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Notabily Michalis Zampelas
Michalis Zampelas He was the mayor of Nicosia, I have yet to find a mayor of a capital who is not on wikipedia. I am surprised you deleted this without discussion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Polysophia (talk • contribs) 20:07, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Re: 131.215.220.112
I use this to check for TOR, and it was returning positive yesterday... I also didn't realize that this affects every CalTech student as I checked and they own the whole /16. Thanks for lifting the block when I was away.

I'm nearly illiterate in Hindi by the way. :( east. 718 at 20:21, 11/16/2007

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Advice (for Harish)
Hey there! I'm just a random editor who's seeking advice. I was curious to know if it's fine to quote from the same online article, and to reference the same article multiple times (due to the quotes in the references). To maybe help explain what I'm doing, I'm currently working on the article Akshardham (Delhi) in my sandbox thing (as to be able to work on cleaning up the article in peace, as such), and if you look at the article in my sandbox, you'll notice I have a lot of quotations going on in the 'References' section. Many of the references are from the same article, but it's fairly huge... so I was curious to know if it's fine, really.

Also, if you have time, would you be willing to briefly go over the work I've done to the article, everything that's referenced is the work I've done (even on the official 'Akshardham' article). The rest I'm still working on, so a brief thought of my direction would be cool. By the way, I picked you randomly from one of the raandom Indian wikiprojects, seeing you to be an Admin. Sorry if it's a problem, bro. I just wanna make sure I'm heading the right way for a REALLY GOOD article (Featured, if one day possible). I appreciate any help giveable, and thanks for at least reading.

P.S. - I see where you wrote that you mention you prefer to keep convo's without breaking, so if you inform me of a reply, it'd be really nice if you dropped the link in my talk page, for Archive purposes... please! :) -- Harish - 19:59, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Western Chalukya architecture
Thanks for the support.Dineshkannambadi (talk) 13:59, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Boundless Planet Deletion
Can you explain your deletion of the Released MMORTS title Boundless Planet's entry and retention of the Mankind, Time of Defiance, Ballerium, Dreamlords, and other titles? Seems that this game keeps getting deleted with no explanation by folk with no idea or clue about MMORTS games. Boundless Planet is a genre defining game and one of the only ones to have every boxed ticked. Come to www.mmortsgamers.com or www.mmorts.com if you want to debate this as you need to check your facts. Soon we will be doing an article on the wiki entry and featuring each member who has edited it and hindered our genre's development and coverage. Feel free to engage me over this beforehand to get an explantion in.

12 jan 2008 - Stoneface1970 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stoneface1970 (talk • contribs) 00:17, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

ArbCom decision on User: Dbachmann
Well, well! The ArbCom may be of some use after all ;) (though I keep in mind that four arbiters voted to ban me for nothing and that Bachmann got off without any sanctions whatsoever -- just a reprimand and a "reminder," like he'd somehow -- oops -- "forgotten" he's supposed to behave). I never did find the patience to focus on the prosecution of User: Moreschi for his actions, or all the proposed remedies, but perhaps he and Dbachmann will both find themselves a little chastened by this recent decision. It was about time someone did something to rein in these rogue admins who think they can get away with anything.  Well done -- all around. :)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deeceevoice (talk • contribs) 20:49, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Oops. Yeah, I done did dat. deeceevoice (talk) 22:30, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

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User:Soumen_thakur
Deleted User:Soumen_thakur Sir, Today it was very unfortunate to see that you have deleted my userpage (User:Soumen_thakur) mentioning the reasons: self-gratification, vanity, advert. (Vide deletion log &quot;13:00, 19 September 2007 Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington (Talk | contribs) deleted &quot;User:Soumen thakur&quot; &#8206; (self-gratification, vanity, advert)&quot; However, I had created said user page clearly following the guideline of wikipedia i.e. how to create a user page and I would like to mention a paragraph from the said guideline as quoted below, &quot;.... Some people add information about themselves as well, possibly including contact information (email, instant messaging, etc), a photograph, their real name, their location, information about their areas of expertise and interest, likes and dislikes, homepages, and so forth..... &quot; Therefore, if one mindfully sees the content of the said page (deleted), it will clearly reflect that I have included more of my bio-data related information and about myself on that page but now it becomes confusing that you have deleted the page on the grounds viz. self-gratification, vanity, advert!?

As far as my knowledge goes I do understand that 'self-gratification' means, 'the act of satisfying ones own desires and giving oneself (himself) pleasure' BUT it is not understood how one can even term my &quot;personal information&quot; as a self-gratification, instead of treating the same more like a bio-data! Shall I, from now on, treat a 'bio-data' more as a self-gratifying content instead of considering the same as &quot;personal information&quot;? You have also included the term &quot;vanity&quot; as one of the reasons for the concerned deletion while, according to my understandings, vanity means, &quot;excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to others&quot;! BUT I do not really understand that how a bio-data like personal information can be interpreted as my excessive belief in my own abilities!? This reason shown by you for the concerned deletion is very confusing to me but it does really enable me to realize what should have been the proper (ideal) page content, can you please throw some light on it?

And finally, the last reason for deletion stated by you is 'advert' BUT it would be my pleasure to inform you that necessarily an 'advert' is a public promotion of some product or service (generally for commercial purpose) OR a form of communication whose purpose is to inform potential customers about products and services, here please note the term 'customers'. And a customer is generally a buyer. BUT can you please explain me how the deleted user page was displaying my service for commercial purpose. Here, I would like to add that I (rather my business) have more than enough publicity in the print media here in national market and I don't think that placing an advert in the wikipedia user page would be of any commercial gain to me as the effectiveness of any intended advert here is almost nil (if not negative value)!

Therefore, considering the stated facts and circumstances, I can not really accept that said deletion was at all the act of an efficient administrator, however its my personal interpretation about said act and in this regard, I may not agree with your views.

So can you please enlighten me explaining what I should have included in my user page so that one would consider the same as a proper or near ideal content? What was wrong with the deleted page, any explanation?

Thanks regards, - SNT (talk) 00:44, 8 February 2008 (UTC)


 * The page was deleted because your account has very few contributions to the encyclopedia and most of them were on your userpage itself. There are a lot of people who use Wikipedia as a tool for self-promotion, and it reasonably appears that, at that time, you were using the page for the same reason. It also appears that you turned up on Wikipedia after you realised that Google had stopped turning up your name on search. Wikipedia is not for self-promotion. — Nearly Headless Nick   {C}  11:35, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Attack on another editor
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Admin Coaching Re-confirmation
Hello, previously you expressed interest in participating in the Admin coaching project. We are currently conducting a reconfirmation drive to give coaches the opportunity to update their information and capacity to participate in the project. Please visit Admin coaching/Status to update your status. Also, please remember to update your capacity (5th table variable) in the form of a fraction (eg. 2/3 means you are currently coaching 2 students, and could accept 1 more student). Thank you.  MBisanz  talk 09:13, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I am sorry, I cannot renew. — Nearly Headless Nick   {C}  15:30, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Yatra

 * As you seem to know plenty about Hinduism, it would be useful if you could add any useful information to the page Yatra, which ia currently under threat of being AfD deleted for lask of content. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:46, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for contacting me, Mr. Appleyard. However, I regret to tell you that it would be difficult for me to contribute regularly to the encyclopedia for sometime, at least, as I am busy with my academic life at the University. Best wishes, — Nearly Headless Nick   {C}  15:13, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Adoption
Hello. My name is Stephen Dixon(but you can call me Drance). I am curently looking to be REadopted seeing as how my former adopter has gone into hideing. I was wondering if you would be willing to take the job. Contact me at my talk page.

Drance  I know 7


 * Dear Sir Drance, thank you for your message. However, I regret to inform you that I would not be in a position to coach you for adminship, since I have been out of touch with Wikipedia since a considerable time now. The encyclopedia and the community evolves continually, and it is essential that when I come back, I am able to accustom myself to the environment. There are, obviously, better suited coaches around – like User:Riana for instance. Best wishes, — Nearly Headless Nick   {C}  15:17, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Adminship
-- Nadir D Steinmetz 19:04, 4 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Gah. Someone must have screwed with the records. The date is 4th August 2006. But, thanks anyway. :*) — Nearly Headless Nick   {C}  07:49, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Films coordinator elections
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Board elections 2008
Hi Nick,

The 2008 board elections will be in a few months (1 to 14 June) and the election committee is looking for people willing to translate the election pages into various languages. I noticed that you seem to be interested in Meta translations en>hi. Would you be available and interested in translating the board election pages into Hindi? I'm looking for at least two people per language so no one translator feels overwhelmed, so they can mutually proofread each other and help each other out as needed, but if only one is available that is fine as well. (To get an idea of how much work is involved you can take a look at last year's election pages.)

If you are not available or are not interested, it would be nice if you could point me in the direction of users who might be interested in helping, or show them this message.

Please contact me on my Meta page (meta:User talk:Arria Belli), where you can write to me in either English, French, Spanish or Italian, whichever you feel most comfortable with.

Happy editing,

Arria Belli &#124; parlami 15:32, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

 * Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and  --Bhadani (talk) 17:19, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Any comments?
"... the deleted article nominated by me... was against WP:RS and WP:CRUFT. If you had known the policy of Jimmy Wales that “Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information, you wouldn’t contrib this kind of crufts. Again my advice to you is take off some time and read WP:AGF and WP:5P. Hope it helps. --Tomb of the Unknown Warrior tomb 04:51, 27 March 2008 (UTC)" I would like to know if this is why you deleted the article, because the way I read it, it was because the "title of the article is POV ", and the material looked like commentary. But if the real reason is that religious harmony in India is "misleading or false information", then please tell me so that I can take rest.--talk 07:44, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * As arguments progresses, more opinions would be formed & clear consensus will also be shaped. Sometimes, the nominator has his own points to delete and others have their own points to delete. Check my reason for nomination & others comments (including the closing admin).        -- Tomb of the Unknown Warrior    tomb   08:08, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Let the closing admin speak. --talk 07:44, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * There is no false commentary. The article was an opinion piece, and cannot be objectively made independent from articles like Religion in India. Best wishes and apologies for the delayed response. — Nearly Headless Nick   {C}  18:17, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Question
May I ask you why haven't you replied until yet? As an admin it is your responsibility, don't you think?--talk 14:15, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

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Requesting Suggestions
I looked you up from Wikiproject India, in which I have enlisted myself. I have been spending some time bringing this article up to par and I have done a lot of work today. Would you take a look into the article and suggest the ways in which it can be expanded (I have a list of mathematical, medical, and engineering related innovations but am really lacking in the machines, astronomy, physics etc. fields) and made better? I want to bring it up to the level of this article and then work on the Science and technology in ancient India (rename it 'History of science and technology in India') article and then perhaps add a section like this one in the India article. Thanks in advance, South Block (talk) 09:10, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey
Hey Anirudh, I hope you and your family are ok. Take care,  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 03:28, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
 * We are good. Thanks for asking. :) — Nearly Headless Nick   {C}  17:53, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

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WikiProject Films roll call and coordinator elections
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WikiProject Films coordinator elections - voting now open!
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Legal process
Are you thinking of creating a new article or section here: User:Sir_Nicholas_de_Mimsy-Porpington/Desk? Bearian (talk) 20:34, 30 September 2008 (UTC) Perhaps it should be part of service of process? Bearian (talk) 20:35, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

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EV on US Pres. Election article
It's not on pollster, but CNN has called NE-2 for McCain. Would you be able to change the picture to show that NE-2 is still undecided?--The Bruce (talk) 17:30, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Request for help on solving deadlock
Hi, I and one of my fellow editors are facing a deadlock on a issue of bias on a controversial topic Operation Blue Star, the summary of dispute can be found at, please let us know your views so that we can solve the dispute amicably. Thanks LegalEagle (talk) 01:51, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Restore Chutiya kingdom
Kindly restore Chutiya kingdom. For reference, look at Gait, Edward, 1906 "History of Assam". 
 * Can you please produce substantial references? The link which you provided here does not mention "Chutiya kingdom" anywhere.  I am referring to multiple, independent and reliable references.  Thank you. —  Nearly Headless Nick   {C}  16:19, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * "History of Assam" by Edward Gait is a standard reference, and "Chutiya kingdom" appears highlighted in the link I have provided. I quote from the text here, with the mention underlined :
 * The founder of the Chutiya kingdom is said to have been a chief named Bir Pal...
 * The Chutiya kingdom has been extensively chronicled in the Buranjis of the Ahom kingdom, which are some of the primary sources of the kingdom. Amalendu Guha mentions  the expansion of the Ahom kingdom at the cost of the Chutiya kingdom as follows (Social Scientist, Vol. 12, No. 6 (Jun., 1984), pp. 70-77, ):
 * Their almost simultaneous northward expansion towards the Hinduized Chutiya Kingdom had also the same effect.
 * An alternative spelling is "Chutia". Sometimes, people who belong to the ethnic community associated with the historical kingdom use the name as a last name.  For example here. Note the name and address of the person "Joyonti Chutia" in the link.  A Chutia community exists in Assam, though it has largely assimilated in the greater Assamese community.  Much of Assam's cultural artefacts and political history are sourced from this historical kingdom and the people associated with it.
 * Could you please indicate what your references are that claim this article is a hoax?
 * Chaipau (talk) 11:54, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yep, you are right. I checked the references over JSTOR and restored the article.  However, the first reference you linked me to never mentioned "Chutiya Kingdom" anywhere.  I regret any inconvenience caused. —  Nearly Headless Nick   {C}  14:43, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Chaipau (talk) 15:15, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

re: Shalom!
Hell yeah, duder! :-D Tomertalk  06:51, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

 * And a happy Christmas to you! :) — Nearly Headless Nick   {C}  10:12, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

How to use this top Indian Wikipedian list for effective collaboration
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Locksport Reinstatement?
Any chance of reinstating the Locksport article(if that is even possible after such a long time...though I can probably dig up the text) and merge the TOOOL page? Presumably that is a far more valuable use of space, having the actual community discussed rather than one segment of it. Redirection of traffic from the Locksport page to another that is about a specific group of the locksporting community seems rather odd as well as having a ref to participating in lockpicking for the "hack value" but no actual info about the community...(also posting this on NawlinWiki's talk, not sure where is best.) Arachnowhat (talk) 10:39, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I decided to go ahead and recreate the page as I feel I have addressed the majority of concerns brought up and it has a legitimate place... Feel free to look it over and please let me know if it needs more cites or if things should be changed. Arachnowhat (talk) 14:25, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

First Edit Day
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BSB
Seri Begawan was named after the Sultan's late father Sir Omar Ali Saifuddien on October 5, 1970, its original name being Bandar Brunei. Begawan is a name given to Bruneian monarchs who have abdicated, originally coming from the Sanskrit word for "god"). Bandar, comes from Persian بندر and means "port" or "haven" (bandar means "town" in Malay). -- Y not? 14:16, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Admin Coaching
I saw that you were listed in the Coaches for reconfirmation section of the admin coaching status page. Could you please update your status, and if you are still interested, drop me a note on my talk page? Thanks,  Genius  101 Guestbook  22:23, 25 April 2009 (UTC) This message was delivered semi-automatically by AutoWikiBrowser.

IRC
Hi, could you let me know what your IRC nick is so I can keep the access list for IRC/wikimedia-admin up to date? Thanks so much &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; @en.wb 18:57, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
 * It's usually Andy123, but I'm not sure if it's still registered with freenode. — Nearly Headless Nick   {C}  13:50, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you. (it is still a valid nick) &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; @en.wb 02:09, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

I need your mentorship
Hi,

I need help from an experienced Wikipedian, and I saw your name over at WP:ADOPT.

I need your advice concerning WP:WPOOK, which I've been coordinating. The set of pages the project concerns is listed at Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge and WikiProject Outline of knowledge, and has grown to about 500 articles in the encyclopedia.

The goals of the WikiProject are:


 * 1) Increase awareness of readers of the existence of the outlines on Wikipedia
 * 2) Complete the existing outlines
 * 3) Create an outline for every subject that is extensive enough to benefit from having an outline (core subjects and major or extensive fields).  There are thousands of these.
 * 4) Recruit as many editors to work on these as possible (we need thousands of editors working on these)
 * 5) Surpass portals in number by the end of the summer, and leave them in the dust by the end of the year
 * 6) Get the major outline subject areas displayed on the Main Page (in place of or in addition to the portal links at the top of the page)
 * 7) Increase the OOK to higher quality than Britannica's Outline of Knowledge (published in its Propaedia volume).

I'm very interested in your comments on how to achieve these goals.

Also I'm interested in every possible way of reaching readers and editors of Wikipedia. How can I get the most eyes and typing fingers on Wikipedia's outlines? Contacting editors directly without a reason relevant to them is spam, which I'd like to avoid. There are 75,000 regular editors on Wikipedia, and I want to contact all of them. But how do I do it?

Directly or indirectly, I don't care which, piecemeal or all-at-once, all methods are fine with me. But I've got to find ways. I need your advice.

I would also like to know how to find or attract editors to create new outlines. And I need advice on finding editors to help write the new outline article mentioned above (it needs to be fleshed out, completely referenced, and brought to featured article status).

Please recommend anyone you know who might be interested in sinking their teeth into a project like this. Or ways to reach groups of editors. Or ways to reach all editors. I welcome any and all recommendations and advice you might have.

And any thoughts on attaining the WikiProject goals above.

I look forward to your reply on my talk page.

The Transhumanist 04:03, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

WP Bangalore Meetup
Following the Mailing list discussion that we had, here's a call for an informal meetup of Bangalore Wikipedians soon. Please see Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore3 --  Tinu  Cherian  - 10:26, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 1 – June 2009
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'Archiving' at User talk:Jayjg
Was the manual 'archiving' at User talk:Jayjg legitimate? It has the effect of hiding the adverse Arbcom decision relevant to that editor. Note that the "Well-Wishes" section was not archived, and that the editor doing the 'archiving' had contributed to the "Well-Wishes" section. --John Nagle (talk) 02:24, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
 * There is no question of the "legality" of the edit. The user has seen the message and that is the point of it. Also, given the situation, it wasn't appropriate of you to edit Jayjg's page.  —  Nearly Headless Nick   {C}  14:03, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Motto of the Day
<p style="font-weight:bolder;">Hi there, Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington! Thought you might be interested in Motto of the Day, a collaborative (and totally voluntary) effort by a group of Wikipedians to create original, inspirational mottos. Have a good motto idea? Share it here, comment on some of the mottos there or just pass this message onto your friends.

MOTD Needs Your Help!

Delivered By –p joe f (talk • contribs) 08:31, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Request on Commons
Hi,

I left you a request on your Commons talk page. Regards, Bibi Saint-Pol (parler) 10:44, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Gosh
I don't think I've seen your name since my RfB. How the devil are you? --Dweller (talk) 16:08, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi, I have been good, are you on facebook or something? :) —  Nearly Headless Nick   {C}  21:25, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

gadget activation on hindi wiki
hullo,

I'm a frequent user of hindi wikipedia. We would like to activate "hotcat" gadget, as well as, other gadgets available on commons on hindi wiki. Details of the gadget is available at HotCat,

gadgets list contains list of other gadgets too. It would be great if you can enable these gadgets on hindi wiki. It seems no gadget is active on hindi wiki as of now, as gadget option does not come in the user preferences tab.

-- sbharti (Talk) 16:20, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

(i'm on hindi wiki at hi:सदस्य_वार्ता:Sbharti)
 * Thank you for the suggestion, I will connect you with some of the developers with Wikimedia. Please send me an email : anirudhsbh [at] gmail [dot] com.

Happy Birthday

 * Thank you. :) — Nearly Headless Nick   {C}  17:44, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (File:Parikrama Logo.png)
 Thanks for uploading File:Parikrama Logo.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Aspects (talk) 19:33, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the notice. I have deleted the image. —  Nearly Headless Nick   {C}  08:47, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day
Vatsan34 (talk) 16:35, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot, Vatsan! — Nearly Headless Nick   {C}  13:07, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Admin Coaching: Reconfirmation
I was looking through the coaches at Admin_coaching/Status and saw that there are a lot under "reconfirmation".

Could you let me know if you are still interesting in being involved with Admin Coaching, or if you would prefer to have your name removed from the "reconfirmation" list. If you want to be involved, could you please move your entry from "Reconfirmation" to "Active" and indicate how many students you would be willing to have (obviously, if you are actively coaching at the moment, then please indicate this!)

If I do not hear from you within a week, I will assume that you would like to have your name removed from the list of coaches.

Regards,


 * Thanks for the message, Phantomsteve. I'm sorry but I will be unable to contribute to the Admin coaching project. — Nearly Headless Nick   {C}  07:57, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know, I'll remove the entry. Regards, --  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 08:43, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Hindi Wiki
Hello, I am just asking that can you translate the pages WP:WARN and WP:BS into Hindi wiki. I could also help but don't know how to type in Hindi and some incorrect spellings. --Extra999 (Contact me +  contribs) 03:23, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 1 - (June 2010)
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Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai2
As discussed in the Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai1 in September,2010, Wikipedians in Mumbai & Suburbs will meet up at least once every month, a Meet up Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai2 has been organised on 10th Oct., 2010 to move the same further. Would you be available to meet with us on Sun 10th Oct.? Could u send me the contact list of attendees of Mumbai Meet up-1 so that the same could be conveyed to them? My Email Id : kundanamitabh [at] gmail [dot] com. Regards. Angpradesh (talk) 04:02, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, sir, will do that ASAP. — Nearly Headless Nick   {C}  15:40, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

FAR notice Ahmedabad
nominated Ahmedabad for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. -- Cirt (talk) 04:53, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

The Thing RFA
I didn't know you were still active, welcome back Secret account 23:25, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I've been doing anon edits for a while now. —  Nearly Headless Nick   {C}  15:11, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

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