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Contents 1 Speedy deletion 2 Thanks 3 ThanX 4 Madhubala image 5 Re: Riya Sen 6 Orphaned non-free media (Image:Madhubala actress.jpg) 7 Effects of Writer's Strike on Television. 8 User:Nsaiabhishek 9 Images 10 Speedy deletion 11 Thank you for the award 12 Please check 13 తెవికీ 14 Talk:Rang De Basanti 15 Orphaned non-free media (Image:Anasuya (2007 film).jpg) 16 ♣ 17 Revert 18 Rang De Basanti 19 Narmada River 20 Possibly unfree images April 5 21 Chak De India 22 Jalsa 23 Riya Sen 24 Kisan Kanya (1937 film) 25 Your GA nomination of Rang De Basanti 26 Welcome back!! 27 Congrats 28 Just to say hai 29 Current Events Portal 30 Hi,Praveen 31 Patient wait and all 32 Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_topics#Bot_Assisted_Assessment 33 WikiProject films peer review of Pather Panchali 34 Madhuri Dixit image 35 Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Fans sivaji.jpg 36 Bot 37 Good work!!! 38 Thank you 39 Thank you 40 Assessment Dept. 41 Bot approved: dabbing help needed 42 Armenia 43 If it ain't broke why fix it 44 BOT_issues_with_Bengali_categories_on_TinucherianBot 45 Woodstock Villa 46 Thanks! 47 Sikandar Kher 48 Proposed deletion of Safilguda Railway Station 49 WP:INDIA Tagging for WP:Andhra Pradesh with TinucherianBot 50 Railway stations and notability 51 Kamalinee Mukherjee 52 Lead editor

[edit] Speedy deletion

Hi Praveen, Too speedy!

cur) (last) 17:04, 1 June 2008 Hut 8.5 (Talk | contribs) (23 bytes) (change to a redirect) (undo)

(cur) (last) 15:54, 1 June 2008 Mspraveen (Talk | contribs) m (34 bytes) (Requesting speedy deletion (CSD A1). (TW)) (undo)

You could have changed "See Pig Latin" into a redirect like the person after you and saved this semi-newbie some concern and time. Welcome back, but slow down on trying to earn the Brownie points for <Your God>'s sake. ;-P Ferdinangus (talk) 07:43, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for you barnstar. There is so little information about India on Wikipedia that I am tempted to add on new pages as often as I can but I generally avoid two-line stubs. I like to add something meaningful. The ones that appear to be better are put up for DYK. When I started working on Wikipedia nearly two years ago, I did not use in-line citations. Now some of the old articles are running into trouble. For quite sometime now I have been thinking about taking time off from new articles and setting the old ones right. Maybe, I should do it now and return to new articles later. You have been working on quality material. Keep it up. Regards. - P.K.Niyogi (talk) 04:30, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] ThanX

In recompense i'm gonna shnaphle ur Archival code...
BTW do u know the code for how I would change the "Archives" label to read "walkmytalk archives", as this is the name of my specific archive? I am still a coding novice.
Blessings to Goddess Serendipity
B9 hummingbird hovering ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:53, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Madhubala image

I had already uploaded the same image at Image:Madhubala2.jpg. It has a full rationale . I think the colur close up is better as a main image ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:03, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Riya Sen

Hello Praveen. Nice to see that you've been watching the article. I have feeling that it's almost ready take another go at GAN. Can you take a look at the article and let me know what issues need to be solved? I know the prose is choppy. Context and flow are not too good in the last two sections. But, I promise to rewrite those parts. I wish I could have help from a good copyeditor. Let me know your observations, please. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 10:52, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Removed that porn portal banner. Pretty silly. Probably Arundhati was trying to refer to Riya's MMS controversy. Anyways, the banner is no more. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 12:26, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you so much. And, I was thinking no one really noticed. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 11:22, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

A place that lies halfway between Vietnam and Afghanistan, both geographically and spiritually. That place is generally known as Bangladesh. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 11:32, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Wonderful. Which part of India? I have been to Maharashtra (Mumbai and Puna), Goa, Delhi, Bangalore, all over West Bengal and Orissa, Bihar (Patna), a few places in Chhattisgarh and Assam, and much of Meghalaya. I love Gujrati and Punjabi food, Chennai films (subtitled or dubbed, of course) and have met a few great Indians. I also am quite jealous of the Indian Wikiproject (awesome). I already have contributed significantly to a good article that's part of that project (Ananthabhadram). Riya Sen is my second drive to that end. Nice to know you so much. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 16:46, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Madhubala actress.jpg)

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[edit] Effects of Writer's Strike on Television.

What's POV about the changes? Duggy 1138 (talk) 11:15, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

I live in Australia, where it isn't POV. It's a fact. No one watches CBS.

Duggy 1138 (talk) 11:19, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Not everything is about America. Australian Television is discussed on the page (Good News Week, for example).

Duggy 1138 (talk) 11:23, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

There are a lot of CBS shows on the list... why do you want to remove Big Brother and the Amazing Race?

Duggy 1138 (talk) 02:51, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User:Nsaiabhishek

Not really - I think we should assume good faith in this instance - in any event, there have been no contributions for a couple of days, and one of the key criteria of WP:AIV is that the vandal must be active now. _GB^T/C 13:23, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

No problem. _GB^T/C 13:26, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Images

Really that image has to be deleted because that license is no longer valid. Officially images from Caledonian Publishing have been black listed as certain editors, Sarvagnya for one are under the impression they are copywrighted and we can't legally use them, despite the fact several of us have made an agreement with various sites who all claim they have been leased the images from the same publisher who has granted permission ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:55, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Well its not my problem. It'll get deleted eventually but I'm far too busy to go searching for stray images. Regards ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:59, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Well I've been pretty much functioning as an admin for a long time, there is a reason why I haven't accepted adminship yet, I've put in 10-15 times more edits on here than many admins so don't let the admin badge be a judge for what goes on around here. If anybody disputes it and restores the tag OK, but I feel the rationale is strong enough to justify the images existence. This is based on a council discussion we had over six months ago on the legitimacy of fair use images in stages in an actor career where a free image is impossible to obtain particularly when it is 40-50 years ago. Technically though the main image we could possibly obtain a recent free image but that would go in the main infobox whereas the fair use image would not be permitted to do so -this is why I removed the images from the infobox ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 10:18, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Keep up the great work on these articles!!!! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 10:26, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes I fully agree, in my experience many image taggers and patrollers have a tendency to emphasise their own importance and elevation above other editors with all sorts of policing, the "wiki lawyers" who forget what wikipedia is about. Don't let their strict policies and false prententiousness deceive you, but in the case of many issues they do have a valid point beneath their policing , if a rationale is missing or is inadequate. I have learnt to deal with them and work with them most of the time. IN case you were wondering why to date I haven't accepted various requests for adminship, I'm not a believer in bureacracy where it appears other editors "rule" above others and fully agree with Jimbo that it should be for technical purposes not to administer above others. At times though I could certainly use certain admin tools to help me work. Besides this I have always seen adminship as a distraction of encyclopedic writing and developing of articles which I try to solely concentrate on. Regards. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 14:18, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Well if I was to remove an image from Riya Sen I would remove the other one rather than that one as that image is particularly important encyclopedically to identify an important career moment. As for Image:428px-001 A.jpg I seriously doubt it is GFDL or even legitimate permission wise to be honest. Looks like a blatant copyvio to be honest that should be dleeted, but I'll assume innocent until proven guilty so to speak. But remember that although I agree that one or two fair use images that are very important and irresplaceable in places are generally accpetable I would strongly frown against abusing it and adding too many "fairuse" images in places. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 14:40, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Dropping in Ouch! Removed that Riya Sen image again. This time I did it myself. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 17:13, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion

Regarding the page Image:Rambha 39.jpg, which you tagged for speedy deletion on the basis of image with unknown source or unknown copyright status which has been tagged as unknown for more than 7 days and still lacks the necessary information, I wanted you to know that I have removed the speedy deletion tag. This page does not qualify for speedy deletion because the image was only uploaded on Friday, please assume good faith and ask the user to add the copyright status instead. If you still want the page to be deleted, please use the WP:IFD process. Thanks! Stifle (talk) 15:58, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you for the award

Hope all is well. Life is hectic, and Wikipedia gets hectic at the same time (as always). A message like that makes me pause and smile - I'm very touched by it. Thank you. :) Ncmvocalist (talk) 17:07, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Btw, would you mind if I got in touch with you via email? Ncmvocalist (talk) 04:12, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Please check

Before reverting ( image- vyjayanthimala)- please check what you are reverting, there was additional information added about the image. and the reasoning is covered in that. You want the tag back you can put it back but do not remove information that is relevant to the image Haphar (talk) 07:30, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] తెవికీ

మీరు ఆంగ్ల వికీలో వ్రాసిన వ్యాసాలు చాలా బావున్నాయి. తెవికీలో కూడా వ్రాస్తే బావుంటుంది. Σαι ( Talk) 11:40, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Typing is not a problem at all now. You can try. It's up to you. We're trying to reach 40,000 articles asap. About 500 left. And yes we did meet before. regarding Chiranjeevi's image. Σαι ( Talk) 09:37, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. You can start off with te:బొమ్మరిల్లు (2006 సినిమా) which you wrote here as well. Quality doesn't really matter. Some other editors (including me) will make the minor changes. Σαι ( Talk) 11:37, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Rang De Basanti

Hey! I see you are the main contributor of Rang De Basanti. I didn't want to make a GA review, but anyway I added yesterday some comments on the above-mentioned discussion page. Shahid • ^Talk2me 13:12, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Yeh but replaceable images of these actresses now are not appropriate as they do not identify them during their career which the article discusses. To expect to be able to obtain a free image of them as old women which have no relation to their past career is quite ridiculous. As long as it has a rationale to explain why the image is appropriate and why a free altertative cannot adequately give the same info this should be fine. Shahid • ^Talk2me 15:13, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

If indeed the "added plus" refers to Gracy's time, so go ahead. Shahid • ^Talk2me 15:16, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

No, a free replacement of her past career (which the article mainly discusses) cannot be found. But she is still very active so I'm not sure either. But replacements for actresses who are no longer active (ie Babita). In fact, I have no problem to add a FU rationale that provides a critical commentary. Shahid • ^Talk2me 15:19, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Well, Jessica is still very active. Also, there is no copyright license for Waheeda Rehman's image as the image is more than 30-40 years old. Shahid • ^Talk2me 15:22, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Well, only remember not to tag up for deletion images which are screenshots and are used in the films they are taken from. If an image seems inappropriate for usage in an actor's article, but has a FU rationale of film screenshot and is featured in the film article, just remove it from the actor's article. Shahid • ^Talk2me 15:38, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

One good example of that is the image of Raakhee. The image comes from the 1971 film Sharmeelee, so it definitely can be added there and thus cannot be deleted as it satisfies the FU criteria as a film screenshot. Now yes, its usage on her article is debatable. Shahid • ^Talk2me 15:45, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

I will remove the tag now and add a critical commentary to this image so that it qualifies the FU conditions of screenshots in a BLP. Yet, it can be be placed only in the career section, and not the infobox. Shahid • ^Talk2me 15:53, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Anasuya (2007 film).jpg)

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	The Hidden Barnstar
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Cheers, Basketball110  Talk  22:06, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Revert

No problems. Let me know if I can help out in the future. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:40, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rang De Basanti

I'm writing the review right now. I think grammatically it can work both ways, but according to the plot I just read the British film maker recruited the nonchalant youngsters individually and not as a previously united group, so I thought the verb should go with that.--Yamanbaiia^{(free hugs!)} 18:48, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

I removed my name from the GAN list. I think the article has many language problems and you'll probably disagree with some of my corrections because I'm not a native English speaker, so I think it's for the best for me to step back now before I spend any more time correcting things that will probably be challenged. Best of luck. --Yamanbaiia^{(free hugs!)} 21:50, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Narmada River

The wiki page on Narmada River, as at present, is full of mis-statements and personal observaions without reliable authentication. It is a very contoversial river and hence the contents of this article should be duly verifiable from Govt. web sites or court orders. With this end in view, I have prepared a revised article to place the facts in correct perspective (upheld by the highest court in the country). Since you have taken deep interest in writing and editing aticles on Wiki, I would like you to have a look at the additions I would be making on Narmada river article in the next few days. I thought that my factual additions to the Supreme Court verdict posted on the web page of Narmada Bachao Andolan would be vanadlised. But I am glad that it has been retained. I would urge you to read the full text of the Supreme Court judgement, which is cited in the text, to appreciate the various issues connected with the project. Since I am not very conversant with uploading of photos on wiki pages, if you can do it for the Narmada then I can ask the Narmada Control Authority to give you permission to upload some of the pictures and drawings of the layout of the river posted on their web site.--Nvvchar (talk) 08:35, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

I have made a total change in the Narmada article to bring out facts.--Nvvchar (talk) 14:55, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Possibly unfree images April 5

All of the images have been removed from the Gurgaon Page. .--Manaspunhani (talk)5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Chak De India

Have a look at this communique. Interested? (after you are over with RDB maybe!)--Dwaipayan (talk) 06:28, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi! As noted above, Dwaipayan suggested that I contact you about the Chak De India article. It still needs quite a bit of work before it can reach GA status. This will happen, I believe, if more editors contribute to it. I'm currently on a semi-wiki break but will be checking in every once and awhile. If you are not interested in this article, perhaps you might know of some other editors who might be? Thanks, -Classicfilms (talk) 08:36, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Ok, thanks I understand perfectly. I'm on break for at least this week but when I come back I'll keep your suggestions in mind. At the moment, Dwaipayan has said that he'll work on it as well when I come back. Good luck with your other articles. -Classicfilms (talk) 14:31, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jalsa

Please check the references and external links before removing. Some of the references that were posted by me are not spam but real websites with contents that are useful and interesting to the movie buffs like me. Spinhoo (talk) 14:32, 12 April 2008 (UTC)spinhoo

[edit] Riya Sen

Riya Sen should be ready for another go at GAN. Would you care to take a look and leave your comments on the talk page? Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 07:21, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Great things are happening there, with help from Blofeld of SPECTRE and Shahid. Please, take a look when you have time. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 15:20, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Hey thanks buddy!! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:38, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kisan Kanya (1937 film)

I have created this article on Kisan Kanya, India's first indigenously produced colour film and am thinking of nominating it for a DYK. However, I cannot as the article has been classed as a 'Stub'. It would be great if you could help me in improving content or adding photographs. Please, hurry, I have only two days left. Thank you-

[edit] Your GA nomination of Rang De Basanti

The article Rang De Basanti you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. It hasn't failed because it's basically a good article, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Rang De Basanti for things needed to be addressed. Ice Cold Beer (talk) 09:33, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome back!!

Welcome back!! I myself will be back to active in all editing/assessing/etc. hopefully in the next few weeks. I will meanwhile try to get those ideas to you - I think I'd forgotten to a while ago. Anyway, best wishes with Rang De Basanthi (I know the wait was excessively long, but at least some of it was during your absence), and happy editing/reviewing. You'll hear from me again soon. Ncmvocalist (talk) 17:49, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

P.S. I did notice your ad - nice work. Just one minor thing - WikiProject puts the P as an upper-case character rather than a lowercase. Ncmvocalist (talk) 17:49, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Congrats

Congrats for GA-ship of Rang De Basanti. You have done absolutely wonderful job. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 18:25, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

yes i shall try to have a look. Add the contents you indicated. I think the article will get ready for an FAC shortly. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 10:54, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Just to say hai

Have a great day ! -- TinuCherian ^{(Wanna Talk?)} - 11:22, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Current Events Portal

Thanks. I get the point. Rohit Reddy™ (talk) 04:29, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

I am a native of Ananthapur, but never resided there. I studied in Vizag and now we are living in Chennai. I am studying in Srinagar now. I am about to graduate in about 1 month. What about you? Rohit Reddy™ (talk) 11:32, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

I can do it. But there is only one problem. My internet connection is not regular and good. I will update into that section whenever I can. Thanks for telling me. Rohit Reddy™ (talk) 04:29, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

I have added some entries into that section (Portal:Current_events/India). Comments and advise will be very helpful. Rohit Reddy™ (talk) 05:36, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hi,Praveen

I've observed your edits in Bommarillu and many other articles.Pretty good.Why not let's work together in some articles releated to Tollywood?S.GaneshKumar (talk) 14:57, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Patient wait and all

Thanks. I really hope to get Riya Sen to a GA status, and a few failures, no matter how heartbreaking, should not deter it form getting there. As for the stuff that's keeping me busy these days... well, it's the recession... hurts bad. I hope you are alright. Thanks again. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 07:02, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Bangladesh, of course. But, even more than that it's this global recession. Unfortunately I work for an international advertising agency. And, thanks for the offer to help. I'll need it too. :( Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 18:32, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_topics#Bot_Assisted_Assessment

FYI. Inviting Thoughts -- TinuCherian ^{(Wanna Talk?)} - 05:13, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject films peer review of Pather Panchali

Pather Panchali, an Indian film directed by Satyajit Ray, is one of the Core articles in wikiproject film. The article is at the WikiProject Films' peer review section here. Please provide inputs. Thanks a lot. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 12:43, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Madhuri Dixit image

Hello User:Mspraveen, I am pretty sure that television shows are treated in a similar manner like films, where photographers from certain media groups land up on the sets to take pictures of the actors. Just like how in a film, photographers come on the sets to take the pictures of the actors filming, this was probably the case of Mrs. Dixit's image. For example, don't you see sometimes that actors are interviewed while they are on television reality shows, where the media people ask them questions about their forthcoming films, why they are here, and etc? Thus the Sony Entertainment Television must have allowed the indiafm.com photographers to come on the shooting sets and take pictures of Madhuri Dixit, who appeared on the show to promote her film Aaja Nachle. Regards --Bollywood Dreamz ^Talk 00:05, 22 May 2008

[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Fans sivaji.jpg

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[edit] Bot

Hi thanks for the vote of confidence. It is currently undergoing approval but not many seem to be discussing it. Feel free to ask questions at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FritzpollBot. Given its importance I think as many editors should be discussing it there as possible. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 19:03, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Good work!!!

Hey Praveen, The work that u did on MMTS is commendable. I too contribute on Hyderabad related articles a lot, and whenever i see someone doing, i try to collaborate with them. Cheers!Randhirreddy 17:44, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Hey Praveen! Thanks for the half barnstar :) And, now several of the articles you worked on should move forward towards FA-hood, I hope.--Dwaipayan (talk) 17:15, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes I'm expecting at least 10 FA articles from you over the next two weeks . ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:29, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Hehe, 10 FAs in 2 weeks.. that will keep you somewhat busy :)--Dwaipayan (talk) 18:32, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

10 FAs in a fortnight is going to be daunting! ;) Just have been caught up in RL and that has slowed down my activities. However, let me give a shot :P Cheers! Mspraveen (talk) 15:08, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Hey thanks for your kind words. I really appreciate that. Shahid • ^Talk2me 13:07, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment Dept.

Ello again. It's been quiet, but in case there are any requests, I leave them entirely in your care - I expect to be away for a short while.

On another note, I hope you'll be free next month - that's when things are set to get very active (and when I can finally go over some of that stuff with you, that I'd wanted to ages ago!!) I sent a mail asking if you were (off memory) but didn't hear back.

But until then, I'll be waiting for 2 new GAs from you (and some of the GAs already done turning into, or going for FAs) ;) Best wishes - Ncmvocalist (talk) 15:58, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Lol, yeah :P but only you...need to finalize a couple of other things before the others come in ;) Ncmvocalist (talk) 17:06, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

It's just as an example of symbols to use and how to display your tally near your name in the participant's list (particularly for confused newbies) - I haven't begun assessing any yet. Ncmvocalist (talk) 16:49, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

LOL, rest assured, you're not losing it. ;) Ncmvocalist (talk) 17:31, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't think it'll matter too much - as long as non-project participants assesses them appropriately, but he seems to have participated in the Milhist drive before. I'm not sure how Milhist maintain their quality or if they do have any mechanisms in place. But I'll be looking through a sample from each participant. If there's something that's significantly off base, then the dept. can overrule those ratings per usual practice. But I don't expect that will be necessary (except possibly in a few exceptional articles out of all of the worklists). Ncmvocalist (talk) 11:12, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Forgot about that!! Agree entirely - wanted it for the post-drive workshop that will be opened later. Had it in mind because some past drives from other wikiprojects did that, although they presented it in a kinda confusing way. Fortunately, as all of the articles in this drive are unassessed, I can measure how much of the backlog was reduced based on the number of articles assessed by the end of the period. But the initial number would be different now. :S I wonder if someone wrote the number down somewhere... I'll check the noticeboard. Ncmvocalist (talk) 09:17, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Oops! Well we can say what the number was (once we find it), and what the number reduced by from the drive? :) Ncmvocalist (talk) 09:20, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Oh my, there goes that idea...I suppose we could manually check the log for articles that shifted from the unassessed category to a class category for those articles that were assessed under the drive, if there's no other way.... Ncmvocalist (talk) 09:54, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bot approved: dabbing help needed

Hi there. Fritz bot has been approved at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FritzpollBot for filling in a possible 1.8 million articles on settlements across the world. Now dabbing needs to be done for links which aren't sorted as the bot will bypass any blue links. and I need as many people as possible to help me with Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Places to prepare for the bot. If you could tackle a page or two everything counts as it will be hard to do it alone. Thankyou ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 12:08, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Yep its great news now that we have the green light to add this many articles. See the conversation with User talk:DSachan. Basically all thats need doing is checking the existing blue links in the directory at Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Places to see if they are correct. If they lead to the wrong page then they will need correcting e.g Baluchi is the name of numerous page and under the province listed would need to be linked accordingly e.g Baluchi, Ghor. as it is in Ghor Province. With Bangladesh many of the places will share the same name with places in India etc so pages will have to be moved e.g to Ashmabad, India and Ashmabad, Bangladesh etc. or my province e.g Ashmabad, Chittagong if multiple places within a country have the same name. Note this name is fictional but this is the practice that will need doing. You see the bot only runs on red links, if it comes across a blue link it will skip it. This is why we need to ensure that the blue links are actually the articles that correspond ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:44, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Armenia

Keep up the good work, dabbing them puppies... :-) Carlossuarez46 (talk) 19:26, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] If it ain't broke why fix it

I am rather puzzled as to why you went to the trouble of putting this: {{db-nocontext}} on the Broke Hall page. You cite No context. Very short articles lacking sufficient context to identify the subject of the article. Example: "He is a funny man with a red car. He makes people laugh." Context is different from content, treated in A3, below.

Clearly the subject can be identified - in Nacton, by Orwell river. It is a stately home of significance, home to a famous admiral and currently a primary school. Perhaps you could share with me why you regard why this palpable context should be dismissed with the sobriquet No. Thanks.Harrypotter (talk) 09:15, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

You wrote:

Hi there! The article, in itself, is very small and also does not cite any references. Please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content. You may try to address these aspects while you put a {{hangon}} template on the article page. I hope this helps. Cheers! Mspraveen (talk) 09:19, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for this, but in your response you introduce other factors - notability and verfiability - which only create confusion. In fact the question of notability has already been addressed above, so I would not want to waste any more of your time dealing with this issue. I have already put a very nice picture of Broke Hall up with a reference, so verifiability has been dealt with. I want to make clear that the inclusion of the reference was in no way in response to your piece just above which I had not read at the time. I have no intention of putting {{hangon}} on the page. If the page gets deleted and my work destroyed, so be it. No doubt you will feel vindicated as the person who instigated this erasure and will deserve congratulations. Me, i've got better things to do.Harrypotter (talk) 09:39, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] BOT_issues_with_Bengali_categories_on_TinucherianBot

FYI . Your comments are requested -- TinuCherian ^{(Wanna Talk?)} - 05:59, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Woodstock Villa

On 8 June 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Woodstock Villa, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 06:47, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

		India service award
		By order of the coordinators, for your good work tagging and assessing India articles in Tag & Assess 2008, I hereby award you this WikiProject India Service Award. --Ncmvocalist (talk) 07:41, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

		India service award
		By order of the coordinators, for your great work tagging and assessing India articles in Tag & Assess 2008, I hereby award you this WikiProject India Service Award. --Ncmvocalist (talk) 16:41, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sikandar Kher

On 9 June 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Sikandar Kher, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 13:51, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed deletion of Safilguda Railway Station

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I guess I'm a newbie when it comes to railway stations! I don't know how you guys manage to do 200 of those assessments without your eyes glazing over!--Regents Park (roll amongst the roses) 23:35, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WP:INDIA Tagging for WP:Andhra Pradesh with TinucherianBot

Please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Andhra_Pradesh#WP:INDIA Tagging with TinucherianBot. Your attention and help is requested .You are receiving this note as you are the member of the project -- TinuCherian ^{(Wanna Talk?)} - 10:10, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Railway stations and notability

FYI: Wikipedia:Notability (Railway lines and stations).--Regents Park (roll amongst the roses) 17:34, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kamalinee Mukherjee

On 12 June 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Kamalinee Mukherjee, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 06:09, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lead editor

Hi Schumi, I have started working on newsletter and have prepared the first cut of it here. I would like you to perform the lead editor role on it as you seem to have some previous experience on this. This is my first time on such work :-) Feel free to edit and add/remove anything you feel. I have also asked User:Tinucherian to work as distributor/editor on this. Together we can publish this using Tinu's new bot. --gppande «talk» 08:23, 12 June 2008 (UTC)