User talk:Arun

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Siva or Savi
Siva or Savi what d u mean by editing the devanagiri scrips in sivas page?? Tux the penguin 12:33, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Siva was misspelled on the page in the Devanagari script. I reverted your change because it caused Siva to be displayed incorrectly on web browsers which _correctly_ support the display of Devanagari script Sanskrit with Unicode. For more information, see Enabling_complex_text_support_for_Indic_scripts

To be specific, after your change Siva was displayed on a web browser which correctly supports Devanagari as: ि श व (without spaces between the characters.)

For proper display of Devanagari script on Linux, you might want to try finding a copy of the Mozilla webbrowser which supports complex text layout (CTL). Or install libxindic, a library I wrote to transparently add support for the Devanagari, Tamil, Bengali, Gujarati script, Oriya, Gurumukhi, and Malayalam scripts, for applications running in X Windows, including Mozilla.

India quick links
pamri 17:12, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

Hi
Hi Arun. Your profile seems interesting. I noticed your edit to Abdul Kalam article in Tamil. If you can contribute to Tamil wikipedia, which is growing fast, it would be greatly helpful. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 10:05, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Sundar. In this case, I confirmed the spelling of his name against the Tamil wikipedia spelling of his name ta:%E0%AE%8F._%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BF._%E0%AE%9C%E0%AF%87._%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D

My written Tamil is not good enough to contribute to the Tamil wikipedia, unfortunately.

Arun 21:37, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

Oh ok. See you around. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 04:12, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Feroze Gandhi
The whole actual article was "conspiracy theory"-based before I edited 90% of it. I don't have any sources for his birth, but in this case its best to delete that until fresh sources are available. - Nirav

Re: Feroze Gandhi
The whole actual article was "conspiracy theory"-based before I edited 90% of it. I don't have any sources for his birth which is why I didn't change that info, but in this case its best to delete that until fresh sources are available. - Nirav

Demografics of Immigrant ethnic groups
Hi Arun.

Thank you for your message. Yes in Kuwait as I've heard there are many Kurds (immigrants) but since Kurds have not their own independent state they are mostly labelled Iranians, Turkish, Syrian, Iraqi etc... while they are a specific and independent ethnic group. I can cite this reference about kurds in Kuwait Thank you again. Take care. Mesopotamia 12:16, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Interesting link. However, the demographic data there is suspect, or more likely extremely out of date. For example, the "Indo-Pakistani" population listed there is 8%, whereas the Indian citizen population alone is 400,000 out of 2.4 million (as of early 2004). The combined Palestinian/Jordanian population of 37% is simply not believable -- there were 400,000 Palestinians out of less than 2 million residents before the Iraqi invasion, but almost all of them were deported (or not allowed to return back). Also, the Egyptian (400 thousand), Bangladeshi (170 thousand), Filipino (65 thousand), and a few others which would add up to ~ 20% of the population, but get squeezed in 4% other. Those percentages don't reconcile with the actual numbers, and are almost certainly pre-1990 figures.

Arun 13:17, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Bombay Stock Exchange
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Panini
Thank you for moving him to plain Panini, since the rason I moved him was to something that would be readable on my system, and I presume on others. Septentrionalis 03:44, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Iraq
Hi. I didn't add it, User:BalooUrsidae did. I just re-added it after the article was vandalized because I reverted back farther. I didn't realize that what User:BalooUrsidae added was vandalism so I kept it. Sorry --Khoikhoi 16:47, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

A.S.K.?
No harm intended. Its just that seeing the information change from one of 2005 to one of 2004 seemed innacurate to me. I actually went to A.S.K. myself, graduated in 2004. I see from your webpage that you appear to have graduated from ASK around 1997? My cousin actually graduated from ASK in 1998. Usama Alarfaj? You might have known him. Well anyway, sorry about reverting your edit. I just wanted to keep the Kuwait page up-to-date. Its a pleasure meeting a fellow alumni of ASK (Although the school has drastically declined in standards since your day). -Zer0fighta 07:24, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Oh cool, I remember Usama Alarfaj -- he was in at least one of my classes. Nice to meet another ASK alum here.

Arun 07:57, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Greetings
Greetings on India’s 57th Republic Day. --Bhadani 08:11, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Virama
This is true, however, I prefer to include the virama because that is how devanagari was originally made. I do not use the "modernized" version because I do not consider it to be true devanagari. --Shell &lt;e&gt; 02:57, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

P.S. We could just have two different ones, one with and one without (modernized and traditional) --Shell &lt;e&gt; 03:12, 30 January 2006 (UTC)


 * How about listing the traditional version as Sanskrit, and the modern one under Hindi,Nepali,Marathi? (the rest of his names appear to be on a per-language rather than per script approach, so this should be reasonable. Though the traditional version should probably end with a ज् instead of ज़् -- isn't the Nukta a relatively recent addition?

Arun 03:59, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

I used a s(a) because it offers a z sound. the ja might be a little alkward.

Sanskrit: जिमी वेल्स् Hindi: जिमी वेल्ज़

Sound good?

--Shell &lt;e&gt; 06:18, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

rm gratuitous ...
Could you please keep an eye out for the gratuitous addition of categories too? I've noticed that the addition of "(Persian)" and "Category:Persian people" are often going hand in hand (usually by anonymous users).

The user contributions for User:Rikyoosan and User:Simindokht are only additions of +cat:Persian people. These two are most certainly sockpuppets - its highly unlikely that the first and only thing a user will do is add cats.

Users who have made the mistake due to genuine misunderstanding include Mitso Bel and Deville (see also: this talk).

ps: please answer here, not on my talk page. -- Fullstop 12:36, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Indian American classification
Could you take a look at User:Dark_Tichondrias webpage? He wants to include it as a source for reference and citations. I'm not sure what to make of it. I've been wary of his edits in the pasts and his talk page makes me a bit more cautious. --Dangerous-Boy 01:54, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Arun 05:19, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Are you talking about Asian Race? Personally, I don't know whether wikipedia should be depending on second and third order sources, especially, when more basic sources, are accessible (e.g, actual census department reports listing changes of race definitions over time, and pages talking about the various race-based classification schemes. That site appears to be a soapbox, with misused facts (references to pre-genetic racial classification schemes to discredit racial classification in general), to bolster his point.


 * Yeah. That's the one.  i don't know how about the books he used for references.  It's coming to a point that he's trying to turn the classification part into a political statement of some kind. --Dangerous-Boy 04:20, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Indian American going to the crappier
Is there anything we can do about the article. User:Dark_Tichondrias is trying to make some it some kind of political statement on it. The whole article is centering around some race identity crisis. Even the ABCD section more confused than it should be. Don't know what else to do.--Dangerous-Boy 03:29, 19 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I just got back from India. I'll go through the past month's edits sometime this week and try doing some more cleanup. *sigh* Arun 15:13, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Notice_board_for_India-related_topics/INCOTW
Indian American article is up for INCOTW. Please vote.--Dangerous-Boy 17:59, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Manmohan Singh
I did not realize that Manmohan Singh was not the 14th prime minister. I must check that out. If you are 195.92.40.49, then sorry for reverting with the popup toolbar - I thought it was just another vandal :) - Aksi_great (talk) 06:56, 25 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm not 195.92.40.49, but the fact that Manmohan Singh is the 13th prime minister, not the 14th isn't clear. No worries :-) Arun 16:55, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

INCOTW
You voted for Indian American, this week's Indian Colloboration of the Week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. - Ganeshk  ( talk ) 05:39, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

SIPB
Why are you hiding the SIBP page on your User subpage? Let's get it out to WP sooner rather than later (I wanted to link to it...). For now, I will put up a stub and leave it to you to decide what to do with your content. --Macrakis 20:41, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Kazakhstan
You do know I did not blank the article? All I did was to clean up the vandalism and was unable to fix it up.

Norum

It looked like an accident to me. I left a small note on your talk page, on how to avoid problems when reverting vandalism.

Arun 05:50, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

1 rupee last printing
'''I want to know when 1 rupee note was last printed. if it is year 1998, then why after 1994, it eas again printed.''' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.96.210.251 (talk) 08:04, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

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