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Hello!!!

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Hi, this is Jobin, a new wikipedia user. I came to understand that you have an interest in Computer and related topics. I am working on a few articles related to Programming in C. Therefore, I kindly request you to help me on these topics

You may also drop your valuable suggestions on other related articles on my talk page. Jobin RV (talk • contribs) 11:47, 4 September 2011 (UTC)Jobin RV 12:25, 4 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

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Welcome!

Hello, Coolguyche17, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Hi

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Hey, are you from Chennai? I see you are contributing a lot to the Rapid Transit articles relating to Chennai. Maybe you could be incharge of all those articles while I take over Bengaluru and Mumbai?

Regards --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 12:10, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]


One more thing, do you know of a free way to type in Devnagiri? --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 12:18, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

never mind, found Quillpad.

--Rsrikanth05 (talk) 12:26, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, yup.. am from Chennai.. Thanks, I can do that..:) -- Bharathmeister (talk) 17:39, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please add {{User WikiProject India}} to your userpage [not your talk page]? That way you'll be listed on the members of Wikiproject India... --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 11:40, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

thanks.. I did it. --Bharathmeister (talk) 12:47, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Great!!!! Good job on Hyderabad and Chennai. Keep it up. Jai Hind. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 13:24, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! :) Jai Hind. --Bharathmeister (talk) 13:54, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nice userpage you've created.

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--Rsrikanth05 (talk) 11:04, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]


I can talk in English, Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Kannada and Bengali, but writing is limited to Enlgish, Hindi/Marathi and little Bengali. Tamil is my mother-tongue, but I'm horrible at it. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 11:57, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is basically to allow visitors to easily get to the other topics related to the current one. have a look at these: Template:Bangalore topics and Template:India topics. It can go beyond 20, it can go on forever if you wish. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 08:20, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

User page

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Hey dude, how do you like my new user page? --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 11:58, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WOIGRM

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User:Rsrikanth05/WOIGRM

We need to do some listing of stuff there. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 15:32, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it basically is going to be for those articles like Hindu-Arabic Numerals, which two-years ago was unjustly and hastily renamed to Arabic Numerals due to the latter being more 'common' among US residents. It basically is to remove such bloopers. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 15:39, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Added 2 articles to the list. Also, I need to know what more can be done. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 14:48, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and those images I think you uploaded abt Chennai Monorail, MRT corridor, et all, here is a way to prevent their deletion. use the info, I've used on these images. [1] --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 14:53, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

An Invite to join the International Roads WikiProject

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Hi, Coolguyche17, you are graciously extended an invitation to join the International Highways WikiProject! The Highways WikiProject is an evolving and expanding WikiProject. We are a group of editors who are dedicated to creating, revising, and expanding articles, lists, categories, road portal and Wikiprojects, to do with anything related to International Roads. This includes supporting existing regional road WikiProjects and fostering the development of new WikiProjects.
|As you have shown an interest in Maduravoyal Junction we thought you might like to take an interest in this growing WikiProject.
We look forward to welcoming you to the project! SriMesh | talk 03:09, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]


RBI

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Well, you know how the Americans think they're the only ones alive on this planet, so most of the things online, go according to their whims and fancies.
So, I thought, let's be a bit fair.
RBI, redirects to Run Batted In, which as we all know is a baseball term, and baseball is an American sport.
Sometime back, a vote was held to redirect it to the disambig page. Someone said, English is NOT a primary language of India, and hence there should be preference to non-Indian artices.
The Americans voted and made the article redirect to Run Batted In, so I feel, we should all have another vote.
So, please vote, on whether you support or oppose the redirect to RBI (disambiguation) rather than Run batted in.
The earlier debate can be found at Talk:RBI (disambiguation).
The new poll can be found at Talk:RBI
Regards,
--Rsrikanth05 (talk) 07:20, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Transport in India

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Hey there, I just wanted to know your opinions about the following difference between two edits regarding Transport in India.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Transport_in_India&diff=276272620&oldid=276151222 I edited the article yesterday, and Edward321, a brainless git, who knows nothiong about India, edited it saying it was better, but undid everything I had done.
His edit is on the left, and mine is on the right. I rolled-back his edit today morning. Just have a look and let me know which is better.
Regards,
--Rsrikanth05 (talk) 19:03, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Smile

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Rsrikanth05 (talk) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend, Go on smile! Cheers, and Happy editing!
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Stats

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Just follow this please: http://stable.toolserver.org/editcount/optin --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 16:26, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Vehicle Registration

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Hey dude, do you know which section o the Motor Vehicles Act state number plates should be in English? I've been trying to find it, but I couldn't. Here's a link to MV Act ; http://www.vakilno1.com/bareacts/MotorVehiclesAct/Motor-Vehicles-Act.htm

--Rsrikanth05 (talk) 11:34, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Its not necessary the number plates should be in English. It can be in any Indian Language.

Coolguyche17 (talk) 15:32, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

After 5 ours of non-stop research, I finally found it. http://morth.nic.in/writereaddata/sublink2images/rule3_504189056765.pdf Phew.
--Rsrikanth05 (talk) 13:26, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
P.S : It's on Page 2. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 13:58, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, nice find. I never knew that. :) Coolguyche17 (talk) 15:25, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

BETL

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I have renamed Hosur Road elev. exp. to BETL. Also, I have added an image to it. Just tell me how it is. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 13:55, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Batlagundu

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The name of a priest is written in this article called "Batlagundu". Is this ok and as per the wikipedia five pillars ?

Kbala1055 (talk) 06:50, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There's nothing wrong in writing about any priest or saints. But this article "Batlagundu" has to be rewritten to rectify the grammatical errors.

Coolguyche17 (talk) 15:20, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A revert

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I assume that this revert of my edit was an accident? Acalamari 17:42, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hell yeah! I clicked cancel, guess it dint get cancelled. Coolguyche17 (talk) 18:26, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine then; I've left this edit summary in another edit to mention this. Thank you for clarifying. Happy editing. Acalamari 18:53, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Transport and Transportation

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As per WP:ENGVAR, this article should use Indian English and not American English. The word Transportation is not used as a noun in Indian English but as a verb, and thus the line: "The Chennai Rapid Bus Transit Ways (RBTW) is a part of the Medium-term and Long-term Transport Scheme proposed in the Second Master Plan by CMDA." sounds correct as opposed to having Transportation. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 10:40, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect capitalisation of pages

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You moved: Electrophoretic_mobility_shift_assay to Electrophoretic_Mobility_Shift_Assay - see: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Electrophoretic_mobility_shift_assay&action=history

I think this is wrong because you only need to capitalise the letters when you use the acronym. That is, you start of calling something "electrophoretic mobility shift assay", then compress it to EMSA for short. That does not mean that when you expand it again, it becomes "Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay". If you capitalised any other pages in the same way, please reverse them. ----Seans Potato Business 14:12, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

An Invite to join the WikiProject Indian Roads

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Hi, Coolguyche17, you are graciously extended an invitation to join the Indian Roads ! The WikiProject Indian Roads is an evolving and expanding WikiProject. We are a group of editors who are dedicated to creating, revising, and expanding articles, lists, categories, road portal and Wikiprojects, to do with anything related to Indian Roads.
As you have shown an interest in National Expressway(India) we thought you might like to take an interest in this growing WikiProject.

Naveenpf (talk) 01:20, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

We look forward to welcoming you to the project!

WP Bangalore Meetup

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Following the Mailing list discussion that we had, here's a call for an informal meetup of Bangalore Wikipedians soon. Please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore3 --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 15:40, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Chennai Elevated Expressway Categorization

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Hey, any specific reason for this edit on removing the "future" category? Srikanth t 07:15, 15 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I guess its unnecessary categorization. But if you still wanna do it, mabbe u can try creating a category specific for India and add these in that? :) Coolguyche17 (talk) 07:26, 15 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox Bus transit

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Help me understand this. You have added a parameter for "lines" and I can't see any difference in possible usage from "routes"? Secondarywaltz (talk) 22:15, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Routes" was used to mention the starting and ending point of the lines in some articles, so I thought the "No. of Lines" is missing and added the parameter "lines" Coolguyche17 (talk) 04:50, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yes some people do that - but it is improper use of an infobox. "Routes" should just be the number of routes and the details should be in a table within the body of the article. Another bad example of this is when someone enters every kind of bus used under "fleet", instead of just the number of vehicles in the fleet, with details elsewhere. I think there is enough flexibility without needing two parameters for route/line numbers in the infobox. Viva (bus rapid transit) is an example of a BRT system that gives the basic outlines in the infobox and extensive information aboout operations, lines and stations in other places. (It may not be a great article, but that is how to use the infobox). Can you imagine how large that infobox would be if route and other details were there as well. What if there are 100 routes? Secondarywaltz (talk) 14:26, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
P.S. Every other BRT system in India except Chennai BRTS uses Template:Infobox Public transit. Perhaps that would satisfy your needs better and would be consistent with the others. Secondarywaltz (talk) 17:35, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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

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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...
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From the editors...
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Have a look..

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Have a look at this: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes Chennai --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 17:39, 20 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

AWB

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Hey buddy... I have permissions to use AWB, but I haven't quite got the hang of it yet. Can you please tell me how you made those edits, like to BETL, Bangalore CRS, etc. using AWB ? --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 18:27, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is quite easy. After loging in to wiki thru AWB, make a list of articles... You can do so by typing in the category or any other source. Then check the edits u wanna make in the right tabs. Once you are done with selecting the kinda edits u wanna do, go to the last tab saying "Start" and click the start button. Thats it.. then u'll know wat to do Coolguyche17 (talk) 18:36, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks. I still haven't got it, but I'll try and see if I can learn. :D --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 07:03, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Hyderabad ITIR

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Rail

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The first railway LINE IN INDIA was between VT and Thana, CST and Thane.... You say Cal came first then now you say Chennai came first? PLease make some sense.. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 15:51, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dude, learn some manners first. Be polite when addressing someone. Go check history section in Rail transport in India.Coolguyche17 (talk) 18:06, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Gurgaon Metro

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Got a source for "Rapid Metro Rail Gurgaon"? I've never seen that term used, and HUDA just calls it the "metro link". Jpatokal (talk) 11:14, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yea, [1] and [2]. The JV company b/w DLF and IL&FS is also named so. Juzz google Rapid Metro Rail Gurgaon to get more links. ;-) -- Coolguyche17 (talk) 02:33, 11 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Links, references and citations

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  1. ^ http://www.indianexpress.com/news/gurgaon-to-have-internal-metro-service-line/551214/
  2. ^ http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Gurgoan-metro-misses-financial-closure-deadline/549600/

Wikipedia:WikiProject Railways in India

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Can we have a discussion on WP:INRI to improve the articles and organization of the articles ? --naveenpf (talk) 02:45, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Mumbai Suburban Railway

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Hi, I started discussion on talk:Mumbai Suburban Railway page regarding total system length, ur comment will be more appriciated, thanks KuwarOnline Talk 12:48, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]



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

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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.

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Speedy deletion of Template:Infobox Elevated Expressway

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A tag has been placed on Template:Infobox Elevated Expressway requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

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Hello Cool Guy from Chennai

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Hello, I want to contact with you via email. Please give me your contact details. With Thanks, Xpressers Lord —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xpresserslord (talk • contribs) 10:04, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Chennai meetup

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Hi, I guess you are living at Chennai and hence posting this message. We are planning to organise Chennai wikimeetup coming Nov 14. We need some help in organising it. Please ping me back if you are interested to help us out. Thanks. Srikanth (Logic) 08:51, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the message, but I'm not in India. So, I can't help! - Coolguyche17 (talk) 12:10, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]


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

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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
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Who is Bharathmeister

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The talk page for Bharathmeister (talk · contribs) redirects to this talk page. You also added the username to WikiProject India. What are you trying to do? Is Bharathmeister an account of yours also? Dougweller (talk) 09:26, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's me. I changed my username long back. Coolguyche17 (talk) 19:47, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

An Invite to join the WikiProject Railways in India

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Hi, Coolguyche17, you are graciously extended an invitation to join the Indian Railways ! The WikiProject Indian Railways in India is an evolving and expanding WikiProject. We are a group of editors who are dedicated to creating, revising, and expanding articles, lists, categories, Railways in India and Wikiprojects, to do with anything related to Railways in India.

As you have shown an interest in article related to Railways in India we thought you might like to take an interest in this growing WikiProject.Thank you for your contributions.

We look forward to welcoming you to the project!

naveenpf (talk) 04:00, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox Flyovers

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Template:Infobox Flyovers has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Imzadi 1979 → 18:46, 12 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject India Tag & Assess 2012 Contest

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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.

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

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

Speedy deletion nomination of Padalam

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If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

A tag has been placed on Padalam, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which articles can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may be soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Verbal.noun (talk) 16:06, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

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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) 16:18, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Urban road transit in India has been nominated for discussion

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Category:Urban road transit in India, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Shyamsunder (talk) 05:29, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:BS10

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Template:BS10 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Jc86035 (talk • contribs) Use {{re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 11:51, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Chennai-railway-routemap

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Template:Chennai-railway-routemap has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Useddenim (talk) 22:37, 29 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:BS12

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Template:BS12 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Jc86035 (talk) 08:08, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:BS12-2

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Template:BS12-2 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Jc86035 (talk) 08:09, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:BS14-2

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Template:BS14-2 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Jc86035 (talk) 08:09, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:BS11

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Template:BS11 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Jc86035 (talk) 09:31, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:BS11-2

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Template:BS11-2 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Jc86035 (talk) 09:31, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of National Maritime Complex

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Notice

The article National Maritime Complex has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Doesn't meet NGEO/GEOLAND.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. SITH (talk) 13:25, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You have been pruned from the Wikipedia:WikiProject Tamil Nadu/Participants list.

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Hi Coolguyche17! You're receiving this notification because you were previously listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Tamil Nadu/Participants, but you haven't made any edits to the English Wikipedia in over 1 year.

Because of your inactivity, you have been removed from the list. If you would like to resubscribe, you can do so at any time by visiting Wikipedia:WikiProject Tamil Nadu/Participants.

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Line 1, Chennai Metro

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Template:Line 1, Chennai Metro has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. - Timbaaa -> ping me 02:20, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Chennai HSCTC - route diagram templates

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A tag has been placed on Category:Chennai HSCTC - route diagram templates indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 19:08, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:BS10

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Template:BS10 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:46, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:BS10-2

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Template:BS10-2 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:46, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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