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Contents 1 Welcome! 2 Preview 3 Etymology of Hindi 4 Image copyright problem with Image:Mangalpandey.jpg 5 Welcome to Wikiproject India 6 Urdu Poetry 7 WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume I, Issue 3 - December 2006 8 your edit to:Script Modi 9 Merry Christmas! 10 Hindi 11 Ayyavazhi 12 Re:Chand Raat 13 Paul Raj's Citation 14 Two Articles in need of your attention 15 WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume II, Issue 1 - January 2007 16 Helpme tag 17 RfC 18 WPW newsletter 19 Abt Bhojpuri 20 Jugalbandhi 21 WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume II, Issue 2 - March 2007 22 sanskrit/devanagari 23 Indian collaboration of the week news 24 Thanks 25 100-word list for your Mother tongue 26 Request for help over sanskrit caption of R&AW 27 Hi Saryuparin 27.1 Hindi is best because

[edit] Welcome!

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[edit] Preview

I would like to thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. However, it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Thanks again. --Geniac 18:17, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Etymology of Hindi

Namaste Sarayuparin, thanks for inviting me to the discussion! I would be happy to join in. I've noticed some of your contributions on Wikipedia. Keep up the great work you are doing! Thanks, Anupam^Talk 22:13, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Mangalpandey.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Mangalpandey.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.

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Dear Sarayuparin, Thank you for the image Image:Mangalpandey.jpg. Unfortunately no where it has been specified that this image is in public domain. In most of the websearches for Managl Panedy this image is thrown up. If you want to upload this particular image to the article then you have to cite as to why this is a public domain image and should include source information. For many months the article didnt had a image of Managal Pandey so I tried to create a similar image from the one on the Government of India stamp. The existing image is in public domain..

Many a times this particular photo (the one which has been uploaded by you currently) was added to wikipedia by many users..Due to copyright issues it gets deleted in few days...IndianCow ^Talk 13:23, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

It can be used under fair use. But fair use always comes with a cavet. For more information you can refer Wikipedia:Fair use. For this reason itslef I created the PD image, which can be later used by other people for their own reference.

Fair use should only be used if there is no eqvivalent image for that subject. In case of Mangal Pandey all the photos are works of imagination. No artist did ever had a chance to draw his potrait. So I believe the one which we have in the article should serve the purpose and it is similar to the one used by government of India.

In future if you upload some image and want to use it under fair use then please give an elaborate rationale as to why it is used or else again it will be deleted.. -IndianCow ^Talk 11:16, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to Wikiproject India

[edit] Urdu Poetry

Hello Sarayuparin! I never got a response from you regrading the Etymology of Hindi. If you still have any comments on this issue, please feel free to let me know. Also, I noticed that you watch Urdu poetry and was wondering about your opinion on the sections I added to the article. It seems as if those edits were unwelcome and have been reverted twice. Your valuable comments will be highly appreciated. Looking forward to hearing from you soon. Thanks, Anupam^Talk 23:52, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your prompt reply! Yes, those are the reverts I am referring to. I thought the scripts and the two sections I added were very helpful and improved the quality of the article. What's your opinion of leaving the Devanagari and Perso-Arabic scripts on the article? Thanks in advance. I look forward to hearing from you soon. With regards, Anupam^Talk 22:26, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree with you. Showing an example of Urdu poetry on the article pertaining to it is beneficial. The Perso-Arabic is relevant because it is the script used to write Urdu poetry and the Devanagari script is relevant based on the information in the section Scripts used in Poetry. Do you think it would be appropriate for me to revert the article to my version or do you have any other suggestions? Thanks for your help in this situation. I really appreciate it. Anupam^Talk 22:54, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for all your advice Sarayuparin. It is very much appreciated. I hope to start a discussion on the Urdu poetry talk page later this week. Hopefully, the issue will be resolved there. Thanks again. Khuda hafiz, Anupam^Talk 07:18, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume I, Issue 3 - December 2006

Project News Name change of cities in Karnataka: A straw poll was conducted on the proposal to change the name of cities in Karnataka, per the Nov 1, 2006 decision by the Karnataka government to rename them from the current anglicised forms. The result of the poll was to change the names. As controversial as the decision may be in the real world, the article Bangalore in Wikipedia still reflects the old name. You may be interested in knowing why. Dig the archives. New Project Noticeboard (Shortcut:WP:INB): WikiProject India now sports a new colourful centralised noticeboard. An effort to make the noticeboard current and dynamic was mooted a few days back, and Ganeshk came up with the new format. The new noticeboard will strive to be the one-stop shop for all project related information. The shortcut is WP:INB. Members List: The old members list is being phased out to give way for the new members list. New members are requested to add their names to the new members list. As the newsletter grows, further issues of the Project Newsletter will be delivered to those enlisted in the new list. So dash down now, to check if ur name is in there. What's New? Featured Content: Three articles (Chalukya Dynasty (nom), History of Tamil Nadu (nom) and Bengali language (nom)), one list (List of Indian ODI cricketers) and one picture (Prayer flag in the Kurgiakh valley in Zanskar contributed by Moumine (pictured)) were featured from our WikiProject recently. Congratulations to all contributors who helped to develop the above content to represent the best of Wikipedia! Need some help? Are you stuck at a point where admin help is needed? There are 22 Indian Administrators in Wikipedia at the last count. If you need some help with anything related to WikiProject India, they are just a couple of clicks away! Complete To Do List India-related tasks | Indian noticeboard v • e • d • h • w Requests: People: Bapudeva Sastri, Marimallappa, Ravichandran, Articles: Barak Missile Deal Scandal, Asura (band), Asian Variety Show, Cultural liberalism in India, Energy policy of India, India Export Tax, India Import Tax, Marimallappa High School, More... NPOV: Rajneesh, Khalistan, Ranjit Lal Jetley Hedgewar, Puttanna Kanagal, Indira Gandhi, More... Wikify: Railway stations, Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar, More... Cleanup: caste system, Rampur, Tav-Prasad Savaiye, Shipping Corporation of India, More... Merge: Amber Fort,More... Expand: Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case) 14th Lok Sabha, Adithada, Ali Sardar Jafri, Bandhani work, But Marma Atti, Chikan (embroidery), China Town, Kolkata, Essar Shipping, Fair use, G. N. Naidu, Hinduism in India, Imperial Bank, Inbuan Wrestling, Integral humanism, Iran-India relations, Islam in India, Sunil Mittal More... Stubs: Indian Copyright Act, Anand Math, Andhra Bank, A R Antule, Arjuna award, Army of India, Bahujan Samaj Party, Bombay Dyeing, More... Translate: Marathi Wikipedia articles, Hindi Wikipedia articles, Sanskrit Wikipedia articles, Tamil Wikipedia articles Kannada Wikipedia articles Collaborate: Notice board, Collaboration of the Week, Category Adoptions To do, Version 1.0 assesment, India Portal, Life in India, India quick links Indian Wikipedians, Indian administrators More... Requested images: Major crops, Convert Image:Standard of the President of India.gif to SVG, Free image of Aarti Chhabria (See: Image:Aarti Chhabria.jpg and its talk page) Other requests: Add maps from WikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found at List of regions in India v • e • d • h • w

Note from Editor's Desk Welcome to the December 2006 edition of our newsletter. Time flies past like matter into the black hole. It is interesting to notice that we are already into the last month for the year of 2006. 2006 saw discussions and development beyond realisation. In the world of Wikipedia where quality counts than quantity, we have come a long way. We've made better than 'nothing', to say the least, and even that is an achievement. I take this opportunity to thank everyone including those who have dotted the i's and crossed the t's. As before, we'd like to stress, this is your newsletter, and we want you to be part of it as well. Provide us with news tips. It can be anything related to the project, from discussions to calls for help, and other interesting stuff within our community. If you have received or given any barnstars recently, do let us know. Sponsored content for recruitments within your WikiProject sub-groups are also welcome. We'll be very happy to include them here. Before we sign off, Advance New Year Wishes, everyone. This edition special Assessment Department (Shortcut: WP:IN1): Are you one of those gnomes?? Or do you want to take some time off some brain-frying active editing on Wikipedia?? Then Department of Assessment within the WikiProject India will be your forte. The department consists of a group of wikipedians who work on rating the India related articles to check if they are worthy enough to be included in the CD (or print) version of Wikipedia. The rating process gains more significance as we try to sort out which articles and which topics need more attention to balance the India related systemic bias within wikipedia. As a thumb rule, anyone can rate any article based on the related criteria, within the Stub/Start/B/A levels. However, ratings for Good Article Status and Featured Article status go through the nomination processes. How to?: The "how to" part of assessment is very simple. Just head on to the talk page of any India related page and you'll find the {{WP India}} template. Simply classify the article based on the content and the criteria mentioned here. You can find the detailed instructions here. If you think it may qualify for GA/FA status, first consider submitting the article for peer review. Signed... Edited by Chez and distributed by Lostintherush

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[edit] your edit to:Script Modi

rather than blank the page if you want it deleted and are the only editor, list it for speedy deletion, so it isn't identified as vandalism. Exarion 23:51, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merry Christmas!

Your'e very welcome! I hope you had a good Christmas and are looking forward to the new year! Anupam^Talk 06:42, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hindi

Hello Sarayuparin! I noticed you reverted my edit on the Hindi article. If you look at the reference provided by ethnologue, you will note that variants are delineated in the first and second sentences of the "Comments" section. If Urdu must be deleted from the infobox, Hindustani must be deleted as well because it is the progneitor of both registers -- Hindi and Urdu. Your opinions on this issue would be highly appreciated. With regards, Anupam^Talk 04:40, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi Sarayuparin! It's alright. These things happen all the time! =) Could you please kindly revert/readd the deleted information then? Thanks, Anupam^Talk 22:04, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Sarayuparin, the Sanskrit in the etymology section of Chand Raat appears to be incorrect. Since you know more Sanskrit than I, could you please correct it? With regards, Anupam^Talk 22:28, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ayyavazhi

Please see here. The discussion is going on. So please revert your present revert. Ayyavazhi is cited with university papers and was added there in the article. - Paul 22:02, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Please revert to the previous edits. See the earlier situation. I waited after citing with university papers for morethan 98hrs. Now you reverted the edits without a single word to discuss. please revert as per university citations. - Paul 22:09, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

The discussion is not going on in my talk page but the discussion page of India. See the university papers I cited. Solid and valid proofs. Revert as per the cited sources. No reply had come against this citations. University reserch is considered most valid in wikipedia? What is the use if some body edit without discussing to valid sources cited some 96 hrs ago? So please revert - Paul 22:14, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Chand Raat

Hi Sarayuparin! Thanks for your reply. Yes, I am aware of that. I was the one who actually added the Sanskritic etymology in the article. Fowler&fowler pointed possible errors in the Devanagari Sanskrit spellings. Looking at your userpage, I noticed that you know Sanskrit and am thus requesting you to check/fix the incorrect Sanskrit spellings in the article. Can you do so please? Your help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Anupam^Talk 00:03, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Also, thanks for your edit to the article. I actually suggested that myself on the talk page but seeing as how the conversation was going on the talk page, decided that it might be to contentious. Your comments on the talk page would be appreciated. With regards, Anupam^Talk 00:07, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for making the corrections. I really appreciate it. With regards, Anupam^Talk 00:25, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Paul Raj's Citation

Hi, Please read my latest posting on Paul Raj's citation. Thought you might be interested. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 21:34, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, it was in Talk:India#Proposal_Re:_Religions (the very end) Fowler&fowler«Talk» 01:49, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, so much effort and seemingly all for naught. I probably will remove that one word, but I wouldn't be surprised if he starts up again right away. Wikipedia has to find a better way of dealing with these lone-POV-rangers. So much time and effort is spent by well-meaning editors in explaining things to them, and it is not even clear if they understand anything ... Fowler&fowler«Talk» 21:54, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Two Articles in need of your attention

There are two entries at Wikipedia, which have falsely created -- they are Turco-Persian and Turko-Persian Tradition. Both entries are factitious. I have requested the entries to be deleted. My reasons are:

The term Turko-Persian Tradition (or Turco-Persian) does not exists academically and it is a factitious entry! Check the Encyclopaedia Iranica to confirm -- The correct name for that culture is the Persianate culture not the "Turko-Persian". Turkophones (mostly of mixed race and Persianized in culture) only spoke in Turkic dialects and were in the military. That is not enough participation in creating and forming the culture to deserve the name "Turko-Persian Tradition" – This is misinformation. All the elements in that area, which have to do with tradition and culture, were drawn from the Iranian culture (Persian, Kurdish, Azari, Baluchi, Tajik, Luri, Gilaki, Talishi, Mazandarani, etc.), and the Islamic faith, not much Turkic elements (like shamanism, yurts etc.) were incorporated in. That is what makes the name "Turko-Persian" an imaginary one and therefore the entry should be deleted.

Any contributions would greatly appreciated. Bā Sepās Surena 02:29, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume II, Issue 1 - January 2007

Project News Usage of Vernacular scripts: Following extensive description at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) archived here regarding inclusion criteria for vernacular scripts in Indian biographies, Wikipedia:Vernacular scripts was set up to formulate usage guidelines. However, discussion appears to have dissipated without a conclusive result. Project tagging:After a brief edit war over the addition of {{WP India}} to ancient archaeological sites now located in Pakistan, a "pre" parameter was introduced to remove the ROI flag from the template for pre-1947 articles, following discussion. After another large discussion on ANI alleging that the automated tagging by Ganeshbot and LostBot was "nationalistic", Ganeshbot was briefly blocked. Currently, the bots are again in action. What is India?:Recently, there have been ongoing discussions here which discuss the stated issue of "India" the historical region is different from the Republic of India. It consisted also of modern Pakistan and Bangladesh, but a search for "India" automatically redirects to the Republic of India. Should there not be a clarification? . This comes in light of clashes on articles such as Panini, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Muhammad Iqbal and Muhammad Ali Jinnah, regarding the status of the individuals. Swastika on Hinduism templates:Recently, an extremely large and at times emotional debate broke out regarding the use of the swastika on Hinduism templates, given its association with Nazism. As a result, {{Hindu Links}} now contains an educational message about the use of the swastika, as discussion on a more permanent resolution continues. Arbitration: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Hkelkar regarding the activities of various editors on pages related to Indian religion topics closed recently, with Hkelkar, BhaiSaab and TerryJ-Ho all banned for one year. Currently, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Sathya Sai Baba 2 regarding a dispute over the article of the religious teacher is in the voting phase. What's New? Featured and Good Content: Two articles (Indian Standard Time (nom)) and (Hoysala Empire (nom)), were featured from our WikiProject recently, since our last edition. Irfan Pathan, Hinduism, Dinesh Karthik, Lage Raho Munna Bhai were promoted to Good article status. Congratulations to all contributors who helped to develop the above content to represent the best of Wikipedia! Need some help? Are you stuck at a point where admin help is needed? There are 21 Indian Administrators in Wikipedia at the last count. If you need some help with anything related to WikiProject India, they are just a couple of clicks away! Complete To Do List India-related tasks | Indian noticeboard v • e • d • h • w Requests: History Indo-Roman relations People: Nishesh, Indrani Datta, Sudipta Chakraborty, Akhand Pratap Singh Articles: Irrigation in India, Rainfall in India, Asura (band), Asian Variety Show, Cultural liberalism in India, India Export Tax, India Import Tax, Marimallappa High School, More... NPOV: Greater Nepal Rajneesh, Ranjit Lal Jetley Hedgewar, Puttanna Kanagal, Bride burning, Sonia Gandhi More... Wikify: Railway stations, Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar, Silk in the Indian subcontinent, IDBI Bank More... Cleanup: Medical_college_(India) caste system, Rampur, Tav-Prasad Savaiye, Shipping Corporation of India, Velama, Bangaru Adigalar, More... Merge: Raghava Rama,Sammar Bahisht,Sathya Sai Baba movement,More... Expand: List of railway stations in India, Swaraj, Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case), Barak Missile Deal Scandal, 14th Lok Sabha, Adithada, Ali Sardar Jafri, Bandhani work, Bhaiband, But Marma Atti, Chikan (embroidery), China Town, Kolkata, Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza, Energy policy of India, Essar Shipping, Fair use, G. N. Naidu, Hinduism in India, Imperial Bank, Inbuan Wrestling, Integral humanism, Iran-India relations, Islam in India, Arjuna award, Sunil Mittal, Save Indian Family, Anjana Sukhani, Rajendra K. Pachauri More... Stubs: Anand Math, Andhra Bank, A R Antule, Arjuna award, Army of India, Bapudeva Sastri, Bombay Dyeing, Indian Copyright Act, Marimallappa, More... Translate: Marathi Wikipedia articles, Hindi Wikipedia articles, Sanskrit Wikipedia articles, Tamil Wikipedia articles Kannada Wikipedia articles Collaborate: Collaboration of the Week, Notice board, Category Adoptions To do, Version 1.0 assesment, India Portal, Life in India, India quick links Indian Wikipedians, More... Requested images: Ilaiyaraaja, Major crops, Convert Image:Standard of the President of India.gif to SVG, Free image of Aarti Chhabria (See: Image:Aarti Chhabria.jpg and its talk page) Other requests: Add maps from WikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found at List of regions in India Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template v • e • d • h • w

Note from Editor's Desk Welcome to the January 2007 edition of our newsletter. Time flies past like matter into the black hole. A Happy New Year to all. Congratulations to one of our administrators, Shanel, who was appointed with 98% approval to the office of Steward across the Wikimedia Project. Weekly Collaboration (Shortcut:WP:INCOTW): Collaboration of the Week has fallen from its once high feats. Please drop by and help rejuvenate it. As before, we'd like to stress, this is your newsletter, and we want you to be part of it as well. Provide us with news tips. It can be anything related to the project, from discussions to calls for help, and other interesting stuff within our community. Sponsored content for recruitments within your WikiProject sub-groups are also welcome, including requests for copyediting, photographic work, peer review, etc. We'll be very happy to include them here. Before we sign off, Happy New Year, everyone. This edition special Translation Department: Can you read and write any languages of India? Do you know multiple languages and are looking to keep your skills at a high level or improve them? If so, the Translation Depeartment may be for you! The translation department of the India WikiProject aims to utilize high-quality non-English material related to India for the goals of the project. This includes both translating articles from and to other-language Wikipedias as well as assisting contributors with non-English sources. The department aims to provide services in transliteration, formulating scripts for various languages, as well as translating articles from one language to another and validating sources in other languages to that of the encyclopedia article. If you are looking for a friendly translator here is your go-to point. Currently, we are still seeking representation for Kashmiri, Nepali, Oriya, Sindhi and Tulu, as well as reinforcements in all other languages. Signed... Edited by YellowMonkey and distributed by Lostintherush

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[edit] Helpme tag

Hi Sarayuparin

I see you are looking for help.
What can I do for you? Rfwoolf 15:06, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi Sarayuparin

I have replied to your message on my userpage: User_talk:Rfwoolf
Rfwoolf 16:59, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RfC

Hi, I've started an RfC Talk:India#Request_for_Comment:_Adding_new_material_to_the_India_page_history_section. Any comments and feedback, at your convenience, will be welcome! Fowler&fowler«Talk» 04:05, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WPW newsletter

The Writing systems WikiProject Newsletter Issue I - December 2006
News Welcome to the newsletter of the Writing systems WikiProject, everyone. Our project currently has 29 members. Any questions or requests for assistance on writing system articles can be posted at WT:WPW. Our Article Assessment Project is currently underway. Feel free to contribute by assessing and improving all unassessed articles according to the assessment page. Any help is appreciated. We would like to bring all mid-, high-, and top-importance articles to at least B class by the end of the year. We are working on implementing writing systems templates into appropriate articles. Try to help out!	Writing system articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 1 1 2 A 1 1 2 GA 1 2 3 B 16 17 40 19 19 111 Start 11 29 57 70 42 209 Stub 7 27 110 28 172 List 1 2 1 6 10 Assessed 30 58 126 200 95 509 Unassessed 1 2 36 781 820 Total 31 60 126 236 876 1329
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[edit] Abt Bhojpuri

Hi, I saw your username listed in the translators in Bhojpuri in wikiproject India. Bhojpuri wikipedia does not have any good article. Can you give me a hand over there? Also, do you know of any Arabic to Devnagari transliterator software?--Eukesh 18:38, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jugalbandhi

Hi, can you please add the Hindi spelling to the Jugalbandhi article? Badagnani 22:02, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

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

Project News Plagiarism by the Times of India: Recently it was noticed that the Times of India, the world's largest distribution daily had systematically plagiarised many of Wikipedia's biographies on members of the Indian cricket team among other cricketers on its website, sometimes with errors propagated (details). After discussion and discovery of further plagiarisms in other fields, the issue reached the admin noticeboard archived here. 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 ([1]). It was widely covered by the press, eg The Hindu( [2]), 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. Wikipedia Weekly 15: Wikipedia Weekly, a informal Wikipedians' program that purports to give "A weekly audio roundup of Wikipedia happenings with news, interviews and roundtable discussions" recently interviewed two prominent editors Rama's Arrow and Ragib(listen). The entire 34 minute interview was entirely about the world of Indian subcontinent wiki-happenings, and was the first episode which was not entirely dominated by discussion of wiki-politics and wiki-bureaucracy, with the host Witty lama praising the efficiency of the project and its proliferation of featured content. Rama's Arrow cited the team spirit, friendship and respect among project members in discussing its success and FA productivity, as well as discussing subcontinental wiki-conflict. Ragib talked also of his public campaign to raise awareness of the Bengali Wikipedia in his native Bangladesh, which has seen a 30-fold increase in article count over the past year. Arbitration: Three cases are either in progress or have recently ended. Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/India-Pakistan regarding the activities of various Indian and Pakistani editors on pages related to Indian subcontinent history topics, the national status of various pre-Partition figures, and edit-warring over Indic scripts and WikiProject tags was held and concluded in late February- early March. As a result of this, four Pakistani users, Siddiqui, Szhaider, Nadirali and Unre4L were all banned for one year for disruption via edit-warring and confrontationalism. Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Sathya Sai Baba 2 regarding a dispute over the article of the religious teacher closed in early March with four users indefinitely banned from the article. Currently, Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Freedom_skies is in the evidence phase. It is concerned with the editing of Freedom_skies, who edits articles on ancient Indian history, primarily civilisation articles such as Indian mathematics and related articles, as well as Buddhism articles such as Pusyamitra Sunga, as well as those pertaining to the propagation of Mahayana Buddhism to China such as Bodhidharma and Zen. What's New? Featured and Good Content: Eight articles: Vijayanagara Empire (nom), Delhi (nom), Pashtun people (nom), Nathu La (nom), Harbhajan Singh (nom), Hoysala architecture (nom), Harbhajan Singh (nom), Technopark, Kerala (nom) and Western Chalukya Empire (nom) were featured from our WikiProject recently, since our last edition. 'Dineshkannambadi has been a phenomenal force in the production of FAs recently, being responsible for three of these eight articles. He has totalled five FAs, all relating to Kannada history. 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[edit] sanskrit/devanagari

Hello, I need your assistance in the french article fr:Deccan. We made an etymological research and we found several different versions. I tried to transcribe them in devanagari but I am not sure. dakṣiṇāpathas in sanskrit दक्षिणापथस or दक्षिणापथस् (with a virama)? dakṣiṇam (is this a correct form with - m?) transcribed दक्षिणम or with the virama दक्षिणम् ? Thank you for your help. Please answer me here --- Bobsodium 08:43, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

thank you so much Bobsodium 08:47, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Indian collaboration of the week news

As mentioned in Wikiproject India newsletter of March 2007, the weekly collaboration of the Indian wikiproject has fallen from its once high feats. This message is to request the users to visit the collaboration page and help rejuvenate it.

The present collaboration of the week is Religion in India. Please go through the talk page of the article to see the proposed changes in the article. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 05:00, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for joining wikiproject Nepal.--Eukesh 18:35, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 100-word list for your Mother tongue

Good day! Could you help me and provide translations for the following 100 basic word in your mother tongue. Not in the standard Hindi but in your native local variety (dialect) if you (used to) speak any (and then indicate please how you call your language /dialect and precise location like state –district – town/village). If there are synonyms or known dialectal variants provide them with comments if possible. Also please indicate if you know that certain words are borrowing. You can fill in right here using either IPA transcription or some other spelling you like (just describe your conventions). Thank you in advance! --Koryakov Yuri 16:17, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

• I, me –
• thou (you, singular) –
• we –
• this –
• that –
• who? –
• what? –
• not –
• all –
• many –
• one –
• two –
• big –
• long –
• small –
• woman –
• man (adult male) –
• man (human being) –
• fish –
• bird –
• dog –
• louse –
• tree –
• seed –
• leaf –
• root –
• bark (of a tree) –
• skin –
• meat (flesh) –
• blood –
• bone –
• fat –
• egg –
• horn –
• tail –
• feather (of a bird) –
• hair –
• head –
• ear –
• eye –
• nose –
• mouth –
• tooth –
• tongue –
• claw (nail) –
• foot –
• knee –
• hand –
• belly –
• neck –
• breast(s) (of a woman) –
• heart –
• liver –
• drink (verb) –
• eat (verb) –
• bite (verb) –
• see (verb) –
• hear (verb) –
• know (verb) –
• sleep (verb) –
• die (verb) –
• kill (verb) –
• swim (verb) –
• fly (verb) –
• walk/go (verb) –
• come (verb) –
• lie (down) (verb) –
• sit (verb) –
• stand (verb) –
• give (verb) –
• say (verb) –
• sun –
• moon –
• star –
• water –
• rain –
• stone –
• sand –
• earth –
• cloud –
• smoke –
• fire –
• ash –
• burn (trans. verb) –
• road (path) –
• mountain –
• red –
• green –
• yellow –
• white –
• black –
• night –
• warm (hot) –
• cold –
• full –
• new –
• good –
• round –
• dry –
• name –

[edit] Request for help over sanskrit caption of R&AW

Hello, I would request you to kindly look into the devnagri seal caption of R&AW, which is given as धर्मो रक्षति रक्षित for Dharmo Rakshati Rakshitaha. I wish to know if it is correct in devnagri script. The english caption is correct, also can you tell the meaning of the motto in english LegalEagle 16:23, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hi Saryuparin

Happy New year Pls help me to circulate this appeal- if any body/ or few of You brilliants who reside in North India can tell me about newspapers in India like Punjab Kesari, Dainik Bhaskar , Rajasthan Patrika , Navjyoti ? or few famous news papers of Jaipur , Rajasthan , Punjab Their circulation or popularity . & if any body of you know Hindi. or interested to explore different/ all or specific religion , philosophy , poetry etc . I want your help to translate some few 50 line of Hindi news to English. Pls. Gift your name to me on my talk page please Regards ---Dralansun (talk) 15:49, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hindi is best because

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AuS9dE8AzI83Mw.QFEQJyU3sy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20080227035227AADOWMN&show=7#profile-info-M7tlwHmoaa —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ammbaanig (talk • contribs) 15:57, 1 March 2008 (UTC)