Wikipedia talk:WikiProject South Asia/Archive 1

Question
Many of the countries of the region of South Asia do not yet have WikiProjects dealing with them. Would the members of this project be willing to assist in the development of articles related to these countries specifically until and unless separate projects for each of the countries are created? I would be willing to do so, for what little that might mean. Badbilltucker 14:50, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

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 20:43, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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Template:Pakistani English
FYI, Pakistani English has been nominated for deletion. 70.29.210.242 (talk) 05:41, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Asian Games by country articles
FYI, several Asiad related articles have been prodded for deletion on March 23, see WP:PRODSUM for that day.

76.66.194.32 (talk) 04:40, 24 March 2010 (UTC)


 * They have all ended up for deletion at AfD, see Articles for deletion/Log/2010 March 25
 * 76.66.194.32 (talk) 04:38, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Greater pakistan
Greater pakistan has been prodded for deletion.

76.66.192.73 (talk) 07:12, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Re-activating
Any help or assistance in any way of removing the 'inactive' from the project template would be appreciated - in the process of re-activating this project - thanks SatuSuro 04:04, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

India at FAR
I've nominated the India page for an FAR. Its History and Culture sections need work. Please help improve it. Regards,  Fowler&amp;fowler  «Talk»  13:04, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:South Asia will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in South Asia's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 21:27, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Perth requested-move notification
A requested move survey was started at Talk:Perth_(disambiguation), which proposes to move:
 * Perth → Perth, Western Australia
 * Perth, Scotland → Perth, Perthshire
 * Perth (disambiguation) → Perth

Background: There was a previous requested-move survey which ran from late May to mid June. There was a great deal of controversy surrounding the closure and subsequent events, which involved a number of reverts and re-reverts which are the subject of an ongoing arbitration case. There was a move review process, which was closed with a finding that the original requested-move closure was endorsed; however, the move review process is relatively new and untried. — P.T. Aufrette (talk) 03:26, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Arbitration motion regarding Requests for arbitration/India-Pakistan
Resolved by motion at Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment that:

The India-Pakistan case is supplemented as follows: "Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all pages related to India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, broadly construed."

For the Arbitration Committee, NW ( Talk ) 18:26, 29 July 2012 (UTC)


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2012 Asian American infobox representatives open nomination period
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian American. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 23:18, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

2012 Asian American representative approval period (Now until 18 December)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian American. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 06:20, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Hindustani
FYI, the usage of Hindustani is up for discussion, see talk:Hindustani -- 76.65.128.43 (talk) 04:31, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

King PrithviBirBikramShadev grandson of Maharaj Jung Bahadur.jpg
file:King PrithviBirBikramShadev grandson of Maharaj Jung Bahadur.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.43 (talk) 04:50, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Culture of Asia
Culture of Asia has been requested to be renamed, see talk:Culture of Asia -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 05:24, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Countries and territories of South Asia
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:13, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Countries bordering the Arabian Sea
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 11:04, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Countries and territories bordering the Indian Ocean
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 11:09, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 01:29, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

SAFTA
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 02:25, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Asash language
I can't figure out what this is. It had 3 links all to a Tanzanian language, but says it is related to Farsi, Pashto and Urdu and is almost extinct. There seems to be an article in the Urdu Wiki on this but also without sources.. Dougweller (talk) 16:02, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

The primary topic of "Indian Chief" is under discussion, see Talk:Indian Chief (motorcycle) -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 05:04, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Sindhi people listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Sindhi people to be moved to Sindhis. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 22:33, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Ayurveda RFC
A Request for Comments is now in progress at Talk:Ayurveda concerning whether should be added to the article on Ayurveda. Participation in the RFC is encouraged. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:01, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Review of new edit to Indo-Aryan peoples requested
It would be helpful to have other views on the edit at - see also the talk page for some context. Thanks. Doug Weller (talk) 19:20, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

History of India listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for History of India to be moved to History of the Indian subcontinent. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 01:14, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
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Muhammad Iqbal listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Muhammad Iqbal to be moved to Allama Iqbal. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 05:59, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
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History of Eastern art listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for History of Eastern art to be moved to History of Asian art. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 18:15, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
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Rehman's Campaign for a camera and workstation for free quality content
See commons:User_talk:Rehman/Campaign and this link. --Alexmar983 (talk) 04:33, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

RfC: Result of the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War
Please comment at Talk:Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts. Thanks, Kautilya3 (talk) 19:59, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Indus Valley Civilisation listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Indus Valley Civilisation to be moved to Indus Valley tradition. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 12:46, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
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Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy war listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy war to be moved to Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 02:17, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
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WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template Transclude lead excerpt.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

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Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  11:01, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Template:Castewarningtalk listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Template:Castewarningtalk to be moved to Template:Caste sanctions talk notice. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 03:32, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
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History of cuisine from the Indian subcontinent listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for History of cuisine from the Indian subcontinent to be moved to History of Indian cuisine. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 11:02, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
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History of India listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for History of India to be moved to History of South Asia. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 20:59, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
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Nomination of Portal:Urdu for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Urdu is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Urdu until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 06:42, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Bacha Khan listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Bacha Khan to be moved to Abdul Ghaffar Khan. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 15:14, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
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Jat people listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Jat people to be moved to Jat. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 17:15, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
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Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

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Sri listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Sri to be moved to Shri. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 05:45, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
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Hindustani listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Hindustani to be moved to Hindustani (disambiguation). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 04:46, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
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List of tallest buildings and structures in South Asia listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for List of tallest buildings and structures in South Asia to be moved to List of tallest buildings and structures in Indian subcontinent. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 13:32, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
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Jat people listed at Requested moves
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History of India listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for History of India to be moved to History of India prior to 1947. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 01:15, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
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Azad Kashmir listed at Requested moves
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