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Gurubrahma 05:34, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Good work!

Hi Varun, noticed your good work on Andhra Pradesh and related articles. Also, pl. try to retain information by making it NPOV rather than removing it (e.g. info abt IT, Bio-tech) etc. --Gurubrahma 05:34, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Indian American

Hey Varun, being one I thought you would be able to add something to this article Indian American. Good work on Andhra Pradesh. keep it up --Vyzasatya 17:37, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Apartheid outside South Africa

I replied to your comments there if you want to have a read. I can see where you're coming from, but still have to disagree. Cheers, - >>michaelg | talk 12:04, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Wow, wasnt expecting an about face but rightio! Cheers, have a top time on wikipedia! (whatever your view) Cheers, - >>michaelg | talk 12:23, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

I don't have time to deal with it right now...could you take a look at the Israel section? Maybe it's just the sleep in my eyes, but the first "sentence" appears to be a disjoint mélange of 2, maybe 3, poorly thrown-together phrases without proper "glue"... TShilo12 14:44, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Nice to see you

hi, nice to find you here, we shall surely inter-act more. Have a nice time improving the contents. --Bhadani 15:33, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Radcliffe wikify

Hi Doops,

My name is Varun. I'm currently on a editing spree of college-related articles. The reason I added a wikify tag to Radcliffe article was because it does not have the same quality as other college articles. I saw on your user page that you are an alum of Harvard. If you would like to help wikify the Radcliffe article, please see my edits of UMass Amherst. As for your comment as to why I didn't do the editing myself, an article doesn't just become wikified by the insertion of link tags. Even your own Harvard College is far more wikified than the Radcliffe page.

In the future, please pose questions as to tags in the Discussion page of the article in question, thanks!

Vvuppala 07:29, 18 November 2005 (UTC) (copied from User talk:Doops)

Hi, Varun. I think you may be misunderstanding the word "wikify". Wikification isn't so much a question of content as of how that content is formatted — in particular, is there a healthy dose of internal wikipedia links? Typically, the "wikify" tag is used for articles with large chunks of undigested text, often cut-and-pasted from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica or other public domain source. They need formatting, links, and often lots of rewriting to make them encyclopedic in tone. Adding the tag to an article automatically adds it to the huge (currently ca. 2000 articles) Category:Articles that need to be wikified; for the sake of the sanity of the brave souls who try, largely in vain, to rescue articles like this from this category, we should only send articles there which really need it.

As far as article quality is concerned, I would argue that Radcliffe College is actually a much better article than Harvard College right now. The latter is rambling, poorly-organized, and gives too much attention to some things and not enough attention to othevs; since I know something about the college I feel I really ought to make it a better article — but it's a daunting task. The Radcliffe College article, on the other hand, is direct and to-the-point; it makes the most important points about that college clearly. It is shorter, of course; but that's a separate issue from quality, I would argue. Harvard College has lots of info but is a crummy article; Radcliffe College is brief but well-written and -organized.

Should Radcliffe College be longer? Maybe. But let me point out that Radcliffe College no longer exists; it has been defunct in law since 1999 and in practice since the mid 1970s. It's only natural that living colleges will have more active articles. And, even aside from that, I believe that article quality is as least as important as quantity of information, as long as all the important bases are covered. Don't get me wrong -- it's always possible to add interesting new info to articles; and I'm not opposed to the possibility of growth for the Radcliffe College article. I just don't think it's a priority, when so many Wikipedia articles are crummy.

By the way, I presume you know this already; but in case you don't — if you come across a really short article (just a paragraph or two) which isn't already marked as a stub, you can use the {{stub}} tag to do so. But again, like the {{wikify}} tag, we should only use it where truly appropriate.

Cheers, Doops | talk 08:09, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi, it's me again. Actually, I also hadn't noticed that Radcliffe was tagged as a stub. I've removed it, based on my reading of the criteria at Wikipedia:stub. I think that this article lies somewhere in the vast middle ground between stubs and featured articles. Doops | talk 09:02, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Portal for Hyderabad

Hi,

I started working on portal for Hyderabad. The page is attracting lot of crap, whereas people should be adding content. Hope you are enjoying The Netherlands.

Chirags 20:37, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Please forgive my geographical ignorance about Amherst. Chirags 16:15, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

You showed support for Indian Colloboration of the Week. This week Hyderabad was selected to be improved to featured article status. Hope you can help…

Cleanup Taskforce

I've added the page TheCollegeWeb to your desk. See if there's anything you can do with it, but as I mentioned, there are 7 or 8 cleanup tags at the top of the article. haz _(user talk)^e 20:31, 24 February 2006

Hello

Greetings, the holi-hangover continues! --Bhadani 07:47, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

INCOTW

You voted for Indian American, this week's Indian Colloboration of the Week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. - Ganeshk (talk) 05:39, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

AfD Nomination: Registered Student Organizations at UMass Amherst

I've nominated the article Registered Student Organizations at UMass Amherst for deletion under the Articles for deletion process. We appreciate your contributions, but in this particular case I do not feel that Registered Student Organizations at UMass Amherst satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion. I have explained why in the nomination space (see What Wikipedia is not and Deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Registered Student Organizations at UMass Amherst. Don't forget to add four tildes (~~~~) at the end of each of your comments to sign them. You are free to edit the content of Registered Student Organizations at UMass Amherst during the discussion, but please do not remove the "Articles for Deletion" template (the box at the top). Doing so will not end the discussion. --Slowking Man 14:40, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Ségolène Royal

My pleasure. Nasty vandal, by the way: by inserting that image in a template, about a thousand pages were affected... A question about this edit: [1]. Are you sure her page should link to domestic partnership? That is defined as a relationship "between individuals who live together and share a common domestic life but are not joined in a traditional marriage, a common-law marriage, or a civil union." But Royal and Hollande are joined in a civil union, the Pacte civil de solidarité. Cheers, Skarioffszky 08:20, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

UMassWiki

Hello! I'd just like to remind you that there's an entire wiki devoted to UMass at umasswiki.com? Please stop by and make some edits or add articles! We've been around over a year and are serving up to 90,000 pages a month, but we could really use more good editors. :) --Neurophyre^(talk) 10:00, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Image:Camino icon.png

Hello, Vvuppala. An automated process has found and removed an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, and thus is being used under fair use that was in your userspace. The image (Image:Camino icon.png) was found at the following location: User:Vvuppala. This image or media was attempted to be removed per criterion number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media was replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. Please find a free image or media to replace it with, and or remove the image from your userspace. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 08:01, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Please re-register

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RJFJR 00:48, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

University of Massachusetts WikiProject

I noticed that you have attended the University of Massachusetts system. You are welcomed to join the WikiProject University of Massachusetts at your own convenience. If you have any questions for me, I will respond as soon as possible. Your participation is appreciated. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 02:07, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

File:Caminowiki2.png listed for deletion

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Invite to WikiConference India 2011

Hi Vvuppala, The First WikiConference India is being organized in Mumbai and will take place on 18-20 November 2011. You can see our Official website, the Facebook event and our Scholarship form. But the activities start now with the 100 day long WikiOutreach. As you are part of WikiProject India community we invite you to be there for conference and share your experience. Thank you for your contributions. We look forward to see you at Mumbai on 18-20 November 2011

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