User talk:Ashwatham

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Thanks for fixing my careless typo.

But "rv vandalism" is IMO a good summary only when your edit changes a page to exactly the state it had in the past. What you did was repairing vandalism, an even more valuable service to the project, since vandalism in the most recent edit is so much easier to spot (by looking at the diff rendering) compared to the sorts of vandalism that can be fixed by a true reversion.

Hope you continue to find this worth while, and thanks again. --Jerzy(t) 17:17, 2005 Jan 11 (UTC)


 * No problem :) - thanks for the info abt edit summaries regarding vandalism, makes sense. --ashwatha 01:14, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Notation
Thought I'd drop a quick note to point out that Wikipedia policy is to allow either BC/AD or BCE/CE notation in an article, as long as whichever form is used in an article, it is used consistently. The suggestion is that there an article already uses an acceptable form, and the India article has (apart for a very small period of time) always used the BC/AD form, that is the one that is used. It is also better to use the BC/AD notation anyway, as almost all readers will understand it, whereas a great many do not understand BCE/CE. For instance, here in the UK, schools tended not even to refer to the BCE/CE notation until it was put into the National Curriculum in 2002 - those schooled before then are unlikely to have come across it. This is also backed up by internet usage, where there is a strong bias (9 to 1) in favour of the BC/AD notation. Kind regards, jguk 22:48, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Interwiki link & infobox
hi ashwath, there seems to be a dissent over where the interwiki template should appear. I suggested that it should either be on the top or somewhere near the top, say below the infobox. But its a shame that few wikipedians have been pushing it down like an edit war, based on a vote thats supposedly 'expired'(!) :( It sounds crazy, ain't it? See this. All I wanted to ensure was that people spot the interwiki link easily, so that enough people do visit language wikipedias from the language page. It is really helpful when new editors familiar with curiously drop in to the kannada page. But this is the most awful experience I had from the day I started editing wikipedia. The kannada flag that was on the Kannada page (on infobox) too has vanished :( check the discussion.

Indian Collaboration
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Indian Independence movement
Thanks for working on Indian independence movement. It looks great now! Truly FA material now!! --kunjan1029 05:24, Jan 28, 2005 (UTC)

Image copyright tags
Thanks for uploading Image:Netaji.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use if you release it under the GFDL, or  if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, Tagishsimon (talk) 16:25, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Welcome back
Welcome back. Hope to see more edits from you. =Nichalp (Talk)= 12:48, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)


 * thanks! --ashwatha 02:41, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Kannada writers, Kannada wikipedia expansion
Hi Ashwath,

Check User:Hpnadig/Kannada_Wikipedia_mesg. This one is to try and inform new members on en about kannada wikipedia. I'm trying to track potential contributors by Browsing the history of Kannada related topics. Can you help me with it? I've made a template: See User:Hpnadig/Kannada_Literature_Template. Can you help me find out which of those already have articles? (apart from already linked ones - this is 'cos names could've been typed with different spelling or initials) We can start working on others that don't have articles. --H P Nadig 7 July 2005 13:07 (UTC)

massive floods in Mumbai
Why not page on massive floods in Mumbai? pradeepsomani

Visual Basic Classic Wikibook
I see you have contributed to the Visual Basic article on Wikipedia. Any chance you would like to join in editing the wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Visual_Basic_Classic? --Kjwhitefoot 08:46, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Image:GolGumbaz2.jpg
Could you please change the licensce of Image:GolGumbaz2.jpg and release it in public domain or Creative Commons if you want to do so.. or else it will get deleted...

Its very hard to get a picture like that....--Aravind Parvatikar 15:38, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Hope we can work together
Hi. I am Dinesh Kannambadi. I have created a page called "Karnataka Literature" that may be of some value to you. The page contains names and where ever possible dates and works of scholars in Kannada and Sanskrit. I have also been active on Kannada, Karnataka (and all related kingdoms like chalukyas, Rashtrakutas, Gangas, Vijayanagar, Hoysala, Kadamba etc). Do you know how to rectify/create maps in .png format or any format to accurately represent geograhpical extent of Kannada Kingdoms. If you do, feel free to add it in. The Maps for Vijayanagar and Rashtrakuta are not accurate.

Dinesh Kannambadi

Commonwealth of Nations
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Thanks for the review of the article!
Thanks, Ashwatham, for the review of the article Ramana Maharshi. I have taken note of your comments. Unfortunately, when you reviewed the article, the Life section of the article was deleted by somebody on the 16th of Nov. I have fixed it now. I would try to expand the Teachings section.

I notice that you are active in Kannada-related efforts on Wikipedia. Well, thanks for doing that! The Kannada article might require some re-structuring after the Tamil language article (it is a featured article). First thing we could do is fix the 'sign board' picture - the picture has a poster stuck on it..--Naresh 21:35, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

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 * No problem. Thanks again for the nomination. Raven4x4x 05:29, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the award. I did not see it earlier or would have replied right away.Thanks again.By the way, Hoysala Empire is in FAC review now.Dineshkannambadi 15:22, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

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