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Welcome back

The heading says it all :) --DarkFalls talk 02:20, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Wow, long time no see - welcome back for your aniversary! Ryan Postlethwaite 02:28, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Ditto! Abecedare 03:39, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
?!?! You're back Arjun! :D --PrestonH 03:52, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
You're back! Good to see you buddy, hope it's permanent : ) ~ Riana ⁂ 04:03, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
And from me too, good to see you around. Seraphimblade Talk to me 05:04, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
  • bows* thanks everyone. its good to "be back". ~ 01er 15:10, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw your name in my watchlist. I'm glad you've decided to come back. ^^ // DecaimientoPoético 15:32, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Saw you at RFPP. Welcome back. :) Acalamari 17:10, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Nice to see you around again! You were missed :( -- Editor at Large • talk 17:16, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Yup, welcome back. :) — Malcolm (talk) 17:51, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Good to see you! --Gray Porpoise 19:33, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
  • I'm incredibly annoyed you didn't drop by to say "hi", at least. :/ Even so, I'm incredibly glad you came back, if only for a short while. How long do you plan to stay? · AndonicO Talk 20:34, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks everyone, you guys are awesome; to andonic: ive been really busy this summer. ~ 01er 18:58, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Are you back permanently? I sure hope you are!! Cheers!!! Ninetywazup?Review meMy ToDosign here! 16:18, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
Oh yeah man, i really honestly want to be crazy active like i used to be but i know that in my current position its almost impossible. I can barely get through the day now, but yeah. Ill really try to check on things during weekdays to the best i can. Cheers! ~ 01er 23:41, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
I can't believe I haven't seen this yet. Welcome back! I'll take inspiration from you and stop editing Wikipedia in the weekdays too, starting from now. :) GizzaDiscuss © 07:47, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Good to know, 01 (I was kidding about being annoyed though; and I was busy over summer as well). You'll be editing a bit on weekends then? · AndonicO Talk 15:14, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
  • I thought you retired? Welcome back, Arjun! It's good to have you back with us. -- Altiris Helios Exeunt 13:25, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, am I missing something here? ;) ♥ Fredil 20:08, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Well, surprise...surprise... :-D M.(er) 07:43, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
Likewise ;) I've been away, and so just noticed! Great to see you again. Anthøny ん 16:20, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

guitar project

Dear Arjun, my name's mike and i'm a member of wikiproject guitarist and I was wondering if you could help me as you were the one sending me emails- there's an article that needs some work, the article is the lead guitar article- it needs expanding, explanations of blues and rock guitar and some ammending, i've done what I can to make it more neutral but I don't want to explain things that are out of my expertise, that is why I am hoping to enlist the help of the guitar wikiproject, may I (or you) consider putting this article in the list of guitar themed articles that need expanding?

Yours sincerely, --Mikeoman 13:52, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

My RFA
Thanks for your support in my request for adminship, which ended with 58 supports, 1 opposes, and 1 neutral. I hope your confidence in me proves to be justified. Addhoc 18:22, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Autograph book

Do you have one? Also, can you sign mine? Thanks!!! Cheers!!! Ninetywazup?Review meMy ToDosign here! 17:24, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Family Style

The article family_style you made a while back...you really should fix it up now that you know how wikipedia works, Im guessing you made it in reference to Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughn's album. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.11.32.84 (talk) 06:50, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

October 2007 newsletter for WikiProject Abandoned Articles

Welcome

The WikiProject welcomes two new members in the past three months:

Progress

The WikiProject is now halfway done, numerically, with the 1000 articles identified in December 2006. The first (oldest) 500 articles have been claimed, reviewed, and (when needed, which was almost all cases) improved. Moreover, given the passage of time, many of articles 501 through 1000 have been worked on by other editors (it's ten months since that list was generated). So reviewing the second half of the 1000 articles should be easier.

A slightly different approach

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Wishing you a happy Dashera.

Dashera just onset this moment and my first wishes to you "Happy Dashera". I logged on after 22 weeks - so late that forgot password and editing both. Hope you are fine.

swadhyayee 18:34, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi! Can you please?

Can you please protect the article Swadhyay Pariwar? It was un-protected and history seems to repeat.

swadhyayee 19:02, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Vandal/joke

Real Bird family The real life bird family picture was made in paint, but I'm not sure how to remove it. Thanks. -noob —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.90.168.154 (talk) 01:31, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Welcome back!

Welcome back to Wikipedia, Arjun! Sorry it took so long for me to notice... Again, welcome back! :-) Festive regards, Húsönd 20:53, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Here are some quinces for you! Quinces somehow promote WikiLove and hopefully these have made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving something friendly to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Make your own message to spread WikiLove to others! Happy editing! Húsönd 20:53, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Classification of admins

Hi Arjun01. Please consider adding your admin username to the growing list at Classification of admins. Best! -- Jreferee t/c 23:03, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Why?

may i say , why did you delete my article that i posted nameing "JIB" he is a comic cartoon character that is going to be made into a cartoon in the furture and i wanted to post it ...whats wrong with that?????


thanks- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kickin kenny94 (talk • contribs) 23:54, 30 November 2007

WikiProject Guitarists notice

Just letting you know that you have been placed on the inactive list of WikiProject Guitarists members. If you'd like to get involved again - that'd be great! Feel free to move your name back to the active list, and we'll see you back in the studio. Spike Wilbury ♫ talk 18:39, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


Hi Arjun, I have loaded a page by the name Naresh Sonee & Brhmaand Pujan on Wikipedia. I need your help in reviewing and editing the same without loosing their valueful informations.I am not an expert like you to operate tools of wikipedia or computers so help me out please.You may read the 'talk page' of 'Naresh Sonee' to get me better. - Please also guide me who from wikipedia will help me out to load Hindi poems and news of Naresh Sonee. I dont open my computer regularly so please don't misunderstand if I get late in answering you. And just say how can I put Indian news papers reviews or news of Naresh Sonee on wikipedia. If I scan their photo copy . Will you help me out? Please reply here. Regard- Alan Sun —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.192.227.77 (talk) 10:29, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Hello. I am a Canadian Indian (Gujarati). I want to become an user for Wikipedia. Do you know how that is possible? May you please tell me how I can do that? Thank you. I appreciate this very much. I want to make Wikipedia a more reliable website to be on. Thank you for your time and concern in my interest. Hope you have a good day. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.94.50.10 (talk) 21:06, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Reply

Thank you for teaching me how to make an account. I greatly appreciate your help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Canadianboy111 (talk • contribs) 21:11, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

List of Stratocaster players

I don't suppose I could coax you into coming back for an impromptu collaboration to get List of Stratocaster players up to FL status? --Spike Wilbury ♫ talk 21:43, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Chemistry

Dude , you protect chemistry? Its been that way for months now! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.247.120.178 (talk) 09:02, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

League of Copyeditors roll call

Greetings from the League of Copyeditors. Your name is listed on our members page, but we are unsure how many of the people listed there are still active contributors to the League's activities. If you are still interested in participating in the work of the League, please follow the instructions at the members page to add your name to the active members list. Once you have done that, you might want to familiarise yourself with the new requests system, which has replaced the old /proofreading subpage. As the old system is now deprecated, the main efforts of the League should be to clear the substantial backlog which still exists there.
The League's services are in as high demand as ever, as evinced by the increasing backlog on our requests pages, both old and new. While FA and GA reviewers regularly praise the League's contributions to reviewed articles, we remain perennially understaffed. Fulfilling requests to polish the prose of Wikipedia's highest-profile articles is a way that editors can make a very noticeable difference to the appearance of the encyclopedia. On behalf of the League, if you do consider yourself to have left, I hope you will consider rejoining; if you consider yourself inactive, I hope you will consider returning to respond to just one request per week, or as many as you can manage. Merry Christmas and happy editing, The League of Copyeditors.

Melon‑Bot (STOP!) 17:51, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism on Guru Nanak article.

The picture of Guru Nanak has vanished from the article and someone placed "nuetrality disputed" tag on it.His fathers name was put to as "methane gas" lol.can't it be semi-protected.Ajjay (talk) 10:14, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Catch up

G'day Arjun, just flying by. Hope things are great with you, and you're enjoying life! Best wishes in the new year, for you and you're family ;) Regards, Anthøny 21:10, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Hiya!

Hey bud! I just wanted you to know that I am back! :-D Ryan Got something to say? 23:13, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Heya there yourself :). welcome back bud! ~ Arjun' 00:09, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Discussion

Hi Arjun, there is a discussion that may interest you quite a bit. Talk:Hinduism#Conversion led to Talk:Hinduism#New_Conversion_Section_Proposal and Talk:Hinduism#Additional. I feel that the wikipedia page is something that is also a resource for non-Hindus wishing to convert, and that putting poorly sourced "Mainstream indian" opinions drives away good people wishing to spiritually better themselves. It would be great to hear your perspective (as a convert) in the discussion.Bakaman 22:44, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

I'll take a look at it, thanks. ~ Arjun' 00:08, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

how to get admission in sweden

i want to know about method how to get admission 100% scholarship base in sweden —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.102.32.87 (talk) 19:56, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm not 100% sure what your asking here. Could you please clarify? Thank you. ~ Arjun' 00:07, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Adminship

Happy Adminship from the Birthday Committee

Wishing Arjun01/Archive25 a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!

-- User:Arjun01 (talk) 04:41, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

--Nadir D Steinmetz 00:07, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Wow, wow has it been that long... wow. it makes me kindof sad that i can't reguarly edit...due to real life...:/ ~ Arjun' 00:06, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Me too. :( Every time I see someone edit this page, I get excited and check your contribs. :P Any news on a return date? :) · AndonicO Hail! 01:54, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Hey bud! It's been a long time since I've talked to ya. I'm actually planing on going for roughly 10 edits a day. I know its very minimal but i have to start somewhere :). Hopefully it'll work itself to 20 and then 40 and then...you get the point =] ~ Arjun' 01:56, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Hmm, are 10 edits roughly equal to 21 minutes? Use huggle if you want edits: I made over 250 in 21 minutes.</WP:VAIN> ;) · AndonicO Hail! 02:22, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Hahaha wow, thats sick! I'm thinking about downloading it, seriously. I do however wish i could remmember my old passwords for my IRC nicks. I don't even remember how to get on the admins IRC =[ ~ Arjun' 00:13, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Want me to e-mail you instructions? · AndonicO Hail! 01:53, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Hey

Just sayin' hi. Long time no type. How's it going? — Malcolm (talk) 00:46, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

i confirm i am...

I confirm that my freenode nick is Arjun_01 ~ Arjun' 01:19, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm online at school.

Isn't that just the bee's knees?

I'm sorry I said ballz before. :( —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davefromabove1979 (talk • contribs) 19:16, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

E-mail.

Hey, I've sent you an e-mail; not sure when you'll read it, but I sent you one. ;) · AndonicO Engage. 12:26, 12 June 2008 (UTC)


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  • Tag & Assess 2008, an assessment drive initiated by the assessment department began on June 7, 2008 and will be running until July 2008. Many Wikipedians have started contributing to this mammoth task. This housekeeping activity will help manage articles in better way. You can also get involved!
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Removal of contents on the Cradle of civilization article

Hi! I removed the Four Great Ancient Civilization section from this article because the section was merged from another article onto this article. I viewed the Cradle of civilization article's talk page, a discussion of "merge" has been previously conducted and of the users who responded, majority of them opposed to the merge. That is why I undid the merge of Four Great Ancient Civilizations article and removed its content from Cradle of civilization article.--TheLeopard (talk) 01:18, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Okay! Thanks for the quick reply, I now understand why you chose to make that edit. And now I know "I" made the wrong edit. A quick tip, please next time add an edit summery. It makes things so, so much easier for us recent changes patrolers! Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia!

peace. ~ Arjun' 01:21, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for participating in my RfA, which passed with a final count of 42 supporting, 2 opposing and 2 neutral. I would like to thank Keeper76 especially for the great nomination. I look forward to assist the project and its community as an administrator. Thanks again, Cenarium Talk 01:12, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Congrats, good luck with the new tools. If you ever have any questions feel free to ask me or any other admin =] ~ Arjun' 15:55, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Sure you remember how to block someone, Arjun? ;) · AndonicO Engage. 16:17, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

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The Indian Barnstar of National Merit

The Indian Barnstar of National Merit
Awarded to Arjun01, one of the most prolific editors and an admin from India. We are proud of you ! -- Tinu Cherian - 08:00, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
wow, thank you very much =] ~ Arjun' 20:35, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Unprotect sakshama

please unprotect the page Sakshama, when wikipedia is having articles for techfest, techniche and other technical fetivals. then why not a article for sakshama, a technical festival which was started from a small town of india in the year 2007 and now it is going to celebrate it's third version and it has been said as no #1 technical festival of north india. so i want to write a page for it please unprotect it. you can find more at http://sakshama.org or you can find the same communities on orkut and other social web Aashish K Mahaswary (talk) 15:41, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

You can ignore this; I have pointed the user to WP:RFPU/WP:DRV. He didn't know how to reach an admin and so left talk messages for a page-full of recent changes editors. Stifle (talk) 16:05, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
Alrighty then, I see the issue has been resolved. ~ Arjun' 20:35, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Trying to get Back into Editing Soon!!!

Hello, for anyone who comes across this somehow. I just want to say that I plan on getting back into editing sometime soon. Schoolwork has to come first tho, along with out of school things. My time is so strained but I will try to come back to editing regularly. Possibly some internal stuff, maybe even editing again. Maybe a little bit of both =].

peace,

sincerely, ~ Arjun' 20:38, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Cheers and good luck (and belated happy new year). :) · AndonicO Engage. 21:18, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
Same with me, man. Been really busy lately, hardly been able to edit at all. — Malcolm (talk) 14:25, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

How to use this top Indian Wikipedian list for effective collaboration

Hi, I have added a section 'How to use this list for effective collaboration' on User:Tinucherian/Indians WP page to see if we can put this list to really good use, pl give your thoughts on the same and we can take it further from there. Thanks. Vjdchauhan (talk) 18:33, 6 January 2009 (UTC).

Happy Adminship!

Wishing Arjun01/Archive25 a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Versus22 talk 10:12, 9 February 2009 (UTC)


Proposed deletion of Family Style

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Family Style, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:

no indication of notability

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Boston (talk) 22:24, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Problems created by a WP User...

Hi Arjun,

One user named AlexCovarrubias is typing untrue statements on the article Newly industrialized country. I corrected the information and put a note in the discussion section but he reverted them for no proper reason. He is a Mexican citizen and puts untrue information about Mexico in the article. I got the following facts from two very credible sources. The information is: 1) Mexico is classified as a developing country by the CIA World Factbook. Here is the source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/appendix/appendix-b.html 2) The planning commission of Government of India classifies only 27.5% (and NOT 77%) of the population as the people under the national poverty line.

AlexCovarrubias is classifying Mexico as a developed country (which is not the case). He is also talking ill of India by writing an untrue (false) statement which reads "it is the poorest newly industrialized country with 77% of the people living on less than $ 1 a day."

I do not want some body to edit these data and type something amiss (wrong) about any country in particular- India. Please protect the articles- Newly industrialized country, Developing country, Iyengar, and Vadakalai. I will keep you posted of other articles that are subject to mishandling, posting the wrong information, and/or vandalism of any kind. Please prevent this person from making edits on Wikipedia (WP). Please protect the contents of WP.

Awaiting your urgent attention and help in this regard. Thanks for your time. Svr014 (talk) 17:39, 5 June 2009 (UTC) Chicago, Illinois, USA.

WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 1 – June 2009

Project news
Congratulations to the West Bengal workgroup for having their flagship article featured on the Main Page! The Indian states workgroup is also involved in maintaining articles about India's states and union territories. »

WikiProject Indian roads was recently started as a new workgroup, to standardize and improve articles related to Indian roads, mainly the National and State Highways. After all, India has the second largest road network in the world.

Iravan, the son of Arjuna, is now our 85th good article. How do we know this? Since last year, more processes have been automated, increasing productivity. Article alerts update the project with what's happening to India-related articles, from copyright violations to featured article candidates.

To do…
During the last few weeks, peer reviews for the recent general election and 2003 Afro-Asian Games (held in Hyderabad) were opened and are waiting for more comments, as are several articles at the peer review department. Sikkim has been nominated for FAR, and Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay has been nominated for FAC. »

Currently, 11,032 Indian articles need images. Please improve these pages, especially if you enjoy photography! We look forward to more contributions from you. To get started, go to the noticeboard. »

From the editors…
The last newsletter was written a year ago. In June 2008, Indian Premier League was "hot" on Wikipedia, but the article about this year's IPL has attracted 477 editors, or 53% more than the previous year! Even the number of articles in the scope of our project jumped by a whopping 18,500+ articles in an year. The 3.2-year-old India quiz continues to attract old and new Wikipedians, so join in the fun!

Wikipedians are organizing a meetup in Bangalore on July 4 or 5. If you are interested, head over to the page and add your name! Topics of discussion include Indian language editions of Wikipedia and Wikimedia India.

RegentsPark, one of the prominent members of our project, was promoted to adminship this year. If you'd like to know who are the most avid editors of Wikipedia by number of edits, refer to this list.

"While this issue has been resolved, one asks the question – what happens when there is a conflict of opinions? What about a Wikipedia entry on India and Pakistan, or the LTTE and the Tamils? Who can edit? Will the information be true?" writes B. Narasimhan of MiD DAY as deeper implications of the Scientology arbitration case,1 reminding us of the core principles of verifiability and the neutral point of view.

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WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 2 – July 2009

Project news
A number of India-related articles have lost their featured article status, including Sikkim and Mumbai. The article about Gandhi was also demoted for referencing and image quality issues. Since then, Mumbai has been brought back to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Kensplanet and others.

Transport in India was promoted to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Rsrikanth05, SBC-YPR and GDibyendu.

Several new workgroups have been formed: WikiProjects Railways in India, Education in India and Transport in India. Please join us if you're interested in those topics!

To do...
The articles that have been selected for our latest collaborations of the month are history of Mumbai, Indian Railways, rail transport in India, Indian general election, 2009 and telecommunications in India. We need your help to improve them!

These India-related articles are currently on featured article review: Kerala (FAR), Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (FAR) and rail transport in India (FAR). Would you allow these articles to lose their FA status?

Wikipedia Takes Chennai – a scavenger hunt and free-content photography contest – has started in Chennai, along the same lines as Wikipedia Takes The City.

We look forward to more contributions from you. To get started, go to the noticeboard. »

From the editors...
Wikipedians in Bangalore organised a meetup on 5 July 2009; thanks to Tinu Cherian for hosting the event! Arunram and Tinu Cherian wrote extensively about the meetup, which was also covered by Wikizine, Headlines India and The Wikipedia Signpost. Photos have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Sunil Abraham from the Centre for Internet and Society has offered to help host such events in the future. All in all, the meetup was a great success. Watch out for the next meetup! »

Nichalp, an Indian bureaucrat and major contributor to more than 23 India-related featured articles and lists, was desysopped over allegations of paid editing and using sock puppets. An RfC about paid editing was opened as a result of this incident.

A prolific editor and administrator, Bhadani is among the top ten Wikipedians by number of edits across the English Wikipedia. Congratulations to Bhadani for also making the most number of edits among Indian Wikipedians!

Are you subscribed to wikimediaindia-l to learn about the latest developments of forming the Indian chapter of Wikimedia? Did you know that there are IRC channels for Wikipedians interested in India like you? Check them out at #wikipedia-in connect and #wikimedia-in connect!

Wikipedia's India quiz remains a hotspot of the community by continuing to attract old and new Wikipedians. You are invited to join in and have fun!

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can you unblock me?

I've been completely censored. What the hell corp every one of my comments was valid. You should of let people judge for themselves what they thought of them. Censored by corp......makes perfect sense. Well I've read everyones comments so far and the only one who attacks me is the 100% atheist with a baby (shivers). Well I feel weakend because you cesored me so much. I don't even know what to say now. Its quite impossible to respond to all that hate in red. How in the hell would people follow it?? Unless I copied the entire blog and then wrote my responses in BLUE or something. Then knowing you and you megalomania you would do the same thing and respond to my Blue comments in YELLOW. Yellow for your skin color cause your a coward for censoring me. But anyways your freinds would be so confused and bored. It wouldn't be fair. But I do see that EVERYTHING you wrote can a have a rebuttal (and a funny one at that). Your a funny guy corpo. You do make me look foolish by taking apart a a perfectly good message and commenting on every word every second. Anyone can do that to anyones letters. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.157.50.142 (talk) 04:10, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Swami Krishnananda

Dear Arjun01,

I recently made a sizable contribution to wikipedia.org in the form of an article entitled "Swami Krishnananda." I wrote and formatted the entire article myself from scratch. The article is the first contribution that I have made to Wikipedia and I hope that I can make more contributions to Wikipedia in the future. However, I do not have the time to monitor the content of articles that I write, including image files, or to keep up correspondence with wikipedia voluteers who continually contact me regarding their content.

Here is the link to the above referenced article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishnananda

Overall, I found the writing and formatting experience to be pleasant. I have not, however, found the image uploading process to be pleasant. Wikipedia volunteers continue to contact me, informing me of errors that I have made with regards to my image uploads, but they do not explain the errors that I have made, nor do they provide any useful advice or direction in correcting the errors. The website provides extensive (a little too extensive) information on image uploading. But I do not have the time to go through the entire gamut of Wikipedia image uploading protocol. I have certainly researched the basics of Wikipedia image uploading, but this does not seem to be good enough.

The only two image files that I have uploaded to Wikipedia are those listed below.

1.) File name: "Krishnananda 1975.jpg"

Photo URL: http://swami-krishnananda.org/before1983.html

2.) File name: Krishsiva.jpg

File URL: http://swami-krishnananda.org/young.html

Now, based on my research at Wikipedia Commons, I have provided the proper licensing tags for these photos. I have also included dates, sources and authors for these photos. Furthermore, I have written to the copyright holders of these photos and received, in CLEAR language, permission to use them in the Wikipedia article that I have written. I have accordingly forwarded this permission to this address: permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. Beyond this, I don't know what else should be required of me. I have contributed my time and energy to wikipedia.org and feel like I am now being imposed upon. Naturally, I would like the integrity of my article, including the photos which I have included in it, to be protected, but I do not feel like I should have to take time out of my schedule on a daily basis to do this. With a site like wikipedia.org, it seems that users should be able to make meaningful contributions while receiving the basic satisfaction of knowing that they have in fact made such contributions. And the contributions can only be meaningful if they satisfy both users and wikipedia.org. As a user I feel like I have done my part, but wikipedia.org doesn't seem to appreciate nor make any effort to actually HELP me preserve my image files; they have already been deleted once. I uploaded them for a second time, this time forwarding permission to Wikipedia. I hope this will suffice. If not, could someone please enlighten me as to how I can protect these photos? By help, I do not mean automated policy protocol emails, but actual layman's advice on how to keep my photos from being deleted. I have helped wikipedia.org and it would be nice if someone at Wikipedia was grateful enough to help me continue to help.

Lastly, the copyright holder of these photos is a nonprofit, noncommercial organization which distributes most of their literature and photos freely over the Internet. The above referenced photos were taken my monastic peoples in in the 1940s and 70s. I really do not see any cause for concern on Wikipedia's part with regards to copyright violation. It was all I could do to get a reply on such a trivial, commercial matter from the General Secretary of the Divine Life Society. The permission letter that I forwarded to Wikipedia clearly indicates that he has given me his permission and that, in general, they do not care much about their photographs being used by people.

If my last attempt to properly upload these images still proves to be insufficient, could Wikipedia administration possibly lend a helping hand and attempt to obtain licensing and permission information themselves? I sincerely hope that these two photos (at least the info box photo) can remain in the article that I have written. If not, I highly doubt that I will be contributing to wikipedia.org in the future.

Best regards,

Rick Unger

Happy Birthday

Hungry? Here's a little snack for you on your birthday, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day, Arjun01!

Vatsan34 (talk) 05:15, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

I have been wrongly accused

I did not do any editing on Terry ...,heck I don't even know who he is, further more I have never been to his page in my "life" until the accusation. I do not even know what you are referring to as nonsense. Please refrain from false accusations. Please do not accuse of vandalism by vandalizing other people. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.150.72.127 (talk) 21:33, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Wow that was a long time ago, almost four years to be honest. So obviously whats happened here is just a simple shared ip address problem. You personally probably didn't do those edits, but maybe someone else on the same address did. Best thing to avoid this is just create an account. ~ Arjun' 00:50, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
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