User talk:DaGizza/Archive/22

USer page
Thanks for the revert. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 15:26, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

WP:HINDU
I will take a look. Thanks for revamping the project page. Baka man  22:47, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * In regards to this, Notice how WP:SDNEW is a replica of WP:INBIN. Baka man  22:58, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Seperatist user posting inflammatory messages
On Talk:Sino-Indian War, an IP user (check the history) has been going on about India's Rape of Goa and keeps posting links to Goan seperatist websites. He also goes on about Indian bullying of Sikkim and Bhutan and his words, despite being irrelevant, remain on the talk page, sending viewers of the talk page to Free Goa websites. How does one deal with this? Traing 02:28, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Nice Work!
Hi, I always see and silently admire your nice little and important copyedits on Language Movement. Thanks for your help and support and I hope you would carry on. It seems forever until we finally get this article into an FA. But I think it is coming closer and closer with all of your great works. Thanks again and Cheers (I know I am not so good at english, so sorry for not so brilliant prose in this message : --Tarif from Bangladesh 17:05, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Waverley College
Hi. On this page there is some old but pretty substantial vandalism by User:Iwenttoscots. Could you maybe roll back his edits? Thanks.
 * Don't worry, I managed to sort it out. :) Recurring dreams 03:13, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Hai
Hai Dagizza,

Keralites worship style is simple for any god.Just a small prayer, thats all.
 * ) - ARUNKUMAR P.R 07:34, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

You're spot on
I was also thinking about dedicating this to him. He is not only a great Wikipedian but also a wonderful human being. So let's do it! Regrads --Tarif from Bangladesh 12:32, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Flags on userpage
Is there any particular reason you added them? Is there any particular reason you chose those countries? Just curious. Your userpage is always interesting :) GizzaDiscuss  &#169; 04:26, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * The flags are supposed to be the successor to my interfaith theme of my userpage. The flags are largely arbitrary, although the flags of Israel and Egypt are intentional. --  tariq abjotu  04:44, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

A notorious "Editor gang" at work. Plz. see Telugu script
Hi there! I thought it wise, to inform you about some unfortunate developments at Telugu script over the past few days. It all started when I requested User:Winhunter for unprotection of the article Telugu script so as to remove parts, objectionable to either sides of the "Edit War."

In the light of all this several disturbing incidents, some of whose links I'm presenting for convenience sake, also took place.

The links are:

1) The page for reports, for checking User:Sarvagnya

2) Possible Sock puppetry incident as reported by me

3) 3RR violation report against me.

Incidentally, several hours before this 3RR report against me, I had requested at least 2 admins, including User:Winhunter to fully protect Telugu script, from any further unfortunate developments. Plz. see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Winhunter#Sorry.21_Telugu_script_in_dire_need_of_protection. my request for full protection]. Telugu script is now fully protected thanks to the efforts of User:Evilclown93.

'''Important Plz. read At this juncture,  I'd like to bring to your notice a notorious "Editor gang"''' which has been plaguing painstakingly-done projects on Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and many other related articles. I request those at the helm of affairs including sys-ops/bureaucrats to fully investigate, and take necessary action against this gang's members. The names could be provided by me upon request, for obvious reasons. Thanking You,  Altruism To talk  05:00, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Petpets
DaGizza, you said here that you added most of these petpets a long time ago. Where's your list? --70.133.218.43 04:34, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Veda
Can you please keep an eye on this article and 's edits ? Thanks. Abecedare 05:47, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Fiji Indian Australian
Yes, I am a Fiji Indian Australian. My main interest is Fiji Indian history, but once you catch the Wiki bug, I find that I spend a lot of time editing articles from a number of diverse topics. I have also had a go at Hindi Wikipedia but find that it takes a lot of time due to me limited knowledge of Hindi. Are you an administrator? I have done over 3000 edits and have been considering whether I should go for administratorship. Girmitya 11:42, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Hey
We can continue our conversation here mabye :) You can use the userbox I created if you like. Recurring dreams 03:13, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Unreasonable
I noticed your caution to User:Gnanapiti on Brahmic family talk page. He has been reverting my editis unreasonably. Although I retain the original version of the article while adding new input with six most authentic references, he reverted my edits. How to prevent this kind of Vandalism? Kumarrao 07:43, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Featured article review for Rail transport in India
The article Rail transport in India has been in Featured article review for some time now. Main issues have been addressed. Please see the article's entry. Now the article needs a review for the langusge issue. Can you please go through the article for improving the language? Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 05:13, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi DaGizza. I noticed your deletion of the article "Cartomedia". I'd be interested in figuring out how to make such articles conform with regard to style/content/ etc. There are hosts of similar articles describing small companies in my field of work. Best regards. Matt

Thanks for the quick explanation. I'll look closely at the article you cited and figure out whether there is anything substantive I can contribute that does not come across as advertising. After looking at the history of a similar pages (small cartography company pages) it appears that some of the pages have been rewritten to conform better to policies. I'll look at some of these pages as a guide and try and do something similar within the appropriate guidelines. Thanks again. - Matt

Why the black colour?
GizzaDiscuss  &#169; 02:55, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
 * "Black is believed to be a color of silence and concealing. Yet, the color sometimes "talks" even more eloquently than any other tone. We obtain black color when we mix various colors. Similarly, when our mind has various, complex feelings, perhaps our mind becomes like a melting pot, mixing diverse items, and then our feelings become darker and darker until they all become pure black color."

Deity Box
Hi there DaGizza, I was wondering if there was a way to edit the [Hdeity infobox] template? I can't find the original page with the template on, and think it would look better with the Indic text box underneath somehow, rather than how it is at the moment. Can you help me out? Cheers, Gouranga(UK) 15:35, 10 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the link - I see what you mean about making changes. Gouranga(UK) 08:18, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

CCS Income Trust
I would like an explanation as to the copyright violation that caused the "CCS Income Trust" to be deleted? Thanks.

Requests for arbitration/Hkelkar 2
This arbitration case has closed and the final decision is available at the link above. The parties to the case are strongly encouraged to enter into mediation arrangements regarding any disputes over article content that may still be outstanding. All parties are reminded in the strongest possible terms that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a forum for conspiracy, personal attacks, nor the continuation of ethnic disputes by other means. "Parties who continue such behaviour, and parties who consider it their moral duty to call out such behaviour, will be hit on the head with sticks until the situation improves."

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WP:CRIC
Good plan, I will join. Marcus Trescothick for FA! :D SGGH speak! 20:10, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Theology
Can you answer this theological question. Baka man  21:40, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Project page:
That looks great! Fantastic! That must have been hard work, thanks for the effort you put into that page. It now looks very professional. Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. Ive been busy. Hope things are well. ~ peaceful dreams  23:44, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (Image:Omniglot.jpg)
Thanks for uploading Image:Omniglot.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

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Kaziranga up for FAC
Kaziranga National Park has been nominated for FAC .Kindly support at Featured article candidates/Kaziranga National Park. Cheers. Amartyabag  TALK2ME  05:43, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Seeking opinion from regular editors on reference pattern
References: Notes and citations section; change in reference and notes temporarily ceased; WP:FOOT says I am not doing wrong; Separate Notes and Citation sections

Opinion is sought from regular editors of the article Hinduism regarding the splitting of Notes and references section. This is a short gist of the discussions going on in the above mentioned talk links: Having a separate "Notes" (for explanatory remarks) and "Citations" (for direct citations), although permitted, is relatively rare in Wikipedia, and also in academic journals. The main rationale behind doing this is to distinguish a series of explanatory remarks from the series of citations (please see Rabindranath Tagore, Demosthenes for examples).

This sandbox gives a glimpse of how the article would look if we split the sections (the sandbox is under work, so may not be perfect). This link shows how the article looks with combined section. This may give an idea how it looked when I started working on references. I converted many references to Harvard format, apart from splitting the sections.

Opinion for regular editors are sought regarding the application of splitting of two section for this article. Please do so in Talk:Hinduism in the section Talk:Hinduism. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 04:55, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Makeover on Svadhyaya
I have done a makeover on Svadhyay (which I think should be named Svadhyaya) and noticed that you have had some edits on Swadhyay Parivar. Could you please take a look at the current version of Svadhyay and add it to your watchlist, as it is possible that it may be the target of vandalism? Buddhipriya 06:12, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

joining hindi wikipedia
thanks for noticing and an offer for hindi wiki too. but the workload here is quite a lot. will deal here first. would surely join in near future. thanks. Anant Singh 22:32, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank You
Dear Sir, I thank you for removing unsolicited material from my User page.Greatly appreciated, Sir.Terminador 11:50, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Category, Infobox, and Script Removals
Namaste DaGizza. I am informing you that User:AjitPD has removed several Categories, Scripts, etc. from multiple articles. Other individuals (i.e. 1, 2) as well as myself (i.e. 3), have kindly requested him to stop, but he continues to do so. I have personally spent over two hours reverting his edits. Could you please address this issue? I would highly appreciate it. Thanks in advance! With regards, AnupamTalk 22:58, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Request for opinion
A valued Hinduism editor appears ready to leave Wikipedia due to a content dispute on Sritattvanidhi. Would you please examine the history of the dispute, which deals with removal of some meditation verses, and comment on the talk page regarding what may be the best approach for this? I have been following a self-imposed one-revert rule and thus am unwilling to directly act on the article at this point. There are not enough other editors watching the article thus independent opinion is needed. Buddhipriya 22:54, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Surya Namaskara
I tried a small cleanup on Surya Namaskara but have encounted revert warring. Can you take a look? The new fairly new user Lara bran seems unfamiliar with WP:V and WP:EL. Buddhipriya 08:40, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Duplication of WP:HINDU
SORRY about this... you can probably tell, I'm new to this. I was trying to edit something else not realizing that the code I entered actually DUPLICATED the page, not fixed the mistake... Anyway thank you for fixing it... Sorry again for the problem Shruti14 ( talk • contribs ) 21:03, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Spam cleanup
I have done what I can to remove spam on the following articles, but I expect conflict over this matter. I feel that it is time to be more assertive about changing the over-reliance of Hinduism articles on non-authoritative web sources. We also must stop using Wikipedia as an advertising service for religious groups. If you agree, do you have any suggestions for how to build WP:CON for a projectwide Spam cleanup? I generally try to follow a voluntary one-revert rule, which puts me at a disadvantage in edit wars as I often surrender at the first shot. However I am beginning to think that for some cases, such as spam cleanups or dealing with promotion of religious groups, a more assertive approach may be appropriate. See:


 * Vishnu Sahasranama
 * Shiva Sahasranama
 * Lalita sahasranama
 * Ganesha Sahasranama
 * Surya Namaskara

Buddhipriya 22:03, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Ayyavazai
Hai Da Gizza,

IMO Ayyaazhi is not a sub-sect; But a Sect. See the complexity of Akilattirattu which give space to what ever exists in the mainstream Hinduism. It seems to give space within itself for Advaita, Dvaita and Vis-Dvaita. It should be equally weighed with other sects. - white dot...!!! 14:38, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Upanishad
Gizza, you need to know the true worth of these Hindu editors of Baksupreman and Bharatroll sort. Please see Upanishad talk page. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Upasthadharma (talk • contribs).

Template:Raja Yoga
User:Lara bran is edit warring with me by insisting on placing a template that duplicates information on the Yoga template on many pages. Aside from just duplicating the Yoga limbs, it also includes links to thinks that are not clearly related to Raja Yoga. This editor is also very interested in sexual content on Kama Sutra, and many other sex-related articles. Can you take a look? Buddhipriya 05:10, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Golden Temple
Hello,

What was wrong with the link http://www.punjab-state.com/photos/Golden_Temple/ This page has the most number of photos for the Golden Temple. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Chahal k (talk • contribs).

Please re-register
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RJFJR 01:03, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Meatpuppet policy, add proxypuppet?
Hey there, DaGizza. Since you commented on the last rewrite of the meatpuppet policy, your input would be most welcome on this which is out for consensus consideration. If you would like to comment or critique, please do so there. -- Lisasmall | Talk 21:44, 21 August 2007 (UTC) '

Blocks
Thank you for blocking the troll. I believe he is related to Bakamanman on hindi wiki who was recently indef'd by Kingram. Baka man  04:13, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Rugby union national team Improvement Drive
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For more information see the discussion on the WikiProject Rugby union talk page here. Shudde  talk  05:11, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

plez dont delete other peoples articles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Special:Contributions/ (talk)

Welcome
Hello DaGizza. Thank you kindly for the welcome. I've been a reader of the site for some time so I'm quite familiar with the layout at least and I have experience of web design so that isn't a shock, either. One question I would like to ask you is around site convention.

Where a discussion begins on my talk page, should I continue it there or go over to the other person's page (as I have done here) to make my reply? Very best regards. --Fiddlers Three 16:16, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Branches of Brahmins
The main article is Brahmin, which should contain a section on Divisions of Brahmins, in which brief outline of Brahmins ought to be presented, together with links to Panch-Gauda, Panch-Dravida and various sub-branches. This article Brahmin needs a thorough revision, but I am have been held at the lead, first by DAB who later relinquinshed, and then by Buddhipriya who will not allow me to contribute anything which is beyond what Buddhipriya knows, and is, therefore, charging me of WP:OR and false citation. Therefore, it will take a long time, perhaps years or never, before these topics can be presented in a proper way. Indian astronomy is not a branch of modern science which is same in all countries, but a part of history of science and  a part of Jyotisha too. I started with Surya Siddhanta before registering as a user, and all my contribution was reverted by DAB because I had planned to write the main article in first phase, then trim and wikify it, together with sourcing, in the next phase(I was new to Wiki). But DAB misunderstood me and levelled charges of WP:OR because the article was not properly sourced. DAB can be persuaded because he is a knowledgeable person. But all my contributions to Indian astronomy were reverted by Bharatveer who asked me(through email) to contribute to modern science instead of wasting my time on ancient themes ! Then, I made a third attempt to start a new article Hindu Time Cycles, which forms the introductory sections of all traditional texts on Indian astronomy. But it has been now mixed with units of measurements where I will not be able to describe Indian astronomy. DAB once wrote in Talk:Indian astronomy that this article is not needed and should be merged with Jyotisha (just because he wanted to prevent me from contributing anything anywhere), but later he deleted that talk fortunately. I am an expert of Indian astronomy, but I am being prevented everywhere to contribute anything to the fields of my expertise. I had planned to write extensively on different aspects of Indian astronomy, including new articles such as on Varah Mihir and a lot of other important personalities and ancient theories. But I have shifted to history of Brahmins, Kalibangan ,etc. -Vinay_Jha 12:19, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Hebhagawan
Hi DaGizza! It's great to see an old friend. Thanks for all your good work--the Hinduism page is looking very good. Can you remind me how to do one thing? How can I create a sandbox on my user page? HeBhagawan 08:11, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Re:Hinduism compression
Hi! Yes that section is in need of compression. In fact I was thinking to give it a try about 2 weeks back. Then again became busy. It's a tough job. Unfortunately I am in severe shortage of time :( Otherwise, you are right that adding the demographics and paying attention to other technical details (citations etc) would get the article in a great status. I shall try to try :) Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 20:30, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Yoga poll
Hi! There's some discussion on whether using "asana", "yogasana" or "yoga asana" as the article title. If you are acquainted with the subject, you are invited to drop your opinion at Talk:Yogasana. Davin7 09:24, 30 August 2007 (UTC)