User talk:Gurubrahma/Archive17

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This archive page covers approximately the dates between 27 October 2006 and 20 February 2008.

Post replies to the main talk page, copying or summarizing the section you are replying to if necessary.

Please add new archivals to User talk:Gurubrahma/Archive18. (See Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page.) Thank you. --Gurubrahma (talk) 06:58, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Ambarish / Ambareesh

Gurubrahma, in the below sentence by you, I believe you wanted to write one of the two names as "Ambareesh". :)

"On the test of Google hits, Ambarish (108,000 hits) seems to outscore Ambarish (13,000) by a factor of 10."

- KNM ^Talk 02:00, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Dharti Pakad / Kaka Joginder Singh

I request your help on those articles.Bakaman _Bakatalk 16:40, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi Guruji, thanks for your kind words on my RFA... I have not been able to devote time to my favorite place on wikipedia for quite some time because the bot has kept me busy. But your unilateral winning spree is getting too much.. I think I will need to jump in soon;)!! -- Lost^(talk) 12:16, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Hi Gurubrahma, I am very thankful to you for supporting and comments on my succesful RfA. Shyam ^(T/C) 06:52, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

one year on...

Gurubrahma, I owe you a lot of Gurudakshina. Without you, none of my contributions could have been positive. Thank you for your kindness, patience and gracious nature, Rama's arrow 05:21, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Rama is not the only editor who's indebted to you, Guruji. Thank you so much for correcting me when I faltered during my first steps here at wikipedia. Without your guidance, I might have have turned out to be another link-spamming vandal. Thank you! :)--thunderboltz^(Deepu) 06:53, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey Guruji. Could I pile-on? Hope you are well. - Aksi_great (talk) 17:22, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

(More pile-on :) It is a year for me too. Guru, it was your welcome message and links last year that encouraged me to get started and be part of a nice Indian community here. Thanks for all the help. I just hope you would be back from hibernation. -- Ganeshk (talk) 17:31, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Cough, cold and fever? I know a very good doctor, but you'll have to take a flight to see him. Take care and get well soon. Regards, - Aksi_great (talk) 18:56, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

And here are my thanks. I am also 1 year here! (So many of us completing one year!!) And none other than Guruji left the India related links in my talk page! Thanks a lot for all the guidance. And your dazzling brilliance in WP:PINQ continues to wonder me. And I rather feel honoured to have met you there. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 19:18, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Ref this:I have been prodding him to an RfA for some time now. @ Dwaipayan: Is it the right time at least now, buddy?--thunderboltz^(Deepu) 13:42, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Article Improvement drive

Cast your vote here for improving Sankarabharanam article[1]].S.GaneshKumar 13:54, 17 November 2006 (UTC) I've improved the article by adding more relevant facts with citations.The introduction has some sort of POV;hence I've cleaned it and made it look good.I want to get atleast one B-class article to my credit and this is a nice chance I hope.S.GaneshKumar 16:40, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

List of rail accidents

There is currently a discussion about whether we should set criteria for inlcusion of accients on the List of rail accidents page, and if so what the criteria should be.

The discussion is located at Talk:List of rail accidents/Criteria for inclusion, where your input would be most welcome. Thryduulf 00:36, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Can you introduce yourself?

• Where are you from? Pooter-the-clown 08:50, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks for your greeting. I hope you enjoy Wikipedia too. And thanks for the five pillars, that makes my talk page more interesting. Pooter-the-clown 07:55, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

• In what country is Bangalore? And how long have you been joining Wikipedia? Pooter-the-clown 17:54, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

PINQ

GuruB,

Your turn to pose a question at PINQ ... Abecedare 04:03, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

WP:UW

Hi,

You have put yourself as interested in helping out atWikiProject on user warnings. We are now at a stage where we are creating the new templates and are wondering if you are still interested? If so please visit the overview page and choose a warning type you wish to work on. There is a base template available here, which you can copy and use to get you started. Have a look through the redirects and see what old templates are affected and incorporate them into the the new system. Anyway, any questions please don't hesitate to give me a shout. Regards Khukri ^{(talk . contribs)} 08:45, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Can you see my views of the day on Hinduism.

Can you see my views of the day on Hinduism. swadhyayee 14:00, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia-admin

Hi! Are you an administrator? Tüllner 22:03, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Your name

Hi! What does Gurubrahma mean? Are you also an admin? Morris Munroe 13:09, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your greeting. I notice that you are a sympathic admin. I wish you a happy new year too. Well, where are you from and how long have you joined Wikipedia? Morris Munroe 15:41, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Archive comments

Hi Gurubrahma! I'd like to archive some of my comments on my talk page. Can you tell me how I can do so? Morris Munroe 20:46, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! Morris Munroe 14:21, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Kind attention requested

Dear Gurubrahma, Greetings to you ! I've been having problems lately by an unknown writer who has suddenly sprung up and terms himself as The Hermes [2]. She / he seems to have come up on Wikipedia just to bait my articles related to Seminaries in India.

She/he terms The Senate of Serampore College (University) as fake or bogus University in India and simply inserts matter relating to accreditation - that it is a fake one. I've tried to furnish enough proof in support of my claim [[3]]. However, in spite of enough proof, I'm beginning to exhaust myself.

Personally, I've met the past Registrar of The Senate of Serampore College (University) presently leading a retired life in Secunderabad and apprised him of this to which he replied that the Senate is indeed a University whose degrees are acceptable by any University in the world, be it the University of Hamburg, the Cambridge University or our very own Osmania University.

I keep reverting his edits (bogus status) and he keeps reverting it back. Kindly see that this ends.Pradeep 18:48, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Taj Mahal RFC

I've filed an RFC relating to the Taj Mahal at Talk:Taj Mahal#Request for Comment: Inclusion of minority points of view. Your comments would be welcome. Joopercoopers 18:07, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:AImaharaja.jpg)

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Hi, please assess my article

Hi, my name is krishna chaitanya and i have been editing and creating articles in wikipedia frm early 2006. My primary article is Yanaon. Though it was not created by me, i have made significant changes to it. I request you to assess this article. You can even view my contibutions.Bsskchaitanya 12:17, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Greetings

Happy Holi !!--Dwaipayan (talk) 05:56, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Survey Invitation

Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. --WikiInquirer 02:58, 4 March 2007 (UTC)^{talk to me}

Thanks for your note!

Thank you for your note! Most kind! I have indeed essentially retired as an editor. I stopped editing in the mainspace on 5 March 2007 and in the image space the same day. I'm editing almost entirely in the project space now. For more understanding of my reasons behind this, you may wish to read this. It's long, but if I might be so bold, worth the read. More important is the link at the very end of that essay by me which points to a much longer essay that is very, very important to read and understand with respect to Wikipedia. There are functions at Wikipedia that are collapsing due to the phenomena described in my essay and in the other essay at shirky.com. I do not expect to return to any role as an editor of articles. It was a pleasure nominating you for adminship, and I am still grateful that you were the one who was willing to be the guinea pig to test the waters of a Durin nomination following the RfC against me in the Fall of '05. I understand the need to press on to other things in your life, and wish you the best in those endeavours. All of us will eventually leave the project, it's just a matter of when. Others will come to fill our shoes. None of us is so important to the project that it will suffer in our absence. It suffers not by individuals, but by sociological effects of human behavior that are an inevitable consequence of scale. Case in point, read Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Clerks/Guide#Non-clerks which boils down to "this is our sandbox. Don't let other people edit here. If they do, tell them to go elsewhere". Disgustingly repulsive, but there are people fighting tooth and nail to retain that structure. For proof of that, see this, written by a person who previously held the title of "head clerk" (see top of list at this version of the clerk list). He since backpedaled from that position, but you get the mentality. Fair winds and following seas to you Gurubrahma, and make sure your cows don't eat your chickens. :) --Durin 14:01, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Pics

Hi! Nice to catch you online. I'm so sorry I wasn't able to catch up with you regarding the photos. I did put them up on a site once, but never managed to inform you or Dror about the same. I'll see if the link is still active. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 18:04, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Category:Telugu politicians

Created to categorize ethnic Telugu politicians, on the lines of Category:Tamil politicians, etc.Bakaman 00:59, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

My edits

Hello Guru! Please take a look to my edits what I've left on several articles. I also copied another website and then I added it to my userpage. Please take a look to my userpage. Thanks. ARII 16:50, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

WP:UW future?

Hi Gurubrahma,

Sorry for the blatant spam, but you have yourself down as interested at WikiProject user warnings WP:UW. There is a discussion on going here that might be of interest to you about the future of this project. There are two strawpolls on the talk pages and the second one is about the future of the WP:UW project. Now we have the end in sight we are looking at wrapping up the project and merging it with Template messages/User talk namespace WP:UTM and creating a one stop shop for all userspace template issue. As you have yourself down as interested in this project we thought you may have some input on this issue, and would like you to visit the discussion and give any thoughts you may have on the matter. Cheers ^Khukri 10:23, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Hi! Saw you after a long time in WP:PINQ. How are you?--Dwaipayan (talk) 19:28, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

You are to ask the next question there in PINQ.--Dwaipayan (talk) 18:49, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Hi Guruji!! Long time no see! Well I am quite inactive myself these days... Just happened to be active during the main page fiasco and managed to get a block to my block log :). Only consolation is that it was with the wikipedia who's who;). Real life is keeping me very busy these days I am moving from one state to another. Hope to meet some wikipedians there. Hope life is keeping well with you — Lost^(talk) 13:25, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Mecca Masjid

Thanks for changing the article to link to the WP article on the blasts. --Nkv 10:32, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry

Hey I answered the question in PINQ. Unfortunately I am not in a position to ask and follow next question. Could you please volunteer? It's good to see you active again. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 16:14, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Blackheart

I'm afraid the situation isn't so clear cut. I got a second opinion on the legal situation. I'll update the talk page on this so we are all on the same page. (Emperor 16:15, 18 May 2007 (UTC))

Seems we were posting and edtting at the same time. Best we can tell it is either direct copyright violation or a grey area. Either way it can't be used. Please don't revert my edits because that just restores the suspect material and we go back to the start of the process. If you wish to query this then feel free to do so on the Comics Project talk page. (Emperor 16:30, 18 May 2007 (UTC))

SHA-1

User:Hairchrm/sha1 - Hairchrm 02:48, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Requesting your comments

Could you please comment on Talk:Andhra_Pradesh#Requesting_comments_on_Uttarandhra?. --(Sumanth|Talk) 04:37, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Protection sought

Dear Mr Gurubrahma, My edits in Brahmic script / Brahmic family are being reverted without giving any reason. Please protect my editing.Kumarrao 10:39, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Protection sought

Dear Admnistrator, Please protect my inputs in Telugu language from unreasonable edits.Kumarrao 19:14, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Protection sought

Please protect Telugu language. My edits with citations are being consistently reverted without proper reasoning. Kumarrao 18:32, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Edit Protection

Dear Administrator,

I made a couple of edits in Chalukya dynasty. Within a period of one hour three users simultaneously pounced on me. One reverted my edits without discussion. The other made false allegations that I am in touch with some banned user. The third threatened to block me. Is it not a clear evidence of collusion? Is there any way out in Wiki to this madness? Kumarrao 19:49, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Hey! How are you?--Dwaipayan (talk) 17:29, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (Image:Mirza Ghalib dvdcover.jpg)

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Urmila Matondkar

Hello, I am a huge fan of urmila Matondkar.I just wanted to know are you hundread cent percent sure about her age...actually I personally think she is older than her publicized age ...please tell me how much you are sure about her age. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Avik268241 (talk • contribs) 06:18, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

Vandals are destroying articles related to Andhra Pradesh, Telugu language, Telugu script and many articles related to Telugu history. These people, about eight, have ganged up and are helping each other to prevent unbiased contributions. The history of South India and even that of the whole of India is being painted as that belonged to a linguistic group. History is being re-written on the basis of a couple of books written by parchial and localized historians and a couple of websites devoted to regional agenda and chauvantic tendencies. A perusal of their contributions and citations will make my point obvious. I appeal to you to regularly visit Telugu and Andhra-related articles and prevent vandalism by these mischief makers.Kumarrao 10:27, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Nehru Zoological Park

Hello! I was just wondering, how the park is actually called: Nehru Zoological Park or Indira Gandhi Zoological Park. Regards Tirkfl^talk 10:20, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Regarding a information about our site which is uploaded in Wikipedia

Dear Sir,

User ID: nitiewiki

We are the management students of National Institute Of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai, India. We have a college gaming site called Mastishk, which is a yearly event. The URL in wikipedia is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastishk This was the first Online Business Challenge organised by a business School. This was started way back in 2004 and continued year on year. We wanted to use this as an information site, and wanted to associate with our college wiki information NITIE.

Currently there is a notification shown: This page may meet Wikipedia’s criteria for speedy deletion. The reason given is: It is blatant advertising for a company, product, group, service or person that would require a substantial rewrite in order to become an encyclopedia article. (CSD G11) Speedy concern: It is blatant advertising for a company, product, group, service or person that would require a substantial rewrite in order to become an encyclopedia article. (CSD G11) If this page does not meet the criteria for speedy deletion, or you intend to fix it, please remove this notice, but do not remove this notice from pages that you have created yourself.

Organisers of Mastishk also came out with Arbit Choudhary which is posted on wikipedia at following URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbit_Choudhury

Can you please look into the matter. Looking for a positive response

Regards nitiewiki ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nitiewiki (talk • contribs) 19:52, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Image:Veerappan.jpg

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Cool response

Dear Mr Gurubrahma,

You have been cool to my previous requests to protect Telugu related articles being wrought havoc by a certain group of fanatics. I am sure you must have noticed the way they collaborate with each other to create false history. I have been waging a lone battle. The group now started distorting articles related to Andhra history, places in AP etc., Thanks to your attitude. Kumarrao 13:57, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Rescuing K. David

Hi Guru Brahma !

It has been a long time since I messaged you. May I refresh your memory on a few of my articles where you intervened earlier.

Victor Premasagar, created by me was proposed for deletion by you and was later rescued by someone. Taking the cue, I worked on it and brought it to a readable stage. Presently, this article has been again proposed for deletion. Please add your comments to the Talk Page. I propose that you give your opinion favourably.

K. David was a colleague of Victor Premasagar and studied in the University of Edinburgh (this is not the only plus point). Never before was there any discussion on K. David. Suddenly, a few wikipedians thought it fit to delete it. By all means, I request you to keep it. I know you can do it and you're the one whom I can turn to in times of distress. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Grbpradeep (talk • contribs) 07:54, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Image

Is it allowed to upload an image of myself and to put it to my userpage? D@rk ^talk 18:41, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

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Tollywood

Hi, I've read your comment concerning splitting the Tollywood article into two - one for Bengali and one for Telugu. You said you will issue a redirect to direct to Bengali Cinema. I think you should redirect the Tollywood page to a main redirect page saying "Tollywood can refer to: 1)Telugu film industry 2)Bengali film industry" and issue links for each. Therefore each industry will be properly classified and titled, and the Tollywood ambiguation will cease to exist. Please see to these changes and if you have any objections or comments get back to me. Thanks, Nsrav —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nsrav (talk • contribs) 03:49, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

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