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You might also be interested in editing at the Tamil Wikipedia. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 05:13, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Weclome to Tamil cinema

Hi Bala,

I warmly Welcome you to the section of Tamil Cinema at Wikipedia. I saw your edits and it was great to see such valuable edits. Contact me at my talk page if any help required --M.arunprasad 06:04, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Notable films only?

Dear NM,

I'm going to move your comment from the project page to the project's talk page, and reply to it there. What I'll be saying: people don't agree on which are the notable films and which aren't and, any list invites additions. I have seen this over and over on WP. Readers who are otherwise hesitant to contribute to WP see a list, know that something is missing, and add it. So the lists would grow to full filmographies rapidly. Zora 19:31, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

To Do #9 - Ilaiyaraaja

Thank you for taking the time to read the To-Do list on the Ilaiyaraaja page and to give your comments regarding awards and honours. You are correct in saying that the website of the Directorate of Film Festivals (India)(http://www.mib.nic.in/dff/) which apparently organises the Indian National Awards do not have an archive or database of past and present winners of the various categories of the awards (or that the website is 'down' -- it has been down for at least a year since I looked it up). Information keyed into IMDB.com is done by the public. So the credibility of what is stated there is arguable. However, given that there are no other more credible sources, then perhaps we can make do with IMDB.com. Also, what I had in mind was finding sources which backup the statements made about Ilaiyaraaja getting this or that honorary doctorate or this or that Government award. I have not attempted to find sources for these (could be newspaper items or government reports etc.) I thank you once again for showing interest in this Wikipedia article. I appreciate your comments very much. I hope together we can make this a cool Feature Article :) AppleJuggler 14:30, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello

I am Pokkiri

I heard you desire on the Varalaru discussion page.

So I have improved the article and rewritten the plot by myself.

Please check it out, it is exactly as the movie goes and is good for the neutral.

Pokkiri 21:55, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Vedham Pudhithu

Hi. Do you have a source that says that Ilaiyaraaja composed the music for this film? I believe the film credits state that it is Devendran. Can you please confirm? Thanks. AppleJuggler 14:11, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Some information from the Internet for you. Read the topmost section of this webpage: http://dvdunlimitedonline.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=2625 AppleJuggler 14:14, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

No worries. AppleJuggler 11:03, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

You're Invited!

Hi,

I saw your editions on the Pallava and Pandya pages also linking them to a Tamil page. Good job! Would you like to join our WikiProject Dravidian Civilizations group? It would be of benefit to have someone who is proficient in Tamil or any other Dravidian language/ script to translate Dravidian related articles into that particular language. If you are interested please go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Dravidian civilizations and put your name in the members section. Regards. Wiki Raja 19:48, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Arooj Aftab

Please be notified that Arooj Aftab is being considered for deletion. Please visit the article to find out the ways to prevent the deletion. Szhaider 03:20, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

RE:WikiProject Dravidian Civilization..

No problem. Wiki Raja 17:57, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Arooj Aftab

Actually, I proposed the deletion of this article because I did not think this artist was notable enough to have an article. A few hours before deletion, I was asked to notify the contributors of this article about its deletion. You were one of the contributors of Arooj Aftab that is why you received the message. Szhaider 15:48, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

P. G. Wodehouse tweaks

Hi, I just undid a couple of changes you made to some P.G.Wodehouse pages - I've been using quote marks for short stories and italics for full novels, to tell the two forms apart, I think this is the standard way this is done (it's the way the whole PGW section is at the moment anyway). If you think this is wrong please let me know and I'll fix it, JohnnyZen 17:14, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

India

Because of India's rich diversity, no one image can represent all of India's one billion people. That is why I propose selecting a new demographics image every three months. This would allow for a regional balance and would show India as a whole. Many people have agreed that this is the only way to represent India's rich and varied diversity. Since you have voted for a change in the demographics section, I wanted to update you on this proposal. I would love to hear your comments on talk:India. Thanks so much. Have a great day!

-Coollemonade 23:51, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Err

I reverted the edits made by Wiki Raja because he was canvassing for the CfD vote. Such disruptive canvassing is strictly prohibited and all instances of the canvassing are reverted. I acted in response to a comment posted on ANI about canvassing by wiki raja. He has been warned against canvassing here. - Aksi_great (talk) 09:28, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

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re: AWB on ta WP

I had once written to Ravi the steps to use AWB on ta. See [1]. HTH. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 13:14, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

You should be able to do spelling fixes in tamil wiki too. Did you have any trouble getting it to work on ta wiki? Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 17:27, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
In the steps that I had to send Ravi, I have to point to this one:
  1. File - User project preferences. Select "ta" here for language. And also do, File - login. -- Ganeshk (talk) 17:31, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
I have not used regex feature on AWB yet. Not sure how regex works on unicode text on ta wiki. I have replaced one word with another in English wiki. To play safe, do a simple find and replace, one word with another. -- Ganeshk (talk) 02:25, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Regarding Madhubot

Hi there. I've currently blocked User:Madhubot as a security precaution since you have not been granted approval to run it at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval yet, nor have you edited its userpage yourself to verify that you indeed own this bot. Feel free to request unblocking as soon as approval has been granted. --  Netsnipe  ►  17:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, I guess I am a little confused here. I created the user page for Madhubot while I had logged in as Madhubot.. and I just tried submitting a request for Bot Approval - again, while logged in as Madhubot (I thot that's how it's done), but I got this message saying it was blocked... Umm, what exactly should I do now? (1) Update the userpage of Madhubot while signed in as Nmadhubala? (2) Submit the request for bot approval, again while signed in as Nmadhubala? Is that right? I am totally confused here, so any assistance would be appreciated! --Madhu 17:06, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes. That's right. Just copy and paste {{unblock|[[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval#Madhubot]]}} into User_talk:Madhubot when it's approved and the account will be unblocked. Thanks. --  Netsnipe  ►  17:10, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Tamil language FAR

Madhu, Can you help address the concerns raised at the FAR? -- Ganeshk (talk) 01:32, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Bot unblocked

--  Netsnipe  ►  16:26, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Indian collaboration of the week news

As mentioned in Wikiproject India newsletter of March 2007, the weekly collaboration of the Indian wikiproject has fallen from its once high feats. This message is to request the users to visit the collaboration page and help rejuvenate it.

The present collaboration of the week is Religion in India. Please go through the talk page of the article to see the proposed changes in the article. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 18:30, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

For supporting Kannada literature in Vijayanagara Empire.Dineshkannambadi (talk) 19:24, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Rfc - Sarvagnya

A request for comments has been filed concerning the conduct of Sarvagnya (talk · contribs). You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Sarvagnya. -- Ncmvocalist (talk) 04:17, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Avichi Meiyappa Chettiar

Friends, I've created an expanded this article on film producer and director Avichi Meiyappa Chettiar. My aim is to get this article featured on Wikipedia's Main page on June 28, the 101st birth anniversary of AVM. It would be great if you could help me in copy-editing work as well as in completion of the Filmography section. Valuable assistance or useful suggestions towards further improvement of the article is most welcome. -RavichandarMy coffee shop 05:41, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Chola Dynasty

The Epic Barnstar
I award you this epic barnstar in appreciation of your hard work in adding citations to support a number of statements in Chola Dynasty. Sundar \talk \contribs 06:08, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for digging up the book and finding citations. Can I ask you to use the ndash instead of "pp 19-20" with a raw hyphen for the page ranges. Also, please do not put "see AUTHOR" in the footnote, because it's not what is usually done. It's also implicit because of it's a reference to us to look there. I have started fixing some of these, but please keep it in mind, while you are adding more citations. Also, why are you using "Geeta Vasudevan, p 5" when you listed the surname as just "Vasudevan" in the book list at the bottom? Keep up the good work. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 10:22, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Clarification

If you go through my edits you will find that I haven't replaced – (ndash) with -(hyphen) but rather replaced the html entity &ndash with —. This entity can be found in the edit mode.:-


Insert: – — … ‘ “ ’ ” ° ″ ′ ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥ ± − × ÷ ← → · § Sign your username: ~~~~ (on talk pages)



By doing this I have reduced the mess caused by the word &ndash. Great job on the article BTW.- KnowledgeHegemonyPart2 (talk) 08:33, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes you understood it right. - KnowledgeHegemonyPart2 (talk) 12:16, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Correction!!!: Forget whatever I said about the dashes. The long dash in the edit mode is in fact emdash. I reverted my edits on the Chola Dynasty page. Sorry!- KnowledgeHegemonyPart2 (talk) 14:57, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, I am confused. Actually I need someone to explain me about the dashes! - KnowledgeHegemonyPart2 (talk) 15:04, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

WP:INDIA Tagging with TinucherianBot for WikiProject Tamil Nadu

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Re: Carnatic music

Purandaradasar is not the founder of Carnatic music, to answer your question. He was the founder of the current system of teaching it - which lays much of the foundations (that, with his other contributions, earned him the title of 'father'). Ncmvocalist (talk) 17:22, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Keep it up!

The Citation Barnstar The Citation Barnstar
You deserve this for your efforts in keeping Chola Dynasty an FA! – KnowledgeHegemonyPart2 06:28, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

India service award
By order of the coordinators, for your good work tagging and assessing India articles in Tag & Assess 2008, I hereby award you this WikiProject India Service Award. --Ncmvocalist (talk) 17:36, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter Volume III, Issue no. 001 - June 2008

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Happy New Year 2009

Happy New Year Nmadhubala/Archive 1!!!! I wish for you and your family to have a wonderful 2009!!! Have fun partying and may you make many edits!!!

-RavichandarMy coffee shop 11:59, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

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, 11,028 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!

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WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 1 - (June 2010)

Project News

WP:IND Newsletter is back! It's been nearly a year since the last edition, but we hope to bring out issues on a more regular basis now. The India Wikiproject was set up to increasing coverage of India-related topics on Wikipedia, and over the past few months the focus has been on improving article quality. A number of the project's featured articles underwent featured article reviews over the past year. Of these, Darjeeling and Flag of India survived the review process, while the rest were demoted. During the same period, Gangtok, Harbhajan Singh, Darjeeling and Mysore were featured on the main page respectively on August 20, September 17, November 6 and December 29, 2009. Meanwhile, articles on topics as diverse as Political history of Mysore and Coorg (1565–1760), Marwari horse and Iravan were promoted as featured articles, and respectively appeared on the main page on March 25, May 17 and May 28, 2010. Consequently, the number of FA-class articles under the project's scope dropped from 67 in August 2009 to 63 in June 2010. The number of good articles, however, saw a more than 40% increase, from 91 to 130 during the same period, while the number of featured lists saw a 33% increase from 12 to 16.

Due to the recent policy changes regarding unreferenced Biographies of Living People (BLPs), an effort was started in January 2010 to source all unreferenced BLPs coming under Wikiproject India. 1200 such articles were identified initially and more were added to the list later. Due to the sourcing effort, the number of Indian unreferenced BLPs is down to 565 currently. During February-April 2010, There was a large scale disruption of Kerala related articles by a Thrissur based IP vandal. Editing from a dynamic IP BSNL connection, the vandal changed dates of birth, death and ages of a number of Malayalam and Tamil film actors. Later he added a few international biographies to his list. He also marked some living people like Arvind Swamy as dead. A month long range block was imposed on his IP range two times and each time he came back to vandalise dates once the block expired. Currently the range has been blocked for three months till September 11, 2010.

What's New?
Current proposals and discussions
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  • A discussion is in progress here in order to determine whether non-Western (including Indian) forms of classical music should be referred to by the nomenclature of art music instead of classical music. Please participate and add your comments.
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Proposed deletion of No Place Like Home (novel)

The article No Place Like Home (novel) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

non-notable per WP:BK

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

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Nomination of No Place Like Home (novel) for deletion

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WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 2 - November 2010

English WikiProject News

After a missed issue, the WP:IND newsletter is back on track to being a regular bimonthly feature. The Indian WikiProject has seen plenty of online and off-line action, both in English as well as other Indian languages, and we now have a bigger, better format that intends to feature content and news from the English as well as other Indian language Wikipedias.

Reaching out to Indians has been the theme of the Indian Wikiproject over the past couple of months, aiming to involve a greater number of Indians in editing both the English and Indian language Wikipedias. To this end, efforts to set up the Indian chapter of Wikimedia have moved into their final stages, and registration of the society is currently pending. An effort is underway to push for "WikiMarathons" at meetups, where attendees will be encouraged to edit the English and/or Indian language Wikipedias. This is intended to popularise Wikipedia editing among the general public. In addition, a bot to post DYK's from the Indian Wikiproject to Twitter was created and launched by User:Logicwiki.


What's New?

Regrettably, the number of Featured Articles has dropped from 63 in June to 58 at the end of October 2010. Several FAs came up for review and were delisted, while Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India was saved. Meanwhile, Chalukya Dynasty appeared on the main page on July 9, 2010. Hearteningly, the number of Good Articles increased from 130 to 136 during the same period, while the number of Featured Lists remained constant at 16.

The source code for the Article Alert Bot is now available and the bot itself is expected to be up and running very shortly. This means that article alerts for the Indian Wikiproject will again be available, enabling editors to easily keep track of developments in respect of reviews, nominations, deletions etc.

The date change vandal mentioned briefly in the previous issue made a reappearance when the range block on his IP range expired in September. Consequently the block was extended till September 2011.

In October there was a heated discussion in the India project noticeboard regarding the copyright status of the Indian party symbols. The discussion was triggered by the deletion of Wiki San Roze's party symbol images by Hammersoft as copyright violations. No resolution was reached, partly because of our inability to explain to Hammersoft how election symbols in India differ from party logos. Comments are requested from anyone with a background in Indian copyright law to clarify this issue.

Complete To Do List
News from Indian-language Wikipedias
  • The Bengali Wikisource, which contains the literary works of many prominent writers of Bengali language including Rabindranath Tagore, has crossed the 5,000 pages milestone. According to List of Wikisource page, Bengali Wikisource is now at rank 21 among 56 Wikisource based on number of content pages.
The Tamil Wikipedia stall at the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 in Coimbatore in June 2010.
Jimmy Wales introduces the Malayalam Wikipedia CD of 500 selected articles during his key note address at Wikimania 2010 at Gdansk.
  • The Hindi Wikipedia and its sister wiki projects migrated to the new vector interface on September 1, 2010. In addition, Hindi is the first (and so far the only) Indian language to be incorporated into the WikiBhasha translation and contribution toolkit developed by Microsoft Research.


Community news
The first meetup in Delhi on 22 September 2010.

Mumbai and Delhi held their first meetups in September, where Wikimedia Board members Barry Newstead and Bishakha Datta met up with Wikipedians and other interested members of the public in these cities. A month later, Hyderabad also held its first meetup.

Arun Ram, Shiju Alex and Barry Newstead releasing the Wikimedia India community newsletter at the nineteenth Bangalore meetup on 24 September 2010.

Wikipedians in Bangalore continued their tradition of meeting up regularly at the Centre for Internet and Society, with the nineteenth meetup in September featuring Barry and Bishaka as attendees, and marking the release of the community newsletter. Along with Delhi and Mumbai, Bangalore is reported to be one of the three cities in contention for the Indian office of the Wikipedia Foundation.

Jimmy Wales speech at the Mumbai Wikipedia Meetup #3 on 31 October 2010. Intro by User:Bishdatta & User:Arunram. (Recorded by User:AshLin.)

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had an interaction with Wikipedians followed by a presentation to members of the public at the third Wikipedia meetup in Mumbai on October 31, 2010.

The first Wikimarathon, where Wikipedians and members of the public were encouraged to contribute to Wikimedia projects onsite, was held simultaneously at the meetups in Bangalore and Chennai on November 14, 2010. Wikipedians in Delhi also held a meetup the same day.

The Malayalam Wikipedia held several academies in different parts of Kerala over the past few months.

Wikimedia Foundation board member Bishakha Datta and Indian Wikipedian Srinivas Gunta co-authored a panel presentation at Wikimania 2010 on the Wikimedia Asia Project.

Current proposals and discussions
  • This interesting discussion on the quality of editing in India-related articles has been underway for on the noticeboard a few days. Feel free to join in and express your opinion.

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This newsletter incorporates content from the WikiMedia India Community Newsletter, September 2010.

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Expanding the article Chera dynasty

How about expanding the article Chera dynasty? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.117.211.100 (talk) 10:19, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject India Tag & Assess 2012 Contest

Hello friends, we are a number of editors from WikiProject India have got together to assess the many thousands of articles under the stewardship of the project, and we'd love to have you, a fellow member, join us. These articles require assessment, that is, the addition of a WikiProject template to the talk page of an article, assessing it for quality and importance and adding a few extra parameters to it.

As of March 11, 2012, 07:00 UTC, WikiProject India has 95,998 articles under its stewardship. Of these 13,980 articles are completely unassessed (both for class and importance) and another 42,415 articles are unassessed for importance only. Accordingly, a Tag & Assess 2012 drive-cum-contest has begun from March 01, 2012 to last till May 31, 2012.

If you are new to assessment, you can learn the minimum about how to evaluate from Part One of the Assessment Guide. Part Two of the Guide will help you learn to employ the full functionality of the talk page template, should you choose to do so.

You can sign up on the Tag & Assess page. There are a number of awards to be given in recognition of your efforts. Come & join us to take part in this exciting new venture. You'll learn more about India in this way.

ssriram_mt (talk) & AshLin (talk) (Drive coordinators)

Delivered per request on Wikipedia:Bot requests. The Helpful Bot 01:28, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Asian 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like South East Asia, Japan/China or India etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 11:25, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

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