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I can't believe it, (maybe you're joking) but Happy retirement! --HFret (talk) 12:20, 4 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Are you serious about your decision, Kensplanet? Or are you just fooling around?

If you have really retired, I am really sorry to hear it. You have been an amazing editor, and your contributions to Wikipedia are invaluable, especially in the concerns of Mumbai, a city which, I believe, you adore. I am quite unhappy about your decision, and I would like to persuade you to reconsider your decision (if you see this message). Well, I've got nothing else to say. Hope we do meet up some other time. It will be fun. Believe me when I say it, but Wikipedia can't do without you.

Cheers buddy!

Ankitbhatt (talk) 17:06, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

		The Royal Retirement Barnstar
		I, Ankitbhatt, a user of Wikipedia, hereby bestow the Royal Retirement Barnstar on Kensplanet, one of the finest contributors Wikipedia has ever seen. On the eve of this retirement, may we all wish the return of Kensplanet to this noble institution. We shall miss you dearly, and hope you come back to us.

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Kensplanet, I hope my Mumbai FAC review didn't dishearten you or drive you to a wikibreak. As I think I have commented before, the article has been greatly improved by your efforts and, ironically, stands in better shape now that it was a few months back when it was nominally a featured article. However, though greatly improved, I think it has some way to go before it can be regarded to be upto the current FA standards, or be truly worthy of this important subject. I'll comment on the particular article issues at the FAC page, but wanted to let you know that my critique is not intended to disregard the nice work you and others have done on the page. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 00:20, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, I do read the follow up comments and question at FAC and usually respond to them in bulk every 2-3 days. In my experience, quick talk-page-style back and forth between reviewers and editors at FAC page makes the process more adversarial and everyone ends up wasting inordinate time in FAC page discussion rather than improving the article itself. However, if you want me to respond more quickly or have a question that needs a more urgent answer, just ping me on my talk page. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 00:26, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

About User:Nikkul, he's at it again. He still thinks Gateway is very important, likes b&w image that the FAC has criticised, hates caves, doesnt accept that Mumbai is the world's most congested, also that bollywood image isn't even from a movie just from someone's backyard. Hometech (talk) 09:32, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

He also likes File:India Money.jpg which he put in the economy article. Both notes in the image are fake (As the thread is fully inside the notes.) What do you say? Hometech (talk) 09:36, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why do u think that Alpha World City tag/ranking is not important!!! Anyways I m reverting your changes as its important. KuwarOnline (talk) 09:11, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Mangaloreans and people from mangalore whats the differenceSarangsaras (talk) 05:38, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Images of nonliving people can be used in wikipedia. You removed images of Kuvempu, Sir MV and B. D. Jatti, please note they are not living persons, hence it is not possible to get free images. please see the license tags of the images. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kuvempu.jpg, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SirMV.png.

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I wanted to know that the article, Foreign relations of India you advised nominate your article at WP:GAN for a GA rating is suitable for WP:FAC ? --Sharadbob (talk) 12:27, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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.. You are kidding right ? -- Tinu Cherian - 06:33, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kensplanet, i'm aware that you have retired, but i have still sent you this message in the hope that one day, you will log on and see this. While reading the article, i noticed one of the sources entitled, "Mangalorean pagan Catholics" by Vernon Rodrigues. Since you have been the most prolific contributor to the article, i assume that you must have added it. Is this the real title of the source, or was this done by accident. If it is, then the title is downright lame and insulting and Vernon Rodrigues is a jackass for writing it as such. SantiagoMatamoros (talk) 01:52, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Kensplanet, sorry to bother you but we are having a vote on the Catholic Church page regarding whether or not to include the dispute among historians regarding the Church origins. Can you please come an give us your vote so we can come to consensus? Vote is taking place here [1] Thanks! NancyHeise ^talk 01:28, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Do you agree that article Mangalorean Catholics should be awarded with FA status?--Vojvodae please be free to write :) 12:10, 24 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Kenny,

Im sorry I didn't notice that you had retired. I hope it isn't permanent and you will be comming back sooner or later. Hope nothing serious. I really admired (and envied :-)) your energy in edting and creating Mangalore-related articles. I will miss the only other active Kodialgaar on Wikipedia. I really hope i'll see you around soon.

Dev borem korum. --Deepak D'Souza (talk) 18:36, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kenny, dont do that.. Please return to Wikipedia -- Tinu Cherian - 04:50, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, you don't know me. But i do hope that you would eventually change your mind and return to Wikipedia. I myself have today retired from editing. It's my final year and i have been lagging behind in studies. However, i will check wikipedia from time to time, and do hope to look forward to more of your wonderful contributions towards Mangalore related articles. Regards, Joyson Noel ^{Holla at me} 06:25, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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English WikiProject News After a missed issue, the WP:IND newsletter is back on track to being a regular bimonthly feature. The Indian WikiProject has seen plenty of online and off-line action, both in English as well as other Indian languages, and we now have a bigger, better format that intends to feature content and news from the English as well as other Indian language Wikipedias. Reaching out to Indians has been the theme of the Indian Wikiproject over the past couple of months, aiming to involve a greater number of Indians in editing both the English and Indian language Wikipedias. To this end, efforts to set up the Indian chapter of Wikimedia have moved into their final stages, and registration of the society is currently pending. An effort is underway to push for "WikiMarathons" at meetups, where attendees will be encouraged to edit the English and/or Indian language Wikipedias. This is intended to popularise Wikipedia editing among the general public. In addition, a bot to post DYK's from the Indian Wikiproject to Twitter was created and launched by User:Logicwiki. What's New? Regrettably, the number of Featured Articles has dropped from 63 in June to 58 at the end of October 2010. Several FAs came up for review and were delisted, while Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India was saved. Meanwhile, Chalukya Dynasty appeared on the main page on July 9, 2010. Hearteningly, the number of Good Articles increased from 130 to 136 during the same period, while the number of Featured Lists remained constant at 16. The source code for the Article Alert Bot is now available and the bot itself is expected to be up and running very shortly. This means that article alerts for the Indian Wikiproject will again be available, enabling editors to easily keep track of developments in respect of reviews, nominations, deletions etc. The date change vandal mentioned briefly in the previous issue made a reappearance when the range block on his IP range expired in September. Consequently the block was extended till September 2011. In October there was a heated discussion in the India project noticeboard regarding the copyright status of the Indian party symbols. The discussion was triggered by the deletion of Wiki San Roze's party symbol images by Hammersoft as copyright violations. No resolution was reached, partly because of our inability to explain to Hammersoft how election symbols in India differ from party logos. Comments are requested from anyone with a background in Indian copyright law to clarify this issue. Complete To Do List Complete To Do List India-related tasks | Indian noticeboard v • e • d • h • w Requests: Sibichen K Mathew, Dominic Emmanuel, AK Merchant, Counterfeiting of currency notes in India, Akhand Pratap Singh, Asura (band), Asian Variety Show, Cultural liberalism in India, India Export Tax, India Import Tax, More... NPOV: Greater Nepal Rajneesh, Ranjit Lal Jetley Hedgewar, Puttanna Kanagal, Bride burning, Sonia Gandhi More... Wikify: Railway stations, Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar, Silk in the Indian subcontinent, IDBI Bank More... Cleanup: , Rampur, Tav-Prasad Savaiye, Shipping Corporation of India, Velama, Medical college (India), All India Radio, More... Merge: Raghava Rama, Sammar Bahisht, Sathya Sai Baba movement,More... Expand: Prime Minister of India, Krishna district, List of railway stations in India, Swaraj, Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case), Barak Missile Deal Scandal, 14th Lok Sabha, Adithada, Ali Sardar Jafri, Bandhani work, Bhaiband, Chikan (embroidery), China Town, Kolkata, Rahi Masoom Raza, Energy policy of India, Essar Shipping, Fair use, Hinduism in India, Imperial Bank, Inbuan Wrestling, Iran-India relations, Islam in India, Arjuna award, Sunil Mittal, Save Indian Family, Anjana Sukhani, Rajendra K. Pachauri, More... Stubs: Anand Math, A R Antule, Arjuna award, Army of India, Bapudeva Sastri, Bombay Dyeing, Indian Copyright Act, Marimallappa, Mumbai Skywalk, More... Translate: Bhojpuri Wikipedia articles, Maithili Wikipedia articles, Telugu Wikipedia articles, Marathi Wikipedia articles, Hindi Wikipedia articles, Sanskrit Wikipedia articles, Tamil Wikipedia articles Kannada Wikipedia articles Collaborate: Collaborations of the Month, Notice board, Category Adoptions To do, Version 1.0 assessment, India Portal, Life in India, India quick links Indian Wikipedians, More... Requested images: Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan, Free image of Aarti Chhabria Other requests: Add maps from WikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found at List of regions in India Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template v • e • d • h • w

News from Indian-language Wikipedias The Bengali Wikisource, which contains the literary works of many prominent writers of Bengali language including Rabindranath Tagore, has crossed the 5,000 pages milestone. According to List of Wikisource page, Bengali Wikisource is now at rank 21 among 56 Wikisource based on number of content pages. The uploading of Tamil technical words donated by Tamil Virtual University to the Tamil Wiktionary was completed in October. The words were donated by the Government of Tamil Nadu due to lobbying efforts by Tamil Wikipedians during the runup to the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 (WCTC) in June. Nearly 70,000 words were uploaded increasing the word count in Tamil Wiktionary from 1,20,000+ to 1,90,000+. This has brought Tamil to the 10th place (from 17) in the list of largest wiktionaries and has earned it a place in the Wiktionary front page logo. In addition, Tamil Wikipedians set up a stall at the WCTC and introduced Tamil Wiki projects to people from all walks of life. The Hindi Wikipedia and its sister wiki projects migrated to the new vector interface on September 1, 2010. In addition, Hindi is the first (and so far the only) Indian language to be incorporated into the WikiBhasha translation and contribution toolkit developed by Microsoft Research. Malayalam wikimedian Santhosh Thottingal has developed a software (Wiki2CD) for the creation of the Malayalam Wikipedia CD, which was launched in 2010. In addition, Santosh, along with fellow Malayalam wikimedian Shiju Alex coordinated a panel discussion at Wikimania 2010 on creation of offline Wiki content.

Community news Mumbai and Delhi held their first meetups in September, where Wikimedia Board members Barry Newstead and Bishakha Datta met up with Wikipedians and other interested members of the public in these cities. A month later, Hyderabad also held its first meetup. Wikipedians in Bangalore continued their tradition of meeting up regularly at the Centre for Internet and Society, with the nineteenth meetup in September featuring Barry and Bishaka as attendees, and marking the release of the community newsletter. Along with Delhi and Mumbai, Bangalore is reported to be one of the three cities in contention for the Indian office of the Wikipedia Foundation. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had an interaction with Wikipedians followed by a presentation to members of the public at the third Wikipedia meetup in Mumbai on October 31, 2010. The first Wikimarathon, where Wikipedians and members of the public were encouraged to contribute to Wikimedia projects onsite, was held simultaneously at the meetups in Bangalore and Chennai on November 14, 2010. Wikipedians in Delhi also held a meetup the same day. The Malayalam Wikipedia held several academies in different parts of Kerala over the past few months. Wikimedia Foundation board member Bishakha Datta and Indian Wikipedian Srinivas Gunta co-authored a panel presentation at Wikimania 2010 on the Wikimedia Asia Project.

Current proposals and discussions Please add Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics to your watchlist in order to stay updated with the latest discussions regarding various aspects of the project. Two current featured articles, 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings and Economy of India have been nominated for reviews here and here respectively. Contribute and help prevent these articles from being delisted! This interesting discussion on the quality of editing in India-related articles has been underway for on the noticeboard a few days. Feel free to join in and express your opinion. A series of discussions are underway on the neutrality of the Famine in India article. Please comment and help resolve the disputes. Join the Wikimedia India mailing list and the IRC channel for regular updates and discussions. Links to language-specific forums are available here. If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject India. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy! Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! Signed... SBC-YPR, Sodabottle (Editors) Tinucherian (Distributor) This newsletter incorporates content from the WikiMedia India Community Newsletter, September 2010.

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Your military history newsletter – Volume LVIII, December 2010 From the editors • "Military Historian of the Year" • Discussions • The month's new featured and A-class content • Review awards Contest results • A-class medal recipients • bahamut teaches us proper usage of "Jargon and acronyms" To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here. BrownBot (talk) 21:09, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your Military history Newsletter Project News: From the editors Articles: The month's featured and A-class Milhist content Members: Contest results, A-class medal recipients Editorial: EyeSerene discusses "Writing neutrally for Wikipedia"

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We (at WP:Mumbai) are trying to arrange for a Creative Commons specialist to talk to Art Galleries and Museums in Mumbai and explain the different types of Creative Commons licenses to them (and advise them which ones are accepted on Wikipedia). This is part of WP:GLAM - trying to get them to release content under a Wikipedia acceptable license. Would you be interested in attending such a session? Part of your job would be to understand the whole thing and to convince people concerned to release content under CC-BY or CC-BY-SA. Around The Globe^{सत्यमेव जयते} 06:46, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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You may be aware that Collaboration of the Month has been revived by members of WP: India. For January 2012 there are 2 articles - Indian COTM - [[Premchand and Indian COTM for GA - Mahatma Gandhi. As a senior and respected editor you are requested to partake in this activity. Cheers, Around The Globe^{सत्यमेव जयते} 14:07, 12 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nominations for the "Military Historian of the Year" for 2011 are now open. If you would like to nominate an editor for this award, please do so here. Voting will open on 22 January and run for seven days. Thanks! On behalf of the coordinators, Nick-D (talk) and Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 23:33, 15 January 2012 (UTC) You were sent this message because you are a listed as a member of the Military history WikiProject.[reply]

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; award recipients; contest results Articles: The month's Featured and A-class content Book reviews: Nick-D Nick-D looks into two recent Milhist books Review essay: Kirill Lokshin, the first coordinator Op-ed: Hchc's English Castles

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; award recipients; contest results Articles: The month's Featured and A-class content Book reviews: Nick-D looks into two recent Milhist books Op-ed: Ian Rose discusses article assessments

Hello friends, we are a number of editors from WikiProject India have got together to assess the many thousands of articles under the stewardship of the project, and we'd love to have you, a fellow member, join us. These articles require assessment, that is, the addition of a WikiProject template to the talk page of an article, assessing it for quality and importance and adding a few extra parameters to it.

As of March 11, 2012, 07:00 UTC, WikiProject India has 95,998 articles under its stewardship. Of these 13,980 articles are completely unassessed (both for class and importance) and another 42,415 articles are unassessed for importance only. Accordingly, a Tag & Assess 2012 drive-cum-contest has begun from March 01, 2012 to last till May 31, 2012.

If you are new to assessment, you can learn the minimum about how to evaluate from Part One of the Assessment Guide. Part Two of the Guide will help you learn to employ the full functionality of the talk page template, should you choose to do so.

You can sign up on the Tag & Assess page. There are a number of awards to be given in recognition of your efforts. Come & join us to take part in this exciting new venture. You'll learn more about India in this way.

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