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Rajnikanth

Hi! I saw you converting Marathi to Devanagari (before Indic scripts) at articles like Rajnikanth. Though I support this, I'd like to bring to your notice that there is some controversy regarding this and few editors won't like it (eg. have a look at [1]). So, please avoid doing this for some time. You are welcome to initiate any discussions regarding this at Wikipedia talk:Notice board for India-related topics. Thanks. utcursch | talk 04:08, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Bangla

Hi, I noticed your question at SameerKhan's page. First, the Bangla text looks small if you have only the Vrinda font that comes with Windows XP. There are a lot of other good quality unicode fonts, which you should install, and change the font option in your browser to use those for Bnagla text. This is a page that has a lot of Bangla fonts.

The pronunciation is markedly different from Hindi. For example, অ = O, not aa like Hindi. An example would be "Jana Gana Mana" জন গণ মন, which in Bangla would be pronounced as Jono Gono Mono, rather than Jana Gana Mana. Another example is Laxmi ... written as লক্ষ্মী in Bangla, which is also pronounced as Lokkhi in Bangla, rather than the Laxmi in Hindi.

I don't know about the Book or the CD.

Good luck. --Ragib 22:25, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Learning Bengali

Answered on my talk page. --SameerKhan 05:20, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Bollywood articles

Namaste Tuncrypt. I hope you are doing well. I noticed on a few Bollywood articles that you replaced "translation" with the English template. I really appreciate your efforts! However, I think using "translation" is more accurate because the name itself is in Hindi/Urdu, not English. For example, कोई मिल गया and کوئ مل گ are transliterations of Koī... Mil Gayā, while [I've] Found Someone is a translation. The purpose of the english there is to translate the Roman Urdu script for English speakers. Basawala and I discussed the situation here: talk- hindi movies. Please let me know how you feel about this. Thanks a lot for your understanding! With regards, Anupam^Talk 20:39, 15 October 2006 (UTC).

Re:Savarkar pic

Hi - why did you remove a picture of Savarkar from the article? Are there any issues with it? Rama's arrow 18:32, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

I reverted to an earlier edit I made which I thought was better (regarding script) and it seems I didn't notice your addition in between. Sorry Tuncrypt 18:41, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Etymology of Hindi

Tuncrypt, I object to your revision of the etymology of Hindi for two reasons.

1. If you are going to discuss the morphology of the term "Hindi", it should be done accurately and completely.
2. The phrase Hindi translates as Indian" is misleading. "Hindi" does not 'translate' simply as "Indian". If we're going to split hairs, then the Persian term "Hind" and its adjectival derivative "Hindi" refer specifically to the region around the Indus River.

I'm not going to revert your changes back to mine, yet, because we'll probably just end up going in circles. Let's figure out a way to resolve this.

Sarayuparin 06:00, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Hind is a Persian corruption of Sindh, which it did originally refer to, but it later took to mean northern India, and then even later on, all of India. With Hind meaning India, Hindi means Indian. I can give two references: page 1071 of the Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary (RS McGregor) and somewhere in the explanatory beginning pages of Teach Yourself Hindi Dictionary (Rupert Snell).

I can understand that an Indian would be perplexed, opposed to this. India is a vast country, a conglomeration of provinces that could just as well be nations on their own. There are many languages, much diversity, and to say Hindi is the "Indian" language is an insult to that. And even what's more, as we known, is that in modern usage, Hindi taken to mean Indian is obsolete; instead we have hindustani and bharatiya (though the arabs and possibly the persians still use it that way).

However this does not change historical and etymological fact. It does to change the fact that muslim conquerors, upon observing this northern-central language (or dialect continuum) which was widely spoken and in whose region they would build their empires, named it "Indian". Hindi means Indian. Tuncrypt 13:12, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Muhammad Iqbal

With respect, why is the Hindi irrelevant for an Indian Muslim poet? savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 22:18, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

he didn't speak it, he didn't write it, he had nothing to do with it. Tuncrypt 01:59, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Please do not make personal attacks or incivil remarks through edit summaries. Your recent conduct on Muhammad Iqbal violates WP:NPA, WP:CIVIL, WP:POINT and is close to violating WP:3RR. Rama's arrow 13:09, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Ankur (film): Dakhani or Deccani?

Hi, Tuncrypt! Thank you for being one of the few Wikipedians willing to edit Ankur (film) (!). I just wanted to settle on a final decision regarding the spelling of Dakhani/Deccani.

I originally changed "Deccani" back to "Dakhani" because "Dakhani" is the term used in the rest of the article. I think it's best to keep one spelling throughout the article. So, I would recommend either changing it back to "Dakhani" or (perhaps) listing the language as "Dakhani/Deccani" (or something like that).

Otherwise, if you want, you can change all instances of "Dakhani" in the article to "Deccani." Just make sure to keep the links intact, as you did in your last edit. And finally, if you would be so kind: please leave a reply on my talk page. Thank you so much! --Kuaichik 08:14, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I think I'll change it back to "Dakhani" until I get your reply. --Kuaichik 01:58, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Lal_Krishna_Advani

Hello dear, i think he was born in Hyderabad not in Karachi.but i am looking for source ,as soon as i find it i will write it,and i have written his name in Sindhi that is written (in Perso-Arabic script). Khalidkhoso 21:11, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Children of Men edits

Please discuss your edits in the talk area before making them, especially when what you remove is cited information. Judging from your user page, sanskrit might be familiar territory for you. Allow me to ask a question: does the word "shantih" mean the same thing in every variation/branch of sanskrit? In Hindi, it means peace. If so, then perhaps it bears mentioning. If not, then perhaps the statement in the article should maybe stay the same. The edit you made purged the referential material connecting TS Eliot's epic poem, The Wasteland and the use of the same word at the end of CoM.Arcayne 05:58, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Shanti means peace in Hindi. In Gujarati. In Bengali. In Malayalam. In Punjabi. In Marathi... etc etc... probably even in Indonesian and Malaysian too. Now do you understand why I label it a Sanskrit word? Because it is!

Also, I took out the bit about The Wasteland because, who cares? That's just one of the million times it has been used. Though I can understand if someone says that it's the first and most notable usage of it in English writing. So, telling you this, it's up to you whether to remove it or not. Tuncrypt 14:06, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, it's good to know tht little bit of info, which is why I altered the statement to refer to its Sanskit origins, and not just Hindi. As for the Wasteland citations, I think that referring them to discussion before purging seems a reasonable suggestion, if for no other reason than someone took the time to search out the citations. And while you may - with your familiarity of its presence in other Sanskrit-based languages - used to seeing the word Shantih in books, including TS Eliot's poetry, not a great many westerners are. The comparisons between Wastelands and CoM and the presence at the end of each work with the prayer for peace seem relevent to me.Arcayne 20:37, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Summaries

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Population figures in lakhs

Hello. I noticed that you removed the population figure in lakhs two times from the Ahmedabad article. Lakh is the most popular and accepted figure in India. India does not adopt a million and billion system, but instead uses lakhs and crores. See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_cities#Basic_India_conventions. - Aksi_great (talk) 11:14, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

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ok baby Tuncrypt 16:49, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Summaries

Please avoid using abusive edit summaries as per Wikipedia:Civility and Wikipedia:No personal attacks. Thank you. --Mel Etitis (Talk) 13:32, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

yo chill i'm not abusing anybody Tuncrypt 18:35, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

The handful of edit summaries that you've given so far have all benn unhelpful at best, and on "dun like da injun inglish grammah" is, to the extent that it can be understood, uncivil. --Mel Etitis (Talk) 22:09, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Sheikhan

Turncrypt please do not revert the Gurmukhi sections from this page , would really appreciate your cooperation . Cheers Intothefire 13:40, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Gujarati people

The edits were not explained — but as you yourself consistently refuse to do other editors the courtesy of explaining your edits in summaries, as requested by Wikipedia guidelines, I understand why you don't understand that point. I also suggest that you read WP:CITE; if the line is true, then the anon editor should have no difficulty providing a source. Or, if you feel so strongly about it, perhaps you could find one? --Mel Etitis (Talk) 10:20, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

"this banner has been on long enough that it doesn't apply" -is that not an explanation? The "rewrite" banner has been there for many months now such that saying it "recently underwent a major revision or rewrite" doesn't apply anymore, in which case it is to be removed. "this should be at the top of the page" -the "unsourced" banner was moved to the top of the page, where it is always found everywhere else in Wikipedia. What more goddamn explanation do you need? As for the added line being unsourced, that is not grounds for removal in this case, because the whole article unsourced. With that logic you should remove everything from the entire page. At this point, anything worth being added can be added, with the benefit of the "unsourced" disclaimer being there, warning potential readers that what is there could be false, but that work is being done on that regardless. Tuncrypt 15:57, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

First, I suggest that you read WP:CIVIL and moderate your tone. Secondly, the article still needs review (badly), so the template is still relevant. Secondly, the {{unreferenced}} template page states: "There is currently no consensus about where to place this template; most suggest either the bottom of the article page (in an empty 'References' section), or on the article's talk page." Thirdly, I am not responsible for checking everything that was in the article before I came across it; saying that, because other parts of the article are unsourced, you can add anything you like, is not acceptable. --Mel Etitis (Talk) 17:08, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Summaries (again)

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Stop bothering me with this. I put summaries when needed, otherwise the edits are self-explanatory. Tuncrypt 20:48, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Edits are only "self-explanatory" when they're looked at; the edit summary is to let people know what you've been doing without having to go to the diff. That's part of the reason that they're requested for all edits — as a courtesy to other editors. Don't be surprised if your edits are reverted more often than those of people who do have the courtesy to use summaries. --Mel Etitis (Talk) 21:36, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

While you do have a point, I fail to take you seriously, when for the four times you've repeated this to me, you have not at all told me where and when I did not provide a summary, and what kind of summary I should have provided; when the page on which I made the so-called violations is one you lord over with no knowledge of the subject matter, to which you have made no contribution, doing nothing but reverting literally every single edit made to it. It seems quite clear from this that your upholding of the need for edit summaries stems not from the "spirit" of it, where summaries are made for a purpose (and similarly not made when there would be no purpose), but from an incessant following of a rule because it's a rule, because of the "letter" of it, to whose adherence by others you simply expect unto yourself (despite, by the lack of your qualifications in the case of "Gujarati people", it really making no difference to you).

So you saying, "the edit summary is to let people know what you've been doing without having to go to the diff. [...] Don't be surprised if your edits are reverted more often than those of people who do have the courtesy to use summaries" is really quite disingenuous. It should read, "The edit summary is something I want you to make. [...] Don't be surprised if I revert your edits more often than those of people who do make summaries." Tuncrypt 20:12, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia guidelines ask you to use the edit summary; the template that I used is a standard one, not created by me. The same applies to policies and guidelines such as WP:CITE and WP:CIVIL. Your behaviour here is poor, you response to advice and criticism particularly so. If you can't or won't understand what it is to edit here, with other people rather than pitted against them, you'll find it an unpleasant and frustrating experience. If you're prepared to learn, and to edit reasonably and responsibly, in line with our policies and guidelines, then you'll find it rewarding and enjoyable. It's entirely up to you, of course. --Mel Etitis (Talk) 22:05, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Reference

I edited it as I did because it was very unclear. Do I take it that "Gujarati" is the name of the entry? If so, it needs to be in inverted commas. The page number should be marked as such using "p." (I see that you had "pp", which means "pages".) --Mel Etitis (Talk) 21:40, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

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Hindi version

Please read the talk page. I failed to find any thing about adopting it in the "Hindi version" in the transcript of the constituent assembly (the actual source). Thanks. --Ragib 20:33, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia's no personal attacks policy. Comment on content, not on contributors; personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Note that continued personal attacks may lead to blocks for disruption. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. --Ragib 05:55, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Regarding your "Idiot" slur, don't stoop so low. Your arguments, references are a lot better answer than choice of slangs, as you have made in your comments and edit summaries. Please be civil. Thank you. --Ragib 05:56, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

May 2007

Please do not attack other editors, which you did here: Talk:Jana Gana Mana. If you continue, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Gnanapiti 05:58, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Language of Azad Hind and correct script

Please see this link that shows some propaganda posters released by Azad hind govt. These are in Hindi and Bengali (based on devnagari) scripts. Where Hindi letters are used, the language is still hindustani, which means you're just as right putting the Urdu script there, as anybody else is in outting the Devnagari. The point is both can be justifiably claimed to be appropriate, but also that a person who can't read urdu script can still pick it up from the Hindi script, and appreciate the link. Hope you see my point. Please discuss before reverting.130.209.6.40 23:04, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Your last edit on Hindi

I totally support your last edit on the Hindi article. You're not the only one to have noticed it sucked, but this article is such a mess that it'd need a complete rewriting, which is a bit discouraging. BernardM 07:59, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

You will be blocked

This is your last warning.
The next time you delete Punjab Government cited and sourced additions Punjabi culture in Punjab (India) you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. STOP VANDALISING AND DELETING CITING SOURCES on the article IS AGAINST wikipedia's laws and rules. YOU WILL BE BLOCKED !!!!!!!!!!! IF YOU DELETE AND VANADALISE AGAIN, A ADMINISTRATOR WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU!! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Indian50 (talk • contribs) 01:13, 16 May 2007 (UTC).

Re:Indian50

Hi - there are 2 courses you can pursue - (1) open a content RfC where others can weigh in on the disputed content. (2) if problems with user:Indian50 aggravate, you can report him at ANI. Admins can't use their powers to "resolve" any dispute, that's gotta happen with a consensus of users. Rama's arrow (just a sexy boy) 01:38, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

I blocked the anon for 48 hours (I've also requested a check to confirm if Indian50 is socking), and yeah I basically agree with you. Rama's arrow (just a sexy boy) 02:04, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

And dude, please do not revert so often - I'm pretty sure I could block you for 48 hours on WP:3RR, but I'm not going to.... Don't go out on limb over such problems. Rama's arrow (just a sexy boy) 02:15, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Tuncrypt - you have violated WP:3RR on Gujarati grammar. As you say that you are not editing that article further, I will not block you but do NOT engage in revert-warring anywhere. Rama's arrow (just a sexy boy) 02:24, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Gujaratis picture

Well I chose him purposely because Parsis are considered Gujarati, since there isn't an orthodox ethnocentrist view on it...but I guess I could put someone else

Link

Ambiguous links are unhelpful to readers of the encyclopedia. The discussion at the top of this page explains why. Does aṅgrej(ī) mean all the things listed at English? If not, then that is not an appropriate link either, and leaving the word unlinked is the best option. Words don't have to be linked just because they can. --Tkynerd 21:25, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Why

Hi Tuncrypt, why you removed punjabi spellings of V. K. Savarkar, please...?

Jon Ascton

lol, he was not punjabi Tuncrypt 15:10, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

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Gujarati and Devanagari articles

Hello. I'm very interested in your contributions to Indian languages articles. I'm French and participate mainly to French Wikipedia but I also daily look at interesting articles of English Wikipedia. Though being myself not even an NRI, I can speak Hindi fluently - it's actually the only language I speak at home - and a little Gujarati. I'm especially interested in Gujarati culture. I'm curious about your own profile. You've written on your user page that you're of Indian ancestry but your only mother language is English and what you write in articles sounds very academic. So how are you learning these languages at University? Maybe in order to learn your family's culture?

I think we can lead Gujarati to FA status. There's a lot of remaining work but your excellent contribution has made it sound absolutely possible. Actually I want to wait a little to let you complete the article the way you want and then debate what have to be improved. I think it's more efficient to help the English article to become a FA and once done translate it into French. I've seen that you're now also involved in Devanagari. I'm self working on the French article for 2 or 3 weeks. But it's difficult to me because I lack reliable sources about its history and my knowledge is very Hindi centered. However you may be interested in looking at my article. I think there are nice tables, material from commons and references in it. BernardM 20:34, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi Bernard. Thank you for your interest in and appreciation of my edits. First I'll tell you those things about myself which you have touched upon in your first paragraph. I'm 21, living near Toronto, and of Indian (Gujarati) descent. My parents immigrated from Ahmadabad and I was born here. You refer to the language boxes on my user page, and how they say my first language is English; well that may be a bit misleading in which case I will clear it up for you. Both English and Gujarati are my first languages, in different ways. My parents speak Gujarati at home, so that was the first language I spoke as an infant. Then naturally, starting school, I started speaking English. So rather it was my ability in Gujarati that was the basis of my choice of "gu-2", not how much it is a "mother" or "first" language to me. Like all 1st-generation immigrants, basically the one single situation I speak in Gujarati in an otherwise English-speaking existence is with my parents. Functionally my first language, the language I think in, is of course English, and with Gujarati I hadn't been proficient beyond that of what is required for the interaction between parent and child. However I must say that over the past year or so I have made the effort to speak more Gujarati at home, and have learned much of the higher vocabulary, so I could upgrade myself to "gu-3" or "gu-4", being now pretty good at it. Also, I know its grammar very well, having studied it during that time.

So yeah, since I first started editing in middle or late 2006 the early core of the Gujarati page has been my knowledge, things that I knew myself. To give this an academic basis and to add more I went to the library and made photocopies to keep at home of this book's Gujarati article and all other Indo-Aryan language articles. After reading that, I was lead to a few other Gujarati articles (such as that phonology one, with them being mainly written by one "Mistry"), and eventually I went and bought this (expensive!). Thus I have the powerful and adequate tools and resources to make innumerable core contributions to the Indo-Aryan language portion of Wikipedia.

Certainly I am quite proud of my building of the Gujarati language pages, and I hope to eventually have them featured. In my estimation there is still a great deal able to be added before presentation, though the consensus of others will of course come into play on its rating.

I've read your devanagari article and it's quite good, in most ways better than the English article, those ways being: references, diacritics, anusvara, compounds, extra characters, no distracting phonology-related stuff, etc. For Hindi-centrism I guess I can suggest you to follow the edits I've made and will be making on the English article. In doing so you might have to lose stuff, such as those "approximate" or "example" words, as well as those recording files. Tuncrypt 02:01, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your long answer. I'm impressed by your study of Indian languages. I've studied them alone as well but I don't have as academic knowledge as you have. How did you learn Hindi? I know families such as yours in France - ie. Gujarati parents who migrated as adults and had children after their coming - but in their case parents can speak Gujarati and Hindi (barely French) while their (little) children speak only Gujarati and French (of course none of them can speak English). About six months ago in Navsari I myself married a Gujarati girl who almost never went further than Surat before marrying me and is only able to speak Gujarati and Hindi for the moment. Hence my speaking Hindi at home and my interest in Gujarati. I had started learning Gujarati seriously but had to stop.

How good is Masica's book? I've bought Writing Systems - An introduction to their linguistic analysis from the same collection. There are some mistakes about Devanagari script but overall it's very good. I also have learning books in French and English (Snell) for Hindi, learning books in English (Dwyer) and Hindi for Gujarati, a Hindi grammar in French, and Hindi and Gujarati dictionaries in both French and English.

For Devanagari articles, knowledge about Sanskrit is of course required. But I think Marathi is as well mandatory. And who knows what can happen in Rajasthani, Sindhi, or Bihari languages? For instance I've seen that Sindhi does use ञ directly followed by a vowel! So we must be careful about phrasing in this article. I'll add further comments to respective articles discussions pages. BernardM 15:32, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

I learned Hindi last year through Snell's TY Hindi book. Masica's book is good, though I haven't actually read through it. Instead I use the index and flip and scan through the pages to get the info I need. It is for other academics and thus very technical so I don't understand everything. Tuncrypt 19:39, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

saurashtra language

I hope you saw the article linked by me from ahmedabad page. The link is correct but the article is not. I found the article hilarious but strangely it does talk about the kathiawadi dialect. Read the history part of the article. The article needs to be corrected. I know you laughed(I did too) after seeing the article but funny as it is the article needs to be corrected. Regards Kaushal mehta 15:43, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

And just why do you think the article needs to be corrected? Because it's something you've never heard about? Saurashtra language is an actual language, spoken in the South, having been split off from the north. Not a laughing matter. Tuncrypt 17:42, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Image:Tisdall148.PNG

Hello. Could you please import Image:Tisdall148.PNG on commons: and tell get it deleted from en:? BernardM 21:23, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

you do it Tuncrypt 00:34, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

IAST for Mumbai

Can you please take a look at the query here ? Thanks. Abecedare 22:53, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		Your valuable addition of scripts deserve this KH 14:36, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

hindi transliteration for Irfan habib

Why do you want to take away hindi transliteration for his name? ~atif ^{msg me} - 02:21, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Why do you want to have it? I asked you first in the edit summary, plus you're adding something so the onus of explanation is moreso on you. Answer and then I'll reply. Tuncrypt 17:32, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

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IAST code of Mumbai is Muṃbaī Marathi devangari script is NOT like hindi or nepali scripts. There are many differences and variation.In Marathi Mumbai is written as मुंबई (mum-ba-ee) and not मुम्बई. (Stateofart 11:02, 2 October 2007 (UTC))

मुंबई is Marathi name and the translation/code/whatever u choose to call that of that should be Muṃbaī. Cant explain u furthur. The code used shud be in accordance in Marathi and not Hindi which was before. (Stateofart 12:31, 5 October 2007 (UTC))

Mumbaī IS in accordance with Marathi. Do you know anything about anything? Why are you even editing? Tuncrypt 23:04, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

I dont need your permit to edit anything. And dont assume others have nothing to do except learning the odd codes and feel proud of it. I was insisting the all sort of codes/translations be according to Marathi and hence changing it after this. (Stateofart 09:21, 6 October 2007 (UTC))

The problem with you is that you keeping making these edits without explaining yourself, without displaying any understanding of the discussion already made, and with everything you say making very little sense.

On the discussion board we already ended at a consensus that Mumbaī is the right transliteration. Both Mumbaī and Muṃbaī are correct, but we felt that the first is more appropriate. You keep making edits saying, "should match native Marathi". Well, it already does. That was never an issue. Tuncrypt 15:52, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

List of murders

The whole "List of murders" is very triviacruft and unencyclopedic. If it can't be integrated into the main article then it probably isn't notable. If you want, I'll bring it up to an admin noticeboard, but they'll probably decide against it as they have done in the past numerous times.--CyberGhostface 13:13, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

You're probably right, but I guess it just seemed like adequately useful information. Is it really any different from List of deaths in The Sopranos series? Tuncrypt 07:48, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Good articles on fr:

Hello. These last weeks I got the French articles of Devanagari and Gujarati script voted (it works that way on fr:) GA. If you're interested you can go there to pick up pictures or ideas. I can translate parts into English if you need it. BernardM 18:03, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Hey that's great. Your work inspired me to do some of my own. Check out my edits. Tuncrypt 07:38, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

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Re:Deobandi

Hey, I noticed your edit on the Deobandi article. Initially it just looked like some guy getting happy go lucky with deletions, but I can see that you actually felt it necessary. I just didn't see a reason to remove the Hindi version of the word, after all it is a group based in India. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt though, i'd be interested in hearing why it should be removed. MezzoMezzo 05:01, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

I removed Hindi because it seems to have nothing to do with Deobandi. The principle of "I just didn't see a reason to remove the Hindi version of the word, after all it is a group based in India." is a false principle. Tuncrypt 15:43, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

hindi-urdu phonology

thanks for your edits to the hindi-urdu phonology article.

would you have any suggestions for hindi-urdu words with retroflex consonants that english speakers might be familiar with, to use as examples in the Help:IPA key? I found thug for ʈ and Varuna for ɳ, but we're missing ɖ and ɽ. kwami 02:13, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

P.S. You wouldn't happen to use Firefox, would you? I can't get Indic font rendering to work, despite having installed all language support, and having it render properly in the edit window. kwami 02:27, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

I use Firefox, though I don't know much about fonts and language support. Sorry, lol. As for my edits, I appreciate you noticing them. Expect to find the phonology page and other Hindi pages heavily trimmed down and modified to something much more refined and professional. The architect of those pages, User:Magicalsaumy though praiseworthy for his efforts, was seriously lacking in certain sensibilities. Lastly, I can suggest sari for ɽ. Tuncrypt 02:38, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for sari. I thought it worth moving the phonology to its own article, if only to reduce redundancy and conflicting information, but didn't have the knowledge to do more than a hack job at editing it. kwami 08:36, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

You removed the English pronunciation of Jammu and Kashmir with the comment "english? are you kidding me?". I don't get it. kwami (talk) 05:19, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

I don't get it either. Why an English pronunciation? (for a non-English thing?) Tuncrypt (talk) 15:59, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Bombay has an English pronunciation, and it's not an English thing. English speakers say it all the time. 'Jammu' I'm not so sure about, but 'Kashmir' is also used quite often when speaking in English. In news reports, we don't see Kashmir in italics to show it's an un-assimilated foreign word. Isn't New York spelled out in Nagari in Indian newspapers, even though it's not an Indian thing? kwami (talk) 21:29, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

No, you are confusing two things. What I mean is, why an English pronunciation file? Pronunciation files aid in original pronunciations, and Jammu and Kashmir is not a thing of English(-language) origins. Tuncrypt (talk) 21:40, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

I agree there. kwami (talk) 23:17, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Sonia Gandhi

[2] Why is this unnecessary? Nishkid64 (talk) 20:40, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Why not explain the necessity of there being a Hindi transcription first? I'll gladly rebut it. Tuncrypt (talk) 20:43, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm not getting into arguments. I'm simply asking for your reasoning. You left an ambiguous edit summary. Nishkid64 (talk) 20:49, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Okay. My reasoning: She lacks any strong enough connection to the Hindi language to warrant a transcription of her name into it. First of all, she is of Italian origin and in that sense not foundationally connected to Hindi-speaking Uttar Pradesh, unlike her relatives Jawaharlal, Indira, Rajiv, etc. who are of Kashmiri Brahmin stock which migrated to UP some 300 years ago. Second, we can simply notice that her first name Sonia is of Italian source, and that having said that, her last name by marriage is but of Gujarati source in addition. This contrasts with her children Rahul and Priyanka, whose first names are conventionally north Indian and would warrant a Hindi transcription. Tuncrypt (talk) 21:05, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

I've left the IPA, I think that should stay for the benefit of English-speaking readers. The Hindi, I'm ambivalent about - on the one hand I see your point, on the other hand it could be considered to be sending the same message BJP etc try to send out, that she isn't Indian enough :) Your thoughts welcomed. Cheers, ~ Riana ⁂ 04:17, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

I think it's something warranting further discussion with other editors. Please leave your comments at Talk:Sonia Gandhi. Thanks, Nishkid64 (talk) 04:21, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Hindustani h

Hey,

Everything I've read about Hindi and Urdu says that h is murmured [ɦ], though often it's written /h/ for simplicity, rather like English /r/ for [ɹ]. The exception is the visarga, which is [h]. kwami (talk) 20:12, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

'Kay, restoring it. kwami (talk) 08:20, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Official language of Azad Hind

Hello Turncrypt. It looks like we're getting into an impasse with the official name and language of Azad Hind. I can assure you the official language was Hindustani in Romanic script, and the name itself was adopted by Bose to precisely avoid the problems of Hinduness (Hindi or other Sanskrit derived languages) and Muslimness (Urdu). I dont know enough about language to tell you what's izfarat, but I have defeintely read enough about Azad Hind to know unequivocally that the language is Hindustani, not Urdu, not Hindi. If feel so strongly about this, I would recommend calling an RfC, since I felt your edits were not helping. Hope this helps.RegardsRueben lys (talk) 20:51, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Hindi

Maybe I should keep this on the talk page, but it's rather specific. Feel free to move it there if you like. I'm confused by this undo. Your edit summary only says "check reference". But checking the reference given (McGegor) it doesn't speak to the point the {{fact}} tag was on. Can you explain what you were getting at? - Taxman ^Talk 19:51, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

The entry (third down, right column) says "chiefly obs.", as in "chiefly obsolete". Tuncrypt (talk) 19:54, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Ah, I didn't even notice the second entry. He doesn't do that very often. - Taxman ^Talk 20:08, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Nowadays Hindī as taken to mean "Indian" is chiefly obsolete.. I've marked again... can you please quote the reference inline? Thanks Mugunth^{(ping me!!!,contribs)} 01:56, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Understood.. Sorry... Reverted my change back... Mugunth^{(ping me!!!,contribs)} 01:59, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Bhagat Singh GA sweep (on hold)

I have reassessed this article as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force. We are currently revisiting all listed Good articles in an effort to ensure that they continue to meet the Good article criteria.

In reviewing the article, I came across some issues that may need to be addressed; I have left a detailed summary on the article's talk page. As a result I have put Bhagat Singh's GA status on hold. This will remain in place for a week or so before a final decision is taken as to the article's status.

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I'm back

LOOK AT THIS:

Only recently, Rama's Arrow blocked Indian50 (talk · contribs) for an expiry time of 1 WEEK, for sockpuppetry. This user was NOT BLOCKED at the time he resorted to abusive sockpuppetry through an anon-IP address. Rama's Arrow blocked him for 1 week and later changed the duration to 2 weeks for harrassment. There is nothing, in the edits of the IP address or the user's edits that can be called harrassment. The user had introduced a template in the text, that's all. Ironically, Tuncrypt who violated 3RR on the article was not blocked – [325]. The anon was blocked before confirmation that it was indeed Indian50 socking – [326] – for vandalism on Gujarati grammar. There is no vandalism whatsoever in it's edits – [327].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Hkelkar_2/Evidence#Block_of_Indian50

YOUR LITTLE FRIEND HAS BEEN KICKED OFF WIKIPEDIA. YOU WANT TO TROUBLE WITH ME ANYTIME & ANYPLACE. I WILL LOOK AT and start editing soon on Gujarati grammar soon.--Indian50 (talk) 16:10, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Question

Just a quick question is your ISP Bell Canada located in Toronto. Actually, don't worry about it, I have all the resources available to verify & task for what is required.--Indian50 (talk) 18:29, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Re:Hindustani language template

1) The name "Hindustani" lacks popular currency and is defunct in this regard.

People might be unaware of the term, but that does not mean that it is not used. It is used by 1. Linguists 2. Bengalis since a long time. The people that are unaware of the term are the people who lie in the Hindi speaking states, and that is because the term has been shadowed by the term Hindi. Till 1951, it was popular even in India. If you have any problems with the title, which goes as "Topics related to the Hindustani language", then you can change it to "Topics related to Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) language", just like the way the grammar and other pages are titled.
2) The name lacks linguistic/academic currency on a scale the existence of such a template would purport. "Hindi", "Urdu", and "Hindi-Urdu" are what linguist use as descriptive names.

Linguists at least use the term Hindi-Urdu, if not Hindustani. Now I agree that I am not sure which one is more popular, Hindustani or Hindi-Urdu. If at all you need to compare the usage of terms between Hindi and Urdu, then it would be probably Hindi because India is more dominant than Pakistan and India supports Hindi more. However linguists who prefer neutrality(something which is I guess one of the policies on Wiki) generally use the term Hindi-Urdu. As I said, if you have problem with the term 'Hindustani' then you can just add 'Hindi-Urdu' in the title in brackets, as has been done for other pages.

Furthermore, with regards to the definition of "Hindustani", discussion on it takes the form of an aside, with that of it as a facet of, a shared colloquial basis in between, the Hindi and Urdu that are being described, and not the other way around. Hindi and Urdu are not subsumed under the rubric of Hindustani.

This is something which I will strongly disagree on. At least I beg to differ on the phrase colloquial basis. It is not a colloquial basis, it is a linguistic basis and is therefore more hypothetical. People who call their mother tongues 'Hindi' or those who call 'Urdu' have no term for the 'dialect'(or whatever you call it) in which they are speaking and yet understanding each other in spite of the fact that asked otherwise they would describe their speech under two terms 'Hindi' and 'Urdu'. It is certainly not a 'facet' of Hindi and Urdu, it is the 'basis'(to strictly say, linguistic basis) of both.

Such a practice becomes only so much more inaccurate considering the extreme breadth accorded now to the term "Hindi", subsuming vast tracts of non-Khari Boli dialects and literary languages under it.

How does it become inaccurate? I am not considering non-khariboli dialects under the term 'Hindustani', not at all. Please see each of the links in the navigation box, not one deals with a non-khariboli dialect.

Finally, having already made my point either way, it still remains pertinent to point out the ridiculousness of categorizing Hindi and Urdu literature together, which is what the template does.

First of all, I have not categorised Hindi and Urdu literature together- the section 'literature' has two bullets, one for Hindi and one for Urdu.

Secondly, there are several writers for whom categorising them either as 'Hindi' or 'Urdu' literatteurs would be silly, one the best examples that comes to my mind is Munshi Premchand. Therefore, if you believe that Hindi and Urdu liteature titles should be thrown apart from each other then I would beg to disagree. They should be separately titled, but still near each other.

Lastly, the template was on my home page for at least 4-5 months, and nobody replied until Anupam asked me to start using it. You can see that message on my talk page if you want to.

However positing a unity of literatures shows an utter lack of understanding of the fundamentals concerning that which Hindi and Urdu are and are not.

If under the title 'registers' I can give two bullets 'Hindi' and 'Urdu' then surely under the title 'literature' I can give two bullets 'Hindi literature' and 'Urdu literature'. What is more diverging in the literature part than that in the register part?

In summary, "Hindustani" is not a language but a term sometimes used in discussions of Hindi and Urdu– two things that, whatever their complexities and complications, are above all real, are accorded primacy in both popular and academic usage, and thereby are to be accorded primacy as such on Wikipedia.

They are real in the sense that they are different entities, not an inch more than that. I can think of another title for the box: 'Topics related to the Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) diasystem'. Is that alright with you?

Your self-definition as an "enthusiastic novice" quite clearly shows, but luckily someone noticed. Your template should be deleted, and I am to be going about reverting all your additions of it

I presume you are an administrator. With this attitude you are only going to do harm to wikipedia. I am not a novice in the understanding of the subject, I am just a novice on Wikipedia and how things go about here. For an year, I was just trying to find out how things work- i.e. who 'sees' all changes on a particular page and so on. Unfortunately nobody has ever helped me out, even though I posted on several places about it(talk pages, as I was reluctant to edit article pages without understanding how things work). If you are going to have this kind of an attitude then people will only become disgusted and leave wikipedia. Either tell us how to contribute or let us do so and defend it later on. You don't listen to us when we post about what we want to contribute yet have a problem when we do it and at the same time want users to be "bold" as you people have written out on the wikipedia policies.

Please shed your attitude as someone with authority and talk to me as if I were your friend whom you want to help out. Maquahuitl (talk) 07:35, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Nothing you've said really rebuts my points. Most of it veers off into the inconsequential and incomprehensibly nonsensical anyway. So again, as a self-declaratory linguistic identity "Hindustani" is defunct, and as scholarly terminology it is a useful term, within the context of things bigger, gaining a sentence or two in entire articles about Hindi or Urdu. On Wikipedia in general much of what is attributed to Hindustani, and how it's defined, is incorrect, and I intend to tackle that someday. Keeping this in mind, I'm not trying to single you out or anything — Your template just happened to come to my immediate attention just recently with your additions of it, and I'm addressing it now. Tuncrypt (talk) 08:19, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

I like the Hindustani template. You might want to call it something else, but it's very handy to have all the Standard Hindi and Urdu stuff together. You might want to call it something else, but if we don't restrict ourselves to Standard Hindi, we should add other Hindi languages as well. kwami (talk) 23:12, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Please reply on my talk page

Please reply to my posts, anywhere, on my talk page and not at those particular places itself. Thanks. Maquahuitl (talk) 20:20, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Huh? Tuncrypt (talk) 20:22, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Re:Re: Taskforce

and it looks like that here that Britannica is using the first listed definition, that of Hindustani = Khari Boli
To me it seems that Britannica cannot be taken to be an oracle in this matter. The issue is complex, and we must consult several sources.

Do you personally find any difference in the interpretation of the terms khadiboli and Hindustani?

For example, it seems that Britannica and the dictionary don't distinguish between Hindi as a composite of dialects and Modern Standard Hindi, as standardized register of one dialect, Khari Boli. In terms of separate pages, Wikipedia doesn't either, describing both in a single Hindi page.

Wikipedia has a separate page titled Hindi languages

The fact that Urdu and (Modern Standard) Hindi are registers of "Hindustani" (when defined as =Khari Boli) doesn't support a "Topic related to Hindustani language" template.

I am sorry for the title, and I've changed it to "Topics related to Hindustani(Hindi-Urdu) diasystem" now. However I still don't find a reason why Hindi and Urdu should necessarily have two different navigation boxes. Half of the links in the two boxes would be common, and few links like Hindi-Urdu controversy can best be put under a neutral title. Even after having said all that, I can't say that having two navigation boxes would be wrong in any way, because this is a complex issue and whatever we say shall mostly be opinion based on personal observations and even readings. Thanks. Maquahuitl (talk) 21:25, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: Map

Hi, thanks for the feedback and suggestions! And big thanks for the link to the map.

This may sound sort of pathetic, but I used the descriptions I found in Wikipedia articles as the main source for my map. I did try to find a map of the areas themselves where Hindi and its dialects are spoken, but ultimately to no avail (so, the map you provided will definitely come in handy!).

I haven't blanked out Nepal per se, I only colored those Indian states where Hindi is an official language. As for Urdu, I never knew it lacked a definite territorial base. I've always thought that it's only spoken in Pakistan (and among expat Pakistanis, of course), and not in India. I'll be sure to get rid of it in the new map.

For now, I'm going to comment out the current map from the article, until I get the new one up. I'm not completely sure whether or not I'll make a second map for the Indo-Aryan languages in general (doesn't Wikipedia have a good map on it already?), but I'll revise the current map in the near future (=late January—late February). I'm busy IRL right now, with some exams coming up, so I don't have the time. --ざくら木 16:04, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Assamese

Hi Tuncrypt! I see you've made lots of changes to the Assamese language page. I understand these edits were made in good faith, but I reverted them for reasons I left on the talk page. Maybe we can discuss this before making the necessary changes. Thanks! --SameerKhan (talk) 20:33, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Response

And also another thing I have to add is that Sameer, you are an extremely likable user, but you are also funny. Why do you have to say "recent" or "several edits"— why don't you just call me out? Not just here but here too. I might've not checked that page for months. And lastly why "consult other Wikipedians who have been working on this article"? It's just us! This is a highly inactive page, and all possible others look to be non-experts anyway. Tuncrypt (talk) 21:52, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi Tuncrypt. Yes, I just said "recent edits", but it wasn't meant to be rude... or "funny". I thought it would be ruder to say "Tuncrypt made such-and-such edits and I'm reverting them." That's why I immediately messaged you on your talk page, so you knew that I had made the reversion. With the Gujarati page, I'm sorry. I really didn't mean for that to be sneaky or anything. I just had a question and left it there; I didn't think to ask you directly, and as I'm no expert in Gujarati, I didn't make any changes to the article itself. Anyhow, the Assamese language page used to have more edits, but you're right, recently it's been mostly you and me. But still, there are other Wikipedians that helped write this article who are probably busy right now with Assamese Wikipedia, but I can ask them to help us out with this. Anyhow, I don't think we should be having a personal discussion on this page, so I'm moving this to your page. --SameerKhan (talk) 22:46, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

lol don't worry, it's cool. Tuncrypt (talk) 23:02, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi Tuncrypt. I responded to your requests on the Assamese talk page. --SameerKhan (talk) 22:03, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Devanagari

Hi Tuncrypt,

I have a concern about the Devanagari article. In the table I just renamed "Ligatures with n as second element", the entire alphabet is combined with n. Is this just an artifice of Wikipedia? I assume that some of these combinations don't occur in any language written in nagari, for example all of the 'cha group' and 'Ta group', and probably some of the others. Someone is going to come along and try to memorize the entire chart in an effort to learn nagari. Would you mind deleting the ones we've just made up? Thanks, kwami (talk) 01:45, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm going to put a few back in that evidently occur in Sanskrit, in that the sanskrit2003 font has special forms for them. kwami (talk) 02:41, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Conjuncts

Hi Tuncrypt! Your "conjunct" section in the Gujarati script article inspired me to do something similar for the Eastern Nagari script. Just wanted to thank you for that! --SameerKhan (talk) 01:14, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

:) Tuncrypt (talk) 01:42, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Devanagari /pi/

Hi, I'm curious about your reason for removing my note about the way the /pi/ glyph will appear for some Wikipedia users. I inserted it because the apparent mistake in position caused *me* to edit the page, only to find later that it had been correct in the first place and had only appeared wrong in Firefox on my Windows 2000 office computer, whereas Firefox on Windows Vista and IE6 and IE7 on my home and office computers handled it correctly. I thought it was worth warning people that the way the glyph appears may be wrong so that (a) they won't come away with incorrect information and (b) they won't mistakenly edit it.

There is plenty of precedent on Wikipedia for warning users about issues with Asian character representations.

By the way, not that I know that much about Devanagari, but it looks like you've done a good job improving the article.

—Largo Plazo (talk) 15:53, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

i don't even know my own reasoning. i guess it was the assumption that such people would be in, sort of, an insignificant minority, though i have no real way of knowing or judging. put it back if you feel it necessary. Tuncrypt (talk) 16:03, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Hindi-Urdu grammar

Hi Tuncrypt, I saw that you recently undid one of my edits on that page; I changed vah and ve both to vo. The thing is, "vo" had been used above in the page instead of vah and ve since vah and ve are exclusively Hindi, while vo is both Urdu and spoken/sometimes literary Hindi. How do you think this inconsistency issue should be solved? By the way, great work on that page, I think it's amazing the amount of work you have done! Mar de Sin ^{Speak up!} 22:18, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

I knowingly put exclusively Hindi's vah/ve for the purpose of differentiation (as opposed to vo/vo). However the need to be neutral probably trumps this need anyway, so if you do feel strongly about it then feel free to revert; I won't oppose. Tuncrypt (talk) 00:57, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Nepali Language

Hey,

I noticed you removed a large portion of the article on Nepali having to do with grammar. Any particular reason? Qnonsense (talk) 18:53, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Huh? Can't you see why? Tuncrypt (talk) 19:16, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Hah, I'm an idiot. Sorry about that! Qnonsense (talk) 19:34, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

lol Tuncrypt (talk) 21:04, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

ANI

Hello, Tuncrypt. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Deletion of Hindi script from the page Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind by Tuncrypt regarding Repeated deletion of Hindi script, and reluctance to see opposing references and arguments. The discussion can be found under the topic Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind. -- rueben_lys (talk · contribs) 10:54, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Hindi-Urdu grammar

I regret to say that the rewriting you did on Hindi-Urdu grammar page has made it into a completely rotten article. It is poorly explained and even worse written. You undid all my efforts. Why did you do that? As soon as I get time I'll have to rewrite everything.Cygnus_hansa (talk) 15:00, 27 April 2008 (UTC)