User:Fogster

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About

I often try to take a wikibreak, but then the next day I look something up on Wikipedia... And notice a typo... And fix it... And then look through the article's history... And find vandalism... And look through that user's contributions... And find more vandalism... And revert it... And leave them a message asking them to stop...

These days I spend most of my time patrolling Special:RecentChanges for vandalism. I also get enjoyment out of doing cleanup of articles, spell-checking, Wikifying, and NPOV-ing articles. I periodically contribute content, but 98% of what I do is keeping Wikipedia shiny.

While I absolutely support the deletion of outright garbage, I err on the side of inclusion in the iffy situations. There's a big gray area between what Wikipedia:Notability expressly permits (as well as what common sense dictates) and what Wikipedia:Notability does not permit. We shouldn't have Wikipedia pages about your dog, but if there's a subject that people might Google to find more about, I think Wikipedia should keep the page.

Thoughts

I've never understood why editors/admins are so incredibly protective of User:Jimmy Wales. (Yes, I know who he is.) If I were him, I'd rather have my user page vandalized all day long than have people vandalizing actual articles on Wikipedia. This isn't to say I condone vandalizing his page, just that I don't see why people consider vandalizing his page much different from the people who keep vandalizing Orange (fruit) or whatnot. Sometimes a WP:RfA entry will say something like, "I don't support 'only warnings' unless they're doing something egregious like vandalizing Jimmy Wales' page" or something. I don't understand the logic.

I seem to be in the minority, but I like using spaces in formatting... == Heading == is a lot easier to read than ==Heading==, and * Bullet point is clearer to me than *Bullet point. I don't go around editing these spaces into articles, but if I'm making edits, I do it. To the best of my knowledge, there is no official standard on this.

I occasionally like to do a search for common misspellings and fix them. Others are welcome to add to the my list, or to search for and correct the misspellings. (An important note: if there's reason to believe that the "misspelling" is just a regional variation, let it be unless you're well-versed in the WP:MOS guidelines on the matter. "Correcting" 'colour' to 'color' is arguing over American v. British English, not fixing a mistake.)

Rants

Vandals: Yes, you really can edit almost any page here. That doesn't mean you should. Come help us, rather than screwing up what thousands of us work so hard on.
Editors:
- Please use edit summaries!
- Please make sure you're familiar with WP:Notability, especially Wikipedia:Notability (people). I find myself removing entirely non-notable people from "Notable alumni" lists on a daily basis. (Being a senior in your high school is not notable, nor is having a high GPA, nor is being on the football team and the chess team.)
RC Patrollers: Please, please, please:
- Especially in cases of obvious malicious intent (versus what look like well-intentioned, but misguided edits), please take a minute to look through the user's contributions. Oftentimes, they'll vandalize multiple articles before someone reverts one of them.
- When you revert a change identified as vandalism, leave a note on the user's talk page. This is very important when it comes to trying to get persistent vandals banned on WP:AIV.
- When someone else reverts a vandal's edit, don't immediately go leave a note on the vandal's talk page. You can wait a few minutes and see if they do, but it's really confusing (and frankly, annoying) to have someone beat me to it. I view the steps as connected: whoever reverts the change should leave the note explaining that they just did it.
Anyone doing cleanup: When you find a block of text that sounds really awkwardly-phrased, as if it weren't written for Wikipedia, take a sentence and Google it. It's easy to spot Wikipedia:Copyright violations this way.

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It is This is a copy of Chhimba, which has been copied here to allow me to make bold edits without risking damage to the main article. This is not an actual Wikipedia article, but an alteration of one which I am editing.

While many people credit China with the first moveable type for printing this may possibly be an invention imported from India. In ancient India only a few up the upper castes were allowed to learn to read. So the printing of texts and books would have had a small audience. Vidya (knowledge was passed orally in tradional stories). This was the same system practised in midevial Europe where the giant stain glasses of the gothic cathederals were excecuted to euducate an illiterate public.

Overview

But block printing of fabrics was an old custom well before Gautama Sidhartha's teachings were carried over and around the Himalayas to China. Many think the Budhist monks of India are responsible for introduction of tea to China, the Martial arts, sword play, printing and Zen Budhism.

The word Chhimba comes from the word chappa meaning printer. The Indian caste system worked the way many fathers in America who wish treir sons would wish to learn and take up, inherit and pass on, the father's bussiness or profession. But in America many American children wish to carry on some other trade than their father's bussiness. In India Chhimbas who are Kashatryas by caste were expected to continue the trade of one's father. The Indian caste system was (it is still is largely practiced) divided basically in four sections:

The Brahimin meaning the learned one or the educated one — Doctors, Cooks, Priests,teachers, etc.
The Kshatrya or the one who belongs to the millitary class made up of rulers and solgiers, who did no physical work.
The third one is the Vaishna or the trader class.
The fourth group is the Shudras or the artisans all the workers who were looked down upon. They were not considered 'twice born' as were the first three and their education was limited to the one of the village and the trades of one's parents. A similar system dominated Europe-the Guild system.

Chhimba or Chhippa meaning the printer (chhappa) were the printers of long lengths of cloth for sarees, etc. Chhippas, before the industrial age, were calico printers/artists who would color and print the textiles with art work using coloures or csrvr . When they lost their jobs to imported cheap textiles from England they took tailoring jobs becoming Darzis.

Their is a common term derived from the source - the Chapman Billies of Victorian England.

REFERENCES:

1. Adi Sri Guru Granth Sahib pages 733,1375. 2. Mahan Kosh, Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha page 492. 3. Sri Guru Granth Sahib Kosh, Bhai Vir Singh page 262.

Some noted Sikhs who were chippas

Sant Namdev whose bani is included in the Guru Granth Sahib the holy book of the Sikhs, was a chhippa by profession from Maharashtra. He spent last part of his life at Ghuman in District Gurdas Pur, Punjab.

Bhai Nanu resident of Delhi, a Sikh contemporary of Guru Teg Bahadur and Guru Gobind Singh,who reclaimed the severed head of Guru Teg Bahadur from Chandni Chowk, the site of Guru's execution in November 1675, and, accompanied by Bhai Jaita also of Delhi carried it to Anandpur. Bhai Nanu became Nanu Singh after taking the rites of the Khalsa. He laid down his life in the battle of Chamkaur on December 7, 1705. His two sons also laid down their lives at Anandpur.

One of the Panj Pyaras ( Five Chosen ones) Bhai Mohkam Singh of Burya village near Ambala was a calico printer/tailor.

Another great personality from this profession is Mahan Kavi Bhai Santokh Singh the writer of Gur Partap Suraj Parkaash.

They are also known as Tonk Kashatryas. They are found among Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims. Baba Namdev Gurudwaras all over India and abroad are run by this community..