User talk:Sundar/Archive5

Guru-shishya tradition
Could you look over this article and help us validate some of the material presented? many thanks. &asymp; jossi &asymp; 19:03, August 3, 2005 (UTC)

Kashid- quiet beach on the Konkan Belt at 30 kms from Alibaug and 135 kms from Mumbai
Kashid This Indian location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.pradeepsomani \talk \contribs

Tamil Nadu
suggestion: Could you archive this page so that stale contents are not loaded everytime I message you? :)

Ok, Please read this:

On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 15:59:56 +0530,  wrote:

> Dear Sir, > > You can use the contents. > > You may kindly acknowledge the source wherever appropriate. > > Thanks > > Yours sincerely > > Website Administration Team > http://www.tn.gov.in > > >

=Nichalp  «Talk»=  10:42, August 7, 2005 (UTC)

Overflowing
hi, thanks for corrections in the description of image of Powai Lake in 2005 Maharashtra floods – actually the Lake was not trying to overflow, Bhadani was overflowing with wiki-energy (lol). --Bhadani 13:25, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Request
Would you be kind enough to balance the argument in Suttee with an Indian perspective. Also, let me know if you think I am overreacting --Pranathi 05:14, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks much for replying, Sundar. we can't really justify Suttee - I am not (& will not) justifying/defending it (I only want the comment removed). lived in a space that we occupy now. I find that kind of antiseptic.

 if the factual accuracy of the quote is disputed, then it can be removed The factual accuracy is in dispute, but they argue that the accuracy is immaterial. Also it's acknowledged that Napier was not a big player in the sati abolition dynamics, but his comment is kept for it's value as a sound bite. I don't agree. The reason I wanted an Indian perspective was that the 2 others in the dialogue don't acknowledge the rascist connotations of the comment, but I am glad to see that you do.

 take a break from that article I think I'll take your advice. ''I'll stop by .. try to sort out '' Thanks, I look forward to seeing you there. --Pranathi 18:28, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

No, no offense taken. I tend to think that India always was a civilizational entity and had a distinct cultural ethos (much like Europe), regardless of it's political unity. I agree that historical wrongs must not be justified. My POV though, is that India is not defined/defended by her own folk and is at the mercy of a solely western version of her history. Most Indians think of western accounts as the neutral 'outsider' POV, whereas they may also have their own agenda and are seldom NPOV. Wikipedia is one of few places available to discuss & try to correct the imbalance. --Pranathi 07:03, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

BTW, it seems like we are reaching common ground on suttee discussion pages!! --Pranathi 15:14, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

India related aricles
Yes, I am interested in India related articles especially of South India. Now I am reading some of your contributions. Whenever I need your help in understanding some aspects of Indian life, I would trouble you !
 * Apnavana 06:38, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

me
Hi. just saw your post. Didn't notice it as pamri had posted a message after you. I'll reply to you later..., I want to finish the refs. in the eco of India first (don't want to keep people waiting for so many hours) :). =Nichalp   «Talk»=  09:48, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

Mumbai
I'm having a dispute with a user on the definition of 'Mumbai'. (Template Talk:Mumbai infobox). Mumbai is defined by the two districts. This area is called the Mumbai metropolis. A city/metropolis in India is defined by a municipality. He cites the MMRDA website (see the map). [MMRDA is a state govt. initiative, not a municipality].

Unfortunately the term "Mumbai" is not used at all outside the municipal limits as defined on the Mumbai page, and is not considered a part of the city by anyone of us here, or by residents in those area, (New Bombay/Kalyan etc.). =Nichalp  «Talk»=  06:13, August 16, 2005 (UTC)


 * I glanced over the discussion. Will give my inputs once I find some time. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 06:34, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

Image caption
My mistake. The ticket seemed to say BOMBAY CENTRAL. Thanks for correcting the correction. However, you may do well to tone down your comments, such as vandalism etc. and ask for the reason before jumping to conclusions.

It will spare you and others a lot of bandwidth.

Vaigai River and adminship
I don't know much about the aspects of the Vaigai River you were asking about, but the role of the river in Sangam lore sounds interesting; I organized similar information about the Narmada River into a section of that article, which may helpful to you in organizing the information for the Vaigai article. Whatever you know about the Varushanad Hills or the Kambam Valley would be helpful in getting those articles started as well.

Thanks for the offer to nominate me for adminship; I don't think it is something I want to take on right now, but I will let you know if I change my mind.

Best, Tom Radulovich 18:07, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

India audio
hey, thanks a lot for the linkage. i'll try to get the audio file for the Indian article together as soon as i can.

--bikehorn 06:55, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

MMRDA
Forget it! I don't want to waste my energy typing single characters at a time in Hindi. That person... she just can't figure out basic internet terms. No point talking to a thick wall. PS, I've managed to get permission from indianchild.com. It has a vast resource of India-related information. They only ask for a link back to the site and are more than happy to have it under the =Reference= section. I've cleaned up the Anglo-Indian using their info. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  07:33, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

Dowry Law
Thanks for your help Zeimusu | Talk page

copyediting
Care to copyedit: Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport? Should be my next FA. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  15:25, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

Ayyavazhi
Hello Sundar, Iam Vaikunda Raja. You placed in the discussion page of Vaigai that you had not heared about Ayyavazhi. Not only you, none out of the southern districts of Tamil Nadu might have chances to know about Ayyavazhi. There are many reasons for that. Mainly, this is the fact. Vaikundar is generally viewed as a leader of his own caste or as a reformer. Then the organisation (governing bodies) is too bad, not bad worst. The legend Akilattirattu Ammanai was not nowadays respected. I think you are a Tamilian. The legend (Akilattirattu Ammanai) too is in Tamil. Oh! I've gone far away. By the way, have you read the articles on Ayyavazhi? - வைகுண்ட ராஜா

Districts of Uttar Pradesh
My request to User:Hemanshu  User:Nichalp User:Sundar   – please see my comments on the talk page of Districts of Uttar Pradesh and please post your advice/comments/suggestions there. Thank you. --Bhadani 08:18, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * By the way, few days before I had seen your notice about cutting down your wiki-time. Why? --Bhadani 08:19, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * You returned the message about Districts of Uttar Pradesh so fast, thanks. Actually, I saw your message immediately, but did not want to disturb you. And, you really do small things because you know for sure that Small is Beautiful. --Bhadani 12:42, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the compliment. :-) -- Sundar \talk \contribs 12:57, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

Tamil FAs
I notice that UK and Sri Lanka are featured in the ta: version, but no India. :(. I also notice that Tamil Nadu is featured there but not in Interested in correcting these imbalances? :)  =Nichalp   «Talk»=  11:16, August 29, 2005 (UTC)


 * I know, I've been slow extracting the images for the list as I concentrated on nominating the BEST. I've done half the images so far. Good to know about the ta: version, it must me difficult typing in Tamil. Thanks for supporting me in RFB. :) =Nichalp   «Talk»=  09:40, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

Hi
Yes. I'm the same ta:User:Sivakumar. Glad to see that u contribute a lot to en Wikipedia also. Great Work. SivaKumar 10:42, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Award to me
My dear Sundar, I thank you for the award, and accept the same with a sense of humbleness. Actually, l feel happy while doing anything on wikipedia, including writing few words about missing Encyclopedia Britannica articles. The List of missing Encyclopedia Britannica 2004 articles is like a gold mine for me, from where I draw the topics. Real kudos to those who have created the list. --Bhadani 16:33, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Tamil
Uniqueness to the India page. Nice to hear it. Jimbo Wales had hoped this would happen, instead of mere translations.

You can revert him. The 3RR does not apply to the reverts of simple vandalism; and since it is a clear copyvio, no one is going to block you. (PS. Violations of the 3RR occur on the 4th revert, not the 3rd.). I'd suggest you put it up in Admin's noticeboard under 'vandalism in progress", as the anon is coming back with unique IPs. Blocking the whole range might be counterproductive. If he does come back, the page can be protected as a temporary measure. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  10:28, September 3, 2005 (UTC)

First of sorts
I'm trying to undertake a first of sorts. I've just nominated High Courts of India to FLC. I also plan to expand the article and nominate it to FAC status. What do you think? Suggestions required. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  06:09, September 5, 2005 (UTC)


 * Let me get the article through FL status first. Got three votes so far. Spoke to Raul, he said he'd be happy if the list matter was <33%. So we'll have quite a bit of expansion to do. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  09:43, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for your support and long standing help in my recent RFB nomination. I'm now WP newest bureaucrat. :) Regards, =Nichalp   «Talk»=  18:36, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * I didn' know you pop in this late. I'm not working on an Indian article this time, but as a celebration I'm going to pump a lot more FAs soon, starting with Bhutan tomorrow. (User:Nichalp/Bhutan) . South Indian cuisine ... experienced it.... =Nichalp   «Talk»=  19:10, September 6, 2005 (UTC)


 * Yeah, will put it up in a short while, was having a competition with Belarus as to who will FAC first. I lost. Lightning forced me to log-off. Was wondering if you could provide me with a tamil stub for Bhutan. Thanks. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  04:10, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

Bhutan
Just see if Bhutan is OK. I don't like the wording in the =notes= section. Anything else? =Nichalp  «Talk»=  05:49, September 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for taking the time out on the article. I've gone ahead and listed it on FAC. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  06:32, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

Copied from my source: (you can delete it later)

=Nichalp  «Talk»=  06:42, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

telugu wiki
Hi, I work on a shared computer for which I do not have the admin previleges and hence I can't configure my comp to read indic scripts. sorry Gurubrahma 06:19, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!


Thanks for the barnstar!! I moved it to my talk page because I wanted to keep my userpage clean. I hope you don't have any problems with that!--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 ($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|)  15:54, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Tamil map
Hi. Tamil people will be featured soon and I was wondering if I could help in making a nice map. Would you be interested in having one made? I was planning to colour the countries based on the % of Tamil speakers. Let me know, since my map making skills have improved since earlier this year. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  07:06, 16 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Could you break that down for me wrt %Tamil speakers by country? If you can get me %speakers for Indian states, it wuld be more helpful. What about Tamil speakers in Norway, US, UK, UAE etc.? =Nichalp   «Talk»=  09:06, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok have a nice trip going to a FA; and best of luck with the numbers. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  12:27, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Cool. Yeah put it up in the Village Pump news, you can also contact Ral who writes the Signpost. Screenshot images are copyrighted, so you'll have to upload it here under screeenshot and remove it from commons. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  13:14, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I didn't put it up in VP. :( But I'll delete the image from commons if you want. Just inform the uploader first. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  08:08, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Deleted. You may ofcourse want to upload it here. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  09:24, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
I thank you for your support in my successful RfA. I hope I can live up to the expectations of the community. I will surely look forward to you for suggestions, and I shall free  to come to you to have the benefit of your experience. --Bhadani 10:25, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Tamil
Yeah sure, I'll keep an eye on it. You may also see FAC. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  11:34, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Lots of vandalism for the day. I'd to block an anon for putting up inappropriate images. You'll have to do a lot now (100+ changes) to check the recent changes and answer queries on the talk. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  13:32, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Parthasarathi Ayyangar
Is this guy famous ? thanks, Tintin 10:17, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Your edit on the Signpost
Don't worry about it...the Signpost is a bit more structured than the rest of Wikipedia, but as long as your edit doesn't actually disturb the article, it's not a big deal :)  Ral  315   WS  16:16, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Tamil
I'm guessing: This is Bhutan? பூட்டான But why does it read Putan? Is the "B" sound absent in Tamil? Ha! you owe me one for the two day vigil. I'll try and write a brand new Tamil stub for Bhutan, you'll have to do the fixing then. And No, I don't know a single bit of Tamil. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  18:04, 26 September 2005 (UTC)


 * ta:பூட்டான over to you. I'm done. Don't know what I've written. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  09:22, 27 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Why, was it that bad? I did it myself, copy & paste. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  10:01, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * You'd be also pleased to note that all those iw links on the India page is my work. :) =Nichalp   «Talk»=  10:07, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Copyedit request
Sundar, the Ravi Shastri article is currently up for review. Got some feedback about the language not being encyclopaediac. Would you be able to spend a little time copyediting it. Thanks, Tintin 15:28, 29 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I fixed the repetitions of Shastri. Indian English, as you know, comes from habit :-/ As for the titles, which ones would you suggest that we replace ? thanks, Tintin 21:23, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Bhutan
THanks for informing me. I've put in on my watchlist. About that image, well they are Bhutanese women in Tibetan wear. I think it should be readded but with a better caption. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  07:35, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Contact
Myself and mrs will be at Auckland/NZ till about Jan 2006 the bacxk to Chennai. All my relatives are at Bangalore and my wife side relatives are at Madars. My family web site indicated here will give all the deatails. My youngest son and eldest daughter with family, are here, all working. My two daughters are at Madars with family. Rest in my next. Just as a hobby I am on this wiki recently, to see that my old docs and memory are not wasted. Which article of mine u saw? http://dores.freeservers.com

--Dore chakravarty 19:33, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Meta
You could fill this up: Wikipedians by birthday =Nichalp   «Talk»=  06:12, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 06:39, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the appreciation (which I do not deserve still). Did u try my web site? I want suggestions. Made without knowledge of HTML and special software like micromedia, if I am right.

--Dore chakravarty 20:52, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Mathan
Can you please vote on his VfD. After asking my Tamilian friends he seems to an important guy, but I would like your assurance Tintin 22:57, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

no contact
No contact for a long time. I want you to see who are my ancestors as I was born, brought up and educated in Bangalore, in the old Princely state of Mysore.As you are experts in IT I would also prefer your suggestions on my web site. Also created new talk page on Prabhas Patan. Opinion please.

http://dores.freeservers.com

--Dore chakravarty 06:14, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank You
It feels nice to be appreciated by a fellow Wikipedian. Thanx for the barnstar. Hope I got this Thank You message to you in time before your time off until Jan 06. Idleguy 06:57, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks very much. Will not disturb you at present.

--Dore chakravarty 18:34, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

:(
There goes Sundar... :( checking his watchlist daily but edits dropping; there goes Nichalp, also heading towards less active days. End of the long Wikipedian Indian summer?  =Nichalp   «Talk»=  10:44, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Cleanup for Tamil Nadu
Your edits on the Chennai page are great. The article on Tamil Nadu is quite messy. Would appreciate if you could work on that too and probably make it an FA. There are some information in the Tamil Nadu article which could be shifted into the one on Chennai. -- Ram

borrowing images
Thanks for your advice! Tony 06:12, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Sister City Denver
I guess sister-city ties between Chennai and Denver are cultural, but there seem to be some economic ties as well. There were efforts to raise funds in Denver when the Tsunami affected its Sister City. There's a Denver Building (or Denver House probably) somewhere in Chennai. I don't think the information can be placed solely in the Culture section. - Bnitin 20:40, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Happy diwali
Hi, Have a happy and fun diwali. Here's erm..a gift for you:

---Pamri &bull; Talk &bull; [ Reply] 06:57, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Hello Sundar, I am sure you had a nice Diwali. How is life going on? --Bhadani 15:15, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

I thank both of you here for the wishes. Had a nice vacation around Diwali. Will be back soon. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 11:11, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Hi Sundar, Thanks a ton for supporting and voting at my RFA. I now join you as a wikipedia administrator. I hope I can keep your trust and hoping you become active again. Thanks again. --Pamri &bull; Talk &bull; [ Reply] 05:04, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks from ImpuMozhi
Hi Sundar, thank you so much for the welcome message -- very kind of you. Is there a list of newly registered users that I can access somewhere? I am relatively new to Wikipedia and could do with some guidance.

In fact, I am going to impose on you immediately - - Can I ask some advice? I have been editing on Wikipedia for about 5 months, under some three different IP addresses. I can access my past edit records since I know those addresses, but is there any way that I can get access them or credit under the name ImpuMozhi for those edits? I would like to, since I aspire to become an administrator asap. Thanx again for the welcome - - ImpuMozhi

Many thanks
Hi, I am Chandrachoodan. Though I am a long time user of Wikipedia, this is the only time I edited a page. Firstly though, thanks for the welcome note. And I will definitely hang on and help you folks keep the Tamil History / Cholas / Sangam page up to speed. C Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan 10:38, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Surajananda
Can you please look at his AfD. Google has many hits for a Guru Surajananda but I have never heard his name. Tintin 14:41, 11 November 2005 (UTC)