Pranesh Ravikumar

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Just added some columns to make it precise from distinguishing professional and bureaucrats. Pranesh Ravikumar (talk) 18:03, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

Was this due to continuous editing of the article Pranesh Ravikumar (talk) 18:09, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

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SUN EYE 1 13:20, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

There was no indication of what edit you were reverting here, nor of where the "discussion" took place. How did the word "Genocide" enter the picture (as part of your edit)? -- Kautilya3 (talk) 12:15, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi Kautilya3,

The clarification regarding the Rahul Pandita edit was about is that Self identification of caste. Since in his Official twitter he has shared his part of story about what happened during Kashmir and also that he self identified himself as "Kashmir Pandit" due to this i just made the edit for the same. There was discussion after this made with other Wikipedia editors regarding whether it need to be considered or not. Please note that the term "Genocide" was not part of my edit but was made by a anonymous editor but during my revert of edit it just got added. Apologies from my side for not taking that part into account. The conversation regarding the same link is below,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dissoxciate#BLP

Thanks Pranesh Ravikumar (talk) 12:58, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

Ok, in future, please make sure that all content-related discussion takes place on the article talk pages. Also, the term "genocide" is being added by drive-by IP editors. As a Wikipedia regular, we would expect that you would revert such edits before you make further edits of your own. If you don't, you will make it harder for the rest of us to keep the Wikipedia neutral. Cheers, Kautilya3 (talk) 13:26, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

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— DaxServer (t · m · c) 20:50, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi DaxServer,

Thanks for bringing it to my notice. There seems to be some clarification from my side needed regarding BLP. In case a person's caste is self identfied by themselves will that be a valid edit to proceed or is it invalid as per the new set of rules.

Thanks Pranesh Ravikumar (talk) 21:05, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi Pranesh. You might want to read this: Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics/Archive 49#Mentioning caste of Individuals Cheers! — DaxServer (t · m · c) 11:07, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thanks for expanding List of Brahmins taking consensus into consideration.

Fylindfotberserk (talk) 15:59, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Could you source this section?. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 16:00, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Sure will do. Thanks for the Kitten Pranesh Ravikumar (talk) 16:44, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Please take a look at this. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 18:15, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

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P.S, apparently this was a case of using a source without citing it and citing a different one instead, rather than OR/misrepresentation. Tayi Arajakate _Talk 19:11, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

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Selfstudier (talk) 14:52, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

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"Claim"

Please stop changing "claim" as in "claim him as a member" MOS:CLAIM does not apply to that usage. Selfstudier (talk) 13:38, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi there,

Could you advise the reason for not changing th word "claim" since as per the MOS:CLAIM mentions below,

Said, stated, described, wrote, commented, and according to are almost always neutral and accurate

To say that someone asserted or claimed something can call their statement's credibility into question, by emphasizing any potential contradiction or implying disregard for evidence

Since the topic is part of contentious topic we could subsitute to words more neutrality like using said, stated or others. Pranesh Ravikumar (talk) 16:24, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

WP:CLAIM refers to "Synonyms for said".

In the cases you are changing, the word claim is not being used as a synonym for said in the sense of someone claiming something, it is being used descriptively. Selfstudier (talk) 16:40, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Selfstudier, I did look into the subject about your comment. As far as I checked the synonyms for the verb "say" included "claim" in thesaurus.

Apart from this since you mentioned "claim" synonym and I have checked since the statement in the in the sense of allege we could use "state" instead of "claim" as synonym.

In this kind of scenario as per MOS:CLAIM "To say that someone asserted or claimed something can call their statement's credibility into question, by emphasizing any potential contradiction or implying disregard for evidence". So we could provide an neutral word which can be "stated" as per the MOS:CLAIM Pranesh Ravikumar (talk) 14:51, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

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