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Inscrutable Americans

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Thank you!

Thank you for the award! I appreciate it a lot! utcursch | talk 08:26, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

And thanks for my award too! Not bad for 3 days work! Andrew nixon 15:20, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Gopal Bose

Hello Srikeit,

I saw your article on Gopal Bose. Unfortunately, I had to delete most of it, because it was taken directly from his Cricinfo profile. As you were already warned above, you can't use text or images from other websites without permission.

Also, you said he played eight Tests. I don't know where you got that from, because he didn't play any Tests.

Thanks,

Stephen Turner (Talk) 14:23, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

You wrote: Hi stephen! Sorry about the Gopal Bose article. My data was totally fried. Anyway I wanted to ask if we can use statistics from cricinfo, why cant we use their articles & cite them like we do for the stats? I mean sure it will be great if someone writes a new article but till then cant we keep the cricinfo one? Srikeit^{(talk ¦ ✉)} 17:59, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately we can't use it. Copyright doesn't protect plain facts, and the statistics fall into that category, so we're fine to use them. We could have got the same data anywhere, and we only have to credit Cricinfo so that we have cited our sources and other Wikipedia readers can check that it's true.

Copyright does protect words and images, however, and we certainly can't copy their articles or pictures. However, we can read their articles, learn about the cricketer, and then describe his career in our own words. We would then give a credit to Cricinfo, but the important thing is that it is in our own words, not theirs.

I hope that helps to explain it.

Stephen Turner (Talk) 18:14, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, that's much better now, thank you very much! Stephen Turner (Talk) 08:44, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

Looks like you have vandalised your page, yourself. I dont know why, but your page userboxes, remind me of my own page. --Andy123 21:29, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Please sort out the problems with the templates this user is experiencing. I tried myself, but it seems too complex for me ;) --Andy123 21:41, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Helpme

Hi, I see you've added the {{helpme}} tag. Can I help you with something? --Pilotguy ^{(talk ¦ ✉)} 21:56, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

The best thing to do is to oragnize your userboxes in a fashion similiar to my page. Place all of your userboxes in between {{Boxboxtop|Title goes here}} and {{Boxboxbottom}}, like I've done. For languages, you can use Wikipedia:Babel. There are instructions on how that works, as well as the "language codes",here.

Barnstar

Thank you very much for the barnstar, Srikeit! I really appreciate it. I haven't had a good week, and you cheered me up. Stephen Turner (Talk) 07:48, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Your userpage was briefly delisted by a rogue admin

This user believes that only articles need reflect a NPOV, and that displaying political, religious, or other beliefs using userboxes and user categories should not be banned.

You have a userbox Template:User UN which links your userpage to United Nations Wikipedians. There is currently a movement to ban userboxes from Wikipedia which are shared and which create List of Wikipedians. Certain admins have taken it upon themselves to preemptively sabotage and/or delete such categories and template. Here is the incident report which reported damage to yours, in which hundreds of userpages were delinked from categories without the users' knowledge. They have been stopped, barely, and the damage reverted— for now.

There is a Wikipedia:Userbox policy poll, which if passed, will make required by policy the damage done to categories and templates such as User UN/United Nations Wikipedians. If you do not want this to happen, I urge you to vote Oppose. in the poll. Support is currently running at about 66%, and your vote could make the difference. It is said to require 75%-80% to be deemed reflective of consensus.

Thank you,

StrangerInParadise 23:20, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

• Some userbox on my page was blanked by him too (and to think I thanked him for his help - I just went to his talk page and blanked the thanks message). I mentioned on the incident report that he blanked another template as well, just so you both know. - File:Ottawa flag.png nathanrdotcom ^{(Talk • Contribs)} 01:07, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

I do not have any views on this issue. It wouldnt make a big difference to me, even if they are removed. Userboxes have been abused in the past. --Andy123 13:10, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Chappell and Ganguly

Thanks for your message, Srikeit. I must admit that I haven't really been keeping up with the Indian cricket articles. That's partly because I can't keep up with the politics in Indian cricket, so I don't know what's true and what's not. But it's also partly because it's so difficult to keep people from pushing their own POV in the articles. The Indian and Pakistani biographies both seem to be constantly edited by people who think that the player is the best ever, or else the worst ever, player in the history of the game. It seems impossible to find someone with a balanced view.

If you want to be bold with these articles, go ahead! They're really quite poor at the moment, and it needs someone to do it. But please realise that you will need to keep monitoring them afterwards, to stop them getting worse again.

PS Why not sign up as a WikiProject Cricket participant? And come and join in the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cricket. You can get other people to give opinions on specific articles there too.

Stephen Turner (Talk) 10:56, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Talk page order

One quick note on talk page etiquette. It's conventional for the newest messages to go at the bottom of the page, not the top. So if you start a new section, it's helpful to do it there. Or even easier: just press the [+] tab at the top of the talk page. That will start a new section and put it at the bottom for you.

Stephen Turner (Talk) 10:58, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

India links

I saw you on Cricket pages and came here. You might be interested in these links.

	Links for Wikipedians interested in India content
Newcomers: Welcome kit | Register: Indian Wikipedians | Network: Noticeboard (WP:INWNB) Browse: India | Open tasks | Deletions Contribute content: Wikiportal India - Indian current events (WP:INCE) India collaboration of the week (WP:INCOTW) - Category adoptions

Welcome and hope you stick around. - Ganeshk (talk) 11:10, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Fair use images

Hello again Srikeit,

Thanks for finding some photos for cricketers, but I'm afraid I removed them again. You used them under a "fair use" claim, but fair use is much more restrictive than you think. For example, an image from a newspaper is only fair use in order to talk about the publication of the newspaper, not merely to illustrate the person pictured. Similar rules apply for other types of fair use images, for example TV screenshots. An image doesn't become usable just because it's been in a newspaper or on TV: it can only be fair use when talking about the newspaper publication or the TV program.

Thanks,

Stephen Turner (Talk) 09:27, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

You wrote: what kind of permission should I get to publish these images on Wikipedia?

In principle, you would need to get permission from the newspaper, or perhaps from the photo agency that the newspaper had got the photo from. But you'd be unlikely to get permission. (If it was easier to get photos, we would have a lot more photos of cricketers. It's not that we don't want photos in the articles! It's that it's very difficult to get truly "free" ones). Stephen Turner (Talk) 10:51, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

You wrote: happen to know some people at the newspaper, including the editor. Do we require a written permisson?

That would be great! Written permission (even an email) would certainly be best, just so that we have a record of exactly what permission was granted. Make sure that the newspaper has the rights to the photo though — sometimes they use library pictures from photo agencies, and then we would have to get permission from the photo agency not the newspaper, because the newspaper only has permission to use it in their own publication. Stephen Turner (Talk) 10:08, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to Esperanza!

Welcome, Srikeit/archive 1, to Esperanza, the Wikipedia member association! As you might know, all the Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the Charter, the governing document of the association.

Now that you are a member you should read the guide to what to do now or you may be interested in some of our programs. A quite important program is the StressUnit, which seeks to support editors who have encountered any stress from their Wikipedia events, and are seeking to leave the project. So far, Esperanza can be credited with the support and retention of several users. We have a calendar of special events, member birthdays, and other holidays that you can add to and follow.

In addition to these projects, several more missions of Esperanza are in development, and are currently being created at Esperanza/Possibles.

I encourage you to take an active voice in the running of Esperanza. We have a small government system, headed by our Administrator general, Celestianpower, and guided by the Advisory Committee comprised of KnowledgeOfSelf, JoanneB, FireFox and Titoxd. The next set of elections will be in February, and I would be glad to see you vote, or even consider running for a position.

If you have any other questions, concerns, comments, or general ideas, Esperanzian or otherwise, know that you can always contact me via email or talk page. Alternatively, you could communicate with fellow users via our IRC channel, #wikipedia-esperanza (which is also good for a fun chat or two :). I thank you for joining Esperanza, and look forward to working with you in making Wikipedia a better place to be!

Thanks! - File:Ottawa flag.png nathanrdotcom ^{(T • C • W)} 07:03, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Signature

As I think Nathan is offline, I thought I could help you with your signature. The idea I have here is for a signature with a link to your user, talk and Esperanza pages, all in one. Sound good? Ok, let's being :D

1. First, go here and make sure the "Raw Signatures" box is checked.
2. Then, take this code;

 [[User:Srikeit|Sri]][[User talk:Srikeit|<span style="cursor:help">k</span>]][[WP:EA|<font color="green">e</font>]]it

And paste it into the Nickname box.

1. Now, whenever you go somewhere and type the ~~~~, and this will come up;

Srikeit

Have fun and welcome to Wikipedia! --M ^o P 07:27, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Kenyan infoboxes

I might get around to it, but if you want to have a go, I've made them up. Just check a few of them against Cricinfo to make sure they're right. http://stats.rleague.com/public/KENinfobox.zip --Paul 07:49, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

A special thanks

for creating D. B. Deodhar. Tintin (talk) 14:54, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

• Data is easy come by for international cricketers, but great people like Deodhar generally gets ignored in the virutal world. Hence the thanks. Tintin (talk) 15:08, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Sachin Tendulkar

Sorry about that POV bit, it was based on something I'd read from cricinfo but I think the series has been archived now so I didn't look for the article.

Barnstar

Here is a barnstar for you for your efforts in the Cricket project. - Ganeshk (talk) 06:54, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

I present Srikeit this working man's barnstar in appreciation of his efforts at the Cricket project, creating innumerous cricket-bio stubs in a short span of time. -- Ganeshk (talk) 06:54, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

You are welcome. For some time, I tried doing bios, but I could manage only one-a-day. I am amazed how many bios you had completed. You are just too fast! At this rate, I can see the 100% complete on the ODI section coming up soon. Keep up the good work! Would be great if you could contribute to India related projects too. Please do check out the India notice board. I am also adding some related links below. - Ganeshk (talk) 07:10, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

	Links for Wikipedians interested in India content
Newcomers: Welcome kit | Register: Indian Wikipedians | Network: Noticeboard (WP:INWNB) Browse: India | Open tasks | Deletions Contribute content: Wikiportal India - Indian current events (WP:INCE) India collaboration of the week (WP:INCOTW) - Category adoptions

PS: Just a suggestion. You might want to move the barnstar to your user page. Simply cut and past the barnstar code.

Hello

Greetings, the holi-hangover continues! --Bhadani 07:16, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: WCOTF

You wrote: I was looking at India collaboration of the week when I found the tiny link to WCOTF. I did'nt even know it existed! Anyway now seems like a good time to revive that (heaven knows some of our cricket articles need to become FA). We now have many new users who look like good contributers. So what do you think about it?

Thanks for your note, Srikeit. You can try and drum up support on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cricket. I just know that it died rather quickly last time, so I'm not sure whether there's enough enthusiasm for it.

Speaking for myself, I'm much more interested in writing two or three paragraphs about something that has only one sentence, rather than raising a good article to featured status. And in fact, I rarely have time even to do that: I tend to spend most of my time checking Recent Changes and making sure that bad edits get reverted quickly. That's not to say that COTF is not a worthwhile project, on the contrary I think it's a very good thing, but it's not my personal priority.

Stephen Turner (Talk) 09:47, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Birthday

Really amazing thing, and interestingly you noticed. By the way when were you born in? I was in 84. I did not know about Esparenza, but its really very good medium to connect wikipedians. Thank you Srekeit. May I know where are you from and what do you do? I am currently studying in Mumbai. Shyam ^(T/C) 11:17, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

My talk

Thanks for reminding me that my talk pages were overdue for archiving; I moved a big chunk of it. I also created an unhyphenated redirect to Paul-Jan Bakker (that hyphen is one of the clues that it goes together with Paul as a given name). Gene Nygaard 13:09, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

My RFA Withdrawal :(

Hello Srikeit, it is my apologies to bring you that I've withdrawn my RFA. Due to the lack of experience, I would go under admin coaching first before trying again later. I would thank you for your vote in this RFA whether you voted support, oppose or neutral for me. I appreciate your comments (if you do have) you made and I hope to see you here in future. --Terence Ong 15:17, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks but no thanks

I appreciate the words. I'm on a dynamic IP and I like it that way. I don't feel a real need to sign up. I've seen what can and most likely will happen. I'll be sucked into a community that fights, and gets nothing done. I'll just stick to adding content to articles and trying to build this into a encyclopedia. Normally I don't comment on community pages, but I ended up there by following someone's contribs. 68.73.153.146 19:31, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Tendulkar and NPOV

I have removed the contentious line from the achievement list and moved it into the description part, with added remarks. I presume that the NPOV issue is settled (for the golden arm point) More details in the Articles' talk page

Tell about the other issues in Cricket and we can sort one by one

And if you find me done something wrong, do correct me immediately Doctor Bruno 21:06, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

• I think we need to have a chat along with other WP:CRIC people to Doctor Bruno about this. He is going around and writing POV stuff to denigrate Dravid and uplift Tendulkar, using examples from random Test matches which are not indicative of the Test career. I think he has made a very misleading statement on the Dravid page that Dravid has only 1 century on the last innings (ie 4th innings), whereas Tendulkar has made 9 in the second innings (meaning 3rd and 4th innings). Actually in run chases the stats show that Dravid has an average of ~50 in runchases, whereas Tendulkar is only ~35.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 00:49, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

I apologise. About the Dravid, stats, I am sorry. I did not realise the mistake, until it was pointed out. I have changed it.

But I differ from you in the other issues. What is wrong in telling that Sachin top scored in a match. When there are more than one instance in the page that tells that Sachin is not batting well.

Doctor Bruno 01:59, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

The fact that Sachin top-scored in the second innings is irrelevant. If we start mentioning a low second-innings high score of 34 by sachin. We are also obliged to mention all the other times he has top-scored in an innings (that being a lot of times). The first innings score can be added because he was booed off by his own home crowd. But just because the second innings is recent doesn't mean that it needs to be added.

Hope that clears it up

Srikeit^{(talk ¦ ✉)} 04:53, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

The second innings top score is important, because, without that, any one will assume that he did not contribute anything in the entire test.

Also according to few reports, the booing was not by the Mumbai crowd, but the Barmy army. If the entire test is not mentioned, it is OK. But when you mention his failure, and even say that he did not score a fifty, you should mention his achievement. This is my opinionDoctor Bruno 15:01, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Congrats!

Congratulations on reaching your 500th edit milestone! :) Cheers, Sango123 (e) 01:28, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations on reaching the 500. Thanks for the kind words and the tasty cookie. Keep up the good work. - Ganeshk (talk) 01:32, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi Srikeit, congratulations on the 500 mark. Keep up the good work. I came across your name recently and was about to write to you soon, so this gave me an occasion to write. I think we know each other, though I may be mistaken (cannot decide from your photo). So are you from Loyola? If yes then would you be interested in improving this article St. Xavier's High School Loyola Hall? - Aksi great 12:56, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations on your 500th! I remember how excited I was that I reached that point; since then, I've only been editing better and better. Heres to 1000! :D M ^o P 14:29, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Congrats for reaching 500th edit milestone. I am very thankful to get a beautiful Barnstar. It was really a luckyday for me. I have got two Barnstars so far and got both of them today. It will really help to keep up the enthusiasm. Thank you once again, Shyam ^(T/C) 19:28, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a lot to everyone. This encouragement will surely keep me up to it for a long time. And as MoP says Here's to 1000!

Thanks again

Srikeit^{(talk ¦ ✉)} 19:41, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations from me too, and thanks for the cookie. I'm joining in this discussion late, but I wanted to add how good it is to find someone to work on the Indian cricket biographies who really understands NPOV, and doesn't just want to use Wikipedia to praise his personal heroes and condemn his personal villains! Stephen Turner (Talk) 12:13, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks!

Hi Srikeit! Thank you for supporting my RfA and for the congrats! I'm always happy to help out, so if you need anything, please drop me a line. Cheers! ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 20:30, 22 March 2006 (UTC) PS: Don't see Spiderman 3 - just a reminder! ;)

Question

Sorry, I'm confused. Am I a member or am I not?

Information Center 08:11, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Ahmedabad

Hi once again. Yes, I was with Parasvil. I think that it is a great idea to take some photos of the school. That would look nice. Also, there is a lot of work required to be done on the Ahmedabad article. Let us work to bring it to FA status. - Aksi great 15:46, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi Srikeit. Aksi great just informed me that you were from Ahmedabad. I studied in Prakash Higher Secondary School, it was a CBSE based school. I think we should work on the Ahmedabad article diligently and make it as better as possible. Please remember to cite proper sources on the page. And I think you should remove the joke link from the top of your pages. It has rather worn away now. ;) --Andy123(talk) 20:28, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Aur yaar, mujhe bhi sikhade thoda, ye esperanza kya hota hai?? --Andy123(talk) 09:57, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, and cheers. --Andy123(talk) 13:24, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi!

Thanks for the help!

Information Center 22:49, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Member Cricket Project

Hi Srikeit... Just wanted to ask.... how can we become a member of Cricket Project.

Re: Groups

Experienced user? 1000 (not reached there yet) is a very small figure at Wikipedia. And looking at your work, I hope you would be overtaking me very soon. I have spent the last few days at RC Patrol which is the reason for my high edit count. Reverting vandalism tends to make the edit count look good. But it was a very tedious and tiring job, until I discovered Popups. That combined with User:Lupin/Anti-vandal_tool have made my life relatively easy. I have started many stubs about Indian politicians, especially those from Gujarat. I am a member of the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Politics_of_India. I am interested in cricket, but that interest is only limited to wathcing the game. So I don't think I would be joining that project soon. I have taken the improvement of the Ahmedabad article as my personal mission. Please review my work there so that I don't make any mistakes on that page. I think I will be joining Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_cities today. As for Esparanza, I am still deciding.

I'm very sorry, but I don't think I will be able to come to Loyola soon. I have university exams coming up in 15 days. Nirma runs a very tight schedule, and coming on weekdays is virtually impossible for me. I think I will mail Fr. Morondo for a few good pics of the school, else will go and take the pics in my break in May. See if you can get pics before that. - Aksi great 13:43, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Request,Nomination for removal of Khalistan article

Hello Sir I'm nominating this page for deletion because it is written with a point of view , excessive use of unreliable sources.and the title "Khalistan" is wrong for the topic because "Khalistan" does not exist,lack of support from resident Punjabi's and Sikhs in India, but there was a "Movement for Khalistan" and that is the right title for the topic, and i think this whole article "a new name" should be rewritten with the help of people from sikh community "in" India and other Indians, because this topic is related to politics/people of India.We all should understand Khalistan is not a political entity and having a article is not justified, Microsoft Encarta and Britannic encyclopedia don't have an article known as "Khalistan" but they do have articles on the movement that took place decades back, and i think there are also copyright issues involved with this article because big parts of this article are written on other peoples research. Many reliable sources are used to show "one side" of their view on the topic, there are also indications that organisations banned by US and EU are involved in providing their research on the movement.I am a strong supporter to have a stub on this topic , but im afraid that such articles on wikipedia have become mouthpieces for organisation which are known for disrupting peace (assassination of one of india's prime minister, twin bomb blast in New Delhi on the eve of Diwali) in Indian sub continent. This article requires your attention , please help. Anmol.2k4 18:51, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Thnaks you for considering me for help. Unfortunately I will have to decline. I have not been following up the Khalistan article & do not have much knowledge about it. I would not like to tread such a delicate topic without some sound knowledge of it.

Thanks anyway

Srikeit^{(talk ¦ ✉)} 00:28, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Welcome Back!

Hi there, thanks very much! It's good to be back - although worryingly time consuming :-) the wub "?!" 11:42, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Siddharth

Yes. I am. We keep on meeting often in the college canteen during break hours. - Aksi_great 14:07, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

User page design

Surprise! :D I hope you like the color scheme; I based it off your {{totd}} template. If you want anything changed, please let me know. Cheers, Sango123 (e) 16:34, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Hey, thanks! I'm glad you like it. :) And yes, I really am fourteen. Regards, Sango123 (e) 18:11, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Sango is a rare breed ;). Oh, and before Nathan gets here...

*feeds everyone cookies* M ^o P 21:33, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Blocker!

Thank you, O friendly stalker, for the bright red stop sign. Cheers for vandal-whacking! ;) Sango123 (e) 00:59, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Sourav Ganguly

Hi Srikeit, its good that your hard work on the Sourav Ganguly article has paid off, with the article shaking NPOV tag off itself. Cheers for that.

As we discussed on the talk page, the article needs to be expanded a bit more with his achievements. I am going to try that. So I started looking into history to figure out what was npov and what should be avoided, but the list is overwhelming. I am currently researching on his achievements (search is done by Google, I re-search in the results), and will get to writing the International Career section soon.

This message is just to congratulate you on the work that you have put in and to say that your help will be heavily needed, as I am going to walk into a heavily disputed area.

Keep up the good work.

On another note, the foolbox on top of your page will make me prematurely go bald. :) --Soumyasch 08:35, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Just constructive criticisms will be enough. I also don't want npov back on the page. And this time, I barely escaped being fooled by your foolbox. --Soumyasch 09:21, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #1

Reach out Reach out is a program aimed at allowing users to bring issues that they have had in Wikipedia to a listening, sympathetic and caring audience: "No one can know how we feel if we do not say. We cannot expect to get understanding if we do not ask for it. No one will dispute that sometimes life's issues are too much for one person. It is fair to say that sometimes Wikipedia's problems fall under the same heading. This is a place where you can bring the bruises that can sometimes be got on this project for attention." Stress Alerts The Stress alerts program aims at identifying users who are stressed, alerting the community of thier stress and works in tandem with the Stressbusters at trying to identify causes of stress and eliminating them. Note from the editor Welcome to this new format of the Esperanza Newsletter, which came about during the last Advisory Council meeting - we hope you like it! The major changes are that each month, right after the Council meeting, this will be sent out and will include two featured programs and a sum up of the meeting. Also, it will be signed by all of the Advisory Council members, not just Celestianpower. Have an Esperanzial end of March, everyone!

The last AC meeting (full log) Future meetings are to be held monthly, not fortnightly as before. Bans and Access level changes (apart from autovoice) in the IRC channel are to be reported at the new log. In the IRC channel, there is going to be only one bot at a time. The charter requires members to have 150 edits and 2 weeks editing. Why this is the case will be clarified. A new Code of Conduct will be drafted by JoanneB and proposed to the Esperanza community. The NPA reform idea is to be dropped officially. Charter ammendments are to be discussed in future, not voted on. The Advisory Council is not going to be proposed to be expanded by the Advisory Council themselves, if others want to propose it, they will listen. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, KnowledgeOfSelf and FireFox 17:47, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Bad company

Yuvraj Singh article says something about him confessing to losing 'bad company'. Do you know whether he really did say something like that ? It was added by 10K thundering typhoons who is no longer around. Tintin (talk) 04:23, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Tintin (talk) 09:20, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/Participants

Srikeit, Can I suggest you revert your edit to the above to remove the inactive members section? User:Jguk is the father of WikiProject Cricket and deserves to keep the number 1 cap for perpetuity - indeed he may return at any time. Regards -- Ian ≡ talk 14:00, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks mate. He had a rather torrid time recently (outside cricket) which I assume was the reason for him deciding to take a break. I sense he'll be back at some point though. -- Ian ≡ talk 01:03, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks a lot for the cookie! - Aksi_great 14:21, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

DaGizza's RfA

Thanks!

Hi Srikeit/archive 1, thank you for supporting me in my RfA which passed with a tally of (93/1/2). If you need any help or wish discuss something with me, you are always welcome to talk to me. Gizza^{Chat ©} 12:17, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello Srikeit, seeing as you nearly missed DaGizza's RfA, I've noticed a useful tool which keeps track of the RfA "scoreboard", which means that you don't have to navigate through the massive RfA page. I added it to a page of my choice by linking to {{User:Dragons flight/RFA summary}} so that I don't have to go to RfA to be informed of the new nominations everyday. Hope it makes things more convenient.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 01:14, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Edit anniversary

Thanks for the WikiBalloon, Srikeit! :) Cheers, Sango123 (e) 03:31, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Batting graphs

Apologies for the delay in replying. Thanks for the kind words and for requesting some more graphs. I will get onto them as soon as possable, but unfortunately my university commitments are taking up a lot of my time. I know I'll be able to do some on the weekend though. Raven4x4x 10:50, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Sourav Ganguly

Hi, saw the recent state of the article, after you cleaned it up. In the international career section, the wording of the introductory lines still sound POV to me. I have suggeted an alternative on the talk page. But I refrained from putting it on the article because I wanted to make sure it does not violate NPOV. So I put it on talk page to get it discussed. Please review that. --Soumyasch 18:31, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

IRC for India: #wikipedia-in

Please join this channel for India-related discussions. In case you need help to access IRC, please visit my IndianIRC page. --Andy123(talk) 22:34, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

INCOTW

You voted for Indian cricket team, this week's Indian Colloboration of the Week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. - Ganeshk (talk) 07:30, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikibreak

Enjoy your partial/kind of/will still be here a bit wikibreak! I hope all your internet connection problems work out. -- Natalya 12:54, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Enjoy your kind-of-Wikibreak. — natha(?)nrdotcom ^{(T • C • W)} 17:17, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Hello Srikeit, how are you? Thanks for your support in my RFA. The final vote count was (88/3/1), so I am now an administrator. I am very humbled by your vote and grateful. Please let me know if at any stage you require assistance, or if you have comments on how I am doing as an administrator. Once again thank you and with kind regards Gryffindor 17:10, 2 April 2006 (UTC)