User talk:Nichalp/Archive19

images for deletion

Thanks. Now understood. ifd added to image files as suggested.

--Dore chakravarty 20:02, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Adding

Self, intend examining adding text and photos to page of T.K.V._Desikachar (Mr Desikachar is my Last sister-in-law's husband). The photos can be seen at my web site [1] and details of my sister-in-law at [2]. They are widely travelled. My family web site [3] also gives some details. Your opinion on what categoey these photos can be uploaded and where? Your suggestions please.

--Dore chakravarty 23:39, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Cricket Graphs suggestion.

Thanks for the suggestion; I'll start working on it when I can. Raven4x4x 05:56, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Not a permanent trend

Hi Nicholas. I think we need to build a bigger and experienced user base to make the Indian Summer last for ever. It shouldn't rely on a few individuals. However, rest assured that I'm not going away forever. I'll keep editing sporadically and be checking my watchlist periodically. And might return to heavy editing once I get leisure. By the way, what's up with you? -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 06:12, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Re: Inkscape text

Thanks, the text is coming now. BTW, I am experimenting with pychart & the rendering is quite good & it also helps in creating multilingual charts. I will upload it, once I fix some minor issues. --Pamri • Talk 07:40, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi Robert, I'm loving Wikipedia!! I'm sure i will be coming back for help as am still a rookie .. Please can you delete the other uncopywritted Guy picture you mailed me about, was a mistake. Thanks,AmyAmycrowther 15:49, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

New Discussion page-opinion

New discussion page Talk:Prabhas_Patan added. Pl see text and other details whether ok as per Wiki requirement. How long I have to wait for replies?

--Dore chakravarty 21:53, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Boston, Massachusetts - critique needed

I hope that I am not bothering you at the moment (your user page said that you are almost inactive), but I was wondering if you could look at the article and suggest any needed improvements. As for the size, I can't really think of any way of shrinking the article further (while Ann Arbor, Michigan, is a mid-sized city, Boston is a major U.S. city, and is one of the most important internationally, so there is a lot more material to work with). Pentawing 02:41, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment. However, I can't be able to find any more ways of summarizing the sections without completely gutting the article (a reason why I am asking for suggestions). Pentawing 21:19, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

I went through you suggestions and implemented most of them. However, there are two things that I am not sure about:

1. How much did you want for plurality voting, given that it is already wikilinked?
2. I am not familiar with inote. Exactly how is it used and why do you think using this is better?

Also, I didn't add the passage concerning crime in Boston, so I am leaving in the footnotes for now. Thanks. Pentawing 06:26, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Suggestions??

Uploaded 2 photos in commons for Gujarat/Porbandar and edited Porbandar article. Any suggestions?

--Dore chakravarty 04:35, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Brain Teasers:

Hi, just sending out a friendly notice stating that I have now got brain teasers on my user page. Will post new questions one day after the older ones have been answered. Thanks, Spawn Man 05:55, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Belgium

Dear Nicholas, I did some things you asked for, and some other things not. Please answer to my comments on the peer review page of Belgium. Thanks. Vb 11:21, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Inappropriate closure

Do you feel it is appropriate for you to vote then close Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Balagangadhara? All but a single anon vote were to delete and you feel that you can vote then close as no consensus? How do you feel you can do this without obvious conflict of interest? - Tεxτurε 14:49, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Actually, he declared a consensus to keep the article. I'd like to assume that this was a good faith procedural error, but it's difficult to believe that a highly experienced admin (and now bureaucrat) wouldn't know better. —Lifeisunfair 15:10, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Do you realize that his was the ONLY keep vote other than a single anonymous entry? His "consensus" was himself. That is inappropriate. - Tεxτurε 16:53, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi Texture: Assume good faith. I was surprised to see the tone of your post on my page, which struck me as rather aggressive. Perhaps you could be a little more polite in the future?

Well, AFD is not my comfort zone, and well, that day I may have had on off day since I had a really busy week. I stand by what I have done, in retrospective, as you rightly pointed out however, it was "conflict of interest" on my part. I apologise for this error.

My actions on that day were as follows. The article was nominated on 28 September. As per the AFD convention, the a desision on deleting or preserving the article usually takes place after five days. I took the decision on 8 October, that's 10 days after it was nominated by you and double the normal process time. Well, IP votes are allowed, there's nothing barring them from voting in the process if made in good faith, and I believe it was made in good faith. I did do a google search on him and it threw up quite a lot of results. 3:2 is not really a decisive vote count after 10 days, so I had to give the article the benefit of the doubt, to clear the backlog.

To conclude this post, there was nothing wrong in my judgement, I stand by what I have done, but me voting, and also concluding the AFD process was perhaps a "conflict of interest", for which I am ready to apologise. You are most welcome to seek another admin's opinion, but I won't follow up on this. Thank you and regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 19:17, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

I am sad that you did not Assume good faith in my action. I did not change your closing. I did not undo it and extend the voting period. I did not delete the article. I did not renominate the article for deletion. I did not place the decision on VfU (in the spirit of Deletion Review). I did not take any action against you on any of the many wikipedia-space pages where this decision, your action, or the situation in general could be discussed.

What I did do was place a note on your talk page. I found this to be the least agressive, most accomodating, and most appropriate place to voice my concern at your action. I apologize if you didn't like how I worded the note. I cannot find a less offensive or more accomodating place to make my concern known to you. Do you have a suggestion?

Regarding your judgement - I would not have questioned your decision to give weight to the anon had you not voted minutes before closing the AfD. You say that AfD is not your comfort zone. Why, then, did you choose to vote and then close this AfD that was clearly weighted to "delete"? In my opinion, it looks to an observer that you saved a dying article in every way you could. Had you voted and allowed another admin to close with no consensus to delete I would not question it. Had you closed without voting with no consensus to delete I would also have deferred to your discretion. In this case you took it off the block minutes after voting. I took that concern to your talk page and here we are.

One last thing. Please reread my original comment without the tone you believe it has. You have answered my question (at the end of your reply) and I am satisfied in your response that you will consider this possible conflict in the future. - Tεxτurε 20:56, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Well I did assume good faith on your part. I did not criticise your actions in anyway except for the tone on my talk, which could be more diplomatically put. I also thank you for the good actions on your part.

As for the post:Do you feel it is appropriate for you to vote then close Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Balagangadhara? All but a single anon vote were to delete and you feel that you can vote then close as no consensus? How do you feel you can do this without obvious conflict of interest? could it not be reworded to Hi, I noticed that you voted to keep the article on Balagangadhara, and closed the nomination almost immediately. Considering that ann anon's vote, and your last minute vote were the only ones to keep, so would it not be a "conflict of interest" if the same person voted and closed it immediately? Awaiting your response. Regards, Texture. In the second reply "ONLY" is in allcaps, 'shouting' in other words. Unfortunately, I won't be a daily contibutor to wp anymore, so there's less of a chance of me erring in the future. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 07:18, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I'll keep that in mind and try to phrase things better. - Tεxτurε 14:46, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

I noticed this problem at as I was finishing off that day's AfDs, and almost mentioned it here. But I was more concerned with the deeper problem that a really quite worthwhile article nearly got deleted. Rich Farmbrough 16:13, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Relisted. I perhaps could have been nicer in first edit summary, so, hey. - brenneman^(t)(c) 03:27, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Gratitude

Thank you for the congratulations on my adminship!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Also, HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

I am thoroughly pleased. DS 11:42, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Sir Phiroze Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy

This article/Vfd needs urgent attention. Tintin 15:18, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Re: Rogers FAC

Thanks for the suggestions on the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works FAC nomination. I've acted on all but the last one about the sentence rephrasing. I'll see if I can come up with a better sentence that conveys the fact that almost every railroad in North America during the 19th century rostered at least one Rogers locomotive. I'm open to suggestions. slambo 18:38, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

Dhanyavaad dost for the addition to my user page ;-). It's nice to know someone reads it! Have a great day! >: Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist • E@} 00:26, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Arsenal FAC

Hi Nichalp,

I had a question about one of your objections to this nomination, so I thought it'd be polite to let you know on here. Hope you don't feel like I'm questioning everything you put on there, it's nothing personal :-) Just not sure whether you objected to there being a short paragraph in the article or felt the women's team needed more coverage in the article.

Cheers, CTOAGN 00:49, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Mannathu Padmanabhan

The contents of this article is a copy paste from here. This is a ministry of information and broadcasting site. This talks about them but it is not obvious whether contents are in the public domain. Do you know if which such sites are in the pub domain ? If this is, [4] contains some biogaphy articles that we can draw upon. Tintin 02:09, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Tintin 09:30, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support on my RfA!

Thanks for your support of my adminship!! I was surprised at the turnout and support I got! If you ever have any issues with any of my actions, please notify me on my talk page! Thanks again! Golden thanks for peer review / FAC patrol yourself! Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 04:06, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

My age

No. I'm 51. When it was working on The Cantos, for instance, I was writing about a book I'd been reading on and off for almost 30 years. Sometimes experience can be a good thing. Then again, sometimes I'm just old and inflexible;). Filiocht | The kettle's on 07:18, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Fundamental Rights of India

I've done as much as I could

• reduced the list% as much as I could. Maybe you can do better. Please check it out
• rem {{Politics of India}}
• added ISBN -couldn't find any more refs
• expanded a little
• done overall cleanup-wikify, spellings etc.

Could you look for a few pics and add them? I'll check back after my exams-they begin tomorrow. Thanks.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 07:33, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your congratulations; I'll do my best to be fair and effective. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 17:18, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Texas Ranger Division

Now I understand exactly what you meant when you said at my RfA that "FA writers have to really bend their backs"! :) Hugs, Nichalp! Shauri smile! 20:26, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

My dear Nichalp, I do take seriously your concern regarding the article's length, and I've been doing some offline work to address it. After much thought, I've come to the conclusion that it would be better to summarise some parts of the "History" section that have more detailed articles of its own, like those facts that are developed at Mexican American War. Also, the entire "High profile busts" has in fact individual articles: Sam Bass, John Wesley Hardin and Bonnie and Clyde, which means that citing the cases at the body of the "History" section and the lead (as they are now, with wikilinks to direct there the interested reader) would be enough. Which these modifications as I have prepared already, the size cuts down to 41k, 37k without extras. Would this be sufficient to address your objection? Please let me know what you think. Thank you, and hugs! Shauri smile! 14:17, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

My birthday

My birthday is today (14th Oct) and my exams also started today.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 15:52, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Re: belated hb

Heh, here's your Belated Thank You. :P Acetic'^Acid 21:20, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you a million times over for your support of my sysop bid. I have a brand-new dustbuster sitting right beside me, and I will use it properly.  Denelson83  22:13, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks a lot for the birthday wishes.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 16:23, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Serial copyviolaters

I normally try to tag and list any copyvio I see, especially cut and paste ones. sometimes i run into users like OneGuy who upload images under dubious tags. he has uploaded many photos (mainly mosques) which are tagged as {fairuseunsure}}. I was suspicious and the first image I investigated in detail confirmed my suspicion that it was subtly copied from another site, then cut to required size and pasted here. I've promptly listed this as blatant copyvio and a couple others as PUIdisputed. but it seems he has uploaded a lot of these stunning images (which betray that it was downloaded or scanned) tagged as fairuseunsure. The problem is I don't have the patience to tag and retag everything for this user's images. If you wouldn't mind would you or any one else take up the job? I'm assuming that as a bureaucrat you must have access to an easier way of retagging images of one user's set of questionably tagged photos into another. Also it seems wikipedia's proceedure for tagging is a bit redundant, as I feel that a single tag for an image should automatically create an entry in the appropriate section for the date that it was tagged. Tx. Idleguy 17:16, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Oh, silly me I didn't check out ur status in your page. As far as messaging him, it seems he has been dormant since feb this year so i don't suppose i'll get any response from him. If you know of anyone who's good at this janitorial work, I'd appreciate it. Tx and take care. Idleguy 05:22, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Bureaucratship

You wanted to know when I post my bureaucratship, and you wanted to conom. So here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_bureaucratship/Redwolf24 I'm really really nervous... Redwolf24 (talk—How's my driving?) 00:40, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Celestianpower is an admin

My bureaucrat friend. Too bad you voted and didn't get to close, eh? Anyway, thank you very much for your support - my bid (as you probably know) went swimmingly. I couldn't have asked for a better one. Thank you very much and I just hope I don't mess up! --Celestianpower ^hablamé 12:40, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Adminship

You voted against my sysop right until I made my e-mail accesable. Jost noting that I have done that today. Thank you for your comments.Voice of All ^@|E|Merit 15:59, 16 October 2005 (UTC)