User talk:Nichalp/Archive36

Inotes

Hey Nichalp, can you tell me something about inotes (ref: your review comment). deeptrivia (talk) 15:42, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

For the username change Whopper

Peer Review request

Nichalp:

I've noticed you make a fair number of comments on FA nominations; I was hoping perhaps you could take a look at Caroline Island and tell me what you notice can be improved as I help this article work its way up to FA status. Thanks! -- Seth Ilys 18:45, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments! As you can see, I'm continuing to work on the article. Your input is very much appreciated! -- Seth Ilys 00:43, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

svg graph

Thanks Nichalp, for your clear step by step instructions, which I could easily implement (see here.) deeptrivia (talk) 02:53, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Is this a copyvio? Asahi Top Eight Players. --Nearly Headless Nick 13:12, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Mundian To Bach Ke

Hi Nichalp, can you have a look at the above page? I had placed a prod tag on the page, as I dont know if a single song deserves its own article, especially if its not very well known. But I may be wrong about this one, as another editor has removed the tag. Wanted to know your view on this. -- Lost 13:20, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Found the answer. thanks. Looks like articles on songs are indeed accepted... -- Lost 13:40, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Maps

Those two maps are done (Image:Operationduck.svg, Image:Operationeasy.svg). Probably sometime later I'll convert all the maps on Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. deeptrivia (talk) 01:11, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Incidently, there's some problem with Image:Operationeasy.svg. As you resize the image, the text changes its relative position wrt other objects. What do you think is the problem. I had unflowed the text (in case this is related). deeptrivia (talk) 01:17, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

WP:FAHD

Since you were listed as a Participant in the WP:FAHD, I thought I ought to send you a message announcing that I'm reviving and changing FAHD for the better, and if you are interested, please respond. - A Link to the Past (talk) 02:09, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, it would mostly be a change in how we work. It would be less formal, allowing any user to join. The only formalities would be that we would check up on progress of others. We will also still have people posting articles for us to work on. - A Link to the Past (talk) 06:04, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Ganeshk's RFA

Hi Nicholas, Thanks so much for your support on my successful RFA! - Ganeshk (talk) 04:00, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Ladakh

Sure, Nichalp, I'll look into those issues tomorrow (time to sleep). Meanwhile, I'm afraid there's some kind of problem developing at Ladakh User:Bharatveer is accusing me of POV pushing. Could you take a look at his comments and consistent reverts? deeptrivia (talk) 05:47, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Chicago, Illinois

I recently placed the article up for peer review. I vaguely recalled that you objected to the article when it was previously put up for FAC. Hence, I was wondering if you don't mind looking at it and commenting on its current form. Thanks. Pentawing^Talk 02:10, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Aside from sports, what other sections need to be summarized? Thanks. Pentawing^Talk 16:00, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I copyedited the sections to make them less "listy." Can you look at them and leave a comment on the peer review listings? Thanks. Pentawing^Talk 16:52, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

HOW CAN U SAY INDIA EXISTED IN 1947 ONLY?

Your going by a technicality and your basicall insulting me because im Indian. India became Independant in 1947 yes....INDEPENDANT...that does not mean it didnt exist before....It was called INDIA by the Greeks....Hindustan by the Persians....Land of the Aryans in Veic times....These are not opinions these are facts....IM dying to see your response to this because I really dont think u have any idea how uneducated u are on this matter

If you want a response, please start by not making personal attacks on fellow editors. =Nichalp «Talk»= 06:14, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Precis writing

Yeah, I've done some such stuff at highschool, but haven't used my writing skills much since then .. you know how it is with engineering education. I'll keep condensing it petit à petit though. deeptrivia (talk) 12:01, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Venus

Re: this edit - I just tried my screen at all resolutions from 640x480 up to 1280x1024, and saw no conflict with the infobox at any of them. What resolution did you get conflicts at? I'd quite like to change it back, because IE6 produces a few ugly-looking inches of whitespace after Main article: geology of Venus on my 1280x0124 screen. Thanks - Worldtraveller 16:25, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you Nicholas

Dear Nichalp, thanks so much for your support during my recent successful request for adminship. I really appreciate it, especially from a veteran and a superstar like yourself. Please feel free to let me know if I'm doing something as an admin that you think I shouldn't be doing. Take care and see you around WP:PIN and WP:AN -- Samir धर्म 06:41, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

SVG Map problem

Hey Nichalp. I just finished making Image:Ladakh1.svg. It shows if you click to see the full resolution version, but doesn't show on the article, or even the image page. A problem similar to the India map problem we encountered before. Any solution to this yet? BTW, this is just a draft, so you'll see many font/etc. problems. deeptrivia (talk) 06:17, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I solved the problem. Thanks anyway. deeptrivia (talk) 06:41, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Sure Nichalp, that shouldn't be a problem at all. deeptrivia (talk) 15:30, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I extended the map in all directions based on other sources, and also changed minor things like colors a bit. Hope it's alright now. The new version is at Image:Ladakh2.svg (my mistake), so probably Image:Ladakh1.svg can be deleted. deeptrivia (talk) 04:34, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Take a look now. I've followed color schemes being discussed on the project, deleted a few labels, increased font sizes etc. Are all labels expected to be readable at the resolution used in an article? If yes, probably I can make another map for the article with only the most important things on it, and we can retain this map (maybe on commons), since a detailed map of such regions is quite useful to a lot of people. deeptrivia (talk) 06:26, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Hi,

Good to see your continuing contribution, you have quite a lot of commendations! I tnink among the few Indians active a couple of years ago, contributing and getting into discussions, you are the only one continuing? Seems like a long, long time ago. I might get back or not,most probably the latter! Yet I am reluctant to delete my user page:) You have mentioned a ping, don't know what it is:( KRS 11:20, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Sorry for the Mistake

Noted and sorry for the confusion!! --DennyCrane Talk 13:17, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Please take a look at Talk:Khatri

Could you please take a look at Talk:Khatri, even if you do not know much about the caste system...because it is utter chaos with personal attacks everywhere and User:Moderator3000 pretending to be an admin and using sockpuppets. Nobleeagle (Talk) 02:51, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your welcome!

Thanks for your message, Nicholas. I wonder if you are the same person who had got in touch with me originally for material on Indian Railways and IRFCA. RandomRodent 12:00, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

External links on Kashmir

Hey Nichalp. User:Wullar is a new user who added all those external links at Kashmir, and is now quite disappointed. See his comments on my talk page and on Talk:Kashmir. These are his very first edits to wikipedia. Could you talk to him? Thanks. deeptrivia (talk) 14:01, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Ladakh map - new version

Check out the new version of Image:Ladakh2.svg. I've changed some fontsizes and colours and other minor things. Now that I've spent so much time on this map, I might as well spend some more and raised it to FP standards. This, of course, would be made possible entirely by your comments ^_^. I'm sure if I take one map to FP standard, I'll learn a lot which I could use to make good quality maps in future. Regards, deeptrivia (talk) 18:38, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Kashmir Links

Thanks for the message.

I would prefer no external links at all on the Kashmir page. I had added the links in an organised manner as otherwise the Kashmiri Pandit sites dominated that also goes against the external links guideline, which says:

'On articles with multiple points of view, a link to prominent sites dedicated to each, with a detailed explanation of each link. The number of links dedicated to one point of view should not overwhelm the number dedicated to any other.'

That's what had happened to the Kashmir page, one opinion dominated than others.

I will strive my best to proper content to the Kashmir page (probably the early history for a start as the present material is incomplete). I may need your help to know where to add what. Don't want to goof up again.

Thanks!

Wullar 18:41, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Review request — Kochi

Hello! I've been working on the Kochi article for some time now, hoping to get it featured. The article has recently undergone a peer review, in which I received some really amazing feedback. Among the pieces of advise, was a suggestion to ask you to take a quick look. After going through some of the previous peer reviews that were attended by you, I must say that their suggestion was a turely invaluabe one . The Kochi article's peer review has now been archived (I thought it best not to bother you while on your wikivacation). I know the article must still be a far cry from an FAC, but I'd appreciate your comments and suggestions. Thanks! -- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK}14:41, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

How simply ungrateful of me. I just remembered I forgot to thank you for the review on Kochi. I feel like s**t. I'm really sorry. Please accept my belated thanks! I'm working towards reducing the size of the page, as you said. The bulk of the 48 kb is from the references. And compared to Kochi's big moma (who is 74), its actually nothing. ;-) I think Kochi can be at most trimed a few kbs more. Will let you know when I'm done. Cheers, Nichalp! -- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK}13:00, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll try to emulate that. -- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK}05:55, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

why revert my site?????????and not others

hi nichalp

got your message and was really hurt

i have been working hardfor couple of years, visiting door to door uploading useful data for citizens of mumbai.

and you think my site has no useful content?????

if sites like andherieast.com mumbainet.com can be on the list

why not themumbaimall.com

give me a good reason

or else i shall assume that ur partial to others.

any how the world is quite big & there is space for everyone

Moderator3000 is back with a new username

The new username is equally as bad and perhaps even worse. It is User:Systemadmin, this user is partaking in similar reversions like Moderator so I assume they could be the same person. User:Onestone is also removing the Moderator is no special admin notice, so I suspect they may be the same people. I think another blocking may be called for... Nobleeagle (Talk) 23:25, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Hello Nichalp, and thanks for voting in my recent RfA, which passed with a tally of (68/19/3). I appreciated your comments, which I hope to take on board in order to gain your respect in my work as an administrator. Best of luck in your continued editing of the encyclopedia! Sam Vimes 17:52, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Need some help on commons matter

I thought I was on wiki-break. Hah! Thank God for friends and email! Lend some vote help please!

re: Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_June_15#Fabartus_user_categories This is a bit of spiteful non-sense— at least on the admin cats, imho. Thanks. // FrankB 18:29, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Ladakh less detailed map

Nichalp, I've removed some details from the map. Please have a look now: Image:Ladakh2.svg. What do you think? There were no mountains below 5000 m, they were all passes, but I did choose a threshold for both mountains and passes to filter the less prominient ones out. For passes, I just filtered out the less known ones, because the height of a pass is not a good indicator of its importance. deeptrivia (talk) 03:39, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Contacting developers

Some notes:

1. Special:Listusers/developer does not list all developers/network operations staff
2. Users with that permission might not have shell access, which is what most people would term "uber god" access
3. A developer and a system administrator are not the same thing

(I'm writing with respect to some comments on WP:CHU) robchurch | talk 14:33, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Locator

Nichalp, Good news. I finally found a solution for the locator. I saw this dicussion and found this. This template picks up lat and long values and places a locator dot. It is pretty cool. No calculation required. I used that template with the India map. Can you please take a look at this page and let me know if the cities are fairly accurate? - Ganeshk (talk) 05:19, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry for going over the top in my reply to your comment. I was just about to go back and change it when you replied to it. No hard feelings on my part. --GraemeL ^(talk) 17:45, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Agateller RFA

Hmm, that didn't really seem like a speedy close to me. How much time was left on the clock? Kim Bruning 19:07, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

About a day left, but voting history in an RFA suggests that a badly failing candidate can never receive the required level of support to succeed on the last day. Carrying on is thus pointless. =Nichalp «Talk»=

If the Agateller RfA was simply a vote, then I can see that you are right in conceding the foregone conclusion, and I would agree with you. But is RfA simply a voting showdown of power? Surely RfA is more than a vote. --Rednblu 04:41, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Of course it's not, but shows a level of consensus. But with a support % of 40%, and even if I do discount weak votes, it would never touch 80%. I did put in a lot of thought into in, and considered the support of experienced admins who voted in favour, but the going was against Agateller. =Nichalp «Talk»= 08:48, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

But possibly your concluding that the "going was against Agateller" is based on your evaluation that Agateller is wrong. Would you agree? If Agateller is right, then Agateller's RFA was a living case of the serious problem that Agateller brought to our attention. If Agateller is right, then what you call a "level of consensus" was nothing more than the power and honor politics of, what Agateller called, the "treehouse club" where someone in the treehouse club will surely help us out by suppressing such discussions of serious problems early. --Rednblu 14:58, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Agatella being right or wrong would be very subjective for me to call, and it is not in my capacity to decide that just because he is "wrong" (quote), that I must fail him. As I've put it, it's not just the support/oppose votes that matter, I have also read what the neutrals are saying to get a clearer understanding. Yes, Agatella has spoken out against a voting mentality that has seeped into wikipedia. The discussion is valid, but it should be on the WT:RFA talk page, where serious concerns about the process are raised and debated. The community has asked him to get a little more experience before trying again, and that's the way I saw it before closing the RFA. =Nichalp «Talk»= 16:06, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

"The community has asked him...." Are you sure about that? In any case, may I rephrase this comment as a request: Please do not close an RfA early if there has been a comment added to that RfA in the last 12 hours. The Agateller RFA illustrates the kind of work that early closing suppresses, censors, and obliterates. That kind of work is never done on the talk page. That is a falsifiable hypothesis that you can test on the whole history of Wikipedia. That kind of work is never done on the talk page because the talk page is not the RfA. --Rednblu 16:36, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

You do have a penchant for asking closed-ended questions, which you take to answering yourself, and I'm not going to get drawn into it. The community has given us the madate to close an RFA when we deem fit, and it is the same community that has not supported the nomination by a large margin. I'm sorry if you have the impression that I squelched the issue, but I stress, the topic on the "tree-house" club (a view of the process) should be brought out on the RFA talk. I suggest you relax, and allow Anthony to nominate himself after a month or so. I won't be commenting on the issue any further. Thank you for your cooperation. =Nichalp «Talk»= 17:12, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Locator Map

Hi, I had enquired earlier about the locator map you guys were working on.

Just wanted to check whether it is available now?

Gurudatt 20:45, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Reverts

Sorry about that. I didn't think about it being a fair use image. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 21:23, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Maps

I've recently noticed your comments on images showing maps of China, stating that they were POV due to Aksai Chin. However, I'd like to point out that according to the Line of Actual Control agreement between India and China [1], Aksai Chin is part of China. --TBCTaLk?!? 22:48, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunetly, the source you gave hasn't been updated for eight years (the site mentions that the article was from May 15, 1998), thus it doesn't mention that both India and China have agreed to respect and clarify the Line of Actual Control agreement in 2005.[2]--TBCTaLk?!? 17:57, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Moderator3000 again...

Moderator3000 (talk · contribs) is back again with similar edits as Moderator2000 (talk · contribs). Example of the edits are here. There's also a vandal going by the name of Rajputs will destroy you (talk · contribs) which is undoubtedly an unsuitable username in any case. Nobleeagle (Talk) 03:40, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

User Name Change

Thanks for changing my user name from Velociraptor89 to Dave1989

Standardized look for geographical infoboxes

Hi - I created a proposed guideline for geographical infoboxes I expect you might be interested in, please see Wikipedia:Geographical infoboxes. -- Rick Block (talk) 00:55, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Monospace fonts supporting Devanagari

Hi! I would like to ask you if you know a list of monospace fonts supporting Devanagari to be used at Romani Wikipedia (which is biscriptal, in Latin and Devanagari). It is considered to be implemented an automatic transcription from Latin to Devanagari, and there are necessary these monospace fonts. All the best, Desiphral देसीफ्राल 12:04, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Nope. I've looked around but don't know of any :( =Nichalp «Talk»= 07:43, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Help

[3] and [4] --Nearly Headless Nick 13:13, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

George W. Bush PR

Hi Nicholas - I wonder if I could interest you in reviewing this article, as I need all the help I can get in making it an FA. Please do check it out. Rama's Arrow 19:58, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

UA administration trouble

Hello Nichalp. This is again regarding the Kochi page. I was busy with something the last few days, and couldn't work on it much. I read up a bit on précis writing. Will certainly try to edit it likewise. But there is this problem creeping up in the article about which I thought I'd seek your advice. The problem is that the whole of Kochi UA is not under a single person. The Kochi UA contains many municipalities too, which do not come under the Kochi Mayor. So should I rewrite the article, mentioning the administrator of each municipality in the civic admin section? And what should I do about the infobox's Mayor column? Should I change to some other infobox? Are other UAs under a single person? -- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK}13:07, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

If the article is to describe only the area under the jurisdiction of the municipal corporation, like you said, then a lot has to be altered — Kochi would lose its two airports, all the industrial area, refineries, IT and biotech parks and the capital status of the erstwhile Kingdom of Kochi. Also, the population and area in the infobox would have to be changed. I'm really sorry to be bothering you like this. But I'd really appreciate your advice. Thanks! -- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK}10:48, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Copyright q

Is text in nic.in sites in the public domain per right to info act? This is regarding a copyvio question on List of National Highways in India.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91^{(review me!)} 20:16, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Regarding use of image

Hi! Wikipedia accepts only images with certain licences. In short an image should be licenced to allow commercial and derivative useage. Image:allsaintscathedral.jpg has been taken from the UP tourism site. Please do not do this. All images found online are by default copyrighted and do not allow derivatives/commercial use. I've deleted the image. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 05:09, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

This is the message u've sent me regarding use of that same image ,can u tell me in which way it was used derisively or commercially.It was just meant to add the informativity of article and nothing else.You should also know that I am also wikipedian and have read all rules and regulations.But I m not violating any of the rule. Thanx

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Your DYK

Hi Nicholas - is the Farkhour Air Force Base in Tajikistan really India's only external base, given the presence of Indian military forces in Bhutan? Rama's Arrow 07:06, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Also, please see Portal:Nepal. Rama's Arrow 07:06, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm...I have an uncle who spent a few days in the 1970s at an Army garrison and base in Bhutan, which was used for monitoring the Chinese border. Anyway, its original research. Rama's Arrow 12:07, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

FAC

Hi - just wanted to let you know that Sikhism and Muhammad Iqbal are up for FAC - your comments will be most welcome. Rama's Arrow 18:49, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

POV China maps

I saw your comments on a few China maps that were not neutral. It doesn't seem anyone has bothered to respond. Also, unlike articles, POV tags on images are invisible until a reader clicks on the image to go to the image page, which few people would have reason to do. Do you think we have any option other than nominating these images for deletion, in this case? deeptrivia (talk) 20:38, 30 June 2006 (UTC)