User talk:Gurubrahma/Archive12

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This archive page covers approximately the dates between 17 March 2006 and 15 April 2006.

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Please add new archivals to User talk:Gurubrahma/Archive13. (See How to archive a talk page.) Thank you. --Gurubrahma 16:36, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

The Hindu
Hi, if you could spare a moment, could you take a look at The Hindu. Perhaps I am mistaken, but I believe the article violates NPOV. I have presented a case regarding NPOV to one of the principle editors of the article, but it has apparently not been convincing. I am growing weary and I am strongly tempted to abandon the discussion. I would be most pleased by your advice regarding whether I ought to continue to make a case, or to leave the matter to someone else. If you have any comments regarding the article that you could make on the talk page, they would be most welcome as well. Sincerely, BostonMA 12:30, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Question about DYK and Homerun
Hello, recently a new user was asking a question at User_talk:Jimbo Wales about how he could get more experiences editors to look over his article. I messaged him back with several possible ways. One of my suggestions was to nominate a fact from his new article for DYK. He seized on that suggestion, but he didn't follow the DYK rules as far as length, formatting, etc. I reformated the DYK entry to try to help this new user. I see, however, that the article didn't get picked, which is fine. However, in your edit summary you mention that Jan 14 12 articles do not qualify. I was confused by this, because the user created the Homerun article on March 12. There was a redirect there before, but it redirected to Home run, which is completely unrelated. I'm just wondering if I'm missing something? I'm still trying to learn all the ropes of DYK. Thanks very much, Johntex\talk 16:27, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for the reply. You are right, your edit summary said Jan 12 - my eyes must be failing.  However, I still don't understand what that has to do with this article.    The article was created on 12 March 2006.  Prior to that, there was a redirect (completely unrelated to the subject of the article).  The redirect had been created on 24 June 2004.  Where does the Jan 12 date come in to play?  Does the prior existence of a completely unrelated redirect affect an article's ability to be considered a new article?  Thanks for your patience with explaining all this to me. Johntex\talk 16:48, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * OK thanks - that clears it up. I'll inform the new user what went wrong.  Best, Johntex\talk

Portal India Quiz
Hi gurubhrama, I have watchlisted the Quiz so I can answer questions and respond to answers as soon as I can. However, I believe the system may not always work, Especially due to time differences accross the world. I believe that if there is no possibility that an answer is wrong and the person that asks the question has not responded within twelve or so hours. The quiz should be allowed to move on, this way it will be much more interesting. This may be an obstacle if the question was badly written and the answer was actually something else. Just wondering what your opinion is on this... Noble eagle    (Talk)   05:29, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Sachin Tendulkar
Why is that Negative points about Sachin Tendulkar remain, where as positive points are deleted from the article. The page predominantly highlights his limited failure (invluding two wisden quotes)Doctor Bruno 12:55, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

When it is mentioned that Sachin Struggled while Dravid batted (in Australia), what is wrong in mentioning that Sachin batted while Rahul struggled (in pakistan). Can I know why what the Rahul struggling in Pakistan removed. Then other remakrs about Rahul also should be removed from the page. I have removed them Doctor Bruno 17:46, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

I was a bit confused. When my line comparing sachin with other batsman (in Pakistan) was removed, I thought may be it was a policy (this is Sachin's page, why bring others). But 2 paras above, there were a lot of remarks (Rahul scored when sachin did not score etc). THat was Why I asked youDoctor Bruno 18:03, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Re:stubs and CR
Hi - I didn't know that the nominator had the right to close the discussion when 1-2 other people had voted delete. So I just changed my vote. India-gov-mil was so named becoz initially it was to cover military topics as well. I realized only later, unfortunately, that the military topics were numerous in themselves. I had submitted all proposed stubs to the Wikiproject Stub sorting. As I had support of the people who commented, plus no new comments were forthcoming, I decided to move. My reason for acting upon them after just 2 days is that it is specially imperative that I finish the work asap. One should not move against a rule for one's own private reasons, but I consider mine good enough to be bold in this case. Rama&#39;s Arrow 21:43, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Astrology links
You may be interested in the discussion at Talk: Tommy Lee, in view of your recent post at Hansnesse's talk page. I'm hoping that we might prevail upon Midas touch to stop his systematic querying of talk pages about the permissibility of his inserting a TopSynergy link (which I readily concede he has done politely) and might help to demonstrate a consensus against the inclusion of astrology links on celeb pages. Joe

To India
For your information.I will be out to India (Chennai) from NZ between 30th April and end July. Hope to meet you.

--Dore chakravarty 02:09, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Nath
Hello, just wanted to let you know that the Nath article has been expanded with more historical information. I also want to ask you if you could also watch the page, as there have been some attempts to add material which is promotional rather than informative. This material has been rewritten to be informative but future attempts to promote rather than to inform are likely and since you seem to be at least familiar with the subject I hope you can also keep an eye on it. TIA, Adityanath 23:22, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. The copyvio notice is I think spurious as the anonymous user who posted it was referring to a referenced quote. However, it is still listed on the WP:CP page and hasn't been processed yet. Are you saying that I can remove the notice now that I've responded there? &mdash;Adityanath 02:58, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for taking care of that copyvio thing!! &mdash;Adityanath 03:12, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

DYK related
Hi! So finally the hard toil you do for updating DYK is telling upon your extremely methodical working ! I noticed that four users were not notified in their respective talk page about the inclusion of their created article as DYK, the users being MacRusgail (for the article Cuttie-stool), BillC (for the article Two Years' Vacation), Jrp (for the article Beekman Winthrop) and Dwaipayanc (for the article  Literary creations of Satyajit Ray); all of the articles were in DYK on 21 March, 2006. However, the discussion pages of respective article had the proper template.

Before that I also followed some of your talks on other users' pages regarding the difficulties of updating DYK and the handful number of administrators who update it regularly. In fact, I regularly see only you updating DYK. Why do not you invite others to share your work? If I can be of any help, please let me know. In fact, I thought to inform the aforesaid users about their DYKs, however, as I am not an administrator I thought it would be a violation of rules.

And also thanks a lot for the massive copyedit you did for Literary creations of Satyajit Ray. Bye.--Dwaipayanc 08:29, 22 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi! That's a good move you have done. There is really no need to inform every user the inclusion of their DYK. Rather the talk page of the article is better. And if necessary, users themselves can update their talk pages with the template. That's nice. That will surely decrease your workload.Bye.--Dwaipayanc 08:43, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Wow! Thanks! Wow!
Barnstar - moved to appreciation page Hi Gurubrahma! Many many many thanks for your brilliant nomination in my RfA. I literally couldn't have done it without you, so you have my eternal gratitude - you are right, it was your nomination that did it! If you ever need anything, please drop me a line. I'll shout if I need any help. Many thanks again. Cheers! ➨ ❝ R E  DVERS ❞ 17:11, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the Indian Links. Sikandarji 18:12, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Portal India is FPCAN
Hi Gurubrahma, Portal:India is WP:FPCAN, can you please contribute by voting aye or nay on the page? Thanks! AreJay 20:11, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
Thanks for the barnstar. Surprised, flattered-Pournami 07:08, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Help deleting old versions of image
Hi Gurubrahma, I am the mediator in an arbitration case and I have uploaded an image to help clarify one of the issues in contention. I have uploaded 4 versions of the image, intending to delete the first three. Unfortunately, when I tried to do the deletion, it said that this required admin privs. Could you please delete all versions of Image:1bx_com_en_user_Andries.JPG except the last? It would be very much appreciated. BostonMA 17:30, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I'm still trying to figure out how to label the first three copies but not have the whole thing deleted. --BostonMA 17:30, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, sorry if I have been of trouble. --BostonMA 17:46, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

By the way, your Bio says you are living in Bangalore. What are you doing up at this hour? You should be getting some sleep! --BostonMA 17:53, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Very funny! ;-). Yes, I am in Boston.  --BostonMA 18:01, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Very Much
Hi Gurubrahma, I was just a tad too busy, so couldn't visit Wikipedia. But big big thanks for putting the Doe Lang article on the Main Page DYK. You cannot imagine how glad I'm feeling. Now, you can rest assured that I'll create more articles, esp. related to India. I'll inform you when I have created some article and if there's something really interesting, we'll try to put it upto DYK status. Have a nice time. --  Ashu |(talk) 06:51, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Request,Nomination for removal Khalistan article
Hello Sir I'm nominating this page for deletion because it is written with a point of view, excessive use of unreliable sources.and the title "Khalistan" is wrong for the topic because "Khalistan" does not exist,lack of support from resident Punjabi's and Sikhs in India, but there was a "Movement for Khalistan" and that is the right title for the topic, and i think this whole article "a new name" should be rewritten with the help of people from sikh community "in" India and other Indians, because this topic is related to politics/people of India.We all should understand Khalistan is not a political entity and having a article is not justified, Microsoft Encarta and Britannic encyclopedia don't have an article known as "Khalistan" but they do have articles on the movement that took place decades back, and i think there are also copyright issues involved with this article because big parts of this article are written on other peoples research. Many reliable sources are used to show "one side" of their view on the topic, there are also indications that organisations banned by US and EU are involved in providing their research on the movement.I am a strong supporter to have a stub on this topic, but im afraid that such articles on wikipedia have become mouthpieces for organisation which are known for disrupting peace (assassination of one of india's prime minister, twin bomb blast in New Delhi on the eve of Diwali) in Indian sub continent. This article requires your attention, please help. Anmol.2k4 18:30, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Medal
Barnstar of National Merit from Nichalp - moved to appreciation page


 * Congratulations. Now, I envy you really - 3 barnstars of national merit. Great! --Bhadani 17:10, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
 * By the way, we are not talking much now-a-days. --Bhadani 17:11, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
 * AE is surely a committed wikipedian, and I have always kept SlimVirgin as an ideal. Yes, Idleguy and Deep failed, but they shall draw lessons, and shall become really nice administrators one day. I know about your first nomination as I had participated in that myself. When I find you doing so well, I feel very light. please be in touch. My selections were not wrong - the wiki-community wants demonstration of their abilities beyond doubt, and they shall do that in the months to come. --Bhadani 17:51, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Copy vio
Please use the Copy Vio tag in the future, otherwise it is considered or can be considered vandalism. --OrbitOne 17:50, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

I apologize for the mistake then. --OrbitOne 18:01, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi!
Hi Gurubrahma! Thanks for your message on my talk page. You're right, I underestimated the importance of preparing a detailed list of all the bad things I did earlier. Of course, I was more than willing to go into complete details if someone asked in the question space. Anyway, I think I've gotten over it nicely now. I think everyone voted in an understandable way according to whatever information was available to them on that page. And since I know that I've given up those things long long back, I've nothing to feel guilty about any more. I'll surely keep working the way I've been since November. Best regards, deeptrivia (talk) 02:45, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

missing name
sir, pandit bhajan sopori, the most respected musician from our state of jammu and kashmir is the top most musician of our country. and his name is missing from this list. please add the following in the indian musicans list.--- PANDIT BHAJAN SOPORI (santoor wizard).

uppender raina - jammu, kashmir welfare society, Jammu and kashmir —Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.135.220.45 (talk • contribs)

Peer review Kolkata
Hi! A request has been made for peer review of Kolkata. Could you please help improving the article? Thanks a lot.--Dwaipayanc 11:01, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

inclusion of names
sir /madam. i am a user in wik. my interest is in music. today some mr. uppender raina - jammu, kashmir welfare society, who happens to mail you also has mentioned that some names are not available on certail pages. i woud request you to update the following pages.

Categories: Indian musicians, Padma Shri awardees, Hindustani instrumentalists and others. i have loaded the pages for Pandit Bhajan Sopori and Abhay Rustum Sopori. thanks - Ttmusic —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ttmusic (talk • contribs)

Indian Institutes of Technology
Hi Gurubrahma,

A request has been made for Indian Institutes of Technology to be peer-reviewed so that it can achieve a Featured Article status. I have been working on it for the last one week and feel that it is satisfactorily good to start the peer-review process. Please care to have a look at it and give your precious comments. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 05:24, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

copyright
Hi Gurubrahma, there seems to be some sought of misunderstanding. i have duly acknowledged www.santoor.org for having their contents and i had a message from some one from wikipedia to acknowledge the source. the copyright breach, needs to be discussed. i had sought permission from mr. abhay sopori for using the material from thier website for wikipedia. i am a fan of indian music esp. pandit bhajan sopori, and thats why i loaded these pages. so nice of you to responde to mr. upendre raina. i would ask you to put back the pages. in case you still feel that there is some kind of copyright problem, i shall write the page again. thanks - Ttmusic —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ttmusic (talk • contribs)

Confused...
Hi - sorry to bother you - I'm simply trying to help the wikipedia community! I have recently corrected what I believe to be an incorrect entry on the 'osmosis' page that stated that a cell became 'frigid' not 'flaccid'when plasmolysed! I don't know if you have a different term in the USA, but certainly here in the UK frigid means 'sexually unresponsive' - hardly an appropriate term for a plant cell! The correct term is 'flaccid' - where the valcuole shrinks and becomes disassociated from the cell wall by plasmolysis!

I certainly do not expect the abuse that you sent me when all I was intending to do was to help that wider community. It as likely a simple typo. in the original document, but it is still misleading, and that is surely what wikipedia is about? I have made no other changes to that page - only that of that one word which was clearly incorrect.

Please reply to allow me to confirm that you have received this.

Regards —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.9.168.19 (talk • contribs)

Thanks
Hi - sorry for the confusion. Frigid can not be substituted for flaccid however - in the biological context they simply mean different things. I will register an account soon, I just wanted an experiment with the site firstly - and when I saw the error, I seized my chance.

Thanks for your support - hope you don't mind my re-change. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.9.168.19 (talk • contribs)

Regarding Talk:Hindu
Hello, I wish to draw your attention to the talk page of the article Hindu. There is a user User:Socialworker who has been making derogatory comments about Hinsuiam & Hindus. A few people including me have been trying counter this person. I request you to look into this issue keeping in mind the filthy language that the aforementioned user has used against Hindus and take appropriate action against him/her. Thank you. Rohitbd 19:09, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Kerala
Hi. A long while ago, you suggested that we create a template for Kerala based on Andhra Pradesh. We created Kerala, but it has formatting problems (it's not 100% of screen width, and seems to be much narrower than States and territories of India and Andhra Pradesh). Can you help? Thank you. Saravask 01:03, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Never mind &mdash; fixed. Saravask 01:17, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi
Bangalore may require your attention by the end of the day. User:Sarvagnya has started trolling the page, both as himself and as his sockpuppet 67.164.5.90. Please look into the page when you get a chance. Thanks AreJay 01:30, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

BAOJDN page
Hello there! Just a heads up that a rack is created in your honor on your BAOJDN page to arrange all of your trophies :-) Cheers! --ΜιĿːtalk 09:06, 28 March 2006 (UTC)


 * This may interest you regarding the Indian cinema project. --ΜιĿːtalk 10:01, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Regarding comments on DYK nominations
Hi! Can non-administrators comment on the nominees in the DYK nomination page? Soap Lake has been submitted for DYK nomination on March 27. However, the claim it does is not substantiated by proper reference. I am emphasizing this as I happen to know from my readings that the claim of that DYK nomination sounds a bit un-scientific and needs to be properly referenced. Can I say this in the DYK submission page?--Dwaipayanc 16:26, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Regarding Editors of Bangalore
Hi Gurubrahma, I am sorry to report that the situation in Bangalore (no not where you are, but the page ;-) has taken a somewhat unpleasant turn.  . I thought you should be kept appraised of the situation. --BostonMA 00:19, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Portal:India/Quiz
Congrats Gurubhrama, for winning the first round of the India Quiz. You can now use the India_Quizmaster_Round1 template (even though work is still being done to make it better). I would also like to commend you're question-asking skills, not only have you answered but you have asked questions that aren't simple ABC :).  Noble eagle    (Talk)   09:01, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Now you can use this template instead :

DaGizza's RfA


Hi, thank you for supporting me in my RfA which passed with a tally of (93/1/2). If you need any help or wish discuss something with me, you are always welcome to talk to me. GizzaChat  &#169; 11:55, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Happy Ugadi

 * Belated wishes for a happy Ugadi. - Ganeshk  ( talk ) 18:08, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * (belated) Happy Ugadi to you, GB :-) --ΜιĿ</FONT>ː<FONT style="color:#008000">talk</FONT> 10:35, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

IRC for India: #wikipedia-in
Please join this channel for India-related discussions. In case you need help to access IRC, please visit my IndianIRC page. -- Andy123  (talk) 22:17, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

a comment from my talk page
hi--you had mentioned that you couldn't find the edit that I made to the Ghandi page; by the time I saved it, the text in question was already gone. oh well, i tried :-) Jeremys779 06:17, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Help with DYK
Hi... I've been thinking a bit about standing for admin at some point, and one of the areas I'd like to help out with is the DYK process. I thought I ought to ask you about it since it seems you do a large share of the DYK work... Would you welcome help? I think I have a fairly good idea of what's involved but would not want to horn in where I wasn't wanted. (you can reply here, unless you'd strongly rather not, as it's my preference to keep threads together) + +Lar: t/c 04:14, 2 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Yeah sure, help is always welcome - I became an admin only in December and DYK till then was being updated by nixie who welcomed me after I expressed a desire to update DYK. She is now on wikibreak. Smurray expressed a desire to update DYK in his RFA but hasn't got around to it yet. One updation takes upto half-an-hour easily, so be forewarned. On an entirely different note, I have recently nominated Redvers for adminship and it passed easily. If you are interested, I would like to nominate you as I found you to be level headed in my interactions with you. Only point of concern so far is that the last standard in my standards is not met by you. If you have a good enough reason like Redvers who creates huge articles in one go, I'd be willing to nominate you, but I'd need a week's time to go through everything and draft my nom. --Gurubrahma 04:52, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I forgot about this, sorry for not getting back sooner. I think I've several people already wanting to nom me, but I don't yet fit my own standards!!!! (Requests for adminship/Standards As for your last point, I think I'm somewhat of a metapedian so getting my article percentage over 50% is an admirable goal, but may never happen... a lot of my edits are in projectspace, such as in (of late) WP:BEATLES which User:Kingboyk and I have been getting going... I DO have a few articles to my credit as you can see using Interiot's tool. I think I'm at 7 or 8 successful DYK selfnoms so I'm no stranger to creating articles. No featureds yet though... + +Lar: t/c 02:55, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Just housekeeping
The voting pages are copies of User:Drumguy8800 pages. I find them cumbersome to use, and no longer need them. It's easier to just type in the vote. --Go for it! 06:56, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh. I didn't understand your post. Nevermind then. --Go for it! 07:02, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Image
It is a snap taken during her play. So it would come under public domain, right ?

M G Harish 15:58, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

I need your advice
You were right, I was in a bit of a pique. Though I saved everything that was important to my hard disk, so no harm done. Instead of simply giving up in frustration, I've decided to stick around and fight back (within the acceptable means provided by Wikipedia). I'm in need of the advice of a veteran user on something I've been working on for quite some time. I undertook a complete overhaul of the Community Portal, only to have someone revert it to a version of the page that existed months ago. Then along comes an admin and protects the page. Not knowing what all my options were, I called for a vote to get the page changed back. My question is: is there anything I've overlooked in my efforts to get the page restored? --Go for it! 19:33, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the response and the tips

Haphar 08:32, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Et tu ?
When will you be back ? I got the connection at home last weekend, but don't have much free time at home either. Tintin (talk) 13:40, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Later :-) Tintin (talk) 14:08, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Nonsense?
What nonsense!? As I remember I only corrected error in "Zofia Kossak- Szczucka". It says that one of novels that she wrote is "Głośni krzyżowcy" (Loud crusaders). THAT is nonsense. This novel is titled "Krzyżowcy" (Crusaders). I am a Pole, I read this novel! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.205.209.2 (talk • contribs)

Vandalism !!!!
Hi,

I guess you are an administrator. I had created an article called Sambhaji Brigade on 6 March 2006. I have prepared the article in a non-biased manner and with accurate information from verifiable and respected news sources. But right from the time I started the article, a person is hell-bent on vandalising it and putting non-sensical, innaccurate and malicious information and distort the article. He has done it various times. His registered as, but he uses other IPs to vandalise as well. The other IPs are 170.201.180.137 and 24.63.126.187, especially the latter one. Here is a link to his latest work -

Diff

He has been extremely biased against the Sambhaji Brigade. Maybe he is from the Brahmin caste. Even I am from Brahmin caste, but to distort information for one's end is totally wrong. He is doing it again and again. Please warn him, block him or do anything but stop him from vandalising gain and again. He has already vandalised the article 5 times. Please look into the matter.

-  Maha  Mantri | talk  05:11, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

AfD
Can you please take a look at Articles_for_deletion/Rick_Eyre. I think the guys who created the attack page is back because the page was cleaned up (& I think I know who these are), and four of the votes are by fresh accounts. I wouldn't really bother whether the article stays or not (as I told you earlier, it is a borderline case - either a weak keep, or weak delete), but it looks bad when some people try to use wikipedia just for their own ends. Tintin (talk) 02:09, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Attention
Hey! India is up for removal of featured status. Please add your comments at Featured article removal candidates/India. Help!!--Dwaipayanc 05:55, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

re DYK thanks
No problem, plus it's quite a good way to find interesting new articles. I know that the UpdatedDYK template is optional, but I think it's nice to let editor's know directly that their hard work is featured on the main page, and it's not too much extra work. Enjoy your wikibreak :-) -- Cactus.man  &#9997;  14:18, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Chiranjeevi
Hi there. You protected this about a week and a half ago. Since WP:SEMI is for dealing with serious, current vandals, I figure it's been more than long enough to unprotect it now. Can I ask you to check your other recent protections and lift them as necessary, also to remember protections in general. CAT:SEMI is nearly 100 items, most of them seem to have been forgotten by the protecting admin. Thanks. -Splash talk 21:44, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think your original protect was fine. I'm just dropping notes to admins with longer-lasting protections (!) because CAT:SEMI tends to balloon. I hope you enjoyed your wikibreak! -Splash talk 22:38, 15 April 2006 (UTC)