User talk:Nichalp/Archive41

Citing Sources

Your edit of the article "Charles II" made 13:18, March 12, 2005 (→Foreign policy - policy in India) does not have a citation. Please add references (and if you used a specific work, could you provide me pg numbers and bibliographic information?) Thanks. User:cnelson

Images

I am fairly certain that the following images are allowed per CC liscense and/or fair use in linked articles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:The_poor_in_pakistan.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Anti-Hindu_propaganda.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Indian_Army_Bomb.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Calcutta_1946_riot.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Malekar.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Express_interior.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Marine_day_big.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Brabourne_stadium.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Deccan_odyssey_lu_galleryfull.jpeg

Source pages etc are all linked.

Not so sure about the others in my log (I thought CC liscense meant okay for wikipedia, evidently I was wrong). If you can;t ascertain the details of their liscenses or if they are wrong for wikipedia then plz delete them.Hkelkar 06:58, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

I uploaded a new image here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Marinedrive_mumbai.jpg

It is cc-2.0 and it says here:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

that I can copy, distribute, display, make derivative works etc. provided I attribute and I did. PLz check to see if that's okay. I put in source url (not static link, but to the display page with cc2.0 written there).Hkelkar 07:23, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Welcome back

Great to find you active again! I am sure everything is fine and you are doing very well. In the meanwhile, we had a meet at Bangalore: Bangalore Meetup. I met many there - let us have another Meet somewhere! --Bhadani 11:10, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Hello. Welcome back! - Aksi_great (talk) 13:29, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Wow! You are back with a bang! Welcome back.--Dwaipayan (talk) 20:00, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Yep, wb! :)--thunderboltz^(Deepu) 08:32, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks guys! :) =Nichalp «Talk»= 08:40, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Welcome back Nichalp. We need more stablising forces on these India pages....Blnguyen (bananabucket) 23:50, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: Admin

Yay! Thanks - I was testing a newpages patrol program when I saw the new tabs appear, and had the opportunity to delete a CSD A3. Thanks for promoting me! Martinp23 11:18, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Martin's not quite as cool as the last guy you promoted, don't you think? -- Steel 13:38, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Re:Cricket

Yes I guess your right that articles such as this don't need many inline citations. It's just since inline citations are generally required all the time for an article to go FA, I just though this article isn't going to be FA much longer. I'm assuming that some of the dates and numbers in "History" and "Forms of cricket" probably can have an inline citations though. - Tutmosis 17:04, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

It is good to see you around the place, Nichalp. Perhaps it is time to give cricket a face lift? Perhaps suggest another concerted effort at WP:CRIC? -- ALoan (Talk) 15:26, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Urgent

I wanted to put this pic up on Poverty in Pakistan

http://www.shutterfreaks.com/gallery2/album101/Pak84a_003

Per the website instructions, I emailed the photographer (would you like to see the transcripts?)

He said, "You can use my photograph under the condition you clearly mention the photographer and his gallery: Frits Selier, Netherlands".

So, is that okay? Hkelkar 00:48, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

I think he will have to mention that he licenses this particular contribution of his to Creative Commons license. That'll solve the problem. Perhaps you could email him again and ask him to update his website. Regards, — Nearly Headless Nick ^{L} 10:34, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

I think that since the author hasn't specifically mentioned that the image can be licensed under the CC license, we should use {{CopyrightedFreeUseProvidedThat|the photographer and his gallery are attributed.}}. Also, the transcript of the mail should be sent to permissions (at) wikimedia (dot) org so that it can be archived and the ticket provided. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 11:30, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

No probs.I will send the emails as soon as I can (in a day or so), then upload the image per your instructions. Thanks.Hkelkar 11:38, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

I forwarded Selier's email to permissions_(at)_wikimedia_(dot)_org. Now what? do I wait for an acknowledgement or can I upload the image?Hkelkar 12:19, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Actually the image should be uploaded "before" the mail is sent to the PR dept. In the mail to the PR department, you should specify the name of image you have uploaded on Wikipedia/commons. There won't be any acknowledgement, they would just update the image page with the ticket number of the permission archive as shown in this edit. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 12:37, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

You should make it clear that for images to be used in Wikipedia, the author must allow uncondition commercial use to be made, AND derivative use be allowed. =Nichalp «Talk»= 23:38, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Question about signature

BTW, how do you get the four tildes to become "=Nichalp <<talk>>"? Thanks! Fowler&fowler 05:32, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

about Hyderabad (India) to Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

First of all: welcome back! I'd like your opinion about these polls and the edits last october here in the cities Naming convention - India section: [1] I did post a msg here about this sometime ago. --hydkat 09:56, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

I must admit, I was quite impressed by his perfomance, I think he'll either make a really good politician or a good diplomat :) About reopening the debate: upto you, 'cause as you have seen: I really suck at it. --hydkat 07:15, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Nichalp for his wide-ranging graphical enhancements to many India related pages, through his photography of India, creation of India demography maps, flags, insignia and compilation of PD images. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 23:50, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Thailand

OK. --BostonMA ^talk 00:37, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

The India Page Lead

I haven't done anything to the history section. In fact in all my edits on the India page, only once was I able to get beyond the lead, and then it took me five sections of talk to get the words, "Lord William Bentinct, the Christian evangelists, and British utilitarians," into the text. Yeah, I didn't think the animals were going to cut it. (My girlfriend said, "Looks like it is written for idiots." :)) Will keep working on getting rid of the specifics. I'm also still working on the signature. Fowler&fowler 01:45, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

PS I managed to fix the history section. I reverted to your edit from 14:15 18 November 2006. Is this what you wanted? My signature problems are still not resolved. When I type:

[User:Fowler&fowler|<font color="#B8860B">Fowler&fowler</font>]][[User talk:Fowler&fowler|<font color="#708090">«Talk»</font>]], I get the message: "Invalid raw signature; check HTML tags." !

<font color="#B8860B">Fowler&amp;fowler</font><font color="#708090">«Talk»</font> 06:52, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

PPS Yippee!! It worked--thanks to user Ambuj Saxena! Fowler&fowler«Talk» 13:06, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I'm done with editing the India page lead. Let me know what you think. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 07:08, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Auranzeb protection

Thanks for putting the brakes on Aurangzeb.--Nemonoman 03:20, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks A lot

Thanks a lot for going through and correcting the content. The logo will not do as it is distorting the actual logo and i need to have it in that manner only. Teach me how to do it so that i can make the necessary changes. Thanks once again. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Shubhayu (talk • contribs) .

Suggestion needed

Since you are active now, you are probably the best person to sort this out. In the FAC of Bengali language, the rank of Bengali language (in terms of number of people speaking the language) in India is being debated. 1991 census data (cited in the article) states it's second.

However, there are contradicting references. As Idleguy has pointed out, this nic site states Telugu is the second most widely spoken language in India. The problem is which reference to follow. 2001 census data on language is not yet available online.

In this scenario, I suggested to state the fact in the following manner, "...according to 1991 census of India, Bengali is the second most widely spoken language in the country...". Could you please see the FAC and comment there in this regard. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 16:45, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

how do i put table of contents on a page...

im currently writing an article on bhiwandi city. as i am relatively new on wikipedia, i dnt knw many things. plz tell me how do i put TOC on a page. Arfat

Did you know?

With about 910 edits to the article, you are the biggest contributor to India! (User • Talk) 02:29, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

kukhran

I replied to your post on the kukhran discussion board...

azad hind fauz

wow...u do a lot here...i didnt mean to put u down in my post...i meant to question the method by which this website operates..u uploaded the azad hind ensignia..thats amazing...great job man..we need people like u.

International Religious Freedom Act of 1998

I would appreciate if you could drop a line or two regarding the article on the talk page. Best wishes. — Nearly Headless Nick ^{L} 14:39, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

IST article

Hi Nichalp,

Regarding the concern over misplaced/missing refs, I can't do much as I am short of time. Can you please handle them yourself. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 19:00, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

License tagging for Image:Emblem of India.svg

Thanks for uploading Image:Emblem of India.svg. Wikipedia gets thousands of images uploaded every day, and in order to verify that the images can be legally used on Wikipedia, the source and copyright status must be indicated. Images need to have an image tag applied to the image description page indicating the copyright status of the image. This uniform and easy-to-understand method of indicating the license status allows potential re-users of the images to know what they are allowed to do with the images.

For more information on using images, see the following pages:

• Wikipedia:Image use policy
• Wikipedia:Image copyright tags

This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. If you need help on selecting a tag to use, or in adding the tag to the image description, feel free to post a message at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 06:05, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Renaming a Category

Hi Bhadaniji, how are you ? Recently, I came across a category called Category:Government of Mumbai. Actually, I feel that the title of the category is incorrect, as no such thing exists as the government of Mumbai. I feel the category should be renamed to "Governance of Mumbai". Someone had already raised the point on the talkpage. But noone renamed the category. I am not too familiar with the process of renaming categories. Can you help me on this one ? Thanks, --NRS | ^T/_M\^B 17:38, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

I agree with your point - there is no such entity as the Government of Mumbai, and perhaps it should be changed to Governance of Mumbai. However, we may see the names of similar categories, if any, for other metros like Kolkata and Chennai. Most likely, the redundant category will have to be deleted after complying with the procedure. A reference to Nichalp should be useful. I am doing this by cutting-pasting these exchanges on his talk page. --Bhadani 18:57, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Please suggest. Regards. --Bhadani 18:59, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

But, I found many Category:Government by city and some of them may be having their own governments too. --Bhadani 19:03, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure if renaming the category to the suggested one will be helpful. True, there is no such term as 'Government of Mumbai', it is the BMC, so a more apt category is in the offering. This would also require many of the subcategories be classified under a different master category as it will not be compatible with 'Governance of Mumbai'. See if a alternate new category version can be drafted. This should be proposed on the Indian Wikipedians noticeboard. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 05:39, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi!

Hmm... Relocating to Pondicherry... Me thought u were relocating to Calcutta at one point of time. Nice to see you on the wikimeet with Jimbo. I also have noticed that u have spoken to Dore Chakraborty? Any updates? Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 05:42, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Nice to see you on my page after trillions of years. Yes, you are right - I wanted to be shifted to Kolkata due to proximity to my home town Ranchi. But, this did not happen. Pondicherry is a nice place and I think that my transfer there should turn out to be great! It would be greater :) indeed if we could organize a meet of Indian wikipedians anywhere in India. I would surly love to attend. I am reporting for my duties at Pondicherry on Monday, 27th November, 2006. --Bhadani 06:00, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Orphaned

Hi Nichalp,

I have orphaned Nathula plaque.jpg and replaced it with free versions. Can you please delete it? — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 13:46, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Deleted. — Nearly Headless Nick ^{L} 15:16, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Nathula

Hi Nichalp,

Can you look at Nathula again. I have made many improvements in the article. Do you think we can raise it to FA level? — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 16:53, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

I will definitely start thinking in that way. I had seen many Chinese refs, but nothing substantial was written that covers the Chinese POV. Either it didn't create so much hype in China, or there's hardly anything more to it to write about things across the border. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 17:21, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Cricket

Hi Nichalp. Not sure if we had any specific goals, but we did float briefly the idea of getting a set of FAs ready for the World Cup to showcase on the Main Page - Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Cricket/archive22#English-bio-stubs.2C_over-full.2C_subcats_proposed. Although I'm willing to get the content organised, the blunt truth is that my skills in terms of writing quality prose is poor - Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ian Thorpe - so it may come down to ALoan or you to polish off the job :) Blnguyen (bananabucket) 00:44, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Kukhran discussion page

Hey Nichal...

this is the guy I was talking about...

his name is "Szhaider"

first, look at his webpage which states that he considers "India"" to be a threat to world peace,

then look at the discussion page of KUKHRAN article where he states that he does not care nor does he know what this article is about, then why is he editing it?

Look, I am really pissed now, people access this website and when they type in kukhran they retrieve wrong information. I want to request that this article be either removed, banned, or halted from Wikipedia access because their is simply too much uncitated information on this page and its ridiculous....this is wrong, simply wrong. This should not be allowed.

Well, I don't know much on the article so I can't comment on the content. For one, all of us have our own personal biases. When we edit wikipedia, we put aside our biases to write a neutral article. From his latest (post), he hasn't written anything outrageous that would require one to hit the alarm bells. From the article talk page, he seems to be making minor formatting changes and not large scale edits, so I don't see any fault in it. As a wikipedian he has every right to edit the article, so as long as it is 1. referenced by credible sources and 2. neutrally written. You can request him to cite his sources. Please be polite when dealing with wikipedians.

Lastly, we cannot delete or ban any article from wikipedia. We have resisted all sorts of attempts at censorship, including the Chinese government. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 05:14, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

first of all, saying that a "significant" number of kukhrans converted to islam is a huge difference as opposed to saying that a "small" minority converted. Secondly, do you read my posts?You did not respond to any of my points regarding this person. He said he DOESNT EVEN KNOW WHAT THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT...so why is he changing it? He hasnt just made minor formatting changes. You are a JOKE....you work so hard for a website that will never be credible...thus your existence is a joke...go to hell you coward...its because of people like you that the british ruled us for 250 years and muslims before that. COWARD. i hope that word stays in your head at night while you aare sleeping. You are a disgrace to your people and humanity...KILL YOURSELF.

Cowards are people who cannot calmly discuss a matter without hurling insults, or raise the issue at an adult level. =Nichalp «Talk»= 08:18, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Serial Experiments Lain FAC

Thanks for commenting on the Lain FAC. However, I was wondering if you could advise what the norm is for the lists of items such as the one at end of the page. Should it be in italics? Left as is? This is my first FAC and I still lack much of the style-related stuff.--SidiLemine 16:44, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi, just wanted to let you know that all your demands on this FAC have been met. --SidiLemine 15:34, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi

No hurry, but when you have the time, could you let me know what you think of the India page lead. Feel free to be completely honest (no holds barred). Thanks! Fowler&fowler«Talk» 12:28, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

India Article

The section on Indian military in the India article need to be expanded. This is a main article and hence the Military information need to be precise. Requesting your help in expanding it. Thanking you. Chanakyathegreat 04:19, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Scope of India project

Nicholas, Need your advise. I am assuming you followed the discussion on WT:INB about adding a pre-independence parameter to the India project banner so that it will represent the Indian-subcontinent. User:Szhaider feels we are claiming the history of South Asia for ourselves. He wants these articles to be under the scope of newly created Wikipedia:WikiProject History of South Asia. He created this project and he is the only member. He is engaging in edit war by removing the India project banners from articles that are tagged as Indian-history related. I would like your advise about how to proceed, should I report this to WP:ANI, or should India project scope be limited to only-post-indepedence articles since this user feels Pakistani Wikipedians will be offended seeing Ashoka Chakra and India project links on the article tag pages (For example: Talk:Taxila). Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 19:56, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your response on WP:INB. It really helps. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 01:19, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

IST

Congratulations on your 15th FA! - Aksi_great (talk) 06:19, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

I am working on Vikram Sarabhai. If you could spare some time, could you suggest a layout for the article. At present I am working on the format suggested by Wikiproject Biographies. - Aksi_great (talk) 06:33, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

The entire article after Indian Space Program needs to be written again. It is just a collection of random sentences as it stands now. I will ask you to look at the article once it meets almost all of WIAFA except 1a. - Aksi_great (talk) 14:31, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Ayyavazhi

Sir, First the source was cited with two university papers. One for the number of worship centers(followers) and another for it as a seperate religion from leading Universities. Fistly the citations was removed then the mentioning. Also please see the talk page.

The questions asked by Parthi was answerd (also cited with source) by me many times before to him. But some how he is not understanding. In every his reverts, of my edits I was made to remember the citions myself once cited to stop him.

Also, thanks - Paul 09:50, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

On Nathu La

Hi! After some talks with Ambuj, I am messaging you. Following are some points on the article (copies from Ambuj's talk page):

Some observations: What are the last two entries under "Notes" doing? I mean they are not specifically cited. If they are not specifically cited, those two can be moved under "References", while rest of the stuffs under "Notes". These is not a must, but IMO can be done.

One more comment, "For Hindus, the pass reduces the journey time to Mansarovar lake from 15 days to two days.The Tibetans on the Indian side can now easily go to Potala Palace in Lhasa to offer prayers." But at the end, "Tourists will not be allowed to cross the border via Nathu La pass till 2012." And also, in the caption of Rumtek's photo, "Pilgrims from Tibet may be able to make a pilgrimage to the Rumtek monastery". So, is there any specific arrangement for pilgrims for the time being (till 2012)? Pilgrims are also tourists, right?

Yet another comment. I've been to Kalimpong and remember being shown by some guide "oi je Nathu La" (There is Nathu La!) The image "The Nathu La Pass as seen from the town of Kalimpong" - are you sure that's Nathu La? I mean which one? There are many such rugged mountains that can be seen from Kalimpong. Well, I just hope someone does not raise this question in FAC :)

In reply, Ambuj wrote me this. So, can we have another FAC very soon :) Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 15:12, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Nichalp, are you sure that Nathu La belongs to both India and China. I couldn't find any reference that even suggests it is part of China. All references show Nathu La as part of India only. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 18:23, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, it's on border. The pass named Nathu La should be part of both India and PRC. Now, may be that the border post of India is called Nathu La while that of PRC something else. It's not in a no man's land either! So, part of the pass should be in India while another part in PRC.--Dwaipayan (talk) 08:37, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Pls check my comments at the Peer Review. The infobox need to be changed. Amartyabag 10:35, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

SITE

Hi. Working on Sarabhai led me to creating Satellite Instructional Television Experiment. Now I think I have enough material to make this an FA too! - Aksi_great (talk) 10:52, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

I have uploaded the map as you requested here. Please leave your suggestions at the peer-review. Thanks. - Aksi_great (talk) 08:53, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Indian army maps

Hi, I saw your post on the Indian military history project. A lot of the battles of the 1971 War could use maps if you'd like to try that? --AW 17:40, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Hoysala Empire

Hi. I have been fowarded to you for Copy edit help on the above mentioned article. It is right now in Peer review. I have already made good progress in the copy edit, balancing of topics etc. Please let me know if you have the time.Dineshkannambadi 18:14, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

WP:CRIQ

Graeme Smith was not the one I was thinking of, but you can have it if you can provide a citation. -- ALoan (Talk) 18:33, 4 December 2006 (UTC)