User talk:Indian Chronicles/Archive2008

IAF
You could choose to file a user conduct RfC. You may wish instead to file a report, with diffs, on the incidents noticeboard, asking for an uninvolved sysop to step in and help keep the peace. I would recommend an RfC to provide a formal format for IAF to receive feedback regarding his editing and behavior. If you need assistance with either option, or if you have any questions, please let me know. Vassyana (talk) 23:54, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * please take it to WP:AN/I: any admin will be willing to block an obvious sock, and semi-protect the article if the sock attacks persist. thanks, dab (𒁳) 07:00, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * A requested checkuser came back negative for IAF, but it is an obvious sock account created for disruption/edit warring. As such, I have indefinitely blocked the account. Vassyana (talk) 15:23, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Revert warring
Please be aware that the revert warring on Indian religions could result in your account being temporarily blocked. WP:3RR states that three reverts is an upper limit and that any edit warring through reverts in unacceptable. If there is continuous back and forth on an article, it would be best if you request page protection (to prevent further edit warring) and seek dispute resolution (to help focus on seeking consensus). If a user is disruptive, please seek sysop assistance on the incidents noticeboard and/or seek community input regarding their behavior. Vassyana (talk) 14:41, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Sub page
It's perfectly acceptable to have archives and subpages in your userspace (see WP:USER). You are quite correct it doesn't count as having multiple accounts. Cheers! Vassyana (talk) 16:15, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 22:29, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Anekantavada
Thank you for your major contributions on this subject. It looks great.

One suggestion on this article, and in general, is that we need to strive to make the articles readable by non-experts. There days most people are only willing to spend only a few minutes for reading the articles. Thus simpler is generally better.

You are right about the article on Jain philosophy. I hade moved the material out from the Jainism page to make that page more readable. Unfortunately Jain philosophy is now simply a colletion of lists. We need to make it more readable.

--Malaiya (talk) 00:54, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

To IAF and Anishshah19
On the page Indian religions, I see that the two of you seem to have some disagreements about the article content. Please use the article talk page to discuss your differences  and try to find a version of the article that you can both agree or compromise on. See WP:CONSENSUS. It doesn't tend to work very well to have a discussion using edit summaries. It's better to use a talk page, where there's more room to describe your reasons. Note that you can be blocked for edit warring even if you don't violate WP:3RR. Please try to think about how the other person will feel when they read your comment. It's important to try to keep everybody calm: that's the best to have a chance of finding a compromise. Please try to avoid comments such as "I dont care about this so called ..." or "Who cares about what you care ?". I hope to see polite discussion between you happening on the talk page, instead of reverting the article. I'm putting essentially the same message on IAF's talk page. --Coppertwig (talk) 20:20, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the note.
Thanks Anish for the welcome note on my Talk page.

As you might have realised, I am interested in contributing to the Jainism related pages in my own little way.

I always cite references to the items contributed, including the "main points on jainism". Provided that for the sole purpose of providing concise and still complete picture to general audience who may not be Jain.

Happy to discuss.

Suresh Elangovan (talk) 10:31, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Is the reference good enough?
Anish, thanks for the encouraging words. I have provided a reference note for the whole section. Is that good enough? Is the format right? I can get reference for each one of the points - may have to do some research but can be done, if you think it will add value.

Suresh Elangovan (talk) 11:04, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

started the edit process
Anish, just started on the project! Is there any specific area that majority of contributors currently work on?

Suresh Elangovan (talk) 07:53, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Triple gems of Jainism
Hi Anish, Thanks for the note and your appreciation on the section titled Triple gems of Jainism. Whole heartedly, agree that the article should be of encyclopedic quality. To tell the truth, I would like to have other contributors to join in so as to further enhance and enrich this article. Don't know whether there is a process available within Wiki to invite input on a specific subject. Please feel free to provide your input if you have access to material that I may not readily have.

I will take some time to read and understand the guidelines you have highlighted to me, with a view to improve its presentation.

One of my main drive to putting these nuggets of knowledge on the Wiki is to ensure that the future generation of younger Jains (and of course, non-Jains as well, who are interested to know about the Jain thoughts and processes), who especially live outside India are not overloaded with terminologies in a language that they may not be familiar. It can even drive some of them away from understanding the fundamentals - as it literally sounds like greek and latin (or sanskrit or pali!).

Happy to discuss further.

Suresh Elangovan (talk) 08:57, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Yapaniaya
I think it's a plausible typo (clearly the person who wrote it thought so!) so I made it into a redirect. Thanks for tagging. --Dweller (talk) 12:46, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Jainism peer reviews
I would be glad to take a look after major revisions - just let me know. If you found PR helpful, please consider reviewing another peer review request, perhaps one with no responses at Peer review/backlog. Glad my comments were helpful, Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 01:03, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I will take another look in the next day or so and make more comments. I archived the Jainism peer reviews that had no new input in the past two weeks - have to keep up with these to keep PR size manageable. Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 04:37, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

PR request
I'd be happy to assist where I can, my knowledge of Jainism is pretty limited, but I should be able to help with style, grammar, and any plainly overt violations of any guidelines or policies. I work at night so maybe I can get to it early morning (my time=Central U.S.) over the next few days. IvoShandor (talk) 09:06, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, my time has been limited the last few days. I will still try to get to your article in the next couple of days. IvoShandor (talk) 14:49, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Anekantvada
I'll look over this article over the next couple days and try to fix grammar and sentence structure, but is there anything else in particular you would like me to take a look at within the article? I am pretty familiar with the topic, but I don't doubt that it will be factually accurate. By the way, I think it's great that you're trying to make a Jainism-related topic a featured article. -- Qmwne 235  21:13, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Now that I think about it, you could probably submit it for good-article candidacy right now. That would make it easier to make the jump to FA, and even if it were to fail, you'd get plenty of good suggestions. -- Qmwne 235  21:23, 25 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Sure I'll take a look now and see if I have any sources that can supplement it. I don't own any books on Jainism, and I'm far from an expert on the topic, but I'll try. -Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:02, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment: Per Anish's request on my talk page, I have begun to copy edit this one. Will be doing it in stages during the morning. – ukexpat (talk) 14:15, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ - I have copyedited: Fixed some ref punctuation, spelling, minor textual changes for flow. I am not qualified to judge appropriateness of references and citations – ukexpat (talk) 20:09, 6 June 2008 (UTC)


 * The article is ON HOLD. (GAC)--Redtigerxyz (talk) 06:47, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Great news on the promotion to GA - glad I could assist. – ukexpat (talk) 19:54, 14 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Shabash Anish! Well done!
 * Yes, I look forward to helping a little on other articles.
 * Sorry, I am often busy, but I will keep doing what I can to help.
 * Keep up your great work. :)
 * Alastair Haines (talk) 23:46, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

What wonderful news that Anekantavada made GA, and how kind of you to remember my small contributions. I will be glad to look the article over again, but my knowledge of Jainism is sadly limited, so I am not sure how much help I will be on the way to FA. Just let me know and keep up the good work, Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 02:56, 15 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Congrats for GA promotion. If you go for the FA nom, the first objection will be the citecheck tag. I had to add the tag because of my observation that 2 of 3 net refs did not explicitly state what it was referenced for, this is however open to debate that my observations could be wrong. I think ask someone from the Jain workgroup - an "expert" not actively editing the article, to go throught through the article and leave a note on the article talk saying whatever written is a fair interpretation of the philosophy of Anekantavada and then remove the tag. Also i have a query (i am not an expert in Jainism), do sects like Svetambar or Digambar have a different intrepretation of the philosophy? For FA nom, examine if the article is "comprehensive", check with articles in other encyclopedias.--Redtigerxyz (talk) 06:33, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Congrats on GA status! Unfortunately, I've been a little busy recently, so I haven't been able to make an in-depth search to make sure that this is a fair assessment of anekantavada. I personally believe that anekantavada is quite as flexible when it comes to accepting to beliefs of other religions, but you know more about Jainism than I do, so I'll assume you're right. The article seems to be almost completely internally consistent; if I find any examples in which it is not, I'll notify you. The sources appear to be fine, but I'm not familiar with most of them, so I can't say for certain if they apply. I'm familiar with many of the authors, and they're all prominent Jain scholars, so that should be fine. The only possible problem I could imagine would be if someone were to claim that there is too much reliance on original texts and that there is original research. During the GA review, though, most OR was removed, so I doubt this will come up. I'll try to have some suggestions on the talk page within a couple of days. -- Qmwne 235  20:47, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay, I forgot about this. It's too late today, but tomorrow I'll begin reviewing the article and looking for inconsistencies and other problems. If I forget to do something I said I would do again, just prod me with a message on my talk page. -- Qmwne 235  02:30, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Over the past couple days, I left some comments on Talk:Anekantavada. They're in the sections "Copyedited." and "Moral Relativism?". Good luck with FAC! I'll be looking over the article until it becomes a featured article, so I'll try to point out things that can be improved. -- Qmwne 235  01:51, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay, I'll proceed to remove that one sentence. If you don't think it should be completely removed, you can add it in again and make whatever changes you see fit. Also, I think there are some missing words in the quotations in the "Criticism" section. See this section. The last part of the "Criticism" section also needs to be clarified a little. Thanks! -- Qmwne 235  16:39, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Review help for Anekantavada
I can see that you are a copy editor. Hence I request your assistance to make this article as a featured article. Users,,  have made a lot of improvements, but I still need more assistance which would be appreciated. Anekantavada is the most important principle of Jain philosophy and I hope it will be the first article on Jainism to qualify as FA. Thanks.--Anish (talk) 11:24, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi there, sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you, and I will copy this to your talk page so that you don't miss it. I note, on looking at the article today, that concerns have been expressed  by User:Redtigerxyz about some of the reference sourcing. I've just had a very challenging experience copy editing an article that had referencing issues; to address those issues required rewriting a good chunk of the text.  Based on that experience, I'm hesitant to carry out an in-depth copy edit until all of the referencing issues have been addressed to everyone's satisfaction.
 * I suggest you contact User:Redtigerxyz to find out what exactly the concern is about the use of citations, resolve that issue, and then I will be pleased to help out. The citation issue has to be addressed before the article goes to FAC regardless. Incidentally, I think the article looks very good already, and should not have a lot of copy edit issues. Risker (talk) 22:20, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Dear Anish ji, Thanks for your contributions to the Anekanta article (among several others). I will go over the article carefully the next few days.--Malaiya (talk) 21:32, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

:-)
Helping someone like you, Anish, is time well spent. I learn and I enjoy. You understand anything I suggest very quickly, and implement it (if appropriate) quickly also, while often improving on it in the process. But I am sure I learn more than you do! :)

Let me say something that may be wrong, but is very nice if true. I think Anekantavada expresses the fact that Jainism values genuine truth so highly, that it clearly points out the masquerade of anything that is less than truly universal. The most important part of the word is An, not. It is a principle of "non-oversimplificationism", especially when this reflects human intolerance of others, and intellectual laziness. The principle denies what is wrong, it does not deny what is true and complex, hard to know or even unknowable. In fact, it celebrates these things. It is a foundation that urges the one who would learn the truth to keep his eyes and ears open and travel a road however long that road may be. Anekantavada is beautiful, it is positive not negative. It is a doctrine of "no short cuts". Love it and teach it my friend.

Thank you for your patience with my slow and incomplete responses to your requests for help. Please keep asking. I share your vision for quality articles on Jainism. I love learning how others think, sometimes wonderfully differently, other times wonderfully "the same thing in different words".

Please keep me informed, I will do what I can to help. Alastair Haines (talk) 04:40, 3 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Manish has done the work that I consider most important, the cite-check. I have followed his suggestion and proposed Anekantavada for FA status. Good luck Anish, and well done! :) Alastair Haines (talk) 12:30, 4 July 2008 (UTC)


 * The process will take time. You can read what has been written so far by following the link at the top of the article talk page. So far, comments have been good, criticisms are very tiny, that means, like we thought, the article is very close to FA already. Alastair Haines (talk) 06:39, 5 July 2008 (UTC)


 * MY internet access is limited currently and I am using my time for peer reviews - by the weekend I should be able to take the time to read the article again carefully and weigh in at FAC. Thanks for the heads up, Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 13:46, 9 July 2008 (UTC)


 * The unusually small number of technical criticisms, and complete absence of substantial criticisms I attribute to your very thorough peer reviewing Ruhrfisch. You are very good at it. Looking forward to more. Bis das Wochenende Alastair Haines (talk) 01:11, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

For Anish and Ruhr, I understand and can help with Ruhrfisches new comments. I will do so in the next 24 hours. Alastair Haines (talk) 10:06, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Anekantavada copy edit
Anish, I will take a look over the next couple of days. – ukexpat (talk) 13:10, 17 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I have lots of hope Anish. Images are ultimately very flexible, so long as they are legal. Pictures of places, things and people, even pictures of ancient writing can all help an article look nice for a reader, while communicating important things as well. Articles need to be mainly text, pictures should not do the work instead of text, but they are just the sort of thing that help an article "feel" featurable. Perhaps there are some photographs you could take yourself? Photographs taken now, of books over 100 years old, should be uploadable under an Art license. Perhaps there are Jain libraries, study halls or meeting places that illustrate something of the philosophical tradition. Perhaps there are works of art that are known to be 150 years old or so, that clearly depict people and events in the article.


 * The only serious issue is the sourcing issue, but that's no problem really, the link can simply be removed. Sources are required, not links. I bet we can find a better link anyway. I'll look into that part. Please keep working on ideas for images. It's absolutely OK, in fact it is ideal, if you upload pictures you make yourself. Alastair Haines (talk) 09:40, 24 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh! That issue. Don't worry about it. Thanks for your offer of help. I haven't heard from any of those people for some time. They tried to stop progress on an article and were rude about what they were doing. Fortunately, a very nice (and smart) Jewish friend came along and helped a lot. There are one or two things to tidy up, but your article, and the Jain articles in general, are much more important.
 * I'm an old man and used to watching how trouble-makers operate. I don't like getting caught up in things like that, but I'm not the type to let them get away with it. There's an English phrase about that sort of thing, "peace, but not peace at any price." In fact, there are many more phrases about that sort of thing. Democracy is not intellectual ahimsa! Give me ahimsa over democracy any day.
 * And don't worry about adding to my stress. You have done absolutely the opposite. Watching you at work is a joy. You are respectful, patient and co-operative. That's the nice thing about Wiki, maybe things are difficult in one place, but they can be happy in others.
 * So again, don't worry and double thanks, for being the encouragement you are by your own nature, and for your kind, but fortunately unnecessary, offer of help now. :) Alastair Haines (talk) 09:57, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: Assistance on Image
Images really aren't my specialty, in fact, I rarely deal with them at all. However, MBisanz (talk · contribs) should be more than happy to provide whatever assistance is needed. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:07, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Image Permissions
I spoke with people who have access to both the ComCom and OTRS archives and it appears a permissions request was sent in, but did not provide enough information. A request from us for more information was sent, but we never got any. So the image is improperly tagged, it has not been vetted as a free image. If you'd like to email the uploader, referencing Ticket Number #2006082310006872 and asking him to email OTRS the requested details, it's status could be ascertained. At the moment, it is at best a non-free image. Sorry I don't have better news.  MBisanz  talk 06:06, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Now your totally out of my league, I've never written an FA or done FAC, I'd ask User:SandyGeorgia or User:Rlevse, they know more than I do about such things.  MBisanz  talk 06:43, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Karma in Jainism
The book didn't mention the Jain theory of karma specifically, but it gave definitions and examples that covered it. I don't have the book anymore, but I can find another reference if you want. -- Qmwne 235  22:47, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Image:Jain universe.JPG
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Congratulations and thanks!
Dear Anish, what wonderful news and you are so kind to remember my small contributions with the lovely barnstar. Thanks so much and keep up the good work, Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 18:57, 4 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Likewise Anish. I am so pleased your outstanding editing has received the highest award it can get, and well deserved. I am also very proud to be able to display your thanks for my small contribution. Please let me know where you are at work next, and I'll enjoy chipping in to help if at all possible. Well done Anish! :) Alastair Haines (talk) 21:25, 4 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Great news. Congrats. Keep up the good work. --Redtigerxyz (talk) 12:46, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Congratulations! I'm just disappointed I didn't get to help as much as I would have liked to. So, what do you want to work on next? Hopefully, we'll be able to dramatically improve the quality of all Jainism articles. -- Qmwne 235  15:19, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Dear Anishji, congratulations on the featured article. Thank you for your hard work and atten to detail. हम सब जैन बंधुओं की ओर से हर्दिक साधुवाद |--Malaiya (talk) 21:02, 5 August 2008 (UTC)


 * About the Gandhi img, changed it. you go to WikiCommons and look for better Gandhi pics, if you want.--Redtigerxyz (talk) 13:13, 6 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you Anish, my friend, for your kind comments. Please don't worry about my troubles, just relax and get over the stress of the last FAC. It was my first FAC too. I think we both learned a lot. We know better what to expect, and we know how to prepare for it better.
 * As I think I mentioned once before, it is lovely people like you that have got me caught up in Wiki. You give me an excuse to study and think about things I want to learn about. Karma and ahimsa in Jainism are things I'd love to learn more about. Great choices!
 * I will try to make a point of looking at your barnstar when I feel down. It really is the highlight of my time at Wiki so far. Best of all, I feel proud of every word you chose to give me with that star. They are written on my heart my friend, again thanks, Alastair Haines (talk) 14:24, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Was nice to see the article on the main page.--Redtigerxyz (talk) 11:02, 19 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Contact me any time for a peer review. If i am free, i will surely provide one.--Redtigerxyz (talk) 06:44, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for the welcome. I don't really understand why some Hindus on that page and others want Jainism and Buddhism to be part of Hinduism. Why would they want that? I don't have a problem with them thinking that but I thought I would try to correct the page. I won't get into edit wars with those trolls that you're talking about though. I think dab equates Ancient India with Vedic religion. According to the sources, that's not true. Hopefully we can work it out. Mitsube (talk) 05:30, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Jainism is precious, especially to Wikipedia
Anish, the more I learn about Jainism, the more precious I believe it is to our human family. Jains have been setting an example and teaching others perhaps longer than anyone else. Anekantavada (WP:NPOV) and ahimsa (WP:No personal attacks) are both Wikipedia policies. Be patient, others will hear and value your voice eventually. Thank you for teaching me about your ways, best regards as always, Alastair Haines (talk) 04:01, 30 August 2008 (UTC)


 * LoL, what a great essay! It is an amazing thing about good ideas. If an idea is good, someone else has nearly always already thought of it.
 * There is a good side to Jainism being under-represented at Wikipedia, it is more likely to be stable, so good work is safer and will last. Nothing is ever really lost at Wikipedia, though.
 * I'm glad you worked out your priority is FA. I think that's the right priority. :) Alastair Haines (talk) 07:46, 3 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Shabash Anish!
 * I am so pleased!
 * Well done!
 * After so much work from you, anekantavada appearing on the main page is a wonderful thing.
 * It is also tremendous support from Wikipedia for efforts to upgrade Jainism articles.
 * Please take the encouragement to heart and keep up a steady effort to build the Jainism articles.
 * I am really looking forward to the 19th. :D Alastair Haines (talk) 02:13, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Agamas
Congratulations on the upcoming mainpage article! Do you have anything at hand about the Jain agamas? Mitsube (talk) 17:21, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Indian Religions
I see that Nexxt1 has been blocked - so that's something. My understanding of the dispute is that your (and mitsube's) text implies that Jainism and Hinduism are both equally old religions while Nexxt1 says that only Hinduism is old (or do I have it backward?) Also, that you dispute the reliability of nexxt1's sources (I looked at the table in the talk page). Clearly, this issue won't go away easily and, if you're confident in your assertions, you may want to suggest an Rfc if the dispute lingers. --Regents Park (sniff out my socks) 02:43, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I responded on my talk page.--Regents Park (sniff out my socks) 12:48, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Pier Gerlofs Donia
Did you know (DYK) about Greate Pier? Last king of Frisia (talk) 09:07, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Vithoba
There are very good changes in the first sections of the article. If you are free, please look at the entire article. If you find anything where the context is not clear, please let me know. --Redtigerxyz (talk) 13:21, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for taking a look at Sukhdev Singh Babbar! -- vi5in [talk] 16:35, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Classical languages
Hi Anishshah. I saw the reverts between you and another user on the issue of classical language status to Kannada and Telugu. Both languages are officially declared "classical" by GOI. Writ petitions from individuals dont matter, and one can assume their are writ petitions on every issue pending in every court in India. Moreover the GOI has requested for that petition to be thrown out. So, the good news is, both are classical languages, officially. Hope this help. Best regards.Dineshkannambadi (talk) 15:17, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Vithoba images
I am uploading them on commons in the category Vithoba, the first one.-- Redtigerxyz Talk 14:57, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Am now adding the original version. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 15:00, 30 December 2008 (UTC)