User talk:Ravichandar84/Archive 1

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2007 World Cup Matches
Hello Ravichandar84,

Just a courtesy note to let you know that I've nominated your article 2007 World Cup Matches for deletion. You can see my reasons and comment yourself at Articles for deletion/2007 World Cup Matches.

Yours,

Stephen Turner (Talk) 21:53, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Please see an alternate suggestion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Cricket Tintin

Subpages
Your sourced userboxes need to be put in subpages for WP:StS. I will so some and if I do not finish follow my led. NEVER EVER again copy the source code of a userbox and put it on your userpage. You put your userpage in a number of user template categories that it does not belong in. I am now going to work on the second set of your userboxes. -PatPeter 04:19, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * User:Ravichandar84/Male
 * User:Ravichandar84/Crush
 * User:Ravichandar84/Veggie
 * User:Ravichandar84/History
 * User:Ravichandar84/Persia
 * User:Ravichandar84/Sassan
 * User:Ravichandar84/zoo
 * User:Ravichandar84/soul
 * User:Ravichandar84/ignostic
 * User:Ravichandar84/earth
 * User:Ravichandar84/atheist
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 * User:Ravichandar84/racial
 * User:Ravichandar84/janata
 * User:Ravichandar84/geography
 * User:Ravichandar84/tamil
 * User:Ravichandar84/en-4
 * User:Ravichandar84/writing
 * User:Ravichandar84/maps
 * User:Ravichandar84/persian
 * User:Ravichandar84/family
 * User:Ravichandar84/england
 * User:Ravichandar84/book

You put your userpage back in incorrect categories! Now I have to start a third run of subpages.
 * User:Ravichandar84/name
 * User:Ravichandar84/Iran
 * User:Ravichandar84/Esperanto

Here, I will show you how many bad categories you put your userpage in:
 * Category:Gender user templates
 * Category:History user templates
 * Category:History user templates again
 * Category:History user templates again
 * Category:Political parties user templates
 * Category:Interest user templates
 * Category:Interest user templates again
 * Category:Interest user templates again
 * Category:Interest user templates again
 * Category:Book fan user templates

RE:
Oh yeah I cut out the tables didn't I? Oops, well you see I was going to fix that after I was done but then I forgot...anyway good thing you caught that. -PatPeter 15:10, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Your reply on my talk page
When you reply to me on my talk page please put it in the right category. I finished fixing your userpage so whatever you do do not revert it. -PatPeter 15:52, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Well it has been an honor working with you and I hope to meet again soon. -PatPeter 16:10, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on Maratha Kings of Thanjavur, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template   to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. -  Irides centi   (talk to me!)  10:47, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

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Cricket world cup records
Can I ask why you reviewed such an old version? There have been lots of edits since then and it would have been good to have seen a more up to date review. Thanks anyway. Chrislintott 16:39, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Ah, okay. I was confused because of your review which links to a revision from January. Feel free to make the changes you suggest, I'll try and get round to it this week. Chrislintott 08:22, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Indian collaboration of the week news
As mentioned in Wikiproject India newsletter of March 2007, the weekly collaboration of the Indian wikiproject has fallen from its once high feats. This message is to request the users to visit the collaboration page and help rejuvenate it.

The present collaboration of the week is Religion in India. Please go through the talk page of the article to see the proposed changes in the article. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 18:38, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Happy to help
Hello. My field of profession is Achaemenid history. However, I am very familier with the Pathian and Sassanid dynasties. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Maziy300 (talk • contribs) 18:59, 13 May 2007 (UTC).

Image:Natgeologo.gif
Hello Ravichandar84, an automated process has found an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, such as fair use. The image (Image:Natgeologo.gif) was found at the following location: User:Ravichandar84. This image or media will be removed per statement number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media will be replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg, so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. The image that was replaced will not be automatically deleted, but it could be deleted at a later date. Articles using the same image should not be affected by my edits. I ask you to please not readd the image to your userpage and could consider finding a replacement image licensed under either the Creative Commons or GFDL license or released to the public domain. Thanks for your attention and cooperation. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 01:48, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

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Hello Ravichandar84, an automated process has found an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, such as fair use. The image (Image:Natgeologo.gif) was found at the following location: User:Ravichandar84/geography. This image or media will be removed per statement number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media will be replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg, so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. The image that was replaced will not be automatically deleted, but it could be deleted at a later date. Articles using the same image should not be affected by my edits. I ask you to please not readd the image to your userpage and could consider finding a replacement image licensed under either the Creative Commons or GFDL license or released to the public domain. Thanks for your attention and cooperation. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 01:48, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Notability of Malayattoor Ramakrishnan
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Iyers
Hello Ravi,

Please see the reply to your message in my page and discussions under Iyer. Thanks.

--Sankarrukku 06:47, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Chola Bell
The material you added to History of New Zealand is far too detailed for a very minor incident in the history, even though it appears to have very interesting implications. I realise you were told earlier that the material should be sourced, and you did source it, but it still isn't acceptable in that article. There are very many theories of early exploration of New Zealand, which are generally not well-regarded by historians. I think the existing paragraph at History_of_New_Zealand is adequate for the article.

You are probably feeling that you are getting a run-around here, but that isn't my intention. I suggest you create a new article, Chola Bell. With the first two references you gave, this article will probably survive, so long as you don't speculate on the origins of the bell. I think the third reference is a liability, since it covers so many unlikely events. The article can be categorised in Category:History of New Zealand, and would be a valuable link in a yet to be written article on Alternative theories of New Zealand history.- gadfium 05:58, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Where did you get the photo of the bell from? It appears to be identical to the photo on the Te Ara website. Unless you own the copyright to the photo, you cannot release it under the Creative Commons (or any other) licence.- gadfium 19:10, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Hello. I agree with Gadfium here. I have marked the image as a copyvio pending some clarification from you as to why you have the copyright status of the image. I have also moved Chola Bell to Tamil Bell as that seems to be the name in the two reliable sources you gave in the article. Kahuroa 19:38, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

An Invite
Very interesting article on Tamil Bell. Wiki Raja 06:51, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

WP:3RR
You've probably already violated WP:3RR. I urge you to stop reverting against consensus on Tamil bell. Thanks. Sarvagnya 08:24, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

List of Iyers
Glad to see you insertings refs. This article could do with a good cleanup and future monitoring. Tyrenius 05:16, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Indology
please stop adding people to the "list of Indologists" who do not in fact publish academically. Especially the addition of N. S. Rajaram is a bit of a joke, since this chap is in fact a self-proclaimed "anti-Indologist". The Voice of India crowd you keep adding is a topic of Indian politics (communalist propaganda), which is not the same as (academic) Indology. --dab (𒁳) 09:48, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanjavur temple picture
I just saw your note at Talk:Brihadeeswarar Temple and saw the picture Image:ThanjavurBigTemple.jpg you uploaded. It is indeed a nice photograph! However note that for a picture to become "featured picture" it needs to satisfy the Featured picture criteria, one of which is that it be high resolution (typically at least 1MP). Since you have taken the snap yourself, could you upload the largest size that you have ? Regards. Abecedare 03:33, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Re: Iyer
You're welcome, but it's my job here. :)

I'm not sure about what the article had to obtain a B, but it is possible that standards have increased since then, or that it was graded incorrectly, or that there is more criteria needs to be satisfied before moving up. I would advise against trying for FA or GA yet and to keep working on it (keep in mind, you still may nominate your articles in either category if you wish, despite the likelihood of being unsuccessful)

Upon reaching B-stage, unless the article is excellent and practically perfect (and in special circumstances where the article is unable to gain GA or FA status), all I can give is an A-class article. After reaching B grade, the assessment department's role is to provide recommendations to editors of the article on how to proceed. It is up to the editors to follow these recommendations, or to totally ignore them and let the article remain at the same level.

I will look at the comments when I have a chance, but I can forewarn now, the references are no where near enough for this article to advance beyond this level. Still, I am sure once you have made the necessary changes, it may come closer to being ready for nomination for a higher grade. Best of luck - keep a look on the comments page as I will respond when I get a chance sometime soon. Ncmvocalist 13:20, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

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HI RAVI
THIS is snvurdak servai. can u give me the source for caste census of thevars. i think you are aware of the fact that thevars constitute highest population % in tn( >1.5crore(i.e >15% of tamil nadu). well, i would just like to emphasize the fact that caste wise census are not accessible for ordinary people .caste wise census are taken every 10 years in tn but it is kept highly confidential. do u ve any authentic info about thevar population.if possible give me the source. SNVURDAK SERVAI 14:43, 17 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I dont know if it is authentic. Someone asked me to search for the info and add it and I obtained the info from joshua project site. If yopu have more authentic sources, you are free to go ahead and modify the stats :=) REGARDS. - Ravichandar84 15:34, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

History of New Zealand
I thought we'd been over this. Please don't add theories with little evidence to this article. Wikipedia is not a place to promote nonsense.- gadfium 05:40, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi bro
Hi bro. why quitting orkut..? Dont. Can you please help me in protecting the Mukkulathor and Muthuramalinga thevar page. I applied for page protection since it is been vandalized. But the request was declined. So can you help for that.--Alagesandas 03:24, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Category:Iyers
Hi, we don't like the categorize people by jati on Wikipedia. There are thousands of jatis, and each one shouldnt need a category. We had a discussion on this Wikipedia_talk:Notice_board_for_India-related_topics/Archive_18 which stated that we would rather have the articles on sourced lists than categories. There's no problem noting famous people are Iyers in the articles or on List of Iyers, but the category thing is unwieldy. Baka man  18:27, 4 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Religion really has nothing to do with this. Brahmin/Kshatriya are varnas not jatis. Also, the List of Iyers is a better place to keep all the people in one spot. Truly, only Iyer people like us will ever care who is an Iyer. Its also unwieldy, seeing as there are thousands of castes, and thousands of caste partisans ready to claim people that don't belong to their caste as their caste brethren. For Iyers, its not really a problem, but there was a whole big fight that occurred on the Khatri, Jat and Rajput pages, and it soured the whole issue. I see you have sourced the list of Iyers, and it is probably the most legitimate list out there thanks to your efforts. Lists > Categories in this context. Baka man  17:30, 5 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I have no motives, except eradicating casteism from articles. I've emptied numerous caste categories. As for my actions, they have been backed up by the discussion at the Indian Notice Board in which every user agreed that people should not be categorized by caste. Baka man  17:40, 5 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Religion is something worldwide. It has really no parallel to caste. Caste categories really serve three purposes.

Religion may/not serve these purposes too, but wikipedia already had a set guideline when these things were created for religion. The "proper channel" is emptying, then speedy deleting, seeing as there was a consensus to nip casteism in the bud. Caste lists are probably only looked at by people of a certain caste, so nobody would have a problem with List of Iyers, List of Nairs, etc. If I had an ulterior motive, it would be to try and unify all the various Hindus on wikipedia, instead of dividing them by caste. Baka man  17:52, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) To glorify their own caste ("Look at how many Saraswats are in xxx industry!")
 * 2) To attack other castes ("Moninder Singh Pandher was a Pandher, ergo all Jats are barbaric")
 * 3) To claim famous people for their caste (Aishwariya Rai is a Bunt)
 * Refer this. Category should be used only if particular person self identifies with that classification and his notability stems from the same.(For example, you can classify person as Iyer if he belongs to the leader of Brahmins association or if he fights for the rights of brahmins). This is what I perceive from the spirit of that sentence though sentence quotes only regarding religious groups and sexual orientation.  I oppose your move to classify people by caste. --Indianstar 01:47, 10 November 2007 (UTC)


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