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Kaur B page

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Can I suggest this article Kaur B (Singer) for consideration for your project.

Thanks ash (talk) 07:46, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Update: the page has since been deleted. Rgds ash (talk) 14:06, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team, Warm Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 13:26, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

yay! happy ramadan hello I am c ompu ter beeeeppp Thinker321 (talk) 21:26, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Misuse of Infobox Parameters in Articles

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Many articles on Indian districts, blocks, and towns misuse the leader_title and leader_name parameters of {{Infobox settlement}}. These fields are meant to display actual governing authorities, such as District Magistrates, Municipal Commissioners, or elected heads, but are often incorrectly used to list administrative subdivisions and political constituencies. subdivision_type and subdivision_name should not be used for listing blocks or assembly constituencies either. These parameters are meant to indicate the larger administrative unit that the subject belongs to, such as the state or division a district is part of—not the district’s own subdivisions like blocks or tehsils.

In short, blocks and assembly constituencies should not be listed in the infobox. Instead, they should be discussed in relevant sections such as Administration and Politics. The only exception is that blank_namen and blank_infon may be used to list assembly or parliamentary constituencies associated with the district.

Your thoughts on this issue ? ~ MaxA-Matrix 🗨 02:40, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RFC at Talk:Kshatriya regarding Rajputs

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There is an ongoing RFC at the Kshatriya talkpage that may be of interest to project members. Note that the RFC has been open for considerable time and is liable to be closed soon. So if you wish to contribute, please do so as soon as possible. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 17:44, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Telangana tunnel collapse

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I'm writing an article about the recent tunnel collapse in telangana, and I need help in writing that article so if anyone wants to join me I would appreciate it greatly.

Telangana tunnel collapse DataCrusade1999 (talk) 10:45, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request new Article

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I want to request a new article named Aurangzeb Tomb Controversy. 獅眠洞 (talk) 11:50, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wait for one week; it's a violent topic, and more information will come out. Bongan® →TalkToMe← 12:17, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'll be happy to help. DataCrusade1999 (talk) 09:16, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There is 2025 Nagpur violence. GrabUp - Talk 09:19, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Bhana

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I've sorted out some formatting issues and removed some rather old vandalism from the Bhana article. I note that unlike the first quoted Sanskrit text, the second quoted text ("तं जातमभिव्याददात्स भाणमकरोत्सैव वागभवत्") has no English translation.

Machine translation translates it to "He gave him what was born and he didn't feel it and it was the same speech", but there's no way I'm putting machine translation output for a language I don't speak into an article. Could someone please review the article and add a translation for that second quotation? (and perhaps check the rest of the stuff too?) — The Anome (talk) 16:55, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@The Anome: See edit. Please feel free to further revise the formatting and explanation; the cited source is borrow-able on archive.org. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 18:07, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Article hijack attempt

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Notice: The Secondary School Certificate page has been hijacked, with the entire content cut-and-paste moved from the SSC Bangladesh page without consensus. Please see that page Bongan® →TalkToMe← 17:12, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Aakash (tablet)#Requested move 25 February 2025

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There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Aakash (tablet)#Requested move 25 February 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 15:00, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Jatia

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The article Jatia has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unreferenced and unimproved for over 15 years. No sources online Google, news, books, or scholar, reliable or otherwise. This is literally WP:BOLLOCKS.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Bearian (talk) 10:37, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Why not search for potential sources, rather than prodding? The issue of speculation of the link between Jatia and Pragjyotishpura is discussed in the proceedings of the 2007 Indian Historical Congress (p. 166) (seemingly, same text available on Jstor [1]). The Problem of Change: A Study of North-East India (p. 209) mentions issue of land access in the village. As a village, and one with a history separate from modern Guwahati, the location passes WP:NGEO. As always spellings in English vary, and in this case 'Jatiya' gives a lot of false positives in searches as 'জাতীয়' have other meaning in Bangla and Assamese. --Soman (talk) 13:46, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Which article?

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This writer says "Cow Protection Laws: Wikipedia’s coverage of India’s cow protection laws illustrates another pattern of bias. The article frames..." Can someone tell me which WP-article he's talking about? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:48, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

According to an RS/N thread, this web "newspaper" was founded by an Indian ruling-party politician not long ago and is "tabloidesque" and "has highly questionable practices." There is no reason for Wikipedia pages to give the article or the "newspaper" publicity: see RS/N post of Tayi Arajakate. Although the RS/N thread did not achieve consensus, this might be the time to put the "source" under the scope for reliability. That particular article is written in ungainly English, where the register changes from sentence to sentence. I don't believe the author is a trained journalist. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 11:41, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
PS Tayi Arajakate: Would you like to reopen that RS/N thread? Thank you. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 11:57, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Commented at Talk:Subhas_Chandra_Bose#Press-template, and I still like to know what article he is talking about. I have no intention atm to use it as a source in a WP-article. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:57, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I have replied there. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 12:16, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Gråbergs Gråa Sång: I wondered if they were referring to Cow vigilante violence in India but I don't see the supposed quotes "Hindutva aggression", "apologetics for animal cruelty laws" etc in the article, talk page or edit summaries, or obvious concerns. Pinging @Vanamonde93: who have contributed in the area to see if they have a better guess. Abecedare (talk) 18:07, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Cow protection movement would be my other guess. GGG, I wouldn't necessarily recommend adding those links to the article talk pages: nuanced critique is useful, but I struggle to take this one in good faith. Vanamonde93 (talk) 18:13, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Vanamonde93 @Abecedare Thanks! For press-template purposes, I don't consider un-nuanced to be a dealbreaker, coverage can be quite interesting and potentially inspire constructive edits anyway, like IMO the coverage of Sambhaji did. Of course it was a massive pain in the ass as well, but then it's IMO even better if editors can see on the talkpage that such coverage is out there. My position is that the press-template is not restricted to "WP-nice" stuff, because media coverage of WP is not always nice, for good and bad reasons. Like the Supreme Court seemed to hint to the Delhi High Court, don't be too touchy when people write about you. Anyway, there's no rush. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 18:37, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't mind if they tell us our articles are terrible. As the Supreme Court notes, critique is useful, etc etc. And a good many of our articles are in fact full of the biases the author wants to talk about: orientalism remains relevant. But I don't particularly want to give a platform to someone who hasn't read the articles they want to critique, and who - according to GPTZero, anyway - used an LLM to write said critique. Some sleuthing also suggests the Levush 2016 citation is an AI hallucination. There's more I will not say here for Streisand reasons, but I can email you if you'd like. Vanamonde93 (talk) 19:13, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nah, I'm good. And published critique being crappy doesn't turn me away. Some of his readers will BELIEVE, and some of those might turn up here. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 19:19, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Chaush

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Chaush could really use some attention from a competent editor. The history is full of sockpuppetry and additions of policy-violating material, but it is a long enough history that I don't see it being eligible for speedy deletion, and the topic itself is a notable and encyclopedic one. Vanamonde93 (talk) 17:45, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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