Portal talk:India

World Classical Tamil Conference 2010

Feature this article in front page when the conference is going on.

Also I hope the members involved in improving the projects related to India can contribute a lot to this article about the upcoming World Tamil Conference. If anyone is interested please write to my talk page. --Ben (talk) 09:52, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Trim

This portal has become excessively long. Please trim the subpages (preferably 'Did you know... and Things you can do) to improve usability. Thanks,--cj | talk 14:30, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

News:Featured portal

Portal:India's related portal, Portal:Hinduism has become a featured portal recently. --Dwaipayan (talk) 16:33, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Changes to the Portal Page

I am proposing the following changes to be made to the Main Portal page.

1. Proposal 1: Changing of manual article/picture selection to random automated selection. This has the advantage of making the main portal page relatively maintenance-free. Thus the page may get outdated, but will not be spontaneously broken. This would also mean that people like me will get more time to improve other facets of the portal. Also, random automated selection would mean lesser load on the server as separate pages won't be required for each day/week.
2. Proposal 2: Changing of section layout. I want to give the portal page more vibrant, yet still encyclopedic looks. I want to explore the possibilities of a better colour scheme. Suggestions invited (in sandbox). Also, I plan to chop down the length of DYK and Tasks you can do section as they are bloated. This is also suggested by cj above.

The Pending Tasks on top of this page is also outdated and needs to be trimmed/updated. Other suggestions for improvement are also welcome. — Ambuj Saxena (☎) 15:58, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I support the move. =Nichalp «Talk»= 16:08, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I also agree with the Ambuj Saxena's proposals. Please go ahead and make subsequent changes. Shyam ^(T/C) 16:16, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Support. Random automated selection is needed. And eager to see the more vibrant look. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 05:57, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Throwing out another suggestion in the mix: Is it possible to include the current question asked at WP:PINQ in the DYK (Do you know ? :) ) section ? Abecedare 06:11, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Request for comment on Wikiportal India content

Do we need the following in Wikiportal:

1. . Tasks you can do
2. . WikiProjects
3. . Topics related to India.

What value do these add to normal reader/user? These are surely useful for an editor.

My take on Wikiportal is that it is meant for an end user (non editor). Wikiportal IMHO ought to be a Kaleidoscope of articles of India. It for me is a spectrum of interesting articles about India.

What do you all say? Seek all your opinion/views.

We should move the above three items to the Noticeboard and free space. I propose that we use the freed space to have sections for article types like Flora and Fauna, Music, People, Architecture, Cuisine. (We can choose a few of them). Of course this does take our time and efforts.

Appreciate your inputs.

regards Arunram 21:34, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

The actual problem in doing it is totally different. From my experience in dealing with this Portal is that (like Wikipedia in general) the desired quality level of acceptable matter has increased leaps and bounds. Just have a look at the current selected article candidates that are doomed to fail, or see the archive of nominations for selected article and selected picture. You will find that in many cases the articles are expected to be near-FAs to qualify as selected content for the portal. These considerations aside, can you point out some articles relating to Indian music or architecture that are worth putting on the front page of the portal. If there are only a couple of them, it is too early to start. Sections like those on people or geography can definitely be considered; we have about 14 good quality articles on Indian people, and 22 on Indian geography. Perhaps we can look at the current selection and diffuse it to different sections. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 09:32, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Cricket News

The News section of the page is carrying few Cricket news. It guess it has to be posted in the Cricket Portal or the Sports portal instead. This is the case with 'Current events' page where no sports news is encouraged. 59.93.112.40 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.93.112.40 (talk) 02:34, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Sania Mirza image in news section

Can some one help change the image of Sania Mirza in the News section? I'd like to move the August news to the archives considering that it is already a weekdays since September has come. 59.93.113.99 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.93.113.99 (talk) 04:12, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Sunita Willams picture in News section

Can some one help add Sunita Willams picture in the news section? 59.93.112.2 —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 05:36, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

BCE

I hate BCE and everybody who uses itNew4325 02:43, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

link in wikiproject template

Template talk:WP India#Portal link. —Random832 17:43, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Current events subportals MfD

A discussion about most of the Current events subportals has been opened at Miscellany for deletion. You are invited to participate in discussing the fate of these subportals. --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 14:29, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Neel Gaay

What is the scientific name of this animal?--Jahilia (talk) 01:35, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Boselaphus tragocamelus. check out Nilgai. GDibyendu (talk) 05:22, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Re Design

This Portal needs Redesigning...Who supports this..
;-) By 127.0.0.1 ( Report ) [ ^Evidence | _Block ] On :: 15:45, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

There are some minor functional changes that I have been planning on making, but I don't think any major changes are needed, certainly from a design standpoint. Incidently, please do not make these kinds of changes without discussing and obtaining consensus. If you'd like to play around with the design, I suggest setting up a sandbox (eg. User:DualHelix/Portal:India), copying the code from here, and working on the design in the sandbox. Thanks AreJay (talk) 16:09, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

India Week on Russian Wikipedia edition

Dear colleagues, Russian Wikipedia edition is planning a week of India on Nov 7-17, 2008. During this period, the Theme Week project participants and other Wikipedia users will try to cover as many India-related topics as possible. Your contribution to this project would be very much appreciated. --Tar-ba-gan (talk) 09:13, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Priety Zinta

... is a featured article. It should be added to the list of Selected Articles. Ravikiran (talk) 06:31, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

capital of India

In many articles New Delhi is called the capital of India.

I could not find a provision in the constitution or a law nor a presidental decree making New Delhi the capital. As I see it, the capital is Delhi and all supreme institutions of the republic (president, parlament, prime minster, supreme court) happen to be in New Delhi, which is just a central part of Delhi.

Please give any evidence if I'm wrong. --85.178.123.223 (talk) 14:25, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Important : Jammu and Kashmir

The article is under frequent vandalism efforts. If being read by an administrator please look into the matter. —Preceding unsigned comment added by HarshAJ (talk • contribs) 09:12, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Name Change proposal

Hi, I have proposed name changes from Jambavantha to Jambavan and from Chiranjivin to Chiranjivi. Please read my message there and do needful. Also, can we fix some standards to name the articles as a part of this project? as I am sure, there must be many more such articles named in weird manner, which only a minority can understand and represent them incorrectly to the mass.-- Dhaval^Talk 13:20, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Sadhu Ram

I would ask for help with this little article, as I know virtually nothing about it. It is created as a balance to the article about one of the main 'successors' to Sant Baljit Singh, Sirio Carrapa. It now looks like we have a third one Ram Singh Ji - any volunteers? This article was started by GurDass, who also started and regularly edits the Carrapa article. I am trying, amidst my other work, to get it off the ground. Anyone willing to foster it, please form an orderly line. Peridon (talk) 17:41, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

India related articles under attack

Some India related articles are under attack. The importance of them is not being understood in Indian context. The list can be found at User:Anna Frodesiak/Silver sandbox. Help and save them. thanks. Mahesh Kumar Yadav (talk) 13:53, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

lingustic population

• Where I get information about lingustic composition of the population by states of India?--Kaiyr (talk) 07:45, 25 June 2011 (UTC)--Kaiyr (talk) 15:19, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Ravidassia notice

{{WikiProject status}}

Ravidassia

en:wikt:Appendix:Indo-Iranian Swadesh lists (extended)

Please add variant word of you languages in this list.--Kaiyr (talk) 08:40, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Wikivoyage India Expedition

Hi, everyone! I'm a frequent reader and occasional editor on Wikipedia and a frequent editor and admin on Wikivoyage, and WikiProject India was just brought to my attention. It just so happens that I started a Wikivoyage India Expedition today in order to improve the quality of our more important and visible articles about Indian regions and destinations. If any of you take a particular interest in travel or have knowledge about parts of India that you'd like to share with travellers, please consider dropping by and helping out with a project related to this WikiProject on a sister site. I'll stop by this talk thread now and then to see if anyone has any questions, or feel free to discuss anything relevant at en:voy:Wikivoyage talk:India Expedition.

I hope to see some of you there.

All the best,

posted by Ikan Kekek. Cheers, Horst-schlaemma (talk) 09:14, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Horst-schlaemma, thanks for reposting this from Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics. Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:24, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Any input from the Portal volunteers? :) Cheers, Horst-schlaemma (talk) 09:32, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

The "Explore" tab

A new editor has removed most of the "explore" tab. Looking at the pre-deletion version, two of the map subpages are three years old and may well need to be updated. This looks very fiddly. Perhaps a better fix is to remove the "Explore" tab? -- John of Reading (talk) 07:43, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Logo

The logo looks wrong. 118.93.95.49 (talk) 19:41, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

"Birthplace" of religions.

It says "birthplace to four world religions:Jainism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Hinduism."

I would like to understand what is the meaning of "birthplace of a religion". How has Sikhism been defined to be born in India ??

Js82 (talk) 21:31, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Article to submit

I have an article, Gajpanth I too want to nominate the wikiproject India. Please accept my request for article submission and I want to nominate WikiProject India. Regards BOTFIGHTER (talk) 14:33, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

More Information

A lot more information should be added to this article for more base and support. Also, there a lot of categories written with nothing to fill.Monica.e12 (talk) 18:53, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Potential deletion

See Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#RfC:_Ending_the_system_of_portals. - Sitush (talk) 16:30, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Notice from the Portals WikiProject

WikiProject Portals is back!

The project was rebooted and completely overhauled on April 17th, 2018. Its goals are to revitalize the entire portal system, make building and maintaining portals easier, support the ongoing improvement of portals and the editors dedicated to this, and design the portals of the future.

As of May 2nd, 2018, membership is at 60 editors, and growing. You are welcome to join us.

There are design initiatives for revitalizing the portals system as a whole, and for improving each component of portals. So far, 2 new dynamic components have been developed: Template:Transclude lead excerpt and Template:Transclude random excerpt.

Tools are provided for building and maintaining portals, including automated portals that update themselves in various ways.

And, if you are bored and would like something to occupy your mind, we have a wonderful task list.

From your friendly neighborhood Portals WikiProject. Hope to see you there. Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   07:33, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

10% Quota For Economically Weak In General Category By Modi Ji | We need to update all the articles rightnow

First of all please update the following articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation_in_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_caste

and more over we need to update all the examination related articles for example IIT-JEE, NEET, CAT, SSC etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Djsnape (talk • contribs) 16:56, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Rename category: Category:Dog breeds originating in India

Shouldn't this be Category:Dog Breeds originating in India and Pakistan? I proposed it here. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 13:34, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

See the related discussions here and here 7&6=thirteen (☎) 13:53, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Varanasi listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Portal:Varanasi. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Legacypac (talk) 00:52, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

"Portal:Pondicherry" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Portal:Pondicherry. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:24, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

Exact name of an Indian athlete

Trying to improve the article about Nirmla Sheoran, also known as Nirmala (athlete) or Sheoran Nirmala, I found these different versions of her name. The IAAF, the governing body of Athletics writes her name as Sheoran Nirmla, including in its recent antidoping decision. Some Indian newspapers write Nirmala some without A, Nirmla. Nirmla seems to be the personal name, because when she started running, only this name was used. Someone that knows better than I could the world of Indian names could help me to decide which name is the most commonly used? Thanks 🙏.-Arorae (talk) 21:18, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Questionable edits to a page

[List_of_Muslim_Other_Backward_Classes_communities_in_India]

I don't know enough about the topic to tell if the editor is inexperienced or attempting to distort information.

Hoping someone keeps an eye on this talk page

Slywriter (talk) 04:29, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

2020 portal updates

Added a new Good article section (diff), which transcludes GA-class articles from the list of Good articles at Portal talk:India. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:08, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Why there is no portals for Indian states?

California, New York State have one but why not Indian states don't ? like Maharashtra etc. I suggest to create.Success think (talk) 21:05, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Sher Afghan or Sherafgun? Taj Mahal

Sher Afghan Khan,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sher_Afgan_Khan Hello, I'm Sumanuil. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Sher Afgan Khan have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Thanks. - Sumanuil. (talk to me) 20:07, 25 August 2023 (UTC) Hi Sumanuil. Can you please tell me on what ground you assume that my edit were not constructive? the Farsi name شيرافگن Sherafgun or sherafgin has nothing to do with sher Afgan? there is no Afghan (ethnic) there. It sis one word and has no relation to Afghan. I don't understand why would you purposely change something to a completely false and inaccurate translation? Anyone who knows a word of Farsi know exactly what شيرافگن sherafgin means, can you explain what the word Afghan come from and why you added "Afghan" to something that clearly does not say Afghan? thanks Abbie Abbie444 (talk) 21:18, 25 August 2023 (UTC) File names and references are not "false and inaccurate translations". - Sumanuil. (talk to me) 23:48, 25 August 2023 (UTC) I posted this in talk "I'm relatively new to editing, so I kindly request understanding if I don't adhere perfectly to the procedure. I've identified a minor translation error related to a Farsi term that significantly alters the meaning of the word in question. The mistake not only misconstrues the identity but also fails to accord respect to a notable historical figure. The individual in question is Ali Quli Istajlu, also known as Sherafgun (شيرافگن), the first husband of Nur Jahan. Regrettably, the author of the article seems to have misinterpreted the Farsi word "شيرافگن". The term was translated as "Sher of Afghan," which implies "Afghan lion." The Afghans, primarily residing in southern Afghanistan, are also referred to as Pashtuns. Due to this mistranslation, Ali Quli, who was ethnically Turkmen, has been inaccurately labeled an "Afghan lion." The true meaning of the Farsi word "شيرافگن" is "one who throws or tosses a lion." I recognize how the latter part of the word might sound reminiscent of "Afghan" but it doesn't pertain to the Afghan ethnicity. Instead, it's derived from a Farsi verb meaning "to throw." It's understandable how someone unfamiliar with Farsi might make this error. I attempted to rectify this mistake, but the author reverted my edit to "Sher Afghan" without providing any rationale. I urge those knowledgeable in Farsi to chime in and confirm this correction" This is Afghan in Farsi افغان you assumed افگن which sounds like Afghan, actually means Afghan. Abbie444 (talk) 00:08, 26 August 2023 (UTC) None of that merits "correcting" file names or references. Or pestering me on my talk page for an answer I'd already given you. And I don't know whose edits you're talking about. Nobody is trying to change the spelling to "Afghan". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abbie444 (talk • contribs) 23:23, 26 August 2023 (UTC) The words افگن (A-f-g-n) and افغان (A-f-ġ-ā-n) are unrelated. Additional vowels are placed by language and preference (of a source, a subject... and inconsistently at times!). The name cannot be spelled Afghan normally. Without a reliable source, it's original research. JFHJr (㊟) 23:41, 26 August 2023 (UTC) Abbie444 (talk) 00:10, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

"Portal:Romani people" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Portal:Romani people has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 January 17 § Portal:Romani people until a consensus is reached. Fram (talk) 08:14, 17 January 2024 (UTC)