Wikipedia:Notice board for India-related topics/INCOTW/Removed/2005

Narain Karthikeyan

 * Nominated February 1, 2005; needs 5 votes by February 8, 2005

Support: Comments:
 * 1) Arunram 15:29, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Jam2k 15:50, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Sundar 15:52, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Matthewmayer 17:11, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Brhaspati 06:34, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * Currently the article is only a stub. It would be a celebration of his selection to drive for the Jordan F1 team as primary driver.

Kamasutra

 * Nominated February 2, 2005; needs 5 votes by February 9, 2005

Support: Comments:
 * 1) varunrebel 05:22, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Sundar 05:27, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * What do non-Indians (esp Westerners) think of first when 'India' is mentioned? :-) - varunrebel 05:54, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC) &mdash;
 * Curry, actually, but this is second. -Litefantastic 01:53, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Agree with you 100%. I dont know how I missed that out - varunrebel 05:54, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Manmohan Singh

 * Nominated February 14, 2005; needs 5 votes by February 21, 2005

Support: Comments:
 * 1) Dmcdevit 23:33, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) utcursch 08:01, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Sundar 09:16, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Arunram 10:37, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) varunrebel 04:41, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmm... I don't know if it counts as a stub, but a very short, basic article. Considering his importance in current policies, and his historic achievement, it's very definitely deserving.  Plus, as the article points out,  in bold: "Dr Manmohan singh is the first prime minister of independent India not to have the letter "r" in his full name." :) --Dmcdevit 23:33, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I think we could say the same for most of the Presidents of India and the Prime Ministers of India articles.

Culfest

 * Nominated February 19, 2005; needs 5 votes by February 26, 2005

Support: Comments:
 * 1) Brhaspati 06:20, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia does not have any articles on the concept of college cultural festivals in India. I have now created a basic stub. This article is eminently suited to collaborative work - each person can add his/her own college to the list, and we can then distil out the common features of what comprises a culfest, and differences in culfests between different cities and regions. -- Brhaspati 06:33, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)

National Highway

 * Nominated February 20, 2005; needs 5 votes by February 27, 2005

Support: Comments:
 * 1) Brhaspati 07:33, 2005 Feb 20 (UTC)
 * The current article is very brief. In addition, Wikipedia currently has a stub on Golden Quadrilateral and a brief article on Grand Trunk Road, but we need an article similar to Interstate Highway. -- Brhaspati 07:33, 2005 Feb 20 (UTC)
 * The article needs to be merged. Also some info has to be added about the Border Roads Organisation. Nichalp 19:20, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC)

Indian Cabinet

 * Nominated February 26, 2005; needs 5 votes by March 5, 2005

Support: Comments:
 * 1) Arunram 13:09, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Brhaspati (talk, contribs) 13:26, 2005 Feb 26 (UTC)
 * 3) Sundar 04:14, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * We need an article on the linkes of Cabinet of Canada.
 * What are we focusing on - the structure of the cabinet in general or the current cabinet in particular? -- Brhaspati (talk, contribs) 13:26, 2005 Feb 26 (UTC)
 * Both, but a base article on the structure would be nice. Arunram 02:40, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * IMO, it should focus on Cabinet in general with a summary of the current cabinet which links to a main article on the 2004 Indian Cabinet or something like that. In fact, a specific instance of an Indian Cabinet is bound to be very fluid and dynamic so that it is difficult to be up to date on that. -- Sundar 04:14, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * I concur. I thought I was trying to communicate the same, though I did not clarify that the current cabinet would be another article.  Cheers Arunram 12:35, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Raipur

 * Nominated March 15, 2005; needs 5 votes by April 23, 2005

Support: Comments:
 * 1) Circeus 18:29, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) utcursch | talk 08:27, Mar 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) --Bhadani 19:44, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * lol, second time I've nominated something here. The city seems to be a fairly major one in India, and could probably use some improvement anyway. Circeus 18:29, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)


 * Recently I have endevoured to update the article Raipur - a lot is yet to be done.--Bhadani 12:30, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Golden Temple

 * Nominated March 21, 2005; needs 5 votes by April 23, 2005

Support:
 * 1) Girish 19:03, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Sukh 16:39, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Comments:
 * Very little and very baised content on one of India's great temples --Girish 13:28, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)

Birbal

 * Nominated April 7, 2005; needs 5 votes by April 23, 2005

Support: Comments:
 * 1) Ram Mallika 19:45, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I have given slight inputs in this article.--Bhadani 16:07, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Terrorism in India

 * ''Nominated May 22, 2005;

Support: Comments:
 * 1) IncMan 11:28, May 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * I have created an article Terrorism in Kashmir with some contributon from User:Gandolf. I was suprised to see the inexistance of the article previously. However, Terrorism in India is a stub and I hope some valuable contributions are made to this imporant topic. --IncMan 11:28, May 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * One of the problems with this article is going to be gathering enough people with time to prevent mindless vandalism, I am not sure we have enough number of people for the task. If sufficient number of people sign up, support--IMpbt 06:26, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Share the above opinion. Also, maintaining NPOV itself will be difficult if people started ruthlessly editing it. But, such an article will definitely be an interesting one, given that most of our Indian FA's are on places only. -- 06:39, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * I too have doubts on the suitability of the title. It may be construed as a POV. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  07:41, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

PT Usha

 * ''Nominated June 12, 2005; needs 5 votes by June 19, 2005;

Support: 1.Sumalsn - The greatest female athelete India has ever produced needs a better article. I have slightly expanded it

Indo-Pakistani Wars

 * ''Nominated June 19, 2005; needs 5 votes by June 26, 2005;

The article would benefit from a basic coverage of the issues involved and the wars themselves, with references to the individual articles. Watch out for NPOV!

Support
 * 1) Circeus
 * 2) Falphin 19:07, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Gamemasterv 2 July 2005 20:03 (UTC)

Comments That means that you have to contribute too, please do not leave us to do do all the work. Regards, =Nichalp   «Talk»=  09:38, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * I'll contribute as long as a voter tag is put on my talk page. Falphin 19:07, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Well, I hope accurate data is provided while editing the article. The Pakistanis claim that Indian aircrafts losses were thrice more than PAF's aircraft losses during the 1965 war, something which most Indians don't believe. Plus, both India and Pakistan claim that they won the 1942 war. Hence it is impossible for the article to be unbiased. --IncMan 19:48, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes but that doesn't mean the article shouldn't be expanded. Falphin 21:11, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * If it gets selected, being an INCOTW, there is chance of its content being pro-Indian. The article should be expanded but it is not an entirely India-related topic (the wars involved 3 countries: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) and hence I do not support its selection. --IncMan 21:30, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Would you rather this be nominated on the regular COTW? Falphin 21:31, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think that will be a better option. --IncMan 21:35, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Done. Falphin 21:41, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sethusamudram_Shipping_Canal_Project

 * ''Nominated June 23, 2005; needs 5 votes by June 26, 2005;

The article would greatly benefit from more research and local input of the people living around that area. Article assumes prime importance because of its percieved environmental problems as opposed to tremendous economic & horticultural benefit if implemented.

Support
 * 1) Ashwin49 20:31, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Provisional support. -- Sundar \talk \contribs July 1, 2005 09:08 (UTC)

Comments
 * 1) I'd be willing to help out on this, but we may need more people as the article is almost empty now. Let us finish with History of India first. -- Sundar \talk \contribs July 1, 2005 09:08 (UTC)

T.N. Seshan
Just wanted to bring to everyone's notice that no article exists for T N Seshan. 130.203.202.156 30 June 2005 01:33 (UTC)
 * Sorry, actually there is an article. There was a spelling mistake in one article, leading to an edit page. The article could certainly be expanded though.


 * Support


 * Comments

Ram Manohar lohia
''Nominated July 8, 2005; needs 5 votes by July 15], [[2005; I have started of this article . It needs a bit of help from you guys
 * 1) --sumal 8 July 2005 15:19 (UTC)

Cuisine of India

 * ''Nominated July 9, 2005.

Some time in future, maybe after all the above articles are done, we can look at this one too. Would make an interesting article. Lot of work required though. deeptrivia July 9, 2005 06:01 (UTC)
 * Support
 * deeptrivia
 * Comments

Hinduism

 * ''Nominated July 15, 2005.

This not only includes the article on Hinduism but also those which are related to Hinduism for ex. Rama, Krishna, Mahabharata, Bhagavad Gita, Hindu dieties, Vedas, etc. etc. etc.. All the articles are is such a bad shape.

Support
 * 1) --IncMan 17:37, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

This is already a Featured Article. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  17:47, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment
 * As I said, the nomination not only includes the article on Hinduism, but also those which are related to Hinduism. Besides, I think its the only FA with a cleanup tag. --IncMan 18:55, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * You'll have to select a single article. There is a WikiProject Hinduism, so that is the platform to improve all Hinduism-related articles instead of nominating a group of articles under one banner. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  05:23, July 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * I read the Hinduism article. It is pathetic. I don't know how it made it into the featured list. Or maybe the damage was done later. Some problems with the article:


 * Extremely long, with many unnecessary details
 * Highly unorganized, poor continuity
 * Poor language
 * POV at places
 * Important things missing

A major overhaul is required.

deeptrivia 08:30, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

Filmfare Award

 * 19/12/2005;

Support: 
 * 1) Abhishek 12:26, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Comments
 * a The Article on the FIlmfare award is extremely incomplete. This is the showcase of the Indian film industry and we do not have enough to offer to the millions who may be interested in knowing more. Abhishek 12:26, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Army of India

 * ''Nominated December 21, 2005.

Currently a stub article. I hardly know anything about it, but I know enough to realize that it deserves a much better article. It currently contains a very brief history, a line on the CO and the branches.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 ($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 11:56, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Support:
 * 1) Ganeshk 11:10, 30 December 2005 (UTC) Withdrawn after reading message below. My assumption was it was the army article.
 * 2) Arvindn 13:56, 1 January 2006 (UTC) Withdrawn in the light of comment below. Arvindn 13:33, 2 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Comments


 * Please do not confuse this article with Indian Army or Indian Armed Forces which are both comprehensive and well-written articles.-- May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 ($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|)  12:51, 2 January 2006 (UTC)