Wikipedia:Notice board for India-related topics/Category Adoptions

Adopt a category
You might want to "adopt" an India category!

India related articles are grouped into a hierarchy of categories that culminate in the Category: India. Wikipedia articles need to be categorized, though not all articles are. Often article categorization is not done consistently and this poses a huge challenge to the structure of wikipedia.

You could adopt a root level India category. This would involve structuring category content (categorization), identifying required articles, encouraging related content articles to be structured uniformly, comparing category structures of other countries (to get new ideas and to benchmark), collaborating with wikiprojects with related content - essentially adopting a category involves championing the category.

Of course, everyone else can still edit / contribute to an adopted category, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and structure the content and manage things better.

Current category adoptions
The following are the categories under Category:India that are open for adoptions. Please list your name (and optionally a IM id) for the category you would like to adopt.


 * Category:Aircraft of India - User:Suyogaerospace 27 Jan 2008 (Suyogaerospace@yahoo.co.in)
 * Category:Ayurveda
 * Category:Bollywood
 * Category:Cities and towns in India - Balajiviswanathan 09:38, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Category:Companies of India - PremB
 * Category:Districts of India - PhnomPencil (talk) 10:13, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Category:Culture of India - (Indian Music - Arunram)
 * Category:Geography of India
 * Category:Government of India- Ashvidia
 * Category:Hindu temples - Balajiviswanathan 09:38, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Category:History of India-Shyamsunder
 * Category:History of India-Suman De
 * Category:Indian honours system
 * Category:India stubs - Irfanali
 * Category:Indian Antarctic Programme - User:Suyogaerospace 27 Jan 2008 (Suyogaerospace@yahoo.co.in)
 * Category:Indology
 * Category:Law enforcement in India - User:Suyogaerospace 27 Jan 2008 (Suyogaerospace@yahoo.co.in) - User:Tarun2k
 * Category:Indian media
 * Category:Military of India - Effer
 * Category:National parks of India - Amartyabag
 * Category:Indian people - Arundhati Bakshi
 * Category:Politics of India
 * Category:Regions of India
 * Category:Social groups of India-mahensingha
 * Category:States and territories of India
 * Category:Indian space program - Scourgeofgod
 * Category:Tourism in India - Balajiviswanathan 09:38, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Category:Universities and colleges in India - Sifur
 * Category:World Heritage Sites in India - Arunram (IM: Yahoo- arunramwiki)
 * Category:Cities and towns in Andhra Pradesh
 * Category:Cities and towns in West Bengal - - Dwaipayanc (IM (Yahoo) : dwai_cha )
 * Category:Cities and towns in West Bengal - - Rupakbiswas (IM (rediffmail) : rupak_biswas2005)
 * Category:Cities and towns in West Bengal - - Simianwolverine (IM (Yahoo) : simi_wolverine)
 * Category:Revolutionary movement for Indian independence
 * Category:Cities and towns in Himachal Pradesh - - Lostintherush

Adopt a state
You might want to "adopt" a state of India.

This would involve bringing all state related articles if elsewhere under a suitable state category, identifying required articles, encouraging related content articles to be structured uniformly, comparing category structures of other states (to get new ideas and to benchmark). Essentially adopting a state involves championing the state.

Of course, everyone else can still edit / contribute to an adopted state, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while,and to manage things better.

Current state adoptions
The following are the staes and unioin terrorities that are open for adoptions. Please list your name (and optionally a IM id) for the category you would like to adopt.

States:


 * Category:Andhra Pradesh
 * Category:Arunachal Pradesh
 * Category:Assam
 * Category:Bihar
 * Category:Chhattisgarh
 * Category:Goa - gmail fredericknoronha
 * Category:Gujarat
 * Category:Haryana
 * Category:Himachal Pradesh - Lostintherush
 * Category:Jammu and Kashmir
 * Category:Jharkhand
 * Category:Karnataka  - User:Sarvagnya
 * Category:Kerala --  Tinu  Cherian  -
 * Category:Madhya Pradesh - User:rishi_phx
 * Category:Maharashtra - User:Suyogaerospace(Suyogaerospace@yahoo.co.in) 27 Jan 2008
 * Category:Manipur - Bakaman Bakatalk
 * Category:Meghalaya
 * Category:Mizoram
 * Category:Nagaland
 * Category:Orissa
 * Category:Punjab - rajatjghai (talk)16:31, 14 June 2006 (UTC), (IM Yahoo - rajatjghai)
 * Category:Rajasthan --Dhiresh DB 03:47, 27 June 2007 (UTC), (IM Yahoo - db_ashu)
 * Category:Sikkim
 * Category:Tamil Nadu - Sauron 11:03, 6 March 2006 (UTC), (IM Gmail- drkarthi)
 * Category:Tripura - Bakaman Bakatalk
 * Category:Uttaranchal
 * Category:Uttar Pradesh - IrfanAli 17:30, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Category:West Bengal - --Dwaipayan (talk) 09:28, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Union Territories:


 * Category:Andaman and Nicobar Islands
 * Category:Chandigarh
 * Category:Pondicherry
 * Category:Delhi - - D_jinn (IM (Yahoo) : ford_p_erfect)