User:Ambuj.Saxena
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| Birthdate: | 2 August 1984 |
| Nationality: | Indian |
| Birthplace: | Jabalpur, M.P. |
| Residence: | Kharagpur (W.B.) | Bhopal (M.P.) |
| Profession: | Student (IIT Kharagpur) |
| Languages: | Five — Hindi, English, Bengali, Kannada, Telugu |
| Family: | Ankur (Brother) |
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| Username: | Ambuj.Saxena |
| Registered on: | 5 February 2006 |
| First edit: | 5 February 2006 |
| User group: | User |
| Wiki philosophy: | Eventualist |
| Current signature: | — Ambuj Saxena (talk) |
| E-mail: | Through Wikipedia | Directly |
| #wikipedia nickname: | Ambuj |
| Sock-puppet: | Ambuj in exile |
| Impostors: | Two |
| Barnstars received: | Eight |
Ambuj Saxena (अम्बुज सक्सेना) (born 2 August 1984) is an Indian wikipedian, registered and active since 5 February 2006. Currently, he is studying at the IIT Kharagpur (West Bengal) and is doing his majors in Mechanical Engineering and masters in Manufacturing Systems Engineering. He will be joining Shell Technology India as a Technology Development Engineer in 2007.
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[edit] Early life
He was born in Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh). He is one of the twins born to his parents. His brother's name is Ankur Saxena. Ambuj did his schooling from a number of schools in Jabalpur, Bhopal and Indore. He completed his school education (12th standard) from St. Paul Higher Secondary School.
After completing his schooling, he took admission in Mechanical Engineering department of IIT Kharagpur.[1] His brother also came to the same IIT to do his majors in Computer Science. Ambuj Saxena has been offered a job as Technology Development Engineer in Shell Technology India, which is located in Bangalore. He would be joining Shell at the end of his post-graduate studies in 2007.
[edit] Wikipedia life
Ambuj Saxena made his first edit to Wikipedia on 5 February 2006 to the Wikipedia page of IIT Kharagpur.[2] In that edit, he added the institute's motto in Devanagari script. After subsequent edits to improve the IIT's article, he created his first Wikipedia page as an article of linguistics and slangs used in IIT Kharagpur. This article was deleted after a major debate on the worthiness of the article. The source of the article was a blog maintained by him.[3] The article can currently be also found in his user sub-page. Undeterred by the deletion, he continued working for Wikipedia. He changed his username from Ambuj.saxena to Ambuj.Saxena citing "inconsistent capitalization" as the reason.[4]
Apart from editing articles, a lot of his contributions include reverting vandalism via recent changes patrolling as well as wikification, categorization and standardisation of articles. He prefers working as a WikiGnome. He helped Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in becoming featured articles, and the former was featured on the front page of Wikipedia on 26 August 2006.[5] Ambuj Saxena also helped many other articles reach the Featured Article status, like the Nathu La and Indian Standard Time articles. He has also worked a lot on referencing of existing featured articles with citation problems, which include Economy of India, Flag of India, Sikkim and Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport. His major article contributions can be seen in a web-page maintained by him. Ambuj Saxena also helps maintain the Indian Portal, a work that includes selecting articles, images and DYKs ("Did You Know") from a pool of India-related content on Wikipedia. He also contributes to WikiProject India as an assessor of articles.
He also took the initiative in changing the Wikipedia's logo to remove inconsistancies in Hindi text. The matter was raised with the Wikimedia Foundation and Angela also supported the change.[6] However, because the process that was used to create the original logo is not known to anyone, recreating the logo would mean substantial deviations in appearance when compared to current one. For this reason, the issue remains unresolved.[7]
Ambuj Saxena was nominated for adminship by Samir in July. The nomination failed to reach consensus as a few editors opposed him, citing his strong opinions on topics like reference standardisation and date wiki-linking.[8] Having 110 supports, 40 opposes, and 12 neutral votes, the Request for Adminship (RfA) made it to the list of times when 100 Wikipedians supported something. It was the fourth time on Wikipedia that an RfA did not succeed despite getting more than 100 support votes.[9]
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[edit] References
- ^ R. P. Hall. Rajendra Prasad Hall – Boarder's List. IIT Kharagpur. Retrieved on June 3, 2006.
- ^ Ambuj Saxena's first edit. Indian Institutes of Technology article. Wikipedia (2006-02-05). Retrieved on June 3, 2006.
- ^ Saxena, Ambuj (2006-04-08). IIT Kharagpur Dictionary. Blogs by Ambuj Saxena. Blogger.com. Retrieved on June 3, 2006.
- ^ Ambuj Saxena's edit citing the reason for name change. Wikipedia:Changing username. Wikipedia (2006-03-14). Retrieved on June 3, 2006.
- ^ Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 26, 2006. Wikipedia:Today's featured article. Wikipedia (2006-08-21). Retrieved on December 10, 2006.
- ^ Angela's support. User talk:Angela. Wikipedia (2006-04-04). Retrieved on June 3, 2006.
- ^ Changing this one thing is not simple and is not the solution. User talk:Ambuj.Saxena/Wikipedia-logo. Wikipedia (21 December 2006). Retrieved on March 11, 2007.
- ^ Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Ambuj.Saxena. Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. Wikipedia (2006-08-16). Retrieved on December 10, 2006.
- ^ IanManka, RoyBoy. "Features and admins", Wikipedia Signpost, Wikipedia, 2006-08-14. Retrieved on August 14, 2006.
