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Workgroup-level quality statistics
Please read. Regards, Ganeshk  ( talk ) 08:00, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

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Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:35, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Naming convention for districts
What's the outcome of the discussions on the naming convention for districts in India?--mānu 06:16, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Unnecessary use of 'district' where there is no ambiguity
I just renamed Kodagu district to Kodagu, because it seemed to be pointless, and I could see no agreement here on the 'district' suffix in such cases. Better to ask it anyway. Has it been agreed that every district shall have 'district' appended to its name, even if the name is independent of any town? If so, where and why?

Examples at North 24 Parganas district (long name made even longer), Dakshina Kannada (no district), Kanpur Dehat district (somewhat tautological?), Gautam Buddha Nagar district (long name, and it's Budh on the official website). Imc 20:22, 10 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I tend to agree with you but I suggest not to move any more articles to their name without "District" until consensus forms. I'm almost certain someone will object, so we should discuss this properly, reflect on each other's opinions and only proceed from there. We don't want to have a silly revert war, which may happen if someone feels strongly about this. GizzaDiscuss  &#169; 08:35, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

New name for a district
This may be of interest - I hope someone here can weigh in on the issue at hand. TIA. --Gurubrahma (talk) 06:25, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

WP:INDIA Tagging with TinucherianBot
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Watchlists
To help this workgroup patrol existing articles for vandalism/recent changes, Ganeshbot has created the WikiProject Indian districts/Articles page. This page will be updated on a regular basis. Please do remind me if I forget. :) It contains articles that were tagged with the India banner and fall under the scope of this workgroup. Please let me know in case of any questions. Thanks, Ganeshk  ( talk ) 11:34, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Cleanup listings
User:WolterBot has created a WikiProject Indian districts/Cleanup listing page; it contains the articles that fall under the scope this workgroup and have cleanup tags on them. See this page for more information on this works. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Ganeshk  ( talk ) 04:03, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
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Links to Census Data by district
Hi Guys, I've been seeing a lot of 404 links to census data. This is an attempt to centralise the reference links.

If you visit User:ChiragPatnaik/Census/Data by district, you'll find links to Districtwise data sheets. ChiragPatnaik (talk) 20:50, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Indian districts
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Basic question
The articles like "Districts of X" (where X is a state/UT of India): shouldn't they be like list-type (compare: List of counties in Arizona, which is an FL)? In that case, should we move "Districts of X" to "List of districts of X" or similar? Thanks.--GDibyendu (talk) 17:23, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

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Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  00:47, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Indian districts articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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WikiProject cleanup listing
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Rating Importance
The far majority of Indian District articles are not rated for importance. I think we should do it by population, as that way we can avoid debates; it's the most democratic way of listing them.

This is my plan:

Top: Lists of districts by state, and districts with 4 million + pop.

High: Districts with 2 to 4 million pop.

Mid: Districts with 1 to 2 million pop.

Low: Districts with less than 1 million pop.

I'm going to start now. Does this sound fair? If you want to tweak it, discuss it here. Thanks.

NOTE: We have a different importance scale than the rest of the India project of which we're a part. To specifically change our importance level, but not that of the India project (most of the districts are low importance on that scale), type: |districts-importance=high etc. TY.

PhnomPencil (talk) 11:34, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox District IN and Category:Indian districts templates
Template:Infobox District IN and Category:Indian districts templates (note: not Category:India district templates) have been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. DH85868993 (talk) 05:07, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

District tehsils infobox
Is there any template for District Tehsil Infobox for Mandal/tehsil pages?--Vin09 (talk) 04:45, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Incomplete Stub
There is a nice but incomplete stub here contribute in editing it. Riswa   talk   06:15, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Is Sonipat Panipat?
Sonipat Junction
 * The author is blocked.Xx236 (talk) 09:44, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
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Consistency
I don't know the level of action here but I made comments at Talk:Sri Ganganagar district. Interested parties please weigh in. Otr500 (talk) 19:18, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

List of districts of Tamil Nadu
Please see Talk:List of districts of Tamil Nadu. Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 00:55, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Sections for "Tourism" and "Notable people"
These two sections are missing from the guidelines for creating the articles. Where should one include these? Srihari Thalla (talk) 11:53, 26 March 2021 (UTC)


 * @ IMO tourism could be placed after culture and notable people should be placed above references at the end. Also I think demographics should be placed after geography and before economy.--Ankit (Talk with me) 19:37, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
 * @Ankit2299, @SrihariThalla I agree with placing tourism after culture, demographics after geography and notable people as the last section before References. Economy is better after administrative and politics section, as  it may refer to the administrative divisions in its content. Arjunaraoc (talk) 10:09, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

New Page Patrol

 * New Page Patrol needs experienced volunteers
 * New Page Patrol is currently struggling to keep up with the influx of new articles, including Indian districts related articles. We could use a few extra hands on deck if you think you can help.
 * Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines ; Wikipedia needs experienced users to perform this task and there are precious few with the appropriate skills. Even a couple reviews a day can make a huge difference.
 * If you would like to join the project and help out, please see the granting conditions and review our instructions page. You can apply for the user-right HERE. --John B123 (talk) 13:53, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

Improvement of Andhra Pradesh district articles
Lot of improvements are needed on Andhra Pradesh district articles, following the districts reorganisation in 2022. Please see page for the initiative and participate. Thanks in advance. Arjunaraoc (talk) 22:39, 21 April 2023 (UTC)