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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, 11,030 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. This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! — [sd], Ganeshk and Tinu Cherian Project · Portal · Members · Noticeboard · Discussion+

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

Project news File:India 1947 India Flag 3 and half annas.jpg 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! This is your newsletter, and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome – so feel free to join in! Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! — Ncmvocalist, RegentsPark, [sd] and Tinu Cherian Project · Portal · Members · Noticeboard · Discussion+

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An exciting opportunity to get involved!

As a member of the Aviation WikiProject or one of its subprojects, you may be interested in testing your skills in the Aviation Contest! I created this contest, not to pit editor against editor, but to promote article improvement and project participation and camraderie. Hopefully you will agree with its usefulness. Sign up here, read up on the rules here, and discuss the contest here. The first round of the contest may not start until September 1st-unless a large number of editors signup and are ready to compete immediately! Since this contest is just beginning, please give feedback here, or let me know what you think on my talkpage. - Trevor MacInnis ^contribs 04:44, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Ila (Hinduism)

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Ila (Hinduism)

The references like Ṛgveda and Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa added by you in the article are WP:PRIMARY references, can you find secondary references to support the content? --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 16:35, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Does Misra, V.S. (2007) give the Rigveda hymn nos.? Formatted reference per this meaning. Ila is spelt as इल only as male and इला as female. Please do not change. --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 17:56, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Standard IAST for Ila and Ilā is used in the article but how many people would understand the scholarly IAST?, thus Devanagari - the primary script of Sanskrit - can be used for spelling Ila and Ilā. Moreover, the primary names of Puranic deities in Devanagari Sanskrit are included in all related articles including FA Ganesha.--Redtigerxyz ^Talk 18:23, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

There are 3 reasons for using Sanskrit rather than script Devanagari: 1. Devanagari is the primary script of Sanskrit 2. Sanskrit as a language is better known than Devanagari the script. 3. Devanagari is used for Marathi and Hindi as the primary scripts besides Sanskrit. If a word in a Devanagri, than which of these 3 it corresponds to? बालि and बळी (Bali) are both in Devanagari but but the former is Sanskrit, the latter Marathi. If one want a wider discussion of the issue, I suggest you approach Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 15:04, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

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undid revisions

hi,

You undid my revisions on mauryan dynasty rulers despite the references provided by me by labelling them irrelevant. Please elaborate how and why ??? plus plz. provide proofs and citations to support your views.

Maurya surname is still found in Jats of haryana in India,

,,,plus i have provided other references too which are widely accepted by everyone than why are you labelling them irrelevant??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Royal Jat Warrior (talk • contribs) 11:49, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

I also undid some of the revisions by the above user; I've dropped a note on his talk page. The edits reminded me of the Uncyclopedia article on the Jats: "despite this, every great person who has ever lived has turned out to be a Jat. Unbelievable as such a claim as this seems, you only need to ask any Jat, or read any book written by a Jat to see that this is true.". utcursch | talk 11:58, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

heres another book by non-jat claiming Jat origin of mauryas---

An Imperial History Of India (c.700 BC - c.770 AD) By K.P. Jayaswal - the Sanskrit Text, Revised by Rahul Sankrityayana

Publisher - Motilal Banarasi Dass, The Punjab Sanskrit Book Depot, Sasdmrha, Lahore, 1934

plus why iranians are supporting Jat origin theory ????

-- Last Emperor (talk) 12:04, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

hi Joy,

Thanks for explanation...happy editing n happy holi...!

-- Last Emperor (talk) 00:49, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Dhumavati image

I observed you added the Dhumavati image. If you similar images of other mahavidyas, please upload them too. Thanks. --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 13:55, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

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