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Are your project's task forces struggling to survive? Or is it just the opposite? What are strategies do your task forces use? Does your project even think task forces need to be replaced? Whatever the case The Signpost wants to know! Have one of your task forces go to this page to contribute a section about their story. NOTE: This peice is an opinion peice with severel different editers contributing and the veiws of your task force or project may not be expressed in the articles entirety. Any questions can be left on the talk page.

Are there any allowed exceptions, such as religious articles as claimed here, to WP:INDICSCRIPT? -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:12, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I am afraid not Shrikanthv (talk) 09:36, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong, it is not just allowed but it is standard practice to use any other scripts where relevant as it is elsewhere on Wikipedia outside this project. The article in question is first a Sikhism related article; so until this same decision has been made in WP:Sikhism, it is allowed. In the same way it is standard practice in WP:Hinduism. This project does not trump others. Imc (talk) 19:10, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Imc is correct. On the other hand, why some other project would choose to ignore the very clear consensus that these scripts are not A Good Thing is beyond me. The India Project, after all, should surely be more experienced than any other in this particular aspect and it would make sense to follow its lead. - Sitush (talk) 19:51, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

And especially when the article in question Vahiguru is infused with etymological cluelessness of a high order. Far be it for an article on Sikhism to acknowledge Islamic/Arabic influences. So, examine the big fib on the name itself: "Modern scholars, affirm that the name Vahiguru is owed originally to the Gurus, most likely to the founder of the faith, Guru Nanak, himself. According to this view, Vahiguru is a compound of two words, one from Punjabi and the other from Sanskrit, joined in a symbiotic relationship to define the indefinable indescribable Ultimate Reality."

Every schoolboy or schoolgirl who has begun to write the rudiments of Alif, Be, Pe, ... on a takhti with a qalam, knows that Vah, and i/e (in the Vah-i-guru, or Vah-e-guru) are both good old Arabic. (See McGregor's Oxford Hindi English dictionary: vah: Arabic, interjection. Spendid! Wonderful! (it is the same as Vah, Vah, heard in a mushaira) In other words, "Guru" is as much Punjabi (and not Sanskrit) as "Vah" is Punjabi (and not Arabic); if you're going to claim descent from Sanskrit in one, you should claim it from Arabic in the other. PS In the old days, I would have corrected it myself, but today when many India-related pages have begun to be prowled more aggressively by Hindu- and Sikh nationalists, I have no interest in edit warring. However, if someone wants to correct it using my reference, they are welcome. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 01:49, 24 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Can anyone make some sense of Central Asians in Ancient Indian literature? I'm not even sure why it was created. - Sitush (talk) 12:09, 24 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It looks to have been created to fill a void but the scope has been poorly defined. I would say that the 'Central Asian people in Indian classical literature' section should be merged into Indian literature and the 'Migrations from Central Asian into India' section should be WP:SPLIT into a new article if the theory isn't too fringe. The existence of Indo-Aryan migration theory and other articles on migrations would support such a split. Cesdeva (talk) 18:48, 24 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings from Wikimedia India! Wiki Loves Monuments in India is an upcoming photo competition, part of the bigger Wiki Loves Monuments 2017. We welcome you all to be part of it, as participants and as volunteers. The aim of the contest is to ask the general public—readers and users of Wikipedia, photographers, hobbyists, etc.—to take pictures of cultural heritage monuments and upload them to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and its sister projects. This in turn would lead to creation of new articles along with development of new articles in Indian languages.

We seek your support to make this event a grand success ! Please sign up here -- Suyash Dwivedi, sent using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:50, 25 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,
We are glad to inform you that Asaf Bartov will visit India in the month of September, and will be conducting local workshops on Wikidata and other recent technologies and tools. You might be aware that Asaf is a promoter and trainer of Wikidata, and before and during this year's Wikimania, Indic Wikimedians from two communities requested Asaf to visit India to conduct more Wikidata workshops.
The workshop would include extensive Wikidata training, from absolute beginner level through querying and embedding Wikidata in Wikipedia (incl. infoboxes), as well as a general tools demonstration, including Quarry. Additionally, time would be made for general Q&A ("ask me anything") to let people use the opportunity to directly ask a WMF representative anything that they have on their mind.
Asaf would come to India on 29 August. Please see the detailed plan here. Please contact here or write to Asaf if you have any question. Regards. -- Titodutta, sent using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:37, 25 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Govardhana sila should be merged in Govardhan Hill and Govardhan Puja in my opinion. Please express you opinion on talkpage. WP Hinduism is inactive so I am posting here.--Nizil (talk) 10:05, 27 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi all! We have our system ready, and we can start recommending editors to your project now. Please check here for the previous discussion archived on the talk page. We'd like to invite some of project organizers to our study. Participants will receive two batches of recommendations. If you think the recommended editors are good candidates for your project, we'd like you to invite them to the project.

Please let me know if you'd be interested in participating, add your WikiProject and username to the table on my user talk page. Thanks! Bobo.03 (talk) 17:31, 28 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please see User talk:Hb bindu. This is a brand new editor asking for help. I have removed the Speedy Delete tag from the article in question. Apparently, his father is a screen writer in India, and he hasn't quite caught on about how to source on Wikipedia. I think it would be helpful to him if he got assistance from editors who are familiar with articles on India's film industry. This topic is way out of my area, so I'm posting here in hopes someone from this project can assist him. — Maile (talk) 11:46, 31 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Creepy mess, Can any senior editor get involved in cleaning this article, seems to be a mixture of flowery words and news now Shrikanthv (talk) 13:32, 31 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Article doesn't seem to be all that bad. What are your specific concerns? Lorstaking (talk) 16:03, 5 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User:Pratyk321 has been adding lots of images to various articles lately. Can anyone please help in assessing whether it is in violation of WP:IG or not. I tried informing the editor, but got no response. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 16:27, 1 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User:Capankajsmilyo, I have stopped adding excess images in the articles after you informed me regarding the same(sorry for not responding soon), In recent edits: Padmaprabha, Pushpadanta, Anantanatha no quality images so added 1 image in each article and in Sanghiji article only 2 images are present one of the those 2 was added by me. Often, I replace images with better version. You may check my past revision history to see that I have stopped adding excess images. Regards Pratyk321 (talk)

based on recent edits at WikiProject:China, I have noticed Indian state maps we have do not show sea or land borders. Should we fix or not fix? — Preceding unsigned comment added by C1MM (talk • contribs)

Would someone from WP:INDIA mind assessing Sayyad Mohd Arshi (Uttarakhand Politician)? It's only stub, but it appears to be an WP:AUTOBIO with the subject of the article being the only contributor. I'm not sure how WP:NPOL applies to Indian politicians, but the subject does not appear in general to meet WP:BIO. The sources cited are not in English, so perhaps someone can verify their reliability. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:17, 4 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• THis is a long term self-promo sock -- Arshi1234, I've g5'ed the article and tagged the socks. —SpacemanSpiff 06:40, 4 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for checking SpacemanSpiff. FWIW, I just thought it was a COI matter, and had no idea the account was a sock. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:15, 4 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I planned to add a bit (history, official census data, teshils, development blocks, etc.) to Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh. But before I uploaded my additions/changes I realized - when I was about to add Wiki links to the towns Bela Pratapgarh and Pratapgarh City - that there are great confusions here. Both the wikipedia pages for Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh and Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh deal with the same district and none of them with the Nagar panchayat town which is called Pratapgarh City in the 2011 census records.

The wiki page for Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh is the much more detailed one for information about the district. It starts with: "Pratapgarh (Hindi: प्रतापगढ़), also called Belha, Bela, Bela Pratapgarh', is a city and municipality of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Pratapgarh district, ...". But in fact this wiki page does not focus on the city/municipality, but on the district. There is yet another, linked page for Bela Pratapgarh. Bela Pratapgarh (76,133 inhabitants in 2011), which is in fact the administrative headquarter of the district and the Pratapgarh City (15,071 inhabitants) are two different entities.

Does anybody have an idea how to overcome these confusions? Should I

a) copy all parts of Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh which are relevant for the district into Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh and then use Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh for the NP Pratapgarh City?

b) delete one of the two pages Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh or Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh after they obviously deal with the same object?

c) hand over this clean-up and re-organization to a more experienced user? Ukundji (talk) 13:27, 4 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have noticed a few changes regarding part of the article relative to (Assamese: ভূত-জলকীয়া). If there is someone that can verify what is there regarding the language at [Bhut jolokia] that would be helpful. I don't know whether google translate is sufficient, but as far as I can gather from it neither what was there nor what is there appear to be correspond per google translate. Falconjh (talk) 18:53, 5 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]