User:Cyphoidbomb

Templates
WP:TMC - Article cleanup templates

WP:WARN - User warning templates

WP:HDT - Help desk templates

Disruption
WP:AIV - Administrator intervention against vandalism

WP:SPI - Sockpuppet investigations

Other
WP:HELPDESK - Help Desk

WP:CHEAT - Wiki markup cheatsheet

User:Yapperbot/Pruner - A way to automatically prune inactive and/or indeffed users from member lists, like WikiProject India/Members

Policy / Guidelines
WP:CIVIL - Civility guidelines

WP:NPOV - Neutral point of view

WP:NOT - What Wikipedia is not

WP:OVERLINK - Wikilinks and overlinking

WP:PEACOCK - Peacock words and phrases

WP:INFOBOXFLAG - National flags in Infoboxes

WP:FILMCRITICLIST - This is why we should only include notable awards (and film festival showings) in articles. This guy is the most film-festivalled short film maker in the world, apparently, yet nobody has ever written an article about his films.

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Other

 * RFC: "Crore" supersedes MOS:COMMONALITY in Indian articles.
 * Religion in biographical infoboxes
 * User:TonyBallioni/Just block the /64
 * Special:Undelete
 * Database query - Find all revisions of a page that match given revision. See also WP:NS for namespace codes.
 * Use of ISC as a post-nominal.

Indian entertainment

 * An article about "Dialogue writers"
 * "TV actors question the curious case of missing end credit rolls"

The problem with awards hysteria is...

 * The Star Parivaar Awards are a promotional, self-aggrandising award where the Star television network lavishes praise on shows and actors that appear on its own network. See this RFC.
 * See WP:DADASAHEB - Short story: the name of an exclusive national lifetime achievement award, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, has been co-opted by award mills, and diluted in the media by journalists who ask no follow-up questions.
 * That embarassing time when all of India's entertainment rags erroneously interpreted a search result as Google bestowing the "National Crush of India" award to Rashmika Mandanna, despite the fact that Google does not issue awards.
 * Sidharth Shukla wins Times Men of the Year award, wait, not Time's Man of the Year? India's awards now following naming conventions of bootleg sneakers.

Corruption in Indian cinema

 * Article at LiveMint.com - "Why Indian box office collections depend on who you ask. For the 103-year-old Indian film industry, there is no single authentic source that reports box-office collections of movies"
 * Times of India - "Box Office column discontinued"
 * The Caravan - "Counting Crores: Why Indian films’ box-office figures do not add up"
 * The New Indian Express - "Bilingual films: The big, bilingual scam"
 * Paid news in India

Searches

 * "Background Muppets" - See WP:MUPPETSLTA, there is an Indiana-based vandal and a California-based vandal.
 * "Muppet cameos"
 * "Not Featured Muppets"
 * "Prem Khan" - See: Washim Rahman
 * "Washim Rahman" - same as above
 * "Komail Shayan" - Name has been submitted hundreds of times dating back to June 2016. Name has never been accompanied by a reference, and in 99.99% of the cases, it was submitted by an Iranian IP-hopper. (Ex: 5.209.250.52, 89.196.133.241, 5.239.147.207, 37.129.203.41, 151.235.1.131, etc.) Submitting users have never participated in discussion. User also has competence issues, like here where they generate wikilinks off another person's name. Note also that despite their assertion the Shayan was involved in this, his name doesn't appear at iTunes. The wikilink fail is also seen here and it is a fairly common thing they do. Same here where an Iranian IP stuffs his name into an article, when there are zero reliable sources to substantiate it. The push by Iranian IPs is also very bizarre. Note also this addition in February 2018, which was picked up by Firstpost. The addition by the Iranian IP is clear vandalism, since the film's music credits do not mention either Komail Shayan or A. R. Rahman.
 * "KomailShayan"
 * Komail Shayan
 * Komail
 * Komail-Shivaan
 * "declared as blockbuster"
 * "declared as super-hit"
 * "all-time blockbuster status"
 * "all-time blockbuster"
 * "GBA"
 * "Google Boys Arimalam"
 * "Google Boys"
 * "Ghost Forest" - More Google Boys Arimalam crap
 * "Sunil Subramani" - Chiefly, keep an eye out for article creation. See Articles for deletion/Sunil Subramani
 * "Prashast Singh" - Sockpuppet hoaxer - Block evasion: Superheroprashast
 * "Aa Gun Thaam" - Created Aa Gun Thaam June 14, 2017
 * 116.75.231.182
 * "SuperMarioLogan" - Vanity article for YouTuber.
 * "Akshay Bardapurkar" - Amitbhb12 article spam
 * "Shreyas Shringarpure" - See Shani (TV series) and user  - looks like promotional push to create articles and stuff this guy into existing articles.
 * "Darien Amos" - Problematic South African IP hopper. Discovered April 10, 2017, but has been active since at least December 2016.
 * "Tenn-Speed"
 * "Linda Mbuso"
 * "Sangamithra" As of May 2017, article Sangamithra has been created three times, with zero attempts to establish principal photography. Looks very much like paid editing scenario.
 * "Vishaw Kalra" - September 2017 - a kid,, took to creating vanity articles about himself and his ebooks.
 * "Kalra Vishaw"
 * "Ishaqzaade Returns" - Hoax article he created about an alleged 2020 movie based on one of his novels.
 * "Jannat Zubair Rahmani" - December 2017, see  disruptive edits.
 * "Bibhu Aggarawal Jannat"
 * "Aghbhaata - The Mystery" - December 2017 - Someone started casually spamming this.
 * "Aghbhaata"
 * "Hamara Tiranga"
 * "Virendra Singh Patyal" - Feb 2019 - See, a sock of
 * "Bhaumik Gondaliya" - Nov 2019 - Brought to my attention by Kailash. Problem flared up in early October 2019, but I found a 2016 instance here at Rustom (film). Persistent vanity additions of "Bhaumik Gondaliya" into the producer and/or starring parameters of Indian film articles, typically Hindi. IP hopper from Gujarati. Gondaliya's name does not appear on the Rustom film poster, so this name appears to always be a disruptive inclusion.
 * "Gondaliya Films" - Per this
 * "Amin Aminem" - Nov 2019 - Repeatedly recreated article despite AfD. Possible sockpuppetry of
 * "Rakesh Krushna Joshi" - June 2020 - Repeated submission See  who was working hard at submitting this 17-year-old's name into articles. See also Sockpuppet investigations/Arshifakhan61.
 * "Rakesh Joshi" - August 2020 - Hoax content written about a nobody who is trying to fake his way into Wikipedia. Appears to be caused by Sockpuppet investigations/Arshifakhan61
 * "Chiranjiv Makwana" - August 2020 - Hoax content written about a nobody who is trying to fake his way into Wikipedia. Appears to be caused by Sockpuppet investigations/Arshifakhan61
 * "Medha Shri Dahiya" - July 2020 - User  was repeatedly adding content written by this person into articles. As of this note (24 July 2020) there are only two mentions of this person's name in the encyclopedia, and they're in the references at Om Swami.
 * "Prarambha" - November 2020 - Film article related to Vijayclicker93 sock farm. See Sockpuppet investigations/AjKa180.
 * "Priyanka Chincholi" - November 2020 - Same as above. Vijayclicker93. Likely UPE.
 * "Umesh Kaushik" - November 2020 - Kept adding his name to Indian films claiming to be an editor. He claimed to have edited Toilet: Ek Prem Katha. I checked the credits and didn't find him. Attempted twice to create Draft:Umesh kaushik.
 * "betraveler.in" - spam
 * "arcturus.io" - spam - see
 * "jackace.in" - spam - see
 * "madrascinephile.com" - spam - see and  circa Aug 2019
 * "gaharwarji.com" - spam - see and  - July-November 2019
 * Links: Indian Society of Cinematographers (6 ISC links as of 4 August 2019, had previously been 12. A total of 14 links to the general cinematography page as of the same date)
 * Issue was with spam from this organisation and persistent disruption of forcing "ISC" as post-nominal initials. Also they were adding ISC in the title param of infobox. See consensus here
 * "sacnilk.com" - spam, originally, but also a garbage reference. Circa 2020-2021.

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Examples of subtle ethnic warring

 * Tamil placed before Telugu
 * Tamil placed before Hindi
 * Telugu placed before Tamil despite the subject appearing to be primarily a Tamil performer.
 * Telugu placed before Tamil
 * Telugu soundtrack swapped in front of Tamil soundtrack (same IP as above)
 * - Removal of Tamil is suspect, as Baahubali was shot, not dubbed, in two languages.
 * - Removal of Tamil is suspect again. Same as before, relating to Baahubali. (April 2017)
 * - Unexplained promotion of Telugu to the front of the list.
 * - Removal of Tamil (April 2017)
 * - Removal of Pakistani actress Mahira Khan from film she is prominent in. (April 2017)
 * - Replacing Tamil with Telugu, and moving Telugu before Tamil in a list. (May 2017)
 * - Moving Telugu before Tamil in a list. (May 2017)
 * - Moving Telugu before Tamil. (May 2017) Shruti Haasan appears to be Tamilian and works mostly in Tamil projects, but for some reason this user opted to move the languages around.
 * - Moving Telugu before Malayalam. (September 2017) No clear reason to do this. According to her filmography, she appeared in more Malayalam films than Telugu. Potential argument is that it's alphabetical.
 * - Was Mahira Khan moved to the end of the list because she's a Pakistani starring in an Indian film? (September 2017)
 * - Pakistani Mahira Khan disappears from an Indian film she stars in. (October 2017)
 * - Shruti Haasan - Moving Telugu before Tamil. (November 2017) See note above.
 * - Kaalapani - Arbitrary reordering of languages. Was Hindi, English, Tamil, Bengali, and German. Then Tamil was inexplicably moved to the front.
 * - Arbitrarily reordering language of a film said to be produced in three languages. Why was Telugu moved forward? Same edit repeated by another IP here.
 * - Arbitrary reordering of language. Two consecutive edits, two different users, or so we are to believe.
 * - Arbitrarily moving Malayalam to the front of the list of languages. According to the article, the subject has appeared in 3 Malayalam films, compared to 7 Telugu films, so there's no obvious justification for moving Malayalam to the front of the list.
 * - Arbitrarily moving Tamil behind Telugu at Keerthy Suresh.
 * - Arbitrary reordering of languages at Saaho. (Jan 2019)
 * - More arbitrary reordering of languages at Saaho. (Feb 2019)
 * - Someone reorders the languages that Ramya Krisnan works in, though according to her Wikipedia filmography, she's made 107 Telugu films vs. 63 Tamil (Aug 2018 - Noticed this months later)
 * - Someone reorders languages at Sai Pallavi with argument "When dmshe done premam She become a star ... then she successful in Telugu.... so first Malayalam and Telugu.... Tamil is 3rd one okay" (Feb 2019)
 * - Hindi Tamil Telugu becomes Telugu Tamil Hindi. (Feb 2020)
 * - Raghava Lawrence, who was raised by a Telugu father and a Tamil mother, has his Tamil Nadu birthplace deleted, then his family upbringing is described as Telugu, as if his mother didn't exist. (Feb 2020)
 * - Anuparma Parmeswaran has (as of this note) been in more Telugu films than any other language, but user top-loads Malayalam for some unknown reason. Maybe they don't know what "predominantly appears in" means. {July 2020)
 * - As of this note, the word Telugu appears in Rashmika Mandanna's filmography seven times, contrasted against Kannada, which appears five times, the the user changes the "predominately in" phrasing to favour Kannada. I'm sure the justification would be that she first appeared in Kannada-language projects, or that she herself is from the Kannada industry, and so the user wants to give the Kannada community proper credit or something. That's my guess, since they rarely ever explain. {September 2020)
 * - Amala Paul has appeared in far more Tamil projects than Malayalam, yet this editor feels the need to prioritise Malayalam. (October 2020)
 * - Deleting Keerthy Suresh's mother's ethnicity and assigning Suresh a singular ethnic identity as Malayali. (November 2020)
 * - Arbitrarily moving Telugu and Hindi to the front of a film dub list. User does the same thing again here, moving Tamil to the back of the line and here again. Why? Did it also here despite that list being alphabetical. (February 2021)

Blockbuster, superhit, etc.

 * - May 2017

Genre bloat

 * " 3D Action Horror Gangster Romantic Disaster Technological Psychological Thriller comedy film"

Everything's a record

 * "The film grossed an approximate 10.5 crore on its opening day, becoming the highest opening day gross for any movie released in India post demonitization."

List of in-house awards

 * Star Parivaar
 * Zee Rishtey
 * Sun Kudumbam Viruthugal
 * Zee Tamil Kudumbam Viruthugal - From deleted article: "Jurors select the nominees in each award category from among the shows that airs on Zee Tamil. People invited to cast their votes via text message or at the Zee Television Awards website or by voting in bullots, where the trunk goes cities and towns"

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