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"Live well. Die well. Pass on virtue to all you meet." 02:57, 11 October 2012 (UTC)Tengu16 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tengu16 (talk • contribs)

Notability of Jay Vasavada

A tag has been placed on Jay Vasavada requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Jasynnash2 (talk) 15:36, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Jay vasavada.gif

Image Copyright problem

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Speedy deletion of Image:Jay.gif

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File copyright problem with File:Jainsects2.JPG

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Your submission at Articles for creation

Sabarmati Marathon, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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Reviewing at Articles for creation

Hi Nizil Shah. Thank you for reviewing submissions at AFC, it's an important task and you seem to be doing it well. However, a number of your recent declines have resulted in the pages being listed at Category:Candidates for speedy deletion. Please don't blank the submission or use the {{afc cleared}} template unless:

• the article is a copyright violation
• the article is an attack page
• the article contains contraversial statements about a living person that are not supported by reliable sources

If the page is not suitable for any other reason, the correct process is to decline it and notify the author (the AFC Helperscript does this for you) so that they can work on making improvements. Cheers, Yunshui 雲‍水 12:47, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

You've done this again a couple of times since I posted the above request. Please read Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Reviewing instructions, which clearly show that the above situations are the only cases where blanking the submission is appropriate. Yunshui 雲‍水 13:38, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

American Ninjutsu

Here I go again. I keep trying to push forward this article on Desmond Crenshaw [1], a RETIRED martial arts instructor and former military special ops guy that USED TO teach in Kentucky, southern Indiana and Ohio back in the 1980s. I make those two phrases, "retired" and "used to" bold for a reason: the guy no longer teaches, and the school is no longer open. Not even any of his students seem to be keeping his system going, so no one benefits financially in any way by this story being posted. It says that clearly in several paragraphs of the article, most notably the first and the last.

 :::Why then do I keep getting censor responses that say it reads like an advertizement? Obviously, you guys are NOT reading it. If you were, you would catch all the negative stuff posted in the article about this guy and his crew.  
   
  

I look at dozens of articles here, like on Bruce Tegner and Frank Dux and Iga-ryu Ninja Museum, and they lack even a quarter of the references that I've provided... yet, they are posted and up for people to see.

According to the claims listed under Wikipedia when you pull it up under a search, it is a "collaboratively edited" information source. However, I see no collaboration here. Nor anyone allowing new information to be presented. All I see are denials. complaint pages and censors that refuse to allow anything to be posted.

Collaborate with me here. Let me write and post, and then you egg-heads can add every disclaimer you want. You can change the formatting all you want where you see such as being necessary... but at least let people get the information out.

"Live well. Die well. Pass on virtue to all you meet."Tengu16

Submission of article Kadrige

Hello Nizil,

You refused the publication of the article Kadrige on the 10th of october due to copyright infrigement. All the contents where created by the company either for this article, or are available on our Facebook page and our website. Could please tell what parts of the article were concerned by the copyright infrigement so that I can edit them. Thank you very much for your feedback.

Regards

Willhaddad (talk) 08:00, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply Nizil. All these articles are of my own creation (I'm the community manager of the company). How can I use the Creative Common Licence for these contents? I didn't really understand how to do it after reading the articles. Thank you very much for your help. FYI, I got this message on my Talk page: "This is your only warning; the next time you add copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as you did at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Kadrige, you may be blocked from editing without further notice"

Willhaddad —Preceding undated comment added 11:45, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

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See reliable source guidelines

Blogs are not any more reliable than e-bay. see WP:RS and WP:SPS. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 23:23, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

• I have left a note at User_talk:Orangemike#Image_issue. Orangemike knows about copyright and is an administrator so he can delete it right off if that is necessary. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 23:47, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
  • and something to keep in mind, that while the old documents themselves are public domain, if it is a recently taken photograph of the document, that photograph may be under copyright of the photographer. There are complicated things regarding "derivitive works" that I dont have a good understanding of.-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 23:51, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

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Jainism for GAN

I have put up Jainism for Good Article Nomination. Can you review it? Rahuljain2307 (talk) 19:23, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Mahagujarat Movement

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Copy editing complete

Hi Nizil, I've completed my copy edit of Amdavad ni Gufa. I just wanted to let you know of a few of the main changes I made. First, I toned back some of the "flowery" language in order to comply with Wikipedia guidelines on tone and neutrality. It's not very encyclopedic to say a place has a magical atmosphere, though it's perfectly acceptable to say it was designed with that intent. Second, I removed the block quote about the facility's construction, which I thought went into unnecessary detail. I removed a small paragraph describing the gallery's appearance which seemed to be a bit redundant to several other sections. I also changed a few section headings. That said, I think this is a very well made article, and I'll be happy to endorse it at DYK. And you won't hurt my feelings if you revert any of these changes, which simply reflect my opinion on how to best present the article. --BDD (talk) 22:39, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Amdavad ni Gufa

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Gujarat Assembly Election 2012

Was there any particular reason for unlinking Mangrol and Mandvi seat number 156 and 157???--Vyom25 (talk) 10:21, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for Panch Kalyanaka

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Palitana

Thanks for the message. I have visited this temple complex on a pilgrimage about two decades back with my wife and my rakhee sister (a Jain) when I was working in Baroda. I walked up. I was simply stunned by the grandeur of the temple complex. Any changes that you wish to make in the article, please a leave the details on the article talk page with reliable reference. I will incorporate it. I also covered Jain temples in Bangalore in my article on Architecture of Karnataka about 2 years back, also a DYK.--Nvvchar. 01:24, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	This is for contributing to articles related to Gujarat and especially Mahagujarat Movement. Nice work keep going. Vyom25 (talk) 07:27, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Bhadra Fort

Good article. Well done. I've completed a basic copy edit. I see that in some sections you have included a whole string of references. Usually two (max three) are sufficient. I would recommend you pick out the best one or two in each case. Alternatively, if they refer to different parts of the text, add them to the section to which they apply rather than listing them all at the end of a sentence or paragraph.

In any case, the article is certainly good enough now for you to put it up on the main space. Remember to call it Bhadra Fort (with a capital F for fort). --Ipigott (talk) 10:22, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #41

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  • Changed item datatype to use entityid as datavalue rather than string
  • Added lots of new Selenium tests
  • Changed AbuseFilter so Wikibase can hook into it
  • Implemented new change dispatcher script
  • ~=[,,_,,]:3
  • Working on combining successive changes to avoid watchlist clutter
  • Claims error handling (i.e. they now show error messages when needed)
  • Implemented initial version of Solr-based search for Wikidata in extension WikibaseSolr
  • Started investigating use of Lua/Scribunto for the Wikibase client
  • Updated the Wikidata Vagrant development machine
  • Improved the setup via puppet on Labs
• Discussions/Press
  • Latest updates on time and coordinate datatypes
  • Schedule for the reconfirmation of the first round of admins
  • RFC on en:wp about the transition to language links from Wikidata
  • Signpost, among others, covers the deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Congrats to our sister Wikivoyage on their official launch
  • There’s now a manual for using the Pywikipediabot on Wikidata
  • Deployed new code on wikidata.org
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  • Reconfirmation of temporary admins
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Wikidata weekly summary #43

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  • Worked on puppet
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  • Running your own instance of Wikibase (for science!)
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  • Admin reconfirmation is still ongoing
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Wikidata weekly summary #44

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  • Started work on query definitions
  • Edit links are now disabled in the interface when the user does not have the rights to edit
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  • Worked on search field for WikibaseSolr
  • More work on Lua templates for Wikibase entities
  • Worked on bugfixes in the statement user interface
  • New features in the statement user interface (references counter/heading)
  • JavaScript editing for table showing labels and description of the same item in different languages
  • Repaired and updated the demo system
  • Resumed work on Linked Data interface
  • Support for enhanced recent changes format in client
  • There are automatic comments for statement edits as well in the history now
  • Special page for unconnected pages, that is pages on the client that are not connected to items on the repository
  • Added permission checks for statements, so a user that can not edit will not be able to edit or that only a group can be allowed to do some changes like creating statements
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  • upcoming: office hour (English; German later)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on the English language Wikipedia is still planned for Monday late evening UTC (pending a performance review)
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  • List of new proposed properties
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  • d:User:PinkAmpersand is looking for someone to write a script that once someone has been made an autopatroller, retroactively patrols all of their prior edits
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Wikidata weekly summary #45

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  • Deployment to English Wikipedia
  • Fix various minor bugs in client, including watchlist toggle with preference to default to always show Wikidata edits
  • Added the new Baso Minangkabau Wikipedia (min)
  • Fixed wrong revision of statements being shown in diff and old revision view
  • Diff visualization for claims (simple version for main snak)
  • Diff visualization for claims (extended version for references, qualifiers, ranks)
  • Tooltip that notifies about the license your contributions will be covered by while editing (can be disabled by each user)
  • Started with valueview refactoring
  • Started with user interface handling of deleted properties
  • Started with refactoring of local partial entity lookup
  • Started with refactoring of toolbar usage in jQuery.wikibase view widgets
  • Finished improvement on jQuery.wikibase.claimview’s edit mode handling
  • Improved search by using entity selector in search field instead of normal MediaWiki search field
  • More work on Lua-based templates for entities
  • Specified the capabilities of the query language we need
  • Created query object
  • Proper bot-flagging of edits (bugzilla:44857)
  • Use of ID to directly address an item or property
  • Search should give more of the complete matches now
  • Special:ItemByTitle should work for canonical namespaces and later on for local namespaces
  • More robust format for notifications of changes on the repository to the client
  • Started work on refactoring API and autocomments code
  • Started to maintain documentation of configuration options in git
• Discussions/Press
  • List of currently existing properties
  • Proposals for new properties
• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
  • Upcoming: office hour in English tomorrow
  • Note: changed day of next German office hour to March 8
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We have a time scheduled when Wikidata will be read-only for a database migration. The window for that is Feb 20 19:00 to Feb 21 2:00 UTC.
  • New features and bugfixes on Wikidata are planned to be deployed on Monday (Feb 18). This should among other things include:
    • Showing useful diffs for edits of claims (they’re currently empty)
    • Automatic comments for editing of claims (there are currently none)
    • Ability to add items to claims by their ID
    • Better handling of deleted properties
    • More results in the entity selector (that’s the thing that lets you select properties, items and so on) so you can add everything and not just the first few matches that are shown
  • We’re still working on the issue that sometimes editing of certain parts of items or properties isn’t possible. If you’re running into it try to reload the page and/or change the URL to the www. version or the non-www. version respectively.
  • Deployment on all other Wikipedias is currently planned for March 6 (a note to the Village Pumps of all affected projects will follow soon)
  • Check out a well-done item
• Open Tasks for You
• Help expand en:Wikipedia:Wikidata
• Help expand and translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
• Hack on one these

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Wikidata weekly summary #46

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Development
  • Deployed new features and bugfixes including diffs for statements and the ability to enter items and properties by their ID
  • Updated demo system
  • Database maintainance (Wikidata was in read-only mode for a bit)
  • Implemented first version of a string data type
  • Worked on better error reporting from the API
  • Ported Lua function mw.wikibase.getEntity to Wikibase extension
  • Worked on making the search box suggest items and properties while typing
  • Improved the behaviour of the entity selector (thingy that lets you select items and entities)
  • Improved debugging experience in JavaScript when dealing with prototypical inheritance
  • Worked on cleanup of local entity store
  • Generalized generation of localizable edit summaries
• Discussions/Press
  • Wikidata development will continue in 2013
  • Wikidata Phase 2 in Full Swing
  • RFC about the Wikidata API
  • Lots of discussions about certain properties and how they should be used. Current state is at d:Wikidata:List of properties and new ones are being discussed at [d:Wikidata:Property proposal]]
  • RCF about amending the global bot policy for Wikidata
  • Proposed changes to Wikidata’s notability guidelines
• Events
  • office hour including a report on the current status of Wikidata (log)
  • upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias and a small update on Wikidata are planned for March 6
  • Great page for editors to learn about what phase 1 means for them
  • Cool tool visualizing family relations based on data in Wikidata
  • “Restricting the World” (first in a series about some design decisions behind Wikidata)
  • List of most used properties
  • OmegaWiki is using Wikidata to get links to Wikipedia articles
  • Nyan Nyan Wikidata Nyan Nyan
  • We’ve hit d:Q5000000
  • Had a look at d:Wikidata:Tools lately?
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these
  • Help translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
  • Help bring the content of en:Wikipedia:Wikidata to your Wikipedia

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Siddhachakra

Hi Nizil, I was quite happy to edit Siddhachakra. The lead section could probably be expanded a little, perhaps a sentence or two describing it and its history. If you were to write those I would be happy to copy edit them. Tdslk (talk) 01:17, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Copy edits made. Cheers! Tdslk (talk) 17:05, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Bhadra Fort

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Wikidata weekly summary #47

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Development
  • Extended diff view to include references now
  • Fixed bug where incorrect statements revision was shown in diff view
  • Added first version of Linked Data interface (RDF/XML); will be accessible from Special:EntityData
  • Updated the demo system
  • More work towards using Solr for our search
  • More investigation and fixes of search issues
  • Fixed several bugs in the entity selector and improved its behavior
  • Worked on refactoring of how our widgets use the toolbar
  • Worked on implementation of missing data model components in JavaScript
  • A lot of bug fixing
• Events
  • Wikipedia Day NYC
  • upcoming: Wikimedia metrics and activities meeting
  • upcoming: office hour (German)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Rollout of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias is still planned for March 6
  • Next update on wikidata.org is also planned for March 6. This will have bugfixes and if all goes well string as a new available data type.
  • Proposal was made to the Hungarian, Hebrew and Italian Wikipedias to be the first batch to use phase 2 of Wikidata (infoboxes). Scheduled timeframe for this is end of March
  • d:Wikidata:Database reports has some useful reports like the list of most used properties
  • The interwiki shortcut :d was changed to always use www in the resulting link (to prevent editing issues on other URLs).
  • The list of available properties is growing and a whole bunch of new ones are being discussed
  • Reasonator gives you a nice adapted view of an item about a person
  • Items by cat helps you find missing items in a certain Wikipedia category
  • A few more additions to d:Wikidata:Tools that you should have a look at if you’re editing statements
  • We now have more than 2600 active users on Wikidata. Thanks for being awesome. <3
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help bring the content of en:Wikipedia:Wikidata to the remaining Wikipedias that will get phase 1 on March 6
  • Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #48

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Development
  • More work on widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly without having to go to Wikidata
  • Bug fixes for Wikipedias, including:
    • don't show edit link when noexternallanglinks magic word suppresses Wikidata links (bugzilla:45037)
    • use Q## links instead of linking to Special:ItemByTitle for “edit links” link (bugzilla:44536)
    • preference for showing Wikidata edits by default in watchlist (bugzilla:44973)
  • Catching up on writing tests for untested functionality
  • More work on the Lua support for accessing data from the repository (wikidata.org) on the Wikipedias
  • Updated Wikidata’s Vagrant development machine
  • Created initial QueryStore interface
  • Created initial setup code for the SQL QueryStore
  • Discussed and created initial schema for the SQL QueryStore
  • Simplified code for client settings, including which namespaces can have Wikidata links. The default is now all namespaces, without needing to explicitly specify them in the settings
  • Improved code for sorting interwiki links in the clients, with step towards allowing the communities to specify custom sort orders per Wikipedia
  • Improved handling of deleted properties
  • Further work on replacement for current search box
  • More work on improving error reporting and edit summaries in the API
  • Tim and Aaron killed the mystery bug that caused corrupt login tokens (bugzilla:41586)
• Discussions/Press
  • Hacker News noticed we exist
  • RFC about opting out of global sysops or not (more RFCs d:Wikidata:Requests for comment)
  • Asked the Italian, Hebrew and Hungarian Wikipedias if they want to be the first to use phase 2 (will ask a few more to join the first batch later today)
• Events
  • WMF Metrics and Activities meeting (recording is linked there)
  • office hour in German
  • upcoming: Bibliothek & Information
  • upcoming: Wikidata trifft Achäologie
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We’re now live on all Wikipedias with phase 1 \o/
  • Deployed bugfixes and a new data type (string) to wikidata.org
  • How will Wikidata impact Wikipedia?
  • More useful database reports (more are being requested on the discussion page)
  • Quite a few new properties that make use of the new string data type now and more are being proposed
  • Lukas wants to work with us to improve usability
  • New user scripts at d:Wikidata:Tools
• Did you know?
  • Is a specific bug report really important to you? If you have an account on bugs.wikimedia.org you can easily add yourself to the CC list of the bug and then receive updates about its status via email
  • Wikidata is also on Twitter, identi.ca, Facebook and Google+
  • There is an IRC channel too: #wikimedia-wikidata on freenode
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  • Continue being awesome

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