User talk:Ekantik

British Indians

I see you are a British Indian.

You might like to read these pages to understand how kind Ian Wilmut is to British Indians. He unlawfully fired the only British Indian senior scientist employed by the BBSRC.

From Daily Telegraph newspaper ( U.K. ) (3 articles)

Article 1 Article 2 Article 3

From Guardian newspaper ( U.K. ) (2 articles)

Article 1 Article 2

From the Scotsman newspaper (4 articles)

Article 1 Article 2 Article 3 4 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.77.137.57 (talk) 22:40, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

What does this have to do with the editing of Ian Wilmut? You can't expect me not to edit the article on the basis that Wilmut might be racist towards Indians. Ekantik ^talk 22:48, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Funny that's what white people say. They always look for a reason to protect the more powerful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.77.137.57 (talk) 17:08, 2 January 2008 (UTC) Please see Uncle Tom —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.77.137.57 (talk) 00:43, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Geron Corp possibly scammed? http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/jan2008/petition_wilmut.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.77.137.57 (talk) 23:58, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Dear Ekantik,

When was Wilmut knighted? I do not think the investiture has happen yet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.77.137.57 (talk) 18:03, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

The question is does the Queen make somebody a knight or the BBC? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.77.137.57 (talk) 16:40, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

I notice you devote pages to Shipla Setty, a very girly and peripheral thing, but seem affronted by the case of a British Indian scientist's plight. You are not open-minded to Dr. Singh's case as you went out of your way to put the might in "might be racist" in italics. Why did you put "might" in italtics? It is the equivalent to the way girls wobble their heads to indicate that they mean the opposite from what they are saying.

You are the one who put a sign indicating that you are British Indian. Is it just some fashion statement? The green and orange and spinning wheel would appeal to the girly minded fashion victims. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 153.96.84.2 (talk) 10:51, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Bhutto assasin pic

Hello! I noticed the picture you uploaded under a fair use rationale at this article was of poor quality. While pictures uploaded under fair use rationales are supposed to be of low resolution, that copy was so poor you could barely make out the assasins features or the outline of the gun he was holding.

I wanted to update the picture with my own edited version of the same pic. But I somehow ended up duplicating your copy, and because the whole point was to put it on the Bhutto article, I had to orphan your image. I hope you don't mind, and would agree to have your uploaded image deleted for being of poor quality. I retained your comprehensive fair use rationale.

Cheers!

Zaindy87 (talk) 04:33, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Shilpa Shetty

Hello, as you are one of those who mainly expanded the above-mentioned article, I would like to ask you to reduce the controversy section. I know, you were a major contributor to this article, thus decided to ask you to reduce the section, and not do it for myself. I was willing to reduce this section since long time ago, but now that you're here, maybe you will feel better doing that for yourself.

The main problem of this article is, as said the GA reviewer, undue weight, and the controversy section, especially the mafia links, is amazingly huge. It needs to be cut down and reduced; there is no need to go into minute details.

Also, very long sections of criticism and controversy are frequently tagged with a request for merging and integration into the rest of the text. Please see Wikipedia:Words to avoid#Article_structure and Wikipedia:Neutral point of view#Article_structure for further information.

Thanks, Shahid • ^Talk2me 19:34, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

As for Romanov Vodka, I can't get the reason to mentioning it. Actors endorse numerous products every year. Unless there is some controversy behind it, something that is genuinely notable, a description of her work (it only states that she was chosen) -- it's non-notable. You also can't compare it to PETA and HIV drives, you know.

It might also be a good idea to rename 'commitments' to something more descriptive. The term "commitments" could have a pretty wide range of meanings. Regards, Shahid • ^Talk2me 19:55, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi again! I'm sorry, but I disagree with you in that particular case. I have absolutely no problem with mentioning endorsements of actors, as long as they are notable. Launching a new perfume is great and definitely can be mentioned, but Vodka? I can't understand the matter of making a whole section for endorsement for Vodka, when actually nothing regarding her actual work there is mentioned.

Well, the Britney Spears article is not a good template for inspiration. It has recently failed an FAC. And even if you want to do the same, remember that while her article presents numerous endorsements, you have a whole section dedicated to only one. Have a look at some FAs and you will see that there are no such mentions. But still, I repeat, I have no problem with endorsements, but there must be some significance to it. As I said above, unless there is some controversy behind it, something that is genuinely notable, a description of her work -- it's non-notable. So this one is clearly non-notable. Launching her own perfume is notable, but an endorsement for some vodka, one of thousands endorsements she may have done, is...

A BLP should provide biographical information; a new own perfume is great, and endorsements are great only for one of the above-mentioned reasons, but mentioning one of many endorsements in one section is definitely not an encyclopedic stuff. Have you seen an encyclopedia entry for some actor mentioning something of the sort? PETA and HIV drives are great causes, part of her humanitarian work, therefore very notable, as they constitute a part of her very biography.

As for "It is also not a very good practice to remove sourced/referenced information, as it may be done with good intentions but it can also be construed as vandalism." - Just to note, it doesn't apply to established editors who have been working on an article, and although I immesely appreciate your terrific work on this article, I have full right (and equal to yours) to edit this article. We better try to expand her brief career section, rather than adding things to make the article longer. I have expanded her career section, her lead, fought vandalism down the months, and impolite editors on the talk page as well; so I also can remove something which is non-notable. I'm not going to remove it now, I hope you get the matter and do it for yourself. I don't want an edit war. If you still disagree, we'll take it to some noticeboard or a better idea will be to turn to some editors, whom I met on FACs and who constantly vote on FACs, for their opinion. Then it will get clear. In fact, I believe, we both are trying to improve the article.

My best regards, Shahid • ^Talk2me 09:39, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Why should I have a problem with endorsements? Yes, I personally wouldn't like such section in an article I mainly work on, because my opinion of what a BLP (actors) should include and what it shouldn't is firm -- Early life-career-other work (including humanitarian work and even endorsements)-personal life (including controversies)-Media lists (including controversies)-and so forth. That's how we'll have a well-written BLP in the full sense of the word - Biography of a living person.

Now, if you want a section for her endorsements, so first of all, that's how it should be named - endorsements, not Romanov Vodka, and not only a brief mention of that. It is literally silly to have an entire section only for this Vodka. If you really want a section for endorsements, so it's better to include other endorsements too, many of these she has endorsed, and name it "endorsements" - not Romanov Vodka, which is a little part of thousand products she has endorsed.

When I say that I want to consult an editor who regularly votes on FACs, I don't mean that I want to make the article an FA, I mean that I want an opinion of an intelligent editor who knows and understands what the perfect standard for a BLP is. In fact, the article is far from reaching a GA status, let alone FA. I can assure you that if I turn to editors like Sandy, they won't support the existence of a section named Romanov Vodka.

Now, Britney Spears, Beyonce, Jessica Simpson, are not good enough to serve us as rolemodels and your points that "other article has that and that, therefore this article should" are not valid, see WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS. They are full of gossip and data that resembles a gossip magazine at times rather than an encyclopedia. I have always used articles like Jolie, Mariah Carey and other FAs to promote INDICINE articles, but these???

No probs friend, feel free to shift this discussion. Kind regards, Shahid • ^Talk2me 22:57, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Hello Ekantik!

I made some changes from your revision. I know what a good faith edit is, that's why I explained my reversion of the anon's addition. The fact that his edit was not a vandalism doesn't stop me from reverting it, yet assuming good faith. How many scripts can we have on one page? Why specifically Hindi? She speaks nearly ten Indian langs, no? Tulu is her mother tongue, so that's the only version that should be bracketed there.

Could you tell me please if you plan to reduce the controversy section? If you don't, please let me know. These mafia and obscenity charges sections etc deserve at most two short paragraphs each. They were never as well publicised as the celebrity big brother contro. Plus, the former (mafia links) is not even related to her directly, and, BTW, was not as famous as the Bharat Shah case for example.

I hope you find more time to come in more often. As you know, I had expanded the career section back in time, but it's still too short even when not compared to her other activities. And I repeat, other; she is, first of all, an actress. We have to highlight the fact that she is an actor, a performer; but the article, on the contrary, presents her as a celebrity, a star, a "Celebrity big brother" winner, a famous woman, an activist, which is great but secondary to the most important (and unfortunately, short) film career section. I do agree that CBB contributed much to her status, but for Shilpa, the actress, it's not as important as her acting career (I personally think she deserved every possible award for Phir Milenge. Have you seen the movie?) Do you agree with me regarding that? Do you have some idea how to expand it?

My best regards, Shahid • ^Talk2me 23:11, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Dear Ekantik!

I know very well what I can and what I cannot revert. I'm a well experienced editor. Vandalism - revert; WP:AGF edit, but still wrong - revert. You have also reverted some of my edits back in time. When I revert good faith edits, I explain my reversion in the edit summary. When I disagree on something, I usually do turn to the talk page, but some things here are just obvious.

I repeat, her mother tongue is Tulu, therefore, it's the language which should appear there. If she went now to Germany and lived there for 2 year, would you agree with adding a German script as well? I know it's a silly comparison, but that's it. The fact that she has mostly worked in Hindi cinema is not really valid. Her native tongue, that's what counts. She has also worked in Kannada and Telugu films. So what? Also see Gandhi and Satyajit Ray (FAs), there is only one foreign script for each.

Miss Bollywood is a recent event. The lead is here to summarise the article. We still don't know what the reception is, how it benefited her, how it contributed to her success, if that is notable, if that builds her image. It is still on going (and it has nothing to do with the fact that Wikipedia is an ongoing project in that context). Currently, Amitji works in some 10 films or so. So what? What's the problem? We can wait and see the result. According to WP:WBA: "...the first paragraph should be short and to the point, with a clear explanation of what the subject of the page is. The following paragraphs should give a summary of the article. They should provide an overview of the main points the article will make, summarizing the primary reasons the subject matter is interesting..." - is Shilpa (in our particular case) known for Miss Bollywood among others?

As for the controversies, you can see the policies and my original message on the very top of this section. I have absolutely no problem with controversies, nor does Wikipedia, but the controversy section is huge, the longest on the page, and should be reduced, as per the above-mentioned reasons. Shahid • ^Talk2me 07:16, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

As for the National Film Awards, yeh it was a hard task, I turned to almost every possible administrator. The reason is clear: a veteran, prestigious, and the most prominent award ceremony in India, with a distinguished jury, selected by the government. The award is given by the government itself etc etc. Haven't you seen Phir Milenge? Oh how could you miss the film? You should see it. Shilpa was brilliant! Shahid • ^Talk2me 07:24, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Oh and great work on WP:INDICINE. I'm not surprised. I know that you're a brilliant editor.:) Great work, I hope to see this project evolving. Best regards, Shahid • ^Talk2me 17:32, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Biblical references abound in Christianity-oriented articles

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Indian lists

Hey friend how are you? Happy New Year!!!

Yes I have done a lot of work on Indian films and lists but predominantly Bollywood which I have split by year. Due the fact that the original Tamil and Telugu list were so incomprehendable I only split them by decade and haven't cleaned them up because I have no knowledge of the films and imdb is very poor for tamil and telugu. I had strongly hoped that somebody from Indian cinema would come along and beautify them like the Bollywood films which I split by year and are now linked in Template:Bollywood. I strongly urge somebody to do the same with Tamil and Telegu films - a detailed guide by year (given the sheer amount of films) and have the Template:Tamilcinema linked with the years in Tamil film at the bottom of every article like bollywood. i'd like to see cleaned up and developed pages like Tamil films of 1972 like Bollywood films of 1972etc. Unfortunately it never seems like anybody except Shahid, Bollywood dreamz and universal hero are consistently active in this group aside from myself, let alone in Tamil or telugu cinema. pLease can somebody clean up the tamil and telegu lists and perhaps from 1950 onwards split by year like Bollywood. Regards ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 15:19, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Bollywood is in the middle of development. Ideally I want tamil and telugu to have pages like :

♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 15:21, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Yep, glad you agree amigo. Thats why I created around 70 odd locator maps a few days ago for all the countries which don't have maps and will begin adding infoboxes and the locator maps. Its a shame Jimbo can't bring himself to spare me a few words -particularly after all I;ve done for his project. Hope you are well! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 11:55, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

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WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 2 – July 2009

Project news File:India 1947 India Flag 3 and half annas.jpg A number of India-related articles have lost their featured article status, including Sikkim and Mumbai. The article about Gandhi was also demoted for referencing and image quality issues. Since then, Mumbai has been brought back to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Kensplanet and others. Transport in India was promoted to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Rsrikanth05, SBC-YPR and GDibyendu. Several new workgroups have been formed: WikiProjects Railways in India, Education in India and Transport in India. Please join us if you're interested in those topics! To do... The articles that have been selected for our latest collaborations of the month are history of Mumbai, Indian Railways, rail transport in India, Indian general election, 2009 and telecommunications in India. We need your help to improve them! These India-related articles are currently on featured article review: Kerala (FAR), Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (FAR) and rail transport in India (FAR). Would you allow these articles to lose their FA status? Wikipedia Takes Chennai – a scavenger hunt and free-content photography contest – has started in Chennai, along the same lines as Wikipedia Takes The City. We look forward to more contributions from you. To get started, go to the noticeboard. »

From the editors... Wikipedians in Bangalore organised a meetup on 5 July 2009; thanks to Tinu Cherian for hosting the event! Arunram and Tinu Cherian wrote extensively about the meetup, which was also covered by Wikizine, Headlines India and The Wikipedia Signpost. Photos have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Sunil Abraham from the Centre for Internet and Society has offered to help host such events in the future. All in all, the meetup was a great success. Watch out for the next meetup! » Nichalp, an Indian bureaucrat and major contributor to more than 23 India-related featured articles and lists, was desysopped over allegations of paid editing and using sock puppets. An RfC about paid editing was opened as a result of this incident. A prolific editor and administrator, Bhadani is among the top ten Wikipedians by number of edits across the English Wikipedia. Congratulations to Bhadani for also making the most number of edits among Indian Wikipedians! Are you subscribed to wikimediaindia-l to learn about the latest developments of forming the Indian chapter of Wikimedia? Did you know that there are IRC channels for Wikipedians interested in India like you? Check them out at #wikipedia-in connect and #wikimedia-in connect! Wikipedia's India quiz remains a hotspot of the community by continuing to attract old and new Wikipedians. You are invited to join in and have fun! This is your newsletter, and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome – so feel free to join in! Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! — Ncmvocalist, RegentsPark, [sd] and Tinu Cherian Project · Portal · Members · Noticeboard · Discussion+

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Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Ekantik! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 2 of the articles that you created are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to insure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. if you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 4 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

1. Vijayachander - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
2. Mukul Nag - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 20:23, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 1 - (June 2010)

Project News WP:IND Newsletter is back! It's been nearly a year since the last edition, but we hope to bring out issues on a more regular basis now. The India Wikiproject was set up to increasing coverage of India-related topics on Wikipedia, and over the past few months the focus has been on improving article quality. A number of the project's featured articles underwent featured article reviews over the past year. Of these, Darjeeling and Flag of India survived the review process, while the rest were demoted. During the same period, Gangtok, Harbhajan Singh, Darjeeling and Mysore were featured on the main page respectively on August 20, September 17, November 6 and December 29, 2009. Meanwhile, articles on topics as diverse as Political history of Mysore and Coorg (1565–1760), Marwari horse and Iravan were promoted as featured articles, and respectively appeared on the main page on March 25, May 17 and May 28, 2010. Consequently, the number of FA-class articles under the project's scope dropped from 67 in August 2009 to 63 in June 2010. The number of good articles, however, saw a more than 40% increase, from 91 to 130 during the same period, while the number of featured lists saw a 33% increase from 12 to 16. Due to the recent policy changes regarding unreferenced Biographies of Living People (BLPs), an effort was started in January 2010 to source all unreferenced BLPs coming under Wikiproject India. 1200 such articles were identified initially and more were added to the list later. Due to the sourcing effort, the number of Indian unreferenced BLPs is down to 565 currently. During February-April 2010, There was a large scale disruption of Kerala related articles by a Thrissur based IP vandal. Editing from a dynamic IP BSNL connection, the vandal changed dates of birth, death and ages of a number of Malayalam and Tamil film actors. Later he added a few international biographies to his list. He also marked some living people like Arvind Swamy as dead. A month long range block was imposed on his IP range two times and each time he came back to vandalise dates once the block expired. Currently the range has been blocked for three months till September 11, 2010. What's New? Three members of the project, Abecedare, Tinu Cherian and SpacemanSpiff received their sysop mops in October-December 2009. Congratulations! This picture, shot in India, won the Commons:Picture of the Year contest 2009. Translations of the description in Indian languages are solicited. Wikipedians in Bangalore have been organising periodic meetups over the past year, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society. The next meetup is scheduled for July 18, 2010. Indian and other Wikipedians from all Wikipedias in various languages are welcome to attend.

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. A discussion is underway here to reach a consensus regarding the use of Indian number names (lakh, crore etc.) in Wikipedia articles. Please participate and add your comments. Join the effort to source and save unreferenced Indian BLPs. Some unintended vandalism is going on at the Assamese Wikipedia by the sole active editor. This is a request for Assamese-conversant Wikipedians to help resolve the issue. A discussion is in progress here in order to determine whether non-Western (including Indian) forms of classical music should be referred to by the nomenclature of art music instead of classical music. Please participate and add your comments. Watchlist the Articles for Deletions page for India related discussions. Opinions from more Indian Wikipedians are required in many of the discussions. The World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 is at present underway in Coimbatore, and the Tamil Wikipedia is actively involved at the event. A detailed report will follow in the next issue. Wikimania 2010 is happening in Poland from July 7-11. Indian Wikipedians attending include Gurubrahma, Shiju Alex, Ravidreams , Santhosh Thottingal, Tinu Cherian, WMF Board member Bishakha Datta and Advisory Board member Achal Prabala. We wish them all the best! More on their experiences in the next issue. If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of 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 (Issue 2 – (July 2010)). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Complete To Do List Complete To Do List India-related tasks | Indian noticeboard Requests: Counterfeiting of currency notes in India, Swami Bhaskaranand Saraswati, Akhand Pratap Singh, Ravindra Gujjula Irrigation in India, Asura (band), Asian Variety Show, Cultural liberalism in India, India Export Tax, India Import Tax, Grand Hyatt Hotel, Mumbai, 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: articles on castes, Rampur, Tav-Prasad Savaiye, Shipping Corporation of India, Velama, Bangaru Adigalar, Medical college (India), 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, But Marma Atti, Chikan (embroidery), China Town, Kolkata, Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza, Energy policy of India, Essar Shipping, Fair use, Hinduism in India, Imperial Bank, Inbuan Wrestling, Integral humanism, Iran-India relations, Islam in India, Arjuna award, Sunil Mittal, Save Indian Family, Anjana Sukhani, Rajendra K. Pachauri More... Stubs: Anand Math, Andhra Bank, A R Antule, Arjuna award, Army of India, Bapudeva Sastri, Bombay Dyeing, Indian Copyright Act, Marimallappa, Mumbai Skywalk, More... Translate: 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 assesment, 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 Signed... SBC-YPR (Editor) Sodabottle (Editor) Tinu Cherian (Distributor)

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Sindhi Wikipedia

Hello,

As a Sindhi speaker, would it be possible for you to join the sindhi wikipedia? It has very few members and little has been translated. Could you please help?

Thanks. --92.11.24.4 (talk) 12:14, 23 July 2010 (UTC)