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Asian 10,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland The 10,000 Challenge and WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like South East Asia, Japan/China or India etc, much like The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thank you. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 02:02, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Latin American 10,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The WikiProject Latin America/The 10,000 Challenge ‎ has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland The 10,000 Challenge and WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Argentina etc, much like The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Latin American content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon. If you would like to see this happening for Latin America, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Latin America, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant!♦ -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 00:34, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge
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India
The easiest way is to put together a template with wording to connect the data, substitute specific data for each place and create. Please note: some people think that creating multiple articles is disruptive so be prepared for complaints. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 23:17, 9 January 2017 (UTC)


 * I didn't use any. Just cut and paste. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 21:42, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Re-initiating INCOTM
It's been almost an year since "Indian collaboration of the month" was active. Firstly we need to restart this as soon as possible for development of India-related articles to greater heights. The members page was blanked, where many of them are inactive. This mass message is to all the members of WikiProject India, about this and interested editors interested will sign up. After this message gets delivered, we'll wait for 7 days before we start a discussion under a thread on the collaboration's talk page, among the members. The discussion will include what to clean-up of sub-pages, a new set of guidelines for smooth and uninterrupted functioning of the collaboration etc. Please keep all the discussions under this thread only, so that it will easier for future reference. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:19, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Re-initiating INCOTM
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Invitation to join the Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Incubator/Indian military history
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Wiki Loves Indian defence services
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Thank you
Thank you very much for your greetings, Failosopher. I am Sushant. Nair. I edit articles in Wikipedia through my Sushn345wiki account. I will read the articles which you have sent me through links. I also wanted to ask - may I know your name?. Bye!

Sushn345wiki (talk) 09:33, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you very much Failosopher. Thank you so much for your support and greetings. If I have any problems editing, then I will ask you for a solution. Also, thank you very much for the wishes that you sent me regarding my exams! Also, I have changed the background colour of my talk page from Egyptian blue to Red. Actually, I did not understand the coding behind the background colour because of which the background colour of my talk page was Egyptian blue. Also, I don't mind the delay in the reply. Anyways, I am really busy.

Best wishes, Sushant Sushn345wiki (talk) 15:09, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Bhicaji Franyi Balsara


A tag has been placed on Bhicaji Franyi Balsara requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a real person or group of people, but it does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Message for parsi editor
Hi.I am Dev Kumar and I am from Gurgaon. I am wanting the parsi editor to please fulfil my request and move page of Neomi Rao to neomi jengair Rao. I am not confirmed automaticalaly so I cannot perform this action. I thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dev Kumar 1976 (talk • contribs) 17:04, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Fire and Spice
Hello Failosopher, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Fire and Spice, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A7 cannot be applied to books. If you are interested in learning more about how speedy deletion works, I have compiled a list of helpful pages at User:SoWhy/SDA. You can of course also contact me if you have questions. Thank you.  So Why  10:25, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India)
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It is being planned to organize Wikigraphists Bootcamp in India, please fill out the survey form to help the organizers. Your responses will help organizers understand what level of demand there is for the event (how many people in your community think it is important that the event happens). At the end of the day, the participants will turn out to have knowledge to create drawings, illustrations, diagrams, maps, graphs, bar charts etc. and get to know to how to tune the images to meet the QI and FP criteria. For more information and link to survey form, please visit Talk:Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:46, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Ways to improve Robert-Jean Longuet
Hi, I'm Boleyn. Failosopher, thanks for creating Robert-Jean Longuet!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. This has been tagged as needing inline citations.

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Vandalism in the article, Goguryeo - help will be incredible
Hello

I am here to ask you for some help. In fact, I'm asking the same thing to several other administrators about the same matter at hand. About four months ago, the article Goguryeo has been protected due to vandalism, disruptive editing, and edit warring. After a couple of weeks after the protection was broken, two new editors started to vandalize the same article. To introduce you to the situation: they edited out the statements to misrepresent the cited sources, multiple credited sources were entirely removed, and original research has been included to substitute the removal. The two editor(s) in question are: User:Zanhe and User:Koraskadi I have been reverting the article back to the last editorial completed by User:Failosopher(yourself) since the breakout of the situation.

The content that has been subject to this event are these two qualities:

1- "Goguryeo (고구려; 高句麗; [ko.ɡu.ɾjʌ], 37 BCE–668 CE), also called Goryeo (고려; 高麗; [ko.ɾjʌ]), was a Korean kingdom[4][5][6]"

The two editors mentioned above are constantly removing the bolded word; which goes against these three supporting articles cited. "Koguryo". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved October 15, 2013. States that Goguryeo as one of the three Kingdoms of Korea Byeon, Tae-seop (1999) 韓國史通論 (Outline of Korean history), 4th ed, Unknown Publisher, ISBN 89-445-9101-6. Emphasizes Goguryeo as one of the most powerful Korean State that arose throughout history "Complex of Koguryo Tombs". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2013-10-24. The current article simply talks about its geographical location. However, the article stated that Goguryeo was Korean when it was retrieved.

2- "Goguryeo has been described as an empire by many scholars", "Goguryeo was a powerful empire and one of the great powers in East Asia"

Phrases in relation to the bolded word are getting removed alongside their supporting citations. This is a completely clear example of vandalism. 신형식 (2003). 高句麗史. Ewha Womans University Press. p. 56. ISBN 9788973005284. Retrieved 12 September 2017.

이덕일; 박찬규 (2007). 고구려 는 천자 의 제국 이었다. 역사의아침. ISBN 9788995884973. Retrieved 12 September 2017.

Roberts, John Morris; Westad, Odd Arne. The History of the World. Oxford University Press. p. 443. ISBN 9780199936762. Retrieved 15 July 2016.

Gardner, Hall. Averting Global War: Regional Challenges, Overextension, and Options for American Strategy. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 158–159. ISBN 9780230608733. Retrieved 15 July 2016.

Laet, Sigfried J. de. History of Humanity: From the seventh to the sixteenth century. UNESCO. p. 1133. ISBN 9789231028137. Retrieved 10 October 2016.

Walker, Hugh Dyson. East Asia: A New History. AuthorHouse. pp. 6–7. ISBN 9781477265178. Retrieved 20 November 2016

All these sources explicitly describe Goguryeo as an empire or have been described to have developed into an empire. In fact, the main thesis of the first two articles is about Goguryeo being an Empire. The same sources also state that Goguryeo is Korean, but they were not cited for the quality mentioned above for the current editorial.

The editorial that I have been reverting back into was the protected version; which was constructed by a series of discussions and debates with various editors and administrators. Something has to be done about the vandalists or the article in question. For the greater good, I ask you for your help once again, but I will decrease the burden by asking many others. Thank you. Wandrative (talk) 17:42, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Supporting Indian Wikipedia Program resource distribution
In 2017 - 2018, the Wikimedia Foundation and Google working in close coordination with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Wikimedia India chapter (WMIN) and user groups will pilot a program encouraging Wikipedia communities to create locally relevant and high-quality content in Indian languages. This program (Code name: Project Tiger) will:
 * (a) Support active and experienced Wikipedia editors through the donation of laptops and stipends for internet access and
 * (b) Sponsor a language-based contest that aims to address existing Wikipedia content gaps.

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Ways to improve Delphine Menant
Hi, I'm Jbhunley. Failosopher, thanks for creating Delphine Menant!

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Nowruz
That Iranian is an ethnoliguistic term which includes Afghanis or Afghans. See Iranian peoples. Also please don't add unsourced stuff to the lead or other sections of the article. --Wario-Man (talk) 16:32, 20 March 2018 (UTC) That Iranian is an ethnoliguistic term which includes Afghanis or Afghans. See Iranian peoples. Also please don't add unsourced stuff to the lead or other sections of the article. --Wario-Man (talk) 16:32, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your concern but I don't think you quite understand the issue here. IRANI people (not IRANIAN) are an ethno-religious Zoroastrian community in India and Pakistan. Please do read the article I had linked to. --[[User:Failosopher|Failosopher] (talk) 16:43, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Project Tiger Writing Contest
In 2017 – 2018, the Wikimedia Foundation and Google working in close coordination with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Wikimedia India Chapter (WMIN) and user groups from India, are piloting a program encouraging Wikipedia communities to create locally relevant and high-quality content in Indian languages. This program will (a) support active and experienced Wikipedia editors through the donation of laptops and stipends for internet access and (b) sponsor a language-based contest that aims to address existing Wikipedia content gaps.

Phase (a) has been completed, during which active contributors were awarded laptops and internet stipends. Phase (b) will be a contest in which editors will come together and develop a writing contest focused on content gaps. Each month three individual prizes will be awarded to each community based on their contribution for the month. The prizes worth 3,000 INR, 2000 INR, and 1,000 INR, will be awarded to the top contributors for each month. The contest started at March 1, 2018, 0:00, and will end at May 31, 2018, 23:59 (IST). Useful links are as follows:


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March 2018
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, as you did at Nowruz, you may be blocked from editing. Wario-Man (talk) 06:06, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi, with all due respect I don’t understand how I have taken away a NPOV. Please see my earlier reply to you on my talk page. It is a fact that Iranid and Parsis both celebrate Nowruz. And it is also a fact that they are both usually classified as independent ethnic groups (not just the vague Iranian people), please do read this and reconsider. I am or not disruptuvely editing.Failosopher (talk) 07:48, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Parsi
Hi, are you aware of WP:BLPCAT and WP:V? You added a lot of people to Category:Parsi people from Mumbai in March and many are policy breaches. You can't just add a category because you think it is correct - it is subject to sourcing requirements just as much as anything else. - Sitush (talk) 08:53, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Asian Americans content proposals
As an editor who has contributed to Asian Americans, I'd like you to know I've been posting a number of proposals on the talk page. I have been slow-walking the proposals since late April, but few others have contributed to the discussion. Your participation in establishing a consensus for or against the proposals would help the article. Thanks! --Ishu (talk) 01:15, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Kancha Ilaiah
I have reverted your page move of Kancha Ilaiah and opened a discussion at the talk page. - Sitush (talk) 17:21, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

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Ways to improve Peter Rona
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Welcome to Wikipedia and thanks for creating Peter Rona! I edit here too, under the username Boleyn and it's nice to meet you:-)

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Xwedodah
Hello Manzarene, do you already know what you are doing? 1 -> 2. --Serols (talk) 13:37, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Apologies to revert your edit I had made a mistake, I accidentally clicked the wrong rollback. I was trying to revert vandalism. It seems to me that the page is being targeted today. Manzarene (talk) 13:44, 27 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello Manzarene, see here. --Serols (talk) 14:03, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

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Fixed your talk page archiving
Hi! I took the liberty of fixing the auto-archiving settings at the top of this page. --rchard2scout (talk) 08:23, 22 April 2021 (UTC)