User talk:Samir

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no barnstars please

My RFA

Hey, thanks for participating in my recent RFA. You were amongst a number of editors who considered that I wasn't ready for the mop yet and as a consequence the RFA did not succeed (69/26/11). I am extremely grateful that you took the time to advise me on to improve as a Wikipedian and I'd like to assure you that I'll do my level best to develop my skills here to a point where you may feel you could trust me with the mop.

I've been blown away by the level of interest taken in my RFA and appreciate the time and energy dedicated by all the editors who have contributed to it, support, oppose and neutral alike. I hope to bump into you again soon and look forward to serving you and Wikipedia in any way I can. Cheers! The Rambling Man 19:27, 11 January 2007 (UTC) (the non-admin, formerly known as Budgiekiller)

Re:Thanks

It was my pleasure. :) - Darwinek 22:49, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Death By Gluten

Is there any chance you could salt the above page? It was a very heated debate by the band members and I'm sure it is going to get recreated. Consensus in Afd seamed to go towards salting the page RyanPostlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 23:14, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Why was Death by Gluten removed? It contained actual facts on actual people and an actual disease. With your profession I would think you would be sympathetic to the idea that not enough people are educated on this disease, and bringing the facts out in a humorous way, especially through lyrics and song, is a very good way of getting people to listen. Their were no deceitful facts, no factual errors. Maybe they did throw in a little something extra to make people laugh, but thats the best way to get people to listen. I urge you to repost the article, if it wakes one person up to whats going on in their body, if it makes one person question their digestion and listen to lyrics that get them to realize that they are sick and need to do something about it, isn't it worth it?

Please see WP:NMG. If someone thinks they have celiac disease, they should see a gastroenterologist, not listen to a band called "Death by Gluten". -- Samir धर्म 23:57, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

It has been reposted, well as response has. Time for a salt yet? RyanPostlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 00:03, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Much appreciated RyanPostlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 00:12, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Michael Donnelly AfD

Thanks for closing out the Michael Donnelly AfD -- those socks were getting a bit much! Not sure if you noticed, but the AfD was a bundle - the other article is The Mystic Battle Trilogy. If you did see it and just haven't gotten to it yet, my apologies. --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 00:44, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

No prob! Cheers --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 00:56, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

this is no vandalism

How much mg of Diazepam can kill a human being, Samir? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 59.91.254.8 (talk) 15:40, 12 January 2007 (UTC).

I had to look it up also. See Diazepam#Overdose -- Samir धर्म 02:54, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Delhi FAC comments

Could you please see Blacksun's comments in the FAC? I guess we need some die hard Delhiite to take care of the culture section. Please help. I am also requesting some others. You can communicate with your known people as well. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 04:46, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

A very Californian RfA thanks from Luna Santin

Thanks for your support in my not-so-recent RfA, which succeeded with a final tally of (97/4/4)! I've never been able to accept compliments gracefully, and the heavy support from this outstanding community left me at a complete loss for words -- so, a very belated thank you for all of your kind words. I have done and will continue to do the utmost to serve the community in this new capacity, wherever it may take me, and to set an example others might wish to follow in. With a little luck and a lot of advice, this may be enough. Maybe someday the enwiki admins of the future will look back and say, "Yeah, that guy was an admin." Hopefully then they don't start talking about the explosive ArbComm case I got tied into and oh what a drama that was, but we'll see, won't we? Surely some of you have seen me in action by now; with that in mind, I openly invite and welcome any feedback here or here -- help me become the best editor and sysop I can be. Again, thank you. –Luna Santin

Glad to see you around, now and then, even if we don't get too many chances to collaborate. Cheers! Luna Santin 12:24, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

user:Unre4L

Hi Samir - I've blocked this user for 1 week for making disruptive edits, hard pov-pushing and consistent incivility - based on WP:POINT, WP:CIVIL, WP:NPA and WP:NPOV. I request you to please review my rationale for this block - if it is indeed justified and properly applied. Rama's arrow 02:50, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Delhi culture

Hi! The subheaders were added only yesterday by SushantGupta. Yes, prose needs improvement. So does citation. More importantly, we have to search for some soul! May be more on Old Delhi culture.--Dwaipayan (talk) 08:55, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Toy safety

What an image! I didn't expect to see something quite so good added that quickly! Thanks - great work. violet/riga (t) 05:34, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Our mails

Hi Samir! I just want to let you know that I've finished most of my exams, so we could start the work if you also have time. Regards, NCurse _work 17:29, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Articles

Hey there, I just wanted to drop by and leave a note after your vote on my RFA, and din't want to contribute to the pile on oppose !voter problem that seems to occuring. My main problem with article writing has been that a lot of articles in my area of interest (music and social work) tend to be very contentious and as such I stay away. However, if you ever have an article that needs referenced, copy edited, or just a look at by another pair of eyes to look over it, let me know! Cheers, ✎ Peter M Dodge ( Talk to Me • Neutrality Project ) 05:20, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Of course! Frankly, I'm sheepish that I didn't know that Peter M Dodge was Wizardry Dragon (despite leaving a message on your talk page). Sheepish enough that I'll withdraw my oppose both due to your fine attitude and because I've seen your signature helping a lot of people out -- Samir धर्म 06:26, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Not a problem :) The original comment about articles still stands. I certainly know I can use some more edits there, but I haven't yet found somewheres to get stuck in that's not too contentious. Cheers, ✎ Peter M Dodge ( Talk to Me • Neutrality Project ) 06:33, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

If you're interested after your RfA, we could tackle Ottawa. Would be great if it was WP:FA! (My hometown BTW, Go Sens Go... I get beaten up a lot in Toronto) -- Samir धर्म 06:38, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm really close to withdrawing my acceptance of the nomination ... I was afraid that kind of "pile on" would happen some way or another, and it really bothers me ... so ... I'll let it sit until tomorrow and see if it clears up - if it does not, I think I will withdraw it.

As to Ottawa - I'm kind of leery of editing it alone because some of the Wikiproject Ottawa people seem to have easily bruised egos (hope this doesn't offend anyone, but I'm speaking frankly there). If another editor were there though, I suppose I could take a hack :) Where do you propose we begin? Cheers, ✎ Peter M Dodge ( Talk to Me • Neutrality Project ) 07:03, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Diobesity

It's not a real term. The article was deleted after AfD a few days ago. It is a neogolism --Steve _(Slf67) ^talk 00:24, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

I get 43 pubmed hits. It's presented at GI meetings, spelled as diabesity. -- Samir धर्म 00:25, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Diobesity

Hi Samir, this is a recreation of a very recently deleted article, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Diobesity. It should be speedied. Regards, Accurizer 00:25, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Not sure. It's a real medical term spelled wrong: diabesity. See PMID 14598860, PMID 16926773, PMID 16352155, and last month's Lancet: PMID 17098069. Let me work on it. -- Samir धर्म 00:27, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

O.K., thanks. Also, now I see the original author says diabesity is trademarked and she wants it deleted. Best of luck. Regards, Accurizer 00:28, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

She's about to get a block. I'm going to redirect to metabolic syndrome. Big ups to you in dealing with this, BTW -- Samir धर्म 00:29, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks much. Glad you were there to sort it out. See you around. Regards, Accurizer 00:47, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Samir, your advice please. Given Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Diobesity just been deleted with strong consensus, should I (or am I allowed to) immediately delete Diabesity as being recreation of the same-concept article ? David Ruben ^Talk 04:36, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

I restored and protected Samir's redirect. I don't think the redirect should be deleted since it is a valid term. Sarah 05:10, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Bioartificial liver device

You really have to thank Sage2k6 -- they created it. I just split it out of liver dialysis. A DYK would be nice... with a little more buff. :) Nephron  T|C 07:04, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: off-topic: Looks like that "asthma" instead of expiratory wheeze... might have had some stridor instead. Nephron  T|C 07:26, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and ...good catch! :) Nephron  T|C 07:28, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Work

Sorry for not replying for days, I had a successful traumatology exam and my medblog's competition is just over. So I did the same, I typed the letters with shaking hands into Pubmed, but no relevant result. I'd like to create the table for our point number 2 (verif.), but we should decide about that which category or main topic I should include? NCurse _work 20:58, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I'm going to take my exam of orthopedic surgery, but I have time in the evenings, so I start that table and let you know when a considerable amount is ready. NCurse _work 10:20, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume II, Issue 1 - January 2007

Project News Usage of Vernacular scripts: Following extensive description at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) archived here regarding inclusion criteria for vernacular scripts in Indian biographies, Wikipedia:Vernacular scripts was set up to formulate usage guidelines. However, discussion appears to have dissipated without a conclusive result. Project tagging:After a brief edit war over the addition of {{WP India}} to ancient archaeological sites now located in Pakistan, a "pre" parameter was introduced to remove the ROI flag from the template for pre-1947 articles, following discussion. After another large discussion on ANI alleging that the automated tagging by Ganeshbot and LostBot was "nationalistic", Ganeshbot was briefly blocked. Currently, the bots are again in action. What is India?:Recently, there have been ongoing discussions here which discuss the stated issue of "India" the historical region is different from the Republic of India. It consisted also of modern Pakistan and Bangladesh, but a search for "India" automatically redirects to the Republic of India. Should there not be a clarification? . This comes in light of clashes on articles such as Panini, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Muhammad Iqbal and Muhammad Ali Jinnah, regarding the status of the individuals. Swastika on Hinduism templates:Recently, an extremely large and at times emotional debate broke out regarding the use of the swastika on Hinduism templates, given its association with Nazism. As a result, {{Hindu Links}} now contains an educational message about the use of the swastika, as discussion on a more permanent resolution continues. Arbitration: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Hkelkar regarding the activities of various editors on pages related to Indian religion topics closed recently, with Hkelkar, BhaiSaab and TerryJ-Ho all banned for one year. Currently, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Sathya Sai Baba 2 regarding a dispute over the article of the religious teacher is in the voting phase. What's New? Featured and Good Content: Two articles (Indian Standard Time (nom)) and (Hoysala Empire (nom)), were featured from our WikiProject recently, since our last edition. Irfan Pathan, Hinduism, Dinesh Karthik, Lage Raho Munna Bhai were promoted to Good article status. Congratulations to all contributors who helped to develop the above content to represent the best of Wikipedia! Need some help? Are you stuck at a point where admin help is needed? There are 21 Indian Administrators in Wikipedia at the last count. If you need some help with anything related to WikiProject India, they are just a couple of clicks away! Complete To Do List India-related tasks | Indian noticeboard v • e • d • h • w Requests: History Indo-Roman relations People: Bapudeva Sastri, Marimallappa, Ravichandran, Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza Articles: Asura (band), Asian Variety Show, Cultural liberalism in India, Energy policy of India, India Export Tax, India Import Tax, Marimallappa High School, More... NPOV: Medical_college_(India) Rajneesh, Khalistan, Ranjit Lal Jetley Hedgewar, Puttanna Kanagal, Indira Gandhi, Bride burning More... Wikify: Railway stations, Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar, Silk in the Indian subcontinent, More... Cleanup: Medical_college_(India) caste system, Rampur, Tav-Prasad Savaiye, Shipping Corporation of India, Velama, More... Merge: Amber Fort,More... Expand: Swaraj, Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case), Barak Missile Deal Scandal, 14th Lok Sabha, Adithada, Ali Sardar Jafri, Bandhani work, But Marma Atti, Chikan (embroidery), China Town, Kolkata, Essar Shipping, Fair use, G. N. Naidu, Hinduism in India, Imperial Bank, Inbuan Wrestling, Integral humanism, Iran-India relations, Islam in India, Sunil Mittal Save Indian Family More... Stubs: Indian Copyright Act, Anand Math, Andhra Bank, A R Antule, Arjuna award, Army of India, Bombay Dyeing, More... Translate: Marathi Wikipedia articles, Hindi Wikipedia articles, Sanskrit Wikipedia articles, Tamil Wikipedia articles Kannada Wikipedia articles Collaborate: Collaboration of the Week, Notice board, Category Adoptions To do, Version 1.0 assesment, India Portal, Life in India, India quick links Indian Wikipedians, Indian administrators More... Requested images: Ilaiyaraaja, Major crops, Convert Image:Standard of the President of India.gif to SVG, Free image of Aarti Chhabria (See: Image:Aarti Chhabria.jpg and its talk page) Other requests: Add maps from WikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found at List of regions in India v • e • d • h • w

Note from Editor's Desk Welcome to the January 2007 edition of our newsletter. Time flies past like matter into the black hole. A Happy New Year to all. Congratulations to one of our administrators, Shanel, who was appointed with 98% approval to the office of Steward across the Wikimedia Project. Weekly Collaboration (Shortcut:WP:INCOTW): Collaboration of the Week has fallen from its once high feats. Please drop by and help rejuvenate it. As before, we'd like to stress, this is your newsletter, and we want you to be part of it as well. Provide us with news tips. It can be anything related to the project, from discussions to calls for help, and other interesting stuff within our community. Sponsored content for recruitments within your WikiProject sub-groups are also welcome, including requests for copyediting, photographic work, peer review, etc. We'll be very happy to include them here. Before we sign off, Happy New Year, everyone. This edition special Translation Department: Can you read and write any languages of India? Do you know multiple languages and are looking to keep your skills at a high level or improve them? If so, the Translation Depeartment may be for you! The translation department of the India WikiProject aims to utilize high-quality non-English material related to India for the goals of the project. This includes both translating articles from and to other-language Wikipedias as well as assisting contributors with non-English sources. The department aims to provide services in transliteration, formulating scripts for various languages, as well as translating articles from one language to another and validating sources in other languages to that of the encyclopedia article. If you are looking for a friendly translator here is your go-to point. Currently, we are still seeking representation for Kashmiri, Nepali, Oriya, Sindhi and Tulu, as well as reinforcements in all other languages. Signed... Edited by YellowMonkey and distributed by Lostintherush

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Newyorkbrad's RfA

This is to thank you for your early support on my RfA, which closed favorably this morning. I appreciate the confidence the community has placed in me and am looking forward to my new responsibilities. Please let me know if ever you have any comments or suggestions, especially as I am learning how to use the tools. Your support was particularly welcome as a barnstar that you were kind enough to confer on me back in September was one of the first indications I had that I was making any sort of impression on the community. I look forward to working with you. Best regards, Newyorkbrad 17:51, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks for your kind support in my RfA. I've felt it best to withdraw on this occasion and think about the good advice I received. Thanks again, Jakew 20:25, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Pot, kettle black

Ekajati = Hanuman_Das. Quite a development for the arbcom case. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:25, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Out of 2000 edits by Ekajati, I checked back to November and found zero overlap in edits, in addition to the linking of Ekajati to a reincarnation of HD via a checkuser. The reincarnation edits the same stuff as HD, including two articles only edited by 5 people in the same year. However one of the buddies found that there were three separate instances of "overlap" edits, between a six minute pause by one of the editors and is trying to mob me. I created User:Blnguyen1 for an experiment just then an managed to wedge a secondary account edit between a one minute pause on the official Blnguyen account. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:04, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your support

--Yannismarou 20:34, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

As you set out for Ithaka, hope the voyage is long Knowledge is your destiny, but don't ever hurry the journey May there be many summer mornings when With what pleasure and joy, you come into harbors seen for the first time Don't expect Ithaka to make you rich. Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey And, if I, one of your fellow-travellers, can offer something To make this journey of yours even more fascinating and enjoyable This is my assistance with anything I can help.

nature medicine article query

Dear Samir,

I’m working on a news story about Web 2.0 and medicine for the journal Nature Medicine. Would it be possible to speak with you?

Sincerely,

Brandon Keim

Nature Medicine T 617.233.5346 E b.keim@natureny.com —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Brandonkeim (talk • contribs) 19:31, 24 January 2007 (UTC).

Cholangio

Hi there. I'm thinking about working on expanding and de-stubbing the article on cholangiocarcinoma, and I was wondering if you had any pictures (ERCP images, etc) that would be appropriate. MastCell 19:32, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations

Greetings! After a long period of discussion and consensus building, the policy on usurping usernames has been approved, and a process has been set up to handle these requests. Since you listed yourself on Wikipedia:Changing username/Requests to usurp, you are being notified of the adopted process for completing your request.

If you are still interested in usurping a username, please review Wikipedia:Usurpation. If your request meets the criteria in the policy, please follow the process on Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations. Please note that strict adherence to the policy is required, so please read the instructions carefully, and ask any questions you may have on the talk page.

If you have decided you no longer wish to usurp a username, please disregard this message. Essjay (Talk) 12:46, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Chander P. Grover

Hey Samir, just thought I'd do you the courtesy of letting you know that an article you created (Chander P. Grover) is up for AFD here. I thought you'd like to know. All the best. The Rambling Man 21:50, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Block review

Hi Samir, you have been mentioned and your input is awaited at the above link.. Thought I'd let you know — Lost^(talk) 05:05, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Merging medical articles

I am finding some very redundant content that could get users lost. back pain versus low back pain and pancreatitis and acute pancreatitis. How does one go about either a merge, or leaving the broader topic intact, but moving its more specific content (eg leave pancreatitis, but put a prominent link to acute pancreatitis and move relevant content from pancreatitis to acute pancreatitis? thanks Badgettrg 18:16, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Mucoid plaque

Hi there, long time no see. Would you mind looking at this article again? As I feared this article is no longer accurate. One editor keeps inserting patently incorrect info into the article. Don't want to edit war, so please review the edits and if you want restore some sanity to this fable. Nomen Nescio^{Gnothi seauton} 19:07, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Jgwlaw is back

In August 2006, User:Jgwlaw, about to face severe sanctions for repeated Wikipedia abuse, avoided those sanctions by announcing that she would leave Wikipedia (though not without first threatening litigation).[1][2].

User:Jance, acknowledges formerly posting as Jgwlaw, and is up to the same tricks that got her in trouble before: she is reverting all of my edits, and has been consistently insulting on my talk page.

I've left a comment at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jance. Any assistance or advice you can provide is appreciated. -- TedFrank 15:06, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Helping out with the Unassessed Wikipedia Biographies

Seeing that you are an active member of the WikiBiography Project, I was wondering if you would help lend a hand in helping us clear out the amount of [unassessed articles] tagged with {{WPBiography}}. Many of them are of stub and start class, but a few are of B or A caliber. Getting a simple assessment rating can help us start moving many of these biographies to a higher quality article. Thank you! --Ozgod 21:48, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikiproject Biography March 2007 Newsletter

The March 2007 issue of the Biography WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. Mocko13 22:04, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Image to be deleted... ?

I think his image (Turnip.jpg)[3] should go. It is related to this questionable adverticruft article --> University hospitals kingston, that I discovered in making Hotel Dieu Hospital (Kingston). Also see: Special:Contributions/Uhk_foundation. Nephron  T|C 05:36, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Greetings

Holi haiiii!!--Dwaipayan (talk) 05:54, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Renal tubular acidosis

Hi Samir, if you get the chance, could you check out renal tubular acidosis? I've been messing around with it for a while now, and could do with a bit of expert advice before I think about nominating it as a good article. cheers, mate.FelixFelix ^talk 16:06, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Oooooh

– riana_dzasta 05:31, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

How do you get smileys here? 62.118.183.187 11:38, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Just work hard and you'll get some. :)

Samir! Don't do that with us. You're one of the (if not the) best medical editors here. We're all behind you! NCurse _work 11:42, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Yep—you're missed! Coeliac disease is up for FAC, you know. We could sure use you around here now... Fvasconcellos 16:27, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Trinity Christian High School

I thought I would let you know that this article is up for deletion again and you can vote on it at the following page: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trinity Christian High School (2nd nomination)

--MJHankel 01:10, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

attnetion all admins!

please keep an eye put on these pages:they have been named as users in a steroid scandal and edit wars and vandalism seem likely.

the list:MLB • Gary Matthews Jr. • Jose Canseco • John Rocker • Jerry Hairston Jr. • David Bell

Boxing • Evander Holyfield

NFL • Richard Rydze (Steelers doctor)

Bodybuilding • Victor Martinez

Pro wrestling • Kurt Angle • Randy Orton • Adam Copeland (Edge) • Shane Helms (Gregory Helms) • Oscar Gutierrez (Rey Mysterio) • Eddie Guerrero —The preceding unsigned comment was added by The pink panther (talk • contribs) 00:41, 21 March 2007 (UTC).

Kaziranga National Park is in PR

Kaziranga National Park, an Indian national park and an UNESCO World Heritage Site was selected as Collaboration of the Month (February 2007) on WIkiProject Protected areas of India and had undergone huge expansion. Now wanting review from expert editors to take this article to the FA level or atleast GA level. Please leave your comments at its peer review page. Amartyabag ^TALK2ME 12:07, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume II, Issue 2 - March 2007

Project News Plagiarism by the Times of India: Recently it was noticed that the Times of India, the world's largest distribution daily had systematically plagiarised many of Wikipedia's biographies on members of the Indian cricket team among other cricketers on its website, sometimes with errors propagated (details). After discussion and discovery of further plagiarisms in other fields, the issue reached the admin noticeboard archived here. Jimbo's visit to India and the WikiCamp in Chennai: Jimbo recently visited India in late February and early March on wiki work. This included a trip to a WikiCamp in Chennai. The one day conference attracted 300 participants from across India and beyond dealt with issues facing wikis ([4]). It was widely covered by the press, eg The Hindu( [5]), which cited the efforts of Bhadani (edit count), Sundar (leadership on Tamil Wikipedia) and Ganeshk (Creation of Ganeshbot to create articles on Indian towns from census figures). Ganeshk himself travelled from California to attend the conference. Wikipedia Weekly 15: Wikipedia Weekly, a informal Wikipedians' program that purports to give "A weekly audio roundup of Wikipedia happenings with news, interviews and roundtable discussions" recently interviewed two prominent editors Rama's Arrow and Ragib(listen). The entire 34 minute interview was entirely about the world of Indian subcontinent wiki-happenings, and was the first episode which was not entirely dominated by discussion of wiki-politics and wiki-bureaucracy, with the host Witty lama praising the efficiency of the project and its proliferation of featured content. Rama's Arrow cited the team spirit, friendship and respect among project members in discussing its success and FA productivity, as well as discussing subcontinental wiki-conflict. Ragib talked also of his public campaign to raise awareness of the Bengali Wikipedia in his native Bangladesh, which has seen a 30-fold increase in article count over the past year. Arbitration: Three cases are either in progress or have recently ended. Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/India-Pakistan regarding the activities of various Indian and Pakistani editors on pages related to Indian subcontinent history topics, the national status of various pre-Partition figures, and edit-warring over Indic scripts and WikiProject tags was held and concluded in late February- early March. As a result of this, four Pakistani users, Siddiqui, Szhaider, Nadirali and Unre4L were all banned for one year for disruption via edit-warring and confrontationalism. Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Sathya Sai Baba 2 regarding a dispute over the article of the religious teacher closed in early March with four users indefinitely banned from the article. Currently, Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Freedom_skies is in the evidence phase. It is concerned with the editing of Freedom_skies, who edits articles on ancient Indian history, primarily civilisation articles such as Indian mathematics and related articles, as well as Buddhism articles such as Pusyamitra Sunga, as well as those pertaining to the propagation of Mahayana Buddhism to China such as Bodhidharma and Zen. What's New? Featured and Good Content: Eight articles: Vijayanagara Empire (nom), Delhi (nom), Pashtun people (nom), Nathu La (nom), Harbhajan Singh (nom), Hoysala architecture (nom), Harbhajan Singh (nom), Technopark, Kerala (nom) and Western Chalukya Empire (nom) were featured from our WikiProject recently, since our last edition. 'Dineshkannambadi has been a phenomenal force in the production of FAs recently, being responsible for three of these eight articles. He has totalled five FAs, all relating to Kannada history. Three portals: Portal:Hinduism (nom), Portal:West Bengal (nom) and Portal:Kerala (nom) were also featured. There were two additional GAs, Murali Kartik and Bhagat Singh. Congratulations to all contributors who helped to develop the above content to represent the best of Wikipedia! Need some help? Are you stuck at a point where admin help is needed? There are 21 Indian Administrators in Wikipedia at the last count. If you need some help with anything related to WikiProject India, they are just a couple of clicks away! Complete To Do List India-related tasks | Indian noticeboard v • e • d • h • w Requests: History Indo-Roman relations People: Bapudeva Sastri, Marimallappa, Ravichandran, Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza Articles: Asura (band), Asian Variety Show, Cultural liberalism in India, Energy policy of India, India Export Tax, India Import Tax, Marimallappa High School, More... 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Note from Editor's Desk Welcome to the March 2007 edition of our newsletter. Congratulations to one of our most respected writers, bureaucrats and administrators, Nichalp, who is now entrusted with the oversight permission. In addition Riana has joined the administrative ranks after a successful RfA. On a sad note, Nobleeagle, who was responsible for the creation of the Punjab WikiProject, and was largely responsible for Indian cricket team, Bhagat Singh and Lage Raho Munna Bhai becoming GAs, as well as working heavily in Indian religious and cricket work, has left the project after having his identity revealed. More generally, certain Indian users have recently been subject to real life harassment by banned users, etc. If this is affecting you in real life, please do not hesitate to contact Wikimedia board members for assistance, or ask a senior Wikipedian to solicit help on your behalf if required. Nishkid64, a prolific contributor and administrator, is currently undergoing surgery to fix a congenital heart defect. You can wish him well here. Weekly Collaboration (Shortcut:WP:INCOTW): Collaboration of the Week has fallen from its once high feats. Please drop by and help rejuvenate it. As before, we'd like to stress, this is your newsletter, and we want you to be part of it as well. Provide us with news tips. It can be anything related to the project, from discussions to calls for help, and other interesting stuff within our community. Sponsored content for recruitments within your WikiProject sub-groups are also welcome, including requests for copyediting, photographic work, peer review, etc. We'll be very happy to include them here. This edition special Translation Department: Can you read and write any languages of India? Do you know multiple languages and are looking to keep your skills at a high level or improve them? If so, the Translation Depeartment may be for you! The translation department of the India WikiProject aims to utilize high-quality non-English material related to India for the goals of the project. This includes both translating articles from and to other-language Wikipedias as well as assisting contributors with non-English sources. The department aims to provide services in transliteration, formulating scripts for various languages, as well as translating articles from one language to another and validating sources in other languages to that of the encyclopedia article. If you are looking for a friendly translator here is your go-to point. Currently, we are still seeking representation for Kashmiri, Nepali, Oriya, Sindhi and Tulu, as well as reinforcements in all other languages. Signed... Edited by YellowMonkey and distributed by Lostintherush

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