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If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. From-cary (talk) 17:06, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
{{I believe this article does not merit immediate deletion. I intend to fix this page with more detail and reference to how this person is very relevant and needs to be linked to the pages of Rabindranath Tagore and also on the Wikipedia page on Rabindra Sangeet}}Tonymitra (talk) 17:29, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. From-cary (talk) 19:09, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Please do not recreate deleted articles like you did with Santidev Ghosh. It was deleted because it was not appropriate for Wikipedia and it will likely be deleted again. Thank you. --From-cary (talk) 19:11, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the note. I did not recreate the page, but was trying to edit it and put more information in an effort to stop it being deleted, but, I am guessing, it got deleted already, and my effort to save the update might have caused a recreation. Actually I am not an expert with Wikipedia, and sometimes feel frustrated for not being able to add useful information and material. I have been searching for a friend who can spend a bit of time showing me the ropes.
Anyhow, I did follow your advise, and created a subpage on the person Santidev Ghosh. Now I am trying to follow your second advise, which is to put that in the page Wikipedia:Drawing board. While I can click the hot link and go to the Wikipedia Drawing board, and read the exchanges there, I am yet to figure out how to "put" my subpage there. Can you please help?
I come from the part of India which relates to the pages and subjects I am trying to augment, but I live in Vancouver, Canada, and do not have anyone among my personal friends here, who knows anything about entering data into Wikipedia. Appreciate any help.
What you want to do is go to Wikipedia:Drawing board and click "Click here to start a new discussion". For the Subject/Headline, put in the name of the article, then paste the code of your article into the box. Add a note at the beginning specifying what kind of help you are looking for. I will tell you now that one thing you will definitely need is reliable sources establishing that this person is notable by Wikipedia standards. The two important pages to read for that are WP:RS (reliable sources) and WP:BIO (notability for persons). Some external links would be helpful, such as this and this, to give an idea of his status in his field. ...discospinstertalk02:21, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the help. I did as you suggested. The page on Santidev Ghosh would grow with time, and I shall personally be working on it little by little, apart from what other members might do. But for now, please check the page out at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tonymitra/Santidev_Ghosh and also copied it all at Wikipedia:Drawing board
Is the page still not deserving to be on Wikipedia? Sure, it needs more iinformation, and it will come. But meanwhile, can it be put up on Wikipedia as it is now? I can then get more people interested to contribute on it once they see it up on Wikipedia. Please help and allow the page to up approved and up. Tonymitra (talk) 05:48, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Happy if I can be of assistance. :) I've done a little bit of work on the article, mostly what we call "wikifying" it, which means putting it in standard Wikipedia form. I also brought back your sources from earlier versions. In regards to next steps, I posted that reply at the drawing board, but I will copy and paste it here for convenience.
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Hi. Sorry for the delay. We are operating, I believe, in different time zones. :) I think it's a fine start. You need to remove the signature from the bottom (we don't sign pages; what we write, we release by GFDL for all others to work on. We do retain right to authorship credit, but that is found in the article's history. As far as gaining approval, unfortunately it doesn't work that way. There are three steps in the deletion process. The first, speedy deletion,is meant to be used for articles that are clearly inappropriate for Wikipedian in specific ways. The second, "proposed deletion" is meant for uncontroversial deletions of articles that fail to meet policies and guidelines. The third, deletion debate, is for articles the deletion of which will be controversial. Sometimes these become quite heated, and some articles are nominated more than once. I don't think your article is at risk for any of those, but I can't guarantee it, and neither can anyone else. I'm going to tweak a little bit in your userspace. When you're ready, I think you can move it to article space. I will gladly help with this, if you like. --Moonriddengirl(talk)11:32, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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I have watchlisted your page now, which means that if you leave me a note here, I will see it. (Generally after several days, I remove pages from watchlisting. Once this article is successfully launched, you're welcome to come to my talk page if I can assist you with anything else.) --Moonriddengirl(talk)11:49, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
--Moonriddengirl- Yes, I want to talk about it some more. First, I am amazed at the amount of time you spent on this page, with what must be inscrutable information about an inscrutable place with inscrutable cultural references.
I have several questions, looking forward to improving that page, as well as gather more information for additional pages on related topics, mostly going back to the same place and the same time period (last century - eastern part of India - Bengali Renaissance and the reform movement within the Indian socieity).
1. I did not figure out how you "moved" the article out of my subpage to the main section. I would have created a new page and copy/pasted the information from my sub page.
2. Another question that comes to mind immediately, is, if I want to put supporting reference on some of the information up there on the page on Santidev Ghosh, but the supporting info in not on line, but taken off a printed book, what is the best way to do that ?
I don't know if you will be reading this part. I hope you do. But, if I should take this conversation someplace else, please tell me where.
A last footnote - the people of Santiniketan, and of the University there (Visva Bharati University) and the attached school Patha Bhavana did not have much of an internet access in the past, and are not savvy enough to engage in Wikipedia. As a result, a lot of material on Wikipedia which relate to their rich cultural history is ill-represented on Wikipedia. Some of them are closely watching what is happening to the Santidev Ghosh page. It is my hope that we should be, gradually, get them interested to actively participate, and learn the ropes on how to be good contributors to Wikipedia. For now, they are curious to see how my efforts come out. This very topic is scheduled to be discussed, among other things, in a public meeting in Santiniketan within the next week. I wont be able to attend, but learn the views that come out of it, since it would be recorded.
Again - my sincere thanks to you for taking a special interest in an esoteric subject. Tonymitra (talk) 20:13, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Oh, it is my pleasure. I enjoy helping, and I enjoy learning about new things, which makes me a perfect volunteer for the drawing board. :) Plus, it's really rewarding to work with an editor as motivated as you are to figuring out how things are done.
I moved the page by clicking on the tab along the top labeled "move". It's sixth in. When you click on it, it asks you for the new page title and gives you a block to explain your actions. This is a good thing, because if people don't understand why you've moved a page, they may assume that you shouldn't have moved it. :) You could also have copied & pasted the information from your sub-page, but note that in general you can only do this when you are the only contributor. (You can see Help:Merge if you want to know why.) There are specific citation templates that you can use to introduce print references. You can see them at Wikipedia:Citation templates. More general information on citations is available at Wikipedia:Citing sources. I'm going to put a graphical welcome box at the top of your page, because it contains quite a lot of information that you might find valuable. If any of it perplexes you (I learn best by doing), you can get explanations from me or from the help desk. It sounds fabulous that the people of Santiniketan are considering contributing more to Wikipedia. I'm glad you were willing to undertake this experiment, and I hope that it will lead to improvement of Wikipedia. Given your interest in expanding such topics, you might want to check out Wikipedia:WikiProject India, which is a group of editors who have come together to work on articles related to India. They seem to be a pretty active group, which is good. Some Wikiprojects languish for lack of attention. Please let me know how the meeting goes. :) --Moonriddengirl(talk)22:24, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks User:Moonriddengirl . I will try to check items you mentioned. One last question for now. If I wanted to create another subpage under tonymitra, just like the Santidev Ghosh subpage was created (but not by me), how do I do it?Tonymitra (talk) 02:44, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Same way you'd create any page. You type in the name, and it offers you the option to create. Many people (like me) maintain a "sandbox" to work in. Mine is called User:Moonriddengirl/sandbox. After I workshop a new article there, I move it to the permanent space one way or another. If you wanted to do the same, you could just follow this link: User:Tonymitra/sandbox and type in it. :) If you want to call it something else, you can do that, too--just put a different word after the /. For example, User:Tonymitra/workshop or User:Tonymitra/articles.--Moonriddengirl(talk)02:51, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Dear User:Moonriddengirl : I need help again, on getting the page of Santidev Ghose to show a picture of him. I uploaded the picture, taken by me in 1980, and it did upload, far as I can see. But it still would not show up. Perhaps it is waiting to be approved or something. Can you help please ?
WikiProject India Newsletter Volume III, Issue no. 001 - June 2008
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!
Bot Assisted Assessment was successfully done using Bot0612 in May 2008. 1744 articles (18.5%) of all India unassessed articles were marked if they had been assessed by some other project.
IPL was hot on Wikipedia too!!! During the tournament, the article was among the most frequently edited articles. It is currently the only Indian article in top 100, occupying 58th spot.
Do you know of an article that is currently underrated? If so, please nominate the article at the Assessment Department's request for assessment. This will allow our project to get a better idea of the quality of our articles.
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Is India the largest democracy? A request has been made to the Mediation Cabal for mediation on India article. There is currently an ongoing edit war if India be called the largest democracy of world.
This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 2 – July 2008). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
The last newsletter was more than a year ago and after feeling the pinch, we got together in working towards in renewing this feature for our members. Fresh pair of legs we are, and hence can greatly improve with your suggestions and ideas. Please feel free to let us know of your thoughts. We hope to release the newsletter on a monthly/bi-monthly basis as per our initial thoughts.
Iravan, the son of Arjuna, is now our 85thgood 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.
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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.
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WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 2 – July 2009
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!
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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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.
This picture, shot in India, won the Commons:Picture of the Year contest 2009. Translations of the description in Indian languages are solicited.
Wikipedians in Bangalore have been organising periodic meetups over the past year, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society. The next meetup is scheduled for July 18, 2010. Indian and other Wikipedians from all Wikipedias in various languages are welcome to attend.
A discussion is underway here to reach a consensus regarding the use of Indian number names (lakh, crore etc.) in Wikipedia articles. Please participate and add your comments.
Some unintended vandalism is going on at the Assamese Wikipedia by the sole active editor. This is a request for Assamese-conversant Wikipedians to help resolve the issue.
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.
Watchlist the Articles for Deletions page for India related discussions. Opinions from more Indian Wikipedians are required in many of the discussions.
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Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 2 – (July 2010)). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
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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 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.
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 uploading of Tamil technical words donated by Tamil Virtual University to the Tamil Wiktionary was completed in October. The words were donated by the Government of Tamil Nadu due to lobbying efforts by Tamil Wikipedians during the runup to the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 (WCTC) in June. Nearly 70,000 words were uploaded increasing the word count in Tamil Wiktionary from 1,20,000+ to 1,90,000+. This has brought Tamil to the 10th place (from 17) in the list of largest wiktionaries and has earned it a place in the Wiktionary front page logo. In addition, Tamil Wikipedians set up a stall at the WCTC and introduced Tamil Wiki projects to people from all walks of life.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, one or more of the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. IrishGuy talk 10:33, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. IrishGuy talk 20:38, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot (talk) 07:53, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
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