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July 2015

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  Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You appear to be engaged in an edit war with one or more editors according to your reverts at India. Although repeatedly reverting or undoing another editor's contributions may seem necessary to protect your preferred version of a page, on Wikipedia this is usually seen as obstructing the normal editing process, and often creates animosity between editors. Instead of edit warring, please discuss the situation with the editor(s) involved and try to reach a consensus on the talk page.

If editors continue to revert to their preferred version they are likely to lose editing privileges. This isn't done to punish an editor, but to prevent the disruption caused by edit warring. In particular, editors should be aware of the three-revert rule, which says that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Edit warring on Wikipedia is not acceptable in any amount, and violating the three-revert rule is very likely to lead to a loss of editing privileges.

As has been mentioned in the edit summaries, this content was not included based on consensus of editors. Please gain consensus on the talk page if you wish to see it included.SpacemanSpiff 17:28, 31 July 2015 (UTC)Reply

Replaceable fair use File:Dhritiman chatterjee.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Dhritiman chatterjee.jpg. I noticed that this file is being used under a claim of fair use. However, I think that the way it is being used fails the first non-free content criterion. This criterion states that files used under claims of fair use may have no free equivalent; in other words, if the file could be adequately covered by a freely-licensed file or by text alone, then it may not be used on Wikipedia. If you believe this file is not replaceable, please:

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  • Your reason to opposing the deletion, the fact that "Freely available images of the actor are not available" is a common thought, but when it comes to this, the general rationale is that images of people are something that can be created in the future with a compatible license, read WP:NFCC#1 properly. It's highly annoying, this rule, as it leaves many bios without images, but when it comes to the land of copyright, legal considerations have to take place. With pity, My name isnotdave (talk/contribs) 21:06, 24 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

Copy and pasting

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We run "copy and paste" detection software on new edits. One of your edits appear to be infringing on someone else's copyright. See also Wikipedia:Copy-paste. We at Wikipedia usually require paraphrasing. If you own the copyright to this material please follow the directions at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials to grant license. LeadSongDog come howl! 03:29, 10 September 2015 (UTC)Reply

September 2015

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  Your submission at The Imam and the Indian has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without 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 violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Yunshui  11:19, 11 September 2015 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of Incendiary Circumstances

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Only source is non-independent. No evidence of in depth coverage in independent sources.

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Proposed deletion of Countdown (Amitav Ghosh essay on India's nuclear tests)

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The article Countdown (Amitav Ghosh essay on India's nuclear tests) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Only source is non-independent. No evidence of in depth coverage in independent sources.

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July 2017

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  Hello, I'm Oshwah. An edit you recently made to Ali Akbar Khan seemed to be a test and has been removed. If you want more practice editing, the sandbox is the best place to do so. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 04:09, 15 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

Orphaned non-free image File:Picture of Pradip Mukherjee.jpg

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