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Overlinking

Hi, thanks for your work on en.WP. Please note that we don't normally link years, dates, common terms, and common country-names. Cheers. Tony (talk) 03:50, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Jagdish Thakor

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References are added

I added references to page Jagdish Thakor. Now, Can I remove the deletion tag?

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Proposed deletion of P. V. Narasimha Rao Ministry

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April 2013

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Uploading images of Indian postage stamps onto Wikimedia Commons

Hi Karan,

Please see Indian Copyright Act. As per this, postage stamps being "government work" the clause regarding duration of copyright is – "until sixty years from the beginning of the calendar years next following the year in which the work is first published". Hence only stamps before 01 January 1953 can be placed on Wikimedia Commons but this is good news. Only stamps till 1948 have been placed to date. You can add scans of the years 1949 to 1952 those and no other. Images of postage stamps issued in 1953 can be uploaded on 01 January 2014 and so on each year.

AshLin (talk) 06:11, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of G. S. Basavaraj

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January 2014

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A page you started (Maharashtra State Assembly election, 1985) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Maharashtra State Assembly election, 1985, Karan Kamath!

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MHRD

Thanks for improving the article, but I don't think we should upload those images. Usually Indian-government photos are under copyright.—indopug (talk) 04:37, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Thanks for your work on articles related to the government of India. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:59, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Elections and Referendums article tagging

Hi Karan Kamath. Sorry to have to post directly on your talk page, but you may have noticed (on the WP:Elections and referendums talk page) that I am trying to get all the election and referendum articles tagged for the project. Unfortunately this is not making any progress, as people are claiming there is no consensus to do this, as no-one has responded on the Project talk page. Could you possibly comment on the proposal at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elections and Referendums#Bot to tag articles for the WikiProject, as I'm getting rather frustrated by the attitude of the people at WP:BTR. Cheers, Number 57 12:42, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:SA Cabinets post 1994

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Train-the-Trainer 2017: Invitation to participate

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It gives us great pleasure to inform that the Train-the-Trainer (TTT) 2017 programme organised by CIS-A2K is going to be held from 20-22 February 2017.

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Regards. GSS (talk|c|em) 11:16, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Autopatrolled granted

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An invitation to discussion

I kindly invite you to the discussion on Template talk:Infobox election#The Bolding issue to decide whether to bold the winner in the election infobox. Lmmnhn (talk) 19:09, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

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