User talk:Nichalp/Archive17

Quit India photos

These are taken by me only and not published any where so far. You can suggest what way to publish based on your wide experience.

--Dore chakravarty 19:19, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Mind

Hmm, interesting new talk page design! Anyways, the main reason I've been choosing around 22:00 UTC (plus/minus a few hours, of course) is that is the time I'm usually available to open the round. However, if it seems like most people are around on 5:30 UTC time, I could attempt to have it opened then. Perhaps a poll is in order? Anyways, good idea- I'll see what Deryck says, and then perhaps ask around and see what time most of the WP:MIND participants are logged on. For right now, though, I hope that the scoring changes Deryck implemented should keep it competitive. Good luck and have fun with the rest of the round! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | W_S 20:48, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Rename

I have now chosen a more appropriate username, and I'm sorry for my first choice of username. Will you please now rename me. The Fascist Chicken 21:27, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Request a comment

I'm sorry to bother you, but I would really like to see your comment about a proposal about a new namespace (see Wikipedia:Gallery namespace). I'm sure it would be useful looking at your experience in Wikipedia. Thank you. CG 13:50, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Cricket, Lovely Cricket

Sure, I'll join wikiproject cricket. What does it entail? Do I get to bore all you young whippersnappers about how I was the first person to upload a schematic of all the fielding positions (it was rubbish)? (You know it's not really a cricket club without some doddering old timer telling you how much it was better in his day...) -- GWO 18:18, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Cool, how do I sign up. PS : You don't want to see my diagram. The one you've got now is much better. GWO

• Thank you for taking the time to invite me into the project. Unfortunately I am less able to devote time to Wikipedia thesedays and could not commit myself to anything. I wish you the best of luck with it.
  Regards,
  SimonMayer 22:25, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

RJS (yet again)

Just a note. Put RJS up for peer review yesterday. Tintin 19:33, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Quit India photos

How do I know when and where you are using these photos? A silly question of course by this .....man. Searcing some more of old photos from my album scanned and put on CD.

--Dore chakravarty 21:28, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Can send better pictures

I can send better pictures taken out from my CD instead of the web site photos I referred to you earlier. Please opine to which email address to send them or any other alternative? Can I upload these in my user name so that u can use them? Which is the safest method?

--Dore chakravarty 21:35, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

S.Parthasarathi_Ayyangar_ML,IP

This article is up on AfD - he's supposed to be the CoP of Madras. I was wondering if you might want to have a look at it. Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2005_September_23#S.Parthasarathi_Ayyangar_ML.2CIP - Guettarda 02:24, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I usually don't visit AFD as the page size is too large for my connection. =Nichalp «Talk»= 13:34, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

If it interests you I can keep a list of India-related AfD's (not that I get there every day, but I do try to check it out every few days). Guettarda 14:44, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

I'll try to add to it then. Whatever I can do for the Mother Country ;) Guettarda 15:22, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Nepal

Nicholas, talk about a rush of people commenting on the article . I've tried to stop the 1920s royal pic, the only one on the left side, from covering the lower half of the text line above it. Unsuccessful. It would also be nice to shift one or two other pics to the left to avoid the long, continuous column of pics on the right. Tony 04:33, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

impressionist painting after 1921

Does anyone know which impressionist artist painted French Revolution aristrocrats leaving (during the Revolution) in boats. The painting is oil on every early masonite so would have been painted around 1922 maybe. The brush strokes are certainly impressionist and the colors are vivid. Purchased it in San Antonio, Texas where many service men brought works back from France. The subjects (people in boats) are certainly dressed in French costumes and they are in small boats (what type was used for escaping?). which artist works should I view to see similar paintings?. Thank You for any suggestions. my e-mail is ngailgarrett@yahoo.com

Sorry I wouldn't be knowin. You could try The Reference Desk. =Nichalp «Talk»= 13:19, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Zones of Nepal

Hi Nichalp, I noticed that the Subdivisions section on Nepal article looks really nice and is very good, but the main article for that section, Zones of Nepal isn't so good and needs to be cleaned up. Maybe you can help out? Thanks. --Hottentot

Brookie Admin

Thanks for the note-it was rather stressful being voted on! ...en passant! 08:02, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

I agree with you. Its like being on probation. =Nichalp «Talk»= 13:36, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Anthony de Mello

I'm not quite sure why you had to ask me about it, but this guy founded the BCCI, is that right? If that's the case I'd put him at Anthony de Mello (cricket administrator), then, with a dab page at Anthony de Mello. He'd be more famous for his administration than 11 first class matches with a HS of 15 and 17 wickets? Sam Vimes 18:18, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

As requested. Have fun with it - my article is heavily biased towards the cricketing side of things because I don't have any sources to write about the administrator-part. Sam Vimes 19:17, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Quit India photos

Thank you very much. Shall try shortly and let you know. Sorry, troubling you because I am new to Wiki and not an expert on computer. Better I upload original scaneed ones from my CD. Shall try in a few days as suggested.

--Dore chakravarty 19:40, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

category for Padma Bhushan awardees

Hi Nichalp, saw the above category created by you and categorised one of my articles under it. Then I realised that lot of people receive Padma Shri, then a Padma Bhushan and finally, a Padma Vibhushan if they are lucky. If I were to create separate categories for Padma Shri awardees and Padma Vibhushan awardees, a problem could be the surfeit of categories that can appear on an article. A way out would be to have one category for these three awards under the title Padma awardees just like the Government of India calls it. The existing category can be made a redirect, if required (It may not be required as there are only two articles under it). If you are okay with the suggestion of "Padma awardees" category replacing the current category, pl. let me know so that I can create the category and tag articles accordingly. (By my reckoning, there would be 150+ articles that need to be categorised under the Padma awardees.) --Gurubrahma 00:58, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Your bot

First off, I need to know a little more of where you are placing the text. Secondly, I need to know a little more about the contents of the .csv file. Thirdly, as it currently stands, it will take all your .csv info, put it into the format you asked, and place it on your user sandbox. --AllyUnion (talk) 03:23, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Quit India Photos-uploaded

Uploaded QUITIN1,QUITIN2,QUITIN5 and QUITIN7-4 photos and now in Image list of QUIT INDIA I see only QUITIN7. Why others are not showing, not clear to me. Uploaded using Wikimedia commonplace. Done for {{Cc-by-sa2.5}}.For this in the defaut license only ver 2 is seen and not ver 2.5. Can you enlighten pl.

--Dore chakravarty 04:57, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Bangalore & EoI

I lost interest mid-way (after working a bit on the history section) and had even got it off my watchlist. :-( Anyways, I will try to work on it from today. BTW, have you seen this: http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/ ?

I don't like the software park image at Wikipedia:Today's_featured_article/October_2,_2005 (since it is very ordinary) and would much rather prefer the BSE image. Can I just change it or should I discuss it somewhere? Pamri • Talk 07:35, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Quit India photos

Photos now uploaded in Wikimedia Commons (in which a new account of mine is created) and checked at Self published work and found all 4 photos. This place shows the License ver 2.5 also.Earlier I had done with Wikimedia Commonplace, which was not correct.Now anybody can show a link to these photos with information to me. Am I right? Thanks very much for your instructions. Next step: what is your advise for me to do in Wiki?

--222.153.85.90 10:03, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for taking care of Tamil people

I see heavy editing to Tamil people, but the overall diff seems at first sight to be for the better. I'm sure you and other editors would've had a hard time with vandalism attempts as this topic deals with ethnicity etc., Will answer the queries tomorrow as I've a lot of catching up to do with my other work. Also a minor fact FYI - I'm not the "original author" of this article, Vadakkan @ Arvind is and I just helped him. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 10:33, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Casino Goa, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

The Casino Goa article says "Those below 18 are not barred from entering." I'm wondering if there's a typo here as it sounds not quite right to me. Did you mean "Those below 18 are barred..."? --A bit iffy 12:08, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Fixed, it originally read Those below 18 are not allowed..., Thanks for pointing it out. =Nichalp «Talk»= 12:10, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Signpost- RFB disabled

I'll put it in news and notes. And as far as your RFB, well, I guess I like you a lot, or I'm growing senlie in my old age. Either way... :) Ral315 W_S 13:13, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks =Nichalp «Talk»= 14:27, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Stealing

Go for it. :) --Celestianpower ^hablamé 13:40, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks =Nichalp «Talk»= 14:27, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

OK, I'll update the DYKs in the India portal

I normally loathe at the thought of responsibility, but updating DYKs on India portal should be fun. I'll do it. Idleguy 13:48, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks =Nichalp «Talk»= 14:27, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Chart available

I've done the chart for you. You can view it at Image:Nichalp-edits.png. I won't be placing it on my contributions subpage so please feel free to delete it whenever you're done with it or keep it if you want. All the best, --Durin 16:11, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Constitution of India

Hi,

I made some changes to the Constitution of India article. Any suggestions? Jisha C J 16:58, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

The page has too much of a list. The United States Constitution is a Featured Article and is nicely done. It needs to be expanded further. =Nichalp «Talk»= 17:09, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Agreed. But will require a lot of input and help.

Jisha C J 17:19, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

I fully agree. =Nichalp «Talk»= 17:29, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Journalist's RFA

Thanks

I want to thank you very much for your vote on my RFA. Greatly apperciated, I owe you one! Journalist | huh? 19 May 2024

Re: Sysop Message

Sure...go ahead. Everything on here's free, right? ;) — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 22:32, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Quit India photos

Done as suggested with slight modification. Please check and let me know your opinion.Learning a lot. Very much indebted to you please.

--Dore chakravarty 23:57, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Bhutan

Yes, you got it right. Tamil doesn't have any alphabet corresponding to the sound "B". Some people say that these sounds don't occur in classical Tamil, whereas, some others say that these sounds are there in Tamil and the same letters are pronounced differently based on some rules.

And ya, I definitely owe you one for the two-day vigil. Waiting to see a Tamil stub from you. :-) -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 03:53, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

How did you do that? Copy-paste? It looks good except that you left the last Unicode diacritic in each sentence. And we need to merge some content from another stub with a slightly different transliteration. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 09:47, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Happy to know your interwiki work. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 10:34, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

EoI request

Hi, I made some minor changes to the Economy of India's lead. Can these be reflected at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 2, 2005. Thanks. --Pamri • Talk 06:26, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

I don't want the whole lead, but a few minor corrections. Anyways, I have made a request at Wikipedia:Tomorrow's featured article. --Pamri • Talk 07:28, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

World not travelled

(answered on my talk page but not sure if you'd be watching there so re-posting here)

Hi World-(not-travelled-to-India)-traveller! Any plans to visit India? I'm curious: what is the highest/lowest point you have been to, and the hottest/coldest temperatures you have experienced? Thanks =Nichalp «Talk»= 08:28, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Ah yes, one of the large gaps in my coverage of the world! Definitely plan to visit India one day, but South America, Mali and Ethiopia are currently ahead of it on my schedule. There will be a total solar eclipse visible from northern India on 22 July 2009, that could certainly encourage me to get over there.

As for my highest/lowest etc, yes, I am enough of a travel obsessive to keep a track of things like that! [1]. Should be going further south and also higher than ever before when I go to Patagonia in a few weeks time... Worldtraveller 11:44, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Graph

I have the sources for EoI graphs, but OO.o can't export text in the graphs, when it saves to SVG. After some experimentation, I managed to export Image:India-states-map-blank.svg to SVG using OO.o. Apparently, you have to save to an image, open it in OO.o draw & then save to SVG. Wierdly, I can't open this file in inkscape. Anyways, converting the images to SVG shouldn't be a problem, but I am not sure it is desirable to directly use it in the article, since not everyone would have installed the plugin or would have a browser that suppports svg. Most of the svg images are either linked from the article or were used to create SVG images. What do you think? --Pamri • Talk 13:50, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

My bad, didn't realise mediawiki converts to png. I guess, converting to SVG wouldn't be so bad then. BTW, what do you use for charts,maps & svg?--Pamri • Talk 16:23, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Re:Bot

In your example, based on the first line of:

Changlang,Changlang,124994,4662,27,AR-CH

You basically want to create a new article that is called Changlang with the following wiki text to start off the article:

'''Changlang''' is a district with a population of 124994 and an area of 4662 and. Changlang is the district headquarters.

Is that correct? And if the article exists, do you want it to simply tack your text to the beginning of the page? Or do you prefer it to skip it? --AllyUnion (talk) 15:56, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Quit India photos

Thanks for the suggestion. I have to think a lot before execution. Shall definitely do. Doubt! Quit India Movement is a category under History of India. Correct as shown? Confirmation essential please.

--222.153.110.150 18:14, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Quit India Movement

Sorry. I am meddling with your article, above metioned. Just now I saw it.

--222.153.110.150 19:31, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Mediation

Hello, Nichalp! Thanks for your support of my mediation committee nomination; I'm pleased to announce that I'm now an official mediator. Thanks once again. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | W_S 20:27, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Quit India Photos-uploaded

Done for all the other 3 photos. Pl check. In addition I got this also on photo 2. Why, not clear. Can you remove this?

There is 1 subcategory to this category. I

   * Image:QUITIN2.JPG

--Dore chakravarty 21:18, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Q I photos

Already done and all showing at the bottom Quit India Movement. Shall try first in sandbox the uploading to other languages as suggested. Great! U are the author for Quit India Movement as I saw it now. Does it require editing to Wiki style? Can I help? Intend comminmg to India by Jan or so.Would be happy to meet you.

--222.153.110.150 05:13, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Q I photos

Frech I could see but not hindi, tamil etc. Secondly could see photos being added in French Quit India Movement. But how to add the text explaining the photos? It can be added in English. How to get it in Frech? Any method?

--Dore chakravarty 06:34, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Q I photos

The text comes in English only and not in French. Secondly all photos come at the end of text and on the right side.I can make txt come to the right of the exixting txt. Which one you would prefer as good? All photos editing lines given here for ur trial and pl do what you feel good.Let me know also. I have removed the end brackets to avoid photos coming in.

[[image:QUITIN2.JPG|thumb|250px| Procession view at Bangalore

[[image:QUITIN1.JPG|thumb|250px| Public lecture at Basavanagudi, Bangalore with Late C.F.Andrews

[[image:QUITIN7.JPG|thumb|250px| Another Procession at Bangalore

[[image:QUITIN5.JPG|thumb|250px| Picketing in front of Medical School at Bangalore

--Dore chakravarty 09:09, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Picture of the shoeshine boys in the railway station

Come on, Nichalp. I've done all the list of things that needed doing (within reason - a little stuck with finding non-commonwealth information) Where's the picture for the shoe polish article? You promised, grrrr :@

Seriously, though, if you could find the time to upload it, that would be awesome. Let me know on my talk page. Proto t c 09:12, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

It's fine, don't go out of your way to get it, just when you go past and happen to have your camera :) Proto t c 09:53, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

SVG R&D

Hi, I finally got my linux up & running & wierdly, inkscape works better here. It even renders the OO.o generated files perfectly. I generated Image:Nepal_map2.svg this using potrace, a commandline utility that inkscape uses internally. Image:Nepal map-inkscape.svg was traced (see http://www.inkscape.org/doc/tracing/tutorial-tracing.html - choose multiple scanning->color instead of the options listed above) with inkscap. I am yet to figure out how to resize it though. I was looking through pychart & it seems to generate some good graphs, is easy to use & exports to SVG. Pamri • Talk 09:47, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

I have resized Image:Nepal_map-inkscape.svg, but the size still hasn't reduced. Maybe, it has to do something with the huge no. of nodes. I think, we need to use a plain bitmap to trace without the captions & then readd it in inkscape. I am more noobie than you in SVG, so am just guessing. BTW, does your DNS settings in /etc/resolv.conf point to your router/isp? Pamri • Talk 12:26, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

My Adminship

Thank you very much for letting me know that you found consensus to have been reached on my adminship. Please let me know when thedatabase problem or whatever other technical issue has been cleared. And please feel free to give me any pointers or guidance in my new role as an admin. DES ^(talk) 15:03, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the cello! Funny, I thought that Wikipedia only had one image of a cello, cropped from a string quartet shot. Guess I should head over to Commons more often... Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | W_S 19:21, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Q I photos

Added 2 more photos to Quit India Movement. Thanks for adding one photo to French version. But the description is still in English only. How to make it in French language? Then only I can try adding other photos. Suggestinons?

--Dore chakravarty 19:31, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

New OLD PHOTOS

Please see the old photos in this link, taken by me and not published any where.

http://yourindianancestors.photosite.com/Album5/Chapter1/

Late Dilip Singh Ji was an well cricketer and Maharaja of Bhavanagar. He was also High Commissioner for Australia under British rule, before merger.

Letter of CR during Congress session at Nasik when my father was in PWD, Bombay. He wanted Kodabale (south Indian dish) to eat. He visited our house and remarked ’’’This has been made for the occasion’’’ on seeing the new photos of Gandhiji etc. brought at that time. This shows how shrewd he was. My father was a faithful British Govt. servant. and also a Free Mason (a Secret British Society) like Lions Club now.

You can see the photos and how they can be useful to Wiki projects.

Audio

is the way to do it ! Btw, what book are you relying on for Anthony De Mello ? Tintin 23:05, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Do you know who employs Shastri and the other commentators now ? I got some references from the net that Shastri worked for WorldTel (atleast until the early 2000s). Will have to phrase that section very ambigously so as not to make any mistakes. Tintin 23:22, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Inspired by Durin, I am trying to find the breakups of contributions on my own. Yours is like this :

1821 September 2005

1746 August 2005

1593 July 2005

1626 June 2005

640 May 2005

466 April 2005

578 March 2005

412 February 2005

590 January 2005

81 December 2004

51 November 2004

150 October 2004

500 September 2004

379 August 2004

415 July 2004

150 June 2004

74 May 2004

125 April 2004

132 March 2004

93 February 2004

5 January 2004

2005 9472

2004 2155

Cricketer Ranjit

I have found an article at site indicated below which you can visit and see what to do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._S._Ranjitsinhji

--Dore chakravarty 23:58, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

reply re pics

Hi Nicholas Got a positive reply from the guy I emailed about using his photos. Shall I just reply thanks, but sorry it's too late? Tony

OK then, we need to make a selection so I can ask him. Perhaps three or four? Some of his photos are not good compositionally, and some have scanning streaks. Some of these I could improve a little on my computer before posting. What do you think?

Sherpa musicians [2]

Communist flag: [3]

Communist victory parade (poor composition): [4]

Mt Ama Dablam [5]

Mt Everest [6]

Village in Annapurna region [7]

Mustard fields 1 [8]

Mustard fields 2 [9]

Village houses [10]

Tony 11:55, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Images request

Hi, Can you please take a snapshot of Dadabai Naoroji's statue, whenever you get the opportunity? I will write one related article in gratitude when you get one.  :-) Since he died on 1917, all his images should be PD, right? BTW, User:GKarunakar is the dude I mentioned who has taken some good photos and he doesn't mind putting it under GFDL/CC-by-sa. --Pamri • Talk 15:12, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Unable to create a category

I've tried to create a category on Category:Leaders outsted by Coup but there seems 2 b some problem in creating that category. Is there any rule that only admins can create categories? I didn't see any consensus being reached at the proposal to restrict creation only to admins... pl. help Idleguy 17:19, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Please Remove the Awful picture from the history

Hi Nichalp,

Can you please remove the awful pictures that show up in the history of article "tamil people". Some person put up a pornographic picture and others reverted it. See revisions by JeremyA and others. But it shows up in the history. Is there anything that can be done about it?

thanks

Yes, there is a way. I'd have to delete the entire article and restore selected versions. To make my task simpler, (as I'm usually pretty busy) please give me the differences like this [11]. Thank you. =Nichalp «Talk»= 18:44, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Q I photos

The commonscat image added to Eng version(seen also the relevant page) and 3 more QI photos added to French version of Quit India. Await further directions.

--Dore chakravarty 20:04, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Re Cricket WikiProject

Yeah, you caught me fair and square adding things to a cricket article. at the moment I think I'd prefer to stay out of the WikiProject, simply because I already spend far too much time on Wikipedia - but I'll keep adding occasional items to cricket files here. Thanks for the compliment, too! :) Grutness...wha? 22:11, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

First, I do watch my user page: thanks for the barnstar, it made my evening  :) Second, thanks for the invitation: I've effectively been a participant of WikiProject Cricket since jguk started it, but I really don't feel the need to sign up; but thanks anyway. Third, I'm away for a week: see you anon.-- ALoan (Talk) 23:08, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Done-Quit India Movement in W.Commons

Done as per directions as under.

If you notice category:Quit India Movement is a red link etc.

--222.153.110.150 23:17, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

List of Northwest Territories general elections

Greetings, I have attempted to resolve your objections to the List of Northwest Territories general elections, when you have a spare moment, please review and see if the changes are satisfactory. Thank you --Cloveious 02:09, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Nepal!

I'm very pleased; you're playing a large part in lifting the documentation of South Asia on Wikipedia to one of the best treated parts of the world. :-) Tony 05:52, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Congrats on Nepal. By the way, see the latest edits to Bhutan. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 07:22, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Yes

Yes i am from Bhutan. did you ever study in kalimpong or sikkim. Rinzin 07:54, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Who wrote the article on bhutan its very good . is it a group effort.almosty all the data is correct i dont know much about the stats used but the rest is pretty much accurate . where do you get the data from. Alos i would like to know how those comments are attached after the change so that i can explain why i have done it.Rinzin

Ganpanti

Hi Nichalp, I noticed in your comments on my talk page you mentioned Ganpanti celebrations, and the link to Ganpanti was red. Is this worthy of an article? If you're too busy, point me in the right direction and I'll get a stub started. Proto t c 09:52, 30 September 2005 (UTC)