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LS2004 templates

Hi there. I have noticed that you have created lot of templates for specific instances of Lok Sabha election results. Each of these is likely to be used in only 1 page, since it has very specific information for each constituency.

Templates are for the primary purpose of solving a general purpose repeated information formatting. This is not the case with your templates.

Hence, I would suggest that ALL the templates are deleted (by blanking - or request to admin) - and include the full information the destination page itself. Please.

Finally, I would also like to point out giving detail stats like this is not appropriate for an encyclopedia. Hence, it may be possible such pages are deleted by the administrators. Kindly do the needful. VasuVR (talk, contribs) 09:16, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

In continuation of above, I have posted a message in the Wikiproject India Noticeboard. Please review the same and take appropriate action related to above mentioned templates. Specifically, would like you to:

1. stop creating these new templates
2. add the same information and formatting to the individual page where the information is required
3. do the same for all templates (copy info to the page from the template) you have already created
4. request to delete the template by blanking it and applying appropriate process of WP:TFD

Let us keep the high standards for India related information that we want to present in this encyclopedia, by following the guidelines for templates and content. VasuVR (talk, contribs) 12:23, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

VasuVR, I acknowledge your comments. This is the 1st time I have updated wikipedia, and I had copied the format/template idea from another page (Indian general elections, 2004-Andhra Pradesh). I had not noticed your comments earlier until I came about your post Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics just now. Apologies for any confusion, it was genuine mistake. I guess its a learning experience. --Aditya.krishnan.82 (talk) 11:32, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

No problem. Glad to give guidance anytime. In fact, through your additions we are hopefully going to cleanup some old edits that are not appropriate (templates for trivial data). So, there are always good things to learn for us and improvements that we collectively make. Please see Trivia added to single use templates for latest updates and steps regarding this issue. If you have any question on the technicalities or understanding what is done in this situation, feel free to reply here and post a talkback like the last time. Thanks. VasuVR (talk, contribs) 11:49, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the support. I am keen to contribute towards building Wikipedia's knowledge as it has provided me with answers for so many different things over the last few years... a small token of my appreciation would be to help it grow. I appreciate you taking the time to explain things so clearly; as of now, I am still learning the right stuff by looking at code from other pages. Aditya.krishnan.82 (talk) 11:55, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Welcome

I got your e-mail. We are glad you have decided to join the contributors list. I checked your contributions. You are off to a great start. I have moved all the 2004 state-level general election result articles to new titles. For example, Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 2004. You can leave the categories just the way it is for now. There are not many articles to worry about that now. We can always go back to cleanup the categories at a later time. With the general elections coming in 2009, it is best we start preparing for it now. Manual of style is the guide to how to contribute here. You can also check out howwikipediaworks.com. Generally, I check out other articles as a reference while doing anything here. The idea is be as consistent as possible. For the article moves I did, I referred to United States presidential election, 2008 and United States presidential election in New Hampshire, 2008. If you need any help, e-mail me or leave a message on my talk page.

Some India-related links for you:

Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 08:54, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Templates

Aditya,

I noticed that your templates have been nominated for deletion since they have actual values. Templates must be written to be re-usable. For example, you will need to use place holders like, {{{party1|}}}, {{{candidate1|}}}, {{{votes1|}}} that can be supplied with values and can be re-used for different states and election articles. See an example WP:IIJ . If you want to help out, I can create a generic template for you. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 09:19, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi Ganesh, I had copied the template from an existing page (Indian general elections, 2004-Andhra Pradesh). VasuVR has already corrected me there (see above) and has moved content from the templates into the main article itself. I guess it was a case of copying from the wrong source. I understand the concept of templates now and will be more careful in future. Thanks. Aditya.krishnan.82 (talk, contribs) 10:38, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Meghalaya Progressive Alliance

On 30 December, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Meghalaya Progressive Alliance, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Cirt (talk) 15:33, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Redirect created by you to be deleted

As a courtesy to you, I am notifying you of a redirect for deletion of a redirect you created. The page Nagaland_state_assembly_elections,_2008 is set for discussion for deletion as it's a deadredirect. If you wish to improve it, please do so and mention it on the discussion. Demortes (talk) 18:48, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

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I am Really delighted to meet a tamilian in here . Subash.chandran007 (talk) 14:51, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of CVOTER

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Moves

Hi. You go to 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MovePage/ARTICLENAME' (or click 'move', its between 'edit this page' and 'history'), fill in the new wished new and leave an explanation for why you want to move the article in question. --Soman (talk) 09:49, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Biju Janata Dal

Template:Biju Janata Dal has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 04:45, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Noted your comments on this discussion. We meet again on template issues. I suggest that you start using your sandbox for setting up these kinds of nascent content / templates. Later, when they are closer to a finished item, create the actual page / template. For example, you could have User:Aditya.krishnan.82/BijuJanataDal as the sandbox for this template and move it to the Template namespace later. VasuVR (talk, contribs) 15:20, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi Vasu. Actually, there isn't that much more I can add to the Template to be honest. As I mentioned, I was more interested in the subpages /meta/color and /meta/shortname These subpages are required for the party to be added into {{Infobox election}} infoboxes. I assumed that the subpages require the actual template to exist, hence created that template. Since the Infobox election template is very widely used, I didn't want to make any changes on that way that works.
However, since my comment on this discussion, I have seen that some other parties have the subpages without the actual Template itself (e.g. Template:Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color, Template:Janata Dal (United)/meta/shortname). If this is permitted, then I agree that we should delete Template:Biju Janata Dal while retaining these 2 subpages.
Aditya.krishnan.82 (talk, contribs) 02:10, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Cool. I did not know these aspects and learnt it now. Thanks. VasuVR (talk, contribs) 05:03, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Manmohan Singh page

are criticism suppose to be allowed in biography of person not to sure can you please explain —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mughalnz (talk • contribs) 20:58, 17 December 2009 (UTC) Mughalnz (talk) 21:04, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Most definitely permitted... IF AND ONLY IF it can be backed up by a reliable secondary source. You must be careful to ensure that the criticism does not make the article appear to take sides. For specific information, check out Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Criticism and praise. You can also check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography for more information and links.
Aditya.krishnan.82 (talk, contribs) 04:50, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

• Thanks man (i was going to delete the criticism on his page ) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mughalnz (talk • contribs) 21:52, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Sure, no problem.
One point though - always remember to "sign" your comments on any talk page by using the 4 tildas (~~~~) sign.
Aditya.krishnan.82 (talk, contribs) 02:45, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

lol keep forgetting Mughalnz (talk) 04:05, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

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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 Complete To Do List India-related tasks | Indian noticeboard Requests: Sibichen K Mathew, Dominic Emmanuel, AK Merchant, Counterfeiting of currency notes in India, Akhand Pratap Singh, Asura (band), Asian Variety Show, Cultural liberalism in India, India Export Tax, India Import Tax, More... NPOV: Greater Nepal Rajneesh, Ranjit Lal Jetley Hedgewar, Puttanna Kanagal, Bride burning, Sonia Gandhi More... Wikify: Railway stations, Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar, Silk in the Indian subcontinent, IDBI Bank More... Cleanup: , Rampur, Tav-Prasad Savaiye, Shipping Corporation of India, Velama, Medical college (India), All India Radio, More... Merge: Raghava Rama, Sammar Bahisht, Sathya Sai Baba movement,More... Expand: Prime Minister of India, Krishna district, List of railway stations in India, Swaraj, Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case), Barak Missile Deal Scandal, 14th Lok Sabha, Adithada, Ali Sardar Jafri, Bandhani work, Bhaiband, Chikan (embroidery), China Town, Kolkata, Rahi Masoom Raza, Energy policy of India, Essar Shipping, Fair use, Hinduism in India, Imperial Bank, Inbuan Wrestling, Iran-India relations, Islam in India, Arjuna award, Sunil Mittal, Save Indian Family, Anjana Sukhani, Rajendra K. Pachauri, More... Stubs: Anand Math, A R Antule, Arjuna award, Army of India, Bapudeva Sastri, Bombay Dyeing, Indian Copyright Act, Marimallappa, Mumbai Skywalk, More... Translate: Bhojpuri Wikipedia articles, Maithili Wikipedia articles, Telugu Wikipedia articles, Marathi Wikipedia articles, Hindi Wikipedia articles, Sanskrit Wikipedia articles, Tamil Wikipedia articles Kannada Wikipedia articles Collaborate: Collaborations of the Month, Notice board, Category Adoptions To do, Version 1.0 assessment, India Portal, Life in India, India quick links Indian Wikipedians, More... Requested images: Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan, Free image of Aarti Chhabria Other requests: Add maps from WikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found at List of regions in India Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template

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. 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. 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. Malayalam wikimedian Santhosh Thottingal has developed a software (Wiki2CD) for the creation of the Malayalam Wikipedia CD, which was launched in 2010. In addition, Santosh, along with fellow Malayalam wikimedian Shiju Alex coordinated a panel discussion at Wikimania 2010 on creation of offline Wiki content.

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 Please add Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics to your watchlist in order to stay updated with the latest discussions regarding various aspects of the project. Two current featured articles, 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings and Economy of India have been nominated for reviews here and here respectively. Contribute and help prevent these articles from being delisted! 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. A series of discussions are underway on the neutrality of the Famine in India article. Please comment and help resolve the disputes. Join the Wikimedia India mailing list and the IRC channel for regular updates and discussions. Links to language-specific forums are available here. 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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Nomination for deletion of cricketer templates

Cricketer templates has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. –Moondyne 04:43, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Vote in WP:CRIC

There has been a issue in WT:CRIC that needs your vote. Thanks --ashwinikalantri ^talk 06:37, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Mehmood Quaraishy

Template:Mehmood Quaraishy has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. — This, that, and the other (talk) 10:33, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Invite to WikiConference India 2011

Hi Aditya.krishnan.82, 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

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)

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Indian Collaboration of the Month

Collaboration of the month

Hi there! WP:INCOTM is a WikiProject where editors from different parts of India choose an article and work on it collaboratively throughout the month. It is a great opportunity to interact with experienced editors from the community and to get the feel of collaboration - one of the reasons and advantages of editing Wikipedia! This month, Anil Kumble has been the article chosen for GA/FA of the month. And you being a fan of Indian Cricket team, I invite to you to join this collaboration and contribute in making Anil Kumble a good article. BPositive (talk) 06:32, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Writer's Barnstar
	I liked your contribution to Sikkimese Assembly Election. Karan Kamath (talk · contribs) Karan Kamath (talk) 05:04, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Cricket-world-cup-1975.jpg

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Cricket-world-cup-1975.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Magog the Ogre (t • c) 00:45, 8 March 2013 (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) 16:38, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Andhra Pradesh state assembly elections results, 2009

Template:Andhra Pradesh state assembly elections results, 2009 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 22:09, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Sikkim state assembly elections results, 2009

Template:Sikkim state assembly elections results, 2009 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 22:58, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Orissa state assembly elections results, 2009

Template:Orissa state assembly elections results, 2009 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 16:29, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Arunachal Pradesh state assembly elections results, 2009

Template:Arunachal Pradesh state assembly elections results, 2009 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 15:46, 8 August 2021 (UTC)