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MediaLens
MediaLens is a liberal news watch website, much like NewsBusters is a conservative news watch website. Niether of these sources would be appropriate under WP:RS. Isaac Pankonin 02:39, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
 * This should be put up for discussion before any deletions are done. I see nothing wrong in MediaLens at all. Thanks. SDas 02:50, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia encourages editors to be BOLD. You are not the OWNER of the page, and I do not need to consult with you before I edit anything.  However, since we have discovered that we disagree, now is the appropriate time for discussion.  Tell me why you think MediaLens should be allowed.  Isaac Pankonin 03:48, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Neither of us owns the article, so this discussion should be carried out in the relevant article's talk pages, so that others can participate too in the discussion. SDas 04:02, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Indonesian...
Hello there - thanks for your good work on the encyclopedia. In future, could you please use the term "Indonesian", rather than "Bahasa", - ie Indonesian is the correct English word for the Indonesian language which in Indonesian is known as "Bahasa Indonesia". The word 'bahasa' simply means 'language' - ie, bahasa inggris = English, and bahasa jerman = German, etc, etc. Any questions please let me know. kind regards --Merbabu 14:24, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks for your comments
Thanks for your patient and well thought out discussion over at the Religiosity and intelligence talk page. As requested, I will not make major deletions without discussing them to the point of consensus and copying them to the talk pages in the next few months. Here is a shortcut to the page as it stands for your future reference. (I have made what I think are non contentious additions today). 

BTW, I'm hoping the article gains more references, rather than loses more in future, and will appreciate your reasoned critique in due course.

WotherspoonSmith (talk) 13:04, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Ramesh Prasad Mohapatra

 * Re: speedy: 1/ You seem to have been around long enough to know that if notability is asserted, speedy is inappropriate. It is not necessary that notability has been shown, the assertion is enough to invalidate speedy. 2/ There is no evidence that Tikoo_s is related to the subject of this article. I should also warn you that "outing" an editor is a blockable offense. As long as Tikoo_s does not reveal his/her identity, you shouldn't do so either. 3/ Even if we assume there is a COI, that is not a reason to delete, just a reason to scrutinize an article for POV. Nothing less, nothing more.
 * If you think this article does not meet N or WP:ACADEMIC, you should propose it for AfD, because I will remove a PROD tag, too. --Crusio (talk) 15:27, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Crusio, I am not outing an editor. That he most likely the son of R. P. Mohapatra was discovered by (as I recall) a user in Dec 2007, (I think Fconaway), based on links provided by tikoo S himself and a simple google search, showing a matching last name Mohapatra (which BTW is very uncommon).
 * Tikoo S has added cites to unknown works of R. P. Mohapatra to many different articles, such as Bhubaneswar, Kharavela, Udayagiri and Khandagiri Caves, Lingaraj Temple, Parsurameswar Temple, Kalinga War.
 * The references are to non-peer reviewed articles, some dating back to the 80s. Frankly it is a headache to meticulously go through the articles, and remove the links.
 * You should know better - you are the editor of a journal yourself, and I am sure also an accomplished academic. Does a few dozen insignificant research papers, and some books published by unknown publishers qualify the person to be an encyclopedic entry? Memorial lectures can be be made through relatively small donations. This is a lot simpler in Orissa than in the USA or France because of PPP.
 * I am an academic myself, and as I am also from Orissa, I can easily see what is going on. Nevertheless, I am not saying that the article on R. P. Mohapatra be necessarily deleted. Can't one at least discuss that option?
 * Lastly, my main concern is removing the irrelevant citations from a dozen or so wikipedia entries. There are 100s of more relevant, more recent, and better scholarly papers that can be cited in each of those articles.
 * Please advise me what to do.
 * Thanks,

SDas (talk) 16:16, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not saying Mohapatra is necessarily notable, I am not an archeologist. Also, the article is far from good and there is still a lot of fluff (much has already been removed, Tikoo_s certainly has been willing to listen to advice). But the article asserts notability, so speedy is inappropriate. With all the sources provided, I feel PROD would not be suitable either. Given how strongly you feel about this, I suggest that you take this to AfD, present your arguments as unemotional as possible, and see where the discussion goes. Deletion therefore is certainly possible and most certainly can be discussed, but Ijust think that the correct place for that is AfD, not speedy or PROD. As for the argument that there are better references of other articles, feel free to add those better references. As for the fact that their are more notable figures without an article, that is not really an argument per OTHERSTUFF. Should AfD determine that he's notable, then you should get going creating areticles for those other people! :-) Hope this clarifies. Happy editing! --Crusio (talk) 10:10, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Student Life at Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar


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 * Unencyclopedic article lacking sources. Should be redirected to Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar

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Articles for deletion nomination of Student Life at Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar
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Student Life at IIT Bhubaneswar
This policy page details why the existence of an article cannot be used to justify keeping a similar article. It may well be that the other article needs attention or eve deletion, but simply hasn't been tended to because of the sheer volume of work for Wikipedia volunteers. I really think your subject would be best served as a section of the main article about the institute, via a redirect. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 04:09, 17 September 2009 (UTC)


 * It has long been established policy that US universities and colleges have separate article devoted to their athletic programs, since they are covered extensively by the news media and are therefore notable. As for smaller organizations and/or events connected to Indian schools that have their own pages: if you feel that any of those are not suitable for separate articles, you may also propose that they be redirected or even deleted. My only advice to you concerning this article is to defend it in the AfD discussion. (I personally will not vote on this matter either way.) Good luck to you. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 04:23, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

NISER, IIT BN, Education in Orissa
You are welcome. I had just updated the XIMB images with the relevant info... Kamal misra (talk) 04:40, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
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No indication of importance
Your article Veer Surendra Sai Medical College has no indication of importance and has no citations. If it really exists, then it should at least have a webpage. Kenfyre (talk) 11:22, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Request for participation in Odia Wikipedia
Hi Mr. Das, with all my heartfelt respect I'd like to request you to spend some of your valuable time for Odia Wikipedia. Odia WP really need a person like you who deeply believes and has taken part in many discussions related to Pali-Odia connections, Charjya pada, Odia cuisine and lot more. Please take part in Odia WP also, this is my request from the whole community.  ସୁଭ ପା Subha Pa Utter2me! 06:52, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Higher education controversy in Orissa
Hi, I found that you have substantially contributed to the article Higher education controversy in Orissa, formerly, Orissa IIT Controversy. I'm extremely convinced by your genuine and explicit attempt to highlight that issue, hence I have decided to help improve the article. Regards, Sourav Mohanty (talk) 05:55, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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