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November 2021

Your edit to St. Edward's School, Shimla has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. stwalkerster (talk) 21:49, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Formatting

Can you explain what you're doing with the formatting here? I'm having trouble seeing how that's an improvement. Is there a WP:MOS style guideline regarding the introduction of horizontal rules in the infoboxes that I'm not aware of? OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 14:38, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

I do not know much about Wikipedia's editing rules but the double colon shifts text leftwards than other texts in infobox. In the edit above there was no need for that and infobox looks better without it. I am changing it back, you can revert my edit if you think it's wrong. 👍👍 Cookersweet (talk) 14:12, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Merge

Please, I suggest merging the India House, London, cause, already there are [like] ton of different embassy pages, and we are trying to reduce the bulk.

So please, assist in merging the Indian embassy/high commissions to either List of diplomatic missions of India or the diplomatic relations with/of India. Utkarsh555 (talk) 15:18, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

India House have more historic value than just being a diplomatic mission. Moreover the article is more about the building (Grade II rated) and its significance during the British Raj era. Cookersweet (talk) 22:56, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

@Cookersweet ok, as you say so. Utkarsh555 (talk) 09:57, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

infobox icons

Please don't add flag and icons to infoboxes as you did at Raj Mohan Vohra per MOS:INFOBOXFLAG and MOS:ICON I had just removed those a month before you put them back. Although they were once common, consensus as changed and they should be removed. MB 19:00, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

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@Diannaa: Thankyou for helping but can you provide attribution as I am not clear how to do that. Cookersweet (talk) 20:19, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Do it in the edit summary at the time you copy the content. Diff of Royal Indian Air Force— Diannaa (talk) 23:11, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Got it. 👍 Cookersweet (talk) 08:21, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikilink the article the text comes from. Doug Weller talk 10:10, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Source at Aurangzeb

That was just someone's website, fails WP:RS. If it's encyclopaedic there should be a reliable source, preferably academic. Doug Weller talk 10:11, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Overlinking

Hi there Cookersweet. I noticed your revert. What's the benefit of all the links to the reader? We have WP:OVERLINK for a reason. Links are better when they are not too densely packed. John (talk) 20:49, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

Continuing reverts on Indian Armed Forces rank flags

Your reverts are disruptive to the page at this point. Please stop. There were entirely valid reasons a) to remove the hack that was in place, and b) always to use simpler wikitext if possible. Izno (talk) 16:28, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

September 2022

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Central Armed Police Forces: Please don't revert big changes for minor edits

Your revert on Central Armed Police Forces is disruptive. Please fix only the portion you disagree with. Reverting entire section of updates for minor changes is loss of meaningful contribution by other authors. Abhay.s (talk) 11:02, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

Please see comments on the talk page. Reference to official government report shows that your assertion about Assam Rifles is wrong. September 2022: Parliamentary Standing Committee On Home Affairs' report Working conditions in Border Guarding Forces clearly states that Assam Rifles is a CAPF on page no 1 (page 19 of the PDF file). Abhay.s (talk)

Assam Bengal Railway vs. Bengal & Assam Railway

Hello Cookersweet, you have removed the Assam Bengal Railway from the List of railway companies in India. But this is not the same. The Assam Bengal Railway existed from 1892 to 1942 and the Bengal and Assam Railway from 1942 to 1947. The two companies are covered in a single article, thats right, but they were two different companies. I think it would be better if all former Indian railway companies were included in the list. Bernhard Rieger (talk) 17:12, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

I thought it was just repetition. There is no problem in keeping both if they were different. Cookersweet (talk) 21:33, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

October 2022

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Request reason:

I have been blocked for using multiple accounts and I don't think I have done anything wrong as Wikipedia allows to have them. I used separate accounts for contributing from different devices and you can check that no vandalism or wrong edits were done through them. I have three account @Soap Boy 1:, @Cookersweet: and @Shishupal Nagar:. I request you to please unblock me.

Decline reason:

As you see nothing wrong with your violations of WP:SOCK, there are no grounds to consider lifting the block. Yamla (talk) 22:03, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

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