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For your kindness and encouragement along with the hard work and guidance. Wikipedia should be proud of having you. You are great! VanischenumTalk 21:04, 25 July 2012 (UTC) |
Hi Titodutta, thanks for the Panupuri you gave me. Callanecc (talk • contribs) talkback (etc) template appreciated. 08:43, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
I have listed the article for peer review here. I think any suggestions you have should be listed there instead of the talk page. Again, no hurry, take care of you backlog first. CorrectKnowledge (talk) 16:55, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
Not bad, eh? Just two catches?--Dwaipayan (talk) 19:19, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello Titodutta. Please check out my my last edit in the article about Tagore. --Omnipaedista (talk) 23:49, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
Sorry for asking this (silly question). And I am not sure this is incorrect or not. The lead section contains the sentence,
Is it necessary to change cinema ---to-->> cinemas. Regards. Thank you. VanischenumTalk 02:25, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
Greetings Tito! My apologies are in order for this delayed reply. As you can see, I did indeed begin to review the Independence Day (India) article, but before I had a chance to finish reading through, I got called away on an unexpected family emergency. Sadly, I just learned that I've lost someone very dear to my heart :(. Though my wiki participation, availability, and concentration may be a bit disrupted over the next few days, I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge your recent messages and thank you for your kind words and proposed ideas. Full detailed replies are in the making, but I wanted to let you know that there may be some delays and periods of silence before I'm able to fully address everything your messages entail. I will start with the completion of my review, and respond to the rest as soon as possible. Have yourself a great day Tito... I'll catch up with you soon. :) -- WikHead (talk) 19:03, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up
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Have made substantial improvements in Brij Mohan Kaul article. Wanted someone to take a look and if possible a quick review. Also added infobox, which I plan to expand (perhaps add an image from somewhere) soon. Perhaps when you are back from your wikibreak :-) .... -Ambar (talk) 12:51, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
What do you think about it now? I quickly went over several sources, books articles etc. Some creations are repeatedly mentioned. Discussion on relevant films is rare though. Fortunately got one general article on films.--Dwaipayan (talk) 13:29, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Tito.Please give your important suggestion whether this template should kept or not.visit here Thank You --25 CENTS VICTORIOUS☣ 13:56, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
Lets discuss at one place rather than distributed discussions here and there DBigXray 10:34, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
Please Tito, it is you who have made this review super. I do not have even the confidence to do it. Tito, please. Vanischenu『m/Talk』 15:39, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
--Dwaipayan (talk) 16:28, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
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For reviewing articles diligently and in an extraordinary way—with accurate judgments and great kindness and humanity—especially in the article Independence Day (India). Vanischenu『m/Talk』 17:30, 29 July 2012 (UTC) |
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For your super-duper review on Independence Day (India). Great stuff! You are a great asset for WikiProject India. Hats off! ![]() |
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Yes, you deserve it. Vanischenu『m/Talk』 17:55, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
hello! i've found the book i mentioned, so i am going to finishbring the article to a satisfactory state (and that is at least past “stub”ness;)) in a day or two. happy trying to take a wikibreak) --antanana 05:58, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
So do you exactly know what is the reason behind the necessity of US tags? Is it because the servers are located in US? There are hundreds of PD-India images in the Commons. This requirement would be disastrous.--Dwaipayan (talk) 14:26, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
The consensus agreed to broaden the scope from one thing to multiple things. So I have requested an individual reassessment on Barack Obama on Twitter. --George Ho (talk) 23:15, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
Load-shedding? Or, do you have power?--Dwaipayan (talk) 14:55, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
Recently (on 25 July 2012) an article has been published in Scientific American which deals with the question– "Why is everyone on the internet so angry and rude?" Their study shows– there might be lots of factors behind a person's rude behaviour– 1) Virtual anonymity and thus lack of accountability 2) Physical distance 3) medium of writing 4) personal life (mental and physical problems). There are lots of interesting moments in this article. Here is the link. --Tito Dutta ✉ 17:41, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
You have one message at the peer review page. CorrectKnowledge (talk) 18:08, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
On 22 April, this year, I asked a question in another user's talk page regarding Aryabhata's calculation of Pi. The questions I asked there
Another answer I have been searching is the way Aryabhata calculated Pi. Aryabhata used this string: (see details in this section of Aryabhata article)
Add four to 100, multiply by eight, and then add 62,000. By this rule the circumference of a circle with a diameter of 20,000 can be approached ((4 + 100) × 8 + 62000)/20000 = 62832/20000 = 3.1416
But the thing I have not understood in that Wikipedia article (I am not a contributor there, just a reader), from where Aryabhata got the numbers 4, 100, 8, 62000, 20000? When we say Pi=22/7, we can understand if circumference is 22 unit then diameter will be 7 unit, but, what are these 4, 100, 8, 62000, 20000? Any idea?
I did not get any reply for next few days and I unwatched the page or something similar happened that's why I completely missed the post of Rich there. Just now, after 4 months, when I was going to ask another Chemistry specialist user that question, I found the reply of Rich of 3 May
I am inclined to think that the sum is not mathematical. Clearly the 20,000 diameter is a 10,000 radius, so imagining we don't have decimal points, the natural way to express a truth about the circle relating to 2π is to look at bigger circles
- Radius 1 circumference 6
- Radius 10 circumference 63
- Radius 100 circumference 628
- Radius 1000 circumference 6283
- Radius 10000 circumference 62832
The two questions left are why 62832 is constructed that way - could it be a mnemonic? Or possibly an obscuring device? and how did he calculate the figure? At this point I am overwhelmed by my ignorance, but I think the 20,000 at least is explained.
I have not replied in that user's page, because I don't want to disturb him (email notifications, you know). I think, we can start again from here! --Tito Dutta ✉ 19:55, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
I discovered two interesting things, firstly he used poetry for a table of sines, so maybe the idea that it was a mnemonic device to express the number thus has some basis - you might need knowledge of the language to say whether
is poetic. Secondly a suggestion that an inscribed 256-agon might have been used to calculate the figure. It should be a few minuteswork to confirm that there is enough accuracy in a 256-agon. Rich Farmbrough, 01:53, 2 August 2012 (UTC).
And, maybe in lack of the math. decimal point, he had to find a large number that is accurate enough to give an approximation that, by dividing it by the multiple (the thousandfold or the thousandfold) of a simple digit (the "2" in his case) will give some value that was correct "enough". And I suppose he might have started with some rough value, in his case it eventually could have been at first (3?)*(100+4) (=312), and he just might have tried then to get some suitable approach by varying this value with a special factor.
At first (?) by changing my "3" to some other digit ... finally it was the "8" etc. etc.
I will be trying to see if there is some possible way for me to retrace his approach. Thank you and kind regards, Gerhardvalentin (talk) 17:49, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
I corrected WP.Lead on the page and intend to write more giving references. Please check.Sudhirkbhargava (talk) 15:28, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Page on Manusmriti is cleansed a bit now, please have a look. There is no page on the Vedic state of 'Brahmavarta' on Wikipedia. I think a new page can clear many confusions on Vedic period literature. Please advise how to go about it.Sudhirkbhargava (talk) 12:25, 5 August 2012 (UTC) Page on 'Manusmriti' is complete now. Tags need to be removed. Please advise about a page on 'Brahmavarta'.117.198.137.70 (talk) 17:03, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
When exactly he took the name Vivekananda? Jut prior to setting sail for the US? In that case, we have to decide what to call him during his voyage of India. As of now, the article uses "Swami", "the Swami", "Vivekananda' etc. Prior to his taking the sanyas, it is ok to call him Narendra. Also, in this phase (early years, years with Ramakrishna etc), we have to decide on one thing -- either Narendra or Narendranath. I thing Narendra was the more often used name, and we should stick to that (unless using some quotes describing him as Narendranath). Even during his tour of India, we my decide to call him Narendra and Swami (I do not know about the usability of the name Vivekananda in this phase).
In the India travel section, please add month and year in a few more instances (not all, but just a few). The Western India travel section is somewhat haphazard. It says he travelled to some cities in Maharashtra. But the very next sentence says about his stay in Kathiawad. Was Kathiawad before Pune. Bombay etc? Try to find out the the time of his stay in Kathiawad, as he came to know about the Chicago conference while staying there.
I am doing some random copyediting now, without looking at the sources. In this way, we may be able to get rid of some "close paraphrasing" automatically. After this is done, you may want to double-check (comparing with the sources) whether any striking close paraphrasing exist --Dwaipayan (talk) 02:59, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
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For the guy with great attention to detail, who's always double checking and triple checking to make sure he's got everything as perfect as can be... and who always goes out of his way to help keep others around him happy and content. This barnstar has been a long time in the making and well overdue. I'm certainly glad we have people like you on Wikipedia! -- WikHead (talk) 05:47, 2 August 2012 (UTC) |
The Paoli Dam page looks balanced now [Thu 2 aug 2235 british summer time (BST) ]. If you played a part, thanks.
Well I so happens that I too well connected with people in the West Bengal film scene, specially the arthouse scene) which:
1. I am both enotionallly and financially connnected with;
2. of which Ms Paoli Dam is very much a part of; (the arthouse West Bengal film scene)
3. I've met her but I can't say I know her (she is very unlikely to remember my name) because I am a very private person and in her own way so is she. It would be easy for me to contact her face-to-face, but I am simply not the kind of person who contacts people withgout sufficient reason.
It is precisely because I am a vey private person, and so is Ms Dam (notwithstanding the fact that she is a performing artist of cinema, and so has to/ has chosen to do promos and interviews etc), that I have intervened in the issue just the amount I thought was appropriate. Now it depends of what she thinks of the inchoate entity called wikipedia. I refuse to push wikipedia to Paoli, or vice versa.
I've been editing wikipedia since 2001 (search the internet (not onl;y www) for the ref to thr 'vaskar nandi' article in 'economic and polical weekly) is is probbly not there in the 11 sept 2001 aricle in wikipedia any more; but I provide that reference to the EPW Vaskar Nandy article. And lots of search engines, web-zines, and print magazines put it on record as an example of the *wikipedia* statement on 11 sept 2001 events. Well that was my tenth or so wiki-edit (the Vaskar Nandi ref re 7/11/2001 yank-style date) But I was an anonymous editor all those 11 years.
Because of a character-assassination-revert-war re Ms paoli dam who I have huge respect for (my daughter was her junior in the same college, sort of, etc), I felt I needed to be a registered editor. However, methinks most of my future edits will *also* be anonymous unless I see that the issue is importatant to me *and* I can help by intervening as a registered user *more* than I can as an anonymous editor.
So, no newbie me! nor a wiki-addict.
hanks for reading, and regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Manojpandeyanarchocommunist (talk Manojpandeyanarchocommunist (talk) 22:18, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
Just to crush possiblities of misunderstandings - I never thought or suggested *you* were reverting to the sick moral-police version. 00:09, 5 August 2012 (UTC) Manojpandeyanarchocommunist (talk) 00:10, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
While reading the above post, I realised there was no article on Chatrak yet!!! So, created one, Mushrooms (film). If we can expand it. it might be DYK material.--Dwaipayan (talk) 02:09, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
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We need more diligent people like you. Keep it up. Mrt3366 (Talk?) 08:28, 4 August 2012 (UTC) |
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