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Ona Kantheeswarar Temple

Hello ,
I was checking your WP:WAM articles. Very very very well done. Could you check orphan tag in this article Ona Kantheeswarar Temple, I have marked it as pending for now, as I personally feel "orphan" on Wikipedia is not a serious issue, and can be fixed. Perhaps, you can check?
Good wishes. --Tito Dutta (talk) 19:28, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

• Same issue with these articles: --Tito Dutta (talk) 19:34, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

• Varadharaja Perumal Temple
• St. Peter's Church, Royapuram
• Wesley Church, Egmore
• Anderson Church, Chennai
• Triplicane Big Mosque
• Our Lady of Angels Church, Karaikal
• Kolanjiappar Temple

@User:Titodutta - There is a lag in AWB - i have got these linked earlier, but still showing up - i have created secondary links and removed the orphan tag. I just got my power and internet back - was floating in floods in Chennai for the past 4 days. Please check these back at your convenience.Ssriram mt (talk) 03:45, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

• Sure, thanks for informing. Hope situations will improve soon in Tamil Nadu. I have assessed all your articles, please check here WP:WAMP#S. --Tito Dutta (talk) 09:16, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks a lot - we should be back to normalcy soon.Ssriram mt (talk) 08:55, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

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@Diannaa - the worship practises are the same in all South Indian Shiva temples. The quoted Shiva temple is one of the series of 276 temples classified as Paadal Petra Sthalam. The quoted content are my contributions in other pages as well. It is similar to demographic data - as the numbers alone would vary with cities, so are the timings and/or festivals in worship practises.Ssriram mt (talk) 16:15, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi Ssriram mt and thank you for the explanation. The material showed up on a bot report here as being a copyright violation. While it is not technically required for you to give attribution when copying your own prose from one article to another, it's probably a good idea, so that patrolling administrators will not have to hunt through the history of the source page to find out who wrote it. Thanks, — Diannaa (talk) 16:20, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

sure - will include in future.Ssriram mt (talk) 15:29, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

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Demanding explanation

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I could see you are deleting my contribution to Krishnagiri. Please explain why is that required?

Being Krishnagiri my hometown I updated few more data to the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Immanueldc (talk • contribs) 09:03, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

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Tiruvannamalai

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Chhinnamasta: Wikipedia:Peer review/Chhinnamasta/archive1

Hi Ssriram mt.. I hope you are doing well ... The article Chinnamasta was recently expanded for a potential FAC. IMO, Chinnamasta will benefit from your review. Chinnamasta is a self-decapitated Tantric goddess, who holds her severed head in her hand and drinks blood from her wound.--Redtigerxyz ^Talk 17:43, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the review. I have addressed your comments. Kindly take a look. --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 06:50, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

Please check if any of your comments still need attention.--Redtigerxyz ^Talk 16:18, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

Alvar or Alwar or Azhwar

I thought three spellings of Alvars. There is no consistency in the spelling (Alvar or Alwar or Azhwar). IMO all articles in wikipedia should have the same spelling. Currently, the main article Alvars as well as most of individual Alvar articles use Alvar. I want to create move discussion to move all these article to a standard spelling. What is your take on this.--Redtigerxyz ^Talk 15:49, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Bingo - was just thinking about renaming. As per Tamil diction, it is "zha" - so IMO Azhwars should be the spelling. Please create a move discussion.Ssriram mt (talk) 15:57, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

I was searching the net; it seems Alvar is the most popular

• Britannica
• Oxford University Press
• Encyclopedia of Hinduism
• The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism: A-M
• Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of World Religions
• Encyclopedia of Hinduism edited by Denise Cush, Catherine Robinson, Michael York p. 22
• Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide By Roshen Dalal
• Azhwar (sans wiki mirror) has 93,800 hits v/s Alvar Hindu - wiki (3,30,000)
• Azhwar (2060) v/s Google books alvar Hindu (6440)
• The Hindu uses azhwar as well as Alvar
• Historical Dictionary of the Tamils By Vijaya Ramaswamy uses Alvar (p. 14) as the main spelling; but his explanation note (p. xvii) is the most enlightening. He uses Tamil and Alvar as "anglicized spelling" rather than "indigenous pronunciation" Tamizh and Alzhwar. Considering this comment and WP:ENGLISH guideline, IMO Alvar be used throughout.Redtigerxyz ^Talk 17:26, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

There is a Tamil word called Alvar, which translates to ruler. Most of the authors leaving a few are not of Tamil origin and have used Alvar and may not be aware of its meaning. The Azhwar prefix names are mostly common names (like Pei, Bhoothath, Nam), which when taken with Alvar gives altogether a different meaning.Ssriram mt (talk) 16:28, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

Moving the discussion to Talk:Alvars#Alvar_or_Alwar_or_Azhwar. Please share your views there.Redtigerxyz ^Talk 18:13, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

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Hi Diannaa - I remember we had the discussion earlier. The temples in the Divyadesam list have similar worship and festive practices. I have indeed attributed the reference "contents replicated from Govindaraja Perumal Temple". All the references quoted are verifiable to both the parent and the new page. The contents of legend and religious importance are the same for 4 temples in Kanchipuram and that is also highlighted. I have added contents for all the parent pages from where it is sourced.Ssriram mt (talk) 16:18, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

The particular edit that the bot picked up did not have the edit summary. So it is only happening most of the time. — Diannaa (talk) 19:05, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

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Kallazhagar Temple

Have you copied material into this from other articles? Because without clear attribution it's copyvio. I thought it might be copyvio from other sourced but maybe not. Doug Weller talk 19:41, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Hi User:Doug Weller, i have split pages between the village article of Azhagar Kovil and that of the temple Kallazhagar Temple - i have provided attribution in the edit summary (contents separated from Alagar Koyil, the village and the temple). Also, most of the original contents and references in parent article was included by me.Ssriram mt (talk) 04:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

It wasn't clear. "Copy/paste from this article" would be clearer, and please start a new talk page and use the template mentioned above. For talk pages also add {{talk header}} Thanks. Doug Weller talk 13:03, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

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@Diannaa - I moved the lead to the Geography section and added reference. I see it has been added by another editor and much before the edit of Chalo Chatu Encyclopedia. Seemingly, the Chalo Chatu version is copied.Ssriram mt (talk) 03:49, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

This was an incorrect notice on my part in that case. Thanks for your note. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 10:23, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Africa Destubathon

Hi, thanks for your work so far! Can you do me a favour though and always add every entry you do to the main list here as well as the entries page, regardless if yet approved or not as that's the master list of all articles being done. It's just very time consuming for me to be judging the articles, trying to contribute myself and chasing up what people have done and filling it out for people each time. So if you can take care of that this would be a great help, there's some part filled out ones underneath so you just need to add country, article name and then your username. Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:33, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

@User:Dr. Blofeld - Sure, i have done that already.Ssriram mt (talk) 03:55, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

You haven't added HIV/AIDS in Zambia yet!♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:52, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

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Oops - this was done in Angolan legislative election, 1980 and 1992 election page - but missed out here. Point noted, will modify comments in future.Ssriram mt (talk) 13:06, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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Thanks a lot Dr. Blofeld - will give a try. I am finding it a bit difficult to get region specific information from reliable sources, especially around history.Ssriram mt (talk) 04:48, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

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African Women biographies

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And congrats for being the general contest winner ;) Anthere (talk)

Thanks a lot.Ssriram mt (talk) 11:01, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Congratulations on winning the contest, and earning $495 to boot. Excellent effort, and well-deserved because you targetted a lot of those first level big regions which I most wanted improved and did them enmasse!12:08, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

User:Dr. Blofeld -Thanks a lot - you are a big motivator. As you suggested, I have nominated and will try to promote some geo articles to GA. Let me work on improving some others as well based on the data I have collected. It was a very good experience in the past 45 days.Ssriram mt (talk) 15:21, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Copperbelt strike of 1935 copyedit

user:Miniapolis - thanks a lot.Ssriram mt (talk) 07:58, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

Hello

Hello, why did you remove content in Politics of Tamil Nadu? It looked to be fairly due weight, and was sourced. ThePlatypusofDoom (talk) 13:20, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

User:ThePlatypusofDoom - it was a propaganda of a local group and the references are questionable/dubious. There was no mention about the top 3 political parties who have been ruling all through. It has to be synced up with many other political articles of the state.Ssriram mt (talk) 13:24, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

Collect your prize

Hi, please carefully read the instructions at the bottom of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon for collecting your prize. I will need you to send me an email, your wiki name, what I owe you and your preference for currency in dollars or pounds/country of residence.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:42, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi, a slight miscalculation with $20 less than should have been for one contestant means than I went a little over budget. Is it OK if I send you $425 rather than $445 so the other prizes winners can get their small amounts?♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:00, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Sure, np - $425 is still good :) Ssriram mt (talk) 04:00, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Yeah it was because we had 56 lots not 55, the 56th was the territories/miscell one, so I was missing a 20. Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:05, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

No problems at all - it is understandable.Ssriram mt (talk) 14:27, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Is it OK if I send in US dollars, I think you can still convert/buy on Amazon.com using it. It's just I don't feel comfortable working in rupees, worried that I might go overdrawn, it's not a good currency to convert to!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:48, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

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