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Hello, MikeLynch. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Abuse response/Nominate. Message added 16:15, 21 December 2011 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
I am beginning to become a little concerned about the lackadaisical attitude to policies etc of a certain person with whom we have both interacted at WT:INB. Do you have any idea whether or not this attitude is actually impacting on their contributions to mainspace? I am wondering whether a bit a trawling through contributions may be necessary but am also concerned about being thought of as a stalker etc. - Sitush (talk) 15:03, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Well, I have not interacted with the editor before, so I don't really know. But after a glance through contribs, I think there's nothing serious to worry about, since the primary contribs are to smaller articles, and I don't see any glaring bad edits (nothing libellous at least). But we need to seriously drive into our editors that WP:OR is a strict no-no, and much more stricter for BLPs. The active contributors to India articles are not many, and we simply do not have the manpower to monitor our 50,000 odd articles closely. Lynch715:16, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Ah, you have already taken a look. Thanks for that, and phew! I agree about the OR thing: I find it quite dis-spiriting having to cut back swathes of content that people have often spent quite some time creating, all because they do not understand the WP system. Worse still are those who should understand it because they are reasonably experienced but who nonetheless continue wilfully to ignore. The list at Dargahs in Tamil Nadu is a current case: although some (poor) sources have appeared in the last hour or so, the article was created without sources by someone who really ought to have known better and yet as recently as today was questioning my comment on the article talk page. I blow up sometimes when this sort of thing happens but right now I am managing to keep a lid on my reactions! - Sitush (talk) 15:46, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
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I'm really sorry Ankit, I just guess we're all taking a break for the holidays :) Anyway, I haven't looked at your answers in detail, but you have to get all the information from the WHOIS, and not from other sources. Lynch712:10, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
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Well there is a Wikiquote link at the bottom of the page. There is also mention, I think in the soundtrack section, of the quotes being famous and so on. I don't know if its a good idea to start adding random quotes because: when do you stop? how many is enough? different editors will want their favorites and it will get out of hand. That's why wikiquote is a good repository. It would be different if there was only one, know what I mean? BollyJeff||talk21:09, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
Exams ge all the best! By the way, swalpa time itthu anta sumne ee discussion noDtidde... yappa, seriously junk. maaDoke eshT doD-doD kelsagaL idrunu ee tara saN vishyagaLalle jagLa aaDodu absurd ansatte! conclude aayta hogli, vote enadru haakod idre haeLi, namdu ond haakaNa! :) - Niri M / ನಿರಿ(Talk)07:49, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
En beda bidi, discussion agle mugdide, yaradru formally bandu close madbeku ashte. Ad volle dodd kireek agittu. Yaaro obba bandu, namma Ramesh Arvind article ge tamil script haktane! Yake antha kelidre, Ramesh avru Tamil ancestry iroru anda! Nange tamil avra mele (athva yaar meladru agli) en dwesha illa, aadre swalpa common sense use madbeku taane. Innu Rajinikanth article alli anthu kelode beda, Tamil saaldu antha, Kannada matte Marathi scripts haktare. Idar hinde en artha illa ondilla; adikke id bedve beda antha propose maadde. Maadadeno doddidagi madbitte, proposal almost accept u aitu, but implement madbekalla, ade swalpa tale novu. Nodana henge agatto. Lynch709:41, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
I have not ventured into asking any editor to close it, because I felt that I shouldn't, being a major participant in the discussion. Lynch713:24, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
We are not asking him to support our views explicitly. Its just a request to close the discussion neutrally. Isn't there a guideline on this? X.OneSOS06:35, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
There is. WP:CANVAS. I know I could ask, but I'm just keeping mum :P I'm a bit busy in real life, so I can't come online frequently till 2 more weeks, so I can't really follow up if I ask any person to close it. Lynch706:54, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
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Sorry for the (very) late reply. I think this map uses Flash or something, and I can't see it in my Kubuntu run system. Will go through it the next time I log on to a system with Windows. Sorry again! Lynch720:45, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
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I remember a discussion we had on the Chennai article regarding a sobriquet 'Gateway to South India'. Editors objected this due to lack of RS's and its competition with other major cities. To be frank, I wasn't really satisfied with the discussion, so I just got a few sources giving the statement. 1,
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6 Some sources are from 2009 and 2010. They refer to the city with the sobriquet due to varied reasons. Do you think its worth adding to the article or discussing? X.OneSOS14:26, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
The sources are good, and there is no doubt that Chennai was historically called as the Gateway to South India. This is definitely worth discussing. However, I don't think the term really applies today, and probably some editors might oppose its inclusion because of that. Its a historical term, no doubt. Go ahead and start a discussion, or be bold and add it yourself if you feel there won't be an issue. Cheers. Lynch714:31, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Uh, none of the sources say anything about it being a "historical term". Most of them have been published after 2000. Well, editors can object only if they see it being added and no one is apparently watching the Chennai article. Do you think Chennai loses the sobriquet because of the rapid growth of Bangalore and Hyderabad? Actually, it is just like Mumbai, which is the busiest port, so its called 'Gateway to India'. For the South, Chennai has a significant importance as a port city, so the term. Also, the airport is the busiest here. X.OneSOS14:50, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
My personal opinion doesn't matter of course, and if you'd ask me, there are other 'gateways' that have opened up. Bangalore, Hyderabad, and even other places like Kochi and Goa are booming. All these kinds of terms are largely historical only, there is no way that these terms can come up after 2000. Madras was the place from which the British held a grip over South India, it was like the Calcutta of the South. We can't include our opinions in the article, how much ever we may stand by them ;) . Just make a mention of it that it is called the "Gateway to South India". Start a discussion if anyone objects. Lynch715:04, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
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Sorry for making a bit of a mess of your user rights log: [1] It had slipped my mind that your RfA had been extended due to the blackout. Good luck for tomorrow. WJBscribe(talk)13:52, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
You're about to pass RfA (it's currently pending closure with 91% support!) I hope you will be a great addition to the admin team - of course, being an admin on many other wikis of the Foundation, you will unquestionably be a great admin to en-wiki. --Bryce (talk | contribs)14:23, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
I guess that's true, but I'm hesitant to protect talk pages for long periods of time. You can ask another admin to review the protection :) , or you can just leave me a note here after 2 weeks, I'll put in a longer protection. Lynch706:43, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
Maybe you didn't see the Facebook URL he posted. He's obsessed with some girl who happens to have a name similar to a character in Rango. He's either a stalker or pretending to be. He's been at this for some time now, and I am 99 percent certain he will return once the 2 weeks is up. I agree that in general we should not choke off talk pages, but we need to put BLP considerations ahead of conventional protection rules. ←Baseball BugsWhat's up, Doc?carrots→ 06:46, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
