User talk:Deepak~enwiki/archive2

Terrorism in India
I saw this on the Current Events page: (Newindpress) (Reuters AlertNet) (BBC) (Bloomberg)
 * In India, the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party calls for a nationwide strike in protest of the Tuesday attack on the Ayodhya site. The police are on high alert in case of religious violence.
 * Maybe we could incorporate this? freestylefrappe 19:16, July 10, 2005 (UTC)


 * Go ahead. Can you write a section on all the major terrorist activities which have taken place in India including the Ayodhya attack? Thanks --IncMan 03:13, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

Indian history
Yeah, a summary would be good. Thanks =Nichalp   «Talk»=  07:02, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

Kashmir
Deepak, I like the nice work on the Terrorism in Kashmir article. Would you like to clean up the Kashmir page as well? It is now a big mess, and many sections sound incoherent. I'd like to edit the "Claims" sections by getting rid of the monologue there, and replacing it with plain old facts, but I'm afraid taking that step first would initiate yet another edit/flame war. So, would you discuss it too in the talk page, and possibly take the first steps towards making the article better? I saw many older movies on Kashmir, and it would be a real shame if one of the most beautiful places on earth is tarnished by a lousy, incoherent article. So, please help with that. Again, thanks a lot. PS: I'm pretty close to your school ... about 97 miles to the west. How's the heat over there in West Lafayette? --Ragib 04:51, 22 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks ... I'll try to edit the parts carefully. And I'm here. --Ragib 19:19, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Images on IFD
Hi! I noticed you listed a bunch of images on WP:IFD, giving the reason as "no source". Many of them were already listed on Wikipedia:Possibly Unfree Images, which is a deletion process as well. I just wanted to make you aware that the PUI tag indicates that they're already in a deletion process on PUI. Thanks. :) kmccoy (talk) 19:51, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Terror incident page
Recently you added an event to the List of terrorist incidents, a car bomb which killed 4 Indian Army personnel. I am curious as to why you chose this one, out of the hundreds of other attacks in Kashmir. There have been many more attacks there which have killed more people; and, coincidentally, civilians, instead of military soldiers. Why does this one get special precedence--because it is a suicide attack? Kashmiri militants have used them before. I can see why the Ayodhya attack is important, but not this one, out of all the attacks on the army. PBP 23 July 2005

Good work
I have come across some of your more recent work. I'm glad I didn't drive you away in our previous run-in. Keep up the good work. Rl 12:37, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Hi, couple of questions for your lordship
You have two really disgusting habits which reveal your character as a dishonest wikipedian.
 * 1) You deliberately do a Save page up to 10 or more times, in order to artificially inflate the number of edits.
 * 2) You hide your obvious Hindu username by wrapping it under the anglo/saxon alias IncMan.

If you are so embarrassed of your heritage and of being a Hindu (and I don't blame you for that, since all hindus have a good reason to be ashamed of themselves), then why don't you simply choose a neutral username, like I have, since it doesn't upset anybody and doesn't make people think that one's edits are going to be biased because he belongs to this religion or he belongs to that religion?

I think your deceitful practices have gone far enough, and it's high time someone showed you the mirror, so that it can become apparent to you that the only people you might be fooling, IncMan, are extremely new wikipedians.

Have some dignity and clean up your act. This is friendly advice that I sincerely hope you will take seriously (although I doubt that you will). Think about what I just said, my dear little IncMan. Demolition Man 22:57, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Hinduism article

 * I read the Hinduism article. It is pathetic. I don't know how it made it into the featured list. Or maybe the damage was done later. Some problems with the article:


 * Extremely long, with many unnecessary details
 * Highly unorganized, poor continuity
 * Poor language
 * POV at places
 * Important things missing

A major overhaul is required.

deeptrivia 08:33, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

re: Talk:Kashmir
I answered to your comment in my talk page. I also archived the old talk, including the rant. You might notice that, if you show an adverse reaction to a troll, he'd just reply with another rant. So, I guess following Gandhiji's policy of non-violence (here, ignoring the rants) would be a better solution :).

I think we can round up 3/4 editors who are genuinely interested in a NPOV version of Kashmir ... free from POV in either side. Given a week or so, we can make it a lot better. Let's hope for the best. Thanks. --Ragib 05:00, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Re: Advice
I have sent you an email via the link you provided. Let me know if you got it.

Thanks

--Ragib 20:56, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Homosexuality in India
There is very little on the Internet or on Wikipedia about Homosexuality in non-Western cultures, including India. I was wondering if you would like to contribute towards creating a detailed article about Homosexuality in India, one that discusses historical, literary, cultural and religious attitudes towards homosexuality, as well as the current situation. I know for a fact that India has a significant LGBT community, though a lot of it is underground. I wrote the article Gay rights in India. Could you take a look at it and integrate it with a larger article on Homosexuality in India. --Notquiteauden 01:41, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

South Asia
well, the article does its best to explain the terms. The point is that the two terms largely overlap, so that two separate articles would be identical in large parts. Also note the terminological uncertainty. South Asia is mostly an American term, I believe, and can take various meanings. The main difference as I understand it is that the Subcontinent is a geographical or geological term, while South Asia is mostly a political term, i.e. territories controlled by China would by definition not belong to SA, even if they belong to the Subcontinent. The point of merging the article is precisely to discuss these difficulties, i.e. the exact differences between the terms, in one place. dab (&#5839;) 06:32, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

I think we should have this discussion on the article talkpage. Note that the term 'South Asia' is not compositional, it does not mean the same as "the south of Asia" If you read the article, Yeah, I know, it's a mess. It's not our mess, though, we are just documenting use of terminology. regards, dab (&#5839;) 07:17, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
 * "Some or all of Afghanistan is sometimes considered part of the subcontinent." (why "ex-Afghanistan"?)
 * "The term 'South Asia' has thus become the politically correct term of what in times before 1947, the end of the British Raj and the beginning of the First Indo-Pakistani War, was simply known as 'India'"
 * "The South Asian Association for Regional Co-Operation, or SAARC is an association of 7 countries of South Asia, namely Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka." I. e. basically the Subcontinent plus some islands. Not Afghanistan. Afghanistan is arguably in SA, and arguably partially or wholly part of the Subcontinent, but politically part of Central Asia.

I think I have explained my reasoning. I may mistake your point, or be mistaken myself, so I suggest you ask for third opinions on the article talkpage. dab (&#5839;) 07:50, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for voting on my RfA
Hi, Thanks for voting on my RfA. Having been elected, I hope to justify your faith in me. Thanks again. --Ragib 05:46, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
 * PS, I'm looking into the issue your raised, I'm just tied up with too many end of summer things, otherwise, I'd have acted on it earlier. Thanks. --Ragib 05:46, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

IAF flag
Are you certain that this image is correct: Image:In fin.gif? India's flag when displayed vertically depicts saffron on the left. (PS if changing the image please ensure that the image is of PNG type only.) =Nichalp   «Talk»=  19:21, August 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I wonder why they have the flag inverted? =Nichalp   «Talk»=  11:56, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

Name merge
We can't merge I'm afraid. This is how I responded to your request - I've archived it and copied it here for you. Secretlondon 21:42, 8 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I had no idea, bureaucrats had the ability to change usernames. Well, there is a provision to change usernames, but is it possible to merge my username User:Guptadeepak with my other username User:Deepak gupta? Thanks --IncMan 02:40, August 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid not. We can only move one account to a currently unused name. You can try and contact a developer but I don't think it's trivial to do. Secretlondon 21:38, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the IAF info. Here you go. Pin this up somewhere. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  12:47, August 12, 2005 (UTC)



Simple translation request
Dear Deepak,

I have heard the phrase 'Tumhari kya joskara', and I was wondering if you might happen to know what it might mean? Kind regards, Scott P. 11:45:56, 2005-08-18 (UTC)


 * Thanks much for your help with that. I've put a longer reply at: My talk page.  Take care.
 * -Scott P. 13:38:01, 2005-08-19 (UTC)

thanks for your message

 * I am relatively new to wikipedia but am trying to take on board the idea of 'being bold' with editing when i see an article that is not NPOV [and thus not really appropriate for an enclyopedia] and an article that needs some spelling and grammar corrections. Best wishes with your work on articles/edits as well - Vino s 09:01, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Military of India
The links on Military of India to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 currently are seen simply as their dates (1947, 1965, and 1971) and it seems somewhat confusing. Would you mind if I removed the redirects? freestylefrappe 02:28, September 4, 2005 (UTC)


 * Done. --User:Deepak gupta 08:18, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

INCOTW
Military History of India is now the new INCOTW. Thanks for voting for it. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  14:14, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

Assam
You might want to look at Assam, an anon added/deleted info and its tone and accuracy are questionable. freestylefrappe 17:15, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

Bengali language
Hi Deepak, hope this new semester is not a big load on you and your great edits in wikipedia. Anyway, I reverted one of your edits because the article is not a copyvio, rather the page in question got the text from Nationmaster.com and/or worldlanguage.com. I'm sure of this because I edited/added many sections of the article. I reinserted your refactored text on the Silchar incident, though. The incident actually occurred, and the tension between the Bengali speaking and the Assamese speaking people in Assam is a big issue there. Funny, because the languages are almost 80% + similar. Anyway, I explained the edit in the talk page too. Thanks. --Ragib 04:51, 6 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Man, there are too many mirror sites of Wikipedia. Anyway, thanks for the info. Cheers --User:Deepak gupta 20:22, 6 September 2005 (UTC)