User talk:Pranabnaik

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Please go to talk page for further information. Indian is not an ethnicity!--Misssss (talk) 13:15, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Here you see the ethnic groups of India. They are different peoples in one country. Not one people in one country. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Ethnic_Groups_of_India I'm not a Tamil btw. --Misssss (talk) 17:34, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

It's not only about language, but about culture as a whole. Tamils have different language and culture than Andhraites and other ethnicities in India. Same goes with Hindi people, Punjabi or Bengalis. This is a very simple thing. Stop making such disruptive edits like "Dravidian" please. This can be considered as vandalism. --Misssss (talk) 20:45, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

I don't say I'm a Dravidian. I'm a Malayalee. That's the point. --Misssss (talk) 21:45, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Of course it's not correct. And you know that very well. --Misssss (talk) 21:57, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

October 2009
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May 2010
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Andrew Nathan Chinese Name
Hi Pranabnaik;

I appreciate your attention to detail at Andrew J. Nathan and your wanting to get this right, but I'm not clear what your objection is.

With just a moment's work, I found several biographical articles with the Chinese name supplied: Stapleton Roy and Arthur Hummel, Jr., so there is good precedent. The policy in WP:Lead_section says the subject's name should be in English, but that a foreign version of the name can then be given in the article.

I'm not sure what (or why) you Googled,for the best authority would be the WorldCat listings of the Chinese translations: WorldCat Search Andrew Nathan/Chinese Language which show his Chinese name to be 黎安友.

I won't change anything back yet, so let me know if I have missed anything.

All the best ch (talk) 20:37, 16 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your quick reply on my Talk Page and your more detailed explanation of your concern. The Wikipedia policy page on names lined above shows that Wikipedia accepts the insertion of foreign names. The second link is to WorldCat, an online catalog of books. In this case, the page shows the translations of Prof. Nathan's works into Chinese, with his Chinese name as the author. This is the authority you asked for to show that Prof. Nathan uses this Chinese name.


 * I'll go ahead and put it back in.


 * I now see that your concern is that a reader might think that Prof. Nathan is Chinese. But the other examples I give show that Wikipedia does not think that this is a problem. The naming policy I give the link to shows that policy clearly. So we don't have to go into anything else -- the policy is clear.


 * Although it's not relevant to the question at hand, it is quite common for somebody to have a name both in English, for example, or French or Manchu, for that matter, and in Chinese as well (I have an English, a Chinese, and a Japanese name myself).


 * Would it help if I also added the translations so as to show how his Chinese name is used? I want you to be satisfied.


 * All the best. ch (talk) 22:20, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

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Young Montalbano edit warring
Pranabnaik, you seem to be edit warring over the first name of Montalbano. If you add something to WP that is contentious it is up to you to cite a reliable source to confirm that it is correct. If the name that you claim is correct is in one of the books then please quote the title and page number so that it can be checked but do not WP:edit war. Martin Hogbin (talk) 18:35, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

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Young Montalbano, again
Hello You seem to have gotten yourself involved in an edit war on this page, which is never a good idea. Just to clarify the issue, Salvo is Montalbano's given name (these people ought to know): I had assumed it was a diminutive of Salvatore, but this (and this) show that it is a given name in itself. And Salvuccio is a pet name, as from a father to a son (see here). As I have seen the programme, and read the books, I can say that (AFAIR) Montalbano's father is the only person who calls him that; and in Ch9 of Paper Moon, Mimi was referring to his and Beba's son, whom they named after Salvo, his godfather. But whether I had seen the series or not, Martin's revert, and his request for you to provide a reliable source to back your claim, was entirely correct, and your reaction, to insist on your opinion without discussion or compromise, was not. It might be worth your trying to put things right with Martin; as we assume good faith the chances are it'll work out, and even if not you will be better off for the attempt. In any event thank you for your many contributions and I hope you have less strife in future. Regards, Swanny18 (talk) 22:56, 21 February 2016 (UTC)


 * No Pran it isn't a threat, it's an observation. There's nothing wrong with apologizing when you are wrong, and people are generally better thought of for doing so. Like someone once said, “we become taller when we bow” (or to put it another way, "it takes a big man to say sorry"). But is entirely up to you what you do about this.
 * As for “bullying”, I only came here to make it clear to you, as you seemed not to know, that you were mistaken in your premise. You have already been told (twice) that what you did about it was wrong; I was merely suggesting a way for you to put things right. Over to you... Swanny18 (talk) 16:55, 22 February 2016 (UTC)