Talk:Indian Institute of Planning and Management/Archive 11

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I quoted the above line because I notice that sometime rules are just made up by Makrand in these discussions. I belive that the controversy secction is just far too long! The USA today bbit is a joke - it seems to be some error which was picked up by USA toiday (which in any case is a tabloid),,,...

Anywaym so my point is lets get rid of it...

Iipmalum 11:26, 11 February 2007 (UTC)




 * From USA Today's Wikipedia page:
 * "USA Today is a national American newspaper published by the Gannett Corporation. It was founded by Allen 'Al' Neuharth. The paper has the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States (averaging over 2.25 million copies every weekday)..."


 * Tabloid? You decide.


 * I don't know what your point is when you quote lines from a WP policy. Sure, there are disputes about the controversy section, but instead of trying to iron out the differences by rational debate, you say let's get rid of it? That too because of your opinion that it's far too long (far too long for your liking, I presume?), or because you suddenly want to declare USA Today a tabloid?


 * Would I then be terribly wrong, sir, if I accuse you of being partisan and striving to make IIPM look good by trying to remove verifiable, third-party information only because it is contrary to your POV?


 * Thanks, Max - You were saying? 17:15, 11 February 2007 (UTC)


 * This is hilarious. Now even USA Today is a tabloid? Anyone who exposes anything negative about IIPM is tagged with some pejorative. And all efforts are made to whitewash the page by removing all the negative references. Makrandjoshi 03:57, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Filing a police complaint
My lawyers have advised me that under the Indian IT act, MakrandJoshi has been harassing me,. By revealing my identity, and continously harassing em online, it constitutes stalking. I will take it up this week with the Mumbai police authorities. Iipmstudent9 11:40, 11 February 2007 (UTC)


 * You'd want to read this page before you do anything, IIPMStudent9. As far as one can see, all MakrandJoshi has done is address you by name (Dipali, is it?), that too, presumably because someone has already mentioned it on your talk page (even I noticed that). If you call that harassment and stalking, you might want to rethink about referring to whichever dictionary you're using to define these terms :-). If it bothers you that much, you will be officially addressed by your user name IIPMStudent9 only. I'm sure MakrandJoshi will have no problems on agreeing with this protocol.


 * Anyway, making a legal threat can get you blocked (as mentioned in the page above), so please be careful and refrain from such threats.


 * Thanks, Max - You were saying? 16:50, 11 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Hahaha, legal threats from IIPM. Why am I not surprised? Now where have I heard that one before? Anyway, as Max said, I called you Dipali because your usertalk already mentions that name. And since months I might add. Anyway, if you really are Dipali Sakhare then you are an IIPM employee and not a student. It shows that your moniker iipmstudent9 is misleading and dishonest. Not breaking any rules.... you can claim to be an IIPM student even if you are not. Gives you greater credibility I suppose. An IIPM student editing this page seems much more earnest than an employee whitewashing it.
 * So anyway, go ahead, take it up with the Mumbai police. IIPM's hollow legal threats are now legendary. Makrandjoshi 04:03, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * And yes, for the record, from now onwards I will refer to you only as iipmstudent9. I am looking forward to that court case though. Makrandjoshi 04:09, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Explanation of my revert
Makrand, I haven't included your HT citation, since we're still in a grey area about offline citations. To be fair, I have also commented out the Business Barons citation in the rankings category. Could you scan the HT page, upload it to Wikimedia Commons, and then link to it? That would provide a non-disputable citation.

About the other stuff you had removed, it's back with the Fact tag and template. That stuff is not totally orphaned, it is claimed by IIPM, so I thought we could keep it with the given tags as caveats. I have suitably modified the language to mention that these are claims of the institute.

Also, I have commented this line in the opening para: Since 2005, IIPM has been involved in controversies regarding its name, accreditation, advertising, and plagiarism. Although this states something that follows in the article, it sounds harsh and POV-ish when written that way. Plus, it may be prudent to not include such an explicit line in the opening para, given how some feathers can get mightily ruffled while editing this article. It's probably better to let the reader read through the article and gather the facts.

Alam/IIPMStudent9/IIPMAlum/Mrinal Pandey/Anyone else from IIPM, Please do not revert mercilessly. Provide a rational explanation for your edits. Just chanting "POV, POV" all the time is really not going to help. You can find reliable, third-party sources to counterbalance the allegedly unpleasant facts that are mentioned in the article, and that would be okay. For instance, please find a reliable, secondary source that says UGC or AICTE have no jurisdiction over IIPM and you can put that in. Heck, I'll put it in before you, if I find it. But please, till then, refrain from whitewashing some lines/paragraphs (which have valid sources to back them up) just because it does not suit you. I'm sorry if that sounds harsh.

It seems the earlier talk page was pushed into the archives (it's here, if you want to look at it), and none of you have answered any of the points I had raised on that page. What is the point in editing if you don't want to debate the changes and only steamroll ahead with your reverts to cover up a few incidents that are not favourable to you?

As I mentioned to Makrand above, I have not included his HT citation because it is offline. To be fair, I have commented out the paragraph about Business Barons ranking, since it used an offline citation as well. If you want to include the Barons citation, you may want to include Makrand's offline HT citation as well.

Oh, I had spent some time in arranging the pictures in a gallery and making formatting changes to reduce clutter, so please retain those changes if you decide to revert.

Thanks, Max - You were saying? 18:25, 11 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Max, I agree with what you say, and am OK with the changes you have made. However some IIPM folks are reverting it to totally whitewashed versions. So am reverting to your last saved version. Makrandjoshi 03:54, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

The introductory para
Max, Why are you putting in the adjective unaccredited repeatedly? It is not acceptable at all. I think it has been explained before that in the Western world, unaccredited implies a degree mill or otherwise disreputable institute. IIPM has been in existence 33 years, has more students than the other Top 10 institutes combined, and therefore using the word unaccredited is harsh and negative.

I believe Dipali clearly said she wanted to use the positive line like IIPM does not seek recognition or accreditation. Please understand this.

Similarly, the unnecessary argument and confusion saying it does not offer MBA or BBA degrees has no place in the introductory paragraph. A business school does not HAVE TO offer those degrees. So that line only throws dirt on IIPM for no reason.

I have fixed those problems, so now in the spirit of Wikipedia I ask that you discuss this out before reverting.

AlamSrinivas 19:20, 11 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Alam, I'd advise you to read up wiki policy. "Not acceptable at all" is not valid grounds for deleting perfectly true and cited information. The counter-argument put forth by iipmstudent9 falls under original research. You can not delete and revert on the basis of OR. Repeatedly doing so amounts to vandalism. Vandalism is not a word that should be loosely bandied about, but even max will agree that repeated deletions and reverts here are amounting to vandalism. Makrandjoshi 04:06, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Arindam Chaudhuri is Honorary Dean, Not Dean
please look at news reports and www.arindamchaudhuri.com. His claim to fame is that he founded Planman Consulting and wrote a bestseller book. So please cite that awful-sounding phrase about father-son in the introduction. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by AlamSrinivas (talk • contribs) 19:22, 11 February 2007 (UTC).

Max, Advice needed
Max, as you have seen, AlamSrinivas vandalised my userpage. He first left what was clearly a threat saying - 'Makrand ji, aapko dar nahi lagta hain? Ye IIPM log aapko maarenge.'(Makrand, aren't you scared? IIPM people will beat you up/kill you). Then he left a single word "vandal". At worst this is a threat which I am myself thinking of now taking to the police in my city to bring an arrest warrant against Alam Srinivas. This is a case of intimidation from Alam and my contemplating police action is not a "legal threat". Secondly, I believe this is an action which warrants a ban on AlamSrinivas for vandalising my page. I am registering a complaint against him with the editors. Makrandjoshi 04:23, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Alam has been indefinitely blocked
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Threat_of_Violence_and_Vandalising_my_userpage Alam has been indefinitely blocked for issuing threats to me. iipmstudent9, you would be well advised to be careful about the legal threats you issue. Makrandjoshi 13:01, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Please be civil
All these legal threats seem out of place - this is just a webpage. If passions are getting so inflamed and violence seems likely, perhaps you should all back off for some time. IIPMstudent9, which batch are you? Chill, and please dont do anything drastic with the police. I'm sure Makrand is well-intentioned. Max, thanks for the assist in this matter - you seem to be the most level-headed person here.

I've removed the 2 contentious lines from the intro, and hope we can leave them out for the time being until everyone agrees to put them back in a acceptable form.

Iipmalum 19:02, 12 February 2007 (UTC)


 * iipmalum, thanks for your voice of sanity. ABout the lines you deleted from the intro, I have put them back in. They are valid, factual, cited as well as encyclopaedic, and in Max's and my own opinion, necessary in the intro. The "contention" to them is on purely "original research" grounds, and no wiki policy has been cited in their deletion. Hence I would request you not to delete those. Makrandjoshi 21:42, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Times of India article - IIPM offers MBA and BBA, and falls outside UGC, AICTE etc
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/774961.cms Max, please look at this article available online. I would like to cite both these lines from the article and include them in our Wiki. Please approve.


 * An academic research-based institute, the IIPM offers two programmes - Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) at the undergraduate level and - master's in business administration (MBA) at the postgraduate level.
 * iipmalum, the institute itself clarifies that it does not offer its own BBA and MBA degrees, but they are awarded by IMI Belgium. This information is already included in the "taught programs" section


 * The IIPM's management programmes do not fall under the purview of AIU, AICTE, UGC and similar government-established regulatory bodies.

Iipmalum 19:11, 12 February 2007 (UTC)


 * This clarification too is there in the accredition section Makrandjoshi 21:36, 12 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi IIPM Alum,
 * Thanks for your inputs. I've added a line in the intro about the degrees falling out of purview of AICTE etc. from the source you provided. The intro reads a bit jarringly, but it probably is okay in the interest of fairness. I hope no one has problems with it.


 * The line about the MBA and BBA is already present in the "Taught programs" section, I think.


 * Thanks, Max - You were saying? 07:58, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Times of India article
Hi there, can I add these points from this article also please? http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/938886.cms


 * The Indian Institute of Planning and Management, New Delhi recently organised its eighth annual 'Inter-Collegiate festival Amaze 2004' at their city campus from November 19 to 20.

B-schools like FORE School, IIFT, MDI, International Management Institute, JIMS, ICFAI, and DU colleges like Jesus and Mary College, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, Kamla Nehru College, Gargi College, Lady Shriram College flocked together either as participants or as spectators. The evening of day one had a special 'Jam' session followed by the much-awaited personality competition, Mr and Ms Amaze. What was to follow was a scintillating display of beauty, creativity, talent and persona.
 * (This can be re-written in encyclopaedic style)

On the second and final day, it was the turn of the fun events like, Ad-Zap, Collage, Face Painting, Antakshari and Corporate Quiz. Bhagat Singh College walked away with the prized choreography event, while IIFT bagged the corporate quiz and MDI the debate competition.

India's biggest rock group Euphoria was present to take an exuberant and packed crowd to euphoric height


 * No issues with this information, but please compress it. This is in too much detail. Ideally 2 or 3 lines should suffice for a single event. There is a 'cultural activities' section in which this can be included Makrandjoshi 21:39, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Also, how about these points? http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/129574.cms


 * Dr M K Chaudhuri did his M Sc, Ph D, & D Sc from the Berlin School of Economics, Germany. His Ph D thesis was on solving the unemployment problem in India by promoting small scale, cottage and village industries and his D Sc thesis was on reforming the International Monetary System. At 32 he was professor of economics at XLRI, Jamshedpur and at 35 he was professor of economics at IIM, Bangalore. He was the founding director at Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad and is the founder director of The Indian Institute of Planning & Management (IIPM), which is amongst the top eight B-Schools in India. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Iipmalum (talk • contribs) 19:35, 12 February 2007 (UTC).


 * This again is in too much detail, and can be put on M K Chaudhuri's own wiki page. Information in too much detail here about the founder makes the wikipedia unwiedly in my opinion. Makrandjoshi 21:39, 12 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi IIPM Alum,
 * In my opinion, information about Amaze is already present in the article. It's not advisable to add specific information about a particular year's festival. The general information present in the article currently looks fine to me. You can take a look.


 * About M. K. Chaudhuri, as Makrand said, these are too many details about him for a page on IIPM. We can probably add that in a separate article about Mr. Chaudhuri, if there is one.


 * Thanks, Max - You were saying? 08:10, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Bullshit! Cheats!
Both Max and Makrand are cheats - you are adding material only selectively from these newspaper articles and being biased!! Its so obvious you guys are anti-IIPM. Pathetic! You cant even do a good job of covering up your work. Just admit you are working on behalf of the IIM'S! :)

We all think its funny! :) :) You dont need to pretend to be real editors. Take a hike!

Iipmstudent9 21:07, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

PS - Makrand - the FIR has been filed, you'll be called in for questioning tomorrow. Iipmstudent9 21:07, 14 February 2007 (UTC)


 * iipmstudent9, I am waiting with baited breath, cowering in fear under my dining table....NOT!! Makrandjoshi 01:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Citing articles, please follow Wiki rules
Hi Max and Joshi, I dont know how to do the links in internet Wikipedia, so I have added the lines from the articles. Please dont do original research. IIPm9 is right - both of you seem to have anti-IIPM bias, whoich is not correct and is shameful. Please dont spoil the name of the institute for your ow nvendetta sake - prove your editorship with Wikipedia by having a fair POV.

Iipmalum 21:15, 14 February 2007 (UTC)


 * iipmalum, I have no desire for vendetta. My only motivation is to keep this wiki neutral. I only delete things which are against wiki policy. As for your description about Dr. Chaudhuri and the cultural event, it was only my suggestion that you not include too many details. If you choose to, fine. It just makes the wiki bulky, but i don't see it violating any wiki policy. I have no intention of deleting it. But the first line of the article, which had been edited like a whitewash, i have made NPOV again. I do not have any anti-IIPM bias. Makrandjoshi 01:22, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Threats and More Threats
It is disgusting to see the level to which IIPM employees are stooping. I don't even need to mention the violent death threats by AlamSrinivas. They are on my talk page for everyone to see.

As for iipmstudent9's legal threat, it is purely laughable. I visited her talkpage, found someone left a message for her with that name. The message was mroe than a year old. If she really was interested in keeping her name secret, she would have deleted that year old message from her talkpage which revealed her identity. But she didn't. So I assumed calling her that is kosher. It is easier to type than iipmstudent9. But these charges of revealing your identity are preposterous. The person who seems to have revealed it is some friend of your's called User:Ponytailsnipper on your own talk page more than a year back. I hope we are clear that i did not reveal your identity. But let assume I had. Even then, what you are saying rings as pure nonsense. You might not know this but I know the IT Act 200 like the back of my hand. It has no clause for revealing someone's identity. If you had made this threat 2 years back, it would have been treated as credible. But everyone has read about your empty legal threats to Gaurav Sabnis. What happened? he kept his blog as it is. Your lawsuit never came.

You people think that legal threats and physical threats will cow everyone down. Shameful. Makrandjoshi 02:08, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

iipmstudent9 blocked
iipmstudent9 and Alam's new avataar AlamSrini1 have been blocked by the admins because of legal and physical threats respectively. I am sure they will be back using sock-puppets, a case I have made to the admins and requested for a total edit-block on this page. Makrandjoshi 02:20, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Good job, IIPMStudent9
IIPMStudent9, I told you to be careful about your threats, but you just didn't listen. Moreover, you stooped to namecalling.

You accuse us of "working" for the IIMs(!). You know what? You're absolutely right. You caught us red-handed. The IIMs have nothing better to do. They have an army of people working in their basements writing blogs, printing magazines and editing Wikipedia with the sole purpose of maligning IIPM because of their "inferiority complex". Yes that's it. You should take the IIMs to court. Wait! I'm giving you advice about legal action?! Terribly sorry, chum. :-)

To quote Jack Nicholson's character from As Good As It Gets, "Go sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here."

Way to go. Enjoy your permablock. You will probably be back (with more of your pals? How fun!), but Wikipedia will be ready for you.

Max - You were saying? 11:34, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Added the line on 100% placements from The Hindu newspaper
I guess Max's argument was that accreditation is very important to this institute's Wiki - given that, I guess you would have to agree that placements are also very important. Therfore I have added the cited line from The hindu article to the intro. nice? Iipmalum 08:17, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Edit - 300 companies visited campus
Added 300 companies from same article in the hindu —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Iipmalum (talk • contribs) 08:18, 16 February 2007 (UTC).

'According to IIPM', 'the institute has asserted'
i have a majhor problem with the way you have quoted the Times of india article. The artilcle states as a matter of fact that the IIPM does not fall under the purview of AICTE UGC etc. So why are you quoting it as 'The institute assdeerts'? very wrong?

Iipmalum 08:22, 16 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Because there are other news article, mentioned in the accredition and the controversy section, where AICTE and UGC disagree with that contention. Makrandjoshi 13:30, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Unlike most business schools IIPm does not offer MBa degrees
This line is pure fiction. we have a responsibility as Wiki editors. None of the IIM's, which are the incumbent premier b-schools, offer degrees. neither does XLRI. And neither does IIPM. Therefore, it is very clear in the taught programs section that IMI offers the degrees. Let it remain that way. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Iipmalum (talk • contribs) 08:36, 16 February 2007 (UTC).


 * The AICTE recognizes degrees from IIMs and XLRIs as equivalent to MBAs. Not the same for IIPM. And you are free to add the same like in the wiki pages of IIMs. Makrandjoshi 13:33, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

IIPM offers BBA and MBA programs
I see that there has been repeated reverting with respect to IIPM offering MBA & BBA programs. This seems very strange to me. both this http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2002/04/29/stories/2002042900500200.htm article and earlier Times of india one clearly say IIPM offers MBA and BBA courses. now, Wikipedia is not a majority rules. Wikipedia also says no original research. Since IIPM's courses lead to degrees from IMI, and that is clearly mentioned, why are you breaking Wiki rules and not including this perfectly valid and cited information? Iipmalum 08:41, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Global opportunity and threat analysis program
i am adding material cited from here http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2007010800340200.htm&date=2007/01/08/&prd=edu&. please let me know if it is OK?

Thanks Iipmalum 08:48, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Global tours
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2007010800340200.htm&date=2007/01/08/&prd=edu&

IIPM sponsors all student to destinations in europe etc... I am adding this section into the Wiki, as it is an important part of the IIPM MBA programme. Iipmalum 08:50, 16 February 2007 (UTC)


 * IIPMAlum,
 * Apologies for misreading the Times of India article. I thought the line about "falling out of purview" was in quotes, hence I wrote "the institute has asserted". I've retained your current changes.


 * However, you had also sneakily removed the citation from moneycontrol about UGC. I've put it back.


 * I don't have any comments about your new additions, but remember that this is supposed to be an encyclopedia article, not IIPM's marketing brochure. The language used in your recent additions is pretty flowery. I haven't changed it due to lack of time, but don't assume that someone else won't.


 * Thanks, Max - You were saying? 09:51, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Sneaky :) Thats my new nick!
Hi Max, thanks for pointing out my sneaky move there. U got me red handed!

So, I disagree with the need for the unaccredited in the first line

alos, when citing form a course, dont u have to retain the langauge and meaning used in the source. So flowery is a POV sttement?

10:27, 16 February 2007 (UTC)~


 * No IIPMAlum, you have to retain the essence of what the source has to say in a neutral tone. You certainly shouldn't copy everything from some source verbatim (it might be a copyright violation to do so). You must frame what the source has to say in concise and neutral words, and attribute that statement to the source.


 * It's not acceptable if you start copying portions of IIPM's prospectus word-for-word and claim that what you've contributed is well-written and well-sourced. You may want to read the NPOV tutorial.


 * You're welcome about the nickname. I have many more nicknames for you guys. You will know them soon enough.


 * Max - You were saying? 14:16, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Faculty information - only from prospectus>
it seems faculty info is not cited... so does that mean I can add a lot of info from the iipm prospectus?

~Theres great stuff on palcements and ghlobal tours etcIipmalum 10:28, 16 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Stuff which is cited only from the primary source, but which no one else contests will stay on. But if someinformation is cited from the primary source which other editors think is false or misleading, it has to be backed up by other citations. Makrandjoshi 13:36, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Second opening para - attribution to sources
Hello people, This should've come to me sooner, but better late than never. The paragraph about UGC and AICTE has apparently touched some raw nerves, so let's decide to follow a principle that may be a way out of endless revert wars - attribute contentious statements to their sources.

I've changed this para so that the wording clearly attributes the disputed assertions to their sources. This may have made it a bit long and clumsy to read, but maybe that's okay given the high tempers surrounding the same.

Please let me know the possible objections that anyone has to this scheme.

IIPMAlum, I've asked this before off the record, but the talk page was swept into the archives. I ask again - if IIPM itself doesn't care about accreditation and recognition (it says so itself), why do you care so much?

Max - You were saying? 17:52, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Issues with edits
please dont delete validly cited material such as the global outreach program and the new cited material from Times of india and hindu. 203.76.140.130 07:20, 23 February 2007 (UTC)


 * It has not been deleted, merely moved to the Industry Interface section where it is more relevant. Makrandjoshi 15:36, 23 February 2007 (UTC)