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Contents 1 Welcome! 2 Olay 3 Cosmetics 4 Wiki Project Pakistan 5 Welcome to WP:India 6 On Akram Khan 7 [[1]] 8 WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume I, Issue 3 - December 2006 9 WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume II, Issue 1 - January 2007 10 Chaanakya 11 Peter Singer 12 Maharaja Gulab Singh 13 AfD Islamic socialism 14 Helping out with the Unassessed Wikipedia Biographies 15 Wikiproject Biography March 2007 Newsletter 16 Allama Mashriqi 17 WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume II, Issue 2 - March 2007

[edit] Welcome!

[edit] Olay

Helpful copy edits on this page. Great work.Obina 23:28, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks - glad to be of help! -- TinaSparkle 09:33, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cosmetics

I liked what you did and what you're proposing for cosmetics. The big problem I have is that much of the information about cosmetics and the cosmetic industry either isn't published anywhere, is proprietary information, is in sales literature from cosmetic ingredient suppliers, or is published only in specialized trade journals, most of which aren't on the web. I've been a cosmetic chemist for many years, but I can't just write down what I know and load it onto Wikipedia - I don't have sources for half of it outside of personal experience, and the other half is proprietary and/or copyrighted. See http://www.ctfa-buyersguide.org/ and try to look up an ingredient (water?) for an understanding of what I mean.

I'd like to help, though. If you can think of a way, or of a specific topic, let me know. Bobzchemist 19:57, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your thoughts, and for your offer of help - I'd be delighted if you could, in any way you like. Sounds like you have a perfect background for doing so!

The issue of proprietory/copyright information is presumably quite a serious one for Wikipedia, and I'm really glad you've raised it. In terms of cosmetics, I realise it may not be possible to do things like listing the ingredients in specific products. I was inspired by the piecemeal but interesting section on the article Cosmetics: I'm thinking of pages that might list or identify the sort of ingredients that create pearlescence, for instance, or specific pigments. What I'd really like to see are articles that blend the scientific facts with history and culture - the composition of Elizabethan white lead face-paint, for instance, or Ayurvedic recipes for kohl. I think it might be useful to link cosmetic products (current and past) with information on allergens, animal products, the geographical origins of various ingredients, etc.

As for what I suppose must be patented things such as Retin-A or Boswellox: I realise this could be legally complicated. But there must be at least some information in the public domain. -- TinaSparkle 20:19, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

• In recent years there has been a growing number of books on chemistry in everyday life - aiming at a greater public, but probably read by students or teachers of chemistry only. Food and cosmetics are the topics mainly dealt with. That information on pearlescence looks like it is from one of those books, I'm not sure but I might have come across it there. Then there is the occasional bit of information in modern chemistry textbooks like the excellent "Organic Chemistry" by Clayden/Warren.
• I don't see problems with patented compounds or systems. A patent IS a publication, as simple as that. At university we access that kind of information all the time. The problem is that it is difficult or costly for lay people to do so, and to work up the raw information into something useful is incredibly labor-intensive and difficult, even for chemists (It might even amount to original research, not sure...). But it needs not to be done, because that's basically what authors of the above books did already, plus adding whatever they happen to know from insiders like Bob, thus making it published information that can be quoted.
• I like your project and will see how I can help as an organic chemist interested in history of science and chemistry (and reader of some of those "popular chemistry" books). What do you have in mind? Expanding the "incredients" section and split it from the original article? Or giving the "history of cosmetics" article a chemical focus?

Ahem, the reason I actually ended up on your userpage: Thank you very much for your great copyediting of the Elizabeth Báthory article! I've since added some more portions of text, with the occasional clumsy phrasing, probably. Maybe you could spare some minutes to see what it has become?--Sam195 10:01, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Many thanks for your comments, Sam195! I'd be delighted if you could help with the Cosmetics project. I've been to the Báthory page and copyedited it again; I think the additions you have made are fantastic. -- TinaSparkle 15:31, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your effort there! Well, here is an article I think needs to be written (What you wrote about listing incrediences reminded me of something I've seen in the text book mentioned): Actually incrediences are listed on each cosmetic product, but in a jargon that makes sense only to the initiate. Clayden and Warren translated this mumbo jumbo for a handful of substances, this should be done for all of them.

I think of purely table form, alphabetic order. One column could be "chemical meaning", another one "purpose".

Examples (taken from Clayden/Warren):

aqua - water - solvent

PEG-150 distearate - polyoxyethylene glycol diester - surfactant.

This could even work as a kind of translation request: anybody can enter in the first column whatever he/she finds on a product, a short web search will in most cases yield the chemical meaning, and somebody in the know can add the purpose. Of course we would link to that list from the general cosmetics articles, but we could also consider using that list as a central piece from where to link to more specific articles. I will collect a few items, so there is enough to start that article. --Sam195 08:36, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

P.S.: The article on INCI gives a rough idea, and shows the problem: there are lists available online, but mostly limited to the products of a single brand, and not really systematic in some cases, and having such a list with an extra column for "purpose" would be really novel and highly useful. And I was glad to see that for quite a few compounds there are already useful wiki articles I can link to. So I should be able to start that article soon, though the "purpose" column still has a lot of blanks. I think I will replace the the list on the INCI article by a link to that new article. Any idea how to call it? --Sam195 08:17, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry not to have replied earlier, by the way. My feeling is that this is a great idea, especially on the basis of the article on INCI, though I can't pretend to have the technical knowledge to help much. I think the 'purpose' column would be really useful, though might it be controversial in some cases? Probably not if a reference was provided to whatever claim was being made. I'm thinking of companies that add, say, emerald dust (I think it's in Creme de la Mer lip balm), which I expect has the purpose of 'making the product more expensive so that silly people will buy it'. But, as I say, I'm not an expert. Maybe emerald dust is the secret of eternal youth.

So, yes, I reckon that a new article to incorporate the INCI information would be ideal: the present items on that list could be footnoted to INCI via the CTFA website referenced on the article now. The new page should probably just be called 'Cosmetic ingredients'. That fits with the INCI style, and is also the term that readers are most likely to search for.

One other point. It seems to me that the table of cosmetic ingredients is likely to get very long very quickly. Should it be subdivided into sections, and, if so, how? My first thought is something like 'solvents', 'emollients', 'surfactants', 'other' etc, but I see that this will mean ascertaining the purpose for most things before you start, which could be awkward. Maybe there's a better way? -- TinaSparkle 09:42, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Those are difficult questions. Let's first answer to your last paragraph. I think there will be 300+ items in the list, maybe many more (so far I've found search engines, but not complete lists... not a good sign). Some compounds will have more than one purpose, like surfactants that are acids. I'm afraid anything but alphabetic wont work.

'Purpose' will be a short characterization of why things are added, describing the nature of the compound and it's role in a mixture. By sticking to technical/chemical discriptions, I think it should be possible to keep that information non-controversial. INCI seems not to list useless or fantasy compounds but chemicals that are added usually and for a reason (I hope I am not wrong on that...).

Verifiability could become difficult, because the discription is very brief and basic. When I see 'sodium hydroxide' in the list, I just add 'base', like any chemist would, and on some I don't know yet were to get the information from at all... I will look around, there MUST be at least some books dealing with cosmetic industrial chemistry, to obtain most of the information from one source. Information in chemical text books is awfully scattered.

Then I think there should be two articles (which could both be described 'Cosmetic ingredients'...). One is the list I am working at, with the very chemical/INCI focus. Although I know some people (chemists...) who would read it for fun, one would typically use that list only for looking up what is in one's body lotion. Second would be an article in prose, giving a general idea how cosmetics are made, from what kind of substances, from which resources - a bit like the existing 'incredients' section in 'cosmetics', only better and verified. The natural division of such an article would of course be by categories, just as you proposed. Maybe using a disambiguation page?

I'm glad those questions can be discussed before any of the articles exists, that makes things much easier.--Sam195 14:49, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

P.S. A disambiguation page for those two artcles, I mean. And did I write 'some books'? There are hundreds - so no problem there. --Sam195 12:00, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Good to know. References from real books are always a great thing. :)

Definitely in agreement about needing two articles. Is it worth doing 'Cosmetic ingredients' as a prose piece, and 'List of cosmetic ingredients' as something like the INCI article? I think they should probably have a disambiguation page, as you suggest. Also, have you considered doing the non-prose piece as a standard Wikipedia list (like List of biomolecules), or would this prohibit the inclusion of chemical meaning & purpose? I haven't done a list before, so this is all new to me.

Sounds very much like you're right about the list needing to be alphabetical, though. As for references for stuff like "sodium hydroxide = base", I think if that would just be incredibly obvious to any chemist it doesn't necessarily need a reference. We don't have to have references for things like people's dates of birth on Wikipedia, for instance, unless they're disputed. If it's completely accepted fact I don't think you need to worry about it too much. -- TinaSparkle 13:09, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

I thought of a table, looks like they offer a lot of flexibility (and are fun to make). Those wiki lists seem to bundle existing articles. For some of the incredients there are articles, some of them really good (though not necessarily focused on application in cosmetics), but most will be chemical stubs. And some compounds are probably too unimportant for ever getting an article of their own. I will of course link to all the articles I can find, so the first or second column will very much look like a wiki list. --Sam195 15:35, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

ok, done! List of cosmetic ingredients exists. --Sam195 18:19, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wiki Project Pakistan

The project Page for Pakistan has been started Wikipedia:WikiProject Pakistan plese join it so that we all could benifit from your input thankyou Hussain 08:55, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to WP:India

[edit] On Akram Khan

Thanks for your edit in Suhrawardy's article. But Categorizing Maulana Akram Khan to only Akram Khan is misleading as it refers either to the cricketer of BD or the Dancer from India, So..... I have reverted it again to Maulana Akram Khan( the famous politician and Editor of Daily Azad of Calcutta/Dhaka)asdone before by Al-minar.

Thank you once again!

Hossain Akhtar Chowdhury 06:21, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I understand your position and sincerely thank you for creating a page for Maulana Akram Khan.

Regards,

Hossain Akhtar Chowdhury 04:51, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] [[1]]

I agree entirely with your comments about the merger. Might a politely suggest they may be more credible if you correct the apparent slip refering to her as Gerard's wife - she is in fact his sister.  :-)Winstonwolfe 00:34, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Whoops! Many thanks for the tip-off. I stand corrected (as does the page). -- TinaSparkle 09:44, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume I, Issue 3 - December 2006

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[edit] Chaanakya

Hi, hope I am writing this message in the appropriate place. Why this inconsistency in the spelling of this name? Why are we using Caanakya except for places where its the name of a book or so? Thanks ... Vineethtm 19:48, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi Vineethtm. I'm sorry, I've just realised I undid an edit you made on the spelling of Chanakya. I had intended just to undo the edit in which you put an example picture on the end of the article. I agree with you that it should be consistent. I have no expertise in Sanskrit transliteration, but I do feel that most readers will recognise the spelling 'Chanakya', which is used in most English-language books and, of course, in Chanakyapuri. -- TinaSparkle 10:04, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi Tina, thanks for the reply. Sorry, I had not noticed the change about the picture you mentioned. Will be careful now. Thanks ... Vineethtm 14:34, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Peter Singer

Hi Tina, just to give you the heads-up for future reference, animalrights.net isn't an animal rights site. [2] It opposes animal rights. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 18:38, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your tip-off - much appreciated. Either way, though, the site wasn't what the link implied it to be. -- TinaSparkle 18:52, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Maharaja Gulab Singh

Hi

Can you rename the Gulab Singh of Kashmir page to "Gulab Singh of Jammu and Kashmir", since that was the complete name of his kingdom?

See Jammu and Kashmir See http://www.indianembassy.org/new/Kargil/JSingh_BBC_July_19_1999.html

Maharaja Gulab Singh is considered a hero for the Rajputs and other people of Jammu and implying that he was a Kashmiri would be considered insulting. As it is many Pakistanis and their friends try to dilute the identity of Jammu and Ladakh by describing them as parts of "Kashmir", which is certainly not the case.

Thanks and regards, Jagat Singh Sambyal of Jammu. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 61.2.21.184 (talk) 00:10, 14 February 2007 (UTC).

Sorry it took me a while to get round to this, Jagat Singh Sambyal. I agree with your point about the name of the state and have moved the page. -- TinaSparkle 14:28, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD Islamic socialism

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[edit] 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 22:58, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Happily. I'll get on to it ASAP. -- TinaSparkle 23:04, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject Biography March 2007 Newsletter

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[edit] Allama Mashriqi

Hi, having seen your name at Wikipedia:WikiProject Pakistan/Members, I was wondering if you could help in copyediting this biographic article. cheers--IslesCape^Talk 22:42, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

I've copyedited the article thoroughly and also edited for NPOV. I've also left a few further suggestions on the talk page. Hope this helps. -- TinaSparkle 16:43, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Really appreciate it. Will try to fill-in the missing bits. --IslesCape^Talk 01:13, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

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

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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... 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 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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