User talk:Deepak~enwiki/archive4

Vandalism from your shared IP address
Deepak, I saw your report that somebody has been vandalising articles from your shared academic Web proxy. I suggest that you take this up with your IT department at your university, who will, in all likelihood, have detailed logs of web activity, including details of what account and machine were used to make the edits, and thus be able to make the vandalism stop. -- Karada 14:53, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Reversions in "Hindu" Article
Hello Deepak,

You don't get my point: The section "Religion for the Common Hindu" is CRITICAL to the Hindu article, because it should talk about what faith and religion mean to the common Hindu.

If by any chance this is covered in the Hinduism article, then it should be scrapped off there, because that should simply be about religion, not its followers, especially if you have a special section for them.

The core point is we WikiHindus have done a bad job for ourselve. Hinduism has the poorest coverage in this encyclopedia.

Template:PD-IndiaGov
Hoi Deepak,

The template PD-IndiaGov that you created claims that images from Indian government websites are public-domain. I'm not sure why you think so, and I've brought up the matter at Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems. I'd appreciate it if you could shed some light on it over there. Thanks. -- Eugene van der Pijll 15:42, 28 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Hi. Thanks for informing me about the issue. I have replied on the issue. Regards, =Nichalp   «Talk»=  18:20, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Images and fair use
Hi, Copyrighted artistic images such as that which you placed on Epic poetry are copyright violations. Fair use could only apply to images of that nature if they were being used in an article or section of commentary about the image. So there is a fair use case for the image of Guernica (painting) (that image is too large, but that is another issue). But not a picture of a scene from mahabharata to decorate Epic. Does that make sense? Ask me if you have any questions Zeimusu | Talk page 13:03, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Would such a picture be a copyvio in the Mahabharata page
 * That is a closer call. Probably it would be hard to defend fair use in a court case. However the creators of such images are often keen to encourage wide distribution and may well look favourably on request to licence under the GFDL. Or there must be public domain art of scenes from Mahabharata. Ok I was searching for some but found none. On the other hand Indra Sharma google is notable and deserves an article... I'm digressing. I'd say it's best to try to licence the image, or replace it, especially if you want to be careful. Thanks for your care Zeimusu | Talk page 00:35, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't want to lay down the law here - I'm not a lawyer, I'm not even a wikipedia admin. The image is probably copyrighted. There are probably public domain images which could replace it. On balance I think replacement is best. Otherwise it would need a detailed fair use claim, which you would have to make - read Fair use. If you think this isn't worth the effort then delete the image. Zeimusu | Talk page 09:35, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

your sig
Is your signature pointing to your talk page "वार्ता" supposed to be Baat? =Nichalp  «Talk»=  18:47, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
 * "वार्ता" (pronounced as Warta) means dicussion. The Hindi Wikipedia site translates User talk: as "सदस्य वार्ता:" (सदस्य means member/user). You must be wondering how come I know Hindi so well even though Ive hardly lived in India. Well, I had taken Hindi as foreign language. Cheers --Deepak|वार्ता 19:05, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, that was a "V"! It looked like a "B" to me, and I thought it you had spelled it wrong. :D  =Nichalp   «Talk»=  05:11, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Diwali greets
Wish you Happy Diwali.

--Dore chakravarty 19:00, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

intro paragraph
Listen deepak, the material added by you completely removes the subject away from the simple definition the paragraph had before and makes it very redundant (mentioning 1989 more than once). I only reverted intro paragraph edits before by reddi before to make it back into a version which was agreed upon. Now the paragraph has become nothing but an attempt to bold terms and not give a clear definition of the issue. I even compromised and added a bolded statement of yours to the intro.

But you still reverted. A definition of insurgency does not need to be in the article and this revert seems unnecessary. There are pages on wikipedia which have dozens of redirects to them, but that does not mean that each definition of every term that redirects needs to be given. Whatever the title is, is the main intro subject of the article, including the only bolded term. Hope you understand. -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 00:48, 3 November 2005 (UTC)


 * I should also add that the way you worded the paragraph makes it sound like the only people ever killed are by the insurgency; you and I know that's not true and the way you phrased it is pov. We have been through this before. Please clarify what exactly you find wrong with the paragraph before reverting again. I will be happy to discuss this with you. Thanks -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 00:52, 3 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Oh ok. I get your point. All I wanted was a brief description of the term Kashmiri insurgency in the intro para since Kashmiri insurgency redirects to Terrorism in Kashmir. --Deepak|वार्ता 04:19, 3 November 2005 (UTC)


 * No problem. :) -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 04:21, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Happy Diwali
Happy Diwali to you as well.

You may miss India but not definitely '''Miss. India.'''

Can't do typing in Hindi on my computer. Sorry for the lapse.

--Dore chakravarty 05:05, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

India related links
---Pamri &bull; Talk &bull; [ Reply] 08:10, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you. Happy Diwali to you. -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 15:28, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

A "Spirituality" portal
Hi Deepak, gupta,

Some editors have been discussing the possibility of creating a “Spirituality” portal. What do you think of the idea? &mdash; RichardRDFtalk 14:51, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

History of Rupee
I am working on an article on the History of Rupee. Your comments and/or help will be highly appreciated! deeptrivia 05:03, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Military history of India
Hi, just noticed your edit on the above. You mentioned that the armed forces started modernization in 90's, but probably a typo, you typed it as in early in late 90's. didn't change it as I wasn't sure if it was early 90's or late 90's. thought I shd inform you so that you can make the necessary correction. btw, I just noticed that the anon IP 70.X.X.X has contacted you about the "Hindu" article. He claims to be User:Nirav.mauya but doesn't sign-in with his id. He has either started or contributed massively to Indian Muslim Nationalism, Indian nationalism, Hindu nationalism, Hindutva, Gandhism, Mahatma Gandhi, Hindu Rashtra, Criticism of Hinduism, Hindu, Hinduism, Contemporary Hindu movements, Narhari Parikh, Ravi Shankar Vyas, Mohanlal Pandya, Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha. Previously, his edits used to be POV, now it is more a case of original research (WP:NOR), imo. I've not been able to convince him to sign-in and engage in constructive debate, nor hv I been able to go through all his edits. Yet, I'm just maintaining a log of articles that he is contributing to, 'coz I want to give him some more time. I felt you may be interested in having a look at these articles. Thanks, --Gurubrahma 06:05, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Hi Deepak, thanks for adding the articles to your watchlist. Nirav.maurya used to sign previously with four ~'s, now he doesn't even log in (I can't be sure tho, since the anon IP claims to be Nirav.maurya but it can be any Tom, Dick or Harry). --Gurubrahma 08:03, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

pics for the ramayana?
Can you upload some pics for the Ramayana like you did for the Mahabharat and the Hinduism article? --Dangerous-Boy 23:21, 5 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Looks good --Dangerous-Boy 07:05, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks from Pamri
Hi Deepak, Thanks a ton for supporting and voting at my RFA. I am now a wikipedia administrator. I hope I can keep your trust and hopefully, we should interact more in the future. Thanks again. --Pamri &bull; Talk &bull; [ Reply] 16:23, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Images
Yeah, that's right if you mention about the subject of the images. The Gumpa dance is part of the celebrations of Losar, which is a big Buddhist festival in Sikkim. We don't have any images of other NE Indian states, so I would prefer that this would stay. (We always tend to ignore NE India in the media, and it would be great if a pic on the culture of a NE state be present). Any suggestions for replacement for the rest? Those maps are ok. The world location is standard, and so is the subdivisions one. Ideally the map should be .svg one, but I don't have the time to draw one. Regards, =Nichalp   «Talk»=  08:13, 12 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Quality of the page is nowhere near theirs? What do you mean by that? Regards, =Nichalp   «Talk»=  17:49, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Bin Qasim
There was no atrocities committed by Muhammad bin Qasim. Please see the talk page of the said article. Most of the later story's of Bin Qasim were of a mythological and legend tales told in India, about the atrocities particularly by Hindu extremists. You yourself can find this out by going to the reference I made on the talk page, it's pretty comprehensive.

--Street Scholar 14:06, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
Hi Deepak, I see that the map of SAARC member states was created by you. Yesterday Afghanistan became a member state, so now a new map is needed. I thought I could ask it to you, but maybe if you can't do it I could ask for it on WikiProject Maps. Thank you in advance. Mushroom 14:34, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you, that was fast! Mushroom 16:11, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Krishna page and images
Hello. I see you have put that image back where it was at the top. The problem is with two boxes at the top of the page, (the image and the Indic text). I don't know what you see, but I assure you that on some systems it is quite unusable. On a 1024x768 display with Mozilla, the uppermost text is squeezed into a narrow left strip. On a 800 x 600 display, there are only images at the top of the page, and the user has to scroll down to see any text. Which is (as I remember) against standard practice, if not policy. I suggest that whatever more productive action you can think of be taken immediately. Moving the image lower down the page, might be a simple solution. Imc 10:21, 20 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Hello again. Further to the recent question on other pages, I see similar problems on those pages you mention as well. My original comment was made while using Mozilla and IE6 on Win2000 at 1024x768, and with a check at 800x600. I also see the same problem now, using Mozilla on Linux at higher res, but in windows of smaller size (if that makes sense). Imc

Hello
Good edits to the Kashmir page. However, I don't know whether Pakistan claims that entire Kashmir belongs to it, similar to how India believes it should be a state. Do you have a source? Thanks. -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 20:32, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay I have changed this in the article. Thanks -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 21:09, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Images
Hi Deepak. I have a question for you. Are images with a &#123;{no source}} tag are automatically considered for deletion at the end of 7 days? I saw many images like this one, that you tagged with &#123;{no source}} a while ago, but were never considered for deletion. Thanks. deeptrivia 21:02, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Re:Rama
Thank you very much for your kind words. The article does need further expansion.

My best wishes to you for Christmas and New Years. Enjoy the holidays!

Jai Sri Rama! Rama's Arrow

Thanks
Thanks for the b'day greetings. :) =Nichalp   «Talk»=  06:52, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Requests for adminship/BD2412
Hi. I appreciate your support - but your vote is in the comments section - could you please adjust this? Thanks! BD2412 T 05:25, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Ah, never mind, someone else did so. Cheers! BD2412  T 05:25, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm an admin now!!
Hi Deepak, thanks a ton for your congrats. The final tally was 50-0-0. Pamri wanted me to cross 50 so that I alone hold the record for rfa votes among Indian Wikipedians - had you been aware of my rfa, his dream wd hv come true ;) Increasingly, I'm finding that India related articles are lacking in current affairs. There was no article on Shivraj Singh Chauhan even 4 days after he was announced as CM of Maharashtra and I had to create a stub. Any help in the current affairs dept. wd be much appreciated. Thanks a ton. --Gurubrahma 07:07, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

re:barnstar
Hello Deepak,

Your barnstar award to me means a helluva lot. Its my first, I am very grateful. But there are two issues regarding my time here, that speaking man-to-man, might make you wanna re-consider giving me this award:

(1) I have had an ugly dispute in Oct-Nov with user:Gurubrahma. You might not agree with my POV on those issues or the anger I displayed. (2) I've been making edits on Wikipedia mostly since sometime last summer, I believe, with a former ID of Nirav.maurya, and with some anon ips, before I decided to re-organize and define myself.

I absolutely do not seek to be dramatic about this, but I'm giving you the freedom to re-consider this award. It would be absolutely fine by me if you choose to revoke it, since I know that you respect my work, which means a lot.

I'm sorry to have to make a meal out of this, but please consider these issues. The disputes and id issues don't mean anything to me, and I admit them freely, but above all I wouldn't want you thinking later I didn't act in good faith.

Jai Sri Rama!

Rama&#39;s Arrow 16:40, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Re:barnstar
Hi,

Thank you for addressing my concerns. I respect your candour and I am very grateful for the barnstar you awarded me. Its my first, and after all this work, it truly means a lot than any other distinction possible to give here.

Thank you.

Jai Sri Rama!

Rama&#39;s Arrow 20:14, 9 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the compliments. However, I hope you will not hesitate to warn me if I make any mistakes or do something questionable.

I wish you and your family the best for the holidays, and Happy New Year in advance.

Jai Sri Rama!

Rama&#39;s Arrow 21:05, 9 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the confusion. Raj2004 made his comments regarding the barnstar I gave him a few days ago, and accidently made it in my conversation window with you.

Jai Sri Rama!

Rama&#39;s Arrow 19:56, 10 December 2005 (UTC)