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Achitnis, Presently you are on english wikipedia, You are invited to Marathi Wikipedia!This template shall keep you informed about support and contribution required in various Marathi Wikipedia articles in times to come.

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नमस्कार, Achitnis आपण Marathi language- किंवा Maharashtra-विषयक लेखात जे योगदान केले आहे त्याबद्दल धन्यवाद.

इंग्रजी आणि मराठी विकिपीडियावरील सहयोगच्या माध्यमातून विकिपीडिया संबंधीत प्रकल्पांचा आणि लेखांचा आवाका आणि गुणवत्ता सुधारावी या हेतूने विविध प्रकल्पाची आखणी केली आहे आपण या विकिपीडिया:प्रकल्पात लेखन योगदान करून या प्रकल्पाचा हिस्सा व्हावेत या सदिच्छेने मी आपणास हे निमंत्रण देत आहे.

या प्रकल्पात सहभाग घेऊन आपण सहकार्य करू इच्छित असाल तर, कृपया मराठी विकिपीडियाचे समाज मुखपृष्ठ आणि आपल्या आवडीच्या प्रकल्प पानास भेट देऊन अधिक माहिती घ्यावी हि नम्र विनंती. पुन्हा एकदा धन्यवाद!~~~~


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आपल्या मराठी विकिपीडियावरील सहभागाबद्दल, सहवासाबद्दल आणि उत्कृष्ट योगदानाबद्दल हे मराठी विकीचे अभिमान गौरव निशाण मराठी विकिपीडियाच्या सर्व आजी माजी वाचक,संपादक, आणि चहात्यांना अर्पण करण्यात येत आहे.आपल्या आवडीचे वाचन,लेखन संपादन असेच सदैव घडत राहो हि शुभेच्छा!!

  • आपल्याला माहित आहे का ? कि, इंग्लिश विकिपीडियातसुद्धा नॅव्हीगेशन म्हणजे सुचालन मराठी भाषेतून करणे अधिक सुलभ झाले आहे.डावीकडच्या मेन्यू कॉलममध्ये languagees च्या तीथे या चक्र चिन्हा जवळ आपण नॅव्हीगेशन तसेच लिहिण्याची भाषा निवडू शकता ?
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PESIT page[edit]

I actually found out who did the vandalism at the PESIT page today and confronted him. We had a heated argument and he maintains that some of his points are true. He wants me to start a "Criticism" section where all the points are mentioned in a proper manner and I agreed to this. What do you think? Munim2020 (talk) 21:18, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Thanks for your reply. I think I will drop the idea. No way to provide citations. Munim2020 (talk) 17:54, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Glimpse of Artcile on Katrina Kaif[edit]

I have edited the introductory passage in the article Katrina Kaif. I have done it with utmost care, keeping in mind the harsh criticism showered upon me.

I want to you to give your valuable opinion, regarding my version of the edition and about further changes needed. This is just like a sample and preview.

I will proceed in a truthful way, if I have your consent.

- User: Tejas.B

Article: Katrina Kaif[edit]

I have decided to edit the article on Katrina Kaif, following the lines of articles on Rani Mukerji, Preity Zinta, Kareena Kapoor etc.

You have given me a glimpse of my mistakes in the previous edition regarding the same article, and I'll try to make the article in a very encyclopediac and appealing manner.

I will include suitable references and reviews by Taran Adarsh of indiaFM, rediff and indiaglitz, like in the articles mentioned above.

Hope you guide me proficiently. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tejas.B (talkcontribs) 05:15, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

- User: Tejas.B —Preceding comment was added at 05:16, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned fair use image (Image:SimputerLogo.gif)[edit]

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This has been fixed, the logo has been linked and is no longer orphaned. Achitnis 12:51, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Katrina Kaif[edit]

Thank you for your valuable suggestions on the article Katrina Kaif, which I edited upto a large extent. I hope it remains encyclopediac to the maximum possible extent.

- User: Tejas.B

Katrina Kaif[edit]

I've dropped a note at User talk:202.41.205.71. Will block the IP if vandalism continues. utcursch | talk 09:36, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The image page (Image:Katrina.jpg) says that it's actually a fair use screenshot from a computer/video game (see Katrina (Ultima)). utcursch | talk 09:48, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You're right. I've reverted to earlier version. utcursch | talk 09:59, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Non-free use disputed for Image:HaraldWelte.jpg[edit]

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This has been addressed by uploading a CC licensed picture with correct license information. Achitnis 14:47, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Non-free use disputed for Image:Phenom rc2005.jpg[edit]

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This has been addressed by uploading a CC licensed picture with correct license information. Achitnis 14:48, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:SimputerLogo.gif[edit]

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This has been addressed by providing fair-usage rationale (source). Achitnis 14:49, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Katrina Kaif[edit]

I've protected the article from anons and newly-registered users for sometime. Since I'm not always online, you can request page protection at WP:RfPP -- the action will be taken much faster. utcursch | talk 03:38, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]


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WikiProject Germany Invitation[edit]

Hello, Achitnis! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be.


--Zeitgespenst (talk) 07:02, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

{{for}}[edit]

Please don't add disambiguation hatnotes to articles whose titles are unambiguous. Searches don't direct users to these pages (they are directed to a disambiguation page) so they aren't in need of help to find other similarly-named articles. Thanks. - Dudesleeper / Talk 09:38, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A brief description of each article is given on the disambiguation page. I'm not sure how the "wrong" article could be selected. On the off chance it was, there's that handy back button on our browers. - Dudesleeper / Talk 17:44, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The two music group/band articles should be offshoots from another disambiguation. Either way, there was no defining reason to add a hatnote to every Phenom article, which was my initial gripe. - Dudesleeper / Talk 18:22, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Proposed deletion of Phenom (band)[edit]

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AfD nomination of Phenom (band)[edit]

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Hi Atul, What could be done about users who just keep nominating articles for deletion?[edit]

ChiragPatnaik is one such user I noticed, He was once on a spree to delete all Podcast related pages, Podbharti was saved but the Indicast page was deleted. Noticed that Kamla Bhatt's page was also nominated by him but saved. Is there nothing that we can do about user who have more faith in destruction that creation?--Debashish (talk) 11:25, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Sir[edit]

Being a renown computer scientist, this fellow computer science/business undergraduate asks you your advice? Which major would you recommend? Finance or Economics? I would like to learn how to invest and multiply, specially within the reals of the stock market. I also love to travel. Is there anything you can recommend me? And sorry for posting such a random question. Have a good day! --DarkKunai (talk) 03:53, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Phenom[edit]

The comment you left on my talk page was hostile. Please don't try to teach me the right way to edit Wikipedia, friend, I've been on Wikipedia a while. There is no OWNERSHIP of articles. Relax. Read Wikipedia:OWNER.
There is no reason for someone who wants an edit to the article to ask your kind permission before doing so, just because you created the article or whatever. My edits to the article were good faith. A mess of original research is hardly the right way to keep a good article. The question is - do you want an article or an advertisement?
Since you appear to have problems, the whole history section is pretty much OR, not a single citation and pretty much filled with "opinions". Wikipedia is not a forum to air your personal opinions.
I'll assume good faith and give you time to fix the article if you would like. Please add citations and remove the advertising. Dontmentionit (talk) 09:48, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Firstly,, you don't need for the band to be active for the article to drip advertising. Surely lines like "the group went on to perform at shows and competitions several times each month, and developed quite a winning streak." without citations represent advertisement or at the very minimum a non-neutral POV. That's like saying "Obama was quite the brilliant guy in school winning many contests". Secondly, there are no talk page archives to look at. Citations requests are a seperate issue, I may as well put a citations tag on the entire history segment, which was my main problem with the article. Not only is it unencyclopedic, it is also lacking in NPOV and citations. What's more, it is fancruft. Since you have intervened, Do provide citations for the History section and cut the original research and cruft. Dontmentionit (talk) 15:15, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]


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

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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.

What's New?
Current proposals and discussions
  • 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.
  • 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.

If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of WikiProject India. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!

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!

Looking forward toward more contributions from you!
Complete To Do List
Signed...
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WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 2 - November 2010[edit]

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.

If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject India. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!

Lastly, 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!

Signed...

SBC-YPR, Sodabottle (Editors)

Tinucherian (Distributor)


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

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Barnstar[edit]

The Anti-Flame Barnstar
For keeping cool on the dispute and went ahead rewritten the Radia tapes controversy for the better. Good work. Srikanth (Logic) 12:51, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Invite to WikiConference India 2011[edit]


Hi Achitnis,

The First WikiConference India is being organized in Mumbai and will take place on 18-20 November 2011.
You can see our Official website, the Facebook event and our Scholarship form.

But the activities start now with the 100 day long WikiOutreach.

As you are part of WikiProject India community we invite you to be there for conference and share your experience. Thank you for your contributions.

We look forward to see you at Mumbai on 18-20 November 2011

Wikimedia Stories Project[edit]

Hello,

My name is Victor Grigas, and I'm a storyteller at the Wikimedia foundation. We're telling stories of Wikipedia users, editors, donors, programmers and staff to paint a picture of who uses Wikipedia - for the 2011 fundraiser.

I am in the process of planning a trip to India to gather stories from Indian Wikipedians in face-to-face interviews (possibly on video).

My primary goal is to conduct 15-20 interviews, and hopefully enough of my interviews will make compelling stories that will effectively solicit donations from the public. These stories may also be used for other communication purposes by the foundation.

I found your userpage on a list of prolific Wikipedians and thought I’d reach out to you. Prolific editing is always a good story to tell!

If you are interested in participating, please contact me via my email:

vgrigas@wikimedia.org

Thank you for your time!

Victor

About me: I have been a Wikipedia editor since 2005. My userpage can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Victorgrigas

Talkback[edit]

Hello, Achitnis. You have new messages at C.Fred's talk page.
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File:Ashish Gulhati.gif listed for deletion[edit]

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RIP Atul Chitnis[edit]

You will be missed and remembered. May your soul rest in peace -- Tinu Cherian - 10:13, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]