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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.
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Current proposals and discussions
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- 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.
- 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.
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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!
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Looking forward toward more contributions from you!
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Complete To Do List
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Complete To Do List
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,
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NPOV:
Greater Nepal
Rajneesh,
Ranjit Lal Jetley
Hedgewar,
Puttanna Kanagal,
Bride burning,
Sonia Gandhi
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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),
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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
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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,
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Requested images:
Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan,
Free image of Aarti Chhabria
Other requests:
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