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Delhi

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When two users disagree about an edit, they generally discuss it on the talk page until they come up with a solution; they don't just revert each other. In fact we have a rule that prohibits edit-warring over an article. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 22:04, 13 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

HTML formatting

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Hello... I am here to ask a small favor of you. When you're formatting text with <i>, <b> or some font parameter, please, remember to close it with </i>, </b> or </font>. Otherwise the posts that follow your posts get all wrong. Thanks. Aditya(talkcontribs) 15:27, 16 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Great header. What does that mean? Aditya(talkcontribs) 05:47, 17 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway

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A tag has been placed on Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the article and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Kannie | talk 04:21, 17 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Requests

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Just a request: Please could you avoid using italics, colour or bold for your messages?

The + or - indicate the size in bytes that the last edit changed. If content is removed, the page changed by -X bytes. If new content was added, the page changed by +X bytes. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 13:40, 17 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Highways passing from Delhi

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Please be aware that I've moved Highways passing from Delhi, which I see you were in the middle of working on, to User:190319m9/Highways passing from Delhi to keep it from being speedy deleted. Feel free to moe it back when it's finished. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 16:00, 20 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Please stop blanking the redirects, if more then one item fits, use the disambig templates. Q T C 20:00, 21 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

 *Reply to OverlordQ, I am new here so please tell me how to use disambig templates.

Manik (talk) 20:05, 21 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

WP:DISAMBIG can explain it better then I can. Q T C 20:08, 21 December 2007 (UTC)Reply
OK, Thanks for the assistance. :)

Manik (talk) 20:10, 21 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Basically look here for an example. Q T C 20:12, 21 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Delhi

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Delhi is a featured article. None of the other Indian city articles have a climate table, and previous attempts have been reverted. A table is distracting and unnecessary and too detailed. It would be best to place the table in the Climate of Delhi page not on the Delhi page. Nikkul (talk) 20:19, 25 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

License tagging for Image:Mainla2.jpg

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Delhi Climate

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Please do not keep reverting my edits. Having a table that shows the weather for EACH month is unnecessary. The article is supposed to be a summary, with a link to more detailed info on the top of the section. The table belongs in Climate of Delhi.Not on the Delhi page.


Plz look at ALL other featured Indian city articles; NONE of them have a climate table. Look at Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Darjeeling, Kochi, Kolkata, Malwa, Technopark, Gangtok, Kalimpong all r WP:FA. Please stop reverting my edits. Nikkul (talk) 05:04, 26 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

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Hi

Thanks for your kind words, I will be editing many of the articles about Delhi, most of them are vaguely written with a large number of factual inaccuracies. --TvKimi (talk) 04:37, 27 December 2007 (UTC)Reply


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Image Copyright problem
Image Copyright problem

Thank you for uploading Image:Connaught-Place.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 23:34, 27 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Mumbai and Delhi infoboxes

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To answer your question:

You need to understand the difference between a city, metropolis and metropolitan area. A city is the smallest managed urban unit. In the Indian context, a city and its suburbs together make a metropolis if (usually) managed my a single municipal unit. A city and its surrounding urban areas ie urban areas that directly contribute to its growth and economy eg Thane and New Bombay for Mumbai, is known as a metropolitan area.

The area figures for Mumbai are correct. In the case of Delhi, the area for the entire union territory is included. The NCT is composed of three census towns: Delhi, New Delhi and Delhi Cantonment, and 240 villages. Since everything is clubbed as "Delhi", the figures often get skewed. Mumbai on the other hand is much more simple. It has a city district and a suburban district, and together make up a single municipal metropolis.

For the actual population please see: population charts

Please do not add climatic data on the page. Add it to Climate of Delhi. Such information is superfluous for a summary article.

Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 05:59, 29 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

For Mumbai, we take into factor the population of the city district and the suburbs. For Delhi, we can factor in only the population of the city of Delhi. =Nichalp «Talk»= 13:37, 31 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Orphaned non-free media (Image:TOI.jpg)

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Connaught-Place.jpg)

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Regarding your signature.

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Hello, If you are not aware, Wikipedia has a strict policy against link spamming. [1]. Your signature in some of the talk pages, specially here [2] has a link to your blog site, which is considered as spamming. You are requested to remove the external link from your signature. As always, you can link to your blog site from your user page. Thank you Mugunth(ping me!!!,contribs) 02:36, 9 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

No Problem, I've assessed the article Transport in Delhi and given my comments on Talk page. It's still a start class article and a lot should be done to improve it. See my comments on talk page. Mugunth(ping me!!!,contribs) 05:04, 10 January 2008 (UTC)Reply


WikiProject India Newsletter Volume III, Issue no. 001 - June 2008

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Project News
  • Tag & Assess 2008, an assessment drive initiated by the assessment department began on June 7, 2008 and will be running until July 2008. Many Wikipedians have started contributing to this mammoth task. This housekeeping activity will help manage articles in better way. You can also get involved!
  • Bot Assisted Assessment was successfully done using Bot0612 in May 2008. 1744 articles (18.5%) of all India unassessed articles were marked if they had been assessed by some other project.
  • What's Featured and Good?
  • IPL was hot on Wikipedia too!!! During the tournament, the article was among the most frequently edited articles. It is currently the only Indian article in top 100, occupying 58th spot.
  • Do you know of an article that is currently underrated? If so, please nominate the article at the Assessment Department's request for assessment. This will allow our project to get a better idea of the quality of our articles.
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WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 1 – June 2009

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WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 1 - (June 2010)

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WP:IND Newsletter is back! It's been nearly a year since the last edition, but we hope to bring out issues on a more regular basis now. The India Wikiproject was set up to increasing coverage of India-related topics on Wikipedia, and over the past few months the focus has been on improving article quality. A number of the project's featured articles underwent featured article reviews over the past year. Of these, Darjeeling and Flag of India survived the review process, while the rest were demoted. During the same period, Gangtok, Harbhajan Singh, Darjeeling and Mysore were featured on the main page respectively on August 20, September 17, November 6 and December 29, 2009. Meanwhile, articles on topics as diverse as Political history of Mysore and Coorg (1565–1760), Marwari horse and Iravan were promoted as featured articles, and respectively appeared on the main page on March 25, May 17 and May 28, 2010. Consequently, the number of FA-class articles under the project's scope dropped from 67 in August 2009 to 63 in June 2010. The number of good articles, however, saw a more than 40% increase, from 91 to 130 during the same period, while the number of featured lists saw a 33% increase from 12 to 16.

Due to the recent policy changes regarding unreferenced Biographies of Living People (BLPs), an effort was started in January 2010 to source all unreferenced BLPs coming under Wikiproject India. 1200 such articles were identified initially and more were added to the list later. Due to the sourcing effort, the number of Indian unreferenced BLPs is down to 565 currently. During February-April 2010, There was a large scale disruption of Kerala related articles by a Thrissur based IP vandal. Editing from a dynamic IP BSNL connection, the vandal changed dates of birth, death and ages of a number of Malayalam and Tamil film actors. Later he added a few international biographies to his list. He also marked some living people like Arvind Swamy as dead. A month long range block was imposed on his IP range two times and each time he came back to vandalise dates once the block expired. Currently the range has been blocked for three months till September 11, 2010.

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Delhi Wikipedian

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Hi Manik, I am looking for Delhi based wikipedians for an upcoming meet with someone from the foundation, we are organizing a local community of delhi based wikipedians which someone from the foundation would like to meet, let me know if you are interested in joining. Thanks.--Theo10011 (talk) 13:16, 22 August 2010 (UTC)Reply


WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 2 - November 2010

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English WikiProject News

After a missed issue, the WP:IND newsletter is back on track to being a regular bimonthly feature. The Indian WikiProject has seen plenty of online and off-line action, both in English as well as other Indian languages, and we now have a bigger, better format that intends to feature content and news from the English as well as other Indian language Wikipedias.

Reaching out to Indians has been the theme of the Indian Wikiproject over the past couple of months, aiming to involve a greater number of Indians in editing both the English and Indian language Wikipedias. To this end, efforts to set up the Indian chapter of Wikimedia have moved into their final stages, and registration of the society is currently pending. An effort is underway to push for "WikiMarathons" at meetups, where attendees will be encouraged to edit the English and/or Indian language Wikipedias. This is intended to popularise Wikipedia editing among the general public. In addition, a bot to post DYK's from the Indian Wikiproject to Twitter was created and launched by User:Logicwiki.


What's New?

Regrettably, the number of Featured Articles has dropped from 63 in June to 58 at the end of October 2010. Several FAs came up for review and were delisted, while Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India was saved. Meanwhile, Chalukya Dynasty appeared on the main page on July 9, 2010. Hearteningly, the number of Good Articles increased from 130 to 136 during the same period, while the number of Featured Lists remained constant at 16.

The source code for the Article Alert Bot is now available and the bot itself is expected to be up and running very shortly. This means that article alerts for the Indian Wikiproject will again be available, enabling editors to easily keep track of developments in respect of reviews, nominations, deletions etc.

The date change vandal mentioned briefly in the previous issue made a reappearance when the range block on his IP range expired in September. Consequently the block was extended till September 2011.

In October there was a heated discussion in the India project noticeboard regarding the copyright status of the Indian party symbols. The discussion was triggered by the deletion of Wiki San Roze's party symbol images by Hammersoft as copyright violations. No resolution was reached, partly because of our inability to explain to Hammersoft how election symbols in India differ from party logos. Comments are requested from anyone with a background in Indian copyright law to clarify this issue.

Complete To Do List
News from Indian-language Wikipedias
  • The Bengali Wikisource, which contains the literary works of many prominent writers of Bengali language including Rabindranath Tagore, has crossed the 5,000 pages milestone. According to List of Wikisource page, Bengali Wikisource is now at rank 21 among 56 Wikisource based on number of content pages.
The Tamil Wikipedia stall at the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 in Coimbatore in June 2010.
Jimmy Wales introduces the Malayalam Wikipedia CD of 500 selected articles during his key note address at Wikimania 2010 at Gdansk.
  • The Hindi Wikipedia and its sister wiki projects migrated to the new vector interface on September 1, 2010. In addition, Hindi is the first (and so far the only) Indian language to be incorporated into the WikiBhasha translation and contribution toolkit developed by Microsoft Research.


Community news
The first meetup in Delhi on 22 September 2010.

Mumbai and Delhi held their first meetups in September, where Wikimedia Board members Barry Newstead and Bishakha Datta met up with Wikipedians and other interested members of the public in these cities. A month later, Hyderabad also held its first meetup.

Arun Ram, Shiju Alex and Barry Newstead releasing the Wikimedia India community newsletter at the nineteenth Bangalore meetup on 24 September 2010.

Wikipedians in Bangalore continued their tradition of meeting up regularly at the Centre for Internet and Society, with the nineteenth meetup in September featuring Barry and Bishaka as attendees, and marking the release of the community newsletter. Along with Delhi and Mumbai, Bangalore is reported to be one of the three cities in contention for the Indian office of the Wikipedia Foundation.

Jimmy Wales speech at the Mumbai Wikipedia Meetup #3 on 31 October 2010. Intro by User:Bishdatta & User:Arunram. (Recorded by User:AshLin.)

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had an interaction with Wikipedians followed by a presentation to members of the public at the third Wikipedia meetup in Mumbai on October 31, 2010.

The first Wikimarathon, where Wikipedians and members of the public were encouraged to contribute to Wikimedia projects onsite, was held simultaneously at the meetups in Bangalore and Chennai on November 14, 2010. Wikipedians in Delhi also held a meetup the same day.

The Malayalam Wikipedia held several academies in different parts of Kerala over the past few months.

Wikimedia Foundation board member Bishakha Datta and Indian Wikipedian Srinivas Gunta co-authored a panel presentation at Wikimania 2010 on the Wikimedia Asia Project.

Current proposals and discussions
  • This interesting discussion on the quality of editing in India-related articles has been underway for on the noticeboard a few days. Feel free to join in and express your opinion.

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Invite to WikiConference India 2011

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Hi 190319m9,

The First WikiConference India is being organized in Mumbai and will take place on 18-20 November 2011.
You can see our Official website, the Facebook event and our Scholarship form.

But the activities start now with the 100 day long WikiOutreach.

As you are part of WikiProject India community we invite you to be there for conference and share your experience. Thank you for your contributions.

We look forward to see you at Mumbai on 18-20 November 2011

Invitation

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For Wikipedia's 11th Anniversary!
An invitation for you to come and join us for Wikipedia's 11th Anniversary in Delhi on the 15th Jan 2012: Click here for more details.

Will be great to see you! :) Nitika.t (talk) 12:58, 6 January 2012 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject India Tag & Assess 2012 Contest

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Hello friends, we are a number of editors from WikiProject India have got together to assess the many thousands of articles under the stewardship of the project, and we'd love to have you, a fellow member, join us. These articles require assessment, that is, the addition of a WikiProject template to the talk page of an article, assessing it for quality and importance and adding a few extra parameters to it.

As of March 11, 2012, 07:00 UTC, WikiProject India has 95,998 articles under its stewardship. Of these 13,980 articles are completely unassessed (both for class and importance) and another 42,415 articles are unassessed for importance only. Accordingly, a Tag & Assess 2012 drive-cum-contest has begun from March 01, 2012 to last till May 31, 2012.

If you are new to assessment, you can learn the minimum about how to evaluate from Part One of the Assessment Guide. Part Two of the Guide will help you learn to employ the full functionality of the talk page template, should you choose to do so.

You can sign up on the Tag & Assess page. There are a number of awards to be given in recognition of your efforts. Come & join us to take part in this exciting new venture. You'll learn more about India in this way.

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:33, 23 November 2015 (UTC)Reply