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Could you please review the article on the Gupta-Saka War? It is mentioned in a source (though I'm unsure of its reliability) that the Guptas captured Sindh from the Sakas. However, during the same period, the Sassanids, followed by the Rai dynasty, were ruling over Sindh. DeepstoneV (talk) 19:38, 19 April 2024 (UTC)


 * @DeepstoneV, I am not sure but as far as I am aware, the Magadhan Empire under the Gupta dynasty never directly ruled western states (like Malwa for instance). The western parts of the Magadhan Empire were vassals ruled by their own dynasties. The House of Aulikara ruled the Kingdom of Malwa as vassals of Kumaragupta of the Magadhan Empire for some time, so perhaps, the Rai dynasty might have ruled Sindh as vassals of the Magadhan Empire under Guptas for a period the same way but then could have come under Persian influence later on or earlier. Ancient history is usually pretty ambiguous in these cases. PadFoot2008 (talk) 01:57, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Use British English tag
Hi PadFoot2008, just wondering why you added the Use British English tag to Breakup of Spanish armed forces (1936) and changed the spelling within the article? This violates MOS:RETAIN which states "With few exceptions (e.g., when a topic has strong national ties or the change reduces ambiguity), there is no valid reason for changing from one acceptable option to another." AusLondonder (talk) 17:07, 3 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Hello @AusLondonder, my bad, I wasn't aware of MOS:RETAIN. I was looking at WP:EngvarB. Thanks for informing me about it. PadFoot2008  13:47, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks, no worries. AusLondonder (talk) 17:25, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

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Lead sentence
There is a consensus at INB (including admins), according to which location of various Indian states are arranged/written in the lead sentence. It is largely based on Britannica's definition. Let them stay that way. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 12:15, 14 May 2024 (UTC)


 * @Fylindfotberserk, Okay, sorry I didn't know. PadFoot2008  13:08, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

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 * Alright, I am sorry I forgot this time. I shall do that next time onwards. PadFoot2008  04:29, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

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Regarding removal of Sourced information as per your POV in Maratha Empire Article
State the specific reason of removing my sourced content in Maratha Empire article? Mohammad Umar Ali (talk) 09:11, 24 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Your content was not sourced. It needs to be explicitly mentioned in a citation. Besides it doesn't need to be in the lead either. PadFoot2008  09:14, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
 * The Marathas - Cambridge History of India (Vol. 2, Part 4) : New Cambridge History of India : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive this is the source for protectors of Delhi throne pg 138 here is the quotation: For the Marathas, probably the two most significant events of the whole chaotic period in Delhi were a treaty in 1752, which made them protector of the Mughal throne (and gave them the right to collect chauth in the Punjab), and the civil war of 1753, by which the Maratha nominee ended up on the Mughal throne.
 * This is for Areal limit of the Empire/Confederacy (same source); Quoting: First, we shall look at the expanding areas controlled by the Marathas, and there were many. Maratha leaders pushed into Rajasthan, the area around Delhi, and on into the Punjab. They attacked Bundelkund and the borders of Uttar Pradesh. Further east, the Marathas attacked Orissa and the borders of Bengal and Bihar.
 * Advanced Study in the History of Modern India 1707-1813 - Jaswant Lal Mehta - Google Books pg 233-237
 * I can provide more sources if you want NOW?? Mohammad Umar Ali (talk) 09:20, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
 * As I said before, it mentions the regions the Confederacy collected chauth from, not that the regions were a part of the Confederacy. And also please stop shouting. PadFoot2008  09:21, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
 * See my comment on Maratha Empire talk page Mohammad Umar Ali (talk) 09:33, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Did you see my new comments can i add now? Mohammad Umar Ali (talk) 09:46, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

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I recently added something on my User Page and I am informing you this since we both have an ongoing dispute about some information in the Maratha Empire article. So plz see my user page link I have already provided and don't consider me inactive or satisfied with any comment of yours and others unless I state so. I need to have a time limit for Wikipedia as I have to concentrate on other things (especially my studies) which are equally important for me if not more. So plz wait for my responses I may not be replying so fast as I did before. I hope you will be okay with it. Regards. Mohammad Umar Ali (talk) 05:30, 25 May 2024 (UTC)


 * You need to gain a popular consensus for your edit in the article talk page itself. You don't have my consensus as of now. PadFoot2008  05:46, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
 * This was not about consensus this was about something else though I understand what you are trying to say. Mohammad Umar Ali (talk) 05:53, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

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Maratha Confederacy
Hello, PadFoot2008,

Rather than creating a whole new set of categories, please consider going to WP:CFD or the speedy rename section of that page and request that the original categories be renamed. Then the category history can be preserved. And please do not try to move or rename categories yourself, it's best to let the CFD bot handle these operations. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 17:55, 11 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Alright, thanks, I wasn't aware of that. I'll do that now. PadFoot2008  17:59, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

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 * Hello, PadFoot2008,
 * Please do not edit war over categories. It is just as disruptive as other kinds of edit-warring. If you find an edit reverted, please discuss it on the article talk page, do not revert a revert. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 06:38, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Hello @Liz, I am not edit warring over a category. I accidentally reverted a person and then I self-reverted .  PadFoot2008  07:31, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

Page moves
Hi, some of your recent page moves, such as moving Govindachandra (Gahadavala dynasty) to Govindachandra of Kannauj do not make sense. As the article on the Gahadavala dynasty mentions, the Gahadavala kings likely lived and ruled from Varanasi, not Kannauj (which was not even the contemporary name of that place). Almost all of Govindachandra's inscriptions are issued from Varanasi. Also, I am not sure which "convention of monarch related articles" are you referring to in your edit summaries. utcursch &#124; talk 23:50, 17 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Hello @Utcursch, most monarch articles use this convention. Just search "George I of" in Wikipedia itself, for example. Also there isn't much of a requirement to use contemporary names I think? And just see it's usage here in Google Books and ngrams  . Though I should mention here that the popular usage in reliable sources is "of Kanauj" not "of Kannauj", but given that the article has double 'n's in its title, I decided to keep the convention.  PadFoot2008  02:29, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

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 * @Sbaio, I made just one revert. How is that an edit war? Which Wikipedia policy says that one revert is an edit war (barring some projects where 1RR applies)? I think you might have considered my latest edit as a revert, which it wasn't. I simply changes 'S' → 's'. PadFoot  (talk) 13:43, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

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 * Mate, what you are doing is edit warring as well. PadFoot  (talk) 18:19, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

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Terrible page moves
Please do not move a page to a title that is harder to follow, or move it unilaterally against naming conventions or consensus. This includes making page moves while a discussion remains underway. We have some guidelines to help with deciding what title is best for a subject. If you would like to experiment with page titles and moving, please use the test Wikipedia. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 17:31, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 * What is with all of these unnecessary page moves? I'm cleaning up about a dozen broken redirects from all of your terrible page moves. These were thoughtlessly done. If this happens again, I will remove your page mover right as you are causing damage with it rather than solving problems. Liz Read! Talk! 17:34, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 * @Liz, I am extremely sorry and I apologise for all the inconveniences caused by me. This was my first round robin move, and I am going to make sure something like this never happens again. PadFoot  (talk) 17:39, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 * PadFoot, regarding your second set of moves, reverting from Afghan–Maratha War did not require a round-robin swap. You should have just moved it directly back. You can move a page to another title with a redirect so long as that redirect has never been edited. See WP:MOR (possible for all autoconfirmed editors) and WP:PMR (possible for page movers).
 * Also, when a round-robin swap is necessary, you should suppress the redirect on all three moves. (WP:ROBIN "Note: Redirects are suppressed during all moves in the round-robin page move process.") As it is, you left an extra redirect at Draft:Move/Afghan–Maratha War that you should nominate for speedy deletion with.
 * I recommend using User:Ahecht/Scripts/pageswap to avoid mistakes during round-robin swaps – and just to make them easier in general. It reduces, but does not eliminate, the chance of causing Liz (or less likely me) to come to your talk page. SilverLocust 💬 03:59, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Done, that's for telling me about this. I will try to make sure I don't do anything that might cause you or Liz to come to my talk page :) PadFoot  (talk) 04:05, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Also, those moves of war articles to use hyphens are incorrect per MOS:DUALNATIONALITIES. See examples like Mexican–American War, Philippine–American War, 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Chechen–Russian conflict, Swedish–Norwegian War, Soviet–Afghan War. SilverLocust 💬 03:10, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
 * @SilverLocust, I wasn't fully aware of MOS:DUALNATIONALITIES, thanks for informing me about it. So, if a combining form like Franco- or Anglo- is used we use a hyphen, but if something like Polish or Swedish is used we use an en dash? That's interesting. I wonder why some nationalities don't have a combining form, while others do. PadFoot  (talk) 12:44, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I also fixed Polish–Russian War (1609–1618) which I had recently moved per the move discussion in the talk page (regarding the dates).  PadFoot  (talk) 12:49, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

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A guy reverted my edit on Rana Sanga' article. I published a academic Atlas replacing Non Academic atlas while he reverted my edit and than I Again Reverted his edit, But I am sure that It will turn into a Edit-War. You can look the matter Dooblts (talk) 14:24, 20 July 2024 (UTC)


 * I appreciate your response to the Rana Sanga article. I would like you to review the Rajput articles as well, just as you did with the Maratha articles, selecting many for deletion. The situation is even worse with the Rajput articles. For example, the articles on the Battles of Idar and Rana Sanga's invasions of Gujarat, as well as many other articles associated with the rulers of Mewar, Marwar, and other Rajput kingdoms, are problematic. I have tagged some quality editors like you and Flemish Nietzsche to look into this matter. Dooblts (talk) 15:46, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

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hello, PadFoot2008, i found the sockpuppet of DeccanFlood, Chauthcollector is a sock of DeccanFlood. DeccanFlood not using his old id because DeccanFlood several times has been blocked so he using his 4 months old id Chauthcollector. 2409:40D6:1D:BF4B:8000:0:0:0 (talk) 15:38, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

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