007 (UTC)